{"id":495,"date":"2014-06-09T04:23:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T04:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/09\/i-just-wrote-a-review-for-this-is-40-looks\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:26:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:26:15","slug":"i-just-wrote-a-review-for-this-is-40-looks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2014\/06\/09\/i-just-wrote-a-review-for-this-is-40-looks\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n6vw6qdd0v1qdd1i8o1_400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"508\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n6vw6qdd0v1qdd1i8o1_400.jpg 320w, https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n6vw6qdd0v1qdd1i8o1_400-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n    <a style=\"border:0;text-decoration:none;font-size:20px;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold\" href=\"http:\/\/tvtag.com\/movies\/this_is_40\/judd_apatow?s=tu&amp;ref=akwala\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I just wrote a review for This Is 40<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px;border:0;text-decoration:none;font-size:16px;font-family:arial\">\u201cLooks like Judd Apatow turned his own earlier work into an ingredient for a Hollywood studio formula. Still, even in the first 10 minutes that I tolerated, there was good stuff, all of it coming out of the two kids&rsquo; mouths. May have been a better idea to have made the movie about them or from their POV. Sadly, the movie is about their parents. No amount of scatological, sexual or dark humor could&rsquo;ve made these parents interesting. Better instead to re-watch &ldquo;Knocked Up&rdquo; and not risk diminishing it by watching this supposed sequel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px;border:0;text-decoration:none;font-size:12px;font-family:arial\">Writer\/director\/producer Judd Apatow (&ldquo;The 40-Year-Old Virgin,&rdquo; &ldquo;Funny People&rdquo;) brings audiences &ldquo;This Is 40,&rdquo; an original comedy that expands upon the story of Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) from the blockbuster hit &ldquo;Knocked Up&rdquo; as we see first-hand how they are dealing with their current state of life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px\">\n    <a style=\"border:0;text-decoration:none;font-size:12px;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold\" href=\"http:\/\/tvtag.com\/movies\/this_is_40\/judd_apatow?s=tu&amp;ref=akwala\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This Is 40 on tvtag<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wrote a review for This Is 40 \u201cLooks like Judd Apatow turned his own earlier work into an ingredient for a Hollywood studio formula. Still, even in the first 10 minutes that I tolerated, there was good stuff, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2014\/06\/09\/i-just-wrote-a-review-for-this-is-40-looks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":381,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2014\/11\/17\/how-two-guys-made-an-awesome-alien-movie-with-3m\/","url_meta":{"origin":495,"position":0},"title":"How Two Guys Made an Awesome Alien Movie With $3M | WIRED","author":"aslam","date":"November 17, 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"How Two Guys Made an Awesome Alien Movie With $3M | WIRED","rel":"","context":"In \"GetProbed\"","block_context":{"text":"GetProbed","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/tag\/getprobed\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":978,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/06\/25\/moviesio-reinvents-movie-torrents-with-style\/","url_meta":{"origin":495,"position":1},"title":"Movies.io Reinvents Movie Torrents, With\u2026","author":"aslam","date":"June 25, 2012","format":"image","excerpt":"Movies.io Reinvents Movie Torrents, With Style | @TorrentFreak via https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/movies-io-reinvents-movie-torrents-120602\/","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/melange.dmaculate.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m65pseqxe51qdd1i8o1_250.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1271,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/16\/china-wants-to-ban-movie-content-that-disturbs\/","url_meta":{"origin":495,"position":2},"title":"China wants to ban movie content that disturbs social stability in latest tightening of media","author":"aslam","date":"December 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties BEIJING \u2014 China is proposing to ban movie content that it says disturbs social stability and promotes religious fanaticism, the latest attempt by the authoritarian government to tighten control over what people see. \u00a0Via washingtonpost.com","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":452,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2014\/08\/14\/an-ngo-petitioned-to-have-the-movie-banned-because\/","url_meta":{"origin":495,"position":3},"title":"An NGO petitioned to have\u2026","author":"aslam","date":"August 14, 2014","format":"image","excerpt":"An NGO petitioned to have the movie banned because of nudity and potential offense to religious sentiment. 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