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And I'm Caleb.
We're a couple bros on a mission to give you guys the most detailed movie reviews out there with as little bias as possible.
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This week on the podcast, we got nothing for 4k spotlight or through the wall.
Excuse me, sorry.
So my wallet thanks the Blu-ray gods for not delivering anything this week, so thank you.
But I don't know what else I was gonna say.
Yeah, so we don't know where the hell I was going with that.
I do want to point out really quickly.
So with through the wall, I mean, I know we got rid of the whole, you know, like talking about box office.
But like, dude, the because I watched a movie math today and frickin so.
Spider verse rose back to number one.
It brought in, I think.
Yeah, so which is awesome.
So yeah, Spider verse finished at number one.
Elemental actually got a boost.
And so that finished at number two, both with like 18 million, I think.
Yeah, but.
Frickin the Flash barely beat the new Jennifer Lawrence movie.
Barely.
Yeah, bro, it had the the second worst weekend drop for a superhero movie just behind Morbius.
It's a 72 percent drop.
Holy crap.
Yeah.
So yeah, we'll we'll see what happens with the DC.
The DC universe as a whole.
That blows. Yeah.
I mean, even though Elemental finished in second place, it didn't have a great first opening weekend, unfortunately.
So I feel it's probably going to more so find its stride on Disney Plus.
I feel like that's the case for most.
I mean, spoiler alert for most average Pixar movies.
I did not think this one was average.
Oh, this is an interesting episode then.
Yeah. OK.
Wow. OK.
Yeah, this is going to be very interesting.
Well, well, no.
OK. And now we definitely really got to get into our our headliner of the evening.
So, Caleb, since, you know, we got nothing for 4K spotlight or through the wall, what do you see?
We jump into our headliner. I say let's do it.
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All right. So like you said, our headliner of.
Sorry. No, you're good. We're good.
Yeah, we're good. OK.
Yes. Like I said, our headliner of this this episode will be our breakdown of the new Disney Pixar movie Elemental.
But before we get into that, we asked a question of the week and we definitely want to read off some of our favorite answers to that.
So we asked the question, what element do you think you'd be?
Yeah. So kept it nice and basic.
We are super unoriginal. Hey, that was a hard one to come up with a question for.
Oh, dude, that's fair. That is absolutely fair.
So, yeah. So like I said, we'll each be reading our top five.
So I'm going to start with an answer coming from Call Me Isa or Isa.
I feel bad for mispronouncing that.
But they said water. I am too emotional. Yeah, same.
I feel you there. So that's probably why mine would be water. I'm too emotional.
Which one was that on? Tiktok.
Yeah, my my number five.
I mean, this is really no specific order.
I don't know why I count down like that. That's how I know. That's how I am too. Yeah.
So my first one is from Socks underscore does underscore stuff who said is mayonnaise an element.
What was his name?
Then Socks does stuff under underscores between the two words.
It's like no socks. Mayonnaise is not an element.
I actually put in the comments, I said, no, Patrick, mayonnaise is not an element.
But yeah, I should put socks, damn it.
Can we just talk about how that is the funniest probably episode ever to be put on air of Spongebob?
Every joke lands in that episode.
The jokes are pretty good in that one.
I die every single time when it's the wind squirters.
Just like maybe if we play so loud, people might think we're good.
And then, you know, like the windows breaking, everything is like, OK, new theory.
Why don't we play so quietly? No one can hear us.
Oh, dude, I forgot. God, that is my favorite episode ever.
Like I said, every joke lands.
I love that.
Like Caleb said, mine isn't in any particular order either.
All of them are great. So this is coming from.
So for number four, coming from Katie.
I don't know, bro, probably cheese.
It's a good answer. It's a good answer.
It's a great answer.
All right. My next one is from Jake Flood 102 over on Instagram.
They said fire because I look warm on the inside,
but I'm actually a destructive force of nature that must be contained on the outside.
I don't know why that one just tickled my my funny bone.
Loved it. No, that's that's pretty good. I like that.
All right. My third one is coming from Joshi over on TikTok.
And he said Earth because I got that Claude Riz.
Fair. Definitely fair enough.
I like it.
The so OK, the next one is from B R8 on TikTok.
He said anxiety. Yeah.
I love that. That answer, dude.
I thought that was the funniest shit, like because I think that was one of our first comments.
And I was just like, I was I was driving home or I was walking.
I was walking in my car and I checked just because I like I didn't have time to look at the the responses we were getting.
And that was the first one that popped up. And I laughed so fricking hard.
That's great. You said it's come from B R8. Yeah. OK.
I don't know. Let's piggyback off yours. The one that's right above from pizza depressed.
Oh, man. Are you OK, man? Do you need a hug?
That's fricking hilarious.
What are we at? Like, is this our fourth pick now?
I think so. I think this would yeah, this is your fourth.
Yeah, this is four for me.
Yeah, this is why we count down. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Because we could just go on for days. All right.
So this one may be mildly insensitive, but still hilarious.
Shane, the candy cane to one for said the billing the billionaires on the submarine are definitely not air.
Damn, dude, I don't know about you, but I'm going to hell straight up for how many times I laughed at those fricking
tick tock memes. Oh, God, dude, me too. Same here.
And there's one that I I didn't and it wasn't even like a meme.
It was like an explanation of what would have like realistically happened to the human body in that situation.
And I was just like, oh, damn, like it was not good.
I'll explain it to you after it's a little graphic.
OK, apparently, I don't know if it's like actually real or someone just Photoshopped it.
But apparently there's a photo surfacing of like how the game controller actually survived.
No shit. Yeah, it's like just straight up on the ocean floor.
Yeah, there's a picture of it. I kind of really hope that's real.
Dude, I freaking died at the one where it's just like the the the voyagers or whatever
waking up on Thursday morning and it's that ending scene of the Titanic where everyone's welcoming Rose back.
And it like it like immediately cuts right before Jack turns on the stairwell.
I freaking laughed. I felt such like an asshole for laughing at that.
No, dude, this the frickin memes that have come from this, though, like have been fantastic.
Yeah, like this is this is how our like society frickin deals with trauma.
They just create memes and inappropriate jokes. And I love it.
Oh, shit. I number five or one, whatever, whichever.
For me would be it's coming from five star.
I think that's five stars. They said Earth because the vibe is nice.
I can agree with that. I can respect that, too.
My last one is from Link, the OG bot who said I'd be a fart.
So you see that someone on TikTok wrote Seaman.
Yeah, I saw that, too. Oh, Jesus.
I freaking love the humor on our in our comments.
I do, too. So good.
Oh, my God. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Thank you, everyone who answered our question of the week.
We really appreciate it. And some great answers, some kind of disgusting answers, but that's OK.
