YES one scene was so bad I honestly wondered how they kept it stay it sounded awful and I know nothing about stuff like that, plus the VA was just bad at her job so when it did sound "ok" her voice acting was awful
I think the problem is that they keep trying to make Greg a timeless character. The best thing about the og movie trilogy is the growth and it ended where it should have, it’s a solid trilogy. Besides the animation being unflattering and unfinished looking, I think live action works better because the books have off the vibe that you were reading a real kid’s diary
This movies animation would’ve been so much cooler in my opinion if they used the same “3D 2Dish” model from the Wimpy Kid movie snowball trailer for the whole movie
@ElectricJay I recently rewatched the peanuts movie and while not a perfect movie, it encapsulated the feel and nature of the world of the peanuts characters. Its a perfect love letter to Schultz’s work, its extremely faithful to the source material… and its overall a generally great movie with a great message. Yes life will suck… nobody is perfect… but staying true to yourself and sacrificing to be a selfless person is what matters. Its a damn shame that this movie flopped because I was rooting for the Wimpy Kid movie to go out well. But as soon as I left middle school and especially when that long haul movie hit theatres… the series started to rot… like a certain cheese…
I liked the animation style, but I did notice the choppiness. Hopefully in the next movie it will be smoother because they already have all the assets made
to see the series adapted in this style feels so wrong. The reason the characters look the way they do in the books is because that's how Greg draws them in his diaries, they're drawn to the best of his abilities. His style exaggerates certain features on characters to make them stand out and help boost their depicted personalities. You weren't supposed to believe that's what the characters *actually* looked like. And now that they do in this movie it just feels wrong. Why even have the diary part if that's just his life. Is Greg drawing people picture perfect in his diary now? lmao
I just have to point this out: every female character in the movie has earrings, all of them. It's kinda hard to miss and bothered me the whole time for some reason.
in the book, from what i remember, every female character that had significance or that he was attracted to had earrings, and the other background females didnt
The most groundbreaking thing about this movie seems to be instead of a soulless live action Disney remake, it's a soulless animated Disney remake. Which is arguably more insulting.
As much as we make jokes about "lol Greg's a sociopath", that's what makes him such a unique protagonist for a children's book series. Removing Greg's jerkassery removes the series of a big chunk of its identity, and it makes this movie feel more like a typical middle school movie than it should. I had this issue with the live-action versions of Rodrick Rules and Dog Days (he's still a big jerk in the first live-action movie), but it feels especially noticeable here.
I would be a giant jerk too of my older brother publicly humiliated me on the chearch or if he locked me and my best friend in the basement and don't get any type of punishment 😐 Greg ain't a sociopath he just has a shitty family
@@jesonsastak2205 Greg literally torments Rowley both mentally and physically throughout the entire series. His family is indeed messed up but he ain't any better lmao
@@tronbossxbox5024 it absolutely does not. Moldy cheeses meant for eating are intentionally made like that by being kept in specific conditions. They're safe to eat, but a piece of cheese that was lying on ground for years definitely isn't.
my eight-year-old brother was really excited about this because he recently started reading the books. about fifteen minutes into the movie he turned it off and went do something else. he said it was boring.
some of the scenes just felt like storyboards, like basic renders created to show what the scene would look like when it was done but then not finishing it
gromit doesn't even have a mouth but his animation is so descriptive you still understand how he feels, the lack of eyebrows look weird, definitely, but even if they were there its still not animated enough if yk what i mean
But a lot of artists don't draw eyebrows, yet they make it work, they should've done it in the original lines lol, I wanted that ever since I've been reading these books
4:14 "how are you making animation more boring than real life?" Gosh, you put it into words. Animation is a way of storytelling that can do things that live action cannot. It can be pushed so much further. And looking at the movie without even watching it, I still felt like the live action was somehow better than this.
I would say well the original live action films wren't perfect at least they took time to show Greg realize his mistakes or at times learn to become a better person when he try to make things right and had time to show us the cast and the world of the Wimpy kid
@@poweroffriendship2.0 When watching that Motel scene reminds me when me and my dad had a few drinks and order some Kebabs and talk about stuff which hits close to dog days when Greg and his dad realize they had a lot in common and realize their mistakes
@@comicbookreviewer4856 _"A man who never made a mistake, never made anything. The trick is, to be responsible and learn from your mistakes and you can do that."_ *~ Mr. Heffley*
I might’ve liked it if they made the whole movie in black and white like the pages of the books. It probably would’ve got boring to look at after a while though.
They could’ve done what the original animation was going to be, in the style like the peanuts movie, the 3D models in the 2D space, and that movies animation was great
Im an animation student right, and the literal ground rule of animation is “make the animation break reality rules in an real way” basically saying to give your characters a way to feel animated and invested and like they are popping out of the screen but make it believable. This movies (I saw a couples days ago) just sits there and gives it a dead vibe. Like they kept to in touch with reality. Almost giving it like an informational vibe instead of the light hearted comedy. Anyways I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who was disappointed with it. Loved the video tho great job😁
_"A man who never made a mistake, never made anything. The trick is, to be responsible and learn from your mistakes and you can do that."_ *~ Frank Heffley (Dog Days)*
The original demo animation from last year looked way better than the movie does, it seemed like they were actually making an effort to adapt the style of the books there
I’m glad we have more Wimpy Kid movies, but I think this one’s style could have been better as a TV show to better flesh out the characters in a way the original movies couldn’t and get more books besides the first 4-5ish. Not that I’ve read all of them but there are more Hefley misadventures to be seen, like when Manny nearly kills the family by hoarding their food and turning of the heat in the house
I haven’t read all the books but Cabin Fever is my favorite in the whole series because of how entertaining it is. I always wondered why they never capitalized on it because it has both a genuinely entertaining plot and they could also market it as a Christmas movie for the quick cash grab lol.
