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Starting point is 00:02:01 Dispicable we Listen, if you made it to this point in the video If you could leave a like That would be wicked sick That would be a heroic act And two, if you You know, want to be notified Whenever one of these

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Starting point is 00:03:52 chopping these highlights together. This, I mean, Mary Hidalgo, that's a name I've seen a lot times. Anyway, you know, especially with a movie has high profile as despicable me. It's got to be a tricky scenario getting it past the copyright gods. So thanks to Prepper, chopping all this together. Roxanne. Johnald. Despicable me. Yeah. How are we feeling? Man, that movie was so well written. Surprisingly. There's a lot of other great things about it, but I kind of thought because of how much this is ingrained in cultural zeitgeist phenomenon, whatever.

Starting point is 00:04:30 I was like, oh yeah, this is for sure for the kids and it's going to be a very simple story, whatever it is. I had no idea what that story was. It was so beautiful. And it gets better and better as the movie goes on. They take it really seriously. And like, you know, I was kind of concerned when I'm like, oh my God, this is an orphanage story

Starting point is 00:04:52 and are they going to be able to tackle the story of love and trust and family but they did and you know it's like kind of it felt like the Grinch it felt like it just had so much heart

Starting point is 00:05:08 I love these three little girls I really like the minions I like Grew so much so much yes for me I just I really loved this how about you it's a yes for you dog

Starting point is 00:05:20 it's a yes for me dog hold on hold on hold on We got post. No. All right, cool. We're good. Yeah, I had a lot of fun, man. Like, as good as you remembered.

Starting point is 00:05:30 I mean, I barely, like, I remembered it being a lot of fun. I remember, you know, like, these movies get kind of, um, I don't know. I feel like off because this has become like such a huge franchise now and it's like half of Universal Studios, at least in Hollywood, uh, you know, there's super silly fun land and there's, you know, Dispicable Me rides and stuff like that. the thing that struck me this time because yeah like so much of this was not at all fresh in my mind so this was a pretty new viewing experience and

Starting point is 00:06:02 yeah this I was surprised by how much I appreciated the balance between you know the fun and the comedy and the heart because you know I feel like there's a certain amount of heart in a family movie like this that is like requisite so like even attempts to do that don't always like hit me quite, you know, even if I appreciate them or whatever. And I said at the top, you know, like, I like a Pixar experience, certainly something that's like aiming to be a little bit more

Starting point is 00:06:31 profound or a little bit more sort of for everybody in the family, whether you're a kid or an adult, you know, you can, you know, I like a quadrant film. Kind of, but like with that extra added, like thoughtfulness, it's a little bit more of a film than it is like a, you know, goofy family movie or something like that. But same time, I do appreciate the tradition of like Madcap cartoons and stuff like that you know i grew up with looney tunes and other things uh and sponge bob and all that other you know generations worth of like you know cartoon comedy right so part of what i think is fun is you know for so much of my animated viewing history it was things that were a bit more thoughtful like a pixar that i would be gravitated towards and so something like this is fun because i'm like

Starting point is 00:07:15 this scratches the edge for me of the again classic sort of cartoon comedy where there are a lot of like weird little visual sight gags that are fun and clever uh you know just things held in funny mannerisms and slapstick and stuff like that like i like that stuff and i thought this movie had a fun grip on that but also i uh i didn't realize how kind of sneakily nicely for my taste at least they would weave the theme in right because yeah like grew grew being this guy who's like yeah a villain he's a bit of an underdog because he's not like the top villain he's being out you know

Starting point is 00:07:56 his having his thunder stolen and encroached upon by vector and you get the sense that just generally as far as the villain world goes he's probably not a very respected guy despite whatever achievements he's got so like that's already a kind of respect on his

Starting point is 00:08:12 name see that's that's part of it like he does ultimately like pull off the ultimate he gains you know some of that he proves it to himself but uh i like the yeah just i like the outset of having like underdog this guy's a villain he's trying to do like the ultimate heist and then within that he builds this little family of orphans and and you know this little found family happens and like that's a really charming idea

