Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

It’s a difficult film to talk about without spoiling the jokes. It’s one of those films where experiencing the joke is more effective than explaining it. As explained before not all the jokes hit. Some do. Using a terrible song to defeat the tomatoes, a sequence where a news reporter harasses a witness by making her feel worse about her current situation or a sequence with an extremely slow car chase is hilarious. As I just said you have to see these jokes to appreciate them. However, every well written, well directed joke is followed by a completely random joke that makes no sense and is not funny. Even the cleverly written jokes such as the split phone sequence is great on paper but then let down by the directing and acting. The lack of an overall human villain with a grand scheme (rather than the plot twist the viewer gets towards the climax of the movie) means the tomatoes lead without a leader. The introduction of an outright evil antagonist for the sequels is one thing the writers later attempted to correct the series with although it still wasn’t enough to raise the franchise above mediocrity. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! is an often enjoyable film but how much the viewer gets out of it will depend on (no pun intended) their taste in comedy and whether they can put up with the uneven jokes the film has to offer. Not a squishy mess, not a ‘respectable’ classic movie but definitely worthy of its ‘cult’ classic status.

This is a divisive movie. For some it is one of the worst movies ever made, others see it as cult classic and for some it ranges somewhere on the so bad it is good scale with possible overlapping to the former views. It was made as spoof / parody of B-movies and the name of the movie is what you get. Story: Tomatoes become sentient beings and start to attack humans while the humans try to stop them in a dire battle for survival. It is the same story you have seen in other thrillers / monster movies but with killer tomatoes instead. It parodies other movies, tropes and stereotypes of the genre. There is no way in pretending it sounds not silly and hilarious. This is the main deciding factor for anyone. Is this just a really bad movie or hot garbage with huge entertainment value. While I lean more towards garbage I cant also deny that it has some entertainment value even if it is unintentional and nothing the makers should be proud of. I say the movie has its moments. Also it had a really low budget which should give some redemption. Strangely it was successful enough to get 3 sequels (I have only seen 1 of those) and a cartoon series but lets go back to the review. The actors do the best they could with this premise of the movie and I feel bad for them (= I find it unfair to criticize them and wont do it). So I will say they make the most out of the situation. The humor is actually not that bad as the ratings suggest which means it is still not that good or average but some scenes are memorable. Mostly it depends on the viewers so bad it is good taste like the movie itself. I think I go in circles here as I always come up with the same sentence involving the “so bad it is good statement”. Overall this is a bad movie that is enjoyable for some. I see a small part of the appeal that it has for others but it is not enough for me to consider it as cult classic.

I give it about a brain power ten out of zero. This is a very silly film that is fast past but utterly stupid. It is dire but it is a classic piece of movie tat. It tries to push you through this world of drastic and low-budget celluloid rubbish but still manages to make an unwanted and also confusing bizarre journey through tomato vile. This is barely a film but ultimately worth a gander as long as your brain is fully shut down and switched off so that it does not try to think throughout any of this tat-film. The theme tune is legendary but it is still the stupidest film ever. It’s the squishy father of the good-bad movie but it’s too knowingly so.

Movie start off with lots of energy, With a series of Airplane style jokes, gags, musical numbers, Amusing at first, with the amatuerish moviemaking, acting, fx, But wears thin after 45 minutes, and boredom sets in.