This can't be right. The DVD says it's only 80 minutes long. My mental clock's telling me I was watching this thing for three and a half years.

Forgot about Flo Healy being stuffed in a suitcase and tossed in the trunk of a mass-murderer's car -- talk about early '90s YIKES™ child entertainment lmao

Oh man...the shenanigans!....the hijinks!...the pure tom foolery! What a silly head! I hadn't seen this in a long time and hardly remembered much about it. A staple in my youth I've always been curious to revisit it.

So many pranks. So much slapstick. So much Gilbert Gottfreid. Guy acts like hes forever stuck in an Adam Sandler impersonation. My dang brain short circuited from the overload of zany nonsense. And most unconventional kid actor ever? Dude looks rough and his voice is mad harsh. Sounded like cletus the slack jawed yokel for crying out loud.

And how was this a kids film??? This thing is wild. And old guy mooning his old ass, lots of violence against nuns, a kid who's basically a serial killer in the making stealing money and setting things on fire.

They would never make a kids movie like this nowadays. These poor bastards get Frozen 3: White Girl Sings a Song.

It was like 4am and Raw had finished and I wasn't too tired.

Wanted something I'd happily fall asleep during, and for a change I didn't.

A comedy fucking classic. Really letterbx, 1 star? Home Alone gets all the praise while this one is neglected and abused and let out to dry, come on!

I had to call my mom to apologize for making her take me to see this when it came out. It's grating, cartoonish, kinda misogynist and generally inappropriate, and I loved it. I was shocked by how much of it was still funny to me (thanks in no small part to the cast: John Ritter, Michael Richards, Gilbert Gottfried, Jack Warden, etc).

Completely forgot that the titular song that plays over the credits is by The Beach Boys.

It sucks living in a world where John Ritter is dead, but Gilbert Gottfried is still alive.

In the first 10 minutes, there's cat torture, child abuse and a marriage being torn apart by infertility. LOL.

If the fact that I loved this movie as a kid isn't proof my DNA is rotten, the fact that I still like it is. But c'mon, a vulgar 90's comedy featuring several instances of George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone," toilet humor, Gilbert Gottfried, and a putzy kid? I'm not made of stone dammit.

john ritter mentions shopping and his wife's ear pricks up with a music cue

fucking kill him already

Life's too short to be spend with a guy who doesn't love this movie.

Classic 90s movie! I miss John Ritter!

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

This movie is totally "Bad t-t-to the Bone"

Rewatched for The 90s On Netflix

Review coming soon...

the problem... is the child.

an american classic

I remembered this being a silly slapstick comedy that kind of goes hand-in-hand with the same year's Home Alone. Except this is dark as Hell. The whole movie kind of hinges on the fact that this kid is so evil he's obsessed with a serial killer. And while most of his pranks are vengeanced based, he offhandedly remarks how much he'd love to cause a forest fire or he'll mistreat animals in a way that points at a darkness that made this fairly obnoxious movie too audacious to outright hate. And it's elevated by the comedic brilliance of John Ritter (I may have chuckled at every single one of his line readings, whether it was him being an earnest doofus or a man driven to insanity by an evil son).
Although, I was later pointed to this depressing article which was apparently the inspiration for Problem Child.

peak cinema

A movie that dares the answer the question: what if there was a kid who sucked?

Good fun.  I guess the kid is annoying but that’s the point. Plenty of better films in the same gene out there but this was worth a watch.

o nemesis de maria jose cardoso