June 13, 2025 • 7 mins
Joe Neumaier joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about the newest movies coming out this weekend including a feel-good family movie.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joining us. Now Manner knows about all of that and
so much more. W a WA's movie mean and host
Joe Numaier in the house. The crowd goes wild.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning Joe, Good morning Jimmy grad to speak with you. Well,
you're here for a good Friday. We got two really
good movies to talk about this weekend. You're ready to
jump in, Let's go there. I love it go the
first Love is the first one. I am totally surprised
to be saying this, but it is a five star movie.
It's How to Train Your Dragon, which is a remake
of a twenty ten animated films from a bunch of
(00:27):
kids books. But this is a movie for everyone, not
just for kids. It's not aimed low. I was totally
knocked out by it. It looks great for one thing,
but it's got a really great story. I'm just gonna
summarize it really quickly. You know, it takes place in
the Viking era, and there's an island where these Vikings
have been fighting dragons for a long time, and there's
the son of the of the Viking chief befriends a
(00:50):
wounded dragon and realizes that they are not horrible creatures
that they're actually really nice. You could kind of get
along with them. And so it's kind of a basic story, right,
It's like the Black Stallion or you know whatever, Saint
George and the Drag it's the classic story. But really
what happens here is like the film just transcends what
all the things that you think it could be. All
of these live action remakes that Disney has done over
(01:11):
the last however many years. You know, everything from Beauty
and the Beast to Aladdin to you know, the Jungle
Book and The Lion King, all of that. None of
that stuff works. And some of them are like bad
drug trips, like Dumbo, the Tim Burton Dumbo like still
taunt me. So there's a lot of them that are
really bad. This one, though, it is not that it
is a really terrific film. It's obviously, you know, it's
(01:33):
it's a kid's movie, but it doesn't aim low. It
reminds me a little of like there was a remake
of Peach Drag In a couple of years ago that
this reminds me of, which I thought was a great film.
And or even like Where the Wild Things Are, or
even as I said, the Black Stallion, which is a classic.
So five Stars bring everyone How to Train Your Drag
and honestly, it's a great time for it for everyone
in the family. It's a terrific film.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
And to be clear, just so everybody's listening who might
not be familiar with your work, I know this audience is,
but you watch these films sober.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
That's right. I did not see How to Train Your
Dragon under any special circumstances, right, nothing. Jill Bourban was
in before How to Train Your Drag, But that's right. Yeah,
So five Now there's another film, a smaller film, but
I also want to give it a shout out this
week as well. It's called The Life of Chuck, which
is also sounds kind of a goofy title, but it's
based on a Stephen King short story, so right there,
(02:23):
you know that it's got a good pedigree. And I
can't give too much away about it, but I'll talk
about a little bit. It's it's kind of a twisty
kind of a thing that's told in reverse. It's has
like three chapters and the third chapter comes first, and
then chapter two, chapter one, and and without giving too
much away, there's sort of it starts with sort of
this this futuristics or this kind of what seems like
(02:45):
an end time's kind of moment, and it goes back
in time a little bit to look at this character
named Chuck who's played by Tom Hiddleson, and and it's
it's a it's an adaptation of a Stephen kingslm that
reminded me a lot of the shawsh Ank Redemption, reminded
me a lot of the Green Miles or or even
stand By Me. So it's not it's got a slight
supernatural element to it, but it's one of those sort
(03:07):
of the more grounded or or you know, maybe sentimental
if you want to call it Stephen can adaptation. So
that four stars for that. That's also a really good film,
but totally different and also not really for kids, so
so for for adults, that's that one. But you got
to go into it with a with an open mind
and be prepared how to train your draak and just
go and get the popcorn and sit out. Because it's
a great movie.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
It's a good way to pitch a movie. It's a
bad way to pitch a blind date. You got to
go into it as an open mind and be prepared.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
What are you?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
What are you getting me into over here? Joe Neumeyer,
Oh my goodness, gracious, well right as a as a
guy who is a great movie critic and a horrible
blind Day Center upper. I kid uh. Pee Wee's Big
Adventure is turning forty years old this summer, and I
consider that the closest thing to a perfect film that
there is in my youth. I loved pee Wee's Big Adventure.
