Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or...

The Walsh HomeThere's a very good reason that fifteen of the first twenty minutes of the movie take place in the Walsh home—and it isn't just to show off that Rube Goldberg gate-opening trick. Ob...

The Goonies ain't big on fancy tricks when it comes to how this story is told. There are no flashbacks, no flashforwards, and no flashsideways. We watch the Goonies' story unfold linearly, although...

Comedy; Adventure; FamilyLet's see. Are you laughing your butt off? Check. It's a comedy.Have you spent the last hour and a half on the edge of your seat, equal parts excited and nervous? Check. It...

The quick and dirty answer is that it's called The Goonies because the movie is about a bunch of goonies.But that raises the question: what in tarnation is a Goonie?We get a hint when we hear Mikey...

There's nothing all that shocking here. Good wins, evil is vanquished. The kids find the treasure, the town is saved, the Fratellis are going back to jail, and the country club folks have to eat di...

PGThe Goonies is rated PG, and it only gets that rating because of an overabundance of the "s" word.Weirdly, for a movie that features so many corpses, they're all totally bloodless. They're either...