Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

A youth-skewing comedy-fantasy with possible cross-generational appeal.

3037d ago

A middle schooler goes to war with his rules-obsessed principal in this family comedy adapted from James Patterson's best-selling books.

3037d ago

A youth-skewing comedy-fantasy with possible cross-generational appeal.

3037d ago

A youth-skewing comedy-fantasy with possible cross-generational appeal.

3037d ago

A middle schooler goes to war with his rules-obsessed principal in this family comedy adapted from James Patterson's best-selling books.

3037d ago

For what amounts to a 90-minute sermon for the Nickelodeon set that pillories standardized testing, mandated conformity and bullies of all shapes and sizes, “Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life” is better than middling as it sidesteps the trap of simply pandering to its youthful demo with cheap laughs and silly mugging.

3037d ago

For what amounts to a 90-minute sermon for the Nickelodeon set that pillories standardized testing, mandated conformity and bullies of all shapes and sizes, “Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life” is better than middling as it sidesteps the trap of simply pandering to its youthful demo with cheap laughs and silly mugging.

3037d ago

For what amounts to a 90-minute sermon for the Nickelodeon set that pillories standardized testing, mandated conformity and bullies of all shapes and sizes, “Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life” is better than middling as it sidesteps the trap of simply pandering to its youthful demo with cheap laughs and silly mugging.

3037d ago

For what amounts to a 90-minute sermon for the Nickelodeon set that pillories standardized testing, mandated conformity and bullies of all shapes and sizes, “Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life” is better than middling as it sidesteps the trap of simply pandering to its youthful demo with cheap laughs and silly mugging.

3037d ago

Tweens can do better than the cartoon garishness of Middle School.

3037d ago

Rafe Khatchadorian (Gluck), a budding artist, is starting over at his third middle school, a place governed by the rules-obsessed Principal Dwight (Daly) and his chief enforcer (Retta).

3037d ago

Rafe Khatchadorian (Gluck), a budding artist, is starting over at his third middle school, a place governed by the rules-obsessed Principal Dwight (Daly) and his chief enforcer (Retta).

3037d ago

Tweens can do better than the cartoon garishness of Middle School.

3037d ago

Tweens can do better than the cartoon garishness of Middle School.

3037d ago

Rafe Khatchadorian (Gluck), a budding artist, is starting over at his third middle school, a place governed by the rules-obsessed Principal Dwight (Daly) and his chief enforcer (Retta).

3037d ago

Rafe Khatchadorian (Gluck), a budding artist, is starting over at his third middle school, a place governed by the rules-obsessed Principal Dwight (Daly) and his chief enforcer (Retta).

3037d ago

Tweens can do better than the cartoon garishness of Middle School.

3037d ago

The latest entry in the revenge-on-the-educator genre — extending at least as far back as “Matilda” — is the slick, harmless “Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life,” from CBS Films and adapted from the novel out of the James Patterson book factory. Directed by Steve Carr (“Paul Blart: Mall Cop”), the movie borrows a trick or two from the Disney XD series “Kirby Buckets,” with a dollop of “A Beautiful Mind” for dramatic heft.

3037d ago

Unimaginatively directed and indifferently shot, the film never establishes a distinctive voice for itself.

3037d ago

The latest entry in the revenge-on-the-educator genre — extending at least as far back as “Matilda” — is the slick, harmless “Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life,” from CBS Films and adapted from the novel out of the James Patterson book factory. Directed by Steve Carr (“Paul Blart: Mall Cop”), the movie borrows a trick or two from the Disney XD series “Kirby Buckets,” with a dollop of “A Beautiful Mind” for dramatic heft.

3037d ago

The latest entry in the revenge-on-the-educator genre — extending at least as far back as “Matilda” — is the slick, harmless “Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life,” from CBS Films and adapted from the novel out of the James Patterson book factory. Directed by Steve Carr (“Paul Blart: Mall Cop”), the movie borrows a trick or two from the Disney XD series “Kirby Buckets,” with a dollop of “A Beautiful Mind” for dramatic heft.

3037d ago

The latest entry in the revenge-on-the-educator genre — extending at least as far back as “Matilda” — is the slick, harmless “Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life,” from CBS Films and adapted from the novel out of the James Patterson book factory. Directed by Steve Carr (“Paul Blart: Mall Cop”), the movie borrows a trick or two from the Disney XD series “Kirby Buckets,” with a dollop of “A Beautiful Mind” for dramatic heft.

3037d ago

Unimaginatively directed and indifferently shot, the film never establishes a distinctive voice for itself.

3037d ago

Unimaginatively directed and indifferently shot, the film never establishes a distinctive voice for itself.

3037d ago

Unimaginatively directed and indifferently shot, the film never establishes a distinctive voice for itself.

3037d ago

Both the laughs and the tear-jerking fall flat in this herky-jerky adaptation of James Patterson‘s junior-high novels.

3037d ago

Both the laughs and the tear-jerking fall flat in this herky-jerky adaptation of James Patterson‘s junior-high novels.

3037d ago

Both the laughs and the tear-jerking fall flat in this herky-jerky adaptation of James Patterson‘s junior-high novels.

3037d ago

Both the laughs and the tear-jerking fall flat in this herky-jerky adaptation of James Patterson‘s junior-high novels.

3037d ago