LYLE, LYLE CROCODILE ( 2022 )

I went to the Regal Edwards Fairfield & I-Max, in Fairfield, CA today, July 30th, 2024, a $6.99 All Day Bargain Tuesday, to see this movie. The price of admission was $1.00❗And I bought the kiddy snack pack for $5.00 + tax at the Concessions Counter for a total of $6.37 ( this is the only multiplex in my area that charges tax on Concessions purchases 🙁👎 ).

Auditorium 2, C-9

Scene Commentaries:

I actually saw this movie twice when it came out in October of 2022 because I liked it so much! But I resisted the opportunity to blog about it back then. Today, I'm making up for it!  🙂 Also, I was curious about the $1.00 deal.  And the $5.00 Kid's Pack.   🤑

The Five Dollar Kid's Pack Deal. 🤑

I hope that I was given a Diet

Pepsi because I didn't 

pay attention to 

what was put 

in the cup!

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Since this is a kids' movie, I'll go easy on it.  😏

"You've got to show them something they've never seen before."  🙁

Eddie's Exotic Animals pet store.  😲

The 1st Song & Dance lesson.  🙂

The House Deed.  😕

Stage Fright!  😳

18 months later ....  😒

"Most parents move out of the city once they have kids, not in!"  🥺

"I have no idea what that was."  😃 Even Alexa or SIRI got stumped!  😄

The attic.  😬

"Don't worry. You got this."

Cat in the mouth!  😮

"Did you see that?!"  😁  There's this Urban Legend of alligators in new york sewers! This movie's scene is about it. But, actually, somebody DID put an alligator in a new york storm drain back in the 1930s(?). Why an alligator instead of a crocodile 🐊? Because alligators can survive in snowy weather. So, the newspaper 📰 report on the 1930s(?) alligator eventually just ballooned into an Urban Legend! 

The mugger.  😯

Chocolate Dipped Cherries.  🍒 

The short cut. 👌

The percussion massager.  😀

A friend request.  😉

Dumpster diving.  😐

The bathtub 🛁 scene.  😄

Rooftop dining.  🍽️🕯️ 

Cat with an IBS.  😆

The kitchen helper.  👨‍🍳

3 rooftop CCTVs.  🤨

Pizza for breakfast.  🤤  I'll eat whatever I have available for breakfast. For example, the Kid's Pack that I had while I watched this movie was my breakfast❗😋❗

"It's time to tell your father."  🤨

The surprise visitor.  😯

"We have a crocodile and David Copperfield living in our attic."

Gators Fans. 👌😎👍

The wrestling match.  🤼‍♂️

The magic 🪄 show.  ✨ 

"I thought Lyle had changed."   ☹️

The HOA meeting. 👌 Good one. But how did the magician know?  🤷‍♂️

Animal Control.  😧

The Zoo.  🙁

"Well, why do you keep leaving him?"  😢

A Bask of 🐊 Crocodiles. 🐊 

"This is not life. We've got to show what Lyle can do."  🤨

I like the old motorcycle with a sidecar. 👌

"What's he doing in Times Square?"  🤷‍♂️

A stage performance!  🤩

The courtroom trial.  🧐

"I got you a floatie."  Cute ....  😏

The rattlesnake.  🐍

"Play Lyle's music."   🎼🎵🎶

This is a very entertaining movie to take your little brats to go see! 'Else, I wouldn't have bothered to go see it for the 3rd time❗😊👍

Tidbits:

My late mother had one such ceramic elephant 🐘 flower pot stand. It was exactly like the one shown in a scene. Somewhat like the one shown below:

My brother has it now.

He and his wife

have a lot of 

plants!

All throughout the movie, I would hear the occasional sound of what seemed like a cat purring loudly. Even when the cat on the screen was not in a scene!  Then, I realized that the purring sound was coming from behind me. There was someone in the audience who was breathing through a portable respirator.

I hope that the person behind me who was using a respirator doesn't get covid.  🤞 Because such a patient would have to be intubated❗And as a rule, A PATIENT SHOULD NOT BE INTUBATED FOR OVER 48 HOURS OR THEY WILL DIE❗😠❗ It angered me to hear this from a statement of a Respiratory Therapist because the CDC & the Fake News Media claimed that it was the PLANdemic virus that killed all of the intubated patients❗😡❗🤬❗

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After I wrote this, I still had time to walk around the shopping mall. I bought a movie ticket first.  😎

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Here are today's 24-Hour Le Cine-Man's Race winners. Drumroll  🥁  please ....

Congratulations to Singapore for 

winning in 1st place!

🎉🎇🏆🎆🎊

🇸🇬🥇🇸🇬

❗❗

🍾

Congratulations to the USA for 

winning in 2nd place!

🇺🇲🥈🇺🇸

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Congratulations to Israel for 

winning in 3rd place!

🇮🇱🥉🇮🇱

❗❗

Congratulations to Russia for 

winning in 4th place!

🇷🇺🏅🇷🇺

❗❗

And congrats to Germany for 

rounding up the Top 5!

🇩🇪🎖️🇩🇪

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Note: I used this earlier screenshot from 4:20 p.m. and not the one from 5:01 p.m. because the previous one shows Russia's participation in this race; but the latest one doesn't! I checked with the race results from yesterday and the day before; neither one has Russia in the chart. Race results are supposed to stay up for 👉24 hours👈! So, I don't know why Russia was allotted fewer hours on the chart. But my decision is based on giving credit where it is due. Therefore, I go with what the 4:20 p.m. time shows.

