SOS Daddy

Very very very interesting. Father gets dad-napped, kids chase after the wannabe cops around town in order to save the girl.

I found halfway through the movie that "dad-napped" is a play-on word. Cause "kid-napped" would imply that kids get kid-napped...but in the case of this film, one of the paternal fathers of one of the stars (Emily O.) is dad-napped.

The movie however was poorly filmed, it reminded me of a short tube clip but what more can you expect from a low budget Disney movie? I felt the 'family' connection. They should have come up with a song.

This film remind me of a beautiful mind, in that is showed a real portrayal of a person with schizophrenia. Can somebody say Oscars? (winky face) I laughed, I cried, I even ate my heart.

Dadnapped tells the story of Melissa Morris (Emilly Osment) who desperately tries to gain more attention from her ever-concerning father, Neal (George Newbern), a famous author. Melissa lives in the shadow of Tripp Zoome (Jonathan Keltz), the adventurous and street-smart hero of her father's popular spy novel. Before the long overdue father-daughter vacation, Neal was kidnapped by obsessive fans, Wheeze (David Henrie), Andre (Moises Arias), and Sheldon (Denzel Whitaker). But it wasn't until Melissa rescued her father that he was kidnapped again, along with herself, by hotel manager Merv (Jason Earles), and brothers Maurice (Phill Lewis) and Skunk (Charles Halford). Now it's up to the former kidnappers to save Melissa and her father and they're in for a big adventure and a lot of messes.

Initially I really liked my father-daughter family, I loved the somewhat zombie-like, totally bizarre, scatological work, but as it went on it became boring, boring, not very interesting, discouraging... Very childish, with lots of silly action scenes, from the middle to the end, just annoying...

At first, I wasn't expecting much from this movie, I only watched it because of its ridiculous title, but I was pleasantly surprised by it. Disney Channel movies are usually quite a hit or a miss. This was in the middle, yeah, it was corny at times, but it was funny. Not sure much of what else to say about this movie. It's not a must watch, but if you have some spare time on your hands, it isn't that bad of a movie, I'd recommend checking it out. It has some parts that are kinda painful to watch, it just hurts to, but that's overweighed by the really good parts, and some of the corny parts of the movie.

Melissa Morris (Emily Osment) wants to get the attention of her preoccupied best selling author father Neil (George Newbern) during their vacation. She is constantly talking to her father hero character Tripp Zoome (Jonathan Keltz). Then Neil gets kidnapped by his super fans Wheeze (David Henrie), Andre (Moises Arias), and Sheldon (Denzel Whitaker). Next she and her dad gets kidnapped by brothers Maurice (Phill Lewis) and Skunk (Charles Halford) who want Neil to fix their book. There is also hotel manager Merv (Jason Earles).

It's a cheap Disney production with their stars of the moment. There is a lot of complaining from the daughter Melissa. And her imaginary conversations are kind of annoying. In fact, everybody is annoying to some degree. The dad isn't that appealing either. After they reunite, the father daughter relationship could develop better. But nothing could really save this mess.

Keeping in mind that this is a Disney Channel Original Movie, and was not intended as Oscar material, I found this movie very enjoyable.

The plot was actually fairly interesting, several clever twists made it one of the more refreshing made-for-TV, "family" films that I've seen. Aside from the plot, I found the acting in this film better than most of its genre. Although occasionally slapstick, particularly toward the end (what can you expect, it is a DCOM), the acting was generally believable in a crazy/fun sort of way. There was great chemistry between some of the characters as well. I really liked the performances by Osment, Henrie, and Arias.

My least favorite part of this movie was probably just before the end (during the "climax") when the action moved from "expectedly because it's Disney Channel slapstick" to "tortuously unbelievably slapstick." Thankfully, it only lasted a few minutes.

If you're a cynic or a movie critic you'll probably hate this movie. However, if you're looking for a fun, clean, family-friendly movie that teaches some good lessons without being too heavy-handed, and doesn't completely insult your intelligence, you might just enjoy "Dadnapped."