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Summary: Catch this one, if you can
Review: A very enjoyable remake. Even though there is a great cast in this film I was prepared to not like it------I was in error.
Tom Hanks was great, and DeCaprio was surprisingly good.
This is a movie based on a true story, and they made it very interesting, and a lot of fun.
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Summary: WHY I LIKE THIS DVD
Review: THIS DVD IS SO COOL! ME AND MY FRIEND WATCH IT ALL THE TIME.
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Summary: Don't Let This DVD Outrun You...Catch It Now!
Review: Everything about Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can" is a joy. From the terrificly-retro John Williams musical score, to the fine acting performances, to the vibrant colors that saturate every scene in the film, to the clever stick-figure title sequence, right on through to the enormously fine-tuned 1960s period detail that we see throughout the movie.The sets and the colors used in this film truly make you feel you're back in the mid-1960s. I only caught one very small error in this "period" flavoring of the movie, and that is a short clip shown of a Boeing 767 jetliner landing. The 767 didn't first fly until 1981. Everything else lands the viewer directly in the middle of the '60s. The story of one of the granddaddies of all check-forgers, Frank W. Abagnale, Jr., is told here by Mr. Spielberg at a very brisk and viewer-friendly pace; and, even though the picture clocks in at a fairly-lengthy 2 hours and 21 minutes, it never becomes tedious or wears out its welcome. It seems fresh at every turn. A marvelous film with brilliant attention to period detail, and a first-rate DVD to boot! The 2-Disc DVD features multiple featurettes on the making of the film, with an ample dose of information provided by Mr. Spielberg himself. I love the "look" and the feel of this film, and the way Director Spielberg uses his camera to tell the story...such as utilizing a high overhead shot looking down on a crowded street teeming with people, one of which is our subject, Mr. Abagnale, who stands out significantly by his merely donning his newly-acquired bright white Pan Am pilot's cap. ... There's another scene where Spielberg chooses to frame his actor (Tom Hanks) in the upper right corner of the screen, shooting him while we gaze over the shoulder of another actor in the foreground. ... And another grandiose Spielberg-like moment comes in the corridor of a fancy hotel, where nothing but the turning of a shoe tells the desire of a would-be femme fatale. And the video transfer to disc is eye-popping! The colors are very bold and lifelike. Just perfect. This DVD offers three different Main Menus, based on each of the three primary "fake occupations" that Mr. Abagnale engages in. "Catch Me If You Can", the movie and the DVD, is a class act all the way.
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Summary: Good Movie
Review: Although this movie is about 20 minutes longer than most, it keeps your attention. Not in an action-packed way like a typical summer blockbuster and not a real intellectual movie, it is a good combination of action, intelligence and the unexpected. To know that it is fact-based only adds to the drama. Hanks does a good job, as he almost always does. DiCaprio outdoes his normal acting and has moved himself up a level (although this is certainly not as popular a movie as his other ones that won him recognition). This is also a good movie for dates.
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Summary: Fun and Easy
Review: This is a harmless story about a young con artist who feels that money can save his parents marriage, and thus his youthful innocence. After seeing his Father schmooze the women he meets, and try to fnesse his way out of an IRS snafu, young Frank can only think that this is how to get what you want out of life. I found the characters likable, the dialogue good, though the plot moved slowly at times. If you have a few hours available, and you do not want to think deep thoughts, this is a good movie for you.
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Summary: A Metaphor for a Conman
Review: Catch Me If You Can (2002), dir. Steven Spielberg With: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks. Spielberg, aided by the talents of Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, made an entertaining two-hour plus movie that, despite a slightly moralistic twist, is, in his words, 'pure unadulterated fun.' Catch Me If You Can must not be seen as a serious movie, but it does make a few ironic points, if you are not too entertained to notice them. Its a cat-and-mouse structure, comedic tone, movie, with light moments, a few (too few, given the subject) serious ones, with suspense galore'and Spielberg is just as much of a master of suspense as the old master (Hitchcock), whom Spielberg often imitates. Comedy, satire, the American ethos: an unhappy youngster, a mom who flirts, a semi-drunk dad, and a young man who goes astray; he is smart, ingenious and discovers early that the easiest way to make money is to dupe people. So he pretends to be a school teacher, a pilot in PANAM, a phony doctor, and even a lawyer. He forges checks with uncanny ability, showing how easy it is to cash a phony check if you are charming and convincing. In tight situations, he uses ready wit'reminding us of his prototype, Huck Finn (who extricated himself from tight situations by lying readily). Of course, he has his way with women, for Abagnale (a real person) is somewhat of a Don Juan, though not for amorous reasons. This man wants to deceive for the sake for deceiving. He makes money, but rarely uses it. He is out there for the thrills, and also because he is essentially a loner, though the movie never gives him sufficient pause to introspect. He always hurries, between tight situations Thus the quick pacing, which keeps us entertained, if nothing else. This actually is the point of the entire movie. We do not have much time to think. The young conman is constantly in peril, and manages to slip away just by the breadth of a hair. Tom Hanks is somewhat heavy-handed at first, slow to catch up with the youngster's quicker wit. But sooner than later he gets the point'and closes in. He tells him (the two are on the phone several times), it's like Las Vegas: you win a few, but in the end it's the house that wins. And Hanks, in fact, is good in this, almost a supporting role. He is a surrogate father, and, if the movie makes a moral point, he does fulfill that role. Though based on real life, and real life-events, this movie barely escapes being a shallow escapade. If it has a moral, it is a surface one: those out there be aware of imposters. It's incredibly easy to