His Take
Ambiance: Busy; upscale
Food: Didn't eat, but available
Drinks: Moderate bar selection
The Paragon Theater is a clever new twist on cinematic experiences. I like to think of it as a "Modern Upscale" theater. In the last few years, the movie industry has been looking for options to revitalize the theater experience. The first attempt was a theater with a similar chain called "Cinebistro". The concept of that is a restaurant experience attached to the theater. I have not been there, so I won't attempt to review them here at this time. Paragon is now the direct South Florida competition to this chain with only two locations available nationwide.
Paragon offers a full bar with food options in addition to the standard "theater" snacks (popcorn, hotdogs, sodas, candy, etc). Their bar list offers beer, wine, and many mixed drinks. Prices are about average with the rest of the area.
The theaters themselves offer stadium seating with chairs the lightly recline. The best feature that I love about the Paragon is that when you purchase tickets, you reserve your seating! No need to squint to find your seat when someone can now guide you to your reserved seat. No need to buy tickets for the movie you have been dying to see and getting stuck in the front row unable to view anything comfortably! If nothing else, this "minor" feature makes it better than any other theater I have been to in South Florida.
Bottom Line: Highly Recommended
Her Take
Ambiance: Its a movie theater, its not really about ambiance, but it is clean with an upscale quality attempt.
Food: Besides the regular movie food there is a restaurant attached.
Drinks: Alcohol available
Bottom Line:
The Paragon Movie Theater is great because of the one quality which in my opinion all movie theaters should incorporate especially during opening weekend of a big movie. You get to choose where you seat when you pay, so you already have an assigned seat when you walk into the theater and that is the biggest draw for me. There are no people saving a lot of seats for their friends or having to get to the theater to make sure you get a good seat instead of having to choose the first rows closest to the screen. Also stadium seating is nice, the ushers showing you to your seat is also nice, as are the seats themselves, they are a little like lazy -z- boys (a little).
The Paragon Movie Theater is great because of the one quality which in my opinion all movie theaters should incorporate especially during opening weekend of a big movie. You get to choose where you seat when you pay, so you already have an assigned seat when you walk into the theater and that is the biggest draw for me. There are no people saving a lot of seats for their friends or having to get to the theater to make sure you get a good seat instead of having to choose the first rows closest to the screen. Also stadium seating is nice, the ushers showing you to your seat is also nice, as are the seats themselves, they are a little like lazy -z- boys (a little).
