Dadnapped
It stars Emily Osment, Jason Earles, Moises Arias, David Henrie, Phill Lewis all from other Disney Channel Original Movies and Original Series.
Plot
Dadnapped tells the story of Melissa Morris (Emily Osment) who desperately tries to gain more attention from her always preoccupied father, Neal, a best-selling author (George Newbern). Melissa lives in the shadow of Tripp Zoome (Jonathan Keltz), 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 (David Henrie), Andre (Moises Arias), and Sheldon (Denzel Whitaker). The tables turn however, whenever she must team up with them to find and rescue him from Merv (Jason Earles), and brothers Maurice (Phill Lewis) and Skunk (Charles Halford).
It turns out Merv is just using Skunk and Maurice as part of a plan to get Neil to write one final book using his daughter as a reader. Wheeze, Andre and Sheldon get all of the Trip Zoome fans in town to gather together to rescue Melissa and Neil and they attack when Mellisa manages to signal them.
The fans attack Merv, Maurice and Skunk and they try to run but are stopped by more fans. Merv sneaks out with Neal while Skunk and Maurice go after Mellisa who escapes.
Merv nearly gets away, but Sheldon, who had been trying to find where everyone went, spots him and alerts everyone else. As he runs, Skunk and Maurice, still tied up, come out and see this and regretting what they've done use what they're tied up with to trip Merv, knocking him down and ending his escape.
Wheeze gives his number to Melissa before she and her father leave on their long-overdue vacation.
Starring Cast
Emily Osment as Melissa Morris
David Henrie as Wheeze
Jason Earles as Merv Kilbo
Jonathan Keltz as Tripp Zoome
Moises Arias as Andre
Denzel Whitaker as Sheldon
Charles Halford as Skunk
Phill Lewis as Maurice
George Newbern as Neal Morris
Reception
The movie was considered a success. It scored 4.6 million viewers, outdoing Nickelodeon's movie, Spectacular!, by 39%, which premiered at the same time as Dadnapped.
Merchandise
Dadnapped: Junior Novel is a book based on the movie, which was due to be released September 30, 2008 in the US and October 21, 2008 in the UK, but the release date was changed to February 2009 for unknown reasons.