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be your host this evening i'm a little bummed
the winter olympics are officially over they
have finished yesterday as of time of this recording
and uh i was really enjoying it this year i had
a really good time watching all the different
events and just kind of You know, just taking
it all in. I saw a lot of events that I wouldn't
normally watch. A lot of things that I would
watch even. Like, I love hockey in general, but
I don't think I missed a match this year for
the hockey. I watched a lot of biathlon, a lot
of curling. You know, took in a lot of things
that I kind of don't usually get to see. And
I found a lot of sports that I probably wouldn't
have watched on my own. that I very much enjoyed.
So this year was very good in terms of the Olympics.
I watched a lot of it this year. But I put up
to our listeners a couple of what I'm going to
call Olympics adjacent movies. Not quite Olympics
related, but they involved, I'll say that three
of them were bad skiing movies. One of them was
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IPA, very good. Very good on this day to talk
about a kid's movie. And as always, when I talk
about a bad kid's movie, let's shit on a kid's
movie, huh? What do you say? So this one is MVP.
colon most valuable primate. It is a movie. Let
me just give you a little rundown of it before
I jump into all the details of it. The story
of Jack, a fun -loving, scene -stealing primate
with a penchant for ice hockey. The friendships
this charming chimp forms, the predicaments he
finds himself in, and the precocious antics he
regularly delivers are all a part of the adventures
of this rookie player who skates fast, shoots
hard, and drives everyone bananas. So yeah, it
is a bad hockey movie. It is from the creators
of Air Bud. It is an Air Bud entertainment movie.
You're going to notice there's a lot of the same
beats as the first Air Bud movie, except for
this time it is a chimpanzee and it is hockey
instead of basketball. It is a PG movie from
2000. It's an hour and 32 minutes and it is considered
a comedy. This is right on the bubble. So I'm...
like fairly confident this was more under 40
on both scores when this was originally up for
the vote um it is 40 on both scores both the
audience and critics scores on rotten tomatoes
which is right at my limit um yeah i i could
have sworn this was lower when i originally was
putting up for the vote but it does still count
it is 40 on both scores So yes, MVP, Most Valuable
Primate does still count as a bad movie in my
books. So yeah, we are going to hear all about
the story of a chimpanzee playing hockey. The
gross USA box office is $1 .3 million. Yes, $1
.3 million. I don't think it was really released
in too many... Movie theaters, it feels very
much like a direct -to -video DVD kind of thing
at that point, 2000. Yeah, it probably was still
a couple VHSs at this point. It was distributed
by Keystone Family Pictures. The production company
was Film Incentive and Funky Monkey Productions,
Inc. The producer was Ian Fody. The screenwriters
were Ann Vince and Robert Vince. Those names
might sound familiar. because Robert Vince was
also the director of this one. And if you look
at Robert Vince and Ann Vince's filmography,
yeah, basically almost all of them are the Buddies
films. The Air Buds, the Space Buddies, the...
You know, those kind of films. They wrote all
of the most valuable primates, the MVPs, the
most extreme primates, Spooky Buddies, Search
for Santa Paws, Santa Buddies, Snow Buddies,
you know. Anything with buddies is probably one
of theirs. They also have Spymate, which is a
primate that's a spy. Any kind of pun that has
Air Bud or primate, those kind of things. Air
Bud's seventh inning fetch. world pop golden
receiver you know like those kind of things yes
the the vince is probably hand in it either producing
directing writing any of those things so yeah
um started with airbud forming airbud entertainment
that has their name on all of the rest of these
so yeah like i said it probably has a lot of
the same beats because it's a lot of the same
writers the same directors that kind of thing
Not only does it have the same writers and directors,
but this movie stars Kevin Zegers. Kevin Zegers
is the main little kid in this one that is on
the hockey team. Kevin Zegers has had a pretty
decent career. How did he get a start, you might
be asking? Well, he also is the main kid in Air
Bud and has been in most of the Air Bud movies
as the main kid. Just as the main kid in MVP
Most Valuable Primate. They just thought maybe
you wouldn't notice. He's a completely different
kid. In the Air Bud movies, he's Josh Fram. In
this movie, he is Steven Westover. Completely
different kid. Same exact role. He is the one
or one of the people that finds the animal, the
golden retriever or the chimpanzee, brings them
to play on the team. They get on the team. He
plays with the animal. And shenanigans ensue.
Maybe they win. Maybe they don't. Who knows?
Most likely, you feel like you kind of know where
this is going. So, yeah. Kevin Zegers, like I
said, he's had a pretty decent career, especially
after all the Air Bud movies and stuff like that.
Been in a lot of TV shows. But, yeah. You've
heard of a lot of the TV shows he's been in and
also was in 2004's Dawn of the Dead, was in Zoom,
the movie in 2006, was in 10 episodes of Gossip
Girl, was in the Mortal Instruments City of Bones.
And the one I really want to get to, I know there's
actually a lot more things that you'd probably
recognize over this, but he was also Chuck in
The Curse of Downer's Grove, one of the movies
we covered two years ago. uh in one of our october
halloween scary uh spoopy months so yeah he's
been in a lot of things uh currently you can
find him on the rookie uh he was in the rookie
feds for 22 episodes and he's been on at least
five episodes of the rookie rookie and he has
two other things coming out too so he's been
in a lot of things um like i said got his career
started an air bud but yeah he's been on a couple
things um his sister is played by jamie renee
smith as well jamie renee smith same kind of
thing been in a bunch of tv shows uh chicago
med hers is a lot more like been in one episode
here or there but it's a lot of big shows that
you know grown ish animal kingdom 911 ncis better
things happy whatever uh what's that show called
sorry uh happy uh merry happy whatever uh hidden
canyon she was in 17 episodes you know hers is
a little more like one and done kind of been
there kind of that kind of thing but still getting
some work that kind of thing um the only other
person that you kind of need to know before we
get started of their career is uh uh rick tocoman
uh rick tocoman has been or he's the coach in
this um He's been in things. He was in The Burbs
as Art Weingartner. He was in Groundhog Day as
Gus. He was in Spaceballs as a prison guard.
And he also was Cindy's dad in Scary Movie. You
kind of recognize him. He passed away in 2015,
so RIP. But yeah, he plays the coach in this.
