The Little Rascals
August. 05,1994 PGWhen nine-year-old Alfalfa falls for Darla, his "He-Man-Woman-Hating" friends attempt to sabotage their relationship.
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Don't listen to the negative reviews
This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
I am late to this film. I just saw it tonight with my ten-year old. He was familiar with it. I wasn't. Of course, I do know the source material well, since I grew up in the sixties when the old "Our Gang" and "Little Rascal" comedies were used to fill TV time.My own opinion of this film now barely counts, because I've seen the surprisingly large number of user reviews showing a level of tenderness and emotion about this movie that I find touching. Plus, my ten-year old loves it. After watching this film, and considering my first reaction, then after reading the positive user reviews and my child's own love for this film, I say who cares what I think . . . a movie that is able to touch so many as this one did can't be all bad.
Little Rascals is a movie that is filled with childlike grudges, wars, competition, camaraderie and reconciliation. Every great group has had to overcome obstacles in order to develop and maintain their strength. The He- Man Women Haters Club is filled with tension and animosity towards members between the group and the infamous Darla that snatched the heart of Alfalfa.Loyalty is very important to the members of the He-Man Woman Haters club. Although Alfalfa is tested and tried throughout the movie by his comrades and his childhood crush; he prevails. Spanky, the best friend of Alfalfa is infuriated by the discreet passions that his friend Alfalfa possesses for the young lady Darla. Throughout the movie, Darla and Alfalfa try to establish a bond, but they are always interrupted, whether it is by pranks of Women's Hater's Club, or rich guys such as Waldo that crept into Darla's life to take away the feelings that she had for Alfalfa.Often, in the movie the producer showed a great sense of the lack of knowledge or understanding that kids possess and how they often think without speaking. It was funny to see how the kids wanted to meet the race car driver at the end of the championship and to see how they were disgruntled because they expected to see a man. Surprisingly, the person that presented the prize to the Woman Haters Club, was the person that the gang had desired to meet along. The surprise just lied in the fact that the person was a woman and not a man. Not to mention, Spanky's disgust for women was challenged when he asked the female race car driver to give him a kiss on his cheek.Movies such as Little Rascals are rarities in 2011. Most of the films that we see today are filled with sex, violence, and theft. Even the kids are the ones committing the very acts in the movie, and it is saddening. One of my favorite movies of all time that has a similar prank-like feature assimilated into the film is "Home Alone". The movie Home Alone is filled with pranks and laughter for the entire family and if you enjoyed Little Rascals, you will probably enjoy. Home Alone.
OK, so these kids aren't the originals, AND I HAVE seen the original show on t.v when I was a kid in the 70s, OK so the kids AND their parents weren't dressed in present day clothes, and OK I noticed Stymie, AND Buckweat in the same movie, which was something that didn't happen in the original except once, in an episode where they had a parent and kids party at school Mary Pickford I think was there , Stymie played Buckwheats dad, up TO AND since then the 2 never met, and OK I don't believe Alfalfa would have had that hair style in 1994, it worked in the 1930s original , but hey who am I, and I thought the kids car (the blur) was cool, but no I don't ever see them making a sequel, it was for the kids only, Michael Smith
Yes, it seriously was. I'm not joking. I would rather tattoo 'Pocket Ninjas 4 life' across my chest with Brad Bufanda's face beneath it. Luckily, throughout the movie I was considerably stoned, and if I hadn't been, I probably would have gone downtown with a knife looking for something to kill. This movie made me the most angry I had ever been, which is surprising because I never get angry. Anyway...The movie starts out with a gang of homosexual children (who fear women more than having acid thrown in their faces) who are members of a club located in some decrepit shed, the proprietor (a 7 year old child) not in the least concerned about the state of the shed, nor what could be lurking inside it. This is just one mistake that the producers made, out of hundreds, most of them can be called 'Common sense & logic deficiency error'. There are so many factual errors, continuity errors, audio errors, and any type of error within this movie that there are at least 3 happening at any given moment, from start to finish. For a start, what kind of parent would let their 7 year old child roam free through wherever they are (Detroit?) and get pursued by a pair of crackhead 12 year old mulletheads, congregate within a shed that's falling to pieces, and follow a child called Alfalfa trying to get him to leave a joke of a relationship he has with -holds breath- a girl. I lost track of the movie from around that time. Had I been alone, I would have started screaming at the television. Had I taken acid, I would have died. Actually, if you gave me anything (sedatives, benzo's) something would have been stabbed or broken. Had someone injected a pound of crystallized Valium directly into my brain, I still would have gone into some hysterical stabbing frenzy.Maybe.