Sylvester Stallone has stated that "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot" was the worst film he had ever starred in. He told Ain't It Cool News that it was "maybe one of the worst films in the entire solar system, including alien productions we’ve never seen", that "a flatworm could write a better script", and "in some countries – China, I believe – running movie once a week on government television has lowered the birth rate to zero. If they ran it twice a week, I believe in twenty years China would be extinct."