march of the penguins

it's amazing how much emperor penguins go through to make babies. truly amazing. have you ever heard anyone say that you can tell a movie is good when you forget that you're in a theatre? well, right when i was really starting to become immersed in the movie a woman with two children (who both had to be under the age of five) sat down directly behind us. one of the children kept kicking the back of scott's chair. after turning around and giving the appropriate glaring looks to the mother, he finally made a comment. the woman said that he could just ask the girl to stop and she would stop. do i have to point out the flaw in her line of reasoning? is it someone else's job to parent her child? if i noticed my son kicking the back of someone's seat, i would immediately tell him to stop. if he kept asking me questions, you would hear me shushing him. she did neither of these things. in addition, each time Morgan Freeman used a word the child didn't understand she would say, "what's that mean?" this happened enough to break my concentration with annoying regularity. March of the Penguins is not a children's movie. at least not until it comes out on dvd and the mother can rent it or buy it for her kids so they can watch it at home instead of ruining other peoples' viewing experience.