On The Buster Scale Arthur

# Every day when you're walkin' down the street

# Everybody that you meet

# Has an original point of view

# And I say, hey! Hey!

# What a wonderful kind of day If we can learn to work and play

# And get along with each other

# You gotta listen to your heart Listen to the beat

# Listen to the rhythm The rhythm of the street

# Open up your eyes! Open up your ears!

# Get together and make things better by working together

# It's a simple message And it comes from the heart

# Oh, believe in yourself For that's the place to start

# And I say, hey! Hey! What a wonderful kind of day

# If we can learn to work and play And get along with each other

# What a wonderful kind of day, hey! What a wonderful kind of day, hey! #

Hey, DW!

-Hey!

-Whoa!

CRASH!

Surrender the Light Mass or suffer the full force of Quadro-Blast!

No.

BOOM!

PEW-PEW-PEW!

Nice try, but your cyber-dynamos are no match for Quadro-Blast!

Now, will you surrender the Light Mass?

No.

PEW-PEW-PEW!

ALL: Wow!

-Meh.

-Meh? That was the best movie ever.

-Oh, Buster.

Why didn't you like it?

Well, first of all,

how could some car mechanic build 1,000 giant robots in his garage?

If there's anything that you can count on, it's that Buster

and Brain will never agree about a movie.

The other thing you can count on is that one of them

is not going to be happy about it.

..military site before the secret lab was

invaded by Quadro-Blast's nano-robots.

And then, for no reason, the bad robots all suddenly fly to Jupiter.

For what? Robot spring break?

ALL LAUGH

And, I'm sorry, but you can't blow up an entire planet that is 317 times

bigger than the Earth with one weird glowing bomb thingy.

The Light Mass.

-Whatever, it was all just an excuse for a lot of explosions.

-Oh, brother.

I know. I see what he means.

Yeah, you're right, Brain. That movie had lots of problems.

It stunk.

BUSTER GASPS

I don't get it. Everybody liked the movie. We all said, "Wow."

Then they all change their mind because of Brain.

Well, he did make some good points.

He didn't even get the plot right. Some car mechanic in a garage?

-No, the car mechanic had a bionic brain.

-OK, but still.

-Brain is pretty smart about movies.

-I know about movies too.

-As much as he does.

-Oh, there you are.

Come on, we're going to the movies.

We are? Cool.

Our film critic called in sick today,

-so I've got to write the review for the Friday paper.

-What movie?

Wow.

Wow.

I don't know what to say about that thing.

-It was just a lot of explosions.

-Mom, that's not true.

I've seen the movie twice now and the story makes perfect sense.

Really? Oh, that's great, honey. Could you explain it to me, then?

-You mean, you want to know what I think about a movie?

-Yes. Please.

And so, while adults might find Giant Exploding Robots

loud and hard to follow, on the evidence of my son's enthusiasm,

the film is clearly just the ticket for eight-year-old boys.

So, what do you think of that? And she's a grown-up.

-Yeah, and she didn't like it either.

-Just like Brain.

-It stunk.

Uh-huh. Well, I'm not finished yet.

You know, I've always wanted to try my hand at film criticism.

Oh, you should, Brain. You'd be really great at it.

BUSTER CLEARS THROAT

The Kid's Corner. Movies from a kid's perspective. "Hi, everybody.

"My name is Buster Baxter.

"I'm eight years old and this is what I think about

-"Giant Exploding Robots 3D."

-Wait a minute.

You wrote something for the paper?

"Nobody understands this great movie.

"It is not just a lot of explosions.

"The inventor is not just a car mechanic, his dad was

"a scientist who put a bionic brain in his head when he was a baby.

"The bionic brain makes him insane when he grows up

"and so he builds armies of robots.

"There are good and bad robots

"and they have amazing battles and I won't tell you

"the end except that it's totally believable -

"something 317 times as big as Earth can blow up.

"After all, what is a supernova? Can anybody tell me that, huh?"

Is this for real?

Uh-huh. Last night, when I told my mom all about the movie,

she got this idea to have us both write reviews.

On the Buster scale, Giant Exploding Robots 3D rates a 10.

-10 plus.

-Not to rain on your parade, Buster,

but that analysis is riddled with...

On the Buster scale? Wow. You have a scale?

-You know, come to think of it, that inventor was insane.

