the problem with modern wimpy kid is that each book tries to top the antics of the previous one, and they end up getting too unrealistic and losing a lot of the relatablility factor that the early books had. i think thats my main problem with the last few books
everything about the series went down after Old School , one of the most unhinged books was The Meltdown, like half of the book was just greg and the other kids in their neigborhood having a big snowball fight or smthing
@@LloydDapotato well i think it was pretty fun till meltdown and everything after that was average, also the Rowley book should have been a one time thing as the first was good but other two were trash. I think we should get a final book with some kind of closure to everything instead of everything going on. Also side note, where is the pig currently?
I thought the book was pretty good/decent. I wish Jeff really fleshed out the idea of the School shutting down though. I do kinda like the twist at the end where Greg goes to the bad school and Rowley goes to the good school (Originally it was the opposite) and then the students fail the test and now they have to go to the new school. For some reason I thought that was not going to happen. But in my opinion. The new Diary of a Wimpy kid book is a 6/10.
I really liked this one, really felt about Greg and was really chaotic. One thing I will say was, I hated the ending. I loved where it was going and it was so exciting! But they literally redid EVERYTHING that they did in the book. I would've loved to see more books feature around Greg and his new life, but they just had to remove everything in this book. Legit all that changed was the name of the school. I'm guessing Jeff thought of it last minute to wrap up the book.
@@yaska7399 Well it still would've been good to see at least SOME type of change, maybe something with his character arc, but you can just skip this book and you won't miss a thing
I started reading Doawk when I was in elementary school. He was in middle school at this time. I kept reading Doawk when I was in middle school. Greg was still in middle school. I am now in high school, and barely read these books anymore. Greg is still in middle school.
The problem with the newer books is that they tend to use a lot of filler, things drag on for too long, and the really interesting stuff doesn’t happen until towards the end, only for everything to go back to normal in the next couple of pages.
This one...I think they lost me. First of all, there was barely any plot. Most of it was just Greg talking about changes that were going on at his school, and it didn't even get to the shutdown until midway through. And when it did get to it, they barely delivered on the book's premise. From the official synopsis, I would've expected to see Greg try to organize a campaign to keep his school open, but there was barely any of that. It DID get kind of interesting at the end, where Greg went to a new school and got a girlfriend. But then a last-minute contrivance happened to just suddenly put everything back the way it was, and Greg's girlfriend dumped him. So what was even the point? Plus, there was even more of the modern Wimpy Kid stupidity. There was a passage about a book series that the kids love but the parents hate-a joke that was recycled from Book 9. And they had a robot character. A freaking robot that was made principal at the end.🤦♂️ Another thing that bugged me was the "reveal" that Greg's middle school is called Larry Mack Middle School...even though for years we've known it to be Westmore Middle School. Yes, it was something that the movies added, and it wasn't said to be the school's name in the earlier books, but even taking that out of it, this is still weird. Why are we not hearing the name of Greg's school until the 18th book? Shouldn't it have been mentioned at least once before? On the whole, I think this is a contender for worst in the series. Double Down and Big Shot were pretty bad, but No Brainer just might beat them to the bottom of the list. I'm not sure if I'll even bother with Book 19.
Well said, I completely agree with you, I don’t just hate the ending because it reset everything (although I hate that they did that as well) but also how it just reset things in a way that expects you to buy it. And I just don’t know this series anymore, what is all this crap? A robot being principal? Rodents infiltrating a school? TSA at a school? I know I’ll get some hate for this but I’d rather read Double Down than this again, at least it was somewhat grounded in reality and didn’t introduce anything too outlandish.
As someone else mentioned in the comments, this book *COULD* have been the book where Greg & Rowley graduate middle school & moves onto high school. But hey, at least Greg had a legit girlfriend for a little while! Wonder where's Fregley in all this...
@@Twister39 I’m not entirely sure that these are all Holly, but there are some girls that look like her on pages 130, 185, and 200. Also, on 200, she seems to have a crush on Greg?
I noticed that VP Roy came back an for an official cameo in page 163, I think Holly Hills was more of just a design thing and was more of a coincidence.
