What up bros and welcome to the All Bros Podcast, I am Jonathan.
And I'm Caleb.
And we are a couple of aspiring filmmakers that love to watch and critique movies but
also enjoy a lot of bit of the nerd life.
This week on the podcast we are skipping over Funko Focus and 4K Spotlight.
We got nothing.
Like legit we have nothing.
Yeah, we try.
There's just nothing interesting that's catching our eye.
Yeah.
I mean if you want to like know about like old Blu-ray or old movies that are coming
to Blu-ray, the Jetsons movie and Good Burger are coming to Blu-ray this week.
So there you go.
That's all we got.
So we'll be skipping over those two.
And then we'll be moving on to Through the Wall.
Both Caleb and I have some good news, some good, not really good news.
Well, no, I feel yours is good news.
Caleb's not a big fan of my news.
I'm excited for it.
We'll see what happens.
We'll see.
Yeah.
Anyway, after that, we'll be moving on to our main shit headliner of the week.
Gosh.
Damn it, Rose.
I'm sorry.
Okay.
This is why I shouldn't be in charge of guiding episodes.
Yeah.
Well, you do it every other week.
So apparently that's that's just too much for me, man.
It's just too much.
Anyway, the Albrose headliner for this week will be the movie that I won't shut up about,
according to Vic, Netflix's original movie, The Prom, which came out back in I can't remember
if it was November or December, but one of those.
So anyway, Caleb, what do you say we get started?
Let's do it.
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Alright so, since we are skipping over Funko Focus and 4K Spotlight, Caleb, do you want
to go first with your Through the Wall news?
Yes, I will.
So my Through the Wall news bit is actually a trailer, or it's more of a TV spot than
a trailer.
Yeah, still a good ass TV spot though.
Yeah, but this was for Falcon and the Winter Soldier and, whooo shit!
Honestly, the first trailer for this show didn't get me that hyped.
I was hyped but it didn't really impress me all that much.
This trailer got me super hyped for this show.
I can't freaking wait.
The bickering between Bucky and Sam is amazing in this teaser.
I love it so much, especially at the ending.
What does the lady say to them?
Do you remember?
Yeah, she's just like, how old are you two?
That's what it was.
Oh my gosh, I love it so much.
Yeah, so if you haven't seen it, it starts off with Sam and Bucky in kind of, it seems
like a therapy session.
That's what it looked like.
Yeah, but it looked a little too police to be therapy.
Yeah, it looked like a depressing ass therapy room.
I thought they were supposed to be...
Yeah, isn't either that or it looked more like an interrogation room.
Yeah, because I thought therapy rooms are supposed to be welcoming and feel a little
homey.
No, not that one.
Yeah, I think something else is going on there.
I think this might be just like a counselor and they just have some like, I think they're
getting interrogated.
Sharon Carter comes in, guys, we got to make this work.
Work it out amongst yourselves.
Yeah, I think it's more like that situation.
I think it's like a CIA operation going on.
Yeah, but it opens up with the counselor or therapist asking Bucky what aggravates him
about Sam and it shows them in a plane and Sam or Bucky's asking what the plan is and
Falcon just jumps out of the plane and Bucky's just like, ugh.
He starts following after him and he's just like, wait, what's the plan?
But it's so good.
There's a lot of action sequences that we saw where Sam's flying through the Grand Canyon,
it looks like.
Yeah, it looks like it.
Which looks...
I like the first trailer that showed that a little bit better than this one.
I think it showed off his maneuverability a little bit better, but obviously it's just
a quick little clip because I'm pretty sure this played at the Super Bowl.
Yeah, it did.
Hell, didn't this get released?
Which I don't think anyone watched.
Fair, but I feel this got released before the Super Bowl even started.
Did it?
I don't know, I might be wrong, but I swear when I saw this pop up, the game hadn't even
started yet.
I was like, what the shit?
Yeah, maybe it was a pre-game release.
Yeah, I don't know.
Interesting.
Yeah, I was out on a date, so I didn't get to see it until later.
I'm trying to think of other things.
We got to see Zemo for a second.
We didn't quite get to see him in his mask, but we got to see him holding his mask and
walking in his big purple trench coat, which was freaking awesome.
Have you heard...
I know this is just a rumor, but have you heard the reasoning why he wears that purple
mask in the MCU?
Just to remind the Avengers of Thanos and mock them.
Oh shit!
That would be baller.
That actually works.
Some people might think that sounds lazy.
I don't think it does.
I think that actually works quite well.
I think that works really well too.
It's kind of like why would he just now be choosing to wear a mask?
Yeah, exactly.
That's a really good explanation.
Yeah, it is.
I'm hoping they at least touch upon that a little bit in the series.
I hope they do too, because that would be awesome.
That just made the mask a billion times cooler, even if that's not true.
Fingers crossed.
Yeah.
That would be sick.
We got to see a quick little fight scene on top of some trucks.
Oh yes.
Or it was more like on top of a trailer or something.
It was kind of really hard to watch.
Or not really watch.
It was hard to understand what was going on, because Bucky gets kicked off and Falcon says,
oh that little girl whooped your ass.
He yells at him.
I've watched it a few times and it was hard to see who the hell he was fighting.
I'll have to go back and watch it again, because I only watched it twice.
Then once again we only get a quick little glimpse of the US agent.
Yeah.
We got a couple clips of Sharon though.
We did.
That one.
That's going to be cool.
She's a freaking badass.
I'm excited to see her back.
Overall, super good trailer.
One out of ten with hype level.
I'm sitting about an eight.
Maybe a really close nine.
I'd say it's like, I can't decide if it's a hard eight or a soft nine.
I'm going to go with a really strong eight.
If it just hit a couple extra notes with me, I think it would have bumped me up to a really
soft nine.
I think I'm with Yoma of a really strong eight.
Nice.
Honestly, this was the only TV spot I checked out for the Super Bowl.
I feel there was barely any.
Wasn't it just this and Fast and Furious 9?
Have you seen that one?
No, because I don't care about the Fast and Furious franchise.
I saw Hobbs and Shaw and that's it.
It's garbage.
Really?
Holy shit.
Did you see me, John Cena?
Yeah, it looks super shitty.
Uh oh.
Well hopefully when they go to space in ten, it will be a little bit better.
Oh my gosh.
I'm pretty sure that they actually are in talks of that.
Everyone was saying it as a joke.
Oh, next they're going to take it into space.
No, they're actually thinking about doing that.
Oh no.
Oh my goodness.
This is getting almost as ridiculous as I hear the Friday the 13th movies got.
Or with like Jason X.
Oh, we don't talk about Jason X.
Or Jason Goes to Hell.
I'll take Jason Goes to Hell over Jason X any day.
Don't they have one where Jason ends up in space?
Yeah, that's Jason X.
That's Jason X?
Yeah.
That's what Fast and Furious is turning into.
