‘Middle School: The Worst Years Of My Life’ Trailer: It’s Time To Break All The Rules
Based on theJames Patterson’s popular young adult novel,Middle School: The Worst Years of My Lifecomes from directorSteve Carr. Carr is the director behindNext Friday,Dr. Doolittle 2,Daddy Day Care,Are We Done Yet?, and, his last feature, 2009’sPaul Blart: Mall Cop. He’s directed many harmless kids movies, which is probably the best way also to describe how his upcoming film looks.
Below, watch theMiddle School: The Worst Years of My Lifetrailer.
One thing this kids film has going for it? A fun supporting cast. Starring alongside the child actors areAndy Daly,Lauren Graham, andRob Riggle. Daly and (most likely) Riggle are playing some of the evil adults in this adaptation.Middle School: The Worst Years of My Lifefollows Rafe Khatchadorian (Griffin Gluck) – “a pretty ridiculous name, worthy of some kind of villain in a British detective novel,” Ethancorrectly noted— as he transfers schools. In his new middle school, the principal (Daly) and teachers are more interested in suppressing their students' creativity than letting it flourish. Sick and tired of the school’s neverending list of rules, Rafe and his best pal Leo (Thomas Barbusca) decide to break every rule there is in the book.
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Lifetrailer:
The intended audience ofMiddle School: The Worst Years of My Lifewill probably eat this stuff up. The trailer is pretty silly, but the right kind of silly. This is a movie about kids standing up to a laughably evil principal — the type of film most middle schoolers probably want to see around this time of year. Will it appease the adults that’ll take their youngsters to it? Impossible to say, but anyone over the age of 10 should at least get a kick out of seeing Rafe’s drawings come to life. Those sequences are the standout of the trailer, and they make this adaptation look slightly more appealing than most YA movies.
Here’s the official synopsis:
Rafe has an epic imagination…and a slight problem with authority. Both collide when he transfers to an oppressive, rule-crazy middle school. Drowning in do’s and don’ts, Rafe and his scheming best friend Leo hatch a plan to break every rule in the school’s Code of Conduct. It’s Ferris Bueller meets Home Alone as their battle with Principal Dwight explodes into chaos both real and imagined. But Dwight displays his own fiendish creativity, striking back at the rulebreakers. Meanwhile, Rafe struggles to hide his misbehavior from Jeanne, the straight-A, overachieving girl of his dreams, and at home, his mother’s boyfriend — a moochy, jack-of-no-trades named Bear — threatens to become his stepfather.
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Lifehits theaters onOctober 7th.
