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Hello, Welcome back to another episode of Somewhere Between Some
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and Between, a film and TV podcast. I'm your host,
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Daniel Para and number one. Thank you so much for
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listening and watching Number two. If you could please down below, like,
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comment and subscribe, what did you think of Pixar Disney
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Pixar's latest Hoppers with this movie? What Is It about? Hoppers?
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Is about when scientists discover a way to transform human
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consciousness into robotic animals. Mabel uses the new technology to
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uncover mysteries of the animal world that are beyond anything
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she could have ever imagined. This is directed by Daniel Chong.
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If you're not familiar with this previous work, he used
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to work with Cartoon Network on We Bear Bears. Now,
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admittedly I've only seen a couple of episodes of that,
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I remember finding it very entertaining. However, but if his
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sense of humor, which I've heard it is, is anything
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like how it is in this movie, I have a
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lot of great things to say, but remember everything we
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will be here will always have fool spoilers. So if
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you don't want to know a single thing about this
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going forward, then save this, click this, come back later,
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but for now, with this movie, I want to emphasize
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something I much like a lot of other people are.
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I'm a huge, huge Pixar fan, and that's not like
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an uncommon thing to say, but I am a person
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that also expects a lot out of them. I don't
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think they're the best when it comes to the track
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record of their trailers. So typically what I like to
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do is I like to avoid the trailers for their
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movies that are coming out. So as a matter of fact,
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I never saw a trailer for this I kind of
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only hardly knew what it was about. I saw like
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this small preview thing with the little lizard that. You
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know how sometimes Pixar likes to really focus on like
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a random side character and then make that their marketing thing.
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They also did with Elemental. They did it with Elemental
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is the one I remember the most for sure, but
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I have been waiting for maybe something stellar from Pixar.
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I loved Elio last year, but I thought that that
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was just a great movie. It's unfortunate when I mean
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Pixar had that little rough, tumbling thing. I will forever
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say that Monsters University is underrated, and the older I get,
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the more I find that kind of an astonishing accomplishment
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that was severely underrated is only aged well with time.
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But Pixar kind of has a formula they're typically the
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animation studio that they will lean more into the emotional.
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When it comes to a joke or a emotional moment,
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they'll go for the emotional moment. I think that Daniel
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Chong is a breath of fresh air here in that
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this movie. That I love it, that I hate it,
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or am I somewhere between on it? Well, it blew
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me away. Actually I kind of more than liked it.
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I loved it. I thought it was just really one
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of Pixar's most original and most astounding achievements I've seen
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in a long time. I do love their sequels when
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it comes to the right ones. I think that Toy
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Story five looks amazing. I fully understood whether they chose
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to make that the whole iPad baby thing. That's a great,
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great idea. But here I think that was just kind
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of like I've seen the animal thing. I've seen them
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do the whole I've seen Aunt Bully, I've seen not
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that that's great, but I've seen the whole, like hanging
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out with animals, hanging out with the people that start
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hanging out with the animals, the bugs, whatever it may be,
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and they're misunderstood or we're taking over and humans don't
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have enough respect for nature and life. This movie seemed
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interesting because it was wildly unpredictable, to be honest with you,
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and it has such a deep aversion to following formula,
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which was just really really surprising to me. I think
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it was made by somebody who, in the end of
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it all, definitely made an emotional Pixar movie, but also
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made honestly kind of by far the funniest of any
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of them. This is the funniest Pixar movie I think
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I've ever seen. Toy Story one two, they have a
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very very sharp sense of humor to them, and this
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one I think was interesting because it definitely withheld from,
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you know, making any of the standard like children's jokes
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or any of that. There's a couple of like you're
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gonna want to see this and a couple of did
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that just happen type moments, but some of the jokes
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in this are so wildly deranged and unhinged that I
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was kind of surprised that they're in this movie to
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begin with there's this one joke in particular that I
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thought was hilarious. It made the entire audience gasp and
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then it was this entire like dead silence and then
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bust out laughing. And there's this moment where the whole
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thing about Mabel infiltrating this like Kingdom. This the way
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that they'll work is there's this butterfly, the you know, monarch.