Starting point is 00:08:38 but yeah what struck me watching this was like oh wow they put surprisingly it's like it doesn't spend a lot of extra time being dramatic like it's still very much breezes by as like a fun madcap family comedy but yeah him sort of coming full circle with the bedtime routine with the book with the kissing at the night and all that yeah it's like the journey of him becoming a parent helping him to confront and heal the trauma left by you know his cold upbringing and his like you know constant inadequacy like watching that be healed and then also having this villain this foil for him who is also, you know, trying to gain the love and approval of their parent. Like, you know, it's not something that you necessarily have to pick up on to enjoy what this is.

Starting point is 00:09:29 But as an adult watching this, this satisfied for me the inner child fun of kooky animated comedy, but also as an adult, I was like, oh, this is actually like very sweet in a way that feels less cloying and like an afterthought than it sometimes can. Like I got misty-eyed in a way I was not expecting whilst watching this. Yeah, I agree with that. He also got his mom's approval when he stopped seeking his mom's approval. Before you move on from the screen that we were just currently on for a second, just so that I'm a little behind the scenes for me, why are my levels not moving?

Starting point is 00:10:06 Is that bad? They are. Oh, okay. All right. You'll have to show me how that works later. You have so many spikes. I have no spikes. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:10:18 Maybe it's, maybe I'm, maybe I'm projecting too loud. As long as you say that it's okay, then it's okay. No, no, we're fine. Okay. You're with the levels are fine. Sorry, guys. I'm still a minion. This is my grew and I'm a minion.

Starting point is 00:10:32 So good. Yeah, I think it was really, really, the mom is not a good mother, but it is interesting that, like, we all tried. Everybody to a certain extent wants their parents to respect and love them. And, like, you try really hard. And it is cool that finally. She's just like, you're probably a better parent than I am. And it's like, that's the one thing he tried not to do for her. He just did that.

Starting point is 00:10:53 So that was kind of cool. Yeah. And the kids being as they are is also kind of a nice thing because, you know, the youngest one is. She's just loving full of love. Yeah. Yeah. And so like it's a perfect, like he's got kind of a foil in the oldest one. And, you know, the middle one's a wild card.

Starting point is 00:11:11 And then, you know, you have the youngest one who is like, I think the combination of all three of their personalities creates this nice. foil for him that also like makes it possible for that little like ray of love to to get in and start growing you know and yeah like that that part of it was like you can see when it's starting to form and you're like I see what you're doing but at the same time yeah I thought this was like there was a lot more gusto and a lot more like you know fun inspiration to this than I was initially yeah anticipating I was certainly not expecting to like you it the way that I liked it. Yeah, because again, these movies have become

Starting point is 00:11:51 such a thing to point to when you're like, ah, you know, these juggernaut, you know, big products and there's tons and tons of merch. And there's a conversation to have around that. And certainly, like, I did notice early on, you know, the branding, the universal synergy, the Lorax shirt on and, you know, there are other references. We literally see the peacock.

Starting point is 00:12:12 Yeah, the peacock is literally on his big monitor thing. You know, so there's some stuff. in here that that you know is a little bit like and uh but even that like in context is like fun totally like as much as you know outside the movie you're sort of like oh god cross branding it's still like fun to clock in the moment and and yeah so i thought that that it wasn't too over the top where i was like oh this is annoying and just promotion for universal it felt like oh they're self-aware enough and it's goofy yeah and it's like and it's in places where it's like it's not the they're not like putting it in your face necessarily.

Starting point is 00:12:50 It's like it's a little graphic on her shirt that you could miss if you're not really paying that close attention. Or yeah, the peacock is like never made a big deal out of. They're not like, look at this product placement. So like, you know, it reads as cheeky rather than like that scene in Pinocchio where they cut to all the clocks and they're all like, oh, the Pinocchio that Robert Zemeckis made a few years ago.

