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The Heffleys are the main protagonists of the 2017 poorly recieved film

Why They Suck

 * 1) The main criticism of the film was the new cast. They didn't really try too hard to look at the original characters from the previous films. They don't necessarily fit or match the roles of the original characters from the previous films. The cast also has rather lousy and mean-spirited chemistry, unlike the previous films. This is noticeable especially between Greg and Rodrick and Greg and Susan.
 * 2) *Greg looks way too young to be a convincing twelve-year-old. Instead, he looks more like a second-grader.
 * 3) *Rodrick's appearance doesn't match the books or previous films with long hair, as his new actor lacks the proper look that Devon Bostick had. Unlike the previous films, his personally felt fake and less than dimensional, and basically lacks the wit and charm the previous Rodrick had.
 * 4) *Susan Heffley acts or looks absolutely nothing like her book counterpart, who was overall caring. In the previous films, Rachael Harris had brown hair and put in a good performance that matched the character's personality incredibly well and made her look like a convincing parent. Here, Alicia Silverstone has blonde hair and puts in more of an aggressive and threatening performance that doesn't match up to the character at all and it makes her look more like a bully and somehow a criminal instead of a parent.
 * 5) *Frank is an incredibly boring character, compared to Steve Zahn, who was way funnier and interesting.
 * 6) *Manny also has curly hair now with no exploitation, and looks completely different from the previous films.
 * 7) Manny wins a pig, and somehow it is all Greg's fault, even though he was trying to prevent it from happening.
 * 8) The characters are heavily flanderized and they often behave in a nonsensical, annoying, frustrating, and stupid manner.
 * 9) *For example, instead of calling the cops about the Beardos, the Heffleys decide to chase them down and break into their hotel just to get their stuff back.
 * 10) *Susan also has a massive ego in the movie and is a very bad and immature parent, she is also a huge Mary Sue who yells constantly and bashes modern technology, belittles what her family likes and don't like while caring more about what she likes, and she did not care in the slightest that she humiliated Greg at the expo, and was more concerned about running the trip the way she wanted it, even worse, she gets off scot-free with humiliating Greg at the expo. Even her apology seen nearly at the end of the movie would not excuse her for the things she did in the film, that were really wrong.
 * 11) *Susan is a hypocrite as she said to Frank in the third film that “you can’t take away what they love”, when she does so herself.
 * 12) *Another example is Greg not telling his family about the Beardos, who are literally trying to kill him, yet he tries to hide this from his family. (Though this could be because he thinks he would be blamed for it, which is likely.)
 * 13) *Instead of trying to get their stuff back from the Beardos who stole it in the first place, Susan was more concerned about getting cleaned than getting their stuff back, which was the whole point of the attempt to break into the motel room in the first place.
 * 14) *Greg somehow thinks that Indianapolis is near Meemaw's house on a map that's scaled, and he should know that maps aren't like that, implying that he doesn't understand how maps work.
 * 15) There is one scene where Greg almost gets run over by a car, and Susan is more concerned about Manny taking a nap than Greg almost getting hurt and tells him to be careful because he almost woke up Manny. Instead of being grateful that her son wasn't killed, Susan takes this for granted and is worried about something far less important. This just shows how horrible and neglectful Susan can be.
 * 16) They wasted the talents of Jason Drucker, Charlie Wright, Tom Everett Scott, Alicia Sliverstone and Joshua Hoover.
 * 17) Frank somehow doesn't notice that Greg is covered in orange when talking to him as if it is totally normal to have it.
 * 18) There is one stupid scene where Frank drives through mud and the rest of the family stand there getting mud instead of moving away like wax statues.
 * 19) They permanentley killed the Diary of a Wimpy Kid franchise.
 * 20) The movie itself only involves the family trying to go on a road trip, yet most of the movie boils down to 91 minutes of pure filler, with physically nothing going on during the movie. The movie also suffers from being fairly boring thanks to the fact that there is only weak humor compared to any character development or interesting concepts.
 * 21) They have no real personality with Greg being the cliche main character.