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The joke's clever, and Suso played by Meryl Streep. I'm
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pretty sure that's insane. But in the middle of them
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getting into a heated argument, she accidentally kills this little
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caterpillar's mom and it, you know, stops the movie. And
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that's when the entire audience busts out laughing. And I
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was just kind of shocked it was in this movie
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to begin with, just because of the way that it's
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like so playful about the sense of humor that it
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has in the first place. Now, let's really get into
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the positives first. Overall with this this is such a given,
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but I do think it looks a little different. The
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animation here is wonderful, and of course it is, it's Pixar.
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I can't think of the last time I was like ooh.
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I think that that might be a little bit below
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stand or for them other than what maybe the First
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Toy Story. But the First Toy Story was obviously like
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a test run practically, and I don't think that that
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really counts. It's still impressive for the era came out
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in and outside of that. Honestly, the one the reason
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why this looks different is it kind of looks a
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little bit more like Luka mixed with some of the
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photo realistic stuff that they do in their modern Pixar movies.
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They have the bean mouth thing that I hear some
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people that are into animation like critique and complain about.
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But if the person behind this is also the person
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behind We Bear Bears and they kind of have that
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similar sort of thing, then I don't see the issue
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with it really. I also don't have an issue with
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that animation style to begin with. I think that this
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movie has a unique character design enough on its own,
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l e Oh entirely, they don't feel like they fit
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into Toy Story entirely. But the animation, of course is wonderful,
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and I really like how unique the characters here are
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I think that Mabel, specifically her human design is really
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unique and really interesting, and I like that type of
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character a lot. This movie reminded me a fair amount,
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and it's set up of lie Low and Stitch, where
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she's kind of like the bad kid who like honestly,
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just sort of needs some sort of shepherding attention. It
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doesn't fully get into the depth of why her character
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is the way she is at the very beginning, but
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it does get into why she's so passionate about it
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once her grandma passes. And another positive I want to
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get into outside of the animation is really Pixar, They've
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brought their staple back. I didn't cry at this one,
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but I did get heavily emotional because of the really
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the friendship that blossoms between Mabel and his name is
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King George is the name of this beaver. And really,
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one other thing I really like about the animation is
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every time they bounce back and forth between the communication
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of the beavers themselves and the whenever they're animated and
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they're able to talk, the thing gets a lot more cartoony.
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It gets even more cartoony, which I found really interesting
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because then the eyes get bigger instead of really small,
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and so it's a really interesting flip back and forth
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of process with how the characters are integrated, how you
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can tell which perspective that they are in, which I
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thought was really clever and really smart and a really
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really easy way to show the way that the characters
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what place they're in in terms of perspective. It's a
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really simple visual trip, but it's also really smart and honestly,
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the other thing is, like I said, the character work
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here is incredible. I really loved everybody. I found everybody
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so likable. Every side character had their own weird thing.
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That's the thing that reminded me of a couple episodes
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of We Bear Bears and something that was very cartoon
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Network ESK. Was this like bear and lizard and other
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beaver guy that hang out around them the whole time.
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Their sense of humor is so in line with what
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I used to grow up watching like Camp Laslo and
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stuff like that. So I fully see where that style
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of comedy is coming from. And honestly, I think the
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reason why this might have been a fresh breath, breath
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of fresh air for Pixar is because it was super weird.
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A lot of the characters are also allowed to be weird.
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I think that Mabel and King George and all of them,
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there's like just this really off kilter absurdity to everything.
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Lee Low and Stitch. It felt like that sort of
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reinvigorating bit of animated breath of fresh air for it.
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Like it felt it was kind of like over the
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course of time. Although this movie's doing well, so I
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think it's gonna be that kind of like, you know how,
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there's like always like, oh, the quote unquote weird kid,
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they're the one that's a little bit different. This feels
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like this will be There'll be the toy stories, the
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monsters saying Coco and all that. This feels like it'll
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be for the that kid. Really that's kind of like that.
