And with that I’m done talking about BMX Bandits.
Nope, no more information to give.
There’s not another single notable piece of information about this film I can think of.
Well I really enjoyed that.
I kind of want to go find a big pile of dirt and do a gnarly jump off it.
If I have an enduring image of this film, it’s Goose chasing a truck up several hills on a single speed BMX, whilst covered in baking flour.
And yeah, it takes till the second half of the film for the BMX action to really kick in.
But once it starts it’s pretty awesome.
There’s a few scenes with a car and the bike riders on screen at the same time. It has a certain early 80s “is this safe?” kind of feel to the stunt work.
Whenever the villains open their car door, rubbish (empty beer cans, newspaper sheets) falls out.
Such a weird but clever characterisation.
At one point the villainous goon literally says “nyuk nyuk nyuk” as a villianous laugh.
(like from The Three Stooges or something)
This film has a bunch of memorable scenes. The kids/bandits are chased through a cemetery by goons in monster masks and it’s effectively tense.
At one point, the character of Judy falls into a muddy open grave with a rat at the bottom of it. Fairly scary for a kid’s movie.
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