Mike hangs out with the Broken Lizard guys (Super Troopers, Beerfest) and actress Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night Lights, John Wick) to talk about their new comedy Quasi coming to Hulu on 4/20! Director Kevin Heffernan, Jay Chandrasekhar, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske talk about why we are seeing less comedies in theaters, why this movie almost got shut down, and how Adrianne Palicki reacted when she got the part. The guys share behind the scenes stories, the unfun side of making movies, how they keep from laughing while filming and the one bit they regret from Super Troopers. Mike shares his Top 3 quotes from their movies and gets the origin of each famous line. In the movie review, Mike gives his thoughts on Quasi, where it ranks among the Broken Lizard films, and what it was like going to his first movie premiere! In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about the fun look at the Barbie movie coming out on July 21st.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike, and today I am in
studio with the guys who brought you Super Troopers and
Beerfest Broken Lizard in the House with Adrian Pilecki, who
you would know from Friday Night Lights. Gonna talk about
their new comedy Quasi, which comes out on Hulu on
four to twenty. That's also what we'll be covering in
the movie Review this week, and in the Trailer Park
(00:20):
we'll shift gears and talk about the new Barbie movie.
So a lot to get to on this week's episode.
Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew and now
let's talk movies.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
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one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like
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From the Nashville Podcast Network, this is Movie Mike's Movie.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Podcast, about to get into my interview with the cast
of Quasi, which they wrote, starred, and directed.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It's an R.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Radianus on the hunchback of Notre Dame. It comes out
on Hulu this Thursday, four twenty or if you're listening
to this episode after the fact, it could already be
up there for you. So listen to this interview, go
watch the movie. They've been making comedy movies for the
last twenty plus years. The one you'd probably recognize them
from the most is Super Troopers. So let me tell
you everybody who's about to be in this studio. You
(01:20):
have Kevin Heffernan, who directed this movie, also known as Farva.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Give Me a Leader of Cola.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
You have Ja Chandrasakar aka Thorny, mother of God. You
have Paul Soder aka Foster no.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Budts mail that's the law.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
That's so funny, mal is it now?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Eric Stolhanski aka Rabbit you Smell Something Rabbit Fear. And
Adrian Plecki, who plays the queen in the new movie
and you also made recognize her as Tyro from the
TV show Friday Night Lights. So that's our cast of characters.
And now let's get into the interview here now with.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
The cast of Quasi. How are you guys?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Oh yeah, good, how you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
How are you doing great?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I imagine you guys had the after party last night
when you guys go out to a bar that people
automatically just want to buy you beer because you're the
beer fest guys.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Lots of chugging. There's a lot of chugging that goes on.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And you can still handle a chug.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
You have to be prepared.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
There's certain conditions and like sometimes somebody will hold you,
hand you a freezing cold beer and want you to
chug it, and that that's not fun.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
I chug any temperature, guys, Kevin's the fastest chugger.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Do You have to be cautious of the drinks that
people give you. Sometimes you have to see it be poured.
You're worried about none of.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Us has been roofed so far. We're not handsome enough.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
But Johnny Knoxville showed you a trick where you throw
a shot, you get the shot that you throw it
over your shoulder while the other person's did.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I showed him that trick.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
You know, I thought you chrick on the egg.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
People kept buying me shots in that and rouge, and
I can only drink so many, so eventually, after one
or two I would throw the third one over my shoulder.
But I was usually so drunk that I would occasionally
hit someone right in the face.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Right, And then when we did Irish car bombs.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, well what happened was I did hit somebody right
in the face. They go, oh my god, oh super Troopers,
I got away with it.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I imagine that's the same effect with like police officers.
They see you, guys, and you're like, oh, supertroopers, guys.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Yeah, we get out of a lot of tickets, get
out of jail free cart.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Oh man, I was so busted in New York City.
Sometimes you're out running around New York City and there's
no place to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
So I ducked into like I ducked into a.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Construction scaffolding, and as I'm still in the middle, you
can be in the middle of taking a leak and
feel when a cop is right behind you. And I
was like, oh man, I'm so screwed. And I turned
around and the guy's eyes got huge. He's like, you
have no idea how lucky you are, buddy, that I'm
a big.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
Because you'd go to the see why you wrote the movie.
You're like, we're gonna get out of all the things.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Yeah, I thought it would be the opposite. We thought
they were really unhappy with us.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
We're nervous.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So I saw the movie last night, and good. There
is this weird thing that happened in the theater that
I haven't experienced when going to see a comedy in
a while. It was this sound that I'm not I
wasn't used to. It was lasting laughter the entire time.
People were laughing throughout the entire movie.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I know.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I feel like from like the maybe like ninety nine
to two thousand and seven, they were just comedy banger
after comedy banger, just NonStop. Yeah, but now I feel
like there are very few and far between. Why do
you think that is as creators of comedy movies? Why
do you think we're seeing less right now?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Some of its budget.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
I mean, there's there's a bigger focus on these bigger
tent pole movies, right, so comedies, well, they think the
comedies aren't as.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Lucrative for them, so they don't make as many.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
And then I think, since you know, COVID was obviously
a problem, but comedy movies haven't come back since COVID.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Laughter, it spreads COVID easily, oh.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Yeahd ten times as fast.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
Yeah yeah, But I mean there hasn't really been a
big comedy yet. Right, since we've come back, there hasn't
been a Maverick sized comedy.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Yeah, I mean I was thinking the last big theatrical
comedy was like Crazy Rich Asians. Is like the last
time something came in and did gigantic.
Speaker 9 (05:05):
But that's not really like a comedy.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Yeah, it's like, yeah, not like a traditional ur ur
kind Offinger or whatever, but just in terms of something
that isn't like action genre, comical genre, gigantic ip.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Is it also that you have to worry about what
you make fun of? Like in a canceled culture world?
Is it harder to make a comedy in twenty two?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I don't think so, because I feel like your movies
they're very It's kind of all the comedy is inflicted
towards the characters. You don't really go outside of it,
you know, have a whole lot of pop culture references.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It's all like within the characters.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
So I feel like that's why a lot of the
Broken Lizard movies have stood the test of time.
Speaker 8 (05:39):
Yeah, I mean, our philosophy has always been to try
to make a movie where you feel like it's a
group of friends hanging out, you want to hang out
with them, so it's not likely mean spirited. The idea
is to you know, be kind of good natured. And
I think, you know, the Cancel Cultures thing seems to
focus a.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Little more on the mean spirited humor, I think, which
we don't really bring.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
To the hunchback in this movie.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
He's the hero. What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Because we insult them a lot.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
He's there are We had to get him to zero,
go from zero to hero, so we needed some zeroism
and so you know, you get some stuff chucked at
him or you know, gets.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
It's hilarious that like the only real issue on the
movie was the thing with the oysters.
Speaker 8 (06:19):
Yeah oysters, Yeah, we had we had a problem.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
We got a letter from the SPCA.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
There's there's a lot of oyster eating in our movie,
and we got a letter from the SPCA saying that
we were not allowed to shoot those scenes because we
would be harming animals in the making of that of
the movie, which has wass do No animals were hard
to making this movie and apparently you know, the oysters
are live when they're in the shell, and if you
eat them then you'd be violating that rule.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
So they told us we couldn't do it.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
So we had to either shuck them first, or we
made a kind of gross concoction of mushrooms and lemon juice,
and that was the oysters that we ate those.
Speaker 9 (06:56):
Paul just recently started eating oysters again, right.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Yeah, guys, finally back onto oysters after like it, truly,
it was so part of it was the joke in
the movie is that it is the ultimate status symbol, oysters.
You have really made it if you're eating oysters. And
then I think when they sourced the oysters for the movie,
their logic was then, well, then the biggest oysters would
therefore be the best, which isn't the case at all.
(07:24):
When we were scarfing down you know, yeah, twenty thirty
oysters in a take, they were the size of your fist.
Like I've never had to chomp, chomp, chomp an oyster before,
you know, like and you so yeah that that that
experience really took.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Me off for a while.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Reflex fact now and we realize I'm glad because a
lot of are promoting now people bring oysters who have
seen you know that when we do.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Different media tickets you get free.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Yeah, but this is funny now because it's almost like
the maple syrup thing, like these guys have been haunted
for the last whatever twenty years, never.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Again, chugging maple never again?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Is that the one you regret the most? Putting the
maple syrup in the everybody now, everybody wants.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
To that one really almost killed us?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Syrup.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Yeah. I drank two and a half and I made
him drink three and a half because I'm like, you
don't have it yet, Well, let's do another couple of takes.
And uh, you know, afterwards I had to go shoot
a love scene which didn't even make the movie. But anyway,
he went, I mean we were we at lunch. We
laid down in the dark in my trailer and just
(08:28):
shook all for the entire thirty minutes, just shook. And
then and then when I got back to the hotel,
he I saw him coming out. He goes, have you
pooped yet? And I'm like no. He goes, report back
to me after you wait, and he goes, there's a reason.
It's part maple syrup is part of the of the
Master Cleanse. And you know, like things came out of me.
(08:49):
I don't remember putting in like like a fossilized robin fetus.
