July 28, 2023 • 34 mins
This week join your hosts Randy and Jens as they delve into the world of Rovio’s Angry Birds, weighing the first film adaptation’s successes and pitfalls, analyzing how it attempts to capture the game’s premise while crafting a narrative suitable for the big screen. They share their thoughts on the film’s voice cast, animation quality, attempts at humor, and political themes.
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Hello, and welcome to chapters Selectat the Movies to show where I Yends
and my good friend Randy watch moviesbased on video games and then talk about
what the hell the people who madethem were thinking. Randy, how are
you feeling today? Confused at whatwe just watched? M I also have
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a lot of questions, but Ithink the best way to deal with those
questions is to start going through theplot in a chronological way, as we
have failed to do the last timeyou did this podcast. I like that
episode better. Can we just quicklytalk about all of the horrible adult jokes
that get jammed in this movie?By the way, what is the movie
we are doing this week? Themovie that we are covering today is The
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Angry Birds Movie, which is ananimated comedy stars studded full of Saturday Night
alumni and great actors and comedians.It's really quite amazing, is almost DreamWorks
like in the way that it hasassembled its cast and nearly profited three hundred
million dollars in the box office.Oh, of course it raked in the
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dough yep, yep, very successfulfilm. So usually I mean, we're
going I'll let you go through theplot bit by bit and I'm not going
to derail this one like I didlast week. While I may and most
likely will score this movie lower thanthe Second Team writer did, we did
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again as we have discussed before,the score subject to change based on conversation.
Um, I just want to throwout there that we have to remember
what this movie got based on,which was a mobile video game that had
no plot, and it was justan excuse to fling an object into other
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objects to break them apart. Theyjust happened to be birds and pigs,
and that is where this movie comesfrom. That immediately question. So the
writers went, well, what kindof plot can we throw at this?
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And they went in a very interestingway. That's what I mean. Is
this a counterculture or a is thisan anti woke movie? I don't think
it's an anti woke just it's justbird and it seems like it's get together
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that it seems like it's an accidentalone. I mean, the message.
If I've learned one thing from thismovie, uh, it's that an overly
permissive society leaves itself vulnerable to youknow, foreign invaders. Well, that's
only when your leader disappears and gainsthree hundred pounds. Sure, I don't
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know, I'm trying. Go ahead, And well he also the leader.
So the leader is of course aneagle, and immediately I knew that the
eagle was going to be uh,you know, Captain Quirk or Zach Brannigan
type character. And indeed, yes, the wonderful Peter Dinkli. Peter Dinklis
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does a nice job with the character. Everybody does a really good job.
Jason Sudeikis plays the lead as Red. Red is a red bird. Either
way, I could recognize a lotof the voices. Yeah, Jason Senegans
did a great job of me goingI forgot that was Jason several times throughout.
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And I'm somebody that I've watched allof Ted Lasso over the last couple
of weeks, so I'm very usedto Jason Senega's voice. But yeah,
go ahead. I didn't even mindJosh Gadden. I usually don't tolerate Josh
Gadden very much, but then McBride'sin it. You know, Bill Hayter,
you got all these great people,you know, Sean Penn somehow,
I don't know what Sean Penn isdoing here. Kate McKennon. Anyway,
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You've got this amazing cast. HannibalParress, Sean Penn's doing nothing. I
didn't even know that what Sean Penn. I looked at Sean Penn say one
word in this movie. But Keagandid a lot. Keagan, Michael Keys
as the judge did a lot,and that was a really goodob for me.
Did a pay day, So hegrunted it. Yeah, it must
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have just been maybe he just recordedthat one line as a favor or something,
but he ended up being credited.It should have just been uncredited cameo.
But it's so you've got this amazingcast, and yeah, Jason is
Jason has read and read as abird for anger management issues, and he's
working as a literal clown. Sohe's in a degrading job that he hates
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where people mistreat him because he's notthere on time and doesn't deliver a cake
properly. But the cake apparently itwas a pain in the ass to obtain
because it was you know, he'she's frustrated with the fact that they're vegans
or whatever and they or they don'tlike gluten and he needs to cater to
their particular needs. That is toomuch for him. In the service industry.
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So he's in the job that hehates, and he hates having to
cater to these people, and sohe has this outburst in which he almost
kills a child, but instead ofkilling the child, he merely imprints it,
and now the child thinks that he'sits father for the rest of the
movie. By the way, myfirst was not my first note, but
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my main note. I'm just kindof sprinkle these in while we go through
the plot and not direct everything.One of my main notes was, how
did the directors of this movie getmy personal personality down to it? T
for Red? Oh, Red.Yes, he's definitely supposed. He's supposed
to be that lovable asshole that likehe legitimately is as that he endangerous people.
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Um, he's irrational and and youknow not the the movie really sell
The movie celebrates a rugged individualism ofthe libertarian asshole who just wants to you
know, stake to himself and notbe I hate job. Yeah, I
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was like, this is me.He doesn't he doesn't want to live in
the society. Yeah. Absolutely,he's extremely anti social. But of course
he is right. He is Heand the other people with whom he is
an anger management and also, um, you know Kate McKinnon Estella, who
is the leader of the anger,who's you know, trying to get them
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to embrace their calm, hippie dippieside, to get their anger under control,
which they you know, they havein the society where that anger seems
to just that's the worst thing thatcan happen, The most destructive thing is
that because everybody it's it's a happyone wheel. Greece is the other kind
of society. And if you ifyou you know, have these kinds of
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outbursts where you literally explode, likethe character of Bomb played by Denny McBride,
where you know, when he getsupset, he turns into a literal
bomb, which you know makes Idon't know, I think this stuff ties
actually pretty well. They do agood job with with Bomb, and with
Chuck and with Red. They doa good job of taking the archetypes from
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the game and turning them into cartooncharacters that work. They have their own
personalities and they have their own issues. Bomb I think it was my favorite
character in the entire movie, andpart of it is because you know,
he is I mean, he getsangry and explodes, but he also has
um issues, performing which there arecertain there are men out there that had
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that deal with that every day,and I feel for those people. But
I just that and just he hasthis kind of um childlike mentality on things
that just I don't know. Ireally like he endured me to his character
and I really like them. Ialso enjoyed I enjoyed his relationship with Stella
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as well, because they have thisnice relationship where he's got this crush on
her and she realizes that there's moredepth to him than you suspect at first,
that he actually has kind of anartist's heart. And also at the
end of the Great Singing Voice.So there are little moments that I think
there's a lot of characterization stuff thatreally works. I think Kegan is very
funny. It's Judge Peck and Pong. You know, he's just this this
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big, pompous, aristocratic or bureaucratic, you know, dummy who is just
so enthralled by what these pigs areup to. The the pigs. So
this is like your classic UM almostlike the Settlement of America type invasion tactic.
