watching a cartoon is so much funnier when watching it with a kid (not that the kid in me has ever gone away!)

Partially because it was so hot again in Boston and I wanted to be in air conditioning and  in part because I did actually want to go see it, I went out with a friend to see Monsters University at the cinema. Monsters University is a fun movie all about monsters learning how to scare kids (a premise which probably sounds anti-kid but it is really funny.) At one point in the movie when the action got quiet for a minute or two, all of a sudden a child in the theater roared just as the monsters in the film were learning such a technique. The kid's timing was perfect and it got quite a bit of laughter from the rest of the crowd. I'm glad I went on a night when a lot of families with children were there as well. There's something about kids' reaction to children's movies. They laugh at all the right moments and even though in other circumstances it might be annoying, the way they make their feelings known about certain scenes in movies that especially affect them emotionally, makes those scenes all the more interesting and fun. So if you go to see Monsters University I hope there's at least a small group of kids there as well so the inner child that is still in you can enjoy the movie even more because of their influence!