Five years on from the last entry, and retaining the franchise director Bowers but with a reboot cast, The Long Haul aptly describes this disappointingly bland movie. By moving from the domestic setting to a very generic family road trip, the film loses the domestic dynamic and the interplay between Greg and his friends that were integral to the previous films. Zachary Gordon and Devon Bostick are sorely missed as the warring brothers, with Jason Drucker and Charlie Wright trying a little too hard as their substitutes here, and the extraordinary casting coup of Alicia Silverstone and Tom Everett Scott as the parents is largely wasted. The Long Haul seems somewhat underpowered in comparison with the previous Wimpy Kid films, and oddly makes two pointed references to Mad Max and Psycho, great films but hardly appropriate touchstones for its intended young target audience.
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