30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

2017
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1h 54min

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Mackenzie Astin, Len Brown, Adam F. Goldberg, Jeff Zapata, and Aaron J. Booton in 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story (2017)

Editor: Sean Tiedeman - Garbage Pail Kids artists Joe Simko and Jeff Zapata track down current and veteran artists and creators for interviews about the mega-success of this widely popular 1980's gross-out sticker card series. This trailer helped the creative team raise over $41,000 on Indiegogo! Ain't It Cool News called the film, "A glorious blast from the '80s!"

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueIn the 1980s a bunch of underground cartoonists parodied a popular doll. The resulting commercial product tapped into the international kid zeitgeist. That young generation felt that this pr... Tout lireIn the 1980s a bunch of underground cartoonists parodied a popular doll. The resulting commercial product tapped into the international kid zeitgeist. That young generation felt that this product spoke to the revulsion they had for the corporate pop culture that was being fed to ... Tout lireIn the 1980s a bunch of underground cartoonists parodied a popular doll. The resulting commercial product tapped into the international kid zeitgeist. That young generation felt that this product spoke to the revulsion they had for the corporate pop culture that was being fed to them.

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3TheOneThatYouWanted

Pro tip; Stop watching after the first 20 minutes

Got to be honest, you can stop watching this after about 20 minutes because everything after is just repetition. I watched this with someone who collected these cards and he told me they were not as popular as this documentary suggests. I'm guessing this was sort of a marketing ploy for the upcoming line of cards they just so happened to talk about towards the end of this commercial.. I mean this documentary. Seems like this documentary was just reaching and killing a ton of time after the initial 20 minutes of the start of it. Not a fun watch.

Michael_Elliott

Good But a Tad Bit Too Long

30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story (2017)

*** (out of 4)

If you grew up in the 1980's then you will obviously remember the notorious and controversial Garbage Pail Kids. Yes, those revolting cards that parents, certain religious groups and various others were outraged about. This documentary, 30 YEARS OF GARBAGE: THE GARBAGE PAIL KIDS STORY takes a look at their rise in popularity and everything that happened because of it.

If you're a die-hard fan of the cards then there's no question that you're going to have a good time with this film. If you're not a die hard, well, you should still enjoy this documentary but you'll probably feel that it goes on a bit too long. I fell into that camp as I did collect these cards as a kid but I'm not overly crazy about them anymore.

What I enjoyed most about this documentary is that it does a good job at detailing how these cards came to be, early production meetings are discussed and we also get a good idea of why the cards were so popular. We get interviews with several of the men who were there at the start of the series so we get some very good behind-the-scenes details about the cards. There's also some nice stories covering the controversy behind them and an eventual lawsuit from the Cabbage Patch Doll people.

The movie that was based on the cards are also discussed and there are some fun stories told here by some of the cast members. As I said, there are a lot of details here about the production of the cards but to me the documentary did feel a tad bit too long for its own good.