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Movie Review: Munchie Strikes Back!

"Munchie Strikes Back" is the second sequel to 1987's "Munchies," though you'd never guess that from watching it. Howard Heeseman voices a creepy-but-friendly space alien charged with helping a lonely boy find happiness in his awful, hopeless, fatherless life. I believe this one made the cable rounds a few years ago. Review includes a few video clips and a lot of general ill-will towards Munchie.

Posted by Matt on 04/07/2004. E-mail me!

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Chad: http://www.mapquest.com">mapquest.com is your friend.

And I know it’s wrong, but MuppetBaby’s comments about Mac and Me had me in figurative stitches. It also has me curious: When people stumble onto the blog for the first time, do they read any of the older entries? How about using the search box before asking Matt to write an article about something?

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 04/09/2004 4:39 PM

I saw this bad movie about a guy who has an ailen in his apartment. All I remember is the alien mentioning a woman’s "bodacious tatas."

Chestnuts roasted by JG! @ 04/09/2004 5:41 PM

Chris Kattan. Haha!

I was just curious, do all alien movies try to hock some sort of food? Is that a rule for these movies? You’ve got Munchie and his Fritos, ET with his Reecie Peecies, and Mac with his McDonald’s and Coke. Please explain that to me.

Chestnuts roasted by Goonie4Life @ 04/09/2004 6:48 PM

Niq, nononononono. Jericho was just moved to Manhatten, NY, and Trish and Christian, while still billed from Toronto, are heels not babyfaces, as per my original point.

Incidently, Gail Kim was just relocated from Toronto to Korea, and La Resistance were just moved from France to Quebec. Seriously, what the fuck is going on here??? If Edge is introduced from L.A. in the near future, I’m gonna flip out. Does this company realize their next PPV is in Canada?

Review "Mac and Me"

Chestnuts roasted by A-wel Cruiz @ 04/09/2004 7:03 PM

THIS JUST IN: Sega has announced that Wolf Hawkfield, the Canadian Pro-Wrestler character of its award-winning "Virtua Fighter" series will be relocated to his new hometown of Tampa Bay, Florida for "Virtua Fighter 5". Explanations were not forthcoming.

Sega also revealed they will hold off the release of "Astro Boy" for PS2 until Matt reviews "Mac and Me"

Chestnuts roasted by A-wel Cruiz @ 04/09/2004 7:07 PM

Jericho in Manhattan? Well, that’s just silly. And it was semi-implied that La Resistance were from Quebec anyways.

And I thought Wolf was from Alaska.

Chestnuts roasted by Niq @ 04/10/2004 1:26 PM

Click on my name for more on this story about Canadian wrestlers’ mysterious migration to the south.

Then review "Mac and Me".

Chestnuts roasted by A-wel Cruiz @ 04/10/2004 10:09 PM

My god, how could you watch this movie? I could barely make it through the damn review!

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 04/11/2004 2:33 AM

speaking of Canadians, I think Matt should review "the raccoons"

Chestnuts roasted by keegan B. @ 04/11/2004 8:51 PM

I just realized, Munchie Strikes Back was directed by the same guy who directed Swamp Thing Returns.

An extra three points!

Chestnuts roasted by RedBaron @ 04/11/2004 9:28 PM

Hey, is the guy that plays Kronos in this movie Angus Scrimm? The "Tall Man" from the Phantasm series?

Chestnuts roasted by BaronVonHotPants @ 04/13/2004 11:14 AM

Has the same resemblance to Chris Kattan? No way Chris kattan is hot!
but…well, maybe a little in his Mr. peepers characters.

Chestnuts roasted by jenner @ 04/17/2004 10:49 PM

I really wonder what posesses people to make bad Direct-to-Video movies, unless they’re Disney and can afford to lose a couple thou.
I’ve noticed that most of the bad DTV children’s movies are made by companies out in Canada, probibly filming across from the latest Power Rangers series.
I do remember seeing one of those movies on HBO and it had to do something with the return of Merlin or one of King Arthur’s knights and it had the dude who played Stiles in Teen Wolf. That was pretty bad…

Chestnuts roasted by AngeFaitore @ 04/20/2004 2:23 PM

Those clips kill me. I had to hit the floor laughing at little Chris’ terrible acting skills!

Chestnuts roasted by R.J.S. @ 05/12/2004 10:43 AM

Sorry to say this but i did watch those two movies as a kid… the movies were good when I was little of course because i couldn’t tell the difference between good and bad. But yeah now i look back on the movies and wonder… why the fuck didn’t I have nightmares of that creepy little fucker?!

Chestnuts roasted by Matthew @ 05/20/2004 5:05 PM

I’ve seen this work of horror. The only movie in the world that was worse than this was The Skateboard Kid. Munchie has got to be the absolute worst movie puppet thing in the history of movies. He looks like a filthy, child-molesting shitbag. Fuck him.

Chestnuts roasted by THUNDERGOOSE @ 06/15/2004 10:09 PM

I remember seeing the box for this, but I was never brave enough to attempt a viewing. I commend you for watching this all the way through (even if it did take you 14 times). I could barely make it through the clips. The baseball one was classic, though. Keep up the good work!

Chestnuts roasted by Dave @ 07/16/2004 12:05 PM

Hi there. I would like to comment on Munchie Strikes Back and the review from Matt. First off….I was the person playing Elvis in the movie. I am not of Asian decent(not sure where you came up with that one) and thought my impersonation of Elvis wasnt bad considering it was the first time acting and my lines were not scripted. The director had me make up my own lines. The movie was never intended for the theaters but I still believe it was a good little movie. It was fun doing, and I have fond memories of making it.

Chestnuts roasted by E ARON PRICE @ 07/08/2009 1:23 PM

who played marilyn monroe ?

Chestnuts roasted by paul w @ 09/04/2009 4:28 AM

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