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Speaker 1: Great to flick with ben o'she go on, he Ben.

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Speaker 2: Good morning guys, everyone out there that might have kids,

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Speaker 2: it could be dreading what's coming up in the next week,

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Speaker 2: the next couple of weeks. You've got school holidays, so

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Speaker 2: much time to fill activities, activities, Yet there's only so

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Speaker 2: many times you can just give them a piece of

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Speaker 2: paper and say draw something. Of course, it doesn't work.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't work anymore.

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Speaker 2: And so the movies are a great way to kill

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Speaker 2: a couple of hours. Get them some popcorn, something from

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Speaker 2: the snack bar and you're laughing. Maybe invite some of

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Speaker 2: their scaly mates and there you go. Everyone has a

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Speaker 2: good time. And so there are films coming out every

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Speaker 2: year during the school holidays.

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Speaker 1: Not all of them are good.

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Speaker 2: This year, there's really only two that I think are

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Speaker 2: probably worth seeing. Godzilla versus King Kong The New Empire.

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Speaker 2: Stylistically it's written Godzilla x Kong the New Empire. Doesn't

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Speaker 2: really make any sense to me.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't say versing.

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Speaker 2: Then you've got and then you've got the latest installment

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Speaker 2: of the pretty evergreen Kung Fu Panda franchise, Kung Fu

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Speaker 2: Panda four with Jack Black.

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Speaker 1: Where do you want to start Dealer's Choice happy with.

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Speaker 2: I was going to say Kung Fu Panda the crossover

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Speaker 2: Kung Fu Kong. Kung Fu Panda as a franchise is

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Speaker 2: one of the most successful animated animated franchises of all time.

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Speaker 2: It's made a few billion dollars a couple of billion

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Speaker 2: dollars at the box office.

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Speaker 1: It started back in about two.

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Speaker 2: Thousand and eight with Jack Black in the role of

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Speaker 2: this butt kicking panda is kind of a reluctant hero.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of the gag of this franchise. He doesn't

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Speaker 2: really he didn't initially really believe in himself. Turns out

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Speaker 2: he's the dragon warrior prophesies to save the value of peace.

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Speaker 2: And it had all the way along a superstar voice cast.

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Speaker 2: You know, you had Angelina, Joelie Sets Rogan, Dustin Hoffman,

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Speaker 2: David Cross, so many wonderful, wonderful stars.

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Speaker 1: Stars and a hair no make yeah.

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Speaker 2: And still a decent paypacker's And it's kind of been

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Speaker 2: this blend of pretty authentic the history of ancient China

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Speaker 2: with you know, obviously completely fantastical karate kung fu performing animals,

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Speaker 2: and so you get those a blend of two different.

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Speaker 1: It's the year of the Kung Fu.

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Speaker 2: But the previous three films have all been really pretty successful.

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Speaker 2: They've made a lot of money critically, people have been

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Speaker 2: into them, fans have loved them. So along comes the

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Speaker 2: fourth movie. It's about ten years since Kung Fu Panda

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Speaker 2: three came out, so maybe people thought we weren't going

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Speaker 2: to get another one. I think Jack Black you took

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Speaker 2: a little convincing to get back into it. And this

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Speaker 2: time around they couldn't get all the rest of the

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Speaker 2: voice cast. There's no Angelina Jolie, there's no sens Rogan.

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Speaker 2: So they were really probably a big part of the

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Speaker 2: reason why those movies were awesome, and all those characters

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Speaker 2: were heaps of fun as well. The Furious Five who

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Speaker 2: helped out Jack Black's Poe in defeating their villains. They're

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Speaker 2: all gone and this time the newcomer to the franchise

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Speaker 2: is a fox, a Corsack fox called Jen, played by Aquafina,

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Speaker 2: the American Chinese American comic comedian, and she's a good addition.

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Speaker 2: She plays like a thief who gets caught by Kung

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Speaker 2: Fu Panda tried to trying to steal some of the

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Speaker 2: rare artifacts in his sort of dojo. But then he

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Speaker 2: comes to realize that, you know what, maybe this is

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Speaker 2: a chance for me to pass the mantle on and

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Speaker 2: I can take her on as my protege, and he

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Speaker 2: can maybe ascend to a higher calling, which is becoming

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Speaker 2: the spiritual leader of the valley, and then she could

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Speaker 2: get the mantle of the Dragon Warrior. But to do

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Speaker 2: that they have to go on a quest. Of course,

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Speaker 2: there's always a quest and face an adversary pretty imposing

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Speaker 2: called the Kommie Million, who can, like chameleons, kind of

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Speaker 2: change change their their look, and this chameleon can become anybody.

