The Reel Rejects - RUBY GILLMAN: TEENAGE KRAKEN (2023) IS MONSTROUS FUN!! MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!

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Starting point is 00:01:08 All right, so are you ready to take this journey into Crackenland? Let's go. Where's a Crackenland? They live in the sea, in the deep, you know, maybe the Aegean, if we're going by like Greek mythology, or maybe like... Ron Joxy, baby, let's go down under. This was very, very fun, and I do enjoy this artwork. Yeah, the art is cool, too. It definitely is cool. It almost looks like an initial concept art or something, the way they're doing this.

Starting point is 00:01:41 We just watched Ruby Gilman Teenage Cracken. You did it. Ruby Gilbert Teenage Cracken. After seeing it, you would hope that I would know the name in the movie. If you guys are listening to us on. La Condor. That was Lana Condor? Lonnie Collette.

Starting point is 00:01:55 Tony Colette. I can totally hear it now. I'm so upset with us. Okay. Annie Murphy, you got it, all right, all right. It was only because of the voice was Sam Richardson, we got there, good one, good one, good one. We got there.

Starting point is 00:02:06 Let's see, Eliza Koshy. Who is that? Oh, my God, I should have gotten that one. Well, Forte, we could. Well, Forte. Oh, yeah, I called him. I had Coleman Domingo, I was right. Wow, that Coleman Domingo poll was really good.

Starting point is 00:02:19 Yeah, it's partly because he's in Spider-Man. Yeah, really good. Everyone's doing a good job. And Jane Fonda, you got it. Hers was the easiest to identify, Why, because I'm a big Jane Fonda fan. I have a really hard time. I'm a Jane Fanda, for sure.

Starting point is 00:02:34 I'm a big Jane Fanda. Guys, if you are watching this alongside us, and don't forget, if you haven't already to like and comment, how do you feel about it? If you're listening on Apple or Spotify, five stars. That's what we like to see. And don't forget about our sick merch. I'm reaching for my hat, John, RejectNation Shop.com.

Starting point is 00:02:54 Wow, look you there. Follow us on social at Real Rejects on all platforms. All right, my dude, I want to hear your, as we're watching these credits, these trailers, trailer after the movie, the credits right now. What is your initial gut thoughts on how you're feeling? I'm feeling good. I enjoyed this. I enjoy a lot of just the things that comprise what this is in general, you know, like selling me on a whimsical world that has something to do with, you know, mythical sea creatures and crypto zoological entities. and whatnot. It's pretty fun. And I like, you know, the little seaside town that they're in and, like,

Starting point is 00:03:35 little designs of the different homes and stuff like that. And, too, the way that the textures and all that in the animation have grown over time and you have, you know, something that is obviously heavy on, like, water simulations, but also just, again, every little room and her clothes and their, you know, little tendrils and things and the food, like, everything had such, to me, appealing and lovely textures and stuff. I wanted to like jump in and walk around in this. And that always makes me happy. I feel like that's totally. Oh, there's a Nicole buyer in there too. Okay. Um, Juju Green. Straw Hat, Goofy. Are you serious? I think. Who was he? Who's a gym teacher and somebody else? I mean, unless there are more than one juju green walk around. Oh yeah. That's so funny. Well done,

Starting point is 00:04:16 dude. That's always bestie, right? Yeah. And, uh, I mean, the voice cast as well, I thought was very fun and appealing. And yeah, I liked, I enjoyed this quite a bit. It, you know, didn't take me out too much feeling like, oh, this is this movie or that movie. Like, there are certain things that you can point out and go like, oh, cool, a little homage or whatever. It made me wonder what turning red is like just because of the sort of coming of age. They did feel like they had similar themes. Yeah, although I get, I guess from the vague things I've heard about turning red maybe a little more specified in one direction in that story versus this story. Yeah, that story is definitely more about like, being like an allegory for becoming a woman as opposed to a girl and whatever but this was more just kind of like being yourself and coming into your own

