Francesca Rudkin: Despicable Me 4 and The Road to Patagonia

Despicable Me 4   

Gru welcomes a new member to the family, Gru Jr., who's intent on tormenting his dad. However, their peaceful existence soon comes crashing down when criminal mastermind Maxime Le Mal escapes from prison and vows revenge against Gru. 

The Road to Patagonia   

Documentary film was shot over 16 years. ‘The Road To Patagonia’ gives us a first-hand experience of Matty Hannon’s epic surfing journey – starting at the northern edge of Alaska, down the west coast of the Americas, and finally ending at the southern tip of Patagonia. It’s an epic journey covering 50,000 kilometres, with many twists and turns – with an unexpected love story that becomes the heart of it all. 

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks at B.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Right now, it is twenty two minutes to ten on
News Talks hed B. Francisca Rudkin, our film reviewers here
with her picture this weekend. Hey Francisca, good morning. Let's
start off with a little bit of a listen to
Despicable Me for.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Grew's been compromised.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
We need volunteers. You will be the first to test.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Our super serum designed to transform you into cutting and ages,
or you might just.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Explain, Okay, that's Despicable Me.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
For So, the school holidays are two weeks away, and
it has been seven years since we last all grew
as Lucy and the family, and the family are still
going strong. Who've added a new edition Grew is there,
and they've sort of got a smaller core group of
hilarious minions that live with the family and keep us

(01:14):
very much entertained. What I love about these films is
they appeel to a real wide range of ages. There's
jokes for adults, there's lots of slaps that gags for
the little kids. You know, full of heart, these stories
and pretty solid storytelling, and this offering is good. It
is fun. I actually enjoyed revisiting these guys more than

(01:36):
I thought I would. But my worry was that maybe
they might have run out of ideas, and it did
feel a little bit repetitive in some parts the story.
In some parts it was a little bit derivative. As
you heard in the trailer bed, it's kind of a
side story where they create these super minions, these mutant

(01:56):
superhero minions that can't control their powers. We've kind of
seen that being done quite a bit before. But the
main focus in the story is on Grew and his
nemesis Max la Male escapes prison comes after Grows that
the family have to go into hiding and sort of
take on these different identities and they have to adapt
to this very sort of posh, preopy neighborhood and trying

(02:17):
to fit them. I think if you've enjoyed the previous films,
you're going to enjoy this film. I wondered at the end,
there's a fabulous scene at the end, really great upseat
little number at the end, and I wondered whether it
was a little bit of a signal that they too
acknowledged that maybe they're coming to the end of this
franchise for the holidays, but I'm also great for the
younger kids. Like there were lots of kids laughing at

(02:39):
all the slapsticks but and pieces. So if you've actually
never been to one of these films, this will be
good holiday entertainment. Nice.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Okay, that sounds really good. Okay, that's Despicable Me for one,
for the fans and for the kids. Next up, something
completely different, tell us about the Road to Patagonia.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
So I picked this. I wanted to talk about this
because I thought you would be really interesting because you
love a crazy adventure. And then I just thought, oh, no,
his wife are really going to hate you talking about
the film. If he sees this film, this will not
be good. Project came because I think even if you've
just got a tiny little bit of sense of adventure
in you, or you know, spirit of adventure in you,
you will watch this film and go, yeah, I just

(03:16):
need to go and I need to get out there
in the world and do something crazy. This captures an
amazing road trip by an Ozzie Matty Flannon, and he's
an ecologist and a surfer and he decided to travel
the West coast of the America, so from Alaska and
finishing up down in Patagonia. He got a motorbike and
he built this sort of custom made sidecar that he
can carry his surfboards, and off he goes on this

(03:38):
fifty thousand kilometer trip. But it's also a quite beautiful
love story this film, because along the way, I think
it's about Vancouver, he met Heather, who was a permaculture farmer,
and they kind of headed off and they spend a
bit of time together, but then he heads off on
his way in Mexico the bike of Stolin, and the
world sort of falls apart a little bits Mattie, but
he pulls himself together. Some friends come and join him,

(03:59):
he gets another bike, and then Heather decides that actually
she's going to sell her farm and come and join
him as well, and off they all go. After a
little while, all the other friends leave and it's just
it comes. It's just Maddie and Heather on this journey.
They meet some amazing indigenous people along the way, living
in harmony with the land. They come across communities that
are tied to their land, people that are connected to

(04:22):
the world around them, and I think there is definitely
a very kind of spiritual aspect to this film, which
some people may feel is a little bit happy for them.
But I think that the cinematography is so beautiful. Their
story is so beautiful. It's delivered in such a very immersive,

(04:45):
emotional way that even if it is a little bit
like too much for you, you still kind of get
on board this journey and you fall in love with
these two people. And I'm going to be honest, I
cry at the end because no, not because things got
a little bit wrong. They decide to get rid of
the motorbikes because they want to get off the rope,
and they get horses. They get before horses Jack. Now
there's Maddie in Hither Red and Horse. So things get

(05:08):
a little tense and here that goes home and all
of a sudden, the story like these people sort of
you do. You get quite attached to them. It's really beautiful.
It's going to be on at the cinemas. It's worth
catching because this actually maybe has done a really good
job with the cinematography. It's an amazing journey and a
really thought provoking journey too.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Oh it sounds special, Okay, cool, So that's the road
to Patagonia definitely sounds like a little bit of me.
Thank you so much, Francisca. We will catch again very soon.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
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