Turnquist, Kristi (June 26, 2018). "Disney movie shooting in Portland to hold casting call for extras". OregonLive.com . Retrieved July 22, 2018. I know what you're thinking. How will the rest of a book from a first time children's author ever pull off a story with an opening like that?

I know Timmy probably has ADHD, it was hinted at many times, but the author painted a picture of a rude, disrepectful, bullying, over the top destructive (I'm talking taking a car and crashing it into a house... almost killing someone destructive, not an I found my mom's box of paperclips and bent all of them out of shape destructive) child with zero redeeming characteristics. That's not a very good representation of children with ADHD. Bart, Peter (January 24, 2019). "Peter Bart: Streamer Mania Means Greenlights Galore, But Slate Strategies Still Baffle Creatives". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 24, 2019.And speaking of the car crash... there were no consequences for Timmy, in fact the police gave him chocolate milk and a tour of the police station. Your average 8-12 year old (the suggested age group for this book) wouldn’t get the references of most of the chapter titles: There are now seven books in the series which is a must for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Barry Loser or Tom Gates, and all readers aged 8 and upwards who love silly stories. The comic adventures of Timmy and Total are riotous but also surprisingly poignant and may bring a tear to your eye.

Rating Decision Crisis: 2 stars, or 3? Started slow, Timmy too much like Wimpy Kid/AwfulHumanBeing Greg Heffley, but improved, slowly.... Failure's got it. They say boys tend to be more plot-centric. That they don't care for character development and feelings and all that. There better be some good ol' violence or at the very least some bathroom humor. And yeah, I love the books that pull those elements off as much as the next 10-year-old, but when character is given the treatment Pastis and Kinney work, we love that too. Be what you would seem to be -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.” Lodge, Guy (January 26, 2020). " 'Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made': Film Review". Variety . Retrieved January 27, 2020.If Old Man Crocus was going to pair me with You-Know-Who, I had no choice but to throw myself upon the gears of the machinery and make the whole wretched process come to a halt.” Andreeva, Nellie (May 18, 2023). "Disney Removes Dozens Of Series From Disney+ & Hulu, Including 'Big Shot', 'Willow', 'Y' & 'Dollface' ". Deadline . Retrieved May 23, 2023.

Sundance Film Festival (December 4, 2019). "Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made". Archived from the original on December 15, 2019 . Retrieved December 23, 2019. Giggly and hilarious. The best kids’ books are written for everyone with new discoveries found each re-read, with each child that you can read it to, or with.But i was reduced to jelly when our hero was filling out a standardized test form so that the dots made the shape of his name (last year he made mountains). The difference was that this year they were being graded in a group: Timmy is like that awful boy from the Wimpy Kid books, but he's the MC and the hero; yeah, run that concept through your brain again. Being a jerk, calling people names, body shaming others, being mean, destroying other's property... yay, let's hear it for all the "misunderstood" kids in the world, let them be themselves and celebrate it. What kind of a message is that to be sending elementary school children?