The Reel Rejects - CREATURE COMMANDOS 1x04 Breakdown & Review |

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Starting point is 00:01:31 best episode to me so far pretty comfortably that was really something special that was episode four creature commandos an episode with highs of comedy and you know misplaced faith in the in the Frankenstein scene in the insanity

Starting point is 00:01:54 of the first canon appearance of Superman Batman oh yeah yeah we gotta go back to those frames and then the four years in the making weasel origin that was a lot i've i've always i never even questioned if that i would be curious if you ever interviewed if you ever interview james gunn please ask if that has always been a part of his backstory plan i have some context already because sean gunn said to me when i did an interview at a con that they've always known the beginning middle and end of Weasel story.

Starting point is 00:02:31 Really? Oh, okay. So that to me. Okay, so it always has been. That makes it more impressive to me then. Because, yeah, in the suicide squad, he doesn't even kill anyone. He gets just wiped out right away. And like the joke is he drowns and he's in the post credit seat.

Starting point is 00:02:45 Yeah, yeah. So it's part of the funniness of it. And I don't think they would waste. It feels very intentional like that you have a character to have an importance later. Right. Oh, wow. That was wild. I mean, that's just the ending moment, too.

Starting point is 00:02:57 Okay, so... Let's do the fun part first. We'll do the fun part first. Yeah, audience. Let's see here. Okay, so we got... Green arrow on the left. These is just what...

Starting point is 00:03:08 Yeah, yeah, okay. Green arrow on the... Where? You see green arrow? On the left, the blonde hair on the green? That's for sure, green arrow to you? To me, it's a green arrow. Okay, maybe it's just a...

Starting point is 00:03:17 All right. It's, I mean, I'm doing the best. The Trinity is there, and Superman's hung on a... This is such a Zach Snyder show. It's so... Well, Superman's always been, like, you know, a figure of religious context. But to do this, like, so early. It's like such a Zach Snyder pool.

Starting point is 00:03:30 That's funny. Batman, it looks like Supergirl in the left over the tiara. I think that's Robin on the right. Far right, Teen Titans Robin. I cannot place, obviously, Hawk Girl with the wings. Who's in between them? Yeah, I can't place that, but Hawk Girl's wearing her outfit she's got in the movie canonically, and we've seen some images of that outfit.

Starting point is 00:03:53 Cool. Which I think is going to be like an Amazon kind of thing, like a Jeff Bezos sponsored superhero. We've got Vigilante. A vigilante right there. Peace. We got Peacemaker there. This is Batman.

Starting point is 00:04:04 This is Batman shot. Batman shot. And for all the people that want the blue cape, it cannot tell if that's blue or black because of the lighting. And we got obviously Superman with the new S. Canonically, the David Corn Sweat, Superman, Firestorm behind. Cannot tell the third body there.

Starting point is 00:04:21 And then, or the fourth body there. But seeing that S, Seeing the new S. That's the first time we see the new S. Fascinating. But, like, this was the biggest episode. So I think it does kind of fit the import of this episode of the show. I mean, the theme of this is perception versus reality of this particular episode.

Starting point is 00:04:43 Mm-hmm. And there's my commissary. Oh, hey. There's my depth. Yeah, the perception of Frankenstein, how he reads Frank Gila, for a girl's perception of her, Frank Giller's perception of the princess, perception of a weasel, Sarah's perception, he's got points. Greg's got points.

Starting point is 00:04:56 There's his... I've exuded intelligence now. Founded real rejects. Waited all this time. Just drop that nugget. So that sequence was crazy. We did that first for you lovelies because it's going to be...

Starting point is 00:05:11 I can see the YouTube thumbnails now. Yeah, Superman hung and Batman in the circles. That's going to be all the thumbnail. Please explain this. Time in the ending, but it's going to get please explained. I really loved that the... comedy of what we've liked about Frankenstein was used so

Starting point is 00:05:30 playfully but there was still a malice in it I really like that he would be making a joke and his same exact face it's a literal Frankenstein he is inherently terrifying but then they'd animate it slightly smirking or different and it would be suddenly a scary face like that is such incredible animation

Starting point is 00:05:46 that like a twinge of emotion would change the context of a line delivery Linda Cardellini as a Linda Cardellini I love Linda Cardalini That's cool. Stephanie Beatrice was in this. By old Davis, obviously, Shungan.

Starting point is 00:06:00 Oh, that's cool. Steve Agu Kyi had the name right. Con Gorilla was who it was. Jason Kinnapis. It's congerilla. Linda Cardalini, by the way. Great and Scooby-Doo. Oh, is she now?

Starting point is 00:06:12 Audience, did we get them to watch Scooby-Doo? Linda Cardalini's great in it. Economos, that's his fucking kid. I couldn't pull his name. Yeah, Steve Agie. Steve Agie, I believe. Yeah. I do not see a guerrilla Grod credit, but I don't think he spoke.

Starting point is 00:06:29 But he didn't speak. No, Congarillo is the guy in prison. Congrella bit it. Yeah. Congarilla is not his popular gorilla grot. I never thought I'd see a Congarilla credit. I forgot about Congarilla. So, yeah, I really loved the scene.