So those are really the three actors who have
kind of branched out from this. Other than that,
it's a lot of people you don't really know. And
then there's also three different chimpanzees
that play the titular... primate jack so enough
setup let's get to the details let me tell you
about mvp most valuable primate here we go so
beginning of the movie we think we're in like
a child's bedroom and the alarm goes off and
we realize this is jack's room he has like a
full bedroom like full bathroom everything the
alarm goes off jack Hops out of bed. He starts
his full routine. He showers. He brushes his
teeth. He does everything. And this monkey's
name is Jack. And he goes into his kitchen. He
eats his cereal. He even drinks coffee and pours
a mug. And the mug says Dr. Kendall. And we're
introduced to Dr. Kendall. And there's a guy
named Darren. We don't know his name at this
point. But Darren is the custodian. And he's
also kind of responsible for Jack. Um, Darren,
again, we don't know this at this point, but
Darren has a soft spot for Jack. They're kind
of besties, that kind of thing. Uh, Darren opens
up the curtain and we see that Jack kind of lives
on a stage, like a, uh, like a theater stage,
but they've put together this room and this like
habitat for him that he lives in. And so it's
like a room, it's a kitchen, it's a bathroom,
all that kind of stuff. And every day he goes
out and talks with Dr. Kendall and they do classes.
It's at a university and they do classes for
graduate students. They've introduced that portion
and then they go to Nelson, Canada. And this
is where we meet our human component, which is
a boy and a girl. We think they're brother and
sister. They're playing hockey in a pond. All
we really get is that they give like a heartwarming
hug and that's all we get. And then we go back
to the class. And Dr. Kendall is like asking
Jack, like, how much is two plus two? And Jack
holds up three fingers and the class laughs.
And Dr. Kendall is like upset because he knows
Jack's messing around. And so Dr. Kendall kind
of like dismisses the class and he goes, Jack,
you got to stop messing around. I know you're
a genius, but you got to start acting like it.
And then it goes back to Nelson, Canada, and
it goes to a little girl's class. and we see
that like she's not very popular there's a bunch
of girls that are like planning a party and she's
not getting invited to it however okay so this
is my thing about the party um the girls have
like an invitation for her and it kind of seems
like it falls out of their hand and they just
don't seem to pick it up and like nobody seems
to pick it up and like i don't know if She doesn't
seem to see it. But like, it just seems to fall
out of their hands. So I don't think it's actually
like they left her out. Maybe they did. Maybe
they did on purpose. Maybe I just missed that,
but it didn't seem to me like they did on purpose.
I think they just, it fell and nobody saw it.
Maybe I'm wrong about that, but I don't know.
To me, it didn't seem like it was on purpose.
However, it does establish. She's alone. She
doesn't really have many friends. We don't know
why. She hasn't said anything at this point.
So we just kind of don't know why she just isn't
popular and doesn't have friends. Now it goes
back to Dr. Kendall. Dr. Kendall's at home. He's
on the phone talking to the El Simeon Chimp Reserve.
And he is setting up for Jack to go back to the
Chimp Reserve. And just kind of making sure that
his spot's ready for him to go back. And now
it goes back to Nelson Canada. It's a lot of
jumping back and forth in this beginning. We're
getting a lot of exposition in the fact that
it just jumps back and forth. The kids come home.
The parents ask the little girl in sign language
how her day was. Oh, this makes sense why she
hasn't really said anything. So we've established
that the little girl is deaf. And so... That
might be part of the reason why she hasn't talked
up to this point. Then we go back to the class.
And we also have seen that Jack communicates
in sign language. And the little girl is deaf,
it seems. So we've established that this is probably
going to be a key part that they both establish
in sign language. So this is establishing that
off the bat. Also, while she's being asked about
how her day was, she starts crying and goes off
to her room. And her mom goes up there. She's
talking about how she made no friends today.
And how it's tough and everything like that.
And nobody wants to talk to her because nobody
wants to talk to the deaf girl. And that's why
she's so unpopular. And so that's the problem.
We also now get that her name is Tara. So Tara
is the little girl's name. It goes back to the
college and Jack and the maintenance man, Darren,
they're like roller skating down the halls and
they're cleaning up trash. This seems like part
of their like nightly routine. And so this is
why I say they're like best friends. So they're
hanging out. They're doing like the nightly routine
of cleaning up the trash. You're listening to
music. They're having fun and everything like
that. Uh, the maintenance guy is like super nice
to Jack. Definitely like their best friends.
They hang out, everything like that. One of the
things I had a hard time with, with Darren, I
like Darren overall in the fact that he's like
nice to Jack. And I like some of the stuff between
them and everything like that. I think they were
trying to establish that he's mentally slow.
The issue is, I think. To quote Tropic Thunder,
I think he went full retard. And I think he just
can't do that. I think he went over the edge.
He went too much. And it drove me a little insane
how over the top he was a little bit. It was
really bad and really noticeable. And seeing
this guy's IMDb page afterwards, because I paused
it to make sure. I don't think I needed to check
right then because part of me was like, okay,
maybe they pick somebody who is mentally handicapped,
but I don't think so. Seeing that there's like
all these different credits that don't seem like
those kind of spots, you know? And so It was
one of those things where I'm like looking at
it going, I think he's fully capable to not act
this way and just went full send. And that's
the hard part is watching this going, oh, dude,
come on now. Come on. You can't do this. You
can't go like this. So that was a tough one to
watch on this one. But overall, the key points
that you just need to get from Darren, because
he's not a huge part of this, you just need to
get that he likes Jack. He's defending Jack,
and he helps Jack along the way. So luckily,
he's not a big part of it. He puts Jack to sleep,
like, talks to him and reads him stories, that
kind of thing. And also Dr. Kendall, he's, like,
sitting in his chair. He pours himself a drink.
You know, he's sitting in his favorite chair.
And while Jack falls asleep, Dr. Kendall also
seems like he's going to sleep, but then he drops
his drink. And so it kind of insinuates, I think
Dr. Kendall died. So good start to a kid's movie.
We get to deal with death right off the bat.
Dr. Kendall. Nice guy. Yeah, he's dead. So great.
So it's the next day. And Steven is the brother.
