This child wanted, and got, a poop-themed birthday party. :smack:
I suspect that this movie’s idea would have worked as a short subject, but as a full-length movie? No way.
Soon… Soon…
IM(limited)E, they are a bit fixated on poop at that age.
No. No, not anymore.
Indeed, I assume he did it for 1) laughs and 2) a six-figure sum in return for an afternoon’s work.
And it was still likely more tasteful than some of the things he’s said on American Dad.
I saw the movie this weekend. It was actually better than I expected, but that is a more the result of my severely lowered expectations than any significant merit.
However, the 6, 7 and 8-year olds I saw it with loved it.
It was actually sort of cute in its own way, with a few tiny bits aimed at higher than a grade school level. The music was also really good.
The story is about a young “meh” emoji who can’t simply remain meh, but needs to be himself by expressing a range of emotions. The “you’re free to be yourself, despite others’ expectations” message is not presented with subtlety, but it is a good theme to present to young kids.
The poop emoji was there for comic relief, and the basis of a few bodily function jokes that the kids liked (though many fewer than in Captain Underpants, another cinematic masterpiece I got to see this summer).
In other words, if you need to take your kids someplace to get out of the heat for a couple of hours, you could do worse.
The Hotel Transylvania short at the beginning was, frankly, just stupid.
Don’t bother. Without giving away spoilers (not that there is really anything to spoil), the kids want a puppy, get one, and hijinks ensue. Unfortunately, they are not very creative or interesting hijinks.
Oh. Okay, maybe I’ll pass. I tried watching a couple episodes of the HT animated series and had to turn them off–they were awful. I guess I’ll wait for HT 3.
I thought the weekend estimates for it being number 2 was going to be wrong despite the $2+M gap. And indeed the actuals have Dunkirk dropping $1.5M. But TEM lost $1.1+M rather than gained in the actuals so it still finished number 2.
It has a bad multiplier for an animated kids movie. That means a tiny bit of good news: it’s going to drop fast.
(A lot of the Sunday estimates turned out to be fairly high this past weekend. Wonder why so many were wrong.)