{"id":198963,"date":"2007-09-24T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/24\/pay-per-view-review-9\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T23:37:00","slug":"pay-per-view-review-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/24\/pay-per-view-review-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay Per View Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our previous cable service was plain vanilla, no cable box, so now we get pay per view, and we checked out a movie list night, <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0308353\/\">Happily N&#8217;Ever After<\/a>, one of the more recent CGI movies to hit the small screen.<br \/>Cast:<\/p>\n<p>George Carlin: The Wizard (Sort of)<br \/>Andy Dick: Mambo<br \/>Sarah Michelle Gellar: Ella<br \/>Michael McShane: Rumplestiltskin<br \/>Freddie Prinze Jr.: Rick<br \/>Wallace Shawn: Munk<br \/>Patrick Warburton: Prince Humperdink<br \/>Sigourney Weaver: Frieda<\/p>\n<p>George Carlin is amusing, but he has perhaps 3 minutes screen time in this retelling of the Cinderella story, which is juxtaposed with the metaphysics of fairy tales.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Warburton and Wallace Shawn do a journeyman job of playing&#8230;Patrick Warburton and Wallace Shawn, and they are amusing.<\/p>\n<p>For once, Andy Dick is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> repellent<\/p>\n<p>Sigourney Weaver is a wonderful evil stepmother, easily the strongest performance of the movie, with Weaver at her scenery chewing best.  What&#8217;s more, she is the sexiest animated character since Jessica rabbit, and far more interesting, both libidinally and in terms of character development.<\/p>\n<p>but the two leads, Gellar and Prinze are somewhat lackluster.<\/p>\n<p>Freddy Prince, who plays Rick, performs well as the Prince Humperdink&#8217;s dogsbody and dishwasher, but Gellar&#8217;s performance as Ella is rather lackluster.  Some of this is not her fault, as the character is written to be a bit of a ninny..  It doesn&#8217;t help that the stepmom is way hotter.<\/p>\n<p>The plot, and plot device are a bit contrived, but I enjoyed it, and more importantly, my kids enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amusing, if fluffy, and the hidden movie references will amuse the adults watching with their kids.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img166.imageshack.us\/img166\/3339\/happilysz1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/img166.imageshack.us\/img166\/3339\/happilysz1.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/img201.imageshack.us\/img201\/711\/06300dpijx8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/img201.imageshack.us\/img201\/711\/06300dpijx8.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/img201.imageshack.us\/img201\/1757\/08300dpiqs7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/img201.imageshack.us\/img201\/1757\/08300dpiqs7.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/img201.imageshack.us\/img201\/8676\/04300dpitq8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/img201.imageshack.us\/img201\/8676\/04300dpitq8.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img201.imageshack.us\/img201\/6846\/03300dpigd6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/img201.imageshack.us\/img201\/6846\/03300dpigd6.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/img201.imageshack.us\/img201\/5905\/09300dpipw8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/img201.imageshack.us\/img201\/5905\/09300dpipw8.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>And of course, the happy ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our previous cable service was plain vanilla, no cable box, so now we get pay per view, and we checked out a movie list night, Happily N&#8217;Ever After, one of the more recent CGI movies to hit the small screen.Cast: George Carlin: The Wizard (Sort of)Andy Dick: MamboSarah Michelle Gellar: EllaMichael McShane: RumplestiltskinFreddie Prinze Jr.: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[993,1065,1064,1189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-entertainment","category-media","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198963"}],"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=198963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}