Phew! It’s been scorching this week–we’re talking 90s and low 100s kind of hot. So, what better way to spend a sweltering summer afternoon than inside a cool, dark movie theater with my daughter?
Picking a movie wasn’t as easy as I’d hoped. The options were pretty slim:
- Paw Patrol: The Movie: The cheap flick of the week, but my 8-year-old deemed it too “pre-school.”
- Into the Spiderverse: A rerun that seemed a bit out of her league. Would she need to know Spidey’s backstory to get the jokes? Was it a gateway to Spider-fandom or for existing fans only?
- Garfield: The newly rebooted franchise starring everyone’s favorite grumpy, food-obsessed cat.
With my daughter being a cat lover, Garfield was the clear winner. And you know what? It wasn’t half bad! No swearing, nothing too problematic – just a bit of harmless silliness. The only weird bit was Garfield’s mouth actually opening, which isn’t really a thing in the Garfield-verse.
The verdict? My daughter absolutely loved it, so much so, in fact, that we hit up the library as soon as the movie was over to grab some DVDs of the late 80s-early 90s cartoon. We even swung by a used bookstore the next day to snag some classic Jim Davis Garfield compilations.
Who could have predicted that on a scorching summer day, a lazy, lasagna-loving cat would become my daughter’s cool new obsession?
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