The Reel Rejects - FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH (2025) MOVIE REVIEW!!

Starting point is 00:00:00 This week's videos are sponsored by Pricepix, the easy-to-use fantasy sports betting app. More on them in just a bit. Corey, you ready? Let's do it. Let's do it. All right. Well, we'll wait for a post-credit scene just in case. Let's see here.

Starting point is 00:00:25 Prepper. I want to thank you for any now in these highlights. been consistently killing it and hey please leave a like on this video if you haven't done so already subscribe click the bell it's uh i think this is action adventure friday if we managed to get this up on time yeah kind of harder with these newer releases i'll go to you first though coy we got like 17 minutes to talk all right how are you feeling right now what are your honest opinions so i am i'm on record for saying i think that apple is far and away the most consistent TV streamer, but I do think this falls into the hit or miss category with

Starting point is 00:01:03 movies. I did enjoy it, but I definitely found it to be something I probably would have liked more when I was like a kid. Like I, especially the ending when, you know, the spinning around horror element that that made me go like, oh, this is the demo of like page master and like natural tread. When things are like just a little scarier than PG-13, like that little edge to it where you're a kid, you're like, oh, that's that scary scene in that adventure movie. So I think I was, uh, I was looking at it for like an older skewing film for a lot of it

Starting point is 00:01:35 because of Guy Ritchie. But then once I found like moments of rhythm, I did really like those for like a younger skewing audience. Um, so I had fun with it. I definitely feel like this is one of those great like, uh, TBS movies. Like, you know, a dad and a lazy boy, just have it on a Saturday kind of vibe. Um,

Starting point is 00:01:51 but it's not a dad movie. There's a difference. Like dad movies are like the fugitive. TBS movies that dads like are like this. Definitely had a lot of influences of stuff I enjoy. I think it was well cast other than it should have been ex-girlfriend, not brother-sister. But I really think everyone

Starting point is 00:02:07 like got the performance, got the energy of the film. Those things that we talked about throughout though, I do think we're missing like a sense of wonder, a sense of awe, especially being in that job. Some of the richeisms that I really enjoy I thought we'd get by the third act and we just didn't.

Starting point is 00:02:24 So that was a factor but, like, it's a good time. Like, I'd say, you know, it's a B-minus, like a, like a fun journey. I like it more than the uncharted movie. That's fair. You're not wrong. And it's more of an uncharted movie than the uncharted movie. Yeah, I'd say so.

Starting point is 00:02:39 It's also more of a video game movie than most video games movies. I mean, I like the uncharted. I actually, like, didn't mind the uncharted movie. I don't think it's like a terrible film. But I think I would kind of rank this over it, maybe. I don't know. I think they're pretty calm. For me, they're about the,

Starting point is 00:02:55 same but I think this cast is a little bit more charming I think there's more intentionality this doesn't mean to become like an incharted comparison it's just there's like definite influences from all the films we kept listening mommy like I think that there's uh elements when it comes to Natalie Portman and John Crosinski that feel like if Brendan Frazier and Rachel Weiss were brother and sister instead which would be an odd choice as it was here yeah it was a bit of an odd choice never really bought them as brother and sister except for like a couple of scenes where it was reflective and i do think like the first 30 to 40 minutes actually felt like a guy richy movie but as it went it stopped feeling like it

Starting point is 00:03:39 felt less and less like a guy richy movie as it actually kept going and but that's one of my things with guy rich that i like is there's there's some things that are very much like him you know especially when it comes to certain genres uh if there's some type of gangster element usually some type of like visual style with the action the slow motion at times pan flute yeah yeah yeah you get some of that in some of the action scene in the finale sure but i do think like it started losing um it's weird as the as like john krasinski and natalie portman i thought became more believable as the movie progressed in the last half the movie started dipping in like personality though in rhythm yeah the first half definitely had more of a rhythm yeah even though there was like

Starting point is 00:04:22 odd parts in that first half primarily the like sardonic type of snarky humor in it felt like contrived as if they had like an outline and they thought we need to like punch this up with personality and it felt manufactured and not genuine rhythm or genuine dialogue especially when it came to it wasn't really there with isa gonzalez and john krasinski um mainly there with natalie portman and John Cresensky, even though I felt like individually, they both did, like, a good job. Yeah, that's something about the casting. I think some of the relationships didn't line up, but that was more about, like, the interpersonal, but the actual individual roles, I think, worked for everybody.

