Pam and I just got back from seeing The Incredibles, the latest Pixar movie. It was a great deal of fun, with lots of humor. Very unlike any previous Pixar movie. It may well be my favorite of all of the Pixar movies thus far. We also saw the trailer for Cars, the 2005 Pixar movie. It’ll be a good one, too. We went to the Sunday 8 pm showing, figuring there wouldn’t be a bunch of kids there. And there weren’t—just a handful of adults. Very nice.

On Saturday we saw National Treasure, with Nicholas Cage. I don’t think critics really cared for it, but it was a very fun ride. Lots of history in it, and more humor than I was expecting. There is validity in calling it a modern-day Raiders of the Lost Ark—there are certainly parallels. I liked it a lot more than I was expecting, and would recommend it.

We also saw, for the first time, the trailer for the next Star Wars movie, the one which tells about the rise of Darth Vader. It looks like it’ll be a great movie. The last two (episodes 1 and 2) have not been well received, at least in comparison to the original three movies, but I’ll bet this one goes all out.