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Catch That Kid [VHS]

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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!

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.

they miss advertised this as being Catch That Kid when it was the UK version Mission without Permission. can't play
on DVD player.. now my kid is unhappy :(

This was an excellent movie. It rises your suspense level! It is definatly a movie to see!

Near the end of this movie, I figured out what went wrong. This movie was originally written by an adult as a "Oh, woe is me!" Sunday movie of the week. The writer then left the script in the custody of his 11 year old daughter, who has seen "Mission Impossible" and "The Italian Job" way too many times. She wrote her own script, which she gave to the courier who came to retrieve it. No one caught the mistake until the last day of the shoot.
The skinny: A 12 year old climbing prodigy takes after her mountain climber father, who runs a go kart track. By coincidence, her mother (Jennifer Beals) is installing a state of the art security system in an old, prestigious, independent bank. A coincidence, because an old back injury paralyzes the father, who suddenly needs 250,000.00 for a risky experimental surgery. With the help of two 12 year old boys, and a bank vice president, who swoons in the presence in the girl, the girl figures out how to bypass security to steal the needed money. In the world of these 12 year olds, Police don't notice three kids driving go karts from the suburbs into downtown, the two security guards who work the day and night shift are clones of Needermyer from Animal House, and adults are so disconnected from reality that they seem to be unaware that three 12 year olds are going to penetrate a state of the art security system with only five days of planning. If you are fond of middle school plays, this movie is for you.

This was the best movie that i have seen in a long time!!! I LOVED IT!!! if you havent seen it you need to go see it because it is really the best movie EVER and when it first started i thought it was way stupid but i ended up getting way into it!!!!

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

This is ridiculis(don't know if I spelt that right). This is(knowing the facts) a publicity stunt. This has the same plot as Spy Kids. I still can't believe in the new year we can't think up a new idea. People use your brain! Not all ideas are taken! Use your imagination and more people will buy tickets! So basicly it's Spy Kids with not all kids being related an there are three of them. Not a big difference.