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User Rating:
5.2/10   1,630 votes
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Director:
Bob Dolman
Writers (WGA):
Bob Dolman (screenplay)
Thomas Rockwell (novel)
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Release Date:
25 August 2006 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Family more
Tagline:
New town. New friends. New menu. more
Plot:
During the first day of his new school year, a fifth grade boy squares off against a bully and winds up accepting a dare that could change the balance of power within the class. | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations more
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Fried Worms is delicious! more (26 total)

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MPAA:
Rated PG for mild bullying and some crude humor.
Runtime:
98 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
SDDS | DTS | Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Austin, Texas, USA
Company:
Gran Via more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Hallie Kate Eisenberg had to learn archery before filming began. more
Goofs:
Continuity: After worm explodes in microwave, its guts splatter on the glass, and then disappear in next shot. more
Quotes:
Adam: Oh, hi Uncle Ed.
Uncle Ed: What's this?
Adam: I was just givin' you a hand in here.
Uncle Ed: Last time you tried to give me a hand, you almost chopped your thumb off!
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Movie Connections:
Features Dance Dance Revolution (1998) (VG) more
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Move Your Feet more

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6 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
Fried Worms is delicious!, 16 September 2006
8/10
Author: Omar Mouallem from Edmonton, Alberta

It's a strange feeling to sit alone in a theater occupied by parents and their rollicking kids. I felt like instead of a movie ticket, I should have been given a NAMBLA membership.

Based upon Thomas Rockwell's respected Book, How To Eat Fried Worms starts like any children's story: moving to a new town. The new kid, fifth grader Billy Forrester was once popular, but has to start anew. Making friends is never easy, especially when the only prospect is Poindexter Adam. Or Erica, who at 4 1/2 feet, is a giant.

Further complicating things is Joe the bully. His freckled face and sleeveless shirts are daunting. He antagonizes kids with the Death Ring: a Crackerjack ring that is rumored to kill you if you're punched with it. But not immediately. No, the death ring unleashes a poison that kills you in the eight grade.

Joe and his axis of evil welcome Billy by smuggling a handful of slimy worms into his thermos. Once discovered, Billy plays it cool, swearing that he eats worms all the time. Then he throws them at Joe's face. Ewww! To win them over, Billy reluctantly bets that he can eat 10 worms. Fried, boiled, marinated in hot sauce, squashed and spread on a peanut butter sandwich. Each meal is dubbed an exotic name like the "Radioactive Slime Delight," in which the kids finally live out their dream of microwaving a living organism.

If you've ever met me, you'll know that I have an uncontrollably hearty laugh. I felt like a creep erupting at a toddler whining that his "dilly dick" hurts. But Fried Worms is wonderfully disgusting. Like a G-rated Farrelly brothers film, it is both vomitous and delightful.

Writer/director Bob Dolman is also a savvy storyteller. To raise the stakes the worms must be consumed by 7 pm. In addition Billy holds a dark secret: he has an ultra-sensitive stomach.

Dolman also has a keen sense of perspective. With such accuracy, he draws on children's insecurities and tendency to exaggerate mundane dilemmas.

If you were to hyperbolize this movie the way kids do their quandaries, you will see that it is essentially about war. Freedom-fighter and freedom-hater use pubescent boys as pawns in proxy wars, only to learn a valuable lesson in unity. International leaders can learn a thing or two about global peacekeeping from Fried Worms.

At the end of the film, I was comforted when two chaperoning mothers behind me, looked at each other with befuddlement and agreed, "That was a great movie." Great, now I won't have to register myself in any lawful databases.

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