The only thing, or at least for me, that redeems Jason Goes to Hell is of course when he actually
gets dragged to hell and then the ending, basically it's an end credit scene, is Freddy's
glove popping up through the dirt and grabbing onto his mask and pulling it down.
That's pretty cool.
It makes the whole movie worth it because it gets you so hyped for Freddy vs. Jason.
But yeah, that's about all I got for that.
Jason X, I mean, he kind of looks cool.
That's about all I got.
I would say there's way too much sex in that movie, but I feel you could argue that for
every Friday the 13th film.
Yes, yes you could.
I've only seen one, but yes you could.
Oh shit.
Alright, do you have anything else you want to add for the Falcon and the Winter Soldier
TV spot?
Nope.
Or the Silver Wall spot?
Okay, well then I'm going to share my piece of news.
So HBO Max announced that they will be doing a Scooby Doo animated prequel.
I don't know if they're just going to title this, but Velma starring Mindy Kaling.
I don't know if they're going to do the same animation for Velma as they did in Scoob.
I wouldn't hate that because I did like the animation on Mystery Inc.
But yeah, Caleb is not excited for this.
When I first saw this pop up on Facebook, I'm like, okay yeah, that's going to be my
piece of news for the week because actually Mindy Kaling voicing Velma, this sounds like
a good time.
I'm actually very excited for this.
Yeah, but what are they going to do?
She was a- they were children when Mystery Inc. met.
I don't know.
It's just like, what could you possibly add?
I mean, they could take a lot from a pup named Scooby Doo.
Yeah, but it's like that she had already met the gang.
Okay, fair.
I don't know.
Maybe this is an alternate universe where Velma is the only one that solves the mysteries.
It's called Mystery Individual.
This is like post-Thanos snap where only Velma's around.
We'll call it Mystery Invid.
Yep.
Or no, okay, it doesn't really work when you abbreviate it.
It has to be Mystery Individual.
Yeah, that sounds a lot better, but I mean, come on.
Are you shitting me?
Velma.
Dude, HBO Max has got to get those subscribers, man.
Wonder Woman 84 didn't- Wonder Woman 84 didn't do it that much.
I don't know if Zack Snyder's Justice League is going to do it.
I think that has a higher chance of doing it than Velma.
Yeah, but like this is more aimed at kids, whereas Zack Snyder's Justice League is straight
up rated R. True.
What is- is it Dinkley?
Her last name?
That's the name of the movie.
It's Dinkley?
Yeah, the name's- it's not going to be called Velma, it's going to be called Dinkley.
I feel so many people are going to make the joke.
You can pretend it says Dinkleberry.
I don't think anyone's going to make that joke.
The only person that will ever make that joke is you.
Apparently I just need to grow up.
Oh shit.
But, I will give you this, Mindy Kaling is not a bad person to voice Velma, but as a
prequel, what?
I mean, okay, what if it was, say they were making a sequel to Scoob and Mindy Kaling
was replacing the voice of Velma.
How would you feel about that?
If they were doing what to Scoob?
So like say they were doing a sequel to Scoob and they decided to recast Velma and they
put Mindy Kaling as the voice.
How would you feel about it then?
I wouldn't hate that.
Okay.
I mean, I didn't hate the actress who did it, but I would just be very interested to
hear Mindy Kaling's voice as Velma.
Yeah, I just didn't appreciate the one or two random outbursts of Spanish.
Yeah, when she's just like, oh, this miss, what is it?
This clue is incroyable.
I don't know how to pronounce it.
Yeah.
And I'm like, what?
That was random.
No.
Yeah.
Super random.
Like how many times did they do that?
Once?
I only remember it, yeah, when they're examining what they found at the bowling alley in the
mystery machine.
Yeah, they threw in one random word of Spanish and that was it.
Yep.
Like, why?
You got me, man.
What did you have to gain from that?
I'll tell you nothing.
Oh shit, I forgot Scoob is on HBO Max, isn't it?
Pretty sure it's still on there.
Yeah.
Okay.
I kind of want to rewatch it.
I know I did not like it that much, but I doubt my opinion is going to change.
But at least want to give it one more shot, one more view.
Yeah.
I don't even remember what we ended up giving it.
It wasn't that good.
At least I think, I don't think it was.
No, it was a lower score.
Go back to that episode if you want to know what the score was.
The cons outweigh the pros.
We'll just leave you with that.
Anyway, K-Wub, what do you say we jump into our main...
Headliner of the evening.
I caught myself.
Yes.
Now that we actually figured out what we're going to do for Headliner music, let's do
it.
Woo.
All right.
So before we jump into our Alvarez Headliner of the evening, we asked a question on our
social media about if you were being bullied, what are four actors that you would want to
protect you?
Yes.
And Caleb, do you have those responses?
I sure do.
Awesome.
Or I will here in a second.
Preparation, man.
You're failing.
Whatever.
So it wasn't protect, it was help.
Oh, my bad.
Sorry.
Yeah, because I think the answers would have been different had it said protect.
And everyone that answered actually gave a different type of helping, which I found really
cool.
That was awesome.
So first off, I'm going to start over on Instagram.
We got a response from our good friend Shy over at Friday Night Movies.
You can find his handle at pancake4, the number four table.
He said, celebrities, so not fictional characters.
To protect me from bullies, no question.
Dana DeLorenzo, which I don't know where she's from.
I don't even know her.
Oh, she's in Ash versus Evil Dead and Perpetual Grace.
Thank you, Shy, for putting what these people are in.
Yeah, you are an all star for that.
Like, seriously, man, thank you.
Yeah, so Dana DeLorenzo, Mark Hamill, because he's a Jedi in real life too.
Frank Grillo, who was in Kingdom and Captain America Winter Soldier, and his hero Alfred
Yankovic.
All right.
Excellent choices.
Or also known as Weird Al.
Yeah, I really...
Oh, okay.
I was going to say, I only know two of the O-8 and they're my own.
I know three.
Yeah.
All right.
Next up, we got a response from the BitHud Gaming Podcast.
He said, I need Keanu Reeves, which is a perfect choice.
You can't get better than that.
Yeah, he can freaking out John Wick on their asses.
I would actually say Neo.
Come on, man.
Neo?
No one remembers him.
You think Neo is more badass than John Wick?
I've never seen John Wick, so...
You need to watch John Wick.
I know.
I bought the trilogy.
I just haven't watched it yet.
Dude, what the hell are you waiting for?
I don't...
Time?
Fair enough.
All right, let's see.
Yeah, so Keanu Reeves, Elon Musk.
I'm assuming four flamethrowers.
Wait, Elon Musk is from what?
Do what?
Wait, you said Elon Musk?
Elon Musk?
What is he from again?
Sorry.
Elon Musk.
The name is literally not what we're thinking about.
What?
Give me a minute.
Dude, Elon, owner of Tesla.
Oh.
The flamethrower dude.
Oh.
My bad.
What?
How do you...
What?