@@ITSTIMETOSAYGOODBYEThey mentioned Greg at least being in 7th grade in one of the books because he got in trouble for selling fake elevator passes to the new 6th graders implying that he was at least in 7th grade:
4:54 the context here is that last year the school held an auction just like the year no brainer takes place in and they won “family portrait” or something along the lines. It was one of those things where they had to stand still and the artist would paint them, however, they had some breaks in between for some reason. After the 1st break, Rodrick didn’t show up so the artist had to draw him from memory and that’s how it ended up like this
Okay, I mean it was one of the funniest out of all of the books, but like, it was so confusing. Like first, chirag Guptas dad didn’t look like he did in rodrick rules, Alex Aruda also looked different then in the other books, and it was just so unrealistic with the robot and everything. It definitely wasn’t my favorite, but it was still decent. 7/10
good review crow. the thing i didn't really like about this book was just a tad bit unrealistic with some of the sideplots were like the karen parents who were against the commando crocodile comics and the principal straight up acting like mr. krabs, coming up with new schemes to save/make more money. in what world would an american school just turn off electricity for half of its classrooms and allow cockroaches to roam around the floors. don't get me started on the "high flyer's club", no school would offer a paid membership to students to get out of doing schoolwork lol. its kinda sad to see how greg's middle school sucked up to big corporations to the point where you couldn't even bring another brand of chips to school. this book kinda reminded me of wrecking ball where greg's family was about to move out into a new house but then everything fell apart at the end and we're back to square one. the same thing happened in this book except he's back at this old middle school. a change of setting would've been nice for once, considering how long this series has gone on for, but it seems like jeff kinney doesn't want greg to win in life. he gets a girlfriend finally and becomes popular just for sophie to break up with him at the end and gets bullied again. it just seems like a missed opportunity. i will keep reading the books though as long as they're made.
From my personal experience, the book was kinda boring at first, but when they actually started talking about the school ending it started getting pretty interesting. I like the callback to the first picture of the first book in this book when the school reopens again, pretty nice. I also liked how they reversed the schools for Rowley and Greg, so Jeff drew two pictures showing the switch, that was pretty funny. I also liked how when the school closed, Mr. Bottoms did the "WOOHOO!" on the car again, like during Rodrick's years with Mr. Bottoms as well. Just like the references and the callbacks in the book overall. In my opinion, we didn't get much from Rowley other than he is going to another school from Greg and is getting a lot of private tutors so he can't hangout with Greg, in fact, he didn't actually say much too. The pacing was okay, but I think if we just cut out the pages where the school is slowly being broken down and just go to the part where the school announces it's being closed, then that would've been better. The comedy was good, not gonna lie. The part where even the bot janitor was asking for any jobs because the school is closing was pretty funny. Since this book takes place in Greg's middle school, we could've seen many recurring characters, such as Fregley, Holly, Chirag or heck, even the Cheese Touch. Maybe even a new school play or something, even a musical, to maybe put more light to Greg's good singing as shown in the movie. (I'm not sure which one, but I think it's the first one.) Overall, it's okay, but definitely a lot of missed opportunities and potential, 6/10.
@@Gumball7585 Nowhere actually. The first pages of the book are just Greg talking about how his school doesn't do much to teach him and how some of the teachers have basically given up on teaching anything or aren't really teaching anything useful for the standardized test and how the school had to replace the principals and things start changing and I realize I'm basically talking about a quarter of the book.
This book was good in my opinion. There were many things I liked. My favorite part was when Greg becoming a principal for a day, that was a lot of fun. I also enjoyed seeing more of his school as well and seeing how terrible it is as well as how horrible his principal was, however their were a lot of things I didn’t like. I hated how Frank, Susan, Manny, Rodrick, And Rowley all took a backseat at once this time around. I’m fine with some of the other supporting characters having a small role, but not all at the same time. I also didn’t like how their were so many side stories happening all at once. The main story of the school closing down was pushed aside and barely focused on until towards the end of the book. But yeah I still like this book, but I do think it’s pretty weak compared to other books in the series. 7/10 good but not great.
I just watched an audiobook of it...and what the FUCK was that? It was so idiotically outlandish, that it actually made a good few of the FANFICS look realistic in comparison.
i’ve noticed that every single book starts in the same way, where like the first 30 pages or so are just greg imagining something in the past or future.
Spoiler Alert!!!:the story was just Greg talking about his school being bankrupt and being unfair but the school being closed and them being transferred was just their for like 20 pages, What I’m trying to say is that the book would of been better if the students just tried to protest about the school not to be closed at least for like 50 pages, So it was just random how the school was going to be closed. Like if you agree 👍
I really like this book because it really expands how the world Greg is from really is like. The Fact that his school honors a fraudster really explains why Greg thinks its ok for him to cheat & other anti social behaviors
Spoilers I was really expecting the older characters to show their faces like Holly, Patty, and Chirag, but unfortunately they were nowhere to be seen (aside from Mr. Gupta I guess? But he had a different design in Rodrick Rules page 74). Also, I don't know, to me it felt like it was so over the top with the school crumbling to the point where it wasn't realistic. In the older books, Greg was the one causing problems, in this one things were just crumbling around him. It also felt like Jeff was really trying to stretch everything as much as he could, but I could be wrong. I also felt like the character designs felt a little samey because of the noses. The girls felt the weirdest because that's not usually how Greg draws them aside from the ones he doesn't like, like Ruby Bird. Vice Principal Roy is also only mentioned ONCE and we don't even see a picture of him. This strikes as very odd because I feel like he'd play a major role in the book. Cabin Fever for example uses him super well. I hate to feel so nitpicky but I can't help but notice all these things and question them a little. I liked the book, but it felt super off to me like it's not the world I know. also not to sound like a grammar nazi but there were a million wrong ways to start a sentence in that book lol
This was probably my least favorite of the books. Jeff has really jumped the shark with these things to the point of where they aren’t relatable or realistic at all. I also really wished that Greg ended up together with his girlfriend for a while instead of having it last about 5 pages.
