Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's movie podcast. I
Speaker 1: am your host Movie Mike. Today, I want to share
Speaker 1: with you a list of sequels that should not exist
Speaker 1: because Ben Stiller was out recently saying he didn't expect
Speaker 1: all the backlash and hate that he ended up getting
Speaker 1: for Zoolander two, to which I say, really in the
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Speaker 1: Ben Steller was blindsided by the hate and the fact
Speaker 1: that Zulander too flop. He said, whenever it came out,
Speaker 1: he was convinced it was going to be a hit,
Speaker 1: and when it flopped it blindsided him. First, Zulander came
Speaker 1: out back in two thousand and one, and when you
Speaker 1: break down legacy comedies, oh that one's I was making
Speaker 1: a list of my top fifty favorite comedy. I don't
Speaker 1: even think Zulander would be on that list, maybe if
Speaker 1: it was specific to the two thousands or cult comedy hits.
Speaker 1: But he said this on the David Ducoveny Fail Better
Speaker 1: podcast and quote, I thought everybody wanted this, which I
Speaker 1: think that is the part of a statement that makes
Speaker 1: me see that sometimes even though to me, movies like
Speaker 1: this seem like cash grabs, but whenever you have somebody
Speaker 1: like Ben Steller heavily involved, I feel like that carries
Speaker 1: a little bit more way to it. And I assume
Speaker 1: having a movie like that in his filmography, that is
Speaker 1: probably a question. He was asked a lot of interviews,
Speaker 1: when are you going to make another Zoolander? When are
Speaker 1: you going to make another Zoolander? So much so that
Speaker 1: you start to believe, like he said that people wanted this,
Speaker 1: and then he said when the movie came out and
Speaker 1: it flopped, it really hurt him, but it allowed him
Speaker 1: to go and do other things and focus on things
Speaker 1: that he kind of had in the back burner, one
Speaker 1: of those being Severance, which came out on Apple TV
Speaker 1: Plus and dominated and people loved that show waiting for
Speaker 1: season two right now. So it kind of goes to
Speaker 1: show you how good things can come out of bad things.
Speaker 1: I think if you do make a sequel to a comedy,
Speaker 1: it should come out within five years of that original one. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: once you start making comedies in different decades, that is
Speaker 1: where you set yourself up for failure. And why do
Speaker 1: I think that is is because comedy is a reflection
Speaker 1: of that time period. And when you start making movies
Speaker 1: in the two thousands and then wait another decade to
Speaker 1: follow up with that, the humor is not going to
Speaker 1: match up. What was funny in two thousand and one
Speaker 1: with Zoolander is not going to be funny in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: So I think that is a recipe for disaster. And
Speaker 1: also when it comes to comedies, more so than any
Speaker 1: other genre, they are very nostalgic, and what we are
Speaker 1: really asking for when we want a sequel to a
Speaker 1: comedy movie, we don't really want it. We just want
Speaker 1: to be transported into a time where we found that
Speaker 1: movie funny. I would love to go back to two
Speaker 1: thousand and one being ten years old, all the things
Speaker 1: I found hilarious. Then that is really what I want.
Speaker 1: I've never seen a sequel come out fifteen years after
Speaker 1: that is better than the original one. Can it still
Speaker 1: have its moments? Can it still be fun and quirky
Speaker 1: like Bill and Teded coming out with one in twenty twenty. Yes,
Speaker 1: that can happen, but it's never listened to me. What
Speaker 1: I say is it's never going to match that original
Speaker 1: one because what we want is that nostalgic factor. With
Speaker 1: that being said, I have come up with the list
Speaker 1: of sequels that should have never been made. Some of
Speaker 1: these are outright offence because not only are they bad movies,
Speaker 1: but they tarnished the legacy of the original movie. So
Speaker 1: for this list, it is all sequels that I believe
Speaker 1: have not only been worse than its predecessor, but should
Speaker 1: be burned into the ground because they were either cash
Speaker 1: grabs or nostalgia base. Starting with the worst offender, the
Speaker 1: movie I bring up so much because I hate it
Speaker 1: with a burning passion. It is Dumb and Dumber two,
Speaker 1: and that is to that came out back in twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: and this is where I learned. What I've just been
Speaker 1: talking about is as much as you want to see
Speaker 1: your favorite actors come back and portray the characters that
Speaker 1: made you laugh, Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels are incredible together,
Speaker 1: and this was one. I was on that bandwagon. I
Speaker 1: was on Reddit, following every storyline, with every script update.
Speaker 1: I was all in on the Dumb and Dumber sequel. Now,
Speaker 1: technically it's not a direct sequel because they came out
Speaker 1: with the prequel Dumb and Dumber or in two thousand
Speaker 1: and three, which is even worse because they aren't even
Speaker 1: associated with that movie. That's another one that should have
Speaker 1: been made. But this is the sequel to Dumb and
Speaker 1: Dumber that came out in ninety four and I remember
Speaker 1: seeing that first image of them back in the Harry
Speaker 1: and Lloyd costumes and being so excited. And I've never
Speaker 1: been so disappointed in a sequel because none of the
Speaker 1: jokes landed, and all the movie was was poking fun
Speaker 1: and reminding audiences of what they did in the original one,
Speaker 1: and that is not what we want. It's hard to
Speaker 1: do a sequel because you need to advance what you
Speaker 1: did in the first one and not just remind people
Speaker 1: why that one was great and dumb and Dumber two
Speaker 1: is the biggest offender of that Along those same lines,
Speaker 1: will stick to Jim carrey movies Son of the Mask
Speaker 1: in two thousand and five with Jamie Kennedy. Oh, this
Speaker 1: movie does tarnish the legacy of the Mask, which is
Speaker 1: also a nineteen ninety four movie when Jim Carrey was
Speaker 1: really on his run of dominance. Son of the Mask
Speaker 1: was nothing more than a cash grab because in the
Speaker 1: first one it's so quirky and funny, but what it
Speaker 1: does well is all of the little side gags, and
Speaker 1: really you need Jim Carrey in that mask to make
Speaker 1: it funny. Son of the Mask is one of the
Speaker 1: most brutal experiences I've ever had watching a movie, even
Speaker 1: in two thousand and five, where you could throw anything
Speaker 1: on the screen and my fourteen year old self would
Speaker 1: probably laugh at it. But this one was straight awful,
Speaker 1: mostly due to the mask looking like a rubbery playto
Speaker 1: piece of crap. So that is my second big offender.