I was like, I don't remember that.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
One.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Jay is a director.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Do you ever ask for another take when you really
don't need another take, but you just want to mess
with the guys?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Yeah, if it's something, if it's something that's uncomfortable for them, sure, yeah,
I'll do it just for fun, just for fun.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Another main focal point of Quasi is the torture. What
part of filmmaking feels like torture to you, guys?
Speaker 5 (09:16):
That's an excellent question, that's a.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
Good question, But I don't know that any I mean,
it's it's such a rare thing that we get to
that point where you're actually shooting.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
You know, it's not really that bad.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
They say, You know, we had we had an assistant
director who used to say that, because you they end
up calling you to the set hours and hours and
hours before you actually work.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
It's the waiting.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It's the waiting. And this assistant director said, uh, you
get paid to wait. You act for free.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
People think that behind the scenes of a movie there's
a lot of fun things happening, but it's really just
hang out and trailer waiting.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
To the next scene.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Yeah, yeah, and and yes, sometimes that is painful. I
think what is nice though, what mitigates it is you're
with your buddies in that downtime, if even if it's
in holding and you're on the side. And then when
we get somebody who joins us, that becomes the time
that we get to know each other and make friends
and like and like all the time that we spent
hanging out.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Compare our downtime to other downtime that you haven't.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Well, and then that's the thing, like this, who gives
who gives the best downtime? I've actually sat and hung
out because I usually am walking around or trying to
keep my energy up. But the energy was just coming
from talking to you guys.
Speaker 10 (10:19):
You know.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
It's like that's that's the that's the key, Agre.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
What is it like to get the part, to get
the call like you're going to be in the movie.
Speaker 9 (10:26):
I was shocked.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
We were shocked, said yes, I mean shot.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
They called and they you know, had I had an
offer and you're like, you know the Broken Lizard. Guys,
was like yeah, huge fan, Like they want you to
do this movie. What it's a movie about quasi motive.
What okay? So I read it thirty pages in and
I'm like, this is such in the vein of money Python,
which I'm a huge money Python fan and and you know,
(10:52):
a fan of theirs, so it was like, hell yes,
But then I was also petrified they're the real.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
Deal, you know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (10:56):
And I'm just coming in and hoping that I can
be funny and keep up up. And everybody was so
warm and welcoming. From the moment I met everybody, it
was just boom boom boom boom boom boom.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Another part of the movie is the winning of a lottery. Now,
if you guys won the lottery, which is like half
a billion dollars right now, and you were able to
make any movie you wanted with that budget, what kind
of movie would you make?
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Oh boy, a really sad drama.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Isa, we have a movie set in ancient Greece with
the Plato and Socrates and Zeus, Poseidon and haighties, and
it's got some visual effects. It'll probably be.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Is that what takes up most of the budget, the visual.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Lie and that one and that one. We're gonna need
some some green screen.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
Do you need an Athena he always always need a goddess.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
I was saying to Medusa to I never.
Speaker 9 (11:40):
What are you trying to say?
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Okay, I never get jealous about somebody else winning the lottery,
But that last big two billion one, the guy was
a mile from my house. It could have been in
my town a gas station that I go to. And
I'm still mad about it, which is terrible, you know,
but like coming, it's coming, that's close, which still.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
How many takes you buy?
Speaker 9 (12:04):
Yeah, did you buy one?
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I did buy yeah, at that gas No, because there's
also a donut shot. My logic was a lot I'm
not gonna win the lottery, but at least I'll get
donuts if I don't buy my ticket at the donut shop.
And so instead of going to the gas station, I
went to the donuts.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
My uncle won the lottery twice. Twice he won a
million and a half. Once he kept playing the same
numbers for years, and then he played the same number
and won fifty thousand more. And his name was Money,
and they and he invested in our first film.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
Wait, he a million, the first million and a half
and then and then fifty thousand.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Okay, that's a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
That's pretty good, pat for the tickets bought himself the corvette.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I think Quasi is also the most visually studying movie
you guys have made, and ironically it's going straight to streaming.
So I wonder, as filmmakers, where do you stand on
that debate of if it comes out on streaming or
if it comes out in theaters.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
How do you want your art to be seen?
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I mean, obviously, I think we would love it always
to be in theaters.
Speaker 8 (13:03):
I mean seeing on the big screen like we did
last night is great, it's fantastic, but you know, the
realities of the world. You know, we made the deal
for this movie when the pandemic was going on. There
was no theatrical and so you know, we didn't even
know how the movie would get seen, you know, So
it was a good it was a blessing that we
were able to do this thing through Hulu. But ultimately
for us, you know, people discover our have discovered our
(13:23):
movies with watching with their friends and their living room
or their dorm room or whatever it is. You know,
we we they really kind of grooved prominence that way,
and so I think, however we can get it to them,
We're happy.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
We're happy about that.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Another part I really enjoyed was in the credits.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
You have all the bloopers, and what I noticed is
there are different lines, there are different jokes, and so
do you just shoot a bunch of different jokes and
then how do you pick the one that ends up
making it in the movie?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Yeah, we do. People.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
People come with alts, or they come with you know, options,
or we'll be sitting there and think of them on
the spot and do it and then in the edit
room you kind of decide, you know, which one lands.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Like the funny thing was.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
That thing you have where he's down, he falls over
the railing and you look down and you have that
Schwarzenegger type line. And we shot like six of them. Remember,
were shooting at the end of the night. He was
like two o'clock in the morning. Me, you and Lemmy
were standing off camera just ye say this, say that,
and the crews like rolling their eyes, They're like, come.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
On, we want to go home.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I was texting for that one. Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 8 (14:18):
They were there were We had the eddit room and
we tried all of them, and I liked a different one.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
It was had the word shucking it what was. It
was like a hucks to be You. Yeah, shucks to
be you. I like that one. Uh, but the studio
hated all of them. They hated all They're like, they're
terrible lines, and we're like, well they're supposed to be there.
That's it's a Schwarzenegger line. You know what I meant?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
You know, I mean I love the one.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
I love it too.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I guess you fell for me.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (14:44):
We had a scene when Michelle's Tawney gets shot in
the neck and we and then Gabe improvises a line
and then we react to it.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
But we just went off for maybe twenty thirty minutes.
Speaker 10 (14:55):
Yeah, it wasn't in the script or anything. Every character
just was reacting, making scenes character and you had to
be in that room.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
I brought a bunch of times, gave breaks, breaks all
the time.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Did you ever cut together a version that just sort
of made a whole scene out of us yelling at
the guard who shot Michelle.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
And the neck.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
The editor cut has that I would love you with
everyone's thing.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
And then there's a longer version of the one where
he stabs.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
The guy and the guy's not dead and he stabs
there's a longer version of that I cut.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
So super Troopers came out when I was ten years old,
and I feel like it was very influential on my
sense of humor rewatching it as an adult, I feel
like you guys don't get enough credit for the writing.
The writing is just so solid and every single one
of your movies. So I wanted to share with you
the top three quotes that I use in my everyday life.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Oh yes, and it is from all your movies. So
and number three I have he can't pull over any farther.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
You get.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Is it true that that opening scene was based on
a true story.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Yeah, it was a true story.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
It was I think it was Lemmy or They were
trying to go over the border into Canada and these
guys got pulled over and they had mushrooms and some
guy ate all the mushrooms and then they got thrown
in jail and the brushrooms kicked in.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
When the guy was in prison.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
He ate mushrooms for six people.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Yeah, terrible. I've had a.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Problems the trip for.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
He's still I think he's still His eyes went black
and he's still tripping. I had trouble in the Canadian
border too. One time, I was trying to get back
into the United States and somebody with my exact same name.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I think they were charged with murder.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
You know, they had to like identify that I was
not that guy, so they held me at the airport
for like an hour and I'm like, I'm not him,
and number two on my list, I have give me
a double bacon cheeseburger.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Welcome to Dippis.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Can I take your order?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Give me a double bacon cheeseburger.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Double baker cheeseburger.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
It's for a cop.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Are you gonna spend it now?
Speaker 6 (16:51):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I was just to him that say makes it good?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
How hard was it not to break during that scene?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
I was just happy to be in the scene and
get to watch it up close. Was it's It's one
of my favorite scenes we've ever done, because not only
is Kevin great in that scene, but the kid who
plays the burger dimpestburger guy is also one of my
favorite actors.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
He's great, and he's just Charlie Finn.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
The two of them, Charlie Finn and him are just
going at it and I'm like, I'm right here.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
It was so fun because I said to him, I'm
gonna I'm gonna tackle.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
He's like, okay, here ye are, and then I did
it and he's like, oh my god.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
And it was a you know, that's the take that
we used.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You know, my number one is from Beerfest And this
is one of my wife hates because I do it
every single time. She cannot say the word frustrating, saying
it's frustrating, it's frustrating.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Frankly, I find the whole thing a little frustrating because
I can't figure it out.
