The Windowed Kids Diary (sometimes known as DOAWK , Books Diary of the Wimpy Kid: The Movie is an American comedy action/animated comedy 2010 directed by Thor Freudenthal and based in Jeff Kinney's book of the same name. The film stars Zachary Gordon and Devon Bostick. Robert Capron, Rachael Harris, Steve Zahn, and ChloÃÆ' Â «Grace Moretz also have a prominent role. This is the first film in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, followed by three sequels, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011), Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012) and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017). The film earns $ 75.7 million with a budget of $ 15 million. This is the only film in the series directed by Freudenthal, which was replaced by David Bowers for the rest of the installment. The film was theatrically released on March 19, 2010 in the United States by 20th Century Fox.
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Plot
The movie begins with Rodrick waking his brother Greg, saying it's time for school. However, Rodrick Greg tricks, because this is the night. After the title sequence, Greg attends his first day of high school and finds up and down, like missing door missing in the boys' bathroom and difficulty getting a chair during lunch break. During P.E. lessons, he and his best friend Rowley escape from the Gladiator game and learn about Cheese Touch - a piece of rotten cheese on a basketball court that makes anyone who touched it into an outcast. Greg also meets Angie, a girl who isolates herself from other girls to survive. Greg declared his intention to be the most popular student in school.
At the end of the day, Rowley accidentally embarrasses the two boys by asking Greg if he wants to come and "play". Greg looks through Rodrick's yearbook at home and Rodrick catches them, threatening to kill Greg. The next day, Greg signs up for wrestling to become popular but suffers disgraceful losses against Fregley, a strange outcast, and Patty Farrell, Greg's mortal enemy from primary school. On Halloween, the two boys meet teens while doing tricks or treatments, and they are soaking wet by water. When Greg threatened to call the police, the teenagers chased them to his grandmother's house. Sometime later, Greg tries to make Rowley popular by changing his outfit style and appearance, and how he wears a backpack.
Children join the Security Patrol in an attempt to become popular, and they try to contest students who offer the opportunity to become a new cartoonist for the school newspaper. After Greg decides on Rowley's arms during the game the kids play, Rowley becomes very popular, and wins the contest. Greg became jealous of him. In Safety Patrol, Greg panicked when he found a truck that was identical to a teenager from Halloween, and hid the kids in the construction zone. He was found by a neighbor who blamed him for Rowley. To his own confusion, Rowley is suspended from Patrol, but Greg finally confesses to Rowley that he's in charge. Irritated and feeling betrayed because Greg did not confess to Mr. Winskey the head of the Safety Patrol for his actions, Rowley berated Greg for not being a good friend, and that all he cared about was himself. Rowley then ends their friendship, and befriends Collin who replaces Greg as Rowley's new friend.
Greg decides to pursue popularity without Rowley by joining in the school play. During the test, soprano Greg's voice got Dorothy's role; however, Patty threatens the teacher to transmit it. Greg signed up as a tree, hoping to throw apples at Patty during the play, but during practice, the trees were told they would not throw apples but instead sang a song. At the show, Greg refused to sing when Rodrick recorded the show, and started throwing apples, ending the game in chaos.
Later, Rodrick invented an invitation to a mother-daughter dear dance, which Greg tried hard to hide. As a result, Greg took his revenge by letting Manny read Rodrick's pornographic magazine. Rodrick was punished for leaving his magazine in the open where their brother, Manny, could find him, but Greg failed to make peace with Rowley.
One day at school, Rowley and Greg were facing each other. Patty and the other kids forced Greg and Rowley to fight; However, none of them are good at fighting. The Halloween teenagers arrive at the scene and force the school to escape, but catches Rowley and Greg. They forced Rowley to eat cheese before P.E. teachers forced them to flee. When the other kids realized that the Cheese had been moved from its original location and had been bitten, Greg covered Rowley by saying he ate it. This improves their friendship but makes Greg an outcast, because he is suspected of having a Cheese Touch.
When the yearbook is published, she and Rowley create a Class Favorite page as "The Best Friend." Strangely enough, people are brave enough to be close to Greg.
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Cast
- Zachary Gordon as Greg Heffley.
- Robert Capron as Rowley Jefferson, a childish friend of Greg.
