{"id":1483,"date":"2004-12-05T22:41:01","date_gmt":"2004-12-05T22:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1483.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:15","slug":"danny-deckchair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2004\/12\/05\/danny-deckchair\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Danny Deckchair<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian comedies often display a certain sense of humour that, to the unaccustomed eye, can come across as plain silliness.  Most modern Hollywood and British (romantic) comedies try to be quite serious about their humour; filmmakers want you to <em>appreciate<\/em> their jokes as well as just laugh at them.  So it usually takes me a few minutes to change gears whenever I watch an Australian comedy.  At first, the lack of pretentiousness strikes me as somewhat immature.  It&#8217;s only after the first few scenes that I start appreciating it for what it is:  plain, honest, and easygoing.<\/p>\n<p><i>Danny Deckchair<\/i> is just like this.  It starts off a bit silly, with eternal daydreamer Danny Morgan becoming so frustrated with his life and his girlfriend that he implements one of his hare-brained ideas: to see how many helium ballons it takes to lift him and his lawn chair into the sky.  And he really does get carried away.  <\/p>\n<p>But once the opening act is over, the film gives way to a sweet love story, and a heart-warming tale about finding yourself and following your dreams.  I had never really pictured Rhys Ifans as a romantic lead, but opposite Miranda Otto he really shines with an innocent, playful quality that is totally endearing.  It&#8217;s definitely worth a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian comedies often display a certain sense of humour that, to the unaccustomed eye, can come across as plain silliness. Most modern Hollywood and British (romantic) comedies try to be quite serious about their humour; filmmakers want you to appreciate their jokes as well as just laugh at them. So it usually takes me a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_4_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}