It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Blistering performances.

When something fresh and successful comes along, everyone wants a piece of it. Shortly following the films release, a number of copycats emerge and to be honest most of them are terrible. Maybe it's because we tend to compare it to the original or maybe it's because the scripts are rushed and just aren't that good. In any case, after the release of the Wimpy Kid series, we saw a lot of these family comedies, centering on the not so popular kids, and as expected, most of them were awful, with one notable exception. Alexander's bad day focuses on a young man whose birthday coincides with his first day of middle school, which doesn't go so well. After receiving no sympathy from his family, Alexander wishes that they all had their own bad day, and the results were hilarious. This isn't the typical PG family comedy you see from Disney, as it was quite raunchy for them and really pushes the boundary of that PG rating. Ed Oxenbould stars as Alexander and fits the role like a glove. Oxenbould looks and sounds kind of awkward, after all it is a strange age, but watching him gave the feeling that he's not all that unfamiliar with being unpopular. Possibly playing on real life experience, he rivals Alex Gordon with a performance that was not only believable, but it was also very funny. Another advantage this film has over the Wimpy Kid series is that the young cast has help from some of Hollywood's elite, as co-stars include Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner. The pair give a lot of support and the producers use them to break-up the middle school monotony that would has surely ensued. While not my usual genre, I loved the Wimpy kid series, but Alexander's bad day is more than an adequate alternative for those who are looking for something a little bit different.

#This movie is very crude and it has parts in it where the people are being mean. It has bad language In it as well. Ther is a scene in the movie where it shows a baby's bottom. And another scene in it where there is throwing up. And another scene when the older boy breaks up with a girl. Very inappropriate movie. Review by Josh at the age of eleven.

The movie is an adaptation of a book from the 1970s. It takes place 24 hours before Alexander's 12th birthday.Alexander is one of four children. His eldest brother has an upcoming school prom, a driving test to take and his girlfriend.His older sister is more interested in the school production of Peter Pan. His baby brother loves his bumble fee soother and his parents Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner are more interested in their careers and the other children. Alexander feels left out, he's having a bad time (no one at school has shown an interest in attending his birthday party because someone else is having a better one) and wishes a bad day on everyone else.Indeed almost by magic things go rather catastrophic for everyone. A typographical error in a new book puts her mum's job in jeopardy. His sister has a bad cough and becomes hyper after taking some cough mixture resulting in an exuberant school performance. His brother breaks up with his girlfriend and then fails his driving test and crashes the car. His baby brother's favourite soother is destroyed and his father's job interview seems to be heading for disaster.There is plenty of cloying slapstick, accident prone disasters befalling on the family a lot of it bought about by the family themselves because they appear to be so disorganised.I watched it with my son who rather enjoyed the slapstick and some of the risqué humour was right up his street as he is near Alexander's age. However I felt that it was rather light on plot and felt more like a Disney television film rather than a cinema film.The siblings did not feel like a family to me. More like a group of strangers in the same room. Although the parents actually looked like people trying to do their best for the kids and realise they might have ignored Alexander and took him for granted.It is not a bad film, nor its a good one. It is a film to watch as a family which will keep you sporadically amused.

When I heard Disney was turning a 20 page children's book into a 90 minute film starring Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner I knew this was the beginning of a terrible horrible no good very bad movie."I've seen the penis of everyone in this car." This is what Disney tries to pass off as entertainment.$28,000,000! $28,000,000! That's what this movie cost! Note that James Cameron only had $18,000,000 to make 'Aliens' more than half of which went to Sigourney Weaver's salary. There aren't any special FX, stunts, spaceships, or aliens in this film! I can only conclude they spent it on catering for the cast and crew.Alexander's terrible horrible no good very bad day begins with him fall out of bed and reading an email on his laptop about a friend's party. I must confess, it's been several years since I read the book but I don't recall that scene.Next Alexander arrives at school where a classmate texts the entire school and embarrassing photo of Alexander. Again, I don't recall this scene in the book either.After Alexander's day, which isn't really that bad, he wishes for his family to all have terrible day as well. So the actual "comedy" in this film doesn't even begin until 45 minutes in and doesn't even revolve around Alexander. It revolves around his family getting into the usual movie troupes we all expect, like alarm clocks failing to go off, and babies peeing everywhere. Because bodily fluids are funny? Not even 'Married With Children' made jokes like these.When the mother accidentally walks in on Alexander's older brother in the bathroom she declares, "It's okay, I've seen your penis before. I've seen the penis of everyone in this car." Ha ha ha. That line isn't for the family nor is it entertaining.But the first grade toilet humor has only begun its root canal of pain! Next Jennifer Gardner learns from her publisher that the word "jump" was printed as "dump" in a new children's book. Garner rushes to stop Dick Van Dyke from reading the book to a group of children. Ha ha ha. Jerry Van Dyke may have been in 'My Mother the Car' but Dick bares far more shame for appearing in a scene like this.The other jokes are obvious a mile away. For example, the teenage daughter is sick and takes cold medication so she can perform in the school play. Will she get high off the medication and go crazy on stage? What a shock, she gets high off the medication and goes crazy on stage. That joke was obvious to the audience 30 minutes earlier when she first said she was sick and had to perform in the school play. It's just taken the movie 30 minutes to catch up with the audience.Another example is how Steve Carell has no one to baby sit during his job interview. Will he bring the baby and will it spew bodily fluids everywhere? If you saw 'Mr. Mom' then you saw this joke coming 31 years ago! So in conclusion this movie uses none of the original source material for why Alexander's day was so bad and instead turns out to NOT be about Alexander at all. It's about his family going through all the Disney movie troupes.It's devoid of any entertainment value. It doesn't even work as a family film due to the toilet humor I've mentioned.