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Speaker 2: And it's played by Viola Davis oscar Win A Viola Davis.

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Speaker 2: So which is she's She is awesome, She is fantastic

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Speaker 2: in this role, really leans into the silliness of it all.

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Speaker 1: It's okay, like to me.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't really is not really as good as the

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Speaker 2: other Comfort Side lost a little bit of the magic

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Speaker 2: Jack Black is still good, but without all of those

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Speaker 2: other voice actors, it feels a bit limited in scope.

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Speaker 2: And so from that perspective, you know, if you really

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Speaker 2: if you're an adult who liked the previous Comfort Panel

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Speaker 2: three movies you're not going to really dig this one.

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Speaker 2: If your kids, you know, like, you're not going to notice,

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Speaker 2: you're going to think it's fantastic, And it's worth staying

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Speaker 2: to the ending credits where Jack Black's Tenacious D does

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Speaker 2: a cover of Pretty Spears Maybe One more Time, which

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Speaker 2: is just an absolute ripper.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. Yeah, how many high kicks are giving it?

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Speaker 1: I don't give this one too and half?

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, middle Ground.

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Speaker 1: X Kong x con Okay.

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Speaker 2: So, the biggest problem with this film, and there are

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Speaker 2: a number of problems, but the biggest problem is it

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Speaker 2: came out just a couple of months after Godzilla minus one,

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Speaker 2: which was minus one, which is the Japanese Godzilla movie,

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Speaker 2: which just won an OSCAR for Best Visual Effects. So,

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Speaker 2: and Godzilla minus one is a cult hit when it

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Speaker 2: came out last year, even though it's in Japanese language,

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Speaker 2: it was huge all around the world in English speaking countries.

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Speaker 1: It phenomenal. That's right. It is a phenomenal film. And

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Speaker 1: it cost fifteen million bucks to make. Godzilla X Kong

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Speaker 1: made one hundred and seven million cost about.

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Speaker 2: One hundred and fifty million dollars to make, and the

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Speaker 2: visual effects don't look as good, and so yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: kind of a bit punished by the fact that Godzilla

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Speaker 2: minus one was so good, and this is this film.

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Speaker 2: Godzilla Versus Kong was a fun film, It was pretty enjoyable,

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Speaker 2: had some really cool visuals. This kind of sequel to

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Speaker 2: that film sees Godzilla living in a hollow earth, so

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Speaker 2: a hermit, like a giant king to surprise, and Godzilla

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Speaker 2: is up on the surface. They're both kind of lonely

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Speaker 2: looking for meaning, crust between them to give exactly a

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Speaker 2: lot of sitting around staring off into the middle distances,

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Speaker 2: but to give you an idea of how silly this

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Speaker 2: them is a baby, a baby King Kong who he

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Speaker 2: turns out to be evil, so King Kong grabs baby

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Speaker 2: the other monkeys with no really.

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Speaker 1: It's a strange, strange it is weird.

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Speaker 2: So it's basically like a big monkey grabbing an infant monkey.

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Speaker 2: And using it to beat other monkeys. There's a tool

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Speaker 2: it is that is it is one of the weirdest things.

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Speaker 2: I think, a weird choice exactly. But so this is

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Speaker 2: for the older kids, perhaps we should say so take

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Speaker 2: the younger ones to comfort Panda. The older ones will

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Speaker 2: get something out of this, Like some of the visuals

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Speaker 2: are still cool.

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Speaker 1: The colors.

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Speaker 2: Anytime you're talking about the colors of the movie, you

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Speaker 2: know you're really struggling to come up with positives. Rebecca

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Speaker 2: Hall is in it, who's a great British actress, and

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Speaker 2: she is very good. Brian Tyre Henry is funny in

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Speaker 2: the not so much in this film. There are one

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Speaker 2: liners that just absolute clunkers and the plot well looking well,

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Speaker 2: it's no sense whatsoever, big.

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Speaker 1: Less in versus a big monkey.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes no sense whatsoever. Yeah, I don't know

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Speaker 2: what to tell you.

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Speaker 1: How many colours are you giving? I'm going to give

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Speaker 1: this one one and a half star. Is one of

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Speaker 1: the colors Rebecca Hall, because it looks like short and orange.

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Speaker 2: Vibrant, vibrant color hair. But the good thing is it

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Speaker 2: takes a couple of hours. So they got to dump

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Speaker 2: the kids off at the cinema.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, Ben, thank you very much. Thank you guys,