Speaker 1: My third biggest offender is one that came out pretty recently,
Speaker 1: Hocus Pocus two is a movie that I just hate
Speaker 1: that it exists because hocus Pocus won. The original has
Speaker 1: been one of my go to Halloween movies since I
Speaker 1: can remember. It was always Halloween time for me. When ever,
Speaker 1: I'd go to school and we'd throw on hocus Pocus
Speaker 1: Great Memories with this movie, I'd watch it every single year,
Speaker 1: And to me, this movie is perfect. It should not
Speaker 1: have been touched and right now, Disney isn't a weird
Speaker 1: place of movies that come out on Disney Plus and
Speaker 1: movies that come out in theaters, And what they have
Speaker 1: really done is kind of replaced their straight to VHS
Speaker 1: straight to DVD movies and made those Disney Plus exclusives.
Speaker 1: Hocus Pocus two fell victim to that. The movie just
Speaker 1: looks terrible. It looks like it had zero budget. You
Speaker 1: bring back all the originals and completely waste them to
Speaker 1: make a movie that looks like a Saturday Morning special.
Speaker 1: And Disney has done this a lot, so much so
Speaker 1: that I almost don't count some of these sequels that
Speaker 1: they have done because they are pretty bad. It really
Speaker 1: shows me how much Disney has changed and has suffered
Speaker 1: at the box office as of late, because they used
Speaker 1: to be so dominant that they would only put out
Speaker 1: their biggest movies in theaters, and all the sequels would
Speaker 1: go straight to VHS, which they also crushed in because
Speaker 1: they would sell so many of them, so they would
Speaker 1: create classics, and then they would have cheaply made sequels
Speaker 1: with less money spent on animation. You wouldn't have the
Speaker 1: same caliber of voice actors. You would rarely have people
Speaker 1: from the original ones be on these sequels. But all
Speaker 1: these movies I would consider should not have been remade.
Speaker 1: And I bet they regret some of these because they
Speaker 1: could have made sequels now instead of remaking the original ones,
Speaker 1: which we are seeing an influx up still. But Lion
Speaker 1: King two, Cinderella to Little Mermaid two, Hunchback of Notre
Speaker 1: Dame to move on to Bamby two, some of these
Speaker 1: you probably forgot even happened because they were really just
Speaker 1: a way for them to sell more DVDs and Bhs's
Speaker 1: the only one of these movies that I liked, and
Speaker 1: I remember going to the flea market in Dallas to
Speaker 1: get a copy of this. Out of all these movies,
Speaker 1: this is the only one I was excited for as
Speaker 1: a kid, and it was Lion King one and a half,
Speaker 1: which is a great movie. I haven't watch it in
Speaker 1: a very long time. I'm not sure if it's still
Speaker 1: available on Disney Plus, but it was Lion King from
Speaker 1: the perspective of Timone and Poomba, which as a kid,
Speaker 1: that is what I love the most from Lion King
Speaker 1: because Poomba and Timone are hilarious. They were the best
Speaker 1: part of that movie. They were the comedic relief. So
Speaker 1: what you had in Lion King one and a half
Speaker 1: was their storyline from before they meet Simba, because they
Speaker 1: really don't encounter him until about the start of the
Speaker 1: second act of the movie, so you get to see
Speaker 1: all of their life before that, and then you get
Speaker 1: to see their perspective from the final battle, which is great.
Speaker 1: So all the other ones should not have happened. Just
Speaker 1: give me Lion King one and a half. Another more
Speaker 1: recent offender is Aquaman two, which is one of the
Speaker 1: worst superhero movies I've ever seen. I was quite honestly
Speaker 1: surprised how big of a hit Aquaman one was. And
Speaker 1: this one also came at a weird time of Warner
Speaker 1: Brothers kind of closing the chapter on this DC era,
Speaker 1: and I feel like this movie was dead on arrival.
Speaker 1: It had no real chance of success. But even that
Speaker 1: being said, I was not prepared for the annihilation on
Speaker 1: my eyes from watching such a weak performance from Jason Momoa,
Speaker 1: but also the worst visual effects in the last decade
Speaker 1: when it comes to superhero movies, I thought we were
Speaker 1: past making superhero movies this bad at a time where
Speaker 1: people are starting to be fatigued with these movies. Really
Speaker 1: good to put this one out. They should have shelled
Speaker 1: this movie. So I think a lot of people right
Speaker 1: now would say any sequel to any superhero movie is
Speaker 1: one that should not be made. Even though there's so
Speaker 1: much hype around the latest Deadpool and Wolverine trailer in
Speaker 1: that franchise, I actually think Deadpool two is a pretty
Speaker 1: weak spot, and I think it brings up a great
Speaker 1: point of in Deadpool. The first one was so successful
Speaker 1: because it was made on a fifty eight million dollar
Speaker 1: budget and went on to make seven hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: two million dollars at the box office. So then you
Speaker 1: get the sequel of Deadpool two, which I feel is
Speaker 1: really forgettable because the charm of the first one was
Speaker 1: due to the fact that they were working with a
Speaker 1: smaller budget. A lot of the comedy comes from that.
Speaker 1: In the final act, whenever Deadpool is going to that
Speaker 1: final battle, they were running out of money. They had
Speaker 1: to cut a big amount of the budget. That's why
Speaker 1: he forgets his guns, which leads to a much funnier
Speaker 1: sequence of events to close out that movie and became
Speaker 1: quintessential Deadpool. Then in the second one, they went from
Speaker 1: fifty eight million dollars to one hundred and ten million
Speaker 1: dollar budget, but it didn't really change much because you
Speaker 1: have more room to breathe with a visual aspect, and
Speaker 1: it did not really translate to much more box office
Speaker 1: success because I think it only made four or five
Speaker 1: more million dollars worldwide, even though they spent so much
Speaker 1: more money on it. But in this case, sometimes I
Speaker 1: believe a bad sequel is the bridge to a third
Speaker 1: batter movie. So I think Deadpool two I could probably
Speaker 1: do without. But now we get Deadpool and Wolverine, which
Speaker 1: looks fantastic in the new trailer, which they aren't calling
Speaker 1: this movie Deadpool three. That is what the director said.
Speaker 1: He said, this is kind of its own thing. And
Speaker 1: I remember giving the suit so much grief whenever we
Speaker 1: had that first look at it because I thought it
Speaker 1: looked like a motocross suit and didn't really feel like
Speaker 1: the comic book accurate version that I was promised, And
Speaker 1: even though the colors are pretty similar, I just felt
Speaker 1: like that is not what I had in my head.
