iTunes Exclusive Episode Rock Dog

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Welcome.
My name is Rob.
I'm the executive producer of the Clubhouse podcast, and I'll do a little rock
music playing on you every once in a while.
But I'm not alone for this particular episode, join me across the desk I see tends to
do as the official fact checker of this show, and a man who is a rock of ages.
You may know on this fondongo, but his mom and I name him Don Ford, I'm going to call
him Don Ford.
Welcome, sir.
That is one of my all-time favorite albums, Pyramidian.
All right, I mean, it's great album.
Photograph is like all of my all-time favorite songs.
Whatever we do, one of these things, it is to review something.
This is no different.
We're going all CGI animated on you in this particular episode.
We are talking about the guy that Code Directed Toy Story 2.
He also directed SurfSupp, not the WWE what?
Thank God.
His name is Ash Bran, and it is called Rock Dog.
Before we start this whole thing, y'all the rock dog now.
Okay, here's the thing.
I wasn't able to see the screening, but I got the invite, but you got the also there.
I was there.
You got the other one.
We got to think Austin and everybody at Sly Fox.
See the name, see the name, see the name, see the name, see the name, see the name, see the name.
We're such fans of this.
Thanks for the inspiring.
There's so nice to us.
I mean, I wasn't able to see it, but you were there.
I was there.
You come for the Empire.
So, care of it.
Yes, you did.
So, here's what you need to know.
Let's hear it.
This is based on a Chinese graphic novel called Tibetan Rock Dog.
Okay.
Bodhi is a mastiff.
He's a dog.
A dog.
He's a second generation.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, never heard of a mast.
It's a big dog.
It's a protector dog.
He is a second generation.
His dog, Kampa, played by the great JK Simmons,
is the protector of this village in the mountains, called in Snow Mountain.
Snow Mountain, which is full of sheep.
Okay.
Because sheep need to be protected.
Kind of like the old lady.
At one point in the film, Kampa actually says,
it's like they're just animals that can't think for themselves.
So it's kind of like the old boony tunes with the fox and things.
No big sheep dog, yes.
Yeah, okay.
So, Kampa wants Bodhi to follow in his footsteps.
All right.
Bodhi, not really feeling it.
He loves music too much.
He wants to do music, but his dad doesn't want to do music,
because there's no future in music.
So, after some needling and some prodding,
Kampa says, okay, you can go to the city,
but when this music thing fails, you come back and you fulfill your duties.
Because we're guarding this village from wolves.
All righty.
So he goes to the city, and then going to the city,
the wolves find out he's in the city, so they want to take him out.
The lead wolf, Linux, is voiced by the Great Lewis Black.
All right.
One of the henchmen is voiced by the Great Keenan Thompson.
Okay.
This has got a lot of famous people in it.
That's some skinned.
Ah, let's see.
So he goes to see Angus.
Because he heard this guy Angus on the radio.
And he wants him to give him music lessons.
Angus is a very famous rock guitarist,
played by the Great Eddie Isard.
Well, though he doesn't know what doesn't quite work that way.
So he winds up playing in a, like,
in a park band, like a central park band,
where he meets Darma, played by May Whitman.
And Gürmer, played by Jorge Garcia,
who you might remember from Lost,
something like George Garcia.
Yeah.
And they kind of help him along his way.
Going into this thing, I wasn't sure what to expect.
I enjoyed this film.
Especially a film not done by DreamWorks,
not done by Disney,
not done by the big houses.
This is H Brothers,
which is a up and coming production company.
I really had a good time with this.
All right.
Watch gauge.
Watch gauge.
This thing runs right at an hour 30.
Um,
I want to say
the watch gauge was
25 minutes or so,
which for a movie that's only an hour 30.
That's a 30-way there.
That's not a bad deal.
I really had a good time watching this film.
Or how are the voicings?
Did you get that kind of after,
while you didn't think of JK as a burn,
but just that character?
Or was most of the voice talent?
I was there.
I was like, I get what this is.
One of the funny things.
