Cloak & Dagger

Many folks foncly remember watching the movie The Wizard (staring Fred Savage) and thinking it was the coolest 90 minute commercial for Nintendo, Super Mario 3 and the Powerglove. Well, rewing a few years when Atari was kings of the home consoles and you would probably have been as giddy about the film Cloak & Dagger.

IMDB says: 1-year-old Davey, whose mother is dead and whose father is preoccupied with his own problems, has retreated into a world of video games and an imaginary hero-pal, the swashbuckling superspy Jack Flack. When an FBI agent about to be murdered slips him a video cartridge containing top-secret data, Davey is suddenly plunged into the intrigue and danger of real-life espionage. No adult believes his story, so he must run a gauntlet of violence and villainy aided only by a younger girl and the encouragement of "Jack Flack" at his side. How long can a comic-book role model guide him through this encounter with reality?

I say: What a cool little kids movie. It reminded me of these awesome Saturday made-for-tv movie specials I saw as a kid. Henry Thomas, fresh from a performance in E.T., plays a believable kid that finds danger at every corner street. Highlights include a few nice scenes in a video game store show some cool retro gaming equipment and nice hard to find Atari adverts. A fen film for young ones - along the lines of Goonies, Explorers and War games. 6.5 catridges out of 10.