![]() Spanky (Tedford, aged five) and his chums are "Womun Haters" and thus sworn to undermine lovelorn Alfalfa's (Hall, nine) courtship of Darla (Ashton Holmes, five). These Little Rascals - chiefly bossy Spanky, Alfalfa the Romeo, Buckwheat the nitwit, Darla the demanding dish, and Petey the dog - are deposited in a vague contemporary/yesteryear milieu in which neither costumes, kiddie cars nor vocabulary find a pleasing style. The original Little Rascals were the creation of legendary comedy producer Hal Roach, who made more than 200 shorts in the '20s and '30s featuring a gang of cheerful, pipsqueak pranksters. What sounded like a bad idea before it started shooting, proves such an atrocity that it makes her last effort, The Beverly Hillbillies, look almost Oscar-worthy. ![]() After the relative heights of Wayne's World, Penelope Spheeris' pictures are getting progressively worse. ![]()
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