Emperor Spengo sees Marge Nelson and using a giant magnet, kidnaps her and her husband Dick, hoping to make her his before blowing up the Earth. He and other inhabitants of his planet are somewhat less than bright, and Dick begins reliving episodes of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in order to rescue Marge, save the Earth, and restore the rightful emperor to the throne.

Henry is a young FBI agent. During a three-year absence from his home in Shreveport, his mother Marty loses more than 100 pounds, looks great, and to Henry s embarrassment, has become a party animal. Within a day of Henry s returning home with his fiancee, Emily, who s an FBI profiler, Marty meets Tommy, a suave foreigner. He s posing as a consultant, but he s an international art thief, in town to steal Mother and Son, a Bernini sculpture. Henry is detailed to head a team keeping his mom s new boyfriend under surveillance. Love, law enforcement, and filial devotion are set to collide.