Tuesday, September 25, 2007

GOONIES (1985)

Positive Experience/Entertaining? HELL, YES! While the climax runs out of steam half-way through, everything that comes before is a genuinely fun, entertaining film. It's only slightly insulting to adults in it's basic premise, but there's a lot of fun, harmless raunchiness that makes up for it.


Technically any good? FX are pretty solid for it's time and the acting was pretty solid, too. Well, they were all believable little kids. The badguys were less believable, but I liked Robert Davi's twist on the typical Italian-American gangster. The story was pretty solid over-all--now we know where Nicholas Cage's National Treasure got the idea from.


How did it leave me feeling? Happy, but a little bored. Movies these days tend to have too many endings or too few. I wasn't used to the climax being a little flat and a wrap-up that managed to sneak in a few more fat-jokes, Asian jokes and a reasonable ending to a film. One truly nitpicky point: pirates on the west coast??


Final Rating? SIYL - See If You Like - This kind of film is so much fun and perfect for everyone over the age of about ten or twelve, in my mind. There are a few randy jokes, but nothing you can't say "we'll explain that when you're older" to.

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