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Okay, okay.
Just a great film though.
Enjoy a little film.
It's the best I could come on with.
I mean I don't have a whole heck of a lot of reviews.
You mean you have to have a chick play for God knows how long?
Hey, you know what and you do and God bless you for that.
How's it going to ask you about this?
Whenever we do one of these it's normally to review something this particular episode
is no exception.
We are here to review the brand new film from director Paul Feeq who you might know from
Bridesmaids and the heat.
It is called spy and if you're going to say Paul Feeq you've got to say Melissa McCarthy
and the same breath.
It seems like that's his muse.
As of late, we're talking Jude Law, Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Rose Burn, Marina
Bakarin, and Coconut Creek High School alumnus and Emmy Award winner Bobby Cannibalney.
That's how I refer to him for the rest of time.
Here's the bit.
Melissa McCarthy plays Susan Cooper, she works for the CIA but she works in what they call
the basement where she is the, basically the eyes and ears for an agent in the field by
the name of Bradley Fine played by Jude Law.
So she's always in his ear.
She's got computer screens in front of her where she can see the, the facility he's in
and if there's any bad guys around corners and whatnot.
His overwatch, so to speak, pretty much.
So when something goes wrong on a mission, she convinces her boss played by the great
Alice Jettie, that she can go out in the field to try to write this wrong.
As she tracks Rose Burn's character Reina Boyanov who has a nuclear weapon that she
is selling to the highest bidder to be detonated in a murka.
It's not about right?
Now, before we get, we got to think our best friends.
Josh.
How are you?
How are you?
Thanks for letting us see this thing.
They're just like they're took it is.
So Chad, let's start with you.
Tell me about what you felt about the story itself.
It was, it was a trip to get into.
It didn't seem like too far of a leap that she could play a character like this.
You know, when you see somebody like Melissa McCarthy, you don't exactly think,
you know, Jane Bond, it doesn't really come a leaping to mind.
But for the character that she's portraying, she sells it pretty well.
Out of all the things that I've seen in Melissa McCarthy in, this was one of the most convincing
things I've seen her do.
You could tell pretty much everybody had a great time doing it.
So it was a real easy sell.
I talked about a gag real I'm looking forward to the main.
And I mean, and keeping it spoiler free, there is a hint of one at the end of the credits.
Oh, I'm so lit up and walk out.
Stay all the way through the credits.
And, but when you've got something that apparently is a genuine chemistry between everybody
involved, it translates well on screen, you know, when you've got something like, like,
say a film that we screen a few about a week or so ago, Aloha, where you could tell
there was some tension on set and it kind of translated on screen.
You don't get that here.
If it was, you sure as heck couldn't tell.
There was definitely a very natural feel to everything that was going on.
Everything was carefree.
It just flowed.
Done.
You said about the plot of the film.
The, if you read my written review at the clubhouse podcast.com, that's our website.
I put on there, this film looked like a comedy more than anything else.
That was a comedy.
Yeah.
But what got to me in the plot of the film was there's an underlying story, which he
had talked about a little bit, and there's, what I call the serious spy plot in the
film.
Right.
And that was very interesting to me.
That kept me really interested throughout the whole film of that little side plot
for this being a comedy.
The comedy, I thought was incredible.
It went throughout the film, throughout the whole film.
It did not dry up in my opinion.
And then you add that plot of the serious spy issues.
I was actually blown away about how interested that was into that in how the Mick, it
mixed very well.
I've got to say for me, and I wrote this in my comment card that I gave after the film,
I have not laughed this much, this consistently at a film in a very long time.
Well, that was a role of what?
Six of us?
Yeah.
That's about right.
There was in a time that I can recall where all of us have gone to a screening, where
we were all pretty much having to push the other one back in the chair because we
kept leaning on each other because we couldn't breathe.
And there was the people in the theater as well.
I mean, I feel like I have to go back and watch it again, maybe, especially on Blu-ray,
so I can watch it like buy myself, so there's stuff I know that I missed because the whole
place was laughing.
So you started to captioning on, so you don't miss anything.
Because you know, like 10, 15% of the jokes got laughed over.
Because they were just coming at you like, like, bullets out of an oozy.
