Welcome everybody to the Polarize pod.
It's we're back.
We're back. We're doing sequels.
It's it's it's the two's it's summer.
It's hot out.
The movies are big and the sequels are even bigger.
Well, yeah, so Polarize pod, that's this.
Welcome.
This is a this is a podcast about polarizing movies,
polarizing movies in the sense of a rotten tomato score.
Sometimes critics love it and audiences hate it or vice versa.
Those are the movies that we talk about on this podcast.
Today we're talking rush hour to 2001 rush hour to the scores
for this is a 51 percent stinky from the critic.
You.
Who does it?
You.
Where I haven't met this.
These people.
Yeah, I.
Yes, I don't think that.
Yeah, I think it's an internet conspiracy.
Mm hmm.
And 74 percent from the audience,
which weirdly, I think is kind of on the I would have assumed higher
because again, yeah, these people that don't like this movie,
but we will get into it.
It's not going to just be me.
You've heard some murmurings from the other people that are going
to get involved in this conversation.
Merman.
First off, I'm going to introduce my cohost,
or sometimes we call him forever.
Mr. James Lindsay.
How's it going?
Sometimes Riverall is the guest, baby.
I'm back.
And I'm so happy and excited to talk about this movie.
And this is going to be one of those that I'm already just saying
that it's going to be one of like the ninth Rocksbury episodes
or the Super Trooper episodes where it's going to be.
It's going to be hard to.
It's going to be a lot of people.
Collect.
Yeah, right.
Which is oddly why we can't understand the 51 percent already.
Yeah.
It's a little confounding and it's a highly successful sequel.
And it's sequel summer, baby.
We're doing sequel summer.
And and what the one sequels?
What do you want?
Do you want the one sequels over here?
It's it feels good.
I was does it feels great.
It feels good.
I've been having such a good time.
Yeah, I would write.
Yeah, 10 out of 10, 100 percent do sequels during the summer.
Yeah, it's just like.
It's like a great combination.
What are some other good combinations?
Oh, a great, great combination.
It's peanut butter jelly.
Yes, peanut butter jelly, peanut butter jelly.
That's a good that's a good baseline.
I mean, sequels in the summer.
That's that's number two.
Number three.
What is what's a good what's a good pairing?
You know, with your buds and talking about movies.
I don't know.
That's pretty good.
One of the best combos out there in the game.
Move over chocolate and peanut butter and also with the buds
of talking movies.
That's the combo.
I think we know the other answer for I can add a fourth.
And they are in this movie.
Oh, and G James, that was good.
I know we were back on track.
We also walk right past that one.
You had to go back for the egg on our face.
If we didn't talk about the other greatest combo ever,
Mr. Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan.
What a duo. But you know what?
Let's get you've heard her already.
Let's get the guest in first time on the pod.
Friend in real life.
Kirsten, how's it going?
It's going.
My first podcast.
So it's very cool.
It's it's been it's our first podcast as as a whole.
But we I feel like we've had a lot of people on their first episodes as well.
And this is I feel like I don't know.
Always there's like always little goose goose pimples.
Was that it's like performing a little bit.
You know, it's almost like public speaking, but it's almost
it's a little bit closer to Brandon's other podcast.
Screaming into the void.
Yeah, yeah.
He just does on his own occasion.
Well, you know, I need to listen to.
No, it's no.
It's nowhere, trust me.
It's I say that I have this other podcast, but it's just me screaming
into the void about it.
You know, what's going on in the world?
How I feel about stuff.
I'm just yelling into a void, I feel like.
What's in the void?
You can't get it back.
Yeah, which is where I wanted to stay.
Yes.
So it works out well, but that's the that's the rules of a boy.
I'm trying to think of like your top episodes on screaming into the void,
what they would be.
Well, it's like your like your hot says government.
That's just the title.
Hot Take Food opinions.
I don't know.
Oh, your your chowder preferences.
Oh my god. Yeah, my chowder.
So my chowder like the soup.
What's the red chowder?
What's that one called the Manhattan style for a man?
Chowder, the tomato base instead of the cream base.
Yeah, that's a hot take.
Oh, wait, I knew this about you.
Actually, I've heard you say that before.
Have I? OK.
Oh, that's.
Oh, OK.
You're just telling me.
This man guy.
The tomato base in the cream.
I've definitely just and I drink Manhattan's to and I'm just obsessed with man.
And then you introduce yourself.
Places. My name is Brandon.
Brandon Manhattan. How's it going?
Brand, Brandon.
I just changed your name to Brandini.
Now I'm Brandon Manhattan.
I know I'm a man of many names.
Is it Brandon or brand?
Hatton, is that is that a little too early?
I don't know which one is very sweaty, but I love Brandon Manhattan.
Brandon Manhattan.
You got like a multiple drinks going.
You got the breezy brandini.
You got the brand in Manhattan.
The breezy brandini.
I need to get a breezy brandini.
I have an add one.
I had one.
And then it's it's just an amperal spritz with a high noon in it.
Oh, that sounds delicious.
I think that we should drink those out like a.
Right.
Put that on the list.
Yeah, we drink those one night.
And yeah.
And saying karaoke through the night on on some of those breezy brandini is
it was a good time.
Yeah, it's a good time.
Well, there is a good time.
You know what?
You know what else is a good time, guys?
This movie. Oh my God.
He's talking about it.
This movie like people, it's crazy that it's even like we've already said that
in so many ways, but it's crazy that we're doing it on this podcast.
And it's like, I think it's just, yeah, I'm already getting into that part of it.
It's got to be a lot of like the comedy.
And I guess like critics just get more like stingy about sequels and the whole
like reason for them existing. Sometimes they get like extra critical of like why
this should even exist of like, oh, if you're going to do another one,
it better be good sort of thing.
Sure. Do you think that they're they don't like it because it's this movie's kind of racist?
Well, it is. Yeah.
I was trying. Yeah.
It absolutely. Yeah.
And sometimes it's very egregious.
Like, oh my God.
Yeah. And it's really just Chris Tucker.
Like, it's Jackie just like ripping him a new one about a lot of stuff.
And it's it's when that happens, it's kind of a bummer.
Yes. But they I don't know the relationship that they have, though,
I'm obsessed with in the moment that they have at the end of the movie.
I'm like, this is the best.
They're like, they're good friends.
Like they care about each other.
And all the fun that he says to Jackie Chan, like when Jackie Chan, like
pauses for a second and then says that thing back to him and that big, I don't know.
It like kind of hits in a way that's like,
it's so fucking racist.
It's starting. It almost comes back around to be kind of funny.
I don't know what it is.
Kind of funny.
It's funny, though.
It's funny.
She goes like, like the first maybe never thought he does like the very like the thing
in the bar where he says the N word in the bar and not knowing what it is.
Like there's just this, I don't know, pure as purest sort of qualities.
To Jackie Chan's character in this movie, in particular,
and maybe some other ones, too.
But it's weird that this movie had me thinking, is there is there like.
Not is there good racism?
I think that's terrible.
But is there like is like it being racially aware and making jokes about our
differences is funny or can be funny at least.
But it's just it's so weird because it's also just.
Yeah, it's racist.
It's racist.
So there's it's there's I don't know.
This movie really had me thinking a lot.
That wouldn't fly.
