The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)

"Vile smelly rude ugly" (Variety) your favorite grime bandits come to life with all the farts snot and vomit you can take in this hilarious cult classic full of "gross-out humor" (The New York Times). Based on the wildly popular and irreverent trading cards The Garbage Pail Kids® Movie stars Mackenzie Astin ("The Facts of Life") as a perfectly nice teenager who discovers the Kids...to his disgust!When Dodger (Astin) accidentally releases the Kids from their magical trash can prison all smell breaks loose. Despite their offensive personal habits and attitude problems Dodger soon becomes fond of the Kids. But when Messy Tessie Foul Phil Valerie Vomit and the whole misfit crew join his fight against thuggish bullies their efforts just might land them behind bars at the State Home for the Ugly!System Requirements: Running Time 97 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG UPC: 027616925718 Manufacturer No: 1008562 Product Description

It was better when I was a kid.

I bought this because I loved this movie when I was a kid, its still pretty funny, but doesn't hit the spot like it used to, lol. Overall, I'd say if you've seen it before just leave it at that, once is enough for this movie. February 24, 2008

Garbage pail kids

good buy i couldn't find this item in stores and amazon had it. all time classic from when i was a kid October 21, 2007

Once-in-a-lifetime film experience

A movie like this only comes around once in a lifetime, and I don't necessarily mean that in a strictly negative tone, or for that matter a positive one. There's only one way to describe a movie like The Garbage Pail Kids movie, and that way is with "bizarre" or one of its many synonyms.

It's absolutely astonishing that a movie studio would fund, produce, and widely distribute this picture to theatres. The script is, in a word, abysmal. Dozens of obvious questions are raised at the outset; Why does Dodger(our hero) virtually live at Manzini's Antique Shop? How has said shop stayed in business having not sold a single item in months? Why does a twentysomething looking goon continue spend his life picking on a 14 year old wimp? All of these questions are quickly relegated to the back-burner when one sets eyes on the Garbage Pail Kids for the first time. Aside from most of the kids being hideous(Nat Nerd and Valerie Vomit in particular), the puppetry is atrocious. Dialogue is rarely lip synced, and when it is the mouth movements are incredibly stiff. Amazingly, poor quality of the costumes is paled only by the stupidity of the film's plot,

revolving around Dodger's efforts to woo Tangerine away from "Juice", the same goon who keeps chasing Dodger around and stealing his lunch money. Fortunately for Dodger, the titular Garbage Pail Kids are apparently endowed by their Creator with unsurpassed fashion design skills, the very same skills Tangerine is trying to use to hit the big time and move to New York! The kids put their abilities to work and sew Dodger a hideous jacket to impress Tangerine, and before you know it we've got a love triangle of such depth not seen since...ever. Or not.

Laughably bad performances abound, although even McKenzie Astin as Dodger delivers an Oscar-worthy performance in contrast to Ron MacLachlan as Juice, who delivers unequivocally the worst performance I have ever seen in a non-pornographic motion picture.

All of this is overshadowed by the scenes of the Garbage Pail Kids general tomfoolery, which includes such wacky hijinks as stealing a Pepsi truck, breaking into a sweat shop while singing "We Can Do Anything by Working With Each Other!", roasting hot dogs over an open fire, causing mayhem in a movie theatre, and most incredibly, participating in a biker bar brawl, kicked off by driving an ATV straight through the window. I am not being hyperbolic in the least when I describe each and every one of these scenes as a unique spectacle in the history of cinema. I cannot imagine there will ever be a film made with a more innately "weird" quality than this one. If you have any curiosity whatsoever about this film, I recommend you see it. There truly isn't and most likely never will be another experience in cinema quite like watching The Garbage Pail Kids Movie. September 16, 2007

Human culture's oddest contribution to the universe

A movie based on trading cards that spoofed Cabbage Patch Lids... only in the 80s would something like this get the green light. While one might expect the production value to be on an Axe'm level (Axe'm is probably the worst film ever distributed) Garbage Pail Kids manages to elevate itself just above an episode of Monsters, but not quite as memorable as some other utterly forgotten films such as Dead Heat, Return to Oz, and The Monster Squad. However, there's 3 reasons to watch this film. They are:

1. When Windy farts off a man's mustache.

2. When Valerie Vomit... vomits.

3. The 'Too' asylum... as in the shameless politically incorrect prison for the too old and crippled who apparently get thrown into a giant trash compactor.

The concept alone of this actually being a film is so absurd, it actually has merit. As I watched this film in total confusion by its sheer existence, the only conclusion I could come to is that it should be remade with more money, better animatronics, and be more fearless with an R rating. It's just too ridiculous to ignore.
September 7, 2007

Purely sentimental

I regret buying this dvd. I regret actually spending money on something I loved as a kid, but as an adult I can see how truly bad this movie is. For sentimental reasons I might keep it, but I don't ever feel the need to watch it. I would've been better off just renting it. July 24, 2007

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