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- 1987
- PG
- Atlantic Releasing
- 1 h 37 m
- 1987
- PG
- Atlantic Releasing
- 1 h 37 m
Summary Dodger must confront the struggles of life as he is visited by the Garbage Pail Kids and intimidated by some older bullies.
Directed By: Rod Amateau
Written By: Linda Palmer, John Pound, Rod Amateau
- 1987
- PG
- Atlantic Releasing
- 1 h 37 m
- 1987
- PG
- Atlantic Releasing
- 1 h 37 m
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
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0.6
Summary Dodger must confront the struggles of life as he is visited by the Garbage Pail Kids and intimidated by some older bullies.
Directed By: Rod Amateau
Written By: Linda Palmer, John Pound, Rod Amateau
Top Cast
Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
0 Reviews
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0% Mixed
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100% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
1
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
100% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
Imagine parents sitting in the audience with their naughty children (who used their Cabbage Patch dolls as driveway obstructions for their Big Wheel obstacle courses) and feeling ruefully double-crassed.
Most disappointing are the seven 'Kids' themselves, played by midgets
wearing elaborate headpieces. Their behavior is every bit as gross as their
reputations: Valerie Vomit uses her digestive instability to win a fistfight;
Windy Winston's chief weapon is flatulance; Nat Nerd graphically wets his
pants. [24 Aug 1987, p.5]
User Score
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 16 User Ratings
0.6
0% Positive
0 Ratings
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6% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
94% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
User Score
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 16 User Ratings
0.6
0% Positive
0 Ratings
0 Ratings
6% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
94% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
This shouldn't even be for kids and should be left in the garbage can as it should be.
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There is only really 2 words that can describe this movie: HUGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FAILUREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The biggest problem is with the kids themselves, which are played by little people with electrically operated fake heads stuck on top of them. The kids have very little expression, and their voices seem disembodied. As a result, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie seems so much cheap fakery at a time when breathtakingly convincing special effects have become the rule rather than the exception.
Obviously, commercial film has a
proud history of appealing to our less noble instincts. But why does this
particular thing fail so provocatively, going beyond mere stupidity into
downright offensive? #2. Not just because it is charmless, humorless, cynical and mean- minded. Lots of movies are that. Yet Garbage Pail crosses the fine line where a difference in degree becomes a difference in kind. In fact, it invents a brand new genre: kiddie nihilism, a callow theatre of disgust. Antonin Artaud, meet Mr. Dressup. [26 Aug 1987]
This crude live-action takeoff on the Cabbage Patch phenomenon ought to have had star Anthony Newley humming "Stop the Movie, I Want to Get Off."
Gross-out humor for children, cynically packaged with goody-goody morals that wouldn't convince the most naive parent or child.
A stunningly inept and totally reprehensible film.
There are only two words in existence that can adequately describe this movie: "Big Yikes."
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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An abortion of a movie, nothing is likable, nothing is charming, nothing is decent, nothing is funny, nothing is engaging, nothing is fun.
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Awards
Razzie Awards
• 3 Nominations
The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 1 Nomination