And it is played for laughs in a way that is can be, you know, pretty offensive.
But some of the other stuff is, I think, coming from a little bit more of a
Mel Brooks sort of way, if I had to give it the benefit of it down.
And that's a credit of just kind of like they're going back and forth on it on
every way to the ship.
Yeah.
And just giving each other shit.
And I appreciate them being in China and Chris Tucker being the fish
out of water and him being the weird one, because like that's played for laughs
in the first one in a racist way of like how Jackie Chan, like and how they
treat him in that movie, which is a great movie as well.
But then that's just part of the fish.
I don't know.
But the treatment of that character speaks to the racism, I don't know,
within the police department and Chris Tucker's and just how they interact
with him.
But that being applied to Chris Tucker in this one, I don't know.
I kind of appreciate the the globetrotting aspect as well.
I did, too, quite a bit.
Did you you're pretty familiar in like the first one to Kirsten?
I recently, but I have to see it again to remember what happened.
But I do know that Russia or two is way better than the first one.
Hell, yeah.
I've been like, I feel like that's the general consensus, right?
So this this falls into a hollowed holes of, you know, the second
being better than the first one.
And I'm trying to think in Scream, too, they have this very
conversation of which one like, oh, sequels are never are never better
than the first one.
But this, I think they up the ante on everything.
And I think it's not such a good point.
It's it's more the first one's a little more action packed in serious
crime drama in the parts that it's that it should be in a good way.
Of course, too.
This one's just funny.
This one is funny.
Funny throughout.
I think it's just like a really great action.
One of the best action comedies, I think, you know,
Shanghai noon being another one around this time, which I absolutely love.
And I love that one, too.
Yeah.
There's a lot of people that defend Shanghai nights, you know, and
our past guest Christian Rubino loves that loves Shanghai nights.
Ace Ventura, too.
We love that one.
We did that on the on the podcast.
I loved it.
Yes.
There's some comedies like where they kind of are given
awesome hours to like.
I maybe do a little bit more of the gold member over the spy who shacked me,
but they're not bad.
No way.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, baby.
You got John Fatsy and Patrick Kimmon.
Chimmy Lee.
Come on.
Chimmy.
Brandini.
Yeah, that's oh man.
But yeah, I think like, yeah, sequels for comedies.
Maybe it's a little passable, some of the stuff and anteeing up the
the jokes and the comedy and doing the the trip to China was this,
I think a smart move.
I think it's a smart move.
And we're getting feedback.
Little few.
Do you want to reset real quick?
Yeah, no, I think Kirsten, can you get the headphones?
Yeah.
Oh, cool.
Okay.
We'll be right back.
Okay, we're back.
Should we like get through some of the the plot of the movie?
I mean, we talked about.
I would love that.
Yeah.
I love love the first one just to leave it on that.
Like I was thinking I didn't watch it before this podcast.
I do want to know Kirsten's history before we jump into it.
Because the, you know, I feel like us coming together to talk about this
movie here was because of finding out your love for this movie.
Yes.
Like your history with this.
Do you remember fondly your history of it?
Like when you saw it, like we would have been like 11.
I don't know how old you are, but I was born in 1990.
So I would have been 11 and this came out in 2001.
Okay.
You're 10.
Yeah.
I, you know, every line I hear that's another fun.
I know.
I know like the funny lines.
I guess like I.
I honestly couldn't remember the first time I watched it,
but I watched it a lot.
Uh-huh.
Did you have your DVD or.
Yeah.
We had the DVD saying.
Yeah.
It was just like one of those nostalgic movies, you know,
you could just throw on and it was always funny.
Like last night when I watched it, it was still funny.
And I think I watched it recently.
Like hungover one day.
I watched all the rush hours.
Perfect.
It is such a, yeah, it's such a feel good.
Like comfort food for the whole family as well. Yeah.
And, and for it to have the action and everything,
but not push it too far.
And some sexual stuff too.
But it's like a perfect like PG 13 movie.
I think it is.
That's true.
Yeah.
Cause there's some death in this.
People get shot and killed, right?
Yeah.
There's explosions.
And killed, right?
Yeah.
There's explosions, terrorist attacks and.
Yeah.
Bring out packages and a lot of fatalities.
Yeah.
Shot like, yeah.
There's great squib work.
You know, yeah, people fucking are falling.
The, the shot and I remember seeing it in theaters and it was like,
we were really excited cause this rush hour was.
Acceptable for me to watch it when that movie came out a few years
earlier, but yeah.
I mean, you know, being a 11 year old.
Boy, love and action movies.
I remember going with my next-door neighbor and when was it Ricky Tran?
The bad guy falls out of the building and hits the car.
I just remember the whole audience just being like, oh, and just that.
That reaction was was great.
And all the last, especially with the line, what's the line after that happens?
I was like, like he's not.
Yeah, I'm saying.
Yeah, there'll be a rush hour three.
Yeah.
OK.
Let's go.
You walk out of that theater and be like, man, I want to see you right now.
Let's go back and do it again.
Yeah.
Man, I would argue like this movie has the best bloopers.
Yes. OK.
It's this one's a liar liar, I'd say.
OK. But I think I think this one has like this one of those where like
you start quoting the movie and then the bloopers start to get mixed in with
if you're quoting it back and forth with your friends.
Uh huh.
Right. Yeah, because the gafoka fish.
Yeah. Yeah.
You can't be that.
So funny.
What's this fish called?
What's the most funny game?
Gafoka fish.
And when you start.
Yeah.
I just I lose it.
And then it's what makes it even funnier is retroactively you think
they did not get a good take because it's not a movie.
Right.
It's so funny.
I guess I get like I when I when that happened, like in the plotting of the movie,
when it just cuts after they're like, OK, we're going we're going home or whatever.
And then it cuts and then they're like at the station or whatever.
Yeah, they just didn't get a good take.
He could not say it.
He couldn't say gafoka fish.
I go right before it.
Gafilta.
Wait, now I don't even know.
I think gafilta.
Gafilta.
I think.
I think a tea.
What's it?
What's the verdict on that?
We don't even know how to say it.
I the first time I heard some word, I feel like was from this movie.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I've never heard it ever.
And then I think it's referenced and I haven't seen all of I've seen some of three.
I should watch three.
I love these movies.
I wonder why he got crazy.
But I think they reference that in three.
He gets to say it at some point.
Oh, good.
Oh, he does.
I think so.
It's so funny how that.
Gafilta fish.
She's just getting pissed.
We need that sound.
I think that that'd be a good, good soundboard cue.
Just hit that one.
Oh, yeah.
On a.
Have a little soundboard.
Get some shock jack situation.
Go on.
Yeah.
Just press the filter button.
Fish.
What that I thought that bit in the.
Yeah, the bloopers are great.
But I think that's where somebody calls Chris while they're in the
middle of the scene.
And then.
Keeps having the conversation.
The phone over to Jackie.
And Jackie's like, you're wasting our film.
We're filming right now.
That was good.
I.
I tried to look up at who was calling him, but I couldn't find.
Call me at five.
I, but I'm dying to know who that was on the other.
I know for him not to just like look at it and be like, I'm not going to
answer my phone.
He like actually takes the call and was like, no, this is an important
call and we're going to have it at five o'clock.
So make sure you're ready then.
But.
