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Welcome to the All Bros Podcast.
I'm Caleb.
And I'm Jonathan.
And we are a couple of bros on a mission to give you guys the most detailed movie reviews
out there with as little bias as possible.
Welcome to the All Bros.
This week on the podcast we got a few things that we're going to be discussing in Weekly
Watch.
And after that, we got a couple things in 4K Spotlight that we're going to cover just
real quick.
They weren't like the biggest item, so that's why we're not going to do like a full blown
thing about it.
But yeah, so we'll cover that real quick.
And then after that, we will get into this week's headliner where we will be breaking
down IF.
Yeah, buddy.
Hell yeah.
So without further ado, let's say we get on into this.
Let's do it.
This is failing Hollywood with me, Billy, Grant and your host, Mikey T. We work in film
and it's terrible.
And yeah, there's like strikes and stuff and then COVID and stuff.
I keep a toaster next to my bathtub.
Yeah, because we work at props.
That's why.
That's because I want to die.
I thought you kept your soap hot, you know, just like it down, heat it up if we rub it
all over your body.
All right.
Starting off with 4K Spotlight.
Yeah, we didn't get like a special presentation made up for this one.
There's just a few movies that are coming out.
Oh, well, I guess I can pull it up while I'm talking about it for those of you that are
watching instead of listening.
Anyway, Rose, would you like to tell them about what it's going to be when I actually
get it pulled up?
Yeah, I would love to.
So coming out in July, we got a couple of movies hitting the physical media market.
I don't know why I said it like that.
The biggest one I feel is Civil War, they knew a 24 film, which I saw in theaters.
I thought it was just the more that I think about this movie, the more it unfortunately
goes down for me.
I just thought it was OK.
It was all right.
The last like 10, 20 minutes, I will say definitely captivated me, especially the ending, how
it leads into the the end credits.
Very, very messed up.
But you know, other than that, it's not my favorite 24 film.
I've definitely seen them do better than this.
But you know, teach their own maybe maybe other people like it.
I'm sure they do.
It's just not my favorite.
So with this one, we're getting just a regular 4K and Blu-ray for those watching.
You can see that it's I think I'm pretty sure this was the frickin teaser poster.
And it's just freaking basic, which is why I like the Amazon exclusive better personally.
That one.
Right.
So the first one is a you see a bunch of helicopters circling above the Statue of Liberty.
Now, like kind of like Caleb said, it's basic.
It's all right.
It's decent.
It's kind of cool a little bit, but it is basic.
But the Amazon exclusive, I love so much more because it is a close up of the flame in the
hand of the Statue of Liberty and then frickin a was it like a bunch of soldiers camped out?
Is that what it is?
I think those are sandbags or something.
And then they have snipers from the from the top.
OK, like that is just frickin cool.
So if I can ever get the Amazon exclusive on sale, I will definitely pick this up.
Even though you didn't like the movie.
I don't know, man.
If I can get it on sale for like 10 bucks, I'll pick up that cover.
OK, fair enough.
That's a pretty discounted rate.
Yeah, I'm not paying full price of that.
Then next up coming to Blu Ray, we have challengers, the new Zendaya movie, which I've I heard
this was pretty damn good.
I heard like Zendaya was absolutely incredible in this.
So I'm very, very interested in checking this one out.
I'm probably not going to blind buy it at least at full price.
But if it goes on sale, like for 15 bucks, yeah, I could definitely see myself picking
it up.
Yeah, this is one I kind of want to watch.
Like I.
I've heard enough good about it because I didn't really plan on ever watching this because
tennis like gives a shit.
Damn.
But yeah, I don't like there's there's some sports I don't really care about.
And it's like it's it's a lot of the big ones like football.
I could give two flying shits about.
Hey, Sam, same with with baseball.
And actually, it's any sports movie, really.
Actually boxing.
I'll watch boxing.
I'll watch hockey and that's it.
You know what?
I probably agree with him.
Yeah.
Anything else that has to be like.
I don't even know about like NASCAR.
No, probably not NASCAR.
I was thinking like any racing like BMX.
Probably not.
Fair enough.
But yeah, so that's coming to Blu Ray this month as well.
Next up, we have Tarot.
I heard that this movie sucked.
It was awful.
But do I still want to see it?
Damn right.
I do.
I love a good bad horror film and the trailers like just always freaking captivated me.
So if this is I would assume this is since this is Sony, this is probably going to be
added to Netflix shortly after its release.
So I'll watch it there and we'll see how bad it is.
And you know what?
If I didn't think it was that bad, maybe for a cheap price, I'll add it to my collection.
Is this one that was unintentionally bad?
I don't think so.
You think it was like intentionally?
Well, not well done.
No, I'm sure they tried.
I don't know when it comes to like these kind of cheap ass horror films.
This reminds me a lot of Ouija that came out years ago.
Like I guess when you do a horror movie based off a I mean, what there was a board game,
there's a card game or well, OK, it's not really a card game.
But you know what I mean.
You're probably not going to like make a.
It's a word, a well developed plot that's like very takes itself seriously, that like
make makes complete sense.
It doesn't try to put in some shit that doesn't is basically kind of make believe like no
way could that happen in real life.
And so I'm sure that this movie is going to be like Ouija, but I hope that I enjoy this
movie more than Ouija because I hate Ouija.
I thought that first sucked, whereas the second one, Ouija, Origin of Evil, was actually pretty
damn good.
So hopefully I like tarot as much as I liked the second Ouija, but we'll see.
Fair enough.
Dude, I want to see a movie like this where it's like a future prediction thing, where
someone gets a card that basically means that they're safe.
And then they just walk around with complete and utter plot armor.
The rest of the movie.
Like I want their friends to be like running around dodging like like incoming like projectiles
and shit.
And they're just like nonchalantly just walking through the house or whatever like situation.
I want one of those so bad.
OK, if you bring that up reminds me of have you ever seen Final Destination five?
No.
OK, so I think I've only ever seen the first one with you.
OK.
The fifth one, the best one, in my opinion, there's a character in the fifth one that,
you know, like when they find out, you know, they escaped death and, you know, death doesn't
like to be cheated.
And so it starts picking them all off.
One of the guys whose death is knocking on his door jumps out of the way and it hits
another person or what it kills another person how death was supposed to take him.
And so because that death skips him, he he's able to live.
And so throughout the rest of the movie, the people that are still living there, it's like,
well, that's freaking bullshit, man.
Death skipped you.
Like, I can't believe you just jumped out of the way.
You didn't let death take you.
That's that was supposed to be the plan.
Like this bullshit.
Oh, man.
That would be a funny alternate version to where it's like, OK, yeah, you have this thing
where like a thing that prevents you from death or like protects you from death.
But you could still get like all types of messed up.
Yeah.
So it's like he has like a freaking like something shoot through him and like rip out a piece
of his like stomach.
And he's just like, oh, shit.
So like by the end, he's just walking around like held together with like duct tape and
shit.
That would be funny, too.
They did something like that in the brick and Morty.
And I thought that would be funny for a horror movie.
Because in this episode, they were like breaking these fortune cookies and like one of these
soldiers break like it's it's fortune cookies that actually come true.
And so they have these like these combat specialist fortune cookies.
And so this one dude pops his and he's just like, oh, yeah, headshots only.
So when he fires every shot that he makes is a headshot, like the bullets will like
turn and shit to like to make sure that their headshots and one of the dudes.
Yeah.
One of the guys, Fortune says, like, ha ha, mine says I can't die.
And he like, OK, cool.
And he uses him as a shield.
And he's like, I can still feel everything.
Like, that's something I would love to see.
Like, I don't know.
I know we're talking about terrible.
But frickin I know there I think there's another Final Destination movie in the works.
But the fifth one introduced so many cool ideas.
Yeah.
The fact that if someone that someone else can take your place in death, like if if you
cheated death and it's after you, if you put someone in its path to take your place, you're
skipped.
Like, that's that's so interesting.
Like yeah, God.
This one, like, I don't think that you would.
But out of all the Final Destination movies, I recommend the fifth one the most.
How much context do I need for that one?
So actually, you only need the first one.
Really?
OK.
Yeah.
So you're good.
All right.
Well, I would rewatch the first one to to watch the fifth.
If you're claiming it's that good.
