Ep98 “Rugrats In Paris”

0:00It's the hell of a town! Welcome to Starring Springfield. This is the podcast that reviews the movies that star the cast of The Simpsons and today. We return to the Rugrats franchises. We review their second movie, Rugrats in Paris, starring Trespac Niel and Dan Castellanetta. And don't forget, if you want to tell us what movies to review, because there's one more Rugrats movie we could do, check out Cypher Studio's Patreon page. Lips and the Shadows, but for now, the podcast! Oh, free-goo. Coming to you out of the Cypher Studio's ex-glosset! Patreon-fee. It's an exclusive podcast on your ears. You can hear it now, huh? Something. And for the second time this year, I get to go, welcome to Starring Springfield. Oh my gosh, yes. What was the first? Huntbacker Notre Dame. I gotta talk to you about that. Well, let's kick it off here, because if there's any reason why,

1:03so for those that you might just be coming into this podcast, because you've seen Rugrats, these guys are gonna review that. Fuck yeah. Well, Starring Springfield Law, a few weeks ago, we reviewed the Huntbacker Notre Dame by mistake, because even though Wikipedia said it was the case, Dan Castellanetta was liking that movie. Uncannot in that movie. And we could not scan his voice anyway. However, this movie stars Dan Castellanetta, confirmed it was him, as the priest went in the final wedding scene in the movie, which takes place in Notre Dame. Yeah, there you go. I think if there's any way to figure out the red string to find out how this happened, I get through the looking glass here, people. Possibly this. Yeah, why not? This is the one that we meant. Whoops. Well, anyway, what was in Notre Dame? Well, we're still doing Notre Dame talk. So BTGF might be kind of mad at us for pronouncing it wrong. Oh, I know I was going Notre Dame and Notre Dame.

2:04Like, I was sort of doing it intentionally. It was my thing. I might know. We're kind of taking the put down the knife, honey. But just to put it out there, it is not to the darn worth. I forgot to check. Like a responsible podcasting idiot. I forgot to double. I'm pretty sure Notre Dame is fine. Yeah, we don't have to do the false on it. I mean, I'm going to do it for shits and gigs. But yeah, so, you know, she was watching this one with me and it showed up. And I was like, look, it's such a, she's just no, no. Well, this isn't the one to get a hung up on such an inaccuracy and all that because this movie takes place in the Tokyo part of Paris, France. Yeah, the Tokyo. Everyone speaks English. Yeah, little Tokyo. Fucking wild. So today we are reviewing, of course, Rugrats in Paris, the movie, aka Rugrats in Paris, aka the Rugrats movie too. And this was suggested to us by a good friend of the show and hero, Nick Soltana.

3:07And he said to us, Hey, Jens, for my next pick for Starring Springfield, I've chosen for you to watch Rugrats in Paris, the movie. A long while back, you watched Rugrats go wild, we sure did. So why not watch probably the best of the Rugrats movies? It's got consistently great animation, good gags and jokes and its hardcore center is really the strongest part of the movie. I don't agree with that. I've watched this one multiple times, but it's definitely one of the better Nickelodeon movies up there with the first SpongeBob Squarepants movie. All right. Well, before we get into what did we think and all that, where was I going with it? It's BTW. You didn't mean to say the Rugrats history. Not really because we covered that. Bit of a... I served. Yeah, look, Rugrats was a TV show. I think both of us had said on the last one that we grew up absolutely loving it. It was one of our regular rotation shows. And yeah, peak Nickelodeon, like he was seeing the Nickelodeon title card here. What are my first notes?

4:07I really like how they themed the Nickelodeon logo to be like a French ball. Oh, right. Yeah. And like, yeah, that era of Nickelodeon, we're talking... Yeah, SpongeBob is just a little bit after I think our prime, but this was for us the era of Rugrats, cat dog, real monsters. Some people talk about... Angry babies. I never got around the Angry Baby. I remember you said, yeah. I wasn't... Beaver wasn't my flavor apparently. Sorry, that's funny. Sorry, I was just stalling for fucking brain energy to go. Just a double check because I know there was some Rugrats revival recently. Oh, yeah. Didn't they try to bring it back for some reason? Yeah. Where's my real monster's live-action reboot? Oh, that'd be horrible. I know, but that's kind of what I wanted for. Well, I'm going to bring it up later because I got a metaphor around it. But I'm playing the Star Fox game, the new Smash Star Fox game, which is a remake of Star Fox 64. And they've made Slippy the Toad, like lighting effects have come a long way in video games, because he is visually wet now and I find it so upsetting.

5:07A guy called Slippy is wet. Well, I mean, he's a Toad, like a horse, like a tracks. But it's the same when Detective Pikachu came out and they 3D textured jiggly puff, and it looked like skin. Yeah, you know, like it's jiggly puff. He should be fluffy. Yeah, that shouldn't be skin. I thought there was a 3D revival, but I don't know when I can't be bothered looking it up now, because I've got other things to get to. There's no other things to get to, man. The show notes for this one, for instance. Yeah, so BT, had you seen this one before? No. No, this was the first time for me as well. I only think I saw the Rugrats movie in the day. The OJ in cinemas, yeah. Yeah, that's the one where Dill is born and Tommy learns about responsibly. And they end up on an island, and I remember that right. Was that Rugrats go wild? No, they end up abandoned somewhere. It's the kids surviving on the road, isn't it? Oh, yeah, look. I mean, I think that's the common thing with Rugrats is these guys have adventure. These guys have adventures under the situation of hideous parental oversight. I was about to say, there is a poorly supervised children.

6:08Just, there's so many of them. How did you lose all of them? Exactly. Like, the family do not see Spike from the start of the vacation until the final wedding scene, where they're like, ah, go get him Spike. Your dog has been missing for days. In a foreign country. What the fuck? Yeah, as we mentioned, many moons ago, we reviewed Rugrats go wild, which was the wild thornberries crossover. I think we said it was just kind of like a bit of a mess of the movie, because they're two franchises with huge ensemble casts and... You're going to give everyone something to do when it just sprayed itself too thin. Yeah. I'll have something to say about how this one contrasts in that, but anyway, let's get into it. This was Rugrats in Paris, the movie. It was directed by Paul Demiart and Stig Berkvist. That's not the name. It's directed by Jay David Stern, David N. Wyce, Jill Gory, Barbara Herndon, and Kate Bittillia. It's a funny thing, I'm noticing with writers and directors. They all have such unique and clunky names.

7:10And I think it's just... It's part of those WGA rules and like, actor-skilled rules where you can't have the same name. So everyone just being so like, I.J. Inks Kentonkank. I thought it was more of like a... Oh, okay. Let's have a look. Your name is Jade Binsink-Kammerna-Jard. No, you never fit on a marquee love. You're going to be a writer. Yeah. That's it. Out of acting school. Yeah, out you go. Over the writers, Guild. And of course, this is based on Rugrats, characters by Arlene Klaske and Gabe Osupeau. Our friends from the early seasons of The Simpsons. Nothing by Victor Hüger. The Notre Dame guy? Oh, yeah, Paris, yeah. Well, no, this is also loosely based on the works of Mario Puzo. Didn't say that one coming. Yeah. Again, if we're doing Rugrats in Paris, which has... It takes place mostly in a Tokyo themed theme park. Yep. And we start and end this thing with Godfather references. Yep. Hope you've seen the Godfather kids. Sorry, that was my bad version of the plot summary.

8:12So I think I should turn to you, BT. What actually just happened? Okay, come to this today in my podcast now. Okay, so Grandpa's getting married and... So all the kids are there. And as they have... Oh, now the traditional one where every mother dances with her child. And if any child for you for some reason doesn't have a mother, guess it sucks for you. That was my moment of secret and arrested development. I had the mother boy song. I had that whole time. Yep. So Chuck E. who famously has never had a mother throughout the entire series is a little sad. So his dad picks it off and says, let's go home. But then flash over to Paris in Euro Reptile land, where... Which first of all, it looks amazing. Yeah. We'll come back to that a lot. The big animatronic dinosaur keeps breaking down. Ah, call me the idiot who made this thing, which is two pickles back in the US of A. They call him up at 4 a.m. and through some Google text. He's like, oh, bring my entire family and friends, all right, to things that you've sure. No one questions it. Why don't you send them? No. I do love that. Those little bit of...