Starting point is 00:13:12 There's a see. There's a cuckoo clock scene where they cut to just a bunch of clocks that are all branded Disney things. Wild. And they're all from like, there's a Roger Rabbit. Like, there's so many and you're like, why would Geppetto have all these? Like a big Roger Rabbit fan. I am a big, right.

Starting point is 00:13:30 Yeah, well, you know, Jepetto's got good taste. I am a big Roger Rabbit fan too. I am as well. But that's one I haven't watched a while. Did he direct that? Yeah. What? How did I not know that?

Starting point is 00:13:44 That's crazy. I grew up with that movie and I haven't watched it in like, Check me, but I'm 90% sure. In a century. Let me just double check my own. That's one I would definitely love to have, you know, a rewatch on with fresh eyes. It's such a great one. It's so good.

Starting point is 00:13:59 And I will say, like, you know, for as much as, again, people roll their eyes about the minions. Like, the minions are fun and charming to watch. Damn, okay. All right, Robbie Z. I see you. But, yeah, you know, the minions become mascots. They've overtaken, you know, Universal Studios theme parks and stuff. But, you know, they are their little, you know, voices and their, you know, slightly unique looks and personalities and their mixture of, like, gibberish random words, you know.

Starting point is 00:14:32 Like, it's the charm works on me. I see why this is as huge as it is. And I like the voice performances, too. I thought everybody. I do too. Especially Steve Corral deserve a lot of credit for this. Really great one. Yeah, because I think Two DreamWorks for a while made a name on.

Starting point is 00:14:47 sort of like oh man part of our thing with each animated movie is like we're getting this huge cast of celebrities instead of like traditional voice actors and you know there's still a conversation to have about that but i like i like that this ensemble is they're all doing voices no one's just showing up and doing their own voice i guess which is nice yeah but we got a few questions here let's jump in uh let's start with j rushden Jay, thank you for chiming in, Jay asked question. Do you guys feel sorry for the minions in the film? Roxanne.

Starting point is 00:15:25 I kind of did it first because I was like, oh, they are slaves. Did they get paid? They are indentured servants. They are indentured servants. They have to do whatever. But then like they kind of, now ignore what I just said. It kind of seemed happy about it to all be together. And like, I don't really know how this all came to be.

Starting point is 00:15:45 and then like he does actually treat them with respect and love and kindness and they do want to help him so there does seem to be like a respect and admiration on both ends so I did feel bad for the first part and then I was just like I don't know maybe I should look more at them like their pets than like their people and then it's okay like umpalumpas or something I don't know like yeah but they're people are the employees or they pets a little bit of both do you feel bad I mean at times sure I you know, because he's mean to them at the beginning. Shot one of them into space. He shot one into space. A lot of them get like blown up and, you know, Kevin gets shrunk for a while. Although again, I got a big kick out of that.

Starting point is 00:16:26 But, uh, you know, selectively. I feel like a lot of people involved with Gru kind of understand like, okay, this guy like, he's got a good heart, even though he wants to be a jury.

Starting point is 00:16:38 Like there's, I get, I get the sense. There's a reason that Vector is all, we, he could have a legion of assistance as well. But, seems like he's all alone.

Starting point is 00:16:46 Whereas Gru, he has these little minions around. And it seems like they know that he's not that bad a guy, even though he's trying to the villain game. Totally. So, yeah, somewhat, but not terribly. I think I felt as sorry as they wanted me to feel, Jay. But how did you guys feel? Let us know.

Starting point is 00:17:08 Take it. Maurice Gray Jr., in your opinion, it was Vector more threatening as villain or more annoying? What was Vector's dad's name? Oh, golly. He was Mr. Whatever his name was, to me, he was the more threatening villain. Yes.

Starting point is 00:17:27 Devil horns for hair. And he was a jerk and mean to his son too. A lot of this was generational trauma. Whatever you're looking for his name right now, he was mean. Yeah, Mr. Perkins. Mr. Perkins. I don't remember. Jerkins.