Well, I'm sorry, Caleb.
Not all of us can think about buying a rich ass car.
Dude, this is Joe Rogan all over again.
Shut up.
We don't bring that up.
How...
How do you not know Elon Musk?
I...
I don't know.
Holy shit.
Shut up.
Dude, we're gonna get...
We're gonna catch some shit for that.
We?
It's just gonna be me.
Yes, you.
Thank goodness no one knows my private Instagram.
Don't you dare say it.
I was, but I forgot it.
Good.
Well, you follow the Albrows account, don't you?
No, I don't do that.
Yeah, just search his personal Instagram.
Just search his name.
Just search Rose and the Albrows followers and you'll find him.
You're a traitor.
I hope you know that.
Yeah, well, you should know who Elon Musk is.
You're such a dick.
Yeah.
Anyway, along with Keanu Reeves and Elon Musk, he has Ice Cube.
Yes.
And Jackie Chan.
Yeah, okay, yeah.
Yeah, so his...
So his bully, or the BitHud podcast, their bully is gonna be confused as shit.
Because someone's gonna...
You're gonna get your ass whooped by Jackie Chan, probably bitched out by Ice Cube.
You're gonna get a little toasty with Elon Musk and his flamethrowers.
And then Keanu Reeves is just gonna like flat out murder you.
I love it.
Yeah, and then Shy's picks.
I feel like Frank Grillo and Dana Del Lorenzo are gonna kick some ass.
While Shy is being helped emotionally by Mark Hamill and Al Yankovic.
Yes.
Okay, I can agree with that.
Yeah, so, freaking love those answers.
Alright, moving on over to Twitter.
We got a response from the Royal Mumble podcast at Mumble Royal.
They said, the mountain from Game of Thrones.
Yeah, that's a good choice.
You know the mountain, but you...
Never mind.
Shut up, shut up, shut up.
The mountain from Game of Thrones, The Rock, Chris Hemsworth...
I thought you were gonna ask me, do you know The Rock, Rose?
No, I know...
I was gonna bitch slap you across the screen.
Chris Hemsworth and Joey Diaz.
He says, three for physical intimidation and I feel Uncle Joey can roast anyone back into their mom's belly.
Fair enough.
Yeah, so, he's taking a more direct approach.
A more physical approach to his bullies.
And then our last response comes from Catfish Silly at Jason Lampro.
He said, Joey Diaz, Tom Segora, Tony Hinchcliffe, and Anthony Jeselnik.
He says, that poor bully would end up with three complexes, nightly bedwetting, and a therapist for life.
And then I commented and said, I feel super bad for the bully.
Oh shit, I love it.
That bully would end up with some complexes and emotional issues for the rest of their lives.
Thank you everyone for answering our questions of the week.
I apologize that Rose doesn't know people.
Dude, everyone is so, so just flabbergasted by your movie knowledge, or by your knowledge of people in general.
Like, last time you didn't know who Joe Rogan was, Untrained Eye freaking messaged us and was just like,
Oh, so, Rose doesn't know Joe Rogan, one of the biggest podcasters in the world,
but he knows that this one dude played a minor role in like, Zookeeper.
Like, what?
Okay, funny story, I've never seen Zookeeper, so your statement just blew up in your face.
Oh, it was something else. I forget what...
Yeah, I was going to say.
That's Kevin James, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
Oh, no, no, no. It was Big Mama's House.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, because I know the girl that plays one of the girls in Fantasy Island. Yeah.
I don't even think it was that.
Are you sure?
No, I think because we were talking about it in our...
Oh no, it was his question, answer to the question of the week.
Okay, yeah, so it might have been...
It might have been that.
Okay. I pick up on weird shit, okay?
You confuse the shit out of our listeners and I kind of love it.
So anyway...
You want to know what I... Really quickly, I just want to point out, do you want to know how weird I am?
The other night I spent 45...
I already know, but...
Okay, shut up. But I spent 45 minutes on YouTube looking at videos of the voice actors of the Chipmunks and Chipettes,
but slowed down to where you can actually hear the real voices.
I literally went through every single video of those because I was very...
Because I find that shit interesting.
Oh my hell.
I'm just like, oh my gosh, that's Christina Applegate as Britney? What?
That's funny.
That's super funny.
It ruins the movie, but...
Dude, I've been getting super into watching Fortune Fire videos.
What the hell is that?
It's a History Channel show where they bring in four blacksmiths to compete,
and they have a certain amount of time to create some sort of knife out of some weird material.
Sounds bitching.
Yeah, so I've been watching that, and...
Yeah, so I've been watching a lot of Fortune Fire.
Nice.
And I watched the kill tests, too, and I'm watching critical weapon failures
where their blade will break during a test,
where it will fail the kill test.
And one dude freaking had it where they had a blade, and it was like a long sword.
And he went to cut this pig carcass,
and it didn't cut and bent the sword.
Shit.
Yeah. And then this other dude...
And so he thought he lost. He's just like, well, shit.
Like, I guess I lost.
And so he started congratulating the other guy.
So the other guy had...
All he had to do was last one cut.
And his freaking blade on the first cut, like, all right, we're going to do this kill test,
swung the sword, and the sword snaps.
Oh, shit.
And I'm like, what?
Like, it blew my mind.
That's pretty damn cool.
Yeah, but I love watching shit like that.
Nice.
Anyway, what was I saying?
So thank you, everyone, to answer our question of the week.
We really appreciate hearing from you guys.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, so and we hope you guys continue to answer our question of the weeks when they come out.
All right, Caleb, I can't remember.
Did we say that we are cutting off the explanation of how we grade movies?
We done with it?
No.
We're still going to do it.
No, we're not cutting off the explanation.
I just was explaining or stopped explaining that we grade things beforehand now.
Okay.
All right. Well, Caleb, would you like to explain to the audience how we grade movies or the categories?
Yes. Yes, I would.
If you are new to our breakdown system, we have split movies into eight different categories that we individually grade to come to a final All Bros Letters grade.
It also gives us a percentage that we discuss after.
But the eight categories that we grade are story, writing, acting, character development, effects, music, costumes.
And then at the very end, we give it our own personal grade.
And then that gives us all of the math that we need to come to a letter score or to a grade school letter grade thing.
I'm going to find some way to explain this in the future.
He'll get there one of these days.
But yeah, but I think, like I said, or like Rose pointed out, we grade these beforehand now instead of before or instead of during.
This makes it a lot easier. And I feel it's more justifying our score.
Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, so those are the eight categories that we grade.
So starting off with story, if you have not seen this movie or the music, number one, go check it out.
Yes. Yeah, definitely go check it out.
But Rose is about to spoil the entire movie.
So he's going to read a synopsis and we're going to discuss the score that we gave it.
So buckle in for another exciting episode of reading with Rose.
With two E's. Yes.
All right.