Starting point is 00:05:04 yeah and I mean theme thematically speaking you know I mean these are these are always worthwhile themes I feel like especially in a DreamWorks and especially having seen the crudes just recently that was a movie that very clearly articulated what the themes

Starting point is 00:05:20 the handful of themes the movie was largely dealing with we're about in the dialogue and this is aiming again a little bit more tween teenage a little less directly i think toward a younger audience did you prefer this yeah i mean in a different it's weird like they're they're both kind of aiming at me in different directions this one is more uh uh complex i guess in what it's laying out there i think the biggest obstacle for me with the cruz is that like it is like very clear what the again it's like everything new is bad and we got to stick to the cave and then And you're clearly going to watch a story about people learning to embrace the chance of life, branch out.

Starting point is 00:05:59 Sometimes that will mean danger, but it's also, you know, part of the dues you pay to get the beautiful life experiences rather than just surviving every day. This, yeah, I liked a lot of what it was about and the way it portrayed like the difficulties of like, yeah, how do you, you know, give somebody their own little life and not burden them with too much crazy information about, like, like, oh, what's your birthright and your lineage and all this stuff that you're born into that you have no control over? You know, how do you, when is the right time to talk about that? Like, you know, that stuff with the whole lying by omission. As much as, like, it was very obvious, the whole, like, omission thing is an example of them going, here's the theme. I thought that idea was good. And, yeah, that other idea, like, sort of familiar idea of, like, the character who is told to, you know, play it safe and don't go too far from home and definitely don't go over here.

Starting point is 00:06:51 and you know that adventure and coming of age and, you know, growth will come by doing exactly that and letting go of this cling to freedom. My main sort of question mark that I'm still chewing on is I think the most interesting thing it stabs at, which is the whole like, Kraken's are misunderstood, we are these mythical protectors, and you hint at for a moment,

Starting point is 00:07:15 yeah, there's the Leviathan, and there's this, and there's this, this, this, this. And they left these seeds in there. that had me convinced of something a little bit more complex and interesting, which was like, okay, well, grandma's talking about the mermaids and these other creatures. And clearly, we have reason to trust her, but we also have reason to believe that she could have some kind of ulterior motive. We don't exactly know what mom's deal is.

Starting point is 00:07:40 And I like that they kept subverting, like, mom is actually going to listen. She's not just going to berate you or whatever, you know, and those moments would catch me. And with the mermaid girl, I was like, oh, maybe this could be a real friend. friendship or something. But then having it come around to just like, nah, mermaids are evil though. Like it seemed a little odd and you only meet one

Starting point is 00:07:59 and by the end she's still like around and she's in the cage and she's just like ostensibly just like more normal and less powered up. But like that was a part of the movie where I was like oh maybe we're going to go for like an interesting resolution that's like I like all three of them coming together

Starting point is 00:08:15 and you know unleashing their power and learning to all listen to each other and given taken places and all that but i was sort of expecting them because of what they set up and how they set it up and how they were articulating things to maybe have like a more interesting conversation about like well maybe we don't need to be sworn enemies as these races of creatures rather maybe this conflict that whole thing about like grandma you just like to fight i'm fighting for this life that i created and i didn't want to be burdened by all this so i like solved the problem or i at least neutralized the weapon and then i went and made a choice

Starting point is 00:08:49 about who I want to be and like that's cool but like yeah I don't know I feel like there's this Pandora's box of like interesting stuff that we could have done with like but who are the mermaids really and why does this conflict exist and what is just passed down what what rage and what prejudice is passed down from just perspectives clashing over so much time and like that's really there at as a present as like an idea that you could get out of it I don't think it really goes there ultimately but aside from that I thought this was really fun and lovely um i'm just like yeah i'm just like a little jostled in the moment of being like oh damn they're really gonna oh i guess not yeah i think you and i have pretty much the exact same feelings about

