The Gold Retrievers

OK, mega-stores wreck mom'n pop businesses, perhaps, so yeah there's "a message".

Biggs and Centineo are sweet, and you can see they tried hard.

Everything else about the movie is so feeble we found ourselves pitying them for having been tricked into working on a movie that they'll be ashamed of for the rest of their lives.

When the moronic bad guys fall in a stream and you see the plastic sheet that kept the water there you realize that the crew had given up on the movie altogether.

I suppose you could show it to six and unders, but you might do permanent damage to their ability to distinguish quality from trash.

This film will never win any awards. It is predictable and borrows so many tropes from other family movies that there is nothing original about it. You will guess what is going to happen and how the movie will end in the first 5 minutes. That being said, this movie isn't too bad. The two young leads are enthusiastic and enjoyable and there is a cute dog and hidden treasure to be quested. Anyone less than 10 years old will love it and their parents won't be bored out of their minds either.

One interesting point for older viewers is the appearance of a couple of 'big' stars from the eighties. Billy Zane plays a parent of one of the kids and Steve Guttenberg is almost unrecognisable as one of the villians. These two villians, by the way, are the worst part of the movie. They are so dumb that if they existed in real life they would have to be institutionalized. Both actors playing the roles are so over the top in their portrayal that older viewers will be cringing in their seats. I guess this is the kind of movie you do when your career is on the downhill slope. Still, this type of movie has to have a villian and at least these two won't scare your younger offspring.

Despite its many flaws and its predictability, this movie is harmless but goofy fun. Your kids will enjoy it and you might too.

Don't LET THE CUTE DOGGIE ON THE CASE FOOL YOU!!! Terrible movie, awful acting, LAME!!! Don't insult your children by mistakenly thinking this is entertaining. The set is amateur,audio and soundtrack seem like an afterthought, and none of the actors are appealing.The plot of kids looking for gold has been done(goonies).The sub plot of pre-adolescent first kiss, crush, is again, overdone. It tried to be cute, but sorry, the child actors are not good enough to pull it off. We can't even begin to like the characters because the poor acting. I rented this through redbox, and it was not even worth the $1. Even the older actors, who should be 'seasoned', are a joke. Steve Guttenberg as a crotchety scoundrel!? He can't do it.His limp and attempt at tough-guy speech are laughable. Save your time and money, and poke needles in your eyes for 1.5 hours, it will be less painful.

Basic plot: two kids search for a lost treasure in the hope of getting out of some debt issues, to fulfil their tasks they must follow the clues and avoid the traps and pursuing 'bad guys'. Who with the added adult humour are dumb red necks,

cliché. Kids of all ages will enjoys this film and want to watch it again i plan to recommend this to a few of my friends and their children.

One favourite of mine in this film is that of the terrible acting even though it will entertain kids, and even the cheesy storyline which i could do without but kids seem to enjoy

OK so my initial impressions of the film was that it was going to be a modern day goonies so had high expectations for a really good family movie.

Much to my disappointment this wasn't in the same school let alone class as the goonies,brief plot 2 kids go treasure hunting with a couple of badguys in tow.

The acting from all characters was terrible and the props and locations were appalling, this must have been a low budget film to say the least.

Do yourself a favour pass up on this one and get the goonies if your after a good family movie.