(03:59):
Idly interviewed Mark Holton, who played Francis Boxton, the bike thief,
and they're having a big reunion over the weekend. EG
Daily is going to be there. I guess it's out
in Glendale, California. It's a great time to be in California.
You know, if you don't have an iPad to watch
it on, you can loot it. But were you a fan?
Were you a fan of Peewe?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I absolutely was, And in fact I actually had the
honor of doing a like a little half hour to
forty five minute career conversation with Paul Rubens a couple
of years ago for that that third pee Wee movie
that he did was called pee Wee's Big Holiday. That yes, Netflix, Yes, Yeah,
it was it was a fun conversation. He was a
gentleman and really funny. The movie itself. Yeah, I totally agree.
(04:38):
I mean, a couple of minutes ago I buy Rag Done.
You know Tim Burton's Dumbo, But Tim Burton directed Pee
Wee's Big Adventure. And was there ever a better you know,
marriage between a filmmaker and a performer than those two.
I think that the movie is inventive and funny and
wacky and also shout out to the nineteen eighties. Everybody
thinks of it as sort of this big a decade
about I mean, it did a lot of great things
(05:00):
like Cohostbusters and EP and Indiana Jones and Top Gun.
But it also did lots of weird stuff, and that's
one of them. Yes, ads, but weird in the unusual way.
I love it too, hilarious and you can always quote
it right.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, No, whole thing's good. Well, can I can I
tell you my favorite movie? Discussing Peewe's Big Adventure is
a great story. HAROLDO. Rivera, who worked with me over
at Fox. I was referencing the movie Pee's Big Adventure
one day and someone the question was, if you could
have any prop from any movie what would you like?
And someone said I'd like the bike from Peewee's Big Adventure,
(05:32):
at which point I joked and said, you're out of
luck because it's in the basement of the Alamo. Heraldo
jumps in and goes the Alamo in San Antonio, and
I go, Geraldo, how many Alamos do you know? Like
when someone yells remember the Alamo, you never follow up
with which one you know?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Exactly? Which one?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah? Remember the Alamo. Madame Ruby is the one who
sent them there. She was the dead end psychic that
sent Peewee. She read his palm and send to the
fake basement in the Alamo. Unbelieved.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
That's right, that's right, Solways that that's the that's the
prop that you would get for me or a vehicle.
I would get the transam from Smoking the Bandit. That
would be the one that a couple of years ago,
I think the one from the sequel not quite as good,
was for sale. I think I think somebody was selling it,
and if I had had the money, of course I
would have gotten that. But it's that transam from that
from Smoking the Bandit from Making seventy seven came up
(06:24):
the same day as Star Wars, by the way, and
for me, I'd rather watch Smoking the Bandit right now?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, because you know, waiting those movies came out the
same day. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Seventy seven.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Oh, that is crazy. What a time to be alive.
But the but Smoking the band That eventually stopped going.
They're on Star Wars. They're not even like pretending that
it's not at this point. It's like Star Wars episode ten,
F you pay me, would you have that's the title?
Would you have been a Star Wars or Smoking Which
one would you have gone to see that night? And
at that age, I actually probably would have went to
Star Wars. But I loved Burt Reynolds.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I mean the Smoking the Bandit when it came out,
you had to not yet there's no one you could
not see Star Wars. But you're right, you know how
they talk about the Internet's going to keep on going
on no matter what if the world dies out or not.
Same thing with the Star Wars movies. You know it'll
it'll you know, it'll be just darkness. But somehow a
new Star Wars movie or TV show will come out.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Totally agree, Amen, Listen, these were not the droids. We
were looking for. But this was the movie critique we
were looking for. Joe Newmyer, just take a bow. This
was epic stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Thanks Jammie, great talk yet you.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Two and man have a great weekend. The great Joe Newmeyer,
I mean, just all around fantastic stuff.