@@Hanoj1 That's another thing, why are these random guys getting the spotlight but not the characters who play a larger role? Like I said, Vice Principal Roy should've been a major influence rather than just being mentioned once. Why does Ricky Fisher who was only known for knowing a bunch of bad words play a bigger role than the vice principal?
imagine the high flyers club actually existed in schools (the one you could buy) bro it would be awesome!! anyway the book was very awesome and i loved it 👍
the shutting down part was so late in the book and i felt that jeff kinney just wrote a bunch of random stuff and thought of the last part in an hour or so, as the book description at the back of the book only comes in like at the end.
No Brainer much like Double Down before it epitomizes everything wrong with the later Wimpy Kid books. 1. Not much of note happens until the very end. 2. Unrealistic elements that make the books feel less like an average believable middle school kid's life experiences and more like National Lampoon lite. 3. Greg is STILL in middle school somehow after all these years along with his best friend Rowley.
5:03 That's not Chirag's Dad. In Rodrick rules we see Chirag's Dad on page 74 and he looks totally different. So maybe it's just another person with the Gupta last name.
i didnt like how it ended, its like if old school ended with greg being trapped on an island with thousands of microwave burritos, it was a joke and they made it the main plotline, like HAHA HE SAID HE WOULDNT USE THE INFORMATION ON HOW TO ORDER BURGERS IN FAKE LATIN BUT HE DID HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH, also THERE WAS LIKE 3 PAGES WITH ROWLEY EVEN THOUGH HE IS MEANT TO BE THE MAIN PLOTLINE
It’s my favorite of the modern books. Ever since “the getaway” I felt like they were just, kinda bad. Not trash, still decent, but nothing special. I must say i loved that chaos of it all. 9.5/10 I loved it Edit : forgot that diper overlode is fire it’s a easy 9/10
I was thinking about when the new wimpy kid book would come out then I saw this video and realised that it’s actually out. With this little notice I’m sure that 275 million copies sold is in reality maybe around 3 copies sold.
The newest wimpy kid book is always at the top of my Christmas list. Basically whenever a book comes out, it's released, I watch the crowana burger review of the book to know what I'll be in for, than put it on my list, and read it on Christmas
To be honest, Jeff’s books don’t have the same touch they used to, when I’ve read the more recent books, it feels like there is no storyline. It’s just Greg telling a bunch of chaos like 6 months worth of events happen in 4 days. Back then, the books weren’t just based on one specific thing, in Diper Overload, clearly the entire book is just about Rodrick’s band. Back then, the books felt more so like they were following a story line. One day we’d hear about Greg joining something. Next we’d hear about his problems & chaos that comes with it. Then later in the book whether it was shortly after or a while after, we would hear that he quit or something like that. Nowadays that scenario just looks like this: I joined this activity/team, here’s the problem, so I quit it. It’s basically like he’s not telling us what’s going on while it’s going on, more so that he is telling us everything that happens, months after it happens.
Hold up I got an idea: have you checked out the original Funbrain web version of DoaWK? It’d be interesting to see the differences between it and the published book(s)
So Mack deduced that the only reason Greg was ballin was since he went to a *competent* school, so he brought that one back, then proceeded to keep sending his daughter to the shityy one?
I haven’t fully read it yet but I read the beginning and honestly it’s a lot more enjoyable and reminds me more of the original rather than the other books but I dunno that’s just my opinion
I Think this book was bad. The Plot felt generic, and i thought that the school closing ment that there would be actual Changes and consequences unlike Wrecking Ball, but the old school comes back
I dropped off of this series around like, the Getaway. I remember when a new book came out and I would buy it at the school book fair 😂 Now I haven’t even read one in 5-6 years lol
Even though I have every book except this one, i have to say, I sure do love a chaotic wimpy kid book, and this sounds like one. Also, I really dig that 'The Christmas Story' lamp in the back.
i just read it in like 2 hours and it was kinda mostly all over the place, and the jokes are good, but the segways into them, are just so goddamn weird, and to be honest, the ending feels very very rushed to go into the "normal status" that the books always have to go into. This book is like a fan book made by a kid, but the kid is 5 years old. This is book is like short stories for filler purposes, and it was so goddamn confusing half the time.
