Who were continuously kicking the back of my and dc's chair during the movie? They looked to be about 8 and 10. The second time I turned round and told them to stop, they sniggered. I couldn't see their parents in it was so dark. Then near the end, their dad swapped seats and sat behind me. The kicking stopped.
At the end of the movie, I raised to the dad how throughout the movie and telling his sons to stop twice, they were still kicking and sniggering. I said it politely so that he was aware. He launched into an attack saying his kids don't do this kind of thing and that they are not little kids. And he said I should have raised it with him first (difficult to do as I couldn't identify him easily and didn't want to make a scene more than it was). He really wasn't up for listening to my side so I walked off. Literally.
AIBU?
To confront two kids in the cinema
CookieDoughKid · 04/10/2015 16:57
Bess I love you 
OP you were a hell of a lot more polite than I would have been. I had this problem when II last took DS to the cinema
I told them if they didn't stop kicking his seat then I would sit and kick them repeatedly in the balls. (They were older teens and I was only 23 so I figured it was fair when they are kicking a 6 year olds seat) I think they knew I was serious as they stopped
I have no issue with telling other people off in the cinema. It annoys me even more in the theatre. I took 50 kids to see An Inspector Calls at the theatre this week and was really annoyed that a DC from a different school was sitting two rows in front of me texting. He was just too far away for me to poke his shoulder 
I also once told off an adult who was singing along at a West End performance of Phantom. I told her I'd paid to hear the performers, not her. She shut up but gave me filthy looks for the rest of the show.
Bess I think you might have to come with me to the cinema every time I go now!
I'm usually way too 'well mannered' (ie. Scared of confrontation) to say anything to the twats in their phones or talking but it drives me insane.
I did it once to a couple who were talking and giggling constantly through a film right behind me, I span round in my chair and lunged over the back like a woman possessed and gave them a good hissing to. They were French and couldn't understand me 
since then I've kept my mouth shut!
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Yanbu at all.
We saw annabell had had some teens kicking the chairs, chatting, talking on their phones and generally being twats.
I asked twice nicely before i turned around and shouted at them.
It stopped them for a while before they started again.
Then my huge dp told them.
They shut up then but they'd ruined the film.
They certainly hurried out the cinema when the film ended though
And perhaps a foghorn for blasting into the ears of those engrossed in their phones?
Bess Love the idea of connecting with inner drunk
Cookie yanbu at the beginning but once dad swapped seats there was no need to raise it again. Child may have attention difficulties if dad had to move seats rather than get him to stop 
DH told off a man in the cinema who was on his phone AND went and got the usher when he last took our boys to the cinema (they were v impressed). So bloody rude. He did put it away though.
bess you are a 
Herecomes for me if its a children's film I expect to hear from the little ones in the cinema! A friend and I went to see Paddington (sans children) and it was predictably full of toddlers and young children. They all behaved beautifully and we were very impressed. Not so impressed by the parents on their phones the whole time because 'they are only their because the kids wanted to see it and would be bored otherwise'. No no that's fine 
fuck the rest of us who also paid money to sit here because we wanted to watch it.
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