Joining us. Now Manner knows about all of that and
so much more. W a WA's movie mean and host
Joe Numaier in the house. The crowd goes wild.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning Joe, Good morning Jimmy grad to speak with you. Well,
you're here for a good Friday. We got two really
good movies to talk about this weekend. You're ready to
jump in, Let's go there. I love it go the
first Love is the first one. I am totally surprised
to be saying this, but it is a five star movie.
It's How to Train Your Dragon, which is a remake
of a twenty ten animated films from a bunch of
(00:27):
kids books. But this is a movie for everyone, not
just for kids. It's not aimed low. I was totally
knocked out by it. It looks great for one thing,
but it's got a really great story. I'm just gonna
summarize it really quickly. You know, it takes place in
the Viking era, and there's an island where these Vikings
have been fighting dragons for a long time, and there's
the son of the of the Viking chief befriends a
(00:50):
wounded dragon and realizes that they are not horrible creatures
that they're actually really nice. You could kind of get
along with them. And so it's kind of a basic story, right,
It's like the Black Stallion or you know whatever, Saint
George and the Drag it's the classic story. But really
what happens here is like the film just transcends what
all the things that you think it could be. All
of these live action remakes that Disney has done over
(01:11):
the last however many years. You know, everything from Beauty
and the Beast to Aladdin to you know, the Jungle
Book and The Lion King, all of that. None of
that stuff works. And some of them are like bad
drug trips, like Dumbo, the Tim Burton Dumbo like still
taunt me. So there's a lot of them that are
really bad. This one, though, it is not that it
is a really terrific film. It's obviously, you know, it's
(01:33):
it's a kid's movie, but it doesn't aim low. It
reminds me a little of like there was a remake
of Peach Drag In a couple of years ago that
this reminds me of, which I thought was a great film.
And or even like Where the Wild Things Are, or
even as I said, the Black Stallion, which is a classic.
So five Stars bring everyone How to Train Your Drag
and honestly, it's a great time for it for everyone
in the family. It's a terrific film.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
And to be clear, just so everybody's listening who might
not be familiar with your work, I know this audience is,
but you watch these films sober.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
That's right. I did not see How to Train Your
Dragon under any special circumstances, right, nothing. Jill Bourban was
in before How to Train Your Drag, But that's right. Yeah,
So five Now there's another film, a smaller film, but
I also want to give it a shout out this
week as well. It's called The Life of Chuck, which
is also sounds kind of a goofy title, but it's
based on a Stephen King short story, so right there,
(02:23):
you know that it's got a good pedigree. And I
can't give too much away about it, but I'll talk
about a little bit. It's it's kind of a twisty
kind of a thing that's told in reverse. It's has
like three chapters and the third chapter comes first, and
then chapter two, chapter one, and and without giving too
much away, there's sort of it starts with sort of
this this futuristics or this kind of what seems like
(02:45):
an end time's kind of moment, and it goes back
in time a little bit to look at this character
named Chuck who's played by Tom Hiddleson, and and it's
it's a it's an adaptation of a Stephen kingslm that
reminded me a lot of the shawsh Ank Redemption, reminded
me a lot of the Green Miles or or even
stand By Me. So it's not it's got a slight
supernatural element to it, but it's one of those sort
(03:07):
of the more grounded or or you know, maybe sentimental
if you want to call it Stephen can adaptation. So
that four stars for that. That's also a really good film,
but totally different and also not really for kids, so
so for for adults, that's that one. But you got
to go into it with a with an open mind
and be prepared how to train your draak and just
go and get the popcorn and sit out. Because it's
a great movie.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
It's a good way to pitch a movie. It's a
bad way to pitch a blind date. You got to
go into it as an open mind and be prepared.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
What are you?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
What are you getting me into over here? Joe Neumeyer,
Oh my goodness, gracious, well right as a as a
guy who is a great movie critic and a horrible
blind Day Center upper. I kid uh. Pee Wee's Big
Adventure is turning forty years old this summer, and I
consider that the closest thing to a perfect film that
there is in my youth. I loved pee Wee's Big Adventure.
