Our Favourite Movie for Family - The Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Roderick Rules

in #steemitmamas5 years ago

Our family's favourite is The Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies. We watched all the series but we also need to catch up with the books. The movie tells us about a simple kid who has a normal family life but he got bullied in school, by his elder brother & his younger brother, and also, he had a crush on a girl. He also had a best friend who was quite like him. They were quite clueless of life as they were still young.

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My son found it relatable to him and he found all scenes quite funny.

The second movie was our Favourite of all time! The plot goes like this:

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"The Heffley family attends a party at a roller rink, where Greg Heffley reunites with his best friend Rowley Jefferson, meets a new girl at school named Holly Hills whom Greg instantly has a crush on, and reveals he passed on the Cheese Touch. During the party, his older brother Rodrick advises Greg to ask Holly to skate with him when Couples Skate begins and then interferes with Couples Skate by persuading a crowd of violent teenagers to enter the rink, along with replacing "Always" by Atlantic Starr with a heavy metal song. This prompts Greg's parents, Frank and Susan(who misunderstand this) to speak to Greg on the rink's public address system and then carry him off the rink. Greg, extremely angry with Rodrick for humiliating him, tries to tackle him, but he misses and in turn, lands in a little girl's birthday cake. She and her friends then furiously proceed to beat up Greg as the intro starts.

On the morning of the first day of school, as Greg and Rodrick are about to leave, Susan makes an effort to have them bond by doing some things together by using her methods called "Mom Bucks", but it makes things worse as Rodrick cheats her system. At school, one of Greg's new teachers immediately dislikes him due to his relation to Rodrick, therefore making the teacher assume that Greg will be as bad. After school, a community talent show is advertised on TV; in which Rowley sees it as an opportunity to perform magic, and Rodrick sees it as a big break for his band, Löded Diper. However, Greg rejects the idea of doing the magic.

At church, Greg and Rodrick are grounded after a scuffle due to Rodrick humiliating Greg by placing a chocolate bar on Greg's seat in the car on the way, causing Susan to get upset about what others think of her, and her family's reputation being ruined; after which, they are forbidden to go to a family trip to a water park the following weekend, nor inviting people over, and told that they must bond. However, Rodrick defiantly disobeys his parents' orders, and throws a party.

The next morning, Susan calls and says that they will be home early. Rodrick and Greg hastily erase almost all the evidence, but find out that the bathroom door is vandalized with graffiti. They replace it, but Greg finds out that the replacement door doesn't have a lock like the last one. Rodrick convinces Greg to deny everything as their parents and younger brother, Manny arrive. Susan however, later slowly began to discover the difference and questions Greg and Rodrick. Although Rodrick denies this, Greg nearly reveals the truth and convinces Susan to not to punish Rodrick. Convinced that Greg didn't reveal about the party, Rodrick starts bonding with him as a gesture of gratitude.

One night, after coming home from a night out, they are finally exposed when Frank comes across photos of the party and the Heffley's reputation is ruined again, and no one will support Susan's articles about siblings bonding anymore. As Susan and Frank decide on the boys' punishments, Greg tries to apologize to Rodrick, but Rodrick gets mad at him for getting them in trouble. As punishments, Greg and Rodrick both get grounded again, which includes Rodrick not being allowed to participate in the talent show. Completely devastated and heartbroken, Rodrick vows to get even with Greg.

The final part of their punishment is they have to stay at their grandfather's retirement home, in which Greg finds out that Holly is visiting her grandmother. Holly tells Greg that she can relate to Greg about siblings giving her a hard time; however, siblings will eventually get over it. Holly also reveals she is more patient and mature than her two sisters.

The next day, to humiliate Greg, Rodrick reads and steals Greg's diary — in which Greg has written about his crush on Holly — and attempts to hand it over to Holly. Greg, with only his underwear on, chases after Rodrick and takes the diary back, but he accidentally hides in the women's restroom and a group of angry women in the restroom think he is a "peeping tom" and they attempt to catch him, but fail. When Greg returns, Rodrick reveals to him that he taped the whole incident on a VHS tape from the security cameras in the retirement home.

At the talent show a few nights later, Rodrick finds out that he has been booted from the band by Bill Walter, a band member who recently joined; Rowley is unable to perform his magic tricks due to his assistant, Scotty Douglas, having stage fright. Greg, with a change of heart, helps Rowley and Rodrick out by participating in Rowley's magic act in return for allowing Rodrick to perform his band act. In the middle of the performance in the talent show, Rodrick banishes Bill from the band for what he did. Before dropping Greg off at school the next morning, Rodrick gives him the tape from the retirement home in return for making it possible for him to participate in the show, symbolizing that they are not only brothers, but also friends.

In a mid-credits scene, Greg and Rowley have just finished posting the video that Frank shot of Rodrick's music act with Susan dancing on YouTube, and it goes viral instantly, making Greg and Rowley an internet sensation. However, an enraged Rodrick, having seen the video, shouts at Greg off-screen, "GREG, YOU ARE SO DEAD!!!"

- Extracted from Wikipedia

Here are the books that were published before the movies were made. My son had some.

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In conclusion, my son and I enjoyed the movies so much, we laughed our way out of the cinema theater. After that, we watched again online and we even bought DVDs. I hope my son will think that bullies are ridiculous and life is beautiful no matter what happens.

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Cool! I know my oldest son has read all the books, but I admit, Ive not read them. Sounds funny and relatable. :D

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