iTunes Exclusive Episode Norm Of The North

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My name is Rob.
I am the executive producer of the clubhouse podcast.
And I do like the cold and we've got plenty of it at the time of this recording.
But I'm not alone for this particular episode.
Joining me across the desk is he tends to do every once again as the official fact checker of this show.
And I'm man that knows cold a lot better than I do.
You may know I'm as fun, don't go, but as my name I'm Don Ford.
I'm going to call him Don Ford.
Welcome sir.
You know, I left Montana for visiting the Christmas to escape the cold and come down here.
We got it.
We definitely got it.
He had followed me.
It's a curse.
I don't know.
The film we are reviewing today is Norm of the North of Family Film runs about an hour.
26 minutes directed by Trevor Wall.
This is his first feature film.
But he's done some animation before this.
He did Sabrina secrets of a teenage witch.
Zevo 3 and Hero 108.
Basic story.
Displaced from their Arctic home, a polar bear named Norm and his three lemon friends wind up in New York City.
Or Norm becomes the mascot of a corporation.
He soon learns is tied to the fate of his homeland.
All right.
Probably start this whole thing.
Yes.
We have to think Julie, everybody at Morocco.
Yeah.
It was incredible people.
Thank you so much for inviting us.
Thank you, Julie.
Even though I was able.
Only I was able to go.
Yeah.
It was previously.
I have a previous disposition going on.
But again, you were the one that sees it.
So all I'm going to do is I'm going to ask you the hard hitting question.
So the empire knows that this is worth their money or not.
Let's just go ahead and start.
This is an animated film.
Let's start with it because Lions Gate not really known so much for animation.
This was supposed to be a direct to DVD release.
But they thought it was so good that they were going to release it theatrically.
How did the animation look for you?
The animation was fine.
I had no real complaints.
It was good.
Looks fine.
It showed the city of New York.
Very, very well I thought.
It wasn't like hit it out of the park like book a live.
But that's here and there so far between when we get something like that.
But for your good standard animation, I had no complaints.
Look fine.
Look beautiful.
Show the people and characters and the locations very, very well.
I thought.
Let's talk about the storyline that goes along with the animation.
I mean, it seems pretty cut and dry.
Yeah.
How was that for you?
Here's my issue.
Which I put in my written view at the clubhouse podcast.com.
That's our website.
I could have put on there.
I'm kind of.
Have some feelings on this because.
For a lot of anime and me features we've seen in the past.
It's kind of a simple plot, but that's fine because they want to make.
That block of her family films exactly.
Yeah.
But this one, I thought might get a little bit too complicated for the children.
As an adult, there are one two scenes where I had to kind of follow closely.
Mm-hmm.
And so when kids watch this things like at the beginning,
they're going to be loving the animation and all that.
But you want to keep a storyline that they could kind of understand to keep them interested.
I think this might lose some children because I think it might get too much made for the adult.
So what you're saying is instead of really being more of a complex plot.
It was kind of like they tried to hold the attention of more than one group of people.
And it kind of got out of control a little bit.
Yeah, and I think they lead up more towards the adults on some stuff.
Okay.
There's some good environmental stuff like the points that they bring in and everything like that.
But I just thought this.
I thought I might get the children a little bit confused or hard to follow for them.
But still it was still a good plot overall.
There was no points where I really dragged or anything like that.
Of course, some stuff in a lot of anime features may seem a little predictable.
But you know, that's what you expect.
That's what that is.
Yeah, exactly.
Now a lot of times when we go especially for family films.
When we go do these things, we tend to kind of keep an eye on the audience.
That's critics because we want to see how audiences are reacting.
How was that that were you able to do that while watching that film?
And if so, how did that go?
I did a little bit of that specifically.
Okay.
Good.
Like we've seen in the past, we've seen it where it's a lot of kids in these animated features.
And as got into this exactly.
And the thing about this, there's about 10 points through the film where they add these jokes
and which are more tailored for the adults.
Okay.
We talked about just a moment ago.
And they were fine.
They were funny.
To give you an idea, like the Lemmings run the size burg and it's about to sink in all of a sudden.
They're playing the cello in the violin like the Titanic.
Very nice.
Yeah.
So, well played.
That was kind of interesting.
But the thing I saw, there was about 10 of these real good jokes, which I chuckled about
through most of them.
But only about two times were the whole crowd really laughed at that joke.
There were about, I'd say, six, seven, eight, where I kind of laughed.
But I think you were very many other people laughing in there.
I kind of saw this kind of from the crowd itself.
The motion was kind of low on this one, that the laughter or everything was kind of a quiet audience.
Even though the theater was pretty well full, you know, that's something I did kind of watch.
I thought there was a little bit of disconnect between the audience in this film a little bit.
Maybe because it was too complicated for the kids and they're just seeing cartoons and cartoons.
So, you're saying all around adult or kids that you would have liked to have seen a little bit more
than you saw.
Yeah, I would have.
And that's the thing is, which I put again on my written view at theclubassparkest.com.
