Thumbs up for adults and concerened for kids Randy here…
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Last night I was out with some friends and we had dinner at Chipotle and then went to the $2.50 movie theater. Discount theaters usually scare me but the only ones I had been too were in Texas so I thought …. eh why not? Plus, I work for a non-profit…spending $2.50 instead of $9.50 on a movie on Friday night is not a bad idea.
So we went and after the kid with the pony tail and piercings sold me my ticket I went into a theater that can be best described as Indy/Art disguised as a bomb shelter. It was "relatively" clean. My sneakers noted every sticky substance that blanketed the theater floor and that whole musty 30 year old pop-corn smell…well some would call it charming and having "character." I call it close to building inspector condemned.
But nevertheless…saving seven bucks and being entertained by a good movie…worth it.
The very best scene in the first Shrek is when Princess Fiona and the blue bird are having a dueling duet and the bird "popped" from trying to sing to hard. I laughed so hard I got dizzy. I have been assured from some of my female friends that this "type of humor" is a guy thing.
Shrek2 delivered the same hysterical amusement just in a different manner. The Psycho Fairy god-mother, ginger bread man, Pinocchio, three blind mice, donkey, Shrek, Fiona…all the homages to all the other movies and Hollywood…all quite entertaining but NOTHING compares to the cat. It was this face that caused me to laugh … once again … until I almost got dizzy (losing 50 pounds helps my oxygen intake immensely.)
The only thing I did not like about the movie is that the movie attracts young children and exposes them to adult humor. Some of it is inappropriate for small children and skirts way to close to the edge of what their young minds can comprehend. Kids aren't stupid and I wonder if some of this humor isn't actually desensitzing them. Especially in breaking down gender roles (Prince Charming wearing glitter lip gloss, the "gender confused wolf" and Pinocchio in a thong.)
I am glad to have only spent $2.50 to see the movie, and it was worth seeing. Just concerned for the kids. Not actually having children of my very own, I would love to hear some parental viewpoints.
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When the husband and I went and saw Shrek 2 in the theater opening weekend, we were actually surprised, not with the number of children at the theater, but the fact that NONE OF THEM WERE WATCHING THE MOVIE. Picking goo up off the theater floor? Yes. Whining about needing to go to the bathroom? Yes. Slurping their drink? Yes. Watching the movie? Absolutely not. I wouldn’t be too concerned about the children…where we were, they didn’t seem to care what was going on.