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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What a fun day, I love the entertainment before the screening. I’ve never been to a preview before but if they were ll like that I’d love it! I can’t wait ratoath see storks. Little miss has only been to the cinema once but this will definitely be her second film #kcacols
It looks like you had a brilliant fun day out. I love the facepaints! So cute! Stork really looks worth a watch too 🙂 x #KCACOLS
I love the idea of making wings, Alice would love this! Looks like a lovely movie and one that my girls would enjoy. Kidzania is on my list of things to take Alice to, I’ve only ever heard good things about it. X #KCACOLS
Your girls must have been OVER the moon- little superstars they are! I am pretty sure my MOM is far more excited about this movie than my girls are- I am a little thrilled over it as well…not gonna lie!
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Aw looks like fun! I’m a big film fan so I’d love to go to an event like this. #KCACOLS
I only saw this film advertised yesterday. It looks awesome. The special screening looked a lot of fun too. #KCACOLS
Ooh, I’ve not heard of this one (I’m way behind the times, always! lol). It looks really good fun though – and the animation is so cute! #KCACOLS
OMG I so want to see this movie!Can’t wait for Baba to be big enough to go to this kind of events. He would have loved all of this!!!! #KCACOLS
My daughter is going to see it tomorrow for a friends 8th birthday party! I’m sure they are gonna love it! All my kids love these types of movies X #KCACOLS
I love the idea of kids getting to take charge and deliver packages, I wish this was available in Canada. Thanks for sharing #KCACOLS
How fun! My son went to see Storks with his daycare last week and loved it! #KCACOLS
Oh my goodness–WHAT FUN!!! #KCACOLS
The movie looks really funny and I think my kids will enjoy watching it. You are so lucky to get invited to all of these great events. I’m actually going to Kidzania during half-term and it will be the first time I’m writing a review in exchange for free tickets. Very exciting! #kcacols
My daughter would love this film, we saw the trailer when we went to see Finding Dory. KidZania looks amazing, such a shame London is too far for us! #KCACOLS
What a great day out, love how they’ve created the Kidzania experience too, very clever x
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My kids both want to watch this. We loved secret life of pets. I only seem to watch kids films now a days. Looks like you had a fab time. #kcacols lifeinthemumslane
Sounds like a really good movie – I think we will have to watch that 🙂
x Alice
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I hadn’t heard about this film until I saw your post on Twitter a few days ago. Looks like an interesting film. Not sure I’ll make it to the cinema to see this but will watch out when it’s available for rental. #KCACOLS
Looks like you all had a wonderful day. I love the little activities and warm up session you had, though having a young toddler i think my little one would have definitely dozed in the movie. Sounds a really good family film though like most animated film these days. Thanks for sharing your experience with us! #KCACOLS
Ah fantastic, so exciting to be invited to a screening, looks like there was so much fun stuff for the little ones to do before the film! #kcacols
Looks like such a fun event and a great movie. I’ve been seeing the trailers everywhere and have been looking forward to taking my son to see it. #KCACOLS
awww what a fab day and hats off to Sienna for managing half the film. not bad at two at all! we did the cinema once with b and haven’t since, he fell asleep lol! #KCACOLS
Wow 30k views that’s exciting! Both this and the pets event at Leicester Sq look amazing. Lovely to meet up with a fellow mummy blogger too. #KCACOLS
This looks like a great event and KidZania looks amazing! #KCACOLS
Wow, it looks like you had so much fun, I cant wait to see this film, thank goodness I have small neice and nephew! They would have loved an event like this, great photos! #KCACOLS
i’m not sure when we are going to make it, but my little has been asking to see this movie since we saw a preview before Kobo. Looks like a great day! #KCACOLS
Looks like so much fun!! Iv never been to a preview but this makes me want too!! Xx #KCACOLS
It looks like you have had so much fun. My son really wants to see this so it maybe a half term activity. #KCACOLS
Hey Franca, wow how cool you all got to be at a premiere! Storks looks like a fun film. Just like us bloggers, it’a all about finding your own support network and “tribe”.
Your kids must love you getting all of these great screening opportunities! My youngest wants to write a toy review section on my blog so brands can send her toys!! This looks like a really lovely experience for you and the girls. #KCACOLS
Hi Franca,
It sounds like you had a great day out as usual. I am sure Bella looks more grown up each week. Pen x #KCACOLS
Those treats look super yummy! I can’t wait until Amelia is old enough so we can have little mummy daughter cinema dates 🙂 #KCACOL
It looks like a brilliant event, lots of activities and lots of fun! Thanks for hosting #kcacols
Aw this looks like so much fun for your girls! And lovely that you got to go with Maria too. I heard a similar review on the BBC this morning. I’m so looking forward to when taylor’s old enough to sit through a film as I absolutely love and miss the cinema. I really don’t care what we go to watch! xx #KCACOLS
It looks like it was a fabulous event. I love the facepaint/tattoo on your little girls faces, it looks so cute. I would love to take my daughter to something like this. This is on our to watch list. We love animated movies like this. So glad you all had a lovely time x
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This sounds like a fantastic event, how fun! How do you get invited to things like this? I really want to see this film, I won’t hesitate to admit I adore animated movies! x #kcacols
Wow what an amazing event! I would love to take Evie to Kidzania it looks amazing. #kcacols
What a cute film – one to catch over half term I think! And I loved the could biscuits xx
Looks great fun Franca! Unfortunately a little out of age bracket for my son so would have to find some girlfriends to go with and munch some popcorn. Congrats on your anniversary of #KCACOLS ! You’re doing a great job 🙂 Jo
This movie does look cute! I would love to take my kids *IF* nothing in the movie would make them ask me about where babies REALLY come from. (Not ready to answer that question from 4 year olds!)
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Looks like a great fun film, and what a super link up at Kidzania. You all look like you had a super awesome time. I’ll keep an eye out for the movie when it arrives in France #KCACOLS
looks great, i havent taken my three year old to the cinema yet – perhaps its time to give it a try.
It looks like you had an amazing day and made some good memories!
I cannot wait to see this movie and thinking it may be a good thing that Ben is too young for the cinema so I can watch a movie in peace, even if it is a kids movie. They’re usually the best anyway! Haha
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awww bles your girls they are so happy and must of been tons of fun. The face paint is super cute as well X #kcacols
We do parent and baby cinema on Mondays, sooo hoping they show this! #kcacols
This looks like so much fun!! I love their face paints and look at those yummy snacks! What a fab opportunity, my girls would go crazy for this! Probably my 12 year old too although he would totally deny it and act as though he was going along just to humour me. I’ll have to check out the film! #kcacols
Oh yeah. A must-see. And I don’t even have kids!
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We had such a fab time st the screening – thank you for inviting us along! Bella looks like she enjoyed the event at Kidzania! #KCACOLS
Great review and fab pictures! I really want to see Storks, it sounds like a great film! #KCACOLS
This looks like SOO much fun! I’ve not heard of this film yet, but I absolutely love all the fun before the screening-how neat! I’m sure your girls had such a blast!! Thanks for sharing! #KCACOLS
What a fun day! We’ve seen the trailer for Storks a few times and looks like a fab kids film 🙂 #KCACOLS
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
I’ve seen one of the adverts for this and it truly does look like lots of fun. #kcacols
I’ve seen the trailers for this and it’s look really good! Those cloud biscuits are just too cute.
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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
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
This looks like great fun and how cool to go to such a fab event!
Mainy
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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
Oh I do want to watch this with my kids, we loved secret life of pets too #Kcacols
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
WOW , you look like you both had an amazing time. I love the facepainting #KCACOLS
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!)