I took my littles to the movies to see Disney’s newest movie, “Wish”.
We’d recently had our first ever theater experience at this same facility, which is very nice, seeing the Paw Patrol movie, so I had high hopes of a Thanksgiving weekend treat for the 3 and 5 year old.
I had the option to take them to the latest “Trolls” installment or to see Disney’s “Wish”. I was unsure of the Trolls movie because it was the 3rd in the franchise and I felt like there might be too much backstory we didn’t know since we’d never seen one, so I chose the Disney movie.
To say I was disappointed was an understatement. I knew within the first 15 minutes that we were going to be peppered with questions the entire way home, because the story was so full of holes, even I had troubles connecting with the swiss cheese of a movie.
The 5 year old is just learning how to deal with dramatic tension movies can evoke. She held my hand and told me, “I don’t like this movie!”, but she does that for ANY movie that makes her a bit uncomfy. She could have finished the movie and would have been ok.
The 3 year old just wasn’t having it. It’s not like this movie is terrifying, but the King emits a palpable feeling of “ICK” and my sensitive little man wasn’t in the mood for such a thing. Couple that with songs that just didn’t really catch you, no real connection to the heroine and no funny bits to release that ICK factor and he was ready to leave halfway through. Not even cuddling on my lap could get him to stop complaining loudly that he didn’t like the movie and wanted to leave.
We ended up leaving before it was over and the experience was not the best for my two little loves. I felt sad about that, because I really was hoping to have a nice time. I guess you can’t win them all.
On the plus side, we did get to decorate the tree for Christmas and we worked on our gingerbread houses!
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