The Goonies

I'm going to start by giving you some film stats, about the plot, then go into my review. *WARNING - THIS MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS*

Rating; PG
Staring; Sean Astin and Josh Brolin.
Released; 7Th of June, 1985.
Genre; Adventure, Comedy, Family.

Plot;
After finding out that their parents where loosing their house, and a golf course was going to be built on top of their town, Mikey (Sean Astin) Walsh thinks that there has to be something they can do. So while on a venture up to their attic Mikey, all his friends, and his brother Bran (Josh Brolin) Walsh find a map that says it leads to treasure. So it's decided they would all go on a treasure hunt, well almost decided, Bran didn't like that idea. Mikey then thought it best to just tie Bran up so his friends and him could find this treasure and save their whole town. Off set Mikey, Chunk (Jeff Cohen), Mouth (Corey Feldman), Data (Jonathan Ke Quan), and Sloth (John Matuszak) and on the hunt they ran into the Fratelli family who were know robbers. After Bran and two girls Andy (Kerri Green) and Stef (Martha Plimpton) finds them they join in the search because now with the Fratelli's after them, they have no choice but to run. The find their way through the tunnel and through a series of wacky events, finally make it to the treasure, only to find that the Fratelli's had followed them. But eventually, they get the money and save their town.

My Review;
Until yesterday I hadn't watched The Goonies in probably five years. It is such a fun movie, though I didn't remember the kids cussing so much. It is such a creative movie. The whole journey on the way to the treasure was awesome, the person who thought up that part of the movie was great. Also I would definitely want to have a friend like Data, so cool! I liked it, I didn't love it. It was a really good movie, but for me it just didn't get to that greatness. There was no huge moment of suspense, not that every movie should have that, or that movies should stick to the formula, as most sadly do, it's just that it wasn't phenomenal.

To sum it up, It was okay, not a must see.

Sixteen Candles

I'm going to start by giving you some film stats, about the plot, then go into my review. *WARNING - THIS MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS*

Rating; PG.
Staring; Molly Ringwald and Michael Schoeffling.
Released; 4Th of May, 1984.
Genre; Comedy, Romance.

Plot;
Samantha (Molly Ringwald) is having an awful day, on top of all the craziness of her older sister getting married, her whole family forgot her birthday! Her day continues to be terrible until she is noticed by her crush Jake (Michael Schoeffling) Ryan. After missing each other so many times, they finally meet, and they fall in love.

My Review;
It was honestly not that great, yes I loved some of the things that come from any eighties movie, the filming, the clothing, but this movie doesn't deserve to be in the classic eighties movie category. The plot was silly, it was really choppy, even for a movie of that time. And for parents who are like "oh, I want to give my kids some pop culture from my time", I wouldn't recommend this, particularly because of the language and sexual content. So much in fact, that the PG rating was disputed as to weather it should be R (There was no PG13 at the time). I wish I could say I liked it more, but I can't because I didn't, it wasn't that great.

To sum it up, I wouldn't really recommend it.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

I'm going to start by giving you some film stats, about the plot, then go into my review. *WARNING - THIS MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS*

Rating; PG
Staring; Matthew Broderick , and Alan Ruck.
Released; 11Th of June, 1986
Genre; Comedy, Drama.

Plot;
This is the story about the wonderfully adventurous Ferris (Matthew Broderick) Bueller who decides it's to beautiful a day to go to school. So he fakes sick, and along with his not-so-adventurous friend Cameron (Alan Ruck) Frye and his girl friend Sloane (Mia Sara) Peterson they have a great day off school. With a suspicious sister Jeanie (Jennifer Grey), and principal Ed (Jeffrey Jones) Rooney who knows that Ferris is not sick, but trying to prove it, now that's that challenge. It gets around town that Ferris is sick, the story continues to get bigger and bigger, the whole town sends their wished for health. All the while Ferris and his friends have the time of their life. Maybe there is such a thing as the perfect get away.