And what I really dig about the way Paul Figuimila, some McCarthy work together is you
can tell that he really relies on her and her comedic timing.
Because I can guarantee you, probably about 60% of her dialogue was off-page.
Yeah, not just comedic timing, but her improv skills.
So it's, and it shines here.
Yeah.
It really does.
He just kind of lets her go and do what she does, and she does it brilliantly.
I am a huge Melissa McCarthy fan, Tammy, not what's standing.
Everybody has, everybody has their own story.
She truly shines in this film as you expect her to do.
You know, she's, what I love about the way she plays her roles is it's just slap sticky
enough to be slapstick, but you still take her seriously as a performer.
It's not the whole wacky, schmacky, drool, kind of a thing.
There's, there's the Prattfall, but there's the grace to it that I really, really dig about
her.
I, she was perfect for the role she was at when she goes off on her Tourette's like
profanity.
And you want to think of her in that kind of role, but she hit it out.
I was really, really surprised and how well the serious spice she could be.
And it really, the movie works.
Fegs direction, what else do you say?
It's Paul Feg, the guy knows how to shoot a film.
And this is the biggest budget he'd ever worked with.
There's like a $60, $65 million budget on this thing.
$65 million is what IMTV is reporting.
It'll make that in two weeks.
Gosh, she was at the most, because it's really, I don't really think, let me, let me take
a look of what it's opening against this weekend.
Ontarage came out two days before.
You've got insidious chapter three, which I'm, well, that's the horror audience though.
Right.
Yeah, that's a serious contender.
Love and mercy, which you could also hear and I told him to explode shit on.
A lot of, from what I'm seeing else this week, that's your three majors.
I mean, you've got, you got a new Jackie Chan movie.
You've got a movie I saw a trailer for, which looks so avant-garde, it's ridiculous.
This will make a ton of money.
And it'll make it some money this weekend.
Because when I saw the trailer, so I was like, I'm in.
This looks great.
And it did not disappoint me, which is a very, very good thing.
I mean, I'm not the biggest, I'm a list of McCarthy fan in the world leading up to this.
I watch Mike and Molly every now and then, and I get a kick out of it.
I'd never really seen any of her films outside of St. Vincent believe it or not.
Really?
And, you know, seeing her in that and seeing her in this is two sides of absolutely.
Oh, absolutely.
Um, and the girl can act.
I mean, she was amazing in St. Vincent.
I think she was, oh, yeah.
And we talked about that when we reviewed St. Vincent, how it was so different for her and it
worked.
And now she goes back to, to basically two her wheelhouse and still knocks it out of
a park, which I am, I just, I cannot be a bigger fan of this woman.
She's just, she's so versatile.
She's amazing.
And she's, she gets it.
Now, other performances in this film, I'm getting old.
I will tell you, I'm getting old, seeing Jude Law in this film.
But he's great in the movie.
He was great in the movie, but I just, I realized how long Jude Law has been around.
You know, Roseburn, great.
Which kind of freaked me out because I didn't realize she was in bright spade.
Yep.
Until I saw it in the night.
And her boyfriend, coconut Creek high school alumnus and Emmy Award winner Bobby
can't have Allie.
This is their second back.
This is back to back films for them.
Which one was the other one?
I don't begin.
Okay, that's right.
So you know the chemistry is already there.
I mean, you, you know what to expect in this film, Delibration Leeds.
The one that surprised me in this environment was Statham.
Statham?
He almost takes this movie over.
She was comedic chops that I didn't think he had.
Like, you know, most action stars have that lighter side to them, but you don't get
to see it real often.
You know, even still own, you got a little bit of it.
With Statham, he was like, you know what, I'm all in right now.
He was playing a caricature of himself.
No, absolutely.
I mean, and if I'm not mistaken, there's a, when he starts talking about the things
he's been through, there's a couple of references to some of his other films.
Yeah.
I thought I caught a reference to Crank in there.
I think I did too.
At least one.
And there's got to be at least one transporter reference in there.
But, and I'll tell you, there's also a celebrity cameo that you see in this and you
go, you feel like everyone on Spam the guy and they go, ladies and gentlemen, Conway
Twitty.
You feel like that.