cash false checks; charming young people are not what they appear. If you are a woman, be extra careful next time you see someone resembling Leo DiCaprio, or anyone like him. If you are an FBI agent, don't be so clumsy with your first attempts to catch a crook. If you are an ordinary American, look around you for phonies'they can be anywhere, including inside your family. This is the stuff Hollywood makes, and, if anything, Spielberg is first and foremost a Hollywood man'and a good salesman of his products to boot (DreamWorks). Never mind pretensions of art in his movies. This is not the guy/director who will make an art movie, even if his wildest dreams came true. That task is for the likes of John Sayles (have you seen Sunshine State?) or Martin Scorsese, who will venture into the wilderness of art movie making with Travis Bickle or Jesus (or Nicholas Cage)'all this to satisfy his mania for discovering true people in true places. Spielberg plays the big game: he wants a guaranteed success in his screens versions of truth. To be fair, the movie does take some pains to explore the depths of naiveté people will fall into, or the lengths to which they go to be deceived. It's like a national affliction: we Americans like to be conned, whether it's the money that's taken from us by corporate wizards (witness ENRON), by taxes (never mind Bush's tax cuts), funeral parlors, drug industries (legal or illegal), or charming youths. Do you want to be an air pilot? Just wear the uniform and come to the job with an assured smile. Do you want to get your PH.D. in 24 hours? Just look at your unsolicited e-mail. That's how easy and painless it is. From that standpoint the movie wins. It warns the wise and cautions the naïve. It gives a lesson to the dispirited and the despairing, teaching that anything is possible'including forging non-existing checks. Win a million the easy way. It teaches the bad ways of the American way. If you are a thief once, don't give up. The FBI will shelter you and offer you a job (and get you out of jail) if you can help catch more thieves. You are in the right country, where winning is the name of the game. In a deliciously twisted ironic comment, Tom Hanks warns the young escapee that if he wants to 'blow' his secure job for a cheap thrill of escaping once again, he has fifty years/time waiting for him; a warning to the wise (and unwise), for Caprio/Abagnale for once goes where common sense beckons: to a bright future, catching more thieves, and, more importantly, inventing security devices for banks. That has netted him millions. A true story for the millions.
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Summary: DiCaprio is a cool guy it seems
Review: I am a pretty good friend of a guy that looks like Leonardo a little bit, and let me tell you what, chicks dig him. That being said, all the girls that like him in this movie is pretty believable. I mean especially when he is pretending to have cool jobs. Girls love that as well. My friend isn't even done with med school and he has girls all over him, and they are hot. So my point here is, is that girls love guys who are good looking and have cool jobs, and that is what Dicaprio is in this movie. I am a big fan of it, It suprised me how entertaining it was. It was kind of a "Nonstop romp of fun and mischeif, coupled with some heartfelt moments."
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Summary: Don't bother catching this one. If you have release it again
Review: If this movie is really based on a true story it just goes to show criminals that crime does pay. Instead of serving out his term in prison he is released into the custody of the FBI only to escape again. The FBI ends up paying this criminal for his services and he ends up making more that what he did whilst he was breaking the law. Go figure! I also find it hard to believe that the entire time that this character pretended to be a pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer that he was not asked to assist in the landing of a plane, assist in a surgery or thrown in comptempt of court at least once. He studied for two weeks and passed a bar exam. Yeh right! Release this one back into the return bin of your video rental store or into the hands of the person at the returns desk where you bought this movie.
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Summary: Being a liar can be so much fun!
Review: It seems like everything being put on the big screen these days are either "inspired by the extraordinary true story" or "based on the amazing true story" of somebody or some event. Some of these films are good and some of them are pretty dreadful. Catch Me If You Can falls into a category all its own. This movie was such a delight to watch it easily sets the standard for movies that are inspired by true stories. The cat and mouse chase that Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio go through throughout this movie is so engrossing that you almost never want it to end. To think that this young man, Frank Abagnale, Jr. played by DiCaprio, actually successfully passed himself off as a pilot, doctor and lawyer all before he turned 21 is so amazing and well worthy of being made into a movie you find yourself in awe of him and his quick witted charm. Steven Spielberg does a great job of putting this story onto the screen and making it so unbelievably entertaining and easy to watch that it almost seems effortless for him. Not to be forgotten is the touching performance turned in by Christopher Walken, who plays the father of Frank and who earned an Academy Award Nomination for his job well done. If I had to describe this movie with one word it would be fun. You have so much fun watching this movie that it really does feel like your watching a true story and not some hollywood created generic filth. With all the junk movies that are getting thrown in the faces of viewers as of late it is great to know that every once in a while you have a movie like Catch me if you can to look forward to. The special features on the DVD are something that you have to see if your a fan of this movie or even if your just curious as to how films are made. The behind the camera segment is very interesting and sheds some light onto the details on the making of this movie and what kind of director Steven Spielberg actually is. If you like good wholesome entertainment than this movie is for you.
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Summary: One of the Best movies I have seen all year!
Review: Catch Me If You Can is a great film! One of the most entertaining films of this year! Frank William Abagnale Jr. was one of the best con artest. (until he got cought) Worth the twenty bucks to buy the movie. Don't just watch it, own It!
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