- DIAREY OF THE WIMPEY KID ACTORS MOVIE
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DIAREY OF THE WIMPEY KID ACTORS MOVIE
When Silverstone's Mom busts out the Spice Girls as an example of good music from her youth, I want to yell "Really? You were in Aerosmith videos!" (Seriously, "Cryin'" would have made for a good in-joke and given her a bit more character, but I'm guessing the royalties were higher).Ĭollectively, though, this family aren't bad to watch when they're just interacting, which is why it's a shame the movie has to contrive so much. He's just about the only family member who isn't an immediately obvious type, with Greg an unlucky straight arrow, Mom and Dad typical squares, and baby Manny a force of nature who occasionally says or does something smart for a cheap joke.
Newcomer Charlie Wright may be no Devon Bostick, but he's good enough to walk the fine line between oblivious delinquent and occasionally caring big bro with aplomb. Rodrick is clearly author (and co-screenwriter) Jeff Kinney's favorite character, still. But that's an extra meta-layer of humor parents needn't explain to their children.Ĭharlie Wright, left, and Jason Drucker Daniel McFadden/20th Century Fox
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Determined to become known for something else so as to clear his name, he plans to take a detour from an upcoming family road trip in order to attend a video game convention and meet his YouTube idol Mac Digby (Joshua Hoover), hoping he can appear on one of the Let's Play champion's viral videos.ĭirector Bowers couldn't have known that by the time this film actually came out, several gaming video hosts like PewDiePie, on whom Digby is loosely based, would be in trouble for bigoted, alt-right-ish content and remarks. Updating the 2014 novel to make it somewhat trendier, The Long Haul sees Greg (Jason Drucker) accidentally becoming an embarrassing viral meme after an encounter with an errant diaper. Unfortunately, like too many other kids' movies these days, it feels the need to layer on the defecation, vomit and splatter jokes that the filmmakers seem to think are necessary to keep the young ones' attention. Like the former, it wants to show us that chaotic family times make for great memories nonetheless like the latter, it has a message about how the family that goes through hell together can dish it out as a team when the time is right.
Though it and the two subsequent movies including this one all share the same director, David Bowers, I have to admit he's gotten better but really, the only place to go was up.įor parents, The Long Haul will immediately bring to mind better movies like A Christmas Story and National Lampoon's Vacation. My only prior experience with the cinematic iteration was seeing the second film, Rodrick Rules, and while Devon Bostick ( The 100) made a positive impression as bad-but-not-evil big brother Rodrick, to say the movie itself was mostly garbage would be kind, since garbage is often somewhat rewarding if you like to watch raccoons approach.
The cast were never really the draw, after all, with a young Chloe Moretz and Steve Zahn the biggest names attached to part one while there may be some curiosity among folks my age to see Alicia Silverstone playing the mom this time around, it is once more the concept that is king. On a $22 million budget, presuming the core fan base remains and that families want a counter-programming option for Fox's other big release this week (the decidedly family unfriendly Alien: Covenant), it ought to bring in about the same as its predecessors.
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A fourth film was initially ruled unlikely due to the cast aging, but the prospect of easily doubling their money again appealed enough to Fox that the studio's doing a full reboot with a totally new cast.for the ninth book in the series.
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