Bad parent! No cookie!

[ivyfic]

Yesterday, chuckro and I went to see Hellboy II at the theater in the mall—the kind of theater that has seat cushions torn out, floors completely stick with spilled soda, and is patronized by your cliched Jersey mallrat teenagers.

The movie was quite fun—visually very interesting, and Ron Perlman was, again, fantastic as the lead. Not sure I'd watch it again, but it was worth a ticket.

There were a lot of kids in the theater, mostly of the 8-10 year old boy variety (kid directly behind me chewing popcorn with his mouth open—god). Next to us, though, was a kid who couldn't have been more than four. The parents had a stroller. You'd bring a pre-schooler to this film? Seriously? You'd bring a pre-schooler to any film rated PG-13, let alone one called Hellboy and directed by Guillermo del Toro?

So we get to the first major action sequence—you know the one with swarms of tooth fairies that are eating people alive, rather graphically? The kid starts screaming his head off. The dad takes him out of the theater. Comes back ten minutes later. The kid starts screaming again. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Congratulations, parents, you have just made your child mortally afraid of the tooth fairy. That kid is going to think that if he puts a tooth under his pillow, a swarm of bug-like creatures will eat him from the inside out. Have fun with that little phobia.

Also, best line:
"She's my whole world. I'd die for her. But she wants me to do the dishes, too."

Comments

[sasha-b.livejournal.com]

I saw that yesterday too. And there was also a set of "parents" with a young child. People, the movie theater does not take the place of a babysitter. *groan* Honestly.

What's funny - I thought it was beautiful to look at, and I really want to like those movies...but they're just...boring. Ah well. It was fun eye candy. I loved the creatures and all the scenery. And Abe Sapien rocks my socks. *laughs*

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

What's funny - I thought it was beautiful to look at, and I really want to like those movies...but they're just...boring. Ah well. It was fun eye candy. I loved the creatures and all the scenery. And Abe Sapien rocks my socks. *laughs*

That's my opinion perfectly. I saw the first one and watched the whole thing with variations on my jaw dropping and eyebrow raising at the "WTF!?"-ery of it all. Throughout, however, I was very happy with the character design. I went to see this one in theaters because it looked like they'd spent even more time on that sort of thing. So, the movie draaaaaagged, but the scenes in the Troll Market and the Angel of Death area were beautiful.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

I loved the movie, probably more for how incredibly *gorgeous* it was (and for the puppets at the beginning) than anything else. I do love how there was no filler -- everything set up played out.

But yeah, there were a couple of rather young kids in the audience. Not as young as *four* (wtf!? were they thinking), but maybe six or seven, which is still too young to see a Del Toro film.