No brainer is a good book. I like that this book is specifically focusing about Greg's school life and it's downfall that we don't usually get alot of. I like the part where the school is trying to save money in the most cheap way possible and I also like the fudgedogs concept. The ending is the best part about the book. There are alot of twists and turnes and i like that when everything goes uphill for greg, the school opens and everything goes downhill for him. I wish they focused more on the school closing part instead of the bider or principal of the day part which is the worst part about the book and i wish they toned down on why the school is horrible and focused more on the school closing or thier separation between Rowley and greg. All in all a good book 6.5/10
What's your favorite Wimpy Kid book? 🐸⬇
idk
Probably Hard Luck, But my opinion could change.
the first
The getaway
diary of a wimpy kid no nut November
the problem with modern wimpy kid is that each book tries to top the antics of the previous one, and they end up getting too unrealistic and losing a lot of the relatablility factor that the early books had. i think thats my main problem with the last few books
everything about the series went down after Old School , one of the most unhinged books was The Meltdown, like half of the book was just greg and the other kids in their neigborhood having a big snowball fight or smthing
@@LloydDapotatoit was though
exactly
@@LloydDapotato well i think it was pretty fun till meltdown and everything after that was average, also the Rowley book should have been a one time thing as the first was good but other two were trash. I think we should get a final book with some kind of closure to everything instead of everything going on. Also side note, where is the pig currently?
@@amritasrivastav2764 manny's toy pile i think?
I would have liked if the school shutting down was halfway through the book and we got to see more of Greg and Rowley in the different schools.
Horn battle agrees
@@magicjellybnm😂😂😂
@@RustyMustyDustyCrustyFry the deuce
100 % agree
Yeah they teased it in wrekinh ball but it never happened
Probably the most unhinged book of the entire series. It was just nice to see Greg finally score a date for once.
And then lose it.
Tbh I really liked this one, I like how Greg’s school was trying to save money, and I loved how chaotic it was. Also WAY better than double down
The person above you has a totally different opinion
@@ericka.5434 no I agree with her
yea
@@xkaydv I’m a girl but thanks :)
@@xtremeyoylecake let me edit my comment then
I thought the book was pretty good/decent. I wish Jeff really fleshed out the idea of the School shutting down though. I do kinda like the twist at the end where Greg goes to the bad school and Rowley goes to the good school (Originally it was the opposite) and then the students fail the test and now they have to go to the new school. For some reason I thought that was not going to happen. But in my opinion. The new Diary of a Wimpy kid book is a 6/10.
I really liked this one, really felt about Greg and was really chaotic. One thing I will say was,
I hated the ending. I loved where it was going and it was so exciting! But they literally redid EVERYTHING that they did in the book. I would've loved to see more books feature around Greg and his new life, but they just had to remove everything in this book. Legit all that changed was the name of the school. I'm guessing Jeff thought of it last minute to wrap up the book.
It reminded me of wrecking ball
wrecking ball was way worse tbh@@MannyHeffley077
i agree, i really wanna see what happened to greg with all his popularity
Jeff Kinney is deathly afraid of changing the status quo of the series. That’s why by the end of these later books everything is back to normal.
@@yaska7399 Well it still would've been good to see at least SOME type of change, maybe something with his character arc, but you can just skip this book and you won't miss a thing
I started reading Doawk when I was in elementary school. He was in middle school at this time. I kept reading Doawk when I was in middle school. Greg was still in middle school. I am now in high school, and barely read these books anymore. Greg is still in middle school.
Am I the first one to like ?
I feel the exact same way
I was in second grade when I read my first Wimpy Kid book, Dog Days. Now I’m a College Sophomore and I just finished reading No Brainer
Remember when Diary of a Wimpy Kid was relateable, realistic-fiction?
Yeah
Yea
The weird thing is that the plot does not happen until page 189 still loved this book
But it’s building the plot,if the plot is in the starting of the page it wouldn’t be fun and would be less than 40 pages or so
That’s the thing with recent wimpy kid books, what they say on the back doesn’t happen till there’s like 20 pages left
The problem with the newer books is that they tend to use a lot of filler, things drag on for too long, and the really interesting stuff doesn’t happen until towards the end, only for everything to go back to normal in the next couple of pages.
Well atleast it isn't the deep end
Unrealistic, but fun. Wimpy kid doesn’t feel the same anymore, but it isn’t necessarily a bad thing
This one...I think they lost me.
First of all, there was barely any plot. Most of it was just Greg talking about changes that were going on at his school, and it didn't even get to the shutdown until midway through. And when it did get to it, they barely delivered on the book's premise. From the official synopsis, I would've expected to see Greg try to organize a campaign to keep his school open, but there was barely any of that.
It DID get kind of interesting at the end, where Greg went to a new school and got a girlfriend. But then a last-minute contrivance happened to just suddenly put everything back the way it was, and Greg's girlfriend dumped him. So what was even the point?
