#MyWeirdSchool (2025) is unlike the novel series that it is very loosely based upon, but it is fairly standard antics-at-U.S.A.-middle-school stuff for #Nickelodeon, taken standalone. (The source material, for starters, is set in elementary school.) Although it does seem that it's going to take a few more years before the knowledge sinks in, institutionally, that Nickelodeon's strategy of letting TikTok and YouTube be a filter for its casting process, and a ticket to greater audience numbers, is not the magic bullet that people clearly thought that it would be. Grown-ups will spot several slight nods to things like The Faculty (1997) and Jurassic Park (1993). The Youth of Today will, conversely, likely see this as a hodge-podge collection of TikTok and YouTube people they know largely carrying their own existing personae (magician, influencer, gamer, et al.) into a fairly incoherent movie that barely addresses the books. I suspect that we Grown-ups are getting the better deal.