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Ben O'Shea - Minions and Monsters - The Kids Were Really Kacking Themselves · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Great the flick with Ben shay Good in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Ben couldn't make it in mode. Sorry, guys, I actually
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  Speaker 1: had a better date, a better day. I'm on a junket,
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  Speaker 1: a better date than you, guys. I know that I'm
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  Speaker 1: over here in Sydney and I'm about to speak to somebody.
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  Speaker 1: You can't miss him if you can spot him in
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  Speaker 1: a crowd from a mile off. Dwayne Dwayne Johnson. He's
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  Speaker 1: over here in Sydney. In a couple of hours, I'll
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  Speaker 1: be speaking to it. That's impressive, Ben, But still no excuse,
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  Speaker 1: Still no excuse. Like Kazaria said, I want to go
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  Speaker 1: with the young. Now what do we got? We got
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  Speaker 1: the latest in the Despicable MEI franchise, Minions and Monsters,
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  Speaker 1: which of course focuses on the little minions and those
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  Speaker 1: little yellow guys with their sort of silver goggles and
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  Speaker 1: blue denim overalls. Who you know, you wonder whether or
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  Speaker 1: not you need an the Minions movie. And this is
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  Speaker 1: the seventh installment of the Despicable Me franchise. And for
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  Speaker 1: anybody who thinks that, for anybody who thinks that, I'd
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  Speaker 1: probably just say, look, I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 1: the studio can come up with seventeen billion reasons why
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  Speaker 1: they need another one. That's how much money this franchise
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  Speaker 1: has made in terms of box office, in terms of
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  Speaker 1: merchandising at which they've made a ton from, and licensing.
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  Speaker 1: So but the one interesting thing about this franchise has
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  Speaker 1: actually been really solid from start to finish. All of
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  Speaker 1: the Despicable Me movies have been pretty good, and all
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  Speaker 1: of the Minion movies, some of them have be This
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  Speaker 1: is the third one now that's specifically focused on the minions.
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  Speaker 1: The first two were entertaining, like you probably find them
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  Speaker 1: a bit forgettable, but they're certainly entertaining why you're watching them.
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  Speaker 1: And the director and co creator of this whole franchise,
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  Speaker 1: a Frenchman, Pierre Coffin, is that solo director of this film.
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  Speaker 1: Fun fact, he also does the voices of all the minions,
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  Speaker 1: so you know how they talk on that weird kind
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  Speaker 1: of all of them, so that we'd kind of pigeon
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  Speaker 1: Europeans Everyboddy please. It wouldn't matter if you forgot your
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  Speaker 1: script because you just make it up as you go.
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  Speaker 1: It's total gibberish. The best thing about the minions is
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  Speaker 1: you recognize an occasional word, like there's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of an Italian, a Spanish, a French, whatever it might
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  Speaker 1: be thrown in there, the occasional English word as well.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, they get up to you know, sort
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  Speaker 1: of slapstick hijinks. Kids just frop over the minions. This
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  Speaker 1: latest iteration is, I think maybe has more appeal to
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  Speaker 1: parents and adults than any other previous example. It's set
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen twenties Golden Age of Hollywood, where the minions
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  Speaker 1: randomly pop up in Tinseltown. They get a gig in
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  Speaker 1: silent movies, and they instantly are a hit. They become
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  Speaker 1: globally famous, biggest stars of the silent era. And then
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  Speaker 1: when the big studio that they work for switches to
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  Speaker 1: talkies switches to sound, which of course is a very
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  Speaker 1: real thing that happened in Hollywood back then, everybody in
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  Speaker 1: the audience realizes these minions just talk gibberish. And so
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  Speaker 1: when they're making a sort of a Citizen Kane or
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  Speaker 1: a noir detective movie, or you know, or a Cassa
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  Speaker 1: Blanco style movie, and then you hear their silly little voices,
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  Speaker 1: the audiences just go no, no, I'm out, I'm out
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  Speaker 1: so instantly, instantly, their career evaporates, and so they come
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  Speaker 1: up with the idea of, you know what, we need
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  Speaker 1: to make our own movie. Let's make a classic monster movie,
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  Speaker 1: except we've got this special spell book and we can
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  Speaker 1: conjure a real life monster. And then they have to
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  Speaker 1: save the world from the monster that they created. And
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  Speaker 1: the way this film, I guess, is an ode to
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  Speaker 1: that golden age of Hollywood is just fantastic. You've got
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  Speaker 1: references to Charlie Chapter, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keating, Fritz Lang.
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  Speaker 1: You've got Citizen Kane in there as well. For cinephiles,
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  Speaker 1: you would watch this and go, oh, okay, that that
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  Speaker 1: is actually legitimately clever. And then if you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: the voice cast, you've got the minion obviously, but then
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  Speaker 1: you've got Alison Jenny like absolute icon, Christoph Waltz, Jeff Bridges,
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  Speaker 1: Jesse Eisenberg. So it's just a fantastic cast of voice
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  Speaker 1: characters as well. So and when I watched this the kids,
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  Speaker 1: the kids were just tacking themselves laughing, yeah, and plenty
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  Speaker 1: of laughs for the adults as well. Well. The big
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  Speaker 1: question is how many minions tied to a railway line
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  Speaker 1: edly coming out, are you giving it? And that's the
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  Speaker 1: perfect reference for this film set in this era. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to give it three and a half. Alright, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's good. So it's definitely worth a watch over the
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  Speaker 1: school holidays, just you know, pure entertainment for an and
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  Speaker 1: between that and Toy Story five, I think I think
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  Speaker 1: families are pretty well served, well done. All right, Ben,
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  Speaker 1: say to the rock for us I will I'll say, sure,
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  Speaker 1: he'll remember