Junior is hardly a model child. Mean-spirited and impudent.
He is adopted by a loving man along with his obnoxious wife named Ben and Flo Healy. Ever since Junior comes into their lives, he turns ordinary days into full-scale nightmares.
He also leaves a path of serious destruction in his wake, and is even pen pals with The Bow Tie Killer, a notorious serial killer who kidnaps his faithful correspondent, along with Flo.
It's up to Ben as he undertakes a rescue mission to get Junior back from Beck before he plans on hurting him.
For a film that's directed by Dennis Dugan, made so soon after Home Alone, and under an hour and twenty minutes, its not too bad.
It's full of clichés and troupes, and there's no prizes for guessing how the finale will conclude, but it does its job like a McDonalds would, fills you full of garbage and hits the spot for a while, until self realisation kicks in.
Ritter carries the film, and really puts his all into the doting dad, sometimes too much. The same cannot be said for the child members of the cast. Oliver aside, the rest of the kids are awful, as if they have been picked up from the street and just told to say what they do.
Set pieces are okay, it's still amusing in a guilty way, and my daughter loved it, just like I did when I was thirteen.
He is adopted by a loving man along with his obnoxious wife named Ben and Flo Healy. Ever since Junior comes into their lives, he turns ordinary days into full-scale nightmares.
He also leaves a path of serious destruction in his wake, and is even pen pals with The Bow Tie Killer, a notorious serial killer who kidnaps his faithful correspondent, along with Flo.
It's up to Ben as he undertakes a rescue mission to get Junior back from Beck before he plans on hurting him.
For a film that's directed by Dennis Dugan, made so soon after Home Alone, and under an hour and twenty minutes, its not too bad.
It's full of clichés and troupes, and there's no prizes for guessing how the finale will conclude, but it does its job like a McDonalds would, fills you full of garbage and hits the spot for a while, until self realisation kicks in.
Ritter carries the film, and really puts his all into the doting dad, sometimes too much. The same cannot be said for the child members of the cast. Oliver aside, the rest of the kids are awful, as if they have been picked up from the street and just told to say what they do.
Set pieces are okay, it's still amusing in a guilty way, and my daughter loved it, just like I did when I was thirteen.