November 13, 2025 • 32 mins
Aaron and Darlene watch some classic sci-fi from the 1950s and '60s, good and bad. They talk about what makes these films memorable and fun, and if you should take a trip back in time and enjoy these films as well.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
But aren't you fellows ever positive only about doomsday?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
What could be worse than disappointing a little girl disappointing
a big girl.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I have other ways of securing your cooperation.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Sorry, miss I was giving myself an oil job.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
When was it just azumb as?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
We've seen attitude to it since we gave to a
few low cabbages an intellectual tarrot.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
That mind boggles you see you see your stupid lives.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Stupid, stupid, I said Santa Claus.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Long enough, we will.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Bring him to Mars. I've been afraid a lot of
times in my life, but I didn't know the real
meaning of fear until until I kiss peck me. One
thing will be clear. It's not from man to interfere
in the ways of God's life.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Wed Evening, everybody, and Welcome to Earth Versus Soup, Episode
two eighty two. I'm Aaron Pollier.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And I'm Darling.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
This is gonna be a weird episode, and it's because,
if you haven't known from our last couple episodes, we've
been doing the Abbitt and Costello movies. We hit the
wall on Abbot and Costello. I think we need to
like preface our talk today with a few things, but
we're going to talk about Abbot and Costello Meet the
(01:35):
Mummy from nineteen fifty five. Obviously, Abbot and Costello are
the main stars of it. We also have Marie Windsor,
who is in Catwomen from the Moon that we recognize her.
She was in a lot of movies.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
She's barely in this movie.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
She's barely in it, and we know she's a good actress.
She actually was really good in Catwomen from the Moon.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It was filmed in October from October twenty eighth to
November twenty fourth of nineteen fifty four. It released in
June of nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yes, So the reason why I said that this is
a weird movie, well, it's going to be a weird
episode because we both like Abbot and Costello.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Correct, I like Abbott and Costello.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yes, this movie was it broke you? I think, to
be fair, it broke you.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well, I'm wondering if because my like of Abbott and
Costello is from being a kid. Yeah, and I could
see this movie being okay for a kid for a kid.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, we haven't even talked about the plot yet. I
know that we're already talking about this folks, And that's okay,
it's gonna be good for a kid. Why is it
good for a kid.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Darling, because it repeats itself.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Over and over and over again. Now, if you if
you have listened to both of our previous reviews of
Abbot and Costello in the Universal Pictures, like Abbot Costello
Meet Frankenstein, which we both liked, and I think we
would still we could still go back and watch right
now and probably still really like.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Wasn't there only one thing that they did too far
on that album?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
No, in my opinion, there wasn't. Okay, it's the second
one that we watched Abbot Costello Meet the Invisible Man,
where the shrink, the the the gag with the shrink
went on a little too long, and the stuff right
at the end was a big downer. This, every single
gag goes on so long that it's it's it's just
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not funny. Now I can cover the plot of this
movie very simply. And do I have notes, folks? Yes,
I actually have a page and a half of notes,
but most of it is me commenting about how a
joke is repeating too long, or how Abbott is being
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a dick to Costello, or there's a couple of positive notes,
and maybe I should just talk about those positive notes
when we start talking about good and bad. But the
effective plot is it's all an egypt. A egyptologist finds
(04:41):
a sarcophagus of Claris, who is sort of it's actually
cars in the other Mummy films.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
K h here it is.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
He finds this mummy cult to want to get it back,
and a woman who for most of the movie I
thought was a cultist, Mary Windsor's character, Madame ron True,
also wants to get it, but she's actually just a
criminal wanting to like make money. I swear to God,
(05:18):
for most of this movie I thought she was a cultist,
and maybe that was me just being completely like numbed
by the repetitive browbeating physical comedy or comedy routines that
just happened over and over and over again. Now he
(05:42):
finds it. Ab't Costelli get into hijinks the Mummy is real.
What happens to the movie at the end, I don't know.
I don't know, Like I watched the movie, I don't
really know what happens to the Mummy in the end.
But avam Costello start a Mummy themed band bar where
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they have like I don't know, big band numbers where
everyone's dressed as mummies. The end, it is so empty
of plot that you could if you edited down the
overused jokes and physical comedy, it might be fifteen minutes.
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It might be fifteen minutes. And it was so numbing
that I actually, for the honestly the first time, I
might have walked out of Creeping Terror and come back,
but that was just because Okay, I was engaged with
most of Creeping Terror, as bad as it was, but
this was completely pointless. This entire movie was pointless. I
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was so disengaged with it. I was on my phone.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
They had good dancing, but the dancing has a problem.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Okay, So I summed up the plot and going through
scene by scene what is going on? There's no point
to it, okay, because it's them running around screaming. Uh well,
Castello screaming and Abbit being a dick. Now does this
work in other films, Yes, because a lot of the
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stuff isn't overused and it seems like these two have charisma.
