{"id":8527,"date":"2013-04-02T20:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T00:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8527"},"modified":"2013-03-31T22:49:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T02:49:11","slug":"safety-not-guaranteed-2012-colin-trevorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8527","title":{"rendered":"Safety Not Guaranteed (2012, Colin Trevorrow)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aubrey Plaza (more upbeat here than as April Ludgate) works for douchebag magazine reporter Jake Johnson (of the similarly-titled <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5966\">No Strings Attached<\/a><\/em>) checking up on a shady fellow (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/2268\">Baghead<\/a><\/em> director Mark Duplass) who posted a classified ad looking for time travel partners.  Aubrey falls for him, but he predictably discovers her identity as reporter, putting their partnership on shaky ground.  They&#8217;re followed all along by the most ineffectual government agents ever, while Jake spends a couple days with an ex and hooks up his socially awkward flunky with some loose young girls. I was happy to see <em>Mr. Show&#8217;s<\/em> Mary Lynn Rajskub as the magazine boss, and Katy was excited to see Kristen <em>V-Mars<\/em> Bell as Duplass&#8217;s ex-girlfriend who leads Aubrey that he&#8217;s maybe nuts after all, before she decides to trust him at the end and they disappear in his floating time machine.<\/p>\n<p>Happily, the seemingly time-filler sidetracks actually add up to something.  Aubrey and Jake state they want to travel back in time to prevent people they love from dying.  Duplass is living in a weird place between past and present, fixated on his ex-girlfriend Bell, who he falsely tells Aubrey has died.  Meanwhile Jake is trying to relive his past in multiple ways, by leading the young flunky towards a sexual experience, and reconnecting with his own youthful fling Liz, who finally proves to be too mature for Jake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aubrey Plaza (more upbeat here than as April Ludgate) works for douchebag magazine reporter Jake Johnson (of the similarly-titled No Strings Attached) checking up on a shady fellow (Baghead director Mark Duplass) who posted a classified ad looking for time travel partners. Aubrey falls for him, but he predictably discovers her identity as reporter, putting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,872,111],"class_list":["post-8527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-duplass","tag-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527","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=8527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8564,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527\/revisions\/8564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}