HP 6

So we took the kids yesterday to see the latest installment of Harry Potter.. it didn't disappoint at least to the over 7 crowd, it was a tad bit long for KayLea but that wasn't entirely surprising since although she wants DESPERATELY to be a big kid and like and be "in to" Harry she hasn't read the books (or had them read to her.. we tried but she tired very quickly of that when the boys were going through them)... I've heard on a few entertainment'y things that the next movie will come out next year that in my book is GOOD I don't know if I could handle letting this drag on 4 more years?! who am I kidding, I'd go again if it was 10 years...

While I was sitting at the movie answering for the millionth time why we arrived early (we got there aprox 45 min before the movie started) and explaining to the kids because it's going to be packed, and in turn the kids saying "hey you were right".. (yes I didn't mind that part AT ALL!) watching the previews was interesting.. have you noticed (if you've been to a first run movie lately.. I hadn't before yesterday in a while) they must be running out of movie ideas??? I mean does every children's book REALLY translate into a movie??? "Cloudy with a side of meatballs" is coming out sometime this year.. all my kids have read it all of them like it but a movie?? really??? and how about the classic "where the wild things are" I mean it's not even an animated one, ( CGI puppets yes, animation no) and even the boys said "how do you turn an 8 page book into a full length movie"... and that kinda goes for the side of meatballs book too!

I am not as "read" as my mother, she is who I go to when the boys are stuck for a book report book having to be a certain genre, or if we are the night before a book report is due and I haven't read the book (happens more than you think!) and I have a crying son who claims "the book I read doesn't have a theme" HA! BUT I'm here to say books are BOOKS and movies are MOVIES.. why do we have to make everything into a MOVIE??? I'm not opposed to books being made into movies on a whole, there are some that scream to be on the screen HP I think is one of those.. a few others also, but I don't think I have ever said after reading "where the wild things are" "hey I'd LOVE to see that on the big screen"... why can't we enjoy both genre's separately must they always collide???

case in point "Cat in the Hat"... I have to admit it's not my favorite children's book but I've read it to all my kids.. (it's Dr Seuss after all I think CPS would be called if I didn't!) when the movie came out the bright colors and big name actors loured me into the theatre.. the movie wasn't BAD but honestly the movie had VERY few correlations to the book... it would have been just as good had they named it Dr Seuss rather than the title of the book...

Anyway that's my rant.. with so few Children's movies to choose from I'm bound to see at least one of the movies that are from a kids book... call me a sell out!

ta ta