Underrated Movies from A-List Actors + Movie Review: Red Notice (Netflix) Trailer Park: Jurassic World: Dominion + ‘DC League of Super Pets’

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mix movie podcast, your go to source for all things movies. I am your host movie Mike, and today I am breaking down underrated movies by A list actors. These are movies maybe you haven't heard of, maybe you haven't seen for some reason, but I think needs some attention brought to them because they are really great performances by some of my favorite actors. Plus a movie review of now the biggest movie on Netflix Red Notice, and then in the Trailer Park will take a look at Jurassic World Dominion. They just dropped this prologue. Thanks for being subscribed and for listening every single week, especially if you're listening on Monday, which is released. A shout out to the movie crew. Without any further ado, let's get started. In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast. A man with so much movie knowledge. He's basically like a walking audimdvie with classes from the Nashville Podcast Network. So I wanted to take this episode and recognize some movies from some A list actors that I think are underrated, maybe because when they came out, they weren't as well received. They were a bit of departure for some of these actors. Sometimes they didn't just perform as expected as the box office, and in other cases, I think there's some that over time they've kind of lost their cultural impact and we just kind of forgot about these Sometimes they just get a little bit forgotten, and I feel like in the grand scheme of things, they start to become underrated the less and less people reference some of these movies. So I want to start with the movie that inspired this entire list that I finally got around to watching, and it was one that I just hadn't really heard much about, and it's a movie called One Hour Photos starring Robin Williams. Came out back in two thousand and two, and immediately upon reading the synopsis in the overall plot for this movie, I was completely hooking. It's about Robin Williams who plays this really lonely technician guy who's working at kind of a Walmart slash Walgreens photo development department. And he plays this character named Si, who has worked at this photo lab for years, and over the years of working there, he's developed this kind of obsession with his family, whose photos he's been working with for years now to the point to where he's followed their entire life through pictures when they had a kid. And the movie starts out innocently enough, kind of focusing on this story, and I kind of resonate a little bit of what it's like to be a lonely guy and want to, you know, just be a part of someone else's life, of what you think is the perfect life. And it kind of turns into this psychological thriller, which I'm a big fan of, and I really love any movies that depict somebody's descent into madness to when they start out as a regular enough person, but through the torment in their life, through the pain and suffering that they have, you know, whether it's deep down internalized in them, it just starts to spill out a little bit a little bit in this movie, and you see Robin Williams character just kind of all out looks it. So he goes from just kind of idolizing this family of what he would look like, you know, painted into those photos, and over the years he has been making duplicates for himself, which is really creepy in keeping them, and the entire movie kind of turns once his boss realizes what he's been doing, and then his entire world gets kind of shifted upside down. So why I think this movie is underrated is because it is something unlike anything I've ever seen from Robin Williams. And he was greatly known for his comedic roles, is more dramatic roles, but this one is almost, I feel like, one of his best performances I've ever seen. And it's also just kind of sad knowing that there are people like this, people going through similar things like this, and you just want to be kind of recognized and something that could start out so innocently enough of just feeling like, oh, you're taking some pictures for your own personal enjoyment, which yes, sounds very creepy looking back on this. While you're kind of disgusted by what he is doing and what he kind of the level he takes it in this movie, you also kind of feel bad for him, knowing that he is suffering greatly. And the other thing I really enjoyed about this movie, while I feel it's underrated, it really kind of encapsulates that moment in time going from the nineties to the two thousand's the whole idea of kind of film being you know, taken out of the equation of nobody really using disposable cameras and nobody really using film anymore. It all goes to digital. It kind of has a parallel in this movie of his life of like, oh, what I once had is no longer there. The times are moving. So it's a really kind of great transitional piece of going from nineties movies to