July 8, 2025 • 7 mins
Johnny Oleksinski joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about the latest movie coming in the Mattel universe as well as his review of the newest Jurassic Park movie.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, he's always here early before his regular segment, but
now it is time for his regular segment. Johnny Oleazinski,
New York Post entertainment critic. I can't tell you how
excited I am to hear that they're finally, finally gonna
make a movie out of Hot Wheels. My kids will
be excited, my grandkids will be excited. I'm sure you're excited, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
How sincere you just sounded uh, yeah, yeah, I'm thrilled.
I'm thrilled to bits what they're gonna do. They just
announced this yesterday. There's going to be a Hot Wheels movie,
and they're probably gonna make the trademark signs as big
as the title. It's gonna, you know, just soulless, soulless nonsense.
But it's from the people who did Barbie. It's Mattel, right,
and they're trying to turn a toy universe. They're gonna
(00:42):
do Polly Pocket and Barney Smart and Masters of the
Universe Smart.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
They're just toy movie after toy movie.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
And you're gonna have to go to every one of them. Right.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
That's the thing, you know, when you guys see a
movie announcement and you see it on wherever you read
on the New York whatever you just scroll by. Okay,
I look at it like a fortune teller, you know,
giving me the tarot cards, and I just got the
death one. I'm seeing into my future what I'm going
to have to do, And I'm going to have to
(01:13):
really seriously consider this movie and come up with an
opinion about Hot Wheels and write six hundred words about it.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I'm sure you can be objective.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I can.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Hey, maybe hot Wheels, Maybe, maybe Hot Wheels will surprise me,
maybe the best picture hot Wheels.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Were you surprised by Barbie? Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I hated Barbie. Oh I hated Barbie.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And I know, Hey, it made a money talks Johnny Walks,
it made over a billion dollars. It went on to
the Oscars, which was shameful, by the way, absolutely shameful.
I thought it was sort of bad Elf, like, oh,
so Barbie's.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Oh come on, I loved Elf by the way, I
love Elf, And so you didn't like Elf?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
No, I love Elf.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Elf is great, but I was just what annoyed me
about Barbie was it was so high minded and kind
of a mess. But it was so high minded for
a movie that is about a children's toy, and they're to, oh, no, no,
it's high art. It is absolutely high art, and we'll
have Tony Kushner who talks about it. It's the height
(02:17):
of sophistication. When it was just a silly little toy movie,
maybe I would have liked it more if it acted
that way.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
It was a height of sophistication because they were trying
to attract adult audience as well. But it was able
to do that. It was able to get an adult
audience and to still get children. That's just smart, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, it was able to get an adult audience that
all got together and dressed in pink, just the kind
of people you know you want to hang out with,
had no offense. Natalie was wearing a lovely shade of pink. Today.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It is Barbie pink that I have.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
It is.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
But you know what, You also hated Jurassic Park, right, Yes, Well,
let's be clear.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I love the original Jurassic Park. That is a groundbreaking, tremendous,
terrific movie. Jurassic World Rebirth. I gave it a bunch
of titles in my review. I said, Jurassic World Regurgitation,
Jurassic World Revolting, Jurassic World Revile. If you can kind
of get the sense for how I felt about it,
(03:22):
Why Larry tell me this, Why do people after seven
movies on, why do people keep schlepping to this deadly island?
We know that at this point they know every time
people go, a lot of people die, and they keep going.
And this was maybe the laziest ever Scarlett Johansson and
Jonathan Bailey A big Pharma. Big Pharma just tells them,
(03:45):
you have to go get blood samples from these big
dinosaurs that will probably kill you, because those blood samples
can help.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Us cure heart disease. That's the plot. That is the
plot of the sense and you know, cover your cover
your ears.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Is this is a slight spoiler, but you know that
in the end they get them, they cure heart disease.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
It's so stupid.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So if you make a sequel to that movie, I
guess the leading cause of death in the world is
now cured.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
So we're good.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Oh, it is just imbecilic, moronic stuff. And they keep
making him and it's making so much money. And I'm
sure people that are yelling at their radio about this
buzzkill joyless man who hated Jurassic World. Well, I'll send
some talkbacks. I can take him.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You know, it's funny you usually disagree with Neumeyer, but
in this case it sounds like you two are are together.
Except that he did say, just to see that. They
did a really nice job with the dinosaurs, even better
than the original. I mean, it was very nicely done
because Cg's gotten better. Look at the face you're making,
because Cg's gotten a lot better. So he like that,
(04:52):
he said, but it was soulless. It had it had
no was not character driven, and that was the best
part about the original Jurassic Park. You actually cared about
the humans. In this one, you could care less about
the humans involved.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I disagree a bit with Joe on the CGI. The
reason that for that being I miss tactile effects. So
when you ever look at a making of Spielberg's Jurassic Park,
you can see they built a t rex right and
they're getting right up to this face and the scales
look real, and that's a really frightening thing. Remember that
t Rex actually smashed that suv. That wasn't an animated thing,
(05:26):
And viewers can perceive when they're looking at something real
versus something not. And I haven't been afraid of these
stupid dinosaurs since you know, Tai Leone ran through the
forest screamingly. These aren't horror movies, they aren't fantasy movies.
