Diary of a Wimpy Kid
2010, 94 minutes
Live-action adaptation of Jeff Kinney's illustrated novel about a wise-cracking junior high school student.
{{Plot|section|date=September 2010}} 11-year-old <!--Keep it at 11, PERIOD!-->List of Diary of a Wimpy Kid characters#Greg Heffley|Greg Heffley (Zachary Gordon) is anxious to start middle school, confident he will easily become the school's most popular kid. However, Greg worries about how his "uncool and embarrassing" best friend, List of Diary of a Wimpy Kid characters#Rowley Jefferson|Rowley Jefferson (Robert Capron), will fit in. While Rowley is a good friend who helps Greg escape his terrorizing older brother, List of Diary of a Wimpy Kid characters#Rodrick Heffley|Rodrick (Devon Bostick), Greg worries that Rowley's "dorky" clothes and personality will embarrass both of them. On their first day of school, Greg and Rowley meet List of Diary of a Wimpy Kid characters#Angi Steadman|Angie Steadman (Chloë Moretz|Chloë Grace Moretz), a seventh grader who works for the school's Newspaper. Throughout the school year, Angie gives Greg and Rowley information about the workings of middle school, which she believes was created to store kids while they make the awkward transition between children to teenagers. Classmate List of Diary of a Wimpy Kid characters#Chirag Gupta|Chirag Gupta (Karan Brar) tells Greg and Rowley the story behind the moldy slice of Swiss cheese laying on the school's basketball court; upon touching the cheese, a kid named Darren Walsh (Harrison Houde) contracted the Cheese Touch; anyone who touches the cheese will create diruption as they pass on the Cheese Touch by touching someone else. The Cheese Touch eventually got taken away by a German exchange student named Dieter Müller, who moved back to Düsseldorf and took the rotten Cheese Touch with him. Greg is determined to be voted "class favorite" and listed in the school yearbook, but each of his attempts to do so backfire. His popularity quickly drops as he loses to List of Diary of a Wimpy Kid characters#Patty Farrell|Patty Farrell (Laine MacNeil), Greg's archenemy, and List of Diary of a Wimpy Kid characters#Fregley|Fregley (Grayson Russell), the weirdest and 201st most popular (past the bottom) kid in school, in scholastic wrestling (taught by List of Diary of a Wimpy Kid characters#Coach Malone|Coach Malone, portrayed by Andrew McNee); Greg angers teenagers on Halloween night by threatening to call the cops on them after they spray him and Rowley with a fire extinguisher, and then damages their eight-generation Ford F150 pickup truck with a weed whacker; Greg then joins the geeky Safety Patrol with Rowley, trying to get bully protection and less time in school; and breaks Rowley's left hand during winter vacation during a game Greg invented with his Big Wheel (tricycle)|Big Wheel. At school, everyone notices Rowley's broken hand and Rowley becomes very popular, much to Greg's dismay. Rowley's popularity increases when he beats Greg to become the school paper's cartoonist, despite Greg's dismissal of his ideas. Greg and Rowley's friendship falls tragically apart after Greg allows Rowley to take the blame for a mistake Greg made during Safety Patrol. After Greg tells Rowley the truth and tries to tell it as a joke, Rowley berates him for being a bad friend who cares about nothing but himself. When Mr. Winsky, the Safety Patrol teacher, heard what had actually happened, he told Greg that he was now relieved of his Safety Patrol duties "effective immediately", and promotes Rowley to a captain. Rowley then leaves Greg and befriends a kid named Collin Lee (Alex Ferris). Greg tries to move on by having a sleep over with Fregley, but Fregley's sugar-induced hyperactivity is too much for him to take. He then tries to pursue popularity without Rowley by auditioning for the school play of ''The Wizard of Oz (adaptations)|The Wizard of Oz'', but the performance is ruined by Patty when she throws a temper tantrum at Greg when he does not sing and blames him for the play being ruined and Greg throws an apple at her resulting an apple-throwing fight in the middle of the performance. At the school's mother-son dance, Greg's mother (Rachael Harris) suggests Greg ask Rowley to go out for ice cream with them. However, Collin tells Greg that he and Rowley already have plans. Later, Greg is excited when Rowley comes up to him in school, but is disappointed when he learns Rowley only wants a game back. Greg refuses to return the game, causing them to get into an argument. Kids gather around them, wanting them to fight, but are quickly dispelled when the teenagers that Greg and Rowley had angered on Halloween drive up, looking for revenge. The kids find the Cheese and make Rowley eat it. They are about to force Greg to eat the cheese when Coach Malone arrives, leading the kids to run away. The children return and find the partially eaten cheese. Patty begins to accuse Rowley, but Greg steps in and blames himself. He picks up the cheese and makes a profound speech about the ridiculousness of the cheese and other middle school institutions, but Patty ruins it when she shouts out that Greg has the Cheese Touch, causing everyone to run away from Greg. Greg and Rowley reconcile, and Angie approaches them to compliment Greg for his bravery. Greg and Rowley make it into the class favorites list as "cutest friends". The film ends with Greg, Rowley, and Angie laughing after Patty hugged Rowley and contracted the Cheese Touch, and Greg narrating that he still has the summer and next year ahead of him. [<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_a_Wimpy_Kid_(film)'>Plot summary provided by WikiPedia</a>]
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