Finally saw Ponyo!
Aug. 26th, 2009 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brendalaI got to see Ponyo this morning. My date and I went to the first show of the day and had the whole theatre to ourselves. So we could talk (and play MST3K) to our hearts content. Sweet!
Ponyo was adorable. But I couldn't help thinking, "Good God! Sosuke's mom is an IDIOT!" throughout the film. I know it's silly to apply grown up logic to a movie designed for children; but I just couldn't help wanting to smack all the adults in that movie upside the head. These scenes annoyed me the most:
-Daycare worker: "OK Sosuke. You can walk to the senior center by yourself in the middle of the freak storm. Surely you won't wander over to the cliffs and almost drown like you did yesterday!"
-Lisa: "Instead of staying at the safe senior center during the huge storm/tsunami onslaught, I'm going to put my son in my tiny car and drive to my house for no adaquitely explained reason! All the rescue workers are telling me its suicide. But what do they know? I'm Supermom, dammit!"
-Lisa: "Sosuke, honey, I'm going back to the senior center that I shouldn't have left in the first place. But, for no adaquitely explained reason, I refuse to take you and Ponyo with me. You're 5-years-old, so I'm sure you're mature enough to care for yourself, protect Ponyo, and survive if a tidal wave washes our house away. Later!"
-Villagers in the boat: "Look! Sosuke and his mysterious new friend are floating alone in a toy boat hoping to track down his idiot mother! Instead of rescueing them, let's just leave them alone. Surely, nothing can go wrong if we leave two 5-year-olds floating alone in a flooded disaster area!"
Luckily, Ponyo and Sosuke were so charming and the movie was so pretty that I loved it despite the brain-dead adult characters. ^_^
Ponyo was adorable. But I couldn't help thinking, "Good God! Sosuke's mom is an IDIOT!" throughout the film. I know it's silly to apply grown up logic to a movie designed for children; but I just couldn't help wanting to smack all the adults in that movie upside the head. These scenes annoyed me the most:
-Daycare worker: "OK Sosuke. You can walk to the senior center by yourself in the middle of the freak storm. Surely you won't wander over to the cliffs and almost drown like you did yesterday!"
-Lisa: "Instead of staying at the safe senior center during the huge storm/tsunami onslaught, I'm going to put my son in my tiny car and drive to my house for no adaquitely explained reason! All the rescue workers are telling me its suicide. But what do they know? I'm Supermom, dammit!"
-Lisa: "Sosuke, honey, I'm going back to the senior center that I shouldn't have left in the first place. But, for no adaquitely explained reason, I refuse to take you and Ponyo with me. You're 5-years-old, so I'm sure you're mature enough to care for yourself, protect Ponyo, and survive if a tidal wave washes our house away. Later!"
-Villagers in the boat: "Look! Sosuke and his mysterious new friend are floating alone in a toy boat hoping to track down his idiot mother! Instead of rescueing them, let's just leave them alone. Surely, nothing can go wrong if we leave two 5-year-olds floating alone in a flooded disaster area!"
Luckily, Ponyo and Sosuke were so charming and the movie was so pretty that I loved it despite the brain-dead adult characters. ^_^
