Ping!

I never even heard of Ping until my 4 year old child was watching it on television, and now we have went and bought the movie and my little girl watches it all the time. we have already watched it twice today. She absolutely loves this movie and even I have actually started to like this movie and i figured i better since it looks like we are going to be watching it a lot here in the next few months. It is actually a cute movie for children. It is like a mini Home Alone show for kids. I would have to at least rate the movie at least a 5 maybe even a 6 depending on how sleepy i am. my 4 year old loves this movie and i am probably going to have to buy another because she is probably going to watch it so much it is going to get old.

People on here are rating this movie to harshly, it's cute and it's funny, I was able to sit through and enjoy it. To me that's all that matters! I love this movie.

The stars (?) - Jones, Reinhold, and Howard must have been in dire need of new swimming pool liners to allow themselves to appear in this per- fectly dreadful and shameful rip-off of the Home Alone series. Even the voice-overs for the animals are off-character. The gag stunts, which are the raison d'etre of this genre, are pathetically uninventive and, for the most part, unfunny. Entertainment folk must eat like everyone else, but surely the people associated with this debacle could find some other means by which to fill their bellies than to empty those of unsuspecting viewers.

In addition to a adding a dog and making 'Kevin' a girl, the other difference from Home Alone is that the characters cannot act. The characters over 'act' their parts, in hopes of coming across as 'funny,' with a shoddily written script. The idiot robbers are played by the poor man's Joe Pesci (Clint Howard) and Daniel Stern (Judge Reinhold). Though the little girl and her babysitter are refreshingly cute, the wanna-be Hallmark -style 'comedy' could not be saved by the infantile antics by the dog, who can some how set up Home Alone style traps. The house that the movie films in is also eerily familiar to the house in Home Alone. Add the idiot who played the babysitter's goth boyfriend and the idiot IRS agents, you can have yourself a complete waste of nearly two hours of your life!

Fun comedy in the spirit of Home Alone! Great scenes inducing some hysterical laughs. Judge Reinhold and Clint Howard are a perfectly matched comedy team. Shirley Jones appears as elegant as ever. The Chihuahua plays out as a perfect protagonist.