We get introduced to him because he is showing
up for his first day of Junior B hockey. He didn't.
uh he couldn't sign up for junior a hockey because
he's brand new to the area so he's on junior
b hockey and junior b hockey is a bunch of delinquents
you know it's just they're fighting as soon as
he gets there with each other mind you they're
all on the same team and they are fighting with
each other this is practice and they are all
fighting with each other except for a couple
characters but you'll see why um Coach Marlowe
introduces himself to Steven. He hears that this
kid's going to be good. We learn a little bit
about Steven. The fact that he is like one of
the best on the California State Championship
team. He moved to this area and he's hopefully
going to help them become a better team. And
Coach Marlowe introduces Steven to the, or he
tells Steven about the other players on the team.
This coach is kind of giving up. He knows this
team is bad, and so he just kind of tells them
this is a team of scrubs, pretty much. So he
tells Steven the captain is Pete, who is injured
for some reason. He doesn't know what, but Pete
just told him he's injured. Next to Pete is Stosh,
who knits for fun, and that's just his whole
bit. We don't learn anything else about Stosh
except for he just knits for fun. And that he
made them stockings for Christmas last year.
That's great. Cool. There's a big guy. His name
is Moose. And he is fighting the teammate Larry.
And then finally he introduces him to Magoo.
Magoo is their goalie. Who was great. And he
was like on his way to being great. And then
the nerves got the better of him. And now he's
just a mediocre goalie. and I'm going to pause
the action of the movie and give you a chance.
I want you, if you are listening along, to guess
what is Magoo's big issue. Because I'll tell
you right now, spoilers ahead, Magoo gets better
in this movie. They fix his problem. What do
you think is Magoo's big issue? And how do you
think they fix it? I would love to have you guess
along. And you can tell me on Twitter or X or
whatever the fuck we're calling it. At Game for
a Movie or Instagram or wherever. Just let me
know if you got it right or wrong about how they
fixed Magoo. And if you have a great answer,
please let me know. I will happily retweet some
of these answers. Yeah. So how do they fix Magoo?
I'm letting you know right now they do fix Magoo
somehow. So those are the characters you need
to know from the team. And even then, you really
don't. All you need to know is the brief little
thing I've given you. And the three big ones
that you need to know is Pete, the captain, who's
injured for some reason, Moose, and Magoo, who
has his nerves get the better of him. And he
used to be great. He used to be a great goalie.
And so coach rounds everybody up. He tells everybody
that Steven was the leading scorer on his California
state championship team. All of them are kind
of like, Oh, California, do they even have ice?
So after that brief intro, they get on the ice
and Steven shows how good he is. He scores immediately.
And so great. Awesome. That's awesome. And so
the next time he gets the puck, all the other
guys basically just beat him up. And so he's
going to need to learn, even though he's quick
on the ice and even though he's good with the
puck and everything like that, he's going to
need to learn how to be a little tougher. That's
going to be his big issue is he needs to be a
little tougher, especially with this team who
just wants to beat everybody up. All right, back
to the college. And Jack shows up. He does his
normal routine. He's ready to do his normal stuff
with Dr. Kendall and the dean of the school.
comes in and just lets people know that dr kendall
did die the previous night he had a heart attack
and so jack and darren are both really sad and
so that's that's a little interjection just to
let us know that dr kendall died so now's a good
time parents to tell your kids what death means
let them know because we got a hockey game to
go to it's the first hockey game of the season
and the hockey team won't pass to steven even
though he's wide open so they lose four to nothing
and they get into fights and steven doesn't get
passed to and he's feeling down on his luck and
this is going to be the kind of season that it's
going to be and we also learn about like the
broadcaster and the uh the guy who plays the
keyboard at the games and stuff like that the
guy who plays the keyboards at the game drives
me insane because he's just ridiculous and the
broadcaster just lets us know the little bit
of info about like the golden nuggets that's
the team name uh they haven't won a game in like
three years so that's the that's the big thing
that's all we care about um all right back to
the college jack is supposed to be in his little
house but instead he's helping darren and so
both of them happen to be on the floor underneath
where his house is when the dean of scientific
research, is talking to a team of people, including
his little henchman. His little henchman, the
only reason I caught this is because of subtitles.
His little henchman's name is Einstein. I wish
I was joking. Einstein, like Einstein, but Steen.
That drove me insane. The dean, his name is Dr.
Peabody, also drove me insane. These names are
awful. But those are the names. Those are the
ones they went with. So, yeah, Dr. Peabody and
Einstein, they're talking to a group of people
and they're basically just saying that Dr. Peabody,
he wants to sell Jack to the University of Tennessee
because he has to keep money coming in to the
university. And so he's selling it to the University
of Tennessee because they want to do hepatitis
research. And so he's doing that instead of sending
him to the El Simeon Chimp Reserve. And Darren's
like, that's bad. You're going to die because
they're going to do hepatitis research on you.
So Darren makes a plan with Jack that they're
going to put him on a train. They already got
him a taxi from the train to get him to the Chimp
Reserve. So Darren puts him in like a bag, gets
him on the train, gets off the train and basically
says, cool, like three stops past San Francisco.
You're going to get off the train and you're
going to go to the taxi and it's going to take
you to El Simeon Chimp Reserve. And Darren just
leaves him on this train. Problem is Jack is
alone. So who knows where this is going to go?
Something tells me it's not going to go right.
But, you know, you never know what's going to
happen with this. Maybe it's going to go well
for them. Probably not, but you never know. So
Jack is on the train to the El Simeon Chimp Reserve.
And we're back in Nelson, Canada. And it's the
second game of the season for the Golden Nuggets.
And it goes about the same. Yeah. This time they
do pass to Steven, but he does get absolutely
hit by somebody. This team is brutal. It's their
rivals, so they kind of all get into a fight.
But Steven fights back, including he jumps into
the bench. He jumps into the opposing team bench
and starts fighting half the team and gets the
respect of his team just a little, like a little
bit. i also like one of the things that was weird
about this is tara just travels with the team
like she apparently just goes wherever they go
rides on the bus like just goes wherever they
go no one makes a big deal of it she just gets
to go with them the parents don't care they just
let her go with them that kind of stuff and she
kind of calls out steven for fighting But he's
just like, I just got to get a fire under these
guys. We need to do something. I don't know.
