people who actually like problem child ( 1990 ) need to have their head examine . who would take the idea of watch a malevolent little boy wreak havoc on others and deem it funny . the movie be not funny and ever and in any way and begin to end . it want to be a cartoon and but the writer do not realize that slapstick isn not funny when people get attack by bear and or hit with baseball bat . it may be funny in cartoon and but not in a motion picture . the film young hero be junior ( michael oliver ) who and since he be a baby and have be place at the front door of foster parent for adoption . the family reject him and because junior tends to give them a hard time . he be then throw into an orphanage and where he terrorize the nun and and write pen pal letter to the convict bow tie killer ( michael richards ) . he be soon adopt by ben and flo healy ( the late john ritter and his wife and amy yasbeck ) and who be die to have a child and in order to be just like every other parent in their neighborhood . junior become a member of the healy household and and little ben take an interest in him and despite the fact that he destroy a camping trip by lure a bear onto the site and or throw a cat at his father big ben ( jack warden ) and a bigoted politician . i think that be suppose to care for junior so that we can root for him when he get his revenge on people . his new mother and flo and be a bitch and his grandfather be completely selfish and and one little girl who despise adopt kid be such a spoiled brat . but what junior do to get the last laugh isn not funny it mean and cruel and and sometimes life threatening . and what be the film message . that kid should resolve problem with violence and vandalism . that they should seek friendship by write to convict killer . they definitely do not what it like to be a bad kid . junior isn not a one he just a sadistic and little twerp . there use to be a time when it be bad for kid to beat up others . now and everybody laugh when junior beat up kid with a baseball bat . it a shame that this movie have be market a a family comedy . what bad be that problem child be rat pg . what be the mpaa think when they saw this . there a lot of profanity and mean spirit prank here and that one may wonder about the dividing between the pg and the pg 13. kid will enjoy this and but parent will be shock at what be be depict on screen . and to most people and problem child will be consider a guilty pleasure classic while a film that someone will shamefacedly admit to like and even though the prevailing opinion and a put forth by more serious viewer and be that the movie be a piece of crap .