Wednesday, September 23, 2009

'Ye Old' DVD review - The Goonies




This is an all time classic movie that made everyone run and dig through their attics in the hopes of finding a treasure map. This week I recommend reliving old childhood fantasies with this one.


Mikey and Brandon Walsh are brothers whose family is being forced to move by developers unless enough money can be raised to stop construction. It's looking bad and it seems that this group of friends is about to be split up until Mikey stumbles upon a treasure map of the famed "One-Eyed" Willy's hidden fortune. Mikey, Brandon, and their friends who call themselves The Goonies, set out on a quest to find the treasure in hopes of saving their neighborhood. The treasure is in a cavern, but the entrance to the cavern is under the house of the evil Mama Fratelli and her criminal sons. Can they escape these criminals and do the impossible?


Movie trivia:
Jeff Cohen (Chunk) got the chicken pox after he got cast and showed up to set anyway, afraid that they would have replaced him otherwise.


The model ship seen sailing at the film's end has a miniature R2-D2 (Star Wars 1977) hidden on the deck.


With memorable quotes like these:
Mama Fratelli: The only thing we serve here is tongue! You boys like tongue?



Brandon Walsh: I'm gonna hit you so hard that when you wake up your clothes will be out of style! 


Chunk: You guys, I'm hungry. I know when my stomach growls there's trouble. 


Let's crack out the old truffle shuffle, who's with me?


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