Yeah, that's fair. Yeah.
I mean, not all of them.
No, I know. But like by disgusting, I don't mean anything by that.
I know that we're gross sometimes on this podcast.
So like, I mean it out of love. I mean, you can speak for yourself.
I'm just kidding. Did you want to talk?
That's what I thought. Bitch.
Oh, man. So if this if this section proves anything or this portion of the show shows anything or reveals anything about us, the best way for your comment to stand out is to make us fricking laugh.
It's true. Yeah, that's true.
Dude, I wish I could have seen your face with that TikTok I sent you about the flashes VFX.
Dude, that was hilarious.
I laughed for a straight minute.
Dude, I almost woke up Brielle with how hard I laughed.
I had a feeling you'd get a kick out of that shit.
So yeah, I put my phone.
All right. I was getting ready for bed.
Like I came like walking in, jumped in bed and I was like setting the alarms on my phone.
And I just saw that you sent something. So I went to check it real quick and I laughed so hard.
Oh, man.
Because I had like that was great because I hadn't seen that format before.
Oh, yeah. That's the first time I had seen it too.
Oh, my gosh. So good. So good.
All right.
Well, like I said, thanks again for answering our question of the week. We really appreciate it.
But let's get on to this breakdown of the evening.
Headliner. Sorry. Same thing, right?
More or less.
Okay. I promise I'm not going to change to saying that, but it's it's it's kind of the same thing.
But Caleb, do you want to let people know how we break down movies on this podcast?
I would love to. If you are new to our breakdown system,
we have split movies into eight different categories that we individually score to come to a final All Bros letter grade.
The eight categories that we score are story, writing, acting, character development, effects, music, costumes.
And then we give it our own personal score at the very end.
The only one that's going to change with this one is going to be costumes.
It's just going to be more character design than anything because it's an animated film.
So with that, if you have not seen Elemental, definitely go see it.
Yeah, definitely. Go check it out.
Seriously.
Otherwise, if you listen beyond this point, Rose is about to spoil the entire freaking movie for you in a segment that we love called Reading with Rose with two E's.
Such an asshole. You love it. Don't lie.
I do. I do.
All right. Fire Elements, Bernie and Cinder Lumen immigrate to Element City where they face a xonophobia from other elements and struggle to find a home.
They have a daughter, Ember, and eventually establish a convenience store called the Fireplace,
setting up a blue flame that represents their heritage and traditions and attracting many Fire Element patrons over time.
Bernie intends to give the store to Ember when he retires, but first she must control her fiery temper.
When Bernie allows Ember to run the shop on her own, she becomes overwhelmed by the customers and rushes to the basement.
Her fiery outburst breaks a water pipe flooding the basement and summoning Wade Ripple, a Water Element and City Inspector.
Wade notes the faulty plumbing and reluctantly leaves for City Hall to send the violation report to his Air Element employer, Gail Cumulus, who will have the fireplace shut down.
Ember pursues Wade, but is too late.
Taking pity on Ember, Wade brings her to Cyclone Stadium to convince Gail to reconsider the shutdown of her father's store.
When Wade mentions he was investigating recurrent floods before ending up at the fireplace, Gail gives the duo a tight deadline to find the source.
If they are able to seal the leak, then the violation will be forgiven.
While searching the canals...
The canals? That sounds so epic.
It does.
While searching the canals for the source of the leak, Wade submiss...
...sermises?
Surmises.
Oh, surmises, thank you.
That Ember's temper derives from her trying to tell...
...from her trying to tell herself something that she is not ready to accept, but Ember denies this.
Sorry for a second, I thought I skipped like a whole sentence.
They then discover a hole in a dam that allows wave runoff from ships to flood the city's plumbing, so they close the hole with sandbags.
Meanwhile, Bernie deals with water leaks all over the fireplace.
Wade and Ember spend time together in the city and learn more about each other.
Later, Wade informs Ember that the sandbags did not hold, so Ember uses her glass-making ability to create a sturdier seal for the hole in the dam.
Meanwhile, Cinder suspects Ember is seeing someone and follows her.
Ember visits Wade's family at a luxury apartment where she uses her fire to fix a broken glass pitcher and pressing brook, Wade's mother who recommends her for a glass-making internship.
Ember also plays the crying game with Wade in which she successfully makes her cry when he admits he has feelings for her.
Gail then calls Wade and gives her approval of Ember's glass seal, thus saving the fireplace from closure.
Ember then realizes that she does not want to take over the store.
Bernie announces his intention to retire and hand the fireplace to Ember.
He tells his daughter how, when leaving his homeland, he bowed to his father, but his father refused to bow back.
Wade takes Ember to Garden Central Station to see the Visteria flowers, which she was denied seeing in childhood.
With the station now flooded, Gail provides Ember with an air bubble for safety while Wade pushes her underwater through the station.
Afterward, Wade and Ember find out that they are able to touch without harming each other and share a romantic dance,
but Ember re-amides herself of her duty to the fireplace and her family's prejudice against water elements and leaves, upsetting Wade.
As Ember is about to take over the fireplace, Wade appears and professes his love for her while also letting it slip as she calls the broken pipes.
Ember rejects Wade, but send her sense of genuine affection.
Disappointed, Bernie decides not to retire and denies Ember the store.
When the new seal on the dam breaks, the fire district floods.
Wow, sorry.
When the new seal on the dam breaks, the fire district floods.
After saving the blue flame, Ember and Wade become trapped in a room in the fireplace, causing Wade to evaporate from the enclosed heat.
When the flood recedes, a grief-stricken Ember confesses to Bernie that she does not want to run the fireplace and expresses her love for Wade.
Realizing Wade has seeped into the stone ceiling, Ember plays the crying game to get him to drip back into his normal form.
Ember reciprocates Wade's affection and they kiss.
Months later, Wade and Ember, now a couple, leave Element City so Ember can study glassmaking far away and travel the world together.
Before she boards the ship, Ember bows to Bernie, who returns the jester.
Okay, I'm just gonna throw this out here, and this would have been so ballsy for Pixar to do.
But what if Wade actually died? What if he did not come back?
Dude, that would have been... I don't know if Pixar is ballsy enough to do that.
I honestly wish they would have because I would have loved to see... I know it's like messed up, like don't get me wrong, I love the ending of this movie.
But I would have been so interested to see an ending where Wade does not come back and Ember...
I think that I could still see her going and doing that whole internship with the glass company because I feel that for how much of a connection Wade's mom and her had,
it's not like she's just gonna be like, oh well my son, you know, died. She knows that she didn't kill her son.
So she's not gonna be like, oh well yeah, I've retracted. That would still happen, I feel.
And so just seeing her still go out on that adventure but without Wade and just like the trauma that she would go through with...
