gottaluvlinda I watched this again with my twin brother today! We are 41 and it's been at least 30 years since I've seen it!OMGOSH, SO much fun and well worth watching it again if only for the laughs and nostalgia!!! We were obsessed with BMX bikes and building fancy bike tracks on our farm as kids and I swear it was because of this movie!!!!! Once those three put on their 'uniforms' it all came back to me!!!! We totally enjoyed watching this piece of Aussie cinematic history again!!!OK, true, the acting isn't that great, although you can see even here Nicole Kidman has 'it'. It's a complete laugh these days seeing what scrapes our BMXers get up to as they run from dodgy stupid robbers (it IS a kids movie) who, predictably, stuff up so bad u can only ROFL from laughing. BMX/car chases, foam, flour fights, hilarious walkie talkie conversations, dumb cops, cool BMX kids and riding and stunts (that my brother perfected)... it has it all!!!!If you are seeing this for the first time ever, keep your expectations LOW. If you are seeing it for nostalgic reasons like us, you will love it!!!!!

Benjamin Harrison This is the movie Mad Max: Fury Road could've been. Well, I mean, you know, it's pretty good, anyway. Better than its IMDb average score would suggest, I'd say. Who cares if it's not actually gritty and convincing? It's a kids movie! It's a fun ol' adventure! Plus, the sixteen year-old Nicole Kidman (in her Big Screen Debut, no less) is terrific. Why not watch it? Huh? Why not? Yeah, see? You can't answer me, can you? I thought as much.

Dylan Greenberg I love this movie. The DVD from Severin films was in amazing quality, and the new restoration was absolutely beautiful. I think one of the best parts of this movie is that it doesn't matter how old you are to enjoy this movie. Sure, it was targeted towards kids, but really anyone can see it. And I'm not a guy who just praises underrated movies like this, either. My previous review was of the 1988 art film Alice, so I am serious when it comes to critiquing films. The cinematography and atmosphere in this movie are beautiful, and the use of bright, vibrant color reminds me almost of the Award Winning Dario Argento film Suspiria. The stunts are incredibly well done, and overall fun to watch. Nicole Kidman is perfect as the BMX riding tomboy, and her two male friends make great comic relief as one is an optimist, and the other is a pessimist. The sound effects are unique, as "swooshing" sounds play whenever a bike rides past the camera or performs a certain stunt. The film is very cartoonish, almost like Dick Tracy. Whether you're 8 or 88, BMX Bandits is a fun movie to watch. You can play it instantly on netflix, or buy the DVD from Severin films.

Framescourer Really, this is a bit of a bran-film - a children's action-adventure picture, notable in retrospect as the debut feature of a one 'Nicole Kidman'. Yet it has a considerable romance for British children who hit the culturally Damascene age of eight years old at its release, discovering, as we were, the world of BMX bikes (E.T., the high watermark of mainstream BMXing was less than a year old) and a strangely narcotic lunchtime television show set in Australia called Neighbours.BMX Bandits incorporates the Calafornia-strine quirks of middle-class Oz and wisely substitutes real drama with a selection of trick-posing set pieces. The adventure itself is a recycled pesky kids vs bungling baddies caper. Watch right through to the end of the titles which have the most exciting track and action shots of the entire film. 3/10