Ramona and Beezus

This summer, we went to see the movie "Ramona and Beezus."  The kids have already read and loved the books by Beverly Cleary, so we were excited to go see this movie.

In this story, Ramona (Joey King) and Beezus (Selena Gomez) live in a house with their mom and dad.  Ramona is a child with a vivid imagination, gets carried away, and ends up making a fool out of herself getting stuck on the monkey bars at school.  Her 3rd grade teacher (Sandra Oh) has to come out and rescue her.

Their dad (John Corbett) loses his job and has to look for a new one.  Ramona tries to sell lemonade to earn some money for the family, but ends up messing everything up and embarrassing her sister Beezus in front of her love interest, Henry Huggins.  Then, Ramona tries to make money by washing a car and makes a mess of things, embarrassing her Aunt Bea (Ginnifer Goodwin) in the same way. 

Ramona always seems to mess everything up.  She finally decides to run away.  She can't get very far with the bowling ball that her mom snuck in her suitcase, but she tries anyway. 

Overall, this was a cute movie, very touching in parts--a wonderful choice for the whole family.

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