Latest media reviews

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: We found this one at our public library, and I had to get it. (Turns out there are TONS of good movies over in the kids section, and we only just figured this out a week ago--3 of the 4 movies we checked out were from over there.) CCBB (for short) is a fun little musical that I watched a lot when I was little (Gma Jones had (has?) grundles of movies that she recorded on VHS that we would borrow all the time, and CCBB was one of them). It's a movie about a fantastic car and the adventures that its owners have in it. The movie has wonderful songs, memorable characters, is funny and witty--it's basically everything a good movie should be. Dick van Dyke stars as Caractacus Potts, an unsuccessful inventor, and does a great job. I highly recommend this movie, and we may even purchase it ourselves. We'll see. :) We brought it with us on our campout (Had and Jeanette have a little portable DVD player) and Lucy loved it so much that she wanted to watch it twice. Just watch out for the child catcher--he's a little scary for the little ones.

Twilight: Yeah, I read it. Yeah, it only took two days. Sheesh. The book is a "vampire romance" and is pretty engaging. I thought it was ok, but as I mentioned to my sisters-in-law, I could have done with more "vampire" and less "romance". Both of them said that I will probably like New Moon more (they liked it less for that reason). I'm about a third of the way through, and it's still sort of iffy. As it stands, I'll probably never read the books again after I finish them. I'll stick with lame things like Jurassic Park (right, Maren?). I guess it just goes to show that I'm a boy.