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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.

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Speaker 2: A b that is Wicked, two for Good. It's showing

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Speaker 2: in cinemas now tell us about it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So, as you know, Jack, and I'm sure your

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Speaker 3: listeners will gathered over the years. I'm not a huge

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Speaker 3: fan of the musical as a film genre. I find

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Speaker 3: the songs kind of interrupt us moving through the story

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Speaker 3: quickly ahead, like well, here we go another song. I

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Speaker 3: love a stage show, but I'm I'm, I'm it's yeah.

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Speaker 3: I'm not a huge fan, and I think that's important

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Speaker 3: to stay up front. However, you cannot deny that these

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Speaker 3: are beautifully crafted films. They are basically begging to be

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Speaker 3: nominated for Oscars when it comes to production design and

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Speaker 3: costumes and hair and makeup and the visual effects and things.

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Speaker 3: You know, it is these films. The first film was

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Speaker 3: a visual treat, and the second film is. I think

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Speaker 3: that they've almost kind of put the confetti and sequence

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Speaker 3: and bubble and ruffles on steroids. There's even more thrown

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Speaker 3: at you. So, you know what, I could sit and

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Speaker 3: enjoy this as a visual treat very much. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's beautifully crafted. I still don't quite understand why you

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Speaker 3: take kind of a three hour musical and you have

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Speaker 3: to turn it into a five hour film and you know,

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Speaker 3: split it in two. The only thing I would say

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Speaker 3: is the second film is slightly shorter. We're only at

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Speaker 3: two hours twenty one, I think, compared to two hours

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Speaker 3: forty one. Still probably a bit long. I could have

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Speaker 3: taken out one song, Jack, but a little bit short.

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Speaker 3: But the great thing was for me, someone who hasn't

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Speaker 3: seen the musical, we kind of powered through the plot fast.

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Speaker 3: There were lots more twists and turns and lots more

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Speaker 3: things happening, so I was a bit more engaged. I

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Speaker 3: sort of felt with the first film. I know that

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Speaker 3: everybody absolutely loved it, but I felt that I got it.

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Speaker 3: You know, you can move on. You don't need to

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Speaker 3: sing another song to tell me who these people are

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Speaker 3: and what their relationships are. So all that world building's

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Speaker 3: been done and now we're just charging through the story

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Speaker 3: a bit more so. I thought that was fantastic. Cynthia

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Speaker 3: Reno is just extraordinary. She really is absolutely fantastic as

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Speaker 3: our wicked witch, and you know, cast beautifully against Ariana Grande,

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Speaker 3: who apparently I have been told doesn't appear a huge

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Speaker 3: amount in the second half of the musical, so they've

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Speaker 3: kind of inserted her a little bit more in the film. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so that she appears a bit more and they've got

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Speaker 3: a bit more of a relationship in things. But look,

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Speaker 3: the songs aren't as good and Part two is in

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Speaker 3: Part one, so there's there's kind of you know, there's

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Speaker 3: aspects of it which are better, in aspects of it

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Speaker 3: which might let people down a little bit more. To

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Speaker 3: be honest with you, I probably enjoyed the second one more,

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Speaker 3: which I think, you know, everyone will have their opinion

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Speaker 3: on that, but look, it's it's exactly what you expect.

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Speaker 3: If you saw Wicked the first film, you can absolutely

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Speaker 3: love this. It was, yeah, a wonderful sort of visual feast.

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Speaker 3: I didn't think about a huge amount the next day,

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Speaker 3: but I don't think you're supposed to, you know.

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Speaker 2: Okay, very good. So that's Wicked for Good aka Wicked two.

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Speaker 2: So that's showing in cinemas at the moment. Your next

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Speaker 2: film is playing on Prime video. This is playdate Outstealing's

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Speaker 2: cool by me over his house?

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Speaker 3: Can we go over? Priest all? Hell? Yeah, dude, a parade?

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's playdates tell us about it.

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Speaker 3: So this time of the year, Jack, I think we're

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Speaker 3: all looking for a little bit of light escapism, you know,

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Speaker 3: when it comes to sort of finding something to screen.

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Speaker 3: And this stars Alan Richardson, who plays the Jack Reacher

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Speaker 3: in the New Prime series, and I quite like him,

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Speaker 3: and I thought, I'll see what else he can do.

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Speaker 3: Let's see what else he can do. He's teamed up

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Speaker 3: here with Kevin James. This is kind of a buddy

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Speaker 3: dad's action comedy and the two couldn't be more physically different.

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Speaker 3: In the course status the joke You've got and plays Brian.

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Speaker 3: He's a new step dad. He's trying to connect with

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Speaker 3: his steps and he just happens to lose his job

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Speaker 3: so he becomes a stay at home dad. At the park,

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Speaker 3: he meets Jeff played by Richson, and his kids CJ,

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Speaker 3: who quite obviously from the minute you meet him is

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Speaker 3: not a normal kid, and most of us would go

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Speaker 3: red flag here and run a mile. But the two

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Speaker 3: end up together and then next thing you know, they're

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Speaker 3: being pursued by assassins who are after Jeff and CJ.

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Speaker 3: And they go off on this adventure. You can see

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Speaker 3: every plot twist coming in this film, Jack a lot

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Speaker 3: of old school references to films like Sama and Louise

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Speaker 3: and Reservoir Dogs Address at Park, which I think is

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Speaker 3: aimed at the adults, but then the action is very

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Speaker 3: much aimed an eight year old boy. So I was

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Speaker 3: very confused with this film. I was watching it, going,

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Speaker 3: this is not really funny, it's not really clicking. What's wrong.

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Speaker 3: I was like, Oh, it's not aimed at me, it's

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Speaker 3: aimed at young boys. But then I was going, but

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Speaker 3: they're not going to get these references. I think this

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Speaker 3: is an example of where streaming gets it wrong. You

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Speaker 3: don't just throw money at a wall and see what sticks.

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Speaker 3: You have to write a decent script, come up with

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Speaker 3: a decent plot. You know, the acting is absolutely fine,

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Speaker 3: but they've been given really weak material here, and it's

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Speaker 3: just it's kind of a waste of time and money.

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Speaker 2: Yeah wow, you know Okay, Yeah, I keep going, No,

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Speaker 2: I'm done. Oh okay, well yeah sounds like it to

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Speaker 2: be asked.

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Speaker 3: Slid slid down.

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Speaker 2: So five five stars ten out of ten for playd

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Speaker 2: eight No cool, okay, very good. So maybe that is

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Speaker 2: one to avoid unless you're really desperate.

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