Aliens, lovies and Men In Black: International arrive on Blu-Ray DVD

We have a child that absolutely goes mental over lovies. These are the stuffed animals that populate a child’s room, they can be an alligator, bear, character from a movie or a stuffed thing that he won from a claw machine, but they all have the same name: Lovey. If you’ve seen Men In Black: International there’s a cute scene where an alien hides amongst some lovies. That film is available on Blu-Ray DVD now and they’ve partnered with Budsies to remind people that anything in a child’s imagination can be a lovey.

Imagination. That’s one of the great things that made the first MIB movie memorable. It’s the fact that the ordinary is extraordinary. Those things or people that you see everyday actually have an entirely different dimension to how they act or influence others.

That is the effect that I was reaching for when I asked our 7 year-old to create something. He’s a doodler and a lovey kid, so I was curious to see what was lurking inside that ever growing mind. “Wait, so this will be a lovey?” he asked. I reassured him that this doodle that he was doing was going to become a real life, 3D lovey that would stand amongst the others that live in his room.

He sat down at the picnic table with some crayons, pencils and magic markers. After a bit of creative mojo he started to tinker with a creature he called a space jellyfish. It’s a green triangle-shaped thing, with six, short, wavy arms at the bottom and its eyes look like it’s trying to hypnotize you. Cavalierly he passed his sketch off to me, said something about a “lovey” and sauntered off to exercise his imagination and lungs. Every couple of days for the next four weeks he’d ask about his space jellyfish. It was obvious that he was skeptical about his drawing actually being made into a lovey.

Yet, it arrived and just as he drew it. Moreover, the package from Budsies contained a copy of the original sketch he’d done. Next came the questions-“How did they make this?”, “What’s in it?” and more. Usually the questions were followed by a second-grader shaking his head and saying, “That’s so cool”.

Like the aliens in Men In Black: International this is a creature that made an impact on our guy. When he didn’t listen to his teachers in school one day and we were forced to take all of his lovies; except for one-guess which one he decided to keep? After a couple of days of actual ‘listening’ and ‘behaving’ in class the other lovies did rejoin their space jellyfish brethren.

As a film, Men In Black: International is quite entertaining. There were a couple scenes, as well as, language use, in the film that were too much for kids nine and younger, but the film is rated PG-13. There are some cool monsters in the film and for middle school kids and up the film will be great popcorn fun for a night in. Combine that with our creative Budsies critter and this is a film that our kids will remember for a while.

We were provided with a Budsies to review and a copy of the film to view. All thoughts are our own. We use affiliate links in our posts also because, hosting fees and doughnuts.