Starting point is 00:05:03 Yeah, I like the opening action scene a lot when on the bike through Bangkok, the London chase when he jacks the painting, very Thomas Crown Affair. But you see, like, all that felt very much like, oh, this is it going to be like a fun time. It doesn't matter whatever shortcomings there are, as long as it just like, maintains this. Even when they got to the ship, I was obsessed with the look of the ship. Yeah, all the sets were incredible. And the locations were great. Sets, locations, excellent stuff. And I think that this does feel less. There's, there's like two types of voices when it comes to like a movie that reminds you of a bunch of other movies. One is it this feels like a rip-off

Starting point is 00:05:42 or derivative. And the other part is, no, I get the impression the filmmaker actually likes this genre and is pulling the tropes that he really likes and infusing that in here but it doesn't and i think that's more of what the intention is with this i think it's more the latter but it doesn't really feel like it leaps off the page past that you know it doesn't really feel like it ends up providing some type of uniqueness to the experience of what this genre is it's meant to just be like a passable fun time it's meant to be just a good time but again i think in that last half that fun time flare kind of fizzles out. What I found interesting is that Guy Ritchie

Starting point is 00:06:22 is a director who has such specific vision and this felt like in finding homage to other adventure movies that vision got lost. So like the more it became a no to this movie, a note of this movie and was less a chase through Thailand it kind of became more of a neutral

Starting point is 00:06:39 and that was the issue out of this Aladdin movie is Aladdin felt like it was not a Guy Ritchie film. And I remember specifically thinking like I'm bummed we lost Guy Ritchie for three years to make this because he could have made five tiny little films that was one better ones oh i didn't like in the disney live action pantheon oh yeah but that bars in hell but like oh man really for me i haven't seen a single one that i thought was worth existing oh that was the one of the few

Starting point is 00:07:02 that i thought i haven't seen lily the ones to those end up becoming like a comparison game though yeah like how was the last one versus this one not really like hey does this harzan's decent reject nation the basketball playoffs are heating up and if you want to turn your takes into something real you've got to check out price pick Our go-to in the Daily Fantasy Sports World. If you've never tried it, here's how it works. It's relatively simple. You pick two to six players, and you guess whether or not they'll get more or less than the stat line price pick sets.

Starting point is 00:07:32 This week, I'm looking at the basketball board and selecting Donovan Mitchell for more than 26 points, Jason Tatum for more than nine rebounds, Nikolai Yoakic for more than 25 points, and Anthony Edwards for more than four assists. Basketball terminology. It's that simple. If your picks hit, you win. My dumb noggin can keep up with that. And the more picks that you string together, the more money you can make. Up to 1,000 times your entry.

Starting point is 00:07:56 And what's cool is, it's not just basketball. You can mix and match players across different sports like baseball, football, hockey, even e-sports. It's like building your own custom bet. But it's all based on player stats and you're in full control. Plus, they invented something called FlexPlay, which means even if one of your picks misses, you can still win cash. And payouts are super fast.

Starting point is 00:08:15 I've seen it hit in under 15 minutes. So here's what you can do. You can download the app today and use code Rejects to get $50 instantly after you play your first $5 lineup. Again, that's code Rejects, $50 instantly after your first $5 lineup. Prize fix, run your game. The Scars card. Oh, my God, we saw that one. Dude, is that an adaptation?

Starting point is 00:08:36 I think it might just be a Tarzan story. But that's the only one I could pull just now that I thought was worth watching. Anyway, but I feel like Guy Ritchie did not have it to that. Like, that's the extreme, right? So if, if for me, Aladdin is Guy Ritchie doing a studio film in order to do 10 smaller films afterward, that was a lack of Guy Ritchie voice. This one felt like it was moments of that. Like it felt like it was a guy Ritchie's voice was diluted, but it didn't feel like it was from a studio, didn't feel like it was from Apple because they aren't a studio that has like an IP they're beholden to. This just felt like it was lost in him adapting and homageing.

