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Movies with "wacky" titles are almost never any good, and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! was intentionally made to be an instant golden turkey. Despite that, and the grade-Z production values, this is a regularly funny film. You need to be a fan of the kind of low-budget horror movie it's spoofing, and you need to be very forgiving of the technical ineptness and frequent clunkers, but it works. The story? Well, tomatoes attack, basically. Jack Riley and the San Diego Chicken are in it, and that genuinely alarming helicopter crash you see in an early scene was a real accident. Seen now, the whole ratty affair brings back agreeable memories of the circa-1978 college-movie/midnight-cinema era, when seeing this film was virtually unavoidable. The sequel, Return of the Killer Tomatoes! (with a young George Clooney), is actually an even funnier film. Director John De Bello would continue to squeeze the Tomatoes franchise for years to come. --Robert Horton
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | October, 1978 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Walt Disney Video |
| MPAA RATING: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-comedy, Horror / Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Movie |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 786936307634 |
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Customer Reviews of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Notably lacking in content--might be tolerated by a 9 or 10 year old. There is actually a plot. At first, garden tomatoes are found to attack and kill people. Only one such incident is depicted, and this is shown in the opening minutes. Hence, this is not at all a scary or explicit movie (in case you were concerned about the movie frightening your kids). <
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>There are spies and newspaper reporters. <
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>Then, there are scenes of huge tomatoes, perhaps five feet in diameter, rolling towards crowds of people, or hiding at the end of an alleyway. Eventually, towards the end, there is a military scene with guns and smoke, where the military is fighting against the tomatoes. (The tomatoes actually don't do anything except sit, or sometimes they roll.) <
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>Finally, someone has the sense to play a recording of Puberty Love. Actually, the song consists of only two words being called out: "puberty love." At this point, all the tomatoes turn into ordinary garden tomatoes and a crowd of people stomps on them. A protagonist of the story, a young female reporter, is then shown being actively threatened by a five foot tomatoe that happens to be wearing ear muffs. Another protagonist, a certain Mr.Mason Dixon, inactivates the big tomatoe by showing it sheetmusic for the song, "Puberty Love." And the big tomatoe turns into a little garden tomatoe. <
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>About 10% of the time in this movie is spent on one particular sight gag, namely a man wearing a parachute running. He gets caught on various things because of the dragging parachute. <
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>There are actually a few good sight gags, but these are far and few between. For example, a Japanese scientist is talking before a group of military brass. While speaking, he accidently knocks a photograph of the U.S.S.Arizona. The framed photograph lands in a fish tank, that is, resulting in an underwater U.S.S.Arizona. (Get it? A Japanese man sinking the U.S.S. Arizona? Get it?) Another excellent sight gag shows one episode of the story beginning in San Francisco. We see a cable car in the forground and Alcatraz Island in the background, but white printing imposed upon the image reads, "NEW YORK." (Get it? Cable cars and Alcatraz are frequently used as symbols of San Francisco. Get it?) <
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>The photography is not very good. It is better than what is found in the television show, "America's Funniest Videos," but it is not of a professional quality. <
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>As mentioned above, the movie might be appealing to nine or ten year olds. The movie might also be appealing to those that like "Airplane" or "Hot Shots" (Charlie Sheen), two films that of much greater professional quality. I feel that I wasted my money. The closest thing to this film is another movie, namely, Top Secret. Top Secret, like Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, consists of a string a sight gags, where there is a military/spy theme. However, Top Secret is much more clever, and the cinematography is professional, and deserves FIVE STARS. But Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, at least in my opinion, deserves only ONE STAR. <
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>The main problem with A.O.T.K.T. is not the use of untrained actors. The main problem is not failure to disclose the tomatoes doing anything except sitting, rolling, or sometimes splatting; and not the use of cheap scenery. The main problem with A.O.T.K.T. is merely a lack of ideas. Lack of ideas, lack of silliness, lack of intelligence, lack of zaniness, lack of whatever. The film purports to be inspired by horror movies. However, A.O.T.K.T. proves not to be INSPIRED. Instead, it is INSIPID. <
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>Is there anything good that I can say about Attack of the Killer Tomatoes? Yes. The background music is lively and appropriate. The music is played by a small chamber orchestra, and resembles, perhaps, the music found in cartoons from the 1940s or 1950s. <
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80's camp
Just a plain funny movie. No great plot line, no great special effects, no great stars. Just the 80's camp at its finest.
Holy fu..in sh...!!
Tomatoes that kill... What could be better? Cucumber's that fu..? Maybe... But it just tastes so damn good... All this movie needed was some salt... You should buy, rent, oh hell, just watch the damn thing. It's hypnotizing... You love it. And I'll buy that for a dollar!!