Good start, but fell flat.

Rating: 5/10 (19 January 2013)

I just got back from seeing it and these are my impressions. I prefer going to the theatres for horror movies, mainly because some of the scare tactics work on the big screen, I can't say the same for watching it at home. The movie had a Strong momentum through out, but at the end it loses it's drive. Once you see mama in full view, it is no longer scary, hell Lily was scarier than mama most of the time. Now I do not like cgi monsters, I was fine with the cgi up until they have her standing in front of the camera for long sections. If you were scarred throughout, don't worry, after the ending I guarantee you won't lose any sleep, I know I won't. The plot with the doctor was good, but it ended up serving little purpose. The kids did a good job, and they look especially creepy when they are crawling around like animals. There was some good suspense and plenty of jump scares to keep you tense. I wonder if the film would have benefited from having a real actress playing mama instead of the computer, I would have liked to have seen that. This is one of those films were the trailer was better than the film, I'm not saying the movie was bad, it's just that the trailer made it look like so much more. The only part I didn't enjoy about this experience was the two obnoxious bimbos' beside me, they were in their late twenties and were acting like 16 year old kids, that's why I like going to the theatre at 11:00am on a Saturday morning, no one to annoy me. Overall the film is a good waste of an hour and forty minutes, check it out if you are interested.