A kids’ movie just isn’t produced any more without all sorts of tie-ins. For a movie that we really enjoyed (as we did this one), I think of a tie-in as something to help us remember the movie — a sort of souvenir. As part of my press junket goodie bag, I received a few neat tie-ins that I wanted to share.
Sleepy Kittens
Just the fact that this book exists makes me happy. The bedtime story theme is so sweet in the movie, and having this as a tie-in is a lot of fun.
There is not a little brush that comes out of the book, like in the movie, but it’s still a lot of fun. The little kitties are finger puppets like in the movie.
And even though it’s supposed to be the epitome of an awful bedtime story, in truth, kids often like the simple stories that we adults find to be drivel, and I was surprised to agree that it makes a fairly good bedtime story that my son enjoyed.
Despicable Me The Game: Minion Mayhem
We are fairly new to the DS (having received one from Nintendo for review purposes of 100 Classics Books). My kids were excited, and we bought a few games for it. My kids are used to playing games on the ipod Touch, and at first, I was not at all impressed with the graphics and functions of the games we bought.
Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem is the newest, most recently designed and released game that they’ve played on it, and to me it’s a world of difference.
The levels are fun, and a little challenging without being frustrated. The game plot line goes along with the plot of the movie too.
Other Despicable Me posts:
- Despicable Me Movie Review
- Despicable Me movie loves Social Media
- Miranda Cosgrove interview
- Julie Andrews — Legend of the Screen, Literacy Advocate
- How I Met Jason Segel
- Steve Carell, Nice Guy and Super Dad
Disclosure: Universal Studios paid my expenses to attend the press junket for Despicable Me, but my opinions are my own. I truly love this movie, and who wouldn’t love meeting Steve Carell and Julie Andrews?
I saw a short bit about the Kitties book on the trailer, and I cracked up! JAM would very much like to go see this movie, so I hope we get to do that before it goes out of the theater.