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think this might be Pixar's funniest movie. Almost every joke hits,
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they're laugh out loud funny. Some of them have this
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like kind of audacity to them with the jokes that
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they tell. I didn't know that Dave Franco was in this,
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but if I lay out to you part of this
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plot point there's the whole idea, and they make fun
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of this. It's kind of like Avatar, where they make
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the robots and they're allowed to upload their consciousness into
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these robot animals so they can infiltrate and learn their society.
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whole system, there's this whole like way that there's kings
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of reptiles, kings of amphibians, kings of like the I
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don't know what the butterfly one was. I guess it
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was all bugs. And there was just this scene where,
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like I said, this is whenever they killed the mom.
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of these characters. And I really like how this world
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was structured as well. And I love this like random
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backstory from another character I really loved, named King George. Usually,
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I think in a less our, lesser Pixar movie, this
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would have been like the surprise villain somehow, but it's not,
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and so it ends up happening is whenever the caterpillar's
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mom dies, he uploads his consciousness into a man, and
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like the robot man, which is like the mayor, it
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was the antagonist's not really the villain just the antagonist
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of the story, and he's played by Dave Franco, and
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Dave Franco is giving just this really unhinged character voice
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performance that I thought was really impressive and just unbelievably funny,
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and there's just like all these like side jokes in
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the background. One of the things that I guess this
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particular director does is there's so many asides where a
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scene will almost be over, but there's a joke that
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I never got tired of where somebody will say something
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in the background and then the scene will be over.
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The movie even ends this way. It cuts to black
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and it's like on this heartwarming moment and then it
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ends with like potato being said, and then it's over over.
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I know that that pitch kind of sounds like, oh,
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it's one of those guys who like does random for
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the sense of humor of it. But I do think
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that the jokes are well written and it's not just like, oh,
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let's just say something random for the sake of being
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random and weird. I think that there actually is just
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a genuine, like kind of heart to this as well.
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also unbelievably clever in its emotional storytelling. I found myself
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honestly more attached to these characters than I thought I
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was going to be. This movie is not super long
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or anything. It's like an hour forty five, but it
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felt the closest I think Pixar has gotten to Ghibli
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outside of Luca. I think that Pixar I know that
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Disney like owns some of the rights to Ghibli stuff,
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so they can distribute it throughout the US. But this
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felt the most like kind of inspired, probably by Pompoco
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I bet, of all things, but it felt like that
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in the sense that this just felt very, very inspired
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in terms of the storytelling, like that like Kiki's Delivery Service,
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for example, that's a really great movie with its own
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internal logic, its own internal rules, and we're kind of
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just privy to it, right We're there to experience that.
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like you're not allowed here, This isn't how this works,
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which I found an inversion typically of like US American storytelling.
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is not She's accepted right away. She's like looking for
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a different beaver. But then the whole thing how it
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works is she finds this guy that is almost eaten
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already and then they're like the bear. This joke is
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so funny. The bear like drops the beaver and is like,
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gotta eat. And then she's like wait, he's like what,
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you can eat me now, and the bear is just like, no,
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it's weird. Now, I can't do it. And that joke
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is so funny. There's just like this really dead beat
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sense of humor that all of these animals have with
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each other in it, and I really like how they
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all interact and it's that And obviously this movie is
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about deforestation and about the dangers of that, but I
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also really liked that it wasn't just like you know
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that one. This is is such a deep cut and
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like Josh Hutcherson, where like an owl is in danger
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in this movie even a long time ago, but like
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that where it's about like, oh, the human nature and
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is harming the environment and all of that. But there's
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some stuff in this movie where they kind of clarify
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that they're like, I mean, we can work on it together.
