Well, we managed to get Kai sat on last night (by his Nana, thanks Jan!) which meant we could take advantage of those free tickets. I was a bit wary that it was some sort of elaborate hoax, but no, my cynicism was misplaced and we genuinely were on ‘the list’.
Kir and I were scratching our heads wondering just why I was offered the tickets, its not like I’m in the market for a convertible Micra. In the end I decided that since the film we saw comes out on Friday, it was an attempt to hype it up via bloggers websites, and hopefully get Nissan and the Micra mentioned in the process, no harm in that I guess, its an interesting marketing idea.
Anyway, I might as well sell out and do the honourable thing. On to my very quick review.
The film was good, better than we all expected actually. I had geared myself up for a shallow-but-entertaining tale about a frumpy girl who makes it big in the fashion world. What we actually saw was the story of a frumpy girl who gets a job she doesn’t really want as a stepping stone to bigger and better things, the downside to the job is that her boss is a very ‘difficult’ woman and for the first half of the movie ‘Andy’ spends her time trying to cope with increasingly impossible demands. Once she gets her head around surpassing her bosses’ expectations the film takes a turn, she’s now successful, but her personal life is suffering. In the end the film poses questions about the balance of working life and private life which I think a lot of people will relate to. It was fairly entertaining; we branded it a Sunday afternoon film. The ‘Nigel’ (played by Stanley Tucci) character was good, very dry humour and towards the end, some very well acted scenes which show he has a bit more depth than a camp fashion expert.
On a side note - what’s happened to Cinema nachos?! They’re ROUND! 0_O
