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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!



Discussion Thread: 94 comments

http://www.ugo.com/contributors/caracappa/

Well you were featured on ugo and now I’m thinking " I must learn all about Mantaur!"

But I didn’t see anything about superman red son like the link I clicked said I would.

Chestnuts roasted by werygg @ 04/08/2004 4:50 PM

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004Y7GR/104-6792119-1287152?v=glance

Robot monster is on sale on amazon.com :D hahaha

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 04/08/2004 4:56 PM

of course Abraxas is also a stinker

Chestnuts roasted by werygg @ 04/08/2004 5:01 PM

Pod People! Time of the Apes! Robert Vaughn as a middle-aged Teenage Cave Man! If it wasn’t for the wis-dumb of Joel, Mike, Tom, and Croooow, I would have been scarred by the horrible horror of these films. Or at least I never would have known that other people talked through these films like I do. "I’m huge!"

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/08/2004 5:26 PM

I saw this film. It wasn’t bad, but it was definitely low budget. Munchie was a pretty bad puppet and in fact, you can tell that the puppeteer isn’t well hidden since in most scenes, Munchie is against a wall or you see the top half of his body.

Chestnuts roasted by Bert Raccoon @ 04/08/2004 7:28 PM

Does anyone know that name of the movie where these little mini-aliens that looked like robots came to Earth and helped an old couple? I keep thinking it is Batteries Not Included, but isn’t that the movie with Johnny 5? I’m so confused, and this is the only place I know to turn for help! ;)

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 04/08/2004 8:49 PM

Batteries Not Included is right. The Johnny 5 movie was Short Circuit. Try http://www.imdb.com

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 04/08/2004 9:56 PM

Matt needs to review Short Circuit if he hasn’t already.

Chestnuts roasted by Meatwad @ 04/08/2004 10:25 PM

Anybody remember ‘Mac & Me’? That alien movie where the boy in the wheelchair finds a whole FAMILY of ugly, naked aliens (who do this weird ‘family whistle’ thing to talk) and needs to save them— turns out they need to drink COCA-COLA IN ORDER TO SURVIVE! Also, before the end of the movie the aliens and the kid go to a huge party at a McDonalds. I watched it as a kid and loved it….Turns out it was PRODUCED BY COCA-COLA AND MCDONALDS AND THE WHOLE MOVIE WAS BASICALLY A GIANT COMMERCIAL! Found that out the other day- man, I feel so jaded and used :0(

Chestnuts roasted by MuppetBaby @ 04/09/2004 12:32 PM

Dammit, Matt reviews are hillarious because they are bad movies. Short Circuit is an AWSOME movie.

#5 is ALIVE!

Chestnuts roasted by Stilewalker @ 04/09/2004 9:27 AM

Re: "Mac & Me"-Heck, review the darn movie already! At least in the context of it being a ripoff of "E.T."-like themes. It did have a slim chance to make it. Remember "Willy Wonka" was partly financed by "Quaker Oats".

Chestnuts roasted by "kingklash" @ 04/09/2004 11:34 AM

Thanks Trajeal ;)

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 04/09/2004 1:44 PM

"Fritos?……..here?"
That was great; I am surprised that you didn’t mention that Howard Hesseman played "Dr. Johnny Fever" on WKRP in Cincinnati.

Chestnuts roasted by mjf7583 @ 04/09/2004 1:52 PM

I thought it was safe to assume that everyone would know that. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 04/09/2004 1:57 PM

Matt,
I had my cursor sitting over the XE link in my Favorites folder, and the pop-up over it said "X-Entertainment, Summerhouse of Baboochi". What in the blue fuck does that mean. I’m so confused I don’t think I can work for the rest of the day. I’m no good to no one now. Thanks, Matt. Thanks alot!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Blake @ 04/09/2004 2:13 PM

For more info on Baboochi, check the "Best of the Rest" Toy Fair article on the main page. Or read Dianetics.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 04/09/2004 2:28 PM

Thanks man. Everything makes sense now. All hail L(avarius) Ron Hubbard! He will deliver us from the evil Thetans and Xenu! Batshit crazy – its for me!

