The Little Rascals

This movie was just ridiculous. I mean come on, a woman-haters club. And when they said We hate women to alligators, that line was stupid. I mean if they don't like women now, how are they going to marry women in the future? Never. Those kids will never grow up. A clubhouse gets burned down mainly due to Spanky who made Alfalfa and Darla's picnic lunch living hell with oil to make it look like grape soda, and kitty litter in the sandwiches. I mean you can't blame it all on Alfalfa who accidentally forgot to blow out the last candle on the candle set. Well i know why he forgot, because he heard the guys and he wanted to hurry Darla out of there before they said something. Spanky kind of lead him on to burning the clubhouse. And you know you don't put out fires with waterballoons. That certainly did not get them anywhere. Then things get worse when Darla dumps him because she believed that he placed the oil in the grape soda and the kitty litter in the sandwiches and then she dates the richest kid in town and also when the go cart gets stolen from the bullies when Alfalfa was getting ready to sing a song for Darla. And then Stymie said he was messing up left and right. It was SPANKY messing up left and right for poor Alfalfa. Spanky was making the club ready to turn on each other. Alfalfa and Spanky soon make up, build another go cart, attend the race, and they win the race after all the trouble they made. They build another clubhouse and they invite women to join. I mean Dennis The Menace is better than this. I wish they never made this movie. I was watching Little Rascals a lot in seventh grade only because I felt like I was in the same situation as they were, always fighting always getting the blame for everything and that's the only reason why I watched it. Just like what was going on in the seventh grade.

Imagine the kind of child who tears through a store, or a restaraunt, or any other place where they should be behaving and while everybody else is staring at them in horror, their parents are smiling fondly and saying "oh, isn't that cute." Imagine having to watch a full-length movie about a group of children who act like that for the entire length of the movie. Imagine how you would react if these monsters were real? Probably not too happily, but as an audience, I think people are actually expected to be more like the type who would go "oh, isn't that cute?" No! I'm not a child hater. I even work with children, kindergarteners as a matter of fact, which I believe are around the age of what these children are supposed to be. Except the film versions don't act like real children. Instead, they run around like misguided...I don't even know whats, spouting lines written by adults who probably haven't been children for about thirty years and therefore have no idea how they can really behave "cutely" while still acting semi-appealing. They don't even seem to realize that two six-year-olds(or whatever) would not know how to use a rowboat, much less be peacefully gliding in the middle of the lake singing "You Are So Beautiful," which kids really wouldn't know, or if they did, they probably wouldn't like. Children also wouldn't know how to build a clubhouse and its in really poor taste they their parents never ever seem to be around. In fact, if the little rascals were real, they would probably be thrown in foster homes, due to the utter lack of supervision provided to them. But in movie-land they're not. They just go on happily, torn between hating girls or loving them, fueding with the new rich kid(Blake Ewing, who is assumingly supposed to be their age but looks about 14) and being in some go-cart race, as if those really exist today. They also get into lots of mischief, like the other boys sabotaging Alfalfa(Bug Hall) and his girlfriend's lunch, and again terrorizing the girlfriend's ballet recital which had very very slapsticky results. And not getting punished. Who would punish such "cute" kids as these? Ugh. A complete waste of time

Horrible! I grew up watching the classic original "Our Gang" comedies, which were genuinely funny and the kids were real and likeable. This movie missed the boat completely. Most of the kids in this new movie are nauseating. The dialogue is corny and not funny. Rent some of the originals instead -- they show much more originality, humor, talent and most of all, heart.