Frankie Freako
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I was really looking forward to this movie, but I was frustratingly disappointed.
Frankie Freako is clearly an homage to Garbage Pail Kids—or possibly some more obscure movies of the same era—but this film just doesn’t compare, and GPK wasn’t that good to begin with. We have but seven characters: three of them are entirely uninteresting because of how one-dimensional they are, and just one has anything resembling an arc. There are only five events that happen over the course of the entire movie. This leaves us with several stretches of zero forward progression to the plot, and little in the way of new or interesting character interaction. There is not much to any of these elements beyond a meager ‘This is like what you might see in an 80s B movie!’ which is just not enough to carry a movie. All we’re left with is a barebones excuse to have ‘freaky’ (grossout? raunchy? it’s neither) comedy and silly puppets, but the humor is predictable, lacking any real bite, and the puppets/effects are a major step down from not just the director’s preceding film Psycho Goreman, but even from the actual 80s movie (GPK) which inspired Frankie Freako.
You might get an idle smile or a small laugh from watching Frankie Freako, but you’re unlikely to be impressed or surprised by anything.
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