Few 1980s movies induce warm fuzzies in a certain type of Gen X-er more than Richard Donner's "The Goonies." Written by future "Home Alone" director Chris Columbus, this rambunctious adventure about a group of young friends seeking literal pirate treasure as a means of saving their lower-income parents' homes from getting razed by a rapacious country club is vintage Amblin escapist fare. It's basically a big-budget Little Rascals movie filled with adolescent hijinks, Rube Goldberg gags, and so much screaming. I loved it when I was 11, but it grates something fierce on me as an adult. Some films should be left in childhood.

Regardless of how I feel about "The Goonies" now, I can't deny that it's a good-hearted Steven Spielberg production from an era when all summer movies wanted to do

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