The new smash hit at Casa de Mwa is the movie Mamma Mia. We had our very first movie night on Sunday, and ever since it's been on repeat. What better question to ponder for a 2 and 5 year old than a paternity question, right? Also, I'd been meaning to tell them about donkey testicles. I particularly love exclamations like "Look, mama, she's pretending that's a penis!"
With all that goes on in that movie, it bugs me that it's so bloody subtle about the Colin Firth character finding his gay lover. The first time, I missed it until right at the end of the movie. I cannot get used to that about Hollywood. Violence is okay, but sex isn't, and love is great if it's between a man and a woman, but otherwise it's either hilarious or for adults only. Hardly an original observation - I know - but it's shocking me all over again today.
Now I think I will risk my life by switching off the movie and taking them to the children's farm. (That sounds like I'm going to leave them at a farm which breeds and sells children. Ha!) The sun is shining, the blossoms are bursting, the birds are calling us out. We can't spend the whole holidays cooped up in here with the curtains drawn watching Abba songs...
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I love that movie. But yeah..the whole Colin Firth thing pissed me off too.
ReplyDeleteWell, you could, but the children's farm (heh) sounds better. Hope you see some baby bunnies!
ReplyDeleteI have yet to see the Mamma Mia film, but it does seem to be as addictive as crack to everyone.
Don't get me started......Not sure whether it needed actors who could sing or singers who could act. Sorry but that movie delivers neither.
ReplyDeleteHowever your spring sounds wonderful and the childrens farm will be fun.
@Mad Woman - It is very addictive.
ReplyDelete@Jo - We saw baby chicks, lambs, and baby goats, but all the bunnies seemed to be adults.
@Countess - I thought that when I first saw it, too, but it's growing on me. Now I think it's endearing that they try so hard. It's even making me like Meryl Streep more, which I thought was impossible.
I believe that was the last movie I actually saw in a theater and I loved it. I truly did.
ReplyDeleteBut let's get back to the Children's Farm. It does sound like a place where they breed and sell children. Wouldn't that be the creepiest and yet funnest place on earth? Ha!
@Ms. Moon - I love it as well. I think I've voluntarily seen it about ten times already. Which is lucky, really, because I have a feeling I will be watching it a lot more in the next few months. Children and repetition...
ReplyDeleteHollywood is very very conservative (read my last post).
ReplyDeleteMy girls love Mamma Mia, they know all the songs.
First line in that post gets you a yellow card.
ReplyDeleteShit, I don't even remember Colin Firth finding a gay lover. I was too busy cringing - "Mama Mia" had been my choice, and I had a fierce cinema critic as companion. I don't think I dared breathe after the first song...
ReplyDeleteWatching Abba videos! Can I come over!?
ReplyDeleteIt's true - North Americans are very prudish. There is no sex on TV at all. I was just the other day remembering Eurotrash, and thinking how something like that would NEVER make an appearance over here. Ha!
ReplyDeleteI liked the movie :p But I love to sing along and what a good movie to do it at :p
ReplyDeleteWhat's sex again???
I feel so uncool that I haven't seen the movie. Oh, but wait, I did see the musical, so maybe I'm not so uncool after all.
ReplyDelete@A Modern Mother - I'm glad I'm not the only one forsaking mindless toddler drivel and messing up the minds of the next generation as a result. Actually, they're probably marginally better off this way.
ReplyDelete@Xbox - Fair enough. Even though I think I wasn't clear enough on the fact that it's the children that have it on repeat, not me. I am happily lost on the interweb instead.
@Pueblo girl - Poor you! That is indeed not a film to go see with a film snob.
@Geeks in Rome - Of course you can! We'll have an Abba party!
@Lady Mama - I remember Eurothrash. That was so funny. Must go YouTube and relive my youth...
@Meghan - :-)
@Angie - I don't think NOT seeing the movie would make you uncool. The opposite perhaps. But a bit of uncool has never stopped me before.
I haven't ever seen it, either, so perhaps ANgie and I can be coolishly uncool together!
ReplyDeleteI really kind of hated that movie. But Sarah loved it and she watched it every day for a week, until (thank God for small mercies) we had to bring it back to the library.
ReplyDeleteWhose idea was it to let Pierce Brosnan sing???
At least they are being exposed to Abba, which is of course important- and I agree with you about the Colin Firth Character- the automatic hetero bent is often annoying,
ReplyDeleteI make my boys watch it, and dance along to it too. It is brilliant. Mine do a passable impression of the boys on the jetty. Such a great film.
ReplyDeleteMy my! How can I resist you?!?
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