robloxhihellorobloxhi Me and my friend decided to make fun of a terrible movie because, why not? Well we didn't expect to see this horror of a film full of pedophilia and cringy dialogue. The main character's parents are jerks and huge idiots and no one thinks it's suspicious that a kid is handling this millionaires finances...or that the millionaire is spending all his money on toys...all of it. The main FBI agent (Chasey,Janice or something like that) agreed to date the ten year old main character in about six years. Very wrong. On top of that she kissed him on the lips and we closed safari at that point, not wanting to see how much further the movie would go. Awful movie, do not watch, not even for fun. It's not even funny how bad this movie is.I would have just spent the million dollars on a replica of Christopher Nolan's batmobile...just saying.

MaximumMadness Don'tcha just love nostalgia? Those warm, fuzzy and oft-forlorn feelings for days long since past. The yearning to revisit childhood favorites and return to a simpler, easier time. Everyone has those things from their past that bring back the memories and the magic. For many in my generation, it's all about the 90's- a peculiar time period indeed and a blur of experimentation and transition in the world of entertainment that supplied some classics... but also many duds.One film in particular is most certainly a bi-product of this odd period in time- the 1994 Disney release "Blank Check." It's a film that celebrates the excessive desires we all have as children, and for many of us watching it back in the day, it was the ultimate power-trip. A film that revolved around what any kid would do if they suddenly came across a million dollars. And we loved it! We loved seeing a child suddenly given near-limitless power, able to buy all the toys and video-games and play-things he wanted. It was pure magic.But at the same time, our parents would collectively roll their eyes, shake their heads and scoff at the complete and utter lack of realism and consequence presented. But we didn't care... what did they know?! They're not kids! They're stinky old adults! They just didn't understand the movie like we did! And we knew we'd treasure this film until the end of time! ...well, until we grew up ourselves, that is. Yes, it's a bit of a sad thing to admit, but these sorts of childhood power-fantasy favorites just don't hold up when you revisit them as adults. We enjoyed "Blank Check" at the time because it was tailor made for the 6-12 age demographic. But that enjoyment is wholly replaced by a general sense of apathy and sometimes even startling unease when going back and revisiting it as we enter our late 20's and early 30's. We start to see why our parents scoffed and rolled their eyes... because often, these types of films aren't nearly as good as we think they are.12-year-old Preston (Brian Bonsall) just can't catch a break. His family is incredibly frugal. He can't afford to do fun things with his friends. And he is bullied by other kids. All that changes when he is given a blank check one day after a man accidentally runs over his bike. Preston tries to capitalize on the opportunity by filling the check out for a million dollars, not realizing that the man who crushed his bike (Miguel Ferrer) is actually a career criminal! A seedy bank official actually gives Preston the money, assuming he's being used as a middle-man for cover. Now, Preston has a million dollars cash to use any way he wants- toys, games, you name it! But the men he stole it from might just come looking to get it back...The failure of "Blank Check" boils down to two huge fundamental issues I have with the story and execution of the film. That being the troubled and uneven storytelling on the part of director Rupert Wainwright and a frankly eerie and even disturbing tonality and focus that is impossible to ignore as an adult. The film is a complete and utter mess too often, to the point of distraction. Director Wainwright takes a simple enough premise but can't find an appropriate and consistent sense of pacing, composition or flow, leading to a frenzied and sometimes hackneyed final product that alternates between being filmed like a low-key police procedural and an Adrenalin-pumping music video. It's difficult to watch or let yourself get pulled in because it's completely scatter-brained, and the wonky storytelling also makes the many holes and gaps in logic in the script feel glaring and blatant. Wainwright also seems far too committed to making the film appealing to kids first and foremost, but it's to the detriment of the work. Too often he throws in kitschy camera angles and sped-up footage to emulate cartoons, and has the camera focus on comedic- relief characters (including a woefully unfunny Rick Ducommun who hams it up in the worst of ways) to the point it becomes transparent pandering. It's poor work, and a glaring example of how not to make a kids film. It feels like it's talking down to the viewers... not having fun with him.And then there's the creepy bits. Oh, boy... this film is not appropriate in the slightest. And I'm not talking about violence or profanity. I'm talking about tone and focus. This movie is a complete and utter nightmare to behold as an adult. From the presentation of our "hero" as a glorified thief who gets away with basically everything and faces little consequences until the final act (which I will not spoil), to making all of the adult characters the types of people kids will not respect, to a truly disgusting "love story"... this is not a good movie to show to young children. When I say "creepy bits", I'm not talking about potentially frightening scenes for children. I'm talking about incredibly uncomfortable scenes to watch for adults, including a prolonged subplot in which 12-year-old Preston goes on "dates" with the adult woman (the admittedly very sexy Karen Duffy) handling the finances, who openly seems to be "flirting" with a child. It's supposed to be played for "Aww, adorable!" moments... but the execution is just incredibly cringe-worthy and leaves you feeling unclean. As do the many moments where Preston openly manipulates, lies to and harasses people for his own amusement. It makes the film and the characters impossible to like."Blank Check" might benefit from a fun premise and a strong central performance thanks to its talented child-star. But it's an ugly film with a mean-streak, morally questionable moments that adults will find worrying and sub-par storytelling. It's not the film you remember it being. And I give it a very sub-par 3 out of 10.

