{"id":189689,"date":"2010-02-22T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/22\/pay-per-view-review-2\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T22:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T03:59:00","slug":"pay-per-view-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/22\/pay-per-view-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay Per View Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was time for another family movie night, and Charlie chose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1049413\/\">Up (2009)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Edward Asner&#8230;Carl Fredricksen (voice)<br \/>Christopher Plummer&#8230;Charles Muntz (voice)<br \/>Jordan Nagai&#8230;Russell (voice)<br \/>Bob Peterson&#8230;Dug \/ Alpha (voice)<br \/>Delroy Lindo&#8230;Beta (voice)<br \/>Jerome Ranft&#8230;Gamma (voice)<br \/>John Ratzenberger&#8230;Construction Foreman Tom (voice)<br \/>David Kaye&#8230;Newsreel Announcer (voice)<br \/>Elie Docter&#8230;Young Ellie (voice)<br \/>Jeremy Leary&#8230;Young Carl (voice)<\/p>\n<p>There are some parts that are very funny, but at its core it&#8217;s not a funny film, it&#8217;s melancholy.<\/p>\n<p>The issues that are significant parts of plot are about infertility or the loss of a child, the loss of a spouse, the abandonment of a child by his father, and the descent of a childhood hero into murderous obsession.<\/p>\n<p>It is well scripted, well animated, and visually arresting, and it is in its own way rather sweet and touching, but I found it to be a basically sad film.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good film, but it&#8217;s much darker than the normal animated fare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was time for another family movie night, and Charlie chose Up (2009). Edward Asner&#8230;Carl Fredricksen (voice)Christopher Plummer&#8230;Charles Muntz (voice)Jordan Nagai&#8230;Russell (voice)Bob Peterson&#8230;Dug \/ Alpha (voice)Delroy Lindo&#8230;Beta (voice)Jerome Ranft&#8230;Gamma (voice)John Ratzenberger&#8230;Construction Foreman Tom (voice)David Kaye&#8230;Newsreel Announcer (voice)Elie Docter&#8230;Young Ellie (voice)Jeremy Leary&#8230;Young Carl (voice) There are some parts that are very funny, but at its core &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1065,1064,1189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-media","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}