Back to the Box Office: Reviews for Air: Courting A Legend, and The Super Mario Bros. Movie

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You get more out of life when
you go out to a movie. No

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on with the shoal. Hello everybody, and welcome back to the box office.

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I am Jeff Johnson. It's to
me David Burns, and we are

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discussing two iconic heroes, both Michael
and Mario this week. First up,

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we're gonna take flight with air courting
a legend. Basketball is the future.

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I want to sign Michael Jordan's damn
job and company their black people down jobs.

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I need the greatest basketball shoot it's
ever been made. How long do

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we have Monday? We can't get
Michael Jordan. It's about you and yourself

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and your ego. You show up
at the house ye have Here we go

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there a story of greatness takeing theaters. Gag fa. Okay, so let's

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let's jump into uh, let's jump
into this one, Dave. You know

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we're talking about the story of shoe
salesman Sonny Vacaro, how he takes Nike

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basically from a nothing company. They
are not in the basketball game at this

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point and basically makes history going after
Michael Jordan. Right, Yeah, what

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an incredible story. It's funny.
I knew a little bit about the story

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I didn't know the complete story,
so I was totally fascinated by this movie.

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I'll tell you right now, I've
got thirteen pairs of Air Jordan ones

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in my closets. Big fan.
I knew I was gonna love this movie.

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This movie did not disappoint, especially
with you know, being directed by

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Ben Affleck starring Matt Damon. We
got Ben and Matt back together. What

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you think of their performance, their
chemistry. I want to say I want

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to see more of them, but
I liked a little bit of a break

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that we're getting because it seems like
they're picking quality scripts to be in together.

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And it shows because they shine in
this movie. They have not lost

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a step in this film. It's
fantastic. You know, we could talk

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about them at length all day,
but we got to talk also about you

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know, obviously Ben Affleck playing Nike
CEO Phil Knight, Jason Bateman playing ahead

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of marketing Rob Strasser. I love
the fact that he is playing an actual

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person. Yeah, but still giving
us that Jason Bateman feel right, you're

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gonna have Jason Bateman playing Jason Bateman
a little right? Well, you do?

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You do have just a little bit
love the fact that we got Viola

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Davis and Julius Tennan playing Dolores and
James Jordan. They have great as Michael's

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parents. They have great chemistry,
probably because they're married in real life.

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But man, Viola Davis, who
was hand picked by Michael Jordan, by

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the way, sensational in this role. There's a reason why she was and

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pick because she is an incredible actress. And when she's having dialogue with Sonny

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Matt demon Um, you just hang
on every word that she's saying. This.

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This is a film, Dave.
This is dialogue driven. He's this

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story. You know, you're not
gonna get a lot of action. You're

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not gonna get a lot of basketball
action, right, this is This is

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a film with a lot of people
doing a lot of talking. And I

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gotta give credit to the script talking
about Alex Convery who wrote this well initially

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wrote this. This is this is
one of those uh famous scripts from the

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the unproduced Blacklist from twenty twenty one. Uh Matt and Ben find it.

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They they put their magic on it, you know, and boom, We've

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got this this amazing film. So
absolutely love it. You would you would

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expect that Michael Jordan was heavily involved
with this. Turns out he wasn't he.

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Uh you know. Ben Affleck has
has said that, yes, I

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took a lot of notes from Michael. I would call Michael, but other

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than that, you know, a
sipeh of Michael saying, hey, you

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gotta have Viola Davis he was.
He was mostly hands off and would just

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fact check them when they needed it
right. And you know, just to

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go back to what you're saying,
you know, if you're going into this

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movie thinking you're going to get a
lot of action, don't don't expect that.

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This movie is well written. It's
very dialogue driven. There are scenes

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that where two people are talking on
the phone and it's written so well that

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again you're hanging on every word that's
coming from each of the actor's mouth because

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it's just the story is that interesting
and filmed so well. We always stay

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spoiler free in these reviews, but
I will say this, U, there

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are there's a couple of scenes where
it's two people talking on the phone,

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and yeah, you do hang on
there every word. One scene in particular,

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and Dave, you know who I'm
talking about. I'm talking about Chris

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Messina, who plays David Fulk,
Michael Jordan's agent. This guy, I

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don't know where he's been, but
he might be one of the best reasons

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to see this film. His performance. Yeah, he is brilliant in that

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role. And not to give anything
away, but I'm telling you he just

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turns that switch on and off,
on and off, on and off in

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that performance and does an incredible job
at it. He absolutely Speaking of incredible,

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let's take a quick minute and talk
about the phenomenal soundtrack to this film.