She feels that she found her true love, but it was too late. It's never gonna happen.
That would have been so freaking dark for Pixar, but I would have freaking loved it. That would have been so freaking cool.
That would have been really, really ballsy of them, and I would have loved every single second of it.
But I did love the ending though.
I did too. No, don't get me wrong, it was great.
Oh dude, same here. It was great. Finally seeing them, you know, kiss for the first time, loving embrace. That was great.
But it would have just been so freaking ballsy of Pixar to be like, yeah, check this out, mic drop.
Yeah. Dude, have we? I mean, none are coming to mind. Like, at least off the top of my head.
Have we seen Pixar characters kiss like that?
I don't think so.
I can't think of like a single... like, just kind of going through the Pixar movies in my head.
I don't think we've ever seen like, at least a... cause I remember like watching it, like when they did,
and having it feel like, oh, that's weird, but like not for any specific reason.
I get what you're saying here.
It was more like, seeing a public display of affection in a Pixar movie was like odd.
Like, cause I mean, even like with The Incredibles, did we even get that with Mr. and Mrs. Incredible?
We see implied PDA.
Okay.
So I do know that she kisses him on the cheek. I know that it is implied that they pinch each other's butt.
Yeah, I remember that.
I don't think they share a kiss or anything like that.
I know that like they have like big family group hugs, but that's really it.
Like the only time that I'm remembering them kissing is when they get married in the first one, but like...
Yep.
But like, wasn't that kind of like a, oh, like you jump into each other's arms and then like it like,
it has them dip down to where we don't even see it or like rarely see it or am I like remembering this wrong?
No, you do see it.
You do? Okay.
Yeah, it's cause like they're in the middle of the conversation and then it like cuts to and they're like kind of a wider view of them.
And then, yeah, she kisses Mr. Incredible.
Okay.
Okay. Now I'm remembering I'm remembering it a little bit better.
So, yeah, so not the first, but...
One of like the very few I can only that's like the only characters I can think of in any Pixar movies.
Yeah, I know.
Or any Pixar movie.
Like a lot of the time you get like nuzzling like when it's come to like Cars or Good Dinosaur.
Speaking of, it's kind of funny that the director of the Good Dinosaur directed this movie.
He's definitely improved.
Yeah, dude, drastically.
Because, God, I did not like the Good Dinosaur whatsoever and I really enjoyed this one.
The only thing good about the Good Dinosaur was the effects on that.
Dude, and even not even like the character design I feel was good.
It was the backgrounds.
Like literally, if you told me that that was like just like actual footage that they had filmed, I would have believed you.
It did not look like animation at all.
Dude, true that.
But yeah, like getting to the story of like this was...
This was a timely story that they told.
Yeah, it really was.
Yeah, like definitely it's something we've seen before.
One side of a person... one side of a... wow.
One side of a... oh my God, I'm going to butcher the hell out of this. Jesus.
Do you want to talk?
Because I can't really wrap my head around of how I want to say what I was going to say.
Yeah, I was just thinking like when it comes to like what this movie was,
it touched... it turned the fire people into I feel like a bunch of different...
Oh gosh, what's the word?
Maybe like... I can't think of the freaking word.
Maybe like it turned them into like a bunch of different persecuted peoples like in our real world.
Yeah.
Like the comparison.
Like first off, like you have like the aspect that they immigrated from a different land entirely.
So you have that to deal with.
You have that they're kind of the minorities because the element city is built around air, water, and earth.
Where those people all kind of seem to live peacefully while the fire people have their own like little subsection.
They're definitely the odd man out.
Yeah.
I feel like you kind of have... so you get like a lot of the minorities.
You get like immigration.
I kind of feel like you get a lot of... maybe this was just me, but maybe like Jewish reference.
Like because it kind of felt like they're...
I didn't pick up on that, but that's interesting.
You didn't?
Because what got me was someone coming from a distant land, like immigrating and bringing their culture to this new land.
And it has like religious undertones about it.
So maybe that's why I like instantly like started thinking Jewish.
It's an interesting way to look at it. I like that.
Yeah. Like this... dude, like I may be freaking over-analyzing.
This movie really made you think.
I know. Like this movie freaking... I'm over-analyzing the shit out of it. I know that.
Nothing wrong with that, man. Nothing wrong with that.
Oh, that's great.
Yeah. But it was like so good.
Like on the other hand, too, like yes, they touched upon like all of those aspects,
but you're also dealing with like parent-child dynamics,
like maybe some guilt that the children of those people feel for pursuing something that makes them happy
instead of like carrying on with something that their parents have always like idealized for them.
Like it is... it was such a... like it's... oh gosh, I might have to talk myself up.
Yeah, I love it.
It's one of those movies. So I went to... I took Iris to see this.
Oh, hell yeah.
Yeah. And so she sat through the whole thing. She loved it.
Yes. That's awesome.
So it just kind of stands to show that this had something for adults to kind of sit on
and like think about compared to like their... like our lives,
because that was like the comparison I was making.
I was just like, this is like a lot of shit that we're dealing with.
And then it had all of like the fun aspects for children.
Yeah.
Like I don't... there was a bunch of children in my theater.
Luckily, it was a good viewing experience.
Mine was not that great at the beginning because there was this little girl behind me
that kept getting up and kept trying to wiggle her way.
Kind of like... it seemed like she was trying to jump over to the area that I was in,
like over the seats.
And like just before she was about to like make it all the way, her mom would be like,
sit down.
I'm like, you didn't notice that before she was already that close?
Yeah, that's friggin' tough.
Like too, there was that... there was this kid that was to the right of me that I'm...
all I'm saying is thank God that there was a seat in between me and these parents and their child
because this kid was literally just... I felt like off the rails the whole movie.
Like I get it, you know, like totally makes complete sense, you know,
a kid needs to stretch his legs throughout the movie sometimes.
Makes complete sense.
But not for the whole damn hour and a half, right?
Yeah, that's bullshit.
Okay. Yeah, that's what that kid was doing.
Yeah. I told Iris, like... because she usually would use the...
when we went to go see Little Mermaid, she wanted an excuse to stand up and like walk around.
And so she told... like she would tell me or Brielle like,
oh, I need to go potty, I need to go potty.
And so we'd run her to the bathroom, but she wouldn't go.
And so Brielle started asking, like, do you just need to get like wiggles out?
And she's like, yeah.
And so I told her like this go right.
Because so she luckily she sat through the whole thing, but we...
like right before the movie started, she told me she had to go to the bathroom and we had just gone.
And so I was like, okay. And I ran her to the bathroom.
She didn't end up going.
And I said, did you just need to get your wiggles out?
And she's like, yeah.
And so I told her, I'm like, if you need to get your wiggles out, you can stand up,
you just can't bug people that are watching the movie.
