Veggie Tales: Introducing a new Latino star, even if he is just a gourd
We had a little rite of passage here this weekend: Maria saw her first movie on the Big Screen. We saw the new Veggie Tales movie: "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything." I picked it because it is a "G" movie and I knew no witches, trolls or dead mothers would make appearances. My fierce girl is tender-hearted and, these days, easily frightened."That's the biggest TV I have ever seen!'' she said, sitting in my lap. I tried not to fall asleep in the first 15 minutes of watching talking vegetables in a warm, dark room. It weirded me out that some of them don't have eyes and none have arms.
Anyway, it was a hit with the 4-year-old.
The moral of the story: "Anyone can be a hero" and I am happy to find a Latino funnier than George Lopez - Sedgewick the Squash. If I ignore the stereotypes of laziness and the Frito Bandito accent, the slacker squash with the bad 'stache was muy funny.
So, because it was fun and age-appropriate (save for the evil pirates), and because those Big Idea guys are basically neighbors of mine in Middle Tennessee, I'm not going to harp on the cultural stuff I would have changed. Nobody asked me, anyway. (They've gotten good reviews, but here's a review one that makes my point.)
Here's the trailer, meng.
My kids were raised on Veggie Tales!
Good choice for Maria’s first Big Screen viewing.
(BTW,You get over the no arms thing pretty quickly. =D)
It’s funny how the gourd guy says he can swim 92 miles… I wonder if that’s how he came to the U.S.