1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mix Movie Podcast. I 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 1: am your host Movie Mike A k A Mike D. 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 1: Today I want to share with you some lessons that 4 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:10,960 Speaker 1: I and probably you listening to this right now have 5 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: learned over the years from Disney and Pixar movies. We'll 6 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:17,440 Speaker 1: get into a movie review talking about the latest Disney 7 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:20,279 Speaker 1: Pixar movie, Turning Red, and in the trailer park we 8 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 1: have a new meta comedy from Judd Apataw. I'm not 9 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: really sure what's going on there, but we'll get into 10 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:29,640 Speaker 1: all of that. Appreciate you being subscribed and listening every 11 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: single week. Shout out to the Monday Morning crew. You 12 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 1: know who you are. We're all here, We're ready to go. 13 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 1: Let's talk movies. In a world where everyone and their 14 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:43,559 Speaker 1: mother has a podcast, one man stands to infiltrate the 15 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 1: ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast. 16 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 1: A man with so much movie knowledge. He's basically like 17 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: a walking on MTV with classes from the Nashville Podcast 18 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 1: Networks Movie mis Movie Podcast. Whether you're a kid or 19 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: you're an adult now who still loves watching animated movies, 20 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: there's always something to learn from a Disney Pixar movie. 21 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 1: And that's what I want to talk about today. I 22 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:13,679 Speaker 1: always like to have a theme for every single episode, 23 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: and I wanted to pair it with the movie review 24 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: today because I will be talking about Turning Red, which 25 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 1: is available on Disney Plus. So I'll get into that 26 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: full review later, but there's something you can learn from 27 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: that movie, and going back further into every Disney Pixar movie, 28 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,680 Speaker 1: there's always a kind of lesson, and even more so 29 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: now with Pixar movies, who I feel are a lot 30 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: more progressive and really kind of challenge what a kid's 31 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: movie can be. I'm gonna go through some Disney Pixar 32 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:42,960 Speaker 1: movies and what I and probably you learned from them too. 33 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: And I did want to group these altogether, because now 34 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 1: every Pixar movie is a Disney movie. After Pixar was 35 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:52,559 Speaker 1: acquired by Disney. Before, I felt there was a pretty 36 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: big distinction between Disney and Pixar. Disney was a lot 37 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: more of the old school fairy tales, and they're kind 38 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: of like an old school thing of like, here's the 39 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: thing you have to learn after watching this movie. It 40 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: was all very storybook. And then when Pixar came along 41 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: with toy Story and then really over the two thousands 42 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: and twenty tens, Pixar became a thing of its own 43 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: because it's so different than a Disney movie because in 44 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 1: Pixar movies, oftentimes there's not really a villain. It's almost 45 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 1: like just life in general is the villain. It's a 46 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 1: lot of a kid growing throughout a movie, an animal, 47 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 1: a car, or some other kind of character, learning a 48 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 1: valuable lesson that's important for kids to learn, but if 49 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: you're watching them as an adult, there's probably something you 50 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: can take away too. So I think that's really why I, 51 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 1: as a thirty year old man, still enjoy watching Pixar movies. 52 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: And it is just kind of funny how sometimes, yeah, 53 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 1: it Pixar movies, there isn't a villain. It's just everyday life. 54 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: And sometimes that's even scarier. But let's get into it now. 55 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: And I want to go back to what I considered 56 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: to be the o G Disney MOVI via my childhood. 57 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,799 Speaker 1: I think one of the greatest Disney films of all 58 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: time it is The Lion King from nine and there 59 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: are really so many things you can learn from The 60 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: Lion King, but what I took away from it more 61 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: was learning about death. And I know you could say 62 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,239 Speaker 1: that maybe it was Bambi before this, but for my generation, 63 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 1: it was definitely Lion King. And when Mufassa dies and simbols, 64 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:27,079 Speaker 1: they're trying to wake him up. I mean, that's still 65 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: kind of rattled me as an adult, but as a kid, 66 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: I was like, what is happening right now? We're not 67 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: even halfway through this movie and Mufassa is already dead. 68 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: But here's just a little bit of that scene that good. 69 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: You gotta get up dead, we gotta go home, hell, somebody, anybody. 