Alexander
and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day **
Dir: Miguel Arteta. With: Steve Carell, Jennifer
Garner, Ed Oxenbould. 81 mins. Cert: PG.
Here’s a pretty
ordinary Disney response to Fox’s sharper Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: bright yet sensitive pre-teen (Ed Oxenbould, not
quite winning enough) feels dreadful for commuting – via an errant birthday
wish – 24 hours of bad luck onto his nearest and dearest. 75 minutes of
sketches involving car crashes, vomit and escaped kangaroos ensue, followed by
a five-minute affirmation of the family that “steers its ship with positivity”.
The grown-ups grab a few legitimately funny bits, but it makes for strangely
agitating, passive-aggressive matinee fare: perhaps you just have to enjoy
watching rows breaking out more than this viewer does.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day opens in Scotland today, and around the rest of the UK on October 24.
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