The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)

User Rating:

2.6/10   

Director:

Rodney Amateau

Writers:

Linda Palmer (written by) &
Rodney Amateau (written by)

Genre:

Adventure | Musical | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

The Garbage Gang Is Alive and Grosser Than Ever!

Plot:

Seven disgusting kids but nevertheless of interesting personality are being made of the green mud coming out of garbage can...

Plot Keywords:

Kid | Toilet Humor | Based On Trading Cards | Friendship | Farting Scene

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

Phil Fondacaro	...	Greaser Greg - Suit
Anthony Newley	...	Captain Manzini
Mackenzie Astin	...	Dodger
Katie Barberi	...	Tangerine
Ron MacLachlan	...	Juice
J.P. Amateau	...	Wally
Marjory Graue	...	Blythe
Debbie Lee Carrington	...	Valerie Vomit - Suit (voice)
Kevin Thompson	...	Ali Gator - Suit (voice)
Bobby Bell	...	Foul Phil - Suit (as Robert Bell)
Larry Green	...	Nat Nerd - Suit
Arturo Gil	...	Windy Winston - Suit (voice)
Susan Rossitto	...	Messy Tessie - Suit
John Cade	...	Bartender
Lynn Cartwright	...	Authorative Voice / Fashion Show Host

Runtime:

Spain:96 min | USA:100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:L | USA:PG (certificate #28712) | UK:PG (cut)

Company:

Atlantic Entertainment Group

Trivia:

The first ever movie to be based on a trading card/sticker series.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt double for Dodger when he fights Juice at the fashion show.

Quotes:

[last lines]
Captain Manzini: [to Dodger, as the kids leave] Perhaps it would have been safer to lock them away from the world. But as you've taught me, Dodger, you can't change the world by locking yourself away from it.

Movie Connections:

Features Malice in the Palace (1949)

Soundtrack:

Working With Each Other

Give me back my lost hour & a half

This movie is terrible!! One of the fascinating things about the cast is that the two main characters 'Dodger' and 'Tangerine' happen to look at least 8yrs apart, but are in fact only 12mths apart.

The 'Garbage Pail Kids' themselves have awful costumes that are very poorly designed and really badly operated. The puppeteers need to be shot!!

I decided to find this movie and watch it because I hadn't seen it since it first come out, and I was sure I enjoyed it as a kid- What was wrong with me!!!

Save yourself a disappointing hour and a half....