Wall-E

Donna and I risked life and limb by walking to the Concord Mills Mall this morning. It really wasn’t that dangerous as it was 8:30 and not many people were up yet. None of the stores were open in the mall yet, but the doors were open for walkers and such. When we got to the other end of the mall the box office for the movies weren’t even open. We bought tickets to the 9:25am showing from a kiosk that was out front and killed the next 45 minutes until the gates opened window shopping.

Go see this movie. If it weren’t for (what I thought) was kind of a heavy handed comment on humans being fat, lazy and ruining the planet we live on, this would have been a perfect movie. Its a love story. Its an adventure flick. The animation is pitch perfect. When you are on the dusty, deserted earth the colors are muted you can feel the grit and when the action is set on the cruising space ship it is bright and joyous.

After the movie we made another circuit of the mall and did a little shopping. I went into FYE to look over the bargain DVDs, hoping to find another bargain gem like Test Tube Babies. I ended up buying the first (and only) season of Firefly. After lunch in the food court (big mistake), with the temperatures now in the 90s and the traffic exponentially heavier than this morning, we called the hotel up and took advantage of their free shuttle back.

To overcome today’s bad lunch experience, we did the same thing we did yesterday, dinner at Razzoo’s!