two thousands movies. And it felt like a very two thousands movie when I watched it. And I think now, as we are in the twenties, which is weird to say, but I think we're seeing more and more in pop culture of you know, references now and back to the early two thousands of what that kind of time period is now and what kind of represents that time. And I think you see that a lot when you watch this movie, being that it came out in two thousand and two. So at the top of my list and underrated movies from a list actors, I would go with a one hour photo starring Robin Williams, and you can watch that as of now on Hulu. That's where I watched it. Next up on my list, I want to go all the way back to the seventies. I think I got an email one saying that I don't talk about movies from the seventies enough, so I want to add an underrated movie from the seventies one of my favorites that I just feel like, so many comedies now, oh so much to this movie. And when you know, I see all these lists of like the funniest movies of all time, I feel like this one doesn't get reference enough. For one, how groundbreaking it was, to how much movies kind of borrow from this formula now, and three just kind of how it changed only comedy movies, but college party movies in general. And the movie is Animal House from Night. The A list actor is John Belushi, which at the time when this movie came out, he was as big as it got in comedy, but he was mainly known for TV. He was a star cast member on SNL and that's really where he was a star. But this was kind of his first film as that established stars. So he was twenty eight years old, hadn't been in any movie yet, but you put him in this movie and it really just changed everything when it came to comedy movies, and you also have a young Kevin Bacon and they're just kind of starting out his film career, and Animal House really just set the blueprint for college comedies. Without this movie, there would be no like American Pike To, no Project X, no Neighbors, no Old School. I think all those types of movies kind of owe all their credit to what Animal House did. And it's really one of the funniest movies of all time. I just think that it came out in night when you come up with a list in you know, people listening their funniest movies. It kind of now just starts in like the nineties, the two thousands, and then even since then. I feel like comedies really haven't been a thing in the last ten years. One because it's really hard, you know, to make things that are funny to a massive amount of people now too. You probably couldn't make a movie like Animal House today. A really a lot of those seventies eighties comedies are based on things you couldn't really do now anymore. And Three, I don't really think we have that many comedic stars anymore, and the ones we do have, I feel are so type cast that there's not really kind of an ensemble comedy cast like we've had and probably ten twenty years. So many great lines in this movie, like that I'm a ZiT, the Toga chant, and I think one of my favorite ones is when they get all called into the Dean's office to list out and told their grade point averages. I think that's one of my favorite scenes out of the entire movie, when John Belushi's character he gets told that he has a zero point zero great average, Mr Blue zero zero. On my List, the underrated movie from the A List actor John Belushi is Animal House from eight. If you haven't seen that movie, put it on your list. Next up on my List, it's a movie I watched as a kid back in nine and it's called Small Soldiers. A couple of A List actors in this. Actually the main toy character is voiced by Tommy Lee Jones and he plays Lieutenant Chip Hazard in this movie, the leader of the bad guys in this and then you also have Kirston Dunce who was already an all out star from when she was a kid. And what this movie is about, it's basically like toy story gone wrong and a lot more violent than you would expect the kids movie. Now it is ready to PG. Thirteen, But I remember the kid and being totally marketed just towards any kid, and you also had the entire toy aspect to it, the same way that Toy Story was. You go watch the movie, then you want the toys. It really had the same kind of effect. But when you watch Small Soldiers, you realize that this movie was really just the movie for adults, kind of pitch to kids. The violence was more intense, the kids actually get hurt of this movie. There's a little, not a whole lot of suggestive language, but I mean even the toys and one senior kind of sexualized. So in disguise, it was kind of a kids movie that was kind of marketed more towards tweens and teenagers. So basically what happens in the movie is there's this teenager named Alan. His dad owns a toy store a bunch of boring toys, So what does he want to do. He wants to take this shipment of these new Commando elites to bring back and drive sales to the store. But what he doesn't know is the makers of this toy put some like really intense military chips