At the beginning we meet Hana who is a famous actress and her husband Emil, a broadcast journalist. Beginning of the war and the occupation changes their lives upside down. Hana is a jew and she falls from top of her career down to the bottom of a social ladder. Emil becomes a head of Prague radio station what broadcasts Nazi propaganda in order to protect his Jewish wife. However, as the Nazi rule over Czechoslovakia calls for more and more collaboration, his relationship with his wife spirals downward.
He starts to cheat on Hana and one day when he´s leaving his lover in the morning and is late to the work he borrows a bike which is standing on the sidewalk and rides it to the work. But it is the same day (June 4 1942) when SS Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated and one of the offender left the crime scene on a bike. Fatal contact with seemingly unimportant object starts dreadful ride where Emil gets his self-respect back at the end. But it´s too late for his marriage. This movie doesn´t have a good ending at all.

Last Saturday I went to the opening night of Mozart! musical in City Theater Brno. It´s famous austrian musical and it was czech premiere. But before I get to the musical itself I have to write about the most frightening thing that happened to me in a theater so far.
There was an accident on the stage. 20 minutes into the play there are 4 actors on the stage. The main actors, playing Mozart and Mozart´s father, leave the stage and two actors remain, and suddenly there´s screaming from the backstage. The two actors who just left were desperately screaming "UP UP UP, FOOT, SHIT, UP, UUUUUP" it lasted like 30 sec and for the whole time I was thinking it was part of the play. The two remaining actors on the stage were just staring at each other, waiting, apparently confused. I sat next to some of the actors from the theater and they started panicking, cos they knew it didn´t belong there. By that time the screaming changed into desperate cries and then a curtain went down and lights went on. Then general manager of the theater who was sitting in the audience ran to the stage, behind the curtain and then a wife of the actor who played Mozart, who was sitting right in front of me, stood up and all panicked ran on the stage too cos she though something happend to her husband. We didn´t know what happened so it was pretty bad feeling. Then the manager came on the stage and told us that there was an accident and the actor who played Mozart´s father was injured and is taken to the hospital and that they will continue in 20 minutes. Luckily the actor who alternates the father was present in the theater and could take over the role. I was literally shaking for the whole 20 min break. At the end of the play we were told that the actor had three toes crushed. Really interesting opening night.

I braced myself and ventured into opera world again. I went to see The Bartered Bride by Bedřich Smetana in our National Theater last week. It was 3rd opera I have attended so far. I guess I should visit opera more since I studied theater but it´s really not my genre. I know why I don´t like it but it´s a thing that I don´t know how to describe in english + opera singers are usually bad actors.

What made me go this time is that The Bartered Bride is like our national treasure so I though it was a shame that I didn´t know what it was about. I knew the most famous arias of course but not the whole thing. I took my friend who is a theater student herself.
Suprisingly it wasn´t bad at all. It´s called a comic opera so it didn´t take things too seriously. It was light, playful and quite colorful. The scene was creative and I liked it.

The opera is in three acts, all set in a small Bohemian village. Jenik and Marenka are in love but her parents don´t approve the marriage cos they promised her to Vasek, a younger son of wealthy landowner Micha. Someone she has never met before.
Kecal, the marriage broker, offers to Marenka´s parents that he´ll solve the problem. Kecal decides he must convince Jeník to give up Marenka. He makes Jenik promise to give up her  for 300 florins. Jenik pretends to accept, but imposes a condition – no one but Mícha's son will be allowed to wed Marenka. Marenka finds about Jenik´s deal with Kecal and is heartbroken thinking that he gave up on their love. At the end we find out that Jenik is long lost older son of Micha. So Jenik and Marenka end up together.
There was a traveling circus in the last act, which was pretty great cos the National theater asked theater Continuo to participate. Theater Continue is known for its artistic performances and work with puppets and they were able to make a good show out of it.

There was a 20minute break after each act so it made the evening pretty long.

 I liked the music, knew most of the arias and liked the polka sound. The one thing I really don´t like about operas is that the young characters are usually played by old or huge people. Jenik and Marenka are young people so I really appreciated that Jenik was played by young actor. Marenka was like one generation older but she could pass for that age with eyes half-closed. Actors way older than their characters, that´s what made me disappointed about Carmen.
The only thing I didn´t like was the actor who played Kecal. I always thought Kecal was a funny character, this one was not funny plus I almost couldn´t hear him, that shouldn´t happen in opera I guess.

