As in Life, Middle School Features Memorable Pranks and Not Much Else

Middle SchoolMovies This big-screen adaptation of James Patterson’s children's book series, Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life has some heart but mostly falls flat. Essentially a vehicle for highly unrealistic youthful shenanigans, this one gets 2 out of 5.   Synopsis Artistic and imaginative Rafe (Griffin Gluck) is on his third middle school of the semester... and it’s his last chance to prove he can behave well enough to keep from getting expelled. When the stickler-for-rules principal (Andy Daly) destroys his prized sketchbook after his doodles cause a disruption during assembly, Rafe and his pal Leo (Thomas Barbusca) vow to pull off an ultimate series of pranks dashing every rule in the book. Can they save the middle school from the tyrannical grasp of...

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Oct 6th 2016
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