it was sold out. We made the mistake of trying to go to a 6pm screening before plans to go to a local Mexican restaurant for dinner and margaritas at 9pm. Since we couldn’t change our dinner plans, we opted to see Now You See It, Now You Don’t, which is the third movie of a franchise of which I never saw the first two. I caught on. 😉 It wasn’t the movie I thought I’d be seeing but it was a fun caper popcorn movie with a good cast. No regrets.
While waiting for that movie to let out the screening before, we hung out at a cafe table in the lobby people watching. The place was packed with lots of kids going to see Wicked and Zootopia2. It was really very cute. So many little girls came dressed as Galinda in their long tulle pink gowns, wearing light up crowns and sparkly tiaras and wielding magic wands. One little girl kept tapping her magic wand on the claw machine to try to save a stuffy from its glass prison. Luckily, her dad came along and won one for her the traditional way. I swear, the independent owner of the theater, has that machine rigged so that parents (mostly dads) are constantly winning stuffies for their kids. If it’s intentional, it’s smart because it gives the youngest generation of movie goers another good memory of going to a theater as a kid to see movies instead of just associating movies with the couch.
There were also lots of kids wearing animal hats to Zootopia2. The theater staff was even wearing animal hats and headbands with ears. Numerous girls were wearing pink pussy hats, possibly borrowed from their moms who wore them during protests.
I didn’t see any kids dressed as Elphaba. But I’m guessing that if I was there for a 9pmish screening lots of older teens and twentysomethings would have been wearing Elphaba costumes instead of Galinda costumes. The littler kids still want to be Galinda, pink and popular. It’s good that so many younger kids don’t identify with being the outsider yet.
