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Looking for other fans of this movie


One of my favorites and one I'd love to share memories with. Please PM or e-mail me at sturm316 at yahoo dot com if you'd like to discuss it one on one!

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Great movie! I have fond memories of it from the first time I saw it in the theater!

But why isn't it available on DVD?

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i WATCHED IT JUST, galaxy glue......

I am McLovin!!!

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I really love this movie. I'd love to own it!

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I taped it from telly

I am McLovin!!!

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I constantly sing the Bar of Soap song. I love it. My husband and I plan on teaching it to our son. Silly Yes. but it hs stayed with me all thses years.

I gotta get the DVD.

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I'm curious what others' memories of this movie are as well. I know the Little Bar of Soap song is one of the most common memories, as well as the drain scene, but what else?

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This is one underrated movie. Instead of trying to remake the more than perfect TISMan original into a comedy (like they seem to do now), this one just used the concept to turn it into an in-your-face satire of our fascination with products and P.R.. Artistically, the over-the-top use of pastel colors is sheer mindboggling, and the effects are all but bad, on the contrary, even by today's standards, one has to congratulate the art and set directors. All of this is topped by hysterical performances of Tomlin, Grodin, Beatty and Gibson. Plain funny, well narrated, pointy dialogues with marvelous references to the Arnold classic. Easily Schumacher's best and most cinematographic movie.
Favorite scenes and moments are plenty: starting with the ludicrous cheese tasting in front of the supermarket (which, as one will notice, comes full circle at the end), the neighbourhood meeting turning into galaxy glue disaster (with the toaster punchline), everything involving "Concepcion", the brats ("look Ma, disco"), Pat hidden by the garden wall waving at Judith, Gibson presenting the products responsible for Pat's shrinking, the supermarket incident, the salad bowl mess, Pat being attacked by the robot and wetted by a monstrous fat doll, Pat "drinking" champagne, the sink scene, the burial scene, the establishing shots of the apes in the lab, everything with Rob and Sidney, the elevator chase, Pat disintegrating and disappearing into a pool of surreal colored chemicals, up to the very last shoe punchline.
Now, what would we do without Galaxy Glue ? Really, what would we do...

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OMG! I remember watching this as a kid! :-)

Loved it!

P.S.

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Sedagive?!!!

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you pretty much got it all in here. I have always loved this movie and came across it ON DEMAND for $1.99 through my cable company. I was so delighted to find it, I actually got emotional!!!!!!

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YAY, its nice to find "others" out there that love this movie.

My contribution is when Jeff sticks both hands(rubber flippers from what looks to be the,'Creature From the Black Lagoon') up on the window while Pat is drying her hair and says, "I'm ignoring you Jeff but if you don't go eat your supper I'm going to have to tell your Dad..."

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I haven't seen this movie since the eighties I liked it a lot back then but, I was only 4 or 5 at the time. I didn't see it at the movies. I was too little.

Damn!! My posts attract so many nutty B-A-S-T-A-R-D-S!

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My favorite line is when Lily says, "These corporations are so big that the only way they can be bigger is to shrink all of us!"

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Also a fan! Saw this when I was a little kid. :)

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