Silly satire of competitive dads has some iffy humor.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 8, 2013

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Does better on DVD than it did on the big screen, as long as your expectations aren't too high.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Feb 3, 2006

The cornball humor and aw- shucks demeanor often make the Disney Channel seem edgy by comparison.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 13, 2005

Imbecilic, unreasonable and wretchedly unfunny.... The film is 5,580 seconds long, and not one of those seconds is believable.

| Original Score: F | Apr 18, 2005

A simple pleasure from start to finish.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2005

It's all about these fathers and how crazy they are.

Full Review | Apr 18, 2005

Typical for this type of family-skewing comedy, performances vacillate between engagingly broad and annoyingly overstated.

Full Review | Apr 15, 2005

Heads in predictable directions and illuminates little besides the process of crafting cars to compete in the Scouts' Pinewood Derby.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 15, 2005

Crammed with charmless characters and/or hammy performances.

Full Review | Apr 15, 2005

The Pinewood Derby is a tradition dating back more than 50 years, but it's doubtful Down and Derby will hang around for more than a week.

Full Review | Apr 15, 2005

[A] decent old-school family film (with cuddly lessons and morals).

| Original Score: B- | Apr 15, 2005

Too often the movie defies description as a comedy.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 15, 2005

Down and Derby has the look and feel of something that might turn up on a cable channel devoted to 'family-friendly' entertainment, where it might find a greater audience.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Apr 15, 2005

Down and Derby is amusing enough to make a bit of money at the box office and become a shelf-stable DVD for years to come.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 15, 2005

[The] family-friendly slapstick is pitched at such a manic high... that the results are more exhausting than amusing.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 15, 2005

It has moments of fun, but... In racing terms, it limps toward the finish line and comes up short.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 15, 2005

The cartoonish movie might have made for a funny half-hour short or sitcom pilot but runs out of track well before its conclusion.

| Apr 14, 2005

Like a snow cone with no syrup, Down and Derby leaves us high and dry in the moral-of-the-story department.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 14, 2005

It should be required viewing for moms and dads tempted to write their children's essays, create Power Point presentations for their science projects and build their Pinewood Derby cars.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 14, 2005