Rating: Summary: Great Family Movie for the young and old! Review: This is a great movie that Speilberg and Donnar have made here! A town under threat of beeing bought out by a company who want to make it a golf coarse seem to have lost the battle and are about to pack up, untill a group of kids who call them selves gooneis find a tresure map and go hunting for pirate gold!Along the way they meet some bad guys and recruit some members of various ages and is filled with comedy, suspence and wont leave your bored out of your brain! The bonus features are pretty good, tho mind you, i'm not a fan of Cindy Laupher, and her video clip seems to go forever filled with not just the actors of the movie, but a bunch of 80's pro wrestlers as well! IF you have never seen this movie before, then i recomend buying it! If you have seen it and dont have it on DVD, you wont regret buying it if you liked it! It would be nice to have a directoers cut that showed the deleted scenes within vewing of the movie like on some TV showing of the film, but there still there as a bonus feature on there own!
Rating: Summary: So Long, Astoria Review: "The Goonies" is one of those movies that is liked or disliked by someone depending upon what age you were when you first saw it. It is definitely a kid's action movie. "The Goonies" was released in theaters in June, 1985, when I was ten years old. I didn't see it when it originally came out; but, I saw it soon enough after that it is forever locked in my mind as a very good movie. "The Goonies" is about a group of misfit kids living in Astoria, Oregon who call themselves the Goonies. One of the kids in the gang, Mickey Walsh (Sean Astin), is going to have to move very soon because his father has to sell the house to a developer who is going to tear it down. The Goonies come across a treasure map and Mickey hopes to use the treasure to keep his family's house from having to be sold. The treasure has been hidden somewhere beneath Astoria by a pirate named "One-Eyed" Willie. Unbeknownst to the Goonies however is that a murderous family has found out about the hidden treasure too. The treasure hunt becomes a race between the Goonies and the Fratellis to see who can get there first. "The Goonies" contains just enough light humor mixed with fast-paced action and surprisingly good acting to maintain its charm after almost 20 years. The movie contains many relative unknowns who went on to have fairly good and/or interesting careers. There is Sean Astin, Martha Plimpton who plays Stef Steinbrenner, Corey Feldman who plays Mouth Devereaux, Joe Pantoliano who plays Francis Fratelli, and Anne Ramsey who plays the overbearing Fratelli matriarch Mama Fratelli. "The Goonies" is a movie that I still plop myself down in front of whenever it comes on weekend tv. I doubt that I will ever get tired of watching Chunk befriend Sloth. And if you don't know what I mean by that, then watch the movie.
Rating: Summary: Goonies DVD damaged Review: I bought the Goonies movie for my husband who loves this movie. Unfortunately the DVD keeps skipping. Amazon does not take back dvds. It was supposed to be a new copy. Buyer beware!!!
Rating: Summary: Everything from the imagination of that era's child Review: Pirate ships, buried treasure, secret tunnels, disfigured monsters, gun wielding bad guys- everything from a kid's imagination. Spielberg's Goonies is a great movie to spend a rainy afternoon with, reminding you of those childhood escapades to the Nth power. A gang of kids- The Fat Kid, The Techno Whiz, The Spiked-Hair Dude, The Exercise Buff, The Earnest Kid, The Geeky Girl and The Pretty Girl- all refer to themselves as Goonies, and a contracting group is preparing to destroy many of the houses in that area to make room for its country club. The Goonies' only hope is to find enough money to buy off the group, but they're just kids. When all the Goonies but the last two are rummaging through their attic, they discover a mystical amulet and a treasue map. Using instructions on the map, they find their way into the underground network of tunnels made by "One-Eyed Willie," an infamous pirate. They are chased by several ruthless bandits and their even more ruthless mother, who are also interested in the deceased pirate's treasure. When one of the Goonies named Chunk (hint hint) is captured by the villains, he makes friends with a deformed giant named Sloth. Sloth was apparently the victim of the verse in Rock-a-Bye Baby referring to the cradle falling, for his face is rather contorted. Chunk and Sloth save the Goonies as the bad guys corner them on the pirate ship. The Goonies escape, of course, and bring the treasure with them. All is saved, and the credits roll. This movie is great for any day, and I recommend it.
Rating: Summary: Good Stuff Review: Excellent transfer quality, and the soundtrack is far better sounding than the VHS version. The extras on this disc are average, and the deleted scenes are a good indicator that the theatrical edit of this film was well done. Spielberg's script is definitely one of his better efforts for the period. Five stars for keeping the action clean and well aimed at a younger audience. A good lighthearted adventure for the kid in all of us.
Rating: Summary: THE GOONIES R GOOD ENOUGH! Review: Well, what a great pleasure to write about a movie that inspire me a lot back when I was only 7 years old, I must say that this movie, still, keeps, that freshness and uniqueness that gave it such a remarckable timeless state. The movie a bout a bunch of kids tryin' to find a treasure, it's a perfect set for adventure and excitement, this movie done by none other than Steven Spielberg will always stay in many of us kids of the 80's, a classic, and an icon of kids movies of adventures, as stated by Miss Cyndi Lauper, yes, the Goonies r good enough.
Rating: Summary: Your A Goonie!!!!! Review: The Goonies.....A great movie of delightfull fun. Kids, a lost treasure, pirates, traps, villians, and a barrel full of laughs. This movie has delighted my nephew so much that i'm giving him his own copy. This movie has kept the kids quite and occupied quite a bit....which isn't nessacarilly a bad thing, and i like it myself as well. Get the gonnies and enjoy....especially get the gonnies if you have kids 10 and under.
Rating: Summary: Gloppy Goonies!!! Review: Based on an amusement ride, this movie is pure Spielsbergian which means pre and young teenagers will love it, but us adults will not. Personally, I couldn't take the kids nonstop yapping. It took me two tries for me to get through the whole movie. E.T. this is not!
Rating: Summary: Classic! Review: What's not love about this movie? Treasure, pirates, villians, and of course your everyday average kids in the middle of it all! I watched this growing up and still watch it everytime it comes on TV, its DVD I plan to add to my meager collection, and a classic that everyone HAS to love!
Rating: Summary: The child actors can not act.... Review: Pretty second rate movie from the director of Superman with a terrible script and some really bad acting all from kids who are no longer in show business, (thank goodness).
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