Speaker 8 (17:40):
It's frustrating, frustrating, it's frustrating, it's frustrating.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
He improvised liner is that in the script?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
It was improvised. It was improvised.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
It was just a matter of originally my line, yeah,
and I couldn't it was your bit. Yeah, I couldn't
quite get my mind around on how to make it funny,
and so I'm like, you do it, and so he
did it, and he started doing it. I'm like, yeah,
that's good, that's better. We'll do that, and so then
they riffed on it on that frustrating.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
Yeah, there's that's another one of those things where there's
probably a lot on the editing floor about me messing
on him.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Yeah, with trying to make it a snap.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
So between Kevin and j how do you decide who
is going to direct the movie? Because you directed Quasi
I did.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
I was doing a movie called Easter Sunday with Joe
Koy and when this movie got greenlit, so I just said,
why don't you direct it?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
You said, okay, simple as that, simple as that.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
We've known each other for a long time.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Jay I.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Speaking of directing, I loved your episodes of Unstable that
you directed. Oh thanks, I'm really into like a twenty
four minute comedy right now. Nice And I know you
guys are writing Super Troopers three. Did you ever think
that that would work as a TV show? Like a
twenty minute TV show?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Our process is too thorough to crank television out at
the rate it needs to be done, I think, I mean,
because we write thirtyfts of scripts and it's it's possible.
I mean, that would be a good show. I agree
with you. I just don't know if we'll ever I
don't know that we'll ever do it.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
No, No, I mean originally it was conceived that way.
There was a there was a moment time where we're
going to do it as a as a TV show
and then and then Fox past, so screw them and pilot.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
And then where are you guys on the Superture Verse
three D script right now?
Speaker 4 (19:20):
And drafts?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
What does that mean? What are the draft what does that?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
It's about a month.
Speaker 8 (19:26):
It's a full script, you know, and it's just it's
just in an early form, you know, we keep going
through it.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
We had jokes and we you know, fixed plot stuff and.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Mostly trying to get the structure working, and then we'll
just pour jokes on top of it.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
I'll say, as an actress like coming in and not
being a writer, like in the writing room, to get
to experience that, because every time there was a different version,
we did another table read and then watching you guys
just you know, pitch more ideas back and forth to
each other, and it's just it's a really cool process
to watch.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
It's.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Yeah, as much as I enjoy shooting stuff, like those sessions,
you get past, Like what Jay was saying, the initial
sessions are about structure and storytelling and character and plot,
and then those sort of second ten drafts are just
riffing and riffing and riffing, and that's when the miles
get put in, you know, that's that's when the random
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ass stuff gets put in, and those sessions are the
best in the world.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
So Quasi comes out on four to twenty. If you're
listening to this at any other point, it could already
be out. Go watch it right now.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Yeah, there's twenty.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
The new Broken Lizard release day March.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
We trademarked I think, so it's become our holiday.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
We write these movies occasionally with a little bit of weed,
so watching them on weed is really it unlocks their true,
true potential.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
That is the true meaning.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yeah, well, I appreciate the time, guys, thanks for hanging out.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
So since we just talked to the cast, I felt
it was only appropriate to do my review this week
on the movie Quasi that we've been talking about. I
almost thought about, for the first time ever, reviewing a
movie with the people who created it, but realize that
would probably be entirely awkward. I also want to share
with you my entire experience going to my first ever
movie premiere.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I am just a big fan.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
If you can't already tell of the Broken Lizard, guys,
so I already feel I am coming from a bit
of a bias place of I am just their target
audience when it comes to these movies. When I walked
into this theater, it was all a bunch of people
who looked like me. That combined with getting to sit
down and talk to them, It's an entirely different environment
when you go to a premiere and the actual people
who made the movie are watching it with you. So
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I know that going into this review, I'm wearing the
freakin T shirt of all things, but I will still
give you my honest opinion on their new movie. Before
we get into that, here is just a little bit
of the Quasi trailer, which is a spoof on the
Hunchback of Notre Dame, a spoof on Quasi Moto broken
Lizard style. Here's just a little bit of Quasi.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
WHASEI why they wase gonna be late?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
You know what your problem is?
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Is it that I've got a fatty deposit the size
of a giant gord.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
On my back? Hunchback?
Speaker 8 (22:06):
Morning four twenty Get a Tale of Love.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
I very much like Phil Rats and I yours the trial.
I'm scandal.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
So it's from the guys who brought you super Troopers,
the guys who brought you beer Fest, and it is
an R rated spoof on the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
In this version of the story, you have Quasimoto aka Quasi,
who is trying to live a normal life, trying to
find his purpose in the world in midieval France, and
then he finds himself in this ordeal where both the
king of where he lives and the Pope who comes
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to visit in town. The first thing I had to
get used to watching this movie is all of the
Broken Lizard guys play two different roles throughout the movie.
It was a little bit jarring to see them go
from one roll to the other and try to focus
in on what the story was trying to be early
on in the movie. So once I got used to that,
it really allowed me to enjoy the movie. But what
really helped watching a comedy like this a very over
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the top, a very raunchy, a very I don't want
to call it low brow, but it's very goofball. If
you know the Broken Wizard guys, that is what they
go for. And I feel like it's a very fine
line of you finding it funny and you finding it dumb.
I am the target audience. I find this stuff hilarious,
and I was worried about that because when you go
watch a comedy, the way you judge it on whether
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or not it's a good movie or not is doesn't.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Make you laugh.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
And what really helped with this movie and the ironic
thing we talked about earlier, is that it's going straight
to Hulu. I have an experience watching a comedy like
this in a very long time, and I wonder if
I would have watched this movie at home on Hulu,
like everybody else is going to have to do, would
I have the same experience. Because this was the first
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ever movie premiere that I went to. I've been doing
this thing professionally now for probably seven years. I've gone
to screenings before, but it's a much different environment when
the people who created the movie are actually there. So
the entire Broken Lizard cast was there. Adrian Pilecki was there,
so they came out before the movie, did a little
intro talking about the film, watched the movie there in
the theater, and then came back and did a Q
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and A afterwards, and I just felt like I was
in this group that was a very safe place, and
it was all these fans of all their movies that
it just felt so much more welcoming, and there was
laughter throughout the entire movie, and when you hear other
people laughing, it is infectious and I felt good laughing
at things. And it was just an experience I had
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to where I completely turned off my movie critic brain
and just allowed myself to watch something fun for the
sake of it being fun. And that is something that
you don't really get when you watch a movie alone
at home. So I wonder how this is going to
translate to all of you who end up deciding whether
or not to watch this movie, how that experience differs
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because this is their first movie not coming out in theaters,
and I really feel like a comedy needs to be
seen with people. And we talked about in the interview
how comedies are being made less and less, and I
think it's because during the pandemic, we had that time
where we stopped spending time with each other and we
got used to it, and we got used to watching
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different types of things, and comedies were not being made
that we forgot how to watch comedies. Comedies are the
best when you go and watch them with your friends.
It gave me, you know, feelings back to when I
would go watch a movie on Friday night, you would
want to go watch a comedy. You don't really do
that anymore. We are so focused now on, you know,
consuming things on our own and telling other people about them.
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When it comes to comedies, when you experience something by yourself,
sometimes it doesn't hit the same way, especially with a
broken Lizard type comedy. Although a lot of their comedies,
what they said earlier, a lot of people discovered them
at different times. I never watched super Troopers in theaters.
I never watched beer Fest in theaters. But it came
through the power of word of mouth, people telling me
about that movie at school. It's a movie that people
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passed around the VHS tip so you could experience it
by yourself. But then from there you go back and
you quote all these movies with your friends. A comedy
is meant to be experienced among friends, and that is
exactly how I felt watching this movie. It was watching
it with other like minded people and then also having
the people there who created it and seeing them be genuinely.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Excited to share this with people.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I found that was an important factor for me too,
because for somebody who watches and talks about movies all
the time. It's all I think about is movies. I
don't always put a human element to it. I think
if I come on and talk about a movie I
didn't like, it's not going to affect them. But they
have so much passion for their movies to the point
to where they're out here doing this tour promoting this
because they believe in it so much. It really gave
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a human factor for me too. Route for it still
had to be a good movie. I wasn't going to
enjoy it if it was terrible, but it definitely felt
like a personal touch that I haven't really experienced with
any other movie. I know. They try to put these
teasers now at the beginning of movies, where it's the
actors coming on before it starts, saying thank you for
watching it in the theater the way it was intended
to be seen. But it's a whole different level when
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they're actually there with you. It actually feels like they
care about their art. But when it comes to period pieces,
I will have to say that is a genre that
is right there at the bottom. It goes Christmas movies
and period pieces of movies. I just can't get into
the only period piece movie that I just straight up
love and would consider one of my favorite dramas. Is
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the favorite a movie I was not expecting to love.
I don't like classical music. I don't like movies where
people are dress funny and talking in weird accents. It's
just hard for me to get into a movie like that.
I was also just coming off with Dungeons and Dragons,
so I'd already been in a similar pool of a
type of movie like this, But that really kind of
gets thrown out the window when it comes to this
movie because it's so off the wall, because it's so zany,
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because it's so crude. It didn't feel like any of
those type of movies. Other movies have done this before.
They took off a lot of inspiration from Monty Python,
which is why I believe this movie was so self aware.
They make jokes about the same actors playing different characters
throughout this movie. And while it is a spoof on
the story of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, it's really
a story about two friends, and that is what is
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at the center of every single Broken Lizard movie. It's
a story about friendship, about people you just want to
hang out with. It was a little bit tougher to
do that with medieval characters, but they got there at
the end. I will say the only part of the
film that lost me a little bit was the third act.
It got a little bit clunky there towards the end.
