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Gage Dobson, un chico nuevo en el pueblo, se enfrenta al acoso escolar, a una chica que le gusta y a la próxima boda de un canalla. Conoce a Munchie, una simpática criatura parecida a un gre... Leer todoGage Dobson, un chico nuevo en el pueblo, se enfrenta al acoso escolar, a una chica que le gusta y a la próxima boda de un canalla. Conoce a Munchie, una simpática criatura parecida a un gremlin con poderes mágicos.Gage Dobson, un chico nuevo en el pueblo, se enfrenta al acoso escolar, a una chica que le gusta y a la próxima boda de un canalla. Conoce a Munchie, una simpática criatura parecida a un gremlin con poderes mágicos.
- Dirección
- Guionistas
- Elenco
Jamie McEnnan
- Gage
- (as Jaime McEnnan)
Dom DeLuise
- Munchie
- (voz)
Jennifer Love Hewitt
- Andrea
- (as Love Hewitt)
John Henry Richardson
- Mr. Kurtz
- (as Jay Richardson)
George 'Buck' Flower
- Rich Tramp
- (as George Buck Flower)
Pamela Pond
- Female Celebrity
- (as Pamela Runo)
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Opiniones destacadas
Alright, take a look at that box art. We've got a creepy puppet in a leather jacket riding a pizza above the heads of a guy with a sexual predator mustache and a kid desperately attempting and failing to be Macaulay Culkin. How awesome you find that box art will probably directly correlate to how much you'll like MUNCHIE.
Which is to say MUNCHIE is not a very well-made movie, but it is quite entertaining when watched in the right state of mind (alcoholic beverages may help!). The acting is wooden across the board, the Munchie puppet looks like a dated, cheap children's toy that nobody bought because it was creepier than a Furby, and it's got a generic mom's-new-boyfriend character that rocks hideous '90s track-jackets. Everything feels slightly porn-y for a children's flick as well; there's much cleavage on display and one scene involving the school principal and his secretary feels distinctly softcore (tell me that actress isn't straight outta porn!). This is probably due to the director's seat being occupied by Jim Wynorski, a filmmaker much more at home directing exploitation and softcore flicks than children's movies.
It all comes off as a low-rent creepy E.T. (not, like, BADI-level creepy but certainly not cute), sans the emotional depth and filmmaking skill. Bad movie fans will have some fun with it, and little kids might too, I guess (they might need some kid beer though). Look for a preteen Jennifer Love Hewitt in her feature film debut, though she's not given anything to do but smile and look cute.
P.S. For those of you who greatly enjoyed 1987's MUNCHIES (anyone? anyone?) and are looking for a sequel, this is completely unrelated despite the trailer's claims. There is, however, a sequel to this one: 1994's MUNCHIE STRIKES BACK.
Which is to say MUNCHIE is not a very well-made movie, but it is quite entertaining when watched in the right state of mind (alcoholic beverages may help!). The acting is wooden across the board, the Munchie puppet looks like a dated, cheap children's toy that nobody bought because it was creepier than a Furby, and it's got a generic mom's-new-boyfriend character that rocks hideous '90s track-jackets. Everything feels slightly porn-y for a children's flick as well; there's much cleavage on display and one scene involving the school principal and his secretary feels distinctly softcore (tell me that actress isn't straight outta porn!). This is probably due to the director's seat being occupied by Jim Wynorski, a filmmaker much more at home directing exploitation and softcore flicks than children's movies.
It all comes off as a low-rent creepy E.T. (not, like, BADI-level creepy but certainly not cute), sans the emotional depth and filmmaking skill. Bad movie fans will have some fun with it, and little kids might too, I guess (they might need some kid beer though). Look for a preteen Jennifer Love Hewitt in her feature film debut, though she's not given anything to do but smile and look cute.
P.S. For those of you who greatly enjoyed 1987's MUNCHIES (anyone? anyone?) and are looking for a sequel, this is completely unrelated despite the trailer's claims. There is, however, a sequel to this one: 1994's MUNCHIE STRIKES BACK.
Do you remember Steven Spielberg's classic story of an alien creature who interacts with a lonely kid who just needs a friend?
This is like that, if you take out the joy, sense of awe, and all the heart - and heap on alllll the campy over the top schlock of a low budget movie.
Is it "so bad it's good?" Yeah, I laughed quite a bit at some of the ridiculous situations that were super problematic for a movie aimed at kids. I'm not sure how they managed to get Loni Anderson and Dom DeLuise for this, but would have loved to be a fly on the wall when those negotiations were going on.
All in all, it deserves a spot in the, "what did I just experience?" list of movies.
This is like that, if you take out the joy, sense of awe, and all the heart - and heap on alllll the campy over the top schlock of a low budget movie.
Is it "so bad it's good?" Yeah, I laughed quite a bit at some of the ridiculous situations that were super problematic for a movie aimed at kids. I'm not sure how they managed to get Loni Anderson and Dom DeLuise for this, but would have loved to be a fly on the wall when those negotiations were going on.
All in all, it deserves a spot in the, "what did I just experience?" list of movies.
While the film Munchie is on it's surface a below average practical effects driven family comedy and allegory for acceptance and overcoming the challenges of puberty, below one veil lies a heart of darkness, and an interesting dissertation on the esoteric. Trying to stab at this moving target with one pithy summation is difficult, but as a reviewer, it is my duty. Essentially the bizarre and repulsive "Munchie" shows us the true meaning of 'monstrous.' Rather than recognize his freakishness and retreat in to some dark faery land of seclusion, Munchie parades himself about, attempting to use a thin layer of humor as a social lubricant. More grotesquely still, Munchie seeks the company of children.
