Tonya and PQBON's WebLog

Horton Hears a Who

Last Friday, we took Katie to see her first movie in the theater. Will took off a couple hours from work so that we could take her to a weekday matinée. We were very unsure of her reaction and were a bit concerned with talking very loudly, refusing to stay seated, ect... She has a Horton stuffed animal that she really likes so we thought that Horton Hears a Who would be a good movie to take her too.

She was very excited entering the multiplex, but once we started walking into our theater that had the lights dimmed and the previews playing, she got a little scared. I had to carry her to our seats and she refused to sit in her own chair so she sat on my lab. Will came shortly after we were seated with a small popcorn and drink. She loves popcorn at home and I thought it would make her happy but she was in such shock she wouldn't have anything to do with the popcorn. She sat frozen for the first 45-60 minutes of the movie. Its the quietest I can remember her being in a very long time. She just stared at the screen with her huge eyes. And then she was asleep. She slept until the last 15 minutes or so. She watched the end just as quietly as she had watched the beginning. She seems to have liked it. She talked about going to the movies and seeing Horton through the weekend.

As far as how I liked the movie, Will and I both thought it was done very well. While they added things to make it movie length, it was very much in the Dr. Suess style and having not read the book before, I couldn't tell what was added. When we read the book tonight, I was surprised by what was not in the book because all the narration sounded like Dr. Suess. So we all liked the movie and we promised Katie we would get the DVD when it comes out so she can watch it again.