May 10, 2024 • 7 mins
ABC's Jason Nathanson reviews the latest movie in the franchise plus some other new releases and explains why this Summer may not be a blockbuster season
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(00:00):
All right on the Legacy Retirement Groupdot com phone line. ABC Entertainment Reporter.
(00:04):
It is Jason Nathanson. Good morning, Jason, good to talk to
you. Hey, good morning,talk about monkey business in the theaters.
The Kingdom of the Planet apes openingup this weekend. Yeah, that's the
latest one. This is the tenthfilm in this franchise that dates back to
nineteen sixty eight, and this isa reboot of the recent ones that we've
(00:24):
seen. The last one was twentyseventeen. This takes place three hundred years
after the events of that last one. So if you don't know the characters,
that's fine. It's all new characters. You don't have to know anything
about the other ones. I meanit helps, and there's certainly stuff that
connects to the other movies, butyou can go into this pretty fresh,
or having forgotten what happened in thoseother ones, which I kind of did.
(00:45):
I didn't really remember all the plotpoints from those other movies. So
this is based on It follows mostlya chimp named Noah played by Owen Tigue.
He's on a quest to save hisclan his family at they are captured,
and this is all motion captures,so It's not cgi characters who were
just voiced by these actors, right, They are actually there. They were
(01:08):
on set moving around like these apesand venobo's and gorillas, and their motions
were captured and you see that onthe screen. So the special effects here
are absolutely fantastic, especially compared toGodzilla Kong from a month or so ago,
which I thought that special effects werejust cheesy and didn't work for me
and took me out of that world. These special effects are very immersive and
(01:30):
very good, especially when they getto the point where they're alongside humans and
you can't really tell the difference.I'm not gonna say that it looked like
actual apes, but it didn't takeme out of it at all. And
I really like this movie. Ireally like the special effects. My biggest
problem with the movie though, isthe main character, Noah played by O
Antigue. He's a real buzzkill.He suffers from this thing I kind of
(01:56):
called sour lead character affliction, wherethe main character is just somebody who is
put upon and down. There's nocharm or spark there. So for me,
there was no connection to the character, no reason to root for him,
so I wasn't invested in the storythat they were trying to tell,
which is also too long two hoursand twenty five minutes for me, six
point two out of ten. It'seighty two percent on Rotten Tomatoes. So
(02:20):
there are other people out there wholiked it more than I did. But
I think the special effects are almostworth the price of admission alone. Well,
I'm glad to hear that, becauseyou do have to suspend a little
reality when you hear about talking apesand see them acting like humans. So
for a lot of folks that that'sa tough you know, ten, twelve,
fifteen bucks in the door there.But Jason Nathanson, ABC News Entertainment
(02:42):
reporter, let's talk about Doctor Whomaking its debut on Disney Plus with a
brand new season and a new doctor. Yeah, this is the fifteenth Doctor.
You know, the premise of theshows that the Doctor regenerates every couple
seasons or so and we get anew person playing the doctor, and this
one this time around, it's ShootyGottwa, who is from He was in
(03:02):
a show Sex Education on Netflix,which is a fantastic, very very funny
show. He was one of theleads in that, and he takes over
here and Unlike Kingdom and the Planetof the Apes, which I felt suffered
from the lead character that just hadno personality. Doctor Who has too much
personality. Shooty got and not necessarilyin a bad way. He is just
(03:23):
so fun to watch and so overthe top and so filled to the brim
with personality. And his assistant thistime around is played by Millie Gibson,
and the two of them they goon adventures. They through space and time
through the Tartists, which is theirtime traveling machine. And every week is
a new episode, a new andit's a sci fi series, so there's
a new monster. Some people haven'tseen this. And this was my first
(03:46):
sake on this. I'd never reallygotten into Doctor Who before. This show
is absurd. It's silly in agood way. They're really leaning into the
absurdity this time around. And thisit's on Disney Plus, and so this
is the first time it's ever gonnaair across the world at the same time.
Usually it airs on the BBC.Then it takes a couple of months
to come over here because they gotto put it on a boat or something.
(04:08):
I don't know why it takes solong for the show to travel across
the Atlantic, but everybody's gonna getto watch it at the same time.
And again, Shooty Gottwa elevated whatcould have been a cheesy sci fi show
into something that I'm giving a sevenpoint six out of ten too. Oh
so you're saying, maybe stay inwatch Doctor Who on Disney Plus instead of
going to see a Planet of theApes this weekend. I enjoyed it and
(04:30):
it's it's definitely it's a family show. It's something that the whole family,
kids can get behind and everybody.So I really enjoyed it for that,
would you know, the theater versusstreaming, those are just two different things.
But I did have fun watching it. And there are a lot of
babies in the first two episodes forwhatever reason, babies are in peril in
(04:54):
this but like in a fun,cheesy way. So I did not yet
see Tom Brady's Row on Netflix.I've got to watch that. So it
sounds like Nicky Glazier, she's thecomedian, was one of the roasters.
