Noted in West Hawaii Today; a big layout on the new "kids'" movie "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore."
I remember when the movie "Goldfinger" came out. I was in high school. How we snickered about the naughty character name, Pussy Galore. The name of the new "kids" movie is a play on that name, obviously. Kids won't get it, unless they check the internet or ask their parents. Is the title supposed to convince grown-ups that the movie's for them? Who could think that such a reference is appropriate for a kids movie? Or was it, as so many references in kids movies seem to be, just a sniggering in-joke for the parents?
Is our popular culture crude and debased, or am I just too old? Or both?
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My dad had all the Bond books around the house and I read them all during middle school. As I recall, there was even a non-bond Fleming book called Octopussy. And I'm older by now than most parents with kid-movie aged kids. I wonder how many 20-something year old parents today would even recognize Pussy Galore. I'm thinking by now it could be more of an inside joke for film makers.
"Or was it, as so many references in kids movies seem to be, just a sniggering in-joke for the parents?"
That's how I took it. As for our popular culture being crude and debased, I think it pretty much always has been to some degree, it's just more widely disseminated these days.
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