All in all, The Bartered Bride was my first good opera experience.

 

I had free tickets to Prague´s ZOO for Monday, it was 78th anniversary of the opening of the ZOO. I love this ZOO. It was voted as the 8th best ZOO in the world last year. The terrain of the Zoo is very diverse, lots of green everywhere and everything looks very natural and it makes very nice walk, you go up and down and it takes you hours to get through it. I was there twice last year but it didn´t stop me to go again this year. Alas, it was public holiday and the place was crazily crowded. I´ve never experience such a crowd there before. It was challenge to avoid all the families with strollers everywhere.
I didn´t got to see gorillas this time cos I didn´t want to stand in a line to their pavilion. Have I mentioned that it was crowded?lol. I made sure to see lions and tigers, though. I love these animals the best. The tigers from this ZOO are like from textbooks. So perfect. Sadly I´ve never saw them out, they always lay lazily inside of their pavilion. And somehow I miss the elephants this time. You would think that you can´t overlook them. I always choose different route and then I´m lazy or too tired to go the whole way back to look at them. Next time.

The main reason I wanted to go there this time was because I wanted to see a new pavilion for sea lions which was re-opened recently. I think the sea lions are one of the most popular animals in the ZOO mainly because of the sad fate they had during the big flood that hit Prague in 2002. The Prague zoo is situated right on the bank of the Vltava River, almost half of its area was flooded. Millions of people watched the the situation in the ZOO on tv. It was so sad and scary. Under the extreme pressure of time and in the tense and dramatic conditions, the workers of the zoo had to deal with probably the biggest evacuation of animals all over the world. More than 20 buildings and expositions were demolished and other 13 were seriously damaged. The water was 10m high at some places.
The stories of some animals were very sad. I remember sitting, watching news and crying over Gaston, the sea lion. 1030 animals had to be evacuated. The rescue actions of most of the animals took place in extremely difficult conditions. In 3 hours it was necessary to evacuate 16 tigers, leopards and jaguars. 134 animals did not survive the flood.

Just reading some of the animal stories makes me cry again.

Millions of people even outside the Czech republic watched closely the life stories of some of the animals. The sea lion Gaston died in Germany after a 300-kilometers long journey in the flooding river. The elephant Kadíra and the female hippo Lentilka had to be killed as the flood set them free from their ranges. The male gorilla Pong did not manage the stay in the flood tower of the pavilion and got drowned in an unknown way. The hippo Slávek survived the flood elevated by the waters to the second floor of the elephants’ pavilion where he spent two days in the narrow corridor of the service gallery, waiting for help….

It´s almost magic how the ZOO was able to get up from the bottom and became one of the best ZOO in just 5 years. The ZOO has a great general manager, but he´s ending this year and will run Czech building in New York. Very sad for the ZOO.

And now, drumroll please, Brad Pitt and Angelina visited the ZOO last year. They had to close it down for half a day because of them.lol

This is one sad commercial from 2003 that asked people to help the ZOO. It´s a beautiful commercial but the end always gets me. I remember that they always played in the cinemas before movies.

Theater holiday ended and so I jumped back into my theater life again. I didn´t choose anything easy for a start but accidentally jumped right into the heavy stuff. I went to see Long Day´s Journey into Night (1956) by Eugene O´Neill. I kind of didn´t expect such a drama but I should have since I had seen his Mourning Becomes Electra(1931) before and it was pretty much the same.

I invited my friend to go with me as a present for her Name day. It played in Theater Bez Zábradlí (which could be translated like The Theater Without Banisters.lol). So we sat in the theater, tired after long day at work, hoping they would entertain us. Boy, were we wrong. It sucked us in the story from the beginning, needing our full attention for a whole time.

It´s a story about one day of one very dysfunctional family. The Theme of the play is addiction and the resulting dysfunction of the family. All three males (father and two sons) are alcoholics and the mother is addicted to morphine. Isn´t it happy company? It was sad to see how the father and sons tried to stop their mother to fall back into her morphine addiction. They all constantly conceal, blame, resent, regret, accuse and deny in an escalating cycle of conflict with occasional desperate and half-sincere attempts at affection, encouragement and consolation. No happy ending in this one.

