Mission: Possible - These kids are beyond belief!
| Movie | |
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| German title | Mission: Possible - These kids are beyond belief! |
| Original title | Catch That Kid |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Beard friendly |
| script | Michael Brandt , Derek Haas |
| production | James Dodson , Damien Saccani , Uwe Schott |
| music | George S. Clinton |
| camera | Julio Macat |
| cut | Stuart Levy |
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Mission: Possible - These kids are beyond belief! is a US children's and youth film from 2004 .
This remake was created due to the great success of Kletter-Ida . The article Kletter-Ida also provides a detailed analysis and comparison of both versions of the film.
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As the plot and dialogues of Mission: Possible - These kids are beyond belief! are largely identical to Kletter-Ida , only the differences are discussed here.
introduction
Right at the beginning of the film, Maddy almost crashes while climbing the water tower. She never managed to get all the way to the roof of the water tower. In addition, her mother calls her while she is climbing and a fight arises with her.
In addition to the role of bank director, the bank also has an assistant named Hartmann. The bank manager complains to Maddy's mother about the security system because it has not yet been installed.
Maddy's friend Gus doesn't send a video message to his parents.
Bulk
After Maddy's father became seriously ill, Maddy's mother not only telephoned various banks, but also spoke to the bank manager of the bank, for whom she installed the security system. The bank director refuses the loan with the words: "A bank has no heart, only notes in a safe."
In the preparations for the break-in, the assistant to the bank director involuntarily helps instead of the bank director. When Maddy is about to finish climbing to the safe, her safety rope jams. Then she climbs unsecured to the safe. Something similar had happened to her father. Shortly before the summit of Mount Everest, he climbed unsecured and then fell.
It wasn't until Maddy arrived at the vault that she noticed that the bank manager's assistant's password did not work with the vault. Her mother's master password is her full name Madline. Maddy finds the money in the safe and not in another room later. In addition, it does not collapse in the safe, exhausted.
On the run, the children are also found by Gu's brother and the security guard. Gu's brother turns off the security guard in order to present himself to his brother as a savior and protector. In order to appear particularly casual, he plays with the stun gun and thus drives himself into unconsciousness.
Enough
At the end of the film, all three children are caught together in the hospital. Maddy's mother also comes to the hospital, but is accompanied by bank employees and the police. She led them there herself. She resolves the story because the kids allegedly did the break-in as a test of the security system. Since the bank director had a company party despite Maddy's mother's objection, he was dismissed.
Maddy reopens the go-kart track with her mother and friends to raise money to finance the operation. They are surprised when the population, having heard of the fate of Maddy's father from television, insists on paying many times the normal entry price. The money is not enough, but Mr. Hartmann, the former assistant to the director and new bank director, gives a check for $ 50,000 for the $ 250,000 operation and now grants the rest as a loan.
History of origin
American remakes of successful European films have a long history, as foreign films are not dubbed in the United States and most American viewers prefer films from the United States.
While Kletter-Ida had a budget of the equivalent of 2.2 million dollars, the budget of Mission: Possible - These kids are unbelievable! at $ 18 million. The higher budget was mainly used for elaborate computer animation. The action sequences, which are elaborate despite the lower budget and for which Kletter-Ida received a Robert Prize for special effects, are implemented much shorter in the American remake.
Reviews
“The fact that Hollywood has been suffering from an acute lack of ideas for some time is nothing new. That is why remakes of successful productions have always been very popular with the big studios. Independent director Bart Freundlich (“World Traveler”) is now trying Hans Fabian Wullenweber's Danish hit children's film “Kletter-Ida”, but he goes into Hollywood conventions that consistently lack any charm of the original. After all, his action adventure “Mission: Possible” is technically solid and at least moderately entertaining for the young visitors. ”
Carsten Baumgardt, filmstarts.de
"The director: Bart Freundlich's Hollywood remake of the great Danish children's film" Kletter-Ida ", which was cleverly used in" Mission: Impossible "and classic safe-cracker films, is simply superfluous. His film looks as if everyone involved wanted to get rid of their tasks as quickly as possible. He rushes breathlessly through the action, not even taking the time to adequately introduce his main characters, the children's trio. Almost all of the secondary characters mutate into great batches. The serious core of the story is sacrificed without hesitation to superficial fuss . ”
JÖRG BRANDES, Hamburger Morgenpost
“An entertaining movie theater experience for kids and teenagers - exciting and modern staged.”
Jens Friebe, movie_spotlight
“Mission Possible definitely has the potential to make a likeable, sometimes even exciting youth film. The actors differ pleasantly from the Hollywood average suitable for commercials. It's just a shame that the US version prefers to do justice to the target group instead of its characters and relies too much on high-tech optics, superficial dialogues and unnecessary pathos in the finale. ”
From the Berliner Morgenpost of June 10, 2004