where: AMC BAY STREET 16 in Emeryville, CA
when: Friday, June 24th, 2011
show: 10:00 a.m.
costs: $12.00 Ticket + $8.00 Light Snacker ( small drink & junior popcorn ) + $1.50 Parking Garage Fee + $5.00 Carquinez Bridge Toll = $26.50
auditorium: 8, with the I-Max screen
seat: 3rd row, 8ht seat
synopsis/overview: Lightning McQueen races in the first-ever World Grand Prix. While Tom Mater, in a case of mistaken identity, gets involved in an international espionage mission to put an end to the sabotage on many fancy cars.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) "I'm looking for a car"; 2.) TV camera; 3.) Homecoming; 4.) Fun day; 5.) "Just me and Sally"; 6.) Mel Dorado Show; 7.) "It's three syllables, not ten"; 8.) Japanese night life; 9.) Party; 10.) Drink; 11.) "Ciao, McQueen"; 12.) "Change of plan"; 13.) Wasabi; 14.) Toilet; 15.) Rendezvous; 16.) Torture; 17.) "Francesco is triple speed"; 18.) "He's in the pits"; 19.) "Voice in my head"; 20.) "Tom Mater, average intelligence"; 21.) "You really want this first date, don't you"; 22.) Letter; 23.) Secret agent; 24.) "We're not here to go shopping"; 25.) Informant; 26.) "Lemons"; 27.) "It's organic"; 28.) Dents; 29.) "And there's the insult we were missing"; 30.) "Idiot tow truck"; 31.) "Embrace your inner lemons"; 32.) Racetrack pile-up; 33.) "No Allinol requirement"; 34.) Blown disguise; 35.) Embarrassing moments; 36.) "Big Ben" clock tower; 37.) "Mater would want you to race"; 38.) Back-up plan; 39.) "Go and get some more dents"; 40.) "Reverse the polarity"; 41.) Bomb; 42.) Out of range; 43.) Voice activated; 44.) "Have a nice day"; 45.) Introduction; 46.) "I'm Mater's girlfriend"; 47.) "Once big oil, always big oil"; 48.) "Ka-Ciao, Francesco"; 49.) "Actually, there is one thing"; and 50.) Postcards during the Ending Credits.
audience reaction: The audience liked this movie but nobody gave it a "Hands Clapper" ending.
recommendation: This is a good kid's movie. But it's not as good as any of the other Pixar movies. In fact, the TOY STORY: HAWAIIAN VACATION short film that was shown before this movie is more enjoyable to watch. Take your little brats to see this movie but get there early enough to catch the Toy Story short film.
spoiler alert! Doc. Hudson ( the late Paul Newman's character ) just disappeared without any kind of explanation at all, at least I didn't hear any to the effect. When he was talking to some Italian car in a street scene about friendship, Lightning McQueen's wheels' center-caps didn't turn around when he moved.
fyi: I wanted to have an AMC Pacer back when I was in high school. I simply liked the way it looked, like a giant fat toad! But my classmates didn't see it that way; they thought that it looked more like an UFO on wheels.
My other I-wish-I-had car was the Yugo. I liked how its "back-up" lights were so big, almost as big as headlights. I wanted to buy a Yugo and drive it in reverse at night as fast as I could safely make it go just to see how well the back-up lights work in the dark! And I wanted to get this personalized license plate for my Yugo: "WHEN I GO". But it was never meant to be.
word of advice: If life hands you a "lemon", make lemonade.
tidbits: I went to my dentist first thing this morning before seeing this movie. My dentist said, "You've been my patient for 14 years. When you first came here, I thought that you would lose half of your teeth. You're doing good but with your age and your ( gum ) disease, what you were doing ( for your teeth ) five years ago won't be good enough anymore. You have to step it up ( my oral hygiene care )."
I told him that since my teeth are not sensitive anymore, I am thinking of having my teeth whitened. I want that dazzling smile when I become a Hollywood celebrity as a movie blogger. ( You'll never know .... )
I decided to see this movie in Emeryville, CA, because the Pixar Animation Studios is less than a mile away from this AMC Theatre. And I drove by Pixar on my way to the Rockridge Shopping Center Safeway Grocery Store in Oakland, CA, to buy some french bread to take to Hector's place. There were many cars entering into the Pixar compound. I think that there was a guided tour going on. And I wanted to stop and find out what it was all about, but I couldn't find a curbside parking spot. Darn it!
At Hector's place, I used Meguiar's Headlight Restoration Kit, the $21.95 kit, to polish-up and renew my Hyundai Accent's plastic headlight lens. But IT'S CHEAP STUFF THAT DOESN'T WORK AT ALL!!! Don't buy it!
After working on my car's headlights, I went into the kitchen to see if the boneless pork shoulder that I brought had thawed out enough so that I could rotisserie it. But I found out that it was still pretty much frozen solid. And, to think, I took it out of my freezer at 7:45 a.m. today. Well, that's twice in a row that I couldn't rotisserie a pork shoulder. Last week, I couldn't rotisserie Hector's pork shoulder because it had bone in it. I told Hector to rotisserie my pork shoulder tomorrow because it should be thawed out by then. And, just like last week, I again made spaghetti for everyone today. It was either that or they could just all starve overnight--they know better than to argue with the cook!
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