2004
Rated: PG for violence.
Genre: Kids/Family Action Adventure Comedy
Directed By: Bart Freundlich
Running Time: 1:42
Review by: Felix Vasquez Jr.
Review Date: 12/12/04
DVD Features:
Side One:
Full-Screen - 1.33
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - 1. Kristen Stewart - Star, Corbin Bleu - Star, Max Thieriot - Star
Short Films - 1. Academy Award Nominated "Scrat's Missing Adventure"
Trailers - 1. Inside Look at Upcoming Fox Releases

Side Two:
Widescreen - 1.85
Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Kristen Stewart - Star, Corbin Bleu - Star, Max Thieriot - Star
Deleted Scenes (8)

CATCH THAT KID

 

An older, good looking girl persuades two other pre-pubescent boys to engage in a heist with her. Do you not see the loophole where it goes all creepy? A good looking girl persuades two boys to engage in a heist. Is there nothing wrong with that? At that age I was such a horn dog I would have jumped off a building if a hot girl asked me to, so it's automatically a skewed concept from the beginning with an unintentional femme fatale as the lead star, it sends a bad message to young girls.

In a creepy sequence, the three lay together in bed in the dark going over their plan, a scene that made me question their parents incompetence, because what parent would let their teenage boys lay around their girl in bed in the dark? And the plot which is completely cliché never becomes believable. This has all the makings of a really bad kid film: Girl/kid power story and concept, obligatory slithery British villain, comic relief over-militant security guard villains, hard rock score with third rate rock bands, and far-fetched plot kids are supposed to believe, because they're kids!

They're dumb, and they watch reality shows, so they're stupid, they listen to Britney Spears and worship Paris Hilton so we can talk down to them. Well, I agree, but kids are not as dumb as the lame brained Hollywood executives would think. We're smarter than this numbskull-esque plot. We're supposed to believe, a young girl watches an infomercial about a high security bank and suddenly can break into it without any formal training and two boys willing to do anything to please her. Come on! Does Hollywood think kids are dumb enough to believe this?!

Oh, but sure, we can believe it because they're determined and the kids complain that adults treat them like---kids, so it empowers them. And they become smarter than the average kid! They can take surveillance pictures in a high security bank without being caught, they can rebuild machines in a matter of days, they can get bank plans on simple lies without identification or major interrogation, and they can do it all folks! I say if kids can get past a "high security" system, your ass should be fired and locked up. And the adults, as always, are stupid; the security guards for the bank are idiots, the bank tellers are morons, and the people who built the system give everything away with ease not knowing children have loose lips that can sink ships. Ugh.

This unintentionally creepy movie is one ridiculous piece of kiddy fluff that will surely infuriate parents and leave them with gaping wide mouths at the bad example it sends and bad messages it gives. If someone in life is suffering, steal money and it will help! Ah, doesn't that make you all warm inside?