Those are the two movies I’ve seen this weekend. The Devil wears Prada and a Strawberry Shortcake movie. Two very different end of the spectrum!
On Saturday I ended up babysitting my friend Jules’s little boy Malcolm and my friends Dave and Valerie’s little girl Katya. I was a little intimidated about going from being in charge of zero children to caring for two of them, but I think it went pretty well. Well, except perhaps for John, who is not used to children at all and ended up spending most of the afternoon and evening hiding out in the basement. But they are both sweet, smart and fun kids and for the most part we had a good time.
I had to laugh at myself while we watched the Strawberry Shortcake movie. I’ve obviously have spent too much time watching gangster movies and cynical shows like Deadwood and Rescue Me. At one point in the story Strawberry Shortcake story they go visit a girl who has a cookie machine. Her machine goes all crazy, but they eventually get it sorted out and she sends the shortcake crew on their way with a cookie jar full of cookies. When Strawberry Shortcake goes to eat one, the baker says “Not before lunch” which is no doubt meant to help parents reinforce the no sweets before meals rule. But what did I think? “She knows her cookies are crap and she wants to make sure they are long gone before they eat any of those cookies!” And then later, when they ran into a boy who made them party hats out of foliage, and my first thought was “I bet he’s making those out of poison ivy or something.” There was nothing wrong with the hats though. Their cart rolled in to a river of fudge after that for some reason, but the party hats were incidental to the story.
Then today I went to see The Devil Wears Prada with my friend Becky. It was a cute movie, and we both thought Meryl Sreep did a great job. They did change the story from the book a bit, but it still worked. And for me, it had the bonus of conforming to my expectations. When I thought someone was going to be bitchy, they generally were, unlike that sneaky Strawberry Shortcake.
I read that out of sequence and thought you'd watched the Strawberry Shortcake movie on your own.