Lilo & Stitch

So I watched Lilo & Stitch today, and I actually found it somewhat refreshing, for a Disney animated movie. Lilo was a screwed up little kid, and today there are so many screwed up little kids in the world that it was nice, for once, to not see the perfect child as a star. And even her sister…her tummy had a bit of extra weight on it and she really shouldn’t have been wearing navel-baring shirts. So in a way the movie rang very true to me.

Stitch had some neat animations, but as is so often the case, the CGI animation and the hand drawn animation really didn’t blend well. The basic story has been done to death but there were enough fun twists and angles to it that it made it quite enjoyable. Some of the voices seemed wrong…Lilo’s sister sounded more Hispanic than Hawaiian to my ears, but then I’ve never been to Hawaii.

All in all though, a fun film. Nothing amazing…just a decent rental for a rainy day.

Bitten

Last night I started in on Bitten (Women of the Otherworld, Book 1). It was late and I didn’t get much past the prologue but that bit was pretty entertaining. Its about a woman in modern times who is a werewolf. Yeah, back to genre fiction. 😉

Anyway, haven’t read enough to talk about the book, but oddly I wanted to talk about the publisher. Its from Plume, which is a division of Penguin Books. Its a paperback (I read in bed a lot so prefer paperbacks to hardcovers since the book is often resting on my chest.) but its got a really nice binding and feels like a ‘real book’ if you know what I mean. The cover has a flat finish rather than that glossy cheap-seeming dimestore paperback stuff.

I know, I’m being weird. But I just really like the feel of this book in my hands.