Movies like The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

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The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)
 2.7
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The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Seven disgusting kids but nevertheless of interesting personality are being made of the green mud coming out of garbage can. Once alive their master gives them rules to obey although they think that life is funnier without following stupid regulations like no television or no candy. Naturally this will cause some conflicts.
Style: cult classic, humorous, funny, creepy, hilarious, disgusting, independent film, offbeat, not serious, parody ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, girls' night
Plot: children, bullying, monster, youth, teenager, friendship, tribe, weirdo, puppet, toxic waste, exploitation, buddies, bomb squad, friendly alien, creepy child, fashion designer, bully, alligator, teenage girl, toilet humor, teenage boy, antique shop, gross out humor, nubile girl, friends ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: usa
Keyword: gangsters, movie theatre

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Most similar movies to The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, not serious and entertaining films with plots about disorder, friends, friendship, youth, young heroes, family relations and escapades mostly in Family, Comedy and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Garbage Pail Kids Movie: Little Monsters (1989), The Country Bears (2002), Explorers (1985), Barney's Great Adventure (1998), Kids World (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Little Monsters (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young boy is scared of the monster under his bed. He asks his 6th grade brother to swap rooms for the night as a bet that the monster really exists. Soon the brother becomes friends with the monster and discovers a whole new world of fun and games ...
Style: light, melancholic, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: monster, brother brother relationship, friendship, coming of age, young heroes, halloween, mischievous children, curses spells and rituals, child as adult, fish out of water, wish come true, imaginary ...
Time: year 1989
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100%
The Country Bears (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: For Beary Barrington, The Country Bears' young #1 fan, fitting in with his all-too-human family is proving im-paws-ible. When he runs away to find Country Bear Hall and his heroes, he discovers the venue that made them famous is near ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, feel good, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: bear, music, fish out of water, friendship, music band, rescue, musician's life, save the day, self discovery, pirate, teenage girl, animal ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, tennessee
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100%
 6.4
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Explorers (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The visionary dreams of three curious and adventuresome young boys become an exciting reality in Explorers, the action-fantasy from director Joe Dante, who combines keen humor, warmth and fantasy with unexpected twists. In their makeshift ...
Style: light, cult classic, feel good, mindfuck, epic ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: space travel, friendship, space, childhood, bullying, coming of age, ufo, adolescence, fantasy world, children, outer space, teenager ...
Time: future, 80s, year 1985
Place: maryland, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Barney's Great Adventure (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Mom and dad dump son Cody, daughter Abby, her best friend Marcella and a baby on the farm with Grandpa and Grandma. Purple dinosaur Barney soon appears to entertain kids, and when a large colorful egg deposited on a farm by a shooting star is ...
Style: feel good, humorous, funny, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers
Plot: dinosaur, chase, youth, children, meme, barney, puppet, disorder, friends, fish out of water, imaginary kingdom, countryside ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Kids World (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: What would you wish for if you were eleven and could have anything in the world? Your parents don't understand you. Your teenage brother is constantly getting you in trouble...for things he did! You're in love with the twelve-year-old girl ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, independent film, suspense
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: youth, child as adult, wish come true, mischievous children, friendship, young heroes, experiment gone awry, teenage life, best friend, rescue, danger, family life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 3.2
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Daddy Day Camp (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Seeking to offer his son the satisfying summer camp experience that eluded him as a child, the operator of a neighborhood daycare center opens his own camp, only to face financial hardship and stiff competition from a rival camp.
Style: humorous, melancholic, not serious, slapstick, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: summer camp, competition, mischievous children, father son relationship, children, childhood, happy ending, colonel, family relations, buddies, escapades, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The Muppets' Wizard of Oz follows a young woman named Dorothy Gale who dreams of becoming a singer but is unable to pursue her dreams. After being swept up by a tornado with her pet prawn Toto, Dorothy embarks on a journey to meet the Wizard of ...
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, fantasy adventure, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: wizard of oz, puppet, muppets, friendship, young heroes, danger, rescue, escapades, puppetry, lion, black history, fantasy world ...
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Doctor Dolittle (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Get ready for the wildest adventure of a lifetime in the most ambitious production ever brought to film. Earning a 1967 Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, this dazzling fantasy turns both ordinary and exotic animals into talking, dancing and ...
