Wall-E…
…went well. We had a bit of a glitch at the start. Yesterday’s showtime was 1:10, and I assumed today’s was as well. We arrived at 1:07 and purchased tickets… only to discover that showtime was at 1:50. D’oh!
It wasn’t quite enough time to go back home, and not enough time to find something really entertaining, but it was enough time to get bored. We wandered around the outdoor mall area for a bit, but that kind of things tends to wear on Em. When she said, “I’m soooo sleepy” I decided we could head inside and wait there. So we waited a while. Then we went in to the theater about 15 minutes before time and watched the ads. Em decided to wait to eat the candy she’d selected – a Nerds Rope – until the actual feature started. So we sat and waited.
Em did very well. She finished her candy and started in on my/our popcorn, polishing off the bag. She got about 2/3 through the movie before she was flopping all over the seat. I did have to tell her not to flail her arms around so much, since there were people behind us, but I only had to tell her once. She was well-behaved, and didn’t ask to go home. She didn’t want to stay through the credits, which I always like to do but wasn’t going to ask her to. When I asked her afterward what she thought of the movie, she said it was good. I agreed.
This was a good choice for us. It wasn’t too hard to follow, and even if you didn’t get the more adult subplots, you could still enjoy the action and cute characters. I wasn’t sure if Em was really taking it in, since she often doesn’t react much, but at one point she said, “Oh, no, Wall-e” so that told me she was paying attention. For myself, I think I enjoyed it more because I’d seen “Hello, Dolly!” recently, as bits of that movie came up repeatedly.
All in all, I’ll mark this a success. It went just as you’d expect any visit to the movies to go, which was exactly what I was hoping for.