John Cena

Keegan-Michael Key

John Leguizamo

Tyler Mane

Brianna Hildebrand

Christian Convery

Finley Rose Slater

Judy Greer

Dennis Haysbert

Daniel Cudmore

Tommy Europe

Chris Webb

Brad Kelly

Lynda Boyd

Jessica Garcie

Kurt Long

Nova Ryzen Smith

Latonya Williams

Enid-Raye Adams

Mark Chavez

Jasmine Vega

Shelby Wulfert

Ash Lee

Darcy Hinds

Ieisha Auyeung

Marshall Bingham

Paul Potts

Nova

Kingsley

Andrea Libman

Kristine Wilson

Dan Ewen

Matt Lieberman

Allegra Clegg

Marny Eng

Corbin Fox

Spencer Thomas

Leif Havdale

Rhys Williams

Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle

Kyle Strauts

Rorelee Tio

Corry Glass

Kathy Hubble

Devyn Dalton

Ronald Robinson

Jason William Day

Trevor Addie

Gerald Paetz

Glenn Ennis

Perry Beckham

David Edgar

Grant Smith

Chris Atkinson

Alistair King

Neil Caldwell

Luke Cormier

Guy Bews

Jeff Sanca

Geoffrey Doran

Steve Gray

Jonathan Alan Abbott

Jay Mitchell

Lisa Van Velden

Sherri Thomas

Loree Cameron

Steve Lamare

Andy Kopetsch

Matt Reddy

Ray Wohlford

Jason Hawkins

Katharina Brand

J.P. Bagshaw

Nadine Sekora

Ramona Ramsay

Gabriela Ceja Carrillo

Peter Wilke

Dan Morrison

Spencer Ennis

Matthew Tichenor

Alex Martinez

Joshua Marcoux

Kieran Humphries

Joshua Kjorven

Darion Trotman

Adriene Wyse

Leon Rivers-Moore

Monica Skipper

Chris Cove

Kelly Zombor

Michael Leder

Daniel Parsons

Stuart Haggerty

Niall Fraser

Sean Oxenbury

Maya Batten-Young

Tyson Esau

Mark Alexander

Craig Jones

Mike Stroman

Troy James Sobotka

Leon Serginson

David McIntosh

Daniel Pierce

Robin Say

Ryan Monro

Nicholas Dent

Todd Hlagi

Jessica Yi

Mackenzie Smith

James Kohne

Sergio Petre

Tony Hyland

Peter Pacula

Nick Quinn

Carl Choquette

Cory Peters

Shane Kirr

Rod Tigler-Wybrandi

John Dale

David 'Pops' Fukakusa

Rodger Schultz

Erez Nakagawa

Diane Schimpl

Michael Cosman

Leanne Currie

Linda Bishop

Gillian Richards

Alex Burdett

Family

Comedy

Playing with Fire

Broken Road Productions

Nickelodeon Movies

Paramount Players

Walden Media

United States of America

English

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SWITCH.

Paramount has proved themselves with ‘Instant Family’ and this year's ‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’, showing they can really work some magic and create really funny, wholesome, heartwarming live action family films, and ‘Playing with Fire’ could have been in that bunch if it wasn’t so cheap and derivative. While Cena charms, the rest of the film isn’t that hot.
- Chris dos Santos

Read Chris' full article...
https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-playing-with-fire-put-out-this-flaming-mess

Perfectly harmless movie squarely aimed at kids, but I did manage to chuckle a few times even with the overacting. Also helps that I do genuinely like the cast, John Cena and Keegan-Michael Key. Nothing I'd be keen on watching again, but still was an okay time-waster. **2.75/5**

Kamurai

Decent watch, probably won't watch again, and can only recommend for younger audiences.

Nickelodeon has done some weird things, and putting together this cast is one of them.  It's a great cast, but it's not really what I could consider a kid's movie cast.

I don't think any kids would know Dennis Haysbert or Judy Greer, and I kind of hope they wouldn't know John Leguizamo, Keegan-Michael Key, or Brianna Hildebrand, but they might know John Cena if they know wrestling.

There is a lot of things that happen in this movie with very little happening at the same time.  It's actually a sweet (if ridiculous) concept, but for most of the movie there is very little weight to it other than laughing at the misfortune of these good civil servants.

A lot of the jokes are too "grown up" without being good, or too "kiddy" for me to enjoy.  I'm not saying it isn't funny for bubbles to fill a room, but context still helps (see "Just My Luck"), and using that as an example, there is actually a good sequence of misfortune right before the bubble scene that sets it up so I know they know how to do it, but they chose to do it another way.

For what should have been really good just came out decent.

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