Watched this last night, and it was perfectly suited for a ‘heartwarming’ Christmas movie.\u00a0 Not a huge fan of Will Ferrell, and Ryan Reynolds is mostly tolerable because he makes fun of himself.<\/p>\n
You can’t stop watching yet another take on A Christmas Carol<\/em>, though, can you?\u00a0 Even one that is a musical with only one good singer who doesn’t get much to do (for the record, the actress playing the Ghost of Christmas Past).<\/p>\n I will say the production numbers are really well done, even if the movie could have been a very enjoyable 90 minutes instead of bloated past two hours.<\/p>\n I might watch this again if it were on, but I’m not going to seek it out.\u00a0 The best part of it was watching it with family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Watched this last night, and it was perfectly suited for a ‘heartwarming’ Christmas movie.\u00a0 Not a huge fan of Will Ferrell, and Ryan Reynolds is mostly tolerable because he makes fun of himself. You can’t stop watching yet another take on A Christmas Carol, though, can you?\u00a0 Even one that is a musical with only … Continue reading “Spirited<\/i> (AppleTV, 2022)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,33,45],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-take","tag-comedy","tag-movie","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}