The Best Medicine

We have the movie for our sons, 8 and 5, and I strongly resisted buying it because I figured it was one more collection of fart and poop jokes, along the lines of the 2nd Shrek movie. I'm guessing that's why it didn't do so well here, instead of Wallace and Gromit, parents -- who are, really the actual market for these things -- expected "Ed, Edd, and Eddie." [If you aren't familiar, stay that way.] Now that you've recommended it, I'll have to dig it out for family movie night sometime.

Oh, and I'm very glad to have found your regular blog. Anyone who grew up in Wills Point in the late 70's and maintains a blog gets my attention. At least I'll get the pop culture references.

I should say that -- title notwithstanding -- Flushed Away is almost completely devoid of scatalogical humor. Although it is set in a London sewer, there are no poop jokes (apart from one fake-out sight gag early on).

That makes me happy. Now, of course, I have to venture into the room devoted to the boys DVD and TV (yes, I'm a failure as a parent. My sons have a playroom. With their own TV.) and find the bleeding disk. Which will be scratched. Still, the discovery of a cartoon without scatalogy is a powerful incentive.

The movie has Jean Reno as a French frog called Le Frog. As far as I am concerned, there is nothing funnier than that.