Speaker 1: I wanted him to look like the iconic nineties Wolverine
Speaker 1: that we all fell in love with back in the day.
Speaker 1: But after watching the trailer and seeing that they ripped
Speaker 1: off the sleeves, I have to say it does look
Speaker 1: a lot better. I still wish he had the pointy boots,
Speaker 1: and I hope at some point he has the mask on,
Speaker 1: even if it's a quick joke. I think with that
Speaker 1: I would be satisfied. We have had some looks at
Speaker 1: the posters. Maybe we are gonna get Wolverine in a mask.
Speaker 1: I also think we're gonna get that Hulk cameo in
Speaker 1: Dead Pull and Wolverine. There's been a lot of little
Speaker 1: Easter eggs put out some new posters wherever you see
Speaker 1: the reflection of Deadpool and the reflection of Wolverine in
Speaker 1: each of their blades, which I believe is in homage
Speaker 1: to an iconic, Incredible Hulk comic book cover. Wherever you
Speaker 1: see Wolverine with this blades out and you see the
Speaker 1: Hulk's reflection in the blades, one of the best comic
Speaker 1: book covers of all time. Also, in the first trailer
Speaker 1: we had from Deadpool and Wolverine, you see Wolverine sitting
Speaker 1: at a table in an all white tux, which is
Speaker 1: another reference to a comic book cover with him and
Speaker 1: the Incredible Hulk. So I'm hoping we get that cameo.
Speaker 1: But anyway, all that to say, sometimes you need a
Speaker 1: bad sequel to get to a better third movie. Another
Speaker 1: instance in that is The Hangover two, which I don't
Speaker 1: think that movie needed to be made. It is the
Speaker 1: exact same thing as the first one, but in Bangkok.
Speaker 1: And I remember being disappointed with The Hangover two in
Speaker 1: twenty eleven because I love The Hangover Part one, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite comedies of all time, And even though
Speaker 1: I didn't love the sequel, they should have done without that.
Speaker 1: I actually really enjoy The Hangover three because it goes
Speaker 1: back to Vegas, because it goes back to what made
Speaker 1: the first one great. But the only reason I love
Speaker 1: that one is because we have that bad sequel in
Speaker 1: the middle. You couldn't have gone from the Hangover one
Speaker 1: to the Hangover three, because even more so than the
Speaker 1: jump from one to two, it would have felt like
Speaker 1: the exact same movie. So you get that part three
Speaker 1: and it almost feels, even though they weren't that far apart,
Speaker 1: kind of nostalgic for going back and reliving their days
Speaker 1: of going to Vegas and having more and reliving some
Speaker 1: moments from that Vegas trip. I know, on paper, it's
Speaker 1: probably not a great movie and probably would go on
Speaker 1: the list of trilogies that should not exist, but for me,
Speaker 1: I like it. I also think sometimes you can make
Speaker 1: a movie that is so iconic that studios feel pressure
Speaker 1: to make a sequel, movies like Jaws. You got a
Speaker 1: sequel to it in nineteen seventy eight. You didn't have
Speaker 1: Steven Spielberg directing this movie, and it paled in comparison
Speaker 1: to that original one. Didn't have any great characters, didn't
Speaker 1: have any excitement, and somehow, with a better budget, managed
Speaker 1: to make Jaws look worse. And at one point, whenever
Speaker 1: they finally kill Jaws again, for some reason, they made
Speaker 1: Jaws roar. Here's that moment. If you haven't seen this movie,
Speaker 1: smile your this whole movie was chaotic, but for some
Speaker 1: reason Jaws roaring like a lion and then flashing back
Speaker 1: to the first one, the movie made no sense. So
Speaker 1: not only is it hard to recapture what makes a
Speaker 1: comedy great, it's also hard to recapture what makes a
Speaker 1: thriller or horror movie great. Another case of this is
Speaker 1: Speed to Cruise Control, which came out in nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 1: So in the first one, they can't slow down on
Speaker 1: the bus because there's a bomb on board and if
Speaker 1: they slow down, it's going to explode and kill everybody
Speaker 1: in it. They took that exact same concept and moved
Speaker 1: it to a boat. Who thought audiences wanted to see
Speaker 1: Speed again, but on a boat terrible. I also wanted
Speaker 1: to include on this list sequels you probably forgot even happened.
Speaker 1: In some of these cases, people are still demanding sequels
Speaker 1: to these movies, even though they already came out. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about Mean Girls two came out in twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: Nobody made a peep about this, even with the musical
Speaker 1: version coming out earlier this year. I feel most people
Speaker 1: wanted it to be a direct sequel to the Lindsay
Speaker 1: Lohan version, not knowing we actually got this over fifteen
Speaker 1: years ago. Or movies like The Sandlot two, which came
Speaker 1: out in two thousand and five, and not only did
Speaker 1: they do this movie, but they followed it up in
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven with The Sandlot three. So again,
Speaker 1: you can create a movie that is so iconic that
Speaker 1: there will always be a demand there, but just because
Speaker 1: you could doesn't mean you should in the cases of
Speaker 1: these movies. We also fairly recently got a Christmas story Christmas,
Speaker 1: which I feel also applies to this list, But before
Speaker 1: that we did have a direct sequel to a Christmas story.
Speaker 1: We got a Christmas Story too, which again is a
Speaker 1: case where I feel like people forgot that that movie
Speaker 1: happened in the middle of that. There are also some
Speaker 1: cases of sequels that I appreciated as a kid but
Speaker 1: now are a chore and a pain to watch, one
Speaker 1: of those being Mortal Kombat Annihilation. I loved the Mortal
Speaker 1: Kombat movies in the nineties as a kid, and I
Speaker 1: remember when Annihilation came out. I thought it was a
Speaker 1: pretty good movie because I loved the first one so much,
Speaker 1: played the video game so much, and I was a
Speaker 1: big fan of the character Raptor who just looks like
Speaker 1: sub Zero and Scorpion, but his suit is green. I
Speaker 1: thought that was so cool. I don't know why green
Speaker 1: was such a cool color in the nineties. It also
Speaker 1: reminds me of the Green Ranger from Mighty morphin Power Rangers.
Speaker 1: But I thought that movie was good as a kid.
Speaker 1: Rewatching it as an adult, it is so so painful.
Speaker 1: And they are making another Mortal Kombat now, which is
Speaker 1: a sequel to the one that came out in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, which I actually thought was pretty good because
Speaker 1: I think for these movies to work, they have to
Speaker 1: feel less like the video game and more like their
Speaker 1: own thing. So put them inside the world, but don't
Speaker 1: try to do what they did back in the nineties.
