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From "The Garbage Pail Kids Movie" to "Kazaam," there have been some real stinkers over the years

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The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)<br> Anthony Newley stars as a magic-shop owner in this movie based on the eighties’ trading cards of disgusting kids (Valerie Vomit, Greg Greaser) who fall out of a garbage can. Many bodily functions ensue.

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Mac and Me (1988)<br> This infamous knock-off of "E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial" features an alien, a boy in a wheelchair and “Ronald McDonald as himself.”

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North (1994)<br> Elijah Wood starred as North, who travels the world auditioning better parents than his own while followed by Bruce Willis as his guardian angel in disguise.

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Kazaam (1996)<br> Basketball star Shaquille O’Neal’s short movie career consists of this role as a genie who befriends a New York boy (Francis Capra).

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Baby Geniuses (1999)<br> Super-intelligent toddlers escape from a lab and talk, flirt, disco dance and karate chop adults. Followed by "Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2."

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Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000)<br> Mr. Conductor’s supply of magic gold dust runs out, and so does the audience’s patience with creepy train engines that talk without moving their mouths.HO

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Pinocchio (2002)<br> After his success with "Life Is Beautiful," Roberto Benigni fulfills his lifelong dream of making a Pinocchio movie, with the 50-year-old actor starring as the boy puppet.SERGIO STRIZZI

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Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie (2002)<br> In this cross-marketing promotion of the Japanese trading-card game, student Yu-Gi puts cards into a high-tech device that turns them into monsters that fight other monsters.

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The Cat in the Hat (2003)<br> This adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s beloved children’s book became Mike Myers’s beloathed exercise in chaotic, crude humour.MELINDA SUE GORDON

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Daddy Day Camp (2007)<br> Eleven years past his "Jerry Maguire" Oscar win, Cuba Gooding Jr. starred in this sequel to Eddie Murphy’s "Daddy Day Care." Here Gooding takes over a kid’s camp that has an exploding outhouse.Susie Ramos

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