And Tara's like, you can't fight. You've got
to be better. And reveals why he cares so much.
Steven wants to get recruited. He wants to play
in WHL. And so this is why he cares so much.
He wants to make it to that next level. He wants
to be recruited. He wants to play professional
hockey. this is the reason why he's trying so
hard and he wants to make these guys better.
So that's kind of the layer of this. And this
is why he's kind of fighting is to like get his
guys motivated. All right, back on the train.
The train gets to the El Simeon stop and we look
at the bag that Jack is sleeping in and he sleeps
right through the stop. And it's bad. He's just
like, oh no. Well, no, he's not like, oh, no,
he has no clue what's going on. He's just sleeping.
And so the train ends up at its final stop, which
happens to be Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.
He was in California. Now he's in British Columbia,
Canada, and more specifically, Nelson. And luckily,
for no reason whatsoever, because remind you,
he was in. He was in. California he just so happens
to somehow have in his bag winter clothes so
he like puts on his winter clothes and just goes
out into Canada and walks right downtown he's
good he's happy he just he just got to Canada
ends up with his winter clothes and carries his
bag out there and Hopefully he finds someplace
to go in Canada because this is not where he's
supposed to be. After their game, Tara and Steven
are walking home through downtown and Jack just
so happens to be walking down downtown and he's
like walking down an alley and Tara kind of like
catches him like walking, but doesn't really
see that it's a monkey. Like it's chimpanzee.
She sees like it's a short person and just kind
of like files it away. She just kind of was like,
huh, that was strange. But then they keep going.
Jack finds a tree house. And so he just decides
I'm going to crash here and he spends the night
there. And this is like a full on tree house.
Like there's a bed in there and like it's it's
comfortable. Like he. He's going to be fine for
the night. Just so happens to be warm. Like it's
got windows and stuff. Like there's no breeze
in it or anything like that. Mind you, it's Canada
in the middle of winter. But he just so happens
to find one that has a bed, windows. He's going
to be just fine. So it's the next morning. And
Jack is woken up by Stephen shooting shots on
the pond. So he's like shooting into a goal and
Tara is hanging out watching him shoot. And wouldn't
you know it, what is Tara eating of all things
while watching Stephen shooting? She's eating
a banana. And she puts it down on the bench next
to her because she's apparently not going to
eat it in one fell swoop. She's just going to
put it down next to her, which disappears into
a bush. And she hears the bush rustle. How she
hears it. I don't know. Because remember they've
established she's deaf. But somehow she hears
it. She doesn't see it. That's definitely not
what she does. She doesn't see it. She hears
it. And she looks into the bush. And she sees
Jack. And she screams. And she tells Stephen
she saw a monkey in the woods. And he goes to
look. And the monkey's not there. And so of course
he doesn't believe her. He's just like. There's
no monkey. It's Canada. There's no monkey. All
right, we need to go to school. So they go to
school. And now it's back at the college. And
Dean Dr. Peabody, he gets a call that Jack never
arrived at the University of Tennessee. And he
goes like evil villains stomping down the hallway,
like knocking over students that are in his path.
The only reason he's mad is because the monkey
didn't get there and he's not going to get his
money. So he's going like full evil villain for
money and he confronts Darren and Darren is painting
a wall green and Dr. Peabody is in a full white
suit and he steps in one of those paint containers
and it splashes on him and just gets green on
his crotch. This becomes a recurring bit. So
this is the only reason I include this is because
he likes to wear white a lot and this just keeps
happening. So he has green on his crotch over
his white suit. So yeah. Darren denies knowing
anything about where Jack might have gone. So
yeah. That's it. Then it goes back to Tara who
gets back home from school. And she happens to
find the treehouse. I have no real reason why
she goes to the treehouse. Like, there's no reason
for her to go to the treehouse. But she does.
She goes up to the treehouse, maybe thinking
the monkey was there. I don't know, actually.
So she goes up into the treehouse and she sees
Jack. And then she promptly passes out. Only
to wake up a few minutes, a couple hours, who
knows. Only to have Jack staring at her as she
wakes up. So Tara and Jack kind of like have
a little like, I don't want to call it a meet
cute, but it's kind of a meet cute because they're
going to be best friends. That's what's going
to happen. Tara and Jack are going to be best
friends because they find out that they can sign
and they're going to be good friends. And it
goes to the locker room, the hockey locker room.
And Steven's kind of like trying to rally the
guys. They're just like, come on, guys. Like,
why can't we actually win? Like, we can't just
goof around. Like, why shouldn't we try to win?
And the one person that kind of agrees with him
is Magoo. Magoo's kind of like, we should try.
Like, why are we goofing around? Why are we doing
this? And it gets the coach's attention. The
coach is kind of like, hey. This kid's kind of,
you know, he's right. He's trying. He's trying
to get the guys and everything like that. It's
a quick scene, but it's just kind of like, okay,
maybe this is a turning point for the team. The
Steven guy, he's all right. Worrying about Jack
being alone in the tree house, Tara brings Jack
inside and makes a spot for him in her closet
so that he can sleep there. And so now it's their
little secret. there's a whole scene where steven
kind of goes into tara's room looking for something
tara is like trying to close the closet door
and you know jack keeps pushing the closet door
open but she keeps like closing it you know back
and forth kind of thing but nobody catches it
so it's tara and jack's secret nobody else knows
next day of course jack wakes up first tara doesn't
hear anything and starts monkey business he grabs
like Dad's glasses, waiting for the bathroom.
Then he goes downstairs, he makes cereal, he
makes coffee. You know, he drinks straight out
of the milk carton, that kind of stuff. Steven
goes downstairs and he catches Jack eating cereal.
And he realizes this is Tara's monkey that she
saw. And so it's now Jack, Steven, and Tara's
secret. And so like Tara gets downstairs and
realizes like Steven's seen this, but Steven's
kind of cool with it. He's like, okay, we just
need to keep this away from mom and dad. But
like, let's really, I think he's just like, let's
just get this monkey out of here and we don't
have to worry about this anymore. So like Steven's
trying to get Tara and Jack out of the house
as they're trying to get out of the house. Jack
keeps pointing at like an old pair of skates.