(03:59):
Idly interviewed Mark Holton, who played Francis Boxton, the bike thief,
and they're having a big reunion over the weekend. EG
Daily is going to be there. I guess it's out
in Glendale, California. It's a great time to be in California.
You know, if you don't have an iPad to watch
it on, you can loot it. But were you a fan?
Were you a fan of Peewe?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I absolutely was, And in fact I actually had the
honor of doing a like a little half hour to
forty five minute career conversation with Paul Rubens a couple
of years ago for that that third pee Wee movie
that he did was called pee Wee's Big Holiday. That yes, Netflix, Yes, Yeah,
it was it was a fun conversation. He was a
gentleman and really funny. The movie itself. Yeah, I totally agree.
(04:38):
I mean, a couple of minutes ago I buy Rag Done.
You know Tim Burton's Dumbo, But Tim Burton directed Pee
Wee's Big Adventure. And was there ever a better you know,
marriage between a filmmaker and a performer than those two.
I think that the movie is inventive and funny and
wacky and also shout out to the nineteen eighties. Everybody
thinks of it as sort of this big a decade
about I mean, it did a lot of great things
(05:00):
like Cohostbusters and EP and Indiana Jones and Top Gun.
But it also did lots of weird stuff, and that's
one of them. Yes, ads, but weird in the unusual way.
I love it too, hilarious and you can always quote
it right.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, No, whole thing's good. Well, can I can I
tell you my favorite movie? Discussing Peewe's Big Adventure is
a great story. HAROLDO. Rivera, who worked with me over
at Fox. I was referencing the movie Pee's Big Adventure
one day and someone the question was, if you could
have any prop from any movie what would you like?
And someone said I'd like the bike from Peewee's Big Adventure,
(05:32):
at which point I joked and said, you're out of
luck because it's in the basement of the Alamo. Heraldo
jumps in and goes the Alamo in San Antonio, and
I go, Geraldo, how many Alamos do you know? Like
when someone yells remember the Alamo, you never follow up
with which one you know?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Exactly? Which one?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah? Remember the Alamo. Madame Ruby is the one who
sent them there. She was the dead end psychic that
sent Peewee. She read his palm and send to the
fake basement in the Alamo. Unbelieved.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
That's right, that's right, Solways that that's the that's the
prop that you would get for me or a vehicle.
I would get the transam from Smoking the Bandit. That
would be the one that a couple of years ago,
I think the one from the sequel not quite as good,
was for sale. I think I think somebody was selling it,
and if I had had the money, of course I
would have gotten that. But it's that transam from that
from Smoking the Bandit from Making seventy seven came up
(06:24):
the same day as Star Wars, by the way, and
for me, I'd rather watch Smoking the Bandit right now?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, because you know, waiting those movies came out the
same day. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Seventy seven.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Oh, that is crazy. What a time to be alive.
But the but Smoking the band That eventually stopped going.
They're on Star Wars. They're not even like pretending that
it's not at this point. It's like Star Wars episode ten,
F you pay me, would you have that's the title?
Would you have been a Star Wars or Smoking Which
one would you have gone to see that night? And
at that age, I actually probably would have went to
Star Wars. But I loved Burt Reynolds.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I mean the Smoking the Bandit when it came out,
you had to not yet there's no one you could
not see Star Wars. But you're right, you know how
they talk about the Internet's going to keep on going
on no matter what if the world dies out or not.
Same thing with the Star Wars movies. You know it'll
it'll you know, it'll be just darkness. But somehow a
new Star Wars movie or TV show will come out.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Totally agree, Amen, Listen, these were not the droids. We
were looking for. But this was the movie critique we
were looking for. Joe Newmyer, just take a bow. This
was epic stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Thanks Jammie, great talk yet you.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Two and man have a great weekend. The great Joe Newmeyer,
I mean, just all around fantastic stuff.
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