I'm.
I'm not going to be ready for that.
So I'm going to be ready for that.
And then he immediately goes, I'm looking at Jackie Chan in his face
right now.
He hands on the foot.
There's a part of me.
I'm like, is that fake? But.
Yeah.
Maybe cynical. But.
If it is, they're great actors and it's, it's a great.
Yeah.
Well, Chris Tucker is just so incredibly charismatic.
It's not even funny.
Like he, it just like every poor and fiber of his being is just so.
It's, it's, it's, yeah.
His whole body has a language to it.
He's, he's, yeah.
Hilarious person.
I love it.
There are two like masters of physical comedy in a way and Jackie
Chan is much more like the action side of things and, and, and
making it humorous and he choreographs the movie and a lot of
the stunts and everything.
I think all the stunts and all of it and helps.
And from the behind, little behind the scenes, look at it that we,
that we checked out.
It seemed that he had a big hand in directing it and he's just,
I've seen, you know, montages of his career and his ability to
instill comedy into action and this run of movies at this time,
people, yeah, we're using them a lot for like the buddy, like to
the duo sort of him, like playing off of somebody.
And I remember seeing like, was it the tuxedo?
I guess he was working off of like, was that Jennifer love Hewitt?
Right.
And, and then just Shanghai nights like you said.
Yeah.
Shanghai new nights and I mean him and Owen Wilson is a great,
great pair as well.
And a lot of those scenes as well.
It is.
Yeah.
Like him doing all this badass stuff, sometimes clumsily,
which is part of it, but then having someone kind of like being
a dimwit and being able to work their way through it and find a
way to beat, beat the foes while like just tripping over and,
you know, that's like Chris Tucker and Owen Wilson a little bit
more.
And I remember, yeah, like I mean, like the neighbor kids, like
we just love jumping on the trampoline and, and like watching
action movies and shit.
And we would watch the first one.
Yeah.
And we try to reenact like the action movies.
And so, yeah, bro.
And we go on the trampoline.
Oh, it's like slow motion matrix.
It's the time.
Mission possible to for some reason.
I don't know.
We love that one.
But this was one part of the first movie that scene in,
it's like upstairs from the, at the restaurant and they have the
fight and they reenact a part of it in this movie.
But we tried it.
We choreographed to try to figure out the choreography of that
fight and reenacted it in his living room.
But the one thing that they carried over, I don't know if I
can express it on the podcast, but they do that the hand thing.
And then they jump and kick like the other person on the other
side or whatever.
Yeah.
And if you ever get a chance with your friends at home to do
that, it feels great.
Cause you like do that and then you like go back to back and
they're like that.
Yeah.
Wow.
It's some fun like stuff to mimic as a child for sure.
Yeah.
Good family.
No, definitely.
I remember like this fossing when they're in that really short
robes and then they're like, they thought, they thought they
like defeated everyone.
They're like, huh, huh, huh.
Yeah.
And then they turn.
So many more.
Oh, no.
They just get dropped off naked and I guess I like they can't
shut off the streets of China.
And there's, so I guess they just, they had the filmed them doing
that and running around.
But that cause I see it was such a funny cars are going off and
yeah, the alarms are going off and they're honking.
I mean, yeah.
Yeah.
And I love him.
You go know you.
I like the chair like movement at this bar where is a Chris
Tucker that's like has fallen over it and then Jackie like flips.
Yeah.
He's like, flip me.
Yeah.
He keeps like rolling back because he can't like land it straight.
Oh yeah.
That's right.
Yeah.
It's Jackie.
Okay.
Jackie always.
Okay.
Yeah.
Jackie always.
Okay.
God.
The stamina of that guy.
Man, just like, and then lines of this movie will just like flash
in my head.
I just like bite it.
Yeah.
Bite it.
Bite it like a little monkey.
So funny and seems like it's just Chris Tucker just riffing
on the day.
But he goes, they go to China for a vacation is the whole can see
and then it gets into other other stuff.
But I like them and like introducing the characters listening
to Beach Boys.
And I think my first note was just Chris Tucker's line of like,
Beach Boys are dope.
That's my, oh my God.
I know I'm not going to my first line to my know Beach Boys baby.
They're dope.
And then, you know, they do like the bitch slap you like bitch slap
you back to Bangkok is my next.
I think that one's a month.
Wow.
Don't ever touch the Chinese man say CD is, you know, like the
reference from the first one and they got a, they got to fit them
in.
You ask them to get naked and sacrifice a small go.
Pretty great.
And then the other one was like, pick up your summer asshole.
And shave your butt.
I think as a kid, I put the subtitles on and went back and
like, what do you say?
I do.
It's like, pick up your summer assholes and shave your butt.
I just watched my big fat Greek wedding recently too.
And that's like a joke.
And that's pretty, it just works.
They tell them they're like, oh yeah, tell them this is what it
means.
I mean, I'm like, I'm not going to be a big fat guy.
I'm just going to be a big fat guy.
I'm going to be a big fat guy.
This is what it means to say cheers.
And then he's like, oh, your boobs are very nice.
This is what it actually says.
And they're like, oh, got him.
Got him.
It's good.
It's good comedy.
I'm in stitches over here.
It's so funny.
They go to the, I mean, like the club, he can,
he brings them to the club is kind of the big,
is a big first part in the action scene going up the bamboo.
We're going to take a battle.
All this stuff.
Chinese bamboo is very strong.
I literally wrote that down.
Don't worry, Lee.
Chinese bamboo.
But it's that.
That's action there is so fun where they're like both holding
on to the bamboo and then it keeps going down and down.
And then it ends up there just like, oh,
just holding on to each other.
Just getting into just such funny shit.
Yeah.
It's a really cool fight scene though.
Like there's a bamboo ladder that they're climbing the whole time.
Right.
And they, and they're like going in between it, which is very, yeah,
it's very cool visually.
A lot of that is.
Yeah.
That whole run up and then yeah, the blooper where he just hits
his nuts.
That sucks.
But when he just runs up that thing and then yeah,
it's just so fluid, all of the action.
I question, because I've just seen this so many times,
I start to just like look at everything.
I'm like, if they wanted to go get away, why did they climb up?
They just keep running.
It's such a bad idea.
Yeah.
They ran to this point.
I guess we got to go up.
No left.
No right.
Yeah.
Chris Tucker is like, I'm going to take the stairs.
No thanks.
And like Jackie Chan is doing the craziest stuff and he should be
the one like freaking out like, oh my God, I can't believe I have
to fight all these people and do all this stuff.
And Chris Tucker is doing like the bare minimum and he's like,
ah, he's just freaking out.
It's a hard time.
It's somebody's old chap six like shoved up my ass or whatever.
Yeah.
Good stuff.
It's just fucking falling.
It's like not.
It's not glorious at all.
It's just like, I love when, yeah, like a buddy cop thing like
like we pull up and or something is not as not as funny.
But when they fuck up and they have to keep like chasing the
villain and they just keep on like kind of messing up in their
own way, but they pull it together at the end is just the basis
of it all, which has been done in a lot of different movies,
but the chemistry and those two together just makes this movie.
Yeah.
Whole another level of a classic and so funny.
Absolutely.
So they got to get a massage.
Yeah.
And another great, I don't know, another great fight scene.
They cut fights really well and.
