{"id":40021,"date":"2013-12-12T07:30:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T14:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/12\/movie-review-puss-in-boots-2011.html"},"modified":"2013-12-12T07:30:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T14:30:39","slug":"movie-review-puss-in-boots-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/12\/movie-review-puss-in-boots-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "Puss in Boots" (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Not quite as overpacked with topical humor as the Shrek series that spawned it, this feline swashbuckler is a fun, funny little romp — nothing that will affect cinematic history, but worth 90 minutes of your life.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of Puss in Boots (2011)<\/a>
\n Having just watched “The Mask of Zorro,” it seemed appropriate to dive into another Antonio Banderas swashbuckling flick. PiB a fun little film, with some great visuals, a sophisticated plotline (almost too complex for its own good), decent voice talent, and a bouncy frenetic action that threatens to distract but ends up making this just what you would expect if Puss in Boots we a sword-wielding thief in the vaguely Spanish\/Mexican southwest. Thi…\n <\/p>\n

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Not quite as overpacked with topical humor as the Shrek series that spawned it, this feline swashbuckler is a fun, funny little romp — nothing that will affect cinematic history, but worth 90 minutes of your life.\ufeff A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of Puss in Boots (2011) Having just watched “The Mask of Zorro,” it seemed appropriate … Continue reading “Movie Review: "Puss in Boots" (2011)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49585,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/15\/father-daughter-movie-week-in-review.html","url_meta":{"origin":40021,"position":0},"title":"Father-Daughter Movie Week in Review","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 15-Feb-15 3:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"+Margie Kleerup was off on mostly-business last week, so +Kay Hill and I got to watch a lot of movie -- though not as many as I wanted, as it was a fairly busy week in other ways. 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