Monster Squad was another Ben Heck recommendation, specifically considered superior to Goonies.  Lions were reminded of a time when translating German required finding a bio robot who could speak the language & it was possible to watch a movie in a theater without paying, with binoculars.  


 

 


 

 Lions were struck by the use of such germane monsters, dracula, frankenstein, mummy, swamp creature, saveitforparts.  Like all Ben Heck favorites, it's a damn boring rehash of known quantities that checks all the boxes of good story telling, but what gets lions going is novelty over academics.  Boring music is another thing he prefers.  Goonies worked because the music was novel.

 


 Noted the Robotech shirt, a very niche show to be in a movie.  Surprised Harmony Gold authorized the trademark.

 Noted in this incarnation of Goonies, there were no girls.  The Goonies started a boom in kid club movies during that time, Little spies, Monster Squad, Stand by me, IT.  The backrooms might have been refreshingly engaging if it had a kid club but it was just made in the wrong time.

An all female kid club would be mind blowing, but it would have to be realized more like Xena than modern heroines.

Guess they picked up a 5 year old & a teenage heroine in the last 45 minutes but they didn't do anything heroic or fancy lion eyes.  The 5 year old reprised the daughter roles in Poltergeist & ET.  The teenager reprised the bitch roles in John Hughes land.  It was low budget Ben Heck sauce.  Music & visuals definitely have to be a hit, no matter how good the story telling is.

 There was kind of a redemption in frankenstein turning into a good guy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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