That's like tiny pair of skates, but like keeps
pointing at them. and so they bring it out with
them and they get out of the house right before
dad comes downstairs and so like dad and mom
don't know anything dad's like looking for his
glasses he sees the glasses puts them on no problem
he just thinks one of the kids like moved from
downstairs or maybe that he left it downstairs
and then he also like sees that the coffee's
been made and thinks the kids made it for him
and he's like all right good kids so yeah we
are more Than halfway through this movie. And
this monkey. Has not played hockey yet. You know
what I mean. Like it's. We literally are more
than halfway through this movie. And the monkey
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So they are now down at the pond and Stephen's
back out there trying to shoot through the net
and everything like that. And. basically they
get jack jack wanted to try them out and so jack
is like trying out these skates he's having a
hard time you know it's his first time skating
i don't blame him and even though his room had
like hockey posters and stuff it's not like he's
ever skated before so fine he's he's skating
he's trying them out and everything like that
and they give jack like his stick and he starts
to shoot and he like has a hell of a slap shot
and it goes through the net. And like Tara's
kind of like sees it go through the net. Like
it goes through the net, like leaves a scorcher.
And Steven's just kind of like, wow, if he could
like actually put it through the net, that would
be, or like put it into the net. That'd be dangerous
thinking that it like completely missed. And
Tara's looks through and just go kind of goes
like. he put it through the net like doesn't
say anything but just kind of realized like he
just drilled that like you kind of don't understand
he he nailed it but you know just kind of realizes
so they need to get back to school um i don't
know what they're gonna do with jack but they're
gonna they're gonna do something i guess At the
university, many of the alumni have apparently,
they're going to withhold their donations until
Jack has been found unharmed. I kind of don't
get this. Why are you withholding donations?
Because the monkey disappeared. Like, are you
blaming the university for losing the monkey?
I don't know. I guess it doesn't make sense to
me why they're withholding their donations. You
want to find the monkey. I don't get it. I don't
know. It doesn't make sense to me. That's the
one thing in this movie that doesn't make sense
to me, that they withhold the donations. Basically,
it's just a setup that the dean is going to get
more evil because now there's more money being
withheld. So he's going to get more evil because...
there's less money coming in. I guess that's
what just doesn't make sense to me. I don't,
I don't know, but whatever. Um, Jack and Tara
actually weren't going back to school. I'm sorry.
I was wrong about that. Uh, they went back home
and they get Jack back inside and downstairs.
Mom is now about to have a meeting with some
uptight ladies and the kids are going to leave.
And they like said to Jack, like be on your best
behavior. We're going to go. Uh, they have a
game. Uh, Steven has a game. Tara's going with
them. Jack sees them leave with their hockey
stuff. So he like sneaks out the window to go
to follow them. And like he, he sneaks out one
of the upstairs windows and he's like hanging
upside down and he like swinging by the window.
And one of the uptight ladies sees him and it's
rightfully so gets scared out of her mind because
there's just a monkey. swinging by the window
and she like passes out and freaks out because
she thought she saw a monkey she did she was
right about that so jack somehow finds out that
they're going to the nuggets game and a good
thing it's a home game because i don't know how
jack's gonna figure out how to get there and
this is all built around the premise by the way
so I was going to get to this at the end, but
this is what drives me nuts, and I need to bring
this up because of the next scene. This is all
built around the premise of one line, and it
was kind of a throwaway line until this part.
All of this is built about the one line that
Dr. Kendall said, that Jack is a genius. Because
there's no fucking way in hell. that if this
is a regular chimpanzee he figures out how to
do all this shit he doesn't figure out they're
leaving with their hockey stuff he doesn't figure
out how to get the out the window he doesn't
figure out where they're going he doesn't figure
out how to get there he doesn't figure out so
they get to the like stadium the arena and jack
gets there and he figures out there's a ticket
taker and he's not going to get around the ticket
taker so he has to figure out a way to get into
the arena like there there's no way and it's
it's all a throwaway line about the fact that
he's a genius and that this is the way this is
the reason why he has to do all these things
that's the only reason he does all these things
is because he's a genius and that's that's how
they get away with all this stuff in the plot
is just oh well he's a genius so that's what
happens so in the game steven's having a great
start to the game he gets two goals immediately
and he including he got one off of like this
sick check and pass from moose like moose got
a good check into the boards off a guy and then
passed it to him And he was able to do like this
great move, get a goal. So he got two goals right
off the bat. It's like two to one at this point.
So Jack, like I said, he sees this ticket taker.
He figures out he can't get past the ticket taker
because he's a genius. So he climbs to the roof
of the building and he opens a skylight. And
this is what I'm saying by, well, he just does
this because he's a genius. He's a genius, you
know? When he gets to the skylight, this is my
favorite part of this whole movie. So he gets
to the skylight. He doesn't have a stick. He
doesn't have a skates and somebody very obviously
like it's off screen hands him this dick in the
skates. Like they just kind of slide in there
and then he grabs it and then kind of like, I
guess he's supposed to swing in there. I don't,
I don't know because we didn't see what happens,
but you know, we assume monkey. So he swings
in there and gets in there. And he finds an extra
jersey and gear, which we end up learning late
in the movie that it's Pete, the captain. His
name is Rachimski. Because you gotta get chimp
in there somehow. It's Chimpski. God fucking
damn it. Yeah. And there's also a random ripping
sound in there as he puts it on, but we never
see the rip or anything like that. He's looking
at a poster to see how to put it on right. But
he figures it out. And as he's like going towards
the ice with his skates, he also has it on backwards.
It says Rich Hemsky on the front instead of the
nuggets. He has it on backwards. He still didn't
figure that out. But, you know, he's a genius
and everything else. Fine. As he's sneaking towards
the ice, Tara catches him and is like trying
to tell him like, no, no. And he's like smiling
at her and shaking his head. Yeah, he climbs
over the glass, gets on the ice, and they just
think it's another player. Yeah, he's short,
but he's another player. So they pass him the
puck. And this is my favorite thing. He was past
center ice, then he was behind the line, then
he was past it again, then he was behind it again,
you know, that kind of stuff. But he's, like,
super fast, even though he didn't know how to
skate. Not even 24 hours ago. Not even. Not even
12 hours ago. He didn't know how to skate. And
he's like super fast. And he scores. He starts
celebrating. And then the entire crowd realizes
he's a chimp. And the crowd starts laughing.
