Bub & Me: P-P-Popcorn Baby!! Her First Movie Theatre Experience

We all like to watch movies, even Lil Pumpkin. Most of the time, we'll snuggle in bed for lazy movie nights at home. Recently, the boy and I decided to be more adventurous and bring Lil Pumpkin out to the movies at a cinema to watch Oz the Great and Powerful. She saw the movie posters a few weeks back and was very interested to watch it.

It was not an easy decision. It's not like Lil Pumpkin can't sit still for 2 hours {she can if she wants to}, but that she's such a little chatterbox during movies! She's always asking questions like "what happened?", "why did she do that?", "is that a girl or boy?", "how come there's no light??" etc. or she will start singing random songs! It's most frustrating during climaxes, when she says something to kill the moment. Even the scariest movie loses its horror effect with her around haha.

Lil Pumpkin has been to live performances before, but watching a movie in a cinema is so different from that. Audience participation and cheering is usually encouraged during live performances, but people tend to like to enjoy their cinema movies in silence.You know.. people like me ;p

We decided to give it a try anyway. If she doesn't behave well, we'll just not bring her there until she's older. If she's all right, that means more chances to watch current movies for us! Yay! Our strategy for Operation Pumpkin at the Movies was simple - give her a huge bucket of popcorn to keep her quiet during the movie, or bring her out of the theatre for a short walk if she got too noisy.

Actually, we gave her TWO big buckets of popcorn (^^)V Look how happy she is! Don't be fooled by her tiny size, she can actually finish almost one bucket by herself.

We borrowed a booster seat so that she will be able to see the screen better. Unfortunately it's all plastic so I think it was quite uncomfortable for her. They should get those with cushions but I guess they will be more of a hassle to clean. Especially when kids eat popcorn or drink their sodas heh. Lil Pumpkin sat in it throughout the movie though and didn't ask to sit on our laps. There was quite a lot of space actually as we could lift up the arm rests. As expected, she started asking questions which we quickly answered and luckily, there were other kids in the cinema too who chattered.. so it wasn't like she was the only one talking in the cinema!

I'm rather pleased that she managed to understand the gist of the story. Witches, princesses, castles, magic all appeal to her very much so she was very engrossed in the movie. One funny part was when she suddenly shouted "jie jie" because she saw the subtitles and recognised the Chinese characters 姐姐 {older sister}! Looks like her Chinese enrichment classes are helping :)

Overall, Operation Pumpkin Goes to the Movies was quite a success! We saw the ad for the upcoming Ironman movie and Lil Pumpkin was quite excited about that too. She likes The Avengers as well so we will try to bring her for that if we can. 

If you are also thinking of bringing your bub to the movies, Golden Village {GV} has Mums and Babies promotions for babies and kids below 90cm for family-friendly movies. Selected GV cinemas are designed to create an environment conducive for movie-going parents with babies and toddlers in tow which includes diaper tables, lower volume and some lights left on. Kids under aged 12 also get to watch movies free every day {except Public Holidays & eve of Public Holidays} at all GV cinemas with the purchase of 2 standard tickets. We didn't get this offer because we bought our tickets online. Check their website for more promotion details.

Have your brought your young kids to the movies yet? How was it?

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