The Review - The Muppets

So my favourite movie watched over the Summer was, in a word: Muppets. Or more precisely The Muppets. Has such an awesome, technicolour, feel-good, leave the cinema humming, puppet-filled movie ever been made? Answer: probably not.

Now, just so you know, I am a Muppet fan. My dad is a huge Muppet fan and can do quite an impressive Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy. Actually when I was little for a time I was quite convinced that Fozzie Bear was a colleague of my dad's, because whenever he called home from work he'd always put Fozzie on the phone to say "Hi", or more specifically: "Wacka wacka wacka."

So in short, I grew up on the Muppets, and therefore am probably quite biased in this review. However, I will also be the first to admit that there have been some woefully bad Muppet movies. Thankfully this is not one of them. I think the Director, James Bobin, has done such a fine job with this. I love the colour, the songs (so catchy), Amy Adams' wardrobe, and how self-referential it is. If you haven't seen it, then do yourself a favour and go - these fun, family-friendly movies unfortunately don't come around too often these days.

Side note: I love that these two (below) are supposed to be brothers. The fact that one appears to be a muppet is never really addressed and as an audience member you're okay with that.

Question: Why are Kermit and Miss Piggy never mentioned on lists of famous couples?

Statler: If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were reciting some sort of important plot point.
  Waldorf: I hope so. Otherwise I would've bored half the audience half to death.
Statler: You mean half the audience is still alive?

So take a leaf out of Rowlf's book: get off your hide and go see the movie.

Until next time :)

Life's a happy song when you have...(seriously can't get the song out of my head!)

The Celebration - Luke's Birthday

I'm back! Sorry, my friends, for the huge delay between posts. It has just been so crazy since I got back from holidays. "Work, work, work" would be an apt way to describe my life recently. But never fear, I have not forgotten you. So please step into my time machine and we will go back 1 month exactly, which was of course my wonderful hubby's birthday.

I won't tell you how old he turned, as that really wouldn't be very polite, but let's just say it involved a 2 and a 7, and you can work out in which order they should go.

The morning started with some yummy pancakes and berry sauce made by Bex.

Of course, merely giving Luke his presents is far too easy, in my opinion. Just because it's your birthday doesn't mean you should just be given your presents. So I made him work for them in the form of a scavenger hunt around Wellington. :)

Hee hee, but don't worry - he managed to solve them all. Smart cookie that he is. And here he is opening his birthday gift at one of our favourite cafes, "Sweet Mamma's Kitchen."

It was then on to Yum-Cha for lunch, where Luke received more presents, including a wonderful card made by Alina and Michael.

It was Joseph and Michael's first Yum-Cha experience, but they got the hang of it pretty quickly - See something that looks yummy, nod "yes" to the waiter and consume. See something questionable, shake head "no" and wait for the yummy-looking food to come around again.

Like father, like son?

I love green tea! I always drink buckets of it at places like this. So yummy.

 

The newly weds :) So cute.

Back to our place for more birthday fun. :) Luke looking like a budding masterchef in his new apron.

 Anyway, hope you all had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Until next time :)