Thirty years after its release, The Goonies is still the greatest family movie of all time

The Goonies is three decades old. You hear that? How many of you feel like cashing in your pensions now?

For a generation, The Goonies evokes a wave of nostalgia – of what it was like to be a kid, to have adventures, and to believe that you really could save the day.

It also has jokes about vomit, and a statue that loses its penis.

But why is The Goonies so enduringly popular? Well, for a start, it has pirates, and pirates have never gone out of style.

Presumably Americans were baffled as to why we found the name ‘One-Eyed Willy’ amusing (much as The Last Airbender would run aground some twenty-five years later, for similar reasons).