Plus, there was even more of the modern Wimpy Kid stupidity. There was a passage about a book series that the kids love but the parents hate-a joke that was recycled from Book 9. And they had a robot character. A freaking robot that was made principal at the end.🤦♂️
Another thing that bugged me was the "reveal" that Greg's middle school is called Larry Mack Middle School...even though for years we've known it to be Westmore Middle School. Yes, it was something that the movies added, and it wasn't said to be the school's name in the earlier books, but even taking that out of it, this is still weird. Why are we not hearing the name of Greg's school until the 18th book? Shouldn't it have been mentioned at least once before?
On the whole, I think this is a contender for worst in the series. Double Down and Big Shot were pretty bad, but No Brainer just might beat them to the bottom of the list. I'm not sure if I'll even bother with Book 19.
I’m sorry, you thought Big Shot was a bad book? That one was great
Big shot was actually good
Big Shot was mediocre at best, I don’t get the hype for it at all, Diper Overlode was much better than it
Well said, I completely agree with you, I don’t just hate the ending because it reset everything (although I hate that they did that as well) but also how it just reset things in a way that expects you to buy it. And I just don’t know this series anymore, what is all this crap? A robot being principal? Rodents infiltrating a school? TSA at a school? I know I’ll get some hate for this but I’d rather read Double Down than this again, at least it was somewhat grounded in reality and didn’t introduce anything too outlandish.
@@andecidreweye Big Shot was shit
Mr Guptas Design has changed and is now much different then in Rodrick Rules. Chirags father has been killed and replaced.
STOP THE CAP!
@@shelleyvalasit’s a true fact he had a redesign
mr gupta had a glowup since 2008 🔥
Adoptive father 🔥🔥
lol
As someone else mentioned in the comments, this book *COULD* have been the book where Greg & Rowley graduate middle school & moves onto high school.
But hey, at least Greg had a legit girlfriend for a little while!
Wonder where's Fregley in all this...
either left the school or Jeff forgot
@@noplsbruhdon’t think he’s been mentioned in the last 5 or so books
Meltdown @@royaleawesomene5194
The fact that Greg actually got a girl is crazy
I know. I was disappointed when he lost her.
Chirag’s dad isn’t the only old character to come back! Holly Hills has a cameo
Where?
@@Twister39 I’m not entirely sure that these are all Holly, but there are some girls that look like her on pages 130, 185, and 200. Also, on 200, she seems to have a crush on Greg?
I noticed that VP Roy came back an for an official cameo in page 163, I think Holly Hills was more of just a design thing and was more of a coincidence.
No one noticed Alex Aruda😢
@@mushylovergd9174 I did but kept quiet, especially since we was “killed off” by being shipped to boarding school
I think this book could have been the transition to high school for Greg
atleast south park aged up their characters 2 years over their time, Greg hasn't aged a year in half the time
@@ITSTIMETOSAYGOODBYEThey mentioned Greg at least being in 7th grade in one of the books because he got in trouble for selling fake elevator passes to the new 6th graders implying that he was at least in 7th grade:
4:54 the context here is that last year the school held an auction just like the year no brainer takes place in and they won “family portrait” or something along the lines. It was one of those things where they had to stand still and the artist would paint them, however, they had some breaks in between for some reason. After the 1st break, Rodrick didn’t show up so the artist had to draw him from memory and that’s how it ended up like this
Rowley hasn't even showed up until page 52
2:55 the school hired the security because the axes pickaxes and shovels
Okay, I mean it was one of the funniest out of all of the books, but like, it was so confusing. Like first, chirag Guptas dad didn’t look like he did in rodrick rules, Alex Aruda also looked different then in the other books, and it was just so unrealistic with the robot and everything. It definitely wasn’t my favorite, but it was still decent. 7/10
good review crow. the thing i didn't really like about this book was just a tad bit unrealistic with some of the sideplots were like the karen parents who were against the commando crocodile comics and the principal straight up acting like mr. krabs, coming up with new schemes to save/make more money. in what world would an american school just turn off electricity for half of its classrooms and allow cockroaches to roam around the floors. don't get me started on the "high flyer's club", no school would offer a paid membership to students to get out of doing schoolwork lol. its kinda sad to see how greg's middle school sucked up to big corporations to the point where you couldn't even bring another brand of chips to school. this book kinda reminded me of wrecking ball where greg's family was about to move out into a new house but then everything fell apart at the end and we're back to square one. the same thing happened in this book except he's back at this old middle school. a change of setting would've been nice for once, considering how long this series has gone on for, but it seems like jeff kinney doesn't want greg to win in life. he gets a girlfriend finally and becomes popular just for sophie to break up with him at the end and gets bullied again. it just seems like a missed opportunity. i will keep reading the books though as long as they're made.
Why I wish Rowley was a more major character, some parts are funny like the farm animals being censored
Crow your jokes never get old… when you reach 1M subscribers I’m proud to be there to say I’ve been here since 50k subs! Good luck!
