Now that we've officially gotten through the three major hurdles that separate people from the animals (talking, walking upright and not shitting all over ourselves) we decided to tackle the final obstacle that makes us human. ... movies. You'll recall that once upon a lifetime ago, I was an actor. ... and by my own accounts a really good one. Maybe some day I'll need a pat on the back and put my demo reel up here so you can all I agree how amazing I was. ... sorry, back to the two people you came here to read about. As a result I've always really taken my movies seriously. I'm the guy who knows every storyline to every movie, including the ones I've never seen simply because I know the writers and/or directors well enough to establish the plot twists. Don't ever watch a movie with me if you don't want to know in the first fifteen minutes what the "Sixth Sense" twist that's bound to happen in the end is gonna be. And 7 Degrees of Kevin Bacon is for chumps. ... I'll get it done in 3. Of course, as with most new parents, I haven't seen the inside of a movie theatre more than a handful of times since the girls were born. ... and I'm pretty sure most of those times were sitting through Twilight movies with my teenage girl of a wife. Love you hon. ... go team Edward. ... sigh. But the girls are now big enough that we thought we'd test the water with them. They've sat through a few kids movies at home - Wall E, Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid and of course Nemo. So we with Happy Feet 2 coming out we thought this was a great opportunity to try. The girls couldn't be more excited about "the penguin movie". And we brought my sister-in-law along for back up. We got to the first morning show figuring it gave the girls enough time before lunch and nap to avoid being cranky, and any people who had a problem with little kids in a movie theatre should know better than to go to the 10:20 Sunday morning showing of a movie about dancing, singing penguins. ... I had a whole speech worked out in case we got any flack. I do have one suggestion. ... if it's a "kids" movie, maybe skip the 20 minutes of previews. ... or cut it in a half. We're working with limited attention spans here people. ... don't cut in to our window of focus time. For that matter, don't make the kids movie an hour and 45 minutes long. ... it was a really great film and all, but we pretty much checked out after the angry brown seagulls came in. Something that couldn't be avoided was the mixture of sitting in a dark room and potty training. I must have gone to the bathroom with Arianna half a dozen times. About a third of those actually resulted in a bodily fluid discharge, the others were just false alarms. Can't begrudge the kid, she's still trying to figure out what's what down there. At one point, we had just sat back down and she turns to me and says "Kaka daddy." I said "we just went, sit down and watch the movie," to which she responds "Please Daddy, kaka!" I'm smart enough to know you never deny one who is pleading to poop. Nothing happened, but better safe then sorry. We also had a 30 second tussle over a chair, but other than that no behavior problems. All in all I gathered the movie is about the same dancing penguin who now has kid and a flying penguin that looks like a puffin who speaks like the Swedish Chef from the Muppets. They all try and dance some snow in to a valley that the other penguins are trapped in, with the help of some Elephant Seals. ... and Brad Pitt and Matt Damon are a couple of shrimp who want to eat a Leopard Seal. ... I'll go with it.
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