Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!
PG | 01 October 1978 (USA)
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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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BoardChiri

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Kailansorac

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

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KnotStronger

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

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Lidia Draper

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

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SnoopyStyle

Tomatoes are killing people. The Department of Agriculture has a secret GD-3 Project. Presidential press secretary Jim Richardson enlists Mason Dixon to lead a crack team to battle the tomatoes. Sam Smith is a man of many disguises. There are also the east European female Olympic swimmer Gretta Attenbaum and soldier Wilbur Finletter dragging around his parachute. The Times sends reporter Lois Fairchild to investigate.I really love this irreverent silly movie for the first 30 minutes or so. I found the inappropriate Japanese jokes oddly hilarious. The helicopter crash is shocking. I had to rewatch it several times and wonder how nobody got killed. I like the fun tomato attacks. Around where Ted Swan started to sing, that's when the movie started to lose me. The song and dance in this movie isn't actually funny. The ridiculous ideas slowly loses the shock of originality. The actors are strictly amateurs and their lack of presence wears thin. Nevertheless, it is fun while it lasts.

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atinder

This plot, as got to be one of the most silly and so ridiculous and yet, the movie still works!As this was one hell of a fun movie to watch, I actually could not stop laughing with this movie.From the acting, to the tomatoes moving by them selves and killing people too but I could have done without the singing and dancing scenes, that was far too silly, even for this silly movie.The ending could have be better, as I wanted the Tomatoes to fight back but they just took it staying still, they could have made, some of the tomatoes to jump on people faces or something.Fun movie 6 out of 10

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joaco-h-s

This movie is really bad. It has a great start. A funny start. The premise of "killer tomatoes" is quite funny and promising. The first tomato kill is fun, with tomatoes flying (thrown) against their victim. The movie moves on to a couple good jokes. But that's all. After a few minutes the jokes turn bad and predictable. They try too hard. After the beginning, there were few good moments.This is a boring film. It tries to be funny and fails terribly. There are much better films of the genre. Look for something else to watch.Cheers 1

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PassPopcorn

The 50s and the 60s were the golden age of creature feature B-movies. Then the highly successful Steven Spielbergs' Jaws was released in 1972 and it took the genre to a whole new level. Expectedly, a new breed of movies spawned, trying to reproduce the success of Jaws. Several years after that, in 1978, a low budget movie named Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! came out. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (AOTKT) was primarily a spoof of the said genre. Unfortunately, many people took it too seriously and failed to recognize its comedic appeal. Therefore, ATOTK is generally considered a bad movie and holds a pretty low rating on both IMDb and Rotten (Killer) Tomatoes. But does this do it justice?The movie's plot is rather simple. Tomatoes started killing people and are now a menace to whole humanity. The government of the USA decides to fight back with any means necessary. Here our protagonist, one Mason Dixon comes in play: he leads a group of useless men in a quest to find a solution for this horrible menace. Of course, calling Mason Dixon's character the protagonist could be a bit of an overstatement since there's a bundle of characters in the movie and no one is really that prominent. Because there are so many characters in the movie, AOTKT sometimes feels like a series of sketches rather than a coherent movie. Which isn't really that bad since many of the 'sketches' are funny but, considering general movie logic, various scenes don't lead anywhere and feel pointless.First of all, I don't understand why people took this movie so seriously. The movie's name is Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!, and it even has its own theme song, for crying out loud! Also, the movie makes it pretty clear throughout that it is just a ludicrous little spoof. It's even a part time musical with a few ridiculous songs in it. So my advice is - if you're going to watch this trashy thing, try to relax and by no means take it seriously. So yes, the absurdity of the script, the awful acting and the bad special effects are deliberate. You may or may not enjoy that but it's insane to bash this movie for the wrong reasons.One may say - 'ok, it's a spoof, not a serious movie but so what? That doesn't necessarily make it any good.' That's true but AOTKT is pretty enjoyable either way. It manages to successfully make fun of most creature feature movie clichés. I must say, I had quite a few laughs watching this. I would even go as far as to compare it to the classic 1980 comedy Airplane!. Who knows? Maybe Airplane! took the idea of the exclamation mark in the title from AOTKT. If you like trash movies, you can do no wrong by watching this one. Its low budget charm only makes it more appealing; if nothing, because it looks like the movies it spoofs. Naturally, it's not the best comedy movie out there, far from it, but it will certainly do well as a one-time comedy experience.Rating: 7/10 Read more at http://passpopcorn.wordpress.com/

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