It’s actually my fav book now, I loved no brainer (the getaway and diper overload are both close seconds)
From my personal experience, the book was kinda boring at first, but when they actually started talking about the school ending it started getting pretty interesting. I like the callback to the first picture of the first book in this book when the school reopens again, pretty nice. I also liked how they reversed the schools for Rowley and Greg, so Jeff drew two pictures showing the switch, that was pretty funny. I also liked how when the school closed, Mr. Bottoms did the "WOOHOO!" on the car again, like during Rodrick's years with Mr. Bottoms as well. Just like the references and the callbacks in the book overall.
In my opinion, we didn't get much from Rowley other than he is going to another school from Greg and is getting a lot of private tutors so he can't hangout with Greg, in fact, he didn't actually say much too.
The pacing was okay, but I think if we just cut out the pages where the school is slowly being broken down and just go to the part where the school announces it's being closed, then that would've been better.
The comedy was good, not gonna lie. The part where even the bot janitor was asking for any jobs because the school is closing was pretty funny.
Since this book takes place in Greg's middle school, we could've seen many recurring characters, such as Fregley, Holly, Chirag or heck, even the Cheese Touch. Maybe even a new school play or something, even a musical, to maybe put more light to Greg's good singing as shown in the movie. (I'm not sure which one, but I think it's the first one.)
Overall, it's okay, but definitely a lot of missed opportunities and potential, 6/10.
I would’ve loved to see a Diary of a Wimpy Kid version of Little Shop of Horrors :)
so can u explain where is Rowley in the first few pages ?
@@Gumball7585 Nowhere actually. The first pages of the book are just Greg talking about how his school doesn't do much to teach him and how some of the teachers have basically given up on teaching anything or aren't really teaching anything useful for the standardized test and how the school had to replace the principals and things start changing and I realize I'm basically talking about a quarter of the book.
@@wulucarlotta cool thanks
it’s so weird how the og characters like holly fregley and chirag have completely disappeared. they really included chirags dad but not him 😭😭
Maybe it's called "No Brainer" because Greg forgot to use his brain half the time when he was writing this book. 🤣
But then that’d be called half-brainer and not no brainer
This book was good in my opinion. There were many things I liked. My favorite part was when Greg becoming a principal for a day, that was a lot of fun. I also enjoyed seeing more of his school as well and seeing how terrible it is as well as how horrible his principal was, however their were a lot of things I didn’t like. I hated how Frank, Susan, Manny, Rodrick, And Rowley all took a backseat at once this time around. I’m fine with some of the other supporting characters having a small role, but not all at the same time. I also didn’t like how their were so many side stories happening all at once. The main story of the school closing down was pushed aside and barely focused on until towards the end of the book. But yeah I still like this book, but I do think it’s pretty weak compared to other books in the series. 7/10 good but not great.
its was god awful no I idea what you're on about
@@silentclaw6439 It’s fine, I don’t expect you or anyone else to agree with me.
@@silentclaw6439fr, I thought I was the only one that thought that.
@@Joseph_Heitkamp don’t worry you’re not alone, I thought the book was absolutely awful.
how
The random off track stuff is the BEST part of Diary of a Wimpy Kid 😂
This might actually be more confusing as Wrecking Ball, and worse that Double-Down
I just watched an audiobook of it...and what the FUCK was that? It was so idiotically outlandish, that it actually made a good few of the FANFICS look realistic in comparison.
i’ve noticed that every single book starts in the same way, where like the first 30 pages or so are just greg imagining something in the past or future.
What’s your favorite Wimpy Kid book? 🦇⬇️
My favorites are Cabin Fever, Long Haul, Wrecking Ball, and Big Shot.
Longa Haul!
Wrecking ball is the worst in my opinion.
@@Pleasant_738 I laugh extremely hard when I read that one.
I really wished this one would have a sequel like wrecking ball and deep end and the school couldn’t be saved and Greg would just stay at slacksville
Dumb fact: in no brainer ( I forgot the page), there’s a student named Adam Katz. And if ur a part of the osc, well..
I noticed that and afterwards I posted it all over the BFDI II and osc wikis on fandom
Also page 35
Mrs kwan and Mr balls!!!?
That’s all the proof I need Jeff Kinney watches CrowRanaBurger
Do t forget Adam Katz!
@@xtremeyoylecake finally, I thought I was the only one who noticed that lol
It was so weird seeing the name while reading
@@slaoqeubotoaq same
AMONG US!
Officer balls
Spoiler Alert!!!:the story was just Greg talking about his school being bankrupt and being unfair but the school being closed and them being transferred was just their for like 20 pages, What I’m trying to say is that the book would of been better if the students just tried to protest about the school not to be closed at least for like 50 pages, So it was just random how the school was going to be closed. Like if you agree 👍
I really like this book because it really expands how the world Greg is from really is like. The Fact that his school honors a fraudster really explains why Greg thinks its ok for him to cheat & other anti social behaviors
Can you do a tier list of the Wimpy Kid books again please?
I actually find it to be the funniest out of all of them for some reason.