Like you have to be quiet.
You can get your wiggles out and like we can continue on with our day.
And she's like, okay.
And so there was a lot of times where she would stand up and it was so funny to see because she would like she would sit down,
be eating her popcorn, then she put like set it down to her side and just kind of like sit there for a minute.
And then she'd get up off of her seat and stand and then she'd like wiggle her whole body.
And then she'd like kind of walk back and forth between like my seat and her seat.
And then she'd sit back down and be fine.
And I'm like, this is perfect.
Like she's not bothering anyone.
She wasn't being loud.
Like she was getting her wiggles out.
Like it's perfect.
Yeah.
So like that's how it should be handled.
But I mean, anytime she got up, I was like on her ass.
I was more like, like, be loud.
I freaking dare you.
Damn.
Dude, I don't freaking play.
Like I'm not going to be the asshole that has a disruptive child.
But you'll be the one that checks his phone.
All right.
Sorry.
Oh, man.
I'm sorry. I had to bring that up.
Oh, I was about to go off.
Oh, shit.
I hope DJ is listening to this one because that one was for you, DJ.
Dude, the fire that built inside my soul.
Oh, shit. Oh, I love it.
Oh, my God.
Oh, shit.
All right.
If anyone ever wants to piss off Caleb, just mention him phone feeder.
Those are the three.
My instinct was to like freaking go off like oh, oh, my gosh.
Oh, that was great.
But so getting back to the story before I freaking pop a vessel.
Jesus. This was a really well done and well paced story.
Absolutely agree.
This it's a classic love story of opposites attracting.
But honestly, I love the way that it's done, you know, two elements that shouldn't shouldn't mix together.
But when they finally touch, it actually makes sense.
The way that they did the animation, I mean, we'll get to that, but just the way that like when they finally are actually they actually touch, I feel it's like it's so what's the word?
It's like honestly so movie and it's done so beautifully like I actually started tearing up when they first when they first touched hands.
It was fantastic.
Such a sweet moment.
Yeah, I freaking love that.
Gosh, like I think like the reason that it may be like stuck out to us is because of like the build up to it.
Because like you have these moments where he would like you could notice his arm was like boiling and so he'd scoot away.
And then like they would get close and then like one of them would be like nervous or like he'd start boiling again.
And so they back off and so it was just constantly doing that until it was just like this climactic moment.
Like, let's just see.
And you're like, I was just like, yes.
Yeah, so good.
So good.
So well done.
Like just that build up was perfect.
Their relationship alone.
I mean, definitely a lot of stuff happens in the background of this movie, you know, the side characters, everything like that.
But the love story between Ember and Wade is just so well, so well done and so well told.
And freaking I will admit there were many there were a couple of times that I did tear up during this movie.
I mean, I'm not shocked.
It's freaking Pixar and I'm a sucker for a good love story.
And this was definitely one of them.
So, yeah, fantastic job.
Yeah, I'm a big sucker for freaking love stories.
Like major sucker.
But I I found myself like recognizing the emotional parts, but they just didn't quite have the same impact as previous movies have.
OK, that's fair.
But I mean, regardless of my stone cold heart, like shut up.
I says the guy that cries when he watches Dear John, Dear John, or what?
So that's what it is.
My dad.
Yeah.
So that's a completely different movie, Rose.
I don't care.
But whatever my point still stands.
You say that you have a cold heart, yet you cry every single time you watch the notebook.
So I don't want to hear it.
Absolutely true.
I've cried with every viewing since my first with that movie.
See? Yeah.
And I feel like with each viewing, it's gotten worse.
Like it's because I know it's coming and then I'm just like emotionally getting ready and then it happens.
I'm like, I wasn't ready.
Oh, shit.
Oh, man.
But yeah, like it was still really well told.
I really like the relationship between Ember and her father.
And that was the thing that like maybe like verge of crying, but like kind of like emotional frickin donkey kick was when they bowed to each other at the end.
It's like, oh, dude, that was so sweet. So that's such a sweet moment.
I really hope that Wade and Ember's parents or they do.
I mean, we didn't really even get to see them talk to each other at the end when they were sending both their kids off.
But I do hope that they have somewhat of a decent relationship because Wade's mom genuinely seems like such a nice lady.
And I just want to be best friends with her.
Dude, right.
So I really hope that they have a good relationship.
Yeah, I bet there's lots of like funny.
Shorts or whatever that we could get from that relationship alone.
Yeah. Speaking of shorts, just really quickly, what did you think of the Carl's first date short?
Dude, that wrecked me.
Dude, right. Oh, you know what I love whoever I don't know who directed it, but kudos to them for deciding not to show the actual date.
The final thing that we see is just him walking with Doug to the actual date.
Like he says one, you know, he tells Ellie, you know, you'll always be my girl.
He's talking to her picture. You always be my one girl.
And, you know, I promise the latest I'll be is is 11 p.m. I promise.
It's just such a sweet moment.
Dude, that broke me. Right.
Same here. Oh, yeah. I started crying.
And the fact that this is Fred, Fred Astner, I think, is the voice of Carl.
Ed Astner. Thank you.
The fact that this is his last voice role as Carl, that really makes me even more sad.
So that made me cry even more.
Oh, man. You have no idea. Yeah.
No fricking clue.
I think that was like part of it that that did me in.
And then it was him talking to the to the picture that got me to.
But that that's that short had everything.
So when he when he dyed his hair. Oh, God.
I laughed so hard that like mostly because of like just that scene.
But it was it was Iris's reaction to it.
Because like we'd watched all like the Doug Day's shorts.
We've seen up like she knows Carl Fredrickson.
And so when he came down and his hair was like all dark, like like
her reaction was, huh?
And then she leaned over to him.
And I'm like, that's a great question.
Oh, my God. It's just her like.
Dude, that's amazing.
That's easily going to be my favorite memory from that that short.
Yeah, no, dude.
Completely, completely understandable.
Oh, my God. That's amazing.
I love like the age that she's at right now because she's just starting to like react to movies.
And it's like it's nice because it's not like it's it seems like she understands context a little bit.
Like, oh, yeah, this is funny.
This is sad. And like blah, blah, blah.
Because like there were moments where she would like just kind of hold my hand like it was more like the tender,
like lovey dovey moments and then like she'd sit there, be giggling her her pants off.
And it was great.
That's adorable.
But I mean, that just stands to prove how good this movie was crafted.
Yes, absolutely.
So where are you sitting at with the story?
Yeah, like honestly, I really enjoyed this story a lot.
And not going to lie, this might go down as like one of my new favorite Pixar movies.
So I'm honestly at a I'm going to say a 91.
I am not quite up there.
I think I had some issues and maybe like here and there is maybe mostly pacing.