9:12Like, let's just move the plot along logic sort of things. Yeah, exactly. You know what you, you know what you bought a ticket to. Yeah. You don't want to set this up. It's not a first act fuck you. Oh, my godfather, come on. No. So they all head over to Paris where Wai-Kishenadagans and Sue, specifically the main lady who's all, she's mean and she doesn't like kids at all. But ah, she wants this big promotion. Well, the best way to do that is to show you a family person. And you know, you understand the heart of a child by at least having a stepchild of some kind. And so she makes a plan to marry Chuckie Charles Finster. Jazz. Jazz, thank you. Chuckie's, you know, dad and some old good old fashioned feed me the lines through an earpiece. And I'll just say the right things to him. A while, Shinnegans happened. But of course, Angelica also helps her on this endeavour by basically telling him that's exact... She knows some easy pushover with who's not married. Now for which she has promised a parade with ponies. I don't know if that's really even important for that point, but it happens. Wakiness ensues, but then there's got to be the grand chase to stop the wedding.

10:14Mrs. Boogie's lover style. Yeah. And so the other point of Kira, which is Coco's assistant, is the one, you know, feeding all the lines to help her flirt with jazz jazz. All the while, she's falling in love with jazz and jazz doesn't know it, but he's been falling in love with her. Ah, apparently. And her daughter is not in this as much as you would think. Who becomes a series regular after this? Yeah. Now that is one thing I wrote down as my like thing that's stuck it out to me for better or worse. I do like the movies are always canon and they make changes. They don't just... And he is a big episode because in the first one, Dill Pickles gets born and this one, you get another character to get introduced. I don't know about the other ones, but it's... You know, there are changes. It's big. It's not just he's a longer episode. Like, I remember as a kid being so annoyed that the events of the Power Rangers movie was its own little island because they basically retail a low budget version of it because the CGI robots that they made for the movie

11:17were basically deemed unmakeable as toys. So they... Whoops! Basically morphed it a little and retopped. Yeah. Go, go. In accidental puning. Anyway, yeah. So they morphed the events of the movie into like a five episode arc so that they could just sort of redesign these toys. Completely removing the need for the movie. Yeah. What a great movie. Who the hell... When designing something for the film isn't also told, make sure we can build this into a toy. Well, that's got to be day one production. Well, because, you know, Power Rangers, the show was half new footage from American thing and re-splicing an old Japanese movie. An old Japanese show, the movie was the first thing that the Power Rangers brand had done that wasn't produced with Japan's involvement. You say that like I don't know. And it was using again, cutting it CGI technology, but the movie didn't make as much as they'd hoped. So they couldn't any faster. Anyway, speaking of which, bank or tag, BT, Rod Gratz in Paris, the movie, it had a bunch of $30 million.

12:20Did it make bank? 30 million. Yeah, 30 million. I'm gonna drive over here. I was listening to Spiral Tap and they had 22 million. And that was quite a while later. Oh, yeah, I forgot. This was first released in November of 2000. Okay. I mean, whoof, tough. Obviously the first one did well. And they kept making Rod Gratz movies, but is there enough Rod Gratz money at this point? I think Go Wild was the only other one that they made. Hmm. Yeah. Phew. I am gonna go with... I'm an... And I'm always wrong. What is my instinct? My instinct is no. I'm gonna say yes. Yeah, of course it made bank. It made $103.3 million. Good Lord. All right. Hey, if everything you do is wrong, the opposite must be correct. No, I mean, bank or tank is a, you know, a binary game. You know, there's a yes-no answer, but this one's a bit more difficult to win. BT. Yep. The IMTPT billion game. All right. We have Dan Castellanetta and Tress McNeil. Let's start with the smaller part. Dan Castellanetta as the priest doing a...

13:20A philolest French accent. Of course. Where did he rank? This is the IMTPT billion game. A million. I am debiligain. There's not like a crazy amount of characters, but there's a fair amount. I'm gonna say 22nd. In the right area of the castle is 34th. Oh, wow. Okay, more cast than I realized. But Tress McNeil as Charlotte Pickles and I think a bunch of incidental voices as well. Oh wow. But Charlotte's barely got, she got like one line in this about, oh, we shouldn't have laid that. And, Jessica, watch that movie last night. They're Godfather. Yeah. Pretty much. Oh, that's tough. She's one of the main adults, but she's barely in this. Like, you know, say 11th. Eighth. All right. Again, higher than you'd think. Yeah. When we were re-releasing for the free feed, yeah, Rugrats go wild. I thought Tress was playing Phil and Lil's mother, because it's just such a different, Neil sort of like that boisterous, yeah. Uh, fabulous. I don't quite do it, but yeah.

14:20Yeah. And Charlotte Pickles is, yeah, surprising. Yeah. I guess she's Lindsay Nagelcoated a little bit. Yeah, true, true. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's his Tress. She's good at what she does. So it does a couple of fun other facts. So this was the last movie appearance of Christine Kavanaugh as Chuckie before she retired from acting in 2001 and unfortunately passed away in 2014. And yeah, we're after that Nancy Cartwright took over the role. Hence why we were reviewed it for Rugrats go wild. I know. I was curious that we had different reasons to be reviewing different Rugrats movies. Yeah. No, because back then I think as well we hadn't quite opened the door up to Tress as well. So yeah, we were sticking more closely with the core Simpson's cast. But the other fun fact about the music of this, what did you think about the music of this movie? Uh, the like made for a original soundtrack or the needle drops. Let's say yes. Uh, mostly hated it. Yep. I hated the needle drops. I didn't mind the original music, but it was all very kids' pop. It was, but I'm sure fine.

15:21We have once again run into the problem of how do you review kids' media. Uh, I will say the first part where they have this little song kind of recapping that they're going to Paris. But it's done over a montage of them going to the airport having some wear airport hijinks. I'm like, see, that's how you do it. That you get your song, but it moves. We're not like just recapping what has already happened or information we already know. We keep moving. That's great. And then like minutes later was a non-diogenic needle drop of the kids causing havoc on the plane. But it was like a like a light dance techno kind of soundtrack like why? This is the exact opposite of everything I was praising. This feels so out of place. And so not natural to the scene in not even the sense of being a diogenic or not, but just wrong genre. And it just felt like they wanted to build up a soundtrack so they could sell it. Honestly, it was probably the case. This is the year 2000 Napster hasn't fully fucked over the music industry yet. And yeah, I even wrote in my notes Jessica Simpson asked sounding song and yeah, Secret Simpsons.

16:24Anyway, and yeah, I'm looking at the track list on Wikipedia. Yeah, Jessica Simpson. We get bar homin. I mean, that I like I get it. It's like that. And I just like don't want that song and was playing over the credits. I hit mute. Yeah. But I get it. It's fun and kids love it. You've got a dog on the cast. Sure. It's French. Yeah. It was funny actually because my girlfriend joined me for watching last half of the movie. And yeah, the dog's out over the credits was the song there. Because it was huge at the time. So I can get it. Oh, no, because this is around the time that I'm working as a party clown. And you know this was one of my go-to's for physical chairs and parts parts. Kids love this song. So which is a funny set up to her going, you know what? I dig this song because bar homin were calling out men before anyone else. I'm like, what the absolute fuck are you talking about? And she's like, the song's about shitty men at clubs. And I'm like, what? They're the dogs? Yeah. Yeah. Because I've not got a playlist. I've never really listened to it literally. What does? Well, you go for that.

17:26For the majority of us, if we can't turn the radio off immediately, we just try to crawl in and not absorb this. Yeah. Do your best. But having said that, go check out the Zack Zucker routine of who let the dogs out. Very fun shit. But also appearing on the soundtrack, oh my god, Chinato Conor. Really? When you love, that must be the ballad. Oh, okay. That was the other bafflingly dumb choice though. Because that's basically, yeah, but it's a non-diagetic music that is explained. And that's Chuckie's I Want song. And it's like, why is he not singing this? Yeah. It's so clearly about him. Why do you have what I'm presuming this is a Chinato Conor one? Yeah. It was just very weird like, and this was the thing. It was recapping the plot. It's like, I know you've explained this part. Well, the, oh my god, sorry. I just keep looking more. T-boss of TLC, Aaron Carter. Fucking Jerry Halliwell does the these boots are made for walking cover. Isaac Hase is on this. You can get him on, and the year 2000, you can get him on the cartoons, Rugrats and South Park.