70 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: And watching that as a kid, you can really only imagine, Oh, 71 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 1: the things you're having to process. You've just been introduced 72 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: to this story. Simba, who loves his dad, wants to 73 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: learn everything from his dad, and now he has passed 74 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 1: away and is laying their lifeless. That's a really powerful 75 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 1: thing to put in an animated movie like this. And 76 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 1: what I learned from that, that's the first time I 77 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:20,280 Speaker 1: ever realized that someday my parents aren't going to be here. 78 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:22,479 Speaker 1: It's a heavy thing to learn when you're five six 79 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 1: years old. And I think why I love Disney animated 80 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 1: movies so much is sometimes, like my parents, they were 81 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 1: great parents. But maybe it was because my parents are Hispanic, 82 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 1: or or because we grew up with not having a 83 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: whole lot that my parents were just trying to work 84 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: that sometimes I felt they didn't get around to teaching 85 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 1: me the hard lessons. And I think part of why 86 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:49,919 Speaker 1: I love movies so much is because I learned a 87 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:52,160 Speaker 1: lot through movies. I don't think my parents ever sat 88 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: me down to have a talk about death. They never 89 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:57,280 Speaker 1: sat me down to have a talk like the Talk, 90 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:00,479 Speaker 1: and a lot of things I learned as a kid 91 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: with through Disney movies and then later as an adult 92 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: was probably through teen comedies, which is probably not the 93 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:08,599 Speaker 1: healthiest thing for me looking back. But this scene in particular, 94 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: I remember it resonating with me, and I don't even 95 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 1: think I really asked my parents about it, like, Yo, 96 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 1: what happened to move faster? He's gonna be all right? 97 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: Like what is this thing? Death? But I think the 98 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:19,720 Speaker 1: movie does such a great job of teaching you so 99 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 1: many lessons that by the end of it you're almost 100 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:28,159 Speaker 1: able to understand and have a little grasp on death 101 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: even as a kid. The other lesson that I learned 102 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,119 Speaker 1: from watching The Lion King is you can't run away 103 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 1: from your problems because they're still gonna be there. In 104 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 1: the movie, that's what Simma does after the death of 105 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: his dad. He has chased out of Pride Rock by 106 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: his uncle and starts a whole new, carefree life with 107 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: Timon and Puma where he doesn't have to worry about 108 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: anything at least so he thinks. But what's going on 109 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,840 Speaker 1: back at home and everybody who you know thought he 110 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 1: was dead too, Like, that's still a very big problem. 111 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: And all he did was get away from it, put 112 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 1: it out of his mind, out of sight. And that 113 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 1: shows you that running away is never the answer. And 114 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 1: what does he have to do in the end has 115 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: to go back and face his problems head on. But 116 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: the most important thing I learned from The Lion King 117 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 1: is do not trust your uncle's Next up, I want 118 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:18,280 Speaker 1: to talk about another one of my favorite Pixar movies, 119 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 1: and it is Toy Story. And maybe something I learned 120 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: from Toy Story that not everybody else took away from 121 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: this movie is you have to set your goals high. 122 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: And that is something I learned through Buzz Lightyear. Buzz 123 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 1: Lightyear is so positive, he almost seems delusional, and I 124 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 1: feel like, sometimes we all know those people in our 125 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: life who are just so positive that I'm myself and 126 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 1: more of a Woody. I'm a little bit more of 127 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:48,479 Speaker 1: a realist. And while those people seem like, like, what 128 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 1: are you doing? How do you wake up already in 129 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,599 Speaker 1: a good mood? How do you think everything is gonna 130 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:56,159 Speaker 1: work out? You have all these high expectations and it 131 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 1: seems like these people have no flaws. And what I 132 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 1: was able to learn from this movie and the relationship 133 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:05,840 Speaker 1: with those two people, the realist being Woody and Buzz Lightyear, 134 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: who has this very positive outlook and his goals are 135 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: super high, that the two people can coexist. You can 136 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 1: be friends. And that's what I learned from Toy Story. 137 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 1: And no matter which one you are, you're going to 138 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: have your set of problems. Even Buzz in the movie 139 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: realizes that sometimes those highest spectations do come crashing down 140 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: and you can break your arm off. But I think 141 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: what really was the underlying moral message of Toy Story, 142 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 1: and maybe more of us stick away from it, is 143 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 1: that change is inevitable. And we learned that through Woody 144 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: and him realizing that he's not going to be Andy's 145 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 1: favorite toy for his entire life, and when this song 146 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 1: is playing and everything in the room is changing, suddenly 147 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: the woody posters go down and the buzz lightyear posters 148 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 1: go up. It's a pretty emotional moment in that movie, 149 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: and you just have to learn from that change is inevitable. 