The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
by Rodney Amateau
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Actor: Anthony Newley, J.P. Amateau, Katie Barberi, Mackenzie Astin, Ron MacLachlanDirector: Rodney Amateau
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-07-12
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
Movie Review: A nice guilty pleasure!
Summary: 3 Stars
In the big city in a street-corner junk store owned by the mysterious magician Captain Mancini (Anthony Newley). Dodger (Mackenzie Astin) is a 12 year old orphan who lives with Mancini and after school he works there as his assistant as he falls in love with a lovely fashion designer named Tangerine (Katie Barberie) who is a sight for sore-eyes. However in the weird junk store there is a strange yet magical garbage pail that originally came from outer space years ago and Mancini has kept it secure so that no one could ever open it. But one day Tangerine's tough boyfriend named Juice (Ron MacLachen) with his gang beats up Dodger in the store they accident make the pail fall unleashing a gang of weird looking kids. Their names are Valerie Vomit, Greaser Greg, Ali Gator, Nat Nerd, Messie Tessie, Foul Phil, and Windy Winston as they are gross and disgusting alien-esque kids from some other world as they want to change the life of the poor sap and get him to like the girl that he desires.
Based on the popular 80's trading card phenomenon, this live-action attempt to bring the cards to life isn't really as bad as some people say. First off the cards back in 1985 made TOPPS Trading Cards a smash company as the leading makers of trading cards, back then the Cabbage Patch Kids were very popular yet the Topps company thought up an idea to make a trading card series that spoofs and satirizes those dolls in various ways including nausating and violent ways called "The Garbage Pail Kids". The cards were a runaway success with many children even though some parents and teachers weren't too happy about the cards's images but some knew boys loved disgusting things and spawned merchandise of all sorts, then in 1986 Atlantic Pictures got the rights for a feature length movie based on the cards. Written and directed by Rod Amateau who did some episodes of "The Dukes of Hazzard" didn't do too bad to make the franchise into a movie even though it was made on a low budget with some cheap laytex masks that hardly move on the midget actors that play the title heroes. Sure some stuff doesn't make sense and it feels like a series of tasteless vignettes but it does have a little bit of humor despite bad acting making this a guilty pleasure of mine.
The DVD is quite good on the picture and sound quality with one extra which is a trailer to the movie.
Summary of The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
"Vile, smelly, rude, ugly" (Variety)your favorite grime bandits come to life with all thefarts, snot and vomit you can take in this hilarious cult classic full of "gross-out humor" (TheNew York Times). Based on the wildly popular and irreverent trading cards, The Garbage PailKids?(r) Movie stars Mackenzie Astin ("The Facts of Life") as a perfectly nice teenagerwho 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 habitsand attitude problemsDodger 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!Action & Adventure DVD Video
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