Tonight, me the girls finally got Mom to take us to the movies.
I am a huge fan of Dr. Seuss. In college, I used to warm up for my radio show by reading Oh say can you say. I was also pretty disappointed in Hollywood's version of Cat in the Hat. But we had high hopes for this one. It looked very promising.
Here is Rochester, we are still morning the loss of a truly great theater. A local developer had opened a full service theater. It was fantastic. Good food and excellent service. He later sold that to a chain theater corporation. This company also owned another movie theater in town. We hated that one. No food and horrible service. They gutted our favorite theater and turned it into a dump.
Last fall, a new movie theater opened up. Its actually quite a drive for us to go to this new theater, but what do you know, they tried something different. The provide great food and excellent service and best of all, they offer digital projection. If you haven't seen a movie in digital project, you need to do it.
Horton Hears a Who was shown in using digital projection and it was beautiful! What an amazingly beautiful movie. The colors are bright and vivid and the animation in this movie is fantastic.
I won't go into any spoilers here, I'll wait until another post to do that. This movie impressed me for keeping to a great story. Dr. Seuss' excellent prose mixed with a wonderful cast made for a movie that our whole family loved. Even me.
I'm a sucker for a movie with a great Dad character. This movie does that. The Mayor of Whoville is a great Dad example. He's got 96 daughter and a son. FOF, imagine that. 97 kids.
Horton the elephant, a bit of a whimsical grown-up child, makes a promise. My oldest daughter made a comment at the end of the movie. She said, "Daddy, Horton is someone you can trust. He made a promise and he kept it. He's a hero." Lesson learned, honey.
We loved this movie and really recommend it to everyone. Our family has a Mom, a Dad, an 8 year old and a 4 year old. Everyone loved it. Let me know if you catch the reference to a very famous John F. Kennedy speech. There are many great references in this movie to keep Mom and Dad chuckling. I love it when they do that!
Go see this movie!!!!
6 comments:
I have to get to this movie. Miss Peach loves elephants. Glad to hear it's a good one!
What happened to your camera?
(sorry about the mistake...that was me above)
I wondered what happened there.
Miss Peach should love it. My girls were still talking about today. They couldn't stop telling Grandpa about it.
Nothing really happened to my camera, its just I hate this time of year. Everything is dirty and brown. Even our Easter day was in a small confined space. Almost no color and definitely no room to move around with a camera.
Rumor has it, we should be getting more snow tomorrow. I can't wait. For crying out loud. My Twins opening day is tomorrow and I get to walk through sleet and snow...UGGG!
My wife took my son to see this one Saturday while I did taxes. Damn, I wish I had seen it now. I am a HUGE SUCKER for any movie with a Dad theme.
Hey, I need to talk to you about someone I think you know...I need some advice, and I can't find your email....Basically, I am getting stiffed on a blog design....
97? Hmmmm...
Well two is the magic number...
Why two?
Well, with one your "ahead of the game".
With two it's a "push".
With three (or more) you are "outnumbered" and gonna loose anyway... It's just a matter of numbers at this point.
I have a hard time remembering the names and birthdays of five... Let alone 97. Sheesh!
I'll have to check this one out!
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who is classic, i forgot how much that guy packed into such simple storylines... they didn't add much to the original story either except for the usual Jim-Carryisms.
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