Style: cute, light, sweet, light hearted, retro ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: animal, sailing, youth, dancing, animal lover, broadway, bomb squad, literary, myth, sea, carnival, camel ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, year 1967, 1840s, victorian era
Place: africa, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Bingo (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Bingo, the runaway circus dog, is off the leash and saving Chuckie's life! Bingo and the boy become the best of friends in this canine comedy featuring doggy disguises and skateboarding, pinball and prison. Chuckie and his parents (Cindy ...
Style: humorous, touching, not serious, spoof, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog, friendship, on the road, rescue, american football, escapades, youth, pets, kidnapping, childhood, coming of age, animal protagonist ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Peanut Butter Solution (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Peanut butter is the secret ingredient for magic potions made by two friendly ghosts. Eleven-year-old Michael loses all of his hair when he gets a fright and uses the potion to get his hair back, but too much peanut butter causes things to get a bit ...
Style: surreal, cult classic, creepy, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: ghost, bullying, magic, youth, supernatural, surrealism, children, kidnapping, teacher, supernatural horror, hate, magic realism ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Dr. Dolittle 3 (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Lisa Dolittle sends her daughter to 'Durango', a Dude Ranch, to find herself. While there, she uses her talent to talk to the animals in order to save Durango from being taken over by a neighboring Ranch.
Style: semi serious, humorous, romantic, offbeat
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, teens
Plot: animal, pets, friends, family life, family relations, talking animal, imaginary, misfit, disorder, teenage life, partner, youth ...
Time: year 2006
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Kermit's Swamp Years (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: At 12 years old, Kermit the Frog and best friends Goggles and Croaker travel outside their homes in the swamps of the Deep South to do something extraordinary with their lives.
Style: feel good, humorous, not serious, exciting, fantasy adventure
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: frog, muppets, escapades, puppet, best friend, confined, rescue, danger, young heroes, friendship, heroes, homecoming ...
Time: 2020s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Dr. John Dolittle the beloved doctor is back, but this time around he plays cupid to bumbling circus bear Archie as he's so smitten by a Pacific Western bear female, Ava. Dr. Dolittle must help a group of forest creatures to save their forest. ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, not serious, hilarious, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: veterinarian, kids and family, animal, dog, stereotypes, friends, couple relations, silly humor, teaching the ways of the world, parents and children, power relations, family relations ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Master of Disguise (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A sweet-natured Italian waiter named Pistachio Disguisey at his father Fabbrizio's restaurant, who happens to be a member of a family with supernatural skills of disguise. But moments later the patriarch of the Disguisey family is kidnapped ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, not serious, feel good, slapstick comedy ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: kidnapping, stupidity, disguise, heroic mission, supernatural, grandfather grandson relationship, investigation, father son relationship, confined, rescue, danger, supernatural ability ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: usa, costa rica, palermo italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The eccentric and childish Pee-wee Herman embarks on a big adventure when his beloved bicycle is stolen. Armed with information from a fortune-teller and a relentless obsession with his prized possession, Pee-wee encounters a host of odd characters ...
Style: road movie, funny, surreal, humorous, hilarious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: bicycle, road trip, man child, cycling, on the road, surrealism, nightmare, great ending, bike, children, childhood, chase ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: austin texas, texas, california, usa, san antonio texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 4.7
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Shorts (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Chile, Peru, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young boy's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous kids and scheming adults alike set out to get their hands on it.
Style: not serious, feel good, humorous, light, freeze frame ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: wish come true, miraculous event, mischievous children, youth, imaginary, family life, adolescence vs adulthood, alien, disorder, nothing goes right, heroes, hopes ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The story of how Mystery Inc. was formed.
Style: not serious, feel good, humorous, detective, exciting ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot: talking dog, scooby doo, dog, ghost, goofy hero, investigation, partner, disorder, friends, youth, amateur detective, prank ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Muppets (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA, Japan, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When Kermit the Frog and the Muppets learn that their beloved theater is slated for demolition, a sympathetic human, Gary, and his puppet roommate, Walter, swoop in to help the gang put on a show and raise the $10 million they need to save the day.
Style: sweet, exciting, feel good, cult classic, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: muppets, puppetry, childhood, puppet, save the day, ambition, friendship, artists and showbiz, escapades, disorder, halloween, hollywood ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, madagascar, usa, france, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Cat in the Hat (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Conrad and Sally Walden are home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside, and there is nothing to do. Until The Cat in the Hat walks in the front door. He introduces them to their imagination, and at first it's all fun and games, until ...