He's picking out the ladies going into it.
Yeah.
He's like, hurry up.
And I have a fay line.
Yeah.
You know, I'm just imagining all those poor women just having
a sit behind all day long.
All day long while he's just, yeah.
Ready.
And then he had the whole part of him breaking the laptop and
getting up and you see all the guys or all the guys get up
behind him, but he doesn't notice and get back down.
That's like good.
Building attention.
I think the connection between him and his and Jackie Chan's
father, Lee's father is great.
I love that as a villain.
Like the father's old partner or daddy and they say daddy a lot
in this movie, which I think is funny.
They do.
It's your daddy and yeah.
That's just funny that they use that terminology, but they do
talk about their fathers a lot in the first one too.
So I like that it's just a part of their who they are is kind
of trying to replicate their police officer fathers and
possibly like more successful or.
I remember in the first one, he's like, my father once caught a
bullet with his bare hands.
I was.
Jackie, the legend.
Just building up the mystique.
And then such a child should be like, my dad's better than
your dad.
Yeah.
But yeah, the old part.
I think that's a great villain.
Oh yeah.
I like that.
I agree.
And it's fun that the story is, is that they, they're not
put on that assignment that the whole plot of the money laundering
falls into their lap, essentially, right?
Cause I mean, what is Jackie Chan's?
Cause he wasn't, or was he investigating Ricky Tran?
Ricky Tan, Ricky Tan, yeah.
Tan.
Cause of the money laundering or was it just the explosion that
the embassy started at all.
The explosion.
Okay.
And then the explosion at the police.
The police station where, yeah, they think that Chris Tucker
died, but then he's just, that's when they're separated.
Oh yeah.
There's like a brief moment.
Like I love how it just doesn't get too like mean spirited
between them or they don't have too big of a fight.
They have that moment where he walks out and like Lee's old
clothes where it's like a little too small on them.
I think that's, that's fun.
Yeah.
And then he thinks he's dead for a bit and then they meet up
again on the, on the yacht.
And then they have the great like who's on first bed, which I
think is hilarious or it's like, who's dead?
You said detective you, who?
You.
Who's you?
Oh, so good.
So good.
And that guy who's hung up on the, with like the life
preserver, he's a background guy in the first one.
If you, if you noted, like, there's no, it makes no sense why
he would be in both evil operations.
If anything, you probably died in the first one, but they probably just really liked
him as a stunt man and kept him around.
And I always just, I'd seen both of them together.
I'm like, that guy's in the first one too.
He doesn't have any lines or anything, but he's just one of the, one of the
stunt man.
If you look close enough, if you have nothing else, if you just have seen everything else.
I love that the guys just stuck up on there while they're having that conversation.
Right.
Yeah.
We just skipped over the chicken part though.
I'm sorry.
I was like, live chicken.
Talking to the taxi driver.
And he's like, actually he can't even understand him.
And then when he pulls out the lot of cash, he's like, now you're speaking my language.
And then just leave some.
Right.
They pull up to the odd party and then the chicken was in there.
And then he just leaves.
He even then just punks off.
I know it was like there was a part of me that, yeah, it'd been long enough.
I was like, wait, I forget about the tales of the adventures of Tucker and his pet chicken.
Man, what's going to happen here?
I forget.
And then it's just immediately chicken gets taken away in the, in the taxi.
Like in the next scene.
So I was like, oh, okay.
I'm sure they have a, I want the Rose Cranston, Gil and Cern of the taxi driver in the, in
the chicken.
Yeah.
They have their own adventures while the movie, this movie's going on.
Yeah.
And then the stunt getting onto the boat.
Oh, just real quick.
Were he like, oh yeah.
On the rope and to that styrofoam box.
I think that is so, such a cool practical effect for like an amazing stuntman to be able to do that.
It also is your main actor.
This is like once a, that's like, you can't get that in many movies.
Just have your main actor just pull that shit off.
It's so cool.
I, yeah.
And it's so funny that it's one of those things that you'd never seen before, which
just makes total sense why somebody would do that.
Yeah.
And immediately has a cool factor because you're like, yeah, no shit.
That way you can like stabilize yourself because you're like on a little raft kind of thing.
Yeah.
Looks like something you do at camp or something.
Oh, let's go on the floaty ropes.
The floaty ropes.
He's too rough with the ropes.
It's my turn.
You have to wait until the other side and then you go, you mess up my turn.
Some kids are too scared to get on the rope.
They're like, no, I don't want to get wet.
I don't like it.
Now I got to swim all the way back.
Oh, man.
God, how embarrassing was that?
Oh man.
That was camp.
That was good.
Except I don't know.
Robox.
Oh, floaty ropes.
Robox makes a little more sense.
Floaty ropes is that sounds like a roller coaster.
I don't know.
I don't know. That's a better name though.
Floaty ropes.
Yeah, like floaty ropes.
Okay.
That's that's cool.
Cool.
Okay.
Maybe like a carnival or let's do like a carnival game.
Like it's the other side and you can like win a, win a prize.
Oh, yeah.
That carnival game where you do the rope thing,
but you're like supposed to do the army thing.
You've seen that right?
That's more like floaty ropes.
The like the rope ladder thing.
That is floaty.
Yeah, we should do it.
We should do that.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Near as floaty ropes to me.
I got to get on those floaty ropes.
Got to get on those floaty ropes.
Yeah.
The yacht.
Oh yeah.
So, man, what a fun twist.
So, uh, Ricky tan gets killed on the boat.
Love this.
This is like,
I forgot about this.
Yeah.
That's what I was like this.
Yeah.
I do remember the first time I saw the movie,
I was like so surprised when we realized that he was actually
still alive.
He's like, no way.
Yeah.
And it's so dramatic.
And it's like, yeah, it's, yeah, it's like an action,
an action movie can do this.
It's like, oh, it's such a fun reveal.
Oh my God.
He's been, he's been here the whole time.
He essentially does like the evil chair turn.
Like he's like,
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Everything that guy says is such menace.
He's such good.
Red dragon.
Right.
Oh yeah.
The red dragon.
Tell you a story about the red dragon.
Yeah.
Locking the gold inside.
Well folks today, I have found that gold.
It is here at the red dragon where everybody is a winner.
Did you do that?
You're doing it.
Yeah.
You and me, we could do this whole movie.
Who's playing choker.
Who's playing chat.
It should be a stage play rush hour.
Yeah, like a musical.
Let's get Jackie Chan on ice.
I wonder if he's done it.
Oh my God.
The stunts, the stunts.
The yacht.
And then are we back to LA?
What?
Yeah.
So let's talk about the women in this movie.
I think Lee is the character name.
What is it saying something.
Like the,
the henchwoman.
She's like.
Yeah.
So good.
She's, she's so good because she's so like crazy and like kind of
scary and yes, it's a loose cannon and it's,
it makes for pretty tense stuff because you just,
you don't know what she's going to do.
Yeah.
I love the, well, she's not silent.
She just doesn't speak English.
There's a moment in the limo.
I think is really great.
Sure.
Yeah.
Apple.
Yeah.
Throws it.
That's so cool.
Yeah, but there's a, yeah, like she just is bubbling under the
surface too.
And I think I like that in a Bond movie that, yeah,
she's the most recent mission impossible.