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We're we're pretending to be explorers andthey're bringing useless trinkets and and you
know, decadent gifts that are cooland our and our you know, wow,
everybody's wowed by these things, eventhough they're just simple, you know,
simple gimmicks. That is the pigsthat give the birds the sling shot.
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Yes, that is something that's afunny thing that that is their own
downfall. So of course, whowould expect, you know, catapulting yourself
as a projectile into the enemy,for it is an unconventional thing that I
wouldn't really expect or expect to survive. But of course we're in a cartoon
world, so no problem. I'msounding super positive about this this movie.
But all the highlights. I alsodo like that it's very simple um way
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that they went, well why dowe why do birds sling shots? So
it's like, well, in thisuniverse, birds don't fly, and they
nail that home four thousand times yep, except for the eagle. He's the
only one because he's the Mighty Eagle. Yep. But as I said,
our protagonist his anger management issues,and we find out in flashbacks it's because
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he was mocked by atheists for hisfaith in the Great Eagle, and so
he grows up with this chip onhis shoulder, and now he's exploding about
the fact that these guys want torefund for their birthday cake and almost kills
their child. And then you know, that leads to you know, a
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big scandal and justice, so that'scoming to a head. You know,
he has to go to anger managementclass, where he meets all the other
you know, cool characters with angermanagement issues, who are the only people
who can see through what these pigsare up to, you know, but
justice, they're making progress in theiranger management. A ship from you know,
from this nation of Pigs arrives crushesRed's house in the process, which
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nobody else seems to mind or careabout the fact that Red's house was destroyed,
which brings me to the thing ofthis movie that kind of drives me
crazy. You know, of course, our you know, main group of
lovable outcasts are the only people withany reason whatsoever. But just it's so
infuriating how there is just nobody everyyou know, this this society of birds
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is supposed to be like actually lovingand caring, but nobody gives a shit
or even notices that Red's life isbeing destroyed right there. You know,
there's no empathy there whatsoever. Weknow what movie just reminded me of a
lot uh huh Chicken Little have youever seen? Yes, I actually saw
that in the movie theater because aman reminded me so much of it,
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of the group of Chicken Little orno, all these things and nobody's believing
them, and they're they're just yeah, mindless people. So these birds,
you know, they're flim flam men. They're pretending to be explorers. They
bring a bunch of useless trinkets,you know, inventions. It's all,
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you know, kind of useless,gimmicky stuff that that isn't really useful for
bird society, except of course forthe slingshot, which you know, becomes
the catapult in the warfare back againstthe pigs in the end. But we're
not anywhere there yet, you know, at the moment, we're at the
you know, the mono rail monorail, yes exactly, you know part part
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of the movie where everybody's just enthralledwith these pigs and what great showmen they
are and how much cares might theyare have and how they are slightly more
technologically advanced, and how they promisethem the world basically and nobody knows and
nobody suspects except for Red, whoof course immediately sees that there's something fishy
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going on here, that in fact, there as an invasion force stashed,
you know, in secret in thehull of the ship, you know,
in the in the in the cargobase. There's basically a whole army of
pigs in there, and in factmore ships that that that arrive as well,
So you have a real, youknow, um colonization effort going on
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where you could easily see them ifthey weren't. What it turns out,
of course, it's not quite asit's It's terrible obviously, but it's not
as terrible as a full colonization.It turns out that the pigs plan is
to steal the bird's eggs, becauseeggs are delicious, as opposed to what
you would probably actually do, whichis enslave the birds, so you have
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an endless supply of eggs. Butthese pigs are not that forward thinking.
They just steal the eggs for nowin the hope. I mean, I
don't know how they're going to flimflam their way into their second to holping
of eggs, that's what I wantto know. But maybe they will just
wait for the next generation of birdsand now forget it all about it.
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Maybe maybe maybe they have short memories, but that's one of those things that
this bird and they it's a it'sa real society. You would think that
there'd be some record keeping. We'rethinking thinking about this a little bit too
hard. Maybe there's people who aregonna say, you're reading too much into
this, you know, like it'sjust the kids, a billion percent of
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kids movie again, but that's Iwould actually question whether it is a kids
movie because are they really like Okay, you can argue that the fact that
there are the things that drive youcrazy, which is the bodily fluid jokes.
The fact that we have bodily fluidjokes. I guess that's a staple
of kids movies. Yeah, there'sjust you know a scene where it's the
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old thing. You know, It'slike it works in the Simpsons when Sideshow
Bob keeps stepping stepping on the rakesfor like five minutes. You know,
because any It's or family guy alsodoes that where it stretches, where it
will take a sequence and stretched tothe point where like it stops being funny,
and then he becomes funny again,and then it becomes really funny,
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so that that can work. Buthere it's just a thing where Okay,
so when he was a kid,he got mocked for the fact that he
believed in the Great Eagle. TheGreat Eagle at the point it seem that
treats it like it's like it's about, you know, faith in a deity
or something. Then of course theGreat Eagle turns out to be real.
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He's a he's the former King Slash, the great hero of the land,
and he's retired to this mountain wherehe lives in the cave by himself in
basically a museum to his former greatnessand has gotten you know, fat and
lazy and hedonistic, and you know, he represents obviously, and with all
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the there's a lot of you know, really American iconography to the depiction of
the Eagle in this movie, likeeverything about it seems to scream that he
represents America in some way. Soit does seem to be um that the
movie is restoring, restoring his greatness, is what I'm saying. Is a
big arc in the movie. Arewe all about? We're we're we're fat
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and full of ourselves? What wegot going on with it. That's I
mean, certainly I can relate tothe Eagle for sure, at least at
a low point. Yeah, justthat you can relate to write I think
we can all relate a little bitto Um. They've done a good job
of giving relatable characteristics to all ofthe characters and and making everybody kind of
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sort of likable. As I wouldstill question whether it's a kids movie because
it's so weirdly political in the waystuff that subtexts. But that's the stuff
we notice, and then the kidsthat's stuff that's for adults stuff. But
there aren't really jokes for kids otherthan the fact that yeah, he peas
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and then he keeps peeing, andthen he keeps peeing, and then he
keeps peeing, and the fact thathe goes on so long is the joke.