into them, so they are so smart that they're actually able to fight back, and they try to essentially take out humans. And I say that not lightly like their actual goal in this movie is to kill humans. But it's a movie that feels very much like a nineties movie and one I just feel like gets overlooked a lot when talking about movies from our childhood, and I think I owe a lot of loving this movie is the voice of Tommy Lee Jones. He plays a really good kind of disgruntled military guy. I think every movie he does he's a disgruntled guy. So I would say this is one of my favor Tommy Lee Jones performances, a movie I think is underrated from him, and also an underrated movie from Kirsten Dunn's early career. So on the list would go Small Soldiers from n Up. Next on my list, we'll go back a little bit more into the eighties, which is another genre I don't talk a whole lot about, but I have a lot of favorite eighties movies, and I think this is one of my favorite eighties movies of all time, and it's from Jeff Daniels in a movie called Something Wild, and I remember the first time I watched this movie. Now, as a kid, I didn't have a whole lot of VHS tapes. We couldn't really afford those a whole lot unless we were getting them from the garage sale. So I would always just kind of scan the channels for anything just played on regular TV, anything that I could get by moving the bunny ears on the old Zenith TV. And I would sit there on you know, Saturday afternoons and just scan anything. And a lot of my favorite movies came from movies I would just find randomly on TV. And one movie in particular was called Something Wild, starring not only Jeff Daniels but also ray Leota, and for a while it was just one of my favorite movies. Now, what the movie is about. Jeff Daniels, he's really just like a uptight banker and he gets kidnapped by this kind of free spirited, off the wall, complete opposite of him woman played by Melanie Griffith, and she basically kind of quote unquote kidnaps him and tries to take him on this just crazy adventure. She wants him to pose as her husband at a high school reunion. They go to the high school reunion, and that's where you meet ray Leo and his character who is her ex, and he basically confronts them, and that's kind of the synopsis of the movie. But I think why I love this movie so much is because I had actually seen Dumb and Dumber before I watched this movie. But I remember being so kind of captivated at how Harry from Dumb and Dummer was playing a more serious role. And I think since Dumb and Dumber, everybody kind of thinks of him as that character a lot, but he's still a lot of serious roles, since if you look at his entire movie catalog, that's really the only straight up comedy he's done, that kind of crazy en off the wall. But for me, it was this first role seeing him like this that I really enjoyed seeing a movie that feels very eighties and I would describe as being one of my favorite eighties movies of all time. One of Jeff Daniels roles I just feel is underrated. So on the list, I'm going with Something Wild from nineteen next up on my list. A few a list stars in this one that I feel it's an underrated movie for a movie starring Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, and Jesse Eisenberg from two thousand and nine. In the movie is adventure Land. It's a movie that takes place in the eighties. Again the eighties theme here that we have going. But what I loved about this movie is, although it does take place in the eighties, it's not your stereotypical eighties looking movie. I think movies that you know, are made twenty years after the eighties, they often kind of represent the Eighties in the same way, and the stereotypes, you know, the fashion, the music, the overall plots, the set designed, the clothes, all those things are kind of just stereotypical eighties and you know movies made later. But what I loved about this one is it really kind of just incorporated and encompassed that time of like what it would be like for normal people, and it's not overshadowed in any way that it's taking place in the eighties. It just feels like a modern take on the eighties, which I loved. And at the time Jesse Eisenberg was I felt like in every movie. You know, he did really well in the late two thousand's early probably more of an A list star at that point than he is now. But then you also have Kristen Stewart coming off of Twilight, Ryan Reynolds still kind of on his rise but still well known name at the time, and then also you can throw in Bill Hayter and Kristen Wig who are all in this movie. So it's a really big cast of all these big actors, and I just feel like this movie gets overlooked a lot. So it's about Jesse Eisenberg's character plays a college kid who has this big trip planned to go to Europe. Turns out his best friend Bales, his parents tell them they're no longer going to pay for the trip, so he has to take a job at this local amusement park. And it's really kind of a coming of age story of that