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that some people would argue against, right, like you can't
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just see eye to eye on every single issue. But
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I really liked that as an overall message just for
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younger kids in this case. But what I really liked
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about why that was the message in the first place
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wasn't just because Mabel was this like activist and that
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was it. She specifically had a tie to that with
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this montage that's set up at the beginning about her
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bonding over this place with their grandma. And this is
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another one of those things that really reminded me of
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Ghibli quite a bit. It was just about like sitting
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in nature for a little while and just calming yourself,
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feeling that silence and really understanding and feeling the world
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around you. It's hard to be upset whenever there's quiet
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all around you, and I thought that was really just
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kind of beautiful to like sort of stop and take
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everything in. And I really like also that the ending
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seemed to kind of have not a compromise really, that
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she's not able to access communication with King George again,
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but they still have that long lasting friendship even though
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they're not able to understand each other anymore. And I
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thought that that was an interesting, uncompromising bit of storytelling
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for this specific type of animated movie. Usually would have
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been like, oh, but you can still have the earpiece
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and you can still talk and all that, or you
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can at least have the robots so you can visit,
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but they don't do that. And I really really like
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that about it. And honestly, I really like the themes
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overall of this about really the things that we latch
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onto in terms of memory and why they're held dear
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to us. And I really found that kind of thematically
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very interesting. And it felt just so much like it
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could have just been deforestation and that was it, but
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there was more to it than just that. It was
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about a lot of different things, to be honest with you,
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and I think that might have been why I found
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it set itself, apart from maybe some of the more
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recent other Pixar stuff, was just because I felt like
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it was ambitious and weird and offbeat, off kilter, literally
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everything you could say about this. There is a scene
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in this in which they're trying to get The scene
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is unbelievably well done, where they're trying to get the
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mayor to cooperate with them and he thinks he's in
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a dream, and then out of nowhere there is like
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these birds lift up a shark out and put it
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onto the highway, and then it becomes this chase scene
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while this shark is up in the sky chasing this car. Right,
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it's absurd, it's ridiculous, but it's unbelievably funny and works
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within the logic of the rules of what we were
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shown in the first place, which is really funny to
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think about. But I just that this movie, on a
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lot of different levels, was so impressive. Obviously animation, obviously
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thematically because Picks are so great at that, but I
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really latched onto the characters in this case. I think
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that Pixar's make or break typically is their characters, right.
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I think that you can maybe get through a lesser
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one of their movies if the characters are still there
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and they're still incredible, something like let's say Cars two.
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is because the characters are there, but some of them
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revert back to how they were in the first one,
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and that's just not what I want to see. I
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don't want to see some of the characters go through
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the same similar kind of character development yet again. And
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here I thought there was just this clear line of
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them being able to grow over the course of time,
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which I really really liked. And I also liked that
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it didn't follow the typical animated beats of a story
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that honestly they sometimes follow. Like one of them would
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also be the third act breakup thing, which they do
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kind of do, but we don't ever hear from King
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George's perspective on that, which, to be honest with you,
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really liked. I really liked the sort of like commitment
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to not showing that verbally again, just the visual representation
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of it. So once he finally like gets back and
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he puts the paw on her, I thought that was beautiful.
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I thought that that was gorgeous. And I thought that
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this movie, for all of it's like wanting to make
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your laugh out loud, which it's immensely successful at. I
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also get like crying over a movie like this. I
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felt like I got emotional towards the end of it
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just because of how well it works, And to be
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honest with you, I can't. I don't know what I
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would compare this to in terms of Pixar's output lately,
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but I will say it's one of the ones that
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just it took me so by surprise, like just unbelievably
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by surprise. And I loved it. I loved this movie
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so much. I think it's my first, like maybe not
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my first, but it's definitely one of my first. See
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it immediately, one of them of the year. It was impressive.
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It was unbelievably funny. I'm so so happy I got
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to see it. The animation is stellar. The thematically what
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it's about is stellar. And I don't know if they're
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gonna make another one of these. I'm not trying to
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focus on that right now, but I see another one, Yeah,
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absolutely for sure. But I'm gonna go ahead and give
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this a score. This might be my first one of
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the year. I'll give it a five out of five.
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I just adored this. It reminded me so much of
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Ghibli stuff, which might be part of the influence of it.
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Like I said, Pompoco Kiki's delivery service to an extent.
