{"id":5194,"date":"2011-06-12T10:30:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T00:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=5194"},"modified":"2011-06-12T10:33:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T00:33:30","slug":"5-second-review-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=5194","title":{"rendered":"5 Second Review:  Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/paul1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5195\" title=\"paul\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/paul1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/paul1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/paul1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Paul<\/em>, the story of two British nerds in America who stumble upon a fugitive alien who is trying to return to his home planet is a lovingly written homage to nerd culture by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost who are both giant nerds.\u00a0 As you&#8217;d expect then, the jokes, references, novetly t-shirts and cameos from sci-fi actors all hit the mark and certainly got a few laughs out of me.\u00a0 This is a film that is affectionate towards nerd culture, never derisive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Where the film suffers a bit is from having one of those trailers that give away most of the best gags and the version of the film I watched is apparently an extended edition &#8211; nearly two hours long &#8211; which is way too long for this sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This was a spot of fun but doesn&#8217;t have a patch on <em>Shaun of the Dead <\/em>or <em>Hot Fuzz<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul, the story of two British nerds in America who stumble upon a fugitive alien who is trying to return to his home planet is a lovingly written homage to nerd culture by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost who are both giant nerds.\u00a0 As you&#8217;d expect then, the jokes, references, novetly t-shirts and cameos from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[309,946,944,945],"class_list":["post-5194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-films","tag-5-second-review","tag-nick-frost","tag-paul","tag-simon-pegg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5200,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions\/5200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}