[THE GOONIES screens Saturday August 6th at 9:30 pm. and midnight at the Cedar Lee Theatre.]
Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
Produced by Steven Spielberg, with director Richard Donner aping the blockbuster wonder-boy filmmaker’s style, THE GOONIES sort of falls in between the scales of eighties-sucks! and eighties-rulez! Maybe one has to be Of A Certain Age (or below a certain level of maturity) to enjoy it, and the thing does somehow have cult cred, though the rambunctious, noisy, pirate-themed treasure-hunt action-fantasy.is as much an overproduced piece of Hollywood “product” as any corporate kitsch Marvel Comics adaptation today.
Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
Produced by Steven Spielberg, with director Richard Donner aping the blockbuster wonder-boy filmmaker’s style, THE GOONIES sort of falls in between the scales of eighties-sucks! and eighties-rulez! Maybe one has to be Of A Certain Age (or below a certain level of maturity) to enjoy it, and the thing does somehow have cult cred, though the rambunctious, noisy, pirate-themed treasure-hunt action-fantasy.is as much an overproduced piece of Hollywood “product” as any corporate kitsch Marvel Comics adaptation today.