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And yeah, guys, what did you think of Hoppers? Did
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you love it? Did you hate it or are you
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somewhere between? On it? I saw that it was like
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ninety something percent of Ron Tomatos deserved. I really do
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think it's that good. And also, this is a song
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at the end is great. I was surprised that she
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did new music for it, but that song was really
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good as well. I love Sizzy. Thank you guys so
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much for listening and watching. And ah man uh, stay
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tuned because if you've seen enough of the hoodies I
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wear around here on this channel, then you will know
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how excited I am about this. Season two of One Piece,
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the live action show, will be coming out this week.
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Stay tuned for a review of that. I am beyond excited.
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I cannot wait. Thank you guys so much for listening
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and watching. Stay tuned for that, and I'll see you
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next time.
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Hello, Welcome back to another episode of Somewhere Between Some
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and Between, a film and TV podcast. I'm your host,
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Daniel Para and number one. Thank you so much for
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listening and watching Number two. If you could please down below, like,
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comment and subscribe, what did you think of Pixar Disney
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Pixar's latest Hoppers with this movie? What Is It about? Hoppers?
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Is about when scientists discover a way to transform human
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consciousness into robotic animals. Mabel uses the new technology to
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uncover mysteries of the animal world that are beyond anything
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she could have ever imagined. This is directed by Daniel Chong.
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If you're not familiar with this previous work, he used
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to work with Cartoon Network on We Bear Bears. Now,
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admittedly I've only seen a couple of episodes of that,
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I remember finding it very entertaining. However, but if his
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sense of humor, which I've heard it is, is anything
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like how it is in this movie, I have a
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lot of great things to say, but remember everything we
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will be here will always have fool spoilers. So if
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you don't want to know a single thing about this
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going forward, then save this, click this, come back later,
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but for now, with this movie, I want to emphasize
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something I much like a lot of other people are.
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I'm a huge, huge Pixar fan, and that's not like
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an uncommon thing to say, but I am a person
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that also expects a lot out of them. I don't
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think they're the best when it comes to the track
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record of their trailers. So typically what I like to
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do is I like to avoid the trailers for their
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movies that are coming out. So as a matter of fact,
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only hardly knew what it was about. I saw like
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this small preview thing with the little lizard that. You
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know how sometimes Pixar likes to really focus on like
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a random side character and then make that their marketing thing.
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is the one I remember the most for sure, but
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I have been waiting for maybe something stellar from Pixar.
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I loved Elio last year, but I thought that that
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was just a great movie. It's unfortunate when I mean
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Pixar had that little rough, tumbling thing. I will forever
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say that Monsters University is underrated, and the older I get,
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the more I find that kind of an astonishing accomplishment
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that was severely underrated is only aged well with time.
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animation studio that they will lean more into the emotional.
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they'll go for the emotional moment. I think that Daniel
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Chong is a breath of fresh air here in that
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this movie. That I love it, that I hate it,
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or am I somewhere between on it? Well, it blew
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me away. Actually I kind of more than liked it.
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I loved it. I thought it was just really one
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of Pixar's most original and most astounding achievements I've seen
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in a long time. I do love their sequels when
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it comes to the right ones. I think that Toy
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to make that the whole iPad baby thing. That's a great,
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great idea. But here I think that was just kind
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of like I've seen the animal thing. I've seen them
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do the whole I've seen Aunt Bully, I've seen not
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that that's great, but I've seen the whole, like hanging
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out with animals, hanging out with the people that start
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hanging out with the animals, the bugs, whatever it may be,
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and they're misunderstood or we're taking over and humans don't
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have enough respect for nature and life. This movie seemed
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interesting because it was wildly unpredictable, to be honest with you,
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which was just really really surprising to me. I think
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it was made by somebody who, in the end of
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it all, definitely made an emotional Pixar movie, but also
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made honestly kind of by far the funniest of any
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of them. This is the funniest Pixar movie I think
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I've ever seen. Toy Story one two, they have a
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very very sharp sense of humor to them, and this
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one I think was interesting because it definitely withheld from,
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you know, making any of the standard like children's jokes
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that just happen type moments, but some of the jokes
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bust out laughing. And there's this moment where the whole
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thing about Mabel infiltrating this like Kingdom. This the way
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that they'll work is there's this butterfly, the you know, monarch.