150 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 1: We're all going to not be the new shiny thing anymore, 151 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 1: and that's okay. It's a part of getting older. It's 152 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: a part of in this case, your owner, growing older 153 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: and moving on to new things. Now we're humans, were 154 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: not toys. But I think throughout the entire franchise of 155 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 1: Toy Story, we see this theme kind of ongoing, of 156 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: them adapting with all the changes while themselves are still 157 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 1: remaining the same. The next movie I want to talk 158 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 1: about is A Bug's Life. This movie was very inspirational 159 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:34,680 Speaker 1: to me as a kid. I was a very quiet 160 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: kid in kindergarten and an elementary school got bullied a 161 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: little bit for it. And I think as a result 162 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: of that, now is an adult, why I am a 163 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 1: little bit more on the quiet side. Unless I'm doing 164 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 1: a podcast or something else with a microphone in my face. 165 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 1: People just know me as being kind of a quiet person, 166 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:54,080 Speaker 1: and I think all that kind of goes back to 167 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 1: my childhood, and I think the hardest thing for me 168 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: was speaking up for myself when and there was a 169 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: kid making fun of me for my weight or the 170 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 1: way I looked, or my jacked upp teeth. I always 171 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: thought standing up to the boy, standing up for myself 172 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 1: would make it worse because I was, in that instance 173 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:15,080 Speaker 1: the little guy. Even though I was a kid struggling 174 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:16,959 Speaker 1: with his weight, I still felt like I was the 175 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: little guy. So in a figurative sense. But in the 176 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 1: movie A Bug's Life, that's what it's all about. If 177 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: these little ants forced to gather food for the meal grasshoppers, 178 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: and there's this one in particular, Flick, who devises this 179 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 1: whole plan to fight back against them, to not take 180 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: it anymore. And they realized that, well, there are really 181 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 1: only so many grasshoppers, and while we are small ants, 182 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 1: we totally outnumbers them. So why they've been making us 183 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 1: feel so bad about ourselves, making us feel like we're 184 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 1: so little and insignificant. We really have the power here. 185 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,080 Speaker 1: We have the power of numbers. So while we've been 186 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 1: treated this way our entire life, all we have to 187 00:09:57,840 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 1: do is speak up. All we have to do is 188 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 1: stay and up against them, and they will be powerless 189 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 1: and in turn have to run away. And I love 190 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: that the grasshoppers in the movie actually knew that you 191 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:12,839 Speaker 1: left one ants stand up to us, then they all 192 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: might stand up. Those puny little ants outnumber us a 193 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 1: hundred to one. And if they ever figure that out, 194 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 1: there goes our way of life. It's not about food, 195 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:30,559 Speaker 1: It's about keeping those ants in line. So there you go. 196 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:33,319 Speaker 1: You could take that all away from just watching A 197 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: Bugs Live. Moving on now to my personal favorite Disney movie. 198 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 1: While I think The Lion King is probably the best 199 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 1: Disney movie of all time, for me personally, my favorite 200 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:48,559 Speaker 1: Disney movie will always be Lilo and Stitch. The animation style, 201 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 1: the voice acting, the character design, But ultimately it's the 202 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: story that really hits close to me. And you may 203 00:10:56,679 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: be thinking, how does the story about an alien crash 204 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 1: landing in Hawaii hit close to home for you? And 205 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: I think it's because of what I learned from Lelo 206 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: and Stitch is Stitch feels like he doesn't have a 207 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: place where he belongs because he's actually an unfamiliar place 208 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 1: where he actually doesn't belong. He's an alien and he's 209 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 1: here on Earth and stumbles upon Lilo, who was nice 210 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:22,080 Speaker 1: enough to take him in and treat him like he 211 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 1: is a normal being. And Stitch has this program rage 212 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 1: inside of him, this emotion that he doesn't know how 213 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 1: to channel. It just kind of comes out in him 214 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 1: destroying things and hurting the people around him. And that's 215 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 1: kind of how I felt. For along part of my life. 216 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 1: I was this weird alien that nobody could really love 217 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:42,839 Speaker 1: because I was always just kind of pushed away. So 218 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,280 Speaker 1: I've always felt like Stitch in my entire life. And 219 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: it wasn't until I found somebody who was able to 220 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 1: push those feelings aside and learn who the real person 221 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: is underneath there that I didn't feel like such an 222 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,440 Speaker 1: alien anymore. And in the movie, Stitch compares himself to 223 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 1: the story of the Ugly Duckling and the feeling of 224 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 1: being lost but then being happy once he finally found 225 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 1: his family. Now, which is the other lesson I took 226 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:13,079 Speaker 1: away from Lilo and Stitch is that not every family 227 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 1: has to look the same. And I love that Disney 228 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 1: win in the direction