All in all, it was a success.  We went to see Frankenweenie, a black and white animation film by Tim Burton. Click here for a preview.

I didn’t know much about the movie but it is pretty much the only kids movie playing at the moment and I just thought it would be fun to take Sennet to his first movie so it is the one we saw.

The movie was a bit morbid: dog dies, dog comes back to life, kids almost die in a fire, huge people-eating turtle, etc. There were some cool nods to old horror movies like Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein and Godzilla but it wasn’t the best kids movie I have ever seen. Not awful- just not special or great.

Sennet was a bit surprised by how loud it was and during the previews kept saying “its too loud.” We had given him the rules of the theater beforehand (stay in your seat, no talking, etc but I hadn’t thought to tell him it would be loud.)

About 15 minutes into the movie he dropped the bag of popcorn and spent the next 15-20 minutes laying on the ground eating the popcorn off the floor. I tried to get him back in his seat but he was going to lose it big time if I forced the issue. The alternative was to leave the movie with Sennet kicking and screaming or let him eat popcorn off the floor- I’m pretty ok with popcorn off the floor.

He had a few times where he was talking really loud (like when the kids almost die in the fire and he said “you have to listen or you will die in the fire”- which stems from a recent fire drill they had at school so the timing of this is interesting).

He actually did really great and he eats popcorn like Kevin! Except Kevin doesn’t eat it off the floor.