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The
Goonies
(1985)
  
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Director:
Richard Donner
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COUNTRY
USA |
GENRE
Adventure/Comedy |
NORWEGIAN TITLE
The
Goonies |
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RUNNING
TIME
109 minutes |
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Producer:
Richard Donner
Harvey Bernard |
Screenwriter (based on a story by Steven Spielbeg):
Chris Columbus |
Review
This children's adventure yarn with
something of a cult-following is remarkably giddy and insipid in
tone and production values. It runs like a haunted-house attraction
in a theme-park, and the noise-level is accordingly. Nevertheless,
the film does have a childish charm and not insignificant
entertainment value for kids in the right age group, meaning tweens,
and middle-agers who were young in 1985. The script by Chris
Colombus, based on a story by Steven Spielberg, feels like some sort
of mock-exam for
Home Alone. And apropos the latter movie, God knows that Robert Davi
and Joe Pantoliano are more annoying than Joe Pesci and Daniel
Stern. The direction is by Richard Donner, who seems to have gone
for effort over quality. The ensemble of child actors give it their
all, with Sean Astin standing out as the most talented among them,
but Donner cannot quite muster any naturalness out of his two comic reliefs Jeff Cohen and Jonathan Ke Huy Quan.
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