Catch That Kid

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Summary: dreadful for all ages
Review: *1/2 "Catch That Kid" is "Ocean's Eleven" for the pre-pubescent set. It is also the second film this year to feature a group of youngsters masterminding a complex heist. In the first, "The Perfect Score," the prized goal was the answer sheet to the SAT test. In "Catch That Kid," the target is $250,000 ensconced in the spanking new vault of a bank where a young girl's mother works as head of security. The girl, Maddy, has come up with the plan as a means of raising funds for her crippled father who needs an expensive operation in Denmark if he hopes ever to walk again. Laudable as that goal may be, the premise is still an odd and dubious one for a film aimed at pre- and early-teen audiences. What a comfort it is to learn that kids can make just as effective bank robbers as adults.

Actually, "Catch That Kid" might have been more offensive were it not so poorly and ineptly made. As it is, it's so utterly innocuous that it barely registers a blip on our consciousness while we're watching it. The movie provides virtually no imagination, no humor and no excitement even for its target audience who will find it rather slow-paced and chintzy compared with the kinds of high tech, high-powered action films they are more accustomed to watching. Anyone old enough to watch this film is old enough to watch a real heist film like "Rafifi" or "Topkapi."


Rating:
Summary: Catch that crap
Review: A bad family movie. It's like Adventures in Babysitting meets The Italian Job. The movie is unrealiable, with bad acting, and a bad message.

Rating:
Summary: Entertaining, But Nothing More!
Review: After a lackluster beginning of 2004, "Catch That Kid" is an ok movie for the time period. It's not a great movie like "The Big Bounce," or "The Last Samurai," but it is entertaining for an afternoon out. I have mixed feelings towards it, but in a way, I liked it. It stars Kristen Stewart who I could only recall from "Panic Room," and the two movies are complety different from one another. This movie was close to the "Spy Kids" seris, which I liked the first two, and then lost it by the third one. Here's hoping this movie does not have a sequal that's worse, because then the entire charm of the seris could be gone.

This movie is about Maddy, who with her parents Molly, Tom, and her baby Max, are a normal family. Maddy wants to be a climber like her father was, and often clims a tower in her area, which her mother doesn't like her doing due to the danger, and the fact that Tom injured himself on a mountain climb years before. Her family also owns a go-cart track, where she likes to hang out with her two friends Gus and Austin, who are both smitten with her. All of a sudden, though, her father falls to the ground, and cannot movie anymore due to his accident. The only way that he could go back to normal is for his family to raise 250,000 dollars for the operation. Molly has problems getting a loan from her boss Mr. Brisbane, Maddy decides to figure out how to get the money. Her mother works in a bank, and she created sa safe suspended one hundred feet into the air. She convinces Gus and Austin to help her steal the money, with each of them using their own talents. With the unwitting help of the bank's manager Mr. Hartmann, the three get the plan to sneak into the bank, and pass the many motion cameras, and the two head sercurity officers, Ferrell, and Gus' older brother who is interning at the bank.

The best thing about "Catch That Kid" is that it is smart. It has methods of adventure that I wouldn't have expected. The best thing to do is to see it without hoping for a masterpiece. Don't hope for so much, and you'll walk out of the theatre satisfied. I knew that it couldn't be great, but I walked out without feeling that I wasted my money. It was an ok movie, but I recommend the first two "Spy Kids" movies instead of this. If you don't think that it will be great, this one could wait for the DVD. If you want to see it, watch it in the theatre. You won't feel you lost anything.

ENJOY!

Rated PG for some language, thematic elements and rude humor.

Rating:
Summary: What The Hell is this
Review: Dumb movie, boring movie,dont want to watch it, peaple dont get this movie it sux..

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Summary: Max is Hot!!!
Review: I love this movie!!! Max Thieriot (Gus) is SOOOO cute and hot!!!I saw it at least 5 times!!!

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Summary: great
Review: i saw it in the theatre. it was great. i came in at the beginning on the part where her mom called her though. it was kind of weird, because if a child her age can do all that, and not get in trouble for it, i have to ask..." what will she do next?"

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Summary: Sort of a Disney does "The Italian Job" movie, not too bad
Review: I've read some very vicious reviews of this movie, mostly centered on 12 yr. olds robbing a bank and how terrible that was. I watched it recently and found it to be a pretty good movie, 12 year old audience oriented to be sure.
The action wouldn't look too bad for a bunch of 32 year old actors out to steal for profit ( no doubt the critics would approve of this film if Mark Wahlberg and Charlieze Theron did it instead of children)but in this case we have three kids out to get the money just so that Maddy's father can have lifesaving surgery that insurance won't cover and her mother's bank won't help out on.There's no intent or effort to take a penny for profit (at one point the bank officials can't understand why someone would only take 250K out of a vault holding 25 million).
I found the bank vault design to be a little unlikely and some of the security measures too but you can do much worse than this for a bank heist movie. I actually found the fart jokes (not much of that) and Maddy lying to her friends to get them in on the job to be much more offensive than the robbery itself.

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Summary: Catch a cold instead
Review: If you think your children should be taught to rob from banks and lead the police on dangerous chases involving go-karts to pay your medical bills, then buy this DVD pronto. This uninvolvling thriller sparked only casual interest in my 9-year-old and repulsed me as her father. The plot hinges on adults acting very, very stupid, which I guess can occur, but come on. Give me "Spy Kids" any time.

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Summary: It SUCKED!!!!!
Review: It kills me to see that people are rating childrens and young teenage movies as adults I mean give the kids a break I dont think their trying to win an award for it, I think they just want to make a good kids movie to make them laugh and have fun. This movie was very funny and had a story line that viewers have seen a lot of but with a big twist like 12 year old kids robbing a bank and doing a great job doing it. The talent in this movie suprised me especially by actors Corbin Bleu/Austin and Max Thieriot/Gus but not to much by kristen stewart, after seeing her in panic room with jodie foster it was no secret she was good and has potential to be a big star sooner or later. These kids execute in every part of this movie. I hate giving away pieces of the movie but the only thing that should be said is this is a great movie for kids, teens, and any adult with a sense of humor dont let the low grades slapped on this movie stop you from watching it because you'll miss something good. I have seen the cody banks movies and the spy kids and so on those were ok but this movie is a lot better and they should make a second part.

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Summary: Children will enjoy it, adults will groan.
Review: Maddy loves to climb--even though she has been told not to. Gus works on go-carts, and Austin wants to direct movies.
Maddy's father fell while climbing Mount Everest. He has a scar on his back; and one night, he collapses while dancing with his wife. There is an experimental surgery that costs $250,000. And this is why we have Maddy and her friends robbing a bank with a high-tech security system.
I was also distracted by the name of Maddy's parents. Molly and Tom Phillips--from the Disney channel series 'So Weird'. And if things could not get any worse, Maddy has a brother named Max--too many 'M' names.
The acting is weak, the chase scene is passable, and there just is no emotion in this film. Children will be fascinated, but an adult might want to catch a short nap, instead. Rent 'Spy Kids' instead.