During my 10 days off we had many nice opportunities. So we gave it a try. I took my little Princess to the tennis school I once went to when I was little. I was way older than her, so the plan was only looking at other kids playing. Once we got there, she was like "I wanna join those kids", so I asked the teachers and they made her join the activities. She is still younger than the accepted age but they made an exception. It was fun to look at her play with that tiny tennis racket.
The Princess also had her first time at the cinema. We went to watch Ballerina.
It is a French-Canadian movie that came out in February that none of us had seen by the time. I briefly googled it before buying the tickets, just to be sure it really would tell us a story about some dancer and I found out a few more information. When I showed the trailer to the Princess, she was like "I wanna go to cinema!" and I took her.
The movie was very enjoyable. Good animations, nice scripts, great direction and a lot of fun especially for the guardians of the children. The story is easy enough for the kids to follow, and there are many scenes that result very funny for older public. I appreciated this a lot since the parents need to entertain themselves too while taking the kids to the cinema!
I remember my father sleeping when he took me and my siblings to watch Pokemon! I am glad I had no reasons to fall asleep during this one :D
Simple story: two orphans decide to leave their stay to find fortune and fullfill their dreams in Paris. The girl wants to become a ballett dancer and the boy wants to be an inventor. They both somehow make it. The movie goes about the ups and dows, plus envy of the rich girl who was born and raised by her mother only to be a ballerina, another boy who wants to win the heart of the girl and some friendships and parentig relationships evelopments.
A great movie for kids and, as said, very enjoyable for the parents too. Really, me and the mommy next to me were dying from laughter!
What I wasn´t completely satisfied with, is the Italian dubbing. Italy is famous for having the oldest school of dubbers, being the best dubbing country ever. So, what happened!?
Someone had an amazing idea: one of the main charachter being dubbed from a real Italian ballerina. So Eleonora Abbagnato, great dancer and director of the Theatre in Rome, dubbed Odette. Which was very real when she explained all the dancing steps and amazing when the charachter spoke while seen from the back or not seen at all...but unfortunately very poor while you saw the mouth moving. I think she really practiced a lot, but still the synchronizing part didn´t work out so smooth and the voice was too stiff. It sounded like those automated responders with a registered message. I felt sorry for that, since it was a very nice idea to have her in the casting.
And I wasn´t very satisfied with the choice of who dubs Rudolph and how. Rudy is a Russian ballet dancer who came to Paris because of his skills. Would have been fun to have him speak with a bit of accent. Not a clichee one but like slighlty noticing he might not come from around the corner.
Probably I am too demanding, but I spent a lot of time watching Duck Tales (the old serie) with the Princess and it has such a fine and amazing dubbing that I feel too spoiled for any other dubbing.
If you haven´t watched it, grab a copy on amazon:
An update about comics.
Planet Manga is publishing Lupin III from volume 1. It was in stores this month so I just bought it. I am not sure if I ever bought it before (I am pretty sure it was published before) but I don´t remember ever reading it so I decided I should at least read the volume one. I am curious to know how the story is taken care of in its comic version, as I have grown up watching the cartoon.
Bonelli Editore has done its first crossover ever. Dylan Dog and Dampyr are together in one story. The story begins on Dylan Dog 371 and ends in Dampyr 209. Both comics are on sale in August and have two different covers that, put next to each other, will give you the whole illustration. I bought them all four and will be posting the picture of them together later today on my instagram, so be sure to check it out.
