THE DIRT BIKE KID is a familiar children's adventure flick of the 1980s, focused around a Milky Bar Kid lookalike who finds himself in possession of a magical dirt bike (yep, I'm not kidding), with a mild kind of R2D2 personality and a lot of tricks up its sleeve. It's a bit like a kid's version of KNIGHT RIDER, a wish fulfilment fantasy in which this ordinary kid finds himself in possession of the power to stop a greedy property developer in his tracks. A local arcade is at threat, so the film turns into a kind of running battle between the kid and his various allies and the corporate bad guys. It's sunny, simplistic stuff, fun without engaging the brain.
Review of The Dirt Bike Kid