How sinister this practice is lies in the viewpoint of the err... viewer. My personal take, is that highlighting how 'ugly' society is using his own ugliness is Munchie's attempt at destroying the juvenile leads' innocence. This psychic affront disturbs me more than any banal, physical transgressions that are / were to occur, being that we are all blinded gray whales crashing about in the pitch seas of the cosmos.
Munchie really likes pizza. ;-)
How sinister this practice is lies in the viewpoint of the err... viewer. My personal take, is that highlighting how 'ugly' society is using his own ugliness is Munchie's attempt at destroying the juvenile leads' innocence. This psychic affront disturbs me more than any banal, physical transgressions that are / were to occur, being that we are all blinded gray whales crashing about in the pitch seas of the cosmos.
Munchie really likes pizza. ;-)
The release of Spielberg's masterpiece E. T. created a trend of movies that tried to ride on its coattails that stretched well into the early 90s. Munchie may not be the worst one of all, but it's still bad.
Some kid named Gage (Jamie McEnnan) stumbles into an abandoned mine shaft and discovers a leather jacket clad, wise cracking, greaser monster named Munchie locked in a chest. After releasing him, Gang befriends Munchie and promises to help him with typical problems for a kid in a thousand other films, like impressing his crush, Andrea (Jennifer Love Hewitt, amazingly) and dealing with bullies. But instead, Munchie just unleashes all kinds of hell.
There isn't really any story besides Munchies shenanigans. Half the cast is unlikeable, like the hostile Principal Thornton (Ace Mask) who has it out for Gage, his mother Cathy's (Loni Anderson) slimy new boyfriend, Elliott (Andrew Stevens), a couple of bullies; that's it. All the acting is awful, especially from the child actors; the best acting we see here comes from the kids performing Romeo and Juliet during a school play. Some of Muchys one-liners and Gages frequent day dreaming might make you snicker here and there, but that's about the only humor you can hope to find here.
Munchy is one of the most uncanny and disturbing looking puppets I've ever seen, like a horrifying combination of Bubsy Bobcat and Fonzie. His lip-syncing doesn't match up at all and his constant wise cracking and corny jokes make him really annoying, even with Dom DeLuise (RIP) voicing him. It's no wonder he was locked in a trunk and thrown off a cliff by some guy in the intro. And he's not the only cheap looking thing in this flick; he summons and levitates a plastic pizza through the air, and his magic powers are made with bright, unimpressive green sparkle effects.
While not quite as bad as Nukie (then again, what movie is?), this was still a trashy ET rip-off, Dom DeLuise' voice talent was wasted on it and I'm pretty sure it sure that it ruined Jamie McEnnan's career, but luckily not Jennifer Love Hewitts.
Some kid named Gage (Jamie McEnnan) stumbles into an abandoned mine shaft and discovers a leather jacket clad, wise cracking, greaser monster named Munchie locked in a chest. After releasing him, Gang befriends Munchie and promises to help him with typical problems for a kid in a thousand other films, like impressing his crush, Andrea (Jennifer Love Hewitt, amazingly) and dealing with bullies. But instead, Munchie just unleashes all kinds of hell.
There isn't really any story besides Munchies shenanigans. Half the cast is unlikeable, like the hostile Principal Thornton (Ace Mask) who has it out for Gage, his mother Cathy's (Loni Anderson) slimy new boyfriend, Elliott (Andrew Stevens), a couple of bullies; that's it. All the acting is awful, especially from the child actors; the best acting we see here comes from the kids performing Romeo and Juliet during a school play. Some of Muchys one-liners and Gages frequent day dreaming might make you snicker here and there, but that's about the only humor you can hope to find here.
Munchy is one of the most uncanny and disturbing looking puppets I've ever seen, like a horrifying combination of Bubsy Bobcat and Fonzie. His lip-syncing doesn't match up at all and his constant wise cracking and corny jokes make him really annoying, even with Dom DeLuise (RIP) voicing him. It's no wonder he was locked in a trunk and thrown off a cliff by some guy in the intro. And he's not the only cheap looking thing in this flick; he summons and levitates a plastic pizza through the air, and his magic powers are made with bright, unimpressive green sparkle effects.
While not quite as bad as Nukie (then again, what movie is?), this was still a trashy ET rip-off, Dom DeLuise' voice talent was wasted on it and I'm pretty sure it sure that it ruined Jamie McEnnan's career, but luckily not Jennifer Love Hewitts.
I really have to lay into this movie. The acting is terrible, the lines are awful, nobody sounds like a kid for one, secondly the adults are written like kids, it's atrocious. The film has no depth or emotion to it, just a series of pointless gags, including tripping on a banana skin....
The special effects are bad, the magical friend is very gratting and the ending is incredibly lazy. Children deserve better than this and I feel sympathy for the young cast who do their best with a poor piece of writing. Again and again with bad movies it comes back to the writing. If this was meant to be a comedy then at least put in some funny jokes for us.
¿Sabías que…?
- TriviaFilm debut of Jennifer Love Hewitt.
- ErroresAt the start of the movie police are instructed by dispatch to follow a blue pickup truck license number "Adam Frank 9256" but the license plate on the truck can clearly be seen as 58 640.
- ConexionesEdited from Jackson County Jail (1976)
- Bandas sonorasHello My Baby
Performed by Dom DeLuise
Written by Howard and Emerson
Produced by Jay Bolton
Arranged by Jay Bolton
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- Tiempo de ejecución1 hora 20 minutos
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