A group of kids are marooned at an airport on Christmas Eve in the children’s film UNACCOMPANIED MINORS. Charlie, Spencer, Grace, Timothy and Donna, kids from differing backgrounds and regions of the country, meet in an unaccompanied minors waiting area at Chicago’s Hoover International airport. After being stuck in the waiting facility longer than they’d like, the five kids elect to sneak out of the area, despite the airport’s stringent child care policy.
UNACCOMPANIED MINORS steals the playbook from another modern Holiday favorite, but doesn’t have either the sense of joy, or players to pull it off. This HOME ALONE at the airport, substitutes one child for five, and allows the kids to have an entire airport to wreak havoc on instead of one lonely house. This may sound like a good time, at least if you’re between the ages of eight and twelve, but UNACCOMPANIED MINORS never seizes the spirit of a rambunctious kid in the proverbial candy store. There’s little joy or fun to be had, and the young actors and actresses reflect this. Outside of Tyler James Williams, who played a young Chris Rock on EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS, none of the other adolescent thespians appeared to be enjoying themselves. The writing doesn’t allow for much fun, which includes two lame sub-plots involving a tormented little girl, and her environmentally-conscious father who is forced to drive a Hummer to reach his kids. UNACCOMPANIED MINORS could have used a little more writing supervision, and a little less acting supervision.
Grade: D+
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