They're just kind of nothing.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
It's so much more fun when you hate a movie.
So you've hated, you're gonna hate Hot Wheels. You've already
decided that you hated Jurassic Park. What about Superman? The
New Superman's coming out? Are you gonna hate that?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So reviews for that are coming out today, but some
first reactions have hit, and I would get that reviews
for this will be all over the map. It's very light.
It's kind of going back to the Christopher Eve style,
but even lighter than that. It's not like those awful
sooty Zack Snyder movies we had, you know, Man of
Steel that were just so brute. Because the Superman I
(06:16):
think is supposed to be it's he's not Batman. It's
it's not you know, solving petty crimes, and he's an inspiring, fun,
silly guy, and that is what you're getting with this.
It might be slightly too silly, but I enjoyed it and.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Uh, oh you saw it. I didn't know you saw it.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I have seen it, and I just slightly broken. Bar oh,
that's all right.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
But it's also you know what I really liked about
it is there's no other than the marvelous Rachel Brazahan,
the marvelous Missus Masel. There's not really big stars in it,
and so it's much better than seeing Scarlett Johansson or
Robert Downey Junior and you kind of go, oh, hi,
you know, here's this Oscar winner. It allows you to
get into it a little more. David corn Sweat is
a great.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
When is your review coming out? So we can make
sure we can all get online and read it to
make up for this moment three pm.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And what I would like is get everyone in the
house or everyone at work and all click it ten
times at the same time in coordination.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
It'll be fun. It'll be fun for everybody.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Quickly, let's talk about Bernadette Peters. What does you have
coming up?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
So Bernadette, for twenty seven years has had a great
charity called Broadway Barks. And you go into Schubert Alley
and you'll see a bunch of your favorite Broadway stars
putting up pets for adoption, not theirs, but they help
get beautiful, cute, cuddly pets adopted. And it's I know,
it's Bernadette's big passion outside of performing. And thousands of
(07:42):
pets over the years have gone into the homes of
wonderful families thanks to Broadway Barks. And you can go for.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Free in Schubert Dolly. It's Saturday at three pm.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Wonderful.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Thank you, Johnny Oleczinski, New York Posts entertainment critic.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Thanks a lot, Johnny. See you again next week.
Well, he's always here early before his regular segment, but
now it is time for his regular segment. Johnny Oleazinski,
New York Post entertainment critic. I can't tell you how
excited I am to hear that they're finally, finally gonna
make a movie out of Hot Wheels. My kids will
be excited, my grandkids will be excited. I'm sure you're excited, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
How sincere you just sounded uh, yeah, yeah, I'm thrilled.
I'm thrilled to bits what they're gonna do. They just
announced this yesterday. There's going to be a Hot Wheels movie,
and they're probably gonna make the trademark signs as big
as the title. It's gonna, you know, just soulless, soulless nonsense.
But it's from the people who did Barbie. It's Mattel, right,
and they're trying to turn a toy universe. They're gonna
(00:42):
do Polly Pocket and Barney Smart and Masters of the
Universe Smart.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
They're just toy movie after toy movie.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
And you're gonna have to go to every one of them. Right.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
That's the thing, you know, when you guys see a
movie announcement and you see it on wherever you read
on the New York whatever you just scroll by. Okay,
I look at it like a fortune teller, you know,
giving me the tarot cards, and I just got the
death one. I'm seeing into my future what I'm going
to have to do, And I'm going to have to
(01:13):
really seriously consider this movie and come up with an
opinion about Hot Wheels and write six hundred words about it.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I'm sure you can be objective.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I can.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Hey, maybe hot Wheels, Maybe, maybe Hot Wheels will surprise me,
maybe the best picture hot Wheels.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Were you surprised by Barbie? Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I hated Barbie. Oh I hated Barbie.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And I know, Hey, it made a money talks Johnny Walks,
it made over a billion dollars. It went on to
the Oscars, which was shameful, by the way, absolutely shameful.
