
A team of scientists working for a pharmaceutical company discovers a cure for depression. When the company finds itself in trouble financially, they rush the new drug into production without doing enough testing. Things seem to go fine until some of the users of the drug start slipping into comas. It becomes a race between the scientists who want to tell the world the truth and the company's marketing department who wants to protect their profit margin.... (Full plot summary below)
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A team of scientists working for a pharmaceutical company discovers a cure for depression. When the company finds itself in trouble financially, they rush the new drug into production without doing enough testing. Things seem to go fine until some of the users of the drug start slipping into comas. It becomes a race between the scientists who want to tell the world the truth and the company's marketing department who wants to protect their profit margin.
Leave your thoughts about Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy.
| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannThe only way to enjoy Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy is to savor the performances and behavior quirks, and release the notion that plot is essential. |
| The A.V. ClubNathan RabinI wish the film had made its points a little more artfully and implicitly, rather than simply sticking them in McDonald and McKinney’s mouths, but Brain Candy has an overarching satirical vision that makes it much more than just an assemblage of mostly funny running gags and stand-alone bits. |
| Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallNot to everyone's tastes then, but for fans of the show - big, big laughs. |
| VarietyDavid AnsenA twisted comedy for twisted times, this movie made me happy. Go figure. |
| IGNChris CableWhat's so great about Brain Candy is what's great about every classic comedy: it's thoroughly quotable, infinitely watchable and so rich with detail that you'll be laughing at something new every time you watch it. |
| Los Angeles TimesJohn AndersonThe Kids in the Hall's first feature isn't anything more than a sloppy showcase for the group's costume-changing tricks, but sometimes its sheer chutzpah can be amusing. Just as often, flashes of complete plot incoherence or atrocious taste spoil the effect. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovCobbling together so many different characters (nearly all of them familiar to regular viewers) has left the Kids' feature debut as something of a letdown. We've seen it all before, and better, on HBO and Comedy Central. |
| Miami HeraldRobin DoughertyA quintet of Canadian TV comedians, hit the cinema screen with a splat. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertI felt the Kids were too busy being hip and ironic to connect at the simpler level where comedy lives. They were brought down by their own self-protective devices. |
| User ReviewteshiaPeople talk crap about this movie; even the Kids do. Honestly though, I rewatched it again tonight and you know what? It's not nearly as bad as they say. I laughed a lot and I think it stands the test of time. If you don't like it, you're a silly poop face. |