This is another movie that I half-saw because of substitute teaching. In this case, the first 52 minutes had been shown to the kids the day before, so I only got to see the last 40 minutes. But that was more than enough to get the flavor of this movie.
I'd never heard of this movie before, but it was immediately recognizable as a type. There's a greedy developer who wants to bulldoze a natural habitat. There's a bunch of kids who want to stop him. Hijinks ensue. You know the type of movie.
These types of movies are not designed to be good, so it's a bit pointless to critique them. It's cheesy and corny, but then it was meant to be cheesy and corny, so what can you say?
I guess you could say that, at their best, these movies are at least meant to deliver a lot of slapstick humor as the greedy adults get their comeuppance in a humerous manner, but this movie doesn't really have any good slapstick scenes, so I guess it fails on that account.
It's also obvious from watching it that this movie was made on the cheap. (There's a couple chase scenes in the last 40 minutes, but they're very badly filmed.)
As always, take my opinion with a grain of salt, because I only saw half the movie. Maybe the first 52 minutes were absolutely brilliant.
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P.S. If you haven't heard of this movie before, this trailer will give you an idea of exactly what to expect:
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