SYNOPSIS: This summer, Judy Moody is planning the most super-duper, double-rare summer vacation ever with best friends Rocky and Amy. Except that it turns out Rocky is going to circus camp to learn to tame lions, and Amy is headed off to Borneo with her mom to save a lost tribe while Judy stays home with her pesky little brother Stink and second-best friend Frank Pearl. Just when she thinks things are as rotten as they can be, her parents announce that they will be going to California and Judy will have to stay behind with her Aunt Opal, who she’s never even met! It looks like Judy’s best summer ever has just become her way worst summer ever.

REVIEW: After the box office success of “Diary of the Wimpy Kid”, Hollywood Studios saw the opportunity to continue exploding adaptations of children book to the big screen. These adaptations are low budget films with a potential of becoming huge monetary success. In an attempt to continue the success, Relativity Media is releasing “Jody Moody and The Not So Bummer Summer” based on popular best-selling book series by Megan McDonald. A film that provides very little substance for grown ups, but that delivers enough entertainment for kids to be acceptable. 

Many grown ups will find “Jody Moody and The Not So Bummer Summer” unfunny, boring and tedious, however while watching this film I found myself enjoying it. May be it was because I had my seven year old girl next to me during the screening, or I got caught in the thinking of the filmmakers, which clearly had a particular target demographic in mind for this film. The truth is that I found the film decent enough to recommend to anyone who has kids, particularly girls. This is one of those films that eventually it will find its success. If not at the box office, for sure on dvd and blu-ray.