2025 · family · comedy
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip
Directed by Marvin Lemus1h 36m2025
Eleven-year-old Alexander and his family embark on a dream Spring Break vacation to Mexico City only to have all their plans go terribly wrong when they discover a cursed idol.
Our read: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip (2025) reads as a cosy, kinetic, surreal family · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle family / comedy, surreal in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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