One of life's great pleasures is watching a terrible film with a group of friends, and I genuinely love bad movies : Give me "Plan 9 from Outer Space," "Manos: The Hands of Fate," or "Hard Ticket to Hawaii" and I'll make a case for why they are five-star cult classics. There are limits, however, and even I must draw the line at "The Garbage Pail Kid Movie," one of those rare cinematic disasters with a 0% critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes. One thing I will say is that no fault lies with its young star, Mackenzie Astin, although maybe he should've taken his dad's advice when the role came along.

Perhaps the movie seemed like a good idea at the time. The Garbage Pail Kids were the hottest trading cards on the playground in the mid-'80s, a grotesque and irreverent parody of the more wholes

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