Autism: The Musical

I think this had the potential to be a pretty good movie. Unfortunately it wasn't. It was nice to see someone trying to help autistic kids, but she approached it(in my opinion)the wrong way. Also, the movie focused on the parents rather than the children. The moms kept going on and on and on about how "My husband left me when he was two" or "My husband had an affair" or "My husband moved out but keeps coming back for his stuff" etc etc etc. Obviously they can't interview most of the kids, but they at least could have tried to keep the parents talking about the kid when they interviewed them. Most of these things that they are griping about most likely didn't affect the kids that much due to the fact that the kids are mostly in their own world and are to young to care anyway(except for that one kid who liked to tell his mom and dad to kiss). Basically this movie reminded me of that reality show "Hoarders" where you see all of these super depressed people with super nasty houses and there's all of this stress that the hoarding is putting on the family and blah blah blah you get the picture. It's basically the kind of stuff that makes you feel scared enough that you buy junk food to comfort yourself, therapists to tell you whether or not you(or a family member or a friend)are screwed up and the medication that the therapist told you to buy.

The other problem I had with the movie was that the "Miracle Program" seemed to much like public school. They crammed a bunch of kids into one noisy room and left one person to deal with them all. That's the kind of thing that made my parents pull me out of public school. I could not learn in a noisy, crowded, distracting, overwhelming, irritating environment(also my last public school teacher said "You don't need to learn the periodic table of elements, the only elements are earth, air, water and fire. o_O ). I think the lady who started the "Miracle Program" had good intentions, but she could have done better. This might have helped the kids a little, but I still think they have a long way to go.

I also have a problem with the movie because I was expecting a comedy or something, maybe even an actual play?

Diary of a wimpy kid

Oh my gosh! This movie makes me SOOOOO glad i'm not in public school!

This movie strikes me as a family comedy,(duh) in witch we follow the early middle school days of Greg Hensley a.k.a "the wimpy kid". For me, what makes this movie funny is that some of the exaggerations in this movie are probably closer to the truth than one would think. For example, the "Cheese Touch". The legend of said cheese goes something like this: apparently it came out of nowhere. It just appeared on the blacktop by the field. Then one day, some kid called Darren touched it (this is where some girl screams "Darren touched the cheese!") and everyone runs away from him. The only way to get rid of the cheese touch is to pass it on to someone else. Eventually, it got passed on to a foreign student called Dieter Muller. When his family moved back to Düsseldorf Germany, he took the "Cheese Touch" with him.....

I would be surprised if there wasn't some variation of the "Cheese Touch" in every public school(in this tale there is also a mention of "Radioactive Cooties" huh?).

All in all I liked the movie, except the awful big brother. Just because someone is an older sibling, does not automatically make them a total jerk!!! I am an older sister to two sisters and a brother. I am not a jerk, I play them and read them books of their choice when they are injured(or when they're not). I like to think of myself as a decent big sister.