The acting was superb. The father was played by Jiří Bartoška, mother, played by Zuzana Bydžovská was crazy, scary and pitiful. The sons were played by brothers Michal and Filip Čapka. I especially liked the brothers, they very really convincing and really “into it”. Amazing acting concert. It was directed by mostly film director Alice Nellis. Well done.

It surprised me to read in the brochure that this play was very autobiographical. Almost everything happened in O´Neill´s life too. I can´t even imagine something like this, too me it just seemed so drastic and destructive. He got Pulitzer prize for this, btw.

The Only thing I didn´t like about this is that it was too long. I just wasn´t ready for 3 hours long emotional blow-out and it was very tiring at the end. We planned to go for a dinner to some restaurant after the theater but the kitchens were closed when it finally ended. So we left the theater very tired and hungry.lol

I´ve seen a great movie yesterday and the movie would be Inglorious Basterds. I´m not any big fan of Tarantino, I don´t like movies like Kill Bill but Basterds really got me. It´s one of the movies where you leave cinema with head full with a need to discuss it. And I woke up this morning and my head was still full of the movie. I need to discuss it with everyone today, I keep asking my co-workers if they have seen it (sadly they have not). It doesn´t happen that often that movie affects me like this. But I like when that happen, every movie should leave something in you. Ironically the last movie that did this to me was another Brad Pitt´s movie Burn after reading and I´m not even his fan.lol

The story takes place in Nazi-occupied France. The opening scene takes us to a french farm where „Jew hunter“ Col. Hans Landa (great Christoph Waltz) came to look for hiding Jews. He interrogates calmly and slowly and he plays it nice but from the beginning you sense not to trust this guy and you are prove right the next minute when the jewish family is killed. One girl, Shoshana, managed to escape and plays very important role in the second half of the movie. When we see her next time she runs a small cinema in Paris where the Nazi leaders decided to have a premiere of a new german propaganda movie. The Nazi leaders Goebbles, Göring, Bormann, even Hitler himself are scheduled to be there. What´s a better opportunity for a revenge when celluloid burns so well?

And then there´s a second linea of the movie, the Basterds, Jewish-American soldiers who were chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. They are led by Lt. Aldo Raine played by Brad Pitt. They too plan to kill the Nazis during the movie premiere with a help of german actress Bridget von Hammersmark (amazing Diane Kruger). Shoshana´s and Basterds paths cross for a fateful evening that will shake the annals of history. What a bloody spectacle.

The acting was great, I especially loved performances by german actors Christop Waltz and Diane Kruger and french actress Mélanie Laurent as Shoshana. It was fresh to see new faces in Hollywood movie. Another thing I loved about it was that they talked in native languages, not like in Valkyrie which I was disappointed about. That brought out the right atmosphere.
I don´t think I need to add that there were lots of brutal scenes, it was Tarantino after all. Especially the scalping of people was pretty disgusting. I had to cover my eyes a lot but there was something funny about it at the same time. We laughed a lot during the movie.
I didn´t know till the end how the movie will end. The plans were changing so dramatically and I found strange that I was sitting there rooting for them to blow the cinema to the air and at the same time I thought it won´t happen cos I thought they wouldn´t change the historic facts. They did change them, though and for some reason  I liked it. It wouldn´t be a satisfying end without the blow out at the end. I love historically correct movies but I would rather watch this than boring, historical movie like Valkyrie.
This movie was also kind of cathartic, seeing all Nazis die and brutally killed Hitler made me feel kind of… satisfied I would say. (Should I feel bad for saying it like this?)

I think the appeal of this movie can be experienced best in the cinema. I don´t think you would feel the same about the movie when watching it on tv at home. I just liked how the movie was made, the atmosphere, the cinematography, the music, and the story, all things put together made a great movie. I could do with less of the blood, though.

 And just a little thing on the side, I found funny that when Hans Landa proudly mentioned his nickname „Jew hunter“ he was wondering why  Nazi protector of Czech country Reinhard Heydrich didn´t like his czech nickname „Executor“.lol