So it's that kind of thing.Um, it's not. It's not
as bad as like, I don'tknow if you saw a Ghostbuster just twenty
sixteen. Okay, Well, there'sa scene where they go to see a
dean of a university and this deandresses them down in the most lazy,
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badly written way possible, and thescene just goes on for minutes. It's
obviously I mean, it's improv obviously, but it's one of those things where
they just they let him improv forlike ten minutes of movie and they just
kept all of it. So anyway, but we didn't actually watch the scene.
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We just knew he improv a bit, so we're gonna just keep it.
So it's not that bad. Butthis movie definitely leans into the having
you know, kind of lingering onstuff, lingering on stuff or also a
smash cutting two stuff, you know, your kind of sitcom or sketch show
techniques. It's actually quite slick.I would say that, like the firstly,
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the animation is really good. Youknow, it's not obviously the tone
you know, who else does actuallythat kind of these like type of sketches,
the high concept sketches is Illumination.Illumination always has a couple of sequences
in their movies or like something likeA Secret Life of Pets is almost nothing
but that. So you look atthose movies and you can see that this
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is obviously in parts trying to bethat or that style of thing, and
it's not that far off in termsof quality. Like the character animation is
really good. The expressions are reallygood. Everybody's got a strong silhouette,
so all the characters are really distinguishableand recognizable from each other. Like,
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the character design is just very strong. The visual design in general is really
good. But of course it's adaptingthe visual design at the game, but
it's doing a really good job.I think of adapting the visual to sign
the thing, I can deal withthat. So I think it's quite well
made. I mean, it's atleast I would I'd put it slightly ahead
or on the level of the Retchedand Clank movie in terms of in terms
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of quality for just the animation itself. Um, my problem is that it's
just not funny. There's no Allof the adult jokes in there are just
either just so in your face withit that this is for the parents that
I got stucked with this movie,or just boring, like, oh,
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there was a there's a scene inthe movie that made my jaw drop where
the pigs take off with the eggsand everyone's freaking out and asking what do
we do? What do we do? And who is the character was it?
I think it was Chuck that basicallytold all the women to get busy,
basically like, I'll go everyone goout sack because we need to make
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more eggs. Hey man, workingdoctor Strangelove. We've got to repopulate the
human race, or in this case, the bird race. Well, welcome
to your kids movie. Yeah,so exactly everything. All every joke that
I got, I mean, it'snot that they weren't jokes, but every
joke that I recognized as a jokeand was like, huh, you made
it funny was obviously like aimed atadults. So I actually do not think
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that this is a kids movie becauseI don't think there's really anything for kids
here other than the fact that somebodypeas at one point. So I feel
like, if this is supposed tobe a kids movie, that's a big
fail. But on the other hand, if it's a movie made for adults,
then you know it is it.Are we supposed to read things into
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it? Are we supposed to thinkabout it more critically? Or like,
who is it really? For?Good? Question? And that is part
of the issue of it, becausein the end, I did not watch
this one with my kids, thoughI should have. It was just the
timing did not work. I'm prettysure my son has watched it because when
I went on Netflix at wanted toplay with like three minutes left it.
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But my daughter swears up and downshe has not seen it. Am I
just a funny duddy about the factthat, like, it just seems a
little weird to me, and withthe way they do it, like every
kids movie is gonna have a couplehave a scene or two that are like,
all right, parents, you stuckwith it. Here's here's a joke
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for you where the parents will laughand the kids have zero idea what it's
for. But it's so obsessed withold dance music or old rock and roll,
it's so obsessed with having I guessthat's that's just the time filler to
have to just have the characters havelong dance sequences to an oldies song.
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Maybe, But the one that reallygot me and it wasn't a dance song,
but I have it in my notesbecause I wanted to make sure I
brought this up early on in thismovie. I want to say it was
after Red gets caught that he wasthe one that broke chucks um welcome mannequin
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thing and was walking back and hewas all sad. They played a random
Limp Biscuit song and I was like, this doesn't even feel like it fits.
It's just, oh, it's asad song that obviously whoever made this
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movie and was coming up with themusic that they wanted came up in our
generation, Like, oh, Iremember Limp Biscuit and he did this sad
song once, So we're just goingto put it in there, even though
none of the lyrics make any sensecompared to what is happening in the movie.
It goes to show that you andI are to talk of the audience
for this movie, and we didn'tlike it or I didn't like it.
Oh, well, the problem isn'tit's there's really nothing to root for because
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for this entire civilization because they're sothe obliviousness goes to the point where they
just they feel like these weird caricaturesthat are beyond saving and beyond redemption.
And only the you know, giantasshole protagonist sees the truth and it really
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just kind of bugs me. Butof course, you know, the pigs
also in their flagrant you know again, nobody, nobody recognizes that the pigs
are just destroying their entire civilization aroundthem. So everything, I don't know,
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it's every character is so stupid inthis movie. There's nobody likable in
it other than I enjoy, youknow, the the physical performance. You
know, I enjoy the animation andI enjoy the voice acting. But the
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characters are all loathsome everybody's horrible.Like again, nobody has any empathy for
each other, even the birds whoare nice to each other. Again,
they don't give a shit. Theydon't even notice that you know that things
are going to shit around them.And the pigs are such a platant,
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just complete scum that you know,you just it's just like watching a train
wreck. I mean, I guessthat's the point, right, We're supposed
to That's how it gets to stampathizewith Red. Is our frustration. We're
supposed to feed a frustration at thefact that everybody else in the cast is
such a complete moron, and onlyonly we are as smart as you know,
you and I. We're as smartas Red. Right, we can
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see how broken the system really isand how what she people are. I
don't know, man, it's justthere. It was. It's it's kind
of like my complaints about the Rememberlike the first Sonic movie, which had
the weird kind of culture war thingabout small town values and how big cities
are bad. Yeah. That alsoit's it's that's kind of where and to
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me, like, what are youdoing putting this in the kids movie because
there's no storyline and sonic and there'sno storyline and angry birds. So they're
like, okay, so you're sayingwe have to somehow get No, here's
the thing. I actually will givethe writer and I don't know who the
writer is, but I will givehim or her the benefit of the doubt
story by three different people. Okay, I'll give them the benefit of the
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doubt, uh that you know theystarted with. We have to somehow get
to the premise of the video game, which is, how can we write
ourselves pigs? How can we writea story where we can build up to
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we need an excuse for these birdsto fling themselves at some pigs and blow
up the pigs. Ah, well, we'll have them get back their eggs
because the pigs stole their eggs,because the pigs want to eat the eggs.