And the goal doesn't count because he's an illegal
player on the ice. And the crowd, as they're
laughing, he walks off embarrassed and like climbs
over the glass. And he's like very embarrassed
by this. And Tara kind of like. finds him and
makes him feel better and she like brings him
home yeah they still lose that game somehow um
the nuggets do but it goes to the team meeting
afterwards with the coach talking to like the
other representatives of the teams in the league
and coach marlo is like trying to bring fans
into the seats and he just saw this chimp play
so he's like let's bring let's bring fans in
the seats let's have a chimp play and like this
team meeting happens and they're just kind of
like they're laughing about it but they're just
like yeah sure whatever they could win a championship
with him and somebody goes a chimpionship oh
my god yeah so yeah that's uh that's what's gonna
happen this chimp is going to play on the nuggets
team now so here we go here's the montage moment
This is the montage moment of MVP Most Valuable
Primate. It's the first game with the chimp.
And off the first faceoff, Stephen wins it. He
passes it to Jack. And they prove to be a great
team because they score immediately. And Jack
makes the defenseman look bad because he's, like,
playing behind the ref, which is hysterical because
the ref's just like, can't cover your player,
eh? Oh, you're a hoser. You know, like, it's...
over -the -top canadian it's over -the -top monkey
business that kind of stuff they win the first
game they ever play or that jack ever plays in
and it's the first win in like three seasons
you know and everybody's celebrating they now
feel good because like everything's going their
way they now got a chimp on their team they got
their first win the monkeys off their back yes
pun intended i really did intend that pun and
that hurts But everything's going well for them
thus far for the hockey team. It's also going
well for Tara because she's also starting to
make friends. She brought Jack in for show and
tell. And he's teaching them sign language. And
they're starting to sign back to Tara. And she
doesn't feel as alone because she's starting
to make friends. And Steven also has confidence
because now he knows that Jack's going to be
on the team. So he's kind of like, let me help
the team get better too. I'm going to help Magoo.
I'm going to help him get better. So remember
how I was asking you, what did they do to fix
Magoo? His name is fucking Magoo. If you couldn't
guess that he couldn't see, you lost this one.
Yep, they get Magoo glasses. And Magoo becomes
an outstanding goalie because he wears glasses.
And yes, the crowd start wearing glasses to celebrate
Magoo. It's a fucking wild thing in Major League.
They just copied it. They literally just copied
it. It was an exact copy paste of Magoo wearing
glasses and the crowd wearing the glasses too.
So they start winning games because Magoo now
is the goalie that's stopping everything. And
so mom and dad also, they're happy. They're very
happy. They love Jack. Jack's great. Jack is
doing things around the house. The people that
were freaking out, like the Uptight Club and
everything like that, at first they were like,
no, we don't like this, everything like that.
They couldn't get the star on the Christmas tree
in the community. But Jack climbs up the Christmas
tree and he puts it down and he, oh, yay, this
is great. Jack helped us get our Christmas tree
star up there. And he's drawing crowds for games.
People are excited. Magoo's wearing his glasses.
Tara's making friends. Steven's happy. Everything's
going well. There's inspirational music. And
it's the final game of the season. They get their
big rivals for the big game. And with 20 seconds
left, they are tied 2 -2. Jack gets the puck.
And he shoots. And he fires this thing. This
thing is just absolutely just ripped. And...
Time expires because it didn't go in and everybody's
disappointed, including Jack. He's just like,
you know, like he's upset. But Tara tells Steven
to check the net. And he tells the ref, yeah,
check the net. Because Tara has seen this before.
She knows what happened. And they check the net
and it went through the net and they win. And
now they're Harvest Cup bound. They're headed
to the championship. And so everything's going
well, right? What could go wrong? Well, it's
at the university again, and the dean is watching
TV and just so happens to be watching sports,
and they're talking about the play of the day.
The hockey player in Nelson that happens to be
a monkey that fired a goal through the net and
won them the game and sent them to the Harvest
Cup. And so the Dean, Dr. Peabody learns that
he's in Nelson, Canada. So he's going to go up
there and he's going to get Jack. So he calls
Einstein and they're on their way. They're going
to Nelson, Canada. I didn't write this one down,
but he also, he was like eating something or
something like that. Remember how I told you
the bit he was wearing a white suit. He spilled
whatever he was eating or drinking on himself.
And yeah. Okay, great. He knocked something on
his white suit. It's not a good bit, so I didn't
write it down every time, but I didn't realize
they were going to keep it going as a bit, so
I didn't take a note about it. So it happened
again. I know that it happened again. It was
stupid. I don't know. So yeah, they're going
to head up to Nelson, Canada, and they're going
to go to get Jack. So the only thing left to
do, I mean, there's only the Harvest Cup left,
except for maybe one or two things. So Steven
goes to the ice rink, and he sees that Pete,
the captain, is practicing alone. He doesn't
look injured, but he looks down. He does look
down. So he's practicing alone. He's skating
backwards. He doesn't look injured, so maybe
something's going on. And then Tara's, like,
packing some things because they're still trying
to figure out where Jack's family's from and
everything like that. And for some reason, the
picture that Jack's always carried around doing
this stuff and everything like that of his family,
she took it out of the frame finally and realized
on the back it says El Simeon Chimp Reserve and
realizes that's home. So she's like, oh, we finally
found home. After the Harvest Cup, we can send
him home. They're going to go to the Harvest
Cup, and then they're going to send him to El
Simi and Chimp Reserve. She's sad about it, but
she knows this is the right move. Harvest Cup
is in Vancouver. It's going to be played at the
Canucks Stadium. It's really cool. And the Nuggets
are going to be playing the Calgary Polar Bears,
and they are a good team, like a really good
team. And when I tell you this is men against
boys, these guys look big. And after one period,
it is 1 -0 Polar Bears. period tara is walking
around and she happens to run into uh she literally
turns around with her hot chocolate and spills
it on the pants of the white suit of dr peabody
dr peabody is carrying a sign that says wanted
and it's jack and she gets scared and runs away
because of course she knows where jack is so
dr peabody and einstein uh follow her and she
goes to the locker room and coach marlo answers
the door to dr peabody and dr peabody is like
i need to know where that monkey is and coach
marlo goes you're gonna go to a hockey team and
try to find their star player when they have
a bunch of muscle and like move steps forward
like punching his hand into his you know, punching
his hand and try to ask for their star player.
