Catchy!

Rating: 8/10 (29 December 2002)

So what in the world made Spielberg chose this topic for a film is beyond me. Just while watching it I realized I was actually having fun. This movie is
definitively a crowd pleaser which should score Spielberg and the stars in it some deserved box office dough.
Every critic in the site may talk about Hanks, DiCaprio or Walken, but the real great performance in this movie came from no other than John Williams, who
produced his best movie score in more than 20 years. Catch Me if You Can's
theme is a fun, jazzy tune that is worthy of other tunes of the era this movie takes place, like Peter Gunn and the Pink Panter. It's been a long, long time I saw people walking out of a theater humming the main music piece of a movie. I
declare John Williams the comeback of the year.
Spielberg is a great story teller. This movie makes up for his mediocre, but
visually stunning Minority Report, Hank's overly soggy Road to Perdition and
DiCaprio's messy and self-indulgent Gangs of New York.