This film, at the start, was interesting enough. It's very funny, to say the least - the humor was in the same mold as Home Alone. It was filled with excitement, thrilling chases, and tense moments.
The film's premise about the kids robbing the bank to save Maddy's dad was, to say the least, disappointing. It had it's upsides, but the filmmakers seemed to forget the fact that this movie is all about something illegal and wrong, robbing a bank, and add to that the fact that Maddy lies to her friends to convince them to help her.
Throughout the entire film I was waiting for a redeeming quality; for them to get punished somehow, such as always happened in Shakespeare's plays. In his plays, such as Macbeth, Macbeth kills the king and ends up dying later on as a consequence for murder. There were several times in the film where it made you think they would get caught, but they got away with it and, at the end, just got a slap on the hand. Overall, the film was funny and exciting, but the moral themes just weren't right. It's movies like this that make you appreciate Shakespeare so much more.
The film's premise about the kids robbing the bank to save Maddy's dad was, to say the least, disappointing. It had it's upsides, but the filmmakers seemed to forget the fact that this movie is all about something illegal and wrong, robbing a bank, and add to that the fact that Maddy lies to her friends to convince them to help her.
Throughout the entire film I was waiting for a redeeming quality; for them to get punished somehow, such as always happened in Shakespeare's plays. In his plays, such as Macbeth, Macbeth kills the king and ends up dying later on as a consequence for murder. There were several times in the film where it made you think they would get caught, but they got away with it and, at the end, just got a slap on the hand. Overall, the film was funny and exciting, but the moral themes just weren't right. It's movies like this that make you appreciate Shakespeare so much more.