Dadnapped (2009)

Admirable film.

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

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.

This film is about a teenage girl whose father is the creator of the popular Trip Zoome man."Dadknapped" is a squeaky clean movie for children and teenagers. The script is rather lame at first, especially the annoyingly juvenile and irresponsible father who keeps immersing himself in a fantasy world. No wonder his daughter is so fed up with him! Towards the second half of the movie, when the elements for adults come in, it gets substantially better. Though the nonsense persists, the emotional subplot really strikes a chord with the viewers, because the bond between Mr Morris and Melissa is so real.Overall, the plot and the humour is silly and lame, but because of this "Dadknapped" is fun to watch.

Wow. Okay, I'm a huge Disney Channel fan, have been for more than 15 years, but this movie was just . . . wow. What exactly were they trying to accomplish here? Read It and Weep was basically a flop, so what do they do? They make another movie about a schizophrenic girl who talks to an imaginary literary character. The only difference is that this time, the girl's dad created the character. As if the movie itself wasn't boring enough (and totally lacking any basis for the relationships) it was actually painful to watch Melissa talk to an imaginary person over and over, being very aware the whole time that she's NUTS. And what's up with her dad saying she IS Trip Zoome? He told her before she was boring and NOT in his books. Now she's the main character? Yeah, that's a cop out. Don't waste your time. The only reason I didn't give this a 1 is because there is enough money in the world to make me watch it again, but not to like it.

If you think kidnapping even when its for fun from some of your fans is a great subject for a comedy than you'll probably like Dadnapped. You also I'm sure liked Cop Rock when it was inflicted on the American public.The Magic Kingdom got together several of its stars from its television series lineup like Jason Earles, Moises Arias, Emily Osment, David Henrie and Phill Lewis and got them together for Dadnapped. The plot concerns Osment and her estranged father George Newbern. He writes a popular series of books about a teen superhero played in imaginary sequences by Jonathan Keltz. Which consumes all his time, so the two decide for a father/daughter vacation. But he has to stop at a fan convention first, something like the one that Tim Allen and the rest of the cast had to go in Galaxy Quest.Three young fans, Henrie, Arias, and Denzel Whitaker kidnap their favorite author as a gag. But then some others kidnap him from them for real. They want his help on a literary masterpiece. At least they keep Newbern and Osment mobile and not bed bound like Kathy Bates did to poor James Caan.I don't expect much from the Disney Studios, sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised. And sometimes I'm left aghast like I was here. Hopefully some talented people will still have careers after Dadnapped has been forgotten.