kosmasp You can always find something positive even in the most negative things. Or days for that matter. This is a light hearted affair and hopefully you can enjoy it for what it is. The acting is spot on, for a comedy like this. I was positively surprised by this, because I thought it would be just by the numbers, but it is more than that.Some days just seem to be cursed, though you never know by whom or if that is even the case. Always try to do the best of anything is kind of a message of the movie. It's also PG, so don't expect any cursing, but rather a family comedy. Just be open to it or don't watch it. I think a quick look at the trailer will be telling, if this is for you or not.

Python Hyena Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014): Dir: Miguel Arteta / Cast: Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, Ed Oxenbould, Dylan Minnette, Kerris Dorsey: Idiotic family film about the trials of daily family living, and the reality that as bad as one's day is going, others are likely struggling as well. Steve Carell plays out of work stay at home dad who applies for a video game programming job. Jennifer Garner as his wife is about to release a book that has a typo that affects reactions when Dick Van Dyke is set to read it for the public. Dylan Minnette is oldest kid who fails his driving test, and is dating the biggest stuck up snot of the year. Kerris Dorsey plays middle child who is up for playing Peter Pan in the school play but comes down with allergies. Finally we have the Australia loving Ed Oxenbould as Alexander whose life is constantly in shambles until he makes a late night birthday wish that results in everyone else having a shitty day. Director Miguel Arteta previously made a much better comedy called Youth in Revolt. This film is pure garbage with your standard over the top family idiocy. For something aimed at families, it sure features a lot of naked baby ass. We also get Garner verbalizing the word "penis" just to educate kids early. Finally, we have a poorly effected runaway kangaroo that is about as fake as a stuffed toy. The cast struggle to make these annoying characters likable and fail miserably with each reeking scene. The message regards a functioning family unit. The result is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad film. Score: 3 / 10

moviefanatic5701 One thing I definitely wasn't expecting to do during Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day, was laugh. It's nowhere near a perfect comedy, but is still very enjoyable. Watching the trailer for this movie all I was thinking was 1. Another bomb for Steve Carell (who can be laugh out loud hilarious) and 2. I want to barf right now. I mean this movie just looked so awful. For the kind of movie this is, a 62% on rotten tomatoes is absolutely shocking. But you can never know how good a movie is until you watch it so I thought "what the hell, I'll give it a shot".So basically, Alexander (I'm not saying the whole title) is about a kid who is about a kid who can never seem to have an actually decent day. We get a day in the life of him in the first 15 or 20 min of the film and yeah...his life totally sucks. His family seems to have great things going for themselves, his mom works happily in the book industry, his sister is the best stage actress in her school, his older brother is dating a hot chick and about to get his driver's license, and his father and his baby brother really don't do anything at all. The next day is Alexander's birthday and nobody from his school is coming because they're all going to some cool kid's party. That night at midnight, Alexander makes a wish that his family knew what a totally awful day is like. Of course, the wish comes true, and we get to see Alexander have a great day while his family has a god awful day. It's a pretty stupid concept. I can't say it's executed perfectly, but for the kind of film it is the filmmakers execute it well. It's kind of hard to believe that I liked this movie. There's many laugh out loud moments and even though it has some Hollywood moments, it's not consistent. I've seen some family films these days that try and fail to put in some mild jokes that push the PG rating. In this, they do that perfectly because they're not too profound adult jokes. Overall, Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day mostly avoids the Hollywood territory. It's not a fabulous comedy by any means, but you'll get a lot of laughs.

chow913 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.