Unlike all of their other movies, where the third act
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is where they really win you over, where something very
ridiculous happens, this movie kind of walked off in a
stumble for me. First act, second act kept the plot moving,
kept the laughs coming, but it was almost like they
didn't know how to end this movie. That being said,
I still enjoyed every other aspect of this movie, and
it was maybe because I wasn't expecting to as much
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as I did that I would say this is a
top three broken Lizard movie for me. It's hard to
knock Supertroopers out of that number one slot. Beer Fest
on any other given day could probably be number one
for me, but for the sake of this right now,
I'll put it at number two. Although that is the
movie of theirs that I have rewatched the most. It
is kind of my comfort movie when it comes to
broken lizard movies. Supertroopers is obviously more iconic and the
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one that put them on the map. So that being said,
I would put this at their number three movie, although
I don't think if they put this movie out first
that their career would have been on the same trajectory. Now,
Quasi is their oldest script and this is the movie
they pitched before they did Supertroopers, So I will say
things worked out better for them that they didn't make
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this movie first, because I think if they put out
Quasi first, I don't think they would have got the Supertroopers,
they definitely would not have got to beer Fest. So
sometimes things just work out the way they are intended to,
and this is an example of that. I think it
was also important that they made this movie now because
it does look the best out of any other movie
that they've done, and that adds a great deal to it.
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Because a lot of it is set design, a lot
of it is costumes, you obviously have to make it
look somewhat like they are in medieval France, and it
did a pretty good job at that, given it is
a comedy, so it doesn't have to look entirely correct.
They're not full on making game of Thrones here, so
I think this was the perfect time for them to
make this movie. Now that being said, I think if
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you are a fan of Broken Lizard and all their
other movies, you're going to love this one. It's a
lot of what they have done in the past, and
a little bit more refined when it comes to the production.
I don't think it's as memorable as all of their
other movies. It doesn't have it's not the same setting
to create those memorable quotes that they are known for,
but it definitely shows a different side of them that
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they can really go outside of their genre and still
be funny. I don't think it's gonna win you over
if you haven't enjoyed any other Broken Lizard film, if
you're not a fan of super Troopers, if you're not
a fan of beer Fest, this one is not going
to be your next favorite movie. Comedy out of venue
genre is very subjective, so I'm not saying you're going
to be rolling around on the floor with side splitting laughter.
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But if you watch this with some friends with just
the intention of having a good time, I think.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
You will enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
So for Quasi, I give it three point five out
of five Hunchbacks.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
It's time to head down to Movie Mike Trailer Paul.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
If you are new to the podcast, this is a
portion where I break down a trailer of a movie
coming to you very soon in theaters or streaming. And
this week I want to talk about Barbie. I've had
a couple weeks now to sit and think about this
trailer and what exactly this movie is going to be about,
and two weeks later, I still don't really have any idea.
What they say, just based on the plot, is that
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Barbie is going through an existential crisis. She wants to
leave Barbie World and goes into the real world. But really,
what this trailer does is just give us the aesthetic
of Barbie World, what that looks like, what goes on there,
how they speak in that world, and doesn't really offer
us a whole lot on the plot. But I am
okay with that. That is what a trailer's supposed to do.
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It's just supposed to tease us and make us want
to watch this movie. Mission accomplished with this Barbie trailer
because even though I don't know exactly how that is
going to translate to a full length feature film, I'm
already into the aesthetic. I'm into this entire cast. I'm
into the look of Barbie. So they are doing a
really great job on that front. So before I get
into my full thoughts about Barbie. That just sounds kind
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of weird to say they're making a movie about Barbie.
But there are so many times we say that I
can't believe they're making a movie about that, and then
we get proved wrong. We just had that with Air.
So here's just a little bit of the Barbie trailer.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
I thought I might stay over tonight.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Why because we're gross, boyfriend?
Speaker 9 (32:47):
See do what?
Speaker 4 (32:49):
I'm actually not sure what are you doing here? I'm
coming with you.
Speaker 9 (32:55):
Did you bring your role with Blates?
Speaker 5 (32:57):
I literally go nowhere without them?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Oh, looks like this was a little too much Beach
for you.
Speaker 10 (33:01):
Ken.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
If I wasn't severely injured, I would beat you off
right now.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Ken.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
I'll beach off with you any day.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Ken.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Anyone wants to beat him off has to beat me
off first.
Speaker 9 (33:09):
I will beat both of you off at the same time, beach.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Both of us.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
All.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Nobody's gonna beat anyone off. So you have.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Margot Robbie as Barbie. You have Ryan Gosling as Ken
You have Dua Lipa as a Mermaid. The list of
a list actors in this movie goes on and on.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
The movie is.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Directed by Greta Gerwig, who has become one of the
directors that I will watch any movie they put out.
There's a very short list of directors like that for me.
Up there on that list is Greta Gerwig, who has
done movies like Ladybird, Little Women. She is a writer,
a former actress, and this will be her third major
film and I am just so drawn to her work.
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When I first heard she was attached to this project,
I knew it was gonna be good. Also on that list,
I would have probably put Olivia Wilde, who won me
over with Book Smart, who I felt was really ambitious
in making Don't Worry Darling. Even though that movie didn't
an entirely hit for me, I do believe it was
one of the most noteworthy movies of twenty twenty two,
making her a very noteworthy director. And also on that
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list is Jordan Peel, who was probably just my favorite
director right now. But the movie is also written by
Noah Bomback, who is a great director and writer in
his own right. He wrote and directed Marriage Story on Netflix.
Also co wrote The Life Aquatic with Wes Anderson. Noah
Bomback also wrote and directed The Myrowitz Story, so he
definitely has a writing style that I am also drawn to.
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And the movie was also co written by Greta Gerwig,
so all the credentials are there for me to take
away from my cynical brain thinking this is just a
cash grab movie of Warner Brothers and Mattel trying to
cash in on one of their most iconic brands that
they have ever created. Just by the look of this trailer,
it feels like a work of art to me, between
the costume and set design, probably already oscar worthy in
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its own right, and then that leads me to all
of the performances I'm seeing so far from just the trailer,
and it kind of looks like a comedy version of
La La Land. Maybe that's because I see Ryan Gosling,
I see dancing, and I see and even though they
aren't fully singing in this trailer, it has that kind
of musical vibe of everybody dancing, and it's just cool
to see how they created Barbie's Town, all of the accessories,
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all the clothes.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
It looks like a child's playset come to life.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
The interesting aspect of it that I might have to
get used to while watching this movie, and I hope
it doesn't become tedious to watch.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Is the level of acting.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
But you have to think they are playing dolls, and
the way they are speaking feels a little bit cheesy.
It feels a little bit unnatural. But when you think about, yes,
they are playing plastic things, and how those things would
interact if they came to life, it starts to make
a little bit more sense. But I wonder in context,
is that gonna feel a little bit weird to sit
and watch a two hour movie like that. It kind
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of reminded me of Toy Story three and the plotline
between Ken and Barbie in that movie.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
It's like they plucked that out of.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Toy Story three and met an entire movie based on
those sims their personalities. But this is one of the
best looking trailers I've seen in a long time, not
just the set design and costumes, but everybody in this
trailer is so attractive. It's like they went out and
got the best looking actors to play everybody in this movie.
So I definitely feel like that is by design. And
then you also get a glimpse of Will Ferrell in
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this movie, who seems to play an actual human living
in the real world. There towards the end of the
trailer that we heard there, it is Ken tagging along
with Barbie as she is leaving in her pink car going.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
To the real world.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
So it appears that after her existential crisis, she will
go in what resembles a city like Los Angeles, and
Will Ferrell is there, possibly as the creator of Barbie
or somebody working out Mattel. That plotline feels a little
bit familiar to me. It could kind of have that
Truman Show vibe of where Barbie realizes that she has
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actually been a doll this entire time, goes out into
the real world and sees herself completely differently and has
to come to grips with the fact that she is
this imaginary thing. So for that reason, I think this
could be a low key sci fi movie, or maybe
Warner Brothers is setting us up to merge this with
the Lego movie and at the end of this we're
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just going to get one big Avengers Mattel type movie
where it's Barbie where it's Hot Wheels where it's legos
all coming together and forming one super movie. So we
will have to wait and see, but I'm excited about
this one. The Barbie movie sets to come out in
theaters on July twenty first.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
At that for this week's edition of Movie Line Framer
bar and that is going to do it for another
episode here of the podcast.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Since we had an interview on this episode, what I
like to do is create a secret emoji. So if
you listen to that interview you enjoyed it, go and
comment on my socials with the lizard emoji. I feel
like that it's very appropriate for this episode. Drop a
lizard in the comments. Let me know you listen, let
me know what you liked about that interview, and then
I'll pick one of those comments to shout out on
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next week's episode. But for this week, I want to
go over to my YouTube page, which is YouTube dot
com slash Mike Distro, where you can watch all my
individual movie reviews. Over in that comment section. I got
a comment from the James Rambling Show who said, I
only discovered your channel recently, but you make good points
and try to find ways to not be so negative
and be fair in the process. Shizam two didn't deserve
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the hate. Yes it is fun, but it's not a
perfect movie smiling emoji. So listener shout out of the
week is James Rambling Show, who is now a subscriber
over on the YouTube page.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
So thank you, James.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Thank you to everybody who has subscribed on YouTube or
subscribe wherever. You listen to podcasts and listen every single
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tag me in your Instagram story listening to every episode.
