I
wasn’t sure if I wanted to review this movie.
There’s a part of me that doesn’t want to admit that I sat through the
whole thing. Then again, I did learn
that smokejumpers are a real thing. So,
there’s that.
The
movie focuses on a team of smokejumpers (Jake Carson, Mark Rogers, Rodrigo
Torres and Axe) who have to take care of three children (Brynn, Will and Zoe)
that they rescue. Due to a safe-haven
law, the smokejumpers have to take care of the children until the parents can
arrive.
You’d
think this would be simple. Four grown
men with should be able to manage three children for a few days. If that’s the case, there would be no movie. The children tend to be difficult. The adults are inexperienced with
children. Oh, and Carson is up for a
promotion, so the division commander might be dropping by. Add to this that Zoe’s birthday is coming up
and. You get the perfect storm of a
movie that most adults won’t find funny.
I
suppose it would have helped if I was much younger. Maybe the movie would have appealed to
me. I honestly don’t know what I was
expecting. The one saving grace was that
I saw the movie while school was in session, meaning that was a lack of small
children in the theater with me.
This
is exactly the kind of movie that parents will just have to sit through. There are no redeeming qualities. There’s not even a lewd joke that might go
over a kid’s head. (The closest thing is
some scatological humor.)
If
your kids aren’t begging you to see it, don’t suggest it to them until it comes
out on DVD. It’s exactly as childish and
moronic as the coming attractions would suggest.
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