An ex-con is trying to go straight and be a good dad to his daughter. He agrees to chaperone his daughter's class field trip. However two criminal associates of his chase after him and hijinks ensue. This is a lukewarm attempt by pro wrestler Paul Levesque (aka Triple H) to follow the Rock into making family movies like The Tooth Fairy. It's not bad for what it is but I was kind of surprised to find it wasn't made for television. Levesque is perfectly fine in his role. He does nothing to impress or offend. It's nothing special but kids and people wanting to watch innocuous 'action' movies might like it. Also I guess big wrestling fans might like it.

a friend came over with a copy of this movie, and we watched it together. the story is quite simple, and a little bit cliché. a former criminal gets released from prison, and wants to better his life. of course he got a child, with whom he has a broken relationship. how does this plot work? at first the story seems fine and serious enough, he wants to change and make some choices. but as soon as he gets to involved in a bank robbery, it goes down hill for the story. he gets some changes to be mature and do the right things, like in the beginning, but for some reason he does the stupidest things he can do. i think that it was the writers idea to get the story going, but it just seems so stupid and drain the movie for the seriousness, that made it interesting at the beginning. the ending hit the bottom. first of all, the children steal a bus, without consequences. oh, i guess they dropped the charges because they went after the bad guys? and the way that the police were alarmed (and how quick they arrived), really made me and my friend laugh, because it was so unintentional stupid. but despite all the stupidity, there were also a few good laughs from the comedy in this movie. how was the acting? the acting was, what you can expect from some B actors. not good, but also not that horrible. don't expect to much. what else to say? APPLE! yeah, apple must have been the main sponsor for this movie. its like a long commercial for their products. they not only mention, every single of their products several times, they also show them all the time. everybody has for example an iphone. i guess that they really needed the money from apple to make this movie, but all the product placement just seems ridiculous and cheesy. can i recommend this movie? in a way yes. if you can look beside all the stupidness, and want to watch a movie with your family, you may actually enjoy it. all in all it isn't that horrible as either a family movie or a comedy.

This film will appeal to several groups of people, especially those who can remember the great family entertainment films of 1930 - 1940, made by MGM, Columbia, RKO, Paramount, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. This type of 'juvenile script' created some great films with 'Boys Town' being the prime example.'The Chaperone'starring Paul Levesque, as got a very interesting 'Ive been around and don't mess around with me' new actor in it called Paul Levesque. Living in England I have not heard of him before, nor am I a wrestling fan. My views are: To hell with his wrestling background name of Triple H, to hell with the all too familiar body building and the toned in the gym muscle look, this guy Levesque can act. I can see suggestions and shades of Bond, James Bond in him. My other favourite player was the school teacher with the squeaky voice, Yeardley Smith, who stole all her scenes and is another 'Thelma Ritter'- of Pillow Talk fame- if ever I saw one. The young girl who played Paul's daughter, Ariel Winter, was good she's only 13, so hang around 10 years and she maybe heading for the red carpet. The main group of boys on the bus especially Romeo, Israel Broussard, were winners. Admittedly this films another Boys Town that takes part on a bus, it was fun. There was two new stars in this film, Paul Levesque, and Yeardley Smith, the Thelma Ritter teacher, Romeo, Israel Broussard was robbed by not having a bigger, more revealing part to play. Paul's next film should show him playing the part of an down on his luck hobo who buys a newspaper to find work, he goes for a job interview as a gardener and odd-job man but is hired as the butler / bodyguard to a crippled Bond character of MI5 fame. This elderly Bond is recovering from another Smersh attack and Levesque plays the 'My Man Godfrey role' who rescues him. Levesque as Godfrey saves the day and scores are settled with Smersh and they walk off into the sunset. Thank you to the writers and producers and all the other dogs-bodies. The casting was brave, well picked and believable which is quite rare today.

At first i thought " oh great another wrestler falls into the kiddie film trap"..(thank god the rock is working his way out of this) but as it turns out i actually enjoyed the film...by no stretch of the imagination is it a great achievement in cinema but i have only 2 criteria that make a movie good for me... 1. did it keep my attention? 2. Did it entertain me? This movie did keep my attention and did entertain me...so therefore by my logic a decent film... implausible plot...of course impossible action...duh but i cant stand when people criticize films because the plot just "couldnt happen" in real life...but that is why it's a movie!!! it is made to entertain at least one demographic...in the case of the Chaperone...it entertained more.