March of the Penguins has been on Animal Planet lately. I remember where Paris said that the penguin movie rocks. It’s basically the only thing she’s ever complimented.

At first I thought more than two hours watching penguins was akin to being back in high school & watching videos in science class. However, March of the Penguins is enthralling. It shouldn’t be so fascinating to watch penguins, but it just is. A word of warning: I now hate pelicans & weird seal looking things & anything else that is an emperor to the emperor penguin.

I had eagerly awaited watching “Mrs. Parker & the Vicious Circle” for several weeks. I’m not sure if they referenced it on the show, but I’m a huge Dorothy Parker fan & so are the “Gilmore Girls”. You must watch this movie. For less than five minutes. Anything longer than that will cause your brain to turn to mush. This is largely dependant on Jennifer Jason Leigh having the worst accent, EVER. In any movie. It was gilmoresque just for the sheer horror of that voice.

When the Gilmores all sat down to watch the "Pursuit of Happyness" together I was a little confused.  It just didn’t seem like a Gilmore movie to me, not a whole lot to make fun of.  I guess I always think of the girls as watching obscure movies from twenty years ago, or really just plain stupid movies. It seemed more like product placement. However, Will Smith is a handsome, handsome man. What I really liked about this movie was that there wasn’t a real love interest, it was about a father & son, kind of like how Gilmore Girls really isn’t about Luke & Logan, (Well at least it shouldn’t be). There wasn’t really a villain in this movie, it was just like life, sometimes life is just hard.  So although I don’t think it belongs with the other Gilmore movies, it still gets 4 toaster pastries.

While the "Gilmore Girls" have never watched the movie "Dragonfly" to my knowledge, I still felt it belonged here.  It just seems like something they would make fun of. I think that Paris was in the opening scenes, although it was difficult to tell since she wasn’t talking or acting like Paris.  If that was her, she was actually a very good actress, not Paris like at all.  She deserves to be in a movie better than "Dragonfly".  I couldn’t tell because this movie had the credits still flashing about 10 minutes into it.  In retrospect I don’t think a lot of these people would want their names on this movie.  I’m interested in how this was pitched to Kevin Costner, "Ok, so you are in love with your wife who is pregnant with your child & she dies, & then she comes back & haunts you & is really creepy & leaves dragonflies everywhere even though you don’t believe in an afterlife.  Plus your wife is now a little bit spooky & you are scared of her, oh & if you could cut out that whole acting thing you do so well, we’d really appreciate it."

In short, Kevin Costner just shouldn’t be around any movie with water, like "Water World", or "Message in a Bottle", & definitely not "Dragonfly".  Put him in a field, &  he’s great, but no water.  I’d been wanting to get a piece of dragonfly jewelry as a tribute to the dragonfly inn, but that desire is gone now, I wouldn’t want it to turn up all haunty.