BMX Bandits

Three words spring to mind after watching this a few times, "Live Action Cartoon", and there's no escaping from that idea because the characters are straight out of a Scooby-Doo style cartoon; three kids on expensive BMX's get chased halfway across the suburbs of Australia by a couple of incompetant goons working for a boss in the bank robbing trade, and every mishap during the chase you could think of in a cartoon is right here in the film; said goons driving a big black car crash into/through anything and everything in their way to get the kids, even when on foot they're stumbling over things and crashing through things.

Escaping from the goons the kids manage to go through a shopping mall, an industrial workplace, an empty warehouse, a waterslide park (no really!) and half the housing estates round the coast of Australia. Oh not forgetting the police who are as useful as a chocolate teapot and a spoilt rich fat kid who wants in on the action (the character has no name listed in the credits, just "Fat Kid").

This film is brill! so long as you don't take one ounce of it with any seriousness because it's full of great stunts, long chase scenes, a list of movie clichés as long as your arm, terrible one-liners & bad acting. Yet still it was one of those films that you wish would happen to you and your mates for real when you were younger, but really it just inspired me and probably many others to get into BMXing or ride ours even more.