But the pigs, you know,made like, you know, they
were nice and you know, justhere to be friends. But you can't
trust a pig and only our intrepidasshole hero can see through it. He
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nailed it and scene. Yeah,I give this movie a Oh it's so
hard because there's a lot of goodproduction in it, and I like the
music actually, I mean, okay, actually no, and I need to
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clarify this. I think the songchoices are worse. You know, we
go I go plained about this withMario with Illumination, which Illumination always does
where they have to, you know, throw overused oldies. Yeah you got
you gotta be able to sell thesoundtrack. But it's not like there's there's
not soundtrack albums anymore that when yougot the music from an inspired by I
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remember those. Um I had quitea few of those kind of soundtrackx CDs.
But no, it's just you haveto hit the you have to hit
the nostalgia button, I guess,and that's the only way that they know
how, and they really just makesome of the worst choices possible in that
regard with this. When it comesto the songs, however, I think
the score is very pretty and verycompetent and quite memorable. Actually, it's
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got some nice themes in it.So I actually thought the music was nice.
So the question is how do Iweigh How do I weigh the competence
and the production value against the factthat I thought the characters and the story
were loathsome. That is a difficulty, difficult choice. You know what,
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I would like to hear your opinion. It's it's just a nothing movie.
Like last week you had talked abouthow the second Team Rader movie was just
a fluff movie. I think thisis worse than a fluff movie. It's
it is just out there to putmascots on the screen and make a buttload
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of money, which they did,and I totally get it, but it
completely falls flat on being enjoyable orentertaining. There's a lot of times where
I was watching this movie and hadto go back because I think my mind
just wandered and there's just not there. So I'm given it a three.
If it were funny. If itwere funny, then I wouldn't be thinking
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about the politics as much. Iwould not be. I would not be
my mind would not be drifting inthat direction if they were jokes. That's
my problem. And you've got allthese talented people, You've got all this
talent, You've got all his money, all this talent, and it was
a huge hit. And I justdon't understand as a kid. Is it
just that the mannerisms and the youknow, the energy of it would be
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funny to you, but then noneof the jokes would mean anything to you.
And if they did, you'd bea weird kid. You'd be you
know, like you know, likewhen Ben Shapiro talks about how you was
a kid. Good question. It'sbeen a long time since I was a
kid, so m I also Iwas not. I thought politics were cool
when I was a kid. Idon't think that anymore, but I didn't
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really understand them back then. Youknow, you'd watch the West Wing and
think that that was real, whichis very funny. Now this show has
not aged well anyway. Sorry,I want a tangent. I just really
hate this movie. I really hatethis movie. I'm gonna have to give
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this movie too. There you go, um again. Oh this is the
first time you've given it too?Is it? It can't be? What
what about Postal? You gave ita one, You gave Postal and Resident
Evil, So I've given lower thanwhat you What you mean is I've not
given an exact scores you gave Postaland Residu Evil the Final Chapter both a
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one, and then you gave ResiduEvil Retribution and Resident Evil Apocalypse both a
three. Oh yeah, right inbetween that I definitely would prefer. I
definitely would prefer those Resident Evil moviesover this, even though they're long.
My three for Angry Birds ties itwith Dynasty Warriors. Oh man, it's
way more fun than this and theSuper Mario Brothers. Morton Jenk cuts no,
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no way, no way. Whatdid I give Morton Jenk You gave
that a three and a half.Okay, so man, yeah, okay,
A half away from this? Whatare we at? Five? Combined
score will make this? Oh?I forgot to put the tomb Rat movie
into it, so everything will bumpdown one. It will be in a
tie for our twenty third favorite movieout of the twenty sixth that we've watched.
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It is tied with Residue Evil Retributionand just ahead, just ahead of
Postal and Residue Evil The Final Chapter. Now, I did say that my
scores had been trending. When wedid Ratchet and Clank, I gave it
a six. When we did Princeof Persia, I gave it a five.
Tomb Rat the Cradle of Life,I gave a four. I gave
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Angry Birds movie a three. Soit's it's afropo if you will that the
next movie that we will be watchingthat I have already selected, has a
chance to continue, said Trent.All Right, it sounds like you've already
made you mind up, which Iwouldn't. I would not give that impression
to the listener. Please, Well, you've not seen I have seen this
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movie, but I've never seen ifI watched the trailer when trying to decide
on the movie, I watched thetrailer, and the trailer alone made my
nose bleed. I mean, it'sit's a Ui Bowl classic classic, we'll
go that way out. Um,it's regardless one of his better video games,
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is it? So maybe it willbreak the trend. We will see.
We will see if it's one ofhis better ones. We will see.
I've only ever watched the one youwere you got me into Ui Bowl
with Postal, so we will seehow it goes. We will be watching
far Cry partially because I know there'sseveral Ui Bowl movies that we have to
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get through. Yeah, I wantto spread them out and we don't need
to go on a UI Bowl marathonat any point. So let's get this
out of the way. And Imade the mistake of starting Far Cry six
Is that the new one? Idon't know. I haven't kept up with
the Seriously, I just had startedit. NF Fantasy sixteen came out,
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so I was like, well,I had recently played a far Cry game,
so why not watch Far Cry?Indeed why indeed not? So there
you go. That will be fornext week or whenever we get there.