here and showing lil who struggles 229 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:23,959 Speaker 1: with not having her parents around and now being taken 230 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 1: care of by her sister and having this kind of 231 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: resentment and rage inside her much like Stitch does, but 232 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 1: how her entire world has changed now that her sister 233 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 1: is now the parent and guardian figure in her life. 234 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 1: And what I learned in Lilo and Stitches that ohana 235 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 1: means family and your family can be broken, doesn't have 236 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: to look like everybody else's and there's kind of something 237 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: special and finding beauty where it's not supposed to be. 238 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 1: And that idea of Ohana from Leelo and Stitch has 239 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 1: always stayed with me. And my favorite scene is at 240 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 1: the end when they're going to take away Stitch and 241 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 1: he gives the speech I'll do my impression of it now. 242 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 1: He goes this, this is my family. I found it's 243 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:09,199 Speaker 1: all on my arm. That's a little I'm broken but 244 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: still good. Yeah, still good. And if that didn't do 245 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:17,080 Speaker 1: it justice, here's the actual clip from the movie this 246 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:21,679 Speaker 1: is my Family, I found it all on my own. 247 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 1: That's little I'm broken but still good. Yeah, star cuting. 248 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 1: So that's what I learned from le Loan Stitch. Moving 249 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,440 Speaker 1: on now to finding Nemo, I think the one we 250 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: all probably learned from this and the one that most 251 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 1: of you sent in on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. 252 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,320 Speaker 1: Was that just keep swimming And what that really leads 253 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 1: to is the overarching message and finding a Nemo. Yes, 254 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:52,679 Speaker 1: you do have to just keep swimming, and what that 255 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: will get you will allow you to step outside of 256 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 1: your comfort zone. And once you get out of your 257 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 1: comfort zone, that's where all of your life is going 258 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:03,439 Speaker 1: to happen. That's where you're going to find the adventure. 259 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 1: That's where you're going to find the real story here 260 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 1: in Finding Nemo, Nemo was sheltered as a kid because 261 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:13,800 Speaker 1: he was born in tragedy. Starts out with all of 262 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: his brothers and sisters and his mom passing away. He 263 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: was the one that lived. So for that reason, his 264 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 1: dad is very overprotective. He's not like all the other fish, 265 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: so he doesn't want him getting hurt. He wants to 266 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 1: keep him right in their little community right there, close 267 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: to home. But Nemo, he's like, I gotta go see 268 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 1: the world. I gotta get out of here. I gotta 269 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 1: not be around my dad all the time and be 270 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 1: my own fish. And I myself have found that in 271 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: life it's hard to get out of that comfort zone. 272 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 1: I was in my comfort zone for a long time, 273 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 1: because stepping out of it scared me. Going back earlier 274 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 1: where I was talking about how I am a relatively 275 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 1: quiet person and for me, stepping out of my comfort 276 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: zone means doing things like this, speaking on a microphone 277 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:00,440 Speaker 1: that I know other people are going to listen to. 278 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 1: My job that I do every single day takes me 279 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 1: out of my comfort zone. The first time I ever 280 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: did stand up in front of actual people is something 281 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: I probably would have never done because I'd have been 282 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: so scared. But I had to get out of that 283 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 1: comfort zone. So that was something I learned in finding 284 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: Memo and how letting go is kind of just the 285 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 1: part of growing up. Another one of everybody's favorite Pixar 286 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 1: movies is Coco, and I loved, obviously, me being Mexican, 287 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 1: loved the representation of my culture in a Pixar movie. 288 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 1: And the main message of Coco, of course, is the 289 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 1: importance of family and how the love of family is 290 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: unconditional and it's forever and we should remember all of 291 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 1: those who came before us. And in the movie you 292 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 1: see this with them showcasing the day of the dead 293 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 1: and how powerful memories are and those loved ones who 294 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 1: eventually will leave you can live on through memories as 295 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 1: long as you don't forget about them. Another Pixar movie 296 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 1: that really got me in the field. Now, I was 297 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: older when I watched this movie. I was twenty four 298 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 1: years old when it came out back in But I 299 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 1: love the concept and the message and inside out it's 300 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 1: not only how we should embrace sadness, but how it's 301 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: important with all the things you feel, that you don't 302 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 1: bottle up your emotions and it's okay to feel things, 303 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 1: and that you can't be happy all the time because 304 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: in the movie, all of Riley's emotions are trying to 305 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 1: make sure that she never feels pain and everything is 306 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 1: just happy, go lucky, and they try the whole time 307 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 1: to keep her sadness totally away, keep everything bad locked 308 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 1: away from her. But you learn that that's not healthy. 