In Edgewater, Indiana, head of the James Madison High School PTA,
Miss Green announces the school's prom will be canceled because female student Emma Nolan wanted to take a girl to the dance,
defying their traditional beliefs and much to the dismay of their principal, Tom Hawkins, who supports Emma.
Meanwhile, in New York City, narcissistic Broadway stars, Dede Allen and Barry Glickman are disappointed.
After their show, Eleanor, the Eleanor Roosevelt story closes on opening night due to negative reviews.
They are comforted by Trent Oliver, a Juilliard graduate who is between acting jobs and Angie Dickinson,
a performer who has just quit her part in the chorus of Chicago.
They realize Dede and Barry need a cause to seem caring and selfless.
And after finding Emma's story on Twitter, they drive to Indiana with the cast of Godspell.
At school, Emma is bullied and harassed for being a lesbian and for the cancellation of the prom.
The actors barge into the next PTA meeting in favor of Emma.
And while Mrs. Green is furious, Hawkins reveals he is a big fan of Dede.
Emma and her secretly closeted girlfriend, Alyssa, Miss Green's daughter, meet in private and talk about Alyssa coming out to her mother.
The actors arrive at a motel and perform at a monster truck rally event, but are booed off the stage.
Hawkins tells them the Indiana Supreme Court wants the school to hold a prom for Emma
and invites Dede to have dinner with him at Applebee's where the pair bond.
The next day, a number of promposals occur and Alyssa's cheerleader friends Kaylee and Shelby find out about Alyssa's plan to come out.
At Emma's grandmother's house, Grandma Bee reveals Emma was kicked out by her parents at 16 when she came out
and Barry tells her he left his house before his parents had the chance to make him leave.
Afterward, it is revealed that the PTA arranged a separate prom for her with the real prom being held at a private club.
A furious Emma calls Alyssa, who tells her she did not know and she is not ready to come out yet.
Dede accidentally reveals they came to Indiana to improve their image, leaving Principal Hawkins disappointed with her.
The next day, Mrs. Green addresses the media frenzy that followed the separate proms.
Angie comforts a heartbroken Emma.
Barry tells Dede to get Emma on her ex-pud's Bend Eddie Sharp show while she tells him to call his mother Vera, but they both are reluctant.
Dede meets up and apologizes to Hawkins and they reconcile.
Emma meets up with Alyssa and breaks up with her despite her apology.
Trent convinces the students that being gay is not wrong and they agree to apologize to Emma for their homophobia.
Dede arrives at the motel and tells everyone she agreed to give away her house in the Hamptons in order to get Emma on the On Eddie show.
She turns this offer down to tell her story her own way and sings a song she wrote during a livestream which goes viral online.
Trent confronts Kaylee, Shelby, their boyfriends Nick and Kevin, and three unnamed students and persuades them to support Emma with the help from the Godspell cast.
Realizing they truly care for her, the actors decide to throw her an inclusive prom themselves and contribute to the budget including Dede with her American Express card.
Afterward, Dede tells Barry she called Vera who wants to talk to him.
Vera tells Barry that although she cannot undo what she did, she always wanted a relationship with him and they make up.
Kaylee and Shelby, Nick and Kevin show up at the gym and apologize to Alyssa and Emma.
Mrs. Green also arrives to stop the preparations for the prom, but Alyssa finally comes out to her mother and Mrs. Green leaves silently.
Alyssa and Emma reconcile.
Later that night, Emma and Alyssa show up early to meet with the actors.
The students and many teens from the LGBT community show up for support and Angie receives a message about getting the lead role in Chicago.
Trent signs on to be the school's drama teacher.
Barry arrives with Vera and is crowned prom queen while Dede and Hawkins share a kiss and start a relationship.
After the dance begins, Mrs. Green arrives, apologizes and embraces Alyssa, accepting her for who she is.
Emma and Alyssa finally share a public kiss and everyone celebrates.
Hell yeah.
So we ended up grading this collectively as an 85.
Not too shabby.
Not too bad at all.
I really enjoyed this movie.
A lot more than I thought I would.
Yeah, I did not expect Caleb to enjoy this movie as much as he did because from experience I know he's not the biggest fan of musicals.
I'm starting to question that.
Maybe I just saw a decent chunk of shitty musicals.
I feel like we've done a few musicals and every time we've watched them I'm like, oh, well that wasn't super bad.
Yeah, see?
Maybe I don't dislike musicals. Maybe I just saw a few and they just put a bad taste in my mouth.
What was your first musical? High school musical?
Probably, yeah.
Oh shit.
Oh man, I'm so sorry.
I think a lot of the musicals that I watched early on, some of my first musicals were Disney musicals.
I mean, I enjoy those to some extent, but yeah, those aren't true musicals.
I prefer this kind of stuff. I prefer Broadway-esque shows.
Yeah, like have you seen Hairspray?
That might have been one that put a bad taste in my mouth.
Oh, that makes me sad.
You're talking about the one with John Travolta, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's one that put a real bad taste in my mouth.
Ah, damn, I love that rendition of Hairspray.
Oh shit.
That movie was just a bit much for me.
That's fair. I can understand that.
I still can't believe they actually talked John Travolta into playing that part.
Right?
Like a dead serious.
Yeah, but this movie was really good. I think that they had a really strong story base.
They did. One thing that I actually learned, and I think this was actually, I mean, this was one of the only changes that I know that they made between the movie and the Broadway show,
is that at the beginning of the Broadway show, it automatically just starts with the Dee Dee and Barry singing about Eleanor and, you know, like them excited for the opening.
And then it transitions to the scene where Emma is rejected a prom when they have that PTA meeting.
And then it goes back to when Barry and Dee Dee find out that Eleanor is a flop. It's not going to work.
And so I like that this starts off, I like that the movie starts off like, like, shocking, depressing, you know, you feel very sad that this is happening.
And then it jumps into this, like broad, like this huge, like two huge Broadway numbers, because I feel switching from like, you know, like, what's the word?
Pop to sad back to pop is I felt it's a little too much because it's like, OK, you want me to be happy and then sad and then happy again.
Agreed. I think that the bouncing back and forth would have been.
I think it might work more in like a musical, like a live Broadway performance, but cinematically, I don't feel like that would flow very well.
I agree. So I feel that was a really good change that they made.
Yeah, it worked out really good. I think that was one of the first things that I said to you, like,
while we were watching this, because we tried watching this together in a not at super legal way.
You just had to put that out there, didn't you?
I didn't say it was completely illegal. I just said it's a super not.
It's a frowned upon way of watching it. OK.
But yeah, I think that was one of the first things I'm like, oh, they just kind of take off.
Because, yeah, literally after they finished the first changing lives song, because there's two versions of it, both the same title.
But he's just like, what the hell is this, Rose?
Yeah, it just kicks off like it gives you no warning.
No, it doesn't. But I mean, that's Broadway for you, man.
Yeah. So I actually really enjoyed that aspect of it.
