Sunday, November 26, 2017

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life 2016


     This film is based on one of the books from the Middle School book series written by James Patterson and published in 2011.  Rafe Katchadorian has been expelled from all the middle schools he has attended.  He’s on the last school in his area and there is a chance he could be expelled from this one too?  Principal Dwight has a LOT of rules for HIS school.  Rafe decides he will try to break every one of the rules.  He is going to do this secretly just in case he might not be expelled?  Rafe’s brother passed away from cancer, his father couldn’t handle this loss and he left the family.  Jules, Rafe’s mother doesn’t know what she will do if Rafe is expelled again?
     There are a LOT of funny moments in this movie.  Some of the action is animated.  Many times teens have trouble with rules but they don’t take the drastic actions shown here.  A good movie for this age group as long as they don’t decide to copy the rule breaking!!  3* (This movie is OK)

82 min, Family directed by Steve Carr with Griffin Gluck, Lauren Graham, Alexa Niesenson, Andrew Daly, Thomas Barbusca, Retta, Adam Pally, Luke Hardeman, Jessi Goei, Jacob Hopkins, Patrick Fagan, Isabela Moner, Isabella Amara, Efren Ramirez.

Note:  Imdb 6.1 out of 10, 58% critic 58% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon Video 4.4* out of 5* with 295 reviews DVD 4.7* out of 5* with 70 reviews, Metacritic 51 out of 100 with 13 critics 6.2 out of 10 with 20 reviews,
Special Note:  Filmed in Atlanta, Georgia.  There is a mistake in this film.  Georgia, Rafe’s younger sister is driving a car and she hits several dumpsters.  The dumpsters would not be able to go up straight or as high as shown.  This film was nominated for the 2017 Annie Award for Best Animated Special Production.

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