Middle School

Poster of Song of the Sea by Cartoon Saloon Poster of That Thing You Do Poster of Ready Player One

Middle school was full of more animated and good family films, with a little more murder than childhood. Some notable films from this time are That Thing You Do, Song of the Sea, and Ready Player One. That thing you do is a movie I can always watch when I don’t know what to watch. I love Tom Hanks's role in the film and my favorite character is Guy because I played percussion.

Song of the Sea really impacted me because of it’s animation. I adored the style it was drawn in and it made me really want to become an animator. I looked up the studio a while back and I hope to be a storyboard artist for them one day.

Ready Player One was wonderful because it looked like magic to me. A world where everyone lives in a virtual world and can do nearly anything? Sign me up! I also loved the mystery of the keys and the ending really stuck with me because it’s true, reality is the only thing that’s real.

“A little, it was messy.”

“You call that figuring it out? We’re going to rob the guys that just beat us senseless!”

“The fair Faye wishes do address us all, so zip.”

Amelia Newberg, November 2024