I don’t care if it makes sense or not, it’s one of the most iconic movies ever simply because of the way Devon portrays Rodrick, bless him

I really like how in the third movie Greg and Rodrick still act like friends towards eachother because a lot of movies like these tend to forget the character development.

The most unrealistic part of the whole movie is that Rodrick doesn’t swear

I find it so messed up that their parents took rodrick to the concert right after telling him that he isn’t performing

Fun Fact: the door thing was based on a true story. Jeff Kinney and a friend were goofing off at work and got ink from an ink pen all over a door. They replaced it.

We can all agree that Rodrick Rules is the best Diary Of A Wimpy Kid movie

its crazy how rodrick could not pull any girls in the movies. but in reality he was every girl's crush at some point.

Okay if I'm being honest, Greg's dad saying "What was General Grant on the thermostat" had me laughing more than I'm willing to admit

I can't believe you skipped over Patty singing Memory and Rodrick crying because THAT is iconic.

The sequel everyone wanted and everyone needed

I can agree that Rodricks actor (I forgot his name) does a great job, but no one talks about their mother. Their mother does a great job acting like a regular mom that wants their kids to get along! Or is it just me??

If I remember correctly, in the original book, mom bucks actually equaled to 1 cent

As a kid, I loved the cheesy, low budget horror movie that the kids watch about a haunted foot. It's hilarious in all the best ways! 😂🤣

4:23 "A teenager's guide to ending up with no friends" Ouch, I felt that.

These movie are great because the casting was absolutely perfect, and they stuck to the plot of the source material.

About the cowlick in case no one has commented this before: the diary of a wimpy kid movie novelization actually goes into detail about how the costumes team went to painstakingly lengths to give him that. They called it "wimpy springs" if I recall correctly.

Rodrick was, is, and will always be my favourite character A true king and comfort character 😌✨

I completely disagree with Alex on the first movie being better than the second. The story in this one was more interesting and funny and had some heart too. I agree with the door thing not making too much sense, but every movie requires some suspension of disbelief, and the enjoyment of this movie totally outweighed the little plot holes. This is my favorite diary of a wimpy kid movie!!

I cannot believe that you didn't acknowledge Patty Farrell's rendition of "Memory". She dominated that talent show.

When we were young, Rodrick was the villain. Now that we’re older, we know Greg was always the villain and Rodrick was a gigachad.

the jokes still land for me pretty often, and i do think the movie actually hits emotional bears with the brothers surprisingly well

Is rodrick rules utterly bizarre? Yes. Is it better than the book? Yes

We all had to admit we thought Rodrick was kinda hot.

I don't care if it doesn't make sense, it will still be the most iconic and heartwarming movie ever. I will never change my mind ever.

Now usually I’m 100% with you Alex but Rodrick Rules is DEFINITELY the best wimpy kid movie. Its a lot more grounded but its also a lot funnier. Also can we appreciate how perfectly this movie nailed the sibling dynamic? I don’t think I know a single other movie, made for kids or otherwise, that has portrayed siblings this accurately. And the actor who played Rodrick absolutely nailed it like this is RDJ becomes Iron Man level of accuracy (Also he’s hot). So yeah basically this movie is really entertaining I rewatched it recently and it still holds up imo..

I want a series where Alex reads all the Wimpy kid BOOKS. All 16.

I think it is because Alex has not read any wimpy kid yet so his view and judgment come from a very neutral place but for me, as a fan of the books I just love these movies for sticking with the written material for the most part and also the guy who plays Rodrick is a legend.

I think the weirdest part of this whole movie is how easily they just got a new drummer. if you've ever been apart of your local music scene everyone shares like a handful of them. you can't just get a new a drummer like its nothing

This makes sense if you’re a 14 year old watching this movie for the first time being in love with Rodrick

1:46 The cow lick is so Greg can have the 3 hairs sticking out that he has in the books without making him only have 3 hairs which would look ridiculous in live action.

Greg's cowlick is actually supposed to be his 3 hairs like you see in the books. I like how they added that! Just some nice detail

did you know that they actually had to teach the actor for Rodrick how to play drums and they did it in a incredibly tiny room in under 3 weeks

This movie makes all the sense, Rodrick is the GOAT

Fun Fact: 10 years ago, the Rodrick Rules movie was released in theaters!