And then even that pays off at the end of the film.
You don't think much of it when it happens and later on you're like, okay, all right.
That was worth the wait.
That was worth the set up.
And not somebody that you would normally see in a film and go, oh, I'd go see that
because I don't want to give it away, you know.
Because you see it and you go, I have a question, but he has been pretty funny in the
public eye as of late.
But for me, you're standing out and I'm going to say it now, American audiences get ready
for Miranda Hart.
No joke.
Now, she's, she, she has a show called Miranda in the UK.
She was also in the very physical show called the midwife, but a lot of, a lot of British
work.
And not a lot of this time.
I asked my wife about it.
She wasn't all that familiar with the stuff she had done.
But she was great in this film as Nancy B. Arting, so Arting Stahl.
I can't even say that.
Her best friend in the basement.
Yeah.
This woman is not in five more movies in the next year, there's something wrong.
Because she, it was like, you thought you were going to breathe and Melissa McCarthy stopped
and when she stopped Miranda Hart took over.
Just Melissa delivers the left and Miranda delivers the right.
Don, and he stands out for you.
Yeah, I put on my review at the clubhouse podcast.com.
That's our website.
The guy who played all though, Peter, Sarah, he was in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Yeah.
Try pronouncing his last name.
Sarah Fanna, what's up, believe he's what it is.
He was the guy, if you're, if you're familiar with Sean of the Dead.
Yep.
He was the guy in the shower at the very beginning.
He's there other roommate.
Yeah, the roommate.
Also, what, a lot of people may not realize, he's the voice of Darth Maul.
Yes, he is.
He's like a British James Spader, the role he played and how he played it.
What a let's see, he was just, I was rolling on him.
His dialogue, oh, there's one, there's one moment.
And I, again, I don't want to ruin it, but it's towards the end of the film.
As she's walking away from him, he has this line that starts out like very
regal, and you get to, and you're like, it's just like a gut punch.
Yeah.
He's like, oh, that one we can repeat.
I'm not saying.
On the family's friendly show.
And again, realize this is rated R for a reason.
Yeah, for many, many, many, many, this is a family show, but this
is not family friendly for the kids, or, you know, there's a lot of violence.
Not only is he Darth Maul, he is the voice of Darth Chef on South Park.
Yeah.
But we have to warn him, there is a lot of violence.
I mean, real violence, like the kid, the restaurant kitchen scene, like I said, there's
a reason this movie is rated off.
Exactly.
I mean, I think we hit the language limit in the first five minutes of the film.
I wish I didn't know what the rating was going in.
They really didn't, I didn't notice it.
Notice him whenever the movie starts, but I didn't notice him when I didn't
know.
Bro, my material at front.
I didn't know that he was an R rating.
It is a solid two hours.
It's a solid two hours.
It's a solid two hours.
It flew well.
The comedy did, it did not dry up at all.
It's like there's those films that come out where they show all the good comedy and
the trailers.
Yeah.
And there's so much more to it.
No, no.
So much more to it.
I love Sarah.
Sarah found a witch too.
I thought he was great.
He was one of those, like, you think he's a throwaway character?
No.
He'll come back.
He'll be perfect.
Here's my question, you guys.
On the plot, would you really into, like, I was on the serious.
Oh, absolutely.
One of the things we engaged by on this show is when the first time I look at my
watch.
Yeah, it's going to ask.
The first time I looked at my watch, we were 45 minutes in.
Oh, wow.
And I was like, wow.
Okay.
We're close to the halfway mark on this bad boy.
And you weren't checking your watch because you were bored.
You were just checking your watch to see how much time it gone by.
Yeah.
And I would check my watch, Pirac, but I get kind of that way because I get kind of
antsy sometimes as I'm getting older sitting down for long periods of time, kind of
affects me.
What's been it did when I was younger?
But I wasn't looking at my watch from a point of, you know, when are we getting
out of here?
I was looking at my watch just to see where we were.
And like, I don't know how much more my gut can handle before it starts to hurt from
laughing as much as all the way home, my rip or sore.
Do people, when people are laughing and clapping at the same time all over an auditorium,
you know you've got something on your hand.
And our friend, our friend Dave, that was at the end of the aisle, was it next to me?
