We saw this on our rainy day in St. George. We saw it in 3D, with a full theater of families all rained out of their Spring Break in the southland. Maybe it was just because of the Viking connection I feel with our schools, but I thought this was a darling movie! The story is common enough: The clan leader's son feels like he doesn't belong, but soon discovers he has an unusual talent that runs contrary to everything his people have always believed. He perseveres with his way of thinking and soon convinces the group that just because it is different doesn't make it wrong. And they all lived happily ever after. The Vikings so speak with Scottish accents, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
The second movie I would highly recommend, I finally saw last night. I picked up the DVD after hearing so many people rave about it. I took a chance, and it paid off--for once. I am talking about The Blind Side.
I somehow never made it to the theater to see this one. Now I wish I had, just to make my ticket purchase "vote" for a good film. Sandra Bullock winning the Oscar for this is a little suspicious to me, but the story is worth the hype she brought this film. The story, is sadly not as common as the other movie. Big black boy from the wrong side of town, in and out of foster care, is taken in by a white family and encouraged, and loved, and taught without care for the differences others see in them. And they eventually all live happily ever after. I loved that this was based on a true story, even if it was "Hollywoodized". Leigh Ann's comment to her socialite friends that she 'wasn't changing Micheal 's life, he was changing hers' demonstrates that pure love sees no color but wants only the best in the other. Not quite the two hanky movie I expected from all I'd heard from it, but that could have been the fact that I had to restart the movie twice and answer several questions during the movie. But I still loved it and am happy to have purchased it for our family library.
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