Although the story centers on a hostage situation, the kidnappers are inept and the film "practically oozes kid-pleasing content".

Melissa lives in the shadow of Tripp Zoome, the adventurous and clever hero from her father's popular spy novels.

Before a long overdue father-daughter vacation, her father gets kidnapped by obsessive fans: Wheeze with his friend, Sheldon and his brother, Andre.

As he runs, pursued by his tormentors, Maurice and Skunk, still tied up, come out and see this and, regretting what they've done, use the floss they're bound in to trip Merv, knocking him down and causing him to land face-first into a pile of trash.

David Nusair called the movie (along with Hatching Pete) "typically underwhelming Disney Channel fare.