I Took My Daughters, 3 and 6, to See ‘The Little Mermaid.’ Here’s Who Slept and Who Danced in the Aisles

My three-year-old’s poor, unfortunate soul.

On Saturday, the family Maglio — me, my wife, and our two daughters, aged three and six — reclined for the 2:45 P.M.. showing of “The Little Mermaid” at the Cinemark Hazlet 12 in Hazlet, New Jersey. Well, the 3-year-old didn’t move her chair; upright, it was already like a queen-sized bed to her. Plus, she ended up spending the vast majority of the movie on my wife’s lap. (More on that in a bit.)

For the 6-year-old, it was just her...