Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules: Film Review

2:33 PM PDT 3/23/2011 by Kirk Honeycutt

Unfortunately, this time the Wimpy Kid, somewhat offbeat and even witty in the original film, more than earns his name.

Whatever happened to the Wimpy Kid? A year after the original film surprised adults by being a kids’ movie with a degree of wit, a sequel arrives, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, that ispositively wimpy. The blame settles pretty evenly across all the force fields of a studio movie production — producers who evidently didn’t understand the success of the original, writers who rushed through a half-baked screenplay and a new director whose ham-fisted direction throws nearly every scene out of kilter.