And until next time, go out and watch good movies
and I will talk to you later.
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike, and today I am in
studio with the guys who brought you Super Troopers and
Beerfest Broken Lizard in the House with Adrian Pilecki, who
you would know from Friday Night Lights. Gonna talk about
their new comedy Quasi, which comes out on Hulu on
four to twenty. That's also what we'll be covering in
the movie Review this week, and in the Trailer Park
(00:20):
we'll shift gears and talk about the new Barbie movie.
So a lot to get to on this week's episode.
Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew and now
let's talk movies.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast,
one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like
never before in a movie podcast. A man with so
much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking IMTB with glasses.
From the Nashville Podcast Network, this is Movie Mike's Movie.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Podcast, about to get into my interview with the cast
of Quasi, which they wrote, starred, and directed.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It's an R.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Radianus on the hunchback of Notre Dame. It comes out
on Hulu this Thursday, four twenty or if you're listening
to this episode after the fact, it could already be
up there for you. So listen to this interview, go
watch the movie. They've been making comedy movies for the
last twenty plus years. The one you'd probably recognize them
from the most is Super Troopers. So let me tell
you everybody who's about to be in this studio. You
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have Kevin Heffernan, who directed this movie, also known as Farva.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Give Me a Leader of Cola.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
You have Ja Chandrasakar aka Thorny, mother of God. You
have Paul Soder aka Foster no.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Budts mail that's the law.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
That's so funny, mal is it now?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Eric Stolhanski aka Rabbit you Smell Something Rabbit Fear. And
Adrian Plecki, who plays the queen in the new movie
and you also made recognize her as Tyro from the
TV show Friday Night Lights. So that's our cast of characters.
And now let's get into the interview here now with.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
The cast of Quasi. How are you guys?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Oh yeah, good, how you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
How are you doing great?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I imagine you guys had the after party last night
when you guys go out to a bar that people
automatically just want to buy you beer because you're the
beer fest guys.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Lots of chugging. There's a lot of chugging that goes on.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And you can still handle a chug.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
You have to be prepared.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
There's certain conditions and like sometimes somebody will hold you,
hand you a freezing cold beer and want you to
chug it, and that that's not fun.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
I chug any temperature, guys, Kevin's the fastest chugger.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Do You have to be cautious of the drinks that
people give you. Sometimes you have to see it be poured.
You're worried about none of.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Us has been roofed so far. We're not handsome enough.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
But Johnny Knoxville showed you a trick where you throw
a shot, you get the shot that you throw it
over your shoulder while the other person's did.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I showed him that trick.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
You know, I thought you chrick on the egg.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
People kept buying me shots in that and rouge, and
I can only drink so many, so eventually, after one
or two I would throw the third one over my shoulder.
But I was usually so drunk that I would occasionally
hit someone right in the face.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Right, And then when we did Irish car bombs.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, well what happened was I did hit somebody right
in the face. They go, oh my god, oh super Troopers,
I got away with it.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I imagine that's the same effect with like police officers.
They see you, guys, and you're like, oh, supertroopers, guys.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Yeah, we get out of a lot of tickets, get
out of jail free cart.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Oh man, I was so busted in New York City.
Sometimes you're out running around New York City and there's
no place to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
So I ducked into like I ducked into a.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Construction scaffolding, and as I'm still in the middle, you
can be in the middle of taking a leak and
feel when a cop is right behind you. And I
was like, oh man, I'm so screwed. And I turned
around and the guy's eyes got huge. He's like, you
have no idea how lucky you are, buddy, that I'm
a big.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
Because you'd go to the see why you wrote the movie.
You're like, we're gonna get out of all the things.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Yeah, I thought it would be the opposite. We thought
they were really unhappy with us.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
We're nervous.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So I saw the movie last night, and good. There
is this weird thing that happened in the theater that
I haven't experienced when going to see a comedy in
a while. It was this sound that I'm not I
wasn't used to. It was lasting laughter the entire time.
People were laughing throughout the entire movie.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I know.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I feel like from like the maybe like ninety nine
to two thousand and seven, they were just comedy banger
after comedy banger, just NonStop. Yeah, but now I feel
like there are very few and far between. Why do
you think that is as creators of comedy movies? Why
do you think we're seeing less right now?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Some of its budget.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
I mean, there's there's a bigger focus on these bigger
tent pole movies, right, so comedies, well, they think the
comedies aren't as.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Lucrative for them, so they don't make as many.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
And then I think, since you know, COVID was obviously
a problem, but comedy movies haven't come back since COVID.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Laughter, it spreads COVID easily, oh.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Yeahd ten times as fast.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
Yeah yeah, But I mean there hasn't really been a
big comedy yet. Right, since we've come back, there hasn't
been a Maverick sized comedy.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Yeah, I mean I was thinking the last big theatrical
comedy was like Crazy Rich Asians. Is like the last
time something came in and did gigantic.
Speaker 9 (05:05):
But that's not really like a comedy.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Yeah, it's like, yeah, not like a traditional ur ur
kind Offinger or whatever, but just in terms of something
that isn't like action genre, comical genre, gigantic ip.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Is it also that you have to worry about what
you make fun of? Like in a canceled culture world?
Is it harder to make a comedy in twenty two?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I don't think so, because I feel like your movies
they're very It's kind of all the comedy is inflicted
towards the characters. You don't really go outside of it,
you know, have a whole lot of pop culture references.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It's all like within the characters.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
So I feel like that's why a lot of the
Broken Lizard movies have stood the test of time.
Speaker 8 (05:39):
Yeah, I mean, our philosophy has always been to try
to make a movie where you feel like it's a
group of friends hanging out, you want to hang out
with them, so it's not likely mean spirited. The idea
is to you know, be kind of good natured. And
I think, you know, the Cancel Cultures thing seems to
focus a.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Little more on the mean spirited humor, I think, which
we don't really bring.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
To the hunchback in this movie.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
He's the hero. What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Because we insult them a lot.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
He's there are We had to get him to zero,
go from zero to hero, so we needed some zeroism
and so you know, you get some stuff chucked at
him or you know, gets.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
It's hilarious that like the only real issue on the
movie was the thing with the oysters.
Speaker 8 (06:19):
Yeah oysters, Yeah, we had we had a problem.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
We got a letter from the SPCA.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
There's there's a lot of oyster eating in our movie,
and we got a letter from the SPCA saying that
we were not allowed to shoot those scenes because we
would be harming animals in the making of that of
the movie, which has wass do No animals were hard
to making this movie and apparently you know, the oysters
are live when they're in the shell, and if you
eat them then you'd be violating that rule.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
So they told us we couldn't do it.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
So we had to either shuck them first, or we
made a kind of gross concoction of mushrooms and lemon juice,
and that was the oysters that we ate those.
Speaker 9 (06:56):
Paul just recently started eating oysters again, right.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Yeah, guys, finally back onto oysters after like it, truly,
it was so part of it was the joke in
the movie is that it is the ultimate status symbol, oysters.
You have really made it if you're eating oysters. And
then I think when they sourced the oysters for the movie,
their logic was then, well, then the biggest oysters would
therefore be the best, which isn't the case at all.
(07:24):
When we were scarfing down you know, yeah, twenty thirty
oysters in a take, they were the size of your fist.
Like I've never had to chomp, chomp, chomp an oyster before,
you know, like and you so yeah that that that
experience really took.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Me off for a while.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Reflex fact now and we realize I'm glad because a
lot of are promoting now people bring oysters who have
seen you know that when we do.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Different media tickets you get free.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Yeah, but this is funny now because it's almost like
the maple syrup thing, like these guys have been haunted
for the last whatever twenty years, never.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Again, chugging maple never again?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Is that the one you regret the most? Putting the
maple syrup in the everybody now, everybody wants.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
To that one really almost killed us?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Syrup.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Yeah. I drank two and a half and I made
him drink three and a half because I'm like, you
don't have it yet, Well, let's do another couple of takes.
And uh, you know, afterwards I had to go shoot
a love scene which didn't even make the movie. But anyway,
he went, I mean we were we at lunch. We
laid down in the dark in my trailer and just
(08:28):
shook all for the entire thirty minutes, just shook. And
then and then when I got back to the hotel,
he I saw him coming out. He goes, have you
pooped yet? And I'm like no. He goes, report back
to me after you wait, and he goes, there's a reason.
It's part maple syrup is part of the of the
Master Cleanse. And you know, like things came out of me.
(08:49):
I don't remember putting in like like a fossilized robin fetus.
I was like, I don't remember that.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
One.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Jay is a director.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Do you ever ask for another take when you really
don't need another take, but you just want to mess
with the guys?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Yeah, if it's something, if it's something that's uncomfortable for them, sure, yeah,
I'll do it just for fun, just for fun.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Another main focal point of Quasi is the torture. What
part of filmmaking feels like torture to you, guys?
