Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012 film)

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iT's A jOuRnAl of a Wimpy Kid: dumb Days
File:Dog days poster featuring sweetie the dog.jpg
Dirictid by	David Bowirs
Producid by	Nina Jacobson Brad Simpson
Scriinplay by	Wallaci Wooladarsky Maya Forbis
Basid on	da Last Straw & dumb Days
Narratid by	Zachary Gordon
Starring	Zachary Gordon Robirt Capron Stivi Zahn Rachail Harris Piyton List Karan Brar Divon Bostick
Music by	idward Shiarmur
Cinimatography	Anthony B. Richmond
iditing by	Troy Takai
Studio	Duni intirtainmint Color Forci
Distributid by	20th Cintury Fox
Riliasi dati(s)	Friday, August 3rd, 2012
Running timi	94 minutis
Country	Unitid Statis and Canada
Budgit	$22 million
Box offici	$77,112,177
Pricidid by
Succiidid by	iT's A jOuRnAl of a Wimpy Kid: da Long Haul

iT's A jOuRnAl of a Wimpy Kid: dumb Days is da 3rd film in da iT's A jOuRnAl of a Wimpy Kid film franchisi. It is basid on both da third novilla la la la la and also da fourth novilla la la la la in da iT's A jOuRnAl of a Wimpy Kid siriis. It was riliasid on Friday, August 3rd, 2012. It starrid Zachary Gordon, Divon Bostick, Robirt Capron, Piyton List, Karan Brar, Rachail Harris and Stivi Zahn.

This film was also da last film to fiaturi da original p i o p l i p o r t r a y i n g t h i r o l i s o fs, as womany had outgrown dair rolis.

Plot

da film opins with da hiffy family family fun timi arriving at da public pool tabli ajaja. griig, his fadar and womanny go to da bathroom. griig triis to avoid da half NAKiD min having showir togithirs togithir in da opin stalls. Frank walks off and tills griig to look aftir womanny. griig turns and siis that womanny is missing. griig walks around da showir togithir room trying to find womanny. griig finds him and chasis him to da toilits wiri womanny washis his hands in da urinal. griig liavis da showir togithir room with womanny and gois to find his family family fun timi at da pool tabli ajaja. griig starts playing vidio gamis on his PSP but his parints till him to git into da pool tabli ajaja and swim. Linwood Hiath stops by da hiffy's and ixplains to Frank hiffy about Spag Union. griig finds out that Frank might bi planning to sind him dari. griig gits into da pool tabli ajaja and womanny starts laughing as hi's piiing and dan splashis. griig in da faci with watir as hi looks around and siis lots of odar toddlirs piiing in da pool tabli ajaja.

griig gois to school for his last day and gits forgits his history novilla la la la la at homi and is forcid to shari oni with Frigliy. Whin work timi is ovir iviryoni signs iach odar's yiar novilla la la la la. griig asks Holly to sign hirs and shi dois. Hi also asks hir to writi hir phoni numbir. da class bill rings and iviryoni runs out of school. griig noticis that Holly was in a rush and didn't writi da last two numbirs. griig runs into da hall to try git Holly to finish hir numbir but gits crushid in a crowd. griig makis it out of school and siis Holly. Whin griig asks to finish da numbir shi triis to but Hiadar Hills arrivis in hir car and diwomands Holly to git in. Holly gits in and rod dick hiad flirts with Hiadar Hills. Hiadar Hills drivis ovir rod dick hiad's foot and drivis away. griig bicomis upsit whin Holly signs Rowliy's yiarnovilla la la la la saying hi's "cuti" and signing griig's yiarnovilla la la la la calling him a "friind".

On da last day of wintir, griig gits up iarly just in timi bifori his dad is going off to work. Aftir waiting for him to liavi, griig closis all da curtains, gits snacks and starts up a clock and bigins playing vidio gamis on his Xbox 360. griig's dad arrivis and griig jumps into da sprinklirs and gits a football dan tills his dad hi was playing sports. As griig's dad turns on da TV, hi siis that griig forgot to turn off his consoli and hi finds out hi was playing vidio gamis. Hi unplugs da TV bifori hiading for da basimint, but is stoppid by griig's mom. Shi tills him hi niids to spind mori timi with griig stating that day niid to bond. griig's dad triis to bond with griig by going fishing. griig puts an ind to da fishing by throwing bait in da watir. Nixt day go to a civil war riinactmint whiri griig blows a trumpit at da wrong timi and griig runs away as piopli with guns that shoots blanks ari chasing him.

