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Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy

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Canada, United States · 1996
Rated R · 1h 29m
Director Kelly Makin
Starring Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney
Genre Comedy

A pharmaceutical scientist creates a pill that makes people remember their happiest memory, and although it's successful, it has unfortunate side effects.

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Time Out by

A quintet of Canadian TV comedians, hit the cinema screen with a splat.

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The New York Times by Janet Maslin

The Kids in the Hall's first feature isn't anything more than a sloppy showcase for the group's costume-changing tricks, but sometimes its sheer chutzpah can be amusing. Just as often, flashes of complete plot incoherence or atrocious taste spoil the effect.

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Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov

Cobbling together so many different characters (nearly all of them familiar to regular viewers) has left the Kids' feature debut as something of a letdown. We've seen it all before, and better, on HBO and Comedy Central.

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The A.V. Club by Nathan Rabin

I wish the film had made its points a little more artfully and implicitly, rather than simply sticking them in McDonald and McKinney’s mouths, but Brain Candy has an overarching satirical vision that makes it much more than just an assemblage of mostly funny running gags and stand-alone bits.

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Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

I felt the Kids were too busy being hip and ironic to connect at the simpler level where comedy lives. They were brought down by their own self-protective devices.

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