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Why movie previews are evil
So, we're walking to Elayna's karate class tonight.
Elayna: Can we see that Polly Prince movie soon?
Me: What movie?
Elayna: The one we saw the preview for this weekend.
Me (brain furiously attemtping to sort through the seventeen awful-looking trailers we saw. It's not Garfield. Maybe that piece of shit Freaky-Friday/Big rip-off?): Is it 13 Going on 30?
Elayna: No. The one with something about a girl named Polly. Along Came Polly!
Me: Oy.
I explained that it was a PG-13 movie whose preview really didn't belong before Cheaper By the Dozen. She understood, but said she couldn't wait until she was thirteen, because that scene with the basketball game (and anyone who has suffered through the trailer knows which one) was so funny.
Sigh.
Elayna: Can we see that Polly Prince movie soon?
Me: What movie?
Elayna: The one we saw the preview for this weekend.
Me (brain furiously attemtping to sort through the seventeen awful-looking trailers we saw. It's not Garfield. Maybe that piece of shit Freaky-Friday/Big rip-off?): Is it 13 Going on 30?
Elayna: No. The one with something about a girl named Polly. Along Came Polly!
Me: Oy.
I explained that it was a PG-13 movie whose preview really didn't belong before Cheaper By the Dozen. She understood, but said she couldn't wait until she was thirteen, because that scene with the basketball game (and anyone who has suffered through the trailer knows which one) was so funny.
Sigh.
THAT scene
THAT scene is hillarious... and unless you were ever an avid basketball player and played street ball *hint,, I was*, you may not quite get or fully understand the context of that scene...
It's not that it's funny, its that it has probably happened to ANYONE playing ANY sport streetwise or even on a team at some point...
Other than that... the movie looked like it was going to be a bomb....
When she IS thirteen, she probably wouldn't want to see the movie. My kid saw the trailer and asked "why do they bother?".... I lost it...
Teens gotta love em
Re: THAT scene
Yeah really - I was watching TV with a 13-yo stepdaughter one evening a while back, and a car commercial came on, and at the end they flashed up the disclaimers as they always do, and she said simply, "I can read that." The delivery was perfect, I totally cracked up to the point oxygen was an issue.
Re: THAT scene