But I really enjoyed Emma's story and the way that things were getting revealed about her and her backstory
in a very subtle way that made it almost a little bit more powerful.
I agree. I mean, I feel one of the most powerful scenes in this movie is when the Emma's grandmother talks about how, you know,
to when she's talking to James Corden or Barry, she's just like, you know, you're not a mother.
So you don't know what it's like to see your own daughter give up on her child.
And it's like little story moments like that, that just like I've never seen a movie.
I don't know. I haven't seen a lot of movies of guys and girls coming out as being gay or lesbian.
And so seeing them getting rejected or basically tell her.
I mean, this never happens in the movie, but like telling them to get pushed back into the closet,
freaking breaks your heart, man. Yeah, it does.
You want Emma to be accepted by everyone.
But, you know, unfortunately, there are some people that just don't believe in her values.
And damn, it really breaks my leg. The first time I mean, I don't think I cried when we watched it.
But like that scene and then a couple of other scenes when they're just talking about
not accepting when someone comes out, like I tear up.
It's it's so sad. Yeah.
I think that they did a really good job at telling a very heartwarming story.
Absolutely. And kind of taking you along for that ride.
We were more or less in the same shoes as Barry and Dee Dee and all of them.
Learning about Emma as we went along.
OK, like we didn't. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. What?
No, I was saying we learned a lot about her through them.
And through interactions with them and the people around.
Around her.
I was just going to ask that in that scene where when like the two cheerleaders are antagonizing Emma
and all that stuff, and then Alyssa comes and, you know, like tells them off and everything.
And as she's walking away, could you like tell that? OK, yeah, they're a thing.
Oh, yeah. Like the second she started defending, I'm like, OK, so that's her secret girlfriend.
Yeah. And if that wasn't enough, the whole head turn and then Emma smiles at her.
I'm like, yeah, OK. Y'all are a thing. And it's adorable.
Yeah.
What I loved also, like a lot about this movie that I think some movies kind of overdue.
But I think this one did in a very, very good way were the side stories.
And like the couple side stories that there were was between Dee Dee Baker and the principal.
I think that was a very good side story.
A side story with Barry and his mother and not being accepted by his own family
and kind of understanding Emma's struggle with that.
I have to assume when they reconciled gets me every time.
Oh, my gosh, dude, I was like I was on the verge of tears with that.
I was so close. I'm just like, oh, just stop.
And then the scene ended. I'm like, oh, thank goodness.
But it's just so it's sad.
It is.
But it's also just like it's it's heartwarming and sad.
And it's just like it just hits you in the right feels.
Absolutely.
So I loved all of that. And then the other two, I forget what their names were.
But Trent and Nicole Kidman's character.
What is her name?
Angie. Yeah.
And Trent and Angie, I think that they were more side characters.
Nicole Kidman. I mean, I feel Nicole Kidman is a very well-known actress.
So I think it's awesome that she took a side character gig and fricking fantastic.
She knocked out of the water. Same thing with Andrew Reynolds, who played or sorry, Reynolds.
I butcher his last name.
But phenomenal.
That's Trent.
Oh, yeah. They they knocked it out of the park and we'll get into that with that.
Sorry, I always skip ahead. I apologize.
No, you're good.
But yeah, I think this the story, it was really good.
It's just I don't think it was perfect by any means.
No, no, it's it's not.
But I feel for the most part because it has to bounce around so much with so many characters.
I feel it does a decent job juggling them.
I think it does, too.
So eighty five is definitely above average.
I think you can definitely make the argument for higher.
It's just I think that there is just a good enough story to get in eighty five.
That's where I sat at.
No, no, I absolutely agree.
Moving on over to writing, we ended up scoring that as an eighty seven.
Which I think is well deserved.
I think it was slightly above the story.
Yeah, I can absolutely agree with that.
I think what I'll say, no, go ahead.
No, I feel a part where the writing really stands out.
I mean, this is also with the acting.
But is that seen in the hotel room between Barry and Dede and how
she's talking about how, you know, you need to talk to your parents before it's too late and all that?
Everything is just written so well and it comes across as so fricking sad.
And just the writing in that scene is just so damn strong.
Absolutely.
Honestly, I think the weak points for me were the bullying.
Yeah, that was bullying was just a little over the top.
It was kind of stereotypical movie bullying.
That's kind of how I looked at it.
Yeah. And I don't think that's what bullying is anymore.
No, it's not.
I don't think you get made fun of to your face.
No, it's everything cyber now, isn't it?
It is.
And I think they I don't know.
I think that they could I think that what should have happened because I mean,
she got bullied a few times for being gay.
I think what they should have focused on more is maybe people getting mad at her for prom, not going not.
I mean, they kind of do that.
I mean, because I think they should have focused on that more.
I think people would be more directly upset with her about prom than they would with her being gay.
That's true, because I feel like the only scenes that really focus on that is because,
of course, that scene where you talk about how the two bully cheerleaders,
they leave those bears in her locker.
Was it the bear called Les?
Yep.
And then you have the two jocks that are saying like, oh, well, if you were going to bring an exchange student girl,
then why don't you exchange her for a guy and all that?
Like, I feel that's literally the only bullying moment.
And then automatically it just switches back to, oh, hey, prom's back on.
So we don't have to bully Emma anymore.
Yeah.
That's kind of where I was like a lot of that was I'm like, eh, it's kind of dumb.
Yeah.
I mean, I feel if they maybe had a little longer, they could have done a little more.
But I mean, this movie's already two hours.
So I don't know what else they could have really added.
Yeah.
I think it would have been tough.
But I just I don't know.
I just I would have done less with the direct bullying.
And maybe I would have maybe focused a little bit on the cyber bullying,
because eventually when it gets to the point where she's going to get out there and tell her story,
she's I think it would make more sense for her to have more of an online presence throughout the film.
Like, I feel I agree.
And I feel what would have been like a really interesting way to get across the whole cyber bullying thing is that scene where it's her and Angie just sitting on her bed.
And, you know, they've said that they've been hanging out for a couple of weeks.
And maybe during that scene, she just talks about like what she's been how she's been harassed online, what's happened.
I feel that would have been a perfect moment to bring up cyber bullying into it.
Yeah. And I think that would have been a little bit more relevant.
Yes. As well.
So like I said, I think the way that she was going, I think the TV option would have been almost better or preferable.
But and then it's just she jumps online and it almost it almost didn't make sense for her to jump online like that.
Yeah, I get where I'm from.
Like, I don't know. I just think it should have been maybe dealt with a little bit differently.
But overall, the writing was was excellent.
Like I said, it definitely was high hit in a different way than the story did.
I thought the writing was definitely better than the story.
Yeah, I can agree with that as well.
But it also didn't quite get up to a 90 because I feel like there is some wasted dialogue.
And you know how I feel about wasted dialogue.
Yeah, Kayla won't shut up about it.
That's what the whole podcast is about, asshole.
