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Speaker 1: Great the flick with ben O'she the Morning, Good Morning

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Speaker 1: guys in school holidays must be upon us because a

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Speaker 1: fourth installment after speakable exactly like that. It's that time

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Speaker 1: of the year, just before school holidays when the studios

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Speaker 1: start to drop these types of movies, and there will

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Speaker 1: be you know, there's always a couple of kids movies

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Speaker 1: every school holidays. Some of them will be good, some

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Speaker 1: of them will be terrible because as a parent, you know,

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Speaker 1: you're thinking, on the plus side, a couple of hours

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Speaker 1: to keep the kids amused, that's pretty good. But then

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Speaker 1: you're also thinking, I probably have to sit through it

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Speaker 1: as well, and how painful is it actually going to be?

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Speaker 1: Because some of these animated kids movies are just so

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Speaker 1: appalling that you can't even get through them. They yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: that's a great example, taking the kids to Toy Story.

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Speaker 1: In that way, can you get some surprise ones like

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Speaker 1: Angry Bird that you think would just be pointless and

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Speaker 1: why why does it even exist? Surprisingly good? Ok? But

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Speaker 1: then of course you've got some really great ones, like

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Speaker 1: you know, at the moment you've got Inside Out to

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Speaker 1: which is probably going to be the best one that

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Speaker 1: you can take your kids to if they're old enough,

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Speaker 1: and then you've got Despeakable Me for And you'd have

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Speaker 1: a lot of reasons for optimism going into this movie,

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Speaker 1: because according to the numbers, this is the most successful

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Speaker 1: animated franchise of all time. Of all time, it's something

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Speaker 1: like the fifteenth six fifteenth highest grossing film franchise film franchises,

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Speaker 1: So it's made over six billion dollars at the global

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Speaker 1: box office. It's a huge, huge hit. Like the individual

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Speaker 1: Despicable Me movies have made a billion dollars at the

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Speaker 1: box office, so it is a mega, mega hit, starting

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Speaker 1: with the first one back in twenty ten, I think

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Speaker 1: it was, of course, it stars Steve Carrell as the

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Speaker 1: voice of Groo, a super villain who then kind of,

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Speaker 1: you know, turns over a new leaf and decides to

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Speaker 1: become a secret agent to bring down other super villains.

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Speaker 1: So it sort of subverts the good guy bad guy dynamic,

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Speaker 1: which is fun, and he kind of falls for his

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Speaker 1: fellow secret agent partner, Lucy, voiced by the in credible

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Speaker 1: Kristen Wig, and they adopt these three young girls, and

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Speaker 1: so it's kind of like this odd couple pairing of

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Speaker 1: this super villain turned good raising these kids who are good,

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Speaker 1: and of course the star of the show, the scene stealers,

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Speaker 1: are the Minions, these little yellow creatures that are mostly incompetent,

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Speaker 1: occasionally useful, but always hilarious. They're they're sort of non verbal,

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Speaker 1: except that they kind of speak in this weird kind

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Speaker 1: of their own language. It's like, sometimes it's Italian, sometimes

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Speaker 1: it's Spanish, sometimes it's Japanese, it's a little bit of English,

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Speaker 1: and it's the sort of thing that little kids just

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Speaker 1: can't get enough of, this gibberish, and they're hijacks. They're

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Speaker 1: almost like the Three Stooges, you know, the Thousand Stooges

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Speaker 1: they're probably based on, and it's very similar. And so,

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Speaker 1: and the Minions were so successful they got their own spinoff.

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Speaker 1: They've had two spinoff trovies, which have also been pretty

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Speaker 1: successful at the box office as well. And so, you know,

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Speaker 1: it was always inevitable that we're going to get another

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Speaker 1: Despicable Meme movie. The second one is worth noting because

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Speaker 1: it also gave us the mega mega Farrell hit song Happy,

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Speaker 1: which was you know, that was huge. And so this film,

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Speaker 1: like all of them so far, have had Pharrell Williams

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Speaker 1: doing the soundtrack doesn't have a big banger like Happy

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Speaker 1: and Probably that's a pretty good representation of what this

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Speaker 1: film is. It's okay, but it's kind of lacking that big,

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Speaker 1: big moment and that really amazing stuff from some of

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Speaker 1: the previous films. In it, we find Grew is, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's still doing the same stuff, but he comes up

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Speaker 1: against his arched nemesis, Maxim Lamal voiced by Will Ferrell,

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Speaker 1: and you think, okay, that could be pretty good Will

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Speaker 1: Ferrel mega mind as a villain, you know, pretty awesome.

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Speaker 1: It turns out his French accent is terrible, one of

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Speaker 1: the worst French accents I've ever heard. It's he's not

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Speaker 1: even trying, do you so? Which is such a such

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Speaker 1: an easy Exactly, it's not that hard and so and

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Speaker 1: so it turns out they went to high school together.

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Speaker 1: There was some incident back in high school that Maxim

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Speaker 1: has never forgiven Grew for so he wants to get revenge.

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Speaker 1: He sort of transforms himself into half person, half cockroach man,

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Speaker 1: although that is not explained at all how that happened.

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Speaker 1: And this is part of the issue with the film.

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Speaker 1: There's lots of things that go unexplored. They throw in

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Speaker 1: all this plot and it's like, okay, but why, and

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Speaker 1: so the the secret here, the Secret Agency realizes the

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Speaker 1: they have to go into kind of witness protection and

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Speaker 1: in with complicated with the normyh yeah, yeah, yeah, big time.

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Speaker 1: But that side of the film is actually the best bit,

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Speaker 1: like seeing Grew being a solar panel salesman, his wife

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Speaker 1: Lucy is a hairstylist despite never worked before. When the

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Speaker 1: kids have to get used to the high school environment,

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Speaker 1: that stuff is pretty good. And then all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden it drags you back into this other, you know,

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Speaker 1: I forgot that was even part of the movie, and

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Speaker 1: so that's that's not so good. Sophia Vigara is like

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Speaker 1: Maxims off Sider. She only says three words in the

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Speaker 1: whole movie, a big waste of time, even casting ex

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Speaker 1: But the best bit, as always is the minions. Because

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Speaker 1: gru is off in hiding, the Secret Agency has to

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Speaker 1: do something with all of these hundreds and hundreds of minions.

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Speaker 1: So they bring them into head office and try and

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Speaker 1: train them to be secret agents, and they give them

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Speaker 1: a super serum like you know, Chris Evans in Captain America,

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Speaker 1: and they turn five minions into mega minions who have

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Speaker 1: superpowers like the Incredible Four. And that is legitimately hilarious.

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Speaker 1: But you know, that's only ten percent of the film.

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Speaker 1: I would rather see that as the whole film. It

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Speaker 1: could have been another Minions movie. So it's okay, there's

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Speaker 1: a few laughs. I think the little kids will laugh

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Speaker 1: a lot because there's a lot of that kind of

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Speaker 1: slapstick comedy. Parents will probably go, well, it's probably not

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Speaker 1: as good as the previous Despicable Me movies. The songs,

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Speaker 1: you know, not as good as well, so there's probably

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Speaker 1: a few reasons to knock it down. Very solid school

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Speaker 1: holiday entertainment. You won't regret seeing it. Just won't change

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Speaker 1: your life, Okay, just something to watch other than Bluey Yes, Yes,

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Speaker 1: how many millions for the win are you giving it?

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Speaker 1: I'm going to give it three fair enough. Very good,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, ed, thank you, and all the bes