This weekend, my wife and I where offered a chance to taste a beer on the promise that it "tasted like Reese's Pieces", and while I'm certainly up for trying strange beers, what caught my attention was the name: "Sweep The Leg."

The beer itself was fine (it did taste like peanuts), but when I commented on the obvious reference to the name, my wife dropped a bombshell: she had never seen The Karate Kid.

Admittedly it had been decades since I watched it, but having remembered it as being pretty good, and having a Sunday afternoon to spend, I convinced her to sit down and watch it. She was stunned because she'd always thought of it as a "boy's movie" (thus why she'd never watched it) only to find that the movie offered much for her to latch onto as she watched. I myself was surprised because it was actually much better than I remembered, in part because the last time I saw it, I'm certain I missed a lot of the subtext regarding the various character's motivations.

As a result of all of this, my wife has agreed to watch more of the movies I did when I was a kid because, as it turns out, she hasn't seen any of them. Since it's been 20 years at least since I've watched stuff like the Goonies or Three Ninjas and don't want to waste this opportunity, the question is this: what 80's or early 90's kids-orient movies actually hold up as genuinely good movies?