Pleasant Valley Drive-In

If you’re looking for high quality visual and audio, this is not the place for you. Head over to an IMAX. I feel like they do what they can with what they’ve got. A lot of the equipment is aged, but, I don’t know, it’s just part of the experience I guess. You come here to spend $ 15 on a car full of your family, to eat snacks, enjoy a summer evening & catch a movie — or two if you can stay up that late.
We’ve always had a good time coming up here at least once or twice a Summer, the kids love that they can run around & us adults get to catch up with one another. It’s just a simple, good time.
The drive up is beautiful, and the staff has always been nice enough.

old school drive-​in. saw Planes with my 2yo son and wife… it was a great night despite him not wanting to sit still.

Tiny screen with terrible video quality. The movie we went to see had a number of subtitles and we couldn’t read them which made the movie confusing to understand. In addition they kept changing the brightness of the screen, which was just extremely distracting. Figure out how to use your screen! TERRIBLE customer service — staff was EXTREMELY rude! When the movie ended, staff were yelling at you to get out because they wanted to go home and apparently we were wasting their time. The movie had just ended and we were only packing up our stuff, but I guess we were taking too long. The. The have the audacity to pass out «save our drive-​in paraphernalia»… Doesn’t seem to me like its worth saving. If you want a nice night outdoors watching a movie, definitely go to the drive-​in in Mansfield instead!

This is a great way to watch a movie during the summer. This place is simple, cheap and has some old charm to it. You can bring some lawn chairs with you to set next to your car and can bring your own beer/​wine. For the price, you can’t beat the double feature. Definitely worth checking out.

I can forgive most issues others mentioned if the projection is adequate. Unfortunately, our experience watching Despicable Me 2 was less than ideal. Alternating brightness. Blurriness. And *every* reel change was screwed up.
Don’t get me wrong… the whole family got in for $ 16 so it was very economical. But I’m not sure I would go there again.

PROS:
An open drive in is better than no drive in at all, and let’s face it, there ain’t much going on in Barkhamsted, CT or in the whole area for that matter.
CONS:
1) Screen is tiny, so unless you are right up front, you are better off watching the movie on your cell phone.
2) Sound is horrible. There was a hissing/​crackling noise the whole time and turning up the volume only amplified the interference.
3) Food was gross. They probably haven’t ever changed the oil in the deep fryer. The onion rings tasted like motor oil and the mozzarella sticks tasted like the onion rings.
4) Service. I didn’t mean to interrupt the 4 teenagers talking to each other and checking their cell phones when I was standing there waiting to order. My apologies to them.

We went to Spiderman and Ted on 7÷14÷2012. We had a great time and for the price, it was a great deal. Down the road in Simsbury I figure seeing both movies would have been $ 21 per person, for 2 adults the drive in was $ 16 total (we saved $ 26 between the 2 of us). Also, having grown up going to the drive in I realized going in that the darker parts of movies are harder to see but don’t feel like it affected the movie at all– we still understood what was going on and had a great time. As far as the audio goes– we sat outside the car with the radio on in the car and had NO problem hearing. Also, we drove out of the theatre with the music playing most of the way to rt 44 so I can’t imagine there would be a problem in other parts of the lot but maybe.
Overall, we had a great time and will ABSOLUTELY be going back (with our dogs which we found out you can bring dogs as long as they’re on leashes!!).

What a joke. $ 21 for 2 movies that we couldn’t even see. The screen was so small & so shitty it was like watching a movie on one of those 1980’s view finders. If you remember the screen from the Hartford drive-​in, think about 8x smaller. The audio cut in and out. The whole operation is run by a crack squad of 16 year olds who don’t care and they’re just riding it out till the place crashes & burns. Haven’t been to the one in Mansfield yet, but there is no way it can be this bad…