309 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 1: So I feel like this was one of the more 310 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 1: impactful Pixar movies, especially in the last ten years. I 311 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,760 Speaker 1: would put this up there on like the must see 312 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: movies that I showed my kids some day, and then 313 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 1: let's talk about Soul, which when this movie came out 314 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 1: and as I watched it, I didn't feel like Soul 315 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 1: was a kid's movie. At all because the us in 316 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 1: I learned in Soul, it's almost a very kind of 317 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 1: existential crisis type situation, and the overall message is to 318 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 1: not overlook the small things in life. The whole time, 319 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:15,200 Speaker 1: this guy thinks he wants to be this musician. He's 320 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: had this dream forever, but he feels like since it's 321 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 1: been reduced to him just being a teacher, that he 322 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:25,199 Speaker 1: hasn't really accomplished what he wanted to in life. And 323 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:27,639 Speaker 1: he spends the whole time trying to reach this goal, 324 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:32,119 Speaker 1: realizing he's had all the things that make up life 325 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: really around him his entire time. All he had to 326 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 1: do was really just look around. It really just shows 327 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:43,120 Speaker 1: us as adults how we spend all our time pursuing 328 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 1: these goals, trying to achieve all these things, like all 329 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: the time being focused on this big overarching goal because 330 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,160 Speaker 1: we think if we don't get there, we're a failure. 331 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,439 Speaker 1: And it really kind of shows us that you have 332 00:17:55,560 --> 00:18:00,400 Speaker 1: to make time and focus on the things that make 333 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: you happy, and they don't have to be that thing 334 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:06,960 Speaker 1: you were destined to do. It could be just enjoying food, 335 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:10,639 Speaker 1: spending time with your family, teaching a class, being a 336 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 1: part of somebody else's life. It doesn't have to be 337 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: this thing you were destined to be, and you don't 338 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: necessarily have to have a goal that you live and 339 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:23,960 Speaker 1: strive for in life. You can find happiness and just 340 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:28,399 Speaker 1: the everyday things. And watching that movie, I feel like 341 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:31,120 Speaker 1: us as adults, we had that kind of inward look 342 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:34,359 Speaker 1: on our life of evaluating our jobs, like is this 343 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 1: really making me happy? Is this really what I want 344 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 1: to be doing with the rest of my life, which 345 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:42,120 Speaker 1: I feel is probably important for a kid to learn too. 346 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:45,160 Speaker 1: But I almost felt like that was Pixar's next step 347 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:48,360 Speaker 1: up of making an animated movie for adults. And if 348 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 1: there was ever a time to have like a PG 349 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:54,160 Speaker 1: thirteen or maybe like an R rated next step level 350 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:56,960 Speaker 1: of Pixar movie, I could see it going in that 351 00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:00,719 Speaker 1: way after something like Soul. Now, yeah, I know an 352 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:03,920 Speaker 1: R rated superhero movie makes more sense, but you never know, 353 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: they may run out of kid friendly ideas that they 354 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:08,440 Speaker 1: have to go that route. But those are just some 355 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:11,199 Speaker 1: of the lessons I think we've all learned from Disney 356 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:14,439 Speaker 1: Pixar movies. There are tons of more movies, tons of 357 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: more lessons I could have covered, but I do want 358 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 1: to get into my spoiler free review of Turning Red, 359 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:22,679 Speaker 1: and I'll also tell you what I learned from that 360 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:25,679 Speaker 1: movie as an adult man. And I realized now that 361 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 1: I'm having my own existential crisis after talking for that 362 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 1: long about animated movies. So I'm gonna take a break 363 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:39,880 Speaker 1: for a second and come back after this. Let's get 364 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:43,440 Speaker 1: into a spoiler free movie review now. I want to 365 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:46,040 Speaker 1: talk about Turning Red, which is available to stream for 366 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: free on Disney Plus. Yes it does not have the 367 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: pay wall, just up there for free. I've been talking 368 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 1: about Disney Pixar movies and how Pixar just gets more 369 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:02,399 Speaker 1: and more progressive of and I have to say, I 370 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,120 Speaker 1: think in the last five years, this is probably one 371 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:08,880 Speaker 1: of the boldest Pixar movies I've seen. It's about this 372 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 1: girl turns thirteen years old, and all of a sudden, 373 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 1: her life is completely different, not only going through changes 374 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 1: that you would go through as a thirteen year old, 375 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 1: but also having this battle of wanting to defy the 376 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 1: authority of her mother be her own person. But now 377 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:29,120 Speaker 1: she has this bizarre thing that happens to her when 378 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 1: she gets too excited or too emotional. She literally turns 379 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 1: into a Big Red Panda. I'll get into a little 380 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,399 Speaker 1: bit of the controversy around this movie the lesson I 381 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 1: learned from it, But first, here's just a little bit 382 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 1: of the turning Red trailer, Red Moster, this happened? What 383 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:58,879 Speaker 1: did you say? Our ancestors had a mystical connection with 384 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 1: Red pandas kids, little quirk rights in our family. So 385 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 1: the movie is about Maitland Lee, who just turned thirteen 386 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:14,639 Speaker 1: years old. This is the first Disney Pixar movie directed 387 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: by a woman, the first movie from Disney and Pixar 388 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 1: to be set in Canada, and the second to feature 389 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 1: an Asian lead. And it's a coming of age story. 