It really is.
And the oh my God, there is one death that like it still makes my skin crawl.
Like it's hard to watch.
Like just thinking about it.
Coming from you.
That's that's saying, oh, dude, like, yeah, like I'm surprised I didn't throw up the first
time that I saw it.
Damn.
All right.
Well, I know what that what's on my watch list this week.
Hell yeah.
Maybe if I can get the kids distracted enough.
Yeah, it's true.
Yeah.
And then so just a couple of steel books that are also coming out.
Saw X is finally getting a steel book.
It's about damn time.
And God, is this steel book beautiful?
Dude, this cover is the shit.
It's just a bunch of decapitated arms and legs making up the classic Billy puppet face.
Oh, man.
I guess this is peak art like cover artwork.
Yeah, it's beautiful.
Like this is what every these.
So this is steel book.
Yes.
This is what every steel book should aspire to.
Like every single one.
This is so good.
Right.
Like no notes.
Yeah, absolutely no notes.
It's perfect.
And I wish they would have showcased what the back was going to look like because I'm
very intrigued.
I don't give a flying shit what the back looks like.
This the cover is just that good.
That's fair.
For how much you loved Saw X, I figured you'd appreciate this one.
Yeah, I very much appreciate this one.
This was so good.
It really is.
Just sucks that it took almost a year since Saw X came out for them to do a steel book.
I don't understand why they couldn't have put it out with its original release.
Dude, this is so good.
If I saw this out in the wild, I would probably pick it up.
All right, you heard it here first, folks.
Caleb would actually buy a steel book.
Oh my God.
He would actually buy a physical movie.
I can't believe it.
The cover is just that good, dude.
I probably wouldn't even use it for Saw.
Like I'd use it for something that I would like an Xbox game, like whatever I'm playing.
Like my current game is like that's probably I just use it to store that.
I love that.
Oh, shit.
Definitely going to be picking that.
Yep.
Yeah, definitely picking that one up.
And then last but not least, if everybody wants to feel old, or at least us millennials,
here you go.
So they're releasing the SpongeBob SquarePants movie for the first time on 4K.
It's getting a beautiful 4K steel book.
It's literally just, you know, big blown up version of SpongeBob on the front and the
back.
It's great.
Love it so much.
But on the back on the J card, they just had to put this.
It says celebrate 20 years of the SpongeBob movie.
Gross.
So yeah, do y'all feel old yet?
Because I sure as hell do.
Yeah, this movie came out 20 years ago.
Good.
Hell.
Is it great, though?
Yes.
I freaking love the first SpongeBob movie.
I still feel it's the best SpongeBob movie.
Duncan Rall and the second one is pretty good.
The third one, it's all right.
But this one, this one is fantastic.
Yeah, because this was supposed to be the end of SpongeBob.
Yep.
This is the cannonade ending, according to Steven Hillenberg.
As it should be.
It's perfect.
Man, this was such a good ending, too.
Great.
Now look at what Nickelodeon's done to our sponge.
Nothing good.
No, Hillenberg is rolling in his grave.
Yep.
But you know what?
We got an amazing movie from him and we are very grateful for that.
Yeah.
But that's it for 4K Spotlight.
Hell yeah.
All right.
Moving on over to Weekly Watch.
We got a few movies.
I think I have two, you have one.
Did you delete some of them?
Or did I?
The last ones?
I thought you or maybe.
Anyway, just go.
We'll figure it out.
Okay.
My bad.
So for me this week, I watched The Wedding Ringer because I saw that it was on Hulu.
I had seen this movie years before and I really enjoyed it.
And I enjoyed it just as much as I did the last time with this watch.
I think this is one of Kevin Hart's best movies.
I love him in this movie.
You know, Josh Gad's good too, but he's definitely a side character.
The story is focused on him coming to Kevin Hart's character and saying, hey, I don't
have a best man or any groomsmen and I know that your business is specializing in doing
that and so can you help me out?
And so he asked him to what he calls the golden tux.
He asked him to pull that off.
It's really fun watching how it all unfolds.
And just Kevin Hart and Josh Gad have really great chemistry.
Kayla Cuoco is good in this.
There is a part where Josh Gad's character tells Kevin Hart who he is, builds him up
to be who his role is.
And when he finds out what exactly it is, he freaks out so much.
I just love this scene so much.
I freaking laugh so hard at it.
So yeah, I had a great time once again with this movie.
And so I would give it a stream.
I have a great time with this movie every time.
It's not a great comedy.
It's nowhere near that.
But it's a fun comedy from start to finish, in my opinion.
Fair enough.
And then for me, which was also on Hulu, went on Hulu a lot this week.
Fantastic Mr. Fox watched it once again because I can never watch this movie enough.
This movie is phenomenal.
It is fantastic, and no one can tell me differently.
There is literally nothing wrong with this film.
This is a fantastic animated film.
To me, it's Wes Anderson's magnum opus.
The cast is amazing.
George Clooney is amazing.
Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, everybody.
The stop motion animation is just incredible.
And this is in my top five favorite animated films of the year.
I love it more on every rewatch.
And so I'm giving it a full price ticket because I really wish I would have been able to see
this in theaters.
Dude, I need to get off my ass and just watch this.
I keep seeing it pop up.
I know.
I need to just do it.
Yeah.
Like it's on Disney Plus and Hulu.
You can watch on it either.
I have no excuses.
Don't worry, man.
I got another buddy that still hasn't watched it.
His brother is just like, dude, you need to watch it.
It's one of the best animated films.
I'm like, listen to your brother, man.
He's not lying.
I will.
I'll commit to watching that this week.
All right.
Hell yeah.
I can't wait to hear what you thought.
And I swear if it's anything lower than a full price, I'm going to kick your ass.
Just kidding.
Watch him give it a stream.
I'm just calling this right now.
We'll see.
All right.
I only watched one thing this week.
It was the Lego Batman movie.
And dude, there is so much shit that I missed in theaters because it was disguised by laughter.
I love this movie so much.
It is so freaking funny.
Oh, man.
I love, obviously, Batman in this.
But Michael Cera's Robin steals the show a million percent.
It is so freaking good.
One of the things that I missed was at the beginning, the jokers hijacking this plane
or going to hijack this plane.
And they're like, we have 12,000 pounds of C4, this much of dynamite, this much of this,
this much of that, and two best friends.
And then they high five.
And I missed the two best friends joke.
And I was so pissed off because that made me laugh so hard.
There was a bunch of jokes and stuff in this that were just so masterfully crafted.
And Lego Batman is the shit, dude.
I personally think it's the best Lego movie that they ever did.
A hundred percent, dude.
A hundred percent.
Oh, man.
I love his interaction with the Justice League when they went to Superman's fortress.
And I love that Superman was voiced by Channing Tatum and that his best friend Jonah Hill is
voiced by or voices the Green Lantern.
And he's like, yeah, sometimes I don't get Supes emails for like years.
Like so funny.
Like the comedy in this is just pure perfection.
I love every second of it.
And this is one I think is worth seeing in theaters just because Lego, like I think they're
able to do some pretty beautiful things with that.
Not getting 38 songs made in Lego or crying out loud or singing in the end of a song.
Which is Damn Good.
So I'm wondering if you have anything other than Lego you would go for?
Listen to the
honestly, I if this would have been anything other than Lego,
I probably wouldn't have given the two shits.
But the fact that it's going to be out of Legos,
I'm like, damn it, Pharrell.
Like you knew damn well what you were doing, you asshole.
Like, yeah, when they announced that I had no idea that Warner
Brothers had lost the rights and they went to Universal for
Lego movies.
That's crazy.
Oh, man, dude, this I'm pumped.
I am more excited than I probably should be.
But this is I hope this opens the door for more biopics in
an animated style.
Yeah, I definitely agree with that.
Like some of these people that you want to do biopics on,
they're larger than life people.
And what better way to show off that larger than life just
persona than doing something animated?
Yeah, I don't know why, but I would love to see one of the
best rock bands in Lego form, like freaking a biopic on ACDC.
That'd be the shit, dude.
Or them.
Or actually, I would love to see Kiss and Lego.
Yeah.
Oh, you know what I think would work really well?
Like kiss and like a Spider verse style.
Oh, yes.
Yeah.
