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- 0:17Hello
- 0:17boys and girls and welcome to the concession stand here on the KB radio network.
- 0:24I am your host Kevin Reed and this is the review of the new action comedy
- 0:30Brothers released on Prime
- 0:32Video and it follows Mook who is living an honest life with his wife Abby when his twin brother JD asks him to do one last favor for a heist.
- 0:47This film is directed by Max
- 0:50Barbercrow who directed Palm Springs a few years ago or a couple years ago and I love that movie very funny
- 1:00a little time travel movie wrapped up in a romantic comedy.
- 1:04It was hilarious.
- 1:05Loved it.
- 1:06And so all the pieces were there,
- 1:09especially with this cast.
- 1:11You got Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage playing twins,
- 1:15which kind of reminds us of the movie Twins from the
- 1:1980s, or was it the 90s,
- 1:21whenever it was,
- 1:22with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito.
- 1:25And you're like,
- 1:26okay,
- 1:27that should be an interesting combination.
- 1:29then you add glenn close uh manissa tomei brendan frazier these are all of these actors are academy award winners or nominees each and every one in this cast and
- 1:45so this should be interesting to see them in a kind of a screwball comedy this movie was so bad this was one of the worst films i've seen in 2024.
- 2:00Nothing about this movie,
- 2:02and I mean absolutely nothing about this movie,
- 2:05is funny.
- 2:07This is a comedy that is not funny.
- 2:11And,
- 2:12you know,
- 2:13through the year so far,
- 2:15we're just in mid-October here,
- 2:17but through the year,
- 2:19I've seen some bad comedies.
- 2:21I've seen some comedies that weren't funny.
- 2:24But at moments,
- 2:27I can see where they were trying to go at.
- 2:29You know,
- 2:29I can see where the joke just didn't land.
- 2:33It wasn't that it wasn't unintentionally unfunny.
- 2:38It just didn't land.
- 2:41But this was a rare case.
- 2:43This is a film that it just felt like they weren't even trying.
- 2:50The jokes,
- 2:51the jokes not landing,
- 2:53that would be that would be a compliment.
- 2:55There weren't any jokes.
- 2:57There was nothing about this.
- 2:59That you would constitute a comedy now a drama had they flipped it on his head and actually made a drama
- 3:08Something dramatic because there were some serious tones in this film
- 3:13That was interesting and could have been explored but it didn't go that route it was all over the place the tone was all over the place and
- 3:22They should have stuck to one
- 3:24Concentrate on one.
- 3:26I would have accepted it more had it been a flat
- 3:29out drama you know with family drama because that part was interesting but the rest of this film was completely horrible and now there were some redeemable qualities i
- 3:44would say and it there's few and i mean few few peter dinklage is the best part of this movie i love peter dinklage
- 3:58more reasons than one you know he's just one of these guys that i don't care what he's in he's good in it he's good in this movie he's just he's just not giving anything you know he's not giving anything to work with i've seen peter dinklage be funny just
- 4:18go back go look at uh death at a funeral well both of them the the original and the remake you
- 4:26He was good in both of those movies and funny in both of those movies.
- 4:31Even Pixels,
- 4:32which is a horrible movie.
- 4:34But he was funny in it.
- 4:36I love Peter Dinklage.
- 4:38And he can flip it on his head and do drama.
- 4:43Game of Thrones,
- 4:44people.
- 4:44What more do I need to say?
- 4:46The dude is so versatile,
- 4:49man.
- 4:49His range is out of this world.
- 4:52I love Peter Dinklage.
- 4:53And here,
- 4:54he really is trying.
- 4:56I think he is the only one in this cast.
- 4:59that's trying to do something but you can clearly see that he's being held back it was like i don't even know how to describe it i can't even put it in words so i'm not i'm
- 5:15not even going to attempt uh josh brolin who i mean josh brolin is another actor great in everything he's great in everything
- 5:28you could go all the way back to his first film the goonies he was great and you could go recently when he popped up in doom 2 he was great you know he was thanos he was cable he was he's he was in a uh no country for all men no no country for old men not all men uh
- 5:45but it was he was great in that he uh true grit the remake he was awesome into true grit he is an amazing actor what happened
- 5:58well i don't know i don't know why he took this role i honest to god don't know why you could tell he just checked out it was moments in here where he was trying to give something it was like midway through the performance it is real it's weird watching
- 6:14this film you can what it's like watching it in real time it's midway through the performance he just said forget it you know it's like man this just let me read my lines and get out of it you know you
- 6:28I signed a contract.
