Blank Check (1994)

That was an excellent one.

Powerful

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Me and my friend decided to make fun of a terrible movie because, why not? Well we didn't expect to see this horror of a film full of pedophilia and cringy dialogue. The main character's parents are jerks and huge idiots and no one thinks it's suspicious that a kid is handling this millionaires finances...or that the millionaire is spending all his money on toys...all of it. The main FBI agent (Chasey,Janice or something like that) agreed to date the ten year old main character in about six years. Very wrong. On top of that she kissed him on the lips and we closed safari at that point, not wanting to see how much further the movie would go. Awful movie, do not watch, not even for fun. It's not even funny how bad this movie is.I would have just spent the million dollars on a replica of Christopher Nolan's batmobile...just saying.

Disney, really. This movie has Clichéd written all over it. It's like this movie has a checklist that just marks off every cliché that they have. And this really sucks because the idea of a kid having a blank check could've been a good movie. They just had to be original. But, they failed at that as well. Two parts really offset me, the first is the "romantic" relationship that Preston (the protagonist) has with the teller at the bank is really creepy. I believe that another movie had kids, specifically boys interacting with adult women in a romantic way. That other movie was milk money, which is equally as bad. The other thing that offsets me is the climax that takes place at Prestons house. It directly rips off Home Alone in almost every way, except for the fact that you're not rooting for the main character. The only redeeming factor for me is the Taylor Dayne song of "I'll Wait", which I thought wasn't half bad. You'd be better off staring at a wall for an hour and a half than sitting though this freak wreck of a movie.

Yeah, this movie sucks the big one. Read the other reviews, ALMOST everything that needs to be said has been said already. There is however, one big thing that other reviews have either not mentioned enough of or forgot about entirely, and that's how terrible the main character's parents are!This kid is suffering with parents who lets the two older brothers take over his room for their stupid lawn moving business, not to mention buys them a new computer. And then there are the lectures about how the older brothers know how to make money and save money, while the younger son doesn't. Later on, the kid almost gets ran over, but luckily only his bike is destroyed, and the parents care more about the cost of the bike, than the safety of their child, and lecture him about protecting your valuables and ground him.OK. 2 teeny-tiny eency-weency little things. 1: HE'S 11!!!!!!!!!! He's not even supposed to be saving money or making money at that age! You might as well be saying, "Well son, you've just finished kindergarten, so when are ya getting' that job?" 2: THOSE PARENTS SHOULD BE SHOT!!!!!! The only reason this kid is obsessed with money in the first place is because his parents are! And they ground him for nearly getting hit by a car and possibly seriously injured or even killed because he didn't protect his bike? I'd bet if he did get killed, they probably would celebrate because of the money they'd now save.You know what, after having to deal with these parents, I'd say give the kid $1,000,000 and a hot chick! And sentence his parents to death by firing squad!I'm not gonna talk any more of this film, because those parents disgust me enough. The rest of the film isn't any better.Except for one little bit of trivia: The actress Karen Duffy (who was the only good thing about this movie) plays the character Shay, and then plays another unrelated character also named Shay in "Dumb & Dumber" which came out only 10 months after "Blank Check". Do you think the Farrelly Brothers did that on purpose to remind us that Karen Duffy was in this piece of crap? I certainly hope so. Because this movie sucks the big one! And if you do wanna see Karen Duffy, check out "Dumb & Dumber" instead.

Critics of this movie will talk about suspension of disbelief. But this is not a 007 tale. This is for kids and you have to be a kid to believe it. And fitting into that role is not as difficult as it sounds.This is a good romp with excellent work by everyone. And seriously: it keeps you going. Earlier in the day we saw Harry Potter 3 and almost climbed the walls, it was so tedious and boring.Again, you're going to hear supposedly grown 'preteens' say something about suspension of disbelief. Focus on the myopia these people are victimised by: focus on how they seem to think every movie is made for them. This movie is made for kids in the 10 year old group. If you can't appreciate it through their eyes - get a life, sucka.This one kept us going all the way. It is just cool cool cool and that kid is great.