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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie Podcast. I

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Speaker 1: am your host Movie Mike a k A. Mike D.

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Speaker 1: And today's episode will be a mix of nostalgia overall,

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Speaker 1: just feeling like we're going back and reliving times from

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Speaker 1: our childhood, but now as adults, because we will be

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Speaker 1: talking about movies that will make you feel like a

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Speaker 1: new Sonic The Hedgehog movie, the sequel to the movie

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Speaker 1: that came out in twenty and then we'll bring it

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Speaker 1: all full circle in the trailer park. We're talking about

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Speaker 1: the new Minions movie. So if you've come looking from

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Speaker 1: an escape to all your real adult problems, you've come

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Speaker 1: to the right place. Thanks everybody for being here. Shout

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Speaker 1: out to the Monday Morning movie crew. You already know

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Speaker 1: what it is. Let's talk movies. In a world where

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Speaker 1: everyone and their mother has a podcast. One man stands

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Speaker 1: a movie podcast. A man with so much movie knowledge,

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Speaker 1: he's basically like walking on it. Davie. It's glasses from

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Speaker 1: the Nationale Podcast Networking movie podcast. So what I want

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Speaker 1: to share with you today is a list of movies

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Speaker 1: I put together that will make you feel like a

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Speaker 1: kid again. Some of these are sequels to movies that

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Speaker 1: came out when I was a kid. Other ones are

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Speaker 1: reboots that came much after the originals. And in some

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Speaker 1: of these, they just kind of invoked this emotion that

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Speaker 1: watching these movies as an adult, I just had that

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Speaker 1: and it's hard to get that feeling again, especially when

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Speaker 1: you go watch the drama or you go watch anything

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Speaker 1: I think that's why I like movies said, and you know,

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Speaker 1: Superhero and Fantasy because it's the greatest escape. And I

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Speaker 1: movies based on video games that we played as a kid,

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Speaker 1: we are adults. I don't have kids, but you bring

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Speaker 1: to a franchise that otherwise was gone. So we'll get

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Speaker 1: into some movies here, and just for a reference if

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Speaker 1: you're a new listener, I was born in ninete, so

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Speaker 1: I'm thirty years old. I feel like the formative years

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Speaker 1: first movie I remember making me feel like a kid again,

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Speaker 1: and it was from Toy Story three. I was still

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Speaker 1: And I felt like Toy Story three had the perfect timing,

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Speaker 1: Before I get into my full review, here's just a

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Speaker 1: little bit of the Sonic the Hedgehog Too trailer, Bad Hedgehog,

436
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Speaker 1: This is your moment to be the big hero. Bed

437
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 1: time to say this, but I don't actually have a plan. Hey,

438
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:12,800
Speaker 1: you got a little something on your million someone calling uber.

439
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:21,959
Speaker 1: It's cold in here, let's turn up the heat. So

440
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 1: what this movie is about? You have Sonic the Hedgehog returning.

441
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,800
Speaker 1: You don't really have to watch the first one to

442
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:30,760
Speaker 1: get into this one. All you kind of have to

443
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,720
Speaker 1: know you learned the very beginning of the movie. He

444
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 1: beat Dr robot Nick send him into this mushroom planet

445
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 1: in isolation. He's able to escape, and in that process

446
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 1: brings back Knuckles, who is arrival of Sonic and wants

447
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,680
Speaker 1: to take him down. And that's where this whole movie

448
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 1: kind of takes place. It's Sonic and Knuckles fighting. They're

449
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,960
Speaker 1: all trying to find this powerful emerald that you may

450
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,919
Speaker 1: know from the video game. And then you have the

451
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 1: introduction of Tales as well, who has been watching Sonic

452
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:07,919
Speaker 1: from Afar and came to warn him, but now is

453
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 1: his sidekick and his new friend. So nothing overly complicated

454
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 1: in the plot that you would miss out by not

455
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,120
Speaker 1: watching the first one. But I did feel this one

456
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 1: leaned more into appealing to kids, and I get that.

