{"id":4366,"date":"2006-01-22T11:42:11","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T15:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/httpblogslawharvardeduceerock4\/2006\/01\/22\/happy-making-m"},"modified":"2006-01-22T11:42:11","modified_gmt":"2006-01-22T15:42:11","slug":"happy-making-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2006\/01\/22\/happy-making-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy-Making Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4084'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/shaolin_soccer\/\">Shaolin Soccer<\/a>.<br \/>\nIt is sublimely ridiculous. I can&#8217;t even find words to describe it.<br \/>\nSomething like Farrelly Brothers meeets Kung Fu Bollywood, I guess.<br \/>\nHere are a few terms used to describe it by other critics, all of which<br \/>\nI agree with:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;buoyant goof&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;lunatic whirl&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;like live action anime&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;has a way of lifting spirits&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;an infectious knockabout&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;silliest, sweetest&#8230;films in recent memory&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;empty-headed treat&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaolin Soccer. It is sublimely ridiculous. I can&#8217;t even find words to describe it. Something like Farrelly Brothers meeets Kung Fu Bollywood, I guess. Here are a few terms used to describe it by other critics, all of which I agree with: &#8220;buoyant goof&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;lunatic whirl&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;like live action anime&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;has a way of lifting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58QoK-18q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}