Speaker 5 (09:16):
That's an excellent question, that's a.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
Good question, But I don't know that any I mean,
it's it's such a rare thing that we get to
that point where you're actually shooting.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
You know, it's not really that bad.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
They say, You know, we had we had an assistant
director who used to say that, because you they end
up calling you to the set hours and hours and
hours before you actually work.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
It's the waiting.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It's the waiting. And this assistant director said, uh, you
get paid to wait. You act for free.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
People think that behind the scenes of a movie there's
a lot of fun things happening, but it's really just
hang out and trailer waiting.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
To the next scene.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Yeah, yeah, and and yes, sometimes that is painful. I
think what is nice though, what mitigates it is you're
with your buddies in that downtime, if even if it's
in holding and you're on the side. And then when
we get somebody who joins us, that becomes the time
that we get to know each other and make friends
and like and like all the time that we spent
hanging out.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Compare our downtime to other downtime that you haven't.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Well, and then that's the thing, like this, who gives
who gives the best downtime? I've actually sat and hung
out because I usually am walking around or trying to
keep my energy up. But the energy was just coming
from talking to you guys.
Speaker 10 (10:19):
You know.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
It's like that's that's the that's the key, Agre.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
What is it like to get the part, to get
the call like you're going to be in the movie.
Speaker 9 (10:26):
I was shocked.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
We were shocked, said yes, I mean shot.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
They called and they you know, had I had an
offer and you're like, you know the Broken Lizard. Guys,
was like yeah, huge fan, Like they want you to
do this movie. What it's a movie about quasi motive.
What okay? So I read it thirty pages in and
I'm like, this is such in the vein of money Python,
which I'm a huge money Python fan and and you know,
(10:52):
a fan of theirs, so it was like, hell yes,
But then I was also petrified they're the real.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
Deal, you know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (10:56):
And I'm just coming in and hoping that I can
be funny and keep up up. And everybody was so
warm and welcoming. From the moment I met everybody, it
was just boom boom boom boom boom boom.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Another part of the movie is the winning of a lottery. Now,
if you guys won the lottery, which is like half
a billion dollars right now, and you were able to
make any movie you wanted with that budget, what kind
of movie would you make?
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Oh boy, a really sad drama.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Isa, we have a movie set in ancient Greece with
the Plato and Socrates and Zeus, Poseidon and haighties, and
it's got some visual effects. It'll probably be.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Is that what takes up most of the budget, the visual.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Lie and that one and that one. We're gonna need
some some green screen.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
Do you need an Athena he always always need a goddess.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
I was saying to Medusa to I never.
Speaker 9 (11:40):
What are you trying to say?
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Okay, I never get jealous about somebody else winning the lottery,
But that last big two billion one, the guy was
a mile from my house. It could have been in
my town a gas station that I go to. And
I'm still mad about it, which is terrible, you know,
but like coming, it's coming, that's close, which still.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
How many takes you buy?
Speaker 9 (12:04):
Yeah, did you buy one?
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I did buy yeah, at that gas No, because there's
also a donut shot. My logic was a lot I'm
not gonna win the lottery, but at least I'll get
donuts if I don't buy my ticket at the donut shop.
And so instead of going to the gas station, I
went to the donuts.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
My uncle won the lottery twice. Twice he won a
million and a half. Once he kept playing the same
numbers for years, and then he played the same number
and won fifty thousand more. And his name was Money,
and they and he invested in our first film.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
Wait, he a million, the first million and a half
and then and then fifty thousand.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Okay, that's a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
That's pretty good, pat for the tickets bought himself the corvette.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I think Quasi is also the most visually studying movie
you guys have made, and ironically it's going straight to streaming.
So I wonder, as filmmakers, where do you stand on
that debate of if it comes out on streaming or
if it comes out in theaters.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
How do you want your art to be seen?
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I mean, obviously, I think we would love it always
to be in theaters.
Speaker 8 (13:03):
I mean seeing on the big screen like we did
last night is great, it's fantastic, but you know, the
realities of the world. You know, we made the deal
for this movie when the pandemic was going on. There
was no theatrical and so you know, we didn't even
know how the movie would get seen, you know, So
it was a good it was a blessing that we
were able to do this thing through Hulu. But ultimately
for us, you know, people discover our have discovered our
(13:23):
movies with watching with their friends and their living room
or their dorm room or whatever it is. You know,
we we they really kind of grooved prominence that way,
and so I think, however we can get it to them,
We're happy.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
We're happy about that.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Another part I really enjoyed was in the credits.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
You have all the bloopers, and what I noticed is
there are different lines, there are different jokes, and so
do you just shoot a bunch of different jokes and
then how do you pick the one that ends up
making it in the movie?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Yeah, we do. People.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
People come with alts, or they come with you know, options,
or we'll be sitting there and think of them on
the spot and do it and then in the edit
room you kind of decide, you know, which one lands.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Like the funny thing was.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
That thing you have where he's down, he falls over
the railing and you look down and you have that
Schwarzenegger type line. And we shot like six of them. Remember,
were shooting at the end of the night. He was
like two o'clock in the morning. Me, you and Lemmy
were standing off camera just ye say this, say that,
and the crews like rolling their eyes, They're like, come.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
On, we want to go home.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I was texting for that one. Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 8 (14:18):
They were there were We had the eddit room and
we tried all of them, and I liked a different one.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
It was had the word shucking it what was. It
was like a hucks to be You. Yeah, shucks to
be you. I like that one. Uh, but the studio
hated all of them. They hated all They're like, they're
terrible lines, and we're like, well they're supposed to be there.
That's it's a Schwarzenegger line. You know what I meant?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
You know, I mean I love the one.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
I love it too.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I guess you fell for me.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (14:44):
We had a scene when Michelle's Tawney gets shot in
the neck and we and then Gabe improvises a line
and then we react to it.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
But we just went off for maybe twenty thirty minutes.
Speaker 10 (14:55):
Yeah, it wasn't in the script or anything. Every character
just was reacting, making scenes character and you had to
be in that room.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
I brought a bunch of times, gave breaks, breaks all
the time.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Did you ever cut together a version that just sort
of made a whole scene out of us yelling at
the guard who shot Michelle.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
And the neck.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
The editor cut has that I would love you with
everyone's thing.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
And then there's a longer version of the one where
he stabs.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
The guy and the guy's not dead and he stabs
there's a longer version of that I cut.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
So super Troopers came out when I was ten years old,
and I feel like it was very influential on my
sense of humor rewatching it as an adult, I feel
like you guys don't get enough credit for the writing.
The writing is just so solid and every single one
of your movies. So I wanted to share with you
the top three quotes that I use in my everyday life.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Oh yes, and it is from all your movies. So
and number three I have he can't pull over any farther.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
You get.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Is it true that that opening scene was based on
a true story.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Yeah, it was a true story.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
It was I think it was Lemmy or They were
trying to go over the border into Canada and these
guys got pulled over and they had mushrooms and some
guy ate all the mushrooms and then they got thrown
in jail and the brushrooms kicked in.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
When the guy was in prison.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
He ate mushrooms for six people.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Yeah, terrible. I've had a.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Problems the trip for.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
He's still I think he's still His eyes went black
and he's still tripping. I had trouble in the Canadian
border too. One time, I was trying to get back
into the United States and somebody with my exact same name.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I think they were charged with murder.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
You know, they had to like identify that I was
not that guy, so they held me at the airport
for like an hour and I'm like, I'm not him,
and number two on my list, I have give me
a double bacon cheeseburger.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Welcome to Dippis.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Can I take your order?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Give me a double bacon cheeseburger.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Double baker cheeseburger.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
It's for a cop.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Are you gonna spend it now?
Speaker 6 (16:51):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I was just to him that say makes it good?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
How hard was it not to break during that scene?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
I was just happy to be in the scene and
get to watch it up close. Was it's It's one
of my favorite scenes we've ever done, because not only
is Kevin great in that scene, but the kid who
plays the burger dimpestburger guy is also one of my
favorite actors.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
He's great, and he's just Charlie Finn.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
The two of them, Charlie Finn and him are just
going at it and I'm like, I'm right here.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
It was so fun because I said to him, I'm
gonna I'm gonna tackle.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
He's like, okay, here ye are, and then I did
it and he's like, oh my god.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
And it was a you know, that's the take that
we used.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You know, my number one is from Beerfest And this
is one of my wife hates because I do it
every single time. She cannot say the word frustrating, saying
it's frustrating, it's frustrating.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Frankly, I find the whole thing a little frustrating because
I can't figure it out.
Speaker 8 (17:40):
It's frustrating, frustrating, it's frustrating, it's frustrating.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
He improvised liner is that in the script?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
It was improvised. It was improvised.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
It was just a matter of originally my line, yeah,
and I couldn't it was your bit. Yeah, I couldn't
quite get my mind around on how to make it funny,
and so I'm like, you do it, and so he
did it, and he started doing it. I'm like, yeah,
that's good, that's better. We'll do that, and so then
they riffed on it on that frustrating.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
Yeah, there's that's another one of those things where there's
probably a lot on the editing floor about me messing
on him.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Yeah, with trying to make it a snap.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
So between Kevin and j how do you decide who
is going to direct the movie? Because you directed Quasi
I did.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
I was doing a movie called Easter Sunday with Joe
Koy and when this movie got greenlit, so I just said,
why don't you direct it?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
You said, okay, simple as that, simple as that.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
We've known each other for a long time.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Jay I.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Speaking of directing, I loved your episodes of Unstable that
you directed. Oh thanks, I'm really into like a twenty
four minute comedy right now. Nice And I know you
guys are writing Super Troopers three. Did you ever think
that that would work as a TV show? Like a
twenty minute TV show?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Our process is too thorough to crank television out at
the rate it needs to be done, I think, I mean,
because we write thirtyfts of scripts and it's it's possible.
