Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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A young teenager boy named Alexander, a 12 years old, who struggles against having bad and strange incidents in his life and he gets envious of his family who always seems to have good moments, so before the night of his birthday, he wishes for his family to have such bad days just as him, the thing that brings terrible for them.
Critics Of "Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day"
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 10, 2014
Arteta keeps the action speeding along while eliciting spot-on performances. Carell is at his discombobulated best, and Garner anchors the proceedings with aplomb.
Alexander... etc. isn't exactly a terrible film, but it was definitely in need of a little retooling so that the events plaguing this family weren't quite so unbelievable, annoying, and on the lower end of the comic scale.
It's the rare, current kid movie made with real actors. Unfortunately, it's not remotely adult-funny. That's OK. Parents suffer. It's what they do. Go and suffer for the kids.
There are a couple of scenes that fall flat, losing the manic push of the rest of the story, but the mood is so screwball that the film hurtles past its own mistakes. It's good fun.
This is where the comedy comes from: that lurking fear that even the most routine of daily domestic tasks is just a spilled coffee cup away from disaster.