Starting point is 00:06:40 I mean, Frank Grillo and his dynamic with David Harbor. I wonder, that was so good and so well-paced. I wonder if they shot that in the booth together. Like, the pacing on that was amazing. Yeah. Because 90% of the time you don't shoot your- That's been one of my potential, like, qualms in certain scenes is, oh, or sometimes it does feel like they recorded separately.

Starting point is 00:07:02 And that's, you have to a lot of the time. A lot of times you have to. And maybe we have an ear for it because we're aware of how that goes. And maybe other people wouldn't really notice. But I have noticed at times. And I become a little bit aware of like this doesn't sound like they're in the same booth in the way the rhythm and the reading's going. It sounds like talking and talking.

Starting point is 00:07:18 That might have been why that was probably like the best back and forth out of any of the episodes. Man, that was great. Because it really did sound like they were in the same booth. Just talking. I do really like the Rick Flagg Sr. portrayal of Frank Grohl, like some stuff. We said in the reaction of just how he lives in a world. He's like, whereas Rick Flagg, Jr. was still kind of new to a lot of this. Rick Flagg, seniors, you know, he's a senior citizen.

Starting point is 00:07:41 He's seen it all. He's been around forever. How perfect is Frank Rillo for that? He's great. He's kind of like apathetic to it all. Yeah. You know, and Frank Grillo, I think, is a perfect casting for, like, in the sort of meta way because

Starting point is 00:07:55 Frank Grohl never quite reached that like super a list side of Hollywood. Just in China. But he's a half. Yeah, but he has, but to a lot but a lot of people still really know who he is. Dude, it was Craig.

Starting point is 00:08:07 Ran around with the gym was the craziest things. I look over and there's a superhero. Yeah, no. It was so weird. He's one of those guys who's like, he's been a working actor forever and he's definitely, he's definitely famous. And he's so good at this.

Starting point is 00:08:18 And to be the, to be the senior, like if you got someone who was more, like more, A list, it probably wouldn't be as fitting, but there's something about his level of fame that is, and where he's been in entertainment, pop culture, action films especially, as like the perfect casting. And they kind of wasted him as Crockbones. So I love that in this moment, I just realized the first lead of the DCU is Frank Grillo.

Starting point is 00:08:42 Yeah, it's true. Canonically. And he's really good because I love how apathetic he is to all the weirdness. Yeah. And he has, which makes the world normal, which is what you need in the shared universe. He has such a genuine back and forth of everyone. And if you look at the leads of, like, of before, usually they are, like, kind of responding in a way of either they're apprehensive or they're aggressive towards the weird super meta-humans, monsters, whatever it may be. Why is, like, Killer Croc in the regular prison task force X, but he's not with...

Starting point is 00:09:15 This takes place after, so maybe they separated them after. That's right, because that Suicide Squad is not... Is the reason for... Well, no, because that's... That's why they separated the regular humans because that they said that was illegal to do. So this would take place after. So it still works. I'm just for some reason.

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Starting point is 00:11:02 Wow, it's like the best boss ever. So what are you waiting for? Price Fix, run your game. Thank you for sponsoring this video. Yeah, so anyway, I think he's great Frank Carillo, but David Harbor, man. Holy crap, dude. Absolutely annihilating it.

Starting point is 00:11:16 He's so funny. And you, the cool thing is, like, You know he can play this live action. And he's so perfect for the malicious and the comedic. Like, there's such a darkness. Like, he is the villain. I'm so glad that even in the scene where he's making jokes and you're endeared to him, you remember him stalking and, like, going after,

Starting point is 00:11:35 because they gave us that montage. And I see Harbor great for both. That's why he was such a good casting for Hellboy. The movie didn't work out. But, like, he is so right for this. Yeah, he's just hyper-sensitive. and that hypersensitivity can lead to be an overly affectionate in a sad or gleeful way

Starting point is 00:11:53 or a rageful monster that's what's so great about it it is so perfect at it the way his emotions just like slingshot from one to the next friend and the specific delivery the cadence and rhythm to his speech pattern I think is so strong the writing is great but without that delivery

Starting point is 00:12:14 it would not be the scene stealer he is Because as soon as you were right, as soon as he showed up, you were like, he's a scene still. I'm like, you're goddamn right. Every time I see him, I'm like, yes, more. And that doesn't mean the rest aren't amazing. It's just so incredible performance within the art. And the animation, I pointed out at that one fight, like, the amount of emotion conveyed in the faces while they're fighting. I'm so invested in these characters.

Starting point is 00:12:34 Like, that scene with Weasel, I was like emotional. And you know me, I don't really get like a motive with art often. No, not with art. I'm just broken inside. But that almost got me, man. That was crazy. Like, I was so affected, so traumatized. Like, that was...

Starting point is 00:12:49 Of course, John. John's a cry. John would have cried. John would have cried. John knows the offside's crying right now. John knows how to get the thumbnail image. He's like, this is my cue. Is this going to be a thumbnail image?