period of your life. And it all takes place over the summer, which I love a movie that takes place over the summer. So came out in two thousands and nine. I recently watched it again on Netflix and still thought it held up. It's not a straight on comedy, it's kind of like a drama da and I just really like Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg together. They did another movie together called American Ultra. I just think they have a lot of on screen chemistry. But this is my favorite from the both of them. So on the underrated movies from a list actors Kristen Stewart, Jesse Eisenberg, and Ryan Reynolds, I'm going with that adventure Land from two thousand and nine. All Right, I have a few more here that I'll run through on my list. One is my favorite George Clooney movie from and it is from Just Till Dawn. It's a movie about these two brothers. One is George Clooney, the other is Quentin Tarantino, and they're on the run from the Texas Police and they do so by basically hijacking this family's r V and forcing them to drive them into Mexico where they go to a bar to meet these people, and then you find out that everybody in this bar is a vampire. I think George Clooney was arguably his best in the nineties, and he's just so charismatic in this movie. Plays a great lead because it's a mix of action. It's a mix of horror with a splash of weird, which I love and the movie was written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Robert Rodriguez, a movie I can't recommend enough. My favorite George Clooney movie I think is underrated from him from Dust Till Dawn from another one I wanted to mention was one of my favorite actors is Mark Wahlberg. I feel like he's a very underrated actor in general, known mostly for his act in movies. But where I think Mark Wahlberg kind of shines a little bit more is it's comedic movies, and I think one of his underrated movies is Ted From Now. It's from the mind of Seth McFarland, who was the creator of Family Guy, and the best way I kind of described this movie, it's kind of a live action Family Guy, and I think that's why I loved it so much. Seth McFarland, who was a lot of the voices on Family Guy, from Stuie to Peter to Brian Griffin. He is the voice of Ted, and I almost feel like he does the exact same voice that he does for Peter Griffin. But I think that, paired with Mark Wahlberg's comedic performance in this movie, makes it one of my favorite comedies. And yes it's dumb, Yes it's ridiculous. Yes it's pretty much downright stupid. It's basically the story of Mark Wahlberg's character who got this teddy bear as a kid. The teddy bear talked and they became friends and then stayed friends through his entire teenage years, and now he's an adult and basically living the same way he did when he was a kid with this teddy Bear. So if you're able to get through that dumb premise, it's actually a really good comedy. Mark Wahlberg Milacoonis. I think a lot of people just write this off as another dumb comedy, but I feel like it's very underrated and Mark Wahlberg at his comedic best. So from underrated movie from Mark Wahlberg is Ted And then finally on this list, as I was rounding through my favorite A list actors and their underrated movies, I came across one with two actors that I really loved at the time that this movie came out. Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt start together in a movie called Passengers, and I think this was probably their biggest decade, you know, with the rise of like the Jurassic Park reboots, Guarding into the Galaxy, Jennifer Lawrence coming off of The Hunger Games, and you know, doing these big oscar movies like Silver Linings Playbook. They did a movie together, And I think what I loved more about this movie was the premise behind it. I love sci fi, I love movies set in space, I love movies set far into the fewer and this movie felt like maybe a dream I had at some point, and it was. But I think I enjoyed the premise so much that no matter how the movie was going to be executed, I was going to love it one because it already had two of my favorite ALIS actors, Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt. But set a story about all these passengers going on this voyage to this new planet where everything's supposed to be amazing, but they're putting these pods to go to sleep and not meant to wake up until years later to where they're awakened at this new planet. But what happens is Chris Pratt's pod malfunction and he woke up ninety years too early to when they're supposed to meet their destination, and he starts to fall in love with the idea of this other passenger by just reading about her story. That passenger ends up being Jennifer Lawrence. So what does he do. He decides to wake her up so he has somebody to spend the rest of the time with because he's probably not going to live to see this new colony planet. So the movie is one part sci fi and one part room Man's So I think the movie just kind of also raises a bunch of questions of what