Starting point is 00:09:30 this on the one hand i feel two things at the same time on the one hand i'm never going to be upset with an animation movie that keeps it tight this movie felt like an hour long you know this was an hour 31 minutes but that's with everything really we had an hour and 20 minute of story here and it was so tight it didn't overstay it's welcome it didn't pretend to be something that it's not uh it had really cool visuals i think that it had a lead character that i thought was really endearing and sweet uh it had girl power it had the power of friendship um with her OG friends and forgiveness you know um telling your real friends your truth and hoping that they don't judge you for you know had a lot of that beauty to it yeah and for that

Starting point is 00:10:21 i really think this was a really cute movie yeah that if somebody was like oh i love this movie i'd be like i totally see why and so many great little details right like really a lot of tLC women yes definitely especially with like you and i both mentioned throughout the textures and the way things looked i feel like they really really understood what they wanted this world to look like and then went above and beyond to create the little extra details to make it like even um with her best friend with her pink bun on top of her head like it's not just a full messy bun that it's an open loop bun you know that there was just really it was very specific yeah uh with the fog that we see with the design was really really great yeah the way it has this like bubbly it's bright and

Starting point is 00:11:03 appealing but it's also borrowing just enough from like classic yeah yeah aesthetics of ships and lighthouses yeah and so like you know redheaded mermaid like things like that so i really loved a lot of that. On the other hand, I do feel like in a movie where we're clearly trying to say, don't judge a book by its cover. At the end,

Starting point is 00:11:29 I guess the mermaid, you can't judge her by the cover because she's really the opposite. But I really was hoping for something a little more complex for me personally to put this from just good to great because I feel

Starting point is 00:11:46 like there is no there really isn't much black and white anymore and in this where we're discussing war where they refer to it as the war of the crackins and the mermaids I feel like

Starting point is 00:12:00 this movie made a point to say the crackens are 100% in the right in this war and the mermaids are 100% in the wrong in this war and humans are inconsequential and humans are inconsequential and I think it would have been cooler

Starting point is 00:12:15 if we came to some kind of a resolution where it was I didn't understand your point or what you needed or I wasn't willing to compromise. Maybe we can join together. But this really was like, no, she's evil and we're good. So, you

Starting point is 00:12:30 know, but you don't get, I didn't write this movie. So just because it didn't give the lesson that I was kind of like hoping doesn't mean it's not a worthwhile and really cute movie. It just would have been more elevated for me if we had, if it was a little more gray and a little less black and white.

Starting point is 00:12:46 Yeah, yeah, because I mean, I think it is kind of, I think this element gets a little vague, but they do touch on the idea of like, you know, in lore, yeah, like on land, you know, humans are like, oh, crackens are scary monsters and mermaids are, you know, alluring and have this mystique and they're beautiful and, you know, they lure sailors in. So it's like I can see how the black and whiteness of the resolution still works. Absolutely. But if you... It does work. But if your brain, and especially maybe if you're, like, young, I don't know, it's interesting because then I think, like, if you're younger and you're watching this and you're starting to put an idea together, but then it kind of, not that this is going to, like, influence your life in that way. It could. That's what art does. But, yeah, in a collective way, it adds another brick and stuff like that.

Starting point is 00:13:31 So, yeah, I mean, it does seem like it would have been nice for them to acknowledge, like, oh, you know, these folk tales that are told are not altogether accurate, you know, like, you know, in some way. because again that speaks to the idea of like where prejudice comes from and how it grows and and you know in a movie that clearly seems to be wanting to have you know a broad array of types of characters and types of people on the land already like the land is so it just on the human side is like there's a little bit every kind of person here and everyone's just kind of coexisting and that's cool which is like rad and i thought we were kind of using the yeah the the different creatures as like a play into that kind of metaphor uh and so yeah it's like if If you're trying, and if you're still discovering these ideas to, like, map, I don't know, those kinds of things over the messaging, it doesn't really work so much. But, yeah, it's that idea of don't, yeah, don't, a monster might not be a monster and some beautiful siren might not actually be that beautiful thing on the inside. And you should be cautious. Yeah, cautious about it. My favorite aspect of the entire movie was Ruby's relationship with her mother because, Parenting at its best should be a support system for you to go to when you're not sure what is right or what to do.