18:27Oh, and Cindy Lopfer, who was dumped from Notre Dame. Actually, it appears here for the song that she got her revenge. Yeah. I want a mom that will last forever. But, too late. I mean, that was a song I think it is. I don't know. Whatever. I'm not going to. Oh, there were too many of these ballads. But the original music that was written for the movie, we have another grabbing a well-known rock star, the Animal Olympics 10CC award. Oh, Mark Mothers bar from Devo. Yeah. Sure. The Whippet Guy. Yeah. Okay. I want to reduce them down to that one song because they're one of those. That's a very, very career. And yeah, well, that's their hit. But they're a very bad with a huge discography and massive influence. Yeah, that's it. You'd never like fans would absolutely hate you for calling them a one hit wonder. Because it's definitely not telling all the story. And yeah, I got to see them. And they were fucking incredible. And hats and all. I don't think so. They were covered in toilet paper at one point. Like for that. Oh, no, no. It was like, it was like bodysuits, but they were made out of tissue

19:29and they just like degraded throughout the concert. I mean, that was the point. But anyway, I just thought I was an interesting choice. But like, I got to say, some of those original songs, yeah, absolutely whiffed it. Yeah. And I was thinking that with the one where I think it is that they are on the journey or whatever. And they're going to go find our mom. And I wrote in my notes like, this is such a, the composer put himself first before considering the voice actors. Right. Because this is one of those situations like with Lisa goes gargaw where it's like, why did you get yardily to sing this? She clearly can't. Yeah, it's well out of her range. And same with this one, I was like, this is too like chord changey, you know, songs like this, you need to keep them like a drum beat and let the character actors do like doxing in over it. Yeah. You've made it too complicated, Mark Mothersbach. Mark, read the assignment. But anyway, BT, what do you think? And I mixed feels. I mean, I do have a note here of, okay, now I'm bored.

20:31Which happened at a certain point, but this is one where I feel like they were saving everything for act three. Because act three is actually kind of great. Because that's where they have the kids are piloting a giant reptile mech. And there's a robot snail chasing them played by John Liffgaugh. John Liffgaugh was in this. I know. And then like that's where also we get all the orchestral like original soundtrack scoring. And it sounds really good. And it's like, you were saving everything for this, but to get there, there's a fair amount of padding and a bunch of stuff that I just didn't think was funny or interesting. No, this movie for me, like I agree with you, the ending was really strong. Like I also think that the beginning was so strong with like that original dance scene. I got to admit it kind of got the emotional core. Yeah, I made fun of it of all you know that one. We make all the people without mothers feel bad, but it worked. Yeah, and especially Chuckies. Look, he's the millhouse of the Rugrats. And so when you actually do a scene, which is emotional and you land it with him.

21:33Like thank you very much. It hits extra hard because they just they do look nerdy and pathetic. So like I got to admit I welled up a bit at this scene because then yeah, you know, dad scoops him up and it's like you still got me buddy. Yep. And I thought I nailed it, but then I felt like they hit that emotional beat way too many times. Like in quick succession after this that it lost impact and it was that thing of you are spinning your wheels. You're not advancing the plot. You're just reminding us over and over and over. Like the scene in the plane where he's looking at the window and he sees like his mom in the clouds and like see Dill and Tommy's mom looking off to Dill and getting all lonely and everything. Yeah, and that's where the song kicks in. It's like I've already seen him get excited about this premise that this is the soul defining, you know, the emotional core of this. I get it. It's fine. Yeah, like it's the Disney philosophy. You do this shit in act one and then let's have some fun. We're joining back up with the Rugrats here. They are fucking gross little horrible monster babies.

22:34Yep. Like why are we hitting this ballad like we have done the emotional work and it was effective. Well done. Yep. Oh, fucking hitting that note. Because the thing we don't open with a lot of fun. We open with the, you know, the Godfather references, which is, you know, what a weird way to start out the movie, man. It is. Someone had clearly just recently watched it and they were like let's do that. Is it good movie? It is. I get it. But your kids in the audience don't they want something a bit more fun. Yeah. And I think to that there was just a few too many bites between fun in the first, what acts one and two. Yeah. Well, especially because the color palette starting out the movie in that Godfather style is not colorful. Yeah, very dark and washed out and the, you know, blinds casting shadows. Yeah. But a bit too far in there. That's a one for the adults. Yeah. But it's a pivotal scene. Yeah. The one for the adults needs to be passing lines. As part plot function, it's good, you know, Chuckie didn't know what to do with his wish. It's a fun reinterpretation for Angelica to go, no, I grant you a wish on the day of my grandfather's wedding.

23:39Yep. That's a cool reinterpretation. Chuckie got stage fright and didn't know what to say. And by the time was over, oh, I know what I need. That helped the emotional efficacy of this. But yeah, a strangely long amount of time to spend on it. Yeah. And it kind of maybe would have worked if they weren't doing like a visual parody. It was just, all right, listen up, you stupid babies. I watched this movie last night that says where my grandfather gets married. Yeah. I had a grant of wish. So long as you treat me with respect, you know. But I think it is like, again, I haven't watched the Rugrats for a very long time. But as far as I remember, they would do these sort of things. It's like, yeah, do film parodies and have like the core of the joke with the Rugrats. If they misinterpret, sayings and idioms and whatever and use baby logic for that. Yeah. And that's half the joke that runs. Yeah. And that's what's cute about it. I guess there was no misinterpretation or it was just the same thing. Yeah. But yeah, and overall, my opinion of this one, yeah, I'm mixed because there is some gorgeous animation moments.

24:40There are some fun sequences in there and amongst it's some really good jokes. But yeah, it's economy of storytelling is a big point of something that I don't like about this one. Because it's also like just under 80 minutes as well. This is a breezy watch. But much like my little pony before it, it took me longer than 80 minutes to watch this thing. All right. But to take a couple of polls break. Hard to take a couple of sanity breaks for it. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's, yeah, 80 minutes and there are still moments of padding like. It's weird, right? Like it's on a reasonably quick pace and things are happening at least. But there are, you know, there's a whole, Chuckie has a whole dream sequence about needing to be brave. Yeah. And it's like, you didn't, I think this is letting the animation flex. Sure. But you didn't need this and it's got another original song. That's all about how he's brave now. And it feels like the song of Chuckie Chan, which is another one of these moments like the series. Like the scene at the karaoke restaurant where the wait staff are all Sumos.

25:40Yeah. And then they break out into some song with Angelica. Um, what was it? Bad girl. Bad girl. Talk about them bad, bad girls. Right. And then she takes over lead singer duties and weird hours, the lyrics to be about stupid babies. Yeah. Sumos are like, yes, and. I mean, they, they, they're some good wait staff to just yes, and. What's this 10 year old or eight year old girl doing? Just roll with it, dude. Holy shit. Is she making this up on the fly? I'm impressed. How does she know this song? Yeah. Confusing moments where it's like, I don't think it's a vitally racist, but it goes like, I'm feeling uncomfortable. Yeah. You never want to have to ask question of this racist. Yeah. I mean, maybe, maybe not. I don't know. But the fact that I have to ask feels a little weird. Well, especially, you know, we as Simpson fans have talked a great length about the problem with our poo. We don't need to go over all those talking points, but let's just say the sumo wrestlers portraying background vocalists according again, double checked the cast list. Those three are Tim Curry, Kevin Michael Richardson and Billy West.

26:41Wow. Yeah. I mean, they got names for that for the sumo's in the restaurant. They just grabbed whoever was around. I guess which is Billy West. Yeah. Yeah. I guess he's peak Futurama at this stage as well. Yeah. KMR's, you know, constantly working. I mean, who is just around? He was just there. So I want to see, I want to see what came out in animation. Well, this is 2000s came out. Yeah. What came out in animation in like 2001, 2002? Were they there for something else? Well, they're like, hey guys, come over to this studio. Just do this one bit. Tim Curry was on Wild Thornberries. He was not tall. Yeah. True. Might have been that. Yeah. We recorded this podcast a little while ago. And as of time of editing, yeah, this is unfortunately the week where Tim Curry did pass away. So just in case you thought it was weird that we didn't mention it. But I am just interrupting the podcast to mention it here. He is obviously a legend. There's so much of things that I watched in my youth that are tied up with his performances.

27:41And I would be remiss if I didn't mention that right here right now. Obviously Rocky Horror Picture Show, Muppet Strasurer Isle, and just sensational, old-timer films for me. If you haven't, go check them out. Even watch them while Thornberries. Tell me some wild Thornberries episodes to check out. I never really checked it out, despite being a massive fan of fleas as well. Anyway, look, salute to Tim Curry, rest in power, my dude. It was a hard decade and a bit for him. So you get some solace in knowing that he can rest easy now. Yeah, it sucks all the same. Anyway, back to the show. But also playing Cocoa as well, another Simpson's alum playing a classic character for the whole one time. Nope, wasn't the voice of Jessica Lovedjo. It was the voice of the ballet teacher who won't forget to know. Yeah, I don't remember the ballet teacher's name, but yeah, an all-time classic one-time character. Exactly. Yeah, so they're doing her Russian accent and he is getting a flex for a French accent.