Exactly how like Spider Punk looked.
Oh, dude.
Yeah, that would be the bomb.
Dude, I fingers crossed, dude, that we get more biopics in
the animated for or like style.
That would be the bomb.
Com.
Like, I like and do it like with music.
You could have fun with that.
Like, however the hell you want to do music, like just match
their style.
Like with Pharrell Williams, his song that he's known for
is as happy, right?
Yeah.
So happy.
What's happier than freaking Legos?
It's true.
And then like when you go all rock and roll, like you could
go freaking nuts.
And then you know how much more interested in sports movies
I would be if there was like a Mike Tyson movie in like anime
style?
Yeah, you know, that would be the shit, dude.
That would be pretty dope.
Oh, I'd be so in.
Yeah.
So yeah.
$5.00 Tuesday for Lego Batman and fingers crossed that we
get more animated biopics.
Agreed.
All right.
And I think that is all that we had.
Okay.
All right.
Well, that wraps up this week's weekly watch.
So without further ado, let's say we get on into this episode.
Let's do it.
Hell, yeah.
All righty.
Getting into this week's headliner.
We will be breaking down if it feels like I get it.
Something imaginary friend.
Yeah.
So we will be breaking down 2024 if so.
Yeah.
If you have not seen this or are not familiar with 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 get our own personal score at the very end.
All those numbers get magically added up
and spit through our algorithm and give us a letter grade
to compare this movie to movies of a similar score.
So if you have not seen If, this might not be one that's,
I'd say this would be hard to spoil.
It's a spoiler alert for later in this review.
It's a very predictable movie.
So however you think it's going to turn out,
it's probably going to, that's probably what would happen.
But without further ado, if you have not seen If
and you don't want it spoiled for you,
we do recommend going to watch the movie first,
then coming back to listen to the review
because we are about to spoil the entire thing for you
beginning to end in our favorite segment
that we like to call Reading with Rose.
So without further ado, we will be posting that spoiler warning
and take it away, Rose.
All right.
12-year-old B moves into her grandmother Margaret's
apartment in New York while her father, OK, wait,
this just feels like, oh, no, that's how it starts.
It's like, it felt like we skipped a lot.
But the only thing I felt you skipped
was like the montage.
Yeah, so I guess they didn't decide that.
So it's like montage and then immediately moving
into grandma's.
So imagine we have a montage of the main character B
as a child with her mother and her father, OK?
That's how this movie starts.
And then we lead into this.
12-year-old B moves into her grandmother Margaret's
apartment in New York while her father waits for her for heart
surgery in the same hospital where her mother died
of cancer years earlier.
She chafes, no, it's not chafes, chafes, I don't know.
C-H-A-F-E-S, what do you think that is, Caleb?
Is it chafes?
That sounds like chafes.
It is chafes, OK.
Yeah.
OK.
OK, she chafes against his playful antics,
insisting she can handle the situation with maturity.
One night, B goes out to buy a charger for her mother's old cam
quarter and sees an unfamiliar creature following it back
to her grandmother's building.
The next day, she sees the creature again
accompanied by a man.
B follows them to a nearby house where the man, Cal,
retrieves a large furry creature named Blue.
She also meets the other creature,
a butterfly-liked being named Blossom and Faints.
She awakens in Cal's apartment where
she learns that he has been working with imaginary friends.
Nicknamed Ifs, to place them with new children
as their original children have grown up and forgotten them.
Initially reluctant, B eventually decides to help Cal.
The next day, Cal takes B to Memory Lane Retirement Home,
a retirement community for Ifs housed underneath a swing
in Coney Island.
Therefore, he introduces B to Lewis, an elderly teddy bear
who is the head of the facility.
He inspires B to use her imagination
to redesign the facility, much to the chagrin of Cal.
B tries to match one of the Ifs with Benjamin,
a young patient at the hospital.
She, Cal, and Lewis audition the Ifs,
but he is unable to see any of them.
Feeling unmotivated, B talks with Lewis
on the Coney Island pier.
He gives her an idea that maybe Ifs do not need new kids,
but rather to reunite with their old ones.
Talking with her grandmother, she
sees a picture of her as a young dancer
and recognizes Blossom in the background of the picture.
Realizing Blossom was her grandmother's If,
B decides to test Lewis's idea.
Playing one of her grandmother's records
inspires Margaret to dance, and she remembers Blossom,
instilling B with hope.
Following a tip, B, Cal, and Blue
find Blue's original kid, Jeremy, now a grown man
trying to launch a business.
By eating a fresh croissant in front of Jeremy,
B reminds him of his childhood home above his parents' bakery.
Jeremy remembers Blue enough for Blue
to give Jeremy the confidence he needs
for a business presentation.
That evening, B arrives at Margaret's
to find her hastily preparing for a return to the hospital
because there's been a complication with her father's
treatment.
B rushes upstairs to Cal, who comforts her.
When B says she does not want to say goodbye to her dad,
Cal advises her to tell him a story instead.
They all accompany her to the hospital.
At the hospital, a nurse reassures B
that her father will be all right.
She tells him a story about realizing
she was pushing herself to act like a grownup
when she's just a child who still needs her father.
He wakes up, and they hug each other.
When B goes outside his hospital room,
she sees that all of the ifs are gone.
B goes upstairs to thank Cal, but no one answers his door.
The landlady shows B that the door opens
into an old storage room after her dad is
released from the hospital.
Shit, sorry.
I made that run-on sentence.
The landlady shows B that the door lady, that the door
opens into an old storage room.
After her dad is released from the hospital,
he and B pack up to go home.
B finds an old picture she painted of herself, her parents,
and a clown named Calvin.
She suddenly realizes that Cal is her own if, forgotten
after the death of her mother.
She rushes to his room and thanks him for helping her
and tells him she'll always need him.
This allows B to see Cal and the ifs again, and they reunite.
After B and her father drive off,
Margaret asks Blossom if the two of them
should go inside, causing Blossom
to realize Margaret can see her.
Sometime later, Cal begins reuniting the ifs
with their original kids, now grown up.
Benjamin meets his if, a cartoonish dragon with glasses
and a cast, and B and her father return home.
I wish that they would have included,
I thought this was genuinely funny
that the invisible if was actually B's dad.
That was hilarious.
Or, actually her dad's if, that was hilarious.
Dude, that was pretty good.
So I took Iris to go see this,
and I don't know if I told you this,
but while we were leaving the theater,
she was running out, she was running to the door,
like ahead of me, and she tripped,
and she stood up and she's like, Kevin!
And then she runs out.
Oh my God, that's amazing!
Oh no, no, no, not Kevin, Keith!
Oh yes, Keith, oh yes, Keith.
And then runs off, and dude, I was dying.
Oh my God, dude, that's incredible!
Dude, it was so good.
Oh man, that's amazing.
Yeah, but she enjoyed the hell out of the movie.
Good.
Just getting right into this, starting off with story.
It's a slow burn.
It definitely is, and I don't know,
maybe it was just me, but every time
that there would be a fake out to the dad being dead,
I'm like, okay, okay, that's unfortunate
she lost both parents, and then he'd come through the door,
I'm like, damn it!
Is he gonna die in this movie or not?
I had a feeling he wasn't throughout the whole thing.
I think that they were gonna,
it played out exactly how I thought.
I was like, they're not gonna kill off a parent
in a child's movie, not one like this,
where it's supposed to be a comedy.
I mean, they killed the mom off.
Oh well, okay, but that's a little different,
because they started off with the mom dead.
They didn't just kill her off.
Yeah, that's true.
I will give John Krasinski this,
I would have given Major, he would have some balls,
in my opinion, if the mom died from cancer
and then the dad died while he was in the home.
He died of heart complications?
Yeah.
That would be the hardest shit ever
for a kid to deal with.
Yeah.
That's the inside out I wanna watch.
No, but for real,
because throughout the movie,
up until when she tells her dad,
I realize I need to be a kid,
I don't need to grow up immediately,
I don't need to act like an adult right now.
I just imagine him not waking up
and her being like, well, that was a lie.
I do need to act like an adult right now.
This just set in stone everything I already believed.
That would just be, oh my God.
Okay, you know what?
I'm kind of glad that that didn't happen,
because that would have just been
such an oppressing ass ending.