I don't think that's a very good idea. And so
the Dean and Einstein are just like, okay, we're
going to try to grab Jack at the end of the game.
But what we learned previously is Tara, even
though she's deaf, she's a great lip reader and
she was able to read the lips of the Dean. So
Tara, runs to the bench and tells Steven that
they're going to grab Jack at the end of the
game. And so in between the second and third
period, when they're in the locker room, they're
coming up with a plan. And, of course, they whisper
their idea so we as the audience can't hear.
And this is the part where they're saying their
goodbyes because they already knew that they
were going to say goodbye to Jack because after
the game they were going to send him to El Simeon.
So Stosh gives Jack a knitted hat because remember
his whole bit was that he knits. I have to remind
you because I almost forgot about it. And everybody
says their goodbyes and everything like that
because after the game they're just going to
send him to El Simeon. And so... When they go
back out on the ice, Jack leads the way, Magoo,
everybody. But Steven's out with an injury. And
Pete is in his place, the captain. He's back.
He doesn't have a mysterious injury anymore.
He's back. And Steven then hops in a cab with
Tara. And it's getting close to the end of the
game. Well, so Steven's in the cab, and he's
like, can you turn on the game? And the cabbie's
just like, yeah, I know exactly what that is.
It's the Harvest Cup. Duh. Everybody knows what
that is. But yeah, so he turns on the game. So
Steven's hearing the game with Tara. And at the
end of the game, Pete fires a shot that sits
on the line. It's like right there. And Jack
slides under the legs of a player and knocks
it in to win. And so everybody's losing their
minds. Oh, my God. Jack won it. Jack won it.
Jack won it. They're carrying Jack off. Jack
off. Yes, I heard it. I heard it myself. Yes.
So they're carrying Jack on their shoulders.
I'm not going to say it again. They're carrying
Jack on their shoulders. And Jack lifts their
helmets just as the Dean gets there. And it's
Tara. And Tara just put on Jack's clothes and
just happens to be the same size. And Steven
is in the cab with Jack. I have one problem with
this, though. I don't care that Taro's wearing
Jack's jersey and playing. I don't care. They're
about the same size. I'm fine, whatever. Actually,
Taro's probably worse than Jack, so I don't care.
It's not like it's the same player almost, whatever.
My problem was after Pete shoots the shot, The
goalie kind of deflects it, but it sits on the
line like it sits right on the line. The goalie
should be able to sit on it or whatever, or defenseman
could get in there, I guess, whatever. But the
goalie gets essentially sat on by Moose. That
is goalie interference. If you guys are hockey
fans. You know what I'm talking about. If you're
not a hockey fan, the goalie has every right
to play that puck. They should not be interfered
with. That is a penalty. There is no way in hell
Moose should be sitting on top of that goalie.
That is 1 million percent goalie interference.
I do not care what is happening. That is goalie
interference. That goal should not have counted.
That should be going to overtime. This is a terrible
script that you let that happen and occur. This
is bullshit. They should be disqualified from
the Harvest Cup for claiming that victory. Or
at least it should go to overtime. I do not care.
Whatever. Fine. Whatever. You guys cheated. Calgary
should win the Harvest Cup. Bullshit. Or at least
go to overtime. I don't care. This is bullshit.
They should not have won on that goal. All right,
fine. I'm fucking frustrated, but fine. So Steven
gets the airport with Jack and he gets him there.
And like, they're just cool with the fact that
a monkey is going to hop on a plane to get to
El Simeon, whatever. And they also got him like
a last second, first class seat, whatever. And
none of this bothers me as much as the goalie
interference. I'm like really still frustrated
about this. And I watched this movie a week ago.
It's still frustrating to me, but yeah. So as
Steven's walking away, he's happy that his team
won, but at the same time he's frustrated or
he, he gave up his opportunity to play professionally,
but he's happy that he got Jack to go home. And
he's also happy that his team won. And so Steven
looks one more time at Jack, and Jack looks at
him. And he signs, I love you, Adam. And Steven
signs, I love you too, Adam. And then he's just
able to get back to celebrate with the team and
his sister in enough time. And Jack is flying
back on the first class seat, which is ridiculous.
And the coach, Coach Marlow, he's really proud
of Steven. And he called up one of his old contacts.
And it's one of his old contacts that is in charge
of the WHL team in Vancouver. And basically the
guy comes up and he goes, Stephen, I heard what
you've done. I've heard what you've done with
this team. I love your character. I love what
you've done this season. I'd love to ask you
to join our WHL team in Vancouver. So Stephen
does get to join a WHL team. Great. Awesome.
So his sister doesn't get to come, but, you know,
he does get to join the WHL team. That's great.
And his parents are proud of him, and everybody
gets a happy ending on the human end. And Jack
gets to El Simeon Reserve finally. And who was
waiting for him there? Darren, the maintenance
guy. He got a job working at the reserve. And
honestly, I actually love that. I think that
was great. That was a nice little touch because
Darren was very happy to see him and he was so
happy to get there. And so Darren gives a big
old hug, puts him down, and Jack goes to presumably
join his family. Happy ending for all. Mike,
why would you shit on this kid's movie? Everybody's
happy. Everybody's good. Yeah, this was bullshit.
I'm still mad about goalie interference. This
is fucking nonsense. let's just talk about it
so i know it's a kid's movie so the the bad guy
is going to be cartoonishly evil but this was
like two over the top cartoonishly evil and the
bit was dumb that bit of him just getting stuff
on his white suit was just dumb over and over
and over again it happened three times i know
it was only three times but it was dumb uh The
errors of leaving stuff like his skates and his
stick pass to him annoyed me. And there was more
than just that. That was the big one. There was
a couple times where I brought up the fact that
he was skating. He was behind the center line.
