Movie Legends Revealed Was There an Octopus in The Goonies? This week, Brian Cronin wades into the movie legend that the 1985 comedy-adventure The Goonies originally included a scene in which the kids grapple with a giant octopus. The movie has been out for around since its theatrical release. DVD and Blu-ray releases typically come out 12-16 weeks after the theatrical premiere. Digital HD from Amazon Video and iTunes will be available 1-2 weeks before the Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K releases – sometime in N/A. Dates do change so check back often as the release approaches.

Mikey Walsh and Brandon Walsh are brothers whose family is preparing to move because developers want to build a golf course in the place of their neighborhood - unless enough money is raised to stop the construction of the golf course, and that's quite doubtful. But when Mikey stumbles upon a treasure map of the famed 'One-Eyed' Willy's hidden fortune, Mikey, Brandon, and their friends Lawrence 'Chunk' Cohen, Clark 'Mouth' Devereaux, Andrea 'Andy' Carmichael, Stefanie 'Stef' Steinbrenner, and Richard 'Data' Wang, calling themselves The Goonies, set out on a quest to find the treasure in hopes of saving their neighborhood. The treasure is in a cavern, but the entrance to the cavern is under the restaurant of evil thief Mama Fratelli and her sons Jake Fratelli, Francis Fratelli, and the severely disfigured Lotney 'Sloth' Fratelli. Sloth befriends the Goonies and decides to help them. Mikey Walsh and his friends face separation as they all prepare to move away as developers buy up their properties. The only hope is that they can raise enough money to keep the house. When they stumble across a map relating to the long lost treasure of pirate `One-Eyed' Willy they go after the treasure but it leads them to tunnels under the hideout of the Fratelli family who are on the run from the law - the Goonies must get the treasure before the Fratelli's can find it.

I haven't seen this film for many years and, when someone told me it was their favourite film I couldn't really voice an opinion (or at least, not an informed one). Having now seen it myself I must admit to be a little at a loss to understand the sheer amount of cult love it gets; I can only put it down to us all loving something from our childhood in a guilty sort of way!

The film is enjoyable but no more than that, and I wasn't sure who it was aimed at: it seemed to be too scary for young children but far too childish and silly for older kids. The plot is a sort of Indiana Jones for children and it works reasonably well despite an excess of flaws in several key areas. The plot is silly and feels very disjointed, I was never totally sold on the treasure hunt nor the threat of the Fratelli's. It varies wildly between sickly sentiment (`I'm gonna take care of you', `you're my best invention' etc) and overblown action that doesn't really excite because it is so unrelated to reality. The effects can be forgiven due to the age of the film, but really it should have been more dramatic considering.

The comedy also swings wildly from silly slapstick to some very funny lines; the whole thing is very rough around the edges and it is quite refreshing to see this in comparison to so many more `clean' and shrink wrapped kids movies - at least this has a touch of anarchy about it! That said, I didn't laugh that much although I did enjoy the rough edges. It is funny to see the cast now, although few of them have really gone on to become adults who did great things. Astin is a little too drab for the film, his role has to carry the story whereas the others get to have more fun. Feldman, Cohen and Ke Quan all get to enjoy themselves and are good value despite occasionally being more silly than funny.

The adult cast are much better and it is a shame that they aren't used that well - Davi, Pantoliano and Ramsey are all good and I would have preferred to have had more laughs from them. Like the film itself, it's all very rough round the edges in terms of performances, which is both a good thing and a bad thing. Overall I have not been won over to the extent that the army of Goonie fans are. I enjoyed it even if I couldn't really get into either the comedy of the silly action. It has it's moments and is probably best used to start and wean children off more childish stuff without making the jump right into adult films.

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Pitfall the lost expedition tnt 2017. During their search for the treasure, they run afoul of a group of criminals, and hilarity and adventure ensue. SPOILERS FOR A TWENTY-EIGHT YEAR OLD MOVIE! The Goonies end up with some of the treasure, allowing their parents to save their homes from foreclosure. At the end of the film, one of the kids, Data (played by Ke Huy Quan), tells a reporter 'The octopus was really scary!'

There was no octopus in the film. The line seemed to be an example of how kids exaggerate.

You know, while in the middle of this crazy story about crooks and pirate ships, they somehow manage to still make stuff up! However, that has led fans of The Goonies over the years to believe there was an actual scene with an octopus that was cut from the film’s theatrical run. Is that true, or is it merely another case like the phantom 'deleted scene' from Raiders of the Lost Ark that? Simply put, yes, there was a deleted scene that involved a giant octopus, which occurred when the Goonies fall from the waterfall into a cavern near the pirate ship.

They wade through the water to the ship when Stef (Martha Plimpton) feels something brush against her. She presumes it’s Mouth (played by Corey Feldman), who’s behind her. He denies it. When it happens again, she smacks Mouth in the, well, mouth. While she is turned to face Mouth, he sees a giant octopus emerge from the water behind her. The octopus attacks and drags Stef underwater.

Mouth and Stef fight the octopus to try to free her. Data (the resident inventor who uses all sorts of interesting gadgets throughout the film) saves them by taking a Walkman cassette tape player and sticking it into the octopus' mouth and playing loudly the song 'Eight Arms to Hold You' by the dance group The Goon Squad. The octopus either recoils from the loud noise or, in a more likely reading of the scene, begins to dance away. It is pretty cheesy.

The scene was ultimately cut from the film, whether for time reasons, because the scene didn’t come out looking particularly good or because the whole concept of a giant octopus attacking the group was deemed to be a bit too over-the-top. Whatever the case, it didn’t make the final cut. The scene didn’t appear in either the theatrical version or when the film was released on VHS. However, a funny thing happened sometime in the 1990s. The Disney Channel aired The Goonies, and because the film had more than a few references that pushed the boundaries of acceptable children's entertainment as far as the Disney Channel went, they edited out those scenes.

After the edits were made, though, they wanted to make up for the time being taken away so they added a couple of deleted scenes, including the octopus sequence (another notable deleted scene has the kids encounter Troy, a jerky local jock, at a convenience store. In the scene, the treasure map that the kids have gets burned a bit by Troy, which explains why the map is singed in later scenes in the film). So now suddenly you had a certain group of people who were talking about an octopus scene that no one else had ever seen. Many folks presumed that it was yet another phantom deleted scene, a fake memory based on Data's line later in the film. It happens a lot. However, this time it was for real.

In 2001, the deleted scenes were included on the DVD release of The Goonies.An interesting thing about the deleted scene is the song used. Producer Arthur Baker put together a band called The Goon Squad to further tie into the movie.

The song's name is a reference to the working title for The Beatles' album Help! The soundtrack producers were so sure that the song would be a hit after its use in the movie that they decided to release the song as a single off of the film's soundtrack. Despite the deletion of the scene, the song remained on the soundtrack, and when it came out it actually hit the top of the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play charts! The Goon Squad actually released another single ('Powerdrill') that hit the top forty of the dance charts but that was it for the group.