Their packing is very realistic if you have children and are at that stage of surrender where you don’t even try and sort through what everyone wants to take, you just chuck it all into the car and consider leaving the kids behind as there’s no room for them in there along with the play-table and the tennis racquets. In the end they decide to take the boat for storage and attach it to the back of the car.Īnd while Susan is desperate for a family trip where they can chat, sing and bond, Dad Frank (Tom Everett Scott) has not told his office that he’s on holiday or told Susan that he’s officially still at work, so he has to take calls in secret. “All she cares about is family time” moans Greg, and though he loves his family he’d rather they all lived apart. For Susan it’s only family-friendly if family-friendly means no electronic devices and having to, you know, talk to each other, which is not family-friendly by anyone else’s definitions. Meanwhile mom Susan (Alicia Silverstone, trying not to look too pretty) is also in planning mode and is determined that this will be a family-friendly road trip with some old-fashioned family fun along the way. “I don’t think that’s how maps work” says his friend Rowley (Owen Asztalos) but Greg is adamant. Greg plans his scheme after looking at a map of where Meemaw lives and noticing that the convention is only 2 inches away from the party. He’s praying that such an appearance will mean everyone forgets his viral shame.
#DIARY OF A WIMPY KID THE LONG HAUL MAC#
Desperate for people to forget this eternal moment of horror, Greg comes up with a rather unlikely plan to go to a video games convention in Indianapolis, near-ish to his great grandma Meemaw’s upcoming 90th birthday party, and hopefully meet his youtube hero Mac Digby and star in one of his videos.
As he shrieks in horror the other patrons video his reactions and it soon goes viral on social media as Diaper Hands, even being turned into a meme. The whole film is a literal journey, a long, accident-prone one where the slapstick is so overwhelming we’re left screaming for a punchline even if the punchline is a defecating piglet. This slapstick is often unrelated to the plot and gets more and more extreme while we wait for the piglet’s digestive system to do its thing.Ĭlick here for The Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul 1 minute video reviewĪt a trip to a hideous family-friendly restaurant, popular only because it’s all-you-can-eat (oh how I understood Dad’s admonition to his family to make sure they do), 12 year old Greg Heffley (Jason Drucker) ends up in the play area ballpit looking for his little brother Manny, but when he pulls his hand out of the multicoloured plastic balls a diaper is stuck to it. I often end up writing in my reviews that it’s all about the journey not the destination, and that’s certainly true here. The Long Haul is one that you can see writers coming up with, fingers crossed that the film will be so great it won’t just become a lazily easy way to start to a critical review. And for me one of the most enjoyable aspects was watching him collapsing into hysterics at every fart joke, toilet scene and nose-picking incident. It’s only fair that I point out that while I wasn’t particularly impressed with this film, my 7 year old – surely the movie’s core market – adored it and insists it deserves five stars.
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