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...

Jumper

I was undecided about seeing the movie Jumper. It looked good, but it could've been... I don't, not good. For a friends birthday, they had rented it so I watched it with them (Bo was out on a call so he missed it, but I took it home for him to watch later). I thought the movie was alright. It had an intriguing story line that keeps you interested, and enough funny parts to keep the movie not too serious. My issues with the movie are one, the lead guy, you know, young Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen) was in the movie. Literally, some of the faces he made were like “I didn't know this movie had Darth Vader in it.” My other issue was that they left the ending wide open in a lot of ways, when the movie wasn't really that good to make a sequel for. I mean it was good, but not that good. It even had a cute kind of love story in it, so that made it good, but still not good enough to make more than one movie. Worth seeing once, but we probably won't own it.

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.