Cynra & I, in what will be blamed on the fevers, watched Shrek The Halls last week.
Destined to be a holiday millstone around the neck of parents everywhere, it was possibly the worst Christmas special ever. Yes, worse than the Star Wars one.
It just reeked of horrid and the particular hypocrisy that comes with being told of the preciousness of the Christmas experience from what is pretty much a bloated Hollywood franchise. Not to mention the animation will probably not age as well as Rudolph.
On the plus side, we saw
Enchanted, which was not horrid. I don’t think it’s as awesome as everyone else seems to think it was, but it was a cute reversal on "normal person finds themself in fantasy world" type of shtick. It was pretty much the walking
Frankenstein's Monster of every Disney Princess bit that's grown so horribly, horribly annoying over the past few years, but I managed to overcome my reaction to that. I didn't quite overcome the raucous family of eight behind us that was three generations of annoying people; a super-senile grandma (the people on the screen can't hear you, miss), a probably haggard mom, and several kids of various levels of "please, child, stop talking while the movie is on." One of them kept kicking Cynra's seat, and while she was happy to ignore it, I grew annoyed enough to ask the child "please don't kick this seat again. Ever."
There was one thing
( that kind of annoyed me. )