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Overall Rating
2.91

Awesome34.78%
Worth A Look: 8.7%
Average: 0%
Pretty Bad: 26.09%
Total Crap: 30.43%

1 review, 17 user ratings


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by spork-girl

"I know the theme song by heart. Is that wrong?"
5 stars

In the mood for ridiculous and stupid? Put down Dumb And Dumber and pick this up.

This movie is an excellent absurdist spoof. I love a movie with a great concept. In this case, the concept is enough to carry the movie. The writing is superbly bad. The acting is even better (meaning worse.) And the effects! Breathtakingly worse than any zero budget horro flick. Wonderful!

The ultimate spoof. A bad movie mocking bad movies.

I should warn, some, many, will grow tired of this movie. But it's so cool. It's like an MST3K that doesn't even require Nelson or the 'bots. It forces you to mock it. How admirable a goal. "I wanna make a movie so bad it's good." And what a goal well accomplished.

One could argue that making this type of movie is easy. That it's easier to go bad than to go for quality. But I disagree. This movie pays such attention to the details. Nothing is left to chance.

A masterpiece. Excellent rewatchability level, and an entertaining frolic in the land of lowest common denomenatory. 5 sporks.

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originally posted: 10/03/98 17:31:05
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User Comments

5/04/08 brian Guys, you're missing the joke. It's SUPPOSED to be crappy. Relentlessly silly and cheap! 4 stars
12/03/07 Screwball Awful 1 stars
2/03/06 Zack wow that review was B.S. 1 stars
9/02/05 Zack this movie sucks sucks sucks sucks 1 stars
12/10/04 Jason Kaul Believe it or not, Movies that are bad ON PURPOSE are hard to make. Amazing!!! 5 stars
7/25/04 Katie Thsi movie is SO funny! I love the tomatoes! 4 stars
4/19/03 Jack Sommersby Just because its purposely dumb doesn't make it a success. 1 stars
7/11/02 .Choadushouse. One insanely shitty film! Only the voice of the tomatoes and the song "Puberty Love" rule! 2 stars
5/16/02 stiGma. never EVER get this movie. 1 stars
6/10/01 Turtle Stupid and crappy.... But funny. 2 stars
4/17/01 nick veggie tales is scarier than this movie. 1 stars
4/13/01 Igor Tomatoes doesn't even look tomatoes. My little bro thought they were pumpkins 1 stars
4/02/01 Andrew Carden It may be a cult classic, but god, is this awful! 2 stars
2/21/01 Steve in Prague teen movie critic its called SATIRE you idiot!!! FIRE THIS LOSER 5 stars
8/16/99 Mar Desbiens Crappy but that tomato pursuit followed by a car chase near the end was hilarious ! :o))) 2 stars
10/27/98 Silent Rob A crappy film that makes most folks say, "I coulda done that!" 2 stars
10/04/98 {{{OZ}}} I'm one of those people that got the joke, giggled once, then got bored of the joke. 2 stars
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USA
  02-Oct-1978 (PG)
  DVD: 23-Sep-2003

UK
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Australia
  02-Feb-1983 (MA)


Directed by
  John De Bello

Written by
  John De Bello
  Costa Dillon

Cast
  Paul Abbott
  Jeryr Anderson
  Nigel Barber
  Benita Barton
  Gregg Berger
  Don Birch


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