How To Beat A Bully is released on April 5th. Check out our early review.
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How to Beat a Bully is a kid’s movie, pure and simple.
It is a kid’s movie with a great message that is communicated through
the cheer and cheese you would expect from a feel good kid's comedy. You know what though? I had a riot with this flick! I probably would not have given it a second
glance normally, because I am not like, 12.
But, being forced by gunpoint to review it by my boss made me glad he
did.
Guess what
subject How to Beat a Bully deals with? Yes Brainiac. Bullying. We know that this is a hot subject with
children today and How to Beat a Bully elaborates on ideas and plans on how to deal with a bully. The message
is clear but the reality of the particular story is so far out into left field,
it is laughable. I think if writers Marilyn
Anderson and Richard Rossner wanted to really get a message across about
bullying, they would have pronounced this idea more in the plot instead of
drenching all of the dialogue with cheesy predictable banter between the
characters. Mind you, that is just an
opinion. I am not basing my official
rating of this movie on that.
Regardless
of my opinion, How to Beat a Bully is
a giggling romp between two opposite worlds.
The world of innocence and wonder versus the world of guilt and
paranoia. The juxtaposition of the two
worlds colliding has hilarious results and I found myself laughing out loud
several times through the films ninety minute running time. Grant McLellan playing ‘Cory’ reminded me of Michael
Oliver in his Problem Child era in
appearance and delivery, but not a tenth as evil.
How to Beat a Bully comfortably moves along to its apex and all makes sense in the end. The pace is smooth, as to be expected to a
movie whose core demographic are pre-teens.
If you want a fun movie for your kid to watch to keep them off your back
for 90 minutes, How to Beat a Bully is
the movie for you. Do not expect for this film to teach your kids about bullying and how to truly cope with it
as the film bills itself to.
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-Scott Lambert