Netflix Review Extravaganza #3--I Downloaded a Ghost!

Soooo haven't done one of these in a long while, but I'm trudging back into the jungle of obscure and/or mediocrity that is the Netflix Instant Que. While it is true that there are some quality movies that can be found, this is going to be entirely devoted to movies that no one has ever heard of. That being said let's start the ball rolling again.

What if i told you that there is a Disney movie starring Ellen Page (Juno) as a young girl who downloads the spirit of Carlos Alazraqui (Deputy Garcia, Reno 911) and together they attempt to solve a museum theft? Whats that? you say that sounds ridiculously stupid...boy o' boy you don't know the half of it!

The film follows Page's character as she tries to help Alazraqui finish his business on earth so he can move on. To do this he needs to find a priceless cat sculpture that was stolen from the local museum and stop the criminals he inadvertently helped. While this sounds like it would be a harmless tv movie, it's not it fails on multiple levels of humour and enjoyment.

Jokes in a kids movie should not be difficult...some of my favorite movies were the Disney tv movies, but if i had ever watched this i would have lost faith in all that is comdey. Watch this...



Pretty hilarious huh? Also random sidenote, this movie came out in 2004 so that means it was most likely shot between 2002-2003...Ellen Page was at least 15, she looks like a 12 year old in this movie. Carlos Alazraqui is briefly funny from time to time, but overall he just ends up being annoying.

I usually give these kind of movies some leeway, i mean afterall they are written for kids right? That is true but there is a difference between writing for kids and having kids do the written. It's just a badly directed, badly scripted, badly acted movie. Disney made alot of these tv movies and this has to be the worst of the bunch. 1 outta 5