Hopefully next week. We'll see howlife continues to rage at Nagonus, but
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we will make it work. Butthat is for another time. You guys,
have a fancastic
Hello, and welcome to chapters Selectat the Movies to show where I Yends
and my good friend Randy watch moviesbased on video games and then talk about
what the hell the people who madethem were thinking. Randy, how are
you feeling today? Confused at whatwe just watched? M I also have
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a lot of questions, but Ithink the best way to deal with those
questions is to start going through theplot in a chronological way, as we
have failed to do the last timeyou did this podcast. I like that
episode better. Can we just quicklytalk about all of the horrible adult jokes
that get jammed in this movie?By the way, what is the movie
we are doing this week? Themovie that we are covering today is The
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Angry Birds Movie, which is ananimated comedy stars studded full of Saturday Night
alumni and great actors and comedians.It's really quite amazing, is almost DreamWorks
like in the way that it hasassembled its cast and nearly profited three hundred
million dollars in the box office.Oh, of course it raked in the
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dough yep, yep, very successfulfilm. So usually I mean, we're
going I'll let you go through theplot bit by bit and I'm not going
to derail this one like I didlast week. While I may and most
likely will score this movie lower thanthe Second Team writer did, we did
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again as we have discussed before,the score subject to change based on conversation.
Um, I just want to throwout there that we have to remember
what this movie got based on,which was a mobile video game that had
no plot, and it was justan excuse to fling an object into other
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objects to break them apart. Theyjust happened to be birds and pigs,
and that is where this movie comesfrom. That immediately question. So the
writers went, well, what kindof plot can we throw at this?
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And they went in a very interestingway. That's what I mean. Is
this a counterculture or a is thisan anti woke movie? I don't think
it's an anti woke just it's justbird and it seems like it's get together
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that it seems like it's an accidentalone. I mean, the message.
If I've learned one thing from thismovie, uh, it's that an overly
permissive society leaves itself vulnerable to youknow, foreign invaders. Well, that's
only when your leader disappears and gainsthree hundred pounds. Sure, I don't
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know, I'm trying. Go ahead, And well he also the leader.
So the leader is of course aneagle, and immediately I knew that the
eagle was going to be uh,you know, Captain Quirk or Zach Brannigan
type character. And indeed, yes, the wonderful Peter Dinkli. Peter Dinklis
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does a nice job with the character. Everybody does a really good job.
Jason Sudeikis plays the lead as Red. Red is a red bird. Either
way, I could recognize a lotof the voices. Yeah, Jason Senegans
did a great job of me goingI forgot that was Jason several times throughout.
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And I'm somebody that I've watched allof Ted Lasso over the last couple
of weeks, so I'm very usedto Jason Senega's voice. But yeah,
go ahead. I didn't even mindJosh Gadden. I usually don't tolerate Josh
Gadden very much, but then McBride'sin it. You know, Bill Hayter,
you got all these great people,you know, Sean Penn somehow,
I don't know what Sean Penn isdoing here. Kate McKennon. Anyway,
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You've got this amazing cast. HannibalParress, Sean Penn's doing nothing. I
didn't even know that what Sean Penn. I looked at Sean Penn say one
word in this movie. But Keagandid a lot. Keagan, Michael Keys
as the judge did a lot,and that was a really goodob for me.
Did a pay day, So hegrunted it. Yeah, it must
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have just been maybe he just recordedthat one line as a favor or something,
but he ended up being credited.It should have just been uncredited cameo.
But it's so you've got this amazingcast, and yeah, Jason is
Jason has read and read as abird for anger management issues, and he's
working as a literal clown. Sohe's in a degrading job that he hates
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where people mistreat him because he's notthere on time and doesn't deliver a cake
properly. But the cake apparently itwas a pain in the ass to obtain
because it was you know, he'she's frustrated with the fact that they're vegans
or whatever and they or they don'tlike gluten and he needs to cater to
their particular needs. That is toomuch for him. In the service industry.
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So he's in the job that hehates, and he hates having to
cater to these people, and sohe has this outburst in which he almost
kills a child, but instead ofkilling the child, he merely imprints it,
and now the child thinks that he'sits father for the rest of the
movie. By the way, myfirst was not my first note, but
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my main note. I'm just kindof sprinkle these in while we go through
the plot and not direct everything.One of my main notes was, how
did the directors of this movie getmy personal personality down to it? T
for Red? Oh, Red.Yes, he's definitely supposed. He's supposed
to be that lovable asshole that likehe legitimately is as that he endangerous people.
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Um, he's irrational and and youknow not the the movie really sell
The movie celebrates a rugged individualism ofthe libertarian asshole who just wants to you
know, stake to himself and notbe I hate job. Yeah, I
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was like, this is me.He doesn't he doesn't want to live in
the society. Yeah. Absolutely,he's extremely anti social. But of course
he is right. He is Heand the other people with whom he is
an anger management and also, um, you know Kate McKinnon Estella, who
is the leader of the anger,who's you know, trying to get them
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to embrace their calm, hippie dippieside, to get their anger under control,
which they you know, they havein the society where that anger seems
to just that's the worst thing thatcan happen, The most destructive thing is
that because everybody it's it's a happyone wheel. Greece is the other kind
of society. And if you ifyou you know, have these kinds of
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outbursts where you literally explode, likethe character of Bomb played by Denny McBride,
where you know, when he getsupset, he turns into a literal
bomb, which you know makes Idon't know, I think this stuff ties
actually pretty well. They do agood job with with Bomb, and with
Chuck and with Red. They doa good job of taking the archetypes from
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the game and turning them into cartooncharacters that work. They have their own
personalities and they have their own issues. Bomb I think it was my favorite
character in the entire movie, andpart of it is because you know,
he is I mean, he getsangry and explodes, but he also has
um issues, performing which there arecertain there are men out there that had
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that deal with that every day,and I feel for those people. But
I just that and just he hasthis kind of um childlike mentality on things
that just I don't know. Ireally like he endured me to his character
and I really like them. Ialso enjoyed I enjoyed his relationship with Stella
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as well, because they have thisnice relationship where he's got this crush on
her and she realizes that there's moredepth to him than you suspect at first,
that he actually has kind of anartist's heart. And also at the
end of the Great Singing Voice.So there are little moments that I think
there's a lot of characterization stuff thatreally works. I think Kegan is very
funny. It's Judge Peck and Pong. You know, he's just this this
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big, pompous, aristocratic or bureaucratic, you know, dummy who is just
so enthralled by what these pigs areup to. The the pigs. So
this is like your classic UM almostlike the Settlement of America type invasion tactic.
