Hello, Dolly!

We took the kids to see Wall-E on Saturday, and from what I saw of the movie, it was great. And if you've seen the movie, or at least the trailer, you'll get the reference of the title above. It was E's first movie, and we weren't sure what to expect from her. We'd been really pimping the movie in our house for a while, showing her the trailers, the little snippets online. She really knew who he was and was all pumped to go see the movie. It seemed that even T was helping out, telling her how great the 'Big TV' was and how the seats were high and all. We got to the theater and sat up towards the back (which was a bad idea), and we only had to wait a couple minutes for the trailers to start, but then the previews started.

And then about 20 minutes later, she was bored. By the time the movie actually started, it was too late. I tried to get her to focus on Wall-E up there on the ginormous DLP pure projection screen, but there was nothing I could do about it. She was gone. I spent most of the movie moving her from her little booster seat to my lap, then letting her go over to mom's lap, then back to me, then taking her out when she got mad and started crying, twice. I spent a few minutes down on the ground in the disgusting theater floor picking up various cups and suckers that made their way under her seat.

I did however get to see the end of this movie, when we took T to see Ratatouille last year (Pixar anyone?) he had to take a potty break with only about 5 minutes left in the movie, so I left when Ego walked out of the restauraunt, and returned when the credits were rolling. So I missed the end of that one until the DVD came out months later. I hope to see this one again in the theater. On the bright side, there wasn't much dialouge in the beginning, so I didn't miss any really important stuff...that I know of.

So maybe next year when our next Disney/Pixar feature comes out, she'll be a little better. Let's hope.