{"id":22374,"date":"2016-10-25T13:20:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T17:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22374"},"modified":"2016-10-25T14:20:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T18:20:54","slug":"munchies-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/25\/munchies-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"Munchies (1987)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"munchies\"<\/a>I\u2019m shocked New Concorde wasn\u2019t sued by Steven Spielberg, since \u201cMunchies\u201d is about the closest rip off of \u201cGremlins\u201d I\u2019ve ever seen. While previous wannabes were just copying the formula of mischievous and often dangerous monsters wreaking havoc, \u201cMunchies\u201d goes so far as to copy the aforementioned horror fantasy right down to the monsters, all of whom bear striking resemblances to the enigmatic gremlins. Aimed toward a younger audience, but sporting a lot of raunchy humor, \u201cMunchies\u201d is set in a small town where young aspiring comedian Paul and his archaeologist father Cecil (Harvey Korman) find a small monster in a cave. Convinced it\u2019s an alien of a sort, they take the friendly monster home and decide to make it their pet.<\/p>\n

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Frankly, I\u2019m surprised they didn\u2019t name it \u201cCog\u201d or \u201cGear\u201d to mimic the name \u201cGizmo.\u201d Instead the friendly creature is named Arnold. When Cecil leaves town to appear at an exhibit, Paul is tasked with caring for Arnold. Things go awry though when Arnold is kidnapped by Paul\u2019s evil uncle Simon (Harvey Korman playing a duel role in a flimsy black wig and mustache), a land baron who is hiding toxic waste in his town\u2019s underground caves. When Simon\u2019s henchman is attacked by Arnold, he cuts the monster up in four pieces. Little does he know that when the monster is cut in to pieces, the pieces transform in to their own monsters, allowing Arnold to duplicate in to fanged, devious little monsters hell bent on wreaking havoc.<\/p>\n

Now Paul and his girlfriend are trying to track down the various munchies monsters, and corner them in an underground mine. The Munchies themselves are a variety of hand puppets dolls, all of whom inexplicably wear trench coats. It\u2019s a tricky way to hide the puppeteer hands. In either case, much of \u201cMunchies\u201d seems like it\u2019s trying to mimic \u201cGremlins\u201d big time without any of the considerable violence or menace. So the movie is very light hearted and bright, while the Munchies monsters never really shed blood of any kind. Even when biting in to victims, it\u2019s strictly a PG affair. \u201cMunchies\u201d is a very flat and uninspired \u201cGremlins\u201d rip off that\u2019s barely worth discussing even with the presence of Korman, while the monsters themselves are awfully dull, and never make too much sense.<\/p>\n

Frankly the Ghoulies are so much more interesting copycats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m shocked New Concorde wasn\u2019t sued by Steven Spielberg, since \u201cMunchies\u201d is about the closest rip off of \u201cGremlins\u201d I\u2019ve ever seen. While previous wannabes were just copying the formula of mischievous and often dangerous monsters wreaking havoc, \u201cMunchies\u201d goes so far as to copy the aforementioned horror fantasy right down to the monsters, all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[71,219,240,349,678,1008],"class_list":["post-22374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-adventure","tag-comedy","tag-crime","tag-fantasy","tag-monsters","tag-supernatural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22924,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22374\/revisions\/22924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}