Then he was in front of it. Then he was behind
it again. Then he was in front of it. Then he
was behind it again. That kind of stuff. Lots
of errors like that. There was a lot of that
kind of stuff left in there. It's what? 16th
movie these guys have done so like they just
don't care anymore it's printing money at this
point because it's a kid's movie about an animal
playing a sport they just don't care probably
at this point they're just like give me my money
let's spit out the next buddies movie and let's
go to the next one that's probably what it is
is they just don't care anymore i don't know
maybe i'm wrong about that i don't know anything
about these people but maybe that's just what
it is truthfully i'll say this felt like a cash
grab because it felt like the same script as
the first airbud movie it's just people chasing
airbud trying to get it back and wanting to make
money off of them and they play sport get rescued
or saved and win championship and that's just
what kids movies are supposed to be don't get
me wrong but because it's from the same people
over and over and over again to me it feels like
a cash grab it feels it feels dirty in some ways
i don't know maybe i probably am not supposed
to be the one doing this because this is just
for the next group of kids like the next kids
are going to watch airbud returns that comes
out this year That is produced and directed by
the same people. That directed the first Air
Bud. This is not meant for me who saw Air Bud
originally. This is meant for the next 8, 9,
10 year old. So I guess maybe that's what it
comes from. But for me who did see the original
Air Bud. This felt phony and toxic almost. I
don't know. Overall, I did like Darren in the
niceness category. I did not like his mental
capacity. I will say that. I don't like that
I would have to explain death to a kid if they
questioned about Dr. Kendall and why he's no
longer a part of this. My biggest problem is
that Jack just barely learned how to skate and
now all of a sudden he's a... pro expert but
at the same time would i show this to my kid
yeah probably probably and maybe it would get
them excited about playing hockey and i would
be okay with that you know so it's weird it's
a weird movie because for me i'm going to give
this the mitchell zero point five out of five
uh point five out of five uh pucks through nets
um But for him, he might love it. My son might
love this movie eventually when he's old enough
to understand what's going on. He's not old enough
now, but he might love it eventually. That being
said, I never want to watch this movie again,
so he might be on his own to watch it when he's
old enough. I might just put it on and be like,
cool, I'm making dinner. Why don't you watch
this while I'm busy? You know, when he's old
enough, obviously I'm not going to just like
put him in front of a TV while I could be playing
with him or whatever. I'm not going to just like,
here you go. You do this. I'm going to go take
a nap. This would be like, cool. I need to clean
the house, vacuum, whatever. You can see me while
you're doing your thing. That kind of thing.
Something like that. But yeah, I don't think
I would. Go out of my way to watch this one again.
For sure. I probably though. Out of all the options.
I would rather him watch the first Air Bud. That's
definitely what I would rather do. So. Although
hockey is better than basketball. In my opinion.
Argue with a tree. That's all I will say to that.
So yeah. Most valuable primate. I did like Jack.
Jack was very well handled. I did believe he
was the best actor out of all these. Yeah. I
don't know where to go with this. I don't want
to talk any further to shit on this kid's movie,
but I do want to shit on this kid's movie. It
was not very well acted by everybody involved
except for the monkey. It was not very well written
at all for damn sure. The dean was terrible,
cartoonishly evil for no reason. I don't understand
why alumni would just stop paying money just
because the monkey disappeared. Because I think
that alumni would stop paying money if you sold
the chimp to the University of Tennessee. I think
they would be happier if you said, hey, he went
back home to be with his family. at the El Simeon
Chimp Reserve. But if you just sold him to go
to the University of Tennessee to continue hepatitis
research, I think they would probably then stop
paying donations and stuff like that. I don't...
Maybe I'm wrong. I've never run a university.
I couldn't tell you. That he just disappeared?
I don't think anybody would be like, okay, he
disappeared. We're going to stop our donations.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that felt a little
just, okay, we're going to add another layer
to this. They stopped donating money. Now, if
they just made it so he didn't arrive and University
of Tennessee is just like, yeah, we're not going
to pay you. Great. That was enough. Yeah, we're
not going to pay you for this monkey that you
said you'd get to us. That's great. That makes
sense to me. You promised us a good service slash
monkey. Then yeah, cool. I'm not going to pay
you either. You didn't get us our monkey. A lot
of this could have been handled by the fact that
you just don't put a monkey on his own on a train
also. That was another thing that was just like,
oh, we're going to put him on a train by himself.
And then we're going to put him on a taxi by
himself. And we also are going to put him on
a plane by himself at the end of the movie. But
that seemed to work, I guess. Fine. And then
I don't like the fact. So I started getting on
this. They just plotted away half of this movie
by Dr. Kendall saying, yeah, Jack, you're a genius.
act like a genius that drove me insane in the
fact that they just got away with like half of
this because they were like jack you're a genius
monkey just be a genius and he's able to get
out of any situation because he's a genius he
got to nelson canada and just happened to have
winter clothes because he's a genius And he got
to a tree house because he's a genius and found
a place to stay. And he got out of the house
because he's a genius. And he found where they
were going because he's a genius. And he figured
out that he wasn't going to be able to get in
the arena because he's a genius. And he got to
the skylight because he's a genius. Like, all
these things just got explained away because
of one throwaway line of, you're a genius. Cool.
And probably more than just that, Darren put
him on a train because he's genius by himself
when he just slept through his stop. He put a
banana peel on a guy's head. I didn't even go
into that. He ate a banana and put it on a sleeping
guy's bald head because he just funny, I guess.
Just funny. Yeah, for a comedy, I did not laugh,
by the way, too. But yeah, so. They just threw
the line, he's a genius, and said, cool, he can
get away with this because genius. And, like,
he's a very smart monkey. He's a very smart chimpanzee.
But just genius got them so much, like, they
got away with so much because he's a genius.
Cool. Yeah. Great. He can do whatever because
he's a genius. So, I don't know. He figured out
skating immediately because he's a genius. He
figured out hockey right away because he's a
genius. He's better than all these kids that
have been practicing and playing for years. You
know why? Because he's a genius. So, I don't
know. That's my opinions on MVP colon Most Valuable
Primate. I'm shitting on a kid's movie because
that's what you do on this podcast. You shit
on a kid's movie. So, yeah. Next Olympics, I'll
probably watch Most Extreme Primate, where he
learns how to snowboard. That's a real thing
that exists, and it's 38%. And there's no critic
score. There's not enough critic score to actually
give it a critic score. Yay! Let's enjoy that
snowboarding one. So, yeah. I have been Mike
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