Now I hate shitting on them films. I don't know
what the problem was with this, but let's talk about
what worked in it? Okay, And I can name a
few things. I'm sorry that if you were expecting, like
a really detailed plot synopsis, folks, I am sorry. This
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was an hour and twenty minutes long, where fifteen minutes
of it was content and I felt I did not
feel cheated with the Creeping Terror. I did not feel
cheated with Rocket Attack USA. Well, I never did. This
(08:11):
is the first movie on Earth versus soup where I
honestly felt cheated, like I. This is Abbott and Costello,
for God's sakes, I want, I want to laugh, and
I never did.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
The Mummy was good.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
No, the Mummy wasn't good. The suit was cheap. I
actually put it in my notes. I put it in
what doesn't work?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I saw it in the casket.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Okay, So in your opinion, what works is the Mummy?
What else?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Some of the dancing, but it doesn't work too.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Yes, I I will actually go in on this and
say the dancing in this movie and the musical numbers,
because there's actually a couple musical numbers besides dancing, and
one number where there's a singer. Yes, very good. In fact,
it's the only times where I actually felt real engaged
in the movie where I was like, Wow, there's actual
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care to detail and performance here. I was, I was
in on it. I was bought for these movies for
that part of the movie right now. We had to
look up the appropriate term for what this movie does
in a couple of its dance scenes, and I apologize
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if it turns out that it isn't correct, But the
closest phrase that I could use is what was that
The performers in this used a form of Orientalism, which
basically lumps everything together culture wise, from North Africa, the
Middle East, India, the Indian subcontinent all the way into
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East Asia, where all these kinds of things are interchangeable.
So a lot of the dance numbers. While there is
Egyptian Ish i bography, there are clearly other cultures dancing
going on or costuming happening, And to me, it is
(10:12):
a very very very lazy use of Orientalism. And I
I hope that I'm using that term properly.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
So I enjoyed the dancing, but I was, what's the
word you want to use?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I was offended too, Yeah, because it's Yeah, that's the
best way to put it is that we were both
kind of like, oh, that's that's not right. Come on,
there are I will add one thing to what I
feel worked. I I really do think that Marie Windsor
(10:48):
did a very good job with nothing given to her
and underused in this movie to it and she might
be she might be the actual only legitimate actor outside
you could make an argument that Abbott and Costello are
both legitimate actors and they're pretty good. They're pretty good.
(11:11):
They just their comedy doesn't work in this movie. But
Marie Windsor is legitimate and she's a good actress.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah. They had a troupe that was doing the dancing there.
They had a singer doing the song.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Peggy King as the vocalist, Chandra Colly and his dancers
for the dance troup, So like legitimate performers.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And they there is a scene where you do have
Costello's daughter in it.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, actually, and and you know what, I will say,
that made me smile. That did make me smile.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
She's a flower girl.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
She's a flower girl, and I think she's sixteen at
the time when she films this. And you do not
see lu Costell react to her as like a loving
father to his daughter, like he's literally acting as though
this is just a flower girl, and I was actually
surprised by that. That was that was good, and you
(12:15):
could tell that she wasn't really an actress, but that
she was there because she loved her father and wanted
to do this movie, et cetera. And she had a
speaking part.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
The other thing we got to talk about is budget
and how much they make.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Okay, yeah, absolutely, because while we both agree what works
and what doesn't, well, what what doesn't work? Overall, we
didn't really touch on that. Besides, I feel the Mummy
costume doesn't work, so we are.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Both well, I didn't see it walk it was.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Because it's not bandages, it's it's a latech suit.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
In the coffin.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah, you're right, but I have to throw it into
the it doesn't work. The comedy does not work.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Well, it doesn't work because it's overdone of the same,
the same, the same jokes from for how long have
they been doing this?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Okay, since since the nineteen forties.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
So we'll talk about fifteen years yeah, of doing the
same skits, yes, and what they thought was working they
over did.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Yes. So as an example, when they're trying to like
find this professor. Professor Zumer is his name. They go
into his office and they find his body, and then
Costello tries to go find Abbot to get his body,
and you know that this is a routine. They're gonna
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he's gonna drag Abbot back. The body's not gonna be there,
and then he's going to find it again, and.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Is Abbit is gonna send Costello somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
And he's gonna find it again, and it's gonna find
it because somebody moved it. And that's gonna happen one time,
you know. And then Abbot's like, oh my god, you're right,
you're not an idiot.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
You and he even give him a camera to make
to do the picture, and he doesn't even do the picture.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
But the point is that the body gets moved four
or five times, and this happens.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I didn't count.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
It is It is twenty minutes of the same joke,
over and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And the other one is that when you see the
flower girl the medallion thing.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Him eating the medallion, Oh my god, I I almost disassociate.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
And it doesn't even make sense for the character that
Abbot is playing, because he's playing Abbot and he's come
across as a greedy person.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
But the medallion is supposed to be cursed and anyone
who holds the medallion has death that is coming for them.
So he's trying to get rid of the medallion. But
then Costello like, they're putting it in hamburgers and switching hamburgers,
and at first it's cute, but again it goes on
too long. Everything goes on too long in this movie.
And then Costello, Yeah, it goes on too long. And
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then Costello starts eating the hamburger with the amulet in it,
and you hear it crunch and rattle, and he's concerned,
but continues eating the hamburger with the amulet, taking larger
chunks out of it and eating it and crunching it.