@@dravidianking1298 There actually was gonna be a 2D animated Cabin Fever TV special or something years ago, but it unfortunately got cancelled for whatever reason
@@afterthought1110 damn that sucks but in my mind the ideal format for a cabin fever adaptation would be something along the lines of the original trilogy. Just think about how good those fun winter scenes were and those chaotic Halloween scenes as well. Now imagine a whole movie plot revolving around scenarios similar to those. It wouldn’t have been groundbreaking but it would have made for a pretty damn good kids movie.
Finally, someone with a brain! The trailer is full of people complimenting it and when I said I hate the art style I got stampeded by angry 9 year olds.
This series implies that Greg is an excellent artist who draws realistic stills like they're nothing. But anyways, I wish they had animated like the animated segments of the live-action films. This... this kind of halfway style tries to have the best of both worlds but just looks unsettling.
@@thehonorablereverendaddiso1943 Again, I ask, wut? When did I say someone else was making the drawings? I mean, in reality, it's Jeff Kinney, but in the context of the series, it's Greg.
I saw this "movie" last night and I thought that it just felt like a disney channel original movie. Poor acting, uninspired, and boiled down message all killed this movie. Only good thing is how good it looks. Water and trees look real, but it's weird to see the characters built like moving fleshbags instead of characters with human traits. One good change that I thought was better than from the original was trick or treating with manny because I thought it was cute and funny, but the end of that sequence also kind of killed it
*This is the one of the only few times where I thought the animation from the demo movie trailer was way better than the actually uncanny 3D models* _Looking at you Manny and Fregley_
they really could've taken advantage of the style of animation they were going for. just like you said, movies like peanuts and captain underpants do it so so so much better. and it was produced by disney, so money isn't an excuse. it's a shame they did something like this to such an amazing book. at least it made me want to rewatch the old three movies
they should have animated the line drawings, it would've been so cool. and they could've include little details that mostly only book readers would remember, like the dollhouse, or baby greg in the drawer, and more. oof ;((
Finally someone who actually stood up and said “I don’t like this”. I commented about the animation on the trailer and I got bombarded by an army of 9 year olds who probably have never read the books
1:40 the same animator behind Ray William Johnson’s classic animated band Your Favorite Martian, Rinat Gazizov, did a lot of work on the animated scenes in the live action wimpy kid movies
Honestly we really didn’t need another Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie, especially since the original live action adaptation came out about a decade ago. I think an animated series would have been better, if they were just going to rush the story. Cuz if you’re going to make a movie and focus heavily on the running time and you cut out a lot of important things that for the sake of the running time, you might as well just make it into a series or miniseries.
imo the 3d could have worked if say they added like,, a line-like drawing around the models. it would've given them more definition and have less awkwardness to them.. to me they feel like.. without lineart around them it just looks very awkward and bare if anything. I also would've added cartoony effects like in Michelles vs The Machines to give it some-what of a notebook feel or something
It feels like chunks of the story were missing because well- they kinda are. One example is the literal climax of the book; the safety patrol scene that ends rowdy and Greg’s friendship. Another is Greg finding out about the cheese touch by almost getting it, and Chirag telling him to stop, and what it is. Instead rodrick just says it to Greg in the first like 2 minutes of the movie (which is btw the only scene with rodrick).
Honestly, it looks so ugly and dull. The hair especially, UGGHHH! In 3D, it just looks so wrong before it came out, it's just too weird and out of place. I think it's because of the initial drawing as it's meant to be extremely simple, but it's not that with the other two movies you mentioned because of the author drew them with full hair, with more effort instead of making them too simple that it looks lazy (well, it IS simple but it's still different that it still fits, J.K's are literally just lines sticking out). It's also awful for the execution because they are literally BALD. BAAALLD! It looks so disgusting and freaky.
I'm looking at the models and I can spot a few mistakes here and there, but then I realize, "hey, those are beginner mistakes!" For example, Greg's ears' bottom move when the mouth moves, meaning the "skinning" process was probably rushed and they either didn't test it out or just didn't care. Also, a lot of "corners" such as Greg's mouth have stretched normals (the lighting looks off). While this could be solved in many ways, I don't know why they would commit to make the mouth part of the same geometry as the head because it causes such an obvious problem when using simple rendering... So I just feel like this movie was an internship that was accidentally released publically. Not that it's bad for a beginner, it's really impressive, but not for first public impressions
Man, this makes the live-action movies look like masterpieces. How did they turn Diary of a Wimpy Kid into a generic, dull movie?! Honestly though, once I saw Disney was in charge of it I couldn't even groan anymore - that's how bland their movies are at this point.
Its like people making movies are afraid of 2d animation these days. I know it’s a time consuming process but the payoff would have been incredible. Movies studios are so focused on making 2d things 3d or even live action that they forget that 2d art adds to the charm. I think they could’ve mixed this up and had fun with it too, maybe added color or some fun dynamic angles to the characters we really only see from one angle. A real missed opportunity in my opinion.
