We saw “Meet the Robinsons” yesterday, instead of me going for a long run. Yeah, I’m a wimp.

We went to the three D version, which was cool. Couple of notes:

• They don’t tell you that the glasses are $1.50 each. Good thing we went to the matinee.
• Major kudos to whomever designed the glasses – they fit on over my glasses (bifocals). This was not the case when we went to see Sharkboy and Lavagirl (quit laughing), and the glasses are a different technology – not the traditional red/blue, so you can wear the glasses around (say, to the bathroom, ahem) and you wont’ be walking into things.
• The three D itself was pretty impressive. Things popping out of the screen and stuff.
• There’s apparently an Ipod commercial U2 movie coming out in three D sometime this year, as well as the Nightmare before Christmas. So I’m hanging on to my expensive glasses so maybe I won’t have to buy another pair later (don’t know about if this stuff works on a DVD at home. Anybody know?)
• Kids these days don’t get Donald Duck so much.
• And what is with the Adoption thing? Disney – if you aren’t killing off somebody in the opening scene of the movie, you have to make some poor mom abandon her child, for the cold, cruel world to deal with as adopted. This could be it’s own post, but lets get one thing straight: no blonde white baby left on a doorstep is still unadopted 12 years later. Not in America. He never would have spent one birthday in that orphanage. And no, they don’t have interviews for the kids to go sell themselves to prospective parents, puleeze.
• Let’s just say that having my son screaming at me last night that he didn’t want to be in our family anymore didn’t help change my views of Disney Adoption Scenarios.
• It’s rated G but there’s a chase / fight scene that was pretty intense and may change your child’s opinion of bowler hats for some time.
• Singing frogs are always a nice touch, provided you can work them into the movie without making it seem unrealistic.