byson5186 This is one of my favorite movies. I've heard this movie being compared to Home Alone. If you look at the movie cover, you'll see how it says, "If You Loved Home Alone, You'll Love Blank Check." I've noticed many similar scenes to both Home Alone and Home Alone 2 as both movies were out by the time this movie was made. It is possible that the people who wrote and worked on this movie, came up with a lot of their ideas from Home Alone and tried to make a Disney Friendly slapstick humor of Home Alone with what a kid would do with $1 Million. I personally like this movie better than Home Alone. I feel like it has a lot more of a plot to it. In this movie, Preston tells his parents about wanting his own house, his own rules, his own money. While that might seem like a kid's dream he ends up being able to get $1 million. Some of the things that make this movie great. For one, watching this movie will take you back to the '90s. A lot of people from my Millennial Generation, old enough to remember the '90s miss those times considering life to have been really good back then. They try to remember life and entertainment back then. This movie shows an old computer in Preston's room. It also shows how rather than Preston buying things online like you would now, he just looks numbers up to call from a phone book. It shows some old arcade games and Preston having many TVs turned into his own virtual entertainment system. Something that still is incredible years later. It also shows '90s things like you see a lot of TVs that aren't flat screen. Also, one time I watched this with a friend my same age during the scene where we see Preston in the store riding a bike playing with the things inside the store. My friend told me he remembers when you used to be able to try things like that out at a store. I can't remember doing that as a kid. This movie entertains you showing all the things Preston bought. We see how a kid would spend all that money, he gets chased by the bad guys in this movie. We also see a lot of Preston's community in Indiana. Things like his neighborhood, a typical looking neighborhood with a castle house across the street, a really big bank in his town close enough that Preston rides his bike to, an amusement park, a water park, a public park (during the chase scene), Lots of really nice stores, businesses including Preston going to Tangerino's on a date. Also, one of the more memorable scenes from the movie where Preston and Shay dance in these fountains we all wonder where those fountains are. So, this movie is also better than Home Alone as we're more familiar with Preston's community than Kevin's in the first Home Alone. Also, a whole community of people are curious about who Mr. Macintosh is, not ever meeting him only hearing Preston saying he works for him. People gullible enough to buy things from a kid, and believe a kid who claims he works for somebody they've never met. All this action takes place in like only a week time. So this movie has great music, it's fast paced, and it's funny. This movie will end leaving us with a couple of unanswered questions we're all curious about. They haven't made a sequel for this movie, or even an explanation as to what would end up happening later. Preston's the main character so he's a character we like. But, we ask ourselves even if he mostly seems like a good kid other than a little bratty and selfish. But, seriously I'm sure people would eventually discover including Shay that Preston was behind all that spending and that fake character, Mr. Macintosh. He might even confess it to his parents as he said as the movie was ending about Mr. Macintosh how he shouldn't have fooled everybody and told his Dad that he'd tell him all about Mr. Macintosh the next day. So, did Preston confess to his parents about being behind the whole Mr. Macintosh thing, and how would his parents feel if they found out Preston got $1 Million and bought a house? So, we wonder if Preston as a kid would have been arrested or eventually arrested if the police found out? How much trouble would this get him into? We also wonder what would happen with all the stuff Preston bought? The people in the movie, especially the ones that would clear out the house should figure that a grown man would not want to buy all that kid stuff. That is stuff a kid would buy. The final question is does Preston ever get together with Shay? Disney did not consider it inappropriate to show like an 11/12 year old kid in love with a 30 year old woman, going on a date with her, and kissing her. I wonder if Disney could get away with that now? But, while they did agree to see each other when Preston was older, they said 6 years and as this movie takes place in 1993 that would mean they were supposed to see each other in 1999. How about now, over 20 years later? Did they eventually reunite and fall in love? It should not have taken long after the movie ended for Shay to have discovered that Preston was behind all that spending and Mr. Macintosh. But, she liked him enough and was a gentle person. I'm sure she'd forgive him and not take it too seriously. Overall, I'd give this movie a 10/10 as it's always an empowering movie for me to watch. I think most kids even kids of today would enjoy this movie.

getmeagasmask The summary says it all. Blank Check is just one of those movies.The story follows Preston, a young boy who obsesses over money just as quickly as he spends it. One day Preston is riding his bike around, and thus the story begins. He's struck by a car, and although he's okay the driver hands him a blank check to avoid any trouble. Preston goes ahead and fills in one million dollars for that check and manages to cash it and purchase a house and several other excessively self-indulgent items. The man who hit Preston, Quigley, has a darker and more dangerous history and is far from happy when he realized one million is missing from a money scandal he's involved in. The story follows Preston as his greed with money leads him down a tunnel that grows only deeper and deeper. As he makes up lies for spending so much time at a mansion that his parents don't realize he owns and manipulates others around him, Quigley embarks on a journey to hunt down the man (or boy) that took his money.Blank Check is not realistic and is completely implausible in real life. We all have our own little guilty pleasure movies, whether its Spice Girls or Power Rangers or Rugrats or Blank Check. If this movie doesn't become one of those guilty pleasures, chances are you won't enjoy it and will find it shallow and worthy of several "Oh, yeah right"s. Needless to say, this is a good family film. Any parents out there should be able to put up with it and kids 12 and under will probably enjoy it.