Problem child 1990 cast movie#
The film has a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes with a critic consensus that reads "Mean-spirited and hopelessly short on comic invention, Problem Child is a particularly unpleasant comedy, one that's loaded with manic scenery chewing and juvenile pranks." Despite the negativity, Problem Child ended up being the most successful movie by Universal at the time and it also gained a cult following amongst audiences. The film was panned by critics despite being a box office success.
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One of the prison inmates is played by former WCCW, USWA, and WWF wrestler "Texas Tornado" Kerry Von Erich of the famous Von Erich Wrestling Family.While being on that subject, how did she even survived being shoved into the suitcase!?.Flo telling Ben that she wanted a divorce was very forced, not to mention being in a suitcase when saying that.While awesome, Kerry Von Erich barely gets to do anything and only appears for a short while.When the cat gets injured, we see that she is worried about the cat and not Junior and she hides her secrets from his husband. When Ben and Flo we're going to adopt him, yet even Big-Ben realized and his son Lil-Ben didn't trust him either. Igor Peabody didn't even warn about Junior.Some scenes go on for too long for no reason.Seeing a kid contracting a criminal is beyond creepy.Igor Peabody (played by Gilbert Gottfried) has an annoying voice.
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False advertising: as mentioned above the poster shows a cat in a washing machine but that never happens in the movie.Half of the time, the jokes are really unfunny and stupid.In one scene Junior beats everyone in the baseball game, and then lil' Ben realizes and he said that they've adopted Satan.The birthday scene where Junior ruins the party looks more like a B-roll footage.In the bear scene you can tell that between every shot it switches between a real bear and a costume.In fairness the movie was originally written as a black comedy and an adult satire, yet it still looks more like a family movie.Which succeeds in being a black comedy and an adult movie thanks to being rated R, but Problem Child fails thanks to its PG rating. Not helping that in 2019 Universal released a way better Black Comedy revolving children called: Good Boys. At times it can't decide if it wants to be a black comedy or a family movie.There is even a scene where Junior splinters the cats' legs.
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