(Possible Spoiler!) Something of a disappointment this one. Outwardly all the components were there for a good story but the plot gets tangled up where it didn't need to be. I got the feeling that the movie didn't know quite what it was meant to be. Kids film? Comedy? Thriller? Feel good? Fantasy? For example, the introduction of the villain was more of a sub plot than a driving force, the schoolboy who knew the story of the robbery was the tired old Harry the Explainer (but he'd taken toys to school to demonstrate it all), the love interest was more of a convenience - or were we meant to think the girl was no good and would split the family? And how does the boy get that huge camel-like construction upstairs on double-deck bus? I didn't even buy the timing of Britain's switch to the Euro. But above all I really can't be doing with a film purportedly set at Christmas that was shot in the summer. Sadly, this should have been a lot better but it had the air of a British-made film where the script and the directing just weren't tight enough. More subtly, the structure seemed to shift slightly at least once if not twice in the film leaving me more confused than entertained.