Starting point is 00:14:52 Yeah. And I do feel like this did a great job of showing a parent when Ruby comes and she's messed up, who is like, I will wait here with you as long as it takes. You know, mother-daughter stuff always really gets to me. But in this scenario, when she gets in her hand and they're sitting there and she really supports her, even though. Ruby's done exactly what her mother asked her not to do that happens to all teenagers that happens to all kids at some point you're going to do something that your parent told you told you not to do that's just very classic and how the parent reacts to it is their job to be the parent still and to put you first still and so I thought that that was really really well done and then that same theme comes back when Jane Fonda at the end is like a mother knows best you know so I I I I did like that storyline, and I do think when a lot of animated movies are out there saying, like, parents don't know best. Make your own way. This one did say, like, go to your parents if you need support.

Starting point is 00:15:57 Go to a safe space for you. Yeah, I like that they made the choice not to do the stereotypical mom thing where, like, they kept getting really nice subversions out of that whole. Like, yes, this is a very intense situation. Yes, you did what I told you not to do, but also, like, what matters most is that you're safe. and that I care and that we work through this you know we this is how it is now so we just have to meet that rather than channeling our rage at that and and yeah some of the best articulations and some of the most interesting ideas are the motherhood to daughter and grandmother to all of that kind of exploration there and and I mean yeah the movie isn't about the mom and grandma so much so

Starting point is 00:16:36 it makes more sense that that resolution would be a little bit more brief but yeah that whole thing about like I got caught into this thing that you heaped upon me and that there is the hazard that you might want to heap upon my daughter and you know I have overstepped in trying to control her life but it's kind of not it's based on what you did to me but I also at least mitigated some of that while still kind of perpetuating the cycle like that's lifey and that's interesting and that's yeah some of the stuff that struck me the most and that was the richest And then, yeah, you know, you had a bunch of other just fun supporting characters and stuff like that. Like, I really liked what was his name, Arthur, hubby, brill, uncle.

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Starting point is 00:20:27 That's very high school. I did expect to see Trevin and the other girl Bestie, like, you know, because they had that moment that they were going to prom together and they're like... But just his friends. Yeah. But just we're just going to go as friend. I thought we were going to see like a little romance or something. Or was Trevin his name? It was Trevin the name of the guy that Liza Cochie or whatever was going with.

Starting point is 00:20:51 No, Trevin's the hair guy. Yeah. Yeah. With a cool Matrix suit at the end. All things considered, like if I, if somebody wanted to watch. watch this again. I would definitely put it back on. I thought it was really visually pleasing. I love the music, which we haven't spoken about much in this review portion, but we definitely did talk about throughout some really fun tunes. A lot of my preference with animation is rock and roll, as I'm sure yours is oftentimes, just because I'm a rocker at my heart. But I thought that these were really beautiful pop songs that kind of like understood the tone of this and lyrically went along with the messaging. And I was like, okay, this is really cute. matches the neon and the shimmer and a lot of the aesthetics that they go for and it matches the age group with who is the target i feel like for this too so yeah it's like yeah like i'm not always the expert on like what makes the best needle drop but uh i thought everything here was like nicely chosen and too i like that yeah they gave a little time for like especially the first time she's sort of getting to know her power and she's following brill out to the you know layer and stuff like that you could actually enjoy that for at least a few minutes and then uh you know the two all that stuff with like the neon like artwork and creatures and the way like the lore is being told when the grandma's talking to

