The best thing about Netflix is that I'm able to revisit old movies from when I was a kid without having to worry about getting burned out of $5. With that in mind, I got The Wizard the other night.

Some of you may know this movie. Certainly, people my age would. It's about a kid (Fred Savage) who runs away from home with his autistic brother. Along the way, he learns his brother is a whiz when it comes to video games (a pretty obvious homage to Tommy), and they decide to go to California, to a video game competition. Their dad and older brother (Beau Bridges, Christian Slater) follow them, as does an evil private investigator, etc. etc.

The movie actually held up fairly well, considering I hadn't seen it since I was about 8 or 9 years old. Obviously, I'm not as into it as I was back then, but it's still a worthy kids movie, the kind they don't really make anymore.

Few things:

-There's no mistake that Nintendo is the star of this movie. Once the plot gets rolling, there's not five minutes that goes by before a character is playing a game and talking about how great it is.

-Despite that, there is still a surprisingly deep storyline. I remember, when I was little, being confused by Jimmy's autism, as I'd never been exposed to that before.

-Funny to see Jenny Lewis (now the lead singer of Rilo Kiley) so young. Sadly, I've had a crush on her since I was a little kid, and I still do.

-"I love the Power Glove.... It's so bad!"

-At one point, to get away from the evil P.I., Jenny Lewis's character (who's about 13) screams "he touched my breast!" in the middle of a casino, causing him to be immediately escorted out. There's a hilarious thread on IMDB about how this is a terrible example to set for children, that plenty of people are probably in jail unjustly now because of kids copying that line.

-So many ridiculous moments, but it's funny. How do 3 kids enter into a contest in which the prize is $50,000 without any guardian whatosever?

-Like many of these movies from my childhood (Goonies, Little Monsters), I'm stunned at the level of language and inappropriate situations for a PG movie. This thing never would've gotten a PG if it were made today.

-and, finally, the thing I remember most about this movie is how it was the first time anybody had seen Super Mario Brothers 3. Very exciting moment for Generation Y, ya know.