Starting point is 00:13:00 This is what I do. I'll do it for you, YouTube. We would just make fun of him because we're not as empathetic. No, I'm very jealous. This is me being jealous and picking out of the room. So, uh, citizens of rejection. This is called. one of us is emotionally mature

Starting point is 00:13:16 and it's not the men on camera right now Funching down is very low as we can go Look at you connecting to your emotions not here John But yeah that the scene with Weasel's origin was four years in the making And they kept harping on it In the beginning

Starting point is 00:13:31 And I should have again James Gunn does such a good job With the you're going to care And then I'm going to break you And they said it just enough times Every time Weasel got brought up They brought up the kid murder I should have known

Starting point is 00:13:42 That it would be the reveal that he didn't do it. And yet they did it just subtly enough. It's just, it's so funny because, but my first brain was like, oh, what are they like rewriting his backstory

Starting point is 00:13:55 to make him more sensitive because now he's a protagonist. And then I found myself flashing, because again, like the Suicide, James Gunn's Suicide Squad is probably my favorite of the DC era.

Starting point is 00:14:05 Post-Nolan era. Yeah. Post-Nolan, yeah. And I'm like, wait, no, it actually totally, like, no, it actually fits it better. It's not some re-visionist thing.

Starting point is 00:14:16 Yeah, and to be the, and we said during the reaction to be the Frankenstein's monster story of the one who just wants connection and love and literally is saving people amidst the fire. I'm like, this is the Frankenstein monster story, but with Weasel instead, just the misunder. And they even call him like a werewolf. Like he's the misunderstood universal monster here. Yeah. While you got like the writer over a half being a completely different version of themselves. Yeah, I think it's really funny. This is a thousand percent of my favorite episode.

Starting point is 00:14:46 This was like, this, like, I was really enjoying the show, but this took it to a whole new level for me of love. Like, this reached like, oh, this is the love level I have for it. This also, and I think in that same vein, I am seeing that for the DCU because of this episode, because every person that has been trying to find things to pick apart with Superman that is not out yet has been like, oh, there's so many people in it. There's everybody's cast, blah, blah, blah. this show that was 30 minutes long just gave us all of those heroes

Starting point is 00:15:16 and I didn't go I feel cheap and it's a world they exist in the world and I think that that's what the DCU is going to be we're going to meet Superman and there's already going to be Landrin Corps there's already going to be these characters and just like this it enhances the world

Starting point is 00:15:30 you don't need to go like cut to them give them a whole movie you can and I want those movies when it works with the story but this didn't make me less excited for Superman I'm now more excited because he's established Yeah, and I like the stakes they set up, too, as well, with Rick Flag and the princess. Yeah. Like, that's smart.

Starting point is 00:15:48 And I love, like, the-b! You'll love her! I love the meta-commentary. The flick. He's basically breaking down, like, what's screenwriting is. Yeah. I'm like, yes, we got the big flop, but what's really at stake is the love. I like, I love it.

Starting point is 00:16:02 It's so funny. This is such a good show. Yeah. I'm really, really in. Yeah, this was the emotion. Like, because the other side of James Gun is a very emotional. side of James Gunn. I really love this side of him speaks a lot

Starting point is 00:16:15 to me more than like his irreverence side honestly. I think the irreverence makes this palatable so you get weakened enough to actually be open to it. Yeah, but I love when he gets like emotional. And I don't mean palatable as in like emotion isn't palatable. I mean it's like a Trojan horse where like I usually have reserves up and I have a hard time emoting

Starting point is 00:16:30 but all the irreverence make my like it weakens the walls so that when there's a scene like weasel I'm like oh God. Like I'm so much more available to emotion. That was an amazing episode. I really love this one a lot. I'm like, this got me so excited for like more episodes. Yeah. Well, next week, we'll be back with episode five. We are past the halfway point. It's a seven episode series. This was episode four. What an episode it was. Thank you for watching it with us. Let us know in the

Starting point is 00:16:54 comments below what you thought of that incredible sequence. I was able to name like 80%. If there's any names I missed, let me know if there was anyone I missed. I think I called all the ones you could actually make out. Teen Titans being introduced right alongside the Justice League is just dope. And then vigilante and Peacemaker in there's crazy. But let me. us know in the comments below if there's anyone i miss leave a like in this video if you don't mind and if you're not subscribed what are you doing you're you made it 30 minutes into a commentary why aren't you subscribe you're gonna subscribe you got subscribe yeah cool that's called feral just walks by in live action because yeah i also i interpret the live action is like when

Starting point is 00:17:33 things are animated in our world they look different when they're live action in their world because the zacephron or phone might have been like an animated zacephron and the and the animated movie they were watching. I'm seeing it as an inversion. Like, we're watching an animated thing. Maybe why would she have an animated Zach Efron on her phone? I have Robert Paddington is my phone background. Robert Pattinson is Paddington.

Starting point is 00:17:55 Why does anyone have anything? I mean, sure. We're watching an animation. Very deep. Animation watching a live action. You're very intelligent. Guys. You read comics.

Starting point is 00:18:07 Profound. We'll see you next week. I'm

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