Went to see the Incredibles on Sunday evening, with my sisters. This must have been the first time we had gone to the cinema as siblings since Benji the Hunted. That was over seventeen years ago, the UCI Wycombe Six has become the FilmWorks. How times have changed. Managing expectations. That is what must be difficult in not just the movie business but the entertainment industry in general. I am a big fan of computer animation, Toy Story started it all. Then, went I went to see the sequel at the Warner Village in Reading, it took everything to another level. The intro scene was the best I had ever seen, matching, in places, even my dear hero Bond in his big release that same year. The concept behind Monsters Inc. two years later was inventive but at times more directed at the young ones. Last year my friend, Daz had presented me with a DVD copy of Finding Nemo last year, just before I headed home for the holidays. I attempted to kick start a viewing of the animated underwater adventure three times, each ending in disaster. My youngest sister was not interested and I failed to light the imagination of the rest of the family. Admitting bitter defeat, the DVD disappeared behind the other DVD that materialized on Christmas Day. Thankfully, the Disney Channel are screening the British Television Premiere on Sunday 19th December. Perhaps I was expecting too much and was therefore left disappointment, yet I do not want to give the wrong impression. The film is great, hilarious in places and to a certain extent original. However, the plot does have a minor flaw and does cast a shadow over the whole experience. Still go and see it and enjoy the movie for what it is. Entertainment for the children, in the first respect. Also, Disney where are the out takes we have become so accustomed to?

As I write this entry, Arsenal are beating Rosenborg, 4-1 at Highbury, securing themselves a place in the last 16 of the Champions League. Who said anything about a crisis? Bring on the Blues!