The forerunner was Tonya Graves from czech famous band Monkey Business and she was really great and funny and helped to get the mood up after all the waiting. Macy Gray herself got on the stage at 10:15 p.m. All the waiting was forgotten and people loved her from the beginning. Macy is planning a big comeback this year with her new album The Gray Life but surprisingly she didn´t play any new songs. It was more like the best of concert. She started with Ghetto Love and continued with good classic songs like When I see you, Do Something, Glad You´re Here, Sexual Revolution, Sex-O-Matic Venus Freak, Sweet Baby, Why Didn´t You Call Me, I´Ve Committed Murder... The song Oblivion at the end of the set was almost surreal, crazy game of lights, bubbles springing from the center of the stage, a guy with red horns on his head running on the stage with lyrics of the song written on a huge card. Everyone was jumping like crazy, it was hell of the ride.lol Macy communicated with audience quite often and 2000 people gladly did everything Macy asked them to. There was great energy during the whole concert.
Macy sang I Try as an encore, as the last song, so we had to wait the whole concert for it. It was so great to hear this song live, I love it. I was trembling when she sang that so I had to hold my camera with both hands, it was so moving.
Macy had two singers to sing and dance with her and they both had amazing voice, and their dancing was fun, they really looked like they were enjoying their time on stage. They were kind of corpulent but everyone loved them for not being shy about it.

Reviews for the concert were great and it got 90% in all of them. 10% down for a sound. And one newspaper called it the best concert of the year so I´m really glad I decided to go.
 

I was reading a board on broadwayworld.com after a long time today and it made me miss theater so badly. I wish I could go to NY again to experience Broadway more. Theater holiday is almost over here so at least I will be able to enjoy Prague´s theater scene again soon. In the meantime I will post about my perfect last weekend of summer holiday.

I took Thursday and Friday off and went to my parent´s house in my hometown. My dad wanted me to go to a biking trip to our national park with him. Last time we did that my dad fell of the bike and totally ruined it and his knee hurt for a month, but it was 4 years ago so he wanted to try it again. But this time, after we drove 2 hours to the mountains, we found out that all the bikes had been rented for the day. That ruined our plans completely. We decided to take a chairlift to the top of the Black mountain and walk to a ski resort Pec pod Sněžkou from there. The weather was great and the view from the mountain was perfect so it was a nice walk. We walked downhill all the time and we couldn´t feel are calf´s for next two days.lol I like little mountain towns  but I rarely see them in summer so it was a nice change. They built a new alpine coaster there so we took one ride and it was fun. Pretty fast, but could be longer:) Then we took over crowed bus to Janské spa where our car was parked. We walked through a promenade there and then went to a restaurant to have blueberry pancakes that we were craving the whole day.

The next day we just made a short trips around county with my parents. We couldn´t decide where to go, it seems we´ve visited everything interesting in 50 km radius from our town already. Turned out to be a nice day too, visited one old beautifully restored mill with eco farm, had lunch in famous medieval restaurant and walked around one lake.

Saturday was cloudy and my calf´s were still sore so I was reading and watching 30 Rock the whole day and in the evening I went to a bike trip with my dad, which turned out in 26 km long ride. We rode 13 km to one nice outdoor restaurant, some folk singer started to perform right when we were seated, so it was a nice atmosphere. We got a beer and drove 13 km back, pretty fast, may I add, cos it was getting dark very quickly and neither of us has any light on our bike and since we rode along a river I really didn´t want to fall in to it.lol
And on Sunday we went to our cottage where I just laid on the garden reading the whole day before going back to Prague.

So that was my perfect last weekend of summer holidays. I really couldn´t wish to spend it better. Balance between active and lazy is the best way to go!!:)


 

So, Slovakia. I went there for a week with my friends during my vacation first week in August.  I´ve been there once before cos I have a penfriend Klaudia there. We´ve been sending letters to each other since I was 13, long before e-mails and now our friendship lives on Facebook. We were both huge Beatles fans so we were writing about them. After few years of writing she came to visit me for a week and next year I went to east Slovakia to visit her. And when Paul McCartney had a concert in Prague she flew here and we went crazy together.lol Nice memories but it was all long time ago.
So I thought it was time to visit Slovakia again. It´s a shame that I haven´t seen more of Slovakia since we used to be one country. I was glad when my friends suggested  Slovakia as a place to go this summer.
We rented a cottage near Ružomberok in High Fatra mountains. Slovakia has a really beautiful nature so we made sure to see most of it. It meant lots of hiking and climbing but it was worth it.

