There will be no stopping Matilda, so I'll certainly see it anyway, just with lowered expectations. Then again, I own and love Tangled and Enchanted, so what do I know? I'll probably be stupidly happy.

The Badass Digest reviewer danced around a major plot point in the second act of the film, explaining with irritation that the studio had asked reviewers please, please not to spoil this huge major surprise. Which, if I'm guessing right, was ALREADY COMPLETELY SPOILED by the avalanche of coloring books and activity books and Little Golden Books that Barnes & Noble has been frantically shilling for the last three weeks.

Which, if I'm guessing right, was ALREADY COMPLETELY SPOILED

Yeah, I got spoiled by the ancillary materials.

Then again, I own and love Tangled and Enchanted, so what do I know? I'll probably be stupidly happy.

I love both of those. Brave tries to do something different with the whole princess thing, and just never quite gets there.

Snow White and the Huntsman: I've heard several comment about the many ripped off scenes in the movie, and the only one I can think of is the one from Never Ending Story, with the horse dying in the swamp.

What were the others?

What were the others?

The friends we were with mentioned Lord of the Rings, but I don't remember what scenes. The big monster that Snow White meets in the woods looks like it was pulled directly out of Pan's Labyrinth.

One more Brave question for Jessica -- since Matilda is already completely, utterly spoiled for the big plot twist, seeing as she's been coloring away in the tie-in coloring book for weeks now (seriously, why make a fuss about reviewers not revealing something that's already thoroughly detailed in the tie-ins you released almost a month before the movie?), do you think that part will be less upsetting for her than it was for D? Or was it the whole thing, not just the reveal, that was so traumatizing?

That's made me wonder. Is there a general age in narrative consumption where spoilers become important (for the subset of viewers who dislike them)? I'd imagine that at Matilda's age she wouldn't enjoy a movie much less if she already knew what was going to happen. But that's just based on my memories.

Any parents here with a better idea of it?

Unrelatedly, I wonder if Blake Lively and John Travolta are looking at the Battleship and John Carter box office receipts and cursing what probably seemed like a really good idea at the time, or if Taylor is crossing his fingers that his bad luck will be overshadowed by all the other more famous names and faces

I'm pretty sure John Travolta and his representatives have no idea about what is or isn't a good movie.

I also imagine they're too busy cursing the entire massage therapist profession.

It depends on how seriously she takes parent-in-danger storylines - for Dylan, it was completely traumatizing because he does NOT like it when bad things happen to Moms. One scene in Secret Life of Arietty was enough to put him off that movie entirely.