{"id":373,"date":"2007-02-03T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=373"},"modified":"2007-02-03T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-04T02:56:00","slug":"arthur-and-the-invisibles-it-even-bored-a-four-and-a-half-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2007\/02\/03\/arthur-and-the-invisibles-it-even-bored-a-four-and-a-half-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur and the Invisibles: It even bored a four-and-a-half-year-old."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I watched Arthur and the Invisibles today, primarily for Freddie Highsmith [luminescent and likeable], Mia Farrow [beautiful and engaging] and David Bowie [all-around kick-ass]. Apart from basking in these stars&#8217; displays of talent, there wasn&#8217;t much else to do during the film. Sure, there were roller-coaster battles and chases to watch, but the film had no sense of plot, pacing, character development or emotional attachment. It seemed like a pastiche of disparate elements: live aciton vs. animation; the sexy Princess Selenia [voiced by Madonna] vs. the innocent and prepubescent Arthur [Highsmith]; the fascinatingly detailed Minimoys world vs. the utterly bland story. To give you an idea of how unenthralling it was&#8230;the four-and-a-half-year-old watching it with me and my wife wanted to leave two-thirds of the way through.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, there was <b>DAVID BOWIE <\/b>doing a Jarethian turn as the elegant, smooth and seductively evil Malthazard, <b>MADONNA <\/b>doing a physically assertive and hip-swaying, butt-kicking princess who&#8217;s the most active female character I&#8217;ve ever seen in a kids&#8217; animated film, plus the Minimoys themselves, who looked like plastic dolls and whose elvin ears fluttered when they were happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I watched Arthur and the Invisibles today, primarily for Freddie Highsmith [luminescent and likeable], Mia Farrow [beautiful and engaging] and David Bowie [all-around kick-ass]. Apart from basking in these stars&#8217; displays of talent, there wasn&#8217;t much else to do during the film. Sure, there were roller-coaster battles and chases to watch, but the film&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2007\/02\/03\/arthur-and-the-invisibles-it-even-bored-a-four-and-a-half-year-old\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arthur and the Invisibles: It even bored a four-and-a-half-year-old.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}