Top Ten Movies about Parenthood #9

So What to Expect When You're Expecting was more of a cute, warm, and fuzzy approach to parenting, and although the cute, warm, and fuzzy parenting films are the more preferred ones to watch, a brother can't deny that there are some movies with examples of pretty crappy parenting!  Although some of these movies can appear bleak and can sometimes be borderline depressing, I feel that viewing them is important because it exposes the viewer to what some of the consequences are when a parent is not doing his/her job right.  if only they made a biopic about the childhood of the Kardashians!

Mama

Victoria and Lilly have what you would call a hard knock life! At a young age their mother passed away because of the father doing something stupid, and instead of turning himself in and trying to make a better life for the girls he instead makes plans to kill them.  But no fear, his murderous intent was stopped by floating skinny old women who looks like she has been rubbing poo all over herself, and who has a mouth the size of Steve Tyler’s.  Although the children were now lost and abandoned by their biological father, this new entity took them in and made them her children, and also provided them a good diet of cherries, and enough of them to clean out a crohns patient.  So with this new mother to love them, and this new cherry-diet giving them healthy colons, they seemed to have it made… grizzly Adams style.  Eventually the kids are found by their uncle and his punk-rock-child-hating girlfriend, and together they take them in and try to fix the damage that years of isolation had done to them.  This all sounds fine but their mother who took care of them in the woods is a jealous mother, like soccer moms, and she might not take kindly to the new parents.  I found this to be an interesting movie about parenthood, because the Mama creature isn’t such a bad person, quite the opposite, she’s just very protective of these two girls.  The problem is Mama is so protective that anyone who forms a relationship with the girls will be violated by this poopy skinned creature.  The moral of this story is that if you are too incredibly protective of your children, eventually you start killing everyone around you… makes sense.

4 out of 5