28:41But so many of you are heroes with attacks. You're just like Batman or Magellan. So yes, in this weird hybrid American movie, which is making reference to Italy, France and Japan. Yeah, anyway, wackiness. I mean, there are moments of the wack. Oh, these kids just getting in all kinds of fun situations without any parental supervision. Like, it is crazy. Like, hell, unhelicopter. Any of these parents are. I can't make sense of what the hell my notis says. Outside. Looks like it says the dirk, the wave. Wow. I don't, I don't even know what I'm talking about. Sure. Yeah. Yeah, the wave. Well, sorry. This is the first time I've never been able to interpret. I don't like, I don't like my current panel to get another one. Bubble fart. We mentioned that pre pod. Oh, yes, the goo. So I alluded to this earlier. I guess this is where this movie contrasts all in the other direction to my opinions of Rugrats Go Wild, whereas that was a very too large ensemble cast coming together.

29:46This is a tighter cast, but like they don't give the side characters too much to do. And especially in the case of Phil and Lil, who their side story is they found some goo. They're taking it with them everywhere. Yeah, it's, it was the stuff from like a ride and it was the water of Secret Simpsons for like, you know, duck guns. Yeah. It was surprisingly sticky and like, how are you sailing through that? I'm not so supposed to think about it, but now I am. I'm imagining that Nickelodeon were like, this was their original pitch for a log ride, but Nickelodeon style. So everyone gets slimed instead of slightly wet at the end. Yeah, sure. But um, yeah, the kids, you know, Phil and Lil drink the water. Yeah, pretty much. And they will because they bugs. That's the thing. Yeah. Oh, did they eat puke on the plane as well? No. I think they ate puke. No. They, they found it. They do. And then later she goes, my tummy doesn't feel good. It's true. And then he's got, ah, don't worry. If you need to bag, I've got one here and he's still got the sick bag, but I don't think

30:46who knows. There are a few points with like, ah, my tummy's bubbly and it's like, but why is this, is this for anything? And now, okay, it goes away immediately. Right, casual. Yeah. So that is my problem with, you know, you have the ensemble cast to work with. Not everybody needs a job. Yeah. At the same time, like, I'm like side quest. Yeah. And then it was like, and let's check in with this character. What are they doing? And I'm like, nothing funny. Sorry. Not pushing the flight, not doing anything interesting. Like, and Spike was such a fertile ground for that dog lost in Paris chasing after a poodle. Yeah. And his big punch lines was he takes a whiz on the Eiffel Tower and then they lay in the tramp, which admittedly they did have very adhesive pizza, which got like, there's a bit where they're both looking after they eat the pizza that's very, you know, runny and sticky and they have a shot of them kind of together watching the, like, the sunset and they try to separate the snaps back. And I'm like, that's funny. Yeah. I am keen to see a compilation of all the lady and the tramp bits across media. Oh, I think Simpson's is still up there with one of the best.

31:48Yeah, definitely. That's the tail right now. Yeah. They have the sweet music and then, okay, I have deciphered my note. Hey, it is the park, the wave and then an ironic wow because the, the Eurorepto park is, like, everything is Japanese and I've got a recreation of the wave from that, that imprint the wave. And it's like, this is an amazing looking park. Actually, everything to do with Eurorepto land is amazing. Like, the bus they picked them up looks like reptar and the fact they have an animatronic that's that big and breathes fire and they're like, okay, I, both the BTG and I were like, let's go there. I mean, I know it's not real, but I want to go. I want to go to there. Yeah, well, I mean, at the very least it's gotten me keen for another Japan trip. But yeah, across the board, the animation, you know, we talk about that in terms of whacking us, the cartooniness is just across the board really, really good in this. And, you know, I mentioned Futurama before, there is some of that like 3D modeling in a

32:49cartoon space that they do with the reptar animatronics and the robot at certain points and then the snail later on, which all look fucking so good. Oh yeah, like that's what they were saving everything for the end. Yeah. And maybe that's what where they just put their focus in the end of it. It was just like, how do we go here? Whatever. Whatever the rest of the script just gets us here, get us there and everything else will be fine. It's even like, it's weird to say Tommy and Dill sort of get sideline to be in this movie. Yeah. I mean, sure, by your second movie, let's focus on some sub characters, but yeah, yeah, it's totally Chuck E's movie and that's fine, you know, like Tommy got the first one. It makes, you know, sense that he shares it around a bit, but yeah, it's weird that Tommy just doesn't get that much to do in this one. Yeah, I mean, that also kind of surprised me that, um, well, Kimmy doesn't really get a whole lot to do. He's new, what's going to be his new set, Chuck E's new step sister. Yeah. Barely in this movie, and it's like it was about them. Sure, that's pretty good, but it's not. Yeah. And it's, were you saving all of her development for the series proper when she gets introduced

33:54as just like, it's, it's the movie, man, it's a fucking big debut. Yeah, exactly. Like, and especially when her mother Kira, who, you know, is actually in love with Chaz, like, she is such a adorable character. And I, I loved how they just contrasted her and Coco. So, um, directly, like that. She has all angular and sharp and. Yeah. And then there's such a kindness to Kira as well. Like, she got a great debut, but yeah, Kimmy, not so much. Yeah. And then, I think she's going to be in the series. Yeah, I don't have a good idea of what her character was based on this. Nope. She was there. Yeah. My last note of work is Coco's wedding dress was a peacock. Sort of. Yeah. Yeah. Very mangled ass peacock. Angled ass peacock, but inspired by peacock. And then one of the, like, longer, most unnecessarily long carriages as well. Yeah, but at least they brought that back. It's a mess, but then everyone's stepping on it to kind of mess her up and then it reps. And they can see her underwear. Oh, dear. Yeah. And of course, just showing what an evil capitalist she is.

34:54Not only is she wearing the stock standard, I love hard underwear, but there's dollar signs in there as well. Ah, I miss that night. Yeah, as well as her fishnet stockings as well. I mean, you need those fishnets to catch them, catch them dollars. Well, it did say like, oh, you did put an effort into it. You do plan on doing something for your wedding night. That's nice at least for tears. Yeah. I mean, you don't know that. Maybe that's just what she was to feel. Maybe she was that for her, Elliot. But I guess, you know, you would need to legally consummate the marriage. Legally, huh? Yeah. There are legal terms. There are legal things. Well, right in French lawyers, I'm basing this off of episodes of TV where I'm consummated where it marriages are easier to earn all. No, there's a whole plot line in rest of development about that. Oh, there we go. Yeah. Speaking of which, how was the heart? I mean, there's lots more wackiness to go over and several more montages and kids eating garbage and whatever. But how was the emotional call that does largely work in this one? Yes, we've got that. And it's not just, you know, Chuck E's whole quest for a mother. It's, you know, there's a bit early on where we see grandpa get married and then he's

35:57got a bit where he's talking, you know, to stew and he's still in his brother. I forget his name, whatever. And he's all like, oh, they're like, oh, congratulations, dad. And he has a line, something the effect of, of course, no, I'm not trying to replace your mother, but having her in her heart has made me able to love again. Yeah. That is a really nice way of putting it. Like I think we've never found out what happened to her, but she's just never been in the series, but to just acknowledge it and then say, I'm not forgetting, but it's because of her I can love. It's like, that's beautiful. Yeah. So I think there's similarly a bit towards the end. Yeah, because Chuck E's mother gets a bit more of a typical, she's watching us from heaven kind of thing. It's like, well, that's great if you believe in that. But if you know, so bad, I mean, he has an old sentimental of our, now I've got two mommies looking at me like, okay, for kids. That's fine. Yeah, that'll work. That's fine. But I do like the plot detail of Chaz and Kira falling in love with each other via Coco like this. Yeah. And this is sort of some of the farce elements that I really like about this, especially at the restaurant where, you know, Chaz and Kira are developing a pretty natural rapport

37:01as well. And then just Coco is just injecting herself. Yeah. But again, along with her very angular character, she's very sharp and just gets in and just fucking wedges them apart. Yeah. And all that stuff is really compelling, especially where, you know, when Kira gets her awesome fuck you moment at the end of the movie, it's just like, you don't even like him or is kid like, I'm going to tell him there's nothing you can do and just kicks right on the car. Yeah. That's pretty good. And then with the kids as well, it's just like they, I think that's one of the things that Rugrats do well is just like kids do pick up on more shit than you realize and like displaying this as well as they, I mean, I don't think she's very nice. She does. I don't think she likes Chucky. She likes her. Like they can pick up on those vibes and I like how they Rugrats do display the baby logic like that. Yeah. And in terms of Coco as well, I think she was a really good villain for this movie. It just almost makes me wish that there was just, I feel like I say this a lot, just a bit more of that because, you know, what else are we doing in 80 minutes?

