Theatre and Movie Review Monday

I took this photo on the sly with my cell phone camera when we went to see Wicked last Wednesday. I haven’t had the chance to write about it yet. It was the one bright spot in an otherwise crummy week, but I'm not going to dwell on the crummy part. I had this show before with Jennie, but Ron had never seen it - there was a special on tickets so we went. It’s an interesting spin on the Wizard of Oz and what happened that led up to the Wicked Witch of the West getting melted by a bucket of water. It’s a fun musical – my favorite songs are "Defying Gravity" and "Popular." It's not Les Miserables or even Phantom of the Opera, but it's fun stuff.

Otherwise we did go to the movies on Saturday. Since Ron went with me to see Where the Wild Things Are last week, I thought it was only fair to let him pick the movie this past weekend. Guess what we saw…yes, we went to see Couples Retreat. It was not as bad as I thought it would be - but still it wasn’t great. The characters were all over-the-top caricatures of 4 different married couples. The scene with the yoga instructor was really uncomfortable for me and I could have done without it completely. I'm not a prude or a snob it was just NOT FUNNY! It was not an authentic portrayal of real life or marriage. This movie couldn’t decide if it wanted to say something serious about marriage or if it wanted to be a silly comedy (and really not that funny). All the problems that the couples had were magically resolved by the end of the movie just like in real life – right? WRONG! My recommendation - save yourself $10 and Skip it.

I did watch one of my favorite movies again the other night – Sense and Sensibility. LOVE LOVE LOVE Emma Thompson, Kate Winslett and Hugh Grant in this. I recommend it highly if you enjoy a good romance and if you like period films. It’s just a lovely movie.