The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

1987

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical

12
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 27% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 2.7/10 10 8691 8.7K

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Plot summary

Seven disgusting kids but nevertheless of interesting personality are being made of the green mud coming out of garbage can. Once alive their master gives them rules to obey although they think that life is funnier without following stupid regulations like no television or no candy. Naturally this will cause some conflicts.


Uploaded by: FREEMAN
April 27, 2016 at 04:01 AM

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Top cast

Jim Cummings as Greaser Greg / Nat Nerd
Phil Fondacaro as Greaser Greg
Debbie Lee Carrington as Valerie Vomit
Anthony Newley as Captain Manzini
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1 hr 40 min
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1 hr 40 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by gavin6942 4 / 10

Holy Heck

Dodger must confront the struggles of life as he is visited by the Garbage Pail Kids and intimidated by some older bullies.

Although apparently later owned by Orion and then MGM, this film was originally produced and distributed by Atlantic Entertainment Group. At this point, they had some minor hits with "Valley Girl", "Teen Wolf" and "Night of the Comet", but were never a major player. Not surprisingly, within two years of this film coming out, they were defunct.

Rod Amateau directed, produced, and co-wrote the film. He had not made any other films of note, but had a distinguished career going back decades in television. Interestingly, this was his final film -- despite living almost another 20 years. Was it a career killer? Amateau had as his right-hand man John Carl Buechler, which was the right choice, although given the film's focus on puppets, Buechler's involvement (not to mention Phil Fondacaro) give it the feeling of a Charles Band film. And that is never a good thing.

In fact, Buechler was involved before even Amateau, and in some ways had more to do with the final product. Apparently the Chiodo Brothers ("Killer Klowns") were contacted and passed, and next in line was John Carl Buechler, who was fresh off of "Troll". He was briefly considered as not just the effects guy but also the director, but his vision was too dark. He thought of the Kids as monsters, not something lovable, and the studio disagreed. He reflects, "The best stuff in the movie is them farting and blowing snot on each other... but it had to walk this line of being a gentle fairy tale." He thinks the blend was a bad idea, and he is probably right.

Buechler was the one who brought in Phil Fondacaro, and Phil brought in the "little people" he knew. So indirectly, Buechler not only created the Kids, but provided the actors who would play them. Buechler also brought in John Criswell, who had done effects for "Re-Animator" and "From Beyond", and has since gone on to bigger things like "The hangover". And William Butler, who is a terrible human being, but an important part of horror history, with all that he has designed, written, directed and acted in since the mid-80s.

The film was universally panned, receiving overwhelmingly negative reviews, and is widely considered to be one of the worst films ever made. Caryn James of The New York Times called the film "too repulsive for children or adults of any age", and it sits very, very low on both Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb. This abysmal (and fair) criticism aside, 2015-2016 welcomed a small resurgence of Garbage Pail Kids, with new cards coming out, and a very positive retrospective written in HorrorHound magazine. Indeed, the film can now be looked back upon as a strange moment in 1980s history, or what star Mackenzi Astin calls "what-the-f***ery".

Scream Factory found this to be the right time to release the film on blu-ray, and if there ever was a right time this may have been it. The film, as truly awful as it is, does seem better now (2016) than when it first came out. Even as a child I thought it was terrible, but now it has just a twinkle of nostalgia to make it palatable. The Scream disc comes with a few interviews of varying length and quality. The brief interview with Buechler is good, as he is not afraid of being honest. The real gem of this release, however is the interview with Mackenzie Astin. He talks freely for approximately 30 minutes and has countless stories to share about his father, his co-stars and more. If the movie might not be enough to make you buy the disc, his interview should be.

Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 2 / 10

so ugly

A garbage can spaceship approaches Earth and somehow ends up in Captain Manzini's antique shop. Dodger is a teen boy who works for Manzini and gets bullied by punks. He likes Tangerine, the girlfriend of the leader Juice of the group. She's in the shop when Juice and the guys walk in. They decide to beat him up and end up knocking over the garbage pail. The Kids are released.

The Garbage Pail Kids is a successful series of cards by Topps from the 80's to parody the popular Cabbage Patch Kids. The Kids are so ugly. They are unbelievably disturbingly ugly. Apart from the ugly Kids, Dodger has an awkward lust for the older Tangerine. The suggested sexuality is cringeworthy. On top of that, the fashion is ridiculous and the punks are silly. The acting is generally poor. There is little narrative drive. Somehow, I didn't realize that the Kids sing. It's all pretty bad without much fun.

Reviewed by MartinHafer 1 / 10

Why would I subject myself to this hellish mess?!

I occasionally like a bad film. No, I am not talking about boring films but films that are so unbelievably bad that they are infamous. Because of this, I've seen every film from Harry Medved's great book "The 50 Worst Films of All Time" as well as most of the ever- changing IMDb Bottom 100 list. I think much of it is because many of these films are unintentionally funny. Plus, with my love for foreign and silent films, I sometimes long for something mindlessly different...and at least "The Garbage Pail Kids Movie" is mindless!

Before I get to the film, I should probably mention exactly what the Garbage Pail Kids were. In the 1980s, Topps came up with a new sort of collectible card...the Garbage Pail Kids. They were rude, disgusting and exactly what kids loved! In other words, the more adults hated them and thought they were awful, the more kids wanted them and they were, briefly, popular. So, some idiot at some studio actually came up with the bright idea to turn these repulsive characters into movie stars! And, in the process, they pretty much destroyed the popularity of the cards! Here's why:

When the film starts, some incredibly white bread-looking 'thugs' push around some dopey kid. To his aid come the Garbage Pail Kids...things that live in a garbage can in Captain Manzini's shop. The guy, surprisingly, is played by a real actor, Anthony Newley and it's sad that it's his final film. The Kids are very disgusting...wetting themselves, eating fingers and eyes, are covered with huge zits, snot and the like. Despite their looks (which we'll talk more about soon), they are helpful and enable the dopey kid, 'Dodger', to successfully overcome some unrealistic situations and problems.

The biggest problem with the film are the technical problems in making the Kids look like the stickers. The stickers were grotesque and the movie TRIED to make the characters look just like the stickers...but the technology of the 1980s just wasn't up to the task. The characters are not only gross (as they should have been) but creepy and hellish--like something out of a nightmare. This is heightened by the lifeless quality of the costumes--with faces that barely move when they talk and this alone makes the vomit, urine and snot look downright nice by comparison! Nowadays, they could use CGI or better traditional special effects to make better characters...though why would they want to bother? I say this because although the characters are hellish, the plot of the film is incredibly dull and would have bored all the kids who saw it...but fortunately, few did.

So overall, you have annoying characters that look almost demonic involved in a plot that bores the life out of the audience...so much that the offensive elements seem almost like a welcome relief! Awful, misguided and stupid...with nothing that even approaches entertainment for even the most easy to please viewer. It's infamous reputation is well deserved and the word 'garbage' in the title is quite appropriate.

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