This week in the Deep Hurting Project's latest fit, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul. Between 2009 and 2011, 20th Century Fox released three movies based around the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. I recently decided to watch them all, in preparation for this review, and they were actually pretty decent. Then, they decided to reboot the series five years later. IT makes sense that they'd replace the kids, especially since Zachary Gordon (who played Greg Heffley), by this point, would be, at the youngest, ready to graduate high school. But they decided to replace everyone else as well. And then, they chose, of all the books to adapt, the one where fans generally agree that things started to go downhill.
Other Notes:
1) Bigfoot vs. D.B. Cooper
2) Drive Hard PROBABLY NEXT WEEK
3) Pressure Point
Other Notes:
- Well, at least they look like the cast of the original movie, at least except for Alicia Silverstone's Mrs. Heffley. It's like they decided all they needed to
- Way to include Corny's, but not include the one thing I remembered about it:
- This "it's a diaper" scene was just shit payoff. Especially since the original three movies kept the gross shit in line.
- The scene where Greg sets up how much he loves playing video games more than more traditional kid activities was done so much better in Dog Days
- So, a Video Game expo is in the same state as MeeMaw's 90th birthday party. It's not like these states cover a shitton of ground.
- Owning a strange pet? A crazy hairstyle? These are questions for a guilty conscience?
- Wait, Manny's old enough for a pacifier? Isn't he canonically three?
- They have mini-safes in this Room 322-looking No Tell Motel room?
- Why is Rodrick, of all people, the one to point out how ridiculous the Bikini Armour trope is?
- How does nobody notice that Greg's clearly red, not orange?
- And why are the Heffley family so unfamiliar with Rodrick's Loded Diper music? Especially after this?
And on that? Charlie Wright's version of Rodrick in this movie seems to have regressed as well. Especially given that the version from the original film trilogy actually undergoes character development that may as well have never happened in this version. But despite the #notmyrodrick controversy, somehow, the fact that Mrs. Heffley undergoes an extreme level of character derailment gets overshadowed. Like the fact that she's reached the point where all she cares about is getting to MeeMaw's house and controlling her family's devices. In fairness, by that point, she did get that hard. - Better use of a Gravitron in a movie:
And, by an extraordinay coincidence, I actually checked that movie from the library the same week as this one. - Huh. Piggy's hacked into the minibar.
- Greg still hasn't figured out that sometimes, maps are at different scales?
- Well, what do you know; they play a clip from Sons of the Desert immediately before they lift a plot point directly from that movie.
- I can imagine crows being that smart, but not seagulls.
- Why the fuck does he have feet on both pedals?
- Apparently, The Hills Have Eyes is canon to this movie.
1) Bigfoot vs. D.B. Cooper
2) Drive Hard PROBABLY NEXT WEEK
3) Pressure Point
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.