The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)
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0% of critics liked it
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33% of users liked it
(8,204 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 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 film-- billing itself as a children's comedy-- was hastily assembled to capitalize on that popularity. Featuring midgets dressed up as the bubblegum card characters, it is the story of an antique collector and his assistant who find a mysterious garbage can from outer-space. The assistant ignores his boss's stern orders not to open the can and frees the Garbage Pail Kids. Now the two must somehow get the raunchy rugrats back into the can before they gross-out the world. Appalled parents found the film, even the very idea of it, so offensive that they launched a nation-wide protest that resulted in its withdrawal from circulation. You've been warned. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Rodney Amateau
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Kids & Family, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 1987 Wide
- Studio
- Atlantic
Critic Reviews
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Caryn James, New York Times
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie is enough to make you believe in strict and faraway boarding schools.
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, TV Guide's Movie Guide
A stunningly inept and totally reprehensible film.
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Clint Morris, Moviehole
Geez, that stench is unbearable!
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Nathan Rabin, AV Club
Ill-considered kids.
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Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine
Indisputably bargain-basement aside from the casting of Mackenzie Astin.
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Cast
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Anthony Newley
as Capt. Manzini
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Mackenzie Astin
as Dodger
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Katie Barberi
as Tangerine
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Ron MacLachlan
as Juice
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Kevin Thompson
as Ali Gator
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Phil Fondacaro
as Greaser Greg
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Bobby Bell
as Foul Phil
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Larry Green
as Nat Nerd
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Arturo Gil
as Windy Winston
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Sue Rossitto
as Messy Tessie
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Debbie Lee Carrington
as Valerie Vomit
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John Cade
as Bartender
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Lynn Cartwright
as Authoritative Voice
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Leo Gordon
as Guard
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John Herman Shaner
as Police Officer
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Chloe Amateau
as Foul Phil (Voice)
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J.P. Amateau
as Wally
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Teri Benaron
as Messy Tessie (Voice)
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Joan L. Burton
as Woman in Theater
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Jim Cummings
as Nat Nerd (Voice)
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Marjory Graue
as Blythe
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Chester Grimes
as Sandalfoot Biker
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Lindy Huddleson
as Girl With Mask
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Patty Lloyd
as Foster Mother
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Debbie Lytton
as Girl
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Kristine McKeon
as Girl
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Gavin Moloney
as Guard
