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Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2016)
Worst movie of my life
With all of the good reviews I see, I need to be the one to tell the truth here. I saw this with my twelve year old cousin and I was actually the one who thought it would be a good idea to see this movie. worst hour or so of my life. I'm actually doing it a favor by posting 4 stars instead of 1.
About me: I went to middle school, I usually am the person who gives a movie a try before making a decision on whether or not I actually like the movie, and I like the color yellow (not relevant, but whatever).
Let's start with the characters. They were all very two dimensional. all except Lauren Graham, who has been very typecast as mothers in her film career (ex. Gilmore Girls, Evan Almighty, and now this), which could make her seem a little 2D at times; and the main character Rafe, who lost his brother and now sees dead people. Most would call that crazy and put him in a mental institution, but this is the movie world. Some two dimensional characters include: the mean principle(s), the conservationist girl whom the main character likes, the evil boyfriend of the single mother, and the goofy best friend. Most kids wouldn't care because the movie is mostly kid humor and won't make any half- witted adult laugh.
This clichéd movie takes some of the best middle school movies like 'Ramona and Beezus,' and 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' and takes a huge dump on them by calling itself a middle school family movie. Why did they need to have the kissing scene at the end? Where was his Mom during this scene? and what the heck with the two dimensional characters? Seriously, the mind of this child is possessed or something.
Now that I have made my rant, I'd like to say that during that ending kissing scene my twelve year old cousin slowly turned to me, I returned the gaze, and we both laughed so hard at the cringe that they kicked us out of the theater. NO, we didn't get kicked out. We left willingly.