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cathyr19355 at 03:58pm on 24/03/2013 under movie review
cathyr19355 at 03:58pm on 24/03/2013 under movie reviewYesterday, esrblog and I went with pmat and shakati to see "The Croods", an animated feature about life and survival way before the dawn of history.
As a story, it was often charming, though I found the attempts to wring humor from the script by analogzing the journey of the characters to a new home to a modern road trip a little annoying. The attempts to forge humor from the interactions between the characters were much more effective: stern over-protective dad, supportive mom, aggressive toddler, dopey kid brother, and our main protagonist, Eep, a cute, curvy redhead who's tired of living in a cave. More than that I can't say without spoilers, but it was great fun, and surprisingly moving in places, and some of the visuals were striking.
An amusing side note: I got our tickets cheap. When I tendered my money, I was surprised that the clerk asked me for only $18.00 instead of the usual $23.50 that the relevant theater normally charges for two adult tickets to an evening showing. I asked her whether there had been a price reduction, and she replied in the negative.
When I had a chance to glance at the tickets, the mystery was solved. She had charged me the SENIOR rate of $9.00 per ticket.
I've had plenty of experience with retail clerks deciding I was much younger than I appear. This was my first experience of the reverse. Ouch.
esrblog and I went with pmat and shakati to see "The Croods", an animated feature about life and survival way before the dawn of history.As a story, it was often charming, though I found the attempts to wring humor from the script by analogzing the journey of the characters to a new home to a modern road trip a little annoying. The attempts to forge humor from the interactions between the characters were much more effective: stern over-protective dad, supportive mom, aggressive toddler, dopey kid brother, and our main protagonist, Eep, a cute, curvy redhead who's tired of living in a cave. More than that I can't say without spoilers, but it was great fun, and surprisingly moving in places, and some of the visuals were striking.
An amusing side note: I got our tickets cheap. When I tendered my money, I was surprised that the clerk asked me for only $18.00 instead of the usual $23.50 that the relevant theater normally charges for two adult tickets to an evening showing. I asked her whether there had been a price reduction, and she replied in the negative.
When I had a chance to glance at the tickets, the mystery was solved. She had charged me the SENIOR rate of $9.00 per ticket.
I've had plenty of experience with retail clerks deciding I was much younger than I appear. This was my first experience of the reverse. Ouch.