I hesitate to call the main character in "Catch That Kid" pure evil, but she's definitely amoral, and possibly psychopathic.
In every situation, she sees the ends as justifying the means, regardless of how much lying or stealing those means require. And the movie just enables her, as she is never called upon to account for her questionable behavior. So by all means, take your children to see one of their contemporaries -- the 13-year-old Maddy Phillips (Kristen Stewart) -- attempt a bank heist and lie to her friends, all without negative consequences. This course of events is usually reserved for dark comedies (see "Bad Santa," for example), but this is neither dark nor, particularly, a comedy. It's a children's-empowerment movie, a remake of a Danish film that I guess was a big deal over there a couple years ago, to the extent that a Danish film can be a big deal. Maddy is a would-be rock-climber whose mother Molly (Jennifer Beals) has designed the security system at a new high-tech bank and whose father Tom (Sam Robards) owns a go-cart track. Her guy friends Austin (Corbin Bleu), an amateur filmmaker, and Gus (Max Thieriot), an amateur mechanic, both have crushes on her, though the threesome remains innocent and platonic like the 13-year-olds they are.
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