Wow. Product placement, baby.
This movie must hold some kind of all-time record for most instances of product placement in a movie. If you like Nintendo, you'll be in awe here. Mattel's Power Glove, the Nintendo hints hotline, and dozens upon dozens of late 80's NES games on the screen - Double Dragon, Metroid, Mega Man 2, Super Mario Bros. 2, etc.
The crown jewel was Super Mario Bros. 3 (quite possibly the best 2D platform game ever made).
The dialogue is often horrifically, unintentionally funny.
"Calee-fornee-uh!"
"You got 50,000 on Double Dragon?"
"I love the Power Glove...it's so bad."
"AHHHH! He touched my breast!"
When Jimmy beats Lucas, he finds a warp whistle in an area that you couldn't POSSIBLY know about without reading a guide/talking to someone who's played it (the first Bam-Bam fortress), leading me to believe the way to win in life is to cheat :-0. The eventual reasoning for going to California is logical.
That all said, the movie has A LOT of nostalgic charm, decent acting (they're all child actors, so cut them some slack!), and a breezy story. Sure we never really know WHY three kids can hitch-hike for two weeks across the Utah desert without getting murdered or raped, but hey, it's just a movie after all. I've seen movies that are boring, I've seen commercials that are entertaining, but somehow, this commercial/movie is intriguing.
4 to 10 out of 10, depending on how much you like the NES.
This movie must hold some kind of all-time record for most instances of product placement in a movie. If you like Nintendo, you'll be in awe here. Mattel's Power Glove, the Nintendo hints hotline, and dozens upon dozens of late 80's NES games on the screen - Double Dragon, Metroid, Mega Man 2, Super Mario Bros. 2, etc.
The crown jewel was Super Mario Bros. 3 (quite possibly the best 2D platform game ever made).
The dialogue is often horrifically, unintentionally funny.
"Calee-fornee-uh!"
"You got 50,000 on Double Dragon?"
"I love the Power Glove...it's so bad."
"AHHHH! He touched my breast!"
When Jimmy beats Lucas, he finds a warp whistle in an area that you couldn't POSSIBLY know about without reading a guide/talking to someone who's played it (the first Bam-Bam fortress), leading me to believe the way to win in life is to cheat :-0. The eventual reasoning for going to California is logical.
That all said, the movie has A LOT of nostalgic charm, decent acting (they're all child actors, so cut them some slack!), and a breezy story. Sure we never really know WHY three kids can hitch-hike for two weeks across the Utah desert without getting murdered or raped, but hey, it's just a movie after all. I've seen movies that are boring, I've seen commercials that are entertaining, but somehow, this commercial/movie is intriguing.
4 to 10 out of 10, depending on how much you like the NES.