I hadn’t seen a movie in months, then saw two movies in the past two days; both with my kids. I went to see Get Smart with my 11 year old daughter and her friend, and then Iron Man (what a great movie!) with my 8 year old son.
SPOILER ALERT!
I’m about to reveal pivotal plot points to both movies. If you haven’t seen these movies and are sensitive to these things (I know I am), avert your eyes!
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There. Did I do that right? I’m new to blogging. Maybe I should add some more stars.
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Okay.
In both cases the kids came out of the movie talking about the big surprise double agent — the guy you thought was the friend of the hero, but turned out to be a villain who’d been double-crossing him.
They were shocked when I said that I knew he was a villain from the start of the movie. (Yes, I can impress children with my keen intellect!) But I thought it was funny that I knew about about the villain for the same reason in both movies.
In Get Smart, The Rock is too big a movie star to sign on to a movie where he’s merely one of the protagonist’s friends. He has to have a juicier role, so he must be the mole. (The kids suspected The Chief. Silly kids, don’t you know that The Chief was a regular character in the 1965 TV series, and thus can’t be a villain?!)
And in Iron Man, Jeff Bridges isn’t going sign up just to be the C.O.O. for Robert Downey Jr.’s company. You know he’ll be chewing up some scenery in Act 3.
Ah, the burdens of being a big, sophisticated adult…