you would do in that situation. You know, the comment struck and damaged the ship, forcing you to wake up, you live a year in solitude. Would you wake up another person just to have somebody to spend your time with? Would you in turn fall in love with that person? And then would you tell that person what you did? Would you admit to lying to them about it? So I think this is an underratted movie from both Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt. I think the movie really wasn't that well received by critics and didn't perform as well as the box office as everybody was expecting. It was at a time where, you know, space movies were still big, but kind of on the way out a little bit kind of falling off the success of Gravity, but I still thought myself really enjoying this one. If you're into sci fi and romance, I think you may like it too. So that is what I have on this list, some underrated movies or some A list actors. If there's one you think you would add to the list from one of your favorite actors, let me know. Send me a tweet, send me a d m at Mike Destro on Instagram and Twitter, or you can always shoot me an email movie Mike d at gmail dot com. Alright, going to get into a spoiler free movie review now talking about what is now Netflix's most watched movie of all time. The movie has red Notice, starring Dwayne the Rock Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gado, three big A list actors all in one movie. So how could it fail? Right? A movie I wasn't entirely like hyped to watch. I think I'm kind of just a little bit tired of the Rock being and everything. I'm a little bit over Ryan Reynolds after watching Free Guy. I like gal Gado as wonder Woman, but I haven't really got into any of our other movies, so I was curious to see how three actors of their caliber and how their chemistry would be on screen. So before I get into this review, here is just a little bit of Netflix's Red Notice. Pew Clever, Key Strokes and Bye Bye and John Hartley. She's gonna steal Cleopatra's eggs. They're priceless. We cut her together like a queer in my name, and I'll help you become the number one thief in the world. Again in your neck. If I did partner up a few, you still only have one brags. So let's get into what Red Notice is about. It's about Ryan Reynolds character. He is an international art thief said to be the self proclaimed number one art thief in the world, and he is trying to steal one of these eggs, and they are Cleopatra's eggs. There are actually three of them in the world, and the goal of all the bad people in this movie is to acquire all three eggs, which at the start of this movie, I just thought that premise was a little bit dumb. It started out very cheesy. It kind of felt like a nineties old school kind of action movie that you would like I was talking about earlier, probably watch on like a Saturday matinee on some random network TV channel. And in the movie, The Rock plays an FBI agent who comes into foil Ryan Reynolds's plan to steal this first egg, and in turn he gets set up by gal Gado's character, who is known as the Bishop in the movie. Again, this is all from the trailer, so it's not a spoiler in anyway. She frames The Rock as being kind of in cahoots with Ryan Reynolds to steal this egg. So The Rock has to team up with Ryan reynolds character to in turn stop gal Gado from her evil plan. So again, that's kind of a lot to explain, but when you watch the movie, it becomes a little more apparent what they're trying to do. I just feel like they were trying to do too much in this movie. And the initial thing that kind of took me out of this movie was the acting. And I felt like The Rock was a little bit too much The Rock. I felt like Ryan Reynolds was a little too Ryan Reynolds. He was he now I feel was a little bit typecast. He's kind of the wacky, wise cracking, kind of dead Pool character in every single movie that he does. And after watching Free Guy. I kind of had enough of that, and I like Ryan reynolds movies. I was just talking about adventure Land earlier, but I just think, for the first time, I'm having a little bit too much Rock. I'm having a little bit too much Ryan Reynolds. And I know he's actually about to take a break from acting after his movie comes out next year with Will Ferrell, so maybe even Ryan Reynolds is feeling a little bit of Ryan Reynolds fatigue. So I actually think that my favorite part of this movie was Gal Gadot's performance. But again, all of their characters felt a little bit too campy, and the whole kind of story felt a little bit too textbook movie, which isn't a bad thing, and I guess I was expecting a little bit more levels or layers to the story, but it was very straightforward. So while the acting wasn't there for me, while the comedy wasn't there for me, I just felt like the jokes kind of fell flat. There were a lot of just kind of your same quirky references that Ryan Reynolds character does, you know, just your references to pop culture, your references to internet