We don’t have any kids. My wife and I just went to see Despicable Me and loved it.
The last movie we saw at the theater was Up. The movie before that was Monsters vs Aliens.
The trend, besides these all being cartoons, is that we aren’t going to pay through the nonse to see a movie that either insults our intelligence, insults our politics, or assaults our senses with pornography or profanity. If there’s a movie that has one of those qualities, but otherwise might be worth watching, we can wait for it to come out on video or on broadcast TV or the web.
There’s little that can bring us into the theater these days short of cartoons.
I wasn't exited by it when I first saw the trailer, thinking they were rewriting a politically correct version of the original story. But not the case. Beautiful art, enjoyable music, and a nice moral story. I gave it 5 stars on Netflix.
How much does it cost to go to a movie nowadays?