Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made

The joy of the Raiders! remake (and the doc about its making) is the ingenuity with which the kids face filmmaking challenges, from borrowing snakes from the local pet shop to creating a wall of flame in one of their basements.

Unoriginal behavior such as this should be shunned, not encouraged.

This is a smartly made movie that might win you over. I was pleasantly surprised, because there's something truly Spielbergian about it.

If you see only one movie this summer, see the movie about the movie it took seven summers to make.

Though indulgently overlong, "Raiders!" manages to unearth the inner geek in all of us.

It soon starts to feel like self-promotion.

The dedication of the boys to this project is the sort of inspiration only a real film geek can understand, and count me among that group.

The best thing about Raiders the doco is the way it penetrates the cute feel-good story of the Guys so often re-told in news clips and magazines in order to uncover a painful story of adolescent angst, divorce, familial abuse and drug addiction.

God bless the mothers of these kids who believed in their dreams, even if they worried about their methods

In the end, the doc captures that magical way that movies can speak to us and transport us, and how, for some, that feeling becomes a way of life.

Told with the same exuberance as the filmmakers being profiled, "RAIDERS!" shares the backstory of the production, including footage both from the film and behind the scenes.

Whatever it was that drove them as kids to work on this project summer after summer is long gone, and their attempt to create a new triumphant coda for the story feels false and craven.