38:04Like surely you had another 10. Yeah. Exactly. You could have put a little bit more in this if you wanted to. Tighten up their dogs, trim some fat. Dogs. Yeah, no. That's what I said. So I'm going to stick with it. Tighten up those dogs and those dogs. That's the French re-tap. Yeah. The dogs. That's an up to your dog. Yeah. And that's also another like nice heart moment because Chucky gets kind of fixated on, you know, he's in Paris to have a look for a new mom and sees like the princess in the reptile story, retelling the, you know, his friends with reptile. He's like, oh, that's a good mom. Let's get that. Just wants the princess, but then at a certain point, it says, I don't know what I was thinking. I want just my mom that's going to tuck me in and look after me and to love me. And it's like, no, that's sweet. Well, because they saw the reptile stage show where the princess got the big reptile's okay, ballad. And Chucky was just falling in love with her. And walking up to the stage and then Coco does a bait and switch at some point and starts playing the princess.

39:04Yeah. Again, on a tip off from Angelica saying that it's after the princess. And look, I appreciate the singing is then really bad. Yeah. That's pretty funny. No, again, a good contrast for that. But I think that was a fun thing to do with Angelica's character as well. And tying into kind of a mafia so starting of the movie as well as just like, okay, I can give you information, but what are you going to do for me? Yeah. And now I've noticed some things about you. So how about I keep quiet and you do some more things for me. Quit pro quo. Yeah. Angelica is great for that. But speaking of heart, I did find her whole like a realization moment very just so cliché boilerplate. Yeah. Very I've learned something today. Yeah. And not really with any, because she only turns back to, you know, not being evil when she just, when they're like, aha, when I'm giving you what you want, you stupid kid. Yeah. It wasn't really a realization of RG's. I didn't think I was only thinking about myself. What have I done? It was like, dang it. Now I don't get what I want. Well, screw them. I'm going to switch sides. Well, she still has the information.

40:06She can still blurt it out. And like, what is Coco and John Liff goes plan here? The thing kidnapping, like they mentioned at some point. Yeah, that's the sort of weird like just none of the talking about irresponsible parents. None of the parents at this wedding are like, where's my child? Yeah. It is somewhat implied that they've been told, oh, they're coming. This one guy is bringing all of them. And he's just running late. Whoops. But it's also, you know, feel like every single one of them got told that we're going to get one guy who's looking after all their kids and dirt. Yeah. Terrible parents. Let's just chalk it up to it was the 90s or the 2000s. Yeah. Why not? But did it feel like an episode of The Simpsons? No. Maybe. I don't know. Yeah. It's sort of, kind of, yeah. Maggie also doesn't seem to be supervised a lot and gets into a ventures. Yeah. But that's because they're meant to be kind of shit. Yeah. No, it's a different sort of humor. And even though it shares some Simpsons DNA with the voice actors, not really. Yeah. Yeah. But if we were to show this at the Aztec Theatre, first of all, leading in with The Simpsons

41:10episode, what would you lead in with? Ah, good question. I had one then I forgot what it was. Imagine Lady Boobie as lover before that, like tracks on a lot of things, except it's more of a Mrs. Robinson reference, but, you know, you get the whole stopping or wedding thing. Oh, yeah. I like that Chuckie's first word was no. No. You got to work on your, no. No, there we go. There's another one to take. How you get your next job? I'm having sure if anything, yeah, Lady Boobie as lover, sure, we've gone to Paris, haven't we? Twice. Good luck. That was bought when he went on the exchange program and then the second one where those same French guys were snake dealing with us. Yeah, that was stupid. Yeah, we hated it. Yeah, yeah, I forgot about that blissfully. The one where Willie is getting married in Scotland. Sure. It's not a great episode. Yeah. Yes. What about another movie you'd pair this with? I know, Baby's Day Out. Yeah. More nut shots in that one. Yeah.

42:11No, I was actually having a think about that. It's like, I'm, I had a realization, oh, I'm enjoying Baby's Day Out more than this. That's worth investigating. That's like the benchmark here. Yeah. For this type of movie and like, yeah, at points feeling like, okay, I know this is a kids cartoon, but Jesus Christ, there are some leaps in logic here. Yeah. That's just fine, but sometimes most of my complaints coming down to someone through a pie. Yeah. Like, nothing is really interesting. And they're not doing anything particularly fun. They did throw pies. Well, cake at the end. Cake all over the place. Yes. Fight. Like I said, the third act works. That's where all the pie is. What would you like to change? Uh, tighten up then, Dongs. Yeah. I mean, once here works, especially in your emotional core, but I just want some more fun things to happen on the way to the third act. I think that's going to be my main complaint. What exactly? I don't know, but I'm not being paid for it. But there's got to be more things to do with your whole cast on an airplane in a new city in a, you know, amusement park in the new city.

43:13Like there's a chase sequence with ninjas, which is also pretty good. Yeah. I think that's where the dog scout out could drop in. And I'm sure there's just more to do. It feels like goes back, go to the whiteboard riding and think of every idea you can and then pick like three good fun things. Yes. A lot of it's kind of just, ah, they, they make a mess. So like when they, you know, wander off in Coco's office and they, you know, start what waiting in the, um, coin pond and stuff like that. It's like, yeah, sure. But that's not really wacky or fun or anything. That's just a thing a kid would do. Yeah, that kind of thing. It's just like, there are moments that are kind of, and there's a bit where they all just get into what the big, if for some reason, we kind of have a villain reveal for some reason, where all the kids get into the leftovers left on a tray, a, um, room service tray and they're all sticky and gross and then Coco comes out and I said, ah, get rid of these filthy things. There's like, first of all, that's not new information. Second of all, that's the moment. Like surely we could have had them riding on the, the cart through the halls of the restaurant

44:17or through the halls of the hotel. I don't know. Something, it's just very static. It's everyone standing still. There's a bit where, deal literally it's covered by one of those, you know, silver tray covered things. I'm like, okay, now someone pushes the tray away and we go on a little adventure. No, he just falls off and it's like, okay, then why was he ever covered? Yeah, I guess like, because I was trying to think because the point of like the parents not intervening on any of this, like, I think a risk with doing like with like parental oversight in this car, too, is that means you've just got like a stressed out parent constantly just like that. Yeah, and that's not as fun. No. Like, we're also not having any consequence to the kids' actions either. Yeah, I think, and like to set up plot bits and have consequences and like proper motivations going in, it just, it does feel a bit stuff happening. Yeah, I think that was the thing I thought of in the walk drive over. It's the main plot is happening to chairs, but the main action and the main focus is on the kids and there's not really a lot of crossover of those two things.

45:17They're kind of having separately and at a certain point they meet, but yeah, nothing the kids are doing, a mattering to chairs and I think chairs is doing is mattering to jockey until it does. Yeah. So it's a lot of stuff happening yet, happening to the characters rather than the agency to carry that themselves. Yeah, and especially when the potential for farce and set up like, it just a lot of these scenes just left me, why did we do this? And like spike side quests as well, like, I know we criticized the episode where Patty and Selma were quitting smoking and then for some reason Maggie was having like a Disney animal's adventure side story. And but I'm like, this is the kind of beast story you have in a movie like this. You now have the animation budget. Fuck it. You have $30 million. Yeah. Make spikes all animated in impressionistic style or something. Yeah, it goes to the various famous art styles of friends for some reason. There's something to be done. Yeah, like that poodle makes him see the world as Monae or like what the water lilies are whatever. Right.

46:17You know, go on a famous tour of ping on things. I don't know. Yeah, ping on landmarks. Yeah, because those is, you know, he walks up his own piece, pulls back his eyes. Oh, it's the eye full term. Like that's not really a punchline. No, that's just a dog being it doesn't know that. But if it was somehow from his perspective, like, oh, that's like a giant hydrant. Yeah, I don't know how you communicate this with an animal who doesn't even like speak in their head. But like, yeah, having the octetray on for his like, pissed the triumph, you know, exactly. Exactly. I'm sure there's something to be mindful of. Monae, if you want me to fix this 26 year old script, pay me. Yeah. That's what it comes down to. I think now it comes down to our final notes. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, sorry. No. I forgot to mention with the What Would You Pass action that this film was preceded by a short film, you know, mentioned leading to a Simpson's episode. Movies used to do this. Yeah. It was preceded by the short film produced by Nickelodeon called Edward Fudwapafibt Big.

