Just look at me brassicas!
Yesterday saw a trip to a preview screening of 'Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit' at our local cinema. Leaving babysaxon with Grandad was a success - 5 minutes of crying followed by two hours of sleeping, apparently. Clearly afternoon matinees are the way forward.
The screening was understandably full of parents and small children. And we were rewarded with no adverts or trailers and a short film based around Christmas with the penguins from Madagascar. Actually very funny. There was even a woman walking through the cinema selling icecream from a tray hung round her neck. Made me quite nostalgic!
W&G itself was genuinely funny, and it was rapidly apparent that there were Kid jokes, adult jokes and everyone jokes, by the timbre of laughter that echoed through the cinema. The attention to detail was fabulous, and I'm sure that repeat watchings will yield loads of extra little chuckles. I found some of the plot a bit of a let-down, for no reason I can fathom. Or at least I can't describe why without giving too much away. And the chase scenes, while good fail to live up to the glorious conclusion to The Wrong Trousers. But I'm being picky. Really funny film, enhanced by watching with a room full of young kids.
The other film of the moment is Serenity. Reviews have been good (I heard it described as a quirky independent dressed up as a blockbuster). so it's one I want to see. But having not watched Firefly, do I a) watch it at the cinema anyway, b) Watch the series and then get the film out on DVD or c) spend every waking hour watching the series so I can get to see Serenity on the big screen before it goes away?
The screening was understandably full of parents and small children. And we were rewarded with no adverts or trailers and a short film based around Christmas with the penguins from Madagascar. Actually very funny. There was even a woman walking through the cinema selling icecream from a tray hung round her neck. Made me quite nostalgic!
W&G itself was genuinely funny, and it was rapidly apparent that there were Kid jokes, adult jokes and everyone jokes, by the timbre of laughter that echoed through the cinema. The attention to detail was fabulous, and I'm sure that repeat watchings will yield loads of extra little chuckles. I found some of the plot a bit of a let-down, for no reason I can fathom. Or at least I can't describe why without giving too much away. And the chase scenes, while good fail to live up to the glorious conclusion to The Wrong Trousers. But I'm being picky. Really funny film, enhanced by watching with a room full of young kids.
The other film of the moment is Serenity. Reviews have been good (I heard it described as a quirky independent dressed up as a blockbuster). so it's one I want to see. But having not watched Firefly, do I a) watch it at the cinema anyway, b) Watch the series and then get the film out on DVD or c) spend every waking hour watching the series so I can get to see Serenity on the big screen before it goes away?