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

Allegra Clegg

Dan Ewen

Matt Lieberman

Kyle Strauts

Perry Beckham

Neil Caldwell

Devyn Dalton

Glenn Ennis

Grant Smith

David Edgar

Guy Bews

Leif Havdale

Jeff Sanca

Spencer Thomas

Rorelee Tio

Trevor Addie

Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle

Geoffrey Doran

Jason William Day

Steve Gray

Corbin Fox

Kathy Hubble

Gerald Paetz

Marny Eng

Chris Atkinson

Ronald Robinson

Luke Cormier

Rhys Williams

Corry Glass

Sherri Thomas

Jason Hawkins

Sean Oxenbury

Craig Jones

Alistair King

Jay Mitchell

Ramona Ramsay

Chris Cove

Jessica Yi

Peter Pacula

Steve Lamare

Andy Kopetsch

Ray Wohlford

Niall Fraser

Joshua Kjorven

Michael Leder

Gabriela Ceja Carrillo

Peter Wilke

Kieran Humphries

Darion Trotman

Monica Skipper

Katharina Brand

Dan Morrison

Spencer Ennis

Jonathan Alan Abbott

Matthew Tichenor

Alex Martinez

Joshua Marcoux

Lisa Van Velden

Loree Cameron

Daniel Parsons

Adriene Wyse

Mark Alexander

J.P. Bagshaw

Nadine Sekora

Kelly Zombor

Tyson Esau

Stuart Haggerty

Matt Reddy

Maya Batten-Young

Troy James Sobotka

James Kohne

Sergio Petre

Diane Schimpl

Leanne Currie

Mike Stroman

Daniel Pierce

Ryan Monro

Mackenzie Smith

Leon Rivers-Moore

Todd Hlagi

Rodger Schultz

Nick Quinn

Shane Kirr

Nicholas Dent

Tony Hyland

Carl Choquette

Erez Nakagawa

Robin Say

Rod Tigler-Wybrandi

David 'Pops' Fukakusa

Michael Cosman

Leon Serginson

David McIntosh

Cory Peters

John Dale

Michael J. LeGresley

Robert L. Sephton

Lee Anne Muldoon

Family

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Playing with Fire

Broken Road Productions

Nickelodeon Movies

Paramount Players

Walden Media

Paramount Pictures

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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