47:18Edward Fudwapafibt Big. Edward Fudwapafibt Big. Oh, say that three times faster. And it's based on a book, a kid's book of the same name starring a Haley Joel Osmond has the titular Edward Fudwapafibt. But it also stars Harry Shira as the general. All right. And also has like Stargatesbury Food Alarm Catherine O'Hara. Yeah. Fuckhead John Cleese is in this. Francis McDormand is the. Okay. Damn. So I was thinking, should we record a review of that for the Patreon. I think so. Like as a bonus to go in with this as well. I reckon so. So yeah, just another little thing to get you Freddy Freelot is considering coming over with the patreon.com slash sidequest studios. Exclusives. Yeah. One dollar a month gets you everything. One dollar people. Especially our review of Edward Fudwapafibt Big. Yep. I don't know what the conversion rate is like, but that's like one Frank. Come on. That's that's worth so much more than one Frank. Yeah. So that's what films available on YouTube as well. So yeah, I think it'd be a real fun record to do a watch along with that and find out

48:21what Edward Fudwapafibt Big about. I can't just. Anyway, that's my last bit of trim. You're at time for the final notes. Edward Fudwapafibt Big about Fudrockers. We'll work on it. Yeah. That's opening up some final notes. Aha. Now it's time and now it's time for our final notes. Maybe what's your final note? Let's see. Oh, this is brought to us by our friends at Kippie Klesko Kippie, whatever it's called. Kleski Supo. Yeah. That's a terrible name. So yes, our friends from the first few seasons of the Simpsons who also produced Arburel Monsters and a couple of other Nickelodeon productions. Yeah, it's so funny that I didn't really know as a kid that those two worlds were combining that so cool. And here we are. So what was Angelica calling herself the Bob Father? Yeah, and I don't like I get they don't know if it's yeah, it was one of those things that I expected to be a joke, but I don't see why.

49:21No, and I probably should have gone back and turned subtitles on, but see here's a thing. My girlfriend is a must watch things with subtitles on. And I'm actually growing to fucking hate them. Oh, really? Well, because so often they spoil lines before they happen. It can sometimes, yeah. And the timing of a joke you see it, you read it before it comes up. And especially because so many streamers are using AI ones, they're so frequently wrong as well now. Yeah, especially when it comes to like I'm watching the great North at the moment and Bob's Burgers production and much like Bob's Burgers, they love them some fucking puns. Like those aren't words that exist usually anyway, sorry. No, I'm like on a tangent. That's the same thing here. Like, I mean, I've got a similar situation, but I'm most sometimes it is very handy because it is good for like a clarity of a line. Sometimes I might have missed or, you know, exactly what was said or whatever. But yeah, every now and then you do hit like a joke spoiler because it'll be written down before you hear the cadence of how they say it.

50:21Yeah. They're the line of, you know, checking stuff and looking for dates. What a date. So they're like big raisins that make you poop. Yeah. Always bringing it back to poop. Yeah, I love that date logic stuff. Kid logic stuff. And yeah, I'll hardly internet dating. Remember when you set up your website? Yeah, whole website and women who aren't allowed in the state of Wyoming call you up. Yeah, very decent joke. You know, even in the year 2000, there were dating freaks on the internet. Yep. Okay, so I've kind of an example of I don't even get. So they're on the plane and they, you know, we push the call button and someone and a nice lady comes to you to see it. And they're like, ah, that's how you get a mom. And like, oh, I want to push the button. You can't handle the button. And it's like, that's not even a joke. That's like, I get that's one of the audience who have seen a few good men. But it doesn't like rhyme with you can't handle the truth. It's not a moment that in any way reflects that scene. It's just kind of the line.

51:22Yeah. And yeah, not a topical reference in the year 2000. No. I mean, someone might have got it, but it's not clever in any way, shape or form. No, I crammed in there. But I think the Australian passport office should use a scene from this film to display everything you can do wrong in a passport photo. Actually, there wasn't one acceptable passport photo in any of the kids there. Remember air travel before 2001? Yeah. Miss it. Really do. Multiple people in the same shot. Eyes closed. Displaying tea. So these guys hit all the, everything you're not supposed to do. Yeah, I mean, I got my passport photo read on today. I knew it. And so I'm like, okay, I know the drill I stared directly forward blank faced. Hmm. Identification. Give me your best psycho killer. Okay, perfect. I mean, I do that naturally. It really sucks. All my photos look terrible. Now my hair looks bad. Of that age. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm only going to have it for 10 more years. Yeah, exactly.

52:23Now that's I've always made sure to get in my passport photos when I'm actually really tired because I'm like, this is going to be the thing that looks like me most when I'm traveling. That's smart. That's Ellie. It's travel hacks. That's it. Do you have a corner for this? I can't remember. B T's O H N S corner. Stu operates the giant robot reptile while there were people working on it. The fuck is wrong with you, Stu? Yeah. I mean, I like his line of people you need to work my designs. I used rubber bands and paper clips for a reason. Like, that was funny. But then he's like showing the kids how it works and operating it when there's people like, dude, this is how people die. What are you doing? Yep, especially with your toddlers around. Yeah. And even then wasn't like a wacky scene. A guy just kind of falls down. He has like a dull moment, but that's about it. It's like, surely some mischief could have happened. At one point, the kids say, I think it's the air host test. Wow, she wore a cup on the wrong side of the bread. The Kurt Simpson's got a bread. You said, Crota bread. Look, we mentioned it before, but the security part, the reptile park has security ninjas.

53:29That's a job my girlfriend wants now. It's a via security ninja. She's like, hell yeah. Look, she's got trading in New Jitsu. She could do it. That's true. You know, we are saying, you know, there's not enough practical uses for people's ninjitsu these days. Exactly. It's whatever on the set. Honestly, I'd be better behaved in a park if I knew that there were ninjas waiting in the wings. I'm just ready to just karate chop. Yeah. Yeah, they're all shut up a whole lot more. All they miss, behave more to see than ninjas, but yeah, yeah, like the people who tease the people of Buckingham Palace. Yeah. You know, then I'll under punch you in the face. Ninjas would would be. Yeah, chop you in the face. John Lethgo says to Angelico when she's back black male and Coco, all right, an extra scoop for cunning. Mm-hmm. Very good line. Yes. Let's see. I am, Secret Simpsons going into Chuck E's dream because they have these reptile mouth shaped beds and we go to his dream. The mouth is slowly closing, so it's a little bit like if you should die before you wake up. Yeah. Yeah, man. What a pointless fucking sequence. Like, that was the problem.

54:30It's like, I get there there and be like, oh, it's about how he's brave now. But it's like, no, no, you get brave by action, not having a dream and then doing the thing again later. This is padding and I can know it when I say it. My notes have goof art and goob up in it and thank you, movie, for making me do that. Yep. I'm not an reptile. You don't love it. Look, again. That's where great moments of animation. The reptile musical looks just amazing. It's got this massive antitritic reptile stomping around breathing fire. There's a huge opera ballad. This is like, talk about, no, he's not a bad guy. He's misunderstood. Yeah, I want more of that in this movie. I think that's my come-ways. That's some way we can have, like, again, whiteboard riding. Think about everything you could do in a amusement park with no limits. Yeah. You've already story-reason tied to them to the musical. Stu needs this to, it's his designs for his mechanical reptile. He needs it. He's got emotional investment in it. It's not just, oh, we've got this movie and we're also doing a reptile musical in amongst it.

55:30You've justified it. You could tie it into the emotional heart as well because we know Coco's got that little radio listening in so you can get fed the answers and have, you know, Chuckie's show an interest in something in the park. And then she has like, hey, you should have this as an idea and Coco ignores him, but you know, whatever name. Here, yeah. Kira listening in is like, oh, that's a great idea. Maybe she pitches that to the boss. Yada, yada, yada. It's the thing of, yeah, she's the one who's listening to you and actually paying attention to your kid. So, yeah, better script. Dang. And one better thing which I'd advise you to not do, you know, because they have during the reptile princess ballad. Yeah. And I think the characters, I don't know if you caught this, said, oh, I hate it when they start singing. Oh, I did. That was my next note of, hey, Phil. Literally the character Phil is saying that in this movie, deep love to Philip Wolf, frequent contributor to the Simpson's and hate her musical, hate her musical moments in cartoons. It's what I made.

56:31Yeah. The stars have aligned. Phil, do you also do goof arts? I've lived with him long enough to know that, yes. Okay, so when we're at that church, we're not going to mention, there's a bit where Tommy's mom is deity, is it? Whatever. He's all like, well, we're actually in a French landmark. This is amazing. And the other one, and Phil and Lil's mom is like, nah, we've seen one church. You've seen them all. Wait me if you see a hunchback. I guess it's pretty good. One of these fun, just coincidences of us, yeah, having done the hunchback in Notre Dame recently. Maybe that we probably shouldn't have refuted. We did anyway, but yeah, has so many tie-ins to this one. What a wonder. Who to thought? Who to think? Yeah. Isn't it easy to get married in Notre Dame by the way? I don't imagine. Fuck no. Coco must have, yeah, she's got some dirt on some people. She's pulling a lot of strings there. Yeah. It wasn't a particularly well attended and wedding either, like, yeah, anyway. Yeah, well, I mean, Chase, she's not there to make friends, man. And they're there in another country.

