This movie takes me back to my childhood reading the Mandie books. It was a good depiction of the books and is a good western film.

Dramatic plot twists, secret love interests, buried treasure! It's all in this charming sequel to "Mandi and the Secret Tunnel." The beloved cast returns once again but this time, to stop Jim Shaw from traveling into a poisoned gold mine.

The two bumbling crooks (whose names escape me) return as well, teamed up with a bandit with a scraggly beard - who isn't all he appears to be - as they try to steal the gold from the mine. The gold is hidden, and the map is written in riddles. It's a race as Mandi, Polly, Joe, as well as Elizabeth - Mandi's mother - try to reach the mine before the crooks.

With light-hearted humor, family fun, and lavish costumes and sets, this movie gets a 9 out of 10. The plot is consistent with the first film and holds all sorts of new surprises.

Definitely worth renting.

I made the big mistake of watching this film before I saw the first Mandie film. I was most confused on initial viewing of Mandie And The Cherokee Treasure. The producers assumed everyone saw the first when they made this one.

Saying that this was another charming juvenile adventure film set in 1899 Tennessee with Lexi Johnson as our teen heroine. She's now reunited with the mother she thought dead L.A. Winters and living with her uncle Terrall Andrew on that nice plantation.

There's a treasure hidden in a cave which has nasty sulphur fumes, hidden there by the Cherokee in their diaspora. The uncle wants to get it and return it to the tribe and he forbids Mandie and her posse to come along. That's not deterring the kids at all, nor are other and villainous treasure seekers.

Nice 1899 atmosphere recreated by the film once again. Johnson and her crew bear a faint resemblance to Disney's Lizzie McGuire and her friends.

Still a blue eyed blond Cherokee does not compute.