You've got to hand it to the late Jim Hensen: he was a miraculous man in the making of children's entertainment. Kole's had a Muppet marathon going for the past couple of days. We've gone from watching old Muppet Show episodes, to The Great Muppet Caper, and are now currently watching The Muppet Movie. This is a great flick! Hillarious! I was talking to my mother once about kids movies that really made me laugh, and discussed The Emperor's New Groove and Shrek as two movies that were enjoyable both to kids and parents. This is important, because there is nothing worse than sitting through stupid movies like Catch That Kid or Olsen Twins shlock, designed only to bring in the bucks, not to entertain everyone.
My mother said that when The Muppet Movie came out, she took me and my twin sister, and her friend and her two kids to see it. She let us kids sit up front, and they sat in the back isles with the other parents (where incidentally, they were allowed to smoke), and the loudest laughter in that theatre was from the parents... there are so many lines and references that kids just don't catch. I see it now. Hehehe. It makes me smile too, to imagine my mother and her friend, smoking it up in the back row, the same way that me and my girlfriend would do, if we took our kids to a kids movie (and if we were allowed to smoke!) It's hard to believe that I am the same age as my mother was, when we were kids. It's hard to picture my mom as a 'person' then, not just my mommy.
I was going to entitle this blog entry Bitching On Other People's Blogs with a 'I'm-so-sorry' sub-title to follow, after realizing that lately, all I do is bitch about things when other people's entries trigger the thought. I'm so sorry, Mack. I just went on and on about my day and about the hated thought of snow in my city. But... it's still not fair!!!!
Take care all!