57:32He brought all these friends with him. Oh, I forgot earlier in the movie as well. The kids are playing with the toes. This potty squirts back at you. And Chuck is like, oh, no, I've already got enough problems with squirting myself or whatever he says. Yeah, I wet myself enough as it is or something like that. And then, yeah, and the climax of the movie, when he's going to stop Coco from marrying his dad, he goes over my dad's potty, you will. Yeah, that's a good misinterpretation. I love that shit. And that's my final note. Okay, I've got one of when the Raptor animatronic is stomping through the city and the police like, stop in the name of the law. And then it kind of flies over the head and like, okay, then don't stop. I think he's, I thought he said stop in the name of France. Whatever. And that was one where I was like that, like the few good men thing is like, what a lazy fucking pun. Like, stop in the name of France. France. Is that even a pun? But no, I did like the, yeah, follow up. I'm like, okay, don't stop. Yeah, it kind of reminded me of, do not enter or do. I'm just a son of a cop at the, you know, Japan inspired theme park.

58:33The reason they, you know, Chuck E is afraid because he thinks he's going to go meet the princess, but it's actually like, you know, one of like a cook, crook lock thing that goes out every hour or whatever. Yeah. And he goes up to the door, but he gets scared of the door knockers, but look like dragons. Why then are the, and I know why, but why are the, the same dragons on the doors of Notre Dame? Yeah. Because I was confused by the like, then wait, where is he in this scene? Yeah. And it was just like, no, no, I understand. It's literally the same thing he was scared of before that he couldn't open the nest to open it here, but it could have been just another design that would remind of him with the dragon that's enough. It could have been the eyes of Notre Dame. It could have been a gargoyle, which are there. It was just one of those things of, I know like I, from a, what's the word I want here, narrative perspective, I understand he needs to be scared of the door. You're talking down to children. I think it just needs to be, it needs to be the same one for that comparison. They're children, they'll get it. If it's a scary door, it's a scary door, the scary door. Yeah. That's the furnace in home alone, sort of logic for making a villain in a kid's movie. That's just a scary little thing.

59:34Yeah, it just needs to be a door knocker that's creepy. That's enough. And it's just weird that there's a dragon design on this French cathedral. Again, something I'll get into in my final thoughts and rating of this. All right. Cool. Well, shall we do that then? Let's do it. Oh, wait. Oh my god. Suck, let me know. We nearly forgot the sacred blue. We nearly forgot the pets. I own. I can't believe you've not been doing bad French accent solter. We got it out of our system in the hospital. Yeah, we know. We deleted it. Excuse me, a hundred packet of neutered Dane. Oh, again, she knows Nincitsr and a few others. I feel like quoting from day plus one there. I know karate. Another Japanese words. We want to send some thank you. Still wonderful people out there on Patreon. Thank you for supporting us in everything we do and giving us fun movies to review. Why don't you kick it off first this time, BT? Yeah, Grant Brucie. I can stick five raisins up my nose and I can give you this. Thank you. 16 ounce males.

1:00:35Here's an extra scoop for cunning. Philip Wolff. Are you adorable, Miss proportioned, Raga Muffin? Have a thank you. Timothy Birlesson. I have problems with squirting myself already, but I don't have problems with thanking you because you're awesome. Stephanie, well, let me tell you all about my poor sinus drainage. But after I give you this, thank you. Chris Ta, who did say thank you. Me, me, that's who. Thank you. Caleb, 982. Hello, you're not a hard way, Bull. Thank you. Nick Iberth did this chucky fincter and really having trouble doing his accent because it's like having constant naked g congestion, but I want to send a thank you. Nick Saltona. Thanks for suggesting this one. Thank you very much, Nick. Say, buddy, and we'll say thank you. And sorry for shitting on it. You're really like it. Sorry. Look, I'm glad that there's something to go back to for him to get.

1:01:36We've talked about for it. It's so hard to rate kids media. But finally, David James Young, DJY, let's go piss on the Eiffel Tower together. Fucking a, bros. And in Bay, Elliott J here to say that like I said in my earlier interjection, we recorded this review about two months ago, but the release got pushed back because since then, we have had four more heroes join us on the sidequest studios Patreon feed. And since we set up the rule earlier that if you're new, you get to jump the queue. So again, apologies to Nick Saltona that it's taken us a while to release this review, but I need to send out some big thank yous to all four of our new patrons. Again, thank you for signing up. So I'm just got, I've got a shoot from the hip. I've got a bunch of Rugrats characters here. So wish me luck. So first of all, you know Josephine, this is Tommy Pickles. I've got a responsitively to give you a nice thank you and Tifa Count Ducula.

1:02:39Ah, this is Angelica. I'm normally a selfish character, but I'm going to say thank you to you. Whaling Smithers in the Toothless Mouth of Millhouse. Ah, you as Whaling Smithers in the Toothless Mouth of Millhouse deserve two thank yous from two different characters. So this is Phil and I'm Lil and we're thanking you. And finally, brand new patron, Sippo the Smith. Ah, this is Spike the Dog. I was blamed by Bruce Willis in the other Rugrats movie. We, I mean, Cyquest Studios towering, bring Phil reviewed. Thank you. Anyway, hope that was fun. I'll back to the end of this podcast. Thanks again. Love you all. Let's rank this thing on starring Springfield. We were using a six points go. It's down the bottom at failure. Maybe if the movie was just meh, you give it a participant. But for the positive, I feel like it needs to be like French meh. If it, if it does meh, to give it a failure, it is meh. If it gives you an on-wee, it gives up at this event.

1:03:42And slightly better bonds, slightly better than that silver. But if it is, that's a rapid goal. I was a little bit more just if it is a chef, geese, this a gold. Failure participant, bronze silver gold, Cubix, Akronia, Bete, where does Rugrats like rank for you? Ah, like most of it, I was pretty happy with the participant, but I do like that third act, but I don't know if that pulls it up out of a up to a bronze for me because I don't really want to watch this again. Of the two Rugrats for movies we've done, I would prefer to watch this one again. Definitely. Did we fail? Go wild. Ah, participant. I feel like for the reflection of the fact that it is better than that one by a fair margin for my memory, I will give this one a bronze. You're almost there. I know, because I'm thinking it a lot, but this is the problem. It's, you know, it's not made for me, and that's fine. But, yeah, given the choice between the two, I'd rather do this one, so I will give it the bronze.

1:04:43Yeah, I'm going with bronze as well. Like, I wanted to like this more than I did. Yeah, I do wonder if Rugrats is just, I don't know, maybe it was just aimed at a younger audience than I was used to, or that I assumed it did, because I do remember growing up feeling like, you'd go Rugrats, oh, the show about the babies, but then you'd watch it, and it's like, no, these are like, they're gross little monster kids. Yeah. And the whole joke of it is that they're horrible little monsters. Like, this is finally a show that's not depicting babies as these pristine innocent things. Yeah. And the fact that it is always a story as perceived by them and often misinterpreted by them, and that becomes kind of entertaining of how they're going to take it and what they're going to react to. Yeah. But I mean, given I'm working off memory here, something that I have watched a bit more recently at least, to his SpongeBob Square pants. And, you know, Nick Sultana made mention to that movie before. Yeah, that first movie is fucking untouchable as far as I'm concerned. Nice. It's so good. But then so many sequel SpongeBob movies just skew the age younger

1:05:48and younger and younger. And just weird as their audience is getting older and older. Yeah. Which I think it's just that problem with kids media and being a kid's entertainer is that you've either constantly got to reinvent yourself because your audience is aging out of you and hitting an age where you're cringe. Yeah. And so you don't actually have them for very long. Yeah. So I think this is even like a tactic with Rugrats that they maybe were aging at younger and younger on each one. True. Trying to get a new audience each time, sure. Because, yeah, I know it's a movie about babies, but it just doesn't feel like it takes its audience that seriously, honestly, like, yeah. But look, it's a visual face. There's lots of good things going on. The setting as well is something that's just bugging me. It's just like, why didn't you just go to Tokyo? You clearly wanted to be in Tokyo the whole time. Clearly. Yeah, that's another thing. Because what's the name? The love interest is, you know, Japanese, so-so daughter.