The overall story was was good, but it was just some minor pacing issues.
I'm going to be down at like an eighty eight.
OK, that's not bad.
All right. Next up, we got writing.
The writing for like the different elements was so, so good, especially Wade's family of how like the littlest things,
like everything would just make them cry.
And the fact that they have the freaking crying game was so amazing.
Oh, my God, man.
I thought that was freaking hilarious, dude.
I love the crying game.
I will say this, though.
Initially, I found Wade to be a little annoying.
OK, I can see that.
I did it myself, but I can completely understand that.
Yeah, I think I think it was just like like it did well at building up his character.
So it's hard to want to dock it for that.
And I won't. I'll try to not let my score reflect my personal feelings.
That's what I always try to do.
But anyway, yeah, I just found that like how emotional I think he should have just been a little bit more like happy and chipper.
And I think the crying was just a bit excessive for me.
OK. I get that.
He kind of came off as like sad boy.
Like because I I've oh, man, this this may be a personal thing for me.
Because like what I'm thinking of is Wade came off as like a sad boy.
I know a lot of frickin people that use their emotions.
And mostly like when it comes to crying or sadness or anything like that to manipulate people.
And I can't stand that.
And so that's kind of what put a negative taste in my mouth with Wade.
But how are we still friends then?
Well, no, you not the same thing.
I don't whatsoever. I don't think I'm that way.
At least I hope I'm not. No, not even a little bit.
I hope you would tell me.
Like, well, straight up like fake cry to get there. Oh, God.
Yeah. To get their part, like to basically guilt their partner into doing shit.
Oh, Jesus. Like that's I hate people like that.
Yeah, that's too far. Yeah.
So that's kind of the initial vibe I got from Wade, because he it seemed like he would like kind of get emotional and cry.
And it would get to do something. Yeah. And I didn't care for that.
OK, I can understand that.
But like I said, I think that might be more of a personal issue than a writing issue.
No, I do. I get that aside.
I'm going to send that baggage off to the off in the corner and I'll unpack it later.
Oh, shit.
Oh, OK. So speaking, you know, like with Wade's, you know, endless crying everything.
What did you think of Embers anger issues?
Do you think that they were too overly done?
They weren't, honestly, everything that she like her father's just like, no, no, no, let's let let's not overreact, you know, just just let the customer have.
I'm like, no, like the whole free sparkler shit. Yeah, it's like I want to get one free.
Yeah. I know. I just want one for free.
I. OK, first off, that made me question her father as a business owner.
I'm like, how do you let like you just let people get away with that?
Like that? No. Yeah. Like a load of crap, load of crap.
And I don't know, maybe it's just me, but in like a place that, you know, is focused on fire.
Why would you just leave them on the counter? Yeah.
At least hide them somewhere and like just have a sign that says buy one spark or get one free so that you don't have to worry about someone just lighting them
out of the blue. Yeah. Like no joke. No freaking joke.
So. Yeah, I mean, I feel like that like did really well at basically getting us angry with Ember.
Yeah, it's true. Yeah, because you definitely sided with her when it came to those instances rather than her dad.
Yeah, I did. I will say this, though, the line that Wade throws at Frickin Ember like hit me like a ton of breaks
when he was saying like, oh, like maybe your anger is just telling you something that you don't want to hear yet.
I was like, he I'm like, oh, damn it. Yeah.
I was like, oh, shit. Yeah. Like Frickin. It's just like another like Frickin luggage that's going in the corner, getting ready to get unpacked later.
It's like, God damn it, Pixar. Why are you so good at this shit? Yeah.
Dude, like they're so good at just taking these little lines and like Frickin ninjas starring them in the back of your brain.
Dude, straight up like whoever Frickin did writing for like the main one I think of is like WandaVision.
That grief is just love that doesn't know where to go.
And I'm like, oh, yeah, damn. Talk about an emotional gut punch with that line.
Yeah. And like same thing with this line. Same exact thing with this line. Frickin pissed me off.
But in a good way, right? Yeah, in a good way. Definitely in a good way.
But still aggravated me. So, OK, understandable. I get it.
Yeah. Gosh, like they had some good dialogue in this, like really solid dialogue and like good jokes that like weren't even at like the forefront.
Like when they went to Wade's place or his aunt's like wherever he was staying, like was it his mom's place?
I think it was his mom's place. So, yeah, when they're at his mom's place and his nephews come and they're like,
if you fall in the water, do you die? And then they start shaking her chair. I was just like, dude.
It's like, damn. Like, I sure as hell hope not.
So like I know they showed it in the trailer, but the fact that his brother named his kids Marco and Polo, that makes me so happy.
That was the funniest shit, dude. Oh, I love the I love the the name puns. Yes.
Like greed. Like it's so it's funny because you can like based off of the names, you can almost tell what everyone was, like what element they were.
I mean, like Ember, you freaking like that's a freaking gimme her dad, Bernie, like burn. Yeah.
Her mother, Cinder Wade, his full name was Wade Ripple.
This thing was was packed full of freaking puns. Yeah, no, seriously.
My personal favorite was Gale. Yeah, that was great.
Oh, I love that. And then like just going through this.
These other names real quick, like you got, like I said, Gale, you got Wade's mother, Brooke, Claude, Flairietta, Fern, Flairie.
Like the freaking puns are top notch, top freaking notch.
Absolutely agree. So so what are you thinking with writing?
Honestly, I didn't really I might just be like a tad below, but the writing was still just as good.
It's like I think I'm going to go a 90. Yeah, I might be around where you're at, not at a 90, but just like one below my writing score.
So I'll give it an 87. All right.
Next up, moving on over to acting.
We have Lea Lewis, who voiced Ember, Mamoudou, Mamoudou, Mamoudou, Amoudou, Athe, who voiced Wade Ripple,
Ronnie Del Carmen, who voices Bernie, Ember's mother or father, Sheila Omi, who voiced Cinder,
Wendy McClendon Covey, who voiced Gale, and then Catherine O'Hara, who voiced Brooke, Wade's mother.
Why do I feel like I know the Sheila Omi?
That's a good question. Nothing I've freaking seen.
Oh, yeah, like nothing I've seen.
I feel like I recognize that name for some reason. I have no idea why.
I got to say, though, I really like that they got actors that aren't super like A-listers.
Same here. Yeah, because I feel for the most part, everyone here just blew it out of the water with their voice acting.
Did a fantastic job. Oh, yeah.
Dude, this, I hope that Pixar or just animated studio, I hope this movie does well to show that you don't need a big ticket name.
If you have a movie that looks good, like that should be the selling point.
I mean, you could honestly say that with Spider-Verse. I mean, yeah, you got some decently heavy hitters.
