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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at B.

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Speaker 2: Right now, it is twenty two minutes to ten on

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Speaker 2: News Talks hed B. Francisca Rudkin, our film reviewers here

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Speaker 2: with her picture this weekend. Hey Francisca, good morning. Let's

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Speaker 2: start off with a little bit of a listen to

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Speaker 2: Despicable Me for.

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Speaker 1: Grew's been compromised.

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Speaker 2: We need volunteers. You will be the first to test.

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Speaker 1: Our super serum designed to transform you into cutting and ages,

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Speaker 1: or you might just.

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Speaker 2: Explain, Okay, that's Despicable Me.

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Speaker 3: For So, the school holidays are two weeks away, and

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Speaker 3: it has been seven years since we last all grew

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Speaker 3: as Lucy and the family, and the family are still

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Speaker 3: going strong. Who've added a new edition Grew is there,

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Speaker 3: and they've sort of got a smaller core group of

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Speaker 3: hilarious minions that live with the family and keep us

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Speaker 3: very much entertained. What I love about these films is

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Speaker 3: they appeel to a real wide range of ages. There's

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Speaker 3: jokes for adults, there's lots of slaps that gags for

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Speaker 3: the little kids. You know, full of heart, these stories

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Speaker 3: and pretty solid storytelling, and this offering is good. It

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Speaker 3: is fun. I actually enjoyed revisiting these guys more than

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Speaker 3: I thought I would. But my worry was that maybe

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Speaker 3: they might have run out of ideas, and it did

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Speaker 3: feel a little bit repetitive in some parts the story.

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Speaker 3: In some parts it was a little bit derivative. As

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Speaker 3: you heard in the trailer bed, it's kind of a

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Speaker 3: side story where they create these super minions, these mutant

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Speaker 3: superhero minions that can't control their powers. We've kind of

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Speaker 3: seen that being done quite a bit before. But the

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Speaker 3: main focus in the story is on Grew and his

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Speaker 3: nemesis Max la Male escapes prison comes after Grows that

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Speaker 3: the family have to go into hiding and sort of

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Speaker 3: take on these different identities and they have to adapt

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Speaker 3: to this very sort of posh, preopy neighborhood and trying

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Speaker 3: to fit them. I think if you've enjoyed the previous films,

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Speaker 3: you're going to enjoy this film. I wondered at the end,

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Speaker 3: there's a fabulous scene at the end, really great upseat

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Speaker 3: little number at the end, and I wondered whether it

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Speaker 3: was a little bit of a signal that they too

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Speaker 3: acknowledged that maybe they're coming to the end of this

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Speaker 3: franchise for the holidays, but I'm also great for the

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Speaker 3: younger kids. Like there were lots of kids laughing at

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Speaker 3: all the slapsticks but and pieces. So if you've actually

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Speaker 3: never been to one of these films, this will be

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Speaker 3: good holiday entertainment. Nice.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that sounds really good. Okay, that's Despicable Me for one,

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Speaker 2: for the fans and for the kids. Next up, something

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Speaker 2: completely different, tell us about the Road to Patagonia.

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Speaker 3: So I picked this. I wanted to talk about this

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Speaker 3: because I thought you would be really interesting because you

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Speaker 3: love a crazy adventure. And then I just thought, oh, no,

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Speaker 3: his wife are really going to hate you talking about

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Speaker 3: the film. If he sees this film, this will not

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Speaker 3: be good. Project came because I think even if you've

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Speaker 3: just got a tiny little bit of sense of adventure

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Speaker 3: in you, or you know, spirit of adventure in you,

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Speaker 3: you will watch this film and go, yeah, I just

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Speaker 3: need to go and I need to get out there

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Speaker 3: in the world and do something crazy. This captures an

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Speaker 3: amazing road trip by an Ozzie Matty Flannon, and he's

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Speaker 3: an ecologist and a surfer and he decided to travel

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Speaker 3: the West coast of the America, so from Alaska and

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Speaker 3: finishing up down in Patagonia. He got a motorbike and

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Speaker 3: he built this sort of custom made sidecar that he

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Speaker 3: can carry his surfboards, and off he goes on this

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Speaker 3: fifty thousand kilometer trip. But it's also a quite beautiful

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Speaker 3: love story this film, because along the way, I think

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Speaker 3: it's about Vancouver, he met Heather, who was a permaculture farmer,

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Speaker 3: and they kind of headed off and they spend a

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Speaker 3: bit of time together, but then he heads off on

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Speaker 3: his way in Mexico the bike of Stolin, and the

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Speaker 3: world sort of falls apart a little bits Mattie, but

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Speaker 3: he pulls himself together. Some friends come and join him,

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Speaker 3: he gets another bike, and then Heather decides that actually

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Speaker 3: she's going to sell her farm and come and join

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Speaker 3: him as well, and off they all go. After a

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Speaker 3: little while, all the other friends leave and it's just

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Speaker 3: it comes. It's just Maddie and Heather on this journey.

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Speaker 3: They meet some amazing indigenous people along the way, living

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Speaker 3: in harmony with the land. They come across communities that

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Speaker 3: are tied to their land, people that are connected to

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Speaker 3: the world around them, and I think there is definitely

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Speaker 3: a very kind of spiritual aspect to this film, which

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Speaker 3: some people may feel is a little bit happy for them.

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Speaker 3: But I think that the cinematography is so beautiful. Their

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Speaker 3: story is so beautiful. It's delivered in such a very immersive,

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Speaker 3: emotional way that even if it is a little bit

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Speaker 3: like too much for you, you still kind of get

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Speaker 3: on board this journey and you fall in love with

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Speaker 3: these two people. And I'm going to be honest, I

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Speaker 3: cry at the end because no, not because things got

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Speaker 3: a little bit wrong. They decide to get rid of

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Speaker 3: the motorbikes because they want to get off the rope,

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Speaker 3: and they get horses. They get before horses Jack. Now

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Speaker 3: there's Maddie in Hither Red and Horse. So things get

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Speaker 3: a little tense and here that goes home and all

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Speaker 3: of a sudden, the story like these people sort of

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Speaker 3: you do. You get quite attached to them. It's really beautiful.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be on at the cinemas. It's worth

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Speaker 3: catching because this actually maybe has done a really good

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Speaker 3: job with the cinematography. It's an amazing journey and a

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Speaker 3: really thought provoking journey too.

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Speaker 2: Oh it sounds special, Okay, cool, So that's the road

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Speaker 2: to Patagonia definitely sounds like a little bit of me.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Francisca. We will catch again very soon.

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