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[Travo]

just the poster alone invokes adventure..is this a good movie?

Not really. It's cutesy but not really good.

 

[pswii60]

Everyone has already mentioned the movies I was thinking of.

Except D.A.R.Y.L.

There's nothing quite like The Goonies but plenty of 80s kids movies that give similar vibes. It's a shame they don't really make movies like that anymore.

Of course everyone knows the best is still Mac and Me. That big sequel tease at the end too.. we're still waiting.

 

[Aerogamer]

If you don't mind foreign films with subs then Chillar Party is pretty good, albeit it is a little bit more like Sandlot. Follows kids that band together.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

The Force Awakens

Yeah the kids are a bit old but it's totally the same sense of adventure and friendship IMO

 

[whitehawk]

... Spy Kids maybe?

 

[Herr Schwarz]

Tom Hanks best movie.

So many fantastic quotes in that movie.

"My husband isn't coming out until he resembles the man that I married"

"We don't have that kind of time!"


That entire scene where they went into the Klopeks house for tea and sardines was hilarious.

"Hans? Uh ho ho, a fine Christian name"

"uuuh a pretty girl, friend of yours?"

"nooo, it came with the frame"

 

[commedieu]

Everyone has already mentioned the movies I was thinking of.

Except D.A.R.Y.L.



There's nothing quite like The Goonies but plenty of 80s kids movies that give similar vibes. It's a shame they don't really make movies like that anymore.

Of course everyone knows the best is still Mac and Me. That big sequel tease at the end too.. we're still waiting.

Came to post d.a.r.y.l. Shame it's page 3.

Please proceed, thread...

 

[Rival]

How about don't tell mom the babysitters dead?

 

[MagnaderAlpha]

Jumanji.

It's even actually an adaptation of a 1981 children's book.

If that's the case, might as include Polar Express, which was adapted from a 1985 children's book (hell, same year Goonies came out). Know it was set in "olden times", but the kids still go on some thrills in that movie.

And considering some of these movies listed by other posters aren't all about "groups" of kids, I'd include Lady in White.

 

[Any Questions]

The Burbs

This film is amazing

 

[Muffdraul]

Explorers is kind of similar.

This was the first one that came to my mind.

 

[Rootbeer]

Good suggestions. Stranger Things is the closest to a modern day Goonies revival so don't miss that one. Season 2 later this year!

Stephen King's IT (1990) or the upcoming 2017 readaptation.

I'm glad someone mentioned The Explorers. I love the first like, 2/3, the last 1/3 doesn't stand up as much to rewatching. But definitely see it.

Flight of the Navigator?

I don't know what else to add. I'll say that Sleepers (1996) starts out kinda like a Stand By Me/Sandlot-esque film but then some really dark shit happens that TOTALLY changes it. So if you want to watch something fucked up, you can try that one maybe.

 

[Kolibri]

War Games.

Kind of same tone-ish.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

This film is amazing

<----- Underrated as fuck, no doubt.

 

[MagnaderAlpha]

War Games.

Kind of same tone-ish.

If you are listing War Games, I'll list The Manhattan Project.