
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Slant MagazineEric HendersonImagine 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. |
| eFilmCritic.comScott WeinbergYou wouldn't expect high art from a title like this, but HOO BOY what a stinker. (OK, the puppet-work is pretty cool.) |
| Chicago TribuneJohanna SteinmetzThe 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. |
| The New York TimesCaryn JamesGross-out humor for children, cynically packaged with goody-goody morals that wouldn't convince the most naive parent or child. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenThis 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." |
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.It's a terrible, terrible movie, but one that oddly warrants at least one viewing for the masochistic and morbidly curious. |
| User ReviewNicole BWho doesn't remember the trading cards lol |
| User ReviewRebecca CLove it I now collect them because of this It is funny and amusing cant wait for the 2nd one |
| User ReviewMike MMy cousin and sister would get madd because i called them messy tessy when we lil lol me n my kids like five star movie .. |
| User ReviewBenjamin BIt's a terrible movie, by all accounts. I gave this movie 5 stars, however, because it's bad in so many subtle, tragic ways that it goes past "so bad it's good" and becomes a sort of work of grotesque art. If the movie had been made this way intentionally as a satire, then I'm not exaggerating when I say this would be one of my favourite movies of all time. This is not the kind of movie you watch with your family, nor is it the kind of movie you riff on with your friends -- it's a movie so full of ugliness that I honestly think it's worth studying and analyzing. For that reason, I highly recommend seeing it. |