Jul
17
Mob payback & reconciliation in “Shark Tales” movie at the Base pool tonight!
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(Saturday, 7/17/2010) Wow! Our Los Alamitos Recreation Department sure knows when to schedule a free movie in the pool! Their choice of topics is even more intriguing. . .
At 7 p.m. tonight they’ll be showing the first of three free movies set for this summer. It’s Dreamworks 2004 animated film, “Shark Tales.” You can watch it from in the water or on the bleachers, and you’re even encouraged to “bring your inflatables for the pool!”
Shark Tales is a 90 minute feature with the voice of Will Smith as the main character.
It’s a kid’s movie that’s essentially a symbolic parody of 1972′s The Godfather (I’m not making this up. . . yet. . .) in which a City Council Majority elected with big money support from the local trash boss orders a hit on the Chairman of the Ocean’s Traffic Commission after he publicly opposes the Council for awarding the trash boss’s former company a ten year exclusive franchise costing six million dollars more than the lowest bidder.
Or something like that. The rumor is that the film’s been updated with a segment in which an evil foreign oil conglomerate’s massive oil spill threatens to destroy all the sharks in the Gulf, both good and evil. Anyway, in the end the mob boss comes to accept Will Smith’s character even though he doesn’t fit the standard mob mold, proving (are you listening, JM?) that even villains can have a change of heart. . .
If you don’t have air conditioning and are tired of paying to watch a movie to keep cool, then you might just want to toss the kids into the car tonight & drive over to the Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base Pool. (Take Lexington south from Katella right into the main entrance. Lexington is east of Los Al Blvd. and west of Costco (Walker).
All adults entering the Base must have photo ID, but you do not have to be a Los Alamitos resident to participate.
This is the first of three “Movies in the Park” co-sponsored by Los Al Rec & and Revolution, the same folks that have combined to bring us the Easter Egg Hunt and Halloween Carnival for the last few years. (Despite rumors allegedly spread by a former Mayor, neither the Los Alamitos Easter Egg Hunt nor the White House Easter Egg Hunt was ever canceled due to the introduction of new crops on the White House lawn.)
Revolution is a non-denominational, contemporary church that meets at 10:00 a.m. Sundays at Artesia High, 12108 Del Amo, Lakewood (east of the 605). Church offices are actually in Los Alamitos at 10867 Portal Drive.
The other two movies are scheduled forAugust at Laurel Park on Katella @ Bloomfield (bring lawn chairs & blankets) at 7 p.m. (allow extra time to park):
- August 7: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
- August 28: Disney’s UP
Thank you, Los Alamitos & Revolution!
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