{"id":293,"date":"2018-07-14T11:32:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T11:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/?p=293"},"modified":"2018-07-14T11:32:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T11:32:54","slug":"tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/comedy\/tag\/","title":{"rendered":"Tag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kjC1zmZo30U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be honest, I was never going to be an advocate for this immature, male comedy. But the concept, and true(ish) life story of a group of friends playing a prolonged game of tag over 23 years appealed to my daughter, and I value any cinema trips together, so I put aside my reservations, bought my summer berries smoothie and ventured in.<\/p>\n<p>It was about as bad as I expected. None of the characters are likeable, Jon Hamm is punchable, Jake Johnson wasted (in both senses) and Isla Fisher unconvincing. And it generates very few laughs. It&#8217;s obviously just a summer filler movie, which is fine, but it fails even by those meagre standards. <\/p>\n<p>But what aggravated me throughout was the sense of indulgence and entitlement expected by, and afforded to, these men. They can trash a place, ruin events, expect support from women because their need to retain their sense of childhood outweighs all. Okay, I get that it&#8217;s exaggerated for (not much) comic effect, and the real tag players probably didn&#8217;t upset AA meetings for the LOLs. But that is irrelevant, the message that pervades this film is &#8216;hey, if (mainly white) guys wanna have, we must do all we can to allow it&#8217;. And everyone around them will find it oh, so hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter tells me I&#8217;m miserable.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s be honest, I was never going to be an advocate for this immature, male comedy. But the concept, and true(ish) life story of a group of friends playing a prolonged game of tag over 23 years appealed to my daughter, and I value any cinema trips together, so I&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/comedy\/tag\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}