Kung Fu Panda

Today, my friend Nina and I took the kids to see Kung Fu Panda. I had already been warned that there was violence (hence the name, Kung Fu) but I was pretty sure the older two could handle it. Kennedy happens to think karate is like the greatest thing EVER, thanks to Spongebob, and goes around our house saying "hi-ya!" and chopping my furniture in two... or she at least tries to! And thus I became an enabler because what else are mothers for?!.

My friend Nina however, laughed at me a lot every time I jumped. But sheesh there were bad animals sneaking out of nowhere! What was I supposed to do?! You would have jumped too! Stop Laughing.

I have to tell you though, I am NOT one to go smacking kids around, but there was this boy behind us that talked through the whole movie. And he wasn't a little boy, because really, I understand that. We were there with 4 kids and 1 wiggly baby and it was a kid's movie so excess noise doesn't really phase me much, but this kid! UGH! Everything that happened he said "Oh my God." 19 times he said this. Yes, I'm a dork and I counted. 19 times in 90 minutes... and that wasn't counting all the times he said it during the previews! I didn't count those because I was just at the beginning of my irritation and thought SURELY he would stop once the movie started. Wrong. Approximately every 4.7 minutes we heard it. Seriously, I was ready to turn around and slap him... or throw popcorn at him. Or thump him with my Bible. GRRR

So the movie? It was ok. Kameron loved it, Kennedy got bored with it during the end, and Kassidy just talked about all the movies coming out that she wants to see because she's too cool for "kid's" movies now. It probably won't be one we'll buy, but it killed a couple hours of a summer day, so it was worth it. If you go, be sure you don't sit in front of the OMG boy. He'll totally ruin it for you.