People will apparently pay good money (45 million dollars of it) to see rapping CGI rodents.
Why? Are your lives so empty you'll kill two hours for this? Do your children hate you so much that they'll willingly sit through this just so they don't have to look at you? Are children utterly devoid of standards? Will they sit through any crap whatsoever?
Of course, I'm commenting on a movie I have not seen, nor will I see it. So maybe it's pretty good. But I doubt it. And, I suppose there wasn't much competition out there.
I gotta come up with something positive for my next post. My daughter has dubbed me Crabby the Elf, and my wife keeps telling me four ghosts are going to visit me one night.
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I think you truly underestimate the amount of crap that Hollywood produces a year and that includes "family" films. I don't know why you've singled out this particular film, it could just as well as have been Underdog.
But why? Why do people subject themselves to crap? Do children lack the capacity for critical judgment?
You miss what I'm saying- Hollywood makes just as much crap for adults as they they do for children. And as long as they make money, they'll keep doing it. I'm sure Alvin costs about 30 million to make and it will bring in at least 50-80 million in the theaters and even more for dvd sales and toys. If anything, children's movies are more lucrative due to the Toy tie-ins they can do.
(You also overestimate the taste of the American public)
I don't think I'm overestimating anything. I know people line up for crap, I just don't understand why.
And it's not even like it's the good kind of crap. If it were Vegas Vacation or Underworld Evolution, I'd understand. Is Alvin the 6 year old equivalent of hot leather clad vampire chick movies?
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