Starting point is 00:09:12 So I don't like, whereas the Disney thing, I felt like it was like a studio structure. they wanted like a director for hire this did not feel like that this just felt like when guy richie was like oh i love this 20 things him trying to do all that loss some of the richeism yeah and what we mean by that is it just kind of lost style yeah as the movie went and lost serviceable but that's not guy richie like i'm okay the covenants of a war movie yeah um wrath of man is like a violent dread like crime thriller and then you got the other one's crime saga films like the gentleman snatch rock and roll Exactly. Those are a very type of fun voice. Man from Uncle, it feels like a period piece. But it's not. Spy meets crime thriller. Exactly. So I'm saying like there's no specific type of this is a hundred percent guy, Richie. Like this like wrath of man feels totally different than man from uncle. Yeah. But they don't. But my point of that is there's, yeah, specificity. There's consistent style. Yeah. This starts feeling flat. Yeah. But they don't. But my point of that is there's, yeah, specificity. There's consistent style. Yeah. This starts feeling flat. yeah um but uh some other positives though even though dom hong leeson one i think is is uh was predictable right away that like something's off of this guy but we hope we were wrong he's so good his connection with the boy i thought was cool uh that that restaurant scene i like the little kid and the the whole thing with um watching him become darker a lot of times it does

Starting point is 00:10:40 feel like I don't really like the scream movie villain reveals because even though I love the franchise because normally it feels like ha ha I'm a different human being now yeah I've changed everything about who I am and this felt like he was becoming more I think he really understood the assignment that he was become he he's revealing more of who he really is over the course of the journey yeah and that's kind of in tune with the themes that they keep pointing out is who you become along the journey that's why it's about the journey it like the themes a lot I think the themes are great. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:11:12 Don't, it's a quote that I heard forever ago. Don't ask for security. Ask for adventure. And a lot of times we get bogged down by looking for safe, secure, and steady instead of when life itself is risky. So it does, like, line up with a lot of things I value and personally believe in. Isaac Gonzalez, I think, has really great presence. John Krasinski was funny.

Starting point is 00:11:34 One great Stanley 2GC. One great random. It seems like they were wanting to, like, build out to those have sequels and a, like i don't think they would do like a fountain of youth to you they'd probably just called something else it'd be adventuring for something else and stanley chucci at the vatic and it'd be like don't go there yeah yeah um and Natalie porr like Natalie Porman is one of our great actresses of all time um i do think this performance though it it zigzags between it never it doesn't like go uh she's not great here and then the rest she's good or vice versa it's just sort of zigzags

Starting point is 00:12:06 where sometimes i'm like wow she had a really good scene could see why she's cast other times it feels like I really feel like you're acting right now and I don't know what the tone is really going for I've seen her do comedies before but I think she's so funny I actually think she's attached is like exactly excellent in that film

Starting point is 00:12:24 that's the first one I thought of so fucking good and no strings attached SNL SNL brilliant brilliant The Natalie Rap is one of the best SNL things to exist and I even like to I like to I even love in Thunder for a Tyco Y TT movie if you look at it just like that I think she's doing a good job and keeps up with the rest of the players really well.

Starting point is 00:12:44 Yeah. But here, now, there was something here that felt like off and a way that wasn't like. It wasn't really affected. But even when you interacted with like the cop. Yeah, that's true. That was a weird beat at the end. That was like, weird direction they had where they're all like, huh. I'm covering up what I am being snarky. But I'm like, sometimes it felt only snarky and nothing underneath.

