The Secret Diary of an Exchange Student

This film feels like they made the script by copying the book verbatim and then to make it fit the necessary runtime cut any scenes that were not strictly necessary. This makes the movie continuously feel disjointed due to many jumps in time without proper signalling, lots of non-sequiturs and many seemingly illogical things happening. The movie is a bit hard to watch because of this, especially because the Portuguese is already quite intense to listen to. However, the main characters put a lot of energy in and especially the girl playing Barbara is very charming. People with high standards should ignore this movie, but anyone willing to sit through all the Portuguese and just want to watch something silly and uncomplicated for a while will have a decent time with it.