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Last year I saw some animated monstrosity at a drive-in theater. It was completely insipid, unfunny and dull. If anyone liked it had to be a kid and a kid who scarfs down paint chips. Throw in the voice of Ray Ramano and you will know why I was cringing in the backseat until the the movie's complete awfulness compelled me to leave. The only other time I left a drive-in theater was when a tornado was in the area.

Meet the Robinsons was the exact opposite of the above. It was funny. Kids and adults can enjoy this story. It poses some interesting conflicts and doesn't skirt the consequences. Letting go a lugubrious past for a brighter tomorrow is the best way to move forward. I'll be recommending this at work on Monday.

This is the best movie that I've seen this year. I know it is the second week out, but it is better than what I can remember seeing last year. There is so much that is good about this film that it is hard to know where to begin. You can start with the characters. There is quite a range of socio-economic backgrounds converging here in comfortable laid back sleaziness, out of which comes the interaction of characters with a range of family values.

There are the second and third generation sleazeballs played by Bruce Willis and Harry Dean Stanton. There are parents like the mother played by Sharon Stone who wants to raise happy healthy decent children. Kids who are essentially vicious and stupid hang with those who won't put common sense and decency in their back pockets and a mix of those in between. We see the initial corruption of the innocent as well as the easy descent of the aimless. This is not just another teen crime movie or the umpteenth hostage flick. It is also a story that is rife for reductionistic moralizing: my pre-emptive strike on one Jesus H. Christ.

I don't what is responsible for the dumpage on this movie, but I think it will find the large audience it deserves.

I saw the original Black Christmas at the Skyvue Drive-in Theater. At first, I thought that this would make a great drive-in theater movie, but it wouldn't. Night scenes don't work that well. Things that happen in the shadow get lost in the shadow on a drive-in screen. I saw this at the best theater in town and was grateful for the details. I recognized two of the girls from Final Destination lll. One has the cutest face of all time and the other has the nicest bod in recent times. With the lame Jessica Alba, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and few other four letter words that I would like to hit with a bat, it is nice to know that there is a girl who will share. Michelle Trachtenberg worried me in a television interview but was very sweet and personable here. I was in the mood for this movie or something. This will be the last movie that I see this year and I am glad that I ended on Black Christmas. It isn't supposed to be Citizen Kane. However, it was more fun and a lot sexier.