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Created Feb 23, 2008 01:17PM PST • Edited Mar 16, 2013 01:51AM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Barely OK 2.0

   Well intentioned flop: the comedy never inspires laughs and the drama never hits home. Nonetheless, the great concept – oddball father drags practical daughter on a real treasure hunt through modern day suburbia – and the likable performances by Evan Rachel Wood and Michael Douglas make this watchable.

4. Acting

   Good 3.0

   It falls to Michael Douglas – playing a bipolar iconoclast – to generate the laughs. He fails.

   Evan Rachel Wood, as the teen aged daughter he leaves to fend for herself, delivers a competent though non-engaging performance.

5. Male Stars OK 2.5

6. Female Stars Very Good 3.5

7. Female Costars Good 3.0

8. Male Costars Good 3.0

10. Film

    Barely OK 2.0

    Great concept poorly executed: embark on a treasure hunt for Spanish gold, navigating through the Applebees, Costcos, McDonalds, golf courses and subdivisions of modern California. This contrived and soulless landscape should provide an ironic backdrop for the deeper truths that emerge for the daughter of an unbalanced father. Too bad it doesn’t.

11. Direction Barely OK 2.0

12. Play Pretty Bad 1.5

13. Music Good 3.0

    Nice use of Seals & Crofts “Summer Breeze.”

14. Visuals Good 3.0
15. Content

16. Edge

    Tame 1.4

17. Sex Titillating 1.9

    Swinging suburbia suggested in a couple of scenes.

18. Violence Gentle 1.0

19. Rudeness Polite 1.2

21. Reality

    Glib 1.2

22. Circumstantial Glib 1.5

23. Biological Natural 1.0

24. Physical Natural 1.0