But if I'm thinking of the main characters in the first one, especially the guy that played Miles Morales, I had never heard of the guy.
Yeah. And he freaking blew me away with his voice acting.
Yeah, he did amazing in that. Sorry, I'm looking up Wade's IMDB. He hasn't been in a lot either.
I recognize the face, though.
Probably. Did you watch Jurassic World Dominion?
That's what it is.
Yeah, I haven't seen that one yet. He was in the unicorn store, though.
Oh, hey, the movie that I hate more and more.
Dude.
I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I joke. I joke.
Yeah, I mean, the cast here is fantastic.
Yes. Absolutely.
So what's your top three look like?
Top three for me is looking... Sorry. Number three, I'm going to give to Catherine O'Hara, who played Wade's mom, Brooke.
Absolutely loved her. I wish that we could have gotten more with her. Like, honestly, she was so, so great.
So funny. And I love the connection that Wade and Brooke had as a father and son. Father and son. Sorry.
Mother and son. Great relationship. And honestly, I would have loved to see more of it.
Number two, I'm going to give to Leah. Is it Leah or Leah?
I said Leah or Leah.
Okay, Leah.
Leah.
Leah. Leah Lewis, who played Ember. Amazing, amazing job. Absolutely loved her. She really brought this character to life.
When she was finally brought into Wade's life. Absolutely amazing. Yeah, Leah just killed it with this role.
But number one, I got to give to... I'm going to... Sorry, I'm going to butcher this name. Mamadou? Mamadou?
It's such a hard name.
I feel so bad. It's such a cool name.
I mean, we think.
Yeah, true.
I'm going to go with Mamadou. I hope that's right.
Athie, who played Wade. By far my favorite character in the movie. And one of the biggest reasons, of course, is the voice.
Mamadou. Mamadou. I'm sorry, man. You absolutely killed it.
I was like five seconds away from calling him Mr. Athie.
Mr. Athie. Okay, you know what? Let's do that. Mr. Athie killed it in this movie as Wade.
Like I said, Wade is my favorite character in this movie and Mr. Athie is a huge reason why.
The emotional scenes that he has to have, not only just because he's a crier are great, but the emotional scenes that he has with Ember are just so great.
And I absolutely loved his performance. So he is my number one.
Dude, his performance was just freaking magnetic.
Yep, agreed.
I loved... once I got over my personal hatred of his type of people, I...
Oh, that's so funny.
I dug him. But yeah, my top three looks almost exactly like yours, except I would flip-flop Wade and Ember.
Okay.
But yeah, he pretty much covered everything that I was going to say about him.
So I freaking love them. Nothing but good to say.
I will say this though.
That's cool though, your three is the same. That's awesome.
Yeah, and it was close. It was close between her and Bernie.
So Ronnie Del Carmen.
Fair.
It was really close.
But I feel like Catherine O'Hara is the type of person that just can do no wrong in my eyes.
I love her.
Seriously, she is a national treasure. I love her.
Yeah, so it was real close. Could have freaking been a coin flip, but I'm giving it to Catherine O'Hara.
I love it.
All right, so what are you sitting at with your acting score?
I don't know. No one really brought it down for me. I had a good time with all of the performances.
So I think I'll give it the same score as my writing. Yeah, my writing. I'll give it a 90.
Damn, we might be on the same page with that.
Hell yeah.
I'm going to bump it up a little bit higher than my writing, so I'm going to give it the same as my story.
Okay, there we go.
I'm giving it an 88. All right, next up we got character development, which this was kind of more focused on Ember.
Yes, yeah, I definitely agree. And great character development, I got to say.
Seeing her start out as someone who is so dedicated to making her father happy that she's so excited to take over the store.
When her father finally decides to retire, just the whole plan that he has laid out for her.
She genuinely seems excited, but then when Wade comes into her life, she finally realizes that is not what I want.
I actually want to be my own person. I don't want to follow in my parents' footsteps.
I want to pursue something I'm really good at. The, what is it, fire glass?
Yeah.
No, she wants to pursue that. Seeing what happens when her parents find out about that.
But thankfully it all works out in the end and she's able to go with that, with her father's blessing.
And Wade gets to come along as well. I feel it's a really good character arc.
I mean, it's nothing like groundbreaking.
But for the character that they set up for, wow, the character they set Ember up as in this movie, I feel the character development really, really works for her.
Dude, I absolutely agree. I thought she went through some incredible growth.
And I like that it was, she was kind of ushered by Wade to like, yes, have this change.
And open her up to the changes that she needed to make within herself.
So, I mean, that was, it was really well done.
And it's, the way that it worked is like you see her kind of at a high.
And then it just, things just kind of continually get worse and worse and worse for her until she has that realization that she wants to do something different.
And then she almost, I mean, not almost, she does. She like straight up rejects it and like turns, turns Wade away and like get out of here.
And like that was like freaking heartbreaking.
Dude, seriously, the fact that throughout this whole character arc, she's finding her person at the same time is amazing.
I absolutely love it. Yeah.
And that like damn near everyone could see the connection that these two had except them.
Or maybe not even them, maybe just her. Yeah.
Because Wade was all in there. Yeah. Oh yeah. He was all in.
Dude, freaking that part where it's her mom is doing that whole ceremony thing.
And, you know, she's like, yeah, you can't fight, you can't light the flame. So yeah, it's not true love.
But then he does the whole thing with, you know, lifting his shirt and he's able to light it through his stomach.
Wow. Through his stomach. Just every like that was so freaking cool.
And that's just freaking true love right there. God, I loved that. That was fantastic.
I was wondering how they were going to pull that off. Yeah, right.
Like it took me a second to realize like what he was trying to do. I was just like, dude, like you use like leaving and then it like turned into like what it did.
It was so, so dumb. Can't freaking talk. So good. You OK? Yeah, really?
Yeah, I freaking loved their story and just Ember's personal story, too.
Like once she was finally able to tell her dad what she wanted and his almost immediate acceptance of that.
Yeah, it was it was really heartwarming. And I I appreciated it.
Dude, I was caught off guard. I don't know about you.
When they showcased that the two customers that were always in the fireplace, they're the ones that took over the store.
I was caught off guard. I did not expect that. But I loved it. That was good.
That was so great. I loved that. That was a smart. That was that was good writing right there.
That was damn good writing. And then he became the like the freaking lazy ass on the chair. So, so good.
Oh, man. Yeah. So I mean, the character development here was fantastic.
Like everything made sense. Like it just it took you on like a wave of sorts because you see like how much you mean a wade.
You're dumb. Yeah. But not like how it's like a downward arc.
And then you just kind of see the highs and the and lows until you eventually get to like the really like to the bottom of of this arc and then work your way up to to the top.