OK, what's one wasted dialogue that you can think of off the top of your head?
Most of it was the bullying. That was really my only issues.
I love the classic line. Do you like the bears?
Yeah, like that's wasted dialogue.
Like, guess what? We can see the bears.
Anyway, moving on over to acting.
We gave this cast an 89 percent overall, which I think is pretty high compared to some other casts.
I feel this movie has an all-star cast. I love it so much.
Yeah. So like you said, we had Meryl Streep, we had James Corden, Nicole Kidman.
I'm forgetting what the other dude's name is.
Andrew Rannells.
Yeah. And then we also, whoever played Emma.
Oh, it's like Joe Ellen Pelman, I think.
Ellen Pelman?
I think, I think. Don't quote me on that.
That doesn't roll off the tongue whatsoever.
Yeah, yeah, Joe Ellen Pelman.
Yeah, that doesn't roll off the tongue even a little bit.
But okay. We also had, oh shit, I'm going to forget his name.
Michael Keegan Key. Yep, as the principal Hawkins.
We had Kerry Washington as Mrs. Green. And then Ariana DeBose as Alyssa Green.
Yeah. Honestly, I'm trying to think of like my top four. My number one is definitely going to James Corden.
Same. Oh, absolutely same.
I have seen him act before. Never like this.
Yeah, and yeah, I mean, for those who've listened to previous episodes, you know how we feel about, you know, the casting of him and everything.
The whole thing with Ryan Murphy. So if you want to hear our thoughts, go back to that because don't want to get into it again.
Everything. But yes, James Corden is incredible in this movie, in our opinion. And I just love him in this movie.
It was so good. Like he hit emotional. So he plays a gay character.
But he doesn't like overdo it. No, no, he does not.
I feel like it's super easy for straight actors to overplay gay. Just go maybe a little bit too far with it.
I think James Corden did an amazing job at just nailing the perfect level where he's just like slightly more flamboyant.
Yeah. And as far as I know, that's how the character was written even for the Broadway show.
Yeah. So it was I thought he was excellent. And the reason I thought he was so excellent was because of the emotional scenes.
He nailed it. Like he's the reason that I almost freaking cried.
Like that scene with him and Meryl Streep in that hotel. I know I brought this up with writing, but I got to bring it up with acting.
That honestly could be like, say like you were auditioning for something and you needed a two person scene that was very emotional.
I feel that is one of the most perfect I've ever seen. If you want to keep it nice and short, that is a perfect scene to do.
Oh, yeah, definitely. It's he killed it. He absolutely killed it. Absolutely.
So, yeah, I'm putting him as my number one spot. Number two, I'm probably going to give to Emma.
Yeah, Joellen Pelman was incredible. This is actually her first first movie.
Is it really? Yeah. At least. Yeah, that just that just solidifies her spot in number two. She did amazing.
And I think they focus. OK, I lied. OK, this is her first time a breakout. Sorry.
OK, this is like her first breakout role because it's mostly just been like little like the word cameos because she's been in the Marvelous Miss Maisel and the Deuce.
And they were just like little, very little roles. OK.
Yeah, she she killed it, too. She did so well.
Um, shit, I'm trying to think of her, the scene that I loved her the most. Honestly, I think it was when she walked into the gym and it was empty. Oh, gosh, that just breaks your heart.
It does. It's so sad. And. Dude, like.
I think I was like I was with the group, like the group, they were just so excited to get her all dressed up, like everything like that.
They were so focused on that. And then they started like doing like a little dance, like dancing into the prom.
And Meryl Streep's or so. Yeah, Dede Baker, Meryl Streep's character kind of hangs outside and she's just like.
Starts to notice like where is everyone? And I didn't I didn't even wasn't even thinking about the parking lot. No, I didn't for a little while.
Yeah, for a while. And I'm like, wait, this is a problem. Where are all the cars?
And then she and then that's like I had those thoughts, like almost exactly as Meryl Streep was voicing like the where is everyone?
And then once like you get in and the principal is there and he's just like, I'm trying to figure it out. I'm trying to figure it out.
I was just like, oh, no. Yeah, it's it's it's heartbreaking.
People are so mean. I know. Oh, my gosh. Like the movie does so well at like hyping you up that you almost miss that detail.
Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Like I said, I only started thinking about it a couple seconds before Meryl Streep.
I didn't start thinking of stuff. Yeah. See, I thought later I didn't think until after she like started putting down her phone and then she looked around at the parking lot.
Yeah, I was. Oh, it freaking broke my heart. Yeah. So depressing.
Yeah. My number three.
I'm between Trent and Meryl Streep.
Honestly, it could be a coin flip for either one of them being three and four because those are my three and four.
OK, so it's a coin flip. But as of right now, I'm thinking I'm leaning more towards Trent number three and then Meryl Streep number four.
Very nice. I like it. Yeah. So what about you? What's your top four?
All right. Number one, same James Corden.
I feel number two, I'm going to have to agree with you, Emma, Jo, Ellen Pelman. She was amazing.
I feel I'm going to probably get hate for this just because I feel she deserves a little credit just because I feel she was incredible.
But so three, I'm going to put Andrew Reynolds as Trent. But number four, I'm going to actually put Nicole Kidman. Right.
It's Nicole Kidman. Yeah, Nicole Kidman as Angie. So I'm sorry, Meryl Streep is fifth. Streep. Wow. Meryl Streep.
I feel like fourth is tied between like Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep. Let's put it that way.
OK, that's that's fair. All right. Who who would you give the lowest to?
Hmm. I would not say Kerry Washington was amazing. She played like a bitch so well, so it's not her.
Didn't she? Yeah, she did a really good job.
Honestly, she she's really close to at least top five.
Yeah, I probably say it's it's definitely one of the the both.
What's her name? It's it's one of the high school kids.
Shit, what's her name? Apparently, Ariana Grande is in this movie.
What? Yeah, I didn't know that.
Where? I don't know. Oh, Logan Riley Hassel, who played Kaylee.
I don't know for like if I'm putting her between Sophia Diller, who played Shelby, I thought Shelby did a way better job.
That's fair. Out of the main cast, I'm probably going to give the lowest to Alyssa, even though that's not a bad spot.
I'm not like saying she was awful. But I think she is definitely the lowest.
Like, I think I ended up giving her when I was averaging everyone out, I think I ended up giving her at seventy nine.
That's fair. I mean, I feel I swear she had a lot more to do in the Broadway show.
So I wish that they did give her more to do because Ariana DeBose, I think, was a great choice to play her.
What we see her in, she does amazing. I just wish that she was able to get more out of her character.
Yeah, I think that was my big issue with her. It's just like she's such a like a primary character or she should be such a primary character.
But she's really not. No sidelined in this. Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah. So. So, yeah, like we said, acting got eighty nine.
Getting into character development, I think we both scored Emma. Yes.
And we gave her an eighty five. So kind of just down a story. It wasn't a bad arc that she had.
