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We saw A Wrinkle In Time last night, and it is the big budget film with a woman of colour protagonis that I dreamed of. Storm Reid as Meg was perfect, her acting magnificent while the rest of the film settled around her in a whirlwind of glorious costuming and directing. Tish from Doctor Who was a perfect Dr Murray, Charles Wallace was great, Calvin was a little bit away with the fairies but he gave me that impression in the book, too.

In general, it's been a while since I read the book and I noticed some cuts but I felt it overall kept very close to the book - Colin's read it more recently and agreed. If you liked the book, you may well like the film.

Special mention to makeup too. Andreas commented on how Meg looked like a normal person (albeit with 'glorious hair') and it's so nice to see a Hollywood hero who looks relatable.

This pulls out all the tropes of both Barbie and spy films with a few Star Wars references throw in for good luck (including a blatant light sabre battle on an implausible pillar).

But it's fun, and it's accessible and sexy second in command lady terrorist gets a plot twist (and a doll)

Mattel are playing pretty heavily for the everyone loves lesbians toy market, and the relationship between Renee and Theresa, the two supports for Barbie, is, I feel part of that. I also love that that's a market now.

I love how the 'Let Toys be Toys' campaign has gained enough weight to affect Mattel too - after the backlash against Target removing the gender markers on toy aisles they produced their first Barbie ad with a boy in.

I guess what I'm saying is that I'm glad that they're aiming at people like me, because that means that people like me is a big enough market to make an impact.

*'How will I know which toy to offer my child?' wtf? It's like the conversation I've heard many times in Disney Store

Customer: I want to buy something for my 6 year old [gendered relative] do you have anything for 6 year old [gender]?
Staff: What are they interested in? If you're not sure this range is really popular atm [same toy regardless of gender]

Yesterday we went to see The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

It was alright. Lots of action. Some of the plot was mucked about - for example, Lucy's stuff on the Dufflepuds island was all different. A lot of the Christian imagery was stripped (for example, Eustace's transformation doesn't involve a pond) but not all.

It was fun, and I'm glad we went.

Judith was less astonishingly well behaved this time, but she said it was exciting, and there was a bird, and the seamonster had a tummy ache 'raa'.

Today we watched Monsters, Inc. Everyone greatly enjoyed it.

cjwatson and I had seen it before, but there are plenty of nuances I'd forgotten. I'm lookinmg forward to Monsters Inc 2, coming next year.

J found it very funny, and pointed out that Sully is a bit like Daddy.

Which reminds me that during the week, J and I watched Finding Nemo, first time for both of us. The Daddy in that was like her Daddy, too. I really liked that, it's very sweet.

Judith and I watched the Princess and the Frog yesterday. Man, Tiana's the most adorable cartoon woman ever in the history of ever. I've never been to New Orleans, and so all I know about it I get from

docbrite's LJ, I think greater familiarity with the city and maybe Louisiana culture would be useful.

We liked it, although Judith only really started paying attention when there started to be music. It's got a great soundtrack, and Judith loves jazz. (She refers to Jeeves and Wooster as Pocoyo with dancing.)

Overall, we both enjoyed it and I'm glad we watched.

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