Aunt Katie's Choice

We usually go to the cinema Tuesdays, because it’s less crowded and there are often discounts (that’s important when you go as often as we do). We’d expected to see Jack Black in Goosebumps last week, but for some reason the studio bumped the release date back. Instead we got tickets to Walt Before Mickey. The film covered the decade between Walt Disney’s release from service in France at age 17 (!) and the release of his first Mickey Mouse short, Plane Crazy. I’d read about the crushing setbacks Walt faced as he tried to get his company off the ground, but they were hard to watch. It was harder still to see him ALWAYS with a cigarette between his teeth. Walt did smoke, but hated to be seen doing it. I’m guessing if this had been a Disney flick, there’d have been fewer Camels. The movie would have been more entertaining, too.