I have been shielding my eyes from all the Tweets and Facebook status updates about Toy Story 3. We haven't seen it yet, but we will super soon. I think Thursday night. Ian started counting the days until the release of the movie last month. Steve wanted to blow off a Father's Day party to go see the movie.

Kids movies are just fantastic. Steve has a theory that every creative person on the planet is working for Pixar. They're not writing novels or painting portraits. They're making computer animated art. Which is fine by us.

This year we've seen Shrek Forever After, Diary of a Wimp Kid, How to Train Your Dragon, and the Lightning Thief. Dragon was the best. Lightning was the worst. Jonah is going to a movie party tonight to see The Karate Kid.

Steve Zeitchik of the LA Times notes,

That's not just a summer phenomenon. Almost every big hit among the
2010 releases has been a movie whose primary, if not overwhelming,
audience is children 12 and under — "How to Train Your Dragon," "Shrek
Forever After," "Alice in Wonderland."
Ditto for the year's biggest sleeper, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid." In fact,
there isn't a single big-studio movie aimed at children that failed,
save perhaps for "Marmaduke" (and some would argue that wasn't a movie).

Good kid movies make parenting fun.