Starting point is 00:17:47 Yeah, I don't even remember that being his name. He was the bigger villain to me. Vector was more annoying. I wasn't, like, really threatened by him as much as I was like, oh, my God, you are the worst. I was, yeah, I was like mildly, before we get to know him, he seems maybe a little more threatening. Once you get to know him, he's, yeah, just annoying. Well, he got more annoying, the more I learned. about him. Not an annoying

Starting point is 00:18:16 and like I want to turn off the movie because I'm annoyed but just like on purpose annoying. Yeah, yeah yeah. Like you're an annoying character more than you are threatening. Yeah, the further it got. The less I knew about him, the more threatening he was. For sure. But good question though. Rejignation

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Starting point is 00:20:37 Subscribe so you do not miss one. That's DC Studio Show. case wherever you get your podcast. Jaden Rhodes. I just rewatched this and thank you for chiming in for the first time in a long time just a few days ago so it's really fresh in my brain

Starting point is 00:20:52 but if y'all were a villain and you had to make a plan like grew, what would y'all steal? Roxanne more useful. Yeah, I mean, stealing the moon in these physics would do a lot of harm. Like I feel like

Starting point is 00:21:08 drug medication that Big Pharma is making very expensive. You would be a Robin Hood villain. Definitely. You would break it in, stealing the pills or the life-saving treatments and then just distributing them across the glob. Something like that, right? Like, you've got to use your power for good.

Starting point is 00:21:25 What do I want the moon for? But then you're a hero. You're not a villain anymore. But it depends on his perspective. To Big Pharma's perspective, I'm a villain. That's fair. See, okay. And how they take it back.

Starting point is 00:21:37 Oh, look at that. Look at that. How about you? Me? What would I steal if I was the villain? Steal the Vegas sphere, maybe. That'd be cool because I want to go to that. Then I can bring it home and I'll just watch everything in a sphere.

Starting point is 00:21:56 Can I be invited or? You're going to hang out with me. I won't tell me where it is. Dude, I mean, like this is so big inside, you could probably just live there and I wouldn't even know. We start filming reactions from in there. The reactions are in the dome would be incredible. You imagine? I'll steal the Cinerama dome too. Oh my God.

Starting point is 00:22:14 All the domes. Bring them to me. Cody Enos. Thank you, Cody. What do you own that's so fluffy, you're going to die? Oh, my God. You tell them and I'll go get it. Wait, I don't know what you're going to get. You talk to the people and I'm going to get some fluffy.

Starting point is 00:22:31 I just want to predict what you're grabbing right now. My dad's little dog is a Maltese and it's a little fluff or noter. I own some fuzzy pillows that are super fluffy. I like peanut butter and fluff. So that's fluffy. I also think that a cloud could be considered owned by all. What is this? What are you looking at?

Starting point is 00:23:03 My super fluffy ghost. I might have fluffier stuff, but this is a pretty fluffy. That you just drive around with that? Yeah. Why? Because this is my buddy. And he's super fluffy. And we went to Knott's Scary Farm this past year.

Starting point is 00:23:24 My homies, Mallory, Aaron, and Alexi and Andrew. And, yeah, played a game, much like the one in the film. Didn't have to destroy the booth, though. I like that you use this as an opportunity. for show and doubt. Dude. I appreciate that. Hell yeah.

Starting point is 00:23:42 I also, I should have grabbed it. I also have a, it's not as fluffy as this though. I have a zombie sushi too. Okay. You got any stuff as fluffy? I told them. Oh, okay, cool.

Starting point is 00:23:53 Excellent. Who do you think I was talking to? You'll have to watch the reaction. I would also steal the T-Rex from on top of the Ripley's, believe it or not, museum. That's cool. Dude, there's so many cool things you could steal. Yeah, I was thinking about the Roxy sign on sunset.