I mean, that would be a good show. I agree
with you. I just don't know if we'll ever I
don't know that we'll ever do it.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
No, No, I mean originally it was conceived that way.
There was a there was a moment time where we're
going to do it as a as a TV show
and then and then Fox past, so screw them and pilot.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
And then where are you guys on the Superture Verse
three D script right now?
Speaker 4 (19:20):
And drafts?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
What does that mean? What are the draft what does that?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
It's about a month.
Speaker 8 (19:26):
It's a full script, you know, and it's just it's
just in an early form, you know, we keep going
through it.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
We had jokes and we you know, fixed plot stuff and.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Mostly trying to get the structure working, and then we'll
just pour jokes on top of it.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
I'll say, as an actress like coming in and not
being a writer, like in the writing room, to get
to experience that, because every time there was a different version,
we did another table read and then watching you guys
just you know, pitch more ideas back and forth to
each other, and it's just it's a really cool process
to watch.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
It's.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Yeah, as much as I enjoy shooting stuff, like those sessions,
you get past, Like what Jay was saying, the initial
sessions are about structure and storytelling and character and plot,
and then those sort of second ten drafts are just
riffing and riffing and riffing, and that's when the miles
get put in, you know, that's that's when the random
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ass stuff gets put in, and those sessions are the
best in the world.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
So Quasi comes out on four to twenty. If you're
listening to this at any other point, it could already
be out. Go watch it right now.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Yeah, there's twenty.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
The new Broken Lizard release day March.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
We trademarked I think, so it's become our holiday.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
We write these movies occasionally with a little bit of weed,
so watching them on weed is really it unlocks their true,
true potential.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
That is the true meaning.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yeah, well, I appreciate the time, guys, thanks for hanging out.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
So since we just talked to the cast, I felt
it was only appropriate to do my review this week
on the movie Quasi that we've been talking about. I
almost thought about, for the first time ever, reviewing a
movie with the people who created it, but realize that
would probably be entirely awkward. I also want to share
with you my entire experience going to my first ever
movie premiere.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I am just a big fan.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
If you can't already tell of the Broken Lizard, guys,
so I already feel I am coming from a bit
of a bias place of I am just their target
audience when it comes to these movies. When I walked
into this theater, it was all a bunch of people
who looked like me. That combined with getting to sit
down and talk to them, It's an entirely different environment
when you go to a premiere and the actual people
who made the movie are watching it with you. So
(21:33):
I know that going into this review, I'm wearing the
freakin T shirt of all things, but I will still
give you my honest opinion on their new movie. Before
we get into that, here is just a little bit
of the Quasi trailer, which is a spoof on the
Hunchback of Notre Dame, a spoof on Quasi Moto broken
Lizard style. Here's just a little bit of Quasi.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
WHASEI why they wase gonna be late?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
You know what your problem is?
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Is it that I've got a fatty deposit the size
of a giant gord.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
On my back? Hunchback?
Speaker 8 (22:06):
Morning four twenty Get a Tale of Love.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
I very much like Phil Rats and I yours the trial.
I'm scandal.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
So it's from the guys who brought you super Troopers,
the guys who brought you beer Fest, and it is
an R rated spoof on the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
In this version of the story, you have Quasimoto aka Quasi,
who is trying to live a normal life, trying to
find his purpose in the world in midieval France, and
then he finds himself in this ordeal where both the
king of where he lives and the Pope who comes
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to visit in town. The first thing I had to
get used to watching this movie is all of the
Broken Lizard guys play two different roles throughout the movie.
It was a little bit jarring to see them go
from one roll to the other and try to focus
in on what the story was trying to be early
on in the movie. So once I got used to that,
it really allowed me to enjoy the movie. But what
really helped watching a comedy like this a very over
(23:05):
the top, a very raunchy, a very I don't want
to call it low brow, but it's very goofball. If
you know the Broken Wizard guys, that is what they
go for. And I feel like it's a very fine
line of you finding it funny and you finding it dumb.
I am the target audience. I find this stuff hilarious,
and I was worried about that because when you go
watch a comedy, the way you judge it on whether
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or not it's a good movie or not is doesn't.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Make you laugh.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
And what really helped with this movie and the ironic
thing we talked about earlier, is that it's going straight
to Hulu. I have an experience watching a comedy like
this in a very long time, and I wonder if
I would have watched this movie at home on Hulu,
like everybody else is going to have to do, would
I have the same experience. Because this was the first
(23:52):
ever movie premiere that I went to. I've been doing
this thing professionally now for probably seven years. I've gone
to screenings before, but it's a much different environment when
the people who created the movie are actually there. So
the entire Broken Lizard cast was there. Adrian Pilecki was there,
so they came out before the movie, did a little
intro talking about the film, watched the movie there in
the theater, and then came back and did a Q
(24:13):
and A afterwards, and I just felt like I was
in this group that was a very safe place, and
it was all these fans of all their movies that
it just felt so much more welcoming, and there was
laughter throughout the entire movie, and when you hear other
people laughing, it is infectious and I felt good laughing
at things. And it was just an experience I had
(24:36):
to where I completely turned off my movie critic brain
and just allowed myself to watch something fun for the
sake of it being fun. And that is something that
you don't really get when you watch a movie alone
at home. So I wonder how this is going to
translate to all of you who end up deciding whether
or not to watch this movie, how that experience differs
(24:58):
because this is their first movie not coming out in theaters,
and I really feel like a comedy needs to be
seen with people. And we talked about in the interview
how comedies are being made less and less, and I
think it's because during the pandemic, we had that time
where we stopped spending time with each other and we
got used to it, and we got used to watching
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different types of things, and comedies were not being made
that we forgot how to watch comedies. Comedies are the
best when you go and watch them with your friends.
It gave me, you know, feelings back to when I
would go watch a movie on Friday night, you would
want to go watch a comedy. You don't really do
that anymore. We are so focused now on, you know,
consuming things on our own and telling other people about them.
(25:41):
When it comes to comedies, when you experience something by yourself,
sometimes it doesn't hit the same way, especially with a
broken Lizard type comedy. Although a lot of their comedies,
what they said earlier, a lot of people discovered them
at different times. I never watched super Troopers in theaters.
I never watched beer Fest in theaters. But it came
through the power of word of mouth, people telling me
about that movie at school. It's a movie that people
(26:04):
passed around the VHS tip so you could experience it
by yourself. But then from there you go back and
you quote all these movies with your friends. A comedy
is meant to be experienced among friends, and that is
exactly how I felt watching this movie. It was watching
it with other like minded people and then also having
the people there who created it and seeing them be genuinely.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Excited to share this with people.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I found that was an important factor for me too,
because for somebody who watches and talks about movies all
the time. It's all I think about is movies. I
don't always put a human element to it. I think
if I come on and talk about a movie I
didn't like, it's not going to affect them. But they
have so much passion for their movies to the point
to where they're out here doing this tour promoting this
because they believe in it so much. It really gave
(26:48):
a human factor for me too. Route for it still
had to be a good movie. I wasn't going to
enjoy it if it was terrible, but it definitely felt
like a personal touch that I haven't really experienced with
any other movie. I know. They try to put these
teasers now at the beginning of movies, where it's the
actors coming on before it starts, saying thank you for
watching it in the theater the way it was intended
to be seen. But it's a whole different level when
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they're actually there with you. It actually feels like they
care about their art. But when it comes to period pieces,
I will have to say that is a genre that
is right there at the bottom. It goes Christmas movies
and period pieces of movies. I just can't get into
the only period piece movie that I just straight up
love and would consider one of my favorite dramas. Is
(27:31):
the favorite a movie I was not expecting to love.
I don't like classical music. I don't like movies where
people are dress funny and talking in weird accents. It's
just hard for me to get into a movie like that.
I was also just coming off with Dungeons and Dragons,
so I'd already been in a similar pool of a
type of movie like this, But that really kind of
gets thrown out the window when it comes to this
movie because it's so off the wall, because it's so zany,
(27:53):
because it's so crude. It didn't feel like any of
those type of movies. Other movies have done this before.
They took off a lot of inspiration from Monty Python,
which is why I believe this movie was so self aware.
They make jokes about the same actors playing different characters
throughout this movie. And while it is a spoof on
the story of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, it's really
a story about two friends, and that is what is
(28:16):
at the center of every single Broken Lizard movie. It's
a story about friendship, about people you just want to
hang out with. It was a little bit tougher to
do that with medieval characters, but they got there at
the end. I will say the only part of the
film that lost me a little bit was the third act.
It got a little bit clunky there towards the end.
