How to Eat Fried Worms (New Line Platinum Series)

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How to Eat Fried Worms (New Line Platinum Series)
Starring: Luke Benward , Hallie Kate Eisenberg , Adam Hicks , Austin Rogers , and Alexander Gould
Director: Bob Dolman
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Product Group: DVD
Binding: DVD
ASIN: B000J10FLY
2006-12-05

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The popular 1973 kid's book How to Eat Fried Worms gets a respectful, straightforward translation with this 2006 movie. When bullies put worms in his thermos, Billy fights back--and only gets in deeper trouble when he makes a stomach-churning bet that he can eat ten worms. Using a variety of cooking schemes, the pack of bullies make a slimy meal even more repulsive, but Billy--to his own surprise--takes on everything they throw at him. As the disgustingness escalates, he discovers that not everyone is what they seem. Though many story elements are changed from the book, How to Eat Fried Worms treats the situation and characters with intelligence and integrity. There are a few cartoonish moments (including some inventive animated sequences), but overall the movie is down-to-earth and sincere, delivering some simple and unforced messages about courage and friendship along with the gross-out humor. The kids--including Luke Benward (Because of Winn-Dixie) as Billy and Hallie Kate Eisenberg (probably best known from a series of popular Pepsi ads) as a too-tall girl who shares Billy's outsider status--aren't overly slick, and the scenes between Billy and his father (Tom Cavanaugh, from the TV show Ed) feel honest and unpatronizing. A modest but heartfelt movie. --Bret Fetzer

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Author Thomas Rockwell's hugely popular book, "How to Eat Fried Worms", is now brought to the big screen! On his first day at a new school, eleven-year-old Billy goes up against the school bully in a challenge that ends up with a total gross-out date...to eat 10 worms in one day! As the pressure mounts, Billy must summon all his strength to meet the dare, all the while keeping his weak stomach from betraying him and his big mouth from getting him in even more trouble!

Customer Reviews:

Amusing for Kids.......2007-05-17

This is definitely one for the kids. They'll love the childish humor played out in a movie about eating worms. It's gross, but it's also a bunch of boys so it's perfectly understandable. That's what it was made for anyway. If you're looking for a good family film, then you might try this one. It's not the best, but your kids will get a kick out of all the sliminess and silliness.

Pure Entertainment.......2007-05-08

Kids will love this funny, yet pretty disgusting story about boys with a bet about eating worms.

Nice Friday After School Movie.......2007-05-07

I gave it 4 stars because the movie didn't have too much in common with the book. We read the book first in the school and watched the movie to compare, characters, and plot. Kids thought the book was better. Nevertheless, I have to say they really enjoyed the movie, even when I could not enjoy it as much. I had kids from 3rd, 4th and 5th grade and they really liked it. They laughed and at the same time made sounds like Yauck!!

Don't try this at home.......2007-04-07

It's hard to call a film cute when the story revolves around a kid eating worms in a variety of ways, but certainly there's a lot to this film once you look beyond the whole yuck factor. It actually succeeds in turning worm-eating into a metaphor that resonates with meaning for adults as well as children, for we all have to eat a worm or two every so often (again, metaphorically) as part of life. It's all about how we project ourselves, and how honest we are to ourselves and those around us - especially those we really want to impress. What I'm trying to say is How to Eat Fried Worms is actually a wholesome film with a number of important life lessons to impart to viewers.

It's never easy being the new kid in school, largely because of that one bully who makes it his mission to harass and establish his dominance over everyone - especially newbies. For Billy (Luke Benward), it starts with a major glaring session upon arrival and quickly builds up to a thermos filled not with a delicious Kool-Aid type drink but a whole gob of nasty, disgusting worms, all of it courtesy of Joe (Adam Hicks), who sits atop the classmate food chain. Billy makes the spontaneous decision to play it cool, claiming that he eats worms all the time, then closes with a perfect toss of one worm into Joe's face. Yes, it looks like a small triumph for the little guy over the big bad bully, but the resulting taunts of "Worm boy" soon compel Billy to make the fatal mistake of "the bet." Before he knows what he's doing, he's bet Joe that he can eat ten worms on Saturday, with the loser having to come to school with a bucket load of worms in his pants.

As Billy's new friend Erika (Hallie Kate Eisenberg) often says, boys are just weird. Joe's gang goes all out to come up with some of the most disgusting fried worm delicacies they can imagine (don't ask me why they think it's harder to eat a fried worm than a squishy live one). The levers of power shift as Billy manages to stay in the game, everyone seems to learn something about himself along the way, and the outcome of the bet doesn't seem all that important when all is said and done. Don't judge anyone too quickly stands among this film's various lessons to all of us, but it will obviously play best to boys and girls who can personally relate to the vagaries of playground dominance that give rise to such silly yet all-important contests as Billy's worm-eating challenge.

Nothing like the book have your kids read it instead.......2007-03-01

I gave it 3 stars because it did make my kids laugh. But over all they were disappointed. I had them read the book first which they thought was much better. The only thing it really had in common with the book is that a kid made a bet to eat worms other than that forget it. I could not bring myself to watch the whole move. The part I disliked the most was that the main character and his little brother hate each other which was entirely uncalled for.

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