Things get off to a flying start this week as we discuss the Top 5 Slow Motion moments: mind melting special effects, hilarious comedic scenes, big drama and a load of excellent nominations from our listeners help conclude this now completely rejuvenated section of the show. Huzzah!
We like to think we offer a broad spectrum of reviews, reflecting our various interests and love of all different genres of film. One area we haven't really tackled is the romantic comedy which led Dan to choose Netflix's LOOK BOTH WAYS for our entertainment this week and with a clever conceit which allows us to follow the different paths that artist Natalie's life takes when she finds out the result of a pregnancy test on her graduation day, surely this had the potential to be a surprise hit with the Dads?
That would have been nice but unfortunately despite the low bar this podcast set in the very early days, the key question of "were you entertained?", LOOK BOTH WAYS cannot reach even that. A reasonably charming performance from Riverdale's Lili Reinhart cannot compensate for the thinly-sketched love interests with personalities such as "wears tight jumpers and has dubious takes on animated movies" and "terrible drummer in an awful covers band", soporific plot and thematic blandness accompanying it's "everything will be okay" message, all delivered with competent but uninspired direction and one of the worst scores you'll ever be forced to hear. Reducing a movie about an accidental pregnancy, in Texas, to a dull, platitude filled rom-com seems insensitive at best with the current dismal state of affairs in the US, the baby timeline never seems to feature financial worries or trouble from either Natalie or Gabe in adapting to being a co-parent and the overall sense from both realities is that it doesn't matter whether you have a child, the most important thing is whether you snag a hot boyfriend. Warm and cosy I guess, in the sense that it made me want to go to sleep.
ODDBALLS is an animated adventure comedy from YouTube artists James Rallison and Ethan Banville. Episode 4 "Line Cutters" combines the social observation of CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM with the inventive lunacy of RICK AND MORTY and sees James, a sentient marshmallow blob, and Max, a crocodile, at the front of the queue for a food stand selling ribs which have been slow cooked for 100 years by chefs infused with the DNA of Gordon Ramsey. When security rock Roxanne sends them to the back of the line following an incident with a girl from the future the duo will unravel a horrific conspiracy but also eat some tasty meat so every cloud etc.
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Until next time, we remain...
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