{"id":2852,"date":"2014-07-27T18:27:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T18:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:40:15","slug":"surprise-this-story-never-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/?p=2852","title":{"rendered":"Surprise!: This story never ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pullet Surprise Cartoon (1997)\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f_gGG8yOF78?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0119963\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">Pullet Surprise<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(1997)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foghorn_Leghorn\">Foghorn Leghorn<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0one of my favorite\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Looney_Tunes\">Looney Tunes<\/a><\/em>\u00a0because my dad loved the character, but this lesser entry featuring the character is only somewhat amusing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/external-content.duckduckgo.com\/iu\/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themoviedb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FlWJC8om086h01f0CMGR9ombdpnI.jpg&amp;f=1&amp;nofb=1&amp;ipt=b5e86a3f1c458a408884c69ee1a55339abf19b1e901bb03efbf9fc4256e168b4\" alt=\"The NeverEnding Story (1984) - Posters \u2014 The Movie Database (TMDB)\" width=\"380\" height=\"570\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088323\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">The NeverEnding Story<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(1984)<\/p>\n<p>Bastian Balthazar Bux reads a book to distract him from the troubles of his adolescence.<\/p>\n<p>The book tells the story of Fantasia and its fight against The Nothing. The child princess ruler enlists Atreya to save the kingdom. During his journey, he fights a werewolf named Gmork and befriends a luckdragon named Falkor, before discovering the only one who can save Fantasia is Bastian.<\/p>\n<p>This elaborate allegory for the way adulthood destroys the natural imagination of childhood is one of several\u00a0puppet driven fantasy films popular in the mid 1980s. I prefer this sweet and earnest film to the dark nightmare of\u00a0<em>The Dark Crystal <\/em>(1982)\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Labyrinth\u00a0<\/em>(1986).<\/p>\n<p>While I, and countless other 80s children, still occasionally fantasize about flying with Falkor, this\u00a0doesn&#8217;t hold up as well as I remember it. The plot&#8217;s a little too complex and the special effects haven&#8217;t aged particularly well, but it&#8217;s big heart makes it an enjoyable diversion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Pullet Surprise\u00a0(1997) Foghorn Leghorn\u00a0is\u00a0one of my favorite\u00a0Looney Tunes\u00a0because my dad loved the character, but this lesser entry featuring the character is only somewhat amusing. &nbsp; &nbsp; The NeverEnding Story\u00a0(1984) Bastian Balthazar Bux reads a book to distract him from the troubles of his adolescence. The book tells the story of Fantasia and its fight&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/?p=2852\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Surprise!: This story never ends<\/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":[3],"tags":[30,156,278,1531,492,1533],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-progress","tag-adaptations","tag-childrens-films","tag-fantasy-films","tag-foghorn-leghorn","tag-looney-tunes","tag-wolgang-petersen","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14913,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions\/14913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}