Sweet

Rating: 6/10 (26 June 2009)

Sometimes it's just curiosity.
A quick diversion. I'm currently in Belfast, and loving it. I've had a strange fascination with this city's history over the last forty years and it's somewhat strange to be amongst names I remember so vividly from my past. As evocative as "I counted them out.." to me is "after another night of violence in ".
One reason I'm enjoying myself so much is I'm staying smack bang in the centre of the city, walking distance of the recently rebranded QFT as well as two multiplexes. And this city centre is so familiar, yet so not English. (I probably mean not American.) Customary eating chains are not to be seen, or are at least few and far between.
But now we have Victoria Square. A cathedral of glass and shopping topped by an Odeon in all its smelly popcorn stickiness, and surrounded by all the usual food simulating suspects. (I won't name them.)
I'm nearly there. Hang on.
Admission price fairly hefty, but I do get a fancy pair of spectacles. For this is Coraline 3-D. Only  not wow. For in the interminable pre-show there are trailers for any number of coming-soons – all in 3-D. I'm 58 now. I've seen it all before, but there's no denying, 3-D is here to stay.
The film? It was OK. Not really for me.
Ron (Viewed 26May09)