Speaker 1: They have officially wrapped on Mortal Kombat too, so hopefully
Speaker 1: soon we get some kind of a release date of
Speaker 1: when that movie is coming. Also, as a kid, I
Speaker 1: remember loving an extremely goofy movie, which is a sequel
Speaker 1: to one of my favorite Disney movies of all time,
Speaker 1: the Goofy Movie, And this was really just cashing in
Speaker 1: on a time in the late nineties early two thousands
Speaker 1: where extreme sports were everything. Back in the Tony Hawk days.
Speaker 1: Matt Hoffman and you could turn on the TV, primarily
Speaker 1: on Disney Channel and see Extreme Sports because they were
Speaker 1: so huge back then. So a lot of movies came
Speaker 1: out year towards kids to get them excited about this.
Speaker 1: So not the sequel I wanted to see, because it
Speaker 1: was really just Max going to college and then competing
Speaker 1: in a version of the X Games and Goofy comes in,
Speaker 1: So yeah, that one not so good. I also remember
Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen, Joe Dirt two came out, which is
Speaker 1: another instance of trying to make a comedy happen again
Speaker 1: ten plus years later. I also wanted to include sequels.
Speaker 1: I'm glad were never made along those same lines because
Speaker 1: we got movies like Joe Dirt to Zoolander two. But
Speaker 1: sometimes it's okay to know when not to make a sequel.
Speaker 1: On this list I have, I'm glad they never made
Speaker 1: Super Bad Too, Wedding Crashers Too, which has been rumored
Speaker 1: a lot with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson back. I
Speaker 1: don't think this movie should be made. It's not going
Speaker 1: to be what we wanted to be. Even movies like
Speaker 1: Old School, two Bridesmaids two Knocked up to forty year
Speaker 1: old version two. They would just not do well. So
Speaker 1: every now and then we'll see these headlines come out,
Speaker 1: we'll see actors be interviewed, are you gonna make another one?
Speaker 1: Calm down with those questions, because we don't need them
Speaker 1: in our lives. Although I do think a Pineapple Express
Speaker 1: two would actually work because it's not so much about
Speaker 1: the comedy in Pineapple Express. It's all the action, the
Speaker 1: stoner comedy at its core. But it has so much
Speaker 1: fighting and car chase scenes and people shooting each other
Speaker 1: that I think a movie like that would actually work.
Speaker 1: But I don't really see James Franco doing a whole
Speaker 1: lot right now. We do have some sequels that are
Speaker 1: already announced that I'm hesitant about. Beatlejuice two, which we're
Speaker 1: getting out later this year. That last trailer looked promising,
Speaker 1: but it also has all of the recipe of disaster
Speaker 1: to not live up to the original movie from Disney.
Speaker 1: We're also getting Inside Out too later this year. Pretty
Speaker 1: soon we're getting Zootopia two, which that's a perfect animated
Speaker 1: movie that I don't think needs another one. That one
Speaker 1: really hits me in the fields. So did Inside Out.
Speaker 1: But the thing with Inside Out. I think there's actually
Speaker 1: a story to be told there because it's Riley getting
Speaker 1: older and having these new emotions move in. I actually
Speaker 1: think that could be pretty powerful for kids. Later this year,
Speaker 1: we're also getting Gladiator to the thing that worries me
Speaker 1: about that movie is I feel like it's a sequel
Speaker 1: unlike all these other ones that no one really asks for.
Speaker 1: There's not a passionate Gladiator fan base, but maybe Ridley
Speaker 1: Scott just had a vision for this movie. At least
Speaker 1: the cast looks pretty promising in that movie. And a
Speaker 1: sequel I've been waiting for is a Detective Pikachu too.
Speaker 1: It's the only live action Pokemon movie that we've ever got.
Speaker 1: Not that they completely nailed it with that movie, but
Speaker 1: it's the closest we've ever been as lifelong Pokemon fans
Speaker 1: of having something that truly checks all the boxes. And
Speaker 1: I feel like, now, with visual effects getting better, maybe
Speaker 1: they could go back and retool some of the character
Speaker 1: designs to make them a little bit more accurate to
Speaker 1: the cartoon and the card game. And finally, to wrap
Speaker 1: up here, I did see Ryan Gosling talking about why
Speaker 1: his movie with Russell the nice Guys never got a sequel,
Speaker 1: he said, because when it came out, it went up
Speaker 1: against Angry Birds and got destroyed at the box office
Speaker 1: in its opening weekend. And The Nice Guys this movie
Speaker 1: came out back in twenty sixteen, and I feel is
Speaker 1: one that really gets overlooked. I think the title really
Speaker 1: doesn't help it a lot. The trailer didn't really do
Speaker 1: the movie justice. But it is a fun crime movie
Speaker 1: and one that I could see translate into a franchise,
Speaker 1: much like John Wick did, even like the Knives Out movies,
Speaker 1: where you could keep the duo together with Ryan Gosling
Speaker 1: and Russell Crowe and just swap out the mystery. I mean,
Speaker 1: if we keep getting all these death on the Nile movies,
Speaker 1: why couldn't we get a franchise. It has that slapstick
Speaker 1: humor but also some really solid action. So if you've
Speaker 1: never seen The Nice Guys, and if you're like me,
Speaker 1: really on a Ryan Gosling kick who I thought he
Speaker 1: crushed on Saturday Night Live promoting The Fall Guy, which
Speaker 1: is coming out this weekend, which I believe was their
Speaker 1: most successful Saturday Night Live episode since twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: This is definitely one of his movies that went under
Speaker 1: the radar. So that is the list. We'll come back.
Speaker 1: I'll give my thoughts on Challengers and in the trailer
Speaker 1: park why I'm sad after watching The Transformers one trailer.
Speaker 1: Let's get into it now, a spoiler free review of Challengers,
Speaker 1: one of my most anticipated movies of the year. That
Speaker 1: trailer alone, I instantly pre ordered my tickets, even though
Speaker 1: it was months before I could even pre order my tickets.
Speaker 1: I'm a huge Zendea fan, which I'll get into later,
Speaker 1: But what I knew about this movie going into it
Speaker 1: given from the trailer. She plays a tennis star on
Speaker 1: the rise, but her career gets cut short due to
Speaker 1: an injury. You get a little glimpse of that in
Speaker 1: the trailer, and I am somebody who struggles with any
Speaker 1: kind of injury involving any kind of bone, and just
Speaker 1: from that glimpse they gave us in the trailer, I
Speaker 1: was anticipating that moment throughout the movie and I didn't
Speaker 1: want to see it. But her career gets cut short.
