The Lil' River Rats and the Adventure of the Lost Treasure (2003) User Reviews

Terrible

[away-we-go · 1/10 · 6 July 2008]

One of the worst movies I've ever seen. Acting was terrible, both for the kids and the adults. Most to all characters showed no, little or not enough emotion. The lighting was terrible, and there were too many mess ups about the time of the day the film was shot (In the river scene where they just get their boat destroyed, there's 4 shots; The sheriff and Dad in the evening on their boat, Jillian and Molly in the evening swimming, the rest of the kids in the daytime *when it's supposed to in the evening* at the river bank, and the doctor, Beatrice, and Simonton at night but not in the evening getting off their boat.) The best acting in the movie was probably from the sheriff, Cappy (Although, there's a slip of character when the pulse detector *Whatever that thing is when people die, it beeps* shows Cappy has died, he still moves while it can still be heard beeping, and while the nurse extra checks his pulse manually, then it shows the pulse again, and THEN he finally dies.) I guess it's not going to be perfect, since it's an independent movie, but it still could be better. Not worth watching, honestly, even for kids. Might as well watch something good, like The Lion King or Toy Story if you're going to see anything you'll remember.

Horrible

[totallly-pinkk · 1/10 · 17 February 2007]

This was the WORST movie I have ever seen! Molly (molly hall) could not act AT ALL! she had no emotion it was all blah blah blah like she was reading out of a boring text book. The smart kid and the kid who loves food (there names weren't worth remembering) were so annoying it drove me crazy.When ever the talked it was about some scientific thing or food. Mollys Dad didn't show enough emotion about his daughter missing. The police officer and Mollys dad said the same thing like four times. it was just horrible. Everything was repeated way to much. Beatrice should have had something bad happen to her for being so mean. I just wasted a moment in my life by watching this movie!

Lil River Rats was Awesome

[pmgproducer · 10/10 · 10 July 2006]

We watched Lil River Rats last weekend and it was a great movie. My kids 10 and 8 love the movie and thought it was like a movie on the Disney Channel. The boat, river and bear were all very cool and it really looked like a Hollywood movie rather than an independent film. The end of the movie was very suspenseful. There was a lot of work that went into this film and I think it was shot on location in Indiana. We saw the first movie from this filmmaker 587 The Great Train Robbery and it was excellent too. I thought the kid that had the Hal 9000 computer was pretty funny. The water balloon fight was funny too. I wonder how they controlled the helicopters to drop the balloons. The story flowed along very well and all the kids did a great job acting. The sound effects and music were also done very well and added to the movie viewing experience.

Waste of time

[black_rose0997 · 1/10 · 29 March 2013]

This movie was in a family movie pack (which had other movies as well) that I got at Wal-Mart, so I wasn't expecting greatness. However, this movie was really bad. THe story isn't an original story either. The acting was terrible and the fact that a father leaves his daughter alone without a babysitter is just appalling.

I was hoping for something somewhat decent, but instead got a bland poorly acted movie. I assume little kids might like it, if they're not bored with it, but I think that even kids will find this movie really boring.

Hmm, I need ten lines, so I have no idea what more to say that I haven't said already. The movie wasn't good...okay hopefully this will be enough.

A great adventure movie for the whole family...

[dadtwo · 8/10 · 7 July 2006]

We watched this movie as a family on Showtime and really enjoyed it. My kids, especially my daughter (8) has watched it four times since, getting up early to watch it.

To get her out of bed early is something during the summer...

And as a parent I like the message of the film, faith, truth and courage. It's hard to find good things for my kids to consume on TV but this is an exception It's a throw back to the Huck Finn lazy days of summer. The scenery is great and the raft the kids float down river,

I wish I had made when I was a kid.

I recommend it!

Show this on Show Time

[vizmofilms · 10/10 · 25 February 2007]

Kids loved it. Some of the adult actors were not so good. Most of the kids were believable. Locations were good. Shot in Indiana Has a bear in it that may be scary to some small children. Best to watch with parents

My kids want to bulid a raft and float down the creek. This was an independent film that the producer's daughter starred in.

She did a good job. Special effects were good especially the "HAl 9000" I liked the message of the film. Faith Truth and Couorage.

I recommend this film for any school age children. Very good family film.

This was a real surprise for me!!!!

[pjohnsonfamily · 10/10 · 10 July 2006]

My son got me out of bed on Sunday to watch this with him on cable. He had seen it before and wanted me to watch it with him again. I sat down with him and we watched this together, it was a real treat! It was on early on cable before we went to church, it had a good theme for kids, and parents. It was something we could do together. It was a fun family film. Good scenery, and funny parts through out. I liked the kids in the movie and so did he. The bear scenes were funny and scary to him. But the message of the movie he got. He wants to build a raft now. And go looking for treasure, but we don't live near a river so it's the pool in the backyard. I would recommend this movie to any family.