She was one of the ones thatreally stood out in that, wasn't she
She really did, and she hasin several different roasts, and she's one
of those you know Amy Schumer cameout of the roasts, you know,
(05:16):
years and years ago, and shewas the one who she did one of
these roasts, and that's how peoplereally got to know her at first.
Nicki Glaizer has been doing it fora long time, so she's not,
by any search of the imagination,a new comic or new on the scene
or anything like that. But shewas so good and she was the one
that really I think popped and I'veseen all over social media. I've watched
her set like six or seven times. The whole roast is fantastic, and
(05:40):
they really go in on Tom Bradyand he seems to be fine with most
of the jokes. There was onejoke about Robert Craft that he didn't like
it right, But it's so ifyou haven't watched that, go watch that.
It's great. Nicki Glazer was thestandout. And she has a stand
up special that airs tomorrow on HBO. It's called Someday You'll Die And if
(06:01):
you can tell from the title there, it's dark. It's really dark.
It's also really really funny. Shecontinues to be more and more comfortable and
confident on stage, not that shealways had a very set persona, and
she's just grown in that persona overthe years, and she really does a
great job exploring some really dark stuffin a very very funny way. Eight
(06:27):
point seven for me out of ten. I really really enjoyed the special,
enjoyed her on the roasts, andyou know, can't wait to see more
of her comedy. Take her comedy. Jason, I Gotta let you fly
real quick, though, had astory earlier this week about people being critical
of this this summer's movies and thesummer movie season being a little off.
What are your thoughts about overall thissummer with you know, you talk about
(06:48):
one of the Marvel movies doesn't reallyhappen for another couple of months. Then
this is the first time in awhile that a Marvel movie hasn't kicked off
the summer season. Yeah, andthat's just due to a couple of different
things where you know, lingering COVIDdelays, but also the strike from last
year really moved a lot of thingsoff and that really screwed things up,
and we're seeing a lot of thatresidual effect this summer now, and we've
(07:10):
seen it throughout the year. Inthe box office, we had a really
slow early first quarter of the boxoffice. That's probably gonna continue, but
there are some bright spots, asyou mentioned that Marvel movie, which is
Deadpool and Wolverine, which will beout in June. I learn of July,
Yeah, in July. Inside Outfrom Pixar is gonna be out in
(07:30):
June, and that should probably beInside Out too. That should probably be
a big hit. From what I'veheard, it's fantastic. I haven't seen
it yet, and there's a coupleother things coming out in the next couple
of weeks, but it's not thebig summer movie there's gonna There's no Barbenheimer
this year, right,
All right on the Legacy Retirement Groupdot com phone line. ABC Entertainment Reporter.
(00:04):
It is Jason Nathanson. Good morning, Jason, good to talk to
you. Hey, good morning,talk about monkey business in the theaters.
The Kingdom of the Planet apes openingup this weekend. Yeah, that's the
latest one. This is the tenthfilm in this franchise that dates back to
nineteen sixty eight, and this isa reboot of the recent ones that we've
(00:24):
seen. The last one was twentyseventeen. This takes place three hundred years
after the events of that last one. So if you don't know the characters,
that's fine. It's all new characters. You don't have to know anything
about the other ones. I meanit helps, and there's certainly stuff that
connects to the other movies, butyou can go into this pretty fresh,
or having forgotten what happened in thoseother ones, which I kind of did.
(00:45):
I didn't really remember all the plotpoints from those other movies. So
this is based on It follows mostlya chimp named Noah played by Owen Tigue.
He's on a quest to save hisclan his family at they are captured,
and this is all motion captures,so It's not cgi characters who were
just voiced by these actors, right, They are actually there. They were
(01:08):
on set moving around like these apesand venobo's and gorillas, and their motions
were captured and you see that onthe screen. So the special effects here
are absolutely fantastic, especially compared toGodzilla Kong from a month or so ago,
which I thought that special effects werejust cheesy and didn't work for me
and took me out of that world. These special effects are very immersive and
(01:30):
very good, especially when they getto the point where they're alongside humans and
you can't really tell the difference.I'm not gonna say that it looked like
actual apes, but it didn't takeme out of it at all. And
I really like this movie. Ireally like the special effects. My biggest
problem with the movie though, isthe main character, Noah played by O
Antigue. He's a real buzzkill.He suffers from this thing I kind of
(01:56):
called sour lead character affliction, wherethe main character is just somebody who is
put upon and down. There's nocharm or spark there. So for me,
there was no connection to the character, no reason to root for him,
so I wasn't invested in the storythat they were trying to tell,
which is also too long two hoursand twenty five minutes for me, six
point two out of ten. It'seighty two percent on Rotten Tomatoes. So
(02:20):
there are other people out there wholiked it more than I did. But
I think the special effects are almostworth the price of admission alone. Well,
I'm glad to hear that, becauseyou do have to suspend a little
reality when you hear about talking apesand see them acting like humans. So
for a lot of folks that that'sa tough you know, ten, twelve,
fifteen bucks in the door there.But Jason Nathanson, ABC News Entertainment
(02:42):
reporter, let's talk about Doctor Whomaking its debut on Disney Plus with a
brand new season and a new doctor. Yeah, this is the fifteenth Doctor.
