Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer - Because it is based on a series of books with the same name, a number of brand recognition and name, because the kind of competition can give Judy Moody brief theatrical window. But the negative word-and-mouth between parents and the lack of real change for tweens quickly be distinguished from the babysitter home video viewing of rotation, if it were yet most of the lean burn.
When his parents came up with the tour and all his friends except one, early in the summer, curly-haired, nervous third grader Judy (Jordana Beatty) is depressed. Opal's Aunt Judy (Heather Graham), a free-spirited hippie girl who makes his Mandarin Fund, is coming to stay with him and his younger brother, the smell (more Eller Parris), who is obsessed with hunting than he believes to be the local version of Bigfoot.
To try to combat boredom, Judy freely invents a game you can play with friends, long distance, where the "tension points" awarded for certain acts of recklessness. During the summer, Judy are constantly exposed points, but slowly combines with her aunt, and finally learns to become more tolerant and even smell.
Director John Schultz (Like Mike, Aliens in the Attic) has a history of poorly staged action sequences to children and his work here is not to prove a particular positive growth or development. All the scenes of significant movement was slightly taken and publishing misleading, especially in a final phase of hunting with an ice cream truck.
In addition to a secondary role by the sun sparkling caffeine during office hours from the start Graham, and are not particularly committed to what is becoming a more naturalistic context. It is ironic that if it had been a little more imaginative and extravagant in its construction, Judy Moody, would probably have been more successful in capturing the urgent, the stakes increased prepubertal recreation.
The script flirts with Judy give a side quest was, based around a vague enigma to his teacher (Jaleel White). Schultz and his team also seeds Judy Moody with a random collection of interstitial entertainment deals, in a nod to the books. But none of these ideas are integrated smoothly or smart enough emotional affair.
Most damningly, the film, although not as a piece of wan, moralistic entertainment, they are stronger and more stable base Judy's wrath is the 'exclusive', and therefore a violation of the logic of it to anchor the Its main character is Judy finally have arbitrarily granted him the victory.
sensitive family audience looking for something more than a movie instead of air conditioning to escape for 90 minutes, you will probably find their own "points of emotion" to spend an afternoon in the park instead.
