DVD/Videos Reviewed - The Goonies

Okay, so I'm a fan of the 80's movies. Good, bad, or otherwise. With that, I share with you "The Goonies". I saw this in drive-in movie theatre with my parents. Seeing the pirate ship on a big screen had me awestruck. I wanted to be there & to be them!

It's many years later now, but I can still identify with the same adventure that came from the muffled-sounding speaker box that clipped to my parent's car window. Today on my much smaller screen, I love it for both the thrill of the adventure and the wonder of the "what if" that exists in all of us. It's a rush. The little kid inside of me is fascinated every time I pop open the CD.

This is an adventure story for several kids who have lived in their neighborhood all their lives, but a realtor is trying to buy the land out from under their parents, which will ensure the tearing apart of their families and lives. After a chance find of a treasure map in an old attic & in a desperately hopeful adventure, 4 kids take off to try & find the treasure of "One-Eyed Willy". It's an amazing adventure for our main characters & their friends, Mikey (Sean Astin), Brand (Josh Brolin), "CHUNK" (Jeff Cohen), "DATA" (Jonathan Ke Quan), "MOUTH" (Corey Feldman), Andy (Kerri Green) & Stef (Martha Plimpton).

Just like any good treasure-hunting kids' movie, it's only appropriate that they jump over every hurdle that gets thrown at them. From the Fratelli family who wants to kill them, to the (un-credited) policeman (Director Richard Donner) who wants to call these kids a liar for "supposedly" finding the famed treasure & pirate ship, these kids showed them all! And that's when the pirate ship that came out of nowhere, floated across the horizon & had me completely awestruck. It's a Hallmark ending that I'm not going to go into, but I'm sure you can predict.

In case you couldn't tell, I'm a bit of a fan.

And I give you all this without demanding that you do the truffle shuffle first!