Hey, guys! So, I’ve watched this movie two days ago and yeah, it’s pretty good. It’s an adaption from the best-seller book series Middle School by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts. Directed by Steve Carr. It’s about a boy who has wild imaginations and he express them by drawing them onto his sketchbook. Well, he also has a slight problem with authority so he and his best friend, Leo went on an adventure of trying to break every single rule of his new school.
Rafe is the boy who got kicked out of two schools until his single mother, Jules (Lauren Graham) enrolls him at Hills Village Middle School where students are expected to follow every rule in the school’s Code of Conduct. And may I say some of the rules are really unnecessary like ‘No outside food’? Unbelievable.
Hills Village Middle School is a ‘prison’ to Rafe so it’s either to lay low or try to escape by breaking the rules. Rafe is a troubled child and maybe he feels a bit lonely. The fact that he’s gonna deal with his soon-to-be stepdad, Carl aka Bear, constantly being bullied by Miller the Killer and the biggest bully in his new school is Principal Dwight who dramatically throw away Rafe’s sketchbook into a bucket of acid, destroying that poor boy’s dream and cool sci-fi characters that he drew. In spite of all these problem, maybe teaming up with his best friend, Leonardo the Silent and break the rules could be his way of keeping his mind off the real world.
Or maybe, it’s to impress a certain girl who tries to make a difference.
Either way, he’s just trying to survive middle school. Through out the movie we can see some heart warming moments between Rafe and his mom and even though Rafe’s little sister, Georgia can be bratty and annoying sometimes, he still loves her. You can see that when Rafe made a promise to her that he’ll stay out of trouble or Bear will send him to some kind of military school. He just couldn’t let his sister face Bear alone.
Anyway, Rafe and Leo tries to break every rule before the upcoming exam which hilariously called B.L.A.A.R. Unfortunately, Principle Dwight suspended Mr. Teller’s class from taking the exam because he somehow discover proves that they’re behind all those rules breaking and fired Mr. Teller without any rational reason so that Dwight can keep his school on top of the statistic. Seems pretty unfair to me. Rafe tries to reason with Principal Dwight by telling him the truth that he’s behind the operation ‘Rules Aren’t For Everyone’ so that he could unsuspended his classmates and get Mr. Teller his job back but sadly Principal Dwight still sticks to his ‘principles’.
Towards the end of the movie, Rafe teams up with his classmates and figure out a plan to put Principal Dwight in his place. Luckily, Jeanne set up a hidden camera that caught Principal Dwight faked the proves by putting balls, sticky notes, hair dye in the students’ locker. With that, everything is solved. And the good news is Rafe’s mom finally noticed how big of a selfish jerk Bear is and dumped him. And they all live happily ever after. Well, except Principal Dwight and Bear maybe.
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