Movie Critics

I LOVE movies and am not a one genre only kind of girl. I will sit through a cartoon, a gritty war movie, a comedy, a romance, and everything in between. Give me a good story, great story, and I am hooked (that goes for books too).  With that being said, and the summer push for great movies, I find myself reading reviews to find out whether or not the movie is worth the cost of a ticket these days or if I should wait the few months it will take to watch the movie from a far less expensive source. What I am finding is that paid movie critics are cynical and sometimes difficult to interpret through their vast word choice. I also find that the movie critics opinion is different than the masses.  Movie lovers like me go for the shear joy of the story, the thrill of the chase, the romantic innuendoes, the happy ending, the not so happy ending, and all the events in between. I think that movie critics forget or chose not to take a movie for what it is. Everything out there is not written to be the next Oscar winning screen write. Some movies are written for pure entertainment value, nothing more, nothing less. For example: I took my kids to see Madagascar 3 over the weekend. From the first movie we know that it is an animated film involving talking animals. We also know that from both the first movie and the second movie they are going to go an adventure, and learn some wise lesson a long the way. Yes, the movie is colorful, and yes it fits the formula used to make the first and second so why would critics be surprised that the movie is just as we expect it to be, a fun family film.