{"id":306,"date":"2006-09-22T14:20:40","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T21:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/22\/martin-jessica-4evah\/"},"modified":"2006-09-22T14:20:40","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T21:20:40","slug":"martin-jessica-4evah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Martin + Jessica 4Evah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaced-out.org.uk\/\"><em>Spaced<\/em><\/a> and <em>The Office<\/em> are two of your favorite shows of all time, you probably got all crazy-excited when Jessica Stevenson and Martin Freeman cameoed together adorably in <em>Shaun of the Dead<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly heart attack-inducing is their pairing in the new flick <em>Confetti<\/em>, which features a whole mess of people from U.K. TV (I saw it with Brit TV expert Katherine, who pointed out the non-Jessica\/Martin folks to me). The movie is a mockumentary about three couples duking it out to plan the most original wedding of the year. Jessica and Martin play a very sweet couple who want to have Busby Berkeley-esque musical extravaganza.<\/p>\n<p>I think the mockumentary thing is tough to do these days. We&#8217;ve got Christopher Guest and both <em>Offices<\/em> and we&#8217;re pretty used to the form. We know that it&#8217;s hard to get the tone exactly right. But <em>Confetti<\/em> pretty much nails it in a way that&#8217;s funny and touching and all that good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>And really, Martin and Jessica are the heart of it all. They have wonderfully hilarious moments, but nicely dramatic ones as well. And, as hinted at in <em>Shaun<\/em>, they&#8217;re just so goddamn cute together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me and Spaced and The Office are two of your favorite shows of all time, you probably got all crazy-excited when Jessica Stevenson and Martin Freeman cameoed together adorably in Shaun of the Dead. Similarly heart attack-inducing is their pairing in the new flick Confetti, which features a whole mess of people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}