457
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:23,680
Speaker 1: I felt like the jokes were probably better in this one,

458
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 1: a little bit more cheesy, but also just still funny.

459
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,120
Speaker 1: But what I thought they did a really good job

460
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 1: at it is even though it was geared towards a

461
00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:37,439
Speaker 1: younger demographic, it didn't really played down or talk down

462
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: to the audience. It almost felt like a Marvel movie,

463
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,879
Speaker 1: just with a little bit less realistic violence, like you

464
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 1: still had all those same kind of qualities, and the

465
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,439
Speaker 1: story kind of follows along with Sonic wanting to be

466
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Speaker 1: a hero, basically wanting to be a superhero. From the

467
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,360
Speaker 1: opening sequence of the movie. It's much like you would

468
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Speaker 1: see and like an Iron Man or even like a Batman.

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00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:01,919
Speaker 1: He is trying to be that, but he's an eight

470
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 1: year old kid. And what I did really like about

471
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Speaker 1: it and the kind of sentiment that I took from

472
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Speaker 1: this is it dealt with Sonic feeling like a weirdo

473
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:13,720
Speaker 1: a little bit more in the first one, but now

474
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Speaker 1: in this when he's kind of accepted it a little

475
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Speaker 1: bit and now he just wants to go from being

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Speaker 1: a weirdo to being a hero and using his abilities

477
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: and his strengths to kind of save the day now

478
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,160
Speaker 1: and then when he meets Tales, who has also felt

479
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Speaker 1: that similar way that Sonic has. I think it has

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Speaker 1: a really good message there of embracing the things that

481
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Speaker 1: make you weird, embracing the things that make you different,

482
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Speaker 1: and using them to your advantage, not being afraid to

483
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Speaker 1: have those things hold you back. That's really the kind

484
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Speaker 1: of message I took from this animated blue character. So

485
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 1: I thought that aspect and that storytelling was more than

486
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 1: I was expecting from this movie that the special effects

487
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 1: were great. What I did love is all the callbacks

488
00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,520
Speaker 1: and references to the video game, where that would be

489
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,480
Speaker 1: just the music they use in the background, like they'll

490
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 1: use some of this in there, and they'll use just

491
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 1: things from the TV show to like Sonics Love for

492
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Speaker 1: Chili Dogs. And then you have the two main characters

493
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Speaker 1: that really bring this entire movie together. Ben Schwartz returns

494
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,399
Speaker 1: as the voice of Sonic, and he really kind of

495
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 1: leans more into the character in this movie. Thought he

496
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 1: did a really great job in proving the voice from

497
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Speaker 1: the first one to the second one. I still think

498
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:31,439
Speaker 1: my favorite voice actor to do Sonic is Jalil White

499
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Speaker 1: from the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog Chilly Dogs. Is

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Speaker 1: there anything else? But I really like Ben Schwartz as Sonic.

501
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 1: And then you have Jim Carrey as Dr Robot Nick

502
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:45,159
Speaker 1: a k a. Dr Eggman. And as weird as it

503
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 1: is to see Jim Carrey in this role, it's also

504
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 1: not weird at the same time because he does play characters,

505
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,360
Speaker 1: you know, just looking back on his entire movie catalog

506
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,879
Speaker 1: where he does get into costume play. Some weird people.

507
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 1: Just feels a little bit of an usual casting, but

508
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: it works, and if this is his last movie as

509
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,239
Speaker 1: an actor, so be it. And then you also have

510
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,919
Speaker 1: the addition of Idris Elba as Knuckles in this, so

511
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: overall just a pretty strong cast. And even my wife,

512
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: who went to go watch it with me, who hadn't

513
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: seen the first one, wasn't really looking forward to going

514
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: to watch a movie like this, ended up enjoying it too,

515
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 1: probably not her favorite movie, but she didn't leave hating it.

516
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: And then the thing that brought it all together for

517
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: me was the movie soundtrack. And usually, at least lately,

518
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: whenever a song is written for a movie or featured

519
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 1: in a movie, I always find that relationship to feel

520
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 1: very unauthentic and very corporate. They just get a big

521
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 1: artist to make a song, they pay them a lot

522
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 1: of money. It doesn't really connect anyway to the movie.