- Devon Bostick as Rodrick Heffley, Greg's brother.
- Steve Zahn as Frank Heffley, Greg's father.
- Rachael Harris as Susan Heffley, Greg's mother.
- ChloÃÆ'Â Gr Grace Moretz as Angie Steadman, a seventh grader at Greg's school who is a reporter for the school newspaper.
- Karan Brar as Chirag Gupta, friend of Greg.
- Grayson Russell as Fregley, Greg's strange classmate.
- Laine MacNeil as Patty Farrell, Greg's great enemy.
- Alex Ferris as Collin Lee, Rowley's successor during his fight with Greg.
- Andrew McNee as Coach Malone, gym teacher Greg.
- Connor and Owen Fielding as Manny Heffley, Greg's younger brother.
- Belita Moreno as Mrs. Norton, acting teacher Greg.
Production
The movie creation Diary of a Wimpy Kid was in Vancouver and closed on October 16, 2009.
The official trailer for Wimpy Kid was released viral on January 21, 2010 and featured in theaters with Tooth Fairy . The poster for the film was released shortly after. Another trailer is shown with Percy Jackson & amp; the Olympians: The Lightning Thief .
The official Facebook account for Wimpy Kid has uploaded three clips from the movie, on March 1, 2010. In the UK and Ireland the movie was released in theaters on August 25, 2010.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack was released on CD by La La Land Records with a score compiled by Theodore Shapiro, containing 34 songs.
Distribution
Books Tie-in
A Kinney tie-in book, titled The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary was published on March 16, 2010, by Amulet Books (a printout from Abrams Books). These include movie stills, storyboards, preliminary concept images, and also behind-the-scenes information for chronicle-making chronicles. It also includes some new illustrations.
Home media
The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 3rd, 2010. The Blu-ray version featured six pages from Rowley's diary of the Awesome, Friendly Kid .
Reception
Critical response
Review the aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 53% approval rating, based on 106 reviews with an average rating of 5.5/10. The critical consensus of the website reads, "Unlike its bestselling source, Diary of a Wimpy Kid failed to put the preferred protagonist in the middle of his high school humor - and the underlying message drowned as a result. " It also holds a 56/100 ranking in Metacritic, based on 26 reviews, showing "mixed or averaged reviews". Roger Ebert gave the film three and a half stars out of four, writing, "It's lively, bright and funny, it's not stupid, it's not patronizing, it knows something about human nature." Glenn Whipp from Associated Press is less positive, saying, "In transferring the clean and precise humor of Kinney illustrations and prose to the big screen, the material loses a bit of its appeal." In the movie , host David Stratton gave the movie one star while co-host Margaret Pomeranz gave it half a star. Stratton called the film "tiring" and said there was "nothing interesting in the direction of Thor Freudenthal or the scenario." Pomeranz does not like the character of Greg Heffley, saying "I really think he's not fun, I do not want to spend time with him, I can not wait for the end of the movie."
box office
The film opened in second place at the $ 22.1 million weekend box office, behind Alice in Wonderland.
Despite the lack of specialized marketing, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid attracted a decent crowd, opening to $ 22.1 million around 3,400 screens at 3,077 sites, mainly beating the highly hyped The Bounty Hunter me. It was the greatest beginning ever for the adaptation of non-animated and non-fantasy children's books. Diary of the Wimpy Kid got more benefits in the first three days compared to other film adaptations on children's novels such as How to Eat Fried Worm and Hoot their entire run. The film grossed $ 64,003,625 in North America and $ 11,696,873 in other territories for a worldwide total of $ 75,700,498.
Accolades
Sequel
Three sequels were released respectively in 2011, 2012 and 2017. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules was released on March 25, 2011. It was based on the second book in the series, Rodrick Rules. Zachary Gordon took his role in this film. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days was released on August 3, 2012 and is based on The Last Straw and Dog Days , including scenes from both books. An animated short film, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Clown Class, released along with DVD Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days. A movie based on The Long Haul released in May 2017 features a new cast starring Jason Drucker, Alicia Silverstone, and Tom Everett Scott.
References
External links
- Official website
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid on IMDb
- Children's Books Wimpy at AllMovie
- Kid Wimpy's Book in Box Office Mojo
- Kid Wimpy's Book at Rotten Tomatoes
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