Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

tiger2103 Not a great movie. Maybe if you're a pre-teen, but not for adults. BTW, thanks for instilling in my children that it's okay to be disrespectful and rebellious toward authority figures, basically with no consequences. And please tell me why Rafe put the lighter to the sprinkler system immediately without letting the principal respond to his request. Oh that's right because it made for a colorful silly dance scene, to heck with common sense! Skip this one.... watch the Diary movies again, instead.

chubbydave This movie is basically a rip-off of two previous projects. One is Kirby Buckets. The main character, like Kirby, is a gifted cartoonist, and just like Kirby, he imagines his drawing coming to life and participating in the drama. Another is 100 Things to Do Before High School starring the breathtakingly beautiful and talented Isabela Moner. Sadly, this movie isn't nearly as good as either Kirby Buckets or 100 Things. Kirby had a great cast with Eli and Fish as buds, the evil sister Dawn and a whacked out school principal which set the stage for some great comedy. In this movie, the main character is a loner with only one imaginary friend.The plot is a troubled boy as the new kid in a middle school with an overbearing principal. He gets in trouble and fights back and uses his vivid imagination to pull some pranks that every middle school kid can only dream about. It lacks depth as it's just one boy against the principal. There are no buddies.Some of the pranks are interesting. The breathtakingly lovely Isabela Moner has a small part. But other than that, you'd be better off just watching reruns of Kirby Buckets.

david-sarkies I'm really not all that sure why I watched this – basically it is a kid's version of Ferris Bueler's Day Out, and it wasn't even that good. Okay, maybe it had something to do with the protagonist wanting to get one up on the principle, particularly since the principle is one of those principles that wants to run his school like a concentration camp. The other thing is that here in Australia we really don't have Middle School, well yes and no – but not really like what they have in the United States. However, I wanted to get out of the house, and this was the only movie that I hadn't seen, so I decided to give it a shot.Well, it turned out to be pretty shocking, but then again I probably was looking for a movie to give a low rating to. Also, being stuck in a cinema full of kids, and being the only adult there without any kids in tow, does sort of make me feel like the odd one out. However, I guess it had something to do with the Ferris Beuler's element that initially attracted me to it, and also that there was nothing else on. However the film was predictable, especially when this kid pops up that looks a lot like our protagonist, I pretty quickly worked out that he was imaginary. As for the step father – well, he was shocking, and incredibly stereotypical as well. Mind you the whole horrible stepmom, stepdad, sort of creates this image of the single guy without any kids marrying a single mom – you are basically going to expect the kids to hate you because that is what they are being fed (and I have seen it happen).Anyway, the film involves our protagonist starting a new school to discover that the principle, as I mentioned, is running it like a prison. He is stuck in the remedial class, which are full of the never-do-wells. However, the principle has also this standardised test coming up, and he wants his school to ace it as well. However, as it turns out, our protagonist wants to teach the principle a lesson, and goes out of his way to break as many rules as possible, without actually getting caught. In the end, as we can probably work out, we know who's going to win in the end – it's a no brainer.

Michelle Panacre I was expecting a rip-off of "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid" films with similar toilet and slapstick humour - I was hoping for it as well, wanting a cringe-worthy film like HSM.Instead what I found was not a patronizing, garden-variety kids movie. It is surprisingly creative - every time I thought the plot was leaning towards a clichéd "moral of the story" kind of trend (standing up to the bully/becoming popular and ignoring old friend/prank master) the movie was original and refreshing.GOTTA say i really loved how current this film was (soundtrack is all popular pop songs and well suited to this movie type - Drake was mentioned and the kid "Shon" or "Sean" or whatever CRACKED me up)Plus, the animated parts were interesting and just childlike enough that the films more serious sub- themes didn't become tedious.The acting was decent and the characters (apart from 'bear') weren't so archetypal that it was hard to digest.(this movie made me cry ((a LOT)) and thus, 10/10)