Kids are funny… in a way. My baby girl for instance. She’s going on 15 months now and for the last few weeks she’s has an odd fas­ci­na­tion with Nacho Libre. The most intrigu­ing thing about this is the mere fact that she will, for a good hour, sit and watch the movie with­out mov­ing. On the odd occa­sion she does watch the whole 91 min­utes, she shifts from sit­ting, to stand­ing, to danc­ing a jigg and back to sit­ting (maybe even a sneaky lay-down).

I’ve watched it with her from time to time (mainly it’s a great way for her to chill-out after a good 4hr run around the house) and I find it amus­ing that, when I acci­den­tally stray into her view of the TV, she will tilt her head to see bet­ter or even fur­row her brow… What, what’s that? Yes, a 15 month old baby (though she’s grow­ing into a lit­tle girl by the day) will actu­ally get annoyed and show it — like one of those peo­ple that huff or sigh loudly when you pass them to take a piss dur­ing a the­atre flick.

Why she’s so fas­ci­nated by it is a lit­tle beyond me. I under­stand the colours, the cin­e­matog­ra­phy, Jack Black and his funny pseudo-Mexican accent but really, should a baby be that enter­tained by what is essen­tially, a slap­stick wrestling film? And it’s not even the action parts, or the silly faces and rift­ing music. She even sits qui­etly watch­ing dia­logue scenes.

In a way I’m proud. I am a huge film fan; I’ll watch almost any­thing once and to think that my daugh­ter is already into what one might ten­ta­tively call a favourite film is a golden exam­ple of her genes (the fact that I will sit and watch it with her every time kind of helps I imagine).

Call it bond­ing, but when I can’t even get her to chill out and watch Elmo, well it isn’t just down to being child-friendly is it? My daugh­ter will sit down and watch — and I mean watch — a film com­posed of fart jokes, bad hair, pile dri­ves and stretchy pants… can a father ask for any­thing more?