523
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 1: Maybe they do a music video where they do some

524
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: cut scenes to the movie, and it just feels like

525
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 1: here's one piece of artwork existing in this space and

526
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: here's another one. They just never really feel unified. And

527
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: I think the songs that we go on to remember

528
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: and associate with movies are ones that are able to

529
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: go a step further and their actual use in the

530
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:14,159
Speaker 1: movie ties the whole thing together, not just slapped on

531
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Speaker 1: into credits. And I really liked Kid cutty song from

532
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 1: this movie. Here's a little bit of his song Stars

533
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 1: in the Sky. I love the use of it in

534
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 1: the movie. It was played towards the beginning and then

535
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: again towards the end. And very often times that I

536
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: will add a song from a movie soundtrack onto my

537
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 1: personal playlist and that song has now been added. I

538
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: think the last movie I did that for with Spider

539
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: Man into the Spider Verse, and the song was Sunflower

540
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 1: by post Malone, And could also be a factor that

541
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Speaker 1: I'm also a fan of Kid Cutties, so kind of

542
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 1: cool to see him get that exposure. I was just

543
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: looking at the YouTube comments underneath the music video and

544
00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: a lot of people were saying, you know, I don't

545
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: really like Kid cut music, but I actually liked this song.

546
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: So also just cool for him, and he also just

547
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: probably made a lot of money off of that song.

548
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: So now when it comes to rating this movie, obviously

549
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: I wait, this movie a little different than a drama,

550
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: a little different than an art house movie. This obviously

551
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: is a movie geared towards kids, so I'm kind of

552
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 1: holding it to those standards. So I'm reading this one

553
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: a little bit more off the feeling it gave me,

554
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 1: the enjoyment it gave me of just being able to

555
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: turn my brain off and watch a fun movie that

556
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: reminded me of this video game I loved playing on

557
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 1: Sega and this Saturday Morning cartoon that I used to watch.

558
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: So it probably would have been like a three three

559
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: point five, but it gave me something that I wasn't expecting,

560
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 1: and I almost feel like somebody at Marvel could learn

561
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: a lot from this movie. There's a space I think

562
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 1: they're missing out on of not having movies that are

563
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: geared directly towards kids. And with all the Avengers movies,

564
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: you know, all those character movies, they are made for

565
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 1: really everybody, and the fact they're superheroes are really the

566
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 1: only tie in that kids go watch them. Some of

567
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: them are a lot more adult than you would expect

568
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: going into watching a Marvel movie, but this movie didn't

569
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Speaker 1: play down to its audience. Yes, the jokes were a

570
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 1: little bit you know, cheesy and family friendly, but it

571
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: gave you those same kind of big moments that you

572
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 1: would expect out of a Marvel movie just kind of

573
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 1: scaled back on the grit. So I really think the

574
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 1: thing that will deter other people from watching this is

575
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Speaker 1: any kind of hesitation to watch something geared towards kids.

576
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: But yes, it's just a really well done movie. So

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Speaker 1: I would give Sonic the Hedgehog too four out of

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Speaker 1: five gold rings. So there you go, probably so far

579
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Speaker 1: one of just the funnest theater watching movie going experiences

580
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Speaker 1: I've had, and if they make a Sonic three, I'm

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Speaker 1: down for it. Now it's time for the part of

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00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: the podcast where I break down a movie trailer of

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Speaker 1: a film coming to you very soon in theaters or

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Speaker 1: streaming online. In a segment we call it's time to

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00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: head down to movie Mike and keeping the theme alive

586
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 1: here today, I want to talk about The Rise of

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00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: grou which is basically Minions Part two, the follow up

588
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: to the movie that came out back in and this

589
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: movie has been trying to come out for a very

590
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: long time now. It was supposed to come out the

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00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 1: summer of then got pushed back to the summer, and

592
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: is now expected if all goes according to plan, it

593
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Speaker 1: will come out on July one. Before I get into

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Speaker 1: breaking down this trailer, here's just a little bit of Minions,

595
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: the Rise of Groun. There are a lot of other

596
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 1: villains in the world. I'm going to play super villain

597
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 1: the world or this peony little child things. You can

598
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 1: be a villain appable. So this trailer actually played before

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00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: I went to go see Sonic. It was, you know,

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00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 1: part of all the trailers they played. And I don't

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00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: know why. I found it so funny when they showed

602
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 1: the Minions, but like, still at thirty years old a cartoon,

603
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: but is still hilarious to me? And I laughed out

604
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 1: loud and my wife is like, what is wrong with you?

