IMDb plot summary: Alfalfa is wooing Darla and his "He-Man-Woman-Hating" friends attempt to sabotage the relationship.
Directed by Penelope Spheeris. Starring Travis Tedford, Bug Hall, and Brittany Ashton Holmes.
The Little Rascals is a 1994 adaptation of the classic series about a group of small boys who have solemnly sworn off women and get into hijinks around their town. In this particular iteration of the story, the boys are trying to win the go-kart derby but their chosen racer, Alfalfa, is falling in love, and so his friends decide to sabotage his new relationship to try to get him focused back on club business. There is a specific kind of humor centered around watching small children speak like adults, and while I do love seeing how kids naturally pick up adult speech patterns in the process of learning language, I find it not at all entertaining when those lines are scripted by adults to be funny, and that's 90% of this humor, watching kids repeat lines grown-ups wrote for them, and it just doesn't work for me on any level. I also have no attachment to these characters, so not even that can win me over. I fully believe there are people this movie is for -- it's not trying to be anything other than what it is -- but it's certainly not for me.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Little Rascals < Gas Food Lodging
The Little Rascals < Dinner at Eight
The Little Rascals > Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
The Little Rascals < The Zen of Bennett
The Little Rascals < The Right Stuff
The Little Rascals < Julia
The Little Rascals > They All Laughed
The Little Rascals < Joseph: King of Dreams
The Little Rascals > Charlie Chan at the Opera
The Little Rascals < The Roaring Twenties
The Little Rascals < The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Little Rascals < 17 Miracles
Final spot: #3043 out of 3517, or 13%.
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