Some movies will be very different from their book version but they're still faithful to the story which is what the movie still does. I don't know how different it is from the book adaption but it's not bad. The only thing I don't understand is why the inventor dad's arm didn't play a role in the end.Īs a film, the way it is, is pretty good. I must admit that I had no idea the the foreign thug and his two goons where going to turn out to be McCurdy's on screen dad and two other actors from his acting studio. The ensuing high jinxes, subplots and schemes make for an entertaining and funny movie. As the show develops the six youngun's come up with an elaborate plot to get back an extremely pricey old time baseball card. Instead it is just a funny reverse con job on the name sake of the show, Swendell, just spelled a little different. It is not the usual teen film with overt sexuality by under aged teens. I really enjoyed it because of the decent writing and acting. This is a Nickledeon movie bringing together six of their stars three from past series and Ariana Grande who is on two current shows, Jeanette McCurdy on Sam and Kat, and Ciara Bravo on Big Time Rush, all three shows are ones that I do watch. However, though Nick left out some of the scenes I was hoping to see, they did a pretty decent job and is easily re-watchable. Ariana's character wasn't even 'Pitch', instead she simply went by 'Amanda' (Which wasn't even her real name in the book). Instead she was an actress with really no part.

Savannah was meant to be the animal lover and the dog whisperer. The second thing I did not care for were Noah and Jennette's characters. Nick definitely took away the most suspenseful part. Aside from that, I was disappointed that the final heist never happened in Swindel's house, instead in a hotel lobby. I kept waiting for the part when Ben would reveal his narcolepsy, but that never happened.

One being it verged from the original story a bit. There were 2 things I didn't care for in this TV movie. It flowed out smooth enough to take in the movie without too many judgements, but it didn't completely elude my judging. Now they're going to make a mockery out of this book.' Surprisingly, that didn't happen. Lately, it seems Nickelodeon has been going downhill from the releases of their new series', but when I saw them advertising for one of my favorite books I read in elementary school, I thought 'Great.

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