And I literally stopped the movie at this point. You
(15:34):
are angry.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I was angry, and.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I said this, this is so dumb that it's literally
a whole scene in Anchorman two. And what I was
trying to tell you was in Ankerman two, there's this
scene where the whole joke is everyone around Will Ferrell's
character are, well, they're all stupid people. But Will Ferrell's
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character is quote unquote blind and he keeps saying things
that he is doing that how miserable he is because
he's blind, and he's like, I drank a whole bottle
of ketchup, thinking it was a bottle of Chateau d'a
pouf or whatever, and everyone's kind of like looking at
each other, going, you know, a whole bottle of ketchup?
(16:20):
Didn't you know that after a couple gulps that it
wasn't wine. I didn't know. I'm blind, and it's it's
the joke is that it's so stupid, and everyone around
him is clearly pointing out how stupid it is. That
makes it funny. Here it is Costello eats an amulet,
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a gold amulet, bite bite, without seeming concern that he
is eating it. Your teeth would be broke, and he's
just crunching away. He's just crunching and.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
It makes an odd sound as it goes down his throat.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Oh my god, and do you know that? But they
x ray him later, And this could have been funny
if I wasn't so pissed off about like how dumb
this was of him eating it. They x ray him later,
and there's letters on the necklace that spell out help
because he's being held captive, being X rayed. It is,
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it's not slapstick, it's a cartoon. And why we're talking
about this because I have now have to stop from moment.
There's so many other things that don't do not work
in this movie. We're talking about it because the first
two that we watched while Invisible Man was iffy, but.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Visible Man was going that direction anyway.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yes, and honestly, the Frankenstein one was good.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
It had several dog one monsters in it that it's
just like and good actor, good actors, but it's kind
of just like how much.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
You love.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Monster Squad, No, not monsters Godzilla. You sit there and
watch for the monsters. Sure, all the rest of the
stuff is just like, well, at least.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
In Evan Costello meets Frankenstein, I will say that, Well,
we're watching it for the monsters. The jokes are don't
overstay their welcome and there actually is a plot, right, Okay,
this just didn't And we're still talking about it because
technically it is a monster movie. Technically it is, and
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we said that we would watch it because it was
on the Universal box sets. We need to talk about it,
and we need to warn people.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
One of the things we need we have I have
a question. Ok okay, okay, first thing that we need
to discuss is the budget and how much it's mads.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Okay, now you're right.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Why I make the comment that I'm going to make.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
So here's here's this. Here's the thing. This is the
last movie that Abbot Costello did for Universal. There was
like a clip movie that Universal released later, but that
doesn't count, and they only did one other movie together
at all. Okay, so you think this this is this
is arguably one of the worst Abbot Costello movies made.
(19:27):
It is the one that made the least amount of money.
It's budget in today's money, adjusted for inflation, is about
eight point five million dollars. Is this an eight point
five million dollar movie? Yeah? Actually it is. I see that.
I see that. So if this was a flop, how
much did it make? And I had I had to
(19:50):
look for it domestically US only adjusted for inflation, it
made about fifty eight million dollars, So that means a
six point eight times return and investment. So a failure
of an Abbott and Costello movie effectively made millions upon
millions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
But then it brings me to the question of this
comedy is something that might have been it was it
was fading, yes, because more and more and more people
were not going to it. But the question is is
it kind of like our our superhero films today where
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they've put a lot of in it's the same thing
over and over again and over and over again, and
there's people that get tired of the same thing.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yes, it is some of that, but it's also.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
People still go to see.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yes because they are entertained or want mindless entertainment, and
you see there's a lot of Look as bad as
this movie was, and it's bad, obviously, we're both not
going to recommend it. But as bad this movie was,
can you see kids watching it and being entertained by it?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah? I can so kids, because Ken's are gonna are
entertained with something I can't even watch after I've watched
it once. And that's the Teletubbies.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Darling, you're already dating yourself. That's that's long gone now,
but I mean it is. It's it's repeating, right, and
I look, Okay, this was a failure. This was poorly
reviewed at the time, and even now, and it was
still a massive financial success. How people wanting to see
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a silly Abbot Costello movie because they grew up with
Abbot and Costello or they have kids that still love
abb and Costello, and everyone knows that it's going to
be legitimately safe fun for their kids to go watch. Now,
a six point eight times return on investment. I had
to look up their most successful movie, which is a
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war movie. While it's during the war, nineteen forty two, okay,
adjusted for inflation, inflation Rhightham Cowboy had a budget of
about five hundred and thirty thousand dollars that's in today's money.
In today's money, it made two hundred and seventy million,
So like a five hundred and forty times return on investment.
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And that's how popular they were.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
The other thing you got to know of history is
that as ab and Costello is leaving the ranks, who
is coming into.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
The Yeah, Jimmy Stewart. I mean there's Martin and Dean
Martin and yeah, yeah, yeah, not Jimmy Stewart, but you
know what, Jim Dean Martin. Yeah, anyway, all those people,
Jerry Lewis is coming up. Abbott and Costello and their
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routine were somewhat similar to the Three Stooges. Okay, the
Three Stooges were incredibly popular too, but they were going
out of the way because the slapstick repeating comedy stuff
just wasn't holding audiences attention. But with that said, again,
Abbott and Costello between like what nineteen forty two and
(23:17):
nineteen fifty five, basically made all but two point five
billion dollars in today's money. Two point five billion dollars.
