OT - Despicable Me (No Spoilers)
I went and saw this one with the wife yesterday afternoon. No spoilers here. Honestly, not that much to spoil. It's a good flick, very cute, but the story line itself is pretty much a straight line from A to D. B and C don't deviate. It'd be an easy one for kids to follow, and they should enjoy it. Some relatively clever little jokes that got me chuckling pretty good. But I do have an issue.
One of the three little girls in the movie, Agnes, the youngest, had a very familiar character model. It made me sad. I think after Monsters Inc, Boo's parents must have died and they sent her to live at an orphanage. It was the same stinkin' model!
i like it but my girlfriend said it was too sappy. what does she know though, she has no soul
If your girlfriend thinks this movie was too sappy, who did you take with you to Dear John?
your mom.............zing
They let you into the theater without kids? I hope you were at least under pederast surveillance.
I proudly present Aziz Ansari's take:
damn kids movies are all the same
it was needlessly over-the-top sad. My 5 year old didn't get that part, and I didn't need it.
And they kept going back to it over and over again.
Fun for the kids, but with the emotional depth for adults to really get something out of it. Your five year old didn't get it, nor should she. Just tell her it just means they didn't have any kids, and when people get old, they go to heaven. His wife went first.
it was too much--too much of a downer and right off the bat. I don't think the story needed the pull the strings so forcefully and so often. To me, it felt a bit too easy and cliche. And while there were funny parts of the movie, it the sad parts were overshadowed them. Overall, I think it was a good movie--just too much.
That's the point. They ARE kids movies. A kid isn't going to get a deeply internal struggle against man's own secret desire to self destruct, or anything. For kids' movies, you've got maybe three or four choices of plot line.
Man vs. Man (Good guy vs. Bad guy)
Man vs. Man with redemption ( Good Guy vs. Bad Guy with Bad guy turning good)
Adventure story (pursuit of some goal. No real adversary. Movie is a straight line with character/characters reaching goal in the end)
And maybe a simple man vs. self story, IE, the redemptability of the main character.
Anything more complex, and a kid isn't going to get it. Kids' movies are more for the fun visuals and silly jokes. They can be quite entertaining if you don't go in expecting an epic.
I stopped watching other studios' animated movies. There's no competition.
before pledging loyalty to Pixar.
I'm on vacation and promised the kids we'd be going to the matinee. They're pretty excited. I'll post back with the reviews of a 5yo girl, 13yo boy, and a parent.
5yo liked the whole thing and would take all of her friends to see it. 13yo liked it, but wouldn't go see it with his friends. Parents enjoyed time with kids and thought the movie was entertaining enough to keep everyone interested.
by Daffy Duck - "you're despicable!"
Not because it's a kids' movie. I just saw Toy Story 3 (partly to complete part of my childhood). The reason I will probably not see this movie is because it has been incessantly overpromoted and pimped out on every type of media. It's ridiculous. It's despicable (har). And they seemingly do it with no shame, aware that they are promoting it way too much.
is outstanding.