I loved this movie as a kid when it first came out, I used to watch it all the time when it would come on cable. I just watched it on Blu-Ray, first time seeing it in probably 15 years, and it's even better than I remembered. This movie is an absolute masterpiece! I don't mean that ironically, either. It's just so much damn fun. I love the performances from Hoskins, Leguizamo, Hopper, Mojo Nixon... I love the crazy, detailed cyberpunk-kind of sets, the practical in-camera special effects, the early CG, the music, some of the weird dialogue which is actually pretty creative and witty sometimes. It's just hilarious and quite a spectacle of absurd, manic, crazy, weird, totally out there shenanigans. The next closest "family" movie I can think of is the also absurd and totally out there Babe 2: Pig in the City, which I also love.
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