These two guys basically doing the same jokes. Shocking, right,
ou see why they're popular.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
You can see why they're considered a classic. Oh absolutely,
But this is the dredge.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Of well, yeah, this is this is the one.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
This is the dredge of their their stuff. And you
can see why this. You said it was the last.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
This is their last universal picture, and they only did
one other movie beyond this, and then they stopped doing movies.
At least this movie made me reconsider wanting to do
the Three Stooges sci fi movies. It did. I love
the Three Stooges. I grew up at the Three Stooges.
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I think at this point, unless it's of the quality
of Abbant, Costello, Meete Frankenstein, which legitimately was good. I
think the Three Stooges sci fi movies would.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Would break me, like this one has done for me.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yeah, this this one broke you. You walked out, you
were done after like a ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
And I remember watching this as a kid. I don't
remember how, I don't remember. I remember scenes of it,
like I always remember Aben and Costello in the their
their pith helmets. Yeah, and then then there's that whole
thing of him doing the flu which he did way
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too many times, it was.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
And right at the end there was one cute gag
with it is Abbot actually does it and a woman's
arms and snake gloves come out and start dancing and
twirling like a snake, and then she comes out and
kisses him, and Costello's like, oh, I'll do it, And
then a snake comes out of his pot and he
kisses the snake and freaks out. Okay, that's cute. That
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was a cute gag that was kind of set up.
But the point is that all the snake charming gags
went on way too long throughout the rest of the movie,
Like that was cute. That little bit at the end
in the Mummy bar or whatever the hell they called
it was cute, right, But yeah, I remember watching this movie.
I never remember being angry at it. Am I angry
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at Abbot Costello? No? I think they had really shitty
just a generally shitty.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Writers.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Are John Grant, Lee Lobe? Are these are these people
that like worked with them a lot.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I don't know, or did they just tell them to
do their normal skit or watch some of the stuff
and say do this many this many times and that's
and if it's the actors going this is what we do,
then the director and that should have said, well, I
don't think this should have been.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
I don't want to like, okay, I don't want to
completely shit on this movie, but we need to tell
people how why it didn't work, and I think we have.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yes, it is because it repeats itself. If you are,
if you if you can't, if you can't take something
going on and on and on as a joke past
this one.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
This is obviously okay for kids. It is, even though
there's a mummy in it. But it's not too scary.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
To understand why I walked out of the movie Yeah,
is because one I like Abbitt and Costello. When I
was a kid, I really adored them.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
You still do. I think I still.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Like the Frankenstein movie, and I've.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Even the Invisible Man one had its right.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
But I didn't remember it being so maybe I wasn't
watching the whole movie. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yeah, as a kid, your attention wanders, and yeah, I
think that's what it has to be. It's that it's monotonous.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
In it's and I'm less of Aaron likes comedy. I'm
not very high on liking comedy.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
And you say that while you had a grin on
your face the entire time with Abbot Costello Meet Frankenstein
had grin. You enjoyed that movie and laughed. You don't
like comedy, Yes, you do. You do.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I like smart comedy. That isn't you doing stupid?
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yeah? You like? You like smart comedy, but you also
like silly comedy when people are enjoying themselves.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I e.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Your We watch Laugh out Loud on Amazon Prime all
the time, all like and even the even the German
ones where we're reading subtitles. It's silly humor. And you
will laugh and laugh and laugh at some of the jokes,
even though they're being idiots, right you you say you
(28:40):
don't have a sense of humor or whatever. But anyway,
point is we can't recommend this film. Is there anything
else we need to talk about? No, not really. I
don't think we're going to do any of the other
Abbot Costello movies. I do want to watch. Well, I
should say, the other abb Costello movies that have monsters
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or sci fi I do want to watch on our
own time. Abbot and Costello meet Jekyll and Hyde, not
year was that? I don't know. But with that said,
if it is bad, I'll shut it off and we're
not going to review it at all, because at this
point I have to say, like, hey, there's one good
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Earth versus Soup style Abbant Costello movie, and there's one
pretty good one, so Frankenstein Invisible Man. Those are the
two ones we've reviewed. Those were fine or good. This
was not. And I don't think there's anything else we
really need to say beyond. Abbitt and Costello were genius comedians,
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and at the end of their movie career it seems
like their writing staff and their own act let them down,
which is a shame because I actually respect them.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Well, it goes to the point that you have to
change up things. And that's what I was saying, saying
about the superhero things. They're not changing it up.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yeah, and it just the same nonsense over and over again.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
It's the same stuff.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
It's the same giant space beam that shoots into the sky,
like you know energy beam that you the thing that
opens up whatever gate in the sky. It just happens
over and over and over again. Like Okay, Yeah, I
don't know if there's anything else to really say with
this movie. I'm sorry for like having a negative view, But.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
How much would you rate this?
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Wow? This is I can't.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Rate it because I didn't watch the whole of it.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yeah, you actually walked out and would not come back in.
You were so upset this is. This is a two
and a half and I don't think I can actually
give it a rating as low as you know, rocket
Attack USA or Invasion USA. I still can't. I even
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think Creeping Terror is better than this. Who I do
think Creeping Terror is better than this, but I don't.
I don't think the two propaganda movies are are better
than this. This is Creeping Terror is this is pretty bad.
I will say, in this movie's defense, everything's in focus.
