| DVD rental is more of a winter activity, by all | | | | be entertained but, if the children in question are |
| accounts. | | | | your own progeny, they also need to entertained |
| For a start, there's the hours in front of a | | | | almost all of the time that they're not sleeping. |
| computer screen and then a TV screen - much | | | | For this purpose well-timed DVD rental free trials |
| bettered in summer by actually going outside and | | | | are hard to beat, providing wholesome and, most |
| doing something summery. | | | | importantly, near silent entertainment for hours as |
| Then there's the fact that all the films that are | | | | at a time and at a cost of nothing at all. |
| really about the summer time are only likely to | | | | Third, just as 'It's a Wonderful Life' cannot be |
| make you want to go outside and actually be in | | | | properly enjoyed away from Christmas, there |
| the sun. Which you can generally do, it being | | | | are certain films that can only be properly be |
| summer. | | | | appreciated in the summer. |
| DVD rental for summer is not such a bad idea, | | | | These include almost all American post-high school, |
| though, for the following reasons. | | | | pre-college classics like 'Dazed and Confused' |
| First, summer is a time when - more than winter | | | | because you're never really as dazed and |
| - large groups of people tend to get together for | | | | confused in winter as you are in the summer. |
| no particular end (on the beach, in the park) and | | | | There's also a film called summer rental which |
| then meander about until darkness. | | | | stars John Candy as a burned-out and grouchy air |
| As a post darkness activity for a large group of | | | | traffic controller who takes his family on holiday. |
| people a decent DVD rental is hard to beat, | | | | In Florida, the comedy turns farcical and ever |
| frankly. The same could hardly be said of game | | | | more slapstick as Candy's character lies in the sun |
| rental, for example, unless the large group largely | | | | too long and has his lobster stolen. |
| consisted of adolescent boys and their girlfriends | | | | Other only semi-appalling films which fall into this |
| in which case the appetite for such things is as | | | | category include: RV: runaway vacation; the first |
| insatiable as it is entirely inexplicable. | | | | version of the parent trap which has many |
| Second, summer is a time when children have | | | | memorable hiking scenes and forgetting Sarah |
| time off school. | | | | Marshall. |
| In situations such as the one above they need to | | | | |