That's our website.
I think there are parts of this film, which were just taken and repackaged and put under another
cartoon.
For instance, the Lemmings.
I loved the Lemmings.
They were funny.
I think the Lemmings is a funny word to say.
Yeah, they are.
But they added some good comedy in some good parts to the story and the film, which they really
enhanced the film.
But, after a while, they started kind of remind me of the minions.
More than they should have.
More than they should have.
Okay.
By the end, by the end.
So, I think some of this, it is kind of hard to make a whole new plot when it comes to doing
handmade features and stuff like that, but I just thought a lot of this was like a raw
repackaging from different things and put into one.
But did that take away from your enjoyment of the film?
Still, I enjoyed it.
I didn't hate it.
I didn't drag from me.
I didn't say this is horrible because I was really into the plot, but as I said, it might
be a little bit too complicated for some of the children.
Okay.
You know, that was my personal opinion.
We had to talk about the voice cast as well.
I mean, a lot of heavy hitters in this Rob Schneider, Heather Graham, Ken Jong, Bill
Nayy, Cole Meaney, whom a huge fan of.
Loretta Divine, Michael Mackelhatten from Game of Thrones, Gabriel Eglacius, Charles Adler.
Let's talk about this voice cast.
How did they fit the characters that they were portraying?
Very well.
This is one of the shining stars of this film was the characterizations.
Which I've said in the past and past we've used.
One thing is when I watched these animated features and let's say Rob Schneider, when
he's normed in the polar bear, I didn't see Rob Schneider on the mic.
I didn't picture Rob Schneider.
Which, and let's clarify that.
That's why I'm terrified of that.
Because unlike, like, in minions, I, for me, the voice of Correll.
No, not Correll.
Okay.
I'm talking, Scarlet Overkill.
Okay.
This played by, just lost her name.
Okay.
Cinder Bullet.
Okay.
She didn't fit that character.
What you're saying is the voice disappeared into the character.
Which is a good thing.
Yeah.
I didn't think of that character speaking.
And to give you an idea, which was kind of interesting.
I only knew that just a quick thing before I went to the film.
That had Rob Schneider and Heather Graham.
That's all I really knew.
I knew nothing else about who.
I didn't know.
So you went in pretty cold.
Yeah, which I wanted to do.
Fair enough.
And then when I'm watching the Mr. Green character.
Who's the evil guy trying to basically.
He's trying to build a metropolis in the Arctic because I'll make him lots of money
And all that in condos and everything like that.
I thought that was Schneider.
Wow.
After the fact, there's actually, you know, Kim Jong on that.
I'm a big fan of Kim Jong.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He did.
So his voice was incredible on that.
I thought that was Schneider.
That's pretty awesome.
Yeah.
Really got me who hit out of the park was Heather Graham.
She did incredible this thing in.
For now, one moment.
I knew it was her real quick.
But I didn't think of seeing her like in Boogie Nights or the the
Hangover movies and stuff like that.
I just saw her as Vera who's Mr. Green's right hand man who actually has a conscience.
You know, so.
Okay.
Yeah.
If I had to give a shit.
She was my shoutout role on this thing was Heather Graham.
Okay.
Yeah.
The role perfectly.
He didn't think of her at all.
She played that perfect mother.
You know, with that perfect voice.
Her voice really hit this film perfectly.
Anything else you want to add before we get to the final analysis?
Um, not really.
I think we got it all.
It.
What we needed to talk about on this one.
All right.
The way we do the final analysis on this show.
We're not going to give you thumbs up thumbs down.
We're not going to give you rankings.
Letter grades.
Anything like that.
Our audience whom we affectionately refer to as the empire.
They want us to go a little deeper.
And so we do.
And ask Don up to two questions.
Question number one is would Don see this film again.
The answer is no.
Then we're done here.
But if the answer is yes, I'm going to ask Don how far he's willing to go to see it.
Will he pay full price at an evening show?
Twilight during the day early morning on a weekend.
Would he go to the dollar theater and second run?
Would he be willing to venture away from his domicile to go get it from our red box?
Would he stream it from Netflix?
Would he wait for it on cable?
Would you see this film again?
All right.
How far you want to go?
Well, I want to do two part.
I would personally see it basically on HBO or something of that ill.
Okay.
But fair enough.
I would still recommend it differently to this is a good family film regardless.
It's rated PG.
Nothing really, you know, stand out.
It's so it's fine to take the entire family to.
If you want to see it in a theater,
I would give it the 99 cent at best at the dollar theater.
Second run?
Yeah.
Or if they either rental a red box or something like that.
Or if they want to see the theater.
But if you want to see the theater do the dollar theater.
Okay.
Fair enough.
So that's a fair assessment, sir.
Yeah.
And before we finish out again, we got to thank Julie, everybody.
Marock, Lionsgate.
Thank you so much for the invite to all this for this thing.
The film is Norm of the North directed by Trevor Wall.
By the time you hear this,
it will be available to you to see.
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