This is pretty much the greatest work of art ever committed to cinema. Think otherwise, and I will fight you. I sh** you not, I will throw down RIGHT now....Okay, okay, I'm sorry. That wasn't called for. I mean, I haven't been emotionally moved by a movie about time travel like this since I last saw The Notebook on mushrooms (that was about time travel, right?). Or maybe I'm just confusing The Notebook with the film version of A Separate Peace (which was fantastic, by the way. Particularly the scene with the tree limb being "jounced").Anyways, more to the point, Taylor Root is pretty much the BEST actor ever. His sheer ability to identify with the complexity of the human condition transcends him beyond the other acting greats of our era such as Oedipus, Steven Seagal, Hillary Duff, Eminem and Keanu Reeves.And, don't tell anyone this, but..... I know Taylor Root. Like, he and I went to high school together. There was this one time, in 10th grade, where this colostomy bag named Brian Condon (we call him Sh**face, and rightfully so) was like, "Taylor, now listen, I don't appreciate you coming over to my boathouse and mocking my small dog that sort of looks like an enormous rat, but still is RIDICULOUSLY cute." Then, out of nowhere, Taylor just busts out an ATV that was actually used in the making of Durango Kids and just smacks Brian in the a** RIDICULOUSLY hard. Brian was in a ridiculous amount of pain. He looked like this, but only worse and with an ATV hitting him in the a**: http://community.webshots.com/photo/308932448/362577779MxLDhj Moral of the story being, John Brian Condon is a little bitch and should really not talk so much sh**, particularly in regards to the Durango Kid.

Keeganv is the only one with his head on straight here. In addition to the great things keeganv mentioned, not only were the casting choices inspired and superb, but the crying scenes with Spencer Gray were emotionally powerful. I'm talking stuff that rivals the final scene in "The Green Mile". I would watch this over that "Hotel Rwanda"-fluff any day.If it weren't for movies like this, I don't know what I would do with myself. I think I might have to cry myself to sleep if I didn't have "Durango Kids" to do it for me.Just go see the movie. You'll be moved to tears...

To put it bluntly, this movie was terrible. There are a vast number of "excuses" that people use to say that it wasn't so bad. It is a kids' movie. It stars young actors. It was filmed on a low budget. Even considering these circumstances, it was a dreadful movie. I've seen movies with a much lower budget and much younger actors, intended for a much younger audience, end up much more entertaining than this.This movie was made with very little passion. It seems that the director knew from the beginning that he was going to make an amateur, generic, cliché film, and didn't try to do anything beyond that. And judging by the surnames of a few of the actors, I get the feeling that he cast his family members in roles; it wouldn't surprise me if he had given them out as birthday presents. In this film so many tired, over-used elements were re-used shamelessly. There are one too many slime/manure/teasing jokes, and the entire plot centers around a bunch of pre-teens with the help of their (surprisingly old-looking) 8th grade big brother, stopping their "evil principal" from changing history. So these kids go back in time to prevent a crime from being committed. This movie had so many chances to be good, but didn't take any of them. It's a great example of extremely lazy directing. (Take the "train scene," for example, each of the extras does exactly the same thing, faces the same direction, and does nothing.) Seriously, a movie has to TRY to be this bad. I actually got it for free on DVD when I bought a pizza. And the DVD didn't even contain subtitles. I feel like the director probably said to his assistant director, "Nah, you can fake that, no one will notice," WAY too many times in this film.Predictable, immature, simple, badly acted, badly written. (And I won't even start about this movie's sad, sad attempt at special effects.) The only positive is that maybe very young children will enjoy it, if they don't get lost in the vague plot. ....Maybe.

I enjoyed this film because it reminded me of the stories I used to love when I was a kid. There was plenty of action, a couple of fist fights, the kids got captured by the crooks and then turned the tables on the villains who got their just deserts. Reminds me of the old "ripping Yarns" stories. The acting by the kids was natural and seamless - showed a quality of training. Well done! I'd like to see more stories like this for youngsters. Many childrens films pull the punches to be politically correct and lose something of the magic of story telling. This one didn't make that mistake. I'm surprised i haven't heard of it before this video release. I haven't got any real negative comments to make - for what it was, the film was well done.