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Watched this last night and I had forgotten how awful it was.  The plot is threadbare, involving the old magician and his antique shop, the kid who is our main protagonist, the mean gang members that steal the kid's money, and the Garbage Pail Kids.  That last group is kept in a magical can until an accident (involving the gang messing with the kid) sets them loose.

The gang is comprised of four members.  Two men, two girls - though one of the girls is a gorilla woman who is stronger than both of the guys together.  The other girl is a guerrilla fashion designer who uses Dodger's (the young kid) crush on her to get what she wants.  What she wants is the clothing designed and stitched by the Garbage Pail Kids.

Hey, this gang is so tough that they have a minivan.

The main attraction should be the Garbage Pail Kids.  However, the suits are not up to the task.  Ali Gator is probably the most expressive, but that might be a result of the longer snout.  The eyes on all of the title characters barely move and most of them cannot open their mouths more than a fraction.  The special effects used for most of the GPK's powers are minor.  Urine (water) pours out of Nat Nerd's suit, Valerie Vomit does her trick once, Foul Phil says mommy a lot, Windy Winston often "assumes the position" and loud fart effects ensue, while Messy Tessie always has a small amount of slime near her nose.  Oops, missed somebody:  Greaser Greg does brandish a switchblade at times, but never uses it.  For the most part, it appears that Phil Fondacaro (inside the suit) is having a hard time seeing where he is going.

The Garbage Pail Kids main desire is to find the other mutant children who are missing.  We learn that the others were taken to the State Home for the Ugly, and then crushed in a garbage compactor.  This is something that the present bunch are in danger of experiencing after the gang tricks Dodger and turns the kids in to the State Home (the place also has Santa, Abe Lincoln, and Phil Fondacaro in a snazzy suit incarcerated).

The acting is terrible, I kept remembering Anthony Newley's (he is the magician) bare butt from "Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?", and I quickly got tired of short scenes with the GPK's trying to look active despite the restrictive suits.  This is a skull.

Wow! a SKULL?! I havent seen it yet, but i saw a copy of it up at hot topic and i was going to get it but its to expensive. It looks pretty cool, but is it really THAT boring?


On other note, i want to get the animated series. I saw one up at Slackers, but it was 22 bux.

There was a reason this was my number 2 on the 5 movies you had the misfortune of watching list

I used to collect Garbage Pail Kids like crazy in the 80's and must've had at least 500-1000 of them.

I remember watching the GPK movie when I was a teenager and thinking it was bad back then. 
Haven't seen it since 1989 or '90.

It's ranked #54 on the IMDB's bottom 100 list (http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom).

It is boring and also it fails to go anywhere.  When you watch a movie you are expecting to hear a story, enjoy the time you spend immersed in the story.  In this case, not only do you start looking at the time marker to find out how much more is left, but when it is over you feel like the time could have been better spent doing something else.

I actually started thinking "I should be washing some of the dishes from dinner that have been soaking." while I was watching this film.

I've seen this in theaters three times, the FourStar theater in SF used to play it all the time for its Midnight shows, it usually sold out, and we all got GPK stickers at the door.  I was not allowed to see it in theaters or collect the cards as a kid, so it ruled.  I own the movie both on VHS and DVD, as it is a bad movie classic.  No other movie has "Weird Al" in jail for being too weird.

i bought this on dvd at pathmark for 9.99

If I want to watch weird Al in a movie I'll just watch UHF... it's much more painless

Wow..... I've collected the cards and never seen the movie?
Perhaps I deserve the punishment.

WHOA! Weird al izzin there!? Sorry Andrew, but i gotta see it now.

Welcome aboard Quinn, though I am not certain you will thank me if you actually go out and procure this movie for a viewing.

To my knowledge Weird Al is not in the film, but a character who is obviously intended to look like him is seen in a cage at the State Home for the Ugly.  You see him from a short distance away and that is about the sum total of his contribution to the film.

Notice how SaintMort spoke about the other film, "more painless" - as in moving away from the pain that is "The Garbage Pail Kids."

(http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/images/garbage1.jpg)

Oh Andrew...I couldn't resist this one..."dishes from dinner that have been soaking." You must be related to Dennis, (the famous they're soaking trick) sometimes his dishes soak clear until morning. heheheheheheheheheh  :bouncegiggle: Men.....  :bouncegiggle:
I had to come back  :bouncegiggle: I'm still laughing  :bouncegiggle:

Due to Katie's work schedule, I end up cleaning up after dinner, giving the kids their bath, putting them to bed, etc. 

I believe that we had eaten stuffed peppers that night and, hence, the dishes involved were soaked for a bit.  The dishes are always done before I go to bed.  The dishes from tonight are all done.

Well you were a very good boy tonight...I hope you know I was teasing you. It made me laugh because my better half uses the excuse that the dishes are soaking all the time. Usually I do them, but there are times I'll wait around,  he'll go in and start filling the sink to let them soak and says he'll do them a little later. Next thing I know it's morning and there he is doing the dishes. Anyway you made my day when I read that.  :bouncegiggle:

Oh, I completely understood that you were tweaking my nose.  I think that sometimes I have a hard time turning off Marine Andrew - something that you all have dinged me on before.

Still, it is saying something when scrubbing cheese off a plate is preferable to the "entertainment" that I am watching.

EDIT:  This is what I get for trying to type posts before the children are asleep.

It's the difference between the pain you can understand, and the pain that defies understanding.

Few points of interest (or is that uninterest) in this movie.  One is the fact I aboslutely HATED Dodger.  Whenever he was getting the snot beat out of him I was in hysterics laughing.  The kid was so whiny.  I remember at the end when he told off the girl by saying something along the lines of "you're mean". 

Secondly, a fashion show is simply an odd thing to build around a movie based on a collector card. 

Lastly, Nat Nerd wetting himself happens several times in the flick.  All of which were unfunny. 

I saw this a while back...the whole fashion show angle seemed a bit weird to me, too...I did a review on my myspace blog, but it has since been deleted. One thing to look out for: this film, like pee wee's big andventure and howard the duck, had a bar scene involving a character walking on the bar itself (that was apparently a big thing in the 80's).  :drink:

They did that with several gags, but the water pouring out of his suit was definitely a forlorn joke. 

Interesting point, Trevor.  And all of those people walking on the bars were "vertically challenged."

Thanks for the welcome Andrew.


and as for pain....... I DO have almost every series of the darn card collection in full........ I think the pain of viewing such an atrocity is in order.

hehehehe, i've seen some pretty BAD stuff already. I'll just brace myself for spooning my eyes out mid flick.

See Andrew, you do this and it makes her day, I do it and she says something like "you crack me up, it's so stupid, just do the *&*^% dishes and your finished with it, then watch the movie. :smile: :smile: :smile:

Dish washing aside, I have to say that getting the kids (kid in my case) ready for bed and getting them to sleep is one of the high points of a father's day, sometimes I miss having the little one to read to and then tuck in. :bluesad:

i saw this one while high and thought it was quite funny.

not pee wee  :tongueout:



ive viewed it one time high as well and i was cracking up for the first part of it (when they came out of the can i was actually a little freaked out i was so ripped) then i started to burn out and it started to get painful, it was like novacaine wearing off after youve just got teeth pulled.

You know, I had always taken it that Paul Reubens was rather short.  The IMDB states that he is 5'10".  I stand corrected and thank you.