Speaker 1: Her name is Tashi, and then there are these two
Speaker 1: other guys who kind of parallel her career around the
Speaker 1: same age. One guy's name Patrick, who is very confident,
Speaker 1: has a lot of raw talent, just kind of is
Speaker 1: trying to play tennis as a way to make money
Speaker 1: because it's all he is good at. His friend is
Speaker 1: Art who they've been childhood friends since they were pre teenagers,
Speaker 1: and they are both on the rise in the tennis scene.
Speaker 1: They are starting to win, starting to make a name
Speaker 1: from themselves, and they encounters in Deya's character about to
Speaker 1: go to college, and they see her at this event
Speaker 1: where she is crushing it. She has a very unique
Speaker 1: playing style, and they approach her because she is one
Speaker 1: beautiful and two because she is really good at tennis,
Speaker 1: and they want to hang out with her. And that
Speaker 1: is about where you get to in the trailer. We've
Speaker 1: all seen a little bit of the scene of them
Speaker 1: laying on the bed, and I won't get into all that.
Speaker 1: It is an R rated movie, not as hard of
Speaker 1: an R as the trailer leads it on to be,
Speaker 1: which I'll get into a little bit more later. But
Speaker 1: given the nature of this review, if there are younger
Speaker 1: ears around, we are going to get into some of
Speaker 1: that later in the review, so just be aware of that.
Speaker 1: But again, the movie is rated R. So what this
Speaker 1: movie does It may not come across in the trailer,
Speaker 1: but it jumps around in time a lot, because it
Speaker 1: starts out that she ends up with one of the
Speaker 1: guys he is trying to win a Grand Slam title
Speaker 1: and he is struggling. He is in a rut, he
Speaker 1: is not able to win, so she is trying to
Speaker 1: build up his confidence and signs him up for one
Speaker 1: of these Challengers events, which that is what the movie
Speaker 1: is named after. They are a lower tier competition in
Speaker 1: the tennis world where somebody at the caliber that Art
Speaker 1: has now achieved, being a pro, being famous, having all
Speaker 1: the money, doesn't really compete in but because he is struggling,
Speaker 1: she coaches him, because she's now his coach, to go
Speaker 1: win at one of these events, crush the competition, therefore
Speaker 1: giving you the confidence you need to go win another championship.
Speaker 1: Art goes to this competition where his former best friend
Speaker 1: Patrick is there, who is had the complete opposite trajectory
Speaker 1: in his career. So that is about the first ten
Speaker 1: to fifteen minutes of the movie, and then the movie
Speaker 1: starts going back in time to fill you in on
Speaker 1: all the gaps of how they got here, why all
Speaker 1: of their relationships are so complicated why there's so much
Speaker 1: tension between all of them. And I actually enjoyed the
Speaker 1: jump around in time because it creates this level of
Speaker 1: tension and anticipation to peel back the layers. It's a
Speaker 1: really hard thing to do because you have to pay
Speaker 1: attention while watching the movie, because at times even I
Speaker 1: got a little bit confused on exactly what was happening
Speaker 1: in real time and what was a flashback. But they
Speaker 1: do a pretty good job at changing their wardrobe, changing
Speaker 1: their hairstyle, and making a visual effort to let you
Speaker 1: know that this is something happening in the past too,
Speaker 1: this is something happening now. Cinematography in this movie is beautiful.
Speaker 1: It really creates that sense of realism and something you
Speaker 1: don't really see a whole lot of, or at least
Speaker 1: a whole lot of emphasis on, is the beauty of
Speaker 1: the clobe, which is one of the most classic things
Speaker 1: in cinema. I'm ready for my closeup, and sometimes it's
Speaker 1: just kind of a throwaway, just put the camera on
Speaker 1: your biggest hector at any given time. But the way
Speaker 1: they use the close ups in this movie was so powerful.
Speaker 1: Because it's such an intimate movie, it has a relatively
Speaker 1: low cast, but to make a movie where it's so
Speaker 1: focused on these strong leads, giving them all a time
Speaker 1: to shine, not just from their performance, but also from
Speaker 1: putting the camera right in their face and showcasing them.
Speaker 1: There were some really beautifully framed shots that created that
Speaker 1: level of intimacy that you get. And what is the
Speaker 1: most dangerous of geometric shapes, the love triangle, and that
Speaker 1: is what this movie did. It created this level of
Speaker 1: at times uncomfortableness and overall just had your eyes glued
Speaker 1: to the scene for the moment we were all waiting
Speaker 1: for and all promised in the trailer, the scene delivered,
Speaker 1: and from the response in the crowd in the theater
Speaker 1: while watching this movie, it was unlike anything I had experienced.
Speaker 1: Now we'll get into a little bit about the R
Speaker 1: rated nature of the movie while we're talking about it,
Speaker 1: because not as hard of an R as I thought
Speaker 1: it was going to be. The trailer makes it seem
Speaker 1: and the rating makes it seem like it's going to
Speaker 1: be just nudity all the time, or at least a
Speaker 1: very big graphic scene. Not really the case. What was
Speaker 1: most surprising is there was some male nudity that was
Speaker 1: received with some pretty big gasps in our theater, which
Speaker 1: is something I'm a little bit more used to now
Speaker 1: because I've watched a lot of HBO, a lot of
Speaker 1: Max Originals. Hulu is even dipping into the male nudity
Speaker 1: where it's become a little bit more normal to me.
Speaker 1: But I realized in that moment that there hasn't been
Speaker 1: a movie on this scale with a wiener of that scale.
Speaker 1: I just haven't really put those two things together. And
Speaker 1: me being in a theater seat, being in public and
Speaker 1: witnessing male nudity and seeing how other people react to it,
Speaker 1: I thought it waskind of funny. There was some gasps,
Speaker 1: but again not the nudity I was expecting in this movie.
Speaker 1: Male junk and male butt. So know that going into
Speaker 1: watching it without a doubt, hands down, the best thing
Speaker 1: about Challengers is Zendaya's performance, who is now a dominant
Speaker 1: force in Hollywood. She is right now in two major
Speaker 1: movies currently in theaters, and without a doubt, I can
Speaker 1: say that Zendia has the best range in Hollywood out
Speaker 1: of any actor to go from a movie like Challengers
Speaker 1: from coming out of the MCU, even before that being
Speaker 1: a Disney kid, which is so hard to get out
Speaker 1: of that mentality of acting on the Disney show where
Speaker 1: everything is so over emphasized, you have to be so wacky.
