MUNCHIES (1987)

MUNCHIES (1987)

I don’t have time to stand here discussing snack food economics with you two! 

In this thing Simon Watterman (played by Harvey Korman) is an archaeologist who discovers a small creature in Peru. He decides to take this historic discovery and entrust it to his grandson Paul (played by Charlie Stratton), who really just wants to make out with his girlfriend Cindy (played by Nadine Van der Velde). Cecil Watterman (also played by Harvey Korman), Simon's evil twin brother steals the creature from Paul and his step-son ends up in a fight with this thing. At the end of the fight he chops it up and all the parts turn into “munchies”. So unlike the GREMLINS, you can get them wet and you can feed them after midnight, and they don’t mind bright light. The only rule apparently is against something almost no one would have thought up, except this dude. So now we have like 4 or 5 "munchies" running around reaking havok. I can't remember the number, because I am still trying to get this movie out of my head. They also for some crazy reason already have space clothes on and can drive with little issue. Don't worry about that though, just go with it. 

First off, I am shocked the lady that Nadine Van der Velde who played “April” in CRITTERS got involved in this horrifyingly bad movie. I mean this thing was a struggle to get through. I am not going to lie. I realize Tina Hirsch (the director) who has a TON of editing credits on big movies was trying to capitalize on the success of the GREMLINS movie, but damn. This thing is just the bottom of the barrel. One thing to note is that Hirsch only directed 1 other film aside from this one. Thank God. 

Not even the poster to this freakin movie is accurate. While the MUNCHIES do talk, none of them look like the creature you see in the poster at all. They all look like someone dropped out of practical effects schools and got hired for this travesty the following day. There are Mc Donalds happy meal toys with better design work than this movie gives us. This thing is bad, all the way around from terrible jokes to meaningless dialog. Even the people we want to like in this movie aren’t likable. 

I will say after watching the preview, I decided to watch this movie knowing that I was in for a veritable nightmare just due to it being a Corman film, but man oh man. The line at the opening of this review might be the funniest thing we get out of this "comedy" with a very small amount of horror. I can’t say enough how disappointed I am with this one because about 15 minutes into it, everything is still actually watchable. After that it just feels like a bunch of drunk people got ahold of this production. Sadly, not even Nadine Van der Velde could rescue this movie, and I thought she was pretty good in CRITTERS. 

If you are looking for total non-sense this movie might be for you, but I can’t give it any better than a 1 out of 7 and feel good about it. 

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