605
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: But there's just something about the Minions because they're so

606
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 1: undeniably cute, weird and funny. That's obviously why the Despicable

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00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: Me movies were so successful. They were able to get

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Speaker 1: their spinoff movie and now a sequel to that movie.

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00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: And I think illumination movies are a little bit hit

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00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: or miss. Some other ones include like The Secret Life

611
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: of Pets. Seeing they have the new Super Mario movie

612
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 1: coming out soon, also do movies like The Lorax. But overall,

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00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 1: Despicable Me has been like their franchise and what this

614
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: movie is about. It's a twelve year old grew growing

615
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: up in the suburbs and he is trying to interview

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00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 1: to be a part of this Vicious six and become

617
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: their newest member. But I feel like overall the movie

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00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: focuses a lot on the Minions, and hopefully a little

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Speaker 1: bit less than the movie from did, because I think

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Speaker 1: what we do fund the Minions so funny in the

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Speaker 1: Despicable Me movies when they have their full on solo movie.

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's a little bit too much Minions.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like in theory, a bowl of all

624
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: marshmallow lucky Charms sounds delicious. You start eating first couple

625
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: of bites and you're like, this is amazing. All marshmallows,

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00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: no crappy oats in this bowl. But you keep eating,

627
00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: and you keep eating, and by the end of it,

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00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: you're a little bit of it. It's too much sweet,

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00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: too much of a good thing. And that's kind of

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Speaker 1: how I felt watching that first Minions movie. But you

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Speaker 1: have Steve Carrell back. You also have John Claude, Van

632
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 1: Damn Russell Brand, Julie Andrews All a part of this movie.

633
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,399
Speaker 1: So basically, this movie kind of ensures that we will

634
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: be having to deal with our relatives posting memes of

635
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,959
Speaker 1: the Minions for years to come. So whether this movie

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00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 1: performs well or not, that's what we have to look

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Speaker 1: forward to this week's edition of Movie Bar and that's

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Speaker 1: going to do it for another week here on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: And what I do at the end of every podcast

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Speaker 1: you ask, well, I give a listener's shout out. You

641
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: can find all the ways to reach me in the

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00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 1: description of this podcast basically at Mike destro and every

643
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 1: single platform, or you can send me an email Movie

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Speaker 1: Mike d at gmail dot com. And that's where this

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Speaker 1: week's listeners shoutout is coming to you from. It is

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00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: from Jill, who actually wrote in about the episode a

647
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks back where I accidentally said Tom Hanks

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Speaker 1: instead of Tom Cruise when talking about Top Gun Maverick.

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Speaker 1: I feel like that's not the first time I've done that,

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Speaker 1: but appreciate you Jill for catching that and knowing that

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Speaker 1: I meant Tom Cruise, not Tom Hanks. But Jill also

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Speaker 1: suggested that I should do a podcast episode with hilarious

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Speaker 1: options for lead roles in classic movies. So maybe that's

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Speaker 1: something I do down the line, because just thinking about

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Speaker 1: it now, I think I may actually find Top Gun

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Speaker 1: more enjoyable if it was Tom Hanks and not Tom Cruise.

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Speaker 1: So thanks Jill for sending in that email and some

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Speaker 1: other people who did correct me on that there are

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Speaker 1: so many Tom's and sometimes I just get confused. I

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Speaker 1: hope you all have a great rest of your week.

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Speaker 1: I will talk to you next week here on the podcast,

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Speaker 1: and until then, go out and watch good movies. Later