Thanks to the countries that participated in today's 24-Hour Race to the Finish! 🏁       🛣️       🏎️

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OLD DOGS, PG ( 1 hr & 28 min )

where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
show: 4:35 p.m.
costs: $7.25 Ticket + $4.25 medium Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's & Cherry flavors ) Coke = $11.50
auditorium: 1
seat: 3rd row, 6th column

synopsis: Teaching a pair of old dogs some new tricks.

Seven years after a wild night out of drinking, partying and sex to ease the pain of his divorce, Dan ( Robin Williams ), finds himself the unexpected father of fraternal twins, Emily ( Ella Blue Travolta ) and Zach ( Conner Rayburn ) through a one-night marital fling with Vicki ( Kelly Preston ) at a very inopportune time: He and his best friend/business partner, the fun-loving bachelor, Charlie ( John Travolta ), are about to land the biggest business deal of their lives. Frantically multi-tasking together to balance family life with business life, they soon find out that they need to prioritize the role which is the most important for all those concerned.

noteworthy scenes: 1.) Out at the park; 2.) "Fremont"; 3.) Incontinent old dog, Lucky ( Sebastian ); 4.) Tanned Dan; 5.) The surprise; 6.) Bathroom break; 7.) Jenna's ( Rita Wilson ) hands; 8.) "We" not "me"; 9.) Pamela's Restaurant; 10.) Flirting with the interpreter, Amanda ( Lori Loughlin ); 11.) At Casa De Amore, an "adults only" community; 12.) Charlie's "crib"; 13.) Safety Squad; 14.) Pioneer Campground orientation; 15.) Tent-building; 16.) Bear skat; 17.) Touch Frisbee; 18.) Skeet shooting; 19.) Medicine cabinet; 20.) Golf game; 21.) Bereavement club; 22.) Jimmy Lunchbox ( Bernie Mac ); 23.) King Fontana and Princess Emily; 24.) Board of Marketeers; 25.) Baseball game; 26.) "Final and only" offer; 27.) Hand-made presents; 28.) Family talk; 29.) Failed proposition; 30.) The sad news; 31.) The zoo; 32.) The group photo; and 33.) Photo-shopped picture montage ( beginning credits ) and dedication to Bernie Mac and Jett Travolta ( ending credits ).

audience reaction: The audience enjoyed this funny movie although it didn't get a "Hands Clapper" at the end.

recommendation: This movie has some very funny scenes involving the unintentional misuse of prescription drugs. Go see this movie.

spoiler alert! Vicki said that her twins were 7 years old but she and Dan met 7 years ago so either she's bad in math or she came with a pair of "luggage" that eventful evening! Why would Charlie have an incontinent dog inside the house and sleeping in his bed? Why don't they know what their prescription drugs look like? The group shot at the end shows the infant and the kids with a big grin on their faces as if to imply that the little ones--and all the non-medicated ones, for that matter--have a "habit" ....

fyi: Seth Green loves to play the role of a "bitch" for big, hairy creatures. 'Remember 2004's WITHOUT A PADDLE?

I had a cat named Winky II, an orange tabby Manx of the "rumpie" kind, which became incontinent in its old age. I used to tell him, E. Mush ( my nickname for him ), you smell like "old fart" with bladder problem. But despite his incontinence, and also chronic diarrhea in his old age which forced us to keep him outdoors most of the time, he was my number one favorite cat.

I found Winky II as an abandoned little kitten out on the street. He was so weak and sleepy when I took him in that he barely moved around for about three days except to feed himself. He bonded with me. I named him Winky II because we had an orange ( with white underbelly ) Rex back in the Philippines of the same name. My eldest sister took pity on him and said, "You're like Little Orphan Annie." And I quipped, He's more like little orphan anus!

I remember Winky II's first Halloween with us in 1985. He had been out all night. Early the next day before dawn, I went to my 1978 Honda Civic CVCC Hondamatic parked at the curb and warmed it up before leaving for work. Then, I noticed Winky II sitting on the sidewalk in front of our old house in East Oakland, CA and looking at me through nearly closed eyes. Since my car was still warming-up, I decided to go to him and pet him first before leaving. As I went to pet him, I noticed that between his front paws was a roll of Sweetart ( you know, as in "sweetheart" ) candy. I guess he spent the night observing the little trick-or-treaters collect candies door-to-door and made the connection that such things are important to humans and therefore presented me with one that a kid had unknowingly dropped! That little snack-size candy is by far and away THE BEST PRESENT anyone had ever given me!

Winky II was a very smart cat, he always observed me to see which of the things he did would please me and which wouldn't. And he would always make it a point to please me. I miss him so much. Perhaps, I shall blog again about him someday when it becomes appropriate.

word of advice: Familiarize yourself well with the prescription drugs that you take and don't trust anybody to sort/organize them for you.

Even animals have human characteristics ( "Animals are people, too" ). So, what makes a human human?

When it comes to presents, indeed, "it's the thought that counts."

tidbits: I walked to Office Depot after the show to buy a 12-pack of pocket size notebooks for my movie reviews. Then, I went to the CVS store to buy straps for my wristwatch but they don't sell them anymore. Finally, I went to the Dollar Tree store at the Target Shopping Center to buy a toilet bowl cleaner and an umbrella. They sold out of umbrellas. Before I got in my car, I called my sister in Michigan to see if she already had read my blog on THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON. She said that she already did, and that it was funny; but she hasn't finished reading my blog on 2012 yet.