Ami Dolenz Movie:

		List Price: $9.98		Label: New Concorde Salesrank: 107524 Released: January 20, 2004
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		MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: DVD

Stepmonster Reviews:
An Entertaining B-movie
2009-04-30 - This was a pretty good, little horror-comedy film that a lot of people don't know about. If they did, it would get a lot more attention because it's simply entertaining.The DVD has been out-of-print for quite awhile and expensive to get.

The 80-some minute story moves along very fast and has good characters. Robin Riker, as "Denise Gore," has a great face and - at least for me - alone is worth seeing the film. The same goes for Amy Dolenz, who is a lot of fun as "Wendy." Alan Thicke amazed me with his violin talents.

The only bad part is the special-effects, which are poor considering the year this was made (1993) but it is still a very good B-movie that should appeal to kids and adults. I read someplace were adults wouldn't like this, but I'm up in age and I really enjoyed it. However, I wouldn't have little kids seeing this, though.

I hope this comes back on DVD because I'd like to see it again. I also wish I had a babysitter in my youth that looked like this!

I was surprised at how bad this was
2005-09-12 - Re-reading the reviews here, I see they were pretty much all by kids who are talking about how much they like various actors and actresses. But the shocking thing is that this film got a FOUR STAR review (out of five) from Mick Martin and Marsha Porter, whom I usually can depend on to be reasonable. I have no problem with the premise, that the new woman marrying the boy's dad after the disappearance six months earlier of his true mother can metamorphose into a monster -- or "krepotkin". (She also arranged the mother's disappearance.) I've been an SF fan for many years years, so I can imagine a plot based on such an idea done well. But the plot here turns out to be totally illogical. The monster kills (and eats) two people within a few blocks of the boy's house and nobody seems to be investigating or heeding the boy's warnings about the woman (he's seen her turn into a monster). You wouldn't believe him either -- he is unable to talk about it in terms other than the comic books he reads, even though it's clear that this will make his story unbelievable. The monster tries to kill the girl next door, and she sees it and realizes the boy is right, but do they pool their efforts to convince people there's a monster around? No. The monster kills and eats the psychiatrist the boy is sent to for his fantasies -- wouldn't you think there would be some feedback from that? These people are being EATEN! Finally, the boy finds a rare comic book that promises to tell him how to kill the monster, he has to raise $500 to buy the book, but then when he gets it, he doesn't look at it right away to learn the method, but brings it home where is father has forbidden him any comic books, and rather than running when he sees his father from the front door, he hands it over to the father, who tears it up. I mean -- come on! This is true Disney trash! (Although I have liked some Disney work, when they do a bad one, it's really awful!)

SWEET MONSTER MOVIE !!!!!!
2005-08-12 - This is probably one of my favorite movies of the early 90's. The only thing I didn't like about this movie was Alan Thicke's character (jerk). I loved the part when Wendy saw photos of herself instead of the Tropopkin. The kinda depresing thing about this movie was when Todd's Grandfather told him that there were only 3 monsters left on the Earth, would about Vampires, Witches and Werewolves. Sure they were mentioned but still, it sux only having the Tropopkin,Lockness Monster and Big foot. Still, a very good must-see movie

Beware of the terrible Tropopkin
2003-05-14 - I enjoyed watching this movie when it first came on the Disney Channel and I still enjoy watching it today. Alan Thicke gives a great performance as Todd's uptight father, a man who is so grounded in reality he doesn't even know what it means to use his imagination. Robin Riker is fabulous as the seductive and evil Denise Gore, who in reality of course is a monster. It was nice seeing Corey Feldman in this movie, who is so hilarious as Phlegm, the rock musician, head banging freak, and Amy Dolenz is equally good as Wendy, Phlegm's girlfriend and Todd's object of affection. I thought that the makeup and the special effects in this movie were actually quite good, the acting was very believable and there were some very funny moments in it. Also look for other great performances by John Astin as the priest and George Gaynes as Todd's grandfather. A wonderful movie, one that the whole family should watch.

WHO LET THE TROPOPKINS OUT??!
2001-04-11 - Holy cow! I read these other reviews & decided to rent this flick, and I was blown away like a gang-banger in a shootout w/ a SWAT team. This movie is DA BOMB! Yes, it's that good. Alan Thicke was brilliant, so was Amy Dolenz (Yowza!) but also was the priest (Gomez), I'm not sure what was up w/ his disappearing glasses & all but he held this together. I really enjoyed the fight scenes, especially w/ the midnight paper boy. But I will say that this movie leaves you guessing until the 70 yr. old camper runs out yelling "I need O2!". Do yourself and society a favor and rent this movie! NOW!!!