There's a character that is kind of a stoic silent.
And I think she speaks French the whole movie.
It's the,
the first thing plays Mantis and Guardians of the Galaxy,
but she kind of plays that.
So,
yeah, she's just kind of nuts and just really intense.
And,
and the henchwoman to the main villain.
But so good.
It's a,
and there's been a few Bond,
movies that have have that as was a Zinnia on the top or whatever.
I guess.
She does talk a lot, but she's, she's like a psychopath too.
She's really crazy.
Yeah.
You know, there's a one where she like,
is she bleeding or something?
And then she just like,
it's the blood like that's such a classic crazy person to do in a
movie where you're just like, wow, they're,
they're so crazy.
They eat their own blood or whatever.
Crank or whatever.
Yeah.
That, uh, are you guys watching a Soka?
Soka?
I watched the first like an episode and a half.
Okay.
I think there's only three episodes out.
Okay.
Yeah.
But the blonde chick.
Yes.
Totally.
She doesn't speak for you.
Yeah.
That's exactly.
Yeah.
She's scary eyes.
Yeah.
Type of character.
Yeah.
And she's like a henchwoman to the, that one dude.
Yeah.
I don't know if I've ever seen such a beefed up Jedi.
Yeah.
You know how there's like a third person with.
What does a beefy Jedi look like?
He's just like a body.
Five layer beefy Jedi.
Yeah.
He's like, yeah.
It's a five layer beefy Jedi.
Exactly.
Yeah.
What were you saying?
Sorry.
Um, I don't know.
I don't know.
So I've got a really small question about thisЦ
because there's a third,
and you know what that is?
The third person.
I kept thinking like because you know there's a third like a
villain with them.
Like on that team who was like in the mass,
and I kept thinking that was a Jedi guy and chips like,
no,
he's not big enough.
I'm like, no.
He just has a mask on.
He's like, no,
that's not him.
Who's I'm trying to think of the mask guy that you isn't there.
They were in the first episode too.
Uh,
Maybe in the second.
a space witch almost. It seems like. Oh yeah. I forgot about her. Yeah. Yeah.
Love a good space witch. She's got space witch energy. Yeah.
I love I love a good space witch.
But I almost feel like somebody who could like maybe like see into the future
or something like that. Oh, like a bandage.
Gisaret or whatever. Yeah.
I think Gisaret.
Have you seen Dune?
You're so I believe it's so long. I've tried to watch it like twice.
I think and I can't get past that like.
It's a good movie to get into the tent.
I feel like that's sleepy time for a lot of people and I get it of like
and I feel like people you should take a little break and then like watch
the other half like another another time and then you break it up into four pieces
when the new one comes out, which got delayed.
I know it did. So lame.
I do need to watch it.
I need to put some more time.
You got more time.
Yeah, the movie got pushed back because of the strike.
I know. So lame.
Yeah, so we're right.
Push the movie back.
Fine, whatever.
But yeah, this right.
Peace like us and why they need to do that because the companies that they
were suck ass.
I say why why are they striking a bunch of babies?
No opposite.
Yeah. Yes.
Yeah, I'm glad we're clear about that.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, I mean, speaking of writing, it's like, yeah, it's
it's what makes a fucking I mean what makes anything, of course, but comedy
is just can go in this polarized direction because of the writing and
it not working for people.
But I don't know.
Most of the people in the street and the people I've talked to about this
movie.
I mean, I was right.
I don't know.
I haven't heard about the thing about this movie ever.
I know.
But we go to LA and we go to Vegas.
Like you start in China, you go to LA.
I really love the globetrotting of this movie as well.
And that's like inherent in a lot of sequels.
Ocean's 12.
That's another good sequel.
Yeah.
Love me some of this.
It's going to Europe, but this time they go to.
Hong Kong.
Yeah, Asia.
Yeah, there's a little bit of that too.
We get the dynamics with Harris Euland that that kind of it's always playing
in the background.
And then we get the
The Red Dragon guy.
No, no, no, no.
The speech.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Yeah.
Like the police chief.
The police chief.
Yeah.
But I would the it was, you know, it's fun that they're talking about the
relationship between Hong Kong and the U.S.
But still.
Yeah, that's a whole that.
Yeah, that whole that's a weird situation.
The.
Like who was controlling it, how you interact with that because of the
like it's your addiction.
Yeah, it's like it's a free country, but then it's not a free country.
It's so weird.
I feel like I just also too watch the movie about.
That we're like.
What is it, the British are leaving.
I remember when that happened.
Was it in James Bond?
I think there was a there was like talking about never dies.
Was it that you're talking about this, the media rights of the
South China Sea.
That's what you're right.
Yeah.
I'm talking about the South China Sea.
It always comes back to the South China Sea.
There's just so much that's happening there.
You always hear about what's something's going on in the South China Sea.
I swear to God.
It's those those counter that counterfeit money, that funny money,
which actually.
You can just easily identify by burning.
I kind of didn't understand how, why it's so special.
If you can easily just go, well, here's it's fake.
Yeah.
Super, a super bill.
I think it's.
Yeah, they go to the paper bill.
Oh my God.
Right.
So that's super bills.
They got the plates and that was like, quick exposition dump.
And they're making super bills.
This is the bad thing that's happening.
And then they go see, check out Don Cheadle and then like it
lights up like a fucking sparkler on the fourth of July.
And you can smell that shit from when you get the money.
It's like you open that safe and it's like, whoa, smells like
fucking gunpowder.
It's all dusty shit.
It's that why they're called super because they can just ignite
easily.
I don't know.
Yeah.
So they don't have to get.
Down in the.
Oh no.
What happened, I guess, is these fake bills used for the movie.
Actually in the making of the movie did not get destroyed properly
and actually were put into circulation because somebody took
them to Vegas and gambled with them.
So.
Oh my God.
That's like a.
Federal crime.
You could go to big prison.
Yeah.
They got investigated.
This is IMDB trivia.
So take it maybe take it with a grain of salt, but I was just
checking out a little of that counterfeit dollar bills using
the movie, say in dog, we trust during shooting, some extras
walked off the set with some of the fake cash and it eventually
ended up in a few casinos in Las Vegas.
The situation went so out of control that production was
briefly shut down when the FBI subjected the props department
to an investigation to determine whether or not they violated
the counterfeit deterrence act of 1992.
Wow.
1992 big year for counterfeiting.
Yeah.
What happened then?
So I don't know.
That was like a.
That was a fun little tidbit.
That is fun because that yeah, that just seems like something
some jackass would do.
They're like some extra.
Yeah.
It's already shooting with all this bunny money or super bills.
Super bills.
I like the little Don Cheadle scene.
It's it's it's silly in a in a way that's like just, I don't
know, Don Cheadle is in this moment where he is in the
Ocean's Eleven movies as well.
And I think he's just stretching his his acting chops into
some interesting roles.
That was another thing of the IMDB trivia where it said he
agreed to do this movie only if you got to fight Jackie Chan
and speak Chinese.
Hell yeah.
When he spoke Chinese trivia.
It was.
And then they like he was like, they did the matching style.
That was cool.
Yeah.
Makes the comment of it.
He's like, where did you learn that from?
I learned if I can't remember the teacher's name, but he's like,
that's it.
It's like that's his brother or something.