Chestnuts roasted by Blake @ 04/09/2004 2:36 PM

Did anyone else notice that in the clip where Munchie is "Culkin-ing" Shelby, Shelby is doing an amazing rendition of Daffy Duck all spun out? Listen especially to the sound from the clip and imagine Daffy all hopped-up.
I think all of Munchie’s comedic material was pilfered from Dave Coulier. Anyone up for a game of "Full House: The Board Game"?

Chestnuts roasted by Never Eat Shredded Wheat @ 04/09/2004 2:50 PM

MuppetBaby, I’ve been begging Matt for a "Mac and Me" review for the better part of year now, but he just won’t listen. Its cuz I’m Canadian, I’ll bet.

Incidently, what’s with WWE moving all their Canadian babyfaces to American hometowns? What’s that about.

Okay, ranting done. Now review "Mac and Me".

Chestnuts roasted by A-wel Cruiz @ 04/09/2004 2:55 PM

Well I think Munchie is probably the uglies alien of all time, which is quite a feat considering you have things like ET and crap all going for the same title.

Oh ya, and I’ve been begging since the beginning of time for a Friday 13th review…

Chestnuts roasted by ANdrew @ 04/09/2004 3:30 PM

A-wel Cruiz: Well, Trish Stratus, Christian, and Chris Jericho all still retain their Canadian hometowns because Toronto and Winnipeg don’t get easily confused with other counties or states.

Chris Benoit, on the other hand, comes from Alberta, which is just like Atlanta, except it isn’t, and you can blame whoever’s writing Lillian Garcia’s cue cards.

As for Gail Kim, they felt she would seem more ‘heel’ if she acknowledged her Korean heritage over Canada – two heel Divas from Toronto, oh no no no, this will NOT do.

And ON TOPIC: Not that I want Matt to suffer unneccesarily, but I bet he’d feel my pain if he watched "The Black Hole" with Ernest Borgnine and reviewed it so that we can all spread the suffering. AGONY PLUS.

Chestnuts roasted by Niq @ 04/09/2004 3:46 PM

I think I’m starting to fall in love with Munchie, in a totally nonsexual way of course. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Chestnuts roasted by Goonie4Life @ 04/09/2004 3:53 PM

I think Munchie has a strong resemblence to Chris Kattan from SNL

http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/141925.1020.A.jpg

Chestnuts roasted by cvg @ 04/09/2004 3:56 PM

Niq, don’t forget Tony Perkins getting shredded by Maximillian, a robot that shoud have been better than he was. Why something with anti-grav should move as slow as that and still be a threat, ain’t right.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/09/2004 3:56 PM

Just did a X-E search on Black Hole and this was from the Go-Bot Sex comments:
http://www.x-entertainment.com/updates/entries/archives/00000197.html
"This reminds me of the dirty scenes in Disney’s The Black Hole that I watched again on cable the other night.

In the final fight between the Maximilian robot and V.I.N.CENT. (Roddy McDowell voiced the Vital Information Necessary CENTralized robot according to IMDB.com), Max and Vin are locked in combat and Max’s wang pops up to knock Vin off him.

Later, when we see Reinhardt’s corpse floating in the Black Hole, he pops up to scare the audience and the next thing you know the Max robot mounts him and they "merge" into a super being that control the humanoids left over in some form of Hell. Although dirty, this ending is still the coolest I have seen in a Disney movie

I will always take The Black Hole over Event Horizon because it has perverted robots and Ernest Borgnine! Reinhardt said it best, ‘Something caused all this. But what caused… that cause?’" Posted by Michael @ 07/13/2003 02:14 AM EST

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 04/09/2004 4:20 PM

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