Also, the technology in this movie is so weird. Rodrick has Airpods, but Greg is also calling Rowley on a landline so that _Sus_ an can hear that they played the football hill game. Also Greg tried to get a comic strip in the school newspaper
Film development has really seemed to decline in quality these past few years. Yeah we have more tools to use to make these visually outstanding scenes, but so many filmmakers of the past have made films that are far superior in terms of storytelling and writing and overall execution, and all without the tools we have today. Yeah we can make the films look cooler (or worse considering how much films depend on cgi) but unless you have everyone putting the most effort and putting love into each part of filmmaking, the film suffers drastically.
Ah yes film has really started to decline in quality these past few year, with movies like Parasite, The Favourite, Jojo Rabbit, The French Dispatch, Pig, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Dune, The Green Knight, Another Round, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Minari, The Father, Hereditary, Midsommar, Us, Spider-man Into the Spider-verse, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Climax, Dolemite is my Name, Wolfwalkers, Luca, BlacKkKlandsmen, Upgrade, Isle of Dogs, Sorry to Bother You, An Elephant Sitting Still, Matthias and Maxime, Uncut Gems, The Irishman, Marriage Story, Weathering With you, Thunder Road, The Wolf House, Andhadhun, Eighth Grade, I Lost my Body, Knives Out, The Platform, and Honeyboy all coming in the past 3 years and all being really great movies that just come off the top of my head and most of them not even being at all obscure is a sure sign that cinema is declining. Nah dude, there have always been shitty lazy movies made it's just people forget about them because nobody cares about them, and back when all the classics were coming out back in the day, people like you were saying cinema's been going downhill because they simply forgot about the crap from earlier. Honestly 2021 is shaping out to be one of the best years for cinema as almost everything I've bothered to check out with only like 5 exceptions has absolutely blown me away, and there's still so many more amazing looking movies that I have not yet gotten the opportunity to see.
I think the main problem with this is that it’s being made as a tv special & not a feature film, which I guess is fine but gives it the same feel of those old straight to vhs tapes a teacher would put on in elementary school where they just take an illustrated book & cheaply animate it. If the film had been given a bigger budget for the animation & a feature length runtime to flesh out the story I think it could’ve been something really fun, but Disney either doesn’t have enough faith in the property or doesn’t want it associated with the Disney feature animation brand. Maybe if this one does well they’ll put more care into the sequel. Otherwise, they’re adequate films for teachers to put on for their students on slow days.
Glad I wasn’t the only one who thought this way. Watching it, I really really wanted to like it but I just, couldn’t. There was no love, heart, or any sort of creativity in it. The world they live in feels like a default Unreal Engine asset and almost like a void; it reminded me of the WandaVision scene where Vision goes to the outskirts of town in that dystopia-esq setting where everyone is frozen and the town is a flat surface. This just made me appreciate the live action movies so much more for how much was put into those movies compared to this new one.
I didn't like the disney plus one but I perfer it over the long haul. BTW the woman who voice Greg's mom in the disney plus one sounds like shy recorded her lines in the bathroom
I don’t know how they did it, but every non-moving shot of the characters looks like they found some really ugly Wimpy Kid action figures/dolls and just green screened them in. Also there’s the fact that there is very little snap movement, which you need for dramatic and fun moves but everything just seems… too fluid and floaty ig
I watched the movie last night and didn’t really mind it. I’m probably just a sucker for nostalgia, but it kinda liked it. Despite it not feeling like a movie due to the short length. Though I do feel that it had many shortcomings due to what I’d assume were certain restraints and budgets and whatnot. Hopefully the sequel fixes itself up where the first one was lacking.
honestly one of the things that annoyed me the most was the script, but when i think that it is a perspective of a 11 year old, i let it slide. the animation didnt bothered me that much, but i think it would be nice if it was gumball style (3D sets with 2D characters). but the thing i hate the most is the voice acting, EVERYONE seems miscast in this
Honestly, the live action Rodrick Rules movie is one of my favorite family movies! It's so hilarious. And I love Dog Days too, but in the first one I found Greg to be a little too mean, so I don't like it as much. I saw the horrible road trip one once and was appalled at how terrible it was. I will definitely not watch this animated one now after hearing this review. Just watching the animation clips used in this video were boring to look at, I couldn't sit through a whole hour of that.
As someone who grew up with diary of a wimpy kid and a brother who has an entire collection of the book series, when we watched the new movie we couldn’t even take thirty minutes of it 😭 the first three movies are gods compared to the new one amen
This movie should have went with the Winnie the Pooh (2011) route where the characters exist within and interact with the book itself like messing with the text or rewriting the story to make it work twitch the way the characters want it too. That would have been so cool!
For me, the thing thats off about animating it is that the point of the books is that they are wrote by greg, which would by logic make more sense being live action. Im an animation buff but it just looks so soulless
The simplistic "childish" nature that made the series really look like the journals of a middle schooler does NOT translate to 3d at all, the characters look like god damn Miis.
In the movies we can see that when greg enters the school, its full with weird kids wich makes diary of a wimpy kid diary of a wimpy kid but in the new movie, its like if it was empty and they didn't had that much charaters like in other movies.
