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How would Flushed Away play to the 3-year-old set? It looks a little older to me than Cars or Were-Rabbit, but we're due for a daddy-daughter movie date...
Many jokes would go over the head of a 3-year old but nothing is scary in it. Thrilling, yes. Scary, no. So I think it would keep a 3 y.o. entertained (and Dad as well). It's definitely not older than Were-Rabbit. Pitched about the same for humor. Very Aardman, really.
Well, they've gone off. We'll have a report in a couple of hours...
Flushed Away review, by Casper, age 3.
"He was flushed AWAY...and he met someBODY...and she didn't TALK good...and she didn't DO good...and she had a DIAMOND...and it BROKE..."
mr. flea reports she sat on his lap and sucked her finger, and it was maybe a little too much for her - too exciting and fast-paced.
I read several reviews of Grave of the Fireflies, and while it's considered a beautifully crafted film, I could also tell from the synopses that it wasn't something I would voluntarily sit through. I had it on the Netflix queue at one point, then removed it.
TMC ran it tonight, and I was just sitting there on the couch, and thought, well, why not? DH came in about an hour into it, stood and watched a bit, and wanted to know what it was and who by? I told him "It's about two Japanese kids starving to death at the end of WWII," and he lost interest and wandered away, fortunately before things got really grim, because he's not handling his situational depression any better than I am.
I was okay till the last ten minutes. You know, weeks of depression, with occasional highs and lows, and then this movie? I don't really recommend the combination.
But it is a beautiful film.
Agreed on all counts. It's gorgeous, moving, and ultimately devastating. That one's not a Miyazaki film, but one by his studio partner.
Yeah, GotF is in the category of "beautifully made but I'm never watching it again" along with such laughfests as Gallipoli and Schindler's List.
I also watched GotF this weekend -- in our case, we got it from Netflix and then couldn't bring ourselves to watch it for weeks.
Good lord.
Spidey 3 trailer from Comic-Con.
That is very similar to the latest actually released trailer, except for the aforementioned last shot which is totally cool OMG.
Yeah, GotF is in the category of "beautifully made but I'm never watching it again" along with such laughfests as Gallipoli and Schindler's List.
Ditto. Except I knew better than to see those other two.