Just in from taking the kids to see this film. Not many in the theater--it looks like after the first week or two the crowds thin way out. But I enjoy not having to deal with a lot of other folks in the theater.

This film sustained a level of inside humor that I don't recall from the others. The well-placed folks in bit parts were great. Dawn French--she was so Dawn French! We were in stitches! Clearly that bit wasn't in the book, that was in the actress and the leeway she had to play the bit with the song and the glass. And my daughter came in with an "A-ha!" just now--the woman who played the expanding aunt was the same acress who played Miss Trunchbull in the film Matilda. I knew she was familiar, but I couldn't place her.

I just now looked back in this thread--we stayed for part of the credits, but we missed the footprint bit, sorry, black walnut. (Two of us were about ready to pop from not wanting to miss part of the movie to visit the restroom!)

SRS