Cars

In an ongoing effort to make sure that the kids miss me when I leave, I took them to see the new Pixar movie, Cars, this afternoon. It was pretty good. It wasn't a spectacularly new plot, but it was interesting and funny and well done. I was trying to explain this to Mrs. Jogger (who stayed home to enjoy two hours of blessed peace), and I said something like, "It's just the same as anyone else would do. Pixar just does it better." She translated this into, "If you have to watch a kids movie, watch a Pixar film," and I think that's about right. It's not Shakespeare* but it's the best of its genre.

*Of course, come to think of it, Shakepeare wasn't all that big on original plots, either.