Customer Reviews

Wayside School: Season One

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My kids and I absolutely love the Wayside School books for their highly entertaining stories and for the joyfully clever ways they play with language and storytelling. Unfortunately, very little of that comes through to the movie. Sure, the movie fits in LOTS of elements from the books, but many of them are introduced inexplicably and have little role in the story. What's missing is the zany logic that makes the books so charming. If you know the books, you may enjoy the references, but the movie itself ends up being pretty standard cartoon slapstick. My five-year-old still enjoys watching it, but I was disappointed that the special intelligence and heart of Wayside School has mostly been lost.

I am a 9-year old kid, and I have read every single book of the Wayside School series. Everyone in my class was talking about the movie, so I wanted to see it. I got the movie and watched it. Guess what? The movie is a disgrace to Wayside School. I don't think Louis Sachar should have allowed this movie to be made. The movie had no stories that the book did, and nobody was how they were described in the book. There was hardly any humor, and it sucked. It was very disappointing.

This is a great DVD for children. The books are wonderful but the DVD is just as good. This DVD may inspire children to read the books too!

I bought this for my son since he really enjoyed the books. He seems to love the movie and has even shared it, along with the books, with his class.

My son liked this movie. He's read the series of Wayside books by Louis Sachar and enjoyed seeing some of the characters. He kind of expected it to be just like one of the books, and it wasn't. Some characters were the same, but the story was different.

This cartoon is so intelligently written that I actually encourage my kids to watch it (over the others) and I gladly watch it with them!

I read the Wayside books to my students. This short video is very funny. It had me lol at several points!

Arrived fast, great, enjoyed, but I need to take off because the movie changed so much from book, and left too much out