A couple of weeks ago, you chided an anonymous reviewer for calling Shrek the Halls an “instant holiday classic,” saying:
This, despite the fact that it is patently impossible for something to be both “instant” and “classic.”
But then, in your Quick column this week, you write of your thwarted plans to, as you put it:
… [re-create] manic musical numbers and kinetic scenes from that instant holiday classic Fred Claus.
I thought maybe a careless, obtrusive editor might be to blame for the offending adjectives. But no, as such a descriptor was not listed among your list of edits. So please advise: Can something be an “instant classic” after all? And, if so, which is more instant classic-er: Shrek the Halls or Fred Claus? I await your response.
