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The Australian Empire magazine gave the film an atrocious review, but I thought it was a very enjoyable, funny film.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;.I just thought I&#8217;d e-mail you to let you know Figwit&#8217;s progress in life after Lotr&#8230;..&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aniva writes, &#8220;I was fortunate enough to see the first New Zealand screening of &#8220;The Tale of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-spy-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Aniva writes, &quot;I was fortunate enough to see the first New Zealand screening of &quot;The Tale of the Tongan Ninja&quot; last night, and was plesantly surprised at the number of connections to Lord of the Rings there was. 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