We visited mountains mostly. First we started with Lower Tatras mountains. We went to Chopok (2024m) and went to Ďumbier from there, with 2043m it makes it the highest mountain of Lower Tatras. We went along the ridge and the view was so beautiful and calm.
Btw. the highest mountain in Czech rep. Sněžka has only 1602m, so anything higher than that is exciting to me.lol

Since we stayed in High Fatra mountains we, of course, had to explore them too. We wanted to go along the ridge but the weather was against us. It was very cloudy so there was no view at all and it rained for a while too so we shortened the trip and went to one small mountain village Vlkolínec which is on the list of UNESCO. The houses are build in typical old slovakian style with wooden roofs. It was very picturesque.

I was looking forward to visit  of High Tatras mountains the most. They look more like the Alps. Pretty high and rocky. It took us 2 hours by car to get there so we didn´t have that much time to spend there. There´s so much to see. We chose to visit Lomnický peak. You can get on the top of the peak with a famous red cable-way but the tickets are sold out pretty early in the morning. We were only able to get to Lomnické saddle but the view was great from there too.
There was a massive windstorm in 2004 which hit National Park of High Tatras and destroyed over 100 square kilometers of forests leaving flat land with fallen trees behind. We went through the most destroyed parts by car and it made me so sad to see the plain land everywhere. Poor Tatras.

Well, enough with the mountains. During the week we also visited Karst cave of Freedom and Ice cave in Demanov. I´ve never been in ice cave before so it was interesting, very prehistoric-y.lol And the guides there were oh so cute.lol
We also visited thermal park in Bešeňová. The weather was cloudy and cold and we were in outside pools with water from 28-39C. Niiice. There were some slides and toboggans so it was fun. We wanted to visit Tatralandia, which is new huge aqua park but we didn´t have enough time. Bummer.
And we also visited gothic Orava castle which was cool and Bojnice castle which was cool only from outside.

I think we managed to see a lot during the week + I was able to reread 7th Harry Potter book there and My sister´s keeper book too. Busy week, huh?

 I´m really glad we went there, it was really nice to hear slovakian language again, even though I had problems to understand some words sometimes.  I miss hearing the language more often, it sounds very melodious to me. I can´t speak slovak and I got so shy and flustered when I tried. Especially when I wanted to buy a blueberry ice cream.lol Cos blueberry is borůvka in czech and čučoriedka in slovak and to me the word is so funny. I had to concentrate a lot to say it.lol

Now I´m back in lowland and missing the scenic view at the mountains.

My two weeks vacation was really good. I don´t even remember the last time I had two weeks off. It really made me forget about work and just relax. 
Ele came to visit me from Dresden the first week. My parents were in Crete so I invited Ele to my parents house in Nymburk. I had a birthday so she called herself a present. lol
The first afternoon in Nymburk we rode a bike to a near lake. I like it there, it´s the place where people from Nymburk go to swim. I like to go there with my dad in spring too, just to walk around a have a beer in one restaurant, overlooking the lake. It´s always peaceful. I wanted Ele to see it and it´s also a nice bike ride through woods, small village and lots of horses along the way. I made Ele to drink a beer there too. She acted like it is scandalous to drink beer during a day. Not in my country.lol Ele liked it there and wanted to go there the next day again to swim cos the weather was supposed to be hot. So we did go and it was perfect. It was the first time this year that I felt it was summer holiday. Laying on the beach, swimming in a lake. Perfect. Relaxing. And of course we both got sunburned.
We had to go home in a late afternoon cos Kat and Con from Berlin agreed to visit us in Nymburk too. We picked them up at the station and went to a dinner in my favorite restaurant. It was good to have all the girls there. We then strolled around the town for a while and watched Katharine Hepburn movie back in our house. The next day was total opposite, raining all day since morning. So we packed things in our house quite soon and went back to Prague, cos frankly, there´s nothing to do in my tiny town when it´s raining. We hit KFC, bookstores, Coffee Heaven and then decided to go to cinema. There was nothing interesting on so we chose to see Accidental Husband with Uma Thurman and Colin Firth. It was typical cliche romantic comedy. I don´t remember much from it anymore. I didn´t like it that much. There were some things that I didn´t find logical or well constructed.
Ele was leaving next day in the morning. It was a short visit. I went to see her to a station, said good bye and then run to catch my train to Nymburk in different part of Prague. My parents were coming home from Crete that day so I wanted to clean the house a little and wait for them. On the way home I got a call that my 2 years old notebook, that I gave to the service earlier that week, wasn´t so easy to repair and that it would cost me lots of money and I was recommended to buy a new one. That was a downer. I didn´t have that much money on my account and clearly I need a notebook, I´m addicted to being online, so I bought one and now I´m in a debt. Achjo. The same day I got a herpes on my lip. How I hate them. And of course I got it right before my vacation in Slovakia. Always in the most inconvenient time. Luckily the day got better when my parents came home all excited about Crete.

