Monkey Kingdom - Barney's Incorrect Five Second Reviews

Emergency texts do not exist in this dojo! Karma is a bitch, Barney. Sorry to hear you smashed your phone but damn man, put it in your pocket in the theater. Don't be one of those idiots glaring the phone over text messages during a movie. Besides, what's a phone compared to a hug from the daughter unit?

Sounds like this movie might be worth checking out with the family so thanks for the scoop, sir. How did your 4 year old handle it?

She was pretty engaged in the first half and then started to drift a bit. I kept a close eye on her when the monitor lizard showed up, no more nightmares please, but she was fine.

She actually really responded to one part of the film that totally impressed me. At one point, the monkeys are looking for food in this small pond. They start diving in and going underwater to find lilly blooms or something. Emily says out loud in her tweety bird voice, "I dint know monkeys cud swim underwatah!" and then 2 seconds after she says it the narrator says, "I bet you didn't know monkeys could swim underwater!" It was eerie.

I keep the phone pretty hidden and hunch over it, no one can see a thing. If there's anyone in my row or the row behind me, I keep it in the pocket. Most of the time I sit in the top row so I can text if I have to without bothering anyone (obviously only if no one is in top row with me). But yeah, it feels like Alama Drafthouse-level karmic retribution. Now i gotta drop over a hundred bucks to upgrade to a z30 BlackBerry which I don't think I want.

And yeah, her sitting in my lap was like 100x better.

Anyway, it's a decent documentary. Emily was way more engaged and blown away by SONG OF THE SEA which I reviewed earlier this year. After that movie ends she belts out in a packed theatre, "I WANNA SEE IT AGIN!"

Sounds like you went ape over that movie.