culture, all those are kind of just in there and kind of expected. So the movie didn't really make me laugh at all. The only time it really made me laugh was the scenes that were so kind of cheesy action, which I enjoyed so kind of in the moments that I think maybe you weren't supposed to laugh, I found myself laughing. But given all of that that, I didn't really love the acting or the comedy in it. I thought that straight up action and it was exactly what it was supposed to be, a big Hollywood production with big explosions, big guns, big fight scenes, and I think the pacing and that really kept me entertained throughout the entire movie, and it kept me kind of wanting to go along the entire two hour ride in this So why I felt it didn't kind of meet my expectations of it being kind of the next level kind of step for Netflix. I thought I did a really good job of taking away what you expect a streaming movie to be. And now that it's Netflix is most watched movie of all time, I kind of see now more and more how that's going to happen more effectively now just their past Bird Box of being the movie that most people have seen on Netflix, which I found surprising because when that movie came out a few years ago, and I felt like that was one that we all experienced together. It was over Christmas break and I felt like everybody watched that movie, and it was such a big accomplishment for Netflix to have like that real first big movie hit to where people, you know, didn't really just think about them of having all these successful TV series, We were like, Okay, Netflix actually puts out quality movies that kind of hold up to all the other movies coming out in theaters. I didn't really felt like this one had that same effect. I think what it was was having three big actors like this to where it was kind of too big to fail. When you have the Rock promoting this movie on Instagram with video after video, post after post, story after story, I felt like it got out there so much. And a lot of that is it being so well promoted, aside from the content of the movie, you know, really spreading through word of mouth. I just think it was right there big on the splash page when you turn on Netflix that a lot of people went to watch it. And Netflix also has a lot more subscribers since bird Box came out, so I don't really feel like that title holds as much as it did for bird Box, But I do see the direction now that Netflix can go with putting out the same quality movies as you would see in theaters and not think anything different about it. It's just about getting eyeballs on the screen at this point, and Netflix has the power to do that. The most people are going to see it, and you have them paying the Rock, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds twenty million dollars each for this movie, and they spent in total two million dollars for this movie. So yeah, it was going to be the most much movie just by how much they invested in it. It had to be. So overall, I would say, this is just a really good popcorn movie. And where I think this movie kind of shines is that it's a very good escape as a movie, a movie. I didn't really think about anything else while I was watching it, and I think that's what a good movie does and what we actually turned to movies for. It doesn't have to be the most captivating thing, doesn't have to be the most groundbreaking thing, But for those two hours while you're watching Team this movie, you just kind of feel good like you're not thinking about real problems. The movie doesn't have any real political references. There's just nothing about this movie that makes you kind of think about the real world. And that's really what a good movie like this is supposed to do. It's supposed to appeal to everybody. And yeah, maybe the joke's fall a little flat. But while they don't, you know, really hit on me as a thirty year old movie nerd, they probably kind of resonate more with like a younger kid or teenager, So I get that. I think it's a movie that critics will probably slam pretty hard for, you know, not meeting those standards. But a movie now that I would say, if around the holidays you're just looking for something to watch for the entire family, something just like simple, kind of just it is what it is movie. I think it's a solid pick. I will end by this. I did find some of the plot lines in this movie just downright infuriating that I wanted to at some point just see I'll come on at the screen like I was supposed to buy into this, But I was fine with it. I finished watching the movie and just thought, overall, I enjoyed it. I don't think I could give this movie a solid three, like it's right there on the border of that. It took me a bit of the movie to kind of fully be into investing my entire time into it. So just for the sake of continuity of my rating system, I will give this movie a light three out of five golden eggs, a good not great movie. And I hate giving it that golden egg reference because I just thought that was