Munchie

1992

Comedy / Family / Fantasy

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 37% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 37% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 3.5/10 10 1331 1.3K

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Director

Jim Wynorski Photo
Jim Wynorski

Top cast

Jennifer Love Hewitt Photo
Jennifer Love Hewitt as Andrea
Raven De La Croix Photo
Raven De La Croix as Party Guest in White Clown Outfit
Arte Johnson Photo
Arte Johnson as Prof. Cruikshank
Peter Spellos Photo
Peter Spellos as Chel
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1 hr 20 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MrPaull0324 3 / 10

A Crummy 90's E.T. Ripoff

The release of Spielberg's masterpiece E. T. created a trend of movies that tried to ride on its coattails that stretched well into the early 90s. Munchie may not be the worst one of all, but it's still bad.Some kid named Gage (Jamie McEnnan) stumbles into an abandoned mine shaft and discovers a leather jacket clad, wise cracking, greaser monster named Munchie locked in a chest. After releasing him, Gang befriends Munchie and promises to help him with typical problems for a kid in a thousand other films, like impressing his crush, Andrea (Jennifer Love Hewitt, amazingly) and dealing with bullies. But instead, Munchie just unleashes all kinds of hell.There isn't really any story besides Munchies shenanigans. Half the cast is unlikeable, like the hostile Principal Thornton (Ace Mask) who has it out for Gage, his mother Cathy's (Loni Anderson) slimy new boyfriend, Elliott (Andrew Stevens), a couple of bullies; that's it. All the acting is awful, especially from the child actors; the best acting we see here comes from the kids performing Romeo and Juliet during a school play. Some of Muchys one-liners and Gages frequent day dreaming might make you snicker here and there, but that's about the only humor you can hope to find here.Munchy is one of the most uncanny and disturbing looking puppets I've ever seen, like a horrifying combination of Bubsy Bobcat and Fonzie. His lip-syncing doesn't match up at all and his constant wise cracking and corny jokes make him really annoying, even with Dom DeLuise (RIP) voicing him. It's no wonder he was locked in a trunk and thrown off a cliff by some guy in the intro. And he's not the only cheap looking thing in this flick; he summons and levitates a plastic pizza through the air, and his magic powers are made with bright, unimpressive green sparkle effects.While not quite as bad as Nukie (then again, what movie is?), this was still a trashy ET rip-off, Dom DeLuise' voice talent was wasted on it and I'm pretty sure it sure that it ruined Jamie McEnnan's career, but luckily not Jennifer Love Hewitts.
Reviewed by lee_eisenberg 4 / 10

What...the...hell?

I learned of Jim Wynorski when I happened to rent his "Chopping Mall" from my neighborhood video store in summer 2001 (the people who only knew Blockbuster have no idea what they missed by not going to neighborhood video stores). I saw a number of his other movies over the years, and have now seen his utterly bizarre "Munchie", about a boy who befriends a doglike being who has unlimited powers and delights in mischief.For the most part, it was an "E. T." ripoff, complete with a divorced mom. I will say that unlike the beyond-atrocious "Mac and Me", this one at least wasn't a giant commercial, and had some authentically funny scenes (Munchie's gag in the principal's office, and then the party). For the most part, it was nothing that I hadn't seen before.Well guess what? "Mystery Science Theater 3000" riffed it. This was definitely a movie that set itself up to get mocked. Among the famous people whom Jonah and the 'bots mentioned were Wallace Shawn and Judy Tenuta. They also said that Dom DeLuise voiced Munchie because Don Bluth wasn't making a movie at the time, and that Loni Anderson (as the mom) must've gotten this movie in her divorce from Burt Reynolds.The rest of the cast includes Andrew Stevens (Stella's son), Arte Johnson and Jennifer Love Hewitt in her debut.
Reviewed by LW-08854 3 / 10

Ridiculous fantasy adventure

I really have to lay into this movie. The acting is terrible, the lines are awful, nobody sounds like a kid for one, secondly the adults are written like kids, it's atrocious. The film has no depth or emotion to it, just a series of pointless gags, including tripping on a banana skin.... The special effects are bad, the magical friend is very gratting and the ending is incredibly lazy. Children deserve better than this and I feel sympathy for the young cast who do their best with a poor piece of writing. Again and again with bad movies it comes back to the writing. If this was meant to be a comedy then at least put in some funny jokes for us.
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