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Because of Winn-Dixie

Both my children (nine and twelve) enjoyed this movie. The movie stuck pretty close to the source material. Kate DiCamillo books tend to have a theme of loss, broken hearts, darkness and light, and all of the kids in her books have lost one or both parents, either through death or divorce. So, this is more than being a cute dog movie.

The best thing I can say for Winn-Dixie is it is the best movie I have seen on an airplane in years, but that's more a critique of airline movies than praise for this one. It's a pretty standard kid's movie in which a lonely girl adopts a dog that results in adventures, misadventures and all sorts of friends. As I watched it, I saw lots of things that I would have thought were cool if I was a little kid, but as an adult who has seen this sort of thing many times before I really couldn't get that excited about any of it. If I hadn't been trapped on an airplane I certainly would have stopped watching, but since I stopped watching the last three movies I saw on airplanes because they were so painfully awful I have to give this one credit for keeping me mildly entertained for a while.