1:47 I did not say that dude stop no stop dude no
Mad sus Nick
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One of my favorite movies
the WHAT movie
Penith
In my opinion, they should have animated the entire movie with the original line drawings
I fully agree with this statement honestly
Yeah,that would’ve been cool
Would had been cheaper tbh
omg i love the line drawing animation so much
I think they did that for a bit in the original trilogy
can we just talk about how susan's mic recording quality sounded like it was from a zoom call for 99% of the movie
YES I noticed that too and wondered how that made it past post production
I couldn't even hear her voice most of the time
exactly 😂
YES one scene was so bad I honestly wondered how they kept it stay it sounded awful and I know nothing about stuff like that, plus the VA was just bad at her job so when it did sound "ok" her voice acting was awful
@@micahbell9969 The movie was probably rushed
I think the problem is that they keep trying to make Greg a timeless character. The best thing about the og movie trilogy is the growth and it ended where it should have, it’s a solid trilogy. Besides the animation being unflattering and unfinished looking, I think live action works better because the books have off the vibe that you were reading a real kid’s diary
This movies animation would’ve been so much cooler in my opinion if they used the same “3D 2Dish” model from the Wimpy Kid movie snowball trailer for the whole movie
@ElectricJay I recently rewatched the peanuts movie and while not a perfect movie, it encapsulated the feel and nature of the world of the peanuts characters. Its a perfect love letter to Schultz’s work, its extremely faithful to the source material… and its overall a generally great movie with a great message. Yes life will suck… nobody is perfect… but staying true to yourself and sacrificing to be a selfless person is what matters.
Its a damn shame that this movie flopped because I was rooting for the Wimpy Kid movie to go out well. But as soon as I left middle school and especially when that long haul movie hit theatres… the series started to rot… like a certain cheese…
I liked the animation style, but I did notice the choppiness. Hopefully in the next movie it will be smoother because they already have all the assets made
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Exactly what im thinking!
to see the series adapted in this style feels so wrong. The reason the characters look the way they do in the books is because that's how Greg draws them in his diaries, they're drawn to the best of his abilities. His style exaggerates certain features on characters to make them stand out and help boost their depicted personalities. You weren't supposed to believe that's what the characters *actually* looked like. And now that they do in this movie it just feels wrong. Why even have the diary part if that's just his life. Is Greg drawing people picture perfect in his diary now? lmao
I just have to point this out: every female character in the movie has earrings, all of them. It's kinda hard to miss and bothered me the whole time for some reason.
I mean Greg drew women to be basically identical in the books as he sees them as all the same. But yeah this movie is trash
in the book, from what i remember, every female character that had significance or that he was attracted to had earrings, and the other background females didnt
@@kiiokotoriikitscrazyhesony8242 so Greg has a thing for girls with Earrings
I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME. they look...gross, for some reason.
All women are born with earrings /jk
The most groundbreaking thing about this movie seems to be instead of a soulless live action Disney remake, it's a soulless animated Disney remake. Which is arguably more insulting.
God, I didn't know Disney can go both ways.
This is on point. A trainwreck indeed.
This movie broke my heart.
lol
Disney should go back to 2d animation in all honesty
As much as we make jokes about "lol Greg's a sociopath", that's what makes him such a unique protagonist for a children's book series. Removing Greg's jerkassery removes the series of a big chunk of its identity, and it makes this movie feel more like a typical middle school movie than it should. I had this issue with the live-action versions of Rodrick Rules and Dog Days (he's still a big jerk in the first live-action movie), but it feels especially noticeable here.
True, but they wanted to have Greg learn something in the movies and have him grow as a person
@@brodielicata6422 developed Greg >>>>>>> book Greg don’t @ me
I would be a giant jerk too of my older brother publicly humiliated me on the chearch or if he locked me and my best friend in the basement and don't get any type of punishment 😐 Greg ain't a sociopath he just has a shitty family
i mean, thats exactly the point he was trying to make. they tried to make greg a cool dude in the animation and it didnt worked very well
@@jesonsastak2205 Greg literally torments Rowley both mentally and physically throughout the entire series. His family is indeed messed up but he ain't any better lmao
To be honest, I'm surprised eating the cheese didn't actually kill Rowley.
True!
it has been there since Rodrick was in middle school
@@CsRj2854 cheese is meant to be rotten
@@tronbossxbox5024 it absolutely does not. Moldy cheeses meant for eating are intentionally made like that by being kept in specific conditions. They're safe to eat, but a piece of cheese that was lying on ground for years definitely isn't.
@@CsRj2854 Yes, I'm aware.
my eight-year-old brother was really excited about this because he recently started reading the books. about fifteen minutes into the movie he turned it off and went do something else. he said it was boring.
He is right
Show him the live action trilogy
@@personwitharat9039 he's seen it before lol, he thinks those are great!
@@infernamus always will
That rare moment when the live action adaptation has more heart and emotion than an animated one.
It looks insanely bland compared to the originals, almost as if they had forgotten to finish rendering it.
first we should agree that you should stuff this comment up your bass
some of the scenes just felt like storyboards, like basic renders created to show what the scene would look like when it was done but then not finishing it
@@SparrowIZ calm down
@@SparrowIZ this movie is ass. Stop defending it.
@@SparrowIZ what if he doesnt play bass
It's definitely the eyebrows. They're so important for making animated characters to portray emotions. Just look at grommit from Wallace and Gromit!