Everything is actually edited properly, and you can hear what
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everyone says.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
The joke is repeated, but not the film.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Yeah, so I think we need to leave it there.
I'm sorry for the short review, but I definitely wanted
to get in and talk about Abbot Costello in general
and why this movie was not so good. But I'm Aaron,
I'm darling.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Have a good evening.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
You keep watching the Skies. At no point in your
rambling incoherent response were you even close to anything that
could be considered a rational thought.
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Stupid, stupid, I said Santa Claus.
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Speaker 3 (01:07):
Wed Evening, everybody, and Welcome to Earth Versus Soup, Episode
two eighty two. I'm Aaron Pollier.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And I'm Darling.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
This is gonna be a weird episode, and it's because,
if you haven't known from our last couple episodes, we've
been doing the Abbitt and Costello movies. We hit the
wall on Abbot and Costello. I think we need to
like preface our talk today with a few things, but
we're going to talk about Abbot and Costello Meet the
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Mummy from nineteen fifty five. Obviously, Abbot and Costello are
the main stars of it. We also have Marie Windsor,
who is in Catwomen from the Moon that we recognize her.
She was in a lot of movies.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
She's barely in this movie.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
She's barely in it, and we know she's a good actress.
She actually was really good in Catwomen from the Moon.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It was filmed in October from October twenty eighth to
November twenty fourth of nineteen fifty four. It released in
June of nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yes, So the reason why I said that this is
a weird movie, well, it's going to be a weird
episode because we both like Abbot and Costello.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Correct, I like Abbott and Costello.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yes, this movie was it broke you? I think, to
be fair, it broke you.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well, I'm wondering if because my like of Abbott and
Costello is from being a kid. Yeah, and I could
see this movie being okay for a kid for a kid.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, we haven't even talked about the plot yet. I
know that we're already talking about this folks, And that's okay,
it's gonna be good for a kid. Why is it
good for a kid.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Darling, because it repeats itself.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Over and over and over again. Now, if you if
you have listened to both of our previous reviews of
Abbot and Costello in the Universal Pictures, like Abbot Costello
Meet Frankenstein, which we both liked, and I think we
would still we could still go back and watch right
now and probably still really like.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Wasn't there only one thing that they did too far
on that album?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
No, in my opinion, there wasn't. Okay, it's the second
one that we watched Abbot Costello Meet the Invisible Man,
where the shrink, the the the gag with the shrink
went on a little too long, and the stuff right
at the end was a big downer. This, every single
gag goes on so long that it's it's it's just
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not funny. Now I can cover the plot of this
movie very simply. And do I have notes, folks? Yes,
I actually have a page and a half of notes,
but most of it is me commenting about how a
joke is repeating too long, or how Abbott is being
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a dick to Costello, or there's a couple of positive notes,
and maybe I should just talk about those positive notes
when we start talking about good and bad. But the
effective plot is it's all an egypt. A egyptologist finds
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a sarcophagus of Claris, who is sort of it's actually
cars in the other Mummy films.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
K h here it is.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
He finds this mummy cult to want to get it back,
and a woman who for most of the movie I
thought was a cultist, Mary Windsor's character, Madame ron True,
also wants to get it, but she's actually just a
criminal wanting to like make money. I swear to God,
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for most of this movie I thought she was a cultist,
and maybe that was me just being completely like numbed
by the repetitive browbeating physical comedy or comedy routines that
just happened over and over and over again. Now he
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finds it. Ab't Costelli get into hijinks the Mummy is real.
What happens to the movie at the end, I don't know.
I don't know, Like I watched the movie, I don't
really know what happens to the Mummy in the end.
But avam Costello start a Mummy themed band bar where
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they have like I don't know, big band numbers where
everyone's dressed as mummies. The end, it is so empty
of plot that you could if you edited down the
overused jokes and physical comedy, it might be fifteen minutes.
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It might be fifteen minutes. And it was so numbing
that I actually, for the honestly the first time, I
might have walked out of Creeping Terror and come back,
but that was just because Okay, I was engaged with
most of Creeping Terror, as bad as it was, but
this was completely pointless. This entire movie was pointless. I
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was so disengaged with it. I was on my phone.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
They had good dancing, but the dancing has a problem.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Okay, So I summed up the plot and going through
scene by scene what is going on? There's no point
to it, okay, because it's them running around screaming. Uh well,
Castello screaming and Abbit being a dick. Now does this
work in other films, Yes, because a lot of the
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stuff isn't overused and it seems like these two have charisma.
Now I hate shitting on them films. I don't know
what the problem was with this, but let's talk about
what worked in it? Okay, And I can name a
few things. I'm sorry that if you were expecting, like
a really detailed plot synopsis, folks, I am sorry. This
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was an hour and twenty minutes long, where fifteen minutes
of it was content and I felt I did not
feel cheated with the Creeping Terror. I did not feel
cheated with Rocket Attack USA. Well, I never did. This
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is the first movie on Earth versus soup where I
honestly felt cheated, like I. This is Abbott and Costello,
for God's sakes, I want, I want to laugh, and
I never did.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
The Mummy was good.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
No, the Mummy wasn't good. The suit was cheap. I
actually put it in my notes. I put it in
what doesn't work?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I saw it in the casket.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Okay, So in your opinion, what works is the Mummy?