Starting point is 00:24:08 Dude, that would be safe. I steal a Hollywood sign. Yeah, that'd be cool. Dude, I'll steal the freaking Griffith Observatory. Another dome. You're all about... I'm stealing L.A. landmarks. John likes to get that dome.

Starting point is 00:24:21 I like... Do I like to get a literal dome? Put that in your bio. I'm going to roam, find Brunelleschi's dome and steal that dome. Everyone's like, you like what? I like dome. I'm going to steal the super dome. After nicknaming himself.

Starting point is 00:24:40 BJ. I'm going to steal a Vendome. Big dome guy. All right. Anyway. I want to steal something related to like, I don't know, something horror movie related, but I'm not sure what it would be. I'll steal the city of Salem.

Starting point is 00:24:58 Anyway. Give us ideas in the comments. Yeah, Carebear. Hello, John and Roxy. Hi to you. How's it going? You're both so fluffy. Thank you.

Starting point is 00:25:08 I appreciate that. The minions follow a long tradition of movie sidekicks who are very vocal but remain incomprehensible from Disney's many critter companions to R2D2 to Kenny from South Park. There exists an array of unique characters who never, you bastard, who never form a proper word. This is a good observation. Question. Who is your favorite unintelligible character in movies or TV? My vote is Beaker from the Muppets. That's a great one.

Starting point is 00:25:37 Ooh. Ooh, that's hard. I care. I would need so much longer to answer this question. Right now, I think Grogu's a really popular one for good reason. It wouldn't be my all-time favorite. Does Gizmo talk? Gizmo says words sometimes.

Starting point is 00:25:58 Tigger speaks. Yeah, Tigger totally's about. What are you talking about? Yeah, Mickey, like, no, this is weird. T.I. Double Gert. That spells Tigger. He's got whole catchphrases that are verbal.

Starting point is 00:26:13 Oh. These ones are pretty cute. Yeah. I feel like we're not well equipped to answer this question right now. What website are you on now? I am on TVTropes.com. This is the kind of question.

Starting point is 00:26:33 Yeah, that cooks my brain because I'm like I would Like I know I will get the right answer in my brain Uh Why isn't there a movie section here? That's so, so weird Nonverbal characters in movies

Starting point is 00:26:52 But it's going to be a Wally I got it, characters Oh, you like Gromit Speak oh Gromit, hell yeah Gromit I mean just never speaks but Oh what about Austin Powers mini me I mean, yeah, he just kind of makes noises and stuff.

Starting point is 00:27:11 Yeah, that counts. Really good. I mean, you know, Taz is a classic. Oh, but well, I mean, Boom Howard, does Boomhauer count? Like, you can make out some words. They kind of play fast and loose with like sometimes you understand Boomhauer and sometimes you don't. So maybe I would put Boomhauer in there if I can get a, you know, uh, uh, Art the Clown. Art the Clown, yeah, silent, but deadly.

Starting point is 00:27:37 Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Um Yeah Oh there was one on Powerpuff girls apparently Who? Grumber I don't remember this character Oh cousin It from the Adams family

Starting point is 00:27:51 Pretty iconic Oh yeah Donnie on the Wild Thornberry Dopee from Disney Sure Yeah Okay Still looking

Starting point is 00:28:03 I feel like we gave some good ones I mean we at least named Some choice ones subverbal characters silent bob good we like a silent bob here in this house

Starting point is 00:28:15 yeah we do let's see oh yeah Spike from Rugrats haven't watched road rats in a while oh yeah sorry

Starting point is 00:28:25 seeing this animated Donnie from wildthornberry is very fun but yeah leave us your favorite less than intelligible characters

Starting point is 00:28:34 and I will continue to rack my brain and be ashamed when the answer comes to me. But yeah, just quick on the out. It's freaking Elsie Fisher from eighth grade, which I still haven't seen. Wow, that movie's amazing. You've got to check it out. And was this even, was this before that or after that?

