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Richard has red straight hair and wear glasses. |
Richard has curly brown hair and don't wear glasses. |
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Aric has a really big nose,and he is a little shorter. |
Aric nose is big, but not as big as it's drawn in the book. Plus he is taller.
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Aric stays in Richard's shirt pocket. |
Aric stays in Richard's vest pocket. |
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Richard wears button down shirts, with patterns. |
Richard wears stripes shirts under his vest.
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Dorf isn't seen playing basketball with other students before school. |
Dorf is outside playing Basketball with Henry and other students before school. |
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Henry has brown curly hair. |
Henry has straight dark hair.
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Dorf has blonde hair |
Dorf has brown hair. |
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Henry trades has Peanut-butter and Jelly sandwich for Dorf's Tunafish sandwich. Plus they are sitting at the table with Richard. |
Dorf don't bring a lunch he goes through the lunchline and get a school lunch, but still also gets Henry bag lunch for himself also. Plus Richard is sitting alone at the table taking to Aric who is in his vest pocket.
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There's nothing about Richard talking to any girls in the book. |
A couple of times in the movie Richard talks to Miriam, a girl he likes, who also likes Dorf. |
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In the book, you read the Aric sleeping in Richards Gym shorts, while he took gym. |
There's no scenes where Richard is in Gym class.
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Henry was planning on going to Dorf house watching Mad Max movies on Saturday, and Dorf invited Richard, but Richard turned down the offer cause he knew what Dorf was up to. |
Dorf was gonna have a big welcome party at Henry House, with other students. Henry invited Richard but he turned down the offer since he knew was Dorf was up to. |
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Dorf suspects Richard is on to him, and know he's an alien. So he makes Richard's fingers bleed, and Richard has to go to the nurse and have his fingers all wrapped in band-aids. |
Dorf suspects Richard is on to him so he makes Richard feet be in pain and turn blue, and the next day he makes his hands turn blue. Richard has to end up wearing gloves to hide his blue hands til the end of the movie.
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Dorf don't almost find out about Aric. |
Dorf almost do find out about Aric, when he see's something moving in Richard's vest pocket. |
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The book starts out with Richard sitting on his bed telling his mom he hates his new black/white chuck sneakers, while he ties them up. |
The movie starts out with Richard alarm clock waking him up. Richard gets his new black/white chuck sneakers and holds them toward the camera and tell the viewer he hates his shoes.
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When Richard empty all the food out in the kitchen to find to stop Dorf, Richard suggested to Aric to go to the mall and find the food, since it wasn't at home. Plus Richard mom was still at work. Richard don't say nothing about cleaning up the mess. Plus this happens later on the first day, which was Thursday way after he met Aric that morning . |
Before Richard empty all the food out of the kitchen to find to stop Dorf. Richard mom had just came from Grocery shopping after work, Richard suggested he would put up the Grocery while she leave the house and go do something else. After Richard empty out all the food all over the kitchen and still hadn't found the food to stop Dorf and suggested to go to the mall to get the right food, he also said to Aric they should clean up the mess, and Aric said they need to get to the mall fast! This happens later on the 2nd day, a day after he met Aric and this was on Friday. |
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At the mall Richard spotted the cool baseball jacket he wanted with gold letters on the back. |
At the mall Richard spotted the action figure he wanted to add to his collection, and was saving up for.
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Richard saw Henry and Dorf at the mall, they were wearing red t-shirts and ripped blue jeans at the knee, with Red/white chuck sneakers and they walked into a pizza restaurant. Aric turned him and Richard invisible so they couldn't see them. |
Richard saw Henry and Dorf at the mall they were wearing blue button shirts open with lite gray t-shirts under them and dark colored pants with red/white chuck sneakers. Instead of going to the pizza restaurant( like in the book) they eat foods from around the world in the food court.Aric turns him and restaurant invisible so they couldn't see them. |
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At the pizza restaurant Dorf ate several Pizzas, and poured hot pepper flakes on all of them before he ate them. Henry ate a piece and got up running to the water fountain to get some water. Richard/Aric sat by Dorf( still invisible and watched eat the pizzas like crazy with the pepper flakes with no problem, that's how they found out the hot pepper flakes was the right food. |
In the foodcourt Dorf and Henry had the foodcourt table covered with all types of food from around the world. Plus while walking Richard has a hard time staying invisible since people working at the mall kept running into him. Henry and Dorf talks about Dorf's upcoming party and Henry says " Who need Richard" and Richard mash his face down in a bowl of mashed potatoes. Dorf don't eat the red pepper flakes in the movie, since none of the food he eats needs it. Richard bumps into another foodcourt worker and turn visible again, and knocked the red pepper flakes out his hand he was pouring in a shaker. A female foodcourt worker thought Aric was a toy when he fell out of Richard's vest. Aric then remembered red pepper flakes is the food to stop Dorf, when they got home later.
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Richard buys a box of red pepper flakes to take to school the next day to stop Dorf. Which is on Friday. |
Richard and Aric buys a bag full of red pepper flakes to take to Dorf at Dorf's welcome party at Henry's house. Which is on Saturday. |
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Henry and Dorf both wear the same cowboy shirt and cowboy string ties while at school that Friday. |
They wear the same thing at the mall, but they don't wear the same thing when they are at Henry's house getting ready for Dorf's welcome party.
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Dorf snatched the box of red pepper flakes,when Richard showed it to him. And ate the entire box,(while Henry was also there) and turned bright red and bust out his clothes and turned to a huge octopus monster with no face that almost destroyed the boys bathroom. then he blew up. And that was it. |
Richard show Dorf his present which was the bag of pepper flaskes, Dorf ate the entire bag( while Henry was inside this house). Dorf was then acting like he was gonna blow up but then disappeared. But Dorf had another trick up his sleeve by appearing again coming out the house behind Henry, talking big talk. Richard then start saying stuff to make Dorf angry, he then start getting angry and turn into a purple monster with a crazy face with arms like an octopus with not as many, plus he is not huge he is he same height as Dorf human form. Aric then starts to battle him. He then can't handle the earth atmosphere in his true form as a monster then then start spinning intil he disappears for good. Plus all this took place in Henry's front Yard by the picnic table, while they were getting ready for the party. |
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After Dorf was gone Henry came over to Richard's house to spend the night. |
After Dorf was gone,Henry went on and had the party anyway with everybody, including Richard everybody forgot about Dorf and had a good time, according to Richard.
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Before Aric leaves he leaves Richard the cool new baseball jacket with cold letters he saw at the mall, as a reward for helping him defeat Dorf. |
Before Aric leaves he leaves Richard the action figure he wanted to add to his collection, as a reward for helping him defeat Dorf. |
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When Dorf is defeated Richard's bleeding finger has healed, and he don't need the band aids anymore at the end of the story. |
when Dorf is defeated Richard's feet and hands stop being blue and turns back to their normal skin color, at the end of the movie.
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