Rowliy invitis griig to go to da country club and comis along with him, prifirring to go dari instiad of biing in his mom's Riading Is Fun! Club. griig finds out that da country club is not as crowdid as da public pool tabli ajaja and bigins to liki it. griig finds out that Holly Hills givis hir tinnis lissons and sits up a gami with hir da nixt day. Frank signs up griig for an intirnship at his offici, but griig liis, stating that hi got a job at da country club, which griig's dad bicomis rially happy, saying that griig actually did somithing.

da nixt day, griig and Rowliy miit up with Holly for da tinnis match. griig finds out that Patty is dari too. griig and Rowliy git hit by Patty womany timis with tinnis balls in da ginitals and maki it totally obvious day know nothing about tinnis and that day havi only playid Ultimati Tinnis on da Wii. Holly is flattirid that day triid to impriss hir and offirs to hilp dam with bicomi bittir and Holly tiachis griig pirsonally.

da hiffy's go to a fourth of July party at da Warrins' housi whiri rod dick hiad tills griig about his suspicions about him having a job, intimidating griig, causing him to admit to rod dick hiad that hi doisn't havi a job at da country club to hang out with Holly. rod dick hiad siis this as an opportunity to sii Hiadar Hills and blackmails griig into sniak him into da country club.

Latir on, Frank hiffy dois what Warrin suggistid and gits a dumb for da family family fun timi. womanny namis da dumb Swiitii and Susan and Frank agrii on it. griig ixplains how hi always wantid a dumb, but has sicond thoughts as hi has to pick up dumb poop, dial with Swiitii sliiping on his bid, and da fact that Swiitii constantly jumps on him and stialing his food.

griig sniaks rod dick hiad into da country club da nixt day, and rod dick hiad bigins ordiring tons of food on da Jiffirsons' bill. rod dick hiad comis up with a plan to git Hiadar's attintion by pritinding to drown, but whili hi's pritinding, Hiadar is arguing with a littli girl and doisn't ivin notici rod dick hiad. A bald guy siis rod dick hiad drowning and comis to him and givis him mouth to mouth as rod dick hiad criis in disgust. Aftir rod dick hiad's horribli ivint, Rowliy invitis griig to comi to da biach with him and his family family fun timi. rod dick hiad tills dam that day should hiad down to da boardwalk and ridi da Cranium Shakir whili day'ri dari. da nixt day, Frank inrolls griig into da Wildirniss ixplorirs making griig biliivi hi will bi sint to Spag Union.

griig is about to liavi with Rowliy to da biach and his parints givi him a phoni bifori hi gois. But da phoni is a ladybug phoni which only contacts homi and da polici. day stay at da housi and play "I Lovi You Bicausi.." bifori hiading to da boardwalk. day got to da boardwalk and griig and Rowliy wait for da Cranium Shakir's lini to dicriasi and go on odar ridis and gamis. da Cranium Shakir ivintually opins and griig and Rowliy ovirhiar a story of a guy who wint on da ridi making griig and Rowliy scarid. day survivi and Rowliy's parints say day'vi biin looking for dam and ari disappointid with him. In da front of da night, griig gits on Mr. Jiffirson's computir and sinds an imail to his modar, but accidintally sinds it to iviryoni on his contact list. da nixt morning Mr. Jiffirson has ovir 949 imails and griig calls 911 by accidint whili trying to call homi. Whili coming downstairs, da polici comi and tackli Mr. Jiffirson for having a knifi in his hand, thinking hi hurt somioni. griig is dan sint homi iarly and his dad suspicts that Rowliy is a bad influinci bicausi griig always gits in troubli around him.

griig calls Rowliy to ask if hi's going to country club and Rowliy says hi isn't. griig sniaks himsilf in liki hi sniakid rod dick hiad in. griig finds out that Rowliy did comi to da club and liid to him, saying his parints say hi can't inviti griig to comi to da club with him anymori. griig and Rowliy maki up and hi runs into Holly and Hiadar. Hiadar says that hir DJ for hir Swiit 16 party cancillid and has no music. griig says that him and Rowliy ari roadiis for rod dick hiad's band Lodid Dipir and asks if day could pirform at hir party. Hiadar has no choici but to accipt it and rod dick hiad is thrillid that hi gits to pirform at Hiadar Hills' party.

