That's All Folk's Movie Reviews: Episode 1

 

  That's All Folk's Movie Reviews: Episode 1        

 

The Legend of Black Thunder Moutain 

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Hello and welcome to That’s All Folk’s movie reviews I am your host The Buff Nerd Critic.

Today we will be taking a look at one of my favorite movies as a small child seeing as it was one of the first I ever saw.  Does the movie hold up now that I am an adult and not a 5 year old, well we shall see.

The Legend of Black Thunder Mountain was made in 1979 and stared people who you have probably never heard of.  The film was set in the 1800 and takes places in the mountains of South Dakota.  The movie opens up to a Narrator who is narrating himself and his friend.  This is done in perhaps the weirdest way as both the character is talk and the narrator who is supposed to be that character retelling the story.  The find an abandoned wagon which had stayed away from their wagon train they decide that it has been robed.  The father and both children are missing. 

We then cut a way to the children a brother and a sister who are lost in the wilderness.  The movie then flashes back to when the children first got separated from their father.  Apparently two thieves attack the father and leave him for dead, because he had a treasure map, and the kids manage to escape into the woods with the map.  The thieves then chase after the kids.  While moving through the woods the kids come up on a Indian boy who must be Pocohantis’s brother because he to can apparently pull a Dr. Do little and talk to animals.  The children then be friend a wolves, a cougar and a bear who the name Mrs. Mullin after a presumably very fat lady that they know. 

Looking back most of this now is just boring.  I mean at times it is cool to see the kids playing with the animals, but other part is just the kids walking through the woods.  There is a sub plot about a crazy white woodsman who reminds me of the Grinch who doesn’t like the white man.  I feel you brother I hate those crackers too.  He tries to hunt the kids down, but ultimately get caught in one of his own traps.  I mean who they get to do this part.  Listen to him this has got to be some of the worst acting ever, it is right up there with plan 9 from outer space, and trust me that is a complement when your acting is that outrageously bad.  So after the crazy man is caught.  The thieves come by and mock him and leave him hanging.

The thieves find the children several times but each time get chased away by animals Albert and Costello style.  They get chase by wolves, cougars and bears.   Hahahahaha isn’t that funny just like Albert and Costello.  No, no it is not movie stop ripping off some of the greatest comedic geniuses of the past.

While all this is going on the two men from the wagon train find the father regroup and launch a search party to find the kids.

At last miraculously the thieves get the kids alone from the Indian and the animals somehow.  I guess just dumb luck.  They corner the kids in a canyon but just when it seems like all hope is lost Mother Nature herself hit her menstrual cycle and gives these thieving pricks what is coming to them as there is an earth quake that buries the thieves in rubble.  Don’t be sad they died a good death or would if this was not a children’s movie.  Yeah they don’t die. 

So the kids make it back to their father and the rest of the wagon party.  But not before saying good bye to the Indian and the old crazy man.  Who apparently was not so bad after all he just need to be shown a little love, the kids give him a flit striker (a lighter basically) and his heart grew three sizes that day.

The father and children reunite and with the treasure map become much richer than you or I could dream of and live happily ever after.

So that is The legend of Black Thunder Mountain.  So how does it hold up as a kid I loved it.  As an adult I find it dragging in the parts with the kids, confusing in the way it presents the story and not really funny at the parts that should be.  But hey at least it’s got this guy. (L)

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