{"id":755,"date":"2007-07-03T22:20:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T22:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=755"},"modified":"2007-07-04T23:10:58","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T23:10:58","slug":"a-fancy-feasting-second-rate-sidekick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=755","title":{"rendered":"A Fancy Feasting second-rate sidekick&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.imdb.com\/title\/tt0413267\/\">Shrek the Third<\/a> this evening. After the very original <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.imdb.com\/title\/tt0126029\/\">first<\/a> and even better <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.imdb.com\/title\/tt0298148\/\">second<\/a> films in the Shrek series, I had high expectations for the third. As far as films go, it was entertaining, with funny moments liberally scattered throughout. There were plenty of in-jokes, be it hat tips to other films, or references to other characters the actors have played.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, compared to one and two, number three was disappointing. One and two were original and had something to say. Number three was more run of the mill, with a story as generic as they come.  This isn&#8217;t to say that as a film on its own it isn&#8217;t a good film. Just as part of the Shrek trilogy, it was disappointing. I hope they don&#8217;t continue this trend and make a fourth!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw Shrek the Third this evening. After the very original first and even better second films in the Shrek series, I had high expectations for the third. As far as films go, it was entertaining, with funny moments liberally scattered throughout. There were plenty of in-jokes, be it hat tips to other films, or references&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=755\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}