WillBrink
08-23-15, 14:51
Rented it this weekend.
Think The Goonies meets Stand By Me meets E.T. and a 50s B monster movie. It's a period piece that takes place in the 70s complete with music, cars, and various fun references. The movie requires a fair amount of the willingness to suspend your disbelief, but it's very well done and has a surprising amount of emotional depth and harks back to good old fashioned fun times without being too obvious about it. I generally don't like movies with kids in it, but this one works as far as the genre goes and it's a very niche genre: the kids movies not really intended for kids.
If movies like the Goonies et al bring back fond memories for you, you'll enjoy this one. It's a better movie actually but you get the idea.
This was a collaboration between (written/directed) J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg (producer). The films biggest problem is it's a kids film not for kids. It's main actors are kids but the movie has a fair amount of violence (surprisingly so in some scenes), profanity, etc, so wouldn't have been for kids. Such movies often confuse people, so neither kids nor adults see it. I didn't see it at the time as i assumed it was a kids movie, and I don't tend to like movies with a group of teens/pre teens as the primary actors, but the whole 70s vibe and such won me over after a while.
I'd give this one an A-/B+ (if you enjoy these types of movies...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqt9L4fIExA
Think The Goonies meets Stand By Me meets E.T. and a 50s B monster movie. It's a period piece that takes place in the 70s complete with music, cars, and various fun references. The movie requires a fair amount of the willingness to suspend your disbelief, but it's very well done and has a surprising amount of emotional depth and harks back to good old fashioned fun times without being too obvious about it. I generally don't like movies with kids in it, but this one works as far as the genre goes and it's a very niche genre: the kids movies not really intended for kids.
If movies like the Goonies et al bring back fond memories for you, you'll enjoy this one. It's a better movie actually but you get the idea.
This was a collaboration between (written/directed) J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg (producer). The films biggest problem is it's a kids film not for kids. It's main actors are kids but the movie has a fair amount of violence (surprisingly so in some scenes), profanity, etc, so wouldn't have been for kids. Such movies often confuse people, so neither kids nor adults see it. I didn't see it at the time as i assumed it was a kids movie, and I don't tend to like movies with a group of teens/pre teens as the primary actors, but the whole 70s vibe and such won me over after a while.
I'd give this one an A-/B+ (if you enjoy these types of movies...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqt9L4fIExA