When he lands at Hills Village Middle School, the place seems beautiful-clean, pristine, seemingly untouched by the hands of any young prankster-and he’s immediately turned off by the antics of Principal Dwight (Andy Daly, of “Big Miracle”) and his enforcer Ida Stricker (Retta), who prioritize standardized testing and rules instead of student creativity.
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At only 92 minutes, the film careens between plot points, and its tonal inconsistencies make for long stretches of time where you won’t laugh at all-not ideal for a movie presenting itself as a tween comedy.īased on the first in a series of young-adult books by James Patterson, the film focuses on Rafe Khatchadorian (Griffin Gluck), a middle schooler who has bounced around various schools and is in danger of going to a military academy if he doesn’t shape up. That’s a pretty generalized synopsis of “Middle School,” but the film would have done better if it had streamlined in such a way-it’s the movie’s numerous subplots and overstuffed narrative that are its undoing. After deciding to fight back in the form of pranks, he learns that he didn’t know the adults around him-or himself-as well as he thought he did. Like a cross between “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life” tells the story of a creative, misunderstood kid who chafes under the stringent rules of his authoritarian principal. There are some good character relationships and amusing jokes here, but the film tries a bit too hard.
‘Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life’ attempts to channel the subversive cool of ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ in its story about a teenage boy bucking against the rules of his middle school. Recurring animation sequences that include characters drawn as zombies some bullying some rule-breaking involved with pulling off the pranks a crush between two teenagers some kissing some rude jokes and bathroom humor and the mention of a character who passed away. This film based on the popular children’s book series is about an artistic middle school student who chafes under the many rules of his new school and who decides to wage a war against his new principal.
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