Rodrick is the only main character in this movie WITH eyebrows and he still looks emotionless
@@kiricappuchin fair enough, just crap animation then haha
@@kiricappuchin I'd hesitate to even call him call him a main character given that he only has like one scene
gromit doesn't even have a mouth but his animation is so descriptive you still understand how he feels, the lack of eyebrows look weird, definitely, but even if they were there its still not animated enough if yk what i mean
But a lot of artists don't draw eyebrows, yet they make it work, they should've done it in the original lines lol, I wanted that ever since I've been reading these books
4:14 "how are you making animation more boring than real life?"
Gosh, you put it into words. Animation is a way of storytelling that can do things that live action cannot. It can be pushed so much further. And looking at the movie without even watching it, I still felt like the live action was somehow better than this.
Greg still isn't a sociopath.
You just repeated what he said in the video almost word for word
@@visassess8607 Begging for likes.
The books went through seasonal rot. The more the movies go on, the more they become faithful to the books. Even if it's in the worst possible way.
the tweet at 0:26 is the most depressing thing i've seen all week
I would say well the original live action films wren't perfect at least they took time to show Greg realize his mistakes or at times learn to become a better person when he try to make things right and had time to show us the cast and the world of the Wimpy kid
The motel scene in Dog Days hits me though.
shut up I'm SparrowIZ
@@SparrowIZ what
@@poweroffriendship2.0 When watching that Motel scene reminds me when me and my dad had a few drinks and order some Kebabs and talk about stuff which hits close to dog days when Greg and his dad realize they had a lot in common and realize their mistakes
@@comicbookreviewer4856 _"A man who never made a mistake, never made anything. The trick is, to be responsible and learn from your mistakes and you can do that."_
*~ Mr. Heffley*
I might’ve liked it if they made the whole movie in black and white like the pages of the books. It probably would’ve got boring to look at after a while though.
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Yeah. I think it could've better if it's an animated series.
Maybe that style would've worked as a series of shorts.
They could’ve done what the original animation was going to be, in the style like the peanuts movie, the 3D models in the 2D space, and that movies animation was great
that would be boring
First we had “Not my Rodrick” now we have “Not my Greg” it has come full circle
#StillNotMyRodrick
perfectly balanced, as all things should be
@@JeronRush327 lol
Please my manny
Not my manny better be next.
Im an animation student right, and the literal ground rule of animation is “make the animation break reality rules in an real way” basically saying to give your characters a way to feel animated and invested and like they are popping out of the screen but make it believable. This movies (I saw a couples days ago) just sits there and gives it a dead vibe. Like they kept to in touch with reality. Almost giving it like an informational vibe instead of the light hearted comedy. Anyways I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who was disappointed with it. Loved the video tho great job😁
The more movies made about diary of a wimpy kid after the first few make me realize how damn good the dad was played. What a god tier actor
_"A man who never made a mistake, never made anything. The trick is, to be responsible and learn from your mistakes and you can do that."_
*~ Frank Heffley (Dog Days)*
Inspiring quote from a wise man.
damn facts
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present"
- *Master Oogway* (Kung Fu Panda)
"From failure, you learn. From success? Not so much" - Aunt Billie (Meet The Robinsons)
Okay quote from the movie, but it’s off character. It would’ve felt more fitting if Frank from the books was actually a good father
I jumped to the ending when Greg and Rowley make up and it didn’t have that same emotion and warm feel that the original movie had.
shut up im SparrowIZ
@@SparrowIZ who
@@SparrowIZ How many times have you used that line, SparrowIZ?
@@SparrowIZ I’m going to tell you a single word. One word. Four letters. You may want to write it down.
*S T O P*
IT DID HAVE THE SAME EMOTIONS AND WARM FEEL
The original demo animation from last year looked way better than the movie does, it seemed like they were actually making an effort to adapt the style of the books there
Yessss
It looked very similar to the peanuts movie which had 3D models, but moved them in a 2D space and kept the same style as the comics
I guess maybe Disney cut their budget? Because yeah the test animation looked way better than the actual movie did
Probably ran over budget, maybe that's why it looked crap compared to the teaser
no way dude, that was worse
Why does Rowley look like someone challenged their friend to make a 3D model only using the tube tool in Paint 3D
@SmartKidFromPS38 OH GOD YOU'RE RIGJT
The Long Haul and this one are movies that literally do not need to exist.
2017:
Not my Rodrick
2021:
Not my Greg
2023:
Not my Manny
2026:
Not my Rowley
2030:
Not my Frank
2033:
Not my Susan
2026
Not my Rowley
I did not mind Rodrick from 2017.
@@bighand1530 same
@@bighand1530 are you ok? 😨
@@flynnappleby7842 Yes?
I’m glad we have more Wimpy Kid movies, but I think this one’s style could have been better as a TV show to better flesh out the characters in a way the original movies couldn’t and get more books besides the first 4-5ish. Not that I’ve read all of them but there are more Hefley misadventures to be seen, like when Manny nearly kills the family by hoarding their food and turning of the heat in the house
I haven’t read all the books but Cabin Fever is my favorite in the whole series because of how entertaining it is. I always wondered why they never capitalized on it because it has both a genuinely entertaining plot and they could also market it as a Christmas movie for the quick cash grab lol.
