Barney's Great Adventure (1998): Dir: Steve Gomer / Cast: George Hearn, Shirley Douglas, Trevor Morgan, Kyla Pratt, Diana Rice: Unbearable family film about adventure and imagination that is best viewed under the influence of alcohol. The story is a series of adventures to obtain a colourful egg. It is always a headache listening to moralists complain about R rated films. Do they honestly believe that society should indulge in this crap? George Hearn and Shirley Douglas are reduced as grandparents of Barney's owner. The fact that they were talked into this is a sad state in one's career. Trevor Morgan owns Barney while Kyla Pratt plays a friend and they obviously lack basic social skills to resort to this sort of mind warp. Hopefully these kids were paid well for what amounts to a total childhood embarrassment. It capitalizes upon the success of the TV show with idiocy such as children riding a log into the sky. Barney is nothing more than a costume, which is not exactly high production. We aren't exactly talking Jurassic Park here. Bring a camcorder to a bar at two in the morning and witness behaviour that equals the idiocy demonstrated here. This is the kind of film that adults need to string up and take crack shots at with a baseball bat while blindfolded. When the lights came on I did not join children in inquiring the whereabouts of Barney. I was just glad he was gone. Score: 1 / 10
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