{"id":1281,"date":"2008-02-25T21:50:51","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T02:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/02\/25\/definitely-maybe-movie-review\/"},"modified":"2008-03-22T13:07:23","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T18:07:23","slug":"definitely-maybe-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/02\/25\/definitely-maybe-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Definitely, Maybe&#8211;Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/3o5.gif\" alt=\"3 Stars\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0832266\/\">Definitely, Maybe<\/a> is a romantic comedy with a twist. Or maybe it&#8217;s a twisted romantic comedy. Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds), is a political consultant who is about to get divorced. He tries to explain the situation to his eight-year-old daughter Maya (Abigail Breslin). For complicated reasons she demands to know his entire romantic history.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly he agrees, but he changes the names so Maya won&#8217;t know which girl in the story is her mother. So we see the story unfold as a series of flashbacks, and it turns out to be pretty entertaining. It&#8217;s a story about smart but flawed people, which is naturally more interesting than the usual comedy about stupid people.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nStill, the framework in somewhat disturbing. I had trouble accepting Abigail Breslin as an eight year old (she&#8217;s 11). Toward the end of the movie she behaves in a way that doesn&#8217;t seem believable either for age 8 or 11.<\/p>\n<p>So you have to be prepared to treat this as a fantasy and suspend disbelief. (After all, I probably wouldn&#8217;t want to see a real eight year old attempt this part.)<\/p>\n<p>And I guess as a fantasy it&#8217;s fine. But please folks, if you are in the middle of a divorce, DO NOT pick that moment to tell your kids the story of your marriage, even if they ask. There is no way that would lead to a happy ending it real life. More likely the consequences would be horrible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definitely, Maybe is a romantic comedy with a twist. Or maybe it&#8217;s a twisted romantic comedy. Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds), is a political consultant who is about to get divorced&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/02\/25\/definitely-maybe-movie-review\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-definitely-maybe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}