Review of Radio Flyer (1992) by Jim B — 11 Dec 2011

I liked this movie a lot better when I was a kid. Now that I'm grown up, I figure I've seen better Richard Donner movies (Superman and The Goonies). I really don't care much for child actors, since most of them can't really act until they mature into adults (and sometimes not even then), but Elijah Wood and Joseph Mazzello (where'd HE disappear to?) did nice jobs.

Even the dog who played Shane did a hell of a job as an animal actor. It does leave you with loose ends. For example, we know that Bobby went all over the world in his Radio Flyer, but how the hell did he survive all that time he was gone? Yes, he visited the guy that owned the buffalo, so he was fed and sheltered then, maybe received supplies to last him a little longer, but they couldn't have lasted too long before Bobby would need to be resupplied.

I don't know. As a kid, you don't think too deeply into the movie and instead think that the movie ended on a happy note and that's it.