Five friends on a secret mission

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Movie
German title Five friends on a secret mission
Original title PUNKS
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1999
length 115 minutes
Rod
Director Sean McNamara
script Mark Cramer , Sean McNamara
production Patrick Peach
music John Coda
camera Christian Sebaldt
cut Gregory Hobson
occupation

Five Friends on a Secret Mission (Original Title: PUNKS ) is an American action comedy released by the Disney Channel in 1999 . Directed by Sean McNamara , who also worked on the script. Randy Quaid , Cathy Moriarty and Henry Winkler play the leading roles . Tim Redwine Jessica Alba , Patrick Renna , Brandon Baker and Kenneth A. Brown embody the five friends on a secret mission.

action

Drew Utley has to defend himself against verbal and physical attacks in school. The same goes for his friends Miles Kitchen and Lanny Nygren. So they decide to found an association that offers them more support. Jonny Pasiotopolis and his cousin Samantha Swoboda join as further members. As a name they choose the acronym PUNKS, which is composed of the first letters of their surnames and includes their motto: "To protect the underdog with nerves, knowledge and strength".

Drew's father, Pat, works as a scientist at CRAP Crow Research, where he is involved in the development of new machines. When Drew and Miles visit him there, they hack into the local computer system for fun. Drew happened to witness a conversation between his father and company owner Edward Crow, who asked Utley to test a suit developed by Drew's father, which not only strengthens the immune system but also gives supernatural powers, the Augmentor 1000, to be connected. Should he not agree to do so, he would be removed from the project. Drew hears his father, who has a problematic heart condition, agree and concludes that this is the way Crow wants to get rid of his father. In order to find out more about the Augmentor 1000, Miles, who tries to do so, would have to get Crow's superuser password.

With the help of Jonny, the three youngsters actually manage to crack the password and download the Augmentor circuit diagrams. They discover that the suit has been manipulated in such a way that if you wear it for more than twenty minutes, it can destroy the nervous system, and if you suffer from a heart disease, this happens within five minutes. For Drew's father with his sick heart, he can therefore be life-threatening. So the PUNKS decide to steal the Augmentor 1000. Easier said than done, however. With the help of Samantha they manage to get into the building, contrary to expectations. Miles copies and deletes the Augmentor files, while Drew and Samantha fix an audio bug and take further steps to obfuscate it. When a silent alarm alerts the guards, Miles infects the system with a virus. The friends can just escape before the guards approach.

The next day, however, they learn that Crow has file backups and a prototype Augmentor. Your attempt to get the prototype fails. Crow has meanwhile initiated a secret meeting with an important investor from the Middle East, to whom he wants to show the prototype, although he doesn't care that the suit is supposed to be abused. However, thanks to Jonny's intervention, the demonstration goes completely wrong with a second motion control device, for which Crow blames Pat Utley and threatens him with dismissal. After the PUNKS have mastered more situations controlled by Crow, Drew learns that Crow managed to kidnap his friends after all. However, Drew can track down where they are. However, he has to face a fight with Crow who put the Augmentor 1000 on. But even now the cohesive PUNKS Drow managed to outsmart them. In the end, Crow and his henchmen are arrested by the approaching police.

A special kind of achievement awaits the five at school, where they make their grand entrance with the Augmentor 1000. On the way home, they learn from the newspaper that Crow and his vassals have been exposed thanks to an undercover team of activists, the PUNKS, and will soon be on trial.

production

Production companies

The film was produced by Goldbar Entertainment, Osmosis and Unapix Entertainment Productions.

Locations

The film was in Burbank ( California ) and in Seattle and at La Salle High School in Pasadena filmed in California.

actor

Four of the young actors were older than the characters they played. Tim Redwine was 15, Kenneth A. Brown and Patrick Renna 19 and Jessica Alba 17. Only Brandon Baker was actually 14 years old, as shown in the film.

music

  • We Are The PUNKS by John Coda and Jim Caprio, Lecture: The JC's
  • London Girl by Tim Bryson / PC Irving
  • Snot Rag , selection of soundtrack 'The Jim Rose Circus' written by THENIgMA, lecture ditto
  • Dirt Road by Tim Bryson / PC Irving
  • Party Animal by William Bergman / Nick Lane
  • Ridin 'High by William Bergman
  • Can we talk? by Tim Bryson / PC Irving

reception

publication

The film premiered on January 5, 1999 in the USA. It was also called Rebels . It was also published in Brazil, Spain, Greece, Hungary and Russia.

In Germany it premiered on January 7, 2001 under the title Five Friends on a Secret Mission on ProSieben .

criticism

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was " turbulent youth entertainment " and tried to "convey the message of the need for solidarity and friendship in addition to the brisk story".

Common Sense stated succinctly that kids would be more likely to laugh at the lame story of comic-style violence.

Flights, Tights & Movie Nights said it was needless to say that this was a pretty bad movie, even if it featured Randy Quaid, Henry Winkler and a young Jessica Alba. Nothing remarkable can be said about the film itself, it is neither particularly humorous, nor is the plot really exciting. All in all, the film is lame all around.

Also Cinema took this view and summed up in just one word: ". Lahm"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PUNKS locations, see IMDb. Retrieved December 6, 2007.
  2. ↑ Five friends on a secret mission. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed December 6, 2007 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ PUNKS sS commonsensemedia.org (English, incl. Original trailer ). Retrieved August 25, 2018.
  4. ↑ Almost Super: "PUNKS" 1999 see flightstightsandmovienights.com (English). Retrieved August 25, 2018.
  5. ↑ Five friends on a secret mission see cinema.de. Retrieved August 25, 2018.