It would have.
And like I said, I knew going in, this was a comedy.
I knew that that wasn't the route
that they were going to take.
Like even the mom dying from cancer,
I was not expecting, I'm like, oh shit, okay.
All right, you got my attention.
This is, wow, this is some heavy shit.
That's part of it where I'm like,
it's a bit of a slow burn.
I think this isn't quite meant for young kids.
No, there are some very mature themes in this movie.
Yeah, very mature.
It's not that like,
if I had known about this movie,
I don't know if I would have taken Iris to it.
That's completely fair.
She's just like right at that threshold
where I would have been more on the fence about it.
But I went and I checked the freaking parent guide
and everything just to see if there was anything
like dark like that.
And they didn't show shit.
But yeah, I would have been a little bit more hesitant
about taking her just because of like the darker tones
and themes that were in this.
Like when the, okay, when the imaginary friends
were on screen, like she was all for that.
Like 100% down for that.
And she loved every single second of it.
She loved Blue, she loved Lewis,
she loved all those imaginary friends.
Her favorite actually was,
what is her name?
Was it Uni?
Was it the unicorn?
No, it wasn't the unicorn.
It was the bumblebee lady.
Blossom?
Yeah, Blossom.
Who the hell voiced Blossom?
Oh shit.
Oh, Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Thank you.
How the hell did I forget that?
I just put the cast list together, geez.
Yeah.
So yeah, she loved Blossom.
And I was like, okay, cool.
Like super, yeah, she was super down for that.
Anything not involving the imaginary friends,
she could have given two shits about.
And that's not necessarily anything against the story.
No.
It's just, I was expecting something
a little bit more upbeat.
It's just my expectations weren't properly set,
and so they weren't met, and yeah.
But overall, I do feel the story was really solid.
It's not like the best thing in the world.
It is very predictable.
And like I said, it's a bit slow at times,
like even for a grownup like me.
Yeah.
So I, you know, within, within regards to that,
what would you say is like the appropriate,
like starting age to bring a child to this movie?
This is probably a seven and up.
Okay.
Like it's just.
Yeah.
I dare say even eight.
So like seven might be a little young.
It depends on the maturity of your child.
Like if you have a very like not easily distracted kid,
this might be a really good movie for them.
But yeah, so I'd say seven, like a soft seven.
Okay.
Like eight, definitely.
It's definitely meant for older kids, not young babies.
Like mine.
But what did you think overall?
Like you didn't have this, this bias going, going into it.
That's right.
No, no, I didn't.
I, I saw this movie by myself on a Thursday morning.
And you know what was nice?
The only other people in the theater was a family
that was at the front row, cause I sat in the middle
and they were just so well behaved
throughout the movie.
I loved it.
But you know, disregarding that,
I honestly was shocked for how much I enjoyed the story.
I definitely agree.
It's definitely predictable,
but I don't know, just everything that they introduced
with ifs and them going from,
okay, we need to get them new kids to back to,
no, let's get them reunited with their actual real kids.
I loved that.
I thought that was really good.
And yeah, just there were moments in this movie
that not only did I shed a tear,
but I had a smile on my face.
So I thought the story was pretty damn good.
I had a fun time with it.
Yeah, same here.
I ultimately, I did have a good time with it.
It was just, I think the biggest downfall
is just predictability.
That's completely fair.
Yeah, and for a movie like this,
it's understandable why they went that route.
Yeah, 100%.
So this is one, I'm a little on the lower side,
not like super low.
Like I'm still in the 80s.
I'm like in an 81.
I think I'd just be like just a couple points
higher than you in 84.
Okay.
Moving on over to writing.
This is one, I think it's maybe a couple points higher
for me.
I thought the dialogue was really well done.
I did like a lot of the discuss.
Lewis was my favorite.
Dude, same here.
Same here.
Freaking that scene where in there at the pier,
and then they, you know, she uses her imagination
and they come into like,
she turns it into like this amazing time.
And when she like brings in like all the imaginary friends
on the stage, just that whole scene, I loved so much.
That is one scene that I just had a smile
on my face throughout.
Yeah, that was just great.
I was wanting more of that.
Dude, right?
Yeah, same.
Like I want more grand imagination, not what this was.
Like they're called imaginary friends for a reason.
Like you can do anything with them, come on.
Yeah.
But yeah, great time with it though.
I think also with the writing, even though we only saw,
you know, B, yeah, we only saw B, Jeremy,
and then B's grandmother be reunited with their,
their original ifs.
Or I feel like those are those stories that we like
really got to see in depth and like it really meant a lot.
But what, like don't get me wrong, like you towards the end,
or I think at the end, you see a lot of other people
get reunited with their ifs and don't get me wrong,
it's a very sweet moment, but I feel that those three
are the ones that like very powerful moments.
Like, yeah, like the scene with B's grandmother,
like just remembering how much she loved ballet.
Oh, that was beautiful.
Right?
And fricking like you see Blossom, like just like her,
was it like her in, was it like her inner whatever,
like chest area, just like starts lighting up,
indicating that, you know, she remembers her.
Fantastic scene, loved that.
And watching her just dance, dance with her is just great.
And then I especially loved the one with Blue and Jeremy,
how it took a couple of times for Jeremy to like,
like truly remember Blue, because at the beginning,
they, you know, he's at a coffee shop.
It doesn't work with getting him to remember Blue there.
When they go to the office that he's interviewing at,
or maybe, I don't think interviewing,
just, you know, like talking to some people
about his business.
B brings these croissants and, you know,
like he's like reminded, but it doesn't like fully,
you know, kick in, like it doesn't, you know,
fully make him remember Blue.
And then like finally, as he's about to walk into the room,
like he just, I just love the moment when B like puts it,
not B, I'm sorry, Blue puts his hand on his shoulder
and just like, you can see like him just be like,
the kind of like the stress just go away
as he remembers his if, and just how that like comforts him.
And just, I loved that moment, that was so good.
It was fantastic, dude, like that's,
the buildup for those two was so well done.
Yes, 100%.
Yeah, like they did such a good job at like just
grasping that the emotions that those were supposed to
exhibit.
Yes.
Like they did a great job with that.
100%.
Like definitely, definitely one of the peaks of this movie.
Yes, absolutely.
Yeah, this is one, I'm only gonna go a couple points higher
on the writing.
I thought the dialogue was okay for the most part.
A lot of the better jokes were done in the trailer.
That's true, I think it's because like I saw the damn
trailer so many times when I went to the movies.
It ruins the jokes.
No, seriously, because you know, like as I'm sure,
I don't know if people have listened to the episode,
but I saw Ghostbusters Frozen Empire eight times in theaters.
And so I saw the trailer for if every single showing of that.
And so the joke with the marshmallow with like the eye drooping,
don't get me wrong, funny the first couple of times,
it's a funny joke, but it kind of got old after that.
Dude, I started laughing because the marshmallow dude
kind of sounded like Carl Weiser a bit.
Dude, yeah, he did 100%.
And I couldn't help but like laugh thinking about,
so, or thinking about our eight crazy nights episode
where you and Riley were doing the impersonations
of Carl Weiser and oh shit, what's his face?
Whitey Duvall.
Like I heard that voice and I was like, that's hilarious.
Dude, I always feel bad for that episode
because like you just came to that episode to review a film
and then you get me and Riley just fricking quoting
the movie for basically the whole thing.
Dude, I had such a good time.
You guys are like, my memory is so shit, dude.
I wish I could quote movies that well.
Like there are certain quotes.
I mean, dude, if you watch one like multiple times.
I know, but that's not my mindset anymore.
So the only reason I, that there are some movies
that I can quote, like Nacho Libre is one of them.
And it's just because my brother watched them
a million times and you'd get mad if you tried to change it.
So I would just kind of sit down and watch it with him.
So it was constant.
So now I don't do that very much.
Like there's very rarely will I ever rewatch movies
like over and over and over again.
I've been doing it a little bit more now
because I have a kid.
And so there are some movies that-
Doing it and I don't have a kid.
No, like one that I might get into the point
of being able to quote is the Super Mario Bros.
Oh dude, I've watched that movie so many times.
I can quote that quite a bit actually.
I'm not proud of it.
Dude, Iris can fricking quote it.
That's awesome.
