Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Opens today at Showcase, Quality 16, Brighton Review by Jeff Meyers of the Metro Times Grade: B-

Something this big-screen adaption of Jeff Kinney’s wildly popular and highly amusing series of cartoon diaries gets right is the self-absorbed, insensitive, casually cruel personality of its likeably beleaguered tween protagonist, Greg Heffley. Far from the angelically mischievous tots that fill family-friendly films, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" acknowledges that children can sometimes be selfish little bastards. They can also exhibit a startling capacity for change. Which is what has, in part, made the books so successful. Kinney finds just the right balance of arrogance, smug naïveté and learned decency to appeal to kids struggling to define the world around them.

That, and his stories never lack for boogers and potty jokes.

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