You know, the premise of theshows that the Doctor regenerates every couple
seasons or so and we get anew person playing the doctor, and this
one this time around, it's ShootyGottwa, who is from He was in
(03:02):
a show Sex Education on Netflix,which is a fantastic, very very funny
show. He was one of theleads in that, and he takes over
here and Unlike Kingdom and the Planetof the Apes, which I felt suffered
from the lead character that just hadno personality. Doctor Who has too much
personality. Shooty got and not necessarilyin a bad way. He is just
(03:23):
so fun to watch and so overthe top and so filled to the brim
with personality. And his assistant thistime around is played by Millie Gibson,
and the two of them they goon adventures. They through space and time
through the Tartists, which is theirtime traveling machine. And every week is
a new episode, a new andit's a sci fi series, so there's
a new monster. Some people haven'tseen this. And this was my first
(03:46):
sake on this. I'd never reallygotten into Doctor Who before. This show
is absurd. It's silly in agood way. They're really leaning into the
absurdity this time around. And thisit's on Disney Plus, and so this
is the first time it's ever gonnaair across the world at the same time.
Usually it airs on the BBC.Then it takes a couple of months
to come over here because they gotto put it on a boat or something.
(04:08):
I don't know why it takes solong for the show to travel across
the Atlantic, but everybody's gonna getto watch it at the same time.
And again, Shooty Gottwa elevated whatcould have been a cheesy sci fi show
into something that I'm giving a sevenpoint six out of ten too. Oh
so you're saying, maybe stay inwatch Doctor Who on Disney Plus instead of
going to see a Planet of theApes this weekend. I enjoyed it and
(04:30):
it's it's definitely it's a family show. It's something that the whole family,
kids can get behind and everybody.So I really enjoyed it for that,
would you know, the theater versusstreaming, those are just two different things.
But I did have fun watching it. And there are a lot of
babies in the first two episodes forwhatever reason, babies are in peril in
(04:54):
this but like in a fun,cheesy way. So I did not yet
see Tom Brady's Row on Netflix.I've got to watch that. So it
sounds like Nicky Glazier, she's thecomedian, was one of the roasters.
She was one of the ones thatreally stood out in that, wasn't she
She really did, and she hasin several different roasts, and she's one
of those you know Amy Schumer cameout of the roasts, you know,
(05:16):
years and years ago, and shewas the one who she did one of
these roasts, and that's how peoplereally got to know her at first.
Nicki Glaizer has been doing it fora long time, so she's not,
by any search of the imagination,a new comic or new on the scene
or anything like that. But shewas so good and she was the one
that really I think popped and I'veseen all over social media. I've watched
her set like six or seven times. The whole roast is fantastic, and
(05:40):
they really go in on Tom Bradyand he seems to be fine with most
of the jokes. There was onejoke about Robert Craft that he didn't like
it right, But it's so ifyou haven't watched that, go watch that.
It's great. Nicki Glazer was thestandout. And she has a stand
up special that airs tomorrow on HBO. It's called Someday You'll Die And if
(06:01):
you can tell from the title there, it's dark. It's really dark.
It's also really really funny. Shecontinues to be more and more comfortable and
confident on stage, not that shealways had a very set persona, and
she's just grown in that persona overthe years, and she really does a
great job exploring some really dark stuffin a very very funny way. Eight
(06:27):
point seven for me out of ten. I really really enjoyed the special,
enjoyed her on the roasts, andyou know, can't wait to see more
of her comedy. Take her comedy. Jason, I Gotta let you fly
real quick, though, had astory earlier this week about people being critical
of this this summer's movies and thesummer movie season being a little off.
What are your thoughts about overall thissummer with you know, you talk about
(06:48):
one of the Marvel movies doesn't reallyhappen for another couple of months. Then
this is the first time in awhile that a Marvel movie hasn't kicked off
the summer season. Yeah, andthat's just due to a couple of different
things where you know, lingering COVIDdelays, but also the strike from last
year really moved a lot of thingsoff and that really screwed things up,
and we're seeing a lot of thatresidual effect this summer now, and we've
(07:10):
seen it throughout the year. Inthe box office, we had a really
slow early first quarter of the boxoffice. That's probably gonna continue, but
there are some bright spots, asyou mentioned that Marvel movie, which is
Deadpool and Wolverine, which will beout in June. I learn of July,
Yeah, in July. Inside Outfrom Pixar is gonna be out in
(07:30):
June, and that should probably beInside Out too. That should probably be
a big hit. From what I'veheard, it's fantastic. I haven't seen
it yet, and there's a coupleother things coming out in the next couple
of weeks, but it's not thebig summer movie there's gonna There's no Barbenheimer
this year, right,
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