Police

This movie really should have done what so many "kids movies" and tv shows before it have done and basically pretend the police don't exist. No one took a missing child seriously enough, and the (figurative) face-palming reached epic levels for me during the scenes starting when Jorgen had Albert locked in his closet and was demanding money from Wren to get him back, even going so far as to tell her his address. The only sensible move at that point is to call the police, tell them a strange man has kidnapped your 8-year old brother, and give them the address. It becomes absolutely ludicrous once she actually goes there, and when she tells him she doesn't have money HE then threatens to, and actually DOES, call the police! It's completely *beep* that she doesn't just let him tell them. As soon as he says, "Hey, yeah, police? I've got an 8-year old locked in my closet because he left some dog crap and a firecracker on my porch..." he's looking at some serious jail-time. It's not as if the movie even played this for laughs, as far as I can tell. It seemed as if I was expected to be seriously concerned for the fate of *ALBERT* if the police were summoned.

Anyway... that's enough ranting, I suppose. I don't expect much intelligence from a Nickolodeon-branded movie, but a bit of common sense would be nice, and this was some really out-of-control idiocy, in my opinion.