I LOVE watching kid's movies. Movies like "Despicable Me", "Horton Hears a Who", "Soul" and of course the whole series of "Toy Story". These are great movies that really are not fully appreciated by anyone under the age of 40. The humor and comedic antics of the characters are missed by the young viewer while someone like me is rolling on the floor laughing.
Yesterday afternoon I drove down to the Ft. Lauderdale area to spend the late afternoon and evening with my 3 grandkids who live down that way. My son Kent was working his second job as a DJ, (teaching just doesn't pay the bills when you are divorced and have 3 kids), so he had asked me to come down to spend the evening with the three hyenas. (Not my name for them . . . their parents fondly started calling them that when the oldest was about 6 and the twins were 3.)
Anyway . . . I left here around 3 in the afternoon and had a blast with them. I gave them the choice of what to do and where to go and the unanimous decision was "Sky Zone", a local, indoor trampoline park. Because it was late afternoon on a Saturday the place was mobbed but that did not deter these 3 kids from jumping their brains out for two full hours. The oldest took off to play "trampoline dodge ball" which any 11 year old boy would love while the 7 year old twins bounced themselves silly in various areas of the place. We had semi cold pizza for dinner washed down with blue icy drinks. How they didn't throw up any of that while bouncing is beyond me but we made it back home by 8 PM sweaty and tired. (I was tired from following the twins around as per their requests. "Come watch ME grandma!")
By the time we got back to their home it was time for showers and some R&R before bed. (But not before a couple of Halloween Oreo cookies that I had brought for dessert.) Once out of the shower Grey decided she would brush her teeth and lie in bed watching her iPad for a few minutes before falling asleep. (What a smart girl!) The boys decided they wanted to watch a little bit of TV. Because Wynn had the clicker in his hand he got to choose what to watch. (Wonder of wonders that his older brother agreed to that!) Wynn decided to watch the Dr. Seuss movie, "The Lorax". I had never seen this particular film so I was all in !
The movie is HYSTERICAL !!!!! There I was sitting between the 2 boys laughing my fool head off while they never cracked a smile. They had seen the movie several times before, or as Smith put it, "Wynn, you ALWAYS want to watch that!". I guess they must enjoy the movie to watch it over and over but I found it hilarious ! We only got to watch about a half hour before it was time for Wynn to go to bed. After tucking him in I returned to the living room expecting my OLD grandson to want to watch something different but he asked if I wanted to watch more of the movie if we kept the sound low. Naturally I agreed and then the genius grandson put on the captions feature so I could actually read the dialogue. That was even better because I didn't miss a word.
KID movies always have two opposing main characters . . . the good and the bad. They are usually fun to watch but it's the "side kicks" that are the best! This movie had a group of small, fuzzy bears with the addition, (as always) of one very fat, large bear who was the comic. Added to that there were the singing gold fish. Who comes up with this stuff ???? If you watch very carefully there is also some animal in the background with the best facial expressions ever. In this case it was a donkey who reminded me very much of the Eddie Murphy character donkey in the movie "Shrek".
I really wanted to continue watching after Smith went to bed but I knew my laughing might wake up the kids. I now have another KID movie to add to my list of "must watch" shows when The Man is watching Football or Hockey. Lucky Me !!!!
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