“Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” hits theaters October 10.Īn average American family becomes a giant human pinata in “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,” a passable, tolerable, not unbearable, totally inoffensive adaptation of Judith Viorst’s beloved 1972 children’s book. Club’s Katie Rife, even suggest that the film has a good message for kids: that bad days help us appreciate the good ones.Īdam Scott Recalls His Reaction to Jennifer Garner Joining ‘Party Down’: ‘We Need to Get Our Sh*t Together’ But even the most critical takes seem to agree that the film is more or less harmless, with praise for the professionalism of Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, and the supporting players (especially Jennifer Coolidge as a sadistic driving-test administrator). Reviews for the film have noted that even at 81 minutes it feels thin, and that the second half seems mostly like an excuse to string together PG-friendly hijinks and comic set-pieces together and bring it to feature length. So how does one justify adapting the film? By using the second half to fulfill a wish of Alexander’s that his family have a bad day to understand his plight, only to bring them all together by the end. Judith Viorst’s children’s book “ Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” is only 32 pages long, and has a very simple premise (kid has a bad day, his family has a great day), hardly long enough to fill a feature film.
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