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Open Season  (2006)

Surprisingly, I really liked this movie. Sure, it wasn't exactly ground-breaking, but it was funny. It hit all the right funny buttons. The best part for me was the little porpcupine, the liberated dachshund, and the silent/indestructable bunnies. i think I just like talking animals. Anywho, I thought it was a fun movie and would be enjoyable to watch with some kids, or by yourself if you just need something light and feel-good.

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Wall-E  (2008)

Wall-e is a cute little trash compacting robot that is the only inhabitant of dusty and barren planet earth in some distant time. Evidently the Humans have finally been over-run by their own filth making the world uninhabitable. It seems timely considering our current environmental situation. 

So, Wall-E and his pet cockroach (who gets to eat twinkies:) Spend their days discovering cool stuff in the trash and adding it to the collection that Wall-E keeps in his little robot home. At one point he finds a spork and goes to add it to his collection or utensils, but he doesn't know if he should put it with the forks or the spoons, so he lays it in between:) There's all kinds of cute stuff like that. Wall-E himself is like R2D2 on crack, but very friendly and innocent. More than anything, he just wants to hold hands with some one and he finally finds the robot of his dreams when Eve shows up to search for life on earth. And it just gets cuter from there.

The word Cute pretty much sums up this film. You just want to cuddle all the robots to death. And all the humans are gelatinous and friendly. Good triumphs over evil, and the cute little robots all get together. It's fun and makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. My husband and I randomly say "Wall-E" exactly how Wall-e introduces himself, its just sooooo cute. and you will too if you watch this movie. WA-aaaaaaaa-LLLLlllllllll-eeeeeeeeeeeeee.

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Heavy Metal in Baghdad  (2008)

Heavy Metal in Baghdad delivered an unexpectedly candid look inside the war zone and all the people who are caught in the middle of a conflict that has nothing to do with them. There are no sides in the war for them, just fear, paranoia, chaos, and death. Their lives are destroyed along with the society, culture, and neighborhoods in which they grew up. It's so hard to honestly take in the amount of hopelessness and contempt a lot of people wrestle with everyday. It's their music that keeps them from turning into the thing they hate and they openly admit it. It's as if art tempers the chaos; makes the darkness manageable. We watch a lot of Iraq war docs here at Spout, but this one seems so much more important simple because it's about people and not administrations. I think it's our best shot at becoming involved with our global neighbors, to see them and be with them and join them in their context. I will certainly vote for change abroad, but I wonder what it might do to connect directly with people who are displaced and dying on the other side of the world. What difference would that make for them? or for us? I wonder if it's possible to stop so much senseless violence and death.