What and what we get at the end. And I thought it was incredible. Like it's almost like a reverse arc in a way because you see you see Ember at the beginning who's who feels like she knows what her purpose is.
She knows that she wants to run the store and you see Wade come in and he completely flips all that on his on its head and makes her start to question herself like what she actually wants out of her life.
And then she gets to the like the end where it seems like she's searching still searching for that purpose and she's off to explore and see if if what she's wanting in the moment is what she really wants.
And it was I thought that was great. Like kind of steering someone off the path that they've set for themselves or have had set in front of them.
So I think it's it's really really interesting story once you start like deep diving into it.
Agreed. Absolutely agreed. So what are you thinking with character development.
Just because like it was great in this movie but it just wasn't like anything like groundbreaking.
I think I'll be sitting at like an 89. That's a little high for me.
Yeah.
Question is how I know like this despite what I said and how much I like love what this story was.
I love how well the story worked for these characters.
But I'm with you. I don't think it was groundbreaking and the slightest.
It was it was good. It was interesting and it was well told.
But yeah it wasn't the best in the world.
Like I've seen similar stories and kind of follow this path.
But I mean obviously not as well told as this.
So I'm I'm sitting around like an 86.
All right. Next up we got effects which is mostly talking about the animation.
Oh my god this animation was amazing. Beautiful.
That's all I have to say. You're probably not going to like me.
Oh shit. Were you not a fan. I. OK.
Don't get me wrong. The stuff that was supposed to be like beautiful and inspiring was.
OK. The rest of it though was a little underwhelming.
Oh OK. So I have a. Oh man.
I feel like I'm trying to think out of this.
I like to see continual growth come from studios.
One that I feel as a chill freaking chill out.
I feel so like the prime example has been Dreamworks for me.
That is like like they're at the peak of their their animation style right now.
And it's because it is really stylized.
Had a hard time thinking of that word.
This feels like if it feels like Pixar has kind of been stationary.
What Rose is about to frickin burst a vessel.
You saw how Ember and her family look right.
The amazing animation of the flames.
That's something Pixar has never done.
I know. But it's just something about like.
I know like don't get me wrong. I guess the character design is great.
Don't get me wrong. It's just I'm thinking about the world at large.
Like this world was like super underwhelming.
See I disagree because I get where you're coming from with you know puss and boots you know being stylized and everything.
But I feel with them they're still taking a book.
They're still taking a page. Dreamworks in general now.
And a lot of animation studios from Spider-Verse.
Honestly animation will never be the same after Spider-Verse.
That that movie those movies changed animation forever.
But to me Pixar is still different in the fact that they're still trying things different.
I just I just reiterated what I said.
But god damn it we've never seen them do this kind of stuff.
A person made completely out of water.
A person made completely out of flames.
This is something we have never seen them do.
And the fact that they pulled it off this well and the animation is just flawless on them to me.
I feel Pixar deserves another win.
For how they still continue to impress me after so many years of their upgraded animation.
They blow me away every time.
But I'm also a Pixar whore so you know that could be also a reason.
I will fully admit I'm a Pixar whore.
Dude it okay.
It's like with this it was a different body.
Same face.
I still disagree but that's just me.
Like it.
I don't.
Gosh.
Okay.
I'm looking at pictures right now just to see like what I might mean.
I think like the eyes.
I don't know.
Like okay.
The Earth characters.
The Earth characters have very Pixar esque eyes.
Like I feel those are freaking drag and drop from other projects.
Remember I will say is look is the most 100 percent original.
Wade looks like a Charlie Brown knockoff.
I got it.
I got.
He looks like he came from a frickin Charles Schultz comic.
Oh you can rightfully go suck one.
That's all I got to say.
You can rightfully go suck one.
I know I had a feeling I was going to get hate for that.
Like don't get me wrong.
Sorry man.
The animation was good.
It's it's just good.
It was just wow.
Wow.
Dude I'm going to bump up my score just in spite.
I'm at like an 85.
If I'm being 100 percent honest.
Oh screw you.
I okay.
I'm kidding.
I'm at an 85.
I'm at a 95.
Fair I kind of expected that.
And I'm going to point this out right now.
That was my original score before I before you freaking bash this animation.
I did bash it.
You asshole.
You kind of did.
Oh man.
I knew I was going to DJ for Sam.
Am I wrong.
I don't know.
I'm just like calling out two people here.
But he bashed the animation of elemental.
I didn't bash shit.
Keep telling yourself that.
Dude I knew as soon as I came out of this movie that I was going to that we were going to have issues when it came to effects.
I'm pretty sure we're going to be like pretty on par with everything else.
It's just when it comes to effects I think we're going to have issues.
And I was absolutely right.
Lo and behold here we are.
Oh man.
But all right.
Moving on over to music.
The soundtracks I would say very good.
I will say the original song that they excuse me.
The original song that they did for this movie.
Really really good.
I forget the band.
I know it's called Steal the Show.
Sorry.
Let me scroll through Spotify here.
Steal the Show by Love.
I'm assuming that's how you say their name.
I freaking love that song.
I think it's a great original song for this movie.
So while that is great I feel that the soundtrack surrounding it is just good.
It's not great.
It doesn't really it doesn't necessarily stand out to me a lot.
But that song alone definitely does bump me up.
That's fair.
I wasn't I wasn't too impressed with any of the scores.
But I like you said I like the original song and that was about all I could say about the music.
Where are you sitting?
I want to say seven.
Seven.
I was leaning more towards six.
I can give you six.
Yeah.
I'll let you have that.
I'll be nice.
For those of you that don't know music and costumes are the one where the only two categories where we kind of have to be unanimous about it.
Yeah.
So yeah that's why we don't average that one out.
All right.
Next up we got costumes which for this is going to be character design.
And this is this will more accurately reflect what I feel about these characters.
The animation style.
Yeah.
Wasn't the biggest fan.
But the design of these characters was really good.
OK.
I really liked how like all the water characters looked.
I loved how Amber looked like I thought she looked credible.
Seriously like oh my God.
Yeah.
Like all the different like characters like they all looked really good and like felt like their own like individuals.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Absolutely agree.
Which is wild when it like your when it comes to like the cloud people like all the cloud people felt different.
There weren't very many that I felt looked similar and the if I did think they looked similar it's because they're super far away and I can't really see them all that well.
Fair.
That is absolutely fair.
I think they did really well with the the earth element people.
Yes.
Like I felt that was really smart making them different types of basically trees.
Yeah.
Just like it was either dirt bushes weeds like a super wide array of of styles with that.
And then the water people like they all had different styles too which was great.
Like they all kind of had different shades of water like kind of it's true.
They kind of range from like a really light a really light sky blue to kind of a really rich purple.
Yes.
Definitely agree with that.
So I thought that was really well done.