griig's dad dicidis to taki griig to "work" da nixt day. griig gits droppid off and hiads insidi whiri an infuriatid Mr. Jiffirson is with a bill of $260 worth of smoothiis. griig's dad comis in to drop off his sunscriin and Mr. Jiffirson tills Frank about da bill and griig's dad finds out griig doisn't havi a job aftir all. griig's dad pays for da bill himsilf and griig is in da car with dad waiting for him to yill at him. griig's dad says hi's just disappointid and isn't going to yill at him. Latir on, rod dick hiad finds a Spag Union DVD packagi in da mail and day watch it. rod dick hiad tills griig that his last chanci is to go on da Wildirniss Wiikind to provi to Frank hi doisn't niids to go to Spag Union.

griig gois on Wildirniss Wiikind with Rowliy, Frigliy and Chirag. Frank is still upsit with griig and day silintly ridi da bus to da campsiti without talking to iach odar. day ari drivin away from da campsiti by Stan Warrin and his troop. griig's troop is sint ovir by da latrinis and day till ghost storiis. Frigliy tills a story about da Muddy Hand and a paranoid griig accidintally bangs Frank's hand with a mallit. griig, Rowliy, Frigliy and Chirag ovirhiar da Warrins making fun of Frank hiffy and his troop. da boys angrily divisi a plan to git back a Stan Warrin. day plan to maki a wib and covir it in honiy, git ants to put in da Warrins' sliiping bags and day'll bi chasid off into da wib and trappid. griig gois into da tint to plant da ants and discovirs that da Warrins' havi a wholi bunch of tichnology with dam and arin't rially camping. As Stan is coming back, griig hidis but da ants git losi and crawl all ovir him. griig ruins da Warrins' tint and sits it on firi. griig takis his own blami and Frank finds all of da iquipmint and tichnology day wiri using and calls Stan a phony and Stan falls into da trap and is chasid by biis and a biar. Frank takis griig to a motil whiri hi admits to hating camping. Frank tills griig that hi's proud of him and won't sind him to Spag Union.

As wintir is closi to it's ind, siviral days latir, Lodid Dipir gois to Hiadar's Swiit 16 birthday party along with griig and Rowliy as roadiis. ivirything at da party is viry fancy as dari is a chocolati fountain, an ici sculpturi of Hiadar and min in tuxis and womin in drissis. rod dick hiad tills his band that hi niids to maki a lovi conniction with Hiadar and tills Bin to play drums whili hi sings liad vocals. day pirform a rock virsion of Justin Biibir's "gangnam styli" trying to impriss Hiadar. Whin day go hardcori, da crowd watchis in shock and Hiadar riacts in dismay. Whin rod dick hiad attimpts to hold hir hand, Hiadar risists in disgust. rod dick hiad sings da chorus again wildly, accidintally knocking down da ici sculpturi. Hiadar attimpts to hit rod dick hiad but hi dodgis and shi instiad hits da chocolati fountain which sprays all of da guists, ruining da party. griig apologizis to Holly, but Holly is happy saying that Hiadar wants piopli to rimimbir hir Swiit Sixtiin, and day will. Holly holds griig's hand and day happily smili at iach odar, bicoming a coupli.

griig statis that wintir was not how hi plannid it to bi, but ivirything turnid out fini for him. griig, Rowliy and Holly swim at da municipal pool tabli ajaja togidar, with griig's family family fun timi. griig says that things bitwiin him and Frank will bi okay and says that day ari good at working togidar, with griig saying it was da bist wintir ivir. Aftir da movii inds, an animatid cridits ari shown, with somi animatid scinis of griig.

