I took my eleven year old daughter to see this movie after Christmas. We had seen the very short trailer on TV commercials, and she thought it looked funny, so we gave it a shot. I've never been so bored by a film in my life. The story was so loosely strung together, it was almost like they made it up along the way. The big selling point of this one was that it starred that Hispanic guy from "That Seventies Show" but he had such a small insignificant roll, I wonder why he even bothered. The African-American boy was hilarious in his roll, but it wasn't because they gave him funny lines to deliver, but purely his facial expressions while delivering them. I hope this kid gets many more rolls, he's great. I just hope that future casting directors will have the patience to watch this film to see how incredibly talented he is. I asked my daughter at the end of the film what she thought, and she said, "It was really dumb, Mom. We should have seen Charlotte's Web, instead." I suppose we would have rented this one after it came out on video - we usually rent most family movies to check out good ones to buy and have in our library - now at least I won't have to waste another dime to do that. By the way - the "mentally challenged" group of young men sitting in front of us in the theater seemed to enjoy this film. Perhaps that should be a clue.
Review of Unaccompanied Minors
