Maybe if I hadn't watched that Dog Whisperer marathon right before work I wouldn't have been quite so affronted.

I'm going to withdraw from this discussion.

Sorry, Frank, I was far too acidic. Sorry to each of you.

It also costs nothing to ask an unrelated adult to back up your stated position, rather than putting words in their mouth and rudely cutting them off when they disagree.

That's true, but she was probably just hoping/expecting for a play-along-with-me moment. Her hand gesture was undoubtedly rude, but would suggest to me that she didn't really expect deeper participation in her point. She was probably trying to break the dynamic with her kid so that wasn't just a parent-on-child moment (which she might have guessed would spiral down), and was going for a this-is-socially-understood angle with the kid.

Sometimes a head to head confrontation with the child can only descend to where the parent has to exercise an ultimatum. But if you triangulate it, you can sometimes make the moment not about parent-child dynamics but something closer to the actual point: "It's socially understood that this movie is too violent for somebody your age."

Pure speculation on my part, and rude to impose on Laga there but I do think she was just looking for a rebound off Laga rather than requesting actual involvement.

Has anyone seen Night at the Museum? I'm seeing a zillion previews for the sequel on Nickelodeon (SAVE ME from Fairly Oddparents Wishology Weekend) and it actually looks, um, good?

But then, previews often make a terrible movie look good.

The first one wasn't too bad, and the niece and nephew both liked it. I had some giggles, probably more than I've had at other live-action kids flicks I've seen, so it wasn't a waste of money.

We saw the first Night at a Museum. It was okay. Didn't love it; didn't grit my teeth watching it.

I had a similar, if unrelated, experience to Laga's yesterday and was surprised by how deeply under my skin it got.

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Nevermind...I deleted a rant that was not appropriate for Movies other than to support Laga in feeling aggro about behavior that had nothing to do with her.

I DO tend to go along with the parental support option whenever possible, but I wouldn't be pleased to be Cesar-shushed either.

I rather liked Night at the Museum. But it took a while for me to get into it. Owen liked it, too.

Oh, and I sort of agree with Hec--it does take a village after all. But I would have pleaded with my eyes, as opposed to shushing. That is rude.

Comic book movies are hard to figure. Some of them can be mostly cartoony violence that young kids can understand. Wolverine is a dark character but someone who isn't familiar with the comic books might not know that and expected something more along the lines of Spider-Man or Superman.

Yes, she should have checked it out more thoroughly and asked someone before hand but how hard is it to play along?

I loved Night at the Museum but I am a big old museum geek. It's fun akin to The Librarian. Don't analyze it- just enjoy the ride.

At first I was annoyed that Megan Fox turned down Wonder Woman on the grounds that the character is lame but I have to give her this one:

She tells British magazine FHM, "She's lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't get it."