{"id":660,"date":"2003-12-09T20:13:59","date_gmt":"2003-12-10T01:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amynews.com\/?p=651"},"modified":"2015-10-08T17:42:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T21:42:09","slug":"movie-review-elf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/2003\/12\/movie-review-elf\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review – Elf"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you didn’t read about my experience<\/a> on Sunday afternoon, I went to see a movie with Ex and Morrie. Now they really didn’t want to see the movie I suggested, Elf<\/a>, but I think they sort of agreed to see that movie just to be nice to me … you know, to minimize any weirdness I was feeling about them hanging out.<\/p>\n

Now I suggested Elf based in part on a review I had read a few weeks ago, but mainly on Sister’s suggestion. She mentioned seeing it the previous week and couldn’t say enough about how much she enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

Anyways, I did the usual frozen Mountain Dew and popcorn, but with a bit different twist … apparently when your ex-wife and life long bud hook up & still like you … they really try to be super nice about things … and in this case that meant …<\/p>\n

Morrie bought my ticket for me … YES !!!<\/p>\n

And Ex sprung for my frozen Mountain Dew and popcorn … YES !!!<\/p>\n

Sweet, huh?<\/p>\n

But you know what? … I’m glad it didn’t cost me a thing. Because I was incredibly disappointed. I was expecting a comedy, but this movie was not even a bunch of laughs. Everything nearly funny was in the previews … and the rest of the movie was non-funny stuff. To say I was disappointed is an understatement. The only good redeeming qualities of the movie were that it has a nice touchy, feely Christmas spirit ending and that it was only 95 minutes long (20 minutes too long in my opinion … why? ’cause I ran out of popcorn at the 1 hour 15 minute mark.) It’s definitely no Christmas Vacation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So as I was walking out of the movie, I thought to myself … “Geezuz, Sister must have been stoned when she saw it.<\/i>” So I figured I’d asked her if she was … along with warning her of my pending non-flattering review …<\/p>\n

In response, she e-mailed me the following:<\/p>\n

I WAS SOBER AS A HORSE. MAYBE IT WAS THE FACT THAT I SAW IT THROUGH THE EYES OF A 7 YR OLD KID. SERIOUSLY THOUGH, I WAS IN HYSTERICS DURING THE ESCALATOR SCENE. I UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you didn’t read about my experience on Sunday afternoon, I went to see a movie with Ex and Morrie. Now they really didn’t want to see the movie I suggested, Elf, but I think they sort of agreed to see that movie just to be nice to me … you know, to minimize…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":141,"label":"Movie Reviews"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Amy","author_link":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/author\/amy\/"},"comment_info":9,"category_info":[{"term_id":141,"name":"Movie Reviews","slug":"movie-reviews","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":145,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":10,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":141,"category_count":10,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Movie Reviews","category_nicename":"movie-reviews","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}