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4.0 out of 5 stars
Totally Awesome, August 6, 2005
A Kid's Review
I loved the movie. If you haven`t seen it yet, go see it!
This movie is another example of how kids` smarts can out-wit adults anytime. I`m considering being an actress myself, so I admire these guys for doing their jobs. Plus, I think Max Theiroit and Corbin Bleu are sooo hot!
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining, But Nothing More!, February 7, 2004
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.
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