Fun enough movie

Rating: 7/10 (15 March 2020)

I'd never seen anything from this series until "World" was released so a friend of mine insisted we go to his house and watch the first one so we could see the new one together. It was on VHS, which was awesome, it was a fun experience because I saw it with a really good friend.
The movie itself is plenty of fun. It already has a lot of it's appeal in its '90s feel, the whole of the '90s has a sort of muted, restrained quality to it in my memory. This is easy viewing for a weekday: it can seem perfunctory now as far as these adventure blockbusters go but it's quiant, stylish, well characterised and efficiently told. It's a great testimony to how one should use CGI effects but try to limit them things strictly impossible to other kinds of effects (I think people are calling them "practical effects" now).
So although it doesn't really shine compared to the new movies of this type, this is still quite worth your time as a delightful archetype of a genre I presume it gave a lot too.