Jeff Kinney said that next book it will be about Greg in high school 😊
dude i love how the art design version of the crowranaburger merch references the fan cover crow on a burger
Spoilers
I was really expecting the older characters to show their faces like Holly, Patty, and Chirag, but unfortunately they were nowhere to be seen (aside from Mr. Gupta I guess? But he had a different design in Rodrick Rules page 74). Also, I don't know, to me it felt like it was so over the top with the school crumbling to the point where it wasn't realistic. In the older books, Greg was the one causing problems, in this one things were just crumbling around him. It also felt like Jeff was really trying to stretch everything as much as he could, but I could be wrong. I also felt like the character designs felt a little samey because of the noses. The girls felt the weirdest because that's not usually how Greg draws them aside from the ones he doesn't like, like Ruby Bird. Vice Principal Roy is also only mentioned ONCE and we don't even see a picture of him. This strikes as very odd because I feel like he'd play a major role in the book. Cabin Fever for example uses him super well. I hate to feel so nitpicky but I can't help but notice all these things and question them a little. I liked the book, but it felt super off to me like it's not the world I know.
also not to sound like a grammar nazi but there were a million wrong ways to start a sentence in that book lol
This was probably my least favorite of the books. Jeff has really jumped the shark with these things to the point of where they aren’t relatable or realistic at all. I also really wished that Greg ended up together with his girlfriend for a while instead of having it last about 5 pages.
@@rexskywalker3783 Yeah. Not gonna lie I actually like The Deep End more than this because that at least feels like a cohesive plot.
Now I feel dumb for not noticing the noses until now
i mean ricky fisher got a cameo and we havent seen him in awhile
@@Hanoj1 That's another thing, why are these random guys getting the spotlight but not the characters who play a larger role? Like I said, Vice Principal Roy should've been a major influence rather than just being mentioned once. Why does Ricky Fisher who was only known for knowing a bunch of bad words play a bigger role than the vice principal?
imagine the high flyers club actually existed in schools (the one you could buy) bro it would be awesome!!
anyway the book was very awesome and i loved it
👍
the shutting down part was so late in the book and i felt that jeff kinney just wrote a bunch of random stuff and thought of the last part in an hour or so, as the book description at the back of the book only comes in like at the end.
No Brainer much like Double Down before it epitomizes everything wrong with the later Wimpy Kid books.
1. Not much of note happens until the very end.
2. Unrealistic elements that make the books feel less like an average believable middle school kid's life experiences and more like National Lampoon lite.
3. Greg is STILL in middle school somehow after all these years along with his best friend Rowley.
5:03 That's not Chirag's Dad. In Rodrick rules we see Chirag's Dad on page 74 and he looks totally different. So maybe it's just another person with the Gupta last name.
I think it’s chiraq’s uncle
@@Jansjiejjdkj maybe!
@@JansjiejjdkjMr. Kinney (aka the blind-butt who didn’t bother to check book 2 to see what Mr Gupta looked like) said it was his dad so wom wom wom
I know this isnt really related but thats NOT Chirags dad on Rodrick Rules page 82 we see Chirags dad but his mom could of got a divorce idk
"Greg FINALLY! got a girlfriend!, "
-"Dear greg, its ovor"
"Oh come on!"
It was fun while it lasted.
I can still hear the whispering of "But it's alright overall" in this
i didnt like how it ended, its like if old school ended with greg being trapped on an island with thousands of microwave burritos, it was a joke and they made it the main plotline, like HAHA HE SAID HE WOULDNT USE THE INFORMATION ON HOW TO ORDER BURGERS IN FAKE LATIN BUT HE DID HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH, also THERE WAS LIKE 3 PAGES WITH ROWLEY EVEN THOUGH HE IS MEANT TO BE THE MAIN PLOTLINE
Can't wait for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: High School Days
Never happening but that would be amazing
@@DAPPERMAN01 Yeah true, lol.
@@DAPPERMAN01It would be cool with Greg in high school and Rodrick in college or something
@@Lifetime10154 that would be great
Boy do I have a film for you!
Crowranaburger the chuck e cheese in cherryhill nj when you went lastime they got 2.0 and removed animatronics
I honestly thought it sucked, I hated mostly how it threw out any potentially good storytelling in future books for the status quo, like why?
It was decent although I think the ending is too quick.
I want my 16 bucks back Jeff Kenney!
3:01 💀💀💀💀 Mr. Balls
I don't really like this one, it was a bit complicated snd mixed up in the beginning. Overall just feels blend.
It’s my favorite of the modern books. Ever since “the getaway” I felt like they were just, kinda bad. Not trash, still decent, but nothing special. I must say i loved that chaos of it all. 9.5/10 I loved it
Edit : forgot that diper overlode is fire it’s a easy 9/10
I was thinking about when the new wimpy kid book would come out then I saw this video and realised that it’s actually out. With this little notice I’m sure that 275 million copies sold is in reality maybe around 3 copies sold.