Unlike all of their other movies, where the third act
(28:37):
is where they really win you over, where something very
ridiculous happens, this movie kind of walked off in a
stumble for me. First act, second act kept the plot moving,
kept the laughs coming, but it was almost like they
didn't know how to end this movie. That being said,
I still enjoyed every other aspect of this movie, and
it was maybe because I wasn't expecting to as much
(28:58):
as I did that I would say this is a
top three broken Lizard movie for me. It's hard to
knock Supertroopers out of that number one slot. Beer Fest
on any other given day could probably be number one
for me, but for the sake of this right now,
I'll put it at number two. Although that is the
movie of theirs that I have rewatched the most. It
is kind of my comfort movie when it comes to
broken lizard movies. Supertroopers is obviously more iconic and the
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one that put them on the map. So that being said,
I would put this at their number three movie, although
I don't think if they put this movie out first
that their career would have been on the same trajectory. Now,
Quasi is their oldest script and this is the movie
they pitched before they did Supertroopers, So I will say
things worked out better for them that they didn't make
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this movie first, because I think if they put out
Quasi first, I don't think they would have got the Supertroopers,
they definitely would not have got to beer Fest. So
sometimes things just work out the way they are intended to,
and this is an example of that. I think it
was also important that they made this movie now because
it does look the best out of any other movie
that they've done, and that adds a great deal to it.
(30:04):
Because a lot of it is set design, a lot
of it is costumes, you obviously have to make it
look somewhat like they are in medieval France, and it
did a pretty good job at that, given it is
a comedy, so it doesn't have to look entirely correct.
They're not full on making game of Thrones here, so
I think this was the perfect time for them to
make this movie. Now that being said, I think if
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you are a fan of Broken Lizard and all their
other movies, you're going to love this one. It's a
lot of what they have done in the past, and
a little bit more refined when it comes to the production.
I don't think it's as memorable as all of their
other movies. It doesn't have it's not the same setting
to create those memorable quotes that they are known for,
but it definitely shows a different side of them that
(30:45):
they can really go outside of their genre and still
be funny. I don't think it's gonna win you over
if you haven't enjoyed any other Broken Lizard film, if
you're not a fan of super Troopers, if you're not
a fan of beer Fest, this one is not going
to be your next favorite movie. Comedy out of venue
genre is very subjective, so I'm not saying you're going
to be rolling around on the floor with side splitting laughter.
(31:08):
But if you watch this with some friends with just
the intention of having a good time, I think.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
You will enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
So for Quasi, I give it three point five out
of five Hunchbacks.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
It's time to head down to Movie Mike Trailer Paul.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
If you are new to the podcast, this is a
portion where I break down a trailer of a movie
coming to you very soon in theaters or streaming. And
this week I want to talk about Barbie. I've had
a couple weeks now to sit and think about this
trailer and what exactly this movie is going to be about,
and two weeks later, I still don't really have any idea.
What they say, just based on the plot, is that
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Barbie is going through an existential crisis. She wants to
leave Barbie World and goes into the real world. But really,
what this trailer does is just give us the aesthetic
of Barbie World, what that looks like, what goes on there,
how they speak in that world, and doesn't really offer
us a whole lot on the plot. But I am
okay with that. That is what a trailer's supposed to do.
(32:09):
It's just supposed to tease us and make us want
to watch this movie. Mission accomplished with this Barbie trailer
because even though I don't know exactly how that is
going to translate to a full length feature film, I'm
already into the aesthetic. I'm into this entire cast. I'm
into the look of Barbie. So they are doing a
really great job on that front. So before I get
into my full thoughts about Barbie. That just sounds kind
(32:30):
of weird to say they're making a movie about Barbie.
But there are so many times we say that I
can't believe they're making a movie about that, and then
we get proved wrong. We just had that with Air.
So here's just a little bit of the Barbie trailer.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
I thought I might stay over tonight.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Why because we're gross, boyfriend?
Speaker 9 (32:47):
See do what?
Speaker 4 (32:49):
I'm actually not sure what are you doing here? I'm
coming with you.
Speaker 9 (32:55):
Did you bring your role with Blates?
Speaker 5 (32:57):
I literally go nowhere without them?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Oh, looks like this was a little too much Beach
for you.
Speaker 10 (33:01):
Ken.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
If I wasn't severely injured, I would beat you off
right now.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Ken.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
I'll beach off with you any day.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Ken.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Anyone wants to beat him off has to beat me
off first.
Speaker 9 (33:09):
I will beat both of you off at the same time, beach.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Both of us.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
All.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Nobody's gonna beat anyone off. So you have.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Margot Robbie as Barbie. You have Ryan Gosling as Ken
You have Dua Lipa as a Mermaid. The list of
a list actors in this movie goes on and on.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
The movie is.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Directed by Greta Gerwig, who has become one of the
directors that I will watch any movie they put out.
There's a very short list of directors like that for me.
Up there on that list is Greta Gerwig, who has
done movies like Ladybird, Little Women. She is a writer,
a former actress, and this will be her third major
film and I am just so drawn to her work.
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When I first heard she was attached to this project,
I knew it was gonna be good. Also on that list,
I would have probably put Olivia Wilde, who won me
over with Book Smart, who I felt was really ambitious
in making Don't Worry Darling. Even though that movie didn't
an entirely hit for me, I do believe it was
one of the most noteworthy movies of twenty twenty two,
making her a very noteworthy director. And also on that
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list is Jordan Peel, who was probably just my favorite
director right now. But the movie is also written by
Noah Bomback, who is a great director and writer in
his own right. He wrote and directed Marriage Story on Netflix.
Also co wrote The Life Aquatic with Wes Anderson. Noah
Bomback also wrote and directed The Myrowitz Story, so he
definitely has a writing style that I am also drawn to.
(34:30):
And the movie was also co written by Greta Gerwig,
so all the credentials are there for me to take
away from my cynical brain thinking this is just a
cash grab movie of Warner Brothers and Mattel trying to
cash in on one of their most iconic brands that
they have ever created. Just by the look of this trailer,
it feels like a work of art to me, between
the costume and set design, probably already oscar worthy in
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its own right, and then that leads me to all
of the performances I'm seeing so far from just the trailer,
and it kind of looks like a comedy version of
La La Land. Maybe that's because I see Ryan Gosling,
I see dancing, and I see and even though they
aren't fully singing in this trailer, it has that kind
of musical vibe of everybody dancing, and it's just cool
to see how they created Barbie's Town, all of the accessories,
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all the clothes.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
It looks like a child's playset come to life.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
The interesting aspect of it that I might have to
get used to while watching this movie, and I hope
it doesn't become tedious to watch.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Is the level of acting.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
But you have to think they are playing dolls, and
the way they are speaking feels a little bit cheesy.
It feels a little bit unnatural. But when you think about, yes,
they are playing plastic things, and how those things would
interact if they came to life, it starts to make
a little bit more sense. But I wonder in context,
is that gonna feel a little bit weird to sit
and watch a two hour movie like that. It kind
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of reminded me of Toy Story three and the plotline
between Ken and Barbie in that movie.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
It's like they plucked that out of.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Toy Story three and met an entire movie based on
those sims their personalities. But this is one of the
best looking trailers I've seen in a long time, not
just the set design and costumes, but everybody in this
trailer is so attractive. It's like they went out and
got the best looking actors to play everybody in this movie.
So I definitely feel like that is by design. And
then you also get a glimpse of Will Ferrell in
(36:18):
this movie, who seems to play an actual human living
in the real world. There towards the end of the
trailer that we heard there, it is Ken tagging along
with Barbie as she is leaving in her pink car going.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
To the real world.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
So it appears that after her existential crisis, she will
go in what resembles a city like Los Angeles, and
Will Ferrell is there, possibly as the creator of Barbie
or somebody working out Mattel. That plotline feels a little
bit familiar to me. It could kind of have that
Truman Show vibe of where Barbie realizes that she has
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actually been a doll this entire time, goes out into
the real world and sees herself completely differently and has
to come to grips with the fact that she is
this imaginary thing. So for that reason, I think this
could be a low key sci fi movie, or maybe
Warner Brothers is setting us up to merge this with
the Lego movie and at the end of this we're
(37:12):
just going to get one big Avengers Mattel type movie
where it's Barbie where it's Hot Wheels where it's legos
all coming together and forming one super movie. So we
will have to wait and see, but I'm excited about
this one. The Barbie movie sets to come out in
theaters on July twenty first.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
At that for this week's edition of Movie Line Framer
bar and that is going to do it for another
episode here of the podcast.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Since we had an interview on this episode, what I
like to do is create a secret emoji. So if
you listen to that interview you enjoyed it, go and
comment on my socials with the lizard emoji. I feel
like that it's very appropriate for this episode. Drop a
lizard in the comments. Let me know you listen, let
me know what you liked about that interview, and then
I'll pick one of those comments to shout out on
(38:01):
next week's episode. But for this week, I want to
go over to my YouTube page, which is YouTube dot
com slash Mike Distro, where you can watch all my
individual movie reviews. Over in that comment section. I got
a comment from the James Rambling Show who said, I
only discovered your channel recently, but you make good points
and try to find ways to not be so negative
and be fair in the process. Shizam two didn't deserve
(38:24):
the hate. Yes it is fun, but it's not a
perfect movie smiling emoji. So listener shout out of the
week is James Rambling Show, who is now a subscriber
over on the YouTube page.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
So thank you, James.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Thank you to everybody who has subscribed on YouTube or
subscribe wherever. You listen to podcasts and listen every single
week really means a lot to me, especially when you
tag me in your Instagram story listening to every episode.
And until next time, go out and watch good movies
and I will talk to you later.
Host
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