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pretty sure that's insane. But in the middle of them
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getting into a heated argument, she accidentally kills this little
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caterpillar's mom and it, you know, stops the movie. And
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that's when the entire audience busts out laughing. And I
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has in the first place. Now, let's really get into
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the positives first. Overall with this this is such a given,
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but I do think it looks a little different. The
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animation here is wonderful, and of course it is, it's Pixar.
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I can't think of the last time I was like ooh.
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I think that that might be a little bit below
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stand or for them other than what maybe the First
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Toy Story. But the First Toy Story was obviously like
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a test run practically, and I don't think that that
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really counts. It's still impressive for the era came out
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in and outside of that. Honestly, the one the reason
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why this looks different is it kind of looks a
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little bit more like Luka mixed with some of the
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photo realistic stuff that they do in their modern Pixar movies.
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They have the bean mouth thing that I hear some
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people that are into animation like critique and complain about.
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behind We Bear Bears and they kind of have that
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similar sort of thing, then I don't see the issue
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with it really. I also don't have an issue with
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that animation style to begin with. I think that this
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movie has a unique character design enough on its own,
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l e Oh entirely, they don't feel like they fit
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into Toy Story entirely. But the animation, of course is wonderful,
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and I really like how unique the characters here are
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unique and really interesting, and I like that type of
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character a lot. This movie reminded me a fair amount,
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and it's set up of lie Low and Stitch, where
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she's kind of like the bad kid who like honestly,
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just sort of needs some sort of shepherding attention. It
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doesn't fully get into the depth of why her character
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it does get into why she's so passionate about it
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once her grandma passes. And another positive I want to
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get into outside of the animation is really Pixar, They've
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brought their staple back. I didn't cry at this one,
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but I did get heavily emotional because of the really
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the friendship that blossoms between Mabel and his name is
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King George is the name of this beaver. And really,
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one other thing I really like about the animation is
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every time they bounce back and forth between the communication
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of the beavers themselves and the whenever they're animated and
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they're able to talk, the thing gets a lot more cartoony.
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because then the eyes get bigger instead of really small,
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and so it's a really interesting flip back and forth
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of process with how the characters are integrated, how you
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can tell which perspective that they are in, which I
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thought was really clever and really smart and a really
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really easy way to show the way that the characters
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what place they're in in terms of perspective. It's a
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really simple visual trip, but it's also really smart and honestly,
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here is incredible. I really loved everybody. I found everybody
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so likable. Every side character had their own weird thing.
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of We Bear Bears and something that was very cartoon
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Network ESK. Was this like bear and lizard and other
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beaver guy that hang out around them the whole time.
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stuff like that. So I fully see where that style
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of comedy is coming from. And honestly, I think the
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reason why this might have been a fresh breath, breath
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of fresh air for Pixar is because it was super weird.
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I think that Mabel and King George and all of them,
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there's like just this really off kilter absurdity to everything.
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Lee Low and Stitch. It felt like that sort of
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reinvigorating bit of animated breath of fresh air for it.
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course of time. Although this movie's doing well, so I
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think it's gonna be that kind of like, you know how,
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there's like always like, oh, the quote unquote weird kid,
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they're the one that's a little bit different. This feels
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like this will be There'll be the toy stories, the
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monsters saying Coco and all that. This feels like it'll
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be for the that kid. Really that's kind of like that.
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think this might be Pixar's funniest movie. Almost every joke hits,
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they're laugh out loud funny. Some of them have this
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like kind of audacity to them with the jokes that
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they tell. I didn't know that Dave Franco was in this,
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but if I lay out to you part of this
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plot point there's the whole idea, and they make fun
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of this. It's kind of like Avatar, where they make
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the robots and they're allowed to upload their consciousness into
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these robot animals so they can infiltrate and learn their society.
