I often end up writing in my reviews that it’s all about the journey not the destination, and that’s certainly true here. The Long Haul is one that you can see writers coming up with, fingers crossed that the film will be so great it won’t just become a lazily easy way to start to a critical review. And for me one of the most enjoyable aspects was watching him collapsing into hysterics at every fart joke, toilet scene and nose-picking incident. Put me off owning a pig, mind…ĭiary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul is in UK cinemas now.It’s only fair that I point out that while I wasn’t particularly impressed with this film, my 7 year old – surely the movie’s core market – adored it and insists it deserves five stars. I think that’s worth cherishing, and I think The Long Haul is worth seeing. None of us were suggesting that it was the best film we’d ever seen, but each of us walked out with a smile on our face, having enjoyed a satisfying hour and a half in the movies. I was genuinely surprised when I read the reviews on my way out. The critical mauling and strangely depressed US box office take seems to make that a long shot, though. I think it sits well against the previous three films, and I’d like to see more of them. It’d be remiss for me not to note that my eldest, a Wimpy Kid devotee, quibbled that Rodrick does something near the end that Rodrick would, in his eyes, never do.īut then we all had a really fun time. Director David Bowers, making his third Wimpy Kid film, keeps things snappy and moving along too, and brings the journey to a close just as 90 minutes has been clocked up.Īs with many road movies, I did find that it was running out of gas as it went into its final strait, as situations become heightened. I yearned a bit for Steve Zahn’s take on Frank, not because of anything Tom Everett-Scott does wrong, but more because I think Steve Zahn lifts pretty much any thing I see him in. The new cast are impressive, to the point where – with no disrespect intended to the company old or new – I accepted them as the characters in seconds. Two solid days of driving, where phones are banned, family time is on the agenda, and a 90th birthday party lies at the other end of the road. In this case, we learn that young Greg and his family – brothers Rodrick and baby Manny, mother Susan and father Frank – are going on a road trip. I was expecting something akin to a reboot, but the skillful, unfussy way that the films have always aligned Jeff Kinney’s artwork to the humans on screen means that the new faces are dealt with in seconds. But young performers grow old and so, five years after Diary Of A Wimpy Kid 3, The Long Haul arrives with the same director (David Bowery), author Jeff Kinney still heavily involved, but a totally new cast. I’ve enjoyed the first three, and particular applaud the quite brilliantly cast company of young performers. Last weekend, then, rather than attend a press show, I took my children of varying ages (which tends to be how children work) to the new Wimpy Kid film, The Long Haul. I’ve got plenty of time afterwards to assess just how wrong I am in the eyes of the world. Where possible, I try and write a review of a film without having seen anyone else’s opinions of it first.
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