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We're we're pretending to be explorers andthey're bringing useless trinkets and and you
know, decadent gifts that are cooland our and our you know, wow,
everybody's wowed by these things, eventhough they're just simple, you know,
simple gimmicks. That is the pigsthat give the birds the sling shot.
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Yes, that is something that's afunny thing that that is their own
downfall. So of course, whowould expect, you know, catapulting yourself
as a projectile into the enemy,for it is an unconventional thing that I
wouldn't really expect or expect to survive. But of course we're in a cartoon
world, so no problem. I'msounding super positive about this this movie.
But all the highlights. I alsodo like that it's very simple um way
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that they went, well why dowe why do birds sling shots? So
it's like, well, in thisuniverse, birds don't fly, and they
nail that home four thousand times yep, except for the eagle. He's the
only one because he's the Mighty Eagle. Yep. But as I said,
our protagonist his anger management issues,and we find out in flashbacks it's because
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he was mocked by atheists for hisfaith in the Great Eagle, and so
he grows up with this chip onhis shoulder, and now he's exploding about
the fact that these guys want torefund for their birthday cake and almost kills
their child. And then you know, that leads to you know, a
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big scandal and justice, so that'scoming to a head. You know,
he has to go to anger managementclass, where he meets all the other
you know, cool characters with angermanagement issues, who are the only people
who can see through what these pigsare up to, you know, but
justice, they're making progress in theiranger management. A ship from you know,
from this nation of Pigs arrives crushesRed's house in the process, which
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nobody else seems to mind or careabout the fact that Red's house was destroyed,
which brings me to the thing ofthis movie that kind of drives me
crazy. You know, of course, our you know, main group of
lovable outcasts are the only people withany reason whatsoever. But just it's so
infuriating how there is just nobody everyyou know, this this society of birds
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is supposed to be like actually lovingand caring, but nobody gives a shit
or even notices that Red's life isbeing destroyed right there. You know,
there's no empathy there whatsoever. Weknow what movie just reminded me of a
lot uh huh Chicken Little have youever seen? Yes, I actually saw
that in the movie theater because aman reminded me so much of it,
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of the group of Chicken Little orno, all these things and nobody's believing
them, and they're they're just yeah, mindless people. So these birds,
you know, they're flim flam men. They're pretending to be explorers. They
bring a bunch of useless trinkets,you know, inventions. It's all,
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you know, kind of useless,gimmicky stuff that that isn't really useful for
bird society, except of course forthe slingshot, which you know, becomes
the catapult in the warfare back againstthe pigs in the end. But we're
not anywhere there yet, you know, at the moment, we're at the
you know, the mono rail monorail, yes exactly, you know part part
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of the movie where everybody's just enthralledwith these pigs and what great showmen they
are and how much cares might theyare have and how they are slightly more
technologically advanced, and how they promisethem the world basically and nobody knows and
nobody suspects except for Red, whoof course immediately sees that there's something fishy
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going on here, that in fact, there as an invasion force stashed,
you know, in secret in thehull of the ship, you know,
in the in the in the cargobase. There's basically a whole army of
pigs in there, and in factmore ships that that that arrive as well,
So you have a real, youknow, um colonization effort going on
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where you could easily see them ifthey weren't. What it turns out,
of course, it's not quite asit's It's terrible obviously, but it's not
as terrible as a full colonization.It turns out that the pigs plan is
to steal the bird's eggs, becauseeggs are delicious, as opposed to what
you would probably actually do, whichis enslave the birds, so you have
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an endless supply of eggs. Butthese pigs are not that forward thinking.
They just steal the eggs for nowin the hope. I mean, I
don't know how they're going to flimflam their way into their second to holping
of eggs, that's what I wantto know. But maybe they will just
wait for the next generation of birdsand now forget it all about it.
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Maybe maybe maybe they have short memories, but that's one of those things that
this bird and they it's a it'sa real society. You would think that
there'd be some record keeping. We'rethinking thinking about this a little bit too
hard. Maybe there's people who aregonna say, you're reading too much into
this, you know, like it'sjust the kids, a billion percent of
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kids movie again, but that's Iwould actually question whether it is a kids
movie because are they really like Okay, you can argue that the fact that
there are the things that drive youcrazy, which is the bodily fluid jokes.
The fact that we have bodily fluidjokes. I guess that's a staple
of kids movies. Yeah, there'sjust you know a scene where it's the
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old thing. You know, It'slike it works in the Simpsons when Sideshow
Bob keeps stepping stepping on the rakesfor like five minutes. You know,
because any It's or family guy alsodoes that where it stretches, where it
will take a sequence and stretched tothe point where like it stops being funny,
and then he becomes funny again,and then it becomes really funny,
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so that that can work. Buthere it's just a thing where Okay,
so when he was a kid,he got mocked for the fact that he
believed in the Great Eagle. TheGreat Eagle at the point it seem that
treats it like it's like it's about, you know, faith in a deity
or something. Then of course theGreat Eagle turns out to be real.
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He's a he's the former King Slash, the great hero of the land,
and he's retired to this mountain wherehe lives in the cave by himself in
basically a museum to his former greatnessand has gotten you know, fat and
lazy and hedonistic, and you know, he represents obviously, and with all
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the there's a lot of you know, really American iconography to the depiction of
the Eagle in this movie, likeeverything about it seems to scream that he
represents America in some way. Soit does seem to be um that the
movie is restoring, restoring his greatness, is what I'm saying. Is a
big arc in the movie. Arewe all about? We're we're we're fat
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and full of ourselves? What wegot going on with it. That's I
mean, certainly I can relate tothe Eagle for sure, at least at
a low point. Yeah, justthat you can relate to write I think
we can all relate a little bitto Um. They've done a good job
of giving relatable characteristics to all ofthe characters and and making everybody kind of
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sort of likable. As I wouldstill question whether it's a kids movie because
it's so weirdly political in the waystuff that subtexts. But that's the stuff
we notice, and then the kidsthat's stuff that's for adults stuff. But
there aren't really jokes for kids otherthan the fact that yeah, he peas
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and then he keeps peeing, andthen he keeps peeing, and then he
keeps peeing, and the fact thathe goes on so long is the joke.
