Directed by:
Rod AmateauScreenplay:
Rod AmateauCinematography:
Harvey GenkinsComposer:
Michael LloydCast:
Phil Fondacaro, Mackenzie Astin, Anthony Newley, Debbie Lee Carrington, Jim Cummings, Arturo Gil, Leo Gordon, Katie Barberi, John Herman Shaner (more)Plots(1)
Meet the Garbage Pail Kids: Nat Nerd, Messy Tessie, Greaser Greg, Windy Winston, Foul Phil, Valerie Vomit and Ali Gator! They look as strange as their names and have come all the way from outer space to land their garbage can rocket straight into Captain Manzini's antique shop. There they befriend the orphan boy Dodger, who helps out in the store and could really use the support of the seven trash can children. But his new friends show him that true beauty comes from within and that the journey of growing up can sometimes be pretty disgusting. (Altitude Film Distribution)
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Garbage pile fire: the movie. The Garbage Pail Kids Movie is a typical phenomenon of film production that was possible only in the 1980s – a film adaptation of collectible cards, which originated as a parody of popular dolls, with straightforwardly humorous and mostly disgusting scenes and a bit in the spirit of Mad Magazine. However, the film is nothing more than a futile paraphrase of children’s movies of the time, as it attempts to give its characters some sort of genesis and lore in the style of Gremlins while framing everything in an absurd narrative about a little boy who tries to pick up a teenage girl who likes sewing but hangs around with boorish goons. Unfortunately, it is not nearly as unrestrained as the video-game movies of the early ’90s, which had a similar style and ethos, but everything in them was multiplied by the cocaine-fuelled exuberance of the time.
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