Review of Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) by Campbell P — 06 Jun 2015

I grew up reading the Wimpy kid books and I think it matched the books pretty well. It's about Greg Heffley and his middle school struggles and the wacky encounters he has there. While this is a good adapted screenplay the movie itself is not great.

For one thing the acting is not great. Greg and the parents were pretty alright but everyone else barely tried I felt. There were really unnecessary special effects too that were really obnoxious actually.

There's a scene with a snowy background but it's a painfully obvious green screen and just stuff like that. Some of the jokes also felt really forced since this is adapted from a book and it was almost like they felt they HAD to have the same joke.

There were some really awkward jokes in there that were really cringeworthy actually and it really fell flat sometimes. A parent can go into this movie and enjoy it for sure, it's pretty entertaining sometimes but kids will most likely really dig it.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a slightly above average kids movie that stays faithful to its source material. C+.