She-
Oh, I love it.
I don't know if I've told you this either.
She, for some reason, gets super hooked on the opening scene
like after the commercial with Spike.
I love that.
Yeah, so imagine this.
She likes to go up to her brother
when he's like sitting in his bouncer
on his swing or whatever,
and she'll grab him by the shirt and pull him up.
So he's like kind of like a little limp noodle
and she'll go, get this through your tiny brain, Mario.
And she'll say, you're a joke and you always will be.
And then she'll like drop him.
And I'm like, quit being so aggressive to your brother.
Oh my God.
It is so funny.
And then as soon as she does that,
she'll lean over or she'll go over to,
she'll play like Mario's part.
And then,
yeah, she'll do like the whole sequence of her
like playing Mario and whatever.
And then she'll also do the sequence where
Princess Peach agrees to marry Bowser.
And she's just like, I would never marry you.
And then she'll do like the, oh, don't hurt my toes.
Like she'll play that whole sequence out.
It is so funny, dude.
Oh my God, dude, this is amazing.
It is fantastic.
I didn't think I could love my niece even more,
but I think I do now.
Yeah.
Dude, she, it's funny cause like she'll startle Levi.
And so like she'll say something.
And so he'll kind of jump
and then she'll like look over at him and she'll go,
you can't be scared all the time, Luigi.
And then she'll run off.
Like she lives on freaking Super Mario quotes.
And I love it.
That is amazing.
Oh my God, that makes me so happy.
It is so funny, but it,
I know I should stop it,
but anytime she grabs Levi by the freaking onesie like that,
I am like, I'll let her play the scene out.
And then cause I, I get a good kick out of it.
Then I'm just like, don't be mean to your brother.
And then she'll like run off.
She's like, it wasn't me.
It was Spike.
And I'm like Spike, don't be mean to your, my baby.
Dude, she might have a acting in her cards in the future.
I have mixed feelings about that.
I would love that for her.
She's not doing it as a kid.
Yeah, no, no, yeah, absolutely not.
No, but no, if she wants to act when she's older,
dude, cause like if she does get into acting,
my personal goal or my personal, not a goal,
my personal dream that I hope she achieves
is getting to play a superhero.
That would be amazing.
I could die happy.
I'm like, even if it was like some stupid superhero,
like it's just like, my daughter is a Marvel super,
I would buy all the merch, dude, all the freaking merch.
I would suck it.
But like, so like, cause I don't think they start
introducing like drama class until junior high.
So like, would you say like, you might let her,
if she wanted to take it in middle school, junior high,
or would that, would you only want it in like high school?
She can do drama and stuff in junior high and high school.
Okay.
I would consider like, if she wanted to like go on audition,
I would consider allowing auditions junior year.
Okay.
And then senior year, like, yeah.
I would consider it and it's all dependent on how she does,
how she's doing in school.
Otherwise she has to wait until after high school
and then she can start like doing auditions.
I'll help her out however she wants me to help out with that.
Like I'll take her to the auditions,
do whatever the hell needs to be done there.
If she needs any help getting a monologue together,
just any acting coach.
She wouldn't need any help with that.
That's true.
I'm just saying uncle Rose is here to help.
That would be fantastic.
I'm excited to see what, if she starts like heading that way.
Yeah, no dude, that would be really cool.
No.
I'm trying, I promise I'm not trying to call
your daughter's future.
No, no, no, no.
Oh man.
Dude, you know me the shit.
If she ended like, gosh damn it.
You put this acting mindset in my head
and I'm like, dude, she would be a perfect squirrel girl.
You know what, I was just gonna say,
I didn't wanna say it
cause I know you kind of like squirrel girl
and you said, oh, you know, even if it's a bad super housing
but oh, so like squirrel girl.
Okay, I was also thinking squirrel girl when I said that
but I was also like, okay,
I don't wanna set my sights too high.
Iris set your sights high, come on.
Oh yeah.
She's got this.
I love that.
Anyway, getting back to what we were originally
talking about.
Writing for if, let's get it.
Yeah, the writing, I'm giving it an 83.
I'm giving it a couple of points higher.
I thought it was, it was well done.
Very heartfelt.
Yeah, it really was.
But slightly cliche.
That's fair.
And you know what, I think I was okay with that.
Like I didn't really have a problem with that.
So like writing, I think I'm gonna go a couple points higher
than my story at a 86.
Hell yeah.
All right, moving on over to acting.
First off, we have Kaylee Fleming who plays B.
That is a very young picture of her.
Yeah, she doesn't have a lot of pictures from like,
like red carpet premieres, especially from if.
And so yeah, sorry about that.
No, you're good.
Then we have Ryan Reynolds who plays Cal.
Steve Carell who does the voice for Blue.
Lewis Gossett Jr. who did the voice for Lewis.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge who did the voice for Blossom.
What do I know her from?
I was thinking the same thing.
I don't know if you, if this is what you remember her from.
Indiana Jones and the Dala Destiny.
Gosh, damn it, that is absolutely right.
Dude, did they fricking make up her birthmark?
Wait, what?
Like the little birthmark on her head.
Did they take that out in the movie?
They sure did.
They probably did.
What the hell?
I should have left it.
Yeah.
Bullshit Hollywood.
Okay, anyway, moving on.
We got John Krasinski who played B's dad,
which his personality just shined through this whole thing.
Oh yeah.
I loved when she came in,
it looked like he climbed out the window.
That was great.
Yeah, and then he set the tone so well
when he was dancing with his IV bag.
Yeah, that was.
I wanna know how many takes that took
cause that was impressive.
Yeah, I'm curious too.
But for how great of an actor Krasinski is,
I doubt it was that many.
Yeah.
All right, next up we got Fiona Shaw
who plays B's grandmother.
I think that's it.
Yep.
But yeah, so we got that cast.
Yeah.
Those were the main heavy hitters.
There was more, this was a star studded cast.
Everyone in their mother fricking did a voice for this.
Yes, seriously.
Like, Aquafina did a voice,
Emily Blunt did a voice.
My real voice.
Pretty sure Blake Lively did a voice.
Yeah, I remember, yeah, I think I remember hearing that.
I loved that they had,
they credited Brad Pitt as Keith.
That was perfection.
Sam Rockwell did a voice,
Ice did a voice, or Bradley Cooper did a voice,
Matt Damon, Bill Hader.
I'm curious how much they had.
Amy Schumer, Maya Rudolph, John Stewart.
Jeez.
They had a ridiculous cast.
I'm just curious about the cast.
I'm just curious how much that, for very little lines,
they said how much they had to pay these actors.
Because I'm assuming that's what, you know,
me and with the CGI especially also,
what made the budget over 100 million.
Yeah, the fricking voice cast.
Yeah, but just I'm curious how much each of them made,
like for real.
Probably a stupid amount of money, dude.
Yeah, like, what the hell?
Even IMDB has Brad Pitt voicing Keith.
Keith didn't say anything.
No, that's hilarious.
But yeah, like they got so many people to do this,
to do this, and I don't think they needed all of them.
They did it to get them on the poster,
and to showcase that in the trailer,
like, oh my gosh, look at that.
Oh my gosh, look at all of this star,
look at this star-studded cast.
That's bullshit, that is a bullshit tactic to use.
It usually works for bringing people to movies,
but unfortunately for this one, it did not work.
Like, you wanna hear how bad this movie did
at the box office?
Sure, let's hear it.
So budget was 110 million.
The box office, because it is now on digital,
so I don't think that the box office is going to go up
that much more, is 181.3 million.
Ugh.
Yeah.
Didn't do great.
No, it didn't break even.
I mean, at least it made, yeah, I mean, close-ish.
Fair.
I mean, yeah-ish.
Oh yeah, I know you have to double it.
It's hard to consider that, like, oh, you have to double
the budget for it to have broken even.
Like, that seems like bullshit, but.
Yeah, unfortunately that's how you measure the success,
and then you have to add in the advertising,
which this movie was heavily advertised,
so I don't even know how much that costed.
Then you have to add the chunk that the theaters get.
So yeah, I would be very shocked
that this movie made any money.
Ugh, this is one that I feel,
I think indie projects are the only thing
that benefit from star-studded casts.
That's a good point.