I'm trying to think of other things that like stood out to me about these these characters.
I think I thought it was really well done.
Like everything that they they pulled off.
No honestly I agree.
I don't really think I have anything else to add.
I liked how each element kind of had a base style and then like was able to adjust themselves based off of that.
Honestly the only people that I feel they had maybe struggles with like a diversity of designs was when it came to the fire people.
That's fair.
I can definitely agree with you there.
But yeah other than that I loved it.
Like I thought it was really well done.
They have a solid silhouette which is something I'm always looking for.
So I'm fairly high with this one.
How high are you though?
I am so what what are you at because I have a I'm like I'm sitting at like a nine and a half.
I was sitting on a nine.
Okay so I can give you a nine.
I was saying like nine and a half because it's like I could go either way like if you wanted to give it a ten.
Okay maybe more realistically I was sitting at like a nine point four.
Okay.
But you could have definitely been talked up to it's head.
It would have taken some some convincing not a lot but some.
Okay all right.
Fair enough.
So yeah I'm sitting there.
All right.
Last up we got personal score.
Who do you want to take this one.
Yeah.
Dealers choice.
Why does that be my choice.
I'll go first.
Overall I freaking loved this movie.
This is to me is Pixar back on top after some like don't get me wrong.
I've liked all the previous Pixar movies but to me this is them being back on top since probably probably onward because I really enjoy onward.
But I've kind of just enjoyed their previous work after that.
But this I loved.
I had such a great time with this one.
The love story was absolutely fantastic between Ember and Wade.
Their whole the dynamics between both of their families were absolutely great.
And just yeah overall such a fun movie such a great love story.
And I honestly can't wait to see this one again.
This this definitely has reached my top probably 10 Pixar if not top five.
We'll see after a couple more viewings.
So I'm sitting at Caleb might kill me for this.
I'm sitting at a 93.
Hey I won't I won't judge you on on your enjoyment of this film.
It is a really good one.
It is a damn good movie.
I had an absolute blast going to see this.
But I feel in my heart that it was mostly due to going to see it with my kid.
I think my reason why I enjoyed it so much started to cut you off.
I'm not good.
But it's like I want that love story.
It's like come on.
So there's my like hope that like maybe one day I'll get that.
So I think that's probably why I really enjoy this movie even more.
Not that I'm lonely.
Kind of.
But I didn't want to come out and say is not scream.
I'm lonely.
You know what.
Fair enough.
Fair.
I had a good time with this movie.
I really liked the self-reflection that it helped had me do just kind of take in the more adult themes from this.
Like I really enjoyed that.
Or not adult.
I'll say more mature themes.
Like the things I could pull from this as an adult that I really appreciated.
And yeah.
I mean it's a great kids movie.
It's a great movie for adults.
It's not one that makes me want to frickin run my head first into a brick wall.
Like that's like something important that I'm looking for in movies like this.
Just ones that like my kids can enjoy and then one that I can enjoy as well.
So yeah.
I had a really good time.
Not as much of a good time as Rose did.
But still a really good time.
After you say your rating I actually did change mine.
I'm sorry.
You're changing yours?
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm giving mine an 87.
Okay.
So I'm changing mine to a 91.
Any particular reason?
I remembered that I think I gave Spider-Verse across the Spider-Verse a 93.
And I'm sorry.
Don't get me wrong.
I love this movie.
But they are not on the same level that close or they're not exactly on the same level.
And I still enjoy Spider-Verse a little more.
So I just got to knock it down a little bit.
But it's still in the 90s.
It's still in the 90s.
You got to give me that.
That's reasonable.
I guess.
All right.
Well, I have my reasons.
With that, that wraps up this week's breakdown.
So going through these scores real quick, starting off with story.
We're kicking it off with an 89.5.
Writing is down one point, sitting at an 88.5.
Acting jumps up half a point, sitting at an 89.
Character development was one of the lower categories that we scored.
But it was still sitting at, it's very solid, 87.5.
The effects were definitely one of the higher points of this movie, sitting at a solid 90, despite my best efforts.
Ah, screw off.
The music was average.
It was good, but average.
So we ended up giving that a six.
The costume or the character design was really well done.
So we ended up giving that a nine.
And then our personal score ended up averaging out to an 89.
So with all of that, all of those numbers, the final Albrows letter grade for Elemental has come out to a B plus.
Woo. Yeah.
Love it.
Yeah, that's a great score.
So I'm super happy with that.
So it ended up getting an 87.31.
So, I mean, it got, it did pretty damn good.
Like, let's see, compare to our other.
Alright, so out of 56 B plus movies.
This, yeah, this ended up ranking at.
Where the hell did it go?
Oh, here it is.
Is at 36.
Okay, it's not bad.
Yeah, not bad at all.
So, like I said, it is sitting at an 87.31, which puts it at the exact same level as Detective Pikachu.
Oh, shit. Okay.
Yeah, so freaking love that.
Yeah.
So let's see, going up what it's below first.
So Elemental is sitting below Freaky, which is at an 87.37.
It's below The Black Phone, which is at an 87.5, as well as How to Train Your Dragon.
Okay.
It is also below Parasite.
Alright.
And then it is, then it's below Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves.
Okay, not bad.
Yeah, then going the opposite direction, we ended up putting it above The Willoughbys, which is at an 87.24.
Beth, I'm sorry.
Isn't that her favorite, like one of her favorite movies?
I don't know. I thought I was the only one that liked that movie.
I thought she liked it too.
Did she?
I thought maybe, I could be wrong.
I don't know, that was quite a while ago.
Great, that's what I'm going to be re-listening to tomorrow.
You're welcome.
Alright, let's see, it is above Psycho, which is at an 87.1.
This is gonna piss you off.
It's above Halloween 1978, which is at an 87.06.
I'll allow it.
It is above Nobody, which is at an 87.
And then it is also above Nightmare Alley, which is at an 86.87.
Alright, not bad.
Yeah, so the margins are ridiculously close here.
Yeah, no kidding. Seriously, damn.
Yeah, like, you're not even getting a full percentage, like let's see how far down you have to go.
To get a full percentage, you're down 16 movies.
Wow.
Yeah, that's just getting 1% away.
Damn. That's insane.
Yeah, that's freaking wild.
So, yeah, I'm pretty happy with where this ended up.
I think this is like the perfect home for it.
Yeah, I can agree.
Yeah, so. Um, unless you got anything else you want to say, Caleb, about Elemental?
That I do not.
Okay, well I would say that that will conclude this episode of the Albros.
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So that's going to be a fun one. Let's hope it's better than number four.
But I mean, that's a ridiculously low bar.
True. You know what? He's got a point.
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Ah, the fuck. Ah, I've ruined my Carl voice.
Deuces.