390 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 1: It's all about going through changes in your body. At 391 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 1: the core of the movie, it deals with puberty and 392 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,919 Speaker 1: what comes along with that and a young girl's life. 393 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 1: But outside of that, it's more of her struggle to 394 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: not be this kid who has always done everything her 395 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: mom has said and kind of go out and defy 396 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,879 Speaker 1: that and find her own way to be herself and 397 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:48,119 Speaker 1: not have to fall in line with everything that has 398 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,959 Speaker 1: come before her in her family. And what happens to 399 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 1: her now that she is thirteen years old. She finds 400 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: out about her family history and how all the women 401 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,160 Speaker 1: have had what it has happened to her now whenever 402 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,959 Speaker 1: she gets emotional, whenever she gets too stressed out or sad, 403 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:08,960 Speaker 1: she turns into a giant red panda. She completely freaks out. 404 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 1: The first time it happens. Her mom lets her no 405 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,439 Speaker 1: the entire history behind it, and that if they perform 406 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:18,400 Speaker 1: this ritual they can keep it in check. But all 407 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 1: she has to do is for about a month be 408 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:25,359 Speaker 1: able to control her emotions because if she's not able to, 409 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 1: the panda will become a part of her and not 410 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 1: be able to go away. And immediately while watching this movie, 411 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: yet felt so different that I questioned it a little bit. 412 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:36,200 Speaker 1: I didn't know if I was going to be able 413 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 1: to get into it. And again I'm fully self aware 414 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 1: that I'm a thirty year old male watching this movie. 415 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,439 Speaker 1: So parts of it it was just hard for me 416 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 1: to identify with and the movie was so different that 417 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 1: it took me a second to get into just the 418 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 1: visual concept around this movie. And I love that it's 419 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,159 Speaker 1: said in the early two thousands. I love all the 420 00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:00,119 Speaker 1: references to things from the nineties and the technology at 421 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,679 Speaker 1: that time, from the tomagotchi to the flip phones with 422 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 1: the T nine texting. I loved all that, and what 423 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: I really loved about it was the animation style. They 424 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 1: pulled a lot from anime, and the characters kind of 425 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 1: have those big expressions and those fast, quick movements that 426 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 1: really transferred well to Pixar and kind of gave it 427 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 1: its own identity. And I loved all the characters in 428 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: this how they all dressed in a certain color, and 429 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,880 Speaker 1: it just did a very good job at defining each 430 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:31,880 Speaker 1: of their different personalities and their obsession with this boy 431 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 1: bend in the movie, which also was a call back 432 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,400 Speaker 1: to the early two thousands, but ultimately where it goes 433 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: back to and why this movie kind of comes all 434 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:41,680 Speaker 1: the way back around and what makes it a great 435 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,160 Speaker 1: Disney Pixar movie is that it's all about growing up. 436 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,920 Speaker 1: It shows parents that you know, you need to give 437 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: your kid a little bit of freedom, be who they're 438 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 1: going to be, let them make mistakes, not take total 439 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 1: control over their lives. And I think what I identified 440 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 1: with it a little bit is having sometimes an overbearing 441 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 1: family press and how sometimes that can cause more rebellion. 442 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,720 Speaker 1: And it also shows what kids go through with friends 443 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 1: at this age, and the sad realization that I always 444 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 1: make watching movies like this. How at that time, you know, 445 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 1: friendship seems so important to you and the people with 446 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 1: you are going to be friends for the rest of 447 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,640 Speaker 1: your life. It's really not the case, Like I don't 448 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 1: have any friends that I've been with that long in 449 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 1: my life, so maybe I'm a rare case. But at 450 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:27,120 Speaker 1: the time, as a kid, it feels like the most 451 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,639 Speaker 1: important thing, and betraying your friends, are letting down your friends, 452 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:32,200 Speaker 1: like it's going to be the end of your life. 453 