One thing is for certain, they have very large shoes to fill!Ĭlick through the gallery and check out what the new Heffley family will look like compared to the old Heffley family! RELATED: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ZACH GORDON! Now, it's time for a new generation to show us what they can do and how they do justice to such an amazing storyline. The old Heffley family were the classics, but they have grown up a bit. They could be creating something that is totally incredible. To be honest, we can't bash the new actors just yet. Will YOU go see it or boycott because of the recast? The movie is set to hit theaters May 19, 2017. RELATED: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH DEVON BOSTICK We decided to put them all in one place for fans just so they can see how different or the same the new actors look compared to the old ones. From Greg Heffley to Susan Heffley – they look totally different now. It wasn't just Rodrick Heffley that was recast, it was all of them. It's so eerie seeing performers who resemble their now grown predecessors that it becomes hard to follow the current story.Now, there's more bad news. And it's also disconcerting - an uncanny valley-type experience - to see the actors who look so much like Zachary Gordon and Devon Bostick, who originally played Greg and Rodrick, in these roles. Gross-out gags can be hilarious, but not so much here. It will require him to skip out on Grandma's birthday, but what could be more important than getting likes in social media?Īll of this leads to incidents where Bowers punctuates events with unfortunate discharges and a series of sequences that seem downright sadistic. He hopes to redeem himself by befriending a YouTube gaming sensation named Digby (Joshua Hoover). Meanwhile, Greg is trying to overcome the shame of having been humiliated in a viral video. It doesn't help that Susan does foolish things on the road, like adopting a pet pig. A husband and wife who can't level with each other about work and finances probably shouldn't be together. Silverstone, who has been appealing in previous roles, comes off as rigid and bossy, while Scott seems evasive and squirrely for regularly conducting work behind her back. ![]() This results in a series of disasters and betrayals that make her seem like more of an ogre than a concerned mom. Susan then makes the mistake of insisting the boys and their father put away the phones during the trip. If it weren't for their cellphones, the two might have the misfortune of interacting. It also doesn't help that Greg's older brother, Rodrick (Charlie Wright), consistently picks on Greg. They have to place extra stuff in the father's (Tom Everett Scott) rarely used boat and tow it like an intermodal container. In this installment, Greg's mother, Susan (Alicia Silverstone), badgers the rest of the clan into visiting Grandma for her 90th birthday and driving for several days to get there. It might have something to do with the sense that Bowers and his predecessors have apparently instructed their actors to play each scene at a decibel level AC/DC might dub too loud. Nobody wants to look like a doofus, so it's often easy to empathize with Greg even if his techniques are foolishly counterproductive.įor some reason, Kinney's cartoons in the books are a lot funnier than watching flesh-and-blood actors play the same material. Thanks to his naivete and quirks in destiny, his quest is inevitably futile. Much of the lad's comic misfortunes come from his compulsive need to look cool to his peers. Out of curiosity, I looked at one of Kinney's books and found Greg a lot more amusing in print. ![]() Having sat through all four of these movies, it's been disheartening to witness 12-year-old Greg Heffley (this time played by Jason Drucker) getting humiliated by his movies the way fate and bullies normally go after him. ![]() 71 Cast: Jason Drucker, Alicia Silverstone, Tom Everett Scott, Charlie Wright, Chris Coppola, Owen Asztalos, Joshua Hoover
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