When we were little, mom used to rent tapes for us to watch. In the eighties it was Chip ‘n Dale and the assorted Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck cartoons. My first big screen experience was ‘Beauty and the Beast‘ in 1991; it was wonderful.
With that in mind, I have been introducing cartoons to Ryan in hopes that he would have similar memories when he grows up. He is used to watching Animal Planet, Discovery Channel and National Geographic, and he seems to have a distinct liking for animals. My mom and his mom have also been introducing different animals to him — elephants, tigers, lions, rabbits, fish etc.
So one day I thought he would appreciate Finding Nemo, with all the fish in it and all that. FIfteen minutes into the movie, I realised that it was a bit too violent for a nearly 2-year old kid, and switched to Bambi instead. Needless to say, Ryan got bored out of his wits and began jumping around, doing everything but watch the damn movie. An auntie’s good intentions thwarted.
Later on, he seemed to enjoy The Incredibles with a 65% rapt attention span. That is a very good percentage for a hyper active toddler. It also indicated that while he likes animals ( his mother took him to the zoo and he had a heck a good time ), it does not necessarily means that he enjoys watching them in cartoon forms for more than an hour.
So I bought Cars because I liked the movie, and I thought Ryan would like it too.
I was right, and this is a snapshot of him watching Cars on my laptop in my room.
In fact, I was too damn right. Since then whenever he looks at me, he would demand, “CARSSSS CARSSS CARRRRRRRRSS CARRRSS CARSSs carrsss … ah yii… carssssssssss CARSsssssssss CARRSS yao yao yao yao yao yao yao yao yao CARSSSSSSSS Carss carsss AH YI cars!! yao kan yao kan yao kan yao kan yao kan yao kan yao kan CARSSsssssss !!!!!!!!!!!111111”
( ah yi = auntie; yao = want; yao kan = want to watch )
Now I know every scene, every character, every line, every colour, every anything there is to know about Cars. While HE possibily thinks that it is a movie that goes on forever. And he does not want to watch anything else. No Toy Story, no Lion King, no Monsters Inc, just CARS, CARS and even MORE CARS.
Anyway, here’s a 45 second video clip of Ryan watching Cars.
He better appreciate me when he grows up, that’s all I’m saying.
There’s something particularly addictive about Cars to children.
My son, who’s 4, can never seem to get bored of it! I guess he had probably watched it for at least 8 times to date.
…and he watches it on my notebook computer as well 😛
Boys and cars. Inseparable.
Someone teach Ryan about Transformers please.
no wonder he likes me… ahahhaha 😛
awwww so sweet watching him watch Cars so khusyuk. And I love Cars too. Killer soundtrack.
Beauty and the Beast!
I can remember my mum rushing home in a cab many years ago just to bring us to Cathay to watch it! I think it was my 1st as well. 🙂
Nostalgic.
What can I say? Ryan looks absolutely adorable in that clip, so engrossed in the movie, hopefully that will be the same look on his face in the classroom when he is old enough to go to skool!
By the way, Ryan has a canny resemblance to Crayon Shin Chan, dun ya think???
As usual .. my godson … sigh. so kiut! hahaha. he looks so adorable watching the movie! 😀
WAHAKAKAHAHAHAHA SO KIUT!!!! AHHAHAHAHAEHAHEAHEAEIAHEHA LMAOLMAOLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ahem. I’m another one who can watch CARS over and over again. I watched it FOUR TIMES in the cinema. AND twice on DVD. AND I have almsot the entire collection of toy Cars, including SEVEN different versions of Lightning McQueen. Eheh.
he looks like Shin Chan. Heh
Azmeen: hah! what other cartoons he likes to watch?
anttyk: now I’m learning…
SF: no! I will delay that as much as I can
Paul: I dont think he understands what a blog is yet, let alone a car blog 😛
izad: OST is a bit country for me leh 😛
matthew: oO I watched it at odeon 😀
Melly: well he enjoys school ( toddler kindy ) but let’s see how he’ll fare when he has to do real work 😛
pinky: heh! you want him doncha 😛
fa: 😛
eyeris: you are le freak 😛
xes: everyone says that 😛
we managed to see it live after grandpa’s birthday lunch in bp. the rapt and contemplative attitude has turned into clambering up and down the couch though.
still very cute and he’s still a little michelin toddler!