Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

PG

2012

1h 34m

Kids & Family

Comedy

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It's summer, and Greg Heffley (Zachary Gordon) is looking forward to playing video games and spending time with his friends. However, Greg's dad (Steve Zahn) has other plans: He's decided that some father-son bonding time is in order. Desperate to prevent his dad from ruining summer vacation, Greg pretends he has a job at a ritzy country club. But Greg's plan backfires, leaving him in the middle of embarrassing mishaps and a camping trip gone wrong.

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Critics Consensus

Overly familiar and a bit too reliant on slapstick, the sitcom-like Dog Days fails to improve upon previous installments and will likely appeal to few outside its target audience.

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

08/03/2012

2/5

What happened to madness? What happened to rebellion? Oh, what's the bloody point? Nobody's listening.

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

08/03/2012

3/5

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days is probably the most inoffensive kid's film you're likely to see this summer. And that's a good thing.

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Matt Singer

Time Out

08/03/2012

3/5

Viewers enduring early adolescence or those grappling with its psychic scars will recognize the honesty in the comic humiliation.

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Allen Almachar

The MacGuffin

07/31/2020

C+

The film loses its forward momentum and then wraps itself up in a way that is anti-climactic.

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Debbie Lynn Elias

Behind The Lens

11/27/2019

Don't let the dog days of summer get you down! Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days is filled with laughter, love and fun for the whole family.

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Mattie Lucas

From the Front Row

08/06/2019

3/4

These kids clearly had the time of their lives making this, with its gee-whiz sense of humor and clever integration of animation connecting the characters to their hand drawn literary counterparts.

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Speakerman G

Dec 11

Inferior aos antecessores, mas ainda tem uma dose de diversão, um Greg mais maduro e 2 coisas bem aproveitadas deste filme: Frank e Holy

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Anthony T

Oct 18

Amazing film I like watching it

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Vincent W

@Gojirilla5419 Sep 21

It’s very unique and strange, but it gets a pass because it’s Wimpy Kid

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Rihannna H

Sep 8

Giving it the same rating because it’s still good, the other 2 are better tho.

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Eli B

Sep 7

I love this movie it's a belly laugh all through My brother and I binged all three movies back yo back and they were all super good still 15 or so years later. Especially rodrick rules and dog days. The first one is okay

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Kelly M

Aug 25

Greg because Greg is back again but this time he is going to the 8th grade and he is going to ask Holly Hills to hang out with him and get her phone number and she has a sister called Heather Hills and she is planning for her sweet 16 birthday and Greg and his dad has nothing in common and Greg and Rowley go to this country club and they find Holly Hills there because she is a member and Greg lies about have a job at the country club to make his dad happy my favourite part is when Rodrick is Singing at Heather Hills sweet 16 birthday and he sings Baby by Justin Bieber and in the end he gets with Holly Hills. Great movie 8/10

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Synopsis

It's summer, and Greg Heffley (Zachary Gordon) is looking forward to playing video games and spending time with his friends. However, Greg's dad (Steve Zahn) has other plans: He's decided that some father-son bonding time is in order. Desperate to prevent his dad from ruining summer vacation, Greg pretends he has a job at a ritzy country club. But Greg's plan backfires, leaving him in the middle of embarrassing mishaps and a camping trip gone wrong.

Director: David Bowers
Producer: Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson
Screenwriter: Maya Forbes, Wallace Wolodarsky
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Color Force
Rating: PG (Some Rude Humor)
Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 3, 2012, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $49.0M
Runtime: 1h 34m

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