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whole system, there's this whole like way that there's kings
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of reptiles, kings of amphibians, kings of like the I
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don't know what the butterfly one was. I guess it
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was all bugs. And there was just this scene where,
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like I said, this is whenever they killed the mom.
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of these characters. And I really like how this world
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was structured as well. And I love this like random
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backstory from another character I really loved, named King George. Usually,
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I think in a less our, lesser Pixar movie, this
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would have been like the surprise villain somehow, but it's not,
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and so it ends up happening is whenever the caterpillar's
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mom dies, he uploads his consciousness into a man, and
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like the robot man, which is like the mayor, it
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was the antagonist's not really the villain just the antagonist
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of the story, and he's played by Dave Franco, and
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Dave Franco is giving just this really unhinged character voice
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performance that I thought was really impressive and just unbelievably funny,
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and there's just like all these like side jokes in
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the background. One of the things that I guess this
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particular director does is there's so many asides where a
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scene will almost be over, but there's a joke that
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I never got tired of where somebody will say something
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in the background and then the scene will be over.
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The movie even ends this way. It cuts to black
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and it's like on this heartwarming moment and then it
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ends with like potato being said, and then it's over over.
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I know that that pitch kind of sounds like, oh,
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it's one of those guys who like does random for
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the sense of humor of it. But I do think
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that the jokes are well written and it's not just like, oh,
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let's just say something random for the sake of being
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random and weird. I think that there actually is just
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a genuine, like kind of heart to this as well.
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also unbelievably clever in its emotional storytelling. I found myself
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honestly more attached to these characters than I thought I
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was going to be. This movie is not super long
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or anything. It's like an hour forty five, but it
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felt the closest I think Pixar has gotten to Ghibli
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outside of Luca. I think that Pixar I know that
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so they can distribute it throughout the US. But this
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felt the most like kind of inspired, probably by Pompoco
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in the sense that this just felt very, very inspired
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in terms of the storytelling, like that like Kiki's Delivery Service,
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for example, that's a really great movie with its own
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internal logic, its own internal rules, and we're kind of
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just privy to it, right We're there to experience that.
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like you're not allowed here, This isn't how this works,
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which I found an inversion typically of like US American storytelling.
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is not She's accepted right away. She's like looking for
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a different beaver. But then the whole thing how it
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works is she finds this guy that is almost eaten
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already and then they're like the bear. This joke is
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so funny. The bear like drops the beaver and is like,
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She's like, wait, you can't be doing that, and we
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gotta eat. And then she's like wait, he's like what,
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you can eat me now, and the bear is just like, no,
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it's weird. Now, I can't do it. And that joke
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is so funny. There's just like this really dead beat
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sense of humor that all of these animals have with
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each other in it, and I really like how they
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all interact and it's that And obviously this movie is
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about deforestation and about the dangers of that, but I
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also really liked that it wasn't just like you know
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that one. This is is such a deep cut and
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like Josh Hutcherson, where like an owl is in danger
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in this movie even a long time ago, but like
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that where it's about like, oh, the human nature and
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is harming the environment and all of that. But there's
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some stuff in this movie where they kind of clarify
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that they're like, I mean, we can work on it together.
