{"id":17185,"date":"2025-02-12T20:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T01:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17185"},"modified":"2025-02-12T19:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T00:48:09","slug":"dad-movies-looney-tunes-vs-muppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17185","title":{"rendered":"Dad Movies (Looney Tunes vs. Muppets)"},"content":{"rendered":"

K’s dad was in town.<\/p>\n

The Great Muppet Caper<\/em> (1981, Jim Henson)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our biggest failure of a group movie choice in ages, the hostile viewing environment not helping the experience. Too bad, since it’s got great songs and the best puppetry, taking the characters into natural environments and action scenes and making you ask “how’d they do that” every few minutes.<\/p>\n

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\nRace to Witch Mountain<\/em> (2009, Andy Fickman)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Rock pals around with a couple of misunderstood aliens, one of whom is the girl who helped out Mid-Sized Sedan<\/a> in Rebel Ridge<\/a><\/em>. Semi-remake of a couple Disney movies from the director of Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry<\/a><\/em>. The pd187 writeup<\/a> of this is better (and possibly longer) than the movie.<\/p>\n

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\nLooney Tunes: Back in Action<\/em> (2003, Joe Dante)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve seen this before<\/a>, great movie, nothing to add.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

K’s dad was in town. The Great Muppet Caper (1981, Jim Henson) Our biggest failure of a group movie choice in ages, the hostile viewing environment not helping the experience. Too bad, since it’s got great songs and the best puppetry, taking the characters into natural environments and action scenes and making you ask “how’d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[717,1465],"class_list":["post-17185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-jim-henson","tag-muppets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17221,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17185\/revisions\/17221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}