The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)

  • 0% of critics liked it
    (11 reviews)

  • 34% of users liked it
    (7,929 ratings)

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… More

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PG, 1 hr. 40 min.
Directed By
Rodney Amateau
Genres
Action & Adventure, Kids & Family, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1987 Wide
On DVD
Jul 12, 2005
Atlantic

Critic Reviews

  • Caryn James, New York Times

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

  • , TV Guide's Movie Guide

    A stunningly inept and totally reprehensible film.

  • Clint Morris, Moviehole

    Geez, that stench is unbearable!

  • Nathan Rabin, AV Club

    Ill-considered kids.

  • Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine

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

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Brad W


    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… More

  • AJ V


    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.

  • Conner R


    I was expecting this to be trashy and sort've in the same reign as Toxic Avenger, but it is a complete failure. It's not funny, just really disgusting and overly campy to the point where it's just revolting. The look of it is just terrible, it feels like it was made on… More

  • Wahida K


    It doesn't get any grosser than this!

  • Megan S


    Yup, it was terrible. I never watched this when I was a kid but I figured I needed to see it just once considering I was a Garbage Pail Kid for Halloween (Michelle Muck!) when I was little.

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