Catch That Kid (2004)
Average Rating: 3.7/10
Reviews Counted: 85
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 76
An unimaginative heist movie aimed strictly at the preteen set.
Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 25
An unimaginative heist movie aimed strictly at the preteen set.
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Bart Freundlich directs Catch That Kid, a Fox-financed U.S. remake of the Danish family action film Klatretøsen (2002). Adventurous 12-year-old Maddy Phillips (Kristen Stewart) is an excellent mountain climber. Unfortunately, her father, Tom (Sam Robards), was severely injured on Mount Everest and requires a costly surgery to repair his spine. With the help of her friends (Max Thieriot and Corbin Bleu) and her climbing skills, Maddy develops a plan to rob a bank in order to finance her father's
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Kristen Stewart
Maddy -
Corbin Bleu
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Jennifer Beals
Molly -
Sam Robards
Tom -
John Carroll Lynch
Mr. Hartman -
James LeGros
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Michael Des Barres
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Lennie Loftin
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All Critics (94) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (77) | DVD (13)
This thing is so silly and so ridiculous.
Top CriticFreundlich ... directs his first big studio film on autopilot, trudging through the motions and displaying little understanding of what appeals to young 'uns.
Offers little in the way of originality, real excitement or even genuinely transgressive behavior.
The movie isn't only boring; it's troubling.
A tedious exercise that 6- to 10-year-olds may find mildly diverting.
The young actors are irredeemably bland, and two of the adults are hammy enough to make James Brown seem controlled.
Painfully bad. A real head-scratcher.
Neither the planning of the heist, nor its execution is done with the skill needed for it to be compelling.
Here's a sweet, little family film for you, all about children robbing banks.
Catch That Kid, though not produced by Disney, has all the feel of a Disney Channel TV special.
If screenwriters Michael Brandt and Derek Haas atempted to write a servicable script, it isn't obvious.
Your 8-year-old sister will love it... but then again, it was only a few years ago that she was eating poop - clearly her judgment can't be trusted.
Catch That Kid? Let's not.
The script by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas strains credulity -to say the least! -- but if nothing else, it manages to work in all the obligatory heist movie cliches.
...[an] implausible hyperactive giddy go-cart caper...this junior-sized Mission: Impossible wannabe is nothing but an overwrought knockoff that doesn't measure up
It's neither as funny as it needs to be nor serious enough to elicit more than a few crinkled brows from kids and their parents alike.
Hmm. A mixed bag of messages for kids.
Apart from a few serious leaps in logic, the story moves along swiftly and painlessly, and is not needlessly cute or stupid. But that's not much of a recommendation.
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Director: Bart Freundlich
Summary: Three specialists in their fields -- a rock climber, a computer genius and a mechanical wiz -- take on the nearly impossible task of robbing one of the world's most impenetrable banks in order to save an ailing father. Their plan is foolproof, their methods are ingenious ... and they're not even old enough to drive!
My Thoughts: "The movie is more of a kids film, obviously considering it is a kids film. But it's OK for us adults too. It is sweet to see a daughter go through such extremes for her father. But it's not very realistic. But not much is in kid films. The then kids, Kristen Stewart, Corbin Bleu, and Max Thieriot did a great job in the movie. But I think the kids will enjoy this much more then us adults."