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The Stupids

The Stupids (1996)

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This film is based on The Stupids series of children's books by Harry Allard and James Marshall, which are about a family that takes things very, very literally. In this film, the Stupids attempt to discover what happens to the garbage that disappears from their lawn every week (they think it has been stolen) and accidentally save the world. The father, Stanley (Tom Arnold), goes undercover posing as a tree and unknowingly stumbles into an international arms-smuggling scheme. He believes that

PG, 1 hr. 33 min.

Comedy

Feb 10, 2004

New Line Home Entertainment

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All Critics (27) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (12) | DVD (7)

Really, didn't the title kind of leak the fore-thought to this mess?

April 8, 2005 Comment
Emily Blunt
Blunt Review

If you're six, you'll think this is a cinematic gem, but even at seven you'll get bored and want to hurl the television out the window.

March 16, 2004 Full Review Source: Needcoffee.com | Comment
Widgett Walls
Needcoffee.com

The title says it all. Totally not funny.

November 6, 2002 Comment
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

Now I was stupid watching this

September 17, 2002 Comment
Clint Morris
Moviehole

Madcap fun. It's Tom Arnold's finest hour, though that's not saying much.

August 2, 2002 Comment (1)
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star
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A family of idiots go around doing idiotic, unfunny things. I couldn't stand it, it was so stupid!

September 6, 2010
ajv2688
AJ Verser

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haha yea thats exactly what the movie was.

June 5, 2009
LoughnerWasLucid
Coxxie Mild Sauce

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