1:06:49Why are we not just in Tokyo? I didn't even think about that. The French elements don't add enough. And if anything, it just confuses it because you've got this Tokyo land in the middle of Paris, France, that you're just- I mean, that contrast is kind of funny, but admittedly, yeah, it's like you could just do the same thing in Japan, though. But also that they're not leaning into the jokes of the potential cross-cultures going on, like, fucking, escargot sushi. Where's one? Yeah. Like, have all of the free 26 years ago? Yeah. So an idea that, you know, like, it's like going to America world in Japan, you know. There's at least a joke there. There doesn't, I'm not getting the joke from having a Tokyo world in Paris. Yeah. And they even have sushi at one point. They talk about, isn't this weird, we're having sushi instead of all the regular French cuisines. Oh, well. Yeah. So, and if it's a fuck you to the audience, it's like, oh, cool. So that same audience that your script is kind of talking down to anyway. Yeah. And just also, why are they skewing younger and younger with each release? If you just kept it at the same level,

1:07:49you'll get the same age audience as, you know, people get older. Yeah. What's weird? Again, this is me just- Rose-Colored glasses thinking that this thing I must have enjoyed when I was 10. When you had the finest of tastes. Exactly. Surely was the height of maturity or whatever. It probably wasn't. It was always a kid's show. But yeah, I just sort of felt it a bit on this one. Yeah, I did it. Anyway, absolutely loved the opportunity to check that out though, Nick Sultan. Oh, yeah. And yeah, after this, we're going to record a review of the short film, Edward Fubwappa Fibbd Big, which will be available exclusive on Patreon. Sorry, we're going to have to get through our comedy Fs. Fubwappa Fibbd Big. Fubwappa Fibbd. Fubwappa Fibbd. Yeah. Flipper. Flipper. Flipper Flubd. Flupper Flupper. It's the exact kind of like bullshit rhyming book as well that like, yeah, anyway. So check that over at the Patreon page. Yeah. One dollar will give you access to our entire- Yeah. Dollar people.

1:08:49Entire back catalog of podcast materials that we've kept pay-walled there. It's like 250. There's so much stuff. Like, that's nothing. We have a bunch of different series reviewing mostly Simpsons content, their DVD and extras, caught BT on all the episodes of The Simpsons E-Mist. What else we did? We did Brad Birdwatching. Brad Birdwatching, that was great fun. Yeah. Want to know we thought about the Incredibles and the Incredibles too and also Tomorrowland. And everything in between. Yeah. Yeah, it was a cool story to catch up on. Good fun. And yeah, that about, oh yeah, and for $5 a month, you can tell us what movies to review. Like. Next time. Next time. And we are back from the future or something. Don't confuse more movies into this. So, I, if you remember from the last episode, we were punching in the trailer game from that because we hadn't done one for the Rugrats in Paris movie yet because the trailer game literally hadn't been invented yet. Yep. This is what happens with chronology and podcast.

1:09:51No one played the trailer game before. The problem with being, you know, on the cutting edge, sometimes you bleed. That's it. And we are bleeding online, watching the... The entertainment. We are listening to the trailer for the next movie we will be reviewing on Starring Springfield. So, BT, if you could play the file labeled Twangerine. All right. I know we all same countdown. Uh, yes. All right. Three, two, one, zero. I was a skinny fight and laughed no more than 17. The story is, the truth from the interview, have ever seen. What the fuck? The fact that I could be a turtle, born, was made of metal. I feel like I should have done Thorneburg. This ring is a symbol of my husband. But I want to give you two a little something. I can't be bothered. I'm not bothered in me. That's all. Just to bring you a little X. I want to say, like, 70 something. Oh, my God. 80 early, 80. I'm going to say 70 something.

1:10:51I'm going to say 70 again. I've never wanted. So, and a few things she didn't. Private Benjamin. Yep. No, all right. Sweet. Not to be confused with the portal about BT Callaway, Benjamin's private. Do not download that. I don't get royalties. You have to buy it from sidequest studios. You only get the audio now. I'm here. I'm with Janani Recruit at Dolly. And yes, we heard the voice of Albert Brooks who was a husband earlier in the trailer. Excuse me. There is green the only call these comments. It's like, as far as a trailer, it just feels like we're just getting just like two second segments randomly dispersed. I say, I only able to hear the audio. I want to hear, like, the modern trailer version of that song, the, you know, the boi. Oh, no, no, no, no. Yeah, it'll be the slowed down sad version of that. Yeah. I'm doing it in a modern trailer. Personally, I think you've bought temporarily insane.

1:11:53That's what we told everyone. I said that you'd, you know, you had a collapse in a mental home. People think I'm in a mental home? Slow trailer. Oh, right. Real odd pacing. I want to play the level again. Like, it's a little small snippets of very slow things. Well, if I knew you better, I'd show you my dog tags. How much? Oh, dog tags. Go beyond his private pension. Glory, glory, I am not afraid. If you hadn't guessed by now, I had. That's trailer just keeps going. Sure does. Make a man out of her, but she's a woman. And so when did you reckon at the start when this movie came out? I wanted to say 70s, maybe early 80s, but release date October 10, 1980. So what have they made in the 70s?

1:12:53All right. Hey, go ahead, me. Yeah, audio quality kind of gives that away a little bit. Yeah. And also just the style of trailer. Because in the 80s, you'd have got a lot more epic voice going in a world. Yeah. And I kind of think one man. No, it makes me wish we did this for the, yeah, hundred episodes previous. Because like the trailer is a fascinating study as well. Yeah, that's a couple long. Yeah, just the different styles. Like you have to kind of think that there was a period where they didn't really know how to make one because they didn't exist previously. So the idea of cutting something together. And then yeah, a lot of the older ones do tend to give away almost everything, which is weird. But no, look, I'm not going to lie from that trailer. I am not totally excited about this movie. I don't know anything else about it, other than the fact that it exists. But that was a weirdly put together trailer. Definitely. Definitely. Well, so you hadn't seen Private Benjamin before? Yeah. Despite having my name in it. Yeah.

1:13:53Well, for me, it'd be a hard task to, you know, watch all the Benjamin movies, you know. It's that this and button. I don't know how many Benjamin movies are. Well, yeah, in your starring Benjamin where you watch movies that feature characters that are named Benjamin. I mean, how many Elliot movies are out there and you're specifically spelling? Because if anyone who knows you, you know, you're... Yeah, ET wouldn't count. Because that's a double tea Elliot. And it's not called... And Pete Stragan also double tea. Sorry? It's not called Elliot, though. It's called ET. Yeah, exactly. Both those things appear in Elliot, but still. Yeah, I haven't seen Private Benjamin either, but it feels like the kind of thing that I caught as a kid on TV. Yeah. It's my parents were watching it. Yeah, it's the thing I've probably seen a scene or something like that, or like a third of it, somewhere along the line. Yeah. Well, it was recommended to us by Timothy Bills, and once again, bringing in the Gen X goods with his recommendation. Yeah. So I'm looking forward to checking it out. Yeah, definitely. Comedy's from this time are an interesting...

1:14:54Yeah. Interesting artifact, if nothing else. Yeah. And always good to see our boy Albert Brooks. Yeah. No, 100%. Hopefully he gets a riff in this one. And isn't just an off-screen voice, like he was in terms of a divot. Yeah, yeah. Once again, playing a husband is the main character, but yeah, he is at least... He's the last in the, you know, starring on Wikipedia, like he's the last actor listed there, but he's listed. He's under-he-he-carried, he's talented, but he's made, you know, the top 10 at least. I like the idea he has just a face of a man who is married. And they're like, oh, that's a married guy. Put him in the role. Yeah, put that on his resume. Typecast, married. Yeah, pretty much. All right. Well, enjoy the rest of this podcast for a few. I think this is Page Master, maybe. I'm not sure. Enjoy it. Go, enjoy. Why not? Bye. Bye. Editing Bay earlier, Jay, here to say that at the risk of adding too many interjections into this already way too interjected podcast, here is the original ending for this episode

1:15:56where I said, what my pick for starring Springfield was going to be, even though we're probably not going to get to it until, like, episode 102 at this stage. Whatever. Here's how they've ended. And once again, thank you very much to listeners. If you're on the free feed or if you're one of the heroes on Patreon. Thank you so much for listening to our stuff. And my interjections are at his last minute of this podcast. It's actually out of turn. Oh. And I have decided we're going to review a documentary film made by John DiMaggio. Okay. Okay. And I'm going to say, Ben, to bending Rodriguez and Jake the dog. Yep. It's called, I know that voice. It's a documentary about voice artists. Hell yeah. And it stars Hank Azari and Nancy Cartwright. As someone who likes voice actors. Alright, I mean, I'm bored. Sounds good. And again, it's a movie that's fully available on YouTube for free. So, you're welcome. Nice. But also, we've got links to a bunch of the movies that we've reviewed. I've looked in the show notes as well for another bunch of links and stuff.

1:16:58Just be cool about it, okay? Be cool. Be cool. And if someone teach me how to set up a black server. Don't even know what that is, but okay. Another way to pirate stuff. Yarp. Anyway, I've been Elliot J. and you'll let's be BT Callaway. What do they call French pilots? Corsairs. Corsairs. Corsairs. And I such a good word. Especially if they're in corsets. Corsairs in corsets. Hell yeah. I think musical Kevin Sird. Good night, everybody. Bonn, we... Bonn, we to be a world. We'll be a world. We'll be a world.