So like, an indie script from, like,
written by someone that no one knows
or directed by someone that no one seems to know,
or something along those lines,
those benefit from star-studded casts.
This, it was written by John Krasinski.
Yes.
Like, he, you could've gone away with, like,
a couple buddies.
Like, hey, get Steve Carell in there,
get Ryan Reynolds in there, you could throw in Fiona Shaw,
act in it yourself, that's all you need.
Yeah, it's true.
But you know who, like,
I'm not taking my kid to this movie
because George Clooney is voicing the spaceman.
Like, you know, I would say that
for how good Steve Carell especially is at voice acting,
he can change his voice quite a bit.
And so he could've played a bunch of these ifs.
Yeah.
I think he could've played a few of them too, yeah.
Yeah, it's just,
I think that they spent their budget on stuff
that they didn't need to spend their budget on.
Agreed.
Like, some of these are just kind of like a given.
Like, Emily Blunt doing a voice, yeah,
she's probably doing that for free.
Blake Lively doing a voice, probably doing it for free.
Yeah.
Maybe.
But like, some of these other people, like,
I'm curious if Steve Carell did it for free
with how close him and Krasinski are from their office days,
but I don't think Krasinski would've let himself do that.
Like, he would've made Steve,
made sure that Steve was taken care of.
Yeah.
But I, yeah, this cast was,
this was unnecessarily pop, like, big.
It was stacked and it didn't need to be.
Yeah, for a kid, like, for a kid's movie, dude,
if there's a good, like, if there's a kid's movie
that looks like it's gonna be good,
which this movie did, and it was,
Yeah, it was.
But it, I'm taking my kid to it,
I don't give a flying shit who's in it.
Yeah, all the kid's gonna care about
is the designs of the ifs.
That's all I'm gonna care about.
That's all I fricking cared about.
Like, I saw that the cast list was fricking ridiculous.
I didn't bother to learn, like, oh, who's playing this?
Who's playing that?
I didn't care. Oh, same here.
Yeah, like, I didn't make it an effort to recognize,
oh, hey, that's that voice, that's that voice.
Yeah, like, maybe when it comes on streaming,
like, on Paramount+, I'm sure I'll go back and try to do that,
but I wasn't paying attention to that in theaters.
Yeah, not even a little bit.
But yeah, so the, what's your top three look like?
I'm pretty sure ours is gonna be like exactly the same.
So number three, I would give to Louis Gossett Jr.
Played Louis. Same.
Hell yeah, loved him, he was fantastic.
Number two, I would give to Ryan Reynolds.
Same. Played Cal.
Okay, hell yeah.
He was fantastic, loved him.
But you know, it's hard to hate Ryan Reynolds in anything.
Even if you're watching something that is absolute crap,
I'm looking, even though I enjoy,
but I know it's a bad movie, RIPD,
the only good thing about that movie
is Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges.
Yep.
So if it's a bad movie, at least you can count on
that Ryan Reynolds' performance is,
he's gonna actually give it his all he's gonna try,
which I appreciate. But number one,
I would definitely give to, is it Callie or Kaylee?
Kaylee. Kaylee. Kaylee Fleming.
She was amazing, loved her performance.
Her dramatic moments, especially were incredible.
Like this girl is going places when it comes to acting.
And I really can't wait to see what else she does
because she was absolutely fantastic in this.
Yeah, she was, she was so sweet, dude.
Like it was like, even though she was doing stuff
that was like super pretentious, like trying to be a grownup
and like kind of shitting on her dad's parade.
Like I, I forget who loved her.
Like I thought she was, she was so just adorable.
Yeah, she was.
Is she number one as well?
Yeah, she's my number one too.
Okay. Hell yeah, man. Same top three, I love it.
I would have sworn like that you were gonna throw
Steve Carell in there somewhere.
He'd be my number four.
Yeah, same here.
Like them are loved him.
Followed real close by Blossom.
Yeah, like I loved Carell, don't get me wrong,
love him in everything he's in.
But just Lewis was just such a great character
and he was voiced so well.
By, oh my God, I'm sorry, I forgot his name, Lewis.
Lewis Gossett Jr. who unfortunately passed away
a couple months before this came out.
Ah, that sucks.
Right, yeah, so the movie's dedicated to him, which I love.
But yeah, just his voice is like so soothing and calming
and it's like perfect to be coming out
of like an old style teddy bear like that.
And so just, I loved it.
It was perfection.
Yeah, it was really good.
Oh man.
Yeah, so where are you sitting with the acting score then?
I feel that like I'm not even like thinking about
like all of the other actors, you know, like Brad Pitt,
George Clooney, we're not even gonna consider those people
because like I never would have recognized their voices.
Unless I'm really looking for it.
But the main hitters are all great.
They do a great job.
Kaylee and, oh shit, did you say it was Kaylee or Callie?
I'm sorry, I already forgot.
Kaylee.
Kaylee, sorry, thank you.
Kaylee and Ryan especially, they freaking carry this movie.
They have really, really good chemistry
and everybody else did a really good job
for the little role that Fiona Shaw,
is that her name?
Yeah.
That played the grandmother?
I thought she was really good.
And for also the little role that Krasinski was in,
I thought he did a really good job.
It was really cool seeing him in a movie
that he also wrote and directed.
But I mean, he did that with A Quiet Place,
but it's always still really cool to see that.
So, I'm trying to think if like any performances
brought it down a little bit, but I don't think so.
But like, I think acting,
I think I wanna put it in the, well, sorry.
I know this is a tough one.
Yeah, like, cause like everyone was actually really,
you know what, I'm gonna, just because I feel the writing
was like one of the best parts,
I think I'm going to put it in between story and writing.
So I think I'm gonna go in 85.
That's actually exactly where I was sitting to.
Bam, love it.
All right, moving on over to character development.
This is definitely gonna be done based off of B.
For a kids movie, I feel this is really solid development
because I, you know, like you see how the movie starts
with a really fun montage of how much she loves
spending time with her parents.
And then we unfortunately find out that her mother
passed away of cancer.
Her father needs to have a surgery done because of his heart.
And then just her connecting with Cal
and these imaginary friends and, you know,
realizing throughout that, you know,
she needs to not grow up as fast as she needs to,
as she thinks she needs to be.
She actually needs to be a kid.
And her learning from not only Cal,
but also the other imaginary friends about this,
especially Louis is so great.
And at the end when she thinks that she's gonna have
to say goodbye to her dad, that's a great moment
with not only her, but with the ifs
and how they comfort her, how she says goodbye to them
as well as her imaginary friend
that it turns out to be Cal, Ryan Reynolds character.
Just, I feel it's a really solid character development
from start to finish in a kid's movie
that I feel showcases a great message that,
yes, you know, kids can go through some hard stuff
and they do, it's really hard
for what some kids have to go through,
but they do need to realize that they are still kids
and fun imagination is still something
that should sometimes take a priority.
You still gotta remember that you're a kid,
you're a kid for a reason,
and you need to not take all of these responsibilities
that you think that you need to.
You don't need to carry all of this on your back.
And I don't know, like, you know, like,
with some of the stuff that happened with me growing up,
I feel I could relate to that quite a bit.
And so I think I love the character development
even more because of that.
Yeah, there was a lot of really good personal growth
from her end, even though, like,
I saw it coming from like a million miles away
that Cal was her imaginary friend.
Fair.
And all that other stuff, like, it was still,
you see, like, that's coming from, like,
an adult's perspective.
Like, yeah, you know how this is gonna go,
but coming from, like, a child's perspective,
like, they don't.
Yeah.
Like, so it's just, like, showcasing that growth
that, like, you, that as an adult, I know is coming,
but this, like, this person still needs to experience
and discover for themselves.
So there's a lot of good,
it was really good at showcasing that stuff.
Definitely agree.
Yeah, so I don't know about you, this one,
I'm slightly above average,
because this wasn't the best thing in the world.
It was really solid.
Yeah.
I'm also gonna be sitting at an 85 with this one.
I think I'm just gonna go one point higher
than you at an 86.
Fair enough.
All right, next up we got effects,
which, looking at these characters,
I am going to be super real with this one.
Okay.
I don't know if this was the best,
at like, this, the best animation, like, CGI in the world.
It was good, it was super good.
Yeah.
