BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

annevejb On the surface this has lots of weak acting by the kids, a particular verbal style, and I like the review that suggests that being tolerant is worth it, that these are just kids after all. These days there is a rather high standard in the quality of stories on film, but most of the best include flaws. Including deliberate flaws. The 'weak acting' is glaring, more than is often the case, but look the other way there is a story and, cringe of cringes, I wonder if the weak acting is actually a built in part of the story. To guess that I look to the final scene when ghost catcher is definitely wearing a bra. It seemed likely before but here the broad strap around her back stands out under her top. Also, the ham verbal style is gone. That disappeared after the ghost showed catcher an object that catcher needed. As a double check, if one looks to other features that the ghost catcher, Brittany Robertson, has had a part, small roles in Jesse Stone, Night Passage (2006) and Keeping Up With The Steins (2006), there is varied styles of acting of solid quality. To like this I needed to be able to shrug off the flaws. If the ham is deliberate I would prefer otherwise in this case. I still found it practical to get to like this. I assume that the very young might like this story and to them the flaws might not be blatant, more the way that stories for the very, very young sometimes are? Those who are returning to childhood. Those who have been sunk to the level of ghost might find Ghost Club to be easy to work to like. If not seen too often. Others, well it is called the The Ghost Club, after all. This does not have the popularity rating of an animal's shrieking shack. Further, what the story is, I am not so sure that is a relevant issue. What counts is other. There has been an adventure that entailed spy and inventor and younger brother and occasionally older brother joining ghost catcher to save her family, with the help of someone long dead. Ghost catcher grows in a rather nice and well rounded way and that is what counts. * From a different angle. If I take the story seriously it makes for an interesting comparison with My Girl (1991). That has Vada facing a disastrous rite of passage that leads to her wearing a symbolic bra. It has a much wider appeal than the Ghost Club will ever have. My Girl is not a story for the youngest, though.

tmburr My 6 year old enjoys this movie, but hasn't a clue of course in the unbelievability of the storyline, and this excludes the "mission" of the children with regards to communicating with a ghost.The incredibly "slow, straight faced" acting of especially the mother of the children when she finds out about the IRS is unbelievable.Without researching the claim at all of this huge debt supposedly owed, she simply shuffles away, leaving a teenager in charge of her business for 2 weeks?!?No reaction except "we owe the IRS money (enough to purchase a home in some parts of the country)but don't worry kids, everything will be fine." (no tears? no frantic calls to the IRS?) Botox injections must have been administered throughout, this lady's acting is worse than amateur.But maybe the realistic details were purposely left out. Maybe the realistic reaction that would be expected from the mother and grandmother (where is the father and grandfather??)was not important after all, this was suppose to be for kids who would not understand such details in the first place.The children's acting was a reflection of the director. Sure they could have put a little more "spunk" into their parts, but it seems the children's acting style simply was following the acting style of the adults in the movie: SLOW.

FamMon I just rented this for my children from TWC's OnDemand. I couldn't finish watching it and I don't even think my 6-year-old will make it to the end. Frankly, we're all mad because we were charged $3.95, the same price as a new movie. This movie is lame in EVERY cinematic category. Nothing personal to the child actors. Your criticized performance is not your fault. That's why you have a director. Unfortunately, the director did not have a director. I just rented this for my children from TWC's OnDemand. I couldn't finish watching it and I don't even think my 6-year-old will make it to the end. Frankly, we're all mad because we were charged $3.95, the same price as a new movie. This movie is lame in EVERY cinematic category. Nothing personal to the child actors. Your criticized performance is not your fault. That's why you have a director. Unfortunately, the director did not have a director.

sajeffre The acting in this movie was like lead and some of the worst I have seen. Not just the kids, but the adults as well.I know this is a kid's movie, but even my imaginary play was more creative than this.The script is awful, the acting worse, every "twist" is expected, and there is really no suspense at all.The animated movies we watch with my son are so much better in script etc. Perhaps not the worst movie ever, but pretty close.The characters are too "obvious" and the concept is no better than the imaginary play that I used to engage in as a child.