What else?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Some of the dancing, but it doesn't work too.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Yes, I I will actually go in on this and
say the dancing in this movie and the musical numbers,
because there's actually a couple musical numbers besides dancing, and
one number where there's a singer. Yes, very good. In fact,
it's the only times where I actually felt real engaged
in the movie where I was like, Wow, there's actual
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care to detail and performance here. I was, I was
in on it. I was bought for these movies for
that part of the movie right now. We had to
look up the appropriate term for what this movie does
in a couple of its dance scenes, and I apologize
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if it turns out that it isn't correct, But the
closest phrase that I could use is what was that
The performers in this used a form of Orientalism, which
basically lumps everything together culture wise, from North Africa, the
Middle East, India, the Indian subcontinent all the way into
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East Asia, where all these kinds of things are interchangeable.
So a lot of the dance numbers. While there is
Egyptian Ish i bography, there are clearly other cultures dancing
going on or costuming happening, And to me, it is
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a very very very lazy use of Orientalism. And I
I hope that I'm using that term properly.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
So I enjoyed the dancing, but I was, what's the
word you want to use?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I was offended too, Yeah, because it's Yeah, that's the
best way to put it is that we were both
kind of like, oh, that's that's not right. Come on,
there are I will add one thing to what I
feel worked. I I really do think that Marie Windsor
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did a very good job with nothing given to her
and underused in this movie to it and she might
be she might be the actual only legitimate actor outside
you could make an argument that Abbott and Costello are
both legitimate actors and they're pretty good. They're pretty good.
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They just their comedy doesn't work in this movie. But
Marie Windsor is legitimate and she's a good actress.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah. They had a troupe that was doing the dancing there.
They had a singer doing the song.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Peggy King as the vocalist, Chandra Colly and his dancers
for the dance troup, So like legitimate performers.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And they there is a scene where you do have
Costello's daughter in it.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, actually, and and you know what, I will say,
that made me smile. That did make me smile.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
She's a flower girl.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
She's a flower girl, and I think she's sixteen at
the time when she films this. And you do not
see lu Costell react to her as like a loving
father to his daughter, like he's literally acting as though
this is just a flower girl, and I was actually
surprised by that. That was that was good, and you
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could tell that she wasn't really an actress, but that
she was there because she loved her father and wanted
to do this movie, et cetera. And she had a
speaking part.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
The other thing we got to talk about is budget
and how much they make.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Okay, yeah, absolutely, because while we both agree what works
and what doesn't, well, what what doesn't work? Overall, we
didn't really touch on that. Besides, I feel the Mummy
costume doesn't work, so we are.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Both well, I didn't see it walk it was.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Because it's not bandages, it's it's a latech suit.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
In the coffin.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah, you're right, but I have to throw it into
the it doesn't work. The comedy does not work.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Well, it doesn't work because it's overdone of the same,
the same, the same jokes from for how long have
they been doing this?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Okay, since since the nineteen forties.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
So we'll talk about fifteen years yeah, of doing the
same skits, yes, and what they thought was working they
over did.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Yes. So as an example, when they're trying to like
find this professor. Professor Zumer is his name. They go
into his office and they find his body, and then
Costello tries to go find Abbot to get his body,
and you know that this is a routine. They're gonna
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he's gonna drag Abbot back. The body's not gonna be there,
and then he's going to find it again, and.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Is Abbit is gonna send Costello somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
And he's gonna find it again, and it's gonna find
it because somebody moved it. And that's gonna happen one time,
you know. And then Abbot's like, oh my god, you're right,
you're not an idiot.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
You and he even give him a camera to make
to do the picture, and he doesn't even do the picture.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
But the point is that the body gets moved four
or five times, and this happens.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I didn't count.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
It is It is twenty minutes of the same joke,
over and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And the other one is that when you see the
flower girl the medallion thing.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Him eating the medallion, Oh my god, I I almost disassociate.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
And it doesn't even make sense for the character that
Abbot is playing, because he's playing Abbot and he's come
across as a greedy person.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
But the medallion is supposed to be cursed and anyone
who holds the medallion has death that is coming for them.
So he's trying to get rid of the medallion. But
then Costello like, they're putting it in hamburgers and switching hamburgers,
and at first it's cute, but again it goes on
too long. Everything goes on too long in this movie.
And then Costello, Yeah, it goes on too long. And
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then Costello starts eating the hamburger with the amulet in it,
and you hear it crunch and rattle, and he's concerned,
but continues eating the hamburger with the amulet, taking larger
chunks out of it and eating it and crunching it.
And I literally stopped the movie at this point. You
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are angry.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I was angry, and.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I said this, this is so dumb that it's literally
a whole scene in Anchorman two. And what I was
trying to tell you was in Ankerman two, there's this
scene where the whole joke is everyone around Will Ferrell's
character are, well, they're all stupid people. But Will Ferrell's
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character is quote unquote blind and he keeps saying things
that he is doing that how miserable he is because
he's blind, and he's like, I drank a whole bottle
of ketchup, thinking it was a bottle of Chateau d'a
pouf or whatever, and everyone's kind of like looking at
each other, going, you know, a whole bottle of ketchup?