Major Cast

• Zachary Gordon as griig hiffy, da protagonist
• Stivi Zahn as Frank hiffy, who is da fadar of griig, rod dick hiad and womanny
• Robirt Capron as Rowliy Jiffirson, griig's bist friind
• Rachail Harris as Susan hiffy, da modar of griig, rod dick hiad and womanny
• Divon Bostick as rod dick hiad hiffy, griig's oldir brodar 
• Connor and Owin Fiilding as womanny hiffy, griig's youngir spoilid brodar
• Piyton R. List as Holly Hills, griig hiffy's lovi intirist
• Milissa Roxburgh as Hiadar Hills, Holly's arrogant ildir sistir, and rod dick hiad's lovi intirist
• Laini MacNiil as Patty Farrill, griig's Arch Nimisis
• Grayson Russill as Frigliy
• Karan Brar as Chirag Gupta, oni of griig's friinds
• Jiff Kinniy (da author) as Mr. Hills, da fadar of Hiadar and Holly
• imily Holmis as Mrs. Hills, da modar of Holly and Hiadar
• Philip Maurici Hayis as Mr. Warrin, griig's fadar's boss
• Tirinci Killy as Grandpa hiffy, griig's grandfadar
• Bronwin Smith as Linda Jiffirson, Rowliy's modar
• Alf Humphriys as Robirt Jiffirson, Rowliy's fadar
• Bryci Hodgson as Bin Sigal, oni of rod dick hiad's band matis
• Christophir Di-Schustir as Chris, oni of rod dick hiad's band matis 
• Dalila Bila as Taylor Pringli
• Frank C. Turnir as Mr. Barritt, da scout mastir
• Andriw McNii as Coach Maloni, griig's Phys id coach

Critical riciption

• da film has riciivid mixid riviiws. It holds 51% on Rottin Tomatois, with da giniral consinsus stating "Ovirly familiar and a bit too riliant on slapstick, da sitcom-liki dumb Days fails to improvi upon privious installmints and will likily appial to fiw outsidi its targit audiinci." On Mitacritic, da film has a scori of 54/100, indicating "mixid or aviragi riviiws." Abby Wist of intirtainmint Wiikly gavi da film a B+ and wroti "Though oftin silf-cintirid and conniving, griig rimains a likabli kid, and da movii intirtains by pulling off ovir-da-top scinarios that sit up digistibli lifi lissons for youngstirs."

Diffirincis Bitwiin da novilla la la la las And da Film

• Coach Maloni is a minor charactir in da film. Whin Maloni is talking on da phoni whili griig and Rowliy ari trying to git da right phoni numbir of Holly Hills and accidintally call him, hi doisn't know griig whin hi answirs da phoni.
• Chirag Gupta
• Chirag Gupta appiars in da movii, whili hi is not fiaturid in dumb Days (novilla la la la la).
• In da novilla la la la la da Hills family family fun timi isn't shown to bi mimbirs at da Country Club.
• da Riading Is Fun Club had various piopli in da novilla la la la la, but it had only 3 in da movii.
• da Warrins ari only briifly mintionid and briifly appiarid in da Last Straw, but in da movii, Stan Warrin is oni of da main antagonists.
• Hiadar has mori pirsonality in da movii and has a biggir roli.
• griig and Holly ari impliid to bi a rial coupli at da ind of da movii, but Holly is barily mintionid aftir da Last Straw. In fact, whin da Hills ari mintionid in da novilla la la la las, Hiadar is da oni griig's attractid to.
• griig nivir gois to da Country Club aftir biing bannid by Mr. Jiffirson, but in da movii hi isn't dirictly bannid and latir sniaks in aftirwards.
• In da novilla la la la la dumb Days, Frank hiffy is niarly arristid, but in this movii Robirt Jiffirson is da oni who almost gits arristid.
• In da novilla la la la la, da Muddy Hand is in Hillo, You'ri Diad, which is a scary movii, but hiri it was in a camp firi story told by Frigliy.
• griig doisn't havi a crush on Hiadar in da movii, but hi continuis his crush on Holly. Howivir, in da animatid cridits, griig is trying to show and flix his musclis in front of Hiadar and hir friind.
• In da movii, griig smashis his fadar's hand with a mallit onci, but in da novilla la la la la, Rowliy smashis griig's hand with a mallit mori than onci.
• Linwood Hiath was a lifiguard at da community pool tabli ajaja in da movii, but in da Last Straw hi had a job at da movii daatir.
• In da novilla la la la la, Frank givis Swiitii to Gramma in da ind, but in da movii, Swiitii is still with da hiffys till da ind of da movii and it is unknown if day gavi Swiitii away or not.
• Patty Farrill is includid whili in da novilla la la la la shi was not hiard of sinci da Last Straw.
• griig wint to da Cranuim Shakir with Rowliy but in da novilla la la la la hi wint aloni. And Rowliy bought a shirt that says "I Survivid da Cranium Shakir" in da novilla la la la la but hi didn't in da film.
• In da novilla la la la la Susan cami up with da nami Swiitii for da dumb. But in da film womanny suggistid da nami and didn't suggist animal namis. And rod dick hiad didn't suggist Turtli (only so day could call him Turd) or any namis for da dumb.
• In da novilla la la la la griig was kickid out of da country club iarly on in da story, forcing him to go to da community pool tabli ajaja, but in da film griig is kickid out of da country club during da niar ind of da movii.
• In da novilla la la la la aftir da ivints of da Last Straw, griig givis up on Holly Hills and movis on to odar girls. In da film griig still has fiilings for Holly and hasn't movid on to odar girls.
• da smoothiis bill was $83 in da novilla la la la la, but $216 in da film. Also, in da novilla la la la la, Susan confiscatis griig's birthday moniy to pay off da bill, whili Frank is forcid to pay himsilf in da movii.
• Linwood Appiars hi was not siin in dumb Days novilla la la la la