@@dravidianking1298 There actually was gonna be a 2D animated Cabin Fever TV special or something years ago, but it unfortunately got cancelled for whatever reason
@@afterthought1110 damn that sucks but in my mind the ideal format for a cabin fever adaptation would be something along the lines of the original trilogy. Just think about how good those fun winter scenes were and those chaotic Halloween scenes as well. Now imagine a whole movie plot revolving around scenarios similar to those. It wouldn’t have been groundbreaking but it would have made for a pretty damn good kids movie.
Damn Netflix or any other tv network needs to hire you
@@dravidianking1298 An adaptation to Ugly Truth and Third Wheel would be pretty fun as well.
They should have done the entire movie as line drawings.
that's your mom
@@SparrowIZ Yo Mama!
Animation studios are too scared to do 2d now, suddenly when a cartoon becomes 3D it becomes less childish and more marketable I guess.
@@baronofbahlingen9662 Well, 2D isn't really dead yet. Have you heard of TV shows and web animation?
But that would cost money
started it yesterday and couldn’t get through 5 minutes.
then I watched the old trilogy out of spite
The fact that it's 59 minutes is the reason
Finally, someone with a brain! The trailer is full of people complimenting it and when I said I hate the art style I got stampeded by angry 9 year olds.
When I saw the trailer I was like great another cgi animated movie that would suck. And it did....
Twitter has more angry people.
No one cares
@@smackaroossmackamack5588 Why did you comment then?
@@goldedrag111 why do you care
This series implies that Greg is an excellent artist who draws realistic stills like they're nothing.
But anyways, I wish they had animated like the animated segments of the live-action films. This... this kind of halfway style tries to have the best of both worlds but just looks unsettling.
But then why does he draw stick figures, then?
@@thehonorablereverendaddiso1943 Wut?
@@slashbash1347 Who else is drawing in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series if not Greg?
@@thehonorablereverendaddiso1943 Again, I ask, wut? When did I say someone else was making the drawings? I mean, in reality, it's Jeff Kinney, but in the context of the series, it's Greg.
@@slashbash1347 I was ASKING that, if Greg can apparently draw so well, WHY he draws in STICK FIGURES.
I saw this "movie" last night and I thought that it just felt like a disney channel original movie. Poor acting, uninspired, and boiled down message all killed this movie. Only good thing is how good it looks. Water and trees look real, but it's weird to see the characters built like moving fleshbags instead of characters with human traits. One good change that I thought was better than from the original was trick or treating with manny because I thought it was cute and funny, but the end of that sequence also kind of killed it
*This is the one of the only few times where I thought the animation from the demo movie trailer was way better than the actually uncanny 3D models*
_Looking at you Manny and Fregley_
don't insult Disney Channel original movies like that
THE ACTING WAS PERFECT IDIOY
@@jaxsterminator8634 …
@@jaxsterminator8634 says the guy who misspelled “idiot”
If this was animated in the style of the books, I imagine it to have a slight rubber hose effect.
We both have the exact same idea on the animation style.
It honestly seems low-budget.
3:15
That lighting makes me wanna scream
they really could've taken advantage of the style of animation they were going for. just like you said, movies like peanuts and captain underpants do it so so so much better. and it was produced by disney, so money isn't an excuse.
it's a shame they did something like this to such an amazing book. at least it made me want to rewatch the old three movies
Money is definitely not an excuse, captain underpants was made on a small budget vastly smaller than your usual disney animation budget
This movie looks like the animation test before the final cut is actually made.
they should have animated the line drawings, it would've been so cool. and they could've include little details that mostly only book readers would remember, like the dollhouse, or baby greg in the drawer, and more. oof ;((
if the whole movie was made like the openings to the live action movies, id be a lot happier with the movie
The dad in the og trilogy was a chad.
But the Diary of a wimpy kid animated he’s a virgin.
When the final film looks worse than the first trailer, you know you fucked up somewhere.
Finally someone who actually stood up and said “I don’t like this”. I commented about the animation on the trailer and I got bombarded by an army of 9 year olds who probably have never read the books
Oh get over yourself. So sorry that people have a different opinion than you.
@@digimonlover1632 and they can also have a different opinion than everyone else, without getting *bombarded*
@@birdboy16 thank you
@@digimonlover1632 Even if the others comments did have a different opinion they could have respected his opinion instead of bombarding him.
@@digimonlover1632 Digimon is the disney+ diary of a wimpy kid version of pokemon
:(
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The first 3 Live Action movies were better.
:)
:((
Sad days 😞
Personally, I think they should've made the movie with the same 2D/3D kind of animation that was used in Klaus or Into the Spider-Verse
underrated opinion
The difference is that both of the movies you mentioned were basically passion projects
well...that would be extremely expensive
@@stevedoidoultimate4815 I think Klaus background animation is 3D.
1:40 the same animator behind Ray William Johnson’s classic animated band Your Favorite Martian, Rinat Gazizov, did a lot of work on the animated scenes in the live action wimpy kid movies
Did anyone else noticed how bad the Mom’s mic was, you could literally hear background noise during the dinner scene
A good reminder that a character being a good person doesn’t automatically make them compelling. Disney get your shxt together challenge.
disney doesn't need to, whatever they do people will give their limbs to disney and say its god tier even if its actual dogshit filmed for 5 hours
Honestly we really didn’t need another Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie, especially since the original live action adaptation came out about a decade ago. I think an animated series would have been better, if they were just going to rush the story.
Cuz if you’re going to make a movie and focus heavily on the running time and you cut out a lot of important things that for the sake of the running time, you might as well just make it into a series or miniseries.