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Didn't you know that after a couple gulps that it
wasn't wine. I didn't know. I'm blind, and it's it's
the joke is that it's so stupid, and everyone around
him is clearly pointing out how stupid it is. That
makes it funny. Here it is Costello eats an amulet,
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a gold amulet, bite bite, without seeming concern that he
is eating it. Your teeth would be broke, and he's
just crunching away. He's just crunching and.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
It makes an odd sound as it goes down his throat.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Oh my god, and do you know that? But they
x ray him later, And this could have been funny
if I wasn't so pissed off about like how dumb
this was of him eating it. They x ray him later,
and there's letters on the necklace that spell out help
because he's being held captive, being X rayed. It is,
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it's not slapstick, it's a cartoon. And why we're talking
about this because I have now have to stop from moment.
There's so many other things that don't do not work
in this movie. We're talking about it because the first
two that we watched while Invisible Man was iffy, but.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Visible Man was going that direction anyway.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yes, and honestly, the Frankenstein one was good.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
It had several dog one monsters in it that it's
just like and good actor, good actors, but it's kind
of just like how much.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
You love.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Monster Squad, No, not monsters Godzilla. You sit there and
watch for the monsters. Sure, all the rest of the
stuff is just like, well, at least.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
In Evan Costello meets Frankenstein, I will say that, Well,
we're watching it for the monsters. The jokes are don't
overstay their welcome and there actually is a plot, right, Okay,
this just didn't And we're still talking about it because
technically it is a monster movie. Technically it is, and
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we said that we would watch it because it was
on the Universal box sets. We need to talk about it,
and we need to warn people.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
One of the things we need we have I have
a question. Ok okay, okay, first thing that we need
to discuss is the budget and how much it's mads.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Okay, now you're right.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Why I make the comment that I'm going to make.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
So here's here's this. Here's the thing. This is the
last movie that Abbot Costello did for Universal. There was
like a clip movie that Universal released later, but that
doesn't count, and they only did one other movie together
at all. Okay, so you think this this is this
is arguably one of the worst Abbot Costello movies made.
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It is the one that made the least amount of money.
It's budget in today's money, adjusted for inflation, is about
eight point five million dollars. Is this an eight point
five million dollar movie? Yeah? Actually it is. I see that.
I see that. So if this was a flop, how
much did it make? And I had I had to
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look for it domestically US only adjusted for inflation, it
made about fifty eight million dollars, So that means a
six point eight times return and investment. So a failure
of an Abbott and Costello movie effectively made millions upon
millions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
But then it brings me to the question of this
comedy is something that might have been it was it
was fading, yes, because more and more and more people
were not going to it. But the question is is
it kind of like our our superhero films today where
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they've put a lot of in it's the same thing
over and over again and over and over again, and
there's people that get tired of the same thing.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yes, it is some of that, but it's also.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
People still go to see.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yes because they are entertained or want mindless entertainment, and
you see there's a lot of Look as bad as
this movie was, and it's bad, obviously, we're both not
going to recommend it. But as bad this movie was,
can you see kids watching it and being entertained by it?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah? I can so kids, because Ken's are gonna are
entertained with something I can't even watch after I've watched
it once. And that's the Teletubbies.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Darling, you're already dating yourself. That's that's long gone now,
but I mean it is. It's it's repeating, right, and
I look, Okay, this was a failure. This was poorly
reviewed at the time, and even now, and it was
still a massive financial success. How people wanting to see
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a silly Abbot Costello movie because they grew up with
Abbot and Costello or they have kids that still love
abb and Costello, and everyone knows that it's going to
be legitimately safe fun for their kids to go watch. Now,
a six point eight times return on investment. I had
to look up their most successful movie, which is a
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war movie. While it's during the war, nineteen forty two, okay,
adjusted for inflation, inflation Rhightham Cowboy had a budget of
about five hundred and thirty thousand dollars that's in today's money.
In today's money, it made two hundred and seventy million,
So like a five hundred and forty times return on investment.
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And that's how popular they were.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
The other thing you got to know of history is
that as ab and Costello is leaving the ranks, who
is coming into.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
The Yeah, Jimmy Stewart. I mean there's Martin and Dean
Martin and yeah, yeah, yeah, not Jimmy Stewart, but you
know what, Jim Dean Martin. Yeah, anyway, all those people,
Jerry Lewis is coming up. Abbott and Costello and their
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routine were somewhat similar to the Three Stooges. Okay, the
Three Stooges were incredibly popular too, but they were going
out of the way because the slapstick repeating comedy stuff
just wasn't holding audiences attention. But with that said, again,
Abbott and Costello between like what nineteen forty two and
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nineteen fifty five, basically made all but two point five
billion dollars in today's money. Two point five billion dollars.
These two guys basically doing the same jokes. Shocking, right,
ou see why they're popular.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
You can see why they're considered a classic. Oh absolutely,
But this is the dredge.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Of well, yeah, this is this is the one.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
This is the dredge of their their stuff. And you
can see why this. You said it was the last.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
This is their last universal picture, and they only did
one other movie beyond this, and then they stopped doing movies.
At least this movie made me reconsider wanting to do
the Three Stooges sci fi movies. It did. I love
the Three Stooges. I grew up at the Three Stooges.