My Review;
This is one of the movies on my "Ultimate Movie List". This is a movie that could never be remade, there could never be a movie to match it, it is a classic. It's like the Godfather, it tells you how to deal with everything. You put allot of miles on your parents car? "Drive it home backwards". I mean, most every one can relate with Ferris Bueller in some way. It was made in 1986 so 'PG' meant something a little different then it does now. There was not a whole lot of language, nudity, or drug/alcohol references, though if it was reviewed again and re-rated, it would probably be "PG13", just because for the most part it's only little kid movies that are PG anymore. But I would recommend it to most any one. Probably not too little of kids, but it's great. It has the rebellious side of skipping school, but the so very intelligent side of getting away with it.

To sum it up, it IS one of the GREATEST movies of all time.

Footloose

I'm going to start by giving you some film stats, about the plot, then go into my review. *WARNING - THIS MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS*

Rating; PG.
Staring; Kevin Bacon and Lori Singer.
Released; 17Th of February, 1984
Genre; Drama, Music, Romance.

Plot;
Ren (Kevin Bacon) McCormack moves to a small town, from the big city and is finding he's not exactly welcomed with open arms. He also soon found that music and dancing was against the law, though many teens including the daughter of one of the biggest supporters of this law, Ariel (Lori Singer) Moore, wish that they could just dance. Along with trying to work out life being new in town, and find himself in some trouble, Ren decides something has to be done about this law. After some reluctance he got the support of some other kids and they petitioned the town council to let them have a dance. After the proposal was turned down they felt like there was nothing they could do, until some one told them that technically over the train tracks was out of town jurisdiction, so they got permission to use a barn right across the tracks. Ren asked Ariel's dad if he could take her to the dance, and to somewhat of a surprise he said yes, because he kept an open mind and had a little change of heart. So they had their dance.

My Review;
I love it. Not only do I think it had a good story, but it was really one of a kind in 1984. It was one of the first big "Modern Musicals", the actors weren't singing, but every song that played in the back ground was chosen not only for the beat, but also for the lyrics, every song was chosen specifically for every scene and some even written special for that scene of the movie. Footloose also was about something that really happened, though the story was fictional, it was true that there were towns where rock music and dancing were against the law in city limits. I see how people could say that dancing can lead to some immoral acts, I suppose, but I do not believe that is the governments right to control dancing or music. I also thought a cool thing about the movie was that it started as a movie, it wasn't a book or a play, it was first a movie. There is quite a bit of language, and some sexual references, but no nudity.

To sum it up, if you get the chance, watch it.

Saturday Night Fever

I'm going to start by giving you some film stats, about the plot, then go into my review. *WARNING - THIS MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS*

Rating; R for, "strong language, sexuality/nudity and some drug content."
Staring; John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney
Released; 16TH of December, 1977.
Genre; Drama, Music, Romance.

Plot;
Tony (John Travolta) Manero dances the nights away in local the disco, a way to finally feel like he's doing something. Tony is always out because he has some issues with his family, his brother who his parents think is perfect until he decides to quit being a priest, his father who's been out of work and is aggravated about it, and his stressed mother. One day at a disco Tony sees a woman, Stephanie (Karen Lynn Gorney), who catches his eye as an amazing dancer. He asks her to join him in a dance competition. They won first, but Tony knew it was rigged. He gave up the winnings because he knew it wasn't fair. After the competition Tony and his friends when out to the bridge, Bobby (Barry Miller) was hanging from some of the cables, and walking on dangerous places, Tony tried to get him to come down, but before he could get Bobby to come down Bobby fell to his death. After that Tony left all his friends that weren't nice, then he went to Manhattan to find Stephanie, and he said he was never going back to Brooklyn, and they agreed to be friends, just friends.

My Review;
If you like 70's music, is I must admit I do, you would probably like to buy the sound track. The dancing was Napoleon dynamite status, maybe a little more sophisticated, but not a whole lot. The rating was surely true. It had quite a bit of language, you could even say allot. I thought the story was kind of lame, the characters were quite boring. It just wasn't interesting. I wouldn't recommend it, honestly not at all. I seriously think that the language truly takes away from the content, it's lite the writers weren't smart enough to get a thesaurus and find some more intelegent word. I mean honestly they souknded pretty rediculous.