I don't know if that was,
like you said, if it was the best.
No, that's fair.
Like, you know, thinking back, like,
I will admit that there were some scenes that,
I mean, I know that they're imaginary friends,
so you're just like, well, yeah, of course they're not there.
But still, like, there were maybe some scenes
that I'm just like, okay, like,
I can very much tell that you're CGI,
and I think I saw a little better CGI of you
a couple of scenes before.
Yeah, it was very inconsistent.
Yeah.
Like, there was some stuff that looked really good,
like when Blossom was out, like, was in the darkness,
and it was kind of like peeking through,
that looked awesome.
But like, I feel that there were some,
especially when they're doing like the whole, like,
run through of the retirement home,
there were some scenes that,
because it was moving so fast,
that I feel that they weren't able to, like,
get some of the ifs, like, as crisp as they wanted to.
And so, like, some, I was just like, okay, yeah, like,
I can definitely tell that you focused a lot more
of the budget animation-wise on this one
rather than you did with this one,
which, you know what, I completely get.
Yeah, and I think something that's also hard to do
is mixing all of the different visual styles.
Like, everyone looked different,
like the bubble that had like 2D animated eyes,
but it was like a three-dimensional bubble,
and then you have the glass of water.
Like, all of those, they were very different from each other,
and so they were all shaded differently,
and like just different shadows and everything,
like it, the mixture didn't work out as well
as I think they wanted it to.
Yeah, definitely heard that.
So, and I think, nevermind, that's more of a costume,
slash character design issue.
But yeah, there was just a lot of inconsistencies,
and there was a lot of times,
and I know this isn't on her,
where Bea looked like she was looking somewhere else.
Yeah, I feel it was definitely apparent with Blue.
Yeah, because they put him up in everyone's personal space.
So it's so hard to match where he's supposed to be looking,
because it's just, he's in everyone's space,
and he's moving around all the time.
So I would love to see the behind the scenes of this movie,
because I know with most of the time
when they have the CGI characters,
they'll have a stick or something with the character,
or something with what you need to be looking at eye level.
And so I'm assuming that's probably what they had here,
but like you said with how close Blue was always
to some of these characters,
I'm sure that made it hard for them to actually get down,
oh hey, even though he's this close,
I need to be looking up here.
Yeah.
So this one, I'm probably sitting at like an 82.
Like there was just too many issues for me to be like,
oh yeah, this was good 100% of the time,
because it wasn't.
Yeah.
Like in the pictures that you put in here,
they look good.
Like Blossom looks really good in this picture.
Like really well lit.
And it matches.
But then you got, and then Blue,
this is probably the best looking picture that Blue has.
Yeah.
And everything else looked odd at times,
in one way or another.
I think the only one that I didn't have any issues with
was maybe Lewis.
Yeah, agreed.
Lewis looked great always.
So I think because of Lewis,
I think I'm actually gonna match you an 82.
All right, next step, moving on over to music,
which I was expecting a bit more.
I was too.
I pulled up the soundtrack after I watched this movie,
because the only song that like really I remembered was
the, you know, the love is all that I can give to you.
Great song, you know, that I love that that was in,
the scene that it was in.
But there was one song by, what is this name?
Forget.
It's called, You Can't Make Old Friends.
And fricking, you know, unfortunately I can't remember.
No, that's not the singer.
Sorry, where is, all right, I'm sorry.
Let me pull, thought I could just pull it up on Google,
but I'm gonna have to go to my Spotify.
Probably would have been the easier route.
Yeah, I, this was a soundtrack I wasn't super impressed.
Like they had some songs in there that were good.
Don't get me wrong, but they weren't super memorable.
That's fair.
Sorry, song was Old Friends by Ben Rector.
Okay.
And so like, if any of you have seen Over the Hedge,
like he literally did all of the songs in that movie.
That soundtrack belongs to him.
And so like, I don't remember exactly what scene
this song played in, but listening to it again,
after the movie, like I forget started,
like I started to tear up a bit,
because I don't know if you've listened
to the song since then.
I have not.
Because it has like a really good meaning,
because like, it's just talking about like how,
like the childhood friends that you make
are nothing compared to the childhood,
or the adult friends that you make.
Adult friends, it's very rare that you know
where they grew up.
You know exactly how their parents' house looked.
And like, when you go back to your hometown,
you can remember almost every single area
that you and your childhood friends would always be at,
like on summer vacation, or stuff like that.
And so just, I love that the focus is just,
you can't make old friends.
Like old friends are, they are really special.
And so, like just like, you know,
like nothing added to the soundtrack,
because I really thought that was a great song.
Yeah.
Like you said, I wasn't super impressed personally.
I'm at a five, like we're average middle of the line.
Okay, damn.
Like even with like the love song.
Yeah.
I think that's what, I think that's how you say it.
It's just love, or whatever the hell song it is.
I think it's called.
Yeah, it's, it wasn't super impressive to me.
I felt like this could have been done really well
with a good coupled, like memorable,
not memorable, just original songs.
Like, I mean, I think it's like,
it's not memorable, just original songs.
Yeah, that's fair.
I think I'm gonna be one point higher at two out of six.
I feel the, like, I will agree the whole love song,
while, you know, really good pig, I liked it,
didn't fully add to the scene.
Like it added a little bit,
but not probably as much as I wanted to.
I would have loved it if they put in an original song
in that area.
And while, you know, the song, old friends,
love it, and you know, it definitely works here for,
you know, with imaginary friends, old friends.
When you make new friends in adulthood,
it's not the same, it really isn't.
But I don't feel that that pushes, you know, like me up.
I feel that like, I'm more so,
I'm more so relating to this song on like a personal level,
not relating it to the movie.
And so I feel I would just be a point higher at six.
Fair enough.
All right, next up we got costumes,
which this can tie into character design with,
since we had so many CGI characters.
This is definitely a higher point for the movie.
Yes.
I think everyone had a really good silhouette.
Absolutely.
The main cast is what bring, or the,
I'd say Cal and Bea and all the human characters
are kind of what brings it down for me.
That's fair.
Yeah, so I think here I'm,
I'm probably a solid nine with the costumes,
or just how everyone was designed.
The only,
Absolutely match the other.
The only character that I had a problem
with their overall design was blue.
Because he's purple.
Because he looked like Grimace, dude.
Take off those weird like little floppy ears
or whatever the hell those are supposed to be.
He looks exactly like Grimace.
Yeah, you're not wrong.
Like, let me see if I can pull up
a picture of Grimace real quick.
It's, dude, it is exactly,
like if you cut those ears off,
that's exactly what I think Grimace will look like.
McDonald's should have sponsored this movie.
They probably should have.
Like, dude, it is.
Wait, are they?
I wonder if they had ears.
I doubt that they would.
Yeah, I know this is.
Damn, they didn't.
I was hoping that they did.
They had them as Happy Meal toys.
That would have been amazing.
I know this is super frickin' blurry,
but look at that.
You cannot tell me that that is not Grimace with ears.
That's so true.
Dude, the eyebrows, the frickin' eyes,
the fricking, the smile, dude.
Every, it matches.
This is a one for one.
One for one.
Like, blue is just a live action Grimace.
I could just imagine.
I will not hear anything different.
This is Jeremy as a kid.
Okay, I love McDonald's.
I love the characters that they created,
but I don't wanna get copyrighted.
Grimace was my favorite,
so let's change him around a little bit.
There we go, there's my imaginary friend.
Yeah, oh my gosh, dude.
That is insane.
It's exactly the same.
It really is, yeah.
Like, he straight up looks like Grimace.
This is how they should have brought back the Grimace shake.
Have him drink it in this movie.
Or like some promo for it.
Yeah, like, no frickin' joke.
Oh shit, that's funny as hell.
Looking at blue.
Yeah, like, if you trim off the fuzzy hair,
remove the ears, that's exactly Grimace.
Yeah, no, it really is.
And McDonald's might not have a problem with it, I do.
Oh man.
No, it was too much.
Like, they needed something else.
Fair enough.
Holy shit, that was hilarious.
This is one where I personally would have gone to
like the children of some cast members and stuff
and being like, hey, what's your imaginary friend look like?
Yeah, that's fair.
Yeah, I'm very curious what the creative process was
for designing the IFs.