I thought it was sort of bad Elf, like, oh,
so Barbie's.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Oh come on, I loved Elf by the way, I
love Elf, And so you didn't like Elf?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
No, I love Elf.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Elf is great, but I was just what annoyed me
about Barbie was it was so high minded and kind
of a mess. But it was so high minded for
a movie that is about a children's toy, and they're to, oh, no, no,
it's high art. It is absolutely high art, and we'll
have Tony Kushner who talks about it. It's the height
(02:17):
of sophistication. When it was just a silly little toy movie,
maybe I would have liked it more if it acted
that way.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
It was a height of sophistication because they were trying
to attract adult audience as well. But it was able
to do that. It was able to get an adult
audience and to still get children. That's just smart, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, it was able to get an adult audience that
all got together and dressed in pink, just the kind
of people you know you want to hang out with,
had no offense. Natalie was wearing a lovely shade of pink. Today.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It is Barbie pink that I have.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
It is.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
But you know what, You also hated Jurassic Park, right, Yes, Well,
let's be clear.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I love the original Jurassic Park. That is a groundbreaking, tremendous,
terrific movie. Jurassic World Rebirth. I gave it a bunch
of titles in my review. I said, Jurassic World Regurgitation,
Jurassic World Revolting, Jurassic World Revile. If you can kind
of get the sense for how I felt about it,
(03:22):
Why Larry tell me this, Why do people after seven
movies on, why do people keep schlepping to this deadly island?
We know that at this point they know every time
people go, a lot of people die, and they keep going.
And this was maybe the laziest ever Scarlett Johansson and
Jonathan Bailey A big Pharma. Big Pharma just tells them,
(03:45):
you have to go get blood samples from these big
dinosaurs that will probably kill you, because those blood samples
can help.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Us cure heart disease. That's the plot. That is the
plot of the sense and you know, cover your cover
your ears.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Is this is a slight spoiler, but you know that
in the end they get them, they cure heart disease.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
It's so stupid.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So if you make a sequel to that movie, I
guess the leading cause of death in the world is
now cured.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
So we're good.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Oh, it is just imbecilic, moronic stuff. And they keep
making him and it's making so much money. And I'm
sure people that are yelling at their radio about this
buzzkill joyless man who hated Jurassic World. Well, I'll send
some talkbacks. I can take him.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You know, it's funny you usually disagree with Neumeyer, but
in this case it sounds like you two are are together.
Except that he did say, just to see that. They
did a really nice job with the dinosaurs, even better
than the original. I mean, it was very nicely done
because Cg's gotten better. Look at the face you're making,
because Cg's gotten a lot better. So he like that,
(04:52):
he said, but it was soulless. It had it had
no was not character driven, and that was the best
part about the original Jurassic Park. You actually cared about
the humans. In this one, you could care less about
the humans involved.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I disagree a bit with Joe on the CGI. The
reason that for that being I miss tactile effects. So
when you ever look at a making of Spielberg's Jurassic Park,
you can see they built a t rex right and
they're getting right up to this face and the scales
look real, and that's a really frightening thing. Remember that
t Rex actually smashed that suv. That wasn't an animated thing,
(05:26):
And viewers can perceive when they're looking at something real
versus something not. And I haven't been afraid of these
stupid dinosaurs since you know, Tai Leone ran through the
forest screamingly. These aren't horror movies, they aren't fantasy movies.
They're just kind of nothing.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
It's so much more fun when you hate a movie.
So you've hated, you're gonna hate Hot Wheels. You've already
decided that you hated Jurassic Park. What about Superman? The
New Superman's coming out? Are you gonna hate that?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So reviews for that are coming out today, but some
first reactions have hit, and I would get that reviews
for this will be all over the map. It's very light.
It's kind of going back to the Christopher Eve style,
but even lighter than that. It's not like those awful
sooty Zack Snyder movies we had, you know, Man of
Steel that were just so brute. Because the Superman I
(06:16):
think is supposed to be it's he's not Batman. It's
it's not you know, solving petty crimes, and he's an inspiring, fun,
silly guy, and that is what you're getting with this.
It might be slightly too silly, but I enjoyed it and.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Uh, oh you saw it. I didn't know you saw it.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I have seen it, and I just slightly broken. Bar oh,
that's all right.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
But it's also you know what I really liked about
it is there's no other than the marvelous Rachel Brazahan,
the marvelous Missus Masel. There's not really big stars in it,
and so it's much better than seeing Scarlett Johansson or
Robert Downey Junior and you kind of go, oh, hi,
you know, here's this Oscar winner. It allows you to
get into it a little more. David corn Sweat is
a great.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
When is your review coming out? So we can make
sure we can all get online and read it to
make up for this moment three pm.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And what I would like is get everyone in the
house or everyone at work and all click it ten
times at the same time in coordination.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
It'll be fun. It'll be fun for everybody.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Quickly, let's talk about Bernadette Peters. What does you have
coming up?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
So Bernadette, for twenty seven years has had a great
charity called Broadway Barks. And you go into Schubert Alley
and you'll see a bunch of your favorite Broadway stars
putting up pets for adoption, not theirs, but they help
get beautiful, cute, cuddly pets adopted. And it's I know,
it's Bernadette's big passion outside of performing. And thousands of
(07:42):
pets over the years have gone into the homes of
wonderful families thanks to Broadway Barks. And you can go for.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Free in Schubert Dolly. It's Saturday at three pm.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Wonderful.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Thank you, Johnny Oleczinski, New York Posts entertainment critic.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Thanks a lot, Johnny. See you again next week.
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