Starting point is 00:13:06 Yeah. So I was like, I was latching more onto John Krasinski's. character in the last half because he was losing some of that cool he was losing the cool he was getting stressed out he was trying to maintain he mentioned that about halfway in but it also affected like his relationships in a way that made him more he had more depth exactly versus just playing the note of snarky while still being the funny john krasinski be like but with the jack ryan action like i think this was a great role for him definitely definitely i i don't think he's miscast and i think there's I think what the movie does fail to do is it seems like it's really trying to find

Starting point is 00:13:44 heart you know we talk about wonder which is it feels kind of absent in a movie where you're surround that's kind of like one of the genre motifs though yeah when it comes to this kind of genre you got to have wonder yeah you have to have to have wonder and the characters have to have a sense of wonder especially if you're like come on these are the best five days you've had you've been having adventure I'm like I don't think so she does not seem very happy the whole time there's been no sense of wonder or like glee coming off of any of these characters in the journey right and i think the heart is something that it was definitely i i the word i keep him back to is manufacturing like oh let's have her be mother and son and and try to like have some

Starting point is 00:14:25 scenes of him as an uncle so i appreciate attempts more than them not doing anything yeah um but i do think that the heart and wonder would have greatly elevated this movie to being a fun enjoyable experience from beginning to end instead of a bob and weave. Because I think we would have forgiven more if we were more invested in the characters because of that heart. And I think that like I love King Arthur. I think as one of Guy Ritchie's best, no one likes that movie. I love that movie. A lot of people have come around on that man. It's exceptional. A lot of people have. Like I thought we were going to get a MCU of King Arthur's court and it was going to be like one for each of them like Arthur and Lancelot and like that's what I thought

Starting point is 00:15:03 they were building because the way that movie sets up the round table like the end of the movie is literally like assembling Avengers Haven't seen it. Oh dude it's so good I want to watch it away. It's so special. King Arthur is like it is imagine if Guy Ritchie at his peak and Guillermo del Toro at his peak did a bunch of acid and red

Starting point is 00:15:19 Arthurian myths at each other like it's so insane but I say that because that movie has all of the insane visuals all the insane pacing but you care so much about Charlie Kahnem's heart as Arthur and I think that's the issue here is like you've got all the splendor but it doesn't feel like awe you've got all the snark but it doesn't feel like it's coming from a place of pain or joy you've got all

Starting point is 00:15:38 the like cool set pieces but you don't care about the individuals beyond what you're told to care whereas i think king arthur and snatch and rock and rolla those find a way to like you care about the the caravan and the guys ma that's why the relationship and man from uncle works with those too yes so i think that is like the core of what guy richie does well when he's firing at is best the covenant the relationship in jake jillin hall and and the guy who's actually in the military like that is is the core and i think that is something it's missing yeah i mean for a streaming movie had a fun time streaming movie fun b minus is like not bad for you know especially in this genre and a streaming movie yeah yeah definitely um but it doesn't ever you kind of i think when you

Starting point is 00:16:20 watch like an action adventure streaming movie you kind of want to have that feeling of oh i wish i saw this on the big screen yeah where i'm like i'm a pretty good at I'm pretty content with it being right here. This is how I watched it. Possible entertainment that I'll probably forget about in a little bit. But I love the idea of Guy Ritchie being in the Apple family. Yes.

Starting point is 00:16:40 You know, when people, when certain filmmakers are in the Apple family, it's pretty cool when you see them like consistently come back. Tom Hanks has come back a few times. Seth Rogen has worked with them a few times. A lot of amazing filmmakers. Ben Stiller it just keeps happening. And I would love for Guy Ritchie to continue on and do another one in the Apple

Starting point is 00:16:57 shows or movies or something like that because when he gets like the free reign to do that that's like the whole thing with the streamers the streamers usually get like free reign so even though they're not like the big studio ones they usually get a chance to actually be creative and exercise that I agree and that's all I would really want for another guy rich installment is a little bit more creativity

Starting point is 00:17:15 but yeah not my first not a great first Apple movie outside of Killers of a Flower mood but like sure but I would love to see I want to see more Apple stuff Coda got to watch you guys should watch king arthur uh let me know what you think about king arthur and about this in the comments below absolutely guys thank you for being here please leave a like please subscribe follow coy and we will catch you got soon super sexy rejects

The Reel Rejects - FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH (2025) MOVIE REVIEW!!

There aren't comments yet for this episode. Click on any sentence in the transcript to leave a comment.