Space Chimps

Now, I'm not usually one for cartoons that aren't Disney. They are usually disappointing and not that funny and they usually lack anything resembling a plot. We have only watched just a small few that have ever been worth watching. But I was pleasantly surprised at Space Chimps, it was actually a funny, witty movie that actually had a plot. Bo even sat and watched it and commented that it was a funny movie. If you listen closely you can catch a bunch of funny things they say in copying other space movies. Very funny. Our 3 year old liked it as well, she has watched it about 6 times now. And who wouldn't like a movie where they have the Barenaked Ladies singing to the credits?! ...Another postcard, Chim-pan-zzeeees...

Wall-E

I guess a good one to write about would be our latest trip to the movies. Bo's niece came and stayed with us for a week and one of the nights she was here we went to the movies and saw Wall-E. I was really looking forward to seeing this movie, and so was our little one as well. I've decided from the whole experience that she doesn't really like going to the theater, so I don't think we'll be taking her until she gets a little older. But back to the movie, I really enjoyed it. My only qualm would be that the robots didn't talk as much as I thought they would. I guess I just supposed that they would have more quirky lines. I also was surprised a little by the story line, it just didn't go in the direction I thought it would. I'm not saying that in a bad way, usually that's a good thing, but I guess now that I think about it, I didn't really have any thoughts on where the movie should've gone. Anyway, I did enjoy it. Being that the robots didn't talk much, they did a lot with their body language; which made it funny. So for kids, it was charming and even for adults it is cute. With how much our little one talked about it and liked it (well at least as much as she sat still to watch) we will own it.

Bee Movie

I was really excited to see that Bee Movie was coming out onto DVD! We didn't dare try the movie theater with Boo just to see it. She loses attention very quickly and I would've hated to buy a ticket just to miss it being out in the halls with her. As for our rating of the movie: It was okay, I mean, it was good. It wasn't at all what we expected... Both Bo and I were a little thrown off because we thought it was going to be super funny, and it wasn't really. We had the same thoughts about Shrek the Third; it was more of a serious movie than it was funny. This one had some funny parts in it, but it was just too serious. Bo even went as far to say that it's a little bit of an environmental movie. We do think that we would own, Boo really liked it, well at least as much as she sat and watched. It was good, just really not what we expected. We really want to watch it again, just to see if we like it better the second time around. This is really sounding like we didn't like it, but really we did, it just caught us off guard with our expectations. I think our expectations were high because of Jerry Seinfeld, he is so funny that we thought it would just ooze out in this movie, but he was rather mild. Again, we really need to watch it over.