kind of the dumb part of the movie, like that they have to really be finding eggs. It seems very cheesy to me. But I'm curious to see how this movie continues to grow over the holidays as more and more people watch it, and what movie will kind of knock this movie out of the top spot, because I think the next big movie they do, they're gonna want it to beat this movie. So I just think that kind of title of being the most watched Netflix movie doesn't really hold what it used to. But those are my thoughts on Red Notice. And now it's time for the part of the podcast where I break down movie trailers of movies coming to streaming in theaters very soon in a segment we call It's time to Head Down to movie Mike Trail Lard Paul, and the first trailer we're looking at today is Jurassic World Dominion, which they pretty much just released the entire first five minutes of this movie, so something I haven't really seen a lot of movies do before, they released the entire prologue. So before I get into what I think about this new Jurassic World movie, after seeing this, here's just a little bit of that Damn, I don't fit, you fit, you can't run forever. So I do think that was pretty cool. They put up the first five minutes of the movie, so if you searched that up on YouTube, you can also watch the first five minutes of this new movie. Now, this is the third installment of this Jurassic World reboot, and I feel like these movies haven't been as memorable as the original Jurassic Park movies, but I still find them very enjoyable. I still think they're very fun. I think for me, while I was watching this, I get kind of taken out of it by the special effects, something that was so kind of special about the first movies. Granted they were made in the nineties where a lot of this technology really wasn't there they were basically having to figure out how to do these computer graphic generated dinosaurs in this movie and technology that wasn't even created at the time. So what they did a lot in those movies is they made actual animatronic dinosaurs that they used and the actors could interact with, which I thought gave a different feel to that first Jurassic Park movie to where it felt a little bit more like an emotional connection there and between the animatronics and the actual special effects that it did. In the first one, I thought it did a really good job of the really close personal scenes, felt like there was an act to old dinosaur there in the presence of the actors. But when you get into the movies now, it's really just all c g I computer generated. What will you see in those entire five minutes, it's basically sixty five million years before it gets the current day, and then you see several dinosaurs escaping and basically reading havoc at this drive in movie. So I wouldn't say the first two movies in this reboot series have been the best. I do find them enjoyable to watch in theaters. I think Chris Pratt does a pretty good job in these movies. Again, it's just a lot of Chris Pratt. I feel like we're kind of maxed out on all the A list actors Hollywood is using right now. So we're getting a new Jurassic World with Chris Pratt, and then we got the Super Mario movie voiced by Chris Pratt. He's going to be in the next Guardians of the Galaxy movie, and he's also been announced as the voice of Garfield in an upcoming movie. So it's a lot of Chris Pratt. But good thing about the Jurassic World movies is I feel like the dinosaurs are the star, so I think I'll be okay seeing them again in this one. Next up in the trailer park is a new animated movie Hall DC League of Pets. You basically have a d C movie if you were taking like The Secret Life of Pets and doing that with superhero characters. A lot of big name voices in this from Dwayne Johnson, John Krasinski, Kevin Harkey on the Reeves, Kate McKinnon, the list goes on and on and on. It kind of just sounds like they took the approach of getting a bunch of big names to sell this animated movie, which I'm not the biggest fan of, But here's just a little bit of that trailer. If it isn't The Justice League Superman, what's fine on? You're super strong? I should be a lot more dead right now. Right my best friend is in danger and you have to help me. We're just a bunch of shelter pets, but they're stronger than you think. So what happened in this movie. It's Superman, who was voiced by John Krasinski, and his dog is voiced by The Rock. The Justice League gets captured by Lakes Luthor and all the super pets have to come together to rescue their owners. So it's all the other members of the Justice League's pets from like Batman to Wonder Woman, and they all have different superpowers. So if you've seen the animated movie The Secret Life of Pets, I feel like this is exactly that movie. I feel like it's exactly that movie. Even the casting in this. You have Kevin hard in this movie. He was also in the Secret Life of Pets. So I actually like The Secret Life of Pets the first one that is. I'm not embarrassed at all to go see