Rock of Ages

"It's the best movie," says Thing 2 (still, three days after we sat through it) about Disney's "The Game Plan." Enough people agree (or like me took girls who agreed) to sell an estimated $42.8 million tickets since release and put it into the top spot among movies in American theaters for the second week in a row.

I'd beg to differ, but what would be the point? Not that I wouldn't be supported by a bunch of critics paid to take a look at a slickly produced movie filled with obvious product placements and plotted along standard daddy (i.e., "the Rock") meets daughter (i.e., Madison Pettis), daddy (football hero) loses daughter (ballerina, runaway), daddy (Super Bowl MPV) gets daughter (living happily ever after orphan no more) lines.

Or, as supporting actor Morris Chestnut says, it's a "he grows ... she grows ... beautiful story."



Just as father-child stories always are on Disney's Planet Daddy and often are on planet Earth.

** Rock Dwayne Johnson can actually father — he has a 6-year-old with an ex-wife — but you'd never know if from this movie if the dialogue didn't say so. **