Starting point is 00:22:03 her about the history which is like one of those really cool animated movie things and two throughout like they worked in some nice like uh different approaches to animation different flourishes that look like oh that looks like something that she would be drawing in her notebook or oh this looks like it's out of one of her little videos like when she makes the prom pitch at the beginning like the little earmarks like that are fun to me because yeah it's like oh chance to nod to their kinds of animation and also keep the visuals interesting and and lively and again like yeah for for as much as there are things I wish this I feel like this movie is more than capable of and maybe wanted to have like a more sophisticated act three which which sounds mean no I know what you're

Starting point is 00:22:46 saying though but if they're not going to do that at least they kept a brief yeah yeah yeah drag us to that play and it's like everything else yeah it's like super fun and breezy like I would definitely wouldn't be mad to watch this again I would be thrilled to see another one, you know, even. Well, let me ask you that. So this came out in 2023, which very much means that we're still in sequel territory. Has there, do we know if there's been any kind of...

Starting point is 00:23:10 I don't know a thing? I would be down. Shall I look? Look it up. Shall I see? Maybe get us a factoid or two and see if there's going to be a ruby Gilman 2, bioluminescent boogaloo. I think it would be fun to focus on the brother, but let's see.

Starting point is 00:23:26 Ruby Gilman, Teenage Cracken 2 is a proposed sequel, but there's no official announcement about a release date yet. Okay. So it sounds like could be in the talks. I mean, we just helped them out with another stream, so. Yeah, that's true. Also, just a shout out, because I know we mentioned it during, but a lot of animation is too scared still to have any queer characters.

Starting point is 00:23:51 So I thought that that was cool, like, and the way that they just said it's so normally. she was like oh yeah whoever her girlfriend or whatever asked me the problem and I said yes yeah and it just was normalized and I was like good I mean it shouldn't have to be like good on you but like good it's just part of high school life

Starting point is 00:24:10 so yeah I was glad that they threw in that line it was nice to it didn't seem to self please didn't seem too pleased with itself for doing so it just kind of did it just like it just part of it again it seems very authentically like yeah it just kind of very diverse

Starting point is 00:24:26 place that they live you know and then yeah there's a lot of different kind of people here like that's fun it doesn't seem to be much trivia about this you know when you go to i mdb and you look at the trivia and there's like usually a thousand thumbs up or 800 all of these have four thumbs up or three thumbs up so we'll see if we can get anything fun at all anything reliable i'll find i'll still dig a total of 870 people are involved in the making of this film damn not bad that's a lot that's a small army the poster that ruby gilman is sitting and lying down on the side of the bridge is an homage to Spider-Man homecoming

Starting point is 00:24:59 parodying Ruby with her headphones and jackets similar to Tom Holland's Peter Parker. Wow. I didn't notice that. Okay. This is DreamWork Animation's first film targeting to a teen and young adult demographic as opposed to the usual kids and family demographic on all of their films. That tries.

Starting point is 00:25:15 You kind of mentioned that a little bit throughout. It feels like it, yeah. At 31 years... It's weird. You asked like, which do you prefer this is the Cruz? And I'm like, well, the Crudes, I knew what was pretty much going to happen, you know, minus a couple of suspense things and like it did the thing and it was good at doing the thing. And it was like it's pretty good, but it's also like clearly not written with, you know, you and mind. Yeah, it's clearly written for younger audiences to understand and to clearly grasp the ideas. Whereas here, yeah, it seems like at least for a good amount of it, it's like, oh yeah, they do seem to want to, you know, go a little more granular, go a little bit more opaque and nuanced and things like that. It feels like the third. Third act kind of brought it back around to just like full-on family movie, whereas the first two-thirds feel more like that teen, young adult audience.