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Oh my gosh, I mean because
this let's be this, this is

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factual. It takes place in nineteen
eighty four. If you are fans of

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the eighties, if you're fans of
the that pop culture at that time,

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you're gonna love this movie. And
the music's the soundtrack that was chosen for

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this is not going to let you
down right, Dave, And it's perfect.

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Then each song is very specific to
what's going on in the film,

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and it adds so much another dimension
to it. It's perfect. I won't

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tell you which artists and which songs
you're gonna hear because it's that I feel

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like that's a fun part of the
movie. I'll tell you who you don't

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get Dave. Incidentally, Ben Affleck
actually and this is a huge soundtrack,

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but uh, two artists that he
actually went after and did not get.

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He wanted Duran Duran, and he
wanted the rhythmics. Those two would have

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put him over budget. So he
he finally had to say, Okay,

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enough enough. He chose wisely because
the music didn't get is perfect. It

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is perfect. I'll tell you right
now. This is one of the best

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films I've seen this year. So
it takes uh, it doesn't take a

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lot for me to say, absolutely
see it. But Dave, let's sear

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from you. Uh what do you? What do you have for our listeners?

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See it? Stream it or skip
it? So when I was going

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to see this movie, I felt
like, it's this is a drama movie.

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This is probably going to be a
you know, I'm gonna say streaming,

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but you what, no, go
see this movie. It is directed

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well, written, well acted well
and I have a feeling we're gonna get

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some more Oscar nominations for Ben Affleck
and Matt Damon. So yeah, fantastic

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take Flight with according a legend,
you will not be disappointed. You will

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not well, Dave, let's uh
if you're ready. Let's level up.

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Let's level talk about our other feature
today. That's right, the Super Mario

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Brothers movie. Who come on,
Mario, our biggest bitch of be kinds?

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Now? I got this, No
parb that is a cruel twist of

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face. You're gonna help me find
my brother? There's a human Do you

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think I know every human being with
a mustache? Brian? I gotta cool

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out there with the letter of his
first name because I don't to the biggest

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fight of our lights only a beaters
April Fi. Okay, Dave. First

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thoughts, um, if you're a
fan of the video games, if you

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grew up with the video games,
even if you didn't grow up with the

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video games, you are going to
enjoy this film immensely. So many Easter

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eggs are in throughout this It is
a fun little ride in a very colorful

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film. I don't even know what
to say now, because you have just

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taken all the things I wanted to
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absolutely agree with you. Uh you
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grew up on the original Nintendo Entertainment
System. Yeah, we've talked heavily about

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it in our limited series nineteen eighty
six. Uh yeah, if you're a

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fan, if you grew up playing
the games, you're gonna love this film.

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If you didn't grow up playing those
games, you're still gonna love this

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film. And I can't I mean
just the picture quality, the colors,

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the color palette. Oh, it's
brilliant, beautiful, gorgeous, gorgeous film.

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I can't wait. I can't wait. I'm I'm sure I'm tipping my

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hand, but I can't wait to
have this film in four K in my

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collection. It's beautiful. Man on
those four KTVs? Oh, you know

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it? Wow, gotta be let's
talk about this cast. Let's let's uh,

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let's talk about the Coopla in the
room, Chris Pratt and the voice,

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because that's what everyone has talked about
again spoiler free, Dave. I

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feel that they handled how the voice
comes uh just magnificently. Such a credit

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to the film on how they they
addressed the voice issue. Yep, and

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uh and I thought it was really
smart how they came up with it.

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I really do too. Um.
I didn't know what to expect going into

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it, but when they showed us
that, I really enjoyed it more.