Why-Why they so smooth? They look plastic. The proportions feels so weird and top-heavy
Rowley isn’t exactly a saint in the books either, he has his moments
24 frames: good voices, bad animation-
Me: Like rapsite street kids!
24 frames: Like rapsite street kids!
Me: :0
imo the 3d could have worked if say they added like,, a line-like drawing around the models. it would've given them more definition and have less awkwardness to them.. to me they feel like.. without lineart around them it just looks very awkward and bare if anything. I also would've added cartoony effects like in Michelles vs The Machines to give it some-what of a notebook feel or something
It feels like chunks of the story were missing because well- they kinda are. One example is the literal climax of the book; the safety patrol scene that ends rowdy and Greg’s friendship. Another is Greg finding out about the cheese touch by almost getting it, and Chirag telling him to stop, and what it is. Instead rodrick just says it to Greg in the first like 2 minutes of the movie (which is btw the only scene with rodrick).
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter...
you're desecrating a war memorial
Ave!
@@TheDude8008 True to Caesar
A jerk is one of the best personalities for a main character, but stripping him of his jerkiness is the worst
Honestly, it looks so ugly and dull. The hair especially, UGGHHH! In 3D, it just looks so wrong before it came out, it's just too weird and out of place. I think it's because of the initial drawing as it's meant to be extremely simple, but it's not that with the other two movies you mentioned because of the author drew them with full hair, with more effort instead of making them too simple that it looks lazy (well, it IS simple but it's still different that it still fits, J.K's are literally just lines sticking out). It's also awful for the execution because they are literally BALD. BAAALLD! It looks so disgusting and freaky.
I was shooketh at how horrifying Manny looked in this movie
I mean, its modern Disney, my expectations were already at zero
I'm looking at the models and I can spot a few mistakes here and there, but then I realize, "hey, those are beginner mistakes!"
For example, Greg's ears' bottom move when the mouth moves, meaning the "skinning" process was probably rushed and they either didn't test it out or just didn't care.
Also, a lot of "corners" such as Greg's mouth have stretched normals (the lighting looks off). While this could be solved in many ways, I don't know why they would commit to make the mouth part of the same geometry as the head because it causes such an obvious problem when using simple rendering...
So I just feel like this movie was an internship that was accidentally released publically. Not that it's bad for a beginner, it's really impressive, but not for first public impressions
I love how everyone just agrees Greg is a sociopath and rowley the victim of a toxic relationship
First Not My Rodrick...now Not My Greg.
Give me a break
Man, this makes the live-action movies look like masterpieces.
How did they turn Diary of a Wimpy Kid into a generic, dull movie?!
Honestly though, once I saw Disney was in charge of it I couldn't even groan anymore - that's how bland their movies are at this point.
When I saw the trailer for this I looked to my brother and said, “This will forever haunt my nightmares”
Susan heffley literally sounded like her voice was recorded on a windows xp.
no cap
The teaser looked to good, and then the budget must have been dropped to low numbers.
ill never forget how the original announcement's animation was WAY better than the final product
It's weird how the ending of the first live action one made me cry and feel so much different emotions
While this one made me feel kind of empty
0:07 I completely forgot Poptropica had a Diary of a Wimpy Kid level, that was nostalgic
Its like people making movies are afraid of 2d animation these days. I know it’s a time consuming process but the payoff would have been incredible. Movies studios are so focused on making 2d things 3d or even live action that they forget that 2d art adds to the charm. I think they could’ve mixed this up and had fun with it too, maybe added color or some fun dynamic angles to the characters we really only see from one angle. A real missed opportunity in my opinion.
Bro at school im reading rodrick rules right now
Also, the technology in this movie is so weird. Rodrick has Airpods, but Greg is also calling Rowley on a landline so that _Sus_ an can hear that they played the football hill game. Also Greg tried to get a comic strip in the school newspaper
Film development has really seemed to decline in quality these past few years. Yeah we have more tools to use to make these visually outstanding scenes, but so many filmmakers of the past have made films that are far superior in terms of storytelling and writing and overall execution, and all without the tools we have today. Yeah we can make the films look cooler (or worse considering how much films depend on cgi) but unless you have everyone putting the most effort and putting love into each part of filmmaking, the film suffers drastically.
Ah yes film has really started to decline in quality these past few year, with movies like Parasite, The Favourite, Jojo Rabbit, The French Dispatch, Pig, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Dune, The Green Knight, Another Round, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Minari, The Father, Hereditary, Midsommar, Us, Spider-man Into the Spider-verse, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Climax, Dolemite is my Name, Wolfwalkers, Luca, BlacKkKlandsmen, Upgrade, Isle of Dogs, Sorry to Bother You, An Elephant Sitting Still, Matthias and Maxime, Uncut Gems, The Irishman, Marriage Story, Weathering With you, Thunder Road, The Wolf House, Andhadhun, Eighth Grade, I Lost my Body, Knives Out, The Platform, and Honeyboy all coming in the past 3 years and all being really great movies that just come off the top of my head and most of them not even being at all obscure is a sure sign that cinema is declining. Nah dude, there have always been shitty lazy movies made it's just people forget about them because nobody cares about them, and back when all the classics were coming out back in the day, people like you were saying cinema's been going downhill because they simply forgot about the crap from earlier. Honestly 2021 is shaping out to be one of the best years for cinema as almost everything I've bothered to check out with only like 5 exceptions has absolutely blown me away, and there's still so many more amazing looking movies that I have not yet gotten the opportunity to see.
