Catch That Kid

Sure, it’s OK to knock over a bank, thwart the police and risk your life, but only if your father needs the stolen loot for a miraculous operation that will hinder his paralysis. At least that’s the twisted morals that director Bart Freundlich suggests when he made this completely offensive and implausible remake of the 2002 Danish flick, Catch That Girl. After Daddy Dearest (Sam Robards) injures his spine in a mountain-climbing accident, his loving daughter (Kristen Stewart) devises a brilliant plan with her mechanically savvy friends to rob a highly secured bank in order to fund Daddy’s surgery. Fortunately, Mommy Dearest (Jennifer Beals) is the security chief of the targeted bank who provides much-needed insight into the bank’s Fort Knox security system. How else would this weak After-School Special and Spy Kids wannabe be able to stretch into 100 minutes of disgusting fart jokes, high-tech high-jinks and boring go-cart escapades?