![]() ![]() “It’s a free-floating gyroscopically balanced remote controlled weather containment and analysis apparatus … We call it the cloud catcher.” Is that true?” Humdinger asks the scientist who runs the machine at a university. “I hear you have a weather machine that sucks up clouds. (It just so happens, the clouds also threaten the fireworks celebration Humdinger is throwing to celebrate … himself.) (In reality, Humdinger is really just a cat person.) Worse, Humdinger-tired of the rainy weather in Adventure City-decides to improve the city by getting rid of the pesky clouds that make things so dreary. Unlike Adventure Bay, a small community where people trade and help each other through trade and voluntary action, Adventure City is run in a very top-down fashion, with Humdinger ordering people around to suit his own purposes.Įarly in the film, we learn he’s capturing “stray” dogs and holding them in a secret shelter. As Mayor of Adventure City-a notable contrast to Adventure Bay-Humdinger quickly turns the metropolis into chaos by using his authority to fuel his own ego and nefarious plans. People who’ve seen the Paw Patrol TV show likely know about Mayor Humdinger-a selfish, grasping politician always seeking to use his position as mayor of Foggy Bottom to his own advantage. To my surprise, however, Paw Patrol is a pretty good flick, and I couldn’t help but notice the story has a not inconspicuous message that tells an important and timeless economic lesson. I wasn’t exactly excited to see the movie, to be honest. It was our first “just-the-two-of-us” movie so I grabbed us a couple blue slushies and a small mountain of buttered popcorn to watch this movie about a boy named Ryder who leads a crew of heroic “search and rescue” puppies in a land named Adventure Bay. ![]() He’s a big fan of the TV show, and as the youngest of my three kiddos, little Beck tends to get less of Dad’s time and attention than his older siblings. I recently took my 4-year-old to see Paw Patrol: The Movie. ![]()
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