It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

In continuing to review werewolf movies chronologically, we're at 1989 with this Crown International Pictures flick. Susan Blakely is a neglected woman since her hubby John Schuck usually stays at work and when he's at home, he's always watching football on TV with friends. So the wife meets a man at a pet shop who manages to make her feel like a woman again but there's a price...The man is played by John Saxon and he and Ms. Blakely are probably the funniest things in the film but the script seems to go everywhere and nowhere at the same time as you both laugh and cringe at how funny some scenes are and how unfunny others are despite some good comediennes like Ruth Buzzi and Marcia Wallace (Ms. Wallace does provide some amusement while Ms. Buzzi does not). Also, singer Marilyn McCoo appears in a straight role as a reporter and she doesn't do much either. There's also a couple of teen girls-one of whom is the daughter of Blakely and Schuck and the other is a horror movie fan-who aren't very funny either but they both have some energy so there's that. So on that note, My Mom's a Werewolf is partly amusing, partly not so it's at least worth a look if you're curious enough...

Leslie (Susan Blakely) who likes to make her family"seaweed spinach quiche with cultured yak butter, wonders why her family always eats out. She gets turned into a werewolf in what amounts to a so-so spoof on werewolf pictures. The best scene was with Ruth Buzzi as the fortune teller required for a good werewolf film. It was a trip down memory lane to hear Sam, the Sham and the Pharaohs do "Little Red Riding Hood." Marilyn McCoo of the 5th Dimension in a cameo role. The humor was the kiddie side.

Terribly unfunny juvenile comedy that has clever references to old horror movies, actors and characters, but never tried to be clever or funny on its own. A cast of familiar faces try ardently to make the lines fly, but they just lie there like a corpse. Susan Blakeley is mom, John Schuck is dad, and that's all I'm mentioning ad far as the actors playing members of this family. The less said about the rest, the better. Poor John Saxon must have been embarrassed as the werewolf who makes Blakeley his victim, apparently while sucking on her toe! If that visual doesn't turn you away, then, well...I'm sorry.There have been numerous attempts to repeat the success of "Young Frankenstein", but the writers didn't force the comedy on you like incisors on a victim's aorta. The jokes fail miserably. I did laugh at Ruth Buzzi as a gypsy with a Bela Lugosi accent and Lucy Lee Flippen attempting to be a sexpot nurse. But for the dentist scene, the noise of files and drills on Blakeley's fangs had me queezy to the point of hitting the fast forward button. As they say, comedy is the toughest form of entertainment to pull off. Even at his most desperate, Mel Brooks pulled it off better than this.

Frustrated housewife Leslie Shaber (a delightfully vibrant performance by Susan Blakely) gets bitten by suave werewolf pet store owner Harry Thropen (the always great John Saxon in splendidly smooth form) and starts to transform into a lycanthrope. It's to Leslie's teenage daughter Jennifer (winningly played by Tina Caspary) and her spunky horror buff best gal pal Stacey Pubah (a pleasingly perky portrayal by Diana Barrows) to figure out a way to reverse the process before it's too late. Director Michael Fischa, working from a blithely silly script by Mark Pirro, relates the cheerfully inane story at a zippy pace, maintains an amiable tone throughout, and ably milks the funny sense of engagingly goofy humor for plenty of belly laughs (Leslie eating raw meat while driving and singing in her car, going to the dentist to have her sharp canine teeth filed, and locking herself in the bathroom to shave her hairy legs rate as the definite gut-busting highlights). The enthusiastic cast have a ball with the wacky material: The incredibly foxy and personable Blakely is both sexy and sidesplitting in the lead, with sound support from John Schuck as Leslie's neglectful husband Howard, Ruth Buzzi as flaky medium Madame Gypsy, Marilyn McCoo as narcissistic TV reporter Celia Celica, Marcia Wallace as eager beautician Peggy, and Geno Silva as smarmy amorous dentist Dr. Rod Rodriguez. Favorite quirky gag: The kinky S&M freak next door neighbors. A total howl.