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The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)

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Sometimes kids like to do things to gross out or shock their parents. This is only natural, but many companies exploit this tendency by creating toys to appeal to that childish joy in the disgusting. In the late '80s, a new kind of bubblegum card, the Garbage Pail kids, featuring caricature paintings, of ugly, unclean moppets with yukky names such as Greaser Greg and Valerie Vomit, Windy Winston, and Foul Phil, each with an offensive habit, found popularity. This hastily-assembled live-action

Jul 12, 2005

Atlantic

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The Garbage Pail Kids Movie is enough to make you believe in strict and faraway boarding schools.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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A stunningly inept and totally reprehensible film.

August 3, 2009 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Geez, that stench is unbearable!

March 11, 2006 Comment
Moviehole

Ill-considered kids.

July 18, 2005 Full Review Source: AV Club | Comment
AV Club

The exploited tears of the wage-labor Garbage Pail Kids are a communist playground's gain.

July 13, 2005 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Indisputably bargain-basement aside from the casting of Mackenzie Astin.

July 13, 2005 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

You wouldn't expect high art from a title like this, but HOO BOY what a stinker. (OK, the puppet-work is pretty cool.)

April 3, 2005 Comments (5)
eFilmCritic.com

Real rubbish!

November 5, 2003 Comment
Sun Newspapers of Cleveland

Truth in titling here, folks. But I give them one star just for even trying to tackle this concept cinematically.

July 16, 2003 Comment
New Times

At least there was never a movie about pogs...

May 29, 2003 Comments (2)

This 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.'

March 10, 2003 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
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The Garbage Pail Kids is without a doubt the #1 worst film ever made in history. It isn't a comedy, or a fun movie, I am not kidding you my friend owns this (he hates it too) and we used the disc to cut pizza and used it for a bunch of other crap, because the movie is shit! The plot is a piece of shit, as a kid

February 27, 2011
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Brad Wright

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The most amazingly stupid, gross, ridiculous kids movie I've ever seen, I think. Almost so bad it's good, but then it fell back to bad again towards the end. See this for yourself if you dare.

September 13, 2010
ajv2688

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