Twelve-year-old Maddy and her two best friends Austin and Gus are kind of outcasts and considered nerds amongst their peers. Maddy is heavily into climbing because she always wants to emulate her and her father who also shares a love for mountain climbing. Austin is the computer nerd who loves technology and likes to make and direct his own films. While Gus is more mechanically minded and loves to work on the Go Carts at Maddy's father's Go Cart racing track. But Maddy and her fathers hobby, however, has a disastrous effect on her father when an accident on Mount Everest injures his spine, paralyzing him forever unless he gets a very expensive operation. Determined to raise the money to pay for it, Maddy decides to recruit two of her friends to help her break into the super-high-tech bank (which includes a vault suspended 30 feet off the floor) that her mother works at as the security chief, in an attempt to rob the funds her father needs using the amazing climbing abilities he taught her...But it will not be easy as the vault uses every single trick of technology to thwart would be bank robbers. But Maddy has a chance as the system is not yet complete and they will be throwing an opening gala that will be the perfect timing for the daring heist.

Sometimes reviewing a movie can be quite hard because I completely understand that this movie is probably meant to be viewed by kids and preteens and they will probably absolutely love it. On the other hand I could probably spend an hour dismantling the movie for the thousands of things wrong with it. This includes but not limited to bad acting, bad story lines, plot holes, and the fact that you need to suspend belief about almost every aspect of the movie as everything seemed improbable to very unlikely. The only way I can describe it is that while I was watching the movie I felt like I was listening to a whispered conversation. There was no excitement, there was no emotion it just seemed like the whole thing had a dull finish to it where they forgot to add something. Most of that can be blamed on the kid actors they got as none of them could really act and then the fact that they gave them a more adult and sophisticated script to work with. This movie might have been fun had they done it like the Italian Job with an adult cast but the kid actors could not pull it off. The kids will probably love it as the movie does seem like it jumped from the TV screen of Nickelodeon and landed in the theatres. But that is the problem with movies like these, they seem like they were written by eleven year olds from an eleven year old prospective and for those of us who want something more than a little melodrama the movies are very big let downs. Kid movies can work on two levels look at Holes and Shrek, there is simply no excuse. Take the kids, but do not expect to be entertained yourself.
1 stars out of 5