Starting point is 00:26:04 But yeah, definitely seemed to parent. This is a really weird stat that I'm pretty surprised about. At 31 years old, Farron Pearl became the youngest female ever to direct a feature animated film. Let's go. I mean, this had lots of punch, man. But then when we were watching this, I remember. remember it said that Kirk De Miko or

Starting point is 00:26:28 Micho is who directed it. So I was like, huh, but they co-directed. It looks like he directed and she co-directed. But I didn't see her in the credit. I saw his name but I don't know. But that's interesting. At 31 and no shade to that, I'm 33. But at 31, that's the youngest female

Starting point is 00:26:47 to ever directed animated feature. That's kind of wild. It is kind of wild. We've got to get younger now. 18-year-old animated director. I'm saying. Hot off the presses. No film school, no nothing. This is the first original film that's completely made entirely at DreamWorks animation, Glendale, without PDI's involvement, as the Redwood City location was shut down eight years earlier due to company restructuring.

Starting point is 00:27:14 Damn, let's go, Glendale. Killing it. She can get some good work done in Glendale. Let's see. Gordon Lighthouse's name is a clear reference to musician Gordon Lightfoot. who coincidentally passed away about two months before this film was released.

Starting point is 00:27:29 No. Gordon Lightfoot never got to see it. Well, we don't know. It was two months before this was released. They flew a copy out too. Possibly. Early rough cut. This is Annie Murphy's major

Starting point is 00:27:40 motion picture film debut. Okay. I would believe, yeah. It didn't hit me, but I would believe that actually, yeah, because what, she's been coming up on TV. This one is, tell me if you want to guess this or not.

Starting point is 00:27:53 Dreamwork animations, blank, theatrically released feature film like how many how which one of this is there how many dream work animation films has there been that this was their what do you want to guess or let me tell you

Starting point is 00:28:09 it's like their 17th this is our 44 oh wow I was way off I was way off of that I would have said seven I didn't know I remember when I asked you I was like how many are there I made 44 theatrical release movie. Listen to what this says. DreamWorks animation's 44th

Starting point is 00:28:28 theatrically released feature film and 45th overall feature film. DreamWorks has a non-animated film? I guess maybe, or is it one of those movies it's like largely live action but like a goosebumps where like there's a bunch of bunch of DreamWorks films. That's as goosebumps isn't because I think that was like a Sony or something. Of all DreamWorks. I mean, when did DreamWorks even start? Somehow I didn't realize they made quite that many movie. Part of me was It was like, did they acquire some stuff and, like, distribute it?

Starting point is 00:28:57 But I didn't feel like that was their bag. Here I go. Oh, no. Starting with, I'm just going to list it. Let's go. Here we go. Wild Robot. Monsters versus aliens.

Starting point is 00:29:06 Sharktail. Home, Mega Mind. Shrek forever after. Puss and Boots. Oh, we did that. We did Last Wish, yeah. And we did Megamind. Kung Fu Panda.

Starting point is 00:29:17 Fleshed away. Rise of the Guardians. Bee movie. I haven't seen any of these. Penguins. Penguins in Madagasc. The Bad Guys, How to Train Your Dragon, Shrek, the Third, Madagascar 3,

Starting point is 00:29:29 Europe's Most Wanted. How to Trade Your Dragon, The Hidden World, Trolls, Over the Head, Shrek, Kung Fu Panda 4, Turbo, the Crudes, the Crews to New Age, How Do You Train Your Dragon, Too? Goss Baby, Puss and Boots, Last Wish, Mr. Peabody and Sherman. That's right, they did. I don't know what that is.

Starting point is 00:29:46 Quiet, you. Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron with Matt Damon. That was a drone animation movie. Wow. So maybe that's the one other... I keep forgetting that they didn't only ever do C.G. Kung Fu Panda 3. Madagascar 2 Escape Africa.

Starting point is 00:30:05 Shrek 2. Abominable. That's right. There's a lot of... Trolls World Tour. The Prince of Egypt. I covered that here too. It's a good-ass movie.

Starting point is 00:30:15 Trolls band together. Madagascar. Captain Underpans. Boss Baby, aunts. Kungu Panda again. Joseph King of Dreams. Orion and the Dark, Sinbad, El Dorado, Teenage Cracken, which we just watched. Wallace and Gromit, the curse of the Rear Rabbit.