Oh, no, I'm Crenshaw.
No, I was blind.
Oh, no, go.
I say like the line where he's opening the safe because he's
like, just out of the build, he's like, I still got my money
from the third grade.
I started my lunch money.
That was delivered so well because he looks at him like,
yeah, first you're like, of course I don't.
And then he's like, yeah, not only do I have that, but I do.
All of my money I've ever made.
And then his bit in the.
Bloopers was funny too.
Yes.
Chris just couldn't say.
Keep calling him Jackie instead of.
Is it it's Lee?
His name is Lee.
God damn it.
His name is Lee.
God damn it.
We're talking a lot about the, because they're just so funny,
but the blooper right before that too,
when he's trying to kick the door in, he's like, kick the door.
Kick the door, Jackie.
Okay, Chris Tucker.
And he's like, kick the door.
Jackie again.
Okay.
Chris Tucker just gets me every time because he knows it's wrong,
but he still goes through the motion of kicking the door.
He's got to do for the bit.
He's a funny guy.
He's so funny.
And then the other one.
Yeah.
The Jeremy Piven scene at the,
before they go into red dragon,
they got to get some, some deads.
And I, it's so funny.
He's like,
it's a funny scene to you.
Crack skin, crack skin, buttercream, buttercream, crack skin.
I said, I want to get you into a bubble bath and just swing that
bottom or something like that.
There were a lot of men chasing us as well.
They should.
Yeah.
He's like, we got to look fly.
What is fly?
What do you mean by fly?
He's like,
I'm not going to get you into that.
What do you mean by fly?
It suits.
Sick too.
That you get the crocskin.
It's a crocskin suit.
No, but it looks great.
Again, then the,
the red dragon has a lot of good action in it.
The whole bomb in the mouth thing,
I think is just a wonderful.
Set piece in itself and, and a,
and a thing that.
Raises the stakes for everybody involved.
It's like,
it's like,
you know,
I'm not going to get you into that.
So we have a lot of nice,
pretty nice,
pretty nice stuff around the.
When you're flying out of the window,
that's already something everyone's freaking out about.
Then the, that like the rate again,
raising attention within an action in comedic scene of like,
oh, this poor man tell out of window, wait a minute.
What's going on?
Oh my God.
And he just starts running around and then gunshots start going
off and just the panic that ensues keeps it interesting.
Yeah.
Figure it out.
He's like, why don't you tell me there was a bomb.
He's like, I do this.
Yeah.
It's almost like Charlie Chaplin,
like Buster Keaton level skill to be able to impart that kind of
yeah,
physical comedy without saying anything.
And.
And yeah,
and subjecting your face to just tape.
I don't know how long that took to shoot everything,
but yeah,
I just got to accept that you got tape on your face.
For that day of shooting.
And she like does the whole thing with the button.
And Ricky tan like falls off all that.
All that stuff closes together well with the,
with the villain and the henchwoman in a satisfying way.
And they,
and they ride off into the sunset and in a lot of ways going to the,
the airport at the same time.
They all got their flights at the same time.
So they can all go in different directions.
And so they can go in different directions.
They can go in different directions at the same time.
They all got their flights at the same time.
So they can all go in different directions.
It's just a feel good fucking movie, like all the way through.
It never really gets too.
Hung up on anything.
And what it does get hung up on is just the mystery of.
A little bit of who done it.
There's a little bit of the twist of him still being alive.
Love that.
That keeps keeps you.
Going and you're already invested in that guy as the villain.
Even more powerful and in a lot of ways was a, was a cool way to do it.
And then also, I mean, we haven't really mentioned,
it's a fucking tight 90.
This is an hour and a half on the dot movie,
which just doesn't waste any time.
And it's so efficient for a sequel.
When we just did bad boys too,
which is a two and a half hour juggernaut.
Maximilist, you know, fucking Michael Bay fever dream,
which is great still, but for, for what it is.
But this is endlessly rewatchable in a lot of ways.
And the first one as well.
Yeah. I mean, God, just.
I love a good tight 90.
I really, really do it because there's not nothing about this movie is really slow.
Yeah.
It flies by, you know, it flies by, which yeah,
it contributes to being so incredibly rewatchable.
Yeah.
You know, it doesn't feel like a, like a big commitment.
And just put this on.
There's going to be a ton of ton of parts that you can pop in,
pop out and always have a good time.
Man, but yes, so the end of this movie.
I was surprised how, yeah, I don't know.
It was so touching.
They handled the emotional stuff in this movie really, really well.
Because.
Lee and Carter are at like, they're giving each other shit so much throughout
the whole movie.
And so for them to have sent it like a really just fully sentimental
moment with each other to work through a lot of their.
Common issues like what they're, what a deep connection that they have.
Yeah, I was surprised because I forgot how well this movie handles that
emotional stuff at the end.
The father's badge and everything as well.
The father's badge, you know, and just, yeah, the way that like,
Chris accepts the love and the gift from Jackie and then Jackie,
like, you know, really being vulnerable in that moment.
And it's great.
I loved it.
Yeah.
And the whole like, yeah, $10,000 and the whole gambling scene with him
was a lot of fun.
Where do you want to go?
Yeah.
I want something.
Yeah.
Always wanted to, and then like the whole blue for,
if I've always wanted to square Madison garden, whatever.
Yeah, I've always wanted to swear.
Yeah.
Oh man.
And I, yes, is the third one in go to New York?
I haven't watched all of it and it's been a long time,
but do you remember Kirsten?
Okay.
Because they had that big just cliffhanger of like,
guess we're going, guess we're going to New York, baby.
New York.
Yeah.
No, they go to Paris.
Paris.
Of course.
Gotcha.
So are there actually like other products that you probably
do want, like anything different?
Right, anything like that.
Nsoft,
Okay.
Yeah, freezer aquifer,
David,
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it's good to see that.
The end of the way it got to me.
When it came to multi acoustics,
Because then we got our schools that rolled out and based on
our locks,
they just both opened up and reeled out.
What else kind of,
what else kind of atmosphere was there?
It was always like nothing,
Yeah, to do them. Oh my God.
Yeah. The movie premiered on July 26, 2001 on a single Los Angeles to Hong Kong
flight by United Airlines and the Hong Kong Tourism Board.
Wow. And they flew in a United Airlines plane. OK.
OK. OK. OK. United.
The other notes.
Yeah, I was just looking at some of the other trivia.
If there's anything fun like Red Dragon named the Casino.
What's the name of the next movie that Brett Rattner made is called Red Dragon.
I didn't I have a note here that I didn't really care for how Hugh Lee dies accidentally.
I felt like she was such a strong,
like, competent woman and and was such an interesting character
that was obviously incredibly capable and like fighting and all this.
And then she just like accidentally gets stabbed.
And then that's how she goes down.
I was like, what the? And that kind of sucks.
Because you know, yeah, because just a note before that, I was like, Hugh Lee's a bad ass.
And then, yeah, she just gets impaled, right?
I can't remember exactly how it happened.
I think she like steps on something and then, yeah.
But she still manages to find another bomb.
I know. Right.
And walk all the way, go all the way back upstairs now.
The dedication. Yeah. It is her thing.
She's a big bomb.
She's a bomb. Yeah.
But the other Chris Tucker, it's a
it is kind of like a ripoff, but it is funny to her.
