This Thanksgiving weekend I decided to take two of them to see movies that I knew they would love even though I knew that they would be movies that I would most assuredly loathe.
I have to admit that I have only read the 2nd book (New Moon) but have seen all of the movies. I regard them as a guilty, teen-angst-riddled, pleasure. I dont expect much from the plot or the acting except to be mildly entertained by the mindlessness of the dialogue and the ferociousness of the action scenes. That said, Breaking Dawn, Pt. 1 SUCKED!!! I went in with medium expectations and found myself laughing OUT LOUD at the acting, the dialogue, the editing, the make up, EVERYTHING!
Getting married at 18? Dumb, but it happens. Your new husband allowing you to spend time with your best friend, who not so secretly loves you, at your wedding? Highly unlikely...but hey, he is a nice guy. Having bed destroying sex on your honeymoon? Stranger things have happened. Your father hearing that you are in a hospital while on your honeymoon and not flying there to check on you even if you ask him not to? Never gonna happen. Your father knowing you are in a hospital after 3 weeks and still not coming to check on you? Hell no. See where I am going with this? I know that the movie is a fantasy, etc. but you are asking too much...and this is only 30 minutes into the 2 hour movie. The rest of the movie was filled with horribly written dialogue (I am going to blame this on THIS screenplay writer because the other movies werent nearly as bad) badly CGI'd action sequences, and the worst Bella-is-injured/dying make-up of the series. I was in the theater thinking, 'Dear God, when will this end.' I will go see the final movie next year but only because I have to finish what I started but DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!
When I first saw the trailer for this movie a few months ago I decided that this would be the first movie my 2 year old and I see together. So on opening Day, I decide to take my 2 year to her first matinee and, once again, go in with LOW expectations. I mean, its The Muppets, designed to entertain children, how good can I expect it to be? I was sooooooooo WRONG. This movie is a pure treat. The plot was mildly conceivable, the dialogue was witty, the acting was very good, the songs were memorable. Everything about this movie was good enough to make me not only want to see it again (hell, there are alot of crappy movies that I will see multiple times. See the above review as an example of such) but it was good enough for me to tell others to spend OVER PRICED THEATER MONEY to see it. The actors and director did an outstanding job entertaining the adults who grew up with the Muppets while speaking to their children (most of whom are younger than Selena Gomez who, in her cameo admits that she doesnt remember the Muppets).
The only complaint I have about this movie is actually not about the movie but about the studio, Disney. STOP FRONT LOADING YOUR MOVIES WITH SO MANY DAMN TRAILERS!! Any parent who has taken a child under the age of 5 to the movies knows that you have a limited amount of time with that child before they become more interested in whats on the floor of the movie theater than whats on the screen. My 2 year old, who has been watching movies at home with me since birth, sat VERY quietly through no less than 20 MINUTES OF TRAILERS! 20 minutes for a movie aimed at a children under 8 years old. Are you kidding me? The problem with this is that she ended up walking around the theater for the last 20 minutes of the movie because her attention span was exhausted.
So, to recap:
Breaking Dawn--SUCKS! (wait for the DVD/Blu Ray from Netflix)
The Muppets--VERY ENJOYABLE (spend matinee money)
Trailers for kid movies--limit them to 2 trailers or charge us a little more for the tickets so that we can skip them altogether.
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