Any parents desirous of protecting the mystery that is Barney, the movie, should cease reading now. Think Indiana Jones meets Pee-wee Herman, and then subtract all the jokes. It begins to wobble. You can feel the tension in the theater. It's a moment of great drama.
Mesmerized children hang on every crack and shudder of the multicolored ovoid.
Even I paid attention. And that's just the first of a series of Twinken spin-offs. No doubt Twinken will soon have its own PBS special. If your child sees this movie, he or she will require a near instantaneous Twinken fix. Withdrawal won't be pretty.