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I think at this point, unless it's of the quality
of Abbant, Costello, Meete Frankenstein, which legitimately was good. I
think the Three Stooges sci fi movies would.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Would break me, like this one has done for me.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yeah, this this one broke you. You walked out, you
were done after like a ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
And I remember watching this as a kid. I don't
remember how, I don't remember. I remember scenes of it,
like I always remember Aben and Costello in the their
their pith helmets. Yeah, and then then there's that whole
thing of him doing the flu which he did way
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too many times, it was.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
And right at the end there was one cute gag
with it is Abbot actually does it and a woman's
arms and snake gloves come out and start dancing and
twirling like a snake, and then she comes out and
kisses him, and Costello's like, oh, I'll do it, And
then a snake comes out of his pot and he
kisses the snake and freaks out. Okay, that's cute. That
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was a cute gag that was kind of set up.
But the point is that all the snake charming gags
went on way too long throughout the rest of the movie,
Like that was cute. That little bit at the end
in the Mummy bar or whatever the hell they called
it was cute, right, But yeah, I remember watching this movie.
I never remember being angry at it. Am I angry
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at Abbot Costello? No? I think they had really shitty
just a generally shitty.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Writers.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Are John Grant, Lee Lobe? Are these are these people
that like worked with them a lot.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I don't know, or did they just tell them to
do their normal skit or watch some of the stuff
and say do this many this many times and that's
and if it's the actors going this is what we do,
then the director and that should have said, well, I
don't think this should have been.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
I don't want to like, okay, I don't want to
completely shit on this movie, but we need to tell
people how why it didn't work, and I think we have.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yes, it is because it repeats itself. If you are,
if you if you can't, if you can't take something
going on and on and on as a joke past
this one.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
This is obviously okay for kids. It is, even though
there's a mummy in it. But it's not too scary.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
To understand why I walked out of the movie Yeah,
is because one I like Abbitt and Costello. When I
was a kid, I really adored them.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
You still do. I think I still.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Like the Frankenstein movie, and I've.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Even the Invisible Man one had its right.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
But I didn't remember it being so maybe I wasn't
watching the whole movie. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yeah, as a kid, your attention wanders, and yeah, I
think that's what it has to be. It's that it's monotonous.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
In it's and I'm less of Aaron likes comedy. I'm
not very high on liking comedy.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
And you say that while you had a grin on
your face the entire time with Abbot Costello Meet Frankenstein
had grin. You enjoyed that movie and laughed. You don't
like comedy, Yes, you do. You do.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I like smart comedy. That isn't you doing stupid?
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yeah? You like? You like smart comedy, but you also
like silly comedy when people are enjoying themselves.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I e.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Your We watch Laugh out Loud on Amazon Prime all
the time, all like and even the even the German
ones where we're reading subtitles. It's silly humor. And you
will laugh and laugh and laugh at some of the jokes,
even though they're being idiots, right you you say you
(28:40):
don't have a sense of humor or whatever. But anyway,
point is we can't recommend this film. Is there anything
else we need to talk about? No, not really. I
don't think we're going to do any of the other
Abbot Costello movies. I do want to watch. Well, I
should say, the other abb Costello movies that have monsters
(29:01):
or sci fi I do want to watch on our
own time. Abbot and Costello meet Jekyll and Hyde, not
year was that? I don't know. But with that said,
if it is bad, I'll shut it off and we're
not going to review it at all, because at this
point I have to say, like, hey, there's one good
(29:22):
Earth versus Soup style Abbant Costello movie, and there's one
pretty good one, so Frankenstein Invisible Man. Those are the
two ones we've reviewed. Those were fine or good. This
was not. And I don't think there's anything else we
really need to say beyond. Abbitt and Costello were genius comedians,
(29:44):
and at the end of their movie career it seems
like their writing staff and their own act let them down,
which is a shame because I actually respect them.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Well, it goes to the point that you have to
change up things. And that's what I was saying, saying
about the superhero things. They're not changing it up.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yeah, and it just the same nonsense over and over again.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
It's the same stuff.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
It's the same giant space beam that shoots into the sky,
like you know energy beam that you the thing that
opens up whatever gate in the sky. It just happens
over and over and over again. Like Okay, Yeah, I
don't know if there's anything else to really say with
this movie. I'm sorry for like having a negative view, But.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
How much would you rate this?
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Wow? This is I can't.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Rate it because I didn't watch the whole of it.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yeah, you actually walked out and would not come back in.
You were so upset this is. This is a two
and a half and I don't think I can actually
give it a rating as low as you know, rocket
Attack USA or Invasion USA. I still can't. I even
(31:02):
think Creeping Terror is better than this. Who I do
think Creeping Terror is better than this, but I don't.
I don't think the two propaganda movies are are better
than this. This is Creeping Terror is this is pretty bad.
I will say, in this movie's defense, everything's in focus.
Everything is actually edited properly, and you can hear what
(31:24):
everyone says.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
The joke is repeated, but not the film.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Yeah, so I think we need to leave it there.
I'm sorry for the short review, but I definitely wanted
to get in and talk about Abbot Costello in general
and why this movie was not so good. But I'm Aaron,
I'm darling.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Have a good evening.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
You keep watching the Skies. At no point in your
rambling incoherent response were you even close to anything that
could be considered a rational thought.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
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Good night,
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