We have officially opened the Oscar Movie Viewing Season as of last night. The short lists will not be announced until next Tuesday, and the finalists for Best Animated Feature Film will not even be amongst them, but this is about attitude more than anything else, and we are ready to spend the next three months watching both possible and definite Oscar nominees. In many ways, the guessing what might make the cut is as fun as watching the final 50 or so movies that actually get nominated, and it is something I look forward to.
This is a likely contender for the final five, and my son and I really enjoyed it--we do not think it has winner written all over it, but it was fun, and quirky, and definitely not a cookie cutter movie. The Mitchells have two kids who are nerds, Katie is into movie making and her brother Aaron knows absolutely everything there is to know about dinosaurs. There is the inevitable generation gap at work, which has been widened by technology. She has a creative spirit that has led to directing viral YouTube videos; whereas her dad has no idea how to use a computer to even watch the videos that have kind of made his daughter a star. The personality divide between Katie and her dad feels even wider as she’s planning to go off to film school to pursue her dreams, and he’s afraid she'll fail. So, in a last ditch effort to connect with her, the whole family heads off on a road trip to take her to college, which gets derailed by a rogue AI techno-apocalypse. What could go wrong? It is maybe too busy and zany for some, but we really enjoyed it.
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