13:22 What an accurate portrayal of talking with your crush

At 10:32 the mom pulls out a great Dwayne The Rock Johnson eyebrow raise

Even if it doesn’t make sense, we can all agree that we had a crush on Rodrick as a kid…or now

4:26 Angie wasn't in the books. She was included in the first movie because the directors didn't want it to be a sausage fest. 4:27 In the book Holly Hills just shows up in the Last Straw a few times. She got a more expanded role in the films.

i love this movie, but i still think its a little weird that greg telling his parents about the party is framed as his mistake, and not a normal decision. all siblings fight and have secrets together, but he's a lot younger than rodrick and didn't mean to tell his mom. it's honestly funny how upset rodrick gets over his 7th-grade brother confessing to a big high school party, like dude, you brought this on yourself lol. also: he still covered for rodrick by telling his mom that it was a band rehearsal instead of a party, so he rly didn't do anything wrong imo. if anything, he made a smart choice by telling his mom that SOMETHING had happened, without revealing the specifics. that way their mother wouldn't be suspicious of the door anymore and they wouldn't get a major punishment.

9:44 I Love Horses Really Hit Me

Okay but I gotta admit “what was General Grant doing on the thermostat” was genuinely a funny scene and you can’t convince me otherwise

funnily enough, i thought rodrick rules was more heartwarming and funnier than the first movie. especially the foot parts...

13:53 and that's why you always have a diary with a lock kids

9:42 I'm dead "I LoVe HoRsEs🥴"

3:04 I think they added the whole “mom buck” thing because it was more significant in the book. In the book there was a whole side plot of Greg stealing Rowley’s play money from a board game because it was identical to the mom bucks.

The "cowlick" Greg has is actually meant to mimic the three hairs of the cartoon character! :)

Don’t you dare bad mouth Roderick rules.

Man I grew up reading these books. I read them longer than I should have if you’re going by the intended audience. But these were the first books that made me laugh out loud. The situations are so ridiculous and funny Edit: I also have that Garfield phone

they definitely could’ve said they just replaced the door because the door handle broke or something. An easy lie could’ve saved them

I love how Chirag is the exposition guy. In the first movie, he warns about "the cheese touch" and this movie, Holly, the new girl. Chirag knows all! 🤣

Siblings will always be there for you, but they'll also make your life a living hell during teenage years

The part about the teacher being upset over Greg being related to Rodrick is something I relate to, since my sister went to the same elementary school as me, which led to a bunch of teachers hating me for that reason. (She was apparently a really annoying kid)

Reasons why rowley is actually the coolest character: 1. Obviously 2. He does what he wants without fearing judgement from others and knows who is worth investing time and energy in. 3. He didn't have the option to not be cool

Fun fact: For Rodrick Rules (2011), Johnny Depp, Chris Pratt, Tom Cruise, Arnold Schwarzenegger all auditioned for the role before Benjamin Hellingsworth was cast.

I read this book and watched this movie when I was younger and I took the 'don't be good at something you don't want to do' part way too seriously, lol

8:43 what..gregs locker's lock...

The girl Rodrick's talking to at 6:49 was murdered by her ex-boyfriend just a couple months after the movie was released, super sad seeing her in this

I just wanna point out that Peyton (Holly) and Karan (Chirag) were both in Jessie and played siblings

“Woah you get girls? Woah you get pizza? I LoVe hOrSeS!” This line kills me every time!!! 🤣🤣🤣

dude devon bostic plays him SO WELL

Can we appreciate the fact that Alex summarizes movies? Its been a while since I last saw this, nice refresher before him critiquing it

I love how Greg's- and everyone's really- character development carries on to this movie and then the next one as it's something that never happens in the books. Greg is clearly a lot more comfortable in his friendship with Rowley and in his own skin, he's overall just clearly a better person and the mistakes he makes in this one feel reasonable and don't make him look nearly as selfish and self-absorbed as he was in the last one. I absolutely love how he agreed to be Rowley's partner at the end just so Rodrick could participate in the talent show, because Greg honestly didn't really HAVE to do it, Rodrick is very much facing the consequences of his own actions there. It's not something that Greg from the first movie would've ever done, maybe not even the Greg from the start of this movie would've done, but the Greg whom had talked with Holly about how, even though they can make your life hell, they're still your family? Whom got to see first hand how awesome Rodrick really is and knows for a fact Rodrick deserves to play in that talent show? He definitely would've.

