ravenhair702 Got my beautiful wife to watch something with a happy ending. We both love horror films, but I'm a bit burnt out with the usual possession/grizzly killing spree preformed by a slow walking killer that eventually kills everyone by the end of the movie and there is rarely a horror movie with a happy ending. So my wife and I agreed on this movie and it was simply delightful. Funny, witty and the acting was good...a bit too goofy at sometimes, but all in all, well worth watching. Don't know who I hated more in this movie...the evil principal or the dirt bag boyfriend of the kids mother. I'll let you decide. I very much recommend seeing this film. Peace my minions.

adonis98-743-186503 Imaginative quiet teenager Rafe Katchadorian is tired of his middle school's obsession with the rules at the expense of any and all creativity. Desperate to shake things up, Rafe and his best friends have come up with a plan: break every single rule in the school and let the students run wild. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life is a film that i was expecting to hate since the trailer was pretty bad but even tho some of the lines are kinda childish and the principal looks like an evil and annoying version of Paul Feig it was still a good and funny movie and easily the best part of it was the animation and the drawings that the main character did threw out the movie and the overall result was a nice relaxing film with some good performances. (8/10)

hawked-off I haven't read the book(s). I had high expectations based on reviews noting that the film "celebrates creativity and out-of-the-box thinking" (Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 7 October 2016), two qualities of education which, in my opinion, are all but doomed in modern Western education. I was disappointed. Other reviewers have covered details of what was wrong, and right, with this film, so let me just say that in trying to make a mass-marketable film, the creators missed two important goals. The underlying message of the film is important for adults, counterproductive for adolescents. As the reverse seems to be the intent, one negates the other. Educators and parents need to be slapped in the face with the fact that schools are conformity factories, not unlike prisons. A light comedy with cartoonish authority figures - the principal and vice-principal - engaging in clearly illegal and inappropriate activities defeats this purpose. As for the adolescents, the message of getting in touch with creativity and out-of-the-box thinking is hopelessly overshadowed by the superficial take-away, that pranks and mayhem are effective and justified methods of achieving creativity (and justice). One more point: yes, this is a "nerd v. bully" film, but Miller, the adolescent bully, is just a red herring. The real bully, of course, is Principal Dwight. Giving kids the impression, even in jest, that they can overcome such a powerful authority figure with a series of harmless hi-jinks is setting them up for a life of detention. The one saving feature of a film that tried to do too much was the touching bond between Rafe and his recently-departed brother. Rafe's difficulty in letting go was beyond heartbreaking, and the maturity he gained in this coming-of-age process was beyond heartwarming.

Michelle Panacre I was expecting a rip-off of "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid" films with similar toilet and slapstick humour - I was hoping for it as well, wanting a cringe-worthy film like HSM.Instead what I found was not a patronizing, garden-variety kids movie. It is surprisingly creative - every time I thought the plot was leaning towards a clichéd "moral of the story" kind of trend (standing up to the bully/becoming popular and ignoring old friend/prank master) the movie was original and refreshing.GOTTA say i really loved how current this film was (soundtrack is all popular pop songs and well suited to this movie type - Drake was mentioned and the kid "Shon" or "Sean" or whatever CRACKED me up)Plus, the animated parts were interesting and just childlike enough that the films more serious sub- themes didn't become tedious.The acting was decent and the characters (apart from 'bear') weren't so archetypal that it was hard to digest.(this movie made me cry ((a LOT)) and thus, 10/10)