She had a really good arc. I mean, I do appreciate that in the show, she's already come out as gay.
I do appreciate that. We we I mean, as much as I would love to see her story of her coming out, I do appreciate that it's already established and we're just going from there.
But it's really it's it really is awesome just seeing her kind of after all that she's gone through,
getting herself up, realizing that she is loved, like when she sings that song on YouTube live stream and it just goes viral and like the one kid says, you're not the only one.
And like Caleb said, it's not the greatest character arc, but for her, it's a perfect character arc.
Absolutely. I cannot agree with you more. I think you nailed it right on the head.
I think there was a lot of good character moments for her.
One that stands out in my mind is the scene with her and Nicole Kidman and her just kind of more or less giving up on.
Oh, yeah, herself and like, I don't know if I can.
Yeah, like the whole line where she's just like, I never thought that I could.
I thought when my parents stopped loving me that I could never feel any worse.
And here I am right now and I've never felt so alone.
Yeah. And I think that was a really good moment with them.
But yeah, I think everything was really well done.
It's just it's not perfect by any means.
I think there's a lot that they just kind of gloss over.
But I feel in this kind of story, it kind of works.
Like it does. It definitely does.
Like I said, I would have loved to see her coming out story.
Like I think that would have been awesome. But I do understand and I appreciate that they the movie just starts off with her already coming out that she's already announced to everybody that she is lesbian.
Yeah. So this is a above average.
It's a very strong arc and it deserves it.
It absolutely deserves it.
Absolutely.
All right. Moving on over to effects.
We ended up giving that an eighty nine point five.
I feel the two biggest effects.
This is more set design that stand out for me is at the beginning and at the end.
The beginning is during the changing lives reprise when they're singing about going to Indiana.
All that jazz. And what I love so much is that when they're outside, all of that was actually filmed on Broadway.
It looks like even Kayla pointed out that it kind of looks green screen.
But I feel that's kind of how broad like for how bright Broadway actually is like the strip that they were on.
It can look like that. But I just appreciated that so much that they actually filmed those scenes on Broadway.
That was freaking awesome.
Yeah, I meant to go back and rewatch that scene, the opening one specifically.
Yeah. But that I haven't.
So I can't like I don't feel like I can accurately score that or dock it for anything.
But yeah, it looks super green screen.
You'll have to watch it again soon. Let me know what you think after knowing that that is actually how Broadway supposed to look.
Yeah, like I the way that I kind of justified it with I think I even brought it up with you.
I think they just oversaturated just all of the lights.
Yeah. And they didn't saturate the actors enough.
That's fair. So just it just seemed like it was fake.
That's fair. That's fair.
So there's that. And then, of course, the prom at the ending amazingly set up.
It looks incredible. The whole entrance, the archways, gorgeous and like.
But that looks fake, too.
OK, but it's kind of supposed to, isn't it?
Yeah. But OK.
Think about it, though, when they come when after they come in and it starts showing the stage and everything, it almost looks like a dreamscape.
You can't see the walls. You can't see the floor properly.
It's it looks like you're walking in to heaven where it's just like like it's just cloudy and beautiful and blurry.
And I'm like, I don't give a shit how well you decorate a place.
There's no way in hell you can disguise walls, especially in a fricking high school gym.
I mean, if you kind of think about it that way, the whole like heaven kind of aspect, you know, maybe that's how they want to look at it.
But the other way is that like in the final song, no one cares who your untruly heart loves. But until that day comes, I say to you, the drums, it's time to dance.
This is how they want the world to be.
But they know this. I mean, unfortunately, it's probably never going to happen.
I mean, we can hope. I would love to see the world like this.
But this is just what they would love to see. And this is kind of their way to escape to the world that they wish that they could live in.
I mean, that's a decent explanation.
What?
But still, it looked fake as shit.
So, but I so I counted that I actually gave those sort of effects like the.
Even though it was real from what you say, it was real.
And because the that I actually gave the overall like the special effects kind of low.
But what really bumped it up for me, I counted the choreography as effects because we count action as.
Into the effects. Oh, yeah, that's true. We do.
And like the stunt work and everything. And I think the choreography could count as stunt work.
So I counted that. So that's actually what ended up boot boosting it up for me a lot higher.
I think I might have given like the I think I gave the gave the special effects.
The like in the low 80s and I gave the choreography in the mid 90s.
It's not bad. Yeah. So like I said, effects is sitting at an eighty nine point five.
Not to show. Yeah. Next up in music, we ended up giving that a nine. Rose ended up giving it a ten.
I gave it a nine and we round down. OK. I am so sorry.
I actually lied. I was told wrong information. It was fake. It was fake, wasn't it?
Because according to Bustle, the prom did not get the permission to shoot on Broadway while Edgewater in Indiana does not exist as it is a fictional town.
Rally Studios in Hollywood is one of the prom filming locations.
The studio lot was built up to look like the famous New York theater district.
Freaking knew it. I freaking knew it. OK. My bad. OK. I apologize.
I was fed some wrong information, but even for a set, I think it still looked incredible. But that's just me.
Yeah, you're not wrong. But that's why it looked fake.
So I apologize for my big oopsie.
I forget where I heard that from. I think I heard it from beyond the trailer. Grace, how dare you? I'm just kidding.
Yeah, someone's going to have to go have a chat with her.
Yeah. Getting back into music, we gave it a nine because Cale couldn't talk himself into a ten.
I couldn't. I couldn't in good faith or do that to myself and to the listeners.
I wish that could. The soundtrack was incredible. But once again, like freaking Moana, it ruined it by one song.
I just can't believe it's that song. I thought it would have been maybe like Alyssa Green or actually, I thought that was that one wasn't super good either.
That one wasn't super good. But I liked it better than that. Give me some Zazz. Oh, I shut up.
How many times can you say Zazz? As much as Nicole Kidman damn pleases, OK?
No, that's why that's why she got a nine. You bitch.
Yeah, and we only do I probably should include half numbers because at this point it says we're rounding down.
Yeah. So I'm wondering if I should start to include half.
Good. Yeah, well, we'll see. I think our systems worked out pretty good so far.
OK, I got I got I got to know because I want to say that while we were watching it after the song Love Thine Amber finished, you said that was your favorite song so far.
Yes, that actually was my favorite song. So throughout the whole movie, that was still your favorite song.
Yep. OK. All right. Fair enough. It's a great song. Probably my second favorite.
Yeah, one thing and I don't know if this is just a common practice for Broadway musicals.
The. This all the songs seem to have the same sort of tune. In one way or another, or like the same same sort of the cadence, I don't know what it is, but I've noticed that in multiple musicals that I've listened to or watched.
Every song seems to have a similar tune.
And I'd have to do more research on it to figure out if that's like on purpose.
I can't remember if that is. Let me know because I'm interested as well.
Yeah, it's it's odd. Like they always have a couple songs that don't fit into that mold.