- 6:29I got to do it.
- 6:30So I'm just going to do it.
- 6:32It just felt bad.
- 6:34You know,
- 6:35that's the crazy part.
- 6:37All these actors and actresses who are a part of this film,
- 6:42I just felt bad for them.
- 6:44Super,
- 6:45super bad.
- 6:46Because I know they're great.
- 6:48Every one of them is great.
- 6:49I just named their credentials.
- 6:51All of them are Academy Award nominees and winners.
- 6:54You know,
- 6:55Brendan Fraser just won an Academy Award a couple of years ago.
- 6:59What was he doing in this movie?
- 7:02He was the worst part of the movie.
- 7:04He was the worst part of the movie.
- 7:06And Brendan Fraser,
- 7:08been a huge fan of his for years.
- 7:10Glad that we got this kind of renaissance from him in the past few years,
- 7:15you know,
- 7:16with The Well.
- 7:17And he was in that Martin Scorsese film.
- 7:22last year i can't why am i blanking on the name uh with leonardo de carpio uh well anyways he was good in it so it's been good you know to see him on his renaissance i don't know what happened here he
- 7:38was just goofy he was out of place in a film that had no tone really had no story he looked out of place in a film that was nowhere
- 7:51You know,
- 7:51it is so confusing,
- 7:53but it,
- 7:54trust me,
- 7:55it is the most out of place performance in the film.
- 7:58And that's saying a lot because Melissa Tomei's character served zero,
- 8:05zero purpose in this movie.
- 8:09It made no sense.
- 8:10The whole point of her character was the ape or the orangutan,
- 8:16whatever that she was keeping in her house.
- 8:18And so you can have that quote unquote.
- 8:21funny scene between this orangutan and Josh Brolin's cat.
- 8:27It wasn't even funny.
- 8:29It wasn't.
- 8:30It was.
- 8:32Actually,
- 8:32I felt bad for the orangutan.
- 8:34I felt bad for the monkey.
- 8:37He got lumped up in it.
- 8:40It is.
- 8:41This is mind boggling how this movie got made.
- 8:45This is truly the worst film
- 8:48I've seen this year.
- 8:49And
- 8:50I've watched this.
- 8:51three days ago and i wasn't going i wasn't even going to review it like i'm not wasting my time with this it's i'm not i'm not doing it but it's been on my mind so heavy it's been living rent free in my mind for three days like
- 9:08how did this happen i just had to talk it out i guess and it still ain't working the more i talk about it the more the angrier i get so i guess i messed up but this this was just bad that's uh that's the only way i can sum it up
- 9:21this was bad worst film of 2024 so far we got what three months left in this year i don't know what what's this month well two two months left in this year or something like that either way it go i don't see nothing overtaking this this this is this
- 9:37is so bad so i guess it was disappointing more than anything and that's the sense that it was bad just disappointing because you had so much talent involved even the director like i said i loved palm springs you
- 9:51well directed,
- 9:52well acted.
- 9:54Everything was great.
- 9:56And this happened.
- 9:58What is what happened?
- 9:59Everybody was high.
- 10:01i i don't know what i just don't know i don't know where to begin so i'm just gonna end it brothers which is currently on prime video gets a letter grade of an f yeah this this was bad is this
- 10:16this was bad bad bad movie i do not recommend but i would like to know what did you think if you checked it out am i completely off base oh man it was hilarious okay if
- 10:29please tell me where it was.
- 10:30I will convince me to watch it again,
- 10:33because right now there's no way I will watch this movie again.
- 10:37Let's find a way to convince me to watch this movie again.
- 10:40If you disagree and it's all right,
- 10:43if you liked it,
- 10:44I just want to know why you liked it.
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- 11:16Everybody,
- 11:17thank you for joining me for this glowing review of Prime Video's brothers.
- 11:25Want you all to know that I love you.
- 11:27Continue to love.
- 11:28everyone and until we speak again you all be blessed