[ACT] Your last movie?

[Lunamancer]

I recently reacquainted myself with the Garbage Pail Kids movie. This was brought on because I was working on selling some collectibles my grandparents had that have been sitting in an attic for the past 15+ years since their deaths, and among their collections were some of the actual physical Garbage Pail Kids cards I personally collected as a child.

As for the movie, I only had the vaguest of memories about it, so I was really watching it with fresh eyes. I fully expected it to be cheesy. I remember very little about it except that I wasn't crazy about the movie when I first saw it as a kid.

And it was cheesy. But I was also pleasantly surprised. It didn't quite follow the formula of cheesy movies of its era. It had all the right cheesy character archetypes, but there were a couple of times when you could see the movie unfolding to a happy ending and all of a sudden the story line would bang a hard left. The actual ending itself has an actual shred of complexity to it--not much but some--even as it crams the moral of the story down the audience's throats.

I'd give it 3 out of 5. This sort of movie would normally deserve a 1, but this particular one deserves a 2. The fact that I was genuinely surprised (a pretty hefty task for a movie I've seen before), and I love surprises that actually make sense more than anything else bumps it up to a 3.