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The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)
Directed by Rod Amateau
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Overview
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.
Rated PG | Length 96 minutes
Actors
Anthony Newley | Mackenzie Astin | Katie Barberi | Phil Fondacaro | Ron MacLachlan | J.P. Amateau | Marjory Graue | Debbie Lee Carrington | Kevin Thompson | Bobby Bell | Larry Green | Arturo Gil | Susan Rossitto | John Cade | Lynn Cartwright | Chester Grimes | Patty Lloyd | Leo Gordon | Gavin Moloney | Lindy Huddleson | Kristine McKeon | Debbie Lytton | John Herman Shaner | Joan L. Burton | Jim Cummings | Chloe Amateau | Teri Benaron | Nicolas Pernisco | Ross Sherman | Annie Wood | Dan Zettel
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/11/2011 | TV | Streaming | Video on Demand | 1 star |
| (Average) 1 stars |
Viewing Notes
For one of the worst movies ever made, I’ll give it this: it was certainly a movie about The Garbage Pail Kids. I can’t imagine where the $30 million budget went for this movie, except straight into the garbage (zing!).
I can only imagine the writer’s pitch: “It’s GREMLINS meets OUR GANG, set in the world of high fashion and magic with a message of hope, that true beauty is on the inside, and that all bad guys wear fingerless gloves.”
Ignoring the horrible production values, the horrible acting, horrible voice acting, and the horrible, illogical premise, the film gets worse by not only not resolving the mystery of the missing Garbage Pail Kids, but by contradicting its central message of inner beauty with Captain Mainzini trying to put the ugly GPKs back in the “pail” because they don’t belong. I almost Valerie Vomited all over my monitor when I heard that.
If there’s any merit to this movie, it’s that it’s a testament to how bad the fashion of the decade was. It’s also the worst example of the money grab sea change in toy companies of the decade that threw money into the theater to make more money off their consumers, no matter how thin the premise, how bad the end product, or how much it screwed up their own continuity, thinking that no kid would ever notice. Cobra-La says what?
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