Starting point is 00:28:54 It must have been before that. Isn't she also in like a Texas chainsaw massacre movie? Yeah, this was way after. She did eighth grade way after this. So that's crazy because like I didn't realize that she was acting before eighth grade. I thought that was part of the thing was that she had ever done anything. She's so good. Oh, wow.

Starting point is 00:29:10 Heck yeah. Go Elsie Fisher. Obviously, Miranda Cosgrove. Dana Geier, who played Edith. I don't know as well. But yeah, we got a Jermaine. Dana Geier. What is she known for?

Starting point is 00:29:22 Oh, these movies. Oh, she's a casting assistant on Wicked. That's so great. What are we doing acting-wise? Okay. All the despicables, obviously. Okay. The ice cream truck.

Starting point is 00:29:35 I tried to review that ages ago, and it took me forever. It's a movie about, it's a horror thriller. Mary moves back to her suburban hometown to find the suburbs are scarier in more ways than she ever remembered. It's like an independent film. And wait, hold on. Was your boy in it? No, I don't think he was.

Starting point is 00:29:53 Who's my boy? Sean Whalen, but I don't think John Whelon was in it. I thought you meant Idriselba. Was Edrazzarva? Jeff Daniel Phillips is in it. He's good. But yes. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:30:04 There's a sinister ice cream truck. Oh, Lisa and Walters in it. That's wild. Dude, I remember liking the movie I'd have to go back and look at it again I felt so bad because yeah I was like an independent like someone sent us a copy to look to screen

Starting point is 00:30:15 and I was trying to do like a solo review and off the dome it was just I couldn't string the I've learned in recent times that if I'm ever doing a solo review I have to script it I cannot go off the dome it will take How do you script a...

Starting point is 00:30:28 I'll just sit down and write the line I'll kind of sit down and... You don't mean reaction, you just mean review I'm doing a solo movie review I will come up with the review kind of line by line. So that, yeah, because if I tried off the dome it, so much is going to go wrong.

Starting point is 00:30:44 But yeah, we had... Who did Mindy Kaling play? She was the tourist mom, probably at the top of the movie, at the pyramids, is my guess. Rob Hubel, improv, you know, extraordinary. As the anchorman, obviously, Jack McBrayer was the Carnival Barker

Starting point is 00:31:01 and Torres Dad. Danny McBride was in there. Jermaine was Jerry. The Minion. The only other credited minion besides co-director Chris Renode

Starting point is 00:31:12 which is pretty fun. Talk show host was Ken Jiang. A lot of fun additional names in here. Goodness gracious.

Starting point is 00:31:22 Well, you got any closing thoughts to tell the people before we... Really happy we're doing this. Hope that people

Starting point is 00:31:28 like it so we can watch more of these. I'm into the minions. I agree. I agree. Into the minions. Here's a little piece of trivia for you

Starting point is 00:31:36 before we head out. Directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud wrote a language for the gibberish Minions, wrote a language for the gibberish. The Minions speak throughout this movie. They called it Minionese. Each word the minions speak in this movie translates into an actual word. That's awesome. That's great. That's pretty sick.

Starting point is 00:31:58 And the number on Gruz Swan Lake ticket, 07-2069, is the date of the first moon landing. So that's pretty fun. That's very cool. And apparently to make Elsie Fisher laugh during recordings, her dad would sometimes sneak up behind her and tickle her. Very cute. And the bedtime story, Sleepy Kittens, was made into a tie-in board book that can be purchased,

Starting point is 00:32:22 although it does not include the pull-out brush that was featured in the movie because we live in a society that is messed up, and yes, Burrow does mean donkey. Oh, good. My duolingo's working. Sorry, yeah, because I get confused sometimes because there's like a donkey that's like almost a donkey, but they're stare. Anyway, guys, we did it. We did the thing. We'll see you hopefully for all the despicables and spinoffs and whatever else. Speak it in Mnionese to say goodbye.

The Reel Rejects - DESPICABLE ME REVIEW - FIRST TIME WATCHING THE MOVIE THAT STARTED THE MINIONS!

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