Reading it next awesome video crow you’re video’s always make me laugh ❤🐸
No one gonna talk about that pop up at 0:37? I haven't seen that pic in afew years lol
The next book should be about Greg going to work with Frank or Susan or something
I actually had a teacher called Mr. Ball back in elementary school
Your still using the intro i made lmao. That is actually sick, feel free to keep using it
Lol wait u made it?
@@unearthed2024 yeah.
6:31 that’s exactly what I said
book 20 should be greg going to highschool.
This was the first book I liked since deep end. I like how it focused more on Greg's social life more than his family.
it’s really cool you have a special kill animation every time a new book comes out
Will you do another ranking next year
The newest wimpy kid book is always at the top of my Christmas list. Basically whenever a book comes out, it's released, I watch the crowana burger review of the book to know what I'll be in for, than put it on my list, and read it on Christmas
To be honest, Jeff’s books don’t have the same touch they used to, when I’ve read the more recent books, it feels like there is no storyline. It’s just Greg telling a bunch of chaos like 6 months worth of events happen in 4 days. Back then, the books weren’t just based on one specific thing, in Diper Overload, clearly the entire book is just about Rodrick’s band. Back then, the books felt more so like they were following a story line. One day we’d hear about Greg joining something. Next we’d hear about his problems & chaos that comes with it. Then later in the book whether it was shortly after or a while after, we would hear that he quit or something like that. Nowadays that scenario just looks like this: I joined this activity/team, here’s the problem, so I quit it. It’s basically like he’s not telling us what’s going on while it’s going on, more so that he is telling us everything that happens, months after it happens.
Hold up I got an idea: have you checked out the original Funbrain web version of DoaWK? It’d be interesting to see the differences between it and the published book(s)
i loved this one but there needed to be more about the new school and maybe the book should have ended with something actually changing.
So Mack deduced that the only reason Greg was ballin was since he went to a *competent* school, so he brought that one back, then proceeded to keep sending his daughter to the shityy one?
I haven’t fully read it yet but I read the beginning and honestly it’s a lot more enjoyable and reminds me more of the original rather than the other books but I dunno that’s just my opinion
you could call it Diary of A Wimpy Kid: School Sellout
I Think this book was bad. The Plot felt generic, and i thought that the school closing ment that there would be actual Changes and consequences unlike Wrecking Ball, but the old school comes back
Wait, is the order of the characters in the front supposed to signify how much they’re in it? How did I never notice that!
I dropped off of this series around like, the Getaway. I remember when a new book came out and I would buy it at the school book fair 😂
Now I haven’t even read one in 5-6 years lol
You missed Bink Says Boo throwback on page 196!
Multiple callbacks and references to number 2
These strange callbacks jn the book are giving me a nostalgic sensation. Could this be the final book of DOAWK?
Either that or pandering
This book is actually really good and funny. It’s actually better than Diper Överlöde and Getaway in my opinion
Even though I have every book except this one, i have to say, I sure do love a chaotic wimpy kid book, and this sounds like one. Also, I really dig that 'The Christmas Story' lamp in the back.
i just read it in like 2 hours and it was kinda mostly all over the place, and the jokes are good, but the segways into them, are just so goddamn weird, and to be honest, the ending feels very very rushed to go into the "normal status" that the books always have to go into. This book is like a fan book made by a kid, but the kid is 5 years old. This is book is like short stories for filler purposes, and it was so goddamn confusing half the time.
if you go to target you can find stickers with the book .
Crow should make a fan book of diary of a wimpy kid
Even though this book is kind of bad, my old middle school was almost as terrible as Greg’s so this one was great for me
Greg didn’t deserve a girlfriend 🤨
Brooooo,I don’t know if everybody agrees but this is my new favourite.I think it bought the classic feel,Greg getting a gf,the school life and etc
LETS GOO NEW MERCH AND A DIARY OF A WIMPY KID BOOK
The characters shown in the first page is ordered by priority?
No brainer is a good book. I like that this book is specifically focusing about Greg's school life and it's downfall that we don't usually get alot of. I like the part where the school is trying to save money in the most cheap way possible and I also like the fudgedogs concept. The ending is the best part about the book. There are alot of twists and turnes and i like that when everything goes uphill for greg, the school opens and everything goes downhill for him. I wish they focused more on the school closing part instead of the bider or principal of the day part which is the worst part about the book and i wish they toned down on why the school is horrible and focused more on the school closing or thier separation between Rowley and greg. All in all a good book 6.5/10
The book would've been so much better if the school shutting down was the main plot and we could actually see Greg in the school for most of the book.
My bookstore gave me slime for the book
diary of a wimpy kid: X diary of a never aging middle schooler: ✅
This is the most sus book of Jeff Kinney MR.BALLS AND TREWK TREWK 😂😂
The twerk was in diper overload
Bro ngl the concept of this book was really good but so many parts of it was so unrealistic