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that some people would argue against, right, like you can't
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just see eye to eye on every single issue. But
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I really liked that as an overall message just for
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younger kids in this case. But what I really liked
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about why that was the message in the first place
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wasn't just because Mabel was this like activist and that
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was it. She specifically had a tie to that with
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this montage that's set up at the beginning about her
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bonding over this place with their grandma. And this is
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another one of those things that really reminded me of
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Ghibli quite a bit. It was just about like sitting
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in nature for a little while and just calming yourself,
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feeling that silence and really understanding and feeling the world
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around you. It's hard to be upset whenever there's quiet
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all around you, and I thought that was really just
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kind of beautiful to like sort of stop and take
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everything in. And I really like also that the ending
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seemed to kind of have not a compromise really, that
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she's not able to access communication with King George again,
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but they still have that long lasting friendship even though
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they're not able to understand each other anymore. And I
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thought that that was an interesting, uncompromising bit of storytelling
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for this specific type of animated movie. Usually would have
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been like, oh, but you can still have the earpiece
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and you can still talk and all that, or you
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can at least have the robots so you can visit,
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but they don't do that. And I really really like
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that about it. And honestly, I really like the themes
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overall of this about really the things that we latch
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onto in terms of memory and why they're held dear
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to us. And I really found that kind of thematically
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very interesting. And it felt just so much like it
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could have just been deforestation and that was it, but
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there was more to it than just that. It was
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about a lot of different things, to be honest with you,
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and I think that might have been why I found
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it set itself, apart from maybe some of the more
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recent other Pixar stuff, was just because I felt like
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it was ambitious and weird and offbeat, off kilter, literally
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everything you could say about this. There is a scene
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in this in which they're trying to get The scene
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is unbelievably well done, where they're trying to get the
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mayor to cooperate with them and he thinks he's in
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a dream, and then out of nowhere there is like
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these birds lift up a shark out and put it
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onto the highway, and then it becomes this chase scene
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while this shark is up in the sky chasing this car. Right,
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it's absurd, it's ridiculous, but it's unbelievably funny and works
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within the logic of the rules of what we were
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shown in the first place, which is really funny to
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think about. But I just that this movie, on a
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lot of different levels, was so impressive. Obviously animation, obviously
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thematically because Picks are so great at that, but I
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really latched onto the characters in this case. I think
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that Pixar's make or break typically is their characters, right.
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and they're still incredible, something like let's say Cars two.
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is because the characters are there, but some of them
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revert back to how they were in the first one,
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and that's just not what I want to see. I
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don't want to see some of the characters go through
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here I thought there was just this clear line of
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them being able to grow over the course of time,
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which I really really liked. And I also liked that
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it didn't follow the typical animated beats of a story
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that honestly they sometimes follow. Like one of them would
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also be the third act breakup thing, which they do
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kind of do, but we don't ever hear from King
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George's perspective on that, which, to be honest with you,
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really liked. I really liked the sort of like commitment
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to not showing that verbally again, just the visual representation
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of it. So once he finally like gets back and
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he puts the paw on her, I thought that was beautiful.
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I thought that that was gorgeous. And I thought that
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this movie, for all of it's like wanting to make
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your laugh out loud, which it's immensely successful at. I
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also get like crying over a movie like this. I
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felt like I got emotional towards the end of it
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just because of how well it works, And to be
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honest with you, I can't. I don't know what I
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would compare this to in terms of Pixar's output lately,
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but I will say it's one of the ones that
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just it took me so by surprise, like just unbelievably
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by surprise. And I loved it. I loved this movie
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so much. I think it's my first, like maybe not
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my first, but it's definitely one of my first. See
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it immediately, one of them of the year. It was impressive.
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It was unbelievably funny. I'm so so happy I got
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to see it. The animation is stellar. The thematically what
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it's about is stellar. And I don't know if they're
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gonna make another one of these. I'm not trying to
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focus on that right now, but I see another one, Yeah,
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absolutely for sure. But I'm gonna go ahead and give
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this a score. This might be my first one of
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the year. I'll give it a five out of five.
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I just adored this. It reminded me so much of
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Ghibli stuff, which might be part of the influence of it.
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Like I said, Pompoco Kiki's delivery service to an extent.
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And yeah, guys, what did you think of Hoppers? Did
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you love it? Did you hate it or are you
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somewhere between? On it? I saw that it was like
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ninety something percent of Ron Tomatos deserved. I really do
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think it's that good. And also, this is a song
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at the end is great. I was surprised that she
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did new music for it, but that song was really
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good as well. I love Sizzy. Thank you guys so
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much for listening and watching. And ah man uh, stay
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tuned because if you've seen enough of the hoodies I
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wear around here on this channel, then you will know
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how excited I am about this. Season two of One Piece,
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the live action show, will be coming out this week.
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Stay tuned for a review of that. I am beyond excited.
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I cannot wait. Thank you guys so much for listening
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and watching. Stay tuned for that, and I'll see you
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next time.