a kids movie as an adult man by myself. I like the added element of there being some superhero references to this, but I do have to say this is not the direction I wanted DC to go in mainstream animated movies. I recently talked about a movie called The Death of Superman, which I thought was one of the best DC movies I've ever seen, live action or not, being an animated movie. I thought it was amazing, and I think their storytelling really is able to cut through animation to the point to where you don't even realize you're watching an animated movie while watching that movie. If you want to check that one out, it is on HBO Max. But I kind of wanted them to go more in that direction. I think that would definitely make them stick out for Marvel, which I think it is a bit tough to get people in adults to want to go see an animated movie meant for adults. So I think they're looking for a hit here because one, you got the A list cast, Two you have an appealing to kids, Three you have the superhero elements. So I think this movie will make a bunch of money at the box office, kind of a cash grab. It feels like to me, and it also doesn't feel like it has a place in the DC world, Like I don't think this movie is necessarily going to line up with all the other things they have going on right now. What looks like a fun and cute movie, one I won't be rushing to the theaters to get to see. Well, probably when it comes out on HBO Max I will watch this one, but it does hit theaters on MAO, and that's gonna do it for the trailer park, and that's gonna do it for this week's episode. But before I hop out of here, every single week I give a shout out to one of you who listens to the podcast and sends me a message on Instagram, tweets me at my de stro, or shoots me an email at movie Mike d at gmail dot com. And this week I'm going over to my Instagram d m s and the shout out is to Silas, who sent me a d M about last week's episode, and Silas wrote another solid episode, agreed completely on Spider Man and wanting to wait to feel those reveals in theater. Hope you have a great holiday and safe travels. F y I. I was having a bad start to the day, but at work, do you help me take my mind off that and get stuff done. Thanks again and love your podcast. I appreciate that, Silas, and to anyone who listens to this podcast, and it's kind of your distraction of the week, Like that really hasn't said in my brain while I'm doing this podcast. I really started this as a passion project because I loved movies so much and review them just online anyway, that this has kind of been my outlet for that, and I think that's also why I like to keep this podcast just completely talking about movies the entire time. And you know, even when I was reviewing Red Notice earlier, I was talking about how that movie was kind of a form of escape as them and that sometimes what we look to in entertainment. So I always just want to bring you movie content. And you know what you get when you click play on this podcast if all you want is thirty minutes of just some guy ranting and what he likes about movies, what he doesn't like about movies. I want this to be that place for you to come and enjoy, to share with your friends, to tell people about, but just kind of building this little movie community has really meant a lot to me. And if this podcast is anyway is able to get your mind off of, you know, the bad days you're having, the rough stuff you're going through in your life. You know, that's why I really look to movies. That's when that's always been to me my entire life, and why I do this podcast. So I think altogether, collectively us watching movies talking about movies, that's the entire goal here, to have this safe space to where we can just only think about that for the entire time we're listening to this podcast. That's why I love doing this for you, silas for anyone else listening who just needs to hear that I am here for you. I can admit the last couple of weeks in my life have been a little bit chaotic. If you're not familiar with the Bobby Bones Show, we did announce on there that we are currently doing the radio show and now in turn of this podcast from a country in Central America and related to this podcast, I think one of the hardest things for me is I haven't been able to go to a movie theater in like three weeks now because there's not a movie theater around here and I think the closest one to me just shows like really old movies, so I couldn't really go watch a lot of the new movies and theaters that I want to go see. So if you've noticed, a lot of the reviews have switched to movies that I can watch on Netflix. So I can't wait to get back home, go to a movie theater and check out probably King Richard, and really can't wait to watch the new Spider Man movie in theaters. That's been kind of my light at the end of the tunnel, getting to see that movie. So I appreciate you for listening to this week's episode. I hope you have a great rest of your week, and until next time. Later