The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

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. (07/16/2023)