Mama's Day Off

Rating: 3/10 (10 May 2013)

Mama is certainly not a Mother's Day gift I would like to present to my mom. Even if she liked horror movies.
While it was nice to have a diverse group of family members in the tired ghost genre as of late, especially involving Jessica Chastain play a different, albeit The Runaways, role, the movie was all over the place with just as many plot holes as the ghost created to teleport.
Even though not seen, but implied nonetheless, the movie opens with violent acts against both family and, sadly, very young children. Father decides that the best method to deal with the recession is to point-blank kill his wife, two infant children and probably himself, but gets interrupted by the title character.
For the next five years, the children are cared for by said "Mama Ghost" with a rundown place that never gets cleaned or heck, dusted and fed, incredibly, a diet of rolling cherries of unknown origin or explanation.
Mercifully (or not) for the children, the kids' uncle spends every last dime, and more so, to find them. Only, they bring some deadly baggage with them and are forced to deal with, for the most part, the barely committed punk rocker girlfriend of the Uncle who showed the true meaning of the Evil Stepmother.
Despite the violent ideas in the opening, the movie started off well and continued that way until about the second half where it lost steam, direction and headed right over a cliff of a finale.
I do not believe I have spoiled anything you can't read in a basic synopsis or wouldn't understand had you not seen the movie, but I would really be spoiling a whole lot more if I pointed out all that was wrong with this mess of a screenplay. I can say that most will be raising eyebrows when the end is revealed and one realizes the entire movie could've been over with in mere minutes.
Oh, and get ready for some laugh out bad CGI and ghost movements. People: it's 2013, not 1984. Ghostbusters is absolutely forgiven for the abilities back then. No need to mimic them in today's time.
Send Mama to the Home.