-Yeah, he was.

-The movie makes a lot more sense now.

-It was a 10 plus.

I don't get it, everybody hated the movie,

they said it stunk, then they all changed

their minds because of Buster.

-Well, he did make some good points.

-He didn't make any points.

There are good and bad robots and they have battles.

-What kind of critique is that?

-Look, it's just one review.

I mean, it's not like he's going to write another one.

-Look, everybody! Another one!

-Oh, wow, Buster.

Mom's editor said people liked reading what kids thought

and so he wants me to write one every week.

"Last week, I told you about Giant Exploding Robots 3D.

"Well, this week's new movie, Aliens, Aliens, And More Aliens..."

"Superheroes Versus Robots 3D."

"You'll have never seen a movie like Tiny Exploding Monsters 3D."

"First, what could be better than that title? It tells you..."

"There are not one, but ten superheroes

"and each has a different superpower..."

"Who would have thought monsters could be tiny, but dangerous?"

"The movie has something important to say - beware of aliens."

ALL: On the Buster scale, a 10 plus!

BRAIN GASPS

Yeah. That's it. That's it!

-Here's your refill, Mr Baxter.

-Thanks, kid.

Say, can I maybe ask your opinion about something?

-If you make it quick.

-Well, my friend and I

are going to the movies tonight and he wants to see

Robot Aliens 3, but I kind of want to see Alien Robots 4.

Now, I know you love them both, but which one do you...

DOOR OPENS

-This seat taken?

-Nope.

What you doing?

Just writing my review of Attack Of The Monster Superheroes.

-10 plus?

-Oh, we'll see. It's not in 3D.

What are you doing?

-Oh, just working on my blog.

-Blog, huh? That's nice.

-What are you blogging about?

-Movies.

-Really, you have a movie blog?

Oh, sorry, sir.

That's cool.

Sure are an awful lot of movie blogs out there, though.

Hope your's doesn't get lost in the shuffle.

Here it is. Oh, and it's about Attack Of The Monster Superheroes.

That's the movie you're reviewing right now, isn't it, Mr Baxter?

-Guess he beat you to it.

-That's the problem with newspapers.

It takes so long to get a review in print.

Some critics will try to convince you that

Attack Of The Monster Superheroes

rates a 10 plus, but let's be serious.

OK! This has gone far enough. You're just trying to attack me.

Well, it's lazy reviewing.

Every movie can't be 10 plus.

And why don't you review some movies that don't have explosions in them?

-No movies don't have explosions in them.

-True.

-Well, at least, I don't hate every movie like you do.

-That's not true.

-OK, name one movie you like.

-Simple, erm...

Oh! La Regle Du Jeu.

BOTH: Huh?

Jean Renoir film, 1939, black and white.

Really beautiful dark farce about...

Listen. I think the solution to this conflict is very clear.

-Only one of us can be right.

-Yes.

-So, let's prove it.

-Yes.

You don't mean a fight, do you?

No, we both review the same movie

-and see which review changes all our friends' minds.

-Sounds logical.

But what if you both agree about the movie?

BOTH: We never agree.

BEEP-BEEP-BEEP

BOTH YAWN

BOTH GASP

BOOM!

PEWPEWPEW!

BOOM!

AUDIENCE SCREAMS

BIRD SONG AND ORGAN MUSIC

Le Murmure De Silence, with English subtitles!

Can you handle it?

Don't worry about me.

BOTH: Well?

-Well, what?

-Who's right?

-How can we tell?

-We haven't seen the movie yet.

-It doesn't matter.

-Yes, it does.

You know, we do have our own opinions.

Huh, that's debatable.

Pfft, you said it, brother.

I think you guys have watched too many bad movies.

Your brains are mushy.

Wait! You haven't told us who's right. It's me, Arthur, isn't it?

Come on, Arthur. You know you agree with me.

We read your reviews because we respect both your opinions.

But you two have to learn to respect other people's opinions.

-Is he right?

-I'm not sure. Maybe.

-Well, at least we agree about that.

BOTH SIGH

-Maybe we should just agree to disagree.

-I can live with that.

-You liked it?

-You didn't? But it had no explosions!

-But it had subtitles.

-It was so sad.

-Sad? It was sappy. I'd rather watch a robot explode.

Let's see more foreign films now.

So long as they're more exciting than that one.

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