Diary of a Wimpy Kid

[Beate]

Watched this at Odeon Greenwich, only 20% full. Thought I'd have a few seats too myself so I can fidget as much as I can but some man came out of nowhere a minute prior to the film starting and sat down next to me even though so many other good seats were free!!!!!!! There was also a really selfish couple in the back row with a baby of no more than 1 years old who cried throughout the movie and it didn't occur to them once to leave the screen for a few minutes to calm the child down but instead make everyone else endure the baby's cry!

Well really thank God I didn't attend then, saved me from going to prison for a triple murder!
I am surprised you are still with us, a_person...

[loomykiddo]

Saw this in Braehead, not that full maybe about 20%, I rather enjoyed this, I just put myself back into the shoes of my 9yr old self again and saw the funny side to most of the humour. Not a bad movie just not a cinema movie, more like a channel 5 / Dvd sunday afternoon movie.

[superhero]

It's universally been like 10-20% full for the free screenings, thats not a good sign for when people have to p*y to watch the film!

[a_person]

Well really thank God I didn't attend then, saved me from going to prison for a triple murder!
I am surprised you are still with us, a_person...

I was too tired to argue with someone on a Sunday morning and also partially annoyed with the guy who came and sat next to me, I had to sit like a lady and was unable to fidget throughout the film.

Also, nobody seemed fussed with the child crying like it's normal for babies to come to screenings and to cry. Although there were alot of parents with kids (but they were good kids, they were big and they behaved!). The father of the crying kid also had the audacity to give me a dirty look because I turned around and gave his partner a dirty look for putting the crying baby on the floor and not taking it out of the screen. If I were to tell him to take his child outside, I think it would have got pretty messy.....

I actually really missed you for once at a screening Beate and wished so hard you were there. I know if you were there, you would have used your German-ness on the kid and it would have just shut it.

[Beate]

LOL, my German-ness? Not sure that's a compliment....

[a_person]

Definitely meant in as a compliment!

[Tiz]

Watched this last weekend at the Odeon Lothian Road, Edinburgh. Surprisingly, my fist visit to this venue and I soon found out why ... Sunday morning 10am and couldn't find a parking spot anywhere near the place. City-centre previews and the Edinburgh Festival just don't mix! Not impressed by what was undoubtedly the latest Odeon corporate 'look', in fact (as commented by many others) the lighting levels as you enter the screen (4 I think) are ridiculously low.

Anyway, on to the screening - no more than half full - surprising for a freebie (maybe the parking was a factor?). Must admit I was expecting something along the lines of Malcolm in the Middle/The Wonder Years but believe me, this movie isn't in the same league.

Okay, I'm not exactly its target audience but I couldn't find one redeeming feature that would appeal across the age-groups. Diary of a Wimpy Kid is clearly a churn 'em out summer movie - plotless, humourless - a disappointing 3/10 for me.

[Preston1990]

A pleasant enough and mildly amusing film aimed very squarely at kids.

Not much here to appeal to older viewers in my opinion. I can normally sit through any old dross but on this occassion was very tempted to leave once I saw the level at which the film was being pitched. I stuck with it though but in the end there were few redeeming features apart from a good performance from the young actress, who played Hit Girl in Kick-Ass.

Having said all that this was my third free film of the day! - so undoubtably I was feeling a bit jaded by then so maybe I'll temper my negativity by awarding it a generous 5 out of 10.

[andrews]

I saw this yesterday at Cineworld, Boldon. As Preston has already said - it's a children's film, and I thought it was quite well done, and covered athe traumas of moving onto the next school. I did not recognise the young girl from Kick-Ass, as I haven't seen it, but think that the two lads were pretty good. There was quite a lot of humour, and the kids in the audience were laughing, which was good to hear.

5/10 from me.