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The Big Screen: Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

By Theresa Tan March 30, 2010March 30, 2010
By Theresa Tan March 30, 2010March 30, 2010

Diary Of A Wimpy KidThis movie brings to life the popular Diary Of A Wimpy Kid book series by Jeff Kinney. The essence of the Napolean-esque pre-teen Greg Heffley is beautifully captured by the angel-faced Zachary Gordon.

Greg is the egotistical middle child in the Heffley family sandwiched between annoying teen older bully-brother Rodrick (Devon Bostick), and little brother Manny (Connor and Owen Fielding).

Greg and his goody-two-shoes best pal Rowley (Robert Capron) have just started middle school. Greg is convinced that he will be the most popular guy in school before term is over.

But he is limited by his dimunitive stature (which is diametrically opposed to his self-confidence). He and Rowley find themselves outcasts, eating their lunch next to the dustbin.

Determined to gain respect, Greg joins the wrestling club (only to be trashed by a girl), the school safety patrol (only to be kicked out when he leaves the kindergarteners he’s tasked to protect, in a ditch in the rain), the school musical (only to be cast as a tree).
So blinded is he by his quest that he lets Rowley take the blame for his abandonment of the kindergarteners, and in a freak accident, causes Rowley to break his arm. Schoolmates ask to sign his cast, and soon Rowley is sitting with the prettiest girls in school. Greg, on the other hand, finds himself the most unpopular boy around.

A well-paced,well-acted morality tale that has both kids and the parents thinking hard about the importance of character in a dog-eat-dog world, Wimpy Kid the movie succeeds in transcending the puerile gags in the books, to teach a valuable lesson in integrity.

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Theresa Tan

Theresa Tan is the Senior Editor of City News. God gave Theresa one talent: the gift of writing. She has done her best to multiply her talent by writing articles for newspapers and magazines, plays, screenplays and a book. But what gives her greatest joy is using her one talent to serve the Lord in City News, by spreading the Good News. Theresa is blissfully married with three children and two cats. She loves reading, knitting, watching Korean criminal dramas and training young writers to win the world with words.

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