We were very lucky again to be invited to another Multimedia Screening. Last time we saw The Secret Life of Pets and it was a lot of fun. This time, we had the opportunity to watch STORKS which is an animated movie from the same studio (Warner Brothers) that brought us The LEGO Movie and Happy Feet. It stars Jennifer Anniston as Mrs Gardner and Andy Samberg as Junior. We also brought Sienna to this screening and our experience was a little better than last time as now she is more than 2 years old and capable of staying longer watching a movie.
The screening was held at Cineworld in Leicester Square. Like last time, there were a fair amount of people attending. We tried to arrive a little bit earlier to be able to enjoy the “Fun in the Foyer’ entertainment.
We also met with Maria from Suburban Mum and her 2 boys. There were different activities for the children to do, which included having a Storks photo taken against a green screen (placing us in our won version of the movie poster!), face painting, tattoo making, balloon art (storks, of course!) and also cartoon portraits.
One of the activities that was to “Make your own Trainer Wings” with The Makery which we actually missed. They have also made a brand new 60 second how-to video. This step by step video lets families get crafty by showing how you can “Make Your Own ‘Storks’ Trainer Wings”, like Junior and Hunter from the film! How awesome is that?
In between the activities, Maria and I went to reserve some seats so we could all sit together to watch the film. Then we came back to the activities to enjoy a bit more of the fun before the film started. Also on offer was some delicious pastries and drinks (juices or coffee). This included the cutest blue and pink cloud biscuits. They were really very yummy too.
After that, we were all invited to go inside to watch the movie which was being shown for the first time to the public.
ABOUT THE FILM
Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for global internet giant Cornerstore.com. Junior, the company’s top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable and wholly unauthorised baby girl.
Desperate to deliver this bundle of trouble before the boss gets wise, Junior and his friend Tulip, the only human on Stork Mountain, race to make their first-ever baby drop – in a wild and revealing journey that could make more than one family whole and restore the storks’ true mission in the world.
CREW
Directors: Nicholas Stoller, Doug Sweetland
Writer: Nicholas Stoller
Producers: Nicholas Stoller, Brad Lewis
Executive Producers: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, Jared Stern
Cast: Andy Samberg, Kelsey Grammer, Jennifer Aniston, Ty Burrell, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele
TRAILER & SPECIAL CLIP
OUR OPINION
The movie is in the cinemas from today 14th October. It is a fun movie with adorable characters that your kids will love. Some of the characters are very funny and made us all laugh, even Sienna had some giggles during the movie. She actually didn’t last the whole movie but she did enjoy a fair amount of it. She watched more than a half of the movie which I thought was great for her. Her older sister Bella who is 6 enjoyed the whole movie. However, there were little parts that she thought were slightly boring. Strange right?
OMG, the little babies were gorgeous. I wanted to squeeze them all, especially the main baby! The movie had some emotive parts and I must admit I even had a small tear towards the end, LOL!, It is obviously funny and kids love storks. I also must admit that like Bella, I thought there were some small parts where the action slowed down a bit – it seemed to take a long time to deliver the baby but also there were some very funny parts that we all really loved, such as the moment when they stumble upon a pack of wolves.
Anyway, I won’t say more as I wouldn’t want to spoil the movie for you, so you can take the kids, enjoy it and have your own conclusions.
STORKS COURIER SERVICE FLIES INTO KIDZANIA
We were also invited to KidZania this week for a special and limited edition Storks Courier Service which has launched within KidZania, the city where kids take charge. Designed to empower and entertain, your children can step into the footsteps of the film’s character Junior, a high-flying stork employee for internet retail giant Cornerstore.com, who now deliver packages instead of babies.
Within the Storks Courier Service at KidZania London, children are responsible for making deliveries across the City. Children participating in this activity need to take extra care with their delivery and ensure that it is delivered on time to the right person. This activity encourages children to communicate with others to get the job done, it gives them independence, responsibility and teaches them to take pride in their work.
The Storks Courier Service will run for six weeks until 9th November. KidZania London is located within Westfield London and ticket and pricing information can be found at their website. If you would like to find out more about KidZania you can read my review and watch our video which now has almost 30k views of our experience HERE
You can find out more about STORKS on Twitter, using the hashtag #STORKS, and on Facebook, or YouTube.
Have you heard of this movie? What do you think? Will you take your kids to see it? What do you think of the event? What about the special edition of the Storks courier service at Kidzania? Are you planning to go? Please leave a comment below as I would love to read what you think.
*Disclaimer: I was invited to attend this event and to go to KidZania in exchange for some promotion. However, all thoughts and opinions are my own.
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Franca 💋
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Sarah | Digital Motherhood says
What a fun day! We’ve seen the trailer for Storks a few times and looks like a fab kids film 🙂 #KCACOLS
Poppy Reflects says
Looks like they laid on a lot of fun before the film! This and Trolls are both on our family cinema trip list. x #KCACOLS
Helena says
I’ve seen one of the adverts for this and it truly does look like lots of fun. #kcacols
Cathryn - Little Paper Swans says
I’ve seen the trailers for this and it’s look really good! Those cloud biscuits are just too cute.
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Wendy says
This sounds like a great day out and the film sounds pretty good. Kidzabia looks so fun, would love to take Leo there xx #kcacols
Rainbows are too beautiful says
Wow – look like you had good fun. We will keep our eyes open to see if Storks has an autism friendly screening at the cinema for our kids. Thanks #kcacols
mainy - myrealfairy says
This looks like great fun and how cool to go to such a fab event!
Mainy
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Jason @tassiedad says
Looks like you had a great time. Every school holidays our local cinema puts on a sensory screening of movies like this, for kids with Autism and other special needs. Our little guy, Archer got to go along with his daycare to see Storks, and apparently, thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing #KCACOLS
Mackenzie Glanville says
Oh I do want to watch this with my kids, we loved secret life of pets too #Kcacols
Madeline (This Glorious Life) says
Looks like you had a really lovely time! And that’s fab that Sienna sat for so much of the film, I wonder how Nerys would manage with a trip to the cinema now she’s 2.5! x #KCACOLS
Becci - The UnNatural Mother says
WOW , you look like you both had an amazing time. I love the facepainting #KCACOLS
My Petit canard says
What a great preview to be invited to! These events always look like so much fun and this film looks like one that Ella would love to watch so I think we will try and take her when/if we get the chance to in the next few weeks/months. Great review and I LOVE all the pictures 🙂 Emily #KCACOLS (sorry im late with commenting this week, just going round now to finish!)