Bolt 3D

We celebrated Sarah's birthday on Saturday, and with her feet still recovering from the operation, we could only walk as far as Wagamama (how unfortunate for us!) for another tasty katsu curry (described by James as addictive as curried KFC). We returned to Paul and Sarah's swapping gross-out slang meanings and checking out some urban legends and other slang meanings on the Urban Dictionary. The verbs, 'seagull' and to 'donkey punch' were explained. I've since remembered a couple more - 'Bakerloo' and 'stroke the dog through the letterbox'.

On Sunday, I managed to persuade Kerry into some training for Peru with 6 mile round walk to the cinema. Okay, so the journey didn't test us for steepness and altitude sickness but there's some long hills near where we live.

Bolt 3D, the latest Pixar animation was preceded by an interesting trailer for Coraline (YouTube link), a stop-motion 3D film. It had a similar look to Nightmare before Christmas with a lot sewing needles and 3D tunnels to look down. Tokyo Mater followed which was a short animation with same characters from Disney Cars. With the added 3D effects, this was an explosion of colours and cute Japanese cars based on Tokyo drifting and modification. No doubt it will be an extra on the DVD.

The main feature was just as impressive visually starting off with an amazing set piece concluding that the dog had to believe he had superpowers for a TV show. A couple of cats wind him up and he breaks loose and somehow gets posted to New York. The story goes through the soppy, meaningful theme of love and friendship, blah, blah with a road journey back to L.A. to his teenage owner. He picks up a cat and a hamster for mates along the way. The 3D effects were worth the extra ticket price though there were only a couple of stand-out moments where you thought your eyes could be poked out.