With the scheduled foreclosure and demolition of their town imminent, a scrappy group of kids band together and go in search of lost pirate treasure with some very bad people hot on their trail.
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Why can't movies for kids be this awesome any more? More specifically: Why can't they be this scary anymore? I'm inclined to blame political correctness, but that would make me sound like Rush Limbaugh and we of course can't have that. But seriously! It's important for kids to be scared and the only way to do that is by putting young characters in real danger like this film does. Sure there's elements that defy the laws of physics/reality (ie: all of Data's inventions) but even when he's dangling from chattering teeth, there are still real jagged spikes down there waiting to kill him. Even when they cut out the dirty stuff to show it on the Disney Channel, they re-inserted the Octopus scene! More danger! Outside of awesome exceptions like ParaNorman, this would not fly today. Some of my fondest childhood memories are connected to things I was afraid of and it's sad to think that the children of tomorrow are being deprived of this. They're also being deprived of dirty/naughty stuff, but that's another rant all together...
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