The Quest for Tom Sawyer's Gold

I went to this movie with a couple of teenagers and toddlers. We got super bored from the terrible acting and guessable plot. We left from the first half of the film. The cast lacked the main acting skills. The photography was like a phone camera. The directing and storyline were predictable and extremely boring. The only ones who would've liked this film are toddlers and kids who haven't got introduced to the amazing world of movies. I rated it a 1 for the trailer. The trailer was the only thing worth watching, or else I would've given it a 0. Overall, It's a below average movie that I don't recommend it at all.

I felt the actors were not playing the characters smoothly. But rather forcing out an obvious output.

It was missing homogenius character filling by almost all actors.

The filming was actually nice and so was sound. To an extent VFX was ok.

Introduction of characters is something that is missed in this movie with some depth. I would have liked to see an intro like indiana jones or may be the Mummy movie. How ever it misses on some aspects like why is a character behaving like it is doing in a later part of life. There was no balance of reasoning. Also kids were overacting in some scenes which director could have reviwed and retook at the same spot.

I had to force through the movie for most part to understand the story plot. The dynamics were there but bad execution and transitions.

The premise of the movie is interesting but the execution is lacking. The character development wasn't there to explain any reason the characters act the way they do. The relationships between almost all characters are pretty odd. This was clearly a low budget film which I didn't expect a ton from, but I've seen better low budget films that at least elicited emotion. I gave it a fair chance with my 10 year old but we had to ignore A LOT of glaring plot holes. I feel it'd be best suited for a 7 year old other than the overuse of "damn" and "hell" in weird placements. I actually think this would have been better as a mini series with proper character development/backstory and more time spent on the puzzles throughout. If you have nothing else to fill an hour and 20 mins, it's a pretty tame family film.

I've watched a lot of films and this is one of the worst I've ever seen. Low budget is one thing but this travesty didn't even try. The film is hard to follow and the storyline just jumps all over the place. It was obviously meant to be a film for young children and yet it has curse words for no reason at all. That's trashy and lazy writing. Not every film needs curse words. I could have written something more sane with some crayons and a napkin. I don't understand the need for the random old narrator guy. The props team and CGI is downright lazy. I've seen better props in school plays. Save yourself some time and don't watch this movie.

Goonies being one of my favorite films - I appreciated this film. The chase for Tom Sawyer's gold straight out of the book is pretty neat subject. While occasionally low budget as it tried to reach for something bigger, it delivers more than you would expect. The acting is solid, nice camera work and music. Loved the bond between the kids. Who doesn't like seeing Joey Lauren Adams? Patrick Muldoon makes for a good bad guy. Some of the FX aren't as strong as you hope but a lot of large budget film do it worse. Had a Spielberg type feel to it with camera and music. Really happy to have discovered this one. A few spots the film reaches beyond itself. Some of the treasure hunting isn't exactly plausible however characters keep you in it and caring.