Lose the Title Sequence!

Rating: 7/10 (4 July 2006)

Clever titling sequences are a Hollywood preoccupation. Some are better and some are worse. The title sequence to "Catch Me If You Can" is as repetitive and as annoying as any I've ever encountered. It got the film off on the wrong foot as far as my wife and I were concerned. Nevertheless, it is an amusing film with Leonard DiCaprio as the teen-age youth who successfully passes himself off as a co-pilot, doctor, lawyer, etc., while passing phony checks that lead the FBI on a global chase. Hanks is the perfect nerdish FBI agent who eventually catches up with DiCaprio in a tiny French village where his father and mother met during World War II. Stephen Spielberg directs efficiently.