{"id":190612,"date":"2009-11-08T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/08\/pay-per-view-review-3\/"},"modified":"2009-11-08T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T03:35:00","slug":"pay-per-view-review-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/08\/pay-per-view-review-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay Per View Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it was time for another family movie, and it was my choice, and my Sharon absolutely put her foot down about the Simpsons Movie, so I chose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0892782\/\">Monsters vs Aliens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reese Witherspoon&#8230;Susan Murphy \/ Ginormica (voice)<br \/>Seth Rogen &#8230; B.O.B. (voice)<br \/>Hugh Laurie &#8230; Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (voice)<br \/>Will Arnett &#8230; The Missing Link (voice)<br \/>Kiefer Sutherland &#8230; General W.R. Monger (voice)<br \/>Rainn Wilson &#8230; Gallaxhar (voice)<br \/>Stephen Colbert &#8230; President Hathaway (voice)<br \/>Paul Rudd &#8230; Derek Dietl (voice)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an old story, girl is going to get married, girl gets struck by meteor, girl grows to humongous size, girl gets imprisoned in a secret government facility&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">is<\/span> an story.  It&#8217;s the Wizard of Oz story with a bit of a twist.<\/p>\n<p>I realized this about \u00be of the way through the movie.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, it is well animated, well acted, and well scripted, and rather enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a movie that does well with the pause and rewind buttons, because there are a number of fractured takes on old SF films and film conventions.<\/p>\n<p>The big surprise here are appearances by Stephen Colbert as the president of the United States, where he most amusingly chews scenery.<\/p>\n<p>Watch through the credits.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended, with one caveat:  If you love the golden gate bridge, you may cry at one point.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures after the flip.<br \/><a name='more'><\/a><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img690.imageshack.us\/img690\/6774\/mv5bmtqyodm4njuxmf5bml5.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img42.imageshack.us\/img42\/9585\/mv5bmtc4nza1nzq0n15bml5.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img39.imageshack.us\/img39\/8012\/mv5bmtu3odc4ota5nl5bml5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img69.imageshack.us\/img69\/9609\/mv5botmzndezmdy0ml5bml5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img197.imageshack.us\/img197\/6682\/mv5bmjaynjc4ndg4ml5bml5.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img69.imageshack.us\/img69\/5301\/mv5bmtg1otq4mje4of5bml5.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img5.imageshack.us\/img5\/9151\/mv5bmtuyotk4mtu4of5bml5.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img5.imageshack.us\/img5\/762\/mv5bmty1mzaxodg0nv5bml5.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img12.imageshack.us\/img12\/1298\/mv5bmti2ndq1nzc5mf5bml5.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it was time for another family movie, and it was my choice, and my Sharon absolutely put her foot down about the Simpsons Movie, so I chose Monsters vs Aliens. Reese Witherspoon&#8230;Susan Murphy \/ Ginormica (voice)Seth Rogen &#8230; B.O.B. (voice)Hugh Laurie &#8230; Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (voice)Will Arnett &#8230; The Missing Link (voice)Kiefer Sutherland &#8230; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1065,1064,1189,1171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-media","category-reviews","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190612"}],"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=190612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}