Like, yeah, he wins just by complete.
Like it's almost like a Mr. Bean sort of level character.
Right. It's like a goon or whatever.
But he gets stabbed in the fucking heart at one point.
Like she wins and stabs him in the heart.
And then like, thank you, Benjamin.
You know, the money.
Well, I'd save them.
So it's just like pure luck that he's only able to like best her.
She's hoisted by her own spear pitard.
Mm hmm. Yeah.
Right.
We'll see if there's any other notes I got here.
I am a tourist fool. He's like, I got a click of tourist.
I am a tourist.
Flip me. Flip me.
No wonder you're mad.
I mean, he looks at the guy's ding dong.
You'll never understand.
You're right.
Because I don't even understand what you're trying to say to me right there.
That's like just a carter's like, what did the triads do?
And they're like, well, they tortured you for three days.
And then they cut off your egg rolls.
Yeah.
The girls.
And you know, that's fun.
Oh, the hell no.
He was like down to get tortured.
But the second the jumping of the balls comes into it.
He's like, no.
And then the song that is playing when the PDD song.
Yeah, man, I was.
Yeah, the every move you make.
Yeah, please.
And then it's like that dance comes back into it.
Yeah, he's like reminiscing.
Hopefully you don't encounter.
Yeah.
This song is so.
It's so good.
And it's like the song itself is in a callback, but his move is.
And I had just worked so well for the scene.
And it's still funny to it's every now it's like emotional and funny.
They could have just done every breath you take, maybe.
But this is better.
This is better.
Yeah.
I wonder if it was Diddy on the line.
It's who was calling Chris.
Oh, you can call me back at point.
Well, great.
You guys want to go through some of these reviews here and then give our final
thoughts. Yeah.
All right, let's check out critic reviews from the 51 percent range.
Not huge fans of this movie.
Let's start with LA Weekly.
Ernest Hardy gave it a 20.
The best parts of this movie occurred during the outtakes, which are genuinely funny.
The movie proper is insufferable.
Insufferable.
Ernest Hardy was sitting there just like.
It's sufferable.
It's been her.
This movie makes me so mad.
Like, I don't think you imagine.
Yeah, it's a little strong, Ernest.
It's a little dramatic.
Uncomfortable.
A little dramatic.
Yeah, come on.
Mattling MacDonald down.
Yeah.
TV Guide magazine, Mattlin MacDonald gives it a 40.
Should please undiscriminating fans, but in no way improves on the cliched formula.
Hmm.
Well,
San Francisco Chronicle of 50, Wesley Morris says,
it's a fact that becomes riotously evident in the real of outtakes
that caps the picture and insights wonder about why no one thought to give us
90 minutes of those instead.
All these backhanded.
Wow.
All these like this guy's 90 minutes of fucking bloopers.
It was back.
Such that is an interesting take, though, because I mean, we've we've talked
about how great the bloopers are.
And so that's what he's saying is what made it into the movie is not as funny
as the bloopers.
So why?
Like, why?
Why did that happen?
Right? It's not how anyone that they were saying like that was that
worked well on screen left like a good taste in your mouth, maybe walking out.
But maybe they hated the movie up to that point and they were just kind of
having a bad.
But yeah,
totally.
Yeah.
I feel bad that we're just like all the critics that don't like this movie
because it's in a different opinion than ours is like anymore.
Yeah.
Yeah, we could have found those people.
Contrary,
a contrarian opinion.
We're not biased at all.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Hey, we would have had someone on here that didn't like this movie,
but we can't find them because they don't fucking exist.
Seriously.
Yeah.
Fuck you.
I'll do one more from the Wall Street Journal.
Joe Morgan Stern gave it a four.
Oh, Joey Morgz.
The movie is a counterfeit, too.
A course imitation of stylish star vehicle for stars who deserve the real thing.
Hmm.
Yeah.
He spells his own fart.
Yeah.
Let's go to some audience feelings on the situation with a 74 percent.
Matthew D gave it a four stars out of five, a little bit better in the positive range.
He says a breath of fresh air in the comedy world.
Brett Retiner's action comedy rush hour two breathes new life into the buddy cop genre.
Every ridiculous set piece has the anti-upt compared to rush hour.
Every joke is funnier this time around as these unlikely heroes face off against insane
odds time and again.
Ratner's direction is sleeker than the first rush hour with many new scenarios, better
sets, more opponents and nicer costumes.
Rush hour two's editing and cinematography is clearly better than rush hour.
Jackie Chan is still hilarious and cool as ever.
Taking apart foe after foe with whatever is around him.
His comedy chemistry with Chris Tucker is still fantastic.
Tucker is bouncing off the wall and chewing up the scenery.
His style of humor is so hyper energetic and erratic that you never know what he will say.
Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker are forever immortalized as the best buddy cops thanks to rush hour
two.
I can always revisit this movie for endlessly for a laugh.
Wow.
Yeah, that's summed it up perfectly.
I do like.
I cut it off there, but they then go on to everybody's performance and say a little nice thing.
Oh, wow.
About like almost everybody.
How deep do they go in the cast list?
After that line, they say, I must mention the lovely Zee Zhang as the sadistic villainess
Hu Li every second she is on screen in rush hour two is captivating.
Her fast kung fu is riveting and her brutal tactics and one liners makes her hands down
the best antagonist in the rush hour franchise.
You just have to see Zhang in rush hour two to believe how great she really is here.
Then John Lone is excellent as Ricky Tan.
His confidence and coolness as the triad boss is highly engaging.
His presence is undeniable whenever he's on screen.
Rosalyn Sanchez is beautiful and fun as Secret Service agent undercover.
Maggie Q makes a cameo as a cute girl driving around in Hong Kong that Carter hits on once.
Also Don Cheetle is awesome as the ridiculous character Kenny.
Lastly, Lalo Schifrin's score is more memorable and exciting than rush hour.
Ross LaMonna's story is neat in that it's centered about her honor for your family.
This makes the police partnership between Lee and Carter consistently more relatable.
All rush hour two is nonstop jokes and fights for anyone.
Stop jokes.
It's a great review.
I mean, I haven't had, I don't go through the full critic reviews, but that kind of,
if I didn't tell you that was an audience review, I'd almost believe it was a critic one.
And it was well constructed.
There's a lot of five stars.
Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan have done it again.
This person says it's the best movie I have seen.
Five stars. Another person says the people's champ of action comedy films.
Agreed.
Great sequel job.
Well done.
Wow.
Personally, I think this movie is better than the first one.
The simple reason is that Chan and Tucker going into the movie are already well established
buddy cops and they throw you right in.
The story itself is not as good as the first one.
I like that too.
But seriously, that's the benefit of a second movie is you.
Yeah, you get a.
You know, I have to build the characters.
Yeah.
You're jumping, jumping right in.
Yeah.
Love that.
Oh no, I'm just seeing if there was maybe I'll do one more.
Funny rush.
Yeah.
Four stars.
These ones on rotten tomatoes.
Some people don't leave their names, but we'll do this one funny rush hour sequel
starring Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan.
Now that these two characters have characters have great chemistry and trust each other.
More and I've grown to it and I've grown attached to them. I thought in my own opinion that this movie is way better than the first because of better jokes in this movie.
And just the characters and their buddy cop duo.