7:07 I have no idea what this guy said

The actor actually plays rodrick perfectly

"You can't mess with the chubby kid, the girls will freak out." I thought it was the opposite at a party.

Holly doesn't do anything in this movie, because in the third and FINAL movie, her plotline is continued

the mom bucks thing is only in there because it was in the book, but these movies have a very small amount of similarities with the book anyway

This is just hilarious to me because, now Zach Gordon voices a character in Genshin Impact, and I cannot under Greg Heffley speaking. Although as a kid, when this came out, I was experiencing the closest thing to a crush on Rodrick, except I didn’t know what love felt like.

3:07 In the movie, Mom Bucks are worth more than they did in the books. In the books 1 mom buck = 1 penny. In the original books, there are a bunch of random events strung together to make it feel like a real diary. The mom bucks come back later when Rodrick picks up Greg and Rowley from school. He was paid to give them a ride.

Never thought about it as a kid but couldn’t they have switched the door handles overnight or repaint the first door overnight since their parents didn’t use that bathroom till days later? The door didn’t even matter that much.

The cowlick is just detail in the movie, it's 3 hairs standing up... just like the books. Personaly I missed this detail up until the 3rd time I watched the movie, but I still appreciate it.

So if the mom lived in the house for 10 years and locked the door 10000 times,she went to the bathroom 27 times a day

Roderick rules is hands down the best in the trilogy

So like, they definitely handled the bathroom door lock thing more realistically in the movie. But I really liked it in the book how one night soon after the party Greg overheard his dad saying, "Didn't this door used to lock? I must be crazy." And then his parents didn't find out about the party until they were going through a camera and apparently one of Rodrick's dumbass friends was taking stupid pictures on it ahahaha

Greg could’ve just said “We wrote on the door, so we swapped them thinking you wouldn’t notice.” They didn’t even have to MENTION the party and still would’ve gotten away with it. The camera eventually exposes them, but still.

They really could’ve just said they accidentally broke the other door and tried to fix it but due to movie logic it became a big plot point

DOAWK still holds a lot of nostalgia and love. I loved the movies growing up and the characters developing overtime. DOAWK will always be one of my favorite movie series.

The "what was general grant doing on the thermostat" line never fails to make me laugh ngl especially how steve zahn delivers it, do I have a bad sense of humor?

Repeat after Me: THEY NEVER MADE A FOURTH MOVIE.

Rodrick was my favorite actor in all of the movies.

I loved how this film portrayed the dynamics of sibling relationships. I think it handles the bonding between brothers better than the first one handled the friendship between Rowley and Greg. Also preteen me fell in love with Rodrick in the second film.

The actors for the parents absolutely nail their roles

7:53 that scared me

Greg's hair is sticking up weird in the beginning on purpose because the drawn version of him has those three hairs sticking up

he’s crossed the line this time roderick rules is a freaking masterpiece

I just know being 13 and seeing Devon Bostick in this movie REALLY affected my taste in men lol

I’ve only had three family meetings 1: my younger sister being born 2: my great uncle died 3: divorce… that was the last one

Rodrick was my ultimate TV crush. And I know I'm not the only one.

Its cool to see Alex’s take on this just to see a person’s perspective on it who didnt see it when it came out. Anybody who watched these movies growing up definitely loved Rodrick Rulesbut Alex didnt vibe with it as much as the first movie

How dare you Alex, this movie is a masterpiece

If this movie didn't make sense, you wouldn't be able to explain it so well. Having some weird stuff happen is not a crime.

is no one mentioning how neat rowleys hand writing is???

If you read the books you’ll know Frank has a Civil War battlefield thing set up in the basement he sneaks off to when his wife is watching romcoms. Yeah, how these two ended up together is a mystery.

"Crap; I need to take off my party eyeliner and put my school eyeliner back on." You say this like it's a joke, but... This was reality for some of us lmao

The "Cowlick" are the efforts of the team trying to make him look like his book design, and it looks good.

9:39 killed me

Rodrick was the character I had a massive crush on, and aspired to be.

But maaaaaan is it fun to watch lmaoo

Seriously I laughed so hard on the mom bucks . Just leave Greg and Rodrik to an Asian house hold for one month . TRUST ME they'll be so thankful for whatever this mom is giving .

It doesn’t need to make sense for it to be one of my fav childhood movies