Speaker 1: She is the best actor to ever come out of
Speaker 1: Disney and now prove that she is a dominant force,
Speaker 1: not only winning Emmys for Euphoria, but now somebody please
Speaker 1: give her an oscar, which I hope this movie will
Speaker 1: be in contention for Best Picture. She deserves the Best
Speaker 1: Actress nomination because she is so good in this movie
Speaker 1: at being so convincing at all different types of characters.
Speaker 1: She can do a sci fi role like Dune and
Speaker 1: crush it and completely sell that, and then do a
Speaker 1: movie like Challengers where you're not even completely one hundred
Speaker 1: percent rooting for her. To have that kind of range
Speaker 1: is amazing to me. And then go do a show
Speaker 1: like Euphoria where you are rooting for her even though
Speaker 1: she isn't the best character in that show, and then
Speaker 1: to do MJ where you completely love her both on
Speaker 1: screen and on screen with Tom Holland. She is the
Speaker 1: real deal. If you are not on the Zendia train
Speaker 1: by now, you have to be after watching Challengers, because
Speaker 1: what I see in her performances is what I feel
Speaker 1: is the closest to the Golden Age in Hollywood, and
Speaker 1: that is the vibe that this movie gave me. It
Speaker 1: had that classic cinema feel that I had been wanting
Speaker 1: to see in twenty twenty four. It really had all
Speaker 1: of those great classic elements, the sharp dialogue, the fantastic wardrobe,
Speaker 1: and the big leads really selling the story because if
Speaker 1: you look at a movie like this, it's fairly simple.
Speaker 1: And it's not that there hasn't been a movie about
Speaker 1: a love triangle before. You could argue that Past Lives
Speaker 1: just did it last year. It's not that there hasn't
Speaker 1: been a tennis movie like this, but there hasn't been
Speaker 1: one that has really moved me to my core like this,
Speaker 1: because it had all of these elements of watching a
Speaker 1: classic movie, but it felt so refreshed. And I love
Speaker 1: that all the early scenes and flashbacks took place in
Speaker 1: the two thousands, so it almost feels like we're going
Speaker 1: back to a period so long ago. But then you
Speaker 1: see all the logos, like the old school taco bell logo,
Speaker 1: which there was a lot of cleverly placed product placement
Speaker 1: in this movie. You even have references to tennis stars
Speaker 1: of the two thousands, Andy Roddick being one of them,
Speaker 1: whose face was displayed pretty prominently in this movie, which
Speaker 1: also has a connection to the film because all the
Speaker 1: actors at about three months of pre operation with tennis
Speaker 1: coach Brad Gilbert, who has taught those like Andy Roddick,
Speaker 1: and three months may not sound like a lot of
Speaker 1: time to achieve the level that the characters in the
Speaker 1: movie have of being the best in their field, but
Speaker 1: it shows you that there is a parallel between athletes
Speaker 1: and actors wanting to be the best and putting in
Speaker 1: the hours and days and weeks and months to train.
Speaker 1: To really sell this movie because throughout it I fully
Speaker 1: believed it. I think what also helps them is, of
Speaker 1: course they had stunt doubles to sell some of the
Speaker 1: outer shots, but also again, the cinematography really helped sell
Speaker 1: all of those scenes. There are moments where it goes
Speaker 1: and puts you into that first person perspective, like you
Speaker 1: are playing. You see the ball like it's coming right
Speaker 1: at you, You see the tennis like you're holding it
Speaker 1: in your hand. I thought those shots were so great
Speaker 1: and it looked better than just slapping a go pro
Speaker 1: on somebody's head, which some other films have done to
Speaker 1: give you that same perspective, but you can kind of
Speaker 1: tell the quality in that it almost looks like it's
Speaker 1: to like a seven to twenty p version. In this one,
Speaker 1: it was full cinematic quality in that first person perspective,
Speaker 1: and I thought that was such a great touch to
Speaker 1: really put you in that action and also created a
Speaker 1: level of pacing of it's that back and forth in tennis,
Speaker 1: which this movie also emphasizes that of showing the crowd
Speaker 1: going from left to right and showing how fast paced
Speaker 1: it is. The cinematography and storytelling was right there. Being
Speaker 1: fast paced during those moments such a nice detail. It
Speaker 1: made me want to go out and buy a tennis
Speaker 1: racket and go hit the courts, but I'm probably not
Speaker 1: gonna do that. Best I could do is go like
Speaker 1: buy a Wii from the pawn shop and play we
Speaker 1: Tennis again. Because I used to dominate it that this
Speaker 1: movie did so many things right, I would argue it
Speaker 1: really didn't do anything wrong. And most movies I've seen
Speaker 1: so far this year, I've reached a level where I'm
Speaker 1: ready for it to be over. This was a movie
Speaker 1: I did not want to end and the two plus
Speaker 1: hour runtime just evaporated away. And the only thing I
Speaker 1: would hold against it, I feel is maybe unfair, but
Speaker 1: it was a really hard story to wrap up with
Speaker 1: all of these loose ends, all the things that unfold
Speaker 1: in the third act, which I feel maybe went on
Speaker 1: a little bit too long for a movie that really
Speaker 1: sold me in the first and second act. It almost
Speaker 1: lost its footing a bit towards the end because it
Speaker 1: feels like there could have been so many alternate endings
Speaker 1: to this movie, and with all the alternate endings that
Speaker 1: I could have seen, in my mind, I think they
Speaker 1: picked the wrong one. But I think that's just a
Speaker 1: personal taste for me. And sometimes it's movies ending in
Speaker 1: a way that you don't want them to end as
Speaker 1: the audience. If everything was wrapped up in a nice
Speaker 1: little package, then all would be well. And would we
Speaker 1: really have achieved anything? Would we really have learned anything?
