Another Day Off
January 2nd 2007 08:50
Still statutory holidays here, and so my wife decided we'd go to the movies with three of the grandchildren. Unfortunately we chose Happy Feet, which turned out to be anything but happy. I'm talking about both the film and our experience.
We took the 7-year-old girl, her sister of four, and their younger cousin, a boy of three. Not a good idea. He was already fidgeting before we got far into the movie, wanting to be on the floor, losing his Eskimo Pie down his front (I had to eat the bottom portion of it - what a shame...!), kneeling down behind the seat in front and peering through the gap. The movie was very noisy, and this was his first time at the cinema...ever.
He wanted to go to the toilet. I took him to the toilet, because you don't muck about with things like that. We came back and he went onto the floor again. Not a good place to see the film, really, but to be quite honest he wasn't missing a lot. Penguins doing tap-dancing may have been an original concept, but it doesn't quite come off. Their legs are too short for anything beyond the most basic of moves, really.
He wanted to go to the toilet again. We went again and now he wanted to go home. Wanted to see Mum.
So we left, with me texting my wife (back in the cinema) as to what was happening. Took him to his Mum. He was now much happier, especially as we'd had to wait by the swings for her to come. Think he's an outdoors boy, really.
Eventually got back to the cinema to find there was still another half hour or so to go. My wife told me I'd missed nothing. The penguins were still
dancing. The hip-hop music was still hopping. The aged crone was still moaning about aliens not being real. It had no story, and not idea where it was really going: was it a story about the odd man out, or the environment, or the nastiness of leopard seals eating penguins. I really don't know and care less. Superb animation...Full Stop.
Give it its two Golden Globe awards or whatever. It won't make any difference to my opinion of it....even less to my wife's. She had to endure the whole darn thing!
We took the 7-year-old girl, her sister of four, and their younger cousin, a boy of three. Not a good idea. He was already fidgeting before we got far into the movie, wanting to be on the floor, losing his Eskimo Pie down his front (I had to eat the bottom portion of it - what a shame...!), kneeling down behind the seat in front and peering through the gap. The movie was very noisy, and this was his first time at the cinema...ever.
He wanted to go to the toilet. I took him to the toilet, because you don't muck about with things like that. We came back and he went onto the floor again. Not a good place to see the film, really, but to be quite honest he wasn't missing a lot. Penguins doing tap-dancing may have been an original concept, but it doesn't quite come off. Their legs are too short for anything beyond the most basic of moves, really.
He wanted to go to the toilet again. We went again and now he wanted to go home. Wanted to see Mum.
So we left, with me texting my wife (back in the cinema) as to what was happening. Took him to his Mum. He was now much happier, especially as we'd had to wait by the swings for her to come. Think he's an outdoors boy, really.
Eventually got back to the cinema to find there was still another half hour or so to go. My wife told me I'd missed nothing. The penguins were still
Penguins tap-dancing? Yeah, right.
Give it its two Golden Globe awards or whatever. It won't make any difference to my opinion of it....even less to my wife's. She had to endure the whole darn thing!
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Eskimo Pies aren't as popular here as they were. There are too many other options these days.