Was probably Dave Scott from the biggest person in the world.
And he had never hurt him.
He had very low expectations going in.
That's probably why he's laughing so hard.
And he was, yeah, and he was like, this is amazing.
And I had very high expectations because I'm such a fan of everybody involved at this
thing that I was just like, I'm in.
I'm ready for this.
And it did not disappoint on any level.
Not even a little bit.
Anything else we want to add?
I can't say how much I love the mix of the serious and the comedy.
They hit it so well.
And even the serious moments were light enough that there was never any like really intense
moments for me.
The seriousness of the film blended with the comedy so well that everything just, there
were so many moving parts and they all worked in concert and it was awesome.
Again, we got to thank our best friends, Josh, everybody out.
I thank you for letting us come see this thing.
Thank you so much, fun.
Spy, let's get to the final analysis.
The way we do the final analysis on this show, we don't.
We don't give you thumbs up, thumbs down, letter grades, numbers, stars, whatever.
It's not how we roll, Brett.
Our audience who'd like to refer to as the Empire is better than that.
It's two questions.
Question number one, is would you see this film again?
If the answer is no, we're done here.
If the answer is yes, then how far would you be willing to go to see this film again?
Would you pay full price?
Would you go to a Twilight, Matt Nay, early morning?
Would you go in second run to the dollar theater?
Would you make your way to a red box to rent it?
Would you stream it on Netflix?
Would you watch it on cable?
Don't we will start with you?
Would you see this film again?
Definitely.
How far would you be willing to go?
As I said in my written review, I'm giving this the full honor.
And that's for Don to go this far.
He is very, very critical.
And I think a lot of people don't give this to the credit who deserves.
If he's going to put first run full price on this, that is a huge deal for Don.
Because he does not give that out very often.
I was so surprised and how good this was and how it just was fit perfectly.
Chad, would you see this film again?
Oh yeah, how far would you be willing to go?
It was right there with Don and I would want to have as many people with me as I could possibly find that we're our fans of this kind of film, which is most people we know.
I would see this film again.
I would see it full price.
I would see it twilight.
I would see it matinee.
I would see it early morning.
I don't really do second run theaters.
I would see it in a book.
I would see it with a fox down the thing.
This in Kingsman double feature.
Oh my god, calling it now.
I'm all over this.
I am all over this.
This would be one of the greatest double features that if driving people, I hope you're listening.
I'm not even going to charge you for that.
I'm just glad to see that it looks like she's finally going to get a franchise.
This looks like it's tailor made for her.
We talked about that coming out of the theater.
I'd be okay if they didn't franchise this, but I would go see a sequel.
Does that make sense?
I would love to see more than one of them.
I'd be okay with it.
Because you think about it this genre, because this is something I've got in my written review.
This is where it which is on, which is on God, just go.
Just let me get this out.
That clubhouse, that it would form, do it for a done clubhouse podcast.com, that's our website.
It is a male dominated genre.
It always has been, it always has been on the serious side, on the satirical side, because
you've either got your James Bond types on your favorite or your Frank Dribon, or your
Cluso, Austin Powers types on the other side of it.
You've never really seen a woman take the lead on either side of it for the most part.
And she does, she crushes this thing, and I really hope this does turn into a franchise
for her.
I'd love to see a woman get a shot at carrying a character.
My question to you, Rob.
You see, you're kind of iffy on the franchise.
No, I'd be okay with it, but I'd also be okay if they didn't.
Is it, are you worried if they do franchise?
A second one's going to bomb, which has happened so many times in a past, is that the
reason?
I'm more worried about where you go with it from here.
I know it's incapable of hands, as long as it's the same people behind it.
But if they didn't do another one, I'd be okay with that, too.
I wouldn't be mad if they didn't do another one, but I'd be okay if they did.
That makes any sense.
Like, I kind of gave you an inkling of an idea, because the inkredits is very reminiscent
of an object.
That's another reason I need to go back and watch it again, because I watched the credits.
And there's so much other stuff going on during the credits that I missed because I was
reading the credits themselves, so I need to go back, and that's another thing to go back
and see it.
All right, gentlemen, let's do the punch.
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