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The Teenage Boys are All on Demerol

I am so embarassed for Jeff Goldblum. Remember a few pages back when I said I didn’t care how stupid the movie was, I just love the experience? Strike that. I saw Cats and Dogs yesterday because I stupidly assumed that Jeff Goldblum would be playing the DOG and not the DisneyDad^®.

It’s not so much that the movie was terrible (it was) or that the DisneyKid^® couldn’t act, or even that Elizabeth McGovern was arrested by the Overacting Police directly after the movie was finished filming - it was the little kids who were in the audience.

They laughed uproariously, but not at the dialogue. They laughed whenever something violent happened to an animal. Dog smashes into a tree? Hilarious. Cat mashed against a window? Hysterical. Cat advises all people to kick their dogs? Too funny for words.

I would be terrified for this country’s future, if it weren’t for the amazing proliferation of fabulous teenage boys in this town, who go out of their way to say hello, help us carry our packages, wave at Paul (huge thrills - “Mama, he WAVED to me!”) and just generally act as if they’re from Switzerland and not mid-America at all.

Blue Footprints

The Sure Thing was a great movie.