So it's that kind of thing.Um, it's not. It's not
as bad as like, I don'tknow if you saw a Ghostbuster just twenty
sixteen. Okay, Well, there'sa scene where they go to see a
dean of a university and this deandresses them down in the most lazy,
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badly written way possible, and thescene just goes on for minutes. It's
obviously I mean, it's improv obviously, but it's one of those things where
they just they let him improv forlike ten minutes of movie and they just
kept all of it. So anyway, but we didn't actually watch the scene.
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We just knew he improv a bit, so we're gonna just keep it.
So it's not that bad. Butthis movie definitely leans into the having
you know, kind of lingering onstuff, lingering on stuff or also a
smash cutting two stuff, you know, your kind of sitcom or sketch show
techniques. It's actually quite slick.I would say that, like the firstly,
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the animation is really good. Youknow, it's not obviously the tone
you know, who else does actuallythat kind of these like type of sketches,
the high concept sketches is Illumination.Illumination always has a couple of sequences
in their movies or like something likeA Secret Life of Pets is almost nothing
but that. So you look atthose movies and you can see that this
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is obviously in parts trying to bethat or that style of thing, and
it's not that far off in termsof quality. Like the character animation is
really good. The expressions are reallygood. Everybody's got a strong silhouette,
so all the characters are really distinguishableand recognizable from each other. Like,
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the character design is just very strong. The visual design in general is really
good. But of course it's adaptingthe visual design at the game, but
it's doing a really good job.I think of adapting the visual to sign
the thing, I can deal withthat. So I think it's quite well
made. I mean, it's atleast I would I'd put it slightly ahead
or on the level of the Retchedand Clank movie in terms of in terms
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of quality for just the animation itself. Um, my problem is that it's
just not funny. There's no Allof the adult jokes in there are just
either just so in your face withit that this is for the parents that
I got stucked with this movie,or just boring, like, oh,
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there was a there's a scene inthe movie that made my jaw drop where
the pigs take off with the eggsand everyone's freaking out and asking what do
we do? What do we do? And who is the character was it?
I think it was Chuck that basicallytold all the women to get busy,
basically like, I'll go everyone goout sack because we need to make
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more eggs. Hey man, workingdoctor Strangelove. We've got to repopulate the
human race, or in this case, the bird race. Well, welcome
to your kids movie. Yeah,so exactly everything. All every joke that
I got, I mean, it'snot that they weren't jokes, but every
joke that I recognized as a jokeand was like, huh, you made
it funny was obviously like aimed atadults. So I actually do not think
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that this is a kids movie becauseI don't think there's really anything for kids
here other than the fact that somebodypeas at one point. So I feel
like, if this is supposed tobe a kids movie, that's a big
fail. But on the other hand, if it's a movie made for adults,
then you know it is it.Are we supposed to read things into
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it? Are we supposed to thinkabout it more critically? Or like,
who is it really? For?Good? Question? And that is part
of the issue of it, becausein the end, I did not watch
this one with my kids, thoughI should have. It was just the
timing did not work. I'm prettysure my son has watched it because when
I went on Netflix at wanted toplay with like three minutes left it.
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But my daughter swears up and downshe has not seen it. Am I
just a funny duddy about the factthat, like, it just seems a
little weird to me, and withthe way they do it, like every
kids movie is gonna have a couplehave a scene or two that are like,
all right, parents, you stuckwith it. Here's here's a joke
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for you where the parents will laughand the kids have zero idea what it's
for. But it's so obsessed withold dance music or old rock and roll,
it's so obsessed with having I guessthat's that's just the time filler to
have to just have the characters havelong dance sequences to an oldies song.
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Maybe, But the one that reallygot me and it wasn't a dance song,
but I have it in my notesbecause I wanted to make sure I
brought this up early on in thismovie. I want to say it was
after Red gets caught that he wasthe one that broke chucks um welcome mannequin
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thing and was walking back and hewas all sad. They played a random
Limp Biscuit song and I was like, this doesn't even feel like it fits.
It's just, oh, it's asad song that obviously whoever made this
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movie and was coming up with themusic that they wanted came up in our
generation, Like, oh, Iremember Limp Biscuit and he did this sad
song once, So we're just goingto put it in there, even though
none of the lyrics make any sensecompared to what is happening in the movie.
It goes to show that you andI are to talk of the audience
for this movie, and we didn'tlike it or I didn't like it.
Oh, well, the problem isn'tit's there's really nothing to root for because
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for this entire civilization because they're sothe obliviousness goes to the point where they
just they feel like these weird caricaturesthat are beyond saving and beyond redemption.
And only the you know, giantasshole protagonist sees the truth and it really
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just kind of bugs me. Butof course, you know, the pigs
also in their flagrant you know again, nobody, nobody recognizes that the pigs
are just destroying their entire civilization aroundthem. So everything, I don't know,
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it's every character is so stupid inthis movie. There's nobody likable in
it other than I enjoy, youknow, the the physical performance. You
know, I enjoy the animation andI enjoy the voice acting. But the
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characters are all loathsome everybody's horrible.Like again, nobody has any empathy for
each other, even the birds whoare nice to each other. Again,
they don't give a shit. Theydon't even notice that you know that things
are going to shit around them.And the pigs are such a platant,
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just complete scum that you know,you just it's just like watching a train
wreck. I mean, I guessthat's the point, right, We're supposed
to That's how it gets to stampathizewith Red. Is our frustration. We're
supposed to feed a frustration at thefact that everybody else in the cast is
such a complete moron, and onlyonly we are as smart as you know,
you and I. We're as smartas Red. Right, we can
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see how broken the system really isand how what she people are. I
don't know, man, it's justthere. It was. It's it's kind
of like my complaints about the Rememberlike the first Sonic movie, which had
the weird kind of culture war thingabout small town values and how big cities
are bad. Yeah. That alsoit's it's that's kind of where and to
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me, like, what are youdoing putting this in the kids movie because
there's no storyline and sonic and there'sno storyline and angry birds. So they're
like, okay, so you're sayingwe have to somehow get No, here's
the thing. I actually will givethe writer and I don't know who the
writer is, but I will givehim or her the benefit of the doubt
story by three different people. Okay, I'll give them the benefit of the
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doubt, uh that you know theystarted with. We have to somehow get
to the premise of the video game, which is, how can we write
ourselves pigs? How can we writea story where we can build up to
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we need an excuse for these birdsto fling themselves at some pigs and blow
up the pigs. Ah, well, we'll have them get back their eggs
because the pigs stole their eggs,because the pigs want to eat the eggs.
