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Friday 24 October 2014

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, review: 'there's one big missed trick'



Wishing the worst possible day on all your family members is a premise guaranteed to be constrained by parental guidance. At 18, you could call your main character Medea and be done with it. At PG, we get serial humiliation, mild burns, potential job loss and a scatological printing gaffe, but little that could be considered a truly alarming hex from above. 
The suspiciously brisk running time of this family comedy begs some further questions. The class gerbil is entrusted into the hero’s possession in the first reel, and never seen again. Whether it’s merely a victim of the cutting room floor, or is running around somewhere experiencing its own answer to a Saw sequel, it’s hard to say. 
The motives of Alexander (Ed Oxenbould), when he blows out a candle hours before his 12th birthday and initiates this fateful curse, aren’t purely malicious.

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