Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
Greg Heffley is a scrawny but ambitious kid with an active imagination and big plans to be rich and famous – he just has to survive middle school first.
This 2021 Disney+ animated reboot of the beloved book series faithfully adapts the source material with a distinctive angular 3D art style that echoes the book's stick-figure illustrations, giving it some visual charm. The plot covers familiar Wimpy Kid territory competently but without much depth or surprise for those who know the books or earlier films. The voice acting is serviceable but lacks the personality of the live-action cast, feeling somewhat flat. The animation style is genuinely novel in its commitment to resembling the book's aesthetic, earning it a modest novelty bump, but the storytelling itself is formulaic middle-school comedy. The ending wraps up predictably without much emotional payoff.