It's been a week since this movie came out and I choose NOW to make a page on it? xD Truth be told I haven't seen it yet, but I'm planning to! I just hope it won't be months later like I did with Million Dollar Arm :/

Enjoy!

Fact #3131 

Alexander and his two older brothers, Anthony and Nick, are based on Viorst's own three sons of the same names.

Fact #3132 

The phrase "terrible, horrible, no good, very bad . . ." has become an Internet meme, often used by bloggers, and sometimes by mainstream media, to criticize, or characterize setbacks for, an individual or political movement.

Fact #3133 

Remember that Alexander, in the book by Judith Viorst, is fascinated with Australia. He wishes he could move there. Well, Ed Oxenbould, who plays Alexander in the movie, is actually from Australia; however, he had to study with a dialect coach to get rid of his Australian accent in order to play the roll. He only gets to say one thing with an Australian accent in the entire film, “Thanks mate.”

Fact #3134 

Lisa Henson, daughter of Muppets icon, Jim Henson, is the Producer on the movie. 

Fact #3135 

The scene where the whole family is in the car and they start making music is completely improvised. Ed, Dylan and Kerris agreed that this scene was very hard to film because they couldn’t stop laughing, especially when Steve Carell starting making his “own sounds.”

Fact #3136 

Steve Carell did the whole scene at the Japanese steakhouse, Tokyo Wako, himself. There was no stunt double. He caught all the shrimp in his mouth and he caught his own sleeves on fire. 

Fact #3137 

Trevor, the baby in the family, was play by twin girls, Elise and Zoey Vargas.

Fact #3138 

Carell and Garner both went to Denison University in Ohio. They graduated 10 years apart.

Fact #3139 

Carell worked with Miguel Arteta closely on The Office and was thrilled when Disney hired him to direct this movie.

Fact #3140 

The men from “Thunder Down Under” were cast after the director saw them on Project Runway.

Fact #3141 

The entire movie was shot in just 40 days.

Fact #3142 

The most difficult scene to shoot in the film was the scene where the baby has the green marker all over his face. The baby wanted to play with all the toys, except the green marker. Finally when the costume director got behind the camera and started writing on his own face, the baby did the same.

Fact #3143 

Bella Throne plays Alexander's older brother's girlfriend.

Fact #3144 

It is 81 minutes long.

Fact #3145 

Dick Van Dyke was asked to be in the movie and he happily obliged! Miguel Arteta thought that there was a correlation between Steve Carrel and Dick Van Dyke.

Fact #3146 

This movie is Director Miguel Arteta's first Disney Film.

Fact #3147 

Miguel Arteta grew up in Latin America.

Fact #3148 

On October 4th Disney held a special screening of the film before it hit theatres at Downtown Disney.

Fact #3149 

Jennifer had the book memorized just for the film.

Fact #3150 

Jennifer gave away a lot of Denison University gear to cast and crew -- without telling Steve.

Fact #3151 

Ed admitted that Anchorman is his favorite movie of all time, and Steve even invited him to the Anchorman 2 premiere.

Fact #3152 

The reptiles in the film were untrainable. So how do you get a reptile to act? The key is body temperature. 

Fact #3153 

As the father of a young son and young daughter, Steve Carell had an admitted extra incentive to sign on for Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: he wanted to make a movie that he knew his children would love. As it turned out, however, his kids didn’t want to wait for the film’s final cut, and instead had their father tell them about his time on set as bedtime stories. 

Fact #3154 

The emu in the film had to cross on cue…They don’t usually do that! They had a special harnesses made and the crew has, every day for the last couple shoots, took their emu for a walk.

Fact #3155 

Overall, this movie is pretty clean by today’s standards, however, there are a few issues that might bother some parents.

Fact #3156 

This movie has received a 64% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Fact #3157 

It's gotten a 59 in Fresh Tomatoes.

Fact #3158 

It's gotten a 33 in Rotten ratings.

Fact #3159 

67% of the reviews audiences liked it.

Fact #3160 

The films current US Box office count is $36.3 million.

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I hope you all enjoyed these facts as much as I did! Have a good day ;)