Playing With Fire

critic Reviews

, 24% Rotten Tomatometer Score
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    Stephen RomeiThe Australian
    There is an OK movie trapped in here. It needs someone to helicopter in and lift it out.
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    Wendy IdeObserver (UK)
    It turns out that sluggishly edited shots of big men pushing trolleys and buying plush toys is not, in fact, an adequate replacement for writing some funny lines.
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    Clarisse LoughreyIndependent (UK)
    The cast are so willing to put their egos aside -- like a children's party clown on their last resort -- that it's easy to be won over by all the goodwill on show.
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    Peter BradshawGuardian
    As they used to say in Mad magazine: yecch.
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    Sandra HallSydney Morning Herald
    This might matter if we had been encouraged to care more about the kids' fate, but the script is so bad that you care instead about the actors and their vain efforts to do something with its cliches.
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    Roxana HadadiChesapeake Family Magazine
    Playing with Fire makes increasingly strange choices that feel feel like the film itself is mocking the people who the smokejumpers have to save.
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    M.N. MillerReady Steady Cut
    Playing With Fire is relatively inoffensive, but this four-men-and-three-babies spin borders on tedious.
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    Hosea RupprechtPauline Center for Media Studies
    Playing with Fire isn't a great movie but it's good, clean fun.
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    Richard CrouseRichard Crouse
    Playing with Fire isn't Backdraft for kids. There are some fiery action scenes but kid friendly awkward humour is the name of the game here.
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    Zehra PhelanFlavourmag
    The physical comedy could be just the remedy to wash down all those Christmas leftovers, but let's face it, it's not going to burn the house down.
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