Saturday, June 01, 2002
Thanks to a very generous Peter L., I got a copy of the Harry Pottery DVD on Friday. (he picked one up for his wife as a present, and his wife picked up one for him -- so he kindly gave me the surplus).
Vanessa got to watch this at home with the babysitter on Friday night while we went out to see Spiderman. She seemed to enjoy it.
We had Martine's two boys over for a take-out Chinese dinner, and about an hour before dinnertime we allowed the kids to watch TV. They all wanted to see Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
I was surprised to see how mesmerized they all were (a couple of the neighbour's kids also came around, so we had 5 kids total) by the movie. Utter quiet -- other than from an ever-restless Maxime -- which is a rare thing to observe in kids this age. It really does seem to strike a chord with kids and with adults. It uses a bunch of classic story set-pieces: an orphan destined for greatness (a plot element heavily-handled at times), the evil step-parents, an underlying revenge plot and magic that enables us to do what we want -- all pretty heady stuff for kids, though it’s all stuff they’ve heard before in a dozen or so fairy stories. Kudos to J.K. Rowling for bringing it all together so well.
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