Borrowing liberally from both The Parent Trap' and The Great Escape, this misguided attempt at family farce rests on a couple of incompatible premises -- romantic matchmaking and imprisoned dispair.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 26, 2014

When you scrape through the bottom of the comedy barrel and root around underneath it, this tedious morsel of drivel is what you will find.

| Jul 26, 2014

The performances of both adults and youngsters are uniformly strong and, despite the occasional invasion of sentimentality, this makes for thoughtful entertainment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 26, 2014

[A] predictable and sugarcoated (even criminally negligent) take on The Parent Trap.

| Original Score: D- | Jun 14, 2013

To the slim degree that it qualifies as a comedy, House Arrest is a comedy with rank amateur pathos, and it's totally out of touch with its own superficially treated emotions.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 14, 2013

Only Pollak and Curtis create any semblance of character in this tapestry of stereotype, but the movie doesn't give them enough to do as the louder idiots take to the fore with clumsily imagined escape gambits.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 14, 2013

Parents of America: Beware! Should you choose to sit through this insufferable bit of high-concept fluff, you will feel as though you have been unlawfully detained for nearly two hours.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 29, 2013

A headache of a movie with a Parent Trap premise that quickly devolves into clamorous farce.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 29, 2013

Between the laughs beats a serious theme about the real victims in families pulled apart by lack of intimacy and the threat of divorce.

| May 29, 2013

One of the year's worst movies... at least I hope so, or it's going to be a very bad year.

| Original Score: 0/4 | May 29, 2013

A tepid and repetitious comedy.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 18, 2005

As I think about it, nothing much happens during the movie except for the parents making multiple attempts to escape and the kids foiling them every step. In a sentence, that's the story.

| Original Score: D+ | Apr 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 24, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 16, 2004

MGM can make millions with House Arrest. All they have to do is allow free admittance, and charge $10 a head for those wanting to run out of the theater before the end credits roll.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 6, 2003

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 16, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 10, 2002

| Original Score: 73/100 | Sep 10, 2002

It seems that in bad comedies children always know better than their parents, and House Arrest plays out that tired premise for nearly two hours.

| Jun 5, 2002