December 22, 2007

Okay, I went and saw it. Took the two older kids.

I loved National Treasure. (And not just because Sean Bean was so dastardly hawt in it.) I thought it was so clever and really fun. Totally unbelievable, but fun just the same.

I knew the second one, National Treasure: Book of Secrets had no chance of living up to the first one, but there was no way I was going to miss seeing it anyway.

And it didn't…but it wasn't as bad as I expected it to be. Really. I wasn't sitting in my chair wishing for the movie to be over. I laughed many times. I loooooooved Helen Mirren. And I only rolled my eyes twice (once during the ridiculous [requisite] car chase scene).

Ugh. Why do they have to put a car chase in every frigging movie nowadays?

During those interminable scenes, I spend more time worrying about who's going to clean up the mess, and which insurance company is going to pay than caring about the pursuers and pursuees.

(One nice thing about writing a historically-set series is that if they ever make it into a movie, there will be no car chase scene! Yes!) 

So, anyway, it's worth seeing I think. It's not nearly as good as the first, but nor does it suck. It's a fun family movie. Great way to kick off what was (for us) a holiday weekend.