I'm vindicated, or as Napoleon would say, "Sweet! Lucky! Awesome!" Someone else thinks there's more to the movie Napoleon Dynamite than meets the eye.
"At the risk of elaborately describing the clothes of a perfectly naked emperor, I think that the underlying theme of Napoleon Dynamite is (though the movie was made by Mormons) consistent with the moral anthropology of Christianity: to show us how we become genuinely human."
We watched Akeela and the Bee the other night, and now Brown Bear Daughter wants to be in the Scripps Spelling Bee. It was a good story.
Semicolon family's favorite Christmas movie: White Christmas. (Engineer Husband really likes It's a Wonderful Life, but most of the urchins don't care for it.)
Since the movie version of Eragon by Christopher Paolini is supposed to be in theaters on December 15th, I thought I'd provide links to my reviews of Eragon and its sequel, Eldest. Nutshell version: I liked Eragon, but the near-parody and obvious borrowing of other fantasy classics got to be too much to take as I started into Eldest. Also the anti-religious scientism is much more obvious in the second book. On the other hand, I don't think anyone's faith is going to be destroyed or even challenged by the books or the movie; the arguments (against Christianity and against religion in general) are not sophisticated enough.
Semicolon review of Eragon.
Semicolon review of Eldest.
Jim at Stones Cry Out really, really didn't like the penguin movie, Happy Feet. I haven't seen it and probably won't --unless someone changes my mind in the comments and convinces me that this movie would be a good experience for the urchins.
Finally, you can go here for my very own list of the 105 Best Movies Ever. I need to make it 106 and add Napoleon Dynamite.
