1978 Directed by John De Bello
After a wave of reports of mysterious attacks involving people and pets being eaten by the traditionally docile fruit, a special government task force is set up to investigate the violent fruit and put a stop to their murderous spree.
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My God! It's Adolf Hitler!
-Wilbur Finletter
Anyone who gives this movie more than half a star should not be trusted.
Well I did laugh out loud a few times, but I feel like it only happened after jokes ripped directly from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, so that doesn't really count.
This is a film that's banking so hard on its premise being gut-bustingly hilarious that it doesn't even bother writing a film around it? It's a bit like Mars Attacks, but without cool-looking creatures or celebrities that you know and love. You occasionally have a lot of big, red papier-mache beanbags being rolled around, but mostly you have padding. Lots of vignettes about journalism and the government and the military and about how everybody's incompetent and silly. Sometimes you get a completely random musical number about the joys…
The title says it all really doesn’t it.
Pretty much the sole reason why I watched this nonsensical film is so I could listen to an episode of a podcast I like lol.
The tomatoes literally sound like a demented Donald Duck foaming at the mouth and it’s hilarious.
Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.
Ketchup to see this one. Always forgetting that a tomato is fruit.
Silly nonsense spoofing classic B-movies. It was never laugh-out-loud funny but it did manage to get a couple of chuckles out of me. I really dug the chameleon character who was able to disguise himself as any person (I think he should have been the one playing Hitler in Der Untergang instead of Bruno Ganz).
Daily Horror Scavenger Hunt 14 – August 2019
14. A movie with a type of food in the title.
"It's not blood. It's... tomato juice."
- Jim Richardson
This movie baths in its own ridiculousness. With the recklessness of Putney Swope, the level of diegetic realism of Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the attention span of a child hitting himself in the head with a toy fire truck; this flick doesn't tell you it's outrageous, like many modern spoof movies (superhero movie, disaster movie etc.) do, it just IS outrageous; without asking any questions.
Operating on the purest, most beautiful, charm-impregnated naivete imaginiably, emerging from a premise, that probably a fifth-grader came up with and a palette of…
Dreadful. It physically pains me to watch a comedy that isn’t funny. I’m not exaggerating when I say I laughed only once, and this is one of those jokes/gags every minute kind of movies. The best line of dialogue was, “I’m not talking about that you wiener!” Wiener being used as an insult needs to make a comeback. Why did this feel like it was 3 hours? Most likely because of the terrible side plots that bog down the story. There’s hardly any tomato action anyway. No point of going on about Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I’ve already used enough energy getting through this mess. And tomatoes aren’t fruit! I don’t care about the science behind it. Don’t ruin fruit for me. This movie was a total wiener.
HORRORx52 (2022)
43/52
52. A film featured on Elvira’s Movie Macabre
"Hey, can somebody please pass the ketchup? Whoops!" -Sam,
-Daily Horror Hunt (November 2018): boxd.it/2908Q
Day Twenty-Seven: A PG rated horror film
For my whole life I have known that this movie existed and kind of built it up in my mind. It has a really fun premise, a sight gag that works multiple times, and a really hilarious theme song. Unfortunately most of it is humor that feels like it was written for a comedy revue thrown by a fraternity. That's fine, I'm just not a customer.
There was a scene of a Japanese scientist trying to explain what’s going on to a bunch of generals, who then accidentally hits a framed picture of the USS Arizona and it falls into a fish tank and it was the funniest Pearl Harbor joke I’ve ever seen in my life. Bonkers and yet it’s a hell of a time.
