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In the 1980s and ‘90s, movies about kids going on adventures were commonplace. E.T., Stand by Me, The Goonies, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, The Sandlot, the list goes on and on. In 2024 though, movies like that are much rarer—so that a new one is coming out at all would be exciting even if it wasn’t great.