One of the simple pleasures our family enjoys is “movie night” around the TV. We recently downgraded our Digital cable package, which included “Starz On Demand”, in favor of Blockbuster DVD’s in the mail. In this current economy, it’s good to save a few dollars wherever possible. We were not really watching Starz and have a better selection of movies with Blockbuster. The savings aren’t huge, but it works for us. Over the holidays we have watched “Toy Story“, “Kung Fu Panda“, “Hancock” (the kids didn’t watch that one), “Eagle Eye” (ditto) and “The Dark Knight” (ditto, ditto). This weekend we have “Journey to the Center of the Earth“, “Get Smart” and “Kit Kittredge“.
This post is to review “Kit Kittredge“. While “the boy” and I were not jumping up and down to watch this, we figured it was the least we could to for balance in this NCAA season. We get our share of TV domination watching hoops so it was the right thing to do. I would say that “the boy” (age eight) enjoyed this movie as much, if not more than, my girls did. Set in the great depression, this was a scary reminder of the times we are oh-so-close to living in again. Unemployment, forclosed homes and people doing what they can to get by, this hit pretty close to where we live. While it is a nice little mystery story, the message of friendship and family are very good. I did blank out (sleep) for about 15 minutes of the film, but it was a good choice for family movie night.
I give it a 4 out of 5.
Move night here too!! Eric Tyler and I are sick and Eric is on call this weekend. So I rented some movies. We watched Kung Fu Panda ( saw it in the movie theater but hey they like to watch these things over and over…), Star Wars The Clone Wars (not to bad for this Star Wars junkie family… my ringtone for Eric is Darth Vader’s song), and just finished Narnia Prince Caspian ( I like those so much). Now some time just for me some B flick that only some woman would watch. Eric just laughs because I will rent some movie that I know would probably not be worth a dime. I will have to look for Kit Kittredge. What about Journey to the Center of the Earth? The boys are wanting to see it.
Those are all good choices Mary. We have The Clone Wars in our “queue” and should have it next week sometime. “The Boy” going to watch “Journey to the Center of the Earth” today to preview if before “the girls” see it. I was a bit tentative to watch it right before bedtime for them last night. I figured we might have late night visitors to our room if it was too scary. “Get Smart” was HILARIOUS. I’ll let you know about “Journey” once we watch it later today.