The Garbage Pail Kids

[Henry88]

WTF Hollywood: The Garbage Pail Kids Movie


From Deadline:
Michael Eisner's Tornante Company Behind Feature Adaptation Of 'Garbage Pail Kids'



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[doggans]

Well, adapting this property into a feature worked out so well the first time. Plus, it's still a relevant franchise, as Cabbage Patch Kids are still taking the nation by storm and just as ripe for parody as ever. YOUR MOTIVATIONS CONTINUE TO MAKE SENSE, EISNER.

[Darth Geek]

The part that concerns me the most is that in the articles for this people keep saying "Well, it can't be worse than the first one." NEVER SAY THAT!

[Pak-Man]

I loved Garbage Pail Kids, but the thing about GPK is they were waaay too violent/vulgar for the audience that embraced them. That's actually fine for trading cards because as kids we were able to trade them on the down-low, and there wasn't really an entity responsible for making sure they were age-appropriate.

The problem with a movie is that if you want to faithfully adapt something like this:



You'd need to either water it down until the appeal is gone, or go for a hard R.

[Darth Geek]

Good point! And I think the fact that they weren't really "age appropriate" was the entire appeal of the cards.

I would like to see a hard R version of this, but even then it would be a curiosity at best. I doubt a studio would put much money into something like that.

I do think the funniest "watering down" happened in the original movie though. They have a mojor part of the plot involving a teenage girl and fashion (really BAD 80s fashion, to boot) in a movie based on boys trading cards that were all about being anti-girlie. Of all the stupid shit in that movie, that is by far the worst.