Starting point is 00:30:33 They must have just distributed that, though. They didn't animate that. See, that's, okay. They're like a, I mean, and flushed away is also an artman adjacent production. I want to tell you guys, I have to apologize, because I don't even know if this is accurate. I wrote List and this said what to watch, so I just read the ones that were on here, but. I'm like just wild, I'm sitting here going, this is wild robot. Do you guys know that new AI Google thing that they do?

Starting point is 00:30:55 Yes, where they fill it in. So oftentimes they're wrong. Okay. What we need to do. I'm sorry, it could be wrong. Since we're here now, we're committed to this. We need to go to the Wikipedia page for DreamWorks Animation. That's smarter.

Starting point is 00:31:07 I wasted your eyes as time. No, no, no. You simply gave us the conduit to getting the truth. All right, let's see. Which is always important. Let's see, DreamWorks Animation, Wikipedia. Here we go. What do we got?

Starting point is 00:31:22 Smarter way to go about it. Okay, okay. A lot of these, I said. Let's see. I mean, a lot of them are, okay, here's the release timeline. Ants, the Prince of Egypt, the Rodel de Lerada. I love ants. That's their first movie?

Starting point is 00:31:35 Chicken Run, yeah, I guess so. I loved Chicken Run. Is it? I guess it must be, right? Well, yeah, chicken run. And that's an Ardman. Like, again, Ardman would have done so much of the animation, but it's in partnership with DreamWorks. So I guess it counts.

Starting point is 00:31:49 Joseph King of Dreams. Shrek, Spirit, Salis, the Simmeron. Sin Bad Ladin? We're just rereading. Let's see if we come across anything that you didn't say. But hey, maybe the thingy worked. That's all of them. Yeah, it looks like actually. Except for Dogman. What's that? Oh, that's coming out this year.

Starting point is 00:32:03 That just came out. Yeah, Shrek 5. This is including something out yet. Well, they have four movies coming out this year. Dogman, How to Train Your Dragon, the Bad Guys, too, and Gabby's Dollhouse, the movie. Yeah. I mean, you know, DreamWorks is out here. They're the most, I feel like, prolific non-Disney animation

Starting point is 00:32:20 house, right? Because I mean, Blue Sky. isn't a thing anymore got folded in and I mean I know there's Sony pictures animation but I don't think they've done quite as many it's so crazy because Disney has Disney animation and Pixar so they just really corner the market but yeah the I mean it feels like their big home runs are Shrek and how to train your dragon Kung Fu Panda Madagascar hasn't there hasn't been one in a while trolls is a franchise and has like spun off on a video they got some big ones they got some big boys what's your favorite DreamWorks movie let us know in the comments maybe there's some other ones that we could cover in the future which we'd be

Starting point is 00:33:00 happy to do John anything else you want to tell the people I love all of you and thanks for unlocking your inner teenage girl cracking with us and I'm excited to watch another one of these with you this is so fun we get some fun

Starting point is 00:33:16 ones we don't get to do like videos all the time but Drippy Moist is always a good time I asked what everybody's team name was before and you and I didn't even say Ron Jockey. Because we already knew. And we got two of them. We're Driffy Moist for Ron Jockey. And we're kind of the damp Jaxe. Yeah, I know.

Starting point is 00:33:32 Which I'm very grateful that we get to do that. You know. So if you guys want more Ron Jaxi, then make sure that you check out some of our vampire stuff. Twilight, Nosephratu, all the stuff that's very similar to this. A young adult, you know? So, so. Ruby Gilman's

Starting point is 00:33:48 reading Twilight. You know she's reading Twilight. Oh, I bet. Actually, her friend with the catastrophizing yeah that's so funny even though twilight is also a construct of the patriarchy this we know this we know all right see you next time later rejects moi

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