Montana Janzen

Well…I took my four year old son (Richard) to see “Meet the Robinsons”. When I first saw the promo trailer months ago about this movie, I thought it would be a cheesy and boring movie.  Boy! Was I wrong.  

This movie has incredible! It’s great teaching for our kids and gives you great prospective about failing in this world. In our world today, we are taught to “get it right the first time” or “If you don’t get it perfect the first time, then don’t do it at all” etc…etc… Well this way of thinking is (at least I think) is totally incorrect and misleading our kids today. I see to many people (adults) beating themselves up mentally because they made mistakes or failed at something.

Where did we get this wrong prospective in life? From our parents, who were taught by their parents and so on and so on.   

When you watch the movie (which is great for our kids and also the kid in you), you will begin to realize, that failure is the greatest part of Success! Without failure you will not experience true success. 

The movie is about a kid named Lewis. He meets a mysterious boy from the future named Wilbur Robinson. The two of them travel forward in time where Lewis discovers the amazing secret of the Robinson family. Lewis is a brilliant twelve-year-old with a surprising number of clever inventions to his credit. His latest and most ambitious project is the Memory Scanner, which he hopes will retrieve early memories of his mother and maybe even reveal why she put him up for adoption. But before he can get his answer, his invention is stolen by the Bowler Hat Guy (whom you find out, knows Lewis ever so well) and his diabolical hat and constant companion (Doris). Lewis has all but given up hope in his future when a mysterious boy named Wilbur Robinson whisks our bewildered hero away in a time machine and the two travel forward in time to spend a day with Wilbur’s eccentric family. In a world filled with flying cars and floating cities, they hunt down Bowler Hat Guy, save the future and uncover the amazing secret of Lewis’ future family.

I give this movie two thumbs up! So next time you’re going to the movies with your kids of any age, you will leave a better person.

So I leave you with what I have learned - Try, Do, Fail, Learn from it, Try again, Do again, Succeed - “Just keep moving forward”

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