Speaker 1: Would we really have grown? And sometimes in life you
Speaker 1: don't get the things you want, and this was a
Speaker 1: case where I don't think I got what I want
Speaker 1: out of my characters. But afterwards, I've been thinking about
Speaker 1: it more and more in thinking how man to make
Speaker 1: a movie where there's not necessarily a protagonist and antagonist
Speaker 1: that you're rooting for or rooting against. You could make
Speaker 1: an argument for either one of these characters because the
Speaker 1: relationship is so just wrapped and intertwined and so messy. Again,
Speaker 1: the most dangerous geometric shape is the triangle, because it
Speaker 1: just all goes around and around and around, and you
Speaker 1: could say one person was good and one person was bad,
Speaker 1: but that person could say that person was good and
Speaker 1: that person was bad, and the outcome is going to
Speaker 1: be a bummer for everybody. And that is what I
Speaker 1: learned after watching Challengers. So in my eyes, it is
Speaker 1: almost a perfect movie, but still nonetheless a movie I
Speaker 1: feel everybody should watch in a sea of remakes and
Speaker 1: franchises and superhero movies, and to see it do fairly
Speaker 1: well at the box office this week, and here the
Speaker 1: universe gives you a movie that is free of all
Speaker 1: those things. Maybe it's the R rating that's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't want to touch that one, but it's just
Speaker 1: inspiring for me to see a movie like this that
Speaker 1: feels so refreshing still be able to get made and
Speaker 1: with the movie star as big as Endea. For Challengers,
Speaker 1: I give it four point five out of five tennis rackets.
Speaker 2: It's time to head down to movie Mike trailer Paul, we.
Speaker 1: Have our first look at Transformers one, and after watching this,
Speaker 1: I realize, well, a couple of things. One, I'm getting
Speaker 1: older to all the things that I loved as a
Speaker 1: kid are now being repackage, repurposed to fit a younger generation.
Speaker 1: And for the first time, when a trailer came out
Speaker 1: over something I was excited about, I realized how much
Speaker 1: this is not for me anymore. And I think in
Speaker 1: my life, I've just been used to things that I've
Speaker 1: been passionate about, things that I've loved over the years,
Speaker 1: whether it be superheroes, things from comic books, sci fi
Speaker 1: in general, a lot of it has been geared towards me.
Speaker 1: And now it is seeing things that I grew up
Speaker 1: with and I love. And I still think this should
Speaker 1: be made for me because I am a fan of
Speaker 1: the original. And now after watching this, I realize that
Speaker 1: it's time to move on from some things and be
Speaker 1: okay with that. Not everything is going to be for you.
Speaker 1: And I'm thirty two years old, about to turn thirty
Speaker 1: three this summer. I realize, Man, I might need to
Speaker 1: sit this one out. What this movie is about. It
Speaker 1: is a prequel to all of the Transformers movie It's
Speaker 1: a never before told story. Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree
Speaker 1: Henry star in this movie, who I think make a
Speaker 1: great pairing. Both fantastic actors. Brian Tyree Henry has done
Speaker 1: a lot of great work at voice acting as well.
Speaker 1: He is also in Spider Man Into and across the
Speaker 1: Spider Verse. Chris Hemsworth, he's stile or he's getting more
Speaker 1: into doing movies outside of Marvel. Hasn't really found his
Speaker 1: footing yet. Could it be voice acting. We'll figure that
Speaker 1: out by the end of this trailer park. But the
Speaker 1: story here is a young Optimist Prime, which is who
Speaker 1: Chris Hemsworth is playing, and before he was known as
Speaker 1: Optimist Prime, he was called Orian Pax. That is his
Speaker 1: name in this movie. Brian Tyree Henry plays a character
Speaker 1: named D fourteen who ends up becoming Optimist primes rival Megatron.
Speaker 1: So this is their origin story of them being friends
Speaker 1: before they became enemies, which I think is a great premise.
Speaker 1: Other cast members include Scarlett Johansson, Keegan Michael Key, who
Speaker 1: is and everything he plays Mumblebee. In this movie, you
Speaker 1: also have John Hamm and Laurence Fishburn. The movie is
Speaker 1: coming out later this year on September twentieth. Before I
Speaker 1: get into more how I feel about this movie and
Speaker 1: deciding it's time for me to move on a little bit,
Speaker 1: here's just a little bit of the Transformers one trailer.
Speaker 1: It's time to show him we are more than meets
Speaker 1: the eye. Can transform now free. Uh guys, that's not good.
Speaker 1: We've got these powers for a reason. Let's use them.
Speaker 1: We stand here together.
Speaker 2: As one.
Speaker 1: A lot of things to break down from this trailer.
Speaker 1: It is the first fully ever CG animated Transformers movie.
Speaker 1: They have made Transformers animated movies in the past. We
Speaker 1: also know the iconic franchise from Michael Bay, but Transformers
Speaker 1: started out as a Saturday morning cartoon back in the eighties,
Speaker 1: and that is what originally the demographic was for for kids,
Speaker 1: more specifically to sell toys to kids. And that is
Speaker 1: how I felt after watching this trailer, because upon first
Speaker 1: seeing the animation here, I was completely under whelm of
Speaker 1: how flat it looked. And the thing I love about
Speaker 1: Transformers is how bright and vibrant all the characters are.
Speaker 1: That is rarely what stands out in the animated show.
Speaker 1: Also in the comic books, it's what makes them stand
Speaker 1: out on shelves at toy stores, and it's also what
Speaker 1: translated so well into the live action movies. They were
Speaker 1: so big and glossy and shiny and slick looking Optimist
Speaker 1: Prime and the red and the Blue Bumblebee in that
Speaker 1: beautiful yellow. All the characters were so distinct, and in
Speaker 1: the first minute of this trailer they all look completely
Speaker 1: washed out, and it just felt like a very poor
Speaker 1: use of animation style to make me want to see
Speaker 1: an animated Transformers movie. But more importantly, I feel that
Speaker 1: kids would think it looks a little bit lame. I
Speaker 1: was hoping it would follow in the footsteps of movies
Speaker 1: like into the Spider Verse, where the animated teenage Mutant
Speaker 1: Indus Turtles movie they came out last year that blended
Speaker 1: too and three D animation to give it a unique
Speaker 1: look that makes it visually interesting. Now, the story here
Speaker 1: I think could kind of match it, because it's portraying
Speaker 1: our characters here as worker bots before they get their power,
Speaker 1: so before they are able to transform, they're just regular workers,
Speaker 1: and then somehow they get their powers and they are
Speaker 1: able to go into battle mode. But overall, there is
Speaker 1: nothing visually stunning that sticks out to me in this
Speaker 1: trailer that makes me think I need to see this
Speaker 1: on the big screen, and really nothing that I can
Speaker 1: see that is going to translate into a great new
Speaker 1: toy line, which is really the primary reason that this
Speaker 1: movie is being made. And I can't be mad at
Speaker 1: that because that is what the original series was back
Speaker 1: in the day. All throughout history and anything targeted towards kids,
Speaker 1: that has been the ultimate goal is to make a commercial,
Speaker 1: essentially to sell a product of toys. So I just
Speaker 1: think if that is the goal they are trying to
Speaker 1: they are really lacking in the visuals department here, which
Speaker 1: is a bit of a bummer because the voice acting
Speaker 1: seems to be pretty right on and the story here
Speaker 1: seems to be something that I am interested in. I
Speaker 1: would love to see Optimist Prime and Megatron being friends,
Speaker 1: seeing them actually be on the same side fighting against
Speaker 1: the villain, and then maybe towards the end of the
Speaker 1: movie or in a sequel, you start to see the
Speaker 1: downfall of their relationship and you see Megatron go bad.
