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‘Riddle of Fire’ Review: Weston Razooli’s Wilderness-Set Debut Feels Like Child’s Play, in a Good Way
A trio of kids on dirt bikes stir up a low-stakes adventure in 'Riddle of Fire,' Weston Razooli's amusing homage to vintage Disney adventure movies.
Still, it’s amusing to think that two decades into the 21st century, writer-director Weston Razooli has taken inspiration from such questionable classics, along with vintage live-action Disney fare — like “Escape from Witch Mountain” and the Herbie movies, which the studio sold in puffy white VHS cases — for his own retro-spirited debut. Straight out of the gate, three dirt-bike-riding kids in hand-knitted ski masks break into a warehouse and steal a coveted video game console, but their mother (Danielle Hoetmer), laid up in bed for the duration of the movie, refuses to unlock the television set unless they spend some quality time outdoors. Mom asks her sons Hazel (Charlie Stover) and Jodie (Skyler Peters), along with tomboy friend Alice (Phoebe Ferro), to fetch her a blueberry pie from the bakery in town — a simple request which the youngsters choose to interpret like an epic quest.
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