Throwbacks: “Booby Traps. That’s what I said.”

All right, raise your hand up high if you grew up watching “The Goonies”?

Awesome movie, right? Fo real, you have no idea how excited I was when I went to Target last week and found “The Goonies” DVD to be on sale. Let’s just say, I bought two. One to be used as my Secret Santa gift, and the other one was for me. (My Secret Santa completely agreed with me when he got his gift. He loves the movie too.)

This movie is amazing for a number of things.

1. The creative team behind it: Steven Spielberg wrote the story. Chris Columbus wrote the screenplay. Richard Donner directed it.
2. “Goonies” from the “Goon Docks” — Legit name.
3. It involves normal kids who go off on an adventure to find buried treasure (and save their town in the process).
… I could go on and on about every little thing that made this movie great, but one thing fo sure that made this movie even better was Data.

Data be legit. Everyone who knows this movie remembers Richard “Data” Wang, the quirky Asian kid who idolized James Bond and came up with the craziest gadgets that either worked or didn’t work.

Data by far was one of the most hilarious characters in the movie. I know that his accent was one of the punch lines of the movie, but it’s one of those things that you roll with. It’s a quirk of his character. His “Inspector Gadget” inspired inventions made up for it anyways. Regardless of how ridiculous they were, those inventions saved the Goonies many times.

Data was played by Ke Huy Quan (also known as Jonathan Ke Quan).

These days Quan works more behind the camera as martial artist, stunt coordinator, etc. overseas and stateside.

Quan is also known for his other role as “Short Round,” the (best) sidekick to Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Data and Short Round made their movies much more enjoyable. I really do hope in the future that they come out with a sequel to “The Goonies” and sign on the original cast. Even though, Ke Huy Quan is not active as an actor, it would be awesome to see him again on the silver screen.

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