My weekend with your kids

So I saw Hellboy yesterday afternoon, with what I assume was the majority of kids aged 10-15 in Skokie. The movie itself was fine, Ron Perlman does an applaudable job of keeping Hellboy from being the clichéd stoic comic book hero, and you know, anytime Nazis are the bad guys always makes for a good time. What I found strange was my reaction to being surrounded by such young people. In my normal movie-going experience I am either in an empty (or damn near close to it) theater or joined by other members of my demographic. I almost felt like whispering in my conversations with my friends so as not to offend virgin ears. Then one of the youths' cell phones rang during the second half of the movie and he proceeded to try and have a conversation for a minute before hanging up, obviously these children were not so innocent as to not annoy me. Reminding me, once again, why I don't like being in a theater full of children.