To sum it up, don't get it, it's awful.

How To Train Your Dragon

I'm going to start by giving you some film stats, about the plot, then go into my review. *WARNING - THIS MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS*

Rating; PG for, "sequences of intense action and some scary images, and brief mild language."
Staring; Jay Baruchel and Gerard Butler.
Released; 26Th of March, 2010.
Genre; Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy.

Plot;
In a Viking village filled with tough fierce warriors there was the most great of all the leader of the village Stoick (Gerard Butler), and then their was his son Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) who was not so strong, and not so fierce. After so many failed attempts of killing a dragon, once he actually did no one believed him. He searched all through the forest until finally he came upon it, it was dark as night, he started to kill it, but he couldn't, so he set it free. It tried to fly but it could not, it was hurt. Hiccup couldn't just leave it to die in this valley in the mountains, so he started feeding it, then he thought maybe he could fix the dragons tail, so he did just that. Then he thought maybe he could ride it, but it didn't work because he just fell off the dragon. So he made a saddle for the dragon. He made a steering mechanism. Then one day Hiccup was in trouble, so his dragon came and saved him, but his dragon was captured by his village. And his father, the leader, found out that Hiccup's dragon knew the way to the dragon's nest. The whole village hated dragons because they would steal the villagers food, but Hiccup had found out that the dragon's only stole food because they had to to feed the great-dragon. Then the villagers followed Hiccup's dragon to the dragon nest, and there was a great battle. In the mean time, Hiccup taught all the other kids in the village how to fly dragons, and they flew out to try and stop the others from releasing the great-dragon, but it was too late! So Hiccup got aboard his dragon, and he fought the great-dragon, and won though he almost lost his life, and he did lose his leg. The villagers saw how good the dragons were, and all learned to ride them, and finally the Dragons and Vikings were at peace.

My Review;
It was good I liked it, I would watch it again. It was funny, and it had some drama, but it wasn't like so many cartoons that try to have all this drama in it and it just makes it not funny. It was good, I'd recommend it to really any one who likes cartoons. It was good.

To sum it up,if you like cartoons watch it.

The Karate Kid

I'm going to start by giving you some film stats, about the plot, then go into my review. *WARNING - THIS MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS*

Rating; PG for, "Bullying, martial arts action violence and some mild language."
Staring; Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan.
Released; 11Th of June, 2010.
Genre; Action, Drama, Family, Sport.

Plot;
Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) and him mom Sherry Parker move from Detroit to China where he found that he doesn't exactly fit in with the kids in the park by his house. Cheng (Zhenwei Wang) in particular. He got into a fight with Cheng and found that his street fighting was no match for Cheng's trained fighting. After being beaten numerous times by Cheng and his gang, Dre ask the handy man, who saved him from Chengs gang once, if he would train him. At first he declined, but after a run in with the other boys trainer, it was either fight in the ring or on the street, and if they were to fight in the ring that would give Dre time to train and there would be no fighting until then. Dre and the handy man Mr.Han(Jackie Chan, trained countless hours, until it was time for the fights. he had a series of battles until he got into the top two, to fight Cheng. He was seriously injured in one battle, but persevered, and ended up winning. Chen saw how good Dre was, and what a great teacher Mr.Han was, so him and his gang made peace.

My Review;
Let me start off by saying, it is SO much better then the original 1984 Karate Kid. It had a very well written script, the actors were awesome. Jaden Smith is going to be a great actor someday, he's only 12 and he's already really good! And who doesn't love Jackie Chan. It had a great feel of traditional Martial Arts, but the new feel of a story people can relate to now.I thought it was really good. I may not watch it 100 times, but if it was on I'd watch it again, I would even rent it again. It was great, it's good for the whole family. I thought it was very well made.

To sum it up, watch it with your family or by yourself.