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If you thought snakes on your plane sounded terrifying, imagine worms on your plate!!! Yes, the movie is . . . How to Eat Fried Worms.
If you are hoping to see an amazing kid movie like The Sand Lot that inspires the audience with a very entertaining story, you will be sorely disappointed. Although this movie is based on a popular book by the same title, it falls completely short of being entertaining or inspiring. The story begins when a fifth grader and his family move to a new town forcing him to start a new school. From the second he gets there, he is picked on by a group of bullies. He somehow manages to make a bet with the head bully that he can eat 10 worms without getting sick. From that point on, the movie is just painful after painful scene showing the bullies coming up with disgusting ways to cook worms and watching the new kid eat them. Finally, there aren’t even any great revelations or moral lessons in this movie
Yes, surprising as it may seem, a movie entitled How to Eat Fried Worms really is about eating worms and nothing more. If you enjoy seeing others disgusted and nauseated, then this is your movie. But, beyond the gross factor, Worms has little to offer. Generally speaking, the acting is . . . well . . . not good. There are a few talented child actors, but it's mostly at the same level as any typical elementary school production. And, outside of the "let's see how gross we can get eating worms" there are a few very sad attempts at comedy - kids stumbling and falling down or acting crazy for no apparent reason. However, the most disappointing aspect may be the premise - the new kid's going to eat worms so that he fits in at school? It might work at your day job, but given the way the story's portrayed in the movie, it seems ludicrous in grade school. The only thing that may come out of this movie is to cause worms to become an extinct species when kids are tricked into thinking they can become popular by eating them.
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