clichéd to the point where it hurts your brain

Rating: 2/10 (12 February 2011)

When i first saw the trailers for this movie i was ready to dismiss it as a cheap dreamworks rip-off, but when i saw it got nominated for a golden globe and heard so many wonderful things about i decided to give it a watch.
It's just awful, the premise seems somewhat interesting a villain tries to pull of his greatest heist yet, but keeps being outdone by a younger villain, but the story focus mainly on three girls, who make me wonder if anyone involved with this movie has ever spent any time with children, they are annoying and not in a "cute" way, they are all clichéd archetypes that make you want to reach out and choke them, which almost seems possible thanks to the quite good 3D, the whole movie looks really pretty in a strange way, everything is shiny for some reason, but it's annoying from start to finish and 30min into the movie it felt like torture, for me there is nothing redeemable about this movie in the slightest, i don't expect every movie to set the world on fire, but i do expect them to at least try something new, this all seemed like a textbook example of how to make a kids movie but with extra cheesiness.
Having said that, my brother did enjoy himself and wanted to give it a 5/10, but for him the funniest/best scenes where the dancing scene (why do all kids movies need those?) and a scene wherein a man used his butt to operate a keyboard, so if that sounds like a good time for you, then go watch some youtube clips and skip this movie.