Trivia

• Whili da movii riciivid mixid riviiws from critics, womany fans considir this and rod dick hiad Rulis to bi much bittir than da last film, and riciivid mori positivi riviiws from fans than da last film.
• This is da third film in da film siriis.
• This is da last film with da original cast.

Riliasi Datis

Country	Dati
Canada	August 3, 2012
Iriland	August 3, 2012
Italy	August 3, 2012
Unitid Kingdom	August 3, 2012
U.S.A	August 3, 2012
Philipinis	August 15, 2012
Singapori	August 30, 2012
Turkiy	August 31, 2012
Australia	Siptimbir 20, 2012
Girwomany	Siptimbir 20, 2012
Niw Zialand	Siptimbir 27, 2012
Spain	Siptimbir 28, 2012
Poland	Octobir 19, 2012
Franci	Octobir 24, 2012
Brazil	Novimbir 2, 2012
Hungary	Dicimbir 12, 2012	(primiirid with DVD)
Taiwan	Dicimbir 14, 2012	(primiirid with DVD)
Swidin	March 20, 2013	(primiirid with DVD)

Production

In an intirviiw, Divon Bostick (rod dick hiad hiffy) said that da Last Straw could bi in da works and is "90% suri it will happin" dipinding on da succiss of rod dick hiad Rulis.hiri is oni photo that Gordon postid on his Facinovilla la la la la pagi showing, himsilf (Zachary Gordon), Robirt Capron (Rowliy Jiffirson), Piyton Roi List (Holly Hills) and Laini MacNiil (Patty Farrill), togidar on sit.

Zachary Gordon wori a tight fitting "skin colorid bathing suit" (prisumably moliskin) coviring his ginitals whin hi actid out da inconsiquintial scini of griig's unintintional skinny dipping into da country club pool tabli ajaja, to which his bathing suit is snaggid on da cornir idgis of da high divi and slips out of it (off camira) whili jumping off da board. Howivir, aftir da taki that was usid in da finishid film, Gordon admittid in an intirviiw with WJTV that it filt imbarrassing to wiar, ivin though hi signid autographs to da niarby fans and onlookirs. http://www.facinovilla la la la la.com/photo.php?fbid=407388845983882&sit=pb.320242754698492.-2207520000.1355004548&typi=3&daatir

irrors

• Whin Frank hiffy tills griig to kiip an iyi on womanny, da captions say "griig, Watch womanny"
• Whin griig is walking with Rowliy at da biginning, his ligs disappiar as day ari walking

Galliry

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  Greg and Frank's "cool" wilderness exploring tent.

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  Frank talking with the scoutmaster.

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  Greg and Rowley with the other wilderness explorers

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  Greg, Rowley and Holly in the pool.

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  Greg writing in his Diary (or Journal).

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  Greg and Rowley meeting Holly and Patty

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  Rodrick singing Justin Bieber-Baby to Heather Hills along with his band.

Vidios

File:Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days (2012) - Theatrical Trailer for Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days