The next day, Thursday, me and my dad went to a trip to Bohemian Paradise. It´s my the most favorite part of our country. We had been going there for random trips since I was kid so that´s why it´s so special to me. Beautiful nature, sand rocks, old castles. We chose to go to a little town called Malá Skála (Small Rock) this time where there are ruins of castle build in a rock. It was cool to climb it up and down. Then we walked to Frýdštejn castle and back to the town. We walked only like 7 km, but we were kind of tired at the end. Apparently we were out of shape.lol We went to a typical czech restaurant for a dinner and went home. Nice father-daughter day.

I went to Slovakia with my friends on Friday but I will write about it next time.
 

I went to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince yesterday and I was pretty excited about it. I liked it cos it was good to see a new HP movie again but there were lots of parts that disappointed me. I´ve never minded the „book to movies“ changes in HP movies until now. And I read the 6th book only one and half time so it´s not even that fresh on my mind and still I had problem with the movie.
It was kind of nice that the movie had lots of funny moments and the whole first half was quite worry free, but. I didn´t like that because of the focus on the relationships  there was no time left for more memories about Tom Raddle. In the book there were so many memories in so many chapters and in the movie Dumbledore included them in two sentences. I think they are important to understand where Voldemort is coming from. So that´s what I missed.
The relationship between Harry/Ginny and Hermione/Ron were also strange. I wouldn´t even  get from the movie that Ginny and Harry were together at the end if Harmiona didn´t comment that they should avoid kissing each other in front of Ron. And their kiss in the book was sooo much better. So I felt that even though they focused on the relationships big deal it wasn´t executed that well.
And I kind of felt that all the important, action scenes were there just to keep goodwill. The attack at Weasley´s, very short, not explained at all. Even the Harry´s trip with Dumbledore to find Horcrux was kind of meh. The fight with the dead people was more impressive in the book. And when Snape killed Dumbledore in the book I was holding my breath and then cried like a baby. I felt like „wow, Dumbledore is dead, the world is really fucked up now“. No emotion yesterday whatsoever. I missed some gradation in this scene.
On the other hand, I liked that there were lots of jokes and I really enjoyed the part when Harry drank Felix Felicis. He acted so cute and child-ish. I loved when he sat at Hagrids, listening to stories of professor Slughorn and then his „puff“.cute:)) The actor who played prof. Slughorn was really great. He kind of reminded me of Alan Alda.lol

Well, even though I´m disappointed with some parts I will go see it again next week:D

 The cinema was sold out, that was such a great atmosphere. Although I hated that there was intermission in the middle of the movie. Why do they have to have intermission in the evening screenings I don´t get. Ok, have them during the day for kids, but in the evening? Sometimes multiplexes suck.

 And I just remembered, when I read this book, I was in 4th year in college and I lived in a dorm. I tried to be spoiler free so I was avoiding to read anything about the book, but it really didn´t work cos my lovely roommates had fun of me and where asking me every ten minutes „Have you cried yet?“, „Have you cried yet?“. I so wanted to kill them.lol

 Ok, bring on the last two movies, I´m ready:)

I need to distract myself so here´s some writing.
I went to see Ice Age 3 last week. I love Ice Age, I think it is my the most favorite animated movie, mainly for sentimental reason.  It was the first „new age“ animated movie I´ve seen. I liked it much more than Shrek.

The movie was good but I thought there was too much action since it´s meant mostly as kids movie. There was happening something all the time, some running, fighting, falling and so on. So much different than the first mellow movie.

I didn´t get to see the 3D version cos we were late for that. I bet it was more interactive in 3D cos there were lots of places in the movie where I thought that the particular scene could be pretty cool in 3D.
The normal version was just an enjoyable movie for one afternoon after work. I loved Scrat again, did like his new lady too. She wasn´t threating him that well most of the time and during one scene my male friend leant down to me and whispered „typical woman“, gasp.lol  But what was with the ending? Poor Scrat.
Oh, and I thought that pregnant Ellie was there mainly for emotional blackmailing of viewers. Pregnant mammoth in dangerous situations. We were supposed to be worried about her and I found it kind of annoying cos I knew they wanted me to feel scared.