Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!columbia!topaz!WDWEISMAN@JPL-MILVAX.ARPA From: WDWEISMAN@JPL-MILVAX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Review of Goonies Message-ID: <2213@topaz.ARPA> Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 20:21:43 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2213 Posted: Wed Jun 5 20:21:43 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Jun-85 03:45:26 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 24 From: WEISMAN, WILLIAM D. GOONIES -- a review Goonies (Director: Richard Donner, Exec. Producer: Steven Spielberg) is pretty mindless summer entertainment fare. The film is a fantasy about a group of kids in search of pirate treasure, and requires a significant suspension of disbelief to be enjoyed; otherwise you will lose track of the number of illogical and nonsensical events before the film is half over. Its a movie you can take the kids to, if your kids are old and/or mature enough to handle ocassional mild profanity and television-grade violence. Goonies comes off as a cross between Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, ------