Very, very curious.
Yeah, like, especially like the cup of ice.
Yeah, what kind of kid has that for an IF?
Yeah, I'm like, dude, are you shitting me?
Like, were you that thirsty as a child?
And it's like in a shot glass too.
Yeah.
Superhero dog, totally get it.
Totally get superhero dog.
The frickin' sunflower, completely get that too?
Yep.
What other IFs were there?
The unicorn.
Yeah, unicorn, get that one.
I know you mentioned the spaceman, right?
Yeah, there's a spaceman, I get that one.
The robot, get it.
The magician mouse, I like that one a lot.
Okay, oh, here's one that I was just kinda,
I mean, the kid must have been like super artistic.
The one that like is painting
when they first come to the,
the retirement home.
Like that looks like a figure that you would,
if you say you're an artist, you would like use to pose
like a little mini figure that they would have.
Like the art teacher.
Yeah.
Okay, the kid must love art if he's gonna create that
as their imaginary friend, right?
Yeah, well, I mean, that one, I think makes
a little bit of sense, because it's like,
what's like a representation of an imaginary friend?
A lot of times it could be a stuffed animal,
or just some, like an action figure.
Like I feel like a G-I-G-O could have easily been an F.
All right, good point.
And you know, Paramount owns the rights to that, so.
True.
So it's like, I understand that,
because it's like, what if it's just some kid
that got ahold of his parents' like art supplies
and just kind of grew an attachment to the posing statue.
Like that's how I kind of justified it.
I didn't think of that, I like that.
I'm looking at some of the others, like there's an apple.
There's a fricking jello with a face.
Like some of those I'm just like, what the hell?
You know, John Krasinski put that in as a reference
to that scene in the office with the stapler and jello.
Did he really?
No, I'm just kidding.
If he did though, that'd be hilarious.
Okay, I was like, okay, I am totally down for that.
Like if that's what you're talking for.
Yeah.
And then the pink alligator, like yeah, like some of these.
Yeah, some of these make sense.
Some of these make a lot of sense.
Yeah, but there's blue.
Yeah, I think blue, the bubble, and the glass of water
are the ones I have the most issues with.
The glass of water is the one that I have
like the number one biggest problems with.
The bubble I can excuse and be, you know, like not be blue.
I know it looks like grimace, but you know what?
I can definitely excuse that because if I was a kid,
I completely understand if I say that if I was a kid,
I was a kid at one point.
I can understand that being your imaginary friend,
but a cup of water, a glass with one,
it was just one single ice cube, right?
Yeah, just one single ice cube.
Yeah, no, what kind of kid creates that
for their imaginary friend?
Like how thirsty were you as a child?
How much did you enjoy like drinking water
or soda or juice or whatever to be like,
hey, you know what, that's my imaginary friend,
a glass with one single ice cube in it.
Yeah.
I am, so I looked, I was just like looking to see
if there were any other like imaginary friends
I had an issue with.
There's a behind the scenes picture
of John Krasinski holding a puppet for the unicorn.
Oh.
So I'm curious if that's the method that they took
with all the other imaginary friends.
Yeah, interesting. Yeah.
Or if that was just like a random selection.
This is definitely the one that I can't wait
to check out the special features and behind the scenes.
Yeah.
Oh, John Krasinski did the voice for Marshmallow Man.
All right, that makes me happy.
Yeah, that's hilarious. I just found a page
that like shows off all the other ones.
Matt Damon was like the sunflower.
No shit, that was Matt Damon?
Yeah.
Oh, hell yeah.
Maya Rudolph did the pink alligator.
John Stewart was the robot.
Sam Rockwell was the superhero dog.
Yeah, that was perfection.
Yeah, the magician mouse.
Christopher Maloney did the detective, like the PI.
Which he was funny.
Yeah, that was good.
I liked him a lot.
Yeah, Richard Jenkins was the art teacher.
Aquafina was the bubble.
Blake Lively was the cat dressed as an octopus.
George Clooney's spaceman.
Matthew Reese as the ghost.
Bradley Cooper was the ice.
Amy Schumer was the gummy bear.
Keegan-Michael Key was the slime.
And that's all they had.
Damn.
All right.
Yeah, so still, not quite deserving of a 10.
And it's just because of the human characters.
Yeah, that's fair.
And the ice cube, right?
And the ice cube.
And the Grimace knockoff.
He will never let that go.
Never.
Not until they address it.
Or McDonald's Susan.
Yep.
All right, last up, we got our own personal scores.
You wanna take this one first?
Yeah, sure.
I was shocked about how much I enjoyed this movie.
Like from start to finish, I had a really good time.
It has some very dark, mature themes for a kids movie,
but you know what?
I feel it pulls it off very well.
All of the ifs are great, or the ones that we focus on.
And you know what?
It's really cool to see a bunch of people
when we go into their retirement home,
it's really cool to see all of the other ifs
that they're trying to place into other kids' homes.
But then, towards the end, we find out that
they just need to be reunited with their original kid.
So that was really cool to see.
And just, yeah, I was really shocked
about how much I enjoyed this movie.
And kudos to John Krasinski for not being able to,
not only being able to do a good horror movie,
but also a good kids movie, a good family movie.
So curious what he will add to his list next
of what genre he wants to tackle.
But, you know, overall, I think I'm gonna be on 86.
I am actually a little bit lower than you on that one.
I had a good time with this, don't get me wrong.
I just wasn't super impressed overall.
It was good.
Like, it was definitely good.
It just, it was just slightly predictable.
Like I said, it was a little slow at times.
The times where there was the imagination
that was kind of going wild, that was super cool.
I love that stuff, and I wish we would've gotten more of that.
And I actually really liked the route that they were going,
where the rehousing imaginary friends.
I thought that could've been really fun to do too.
Yeah.
But I mean, the route they took, it was good.
It was pretty heartwarming.
But I think that just kind of added to the whole slowness.
That's fair.
So, I mean, it worked out.
It worked out, but I'm personally at an 80.
Okay.
With this one.
That's completely fair.
All right, but with that, that wraps up this week's breakdown.
So going through these scores real quick.
Starting off with story, we are sitting at an 82.5.
The writing is sitting at an 84.5.
So got a couple point boost.
The acting is sitting at an 85.
The character development is sitting at an 85.5.
So we've just made like tiny little jumps like that.
Tiny little jumps up.
And then effects took a little bit of a dive.
It's sitting at an 82.
The music is sitting at a five out of 10.
The costumes are sitting at a nine out of 10.
And then our personal score ended up averaging out to an 83.
So with that, the final Albrose letter grade for if has come out to a B minus.
Okay, I'll take that.
I'll take that too.
That's actually exactly where I would have felt it needed to go.
But yeah.
So it's one of our higher B minus movies.
It's actually 0.2% away from being a B.
Okay.
So yeah, not bad at all.
So it is like our new number two B minus movie.
Okay.
What's our number one?
Our number one is The Greatest Showman.
Okay.
You know what?
I like that.
That's like a great placement for it.
Yeah.
So just starting off.
So if is sitting at an 82.81, which puts it below, like I said, the greatest showman.
Moving into the B territory, it is sitting below Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle.
That's fair.
It is below Violent Night.
There below Argyle.
Yeah, that's fair.
And it is below Wish.
I had to think for a minute what Wish was.
I am actually okay with that.
I'll be okay with that.
Yeah.
Like barely.
Dude, the more I think about Wish, the less I like it.
Dude, same.
Like have you seen this shit about like the whole thing with the king actually being the victim in all this?
Yeah, I have.
Yeah, I freaking said that from the get go.
Yeah, you do.
I told my wife, I'm like, dude, I don't know if the king was 100% wrong.
I remember you bringing that up in the review.
That's a completely different movie.
Anyway, so IF is sitting above the remake of Mulan.
Oh, yeah, definitely agree with that.
It is above Gran Turismo.
Yeah, agree with that.
It is above Scream 6.
Yeah, I agree with that.
It is above Chippendale Rescue Rangers.
You know what? I'm going to agree with that.
And it is above Godzilla X Kong, the new empire.
I'm going to agree with that too.
Hell yeah.
All right.
This is definitely one of our least controversial.
Yeah, seriously.
Love it.
Yeah, I did too.
But all right.
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