With its three very appealing young lead actors and less than idealized portrait of childhood, "Catch That Kid" at first glance looks like it might resemble "Holes," one of the most refreshingly sophisticated family pictures released last year. Desperate for money, Maddy enlists her pals to break into the bank where her mother works as a security consultant, steal a quarter of a million dollars and save her father's life. While climbing, he suffered a serious injury, which flares up and leaves him paralyzed, a condition that can be cured only by an expensive operation in Europe. Soon, Maddy meets up with her best friends, a computer nerd named Austin (Corbin Bleu) and a gearhead named Gus (Max Thieriot) at a go-kart track run by her father, whose own attempt to ascend Mount Everest has served as both inspiration and cautionary tale.
When, midclimb, she receives a video-phone call from her mother, she cuts a convincingly agile figure as a girl-powered high-tech action hero.
We meet Maddy while she's climbing up a pipe on a vertiginous-looking industrial tower she's outfitted with state-of-the-art bungee cords and carabiners. Kristen Stewart brings her best game face to "Catch That Kid," a family action-adventure in which the young actress plays a 12-year-old tomboy named Maddy.
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