But the pigs, you know,made like, you know, they
were nice and you know, justhere to be friends. But you can't
trust a pig and only our intrepidasshole hero can see through it. He
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nailed it and scene. Yeah,I give this movie a Oh it's so
hard because there's a lot of goodproduction in it, and I like the
music actually, I mean, okay, actually no, and I need to
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clarify this. I think the songchoices are worse. You know, we
go I go plained about this withMario with Illumination, which Illumination always does
where they have to, you know, throw overused oldies. Yeah you got
you gotta be able to sell thesoundtrack. But it's not like there's there's
not soundtrack albums anymore that when yougot the music from an inspired by I
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remember those. Um I had quitea few of those kind of soundtrackx CDs.
But no, it's just you haveto hit the you have to hit
the nostalgia button, I guess,and that's the only way that they know
how, and they really just makesome of the worst choices possible in that
regard with this. When it comesto the songs, however, I think
the score is very pretty and verycompetent and quite memorable. Actually, it's
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got some nice themes in it.So I actually thought the music was nice.
So the question is how do Iweigh How do I weigh the competence
and the production value against the factthat I thought the characters and the story
were loathsome. That is a difficulty, difficult choice. You know what,
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I would like to hear your opinion. It's it's just a nothing movie.
Like last week you had talked abouthow the second Team Rader movie was just
a fluff movie. I think thisis worse than a fluff movie. It's
it is just out there to putmascots on the screen and make a buttload
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of money, which they did,and I totally get it, but it
completely falls flat on being enjoyable orentertaining. There's a lot of times where
I was watching this movie and hadto go back because I think my mind
just wandered and there's just not there. So I'm given it a three.
If it were funny. If itwere funny, then I wouldn't be thinking
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about the politics as much. Iwould not be. I would not be
my mind would not be drifting inthat direction if they were jokes. That's
my problem. And you've got allthese talented people, You've got all this
talent, You've got all his money, all this talent, and it was
a huge hit. And I justdon't understand as a kid. Is it
just that the mannerisms and the youknow, the energy of it would be
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funny to you, but then noneof the jokes would mean anything to you.
And if they did, you'd bea weird kid. You'd be you
know, like you know, likewhen Ben Shapiro talks about how you was
a kid. Good question. It'sbeen a long time since I was a
kid, so m I also Iwas not. I thought politics were cool
when I was a kid. Idon't think that anymore, but I didn't
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really understand them back then. Youknow, you'd watch the West Wing and
think that that was real, whichis very funny. Now this show has
not aged well anyway. Sorry,I want a tangent. I just really
hate this movie. I really hatethis movie. I'm gonna have to give
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this movie too. There you go, um again. Oh this is the
first time you've given it too?Is it? It can't be? What
what about Postal? You gave ita one, You gave Postal and Resident
Evil, So I've given lower thanwhat you What you mean is I've not
given an exact scores you gave Postaland Residu Evil the Final Chapter both a
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one, and then you gave ResiduEvil Retribution and Resident Evil Apocalypse both a
three. Oh yeah, right inbetween that I definitely would prefer. I
definitely would prefer those Resident Evil moviesover this, even though they're long.
My three for Angry Birds ties itwith Dynasty Warriors. Oh man, it's
way more fun than this and theSuper Mario Brothers. Morton Jenk cuts no,
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no way, no way. Whatdid I give Morton Jenk You gave
that a three and a half.Okay, so man, yeah, okay,
A half away from this? Whatare we at? Five? Combined
score will make this? Oh?I forgot to put the tomb Rat movie
into it, so everything will bumpdown one. It will be in a
tie for our twenty third favorite movieout of the twenty sixth that we've watched.
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It is tied with Residue Evil Retributionand just ahead, just ahead of
Postal and Residue Evil The Final Chapter. Now, I did say that my
scores had been trending. When wedid Ratchet and Clank, I gave it
a six. When we did Princeof Persia, I gave it a five.
Tomb Rat the Cradle of Life,I gave a four. I gave
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Angry Birds movie a three. Soit's it's afropo if you will that the
next movie that we will be watchingthat I have already selected, has a
chance to continue, said Trent.All Right, it sounds like you've already
made you mind up, which Iwouldn't. I would not give that impression
to the listener. Please, Well, you've not seen I have seen this
(32:06):
movie, but I've never seen ifI watched the trailer when trying to decide
on the movie, I watched thetrailer, and the trailer alone made my
nose bleed. I mean, it'sit's a Ui Bowl classic classic, we'll
go that way out. Um,it's regardless one of his better video games,
(32:28):
is it? So maybe it willbreak the trend. We will see.
We will see if it's one ofhis better ones. We will see.
I've only ever watched the one youwere you got me into Ui Bowl
with Postal, so we will seehow it goes. We will be watching
far Cry partially because I know there'sseveral Ui Bowl movies that we have to
(32:49):
get through. Yeah, I wantto spread them out and we don't need
to go on a UI Bowl marathonat any point. So let's get this
out of the way. And Imade the mistake of starting Far Cry six
Is that the new one? Idon't know. I haven't kept up with
the Seriously, I just had startedit. NF Fantasy sixteen came out,
(33:13):
so I was like, well,I had recently played a far Cry game,
so why not watch Far Cry?Indeed why indeed not? So there
you go. That will be fornext week or whenever we get there.
Hopefully next week. We'll see howlife continues to rage at Nagonus, but
(33:34):
we will make it work. Butthat is for another time. You guys,
have a fancastic
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