Like one that I'm thinking of in particular is my favorite musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
They have.
They have one song in it at the beginning, it's called Bless Your Beautiful Hide.
And it seems like throughout the.
The movie, they seem to kind of go back to that tune a lot.
Like.
I don't even know if I could hum it right now, but it just like anytime there's like a little soft spot, a little like bit of silence, they kind of play the beautiful hide tune in the back.
Like it's just the do do do do do do like and they play either like really fast when it's like a kind of upbeat or they play it really slow when it's kind of more solemn time.
But they always seem to play that tune.
And it's odd and I kind of noticed it with this. There was a lot of songs that sounded similar, had the same kind of tune.
It was. I'm wondering if that's on purpose.
It might be.
You got to do that research and let me know.
Yeah, definitely going to have to.
But like we said, music ended up scoring a nine.
It actually got like a nine and a half, but we ran down to nine.
So, sorry.
Bitch.
Next up, we got costumes, which we agreed scored a nine.
Fan frickin' tastic.
Yeah, the costumes were so good.
I wish one thing that I wish was different.
And it's it's at the beginning when Barry, Dee Dee,
and then Angie are all, you know, dancing down Broadway. I love that Barry, Dee Dee, and Angie are all wearing like sparkly, like glittery clothes.
Blue, red, no, I'm sorry, blue, purple and green.
But then Andrew Reynolds is just in like a red blazer.
I really wish that like somehow they could have worked that he just throws on a blazer that looks exactly like James Corden's but is red.
Because I don't know, I feel that would have maybe worked a little better if they were all in unison with their clothing.
I agree.
I think that would have worked a lot better.
That that's really the only costume change I have other than that.
So good.
Yeah, I think they blew it out of the park.
The prom dresses were just killer. Yeah.
Meryl Streep's outfits were otherworldly.
Seriously, I don't want to know how much her wardrobe budget is.
Probably a sh-hit ton.
And yet she still owes half of her unemployment check to her ex-husband.
How the hell is she affording all this shit?
How the hell is she on unemployment?
You got me, man.
It's Meryl Streep, we don't ask questions.
Yeah.
But yeah, costumes, super, super good.
Yeah, I can't say enough nice things about them.
Then last, for our final category, we are going to be talking about our personal grades.
So Rose, you want to take this?
Or I'll go first, because you had a freaking hard on for this movie.
Shut up!
So I ended up giving this movie an 89.
And I enjoyed this movie a lot, a lot more than I thought I was going to.
I thought it was really well done, really well crafted.
It was fun.
The music just out of this world, so good, except for one song.
The story kept you engaged, it was a really emotional story, and they hit those marks so incredibly well.
And that is mainly due to James Corden.
If he doesn't make you tear up even a little bit, you have no soul.
Damn.
Dude, I'm not afraid to say that.
It is absolutely true.
Oh my gosh, so good.
I highly recommend this movie.
I am not a big fan of musicals, so if you aren't a big fan of musicals, I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy this.
So I say go check it out.
So that's all I have to say.
Rose?
Like Caleb said, it's no surprise that I love this movie.
And I promise after this I'm going to try to shut up about it, just to please you, Vic.
But yeah, the first time I watched this movie, I absolutely loved it.
The second time I loved it, and watching it again with Caleb, loved it all over again.
The cast is amazing.
Like Caleb said, James Corden's emotional scenes and every scene that he's in are breathtaking.
He's incredible.
Meryl Streep is dee dee, amazing.
Andrew Rannells, Nicole Kidman, Keegan-Michael Key, Kerry Washington, everybody.
Joellen Pelman, just everybody.
Amazing in this film.
And I can't stress this enough, guys, if you have not seen this, please go watch it on Netflix.
It deserves a watch.
It's an amazing rendition of the show, and I hope to.
Honestly, I really hope to see the show, at least one day when it comes to, or when it comes back to Broadway, if I can make it out there.
We'll see.
But for my overall personal grade, I gave it a 90.
Nice.
I'm sure people thought I was going to give it a higher.
I honestly thought you were going to.
But all of that added up together brings us to an 89.5.
So that means the final Albrows letter grade for the prom is a B+.
That is not bad at all.
No, definitely not.
It's sitting at an 88.125%.
So it is, it's up there.
Honestly, I actually checked just for shits and giggles.
The music, if I would have, if they would have taken out the give it some Zazz song,
it would have bumped it up to an 89%,
which would have been like right on the cusp of an A-.
I can't believe you didn't like Nicole Kidman's song.
No, I did not like her song.
You just don't have, you just don't like jazz hands, do you?
No, I freaking hate jazz hands.
So comparing this to some other B-plus movies,
this is 1% lower than Elf, 1% lower than Better Watch Out,
1% lower than Marriage Story, it is higher than Halloween by 1%.
Wow. Shit.
Yeah, it is 2% higher than Nightmare on Elm Street,
1% higher than Psycho,
1% lower than Da 5 Bloods,
1% lower than Ready or Not,
1% lower than both Black Panther and The Avengers,
2% higher than Spider-Man Homecoming,
1% lower than Knives Out.
Damn, it's beating Knives Out?
No.
I thought you said higher.
No, it's 1% lower.
Oh, sorry. I was going to say damn.
It is 0.1% lower than The Invisible Man.
Ooh, so close.
And I don't disagree with that. I think I might have liked The Invisible Man a little bit better.
Alright, let's see. It is 2% higher than The Lovebirds,
1% higher than Parasite,
2% higher than Frozen 2,
1% lower than Rocketman,
also 1% lower than Spider-Man Far From Home.
1% higher than Detective Pikachu,
0.7% lower than the Unicorn Store.
Kale Bari knows my thoughts.
Frickin' fight me, Rose! That movie was amazing and you need to shut up.
Oh, shit.
Alright, before I blow another gasket,
0.2% lower than How to Train Your Dragon 2,
it is 2% higher than Captain Marvel,
1% higher than How to Train Your Dragon,
and 2% higher than The Lego Movie 2.
Not too shabby.
Yeah, not too shabby at all.
We have a few other B Plus movies, but I think I'm just going to leave it there.
So, yeah. I think it's sitting in a pretty fair spot.
Yeah, I absolutely agree.
So, like we said, go check it out for yourself. It's on Netflix.
Highly, highly, highly recommend.
Can't recommend it enough.
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All right, so next week, to finish off February,
we will be breaking down Unhinged.
Starring Russell Crowe.
Yes, this is a Russell Crowe movie, and I have no idea what this is about.
You know what? I actually want to keep it that way.
I'm not going to say anything.
All right. I'm excited.
It's not very often that I go into a movie blind.
I haven't looked up anything about this movie.
Dude, don't look up any trailers. Nothing.
Sweet.
Yeah, definitely not going to.
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Deuces so long.
Didn't do too bad, that one.
Thank you. I feel the long was a little too soft, but I'll try harder next time.