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Speaker 1: Great perflick with Ben out of Shame. Good morning Ben,

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Speaker 1: Good morning guys. I've got a comedy to bring to

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Speaker 1: you today. Ye good. We need All the Roses now.

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Speaker 1: It's a remake of the War of the Roses, which

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Speaker 1: listeners of a certain age will have fond memories of

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Speaker 1: this film it came out. I do a certain all

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Speaker 1: of this is where all this, where all of this

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Speaker 1: come on? Like twenty five year olds don't have a

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Speaker 1: clue what I'm talking about. I mean, I wasn't around

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Speaker 1: when Beethoven was around, But I don't know who it is.

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Speaker 1: I think we're of a different generation. Lease. I think

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Speaker 1: I don't know if the current generation go back like

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Speaker 1: they look at the nineties as if it was the

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Speaker 1: sixties vs. So so. Back in nineteen eighty nine, the

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Speaker 1: War of the Roses came out. It had Michael Douglas,

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Speaker 1: Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner at the height of their powers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I loved that movie. I saw it at previous I

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Speaker 1: didn't knew nothing about it. So funny, I knew nothing

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Speaker 1: about it and I came out of it. I just

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Speaker 1: loved it. So it's such a classic film direct by

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Speaker 1: Daddy DeVito, who was also in the film, and the

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Speaker 1: three of them had just come from doing Romancing the

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Speaker 1: Stars Jewel of the Nile. This is sort of the

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Speaker 1: third collaboration, and they were just on song. It told

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Speaker 1: a story of this this this couple who fall in

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Speaker 1: love head over heels, get married. They seem to have

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Speaker 1: the idyllic life, but over time cracks start to appear,

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Speaker 1: little resentment start to fester, and then it just spirals

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Speaker 1: into the you know, into the most crazy kind of culmination. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And it's sort of a satire in relationships and all

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Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. So you'd think a classic like

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Speaker 1: that is going to be pretty tough to remake. But

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Speaker 1: if you're going to do it, you got who you're

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Speaker 1: going to cast. Olivia Coleman and Benedict Cumberbatch, two of

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Speaker 1: Britain's great actors, two of the great actors of their generation.

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Speaker 1: Olivia Coleman's got an Academy Award, Benedict Cumberbatch he's got

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Speaker 1: two Oscar nominations. And so despite being best mates in

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Speaker 1: real life, they've actually never been on screen. Toget. This

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Speaker 1: is the first time ever we've seen them in a movie,

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Speaker 1: and they play Benedict Coma bat To plays Theo, a

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Speaker 1: brilliant architect who bumps into Ivy played by Olivia Coleman,

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Speaker 1: who's a brilliant chef. He goes into her restaurant one day.

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Speaker 1: They hit it off immediately fall head over heels, just

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Speaker 1: like in the original Move to America where they start

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Speaker 1: this beautiful life together. But because they're such incredible professionals

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Speaker 1: in their own field, there's this kind of constant tug

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Speaker 1: of war over okay, whose career is going to be

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Speaker 1: the dominant one. Initially it's Theo, the architect, because he's

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Speaker 1: got commission to build this kind of like dream project,

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Speaker 1: this museum, maritime museum. But when disaster strikes, he kind

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Speaker 1: of is forced to take a step back and let

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Speaker 1: Ivy take over as the bread winner of the household,

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Speaker 1: and she starts a restaurant which becomes very successful. And

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Speaker 1: so the resentments start to build, as you know, one

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Speaker 1: enjoys career success, the other one falls on hard times.

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Speaker 1: Because they're both very proud people, it doesn't sit so well.

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Speaker 1: The film is sort of like in the first film,

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Speaker 1: where Danny DeVito is the divorce lawyer, tells the whole

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Speaker 1: film in sort of a flashback form. This is a

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Speaker 1: bit similar. It starts off in couples therapy, where you've

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Speaker 1: got Benedict and Olivia on the couple's therapy couch and

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Speaker 1: the therapist that classic thing, just name one thing you

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Speaker 1: appreciate about, appreciate about the other person, and Benedict's sort

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Speaker 1: of deadpans well, I'd rather live with her than a wolf.

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Speaker 1: And then Olivia Coleman goes he has arms, and then

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Speaker 1: and then it starts. It starts to unfold a little

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Speaker 1: bit from there and he says her head is rather

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Speaker 1: pleasing when seen from a distance, and then she and

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Speaker 1: then she looks at him and says he smells like

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Speaker 1: an anchovy that's had a night out on the booze. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And then there's then there's a sea bomb that's thrown

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Speaker 1: in there, and away they go. The dynamic between these

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Speaker 1: two is so hilarious. The film has been written by

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Speaker 1: the Australian playwright Tony McNamara, who wrote Poor Things, He

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Speaker 1: the Favorite. He created the Great Great TV series with

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Speaker 1: Nicholas Holten Elf Fanning, so he's a two time Oscar nominee.

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Speaker 1: And it's directed by Jay Roach, the guy who directed

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Speaker 1: the Austin Powers franchise and Meet the Parents franchise. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of you know, really really talented people involved

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Speaker 1: in the filmy. So how many marriage counseling sessions out

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Speaker 1: of five do you give this one? Well, I'm giving

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Speaker 1: it four, although these two need a lot more than

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Speaker 1: four to figure out what's going on. So yeah, four,

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Speaker 1: this is This is a great one. So it's a

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Speaker 1: lover of the original, I won't be disappointed. It's so

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Speaker 1: different Danny character, I will say, is the supporting cast

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Speaker 1: really is not that fantastic. Like, there's Andy Samberger is

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Speaker 1: in it, Kate McKinnon is in it, Nikooti Gatwar the

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Speaker 1: new doctor who is in it. There's an amazing cameo

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Speaker 1: from Alison Janny in it, who she can't do anything,

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Speaker 1: she is so good at this. So she's she's the

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Speaker 1: Danny DeVito lawyer. So they say, yeah, so she's the Okay,

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Speaker 1: So it's worth a luck. It's worth the price of admission,

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Speaker 1: as they say,