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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)

October. 10,2014
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6.2
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PG
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Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

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Karry
2014/10/10

Best movie of this year hands down!

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Marketic
2014/10/11

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

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Stevecorp
2014/10/12

Don't listen to the negative reviews

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Kamila Bell
2014/10/13

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

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adonis98-743-186503
2014/10/14

Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. However, he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother and sister - who all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is not a film to be taken very serious and that's the good thing about it, i mean seeing Jennifer Garner riding a bike or Steve Carrell being on fire was pretty funny plus a Crocodile inside their house? I mean it's a silly family comedy and a pretty damn, fun, good and cool one if you ask me to be honest. (A+)

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rushworthdebi
2014/10/15

#This movie is very crude and it has parts in it where the people are being mean. It has bad language In it as well. Ther is a scene in the movie where it shows a baby's bottom. And another scene in it where there is throwing up. And another scene when the older boy breaks up with a girl. Very inappropriate movie. Review by Josh at the age of eleven.

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gwynmama
2014/10/16

I'm giving this movie 5 stars because it was never for me, it was for the kids. And they enjoyed it I think.Here's the deal, this movie is pretty forgettable. It's not as terrible as several other viewers have said, but it's not a masterpiece. They don't make good kids' movies like they used to when we were young, so it's unfair to compare these that way.My main complaints with this movie are realistic issues. Like, how on Earth can they fit so many activities into the day after school gets out? (Going to the store which we find out later took nearly an hour, the DMV, the dry cleaners, a school play, picking up a girl to take to prom, dinner at a fancy restaurant, and a birthday party)....all before the sun goes down. Maybe doable if that school play is at like 4pm, but what school would do that knowing so many parents work? Also, how did the mom meet up with the family so flawlessly if she was borrowing someone's bike an hour ago? Did the woman get her bike back? And seriously, she was about to lose her job over the book misprint, and she just poof, decided to skip the rest of work to be with the family. Yeah, that'll go over real well in real life. And if you destroy all the parking meters and cause all that commotion during your driving test, I'm quite sure there'd be a whole police investigation, granted not entertainment, but clearly extending the day even further. Also, they have time to stop and get big brother's tux, but not time to swing by the house and get dad a suitable shirt for his interview? I'm not buying it.Glad the kids had a chuckle or two. But overall, the movie tries to do too much in a short amount of time, which leaves half of the cast/plot very poorly developed. There's a scene where big bro gets suspended from school, but apparently is still allowed to go to prom that night. I could go on, but it's just not that serious.

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chow913
2014/10/17

When I heard Disney was turning a 20 page children's book into a 90 minute film starring Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner I knew this was the beginning of a terrible horrible no good very bad movie."I've seen the penis of everyone in this car." This is what Disney tries to pass off as entertainment.$28,000,000! $28,000,000! That's what this movie cost! Note that James Cameron only had $18,000,000 to make 'Aliens' more than half of which went to Sigourney Weaver's salary. There aren't any special FX, stunts, spaceships, or aliens in this film! I can only conclude they spent it on catering for the cast and crew.Alexander's terrible horrible no good very bad day begins with him fall out of bed and reading an email on his laptop about a friend's party. I must confess, it's been several years since I read the book but I don't recall that scene.Next Alexander arrives at school where a classmate texts the entire school and embarrassing photo of Alexander. Again, I don't recall this scene in the book either.After Alexander's day, which isn't really that bad, he wishes for his family to all have terrible day as well. So the actual "comedy" in this film doesn't even begin until 45 minutes in and doesn't even revolve around Alexander. It revolves around his family getting into the usual movie troupes we all expect, like alarm clocks failing to go off, and babies peeing everywhere. Because bodily fluids are funny? Not even 'Married With Children' made jokes like these.When the mother accidentally walks in on Alexander's older brother in the bathroom she declares, "It's okay, I've seen your penis before. I've seen the penis of everyone in this car." Ha ha ha. That line isn't for the family nor is it entertaining.But the first grade toilet humor has only begun its root canal of pain! Next Jennifer Gardner learns from her publisher that the word "jump" was printed as "dump" in a new children's book. Garner rushes to stop Dick Van Dyke from reading the book to a group of children. Ha ha ha. Jerry Van Dyke may have been in 'My Mother the Car' but Dick bares far more shame for appearing in a scene like this.The other jokes are obvious a mile away. For example, the teenage daughter is sick and takes cold medication so she can perform in the school play. Will she get high off the medication and go crazy on stage? What a shock, she gets high off the medication and goes crazy on stage. That joke was obvious to the audience 30 minutes earlier when she first said she was sick and had to perform in the school play. It's just taken the movie 30 minutes to catch up with the audience.Another example is how Steve Carell has no one to baby sit during his job interview. Will he bring the baby and will it spew bodily fluids everywhere? If you saw 'Mr. Mom' then you saw this joke coming 31 years ago! So in conclusion this movie uses none of the original source material for why Alexander's day was so bad and instead turns out to NOT be about Alexander at all. It's about his family going through all the Disney movie troupes.It's devoid of any entertainment value. It doesn't even work as a family film due to the toilet humor I've mentioned.

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