Style: stylized, humorous, feel good, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, preschool
Plot: imaginary kingdom, cat, youth, friendship, disorder, talking cat, getting home, fish out of water, rescue, danger, child, goofy hero ...
Time: year 2003
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso,and her pet monkey, Mr. Neilson, and takes up residence in the old family home, which is thought by neighborhood ...
Style: melancholic, light, talky, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: children, friendship, little girl, magic, greed, family relations, young heroes, imaginary, rescue, disorder, danger, mischievous children ...
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.1
 11K
Camp Nowhere (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem. His parents desperately want to send him away to summer camp. He hates going to summer camp, and would do anything to get out of it. Talking to his friends, he realizes that they are all facing the same ...
Style: teen, light, entertaining, sentimental, not serious ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: summer camp, high school, childhood, camp, parent child relationship, coming of age, misfit, cheerleading, frame up, teenage life, friends, disorder ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.9
 24K
The Borrowers (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer ...
Style: light, entertaining, humorous, not serious, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: little people, mischievous children, friendship, child's point of view, childhood, kids and family, greed, good versus evil, disorder, danger, youth, rescue ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: It's Schluufy's birthday, and the Oogieloves (Goobie, Zoozie and Toofie), along with their friends J. Edgar, Windy Window and Ruffy, are organizing a party. (Shh! It's a secret.) Everything is going along just perfectly until J. Edgar ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, entertaining, light
Audience: family outing, manly, toddlers, kids
Plot: friends, escapades, young heroes, disorder, friendship, youth, birthday, balloon, adventure hero, twists and turns, target, journey ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Garfield: The Movie (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Garfield, the fat, lazy, lasagna lover, has everything a cat could want. But when Jon, in an effort to impress the Liz - the vet and an old high-school crush - adopts a dog named Odie and brings him home, Garfield gets the one thing he doesn't ...
Style: feel good, not serious, entertaining, light, romantic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: cat, pets, talking animal, comic book, rescue, animal life, disorder, happy ending, animal shelter, comic hero, runaway, animal protagonist ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Horrid Henry: The Movie (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When Henry fails yet again to hand in his homework for the umpteenth time, he has no idea that this will set off a chain of events which will see him forming an unlikely alliance with Moody Margaret, the infuriating girl next door, and his ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, light, realistic, not serious
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: youth, mischievous children, young heroes, friendship, teachers and students, parents and children, friends, girl, child, kids and family, family life, troublemaker ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 3.1
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Kazaam (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Shaquille O'Neal as a rapping genie protects a little boy.
Style: feel good, humorous, intense, inspirational, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: genie, mischievous children, bully, friendship, youth, justice, wish come true, wish fulfillment, culture clash, unlikely friendships, young heroes, father son relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 7.1
 374K
Jumanji (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's been trapped inside the game for 26 years -- into their living room. Alan's only hope for ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, offbeat, light, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, family friendly ...
Plot: jungle, fantasy world, childhood, board game, magic, time travel, adventurer, getting home, children, parallel world, supernatural, danger ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s, 19th century, 1860s ...
Place: new hampshire, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Are We There Yet? (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The fledgling romance between Nick, a playboy bachelor, and Suzanne, a divorced mother of two, is threatened by a particularly harrowing New Years Eve. When Suzanne's work keeps her in Vancouver for the holiday, Nick offers to bring her kids to ...
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, slapstick, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: children, road trip, mischievous children, on the road, family relations, nothing goes right, couple relations, parents and children, disorder, single parent, love and romance, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oregon, vancouver, usa, canada, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Playing around while aboard a cruise ship, the Chipmunks and Chipettes accidentally go overboard and end up marooned in a tropical paradise. They discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems.
Style: humorous, entertaining, funny, fairy tale, sweet ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: chipmunk, youth, animal, jungle, children, animal life, talking animal, family relations, siblings relations, goofy hero, dancing, music band ...
Time: 2010s, 20th century, year 2011, 21st century
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Five Children and It (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Psammead is 'It', an ancient, irritable, ugly sand fairy, which five children find one day in a gravel pit. As a reward for finding him, It grants the children one wish a day, the results of which will last until sunset.
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, offbeat, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot: youth, wish fulfillment, young heroes, heroes, mischievous children, disorder, fish out of water, parents and children, supernatural, danger, rivalry, misfit ...
Time: year 2004, year 1917, 1910s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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