And it feels that the actors portraying these characters are having a better time than the first movie.
Because they know each other and know how to play these characters.
I really enjoy that aspect of a movie, any movie.
And I think they nailed it times two can't wait for rush hour three.
That times two.
Have a good time.
Yeah, man.
I've had a great time.
Yeah, talking about this movie.
I yeah, if I give gauge the discourse between the two camps, I don't know, it just seems the critics were not really into them doing another one and didn't find the reason to and I guess it was just about the humor not hitting them as well.
And just not hitting in the same way.
A lot of those were pretty ham-fisted, just like trying to make funny jokes about it being bad.
But I made like picking on a sequel sometimes.
I'm not picking on but just it's low hanging fruit.
Some of those comments it seemed like.
Because it's inherently like self like indulge it like self indulge it to make us second one you're just like, well, you know, we can't help ourselves.
This was so successful.
And it is always going to yeah, sequels are always going to be somewhat tough with critics.
However, what was it screened to that we just did that was a high on the critics score critics like that one.
But that is it does have a lot of meta commentary about movies and which is more in line with the sentiment of why why critics don't like sequels in the first place is because of all of the things that are highlighted in that movie kind of takes
a piss out of it.
Yeah, within the movie, even though it's a sequel itself and yeah, I think see critics.
Yeah, like that.
The one George Joe Morgenstern guy is probably just like, hmm.
Yeah, so so rife with satire.
Yes.
This thought smells extra good to me.
But yeah, I'm down to give our final thoughts and Kirsten if you want to start or if you want us to start whatever you prefer.
Yeah, if you want to give just some final thoughts about the movie and then a score out of zero to 100 as round tomatoes likes to do it.
There it is.
Yeah.
That's what we're doing right now.
All right, zero to 100.
I guess I would give it like a 99.
Hell yeah.
I could watch this movie again tonight and it would still be funny to me.
Yes.
Right.
Absolutely.
100%.
I think it's one of my favorites just because it's nostalgic, you know, it reminds me of being a kid and carefree and yeah.
Yeah.
Those are my final thoughts.
Hell yeah.
Okay.
Brandon, you want to go?
I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know what else to add.
No, we've, no, we've covered it.
No, we've covered it through this discussion and yeah, I mean, the funny, I mean, I'm going to pretty much say the same thing.
I enjoy this movie a lot. The comedy still works for me, even though I can identify particular comedic like lines or bits that are dated and don't come off well.
I think they're, it's just the overall charisma of Chris Tucker and how I love how just funny and hardworking Jackie Chan is he's just he just adds so much like honesty to this because I think a part of like where in a sequel.
Critics get like don't what they don't like as well about them is it just isn't it comes off as disingenuous a little bit. You're just like, we're, you know, kind of cashing in, you know, it's like, well, just given given the people what they want more of what they want.
But it's just Jackie Chan go it go so far with me how committed and how present he is because I think you could also get that too is where people start to just get to like up their own butts or to like better than this.
And yeah, I never get that from Jackie Chan, and which is so wonderful because it allows me to just enjoy the movie even more because somebody else seems to be so committed to making sure that this movie is funny and that I would enjoy it.
And I would find it really great because yeah all of the action stuff in this movie is. And I think the critics would make a point of that of like the action still good and 100%.
There's so much. Yeah, I mean, we didn't need. Yeah. We didn't even touch all of this. The action sequences in this movie, but it's they're all great.
So I'll just say that I love this movie. I'm going to give this. I'm going to give this a 90%. Yeah, I'm going to give this a 90%.
Hell yeah. This was a good time. It always is. I will continue to come back to these movies. It's the more I think about it and the thing that I resonated with this most recent time around and maybe seeing more movies in my life since the last time I saw it was
it's the perfect action comedy like it as far as an action comedy goes I can't think of one that that can be besides maybe yeah like a Shanghai noon or something that's more of a Western I guess but and yeah there's there's others out there of course but I love the physical
humor and the stunts that are funny in of themselves and also impressive and also push the story long in a fun way.
It goes by quickly it never stays too long for a sequel I think that's a feat in itself to keep you going in an efficient manner. It brings back the fanservice stuff in a subtle I think way a subtle enough way that's like not too banging you over the head with like
jokes it has jokes that I that you recognize just from this movie that aren't just recycled or rehashed and they're kind of at like their prime in this Jackie Chan has Jackie Chan has had so many phases of his career but this point in his career is when
American audiences are becoming very like a lot more familiar with him and I think he's as far as that's concerned in this run of his career for American audiences like this is kind of him at his best and I would definitely like to join you guys in the 90 club I'm trying to
I'll do I'll do 95 I'll do it right in the middle I'll do right in the middle. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Yeah some of that you know is for going down really is the you know some of the racist stuff that just is hold up to you almost perfect.
Yeah so it just hard to really like it has a little blemish on it. It's not it's not completely perfect. And it is a movie in many ways about our differences and you know racially or culturally or whatnot. And so exploring those yeah you know you're going to hit some some
rough spots being a 20 year old movie at this point 20 something year old movie crazy. And that's that's our thoughts on rush hour to Kirsten I can't thank you enough for blessing us with your first podcast appearance and I know you're going to be going on the
circuit here to all the like all the all the big podcasts out there what are they going over to Joe Rogan. Yeah. No thanks for having me know it was fun I was nervous but I listened to one of your podcasts and it's just like you're
just like hanging out for like an hour. Yeah. Yeah. Just like talking Jen. Yeah. It's time to be talking movies. The podcast that we usually like and we've bonded over in our relationship brandy and I so being able to do our own thing
joining the mix and we've always yeah I just enjoyed being able to hang out with friends we don't get to see all the time and just talk about movies which is something we always like to talk about. And if nothing else yeah we're we get to hang out and shoot the shit for a bit and that's really what it's what it's all about the fact that we're recording is nice to
you but yeah this has been the other perfect combination like we started off the top yeah I'm gonna go have PB and J if you guys ever get the chance a grilled PB and J. So so good make it.
I have a lot of butter in my fridge right now. Yeah I can grill some butter grill it up it's not the milk the milk tea peanut butter so good. Can't go make a pet base tonight. No no no I have a package one you just hit it.
They do I have that with the sauce and everything. Yeah I'm done with the sauce. Okay sorry.
Join us next time for Godzilla King of the Monsters our next sequel summer movie we're wrapping up summer but we're still going with the sequels is the sequel to the Godzilla with like Brian Cranston and stuff he was in it for a bit.
I don't know why I bring him up but he's he's in the first one for a bit and then this one has Kyle Chandler very Farmiga Millie Bobby Brown stranger things girl can one and I be and guess who else is in this movie that I just found out Brandon.
Who is in this movie. Oh my god. Oh my god. We had no idea. We planned it. We planned to figure out how to say your name properly but we get it in this movie. That's so fucking cool.
We get back to back Jane performances. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Okay. Yeah it's a 42% critics 83% audience. We thank you again so much Chris Kirsten anybody who's listening to this if you want to catch us live.
Sometimes we pop up on twitch.tv slash polarized pod to record these. You can reach out to us on email polarize the pod at gmail.com. Yeah, or X polarized pod.
Yep. And we'll see you next time.
We will see you for Godzilla King of the Monsters.
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