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Absolutely. Yeah, And you know, for the for the True for the

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true fans. You know, Charles
Martinet, Uh, he's in there,

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you know, playing Mario's dad.
So Giuseppe Uh loved that, which you

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think at Charlie Day playing Luigi.
You know, this is the third time

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that Chris Pratt and Charles Day have
worked together the Lego One and the Lego

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Movie in Lego Movie two h and
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Brothers. H Charlie Dave would fantastic
as Luigi fan. That says a lot

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about their chemistry. I mean,
we were just talking about Matt and Ben's

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chemistry, but but Chris and Charlie's
chemistry. U definitely I bought into the

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idea of them being brothers. Oh
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that. How did you feel about
the one and only Jack Black voicing Bowser?

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He was perfect as Bowser. You
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with him that you're going to see
that you're actually you're gonna last you really

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are. And he's just so good
because he's just over the top sometimes good

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over the top. You know.
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see him. I would love to
see it. Behind the scenes where where

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he's just in the in the recording
studio. I can't imagine him doing nothing

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but smiling ear to ear as he
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as Bowser. Uh more fantastic uh
Anna Taylor Joy playing Princess Peach, very

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strong female character. Loved loved her
role, loved her, loved her performance,

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and it was a well balanced between
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Yeah, because this is one of
those like, uh Heroes quest type of

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films. Yep. Uh So you've
got Princess Peach, You've got Mario Luigi.

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We got gotta talk about Toad played
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fantastic again. You know, loved
him and while Seth Rogan as Donkey Kong,

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I think he was part of my
favorite part. Uh. Seth Rogan

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was perfect as Donkey Kong and there
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him. Yeah, I gotta say, we gotta be careful again. I

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would love to talk about this movie
in depth. Yeah, but I feel

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like anything we say about the story, I mean, this is this is

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littered with hundreds of Easter eggs.
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new fans, So all I can
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will take you back to the eighties. It will It will definitely put a

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smile on your face. Yeah,
Definitely pay attention to stuff going on in

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the background. Pay attention to stuff
that's going around the actors, that the

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characters in the in the movie,
because there's like Jeff said, there's a

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lot of Easter eggs that are easy
to miss, but when you see them,

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you're going to smile. Yeah,
because Dave, like, we're walking

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out of the theater and you're like, did you You're you're kind of giggling,

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You're like, did you catch the
such and such? And I'm like,

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oh, I missed that, but
I did see this, And you're

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like, wait, I didn't see
that. This is this has got credit

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credit to the filmmakers because this is
a situation definitely, um where they have

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they have created a film that you're
gonna want repeat play on because you're like,

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oh, I want to see like
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the story, I've seen the movie. Now I just want to watch the

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background and see how many things I
can I can I can get And in

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the music was brilliant because you get
the music from the Mario games that you

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love and know, but they blend
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You know, they slow it down, they speed it up, and

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they use it exactly from the video
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movie. Yeah, brilliant blending of
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the music. This is UH talk
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directed by Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelinek, Perry Ludec and Fabian Pollock. Wow.

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Um, yeah, four people and
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see where four people would need to
be involved to put this thing together because

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it was absolutely absolutely fantastic. Yeah, um, Dave again, I feel

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like we have definitely tipped our hand. But uh see it. I'll let

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you go first this time. See
it, stream it, skip it without

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a doubt. Go see this movie. This movie was made for the big

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screen because you get you get CGI. It's colorful, it's fun, um

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and if you love Mario, you
have to see this on the big stream

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because a small TV stream will not
do this movie justice. It will not.

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I rarely say this, but I
will say see it twice because you're

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gonna want to see it. Just
to enjoy it. You're gonna want to

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see it, just to start catching
all the all the fun stuff that you

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probably missed your first feeling. I
can't wait to go back and see it

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again, right, Dave, I
agree, But I gotta tell you this

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movie blew the weekend away, Jeff, tell you it's gonna be number one,

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right. Oh, there's no doubt. It has become the best animated

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film debut in For money, it
came in worldwide three hundred and seventy seven

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million dollars in five days. Jeff, what, yeah, are you kidding

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me? Nope, one hundred forty
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the three hundred seventy seven worldwide.
This movie is huge, three hundred seventy

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seven million dollars in the post COVID
world. Dave. I think it's safe

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to say people are going back to
the box office. Absolutely, and we'll

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be doing that again real soon.
We'll see you guys, next time,

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See you next time.