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A Flying Leap

Leap 2016 Directed by Eric Sumner and Eric Warin One of only two Saturday mornings I'll get to spend at home between tours this go-round found me at the Northgate Mall in a nearly empty theater for the 10:30 a.m. showing of Leap , an animated feature from the Weinstein Company. By my side was my trusty movie-going companion, Roman. We were a few minutes late, because Roman's brother had gotten himself invited over into the neighbor's yard just before go-time, but neither of us are particular about arrival times unless the movie is The Lion King , which we'll discuss here in the near future. We took our seats near the front -- Roman observed "the chair is broken"; the vinyl padding on the armrest was badly cracked, and this holds true, based on a sample taken of the neighboring four seats, throughout the theater -- and watched a well-animated but entirely toxic movie that hit all my "I wish I had better movies to show my kids" spot. Poop and far...