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:35,399 Speaker 1: And the story and the lesson that this teaches is 454 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 1: that even though you do damage those relationships, you know 455 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 1: they can be repaired. So I think there are a 456 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,640 Speaker 1: lot of great lessons here on the surface level. Maybe 457 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,639 Speaker 1: it's uncomfortable for some people to show their kids a 458 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 1: movie that does deal with things like puberty, but again 459 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:53,359 Speaker 1: going back to what I love about movies, And again 460 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,440 Speaker 1: I don't have kids, so I can't speak from a 461 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: perspective as a parent, But when I was a kid, 462 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 1: like I always talking think about earlier, a lot of 463 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:05,640 Speaker 1: the things I learned work through movies, and sometimes parents 464 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 1: aren't there have the time to teach a kid about this, 465 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 1: And I would just love if there is a kid 466 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 1: out there like me who didn't have a movie like 467 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 1: this when they were growing up, that this can kind 468 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,159 Speaker 1: of be a little bit of a moral compass, a 469 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 1: little bit of like, I know what you're going through, 470 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:26,919 Speaker 1: and here is a very unusual, over the top story, 471 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,679 Speaker 1: but at the core of it, you can still identify 472 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 1: and see yourself in this character. I loved maitland Lee 473 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 1: in this movie. I think she is a very memorable character. 474 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 1: She goes on a very incredible emotional journey in this movie. 475 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,440 Speaker 1: This movie checked all the boxes for me. It had 476 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 1: the fun elements of whenever she would change into the 477 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 1: Red Panda. It had the emotional elements when she's just 478 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 1: trying to be a normal kid and make your parents happy, 479 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 1: but also have friends. It had the animation I loved, 480 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: and of course I was talking about all the nostalgic references. 481 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 1: One of my favorite Pixar movies in the last ten years. 482 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 1: I would give it four out of five Red Pandas 483 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 1: I just thought it was really well done. Now it's 484 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: time for the part of the podcast where I break 485 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: down the movie trailer coming to you very soon in 486 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,920 Speaker 1: theaters or streaming in a segment I like to call 487 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:31,359 Speaker 1: it's time to head down to movie Mike Paul, and 488 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 1: today we're talking about a brand new movie coming to 489 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 1: Netflix called The Bubble. It is directed by one of 490 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:42,480 Speaker 1: the best comedic directors, Judd Apataw, and it's a meta comedy. 491 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 1: So it's a movie about making a movie. And Judd 492 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 1: Apatow has made some of the best comedies of the 493 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,959 Speaker 1: last twenty years, from Knocked Up to This Is forty 494 00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:57,920 Speaker 1: the Four year Old Virgin. Most recently he came out 495 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 1: with The King of Staten Island. And I feel like 496 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,880 Speaker 1: Joda Patel is a little bit hit or miss right 497 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 1: now in this movie called The Bubble. Like I said, 498 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 1: it's a meta comedy. It takes place during the pandemic 499 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 1: around October of and this group of actors they get 500 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 1: put into this bubble. They're all staying in a hotel 501 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 1: trying to make this studio franchise movie. Before I get 502 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,879 Speaker 1: into more what I think about this, here's just a 503 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:28,919 Speaker 1: little bit of the Bubble trailer. Well, it's the start 504 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:33,200 Speaker 1: of production of Fifth Beast six. Thank you for joining 505 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,679 Speaker 1: us in our bubble. We are one of two movies 506 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,359 Speaker 1: in production right now. If we fail the studio is 507 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,800 Speaker 1: going to go down. This movie is gonna make the 508 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 1: world forget about all their problems. What we're doing is edge. 509 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:53,040 Speaker 1: It's really crystal, just enough TikTok with a dinosaur. So 510 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 1: this movie is coming out on Netflix on April one, 511 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 1: April Fool's Day, And after watching that trailer almost thought, 512 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,199 Speaker 1: is this in April fools Prank? But it looks like 513 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 1: it's very much is a real movie. And I love 514 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 1: Judd Apatow, I just think in this stage of his career, 515 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:13,720 Speaker 1: a meta comedy is not what I'm looking for from him. 516 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:15,959 Speaker 1: I kind of want him to go back to his roots. 517 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: And I feel like he is such a well established 518 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,679 Speaker 1: director now that he can set out to make the 519 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 1: movies he wants to make, whether they come out in 520 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,600 Speaker 1: theaters or whether they come out in Netflix. I think 521 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 1: he just has that power now as a director, and 522 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,600 Speaker 1: you know, and you know, more respect to him for that. 523 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 1: But I kind of feel a little bit, at least 524 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,639 Speaker 1: to me, that Judd Apatow has fallen off a little 525 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 1: bit as a director. You know, he very much boasts 526 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:45,240 Speaker 1: these long run times, and I'm all for long form content. 