Stupids, The

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• UK / USA / USA • 1996 • 94m •

• Directed by: John Landis. • Starring: Tom Arnold, Jessica Lundy, Bug Hall, Alex McKenna, Mark Metcalf, Matt Keeslar, Scott Kraft, Victor Ertmanis, Earl Williams, George Chiang, Max Landis, Carol Ng, Arthur Eng. • Music by: Christopher L. Stone.

Tom Arnold stars as Mr.Stupid, the head of a family of imbeciles who thoroughly lives up to its name. In this funny and cartoonish comedy the Stupids seem to misunderstand everything they come into contact with. When Mr. and Mrs.Stupid suspect someone of "stealing" their garbage, Mr.Stupid sets off to find the vile thief--only to come bumbling into the middle of an underground military weapons operation. In less than 24 hours, Mr.Stupid finds himself the target of military assassins, not to mention a wacky alien threat to his life. Meanwhile, his idiotic family sets out to find their missing leader, with disastrous results. When the family is finally reunited, it is thoroughly convinced there is a bizarre conspiracy against it and sets out to foil its enemies, narrowly escaping an elevator confused for a time machine and a janitor named Lloyd that the family is thoroughly convinced is God in heaven.

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Let's get something straight right off the bat. I'm a MSTie, which those of you in the know means I'm an avid fan of the cult hit Mystery Science Theater 3000. This show revolved around a guy and his 2 robots who were stuck in outer space and forced to watch THE worst movies of all time, and make fun of them. What does this have to do with The Stupids? Well, I love MST3K and bad movies, but even I wasn't prepared for HOW HORRIBLE this movie was. Ah, ahhh! I jus-AHH! I didn't even see the entire thing, but I started watching around the halfway point cuz it was on TV and I was curious. Curiosity killed the cat. It killed the cat and hit it repeatedly with a stick, and urinated on it, and yet the cat didn't suffer half of what it would have if it had decided to just watch some of The Stupids.

The movie fails to be funny in every single way. The parts that were made to be funny arn't. The parts that arn't supposed to be funny are disappointing and lame. Then they try to make up for the lameness with more unfunny made to be funny lameness and disapointingness. Everything is predictable and downright, ugh, HORRIBLE. Tom Arnold, as if his life weren't bad enough, chose to be in this stinkburger of a movie. Oh god I feel dirty just writing about it. Who are these child actors and are they out of the business for good now? Nothing is worse than a horrible movie with a decent budget.

I have a great sense of humor, but my word, what an absolutely terrible waste of film and waste of time. I warn every one of you, don't. Just don't. This is more painful than a million "Manos" Hands of Fates.

Review by bitememstie from the Internet Movie Database.

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