{"id":252,"date":"2006-03-02T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T11:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2006\/03\/02\/8-below\/"},"modified":"2006-03-02T06:31:38","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T11:31:38","slug":"8-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2006\/03\/02\/8-below\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Below"},"content":{"rendered":"

We saw Eight Below<\/a> yesterday. I highly recommend it. It’s the best piece Disney has put out in a long time IMO. Our children are 9, 7, and 5 and they all loved it, but it’s not just for children, being rated PG it does have INTENSE situations, some children might have problems with it. Adults will be engaged through the entire film, children as well. Some of you might need tissues. I can vouch for my daughter and I in need of tear wiping, and DH admitted to it later.<\/p>\n

If you’ve seen the goofy commercial for the movie, just know “it’s not like that”. The normal promo for the movie, the one that would have been seen in the theatre as a preview (as we had first seen it) is moreso how the movie is, but it’s better than that. The things about the movie that may be hard for some folks are the heartwrenching things that happen and I won’t give plot away. The dogs are fantastic, the settings great. This is a film for our personal movie archive, DVD, can’t wait! Exiting the theatre the children were wowing over it and asking if we “were going to buy it?” [something I just wonder how it seems from their perspective, as I can’t wrap my head around “movies come out on DVD pretty fast”, when I was a kid it was movies or tv, and then VHS movies were a novelty, even when they came into being it wasn’t that every movie came out for the homeowner to buy, that’s more a recent innovation of DVD and we are being flooded by massive backlog going onto DVD now. :rolleyes: ]<\/p>\n

This is a movie ‘inspired by a true story’ and that being something I’ve not seen, a Japanese docudrama from ’83. Typical Disney slant, this story is wonderful for it’s ability to bring people in a story to aide animals, but this time without making it truly animal sappy, bleeding hearts of tree huggers, blah, blah, blah. This film apparently isn’t for “true antarticists” and I admit that I’m not one … I was thrilled with the antartic views, however it was condensed. It worked. The heartwrenching came from both sides of the story, the dogs and the humans. I loved Maya from the first time we met her onscreen, on the line. She’s my favorite from the movie. All the dogs are beautiful though, gorgeous.<\/p>\n

  • Rotten Tomatoes: Eight Below<\/a><\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    We saw Eight Below yesterday. I highly recommend it. It’s the best piece Disney has put out in a long time IMO. Our children are 9, 7, and 5 and they all loved it, but it’s not just for children, being rated PG it does have INTENSE situations, some children might have problems with it. 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