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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul

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Young Greg Heffley is looking forward to a long summer of just hanging out, but his mother throws a monkey wrench into his plans when she forces the entire family to take a road trip for a relative's birthday celebration. His eyes soon light up after he realizes that the excursion is his ticket to a gaming convention to meet YouTube sensation Mac Digby. Greg's imagination then kicks into overdrive as he sneakily hatches a scheme to attend the expo and gain some much-deserved fame.
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With an all-new cast but the same juvenile humor, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul finds the franchise still stuck in arrested -- and largely unfunny -- development.

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Jake Wilson The Age (Australia) At least Silverstone, who hasn't lost her gift for comic pouting, is allowed to bring some humanity and playfulness to her killjoy character -- though this mainly reinforces the impression that she deserves better roles. Rated: 2/5 Jun 29, 2017 Full Review Stephen Romei The Australian All in all, it's harmless fun. Rated: 2.5/5 Jun 23, 2017 Full Review Tara Brady Irish Times Now, with a new cast in place, and tweaks to allow such mod-cons as social media, the wheels have come off entirely. Rated: 2/5 Jun 14, 2017 Full Review Leigh Monson Substream Magazine If you aren't twelve years old or twelve-year-old-adjacent, there just isn't likely much for you to enjoy in this film. Rated: 2.5/5 Sep 24, 2020 Full Review Kaitlyn Booth Bleeding Cool Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul is a road trip movie that trips over every terrible family movie cliche with pacing so bad it made 91 minutes feel like a lifetime. Rated: 3/10 May 22, 2019 Full Review Rachel Wagner rachelsreviews.net Probably best to watch on cable with the fam. Rated: C Mar 12, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Tommy D No sense, the cast is orrible, react orrible. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 11/17/25 Full Review K G It's the sort of bad quadrequel that comes a long while later. We all thought that Dog Days of 2012 was the perfect ending of the DOAWK movie franchise with its aging cast such as Greg getting Holly Hills & whatever. But in this unnecessary movie, things go in ways we do not like. Firstly, the cast, Greg is made younger than he ended up as or Rodrick looking way different previously - neither of them look related unlike previously. Secondly, the storyline does not involve a timeless scream or book accuracy which involves a meme, social media & gaming (something modern day people are into) instead of a boat sale (which is more timeless) not to mention that Meemaw was already dead in the books. One twisty thing is that Greg owns a phone at the age of 12, when in Dog Days he got his first phone at 14 (which was a crappy ladybug one where you could only phone home or 911). Even if it is deemed standalone/non canon, we still do not like it. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 11/07/25 Full Review Luciano S eh it definitely was NOT diary of a wimpy kid, but it was fun and had a good lesson at the end. some parts are cringy, but i think the rest of the movie outrules that. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/14/25 Full Review Lincoln C This movie is seriously emoji movie level dated Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 10/03/25 Full Review Rihannna H I didn’t think I’d like it but I surprisingly did, it’s different actors so it doesn’t really feel like diary of a wimpy kid it just feels like a different story/movie but yea it was kinda funny. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 09/08/25 Full Review Kelly M Ok because Greg is back again but this time it is a whole new plot with whole new cast so Greg and the family go on a road trip to their Grandmas 90th birthday and they have to travel for 4 days and they get into lots of chaos like they get a pig and Greg meets this Beardo guy and he wants to find Greg because one of his kids lies about scratching his van so he is looking for him and Greg is trying to be in a YouTube video with his favourite YouTuber Mac Digby and the other crazy thing the family get into is that Greg becomes a meme called Diper Hands because he was trying to find Manny his little brother in the ball pit and he pulled out a diper and the other crazy thing the family gets into is that seagulls get into the car all because of some hot Cheetos and Greg get launched by the boat as a trailer and land in a pool. ok movie 7/10 Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/17/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Young Greg Heffley is looking forward to a long summer of just hanging out, but his mother throws a monkey wrench into his plans when she forces the entire family to take a road trip for a relative's birthday celebration. His eyes soon light up after he realizes that the excursion is his ticket to a gaming convention to meet YouTube sensation Mac Digby. Greg's imagination then kicks into overdrive as he sneakily hatches a scheme to attend the expo and gain some much-deserved fame.
Director
David Bowers
Producer
Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson
Screenwriter
Jeff Kinney, David Bowers
Distributor
20th Century Fox
Production Co
Color Force
Rating
PG (Some Rude Humor)
Genre
Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 19, 2017, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 10, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$20.7M
Runtime
1h 31m
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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