527 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,320 Speaker 1: I watched The Batman, which is three hours and love did. 528 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 1: Before that, I watched the Justice League Snyder cut, which 529 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 1: was four hours, and I love that. So I think 530 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: certain material does warrant a longer run time. And the 531 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 1: reason he makes comedies longer is because he says, while 532 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 1: they are comedies, there are also like character studies, and 533 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: he really wants to flesh out these characters. And I 534 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 1: don't really think that really transfers the same way when 535 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: I'm watching you Know, the King of Staaten Island? Do 536 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,520 Speaker 1: I really need an extra twenty minutes to flesh out 537 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 1: a fart joke from Pete Davidson. I don't really think 538 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 1: it's has the same kind of correlation. And this movie 539 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,880 Speaker 1: is two hours in six minutes, and I don't really 540 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: know what to expect from a meta comedy for that long. 541 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: Just from the trailer, it doesn't look like laugh out 542 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 1: loud funny to me. It looks very inside, which could 543 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 1: be good. Like I love movies, a movie about making 544 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 1: a movie during the pandemic could be funny, but I 545 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:49,880 Speaker 1: just don't see it being funny for that long. W 546 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,040 Speaker 1: This movie does have going for it is a very 547 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:56,200 Speaker 1: big ensemble cast of a lot of comedic actors from 548 00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:00,360 Speaker 1: fred Armison, Keegan, Michael Key, Pedro Pascal is a lead 549 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,560 Speaker 1: in this, so it's a pretty big range there. And 550 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,520 Speaker 1: they are also kind of at the same time doing 551 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 1: a parody of Jurassic Dominion, which was also in production 552 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:13,760 Speaker 1: at the time of this movie, So that's what the 553 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 1: movie they are making in this is kind of mimicking 554 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 1: or poking fun at So I will watch this one, 555 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,120 Speaker 1: but I feel like it's one that if it doesn't 556 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,320 Speaker 1: have me after the first hour, I'm not going to 557 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,600 Speaker 1: commit to that second hour. I think his comedy is 558 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,640 Speaker 1: just at a certain point they just kind of stopped 559 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,280 Speaker 1: being funny. And I even see now that he's considering 560 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,880 Speaker 1: making a This Is forty Part two, which would be 561 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 1: This Is fifty And I think of all the Jet 562 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 1: Apatow movies to make a sequel to, that's like the 563 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,720 Speaker 1: one at the bottom of my list. I would much 564 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: rather see a Knocked Up two or a follow up 565 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 1: on the forty year Old Virgin. But again, that comes 566 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:54,360 Speaker 1: out on Netflix on April one. That's the bubble from 567 00:30:54,440 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 1: Jet Apataw. This links addition of movie Law Paul Are 568 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 1: and that's gonna do it For this week's podcast. If 569 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 1: you made it to this point of the podcast. Well, 570 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 1: you made it to the very end, and you can 571 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: let me know that you made it to the end 572 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 1: by tagging me in your Instagram story, hit a screenshot 573 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 1: of wherever you're listening to, take a picture of your 574 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:15,960 Speaker 1: car dash and be like, hey, I made it to 575 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: the end of the podcast. And I know that means 576 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,040 Speaker 1: you are a true dedicated movie crew listeners. So I 577 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 1: really appreciate that. And this is the part of the 578 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 1: podcast where I always give a listener shout out. You 579 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: can do that by well doing what I just said, 580 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 1: send me a tweet, email me Movie Mike d at 581 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 1: gmail dot com. And this week's shout out goes to 582 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,280 Speaker 1: Ramon Sanchez, who sent me a d M and he 583 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 1: actually asked me to come on as a guest to 584 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 1: his podcast called De Stigmatized. He's a big listener of 585 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 1: the Bobby Bones Show and a fan of this podcast. 586 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,120 Speaker 1: We got to talking about that too before we recorded 587 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:53,680 Speaker 1: that podcast, but I did an episode with him all 588 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:58,200 Speaker 1: about mental health, about my weight loss journey, about what 589 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:02,960 Speaker 1: it's like coming from hispan background having Mexican parents talk 590 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 1: about my wife. So appreciate it. Ra'mon for having me 591 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 1: on your podcast, and for being a listener of this podcast. 592 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 1: If you want to listen to that episode, I'll put 593 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,640 Speaker 1: a link in the description of this podcast. Just click 594 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,520 Speaker 1: on that, and don't forget the Sunday night on ABC, 595 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 1: the oscars are going down, so I'll be watching and 596 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,000 Speaker 1: tweeting along to those. You can follow me there at 597 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:27,240 Speaker 1: Mike Distro. And then next week I'll do the regular episode, 598 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 1: but I'll also do a bonus emergency episode to talk 599 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,440 Speaker 1: about all the Oscar winners. So all that coming up 600 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,640 Speaker 1: next week. But until then, go out and watch good 601 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 1: movies and I'll talk to you later.