{"id":11742,"date":"2008-12-25T03:10:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T11:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2008\/12\/25\/11742.html"},"modified":"2008-12-25T03:10:56","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T11:10:56","slug":"over-the-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2008\/12\/25\/over-the-hedge\/","title":{"rendered":"Over the Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After Xmas dinner this evening, Kam and I decided to watch something silly and fluffy, and it just so happened that I had <cite>Over the Hedge<\/cite> out from Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>I had seen a couple of previews that left me mildly interested in seeing it; I thought it would be a fun timewaster.<\/p>\n<p>As it turned out, I really enjoyed it. It was fun almost all the way through, and I laughed almost nonstop for the last ten or fifteen minutes. (Kam laughed a lot too, though I'm not sure whether she enjoyed it quite as much as I did.)<\/p>\n<p>It's definitely fluff, and the plot isn't anything terribly unusual. And I'm glad I didn't realize that it was loosely based on the comic strip of the same name, because I've never much enjoyed the comic strip. But I really enjoyed the movie quite a lot.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the DVD, there was a preview for <cite>Flushed Away<\/cite>, after which I remarked that I wasn't really fond of slapstick. But then <cite>Over the Hedge<\/cite> turned out to be full of really funny slapstick.<\/p>\n<p>Good cast, too: Bruce Willis, William Shatner, Nick Nolte, Alison Janney, Eugene Levy. Plus others I haven't seen as much of (Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes, Avril Lavigne) who also did a good job.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you're looking for something fun, slight, and family friendly (rated PG \"for some rude humor and mild comic action\"), you could do much much worse.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Xmas dinner this evening, Kam and I decided to watch something silly and fluffy, and it just so happened&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}