Speaker 1: I just think there's more potential here to not only
Speaker 1: appeal to the very very young kids, who is the
Speaker 1: key demographic here, but also appealed to all those that
Speaker 1: were fans of the show in the eighties or even
Speaker 1: the reboots of the movies in the two thousands and
Speaker 1: early twenty tens, because I think other franchises have succeeded
Speaker 1: in that teenage mutant Ninja Turtles did that perfectly, and
Speaker 1: it was cool to see people who are now parents
Speaker 1: with kids take their kids to go enjoy something that
Speaker 1: they enjoy and it's a whole bonding experience. And also
Speaker 1: the fact that retro is so in right now with
Speaker 1: TV shows like X Men ninety seven completely bringing everybody together.
Speaker 1: I think they also missed a boat on that of
Speaker 1: not having some animation style or even allusions to that
Speaker 1: original animated series to give this a little bit more
Speaker 1: color and make it just more interesting to watch. Other
Speaker 1: than that, you're really just banking on all the A
Speaker 1: list stars you have voicing the characters, which, hey, is
Speaker 1: Carlo Johansson in an animated movie, I'm right there with you.
Speaker 1: But aside from that, there's really nothing that sticks out
Speaker 1: to me about this trailer. And also, where is the
Speaker 1: uproar due to the fact that Peter Cullen is not
Speaker 1: voicing Optimist Prime. Remember when everybody was so upset or
Speaker 1: fake upset whenever Chris Evans came out as the voice
Speaker 1: of Buzz light Year, and everybody wanted Tim Allen, even
Speaker 1: though those two movies were supposed to be separate from
Speaker 1: the Toy Story franchise line. Everybody was so upset about that,
Speaker 1: and that was it's so difficult to explain that that
Speaker 1: movie ended up not doing so well. But Peter Colin
Speaker 1: has been the voice of Optimist Prime. He is the
Speaker 1: only one I could hear doing it, and I think
Speaker 1: he actually turned down the role because a producer said
Speaker 1: that Peter Colin was always the go to first choice
Speaker 1: to play Optimist Prime. But I have to believe that
Speaker 1: he turned it down because he actually consulted Chris Hemsworth
Speaker 1: on the voice. And you can hear it there in
Speaker 1: that trailer clip that I played, because at times it
Speaker 1: just sounds like Chris Hemsworth doing his normal voice, and
Speaker 1: then other times you do hear him emulating Peter Colin
Speaker 1: with that very deep Optimist Prime voice. So I'm curious
Speaker 1: to see how that carries up throughout the entire movie.
Speaker 1: I'm not one to jump on bashing people because they
Speaker 1: don't sound like what I expected it to. It was
Speaker 1: the whole same ordeal whenever Chris Pratt was announced as
Speaker 1: a voice of Mario and we got that trailer and
Speaker 1: everybody's like, he doesn't even sound like Mario. So I'm
Speaker 1: at least lad that that conversation isn't happening right now.
Speaker 1: But it also just shows you that people just get
Speaker 1: outraged about the weirdest things, and then once everybody starts
Speaker 1: jumping on it, it becomes a thing. I was just
Speaker 1: surprised that nobody was sticking up for Peter Colin, who
Speaker 1: is a voice acting legend. He also did e Or
Speaker 1: in Winnie the Pooh. He was also the person doing
Speaker 1: all the voice effects for Predator back in nineteen eighty seven,
Speaker 1: and his voice has tickled all the parts of my
Speaker 1: body while going to see his movies in theaters. You
Speaker 1: also have Keegan Michael Key playing Bumblebee in this movie.
Speaker 1: He must have the best agent in Hollywood, him and
Speaker 1: Jesse Plemons, because Keegan Michael Key is almost without a doubt,
Speaker 1: going to be in any animated movie you go see.
Speaker 1: I saw him in Migration. He was also in the
Speaker 1: Super Mario Brothers movie, and then in live action, he
Speaker 1: was also in Wonka. I think it's because he has
Speaker 1: such a great already animated voice and he really gets
Speaker 1: into voice acting, so it's not so much that he
Speaker 1: has to change his voice to fit all of these characters.
Speaker 1: He just has so much just natural talent in his
Speaker 1: voice that I feel like he is always the go
Speaker 1: to at the top of the list. Between him and Aquafina,
Speaker 1: there are no more voice acting roles to go around.
Speaker 1: So after watching this trailer, I gotta remember that the
Speaker 1: reason it has such a comedic tone is because it's
Speaker 1: for kids, and that this movie is really not going
Speaker 1: to be for me as much as I would want
Speaker 1: it to. And I'm not opposed to going to see
Speaker 1: kids movies. Quite honestly, I enjoy them because they have
Speaker 1: that nostalgia feel they take me back to my childhood.
Speaker 1: I was just hoping it was going to have a
Speaker 1: little bit more of a niche to it, which was
Speaker 1: what they were teasing at CinemaCon, of having a little
Speaker 1: bit of emotional depth. And maybe it's just because this
Speaker 1: trailer wants to focus on the foot elements to get
Speaker 1: kids excited about it. I didn't really see a whole
Speaker 1: lot going on emotionally in that, combined with really not
Speaker 1: having a unique animation style that I was looking for
Speaker 1: up until they get their powers, it does lighten up
Speaker 1: a bit, it gets a little bit more slick. But
Speaker 1: if you compare it to the CGI used in the
Speaker 1: live action movies, which looks so realistic and also so
Speaker 1: much more expensive, what this movie just kind of looks
Speaker 1: like is a cheap version of that. So I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm missing out of having something worth spending my
Speaker 1: money on. But again, this movie is coming out on
Speaker 1: September twentieth. Autobots roll out and that is this week's
Speaker 1: edition of Movie min Framer par and that is going
Speaker 1: to do it for another episode here of the podcast.
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Speaker 1: think about Civil War, the more I think that I
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