Blackbird's Two Minute Movie Reviews
Last weekend it was 104 degrees in Tuvalu. One. Hundred. Four.
It really doesn't matter all that much if you have air conditioning in 100 degrees.
We mostly stayed in our rooms but we all agreed to leave the semi-comfort of 80 degrees and venture out for a trip To The Movies.
That's right. We actually went to a movie. All five of us. In the movie theater. And we enjoyed ourselves.
First of all, I need to say that someone told me that the short animation shown before Toy Story 3 was better than Toy Story 3 and I feel obligated to say - nay, SHOUT, that this is a bold-faced LIE.
While clever and smartly retro, Day And Night is NOT better than the main attraction.
As FOR the main attraction: I laughed, I cried, I told my children that WE WILL NEVER DISPOSE OF A TOY AGAIN. In short, I loved it.
I also need to say that I do not think this is a movie for small children - there are many scary moments and there is meanness. And so, you, who sat four rows back with your tiny baby and your three year old, you may have made a mistake. And I'm glad I wasn't at your house at bedtime last night. (I wasn't so happy to be four rows in front of you while the baby wailed either.)
But the movie? I think we all liked it!
It really doesn't matter all that much if you have air conditioning in 100 degrees.
We mostly stayed in our rooms but we all agreed to leave the semi-comfort of 80 degrees and venture out for a trip To The Movies.
That's right. We actually went to a movie. All five of us. In the movie theater. And we enjoyed ourselves.
First of all, I need to say that someone told me that the short animation shown before Toy Story 3 was better than Toy Story 3 and I feel obligated to say - nay, SHOUT, that this is a bold-faced LIE.
While clever and smartly retro, Day And Night is NOT better than the main attraction.
As FOR the main attraction: I laughed, I cried, I told my children that WE WILL NEVER DISPOSE OF A TOY AGAIN. In short, I loved it.
I also need to say that I do not think this is a movie for small children - there are many scary moments and there is meanness. And so, you, who sat four rows back with your tiny baby and your three year old, you may have made a mistake. And I'm glad I wasn't at your house at bedtime last night. (I wasn't so happy to be four rows in front of you while the baby wailed either.)
But the movie? I think we all liked it!
Comments
And I agree totally. We laughed, we cried. Well, I cried.
Oscar, Felix and Jasper loved it. Jasper gushed at me at the end that his favourite bit was with the train and the furnace.
Felix said he got a little teary when Andy and his mum were standing in his room and his mum got teary. Which made me teary. So Felix asked if I'd cry when he went off to uni and I said OF COURSE and Chef said, 'even if it's Clown School?' Pfft, what a clown.
No A/C.
Don't ask me how I am, considering my guests and all the related crapola.
TEAM WINTER!!!!!!!
My girl child wants to see TS3 but I have been warned that it is cry-making so we're not going until I've purchased the proper eye makeup.
A hint from the girl who works in the Shower Gel Store. Put your body spray in the fridge. Spray the back of your neck. Lovely chills.
Everyone I know that has seen TS3 has told me they cried.
I have boxes of toys and dolls in my storage unit that are labeled
FFG...For Future Grandchildren.
And then, do you know what? We have spent the last month sorting toys... these are being donated, these are going to our little cousins, these are going in the attic... (Note that we couldn't send any to the trash!)
jbhat
I liked it too!
As far as TY3, I will not be taking my children (1 and 3 y/o) for just that reason. I wouldn't want to ruin someone else's movie experience, even though the 3 y/o is very well-behaved in the theater.