You are just getting too old man, a lot of great content was made in the last years
I think the main problem with this is that it’s being made as a tv special & not a feature film, which I guess is fine but gives it the same feel of those old straight to vhs tapes a teacher would put on in elementary school where they just take an illustrated book & cheaply animate it. If the film had been given a bigger budget for the animation & a feature length runtime to flesh out the story I think it could’ve been something really fun, but Disney either doesn’t have enough faith in the property or doesn’t want it associated with the Disney feature animation brand. Maybe if this one does well they’ll put more care into the sequel. Otherwise, they’re adequate films for teachers to put on for their students on slow days.
Glad I wasn’t the only one who thought this way. Watching it, I really really wanted to like it but I just, couldn’t. There was no love, heart, or any sort of creativity in it. The world they live in feels like a default Unreal Engine asset and almost like a void; it reminded me of the WandaVision scene where Vision goes to the outskirts of town in that dystopia-esq setting where everyone is frozen and the town is a flat surface. This just made me appreciate the live action movies so much more for how much was put into those movies compared to this new one.
I can second the notion that it seems like a draft; if you look closely enough it looks low poly at places
I feel like the smooth style is meant to be like the style, still not an excuse
If they added cel shading to the characters and the foreground and background then it would make the film much better in my opinion.
I didn't like the disney plus one but I perfer it over the long haul. BTW the woman who voice Greg's mom in the disney plus one sounds like shy recorded her lines in the bathroom
I remember LS Mark said the same thing
@@kianrodriguez4455 who's he?
@@durno5987 he's a RUclipsr that does reviews on movies and shows as well. You should check him out
Her voice lines made me question if my ear buds weren't working right
@@shawklan27 fr
I mean I wasn’t expecting much
We already have the masterpiece that is the Trilogy
And I feel like this franchise should have ended 6 years ago
It's a shame, because the first look we got looked so good.
Kind of looks like 3 2 1 penguins
I don’t know how they did it, but every non-moving shot of the characters looks like they found some really ugly Wimpy Kid action figures/dolls and just green screened them in. Also there’s the fact that there is very little snap movement, which you need for dramatic and fun moves but everything just seems… too fluid and floaty ig
1:07 my right ear enjoyed this
I watched the movie last night and didn’t really mind it. I’m probably just a sucker for nostalgia, but it kinda liked it. Despite it not feeling like a movie due to the short length. Though I do feel that it had many shortcomings due to what I’d assume were certain restraints and budgets and whatnot. Hopefully the sequel fixes itself up where the first one was lacking.
This felt more like a TV Pilot than a film
Another problem: the script. Jeff Kinney's style doesn't fit for movies.
honestly one of the things that annoyed me the most was the script, but when i think that it is a perspective of a 11 year old, i let it slide. the animation didnt bothered me that much, but i think it would be nice if it was gumball style (3D sets with 2D characters). but the thing i hate the most is the voice acting, EVERYONE seems miscast in this
I have NEVER seen an animated movie vs a live action one where I genuinely preferred the live action. This is a new feeling
Honestly, the live action Rodrick Rules movie is one of my favorite family movies! It's so hilarious. And I love Dog Days too, but in the first one I found Greg to be a little too mean, so I don't like it as much. I saw the horrible road trip one once and was appalled at how terrible it was. I will definitely not watch this animated one now after hearing this review. Just watching the animation clips used in this video were boring to look at, I couldn't sit through a whole hour of that.
THE ROAD TRIP ONE IS THE BEST
@@jaxsterminator8634 yeah, you’re definitely a troll
@@qsd5413 IM NOT A TROLL
@@jaxsterminator8634 yes you are, all evidence points to me being correct
@@qsd5413 IM NEVER WRONG IVE WON EVERY ARGUMENT EVER
The mom's voice put me off immediately
Let's start a chain of people saying "not my dairy" it would probably be funny
The movie looks cursed
But it’s watchable in my opinion
At least it’s better than The Long Haul
No joke, When I watched this yesterday, I thought the animation looked weird and cursed
Glad to see that people agree with me!
As someone who grew up with diary of a wimpy kid and a brother who has an entire collection of the book series, when we watched the new movie we couldn’t even take thirty minutes of it 😭 the first three movies are gods compared to the new one amen
Some art styles weren’t made for 3D. This is one of them lol.
This movie should have went with the Winnie the Pooh (2011) route where the characters exist within and interact with the book itself like messing with the text or rewriting the story to make it work twitch the way the characters want it too. That would have been so cool!
For me, the thing thats off about animating it is that the point of the books is that they are wrote by greg, which would by logic make more sense being live action. Im an animation buff but it just looks so soulless
When I saw the ad of the remake I already knew it was gonna suck
ikr, who keeps adking for remakes??? Did creativity die and they just wanna profit off what already exists and not think abt new things to make?
*asking
The simplistic "childish" nature that made the series really look like the journals of a middle schooler does NOT translate to 3d at all, the characters look like god damn Miis.
In the movies we can see that when greg enters the school, its full with weird kids wich makes diary of a wimpy kid diary of a wimpy kid but in the new movie, its like if it was empty and they didn't had that much charaters like in other movies.
I wish Rodrick appeared more.
Same