The narrator, the pseudo narrator,
is the great Sam Elliott.
Oh.
He is a yak.
All right.
Whose name is Fleetwood?
We would yak.
That's exactly who he is.
That one took me a minute until I saw the credits.
I was like,
We would yak.
Ah.
Okay.
But there's some great voice talent in this.
It's a lot of fun.
It's not a movie that's, you know,
people are going to be looking for for a wards or anything like it.
But this is an entertaining film.
This is one of those films that
your kids are going to want to watch over and over again.
Did it flow well?
I really thought it did.
It started.
It starts out kind of clunky.
But once it gets to move in,
it moves very, very nicely.
The sheep are very funny.
What prompts body to go into the city is
his dad tries to do a deal to kind of scare him into
a staying,
but it backfires on him and ends up
basically just almost destroying the village.
All right.
And really once that all starts to happen,
everything picks up really, really nicely.
There's not,
it's not like seeing where it's a bunch of songs that you know.
There's,
there's, I think, one song,
like they play food fighters learning to fly.
Like that's the only song
I recognized in the film,
but there's good music in it too.
So it didn't drag at all or anything.
No.
It's not like a Ferrari going out,
but it's kind of like the Chevy Capri starts off
kind of moving,
but then when it hits that 60,
it goes.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
It got moving.
I was watching,
of course,
you know, when we do see films like this,
I watch people around me
because I want to see the kids.
I want to see what the kids,
the kids were having a great time.
So they were into it.
Yeah, they were.
Now, would this be a good film for adults and stuff like that,
where the adults could still find it entertaining
and it's kind of made for the kids,
and the adults are more for the kids.
Uh, it's more for the kids.
There's stuff that adults,
like there was stuff that I found
that I definitely chuckled a little bit,
but I don't know,
I've seen films that had more stuff in,
in for them.
Because you know,
like some films,
it's like,
if the parents take the kids to this,
well, the parents still be entertained.
That's my question.
They will be,
but it's not going to be like to tell them
not like I've ever seen before.
Okay.
So it won't be like to tell
Tubby's kind of,
oh my god, this is for kids only,
but, or like,
you know, whatever,
but it's going to be where
the adults could go,
they could still enjoy it,
but they, you know,
they won't be totally enthralled,
but still,
they'll do okay.
All right.
Let's see,
how was the animation looking everything?
The look was great.
It definitely had a,
had a great feel to it.
It's still kind of had that.
We're not Disney,
we're not Dreamworks,
you know,
more of an independent look to it.
Right.
But it's still,
I mean,
it does have a decent budget to it.
This thing was made for
60 million dollars.
So this,
I think this is going to have a,
a really,
a pretty decent run.
It goes,
there's not much for it to compete with
when this releases.
It's going to be a tablet,
so you can go back and
move it with a little bit.
So this will be a good,
follow-up for people that want you know,
because spring breaks coming up.
Gotta have something with the kids.
I think this would be a good,
a good movie to take them to.
So anything else might
want to add or anything kind of,
I was pleasantly surprised by this.
Because the last time...
The last time I was a kind of low.
This is kind of low.
But it's kind of hit above the bar then.
It definitely exceed my expectations.
That's for sure.
Okay,
I mean,
I mean,
really,
Well, about the other fellow friends and stuff like that at the show.
Uh, there were some, there were some people that I knew there.
Not only that, that they, you just talked to any of them after the show or whatever.
I didn't get to, a couple of them I did there were like, yeah, this was kind of fun.
Okay. So, you know, it's not going to be one of those big ones that we love.
That's, it's not going to make your top 10 of the year.
Won't get the, the Oscar nomination next year for animated or whatever.
No, but it's, but it's, it's good, it's good, it's goodness entertaining.
And I think that's what you need it to be.
And it's exactly what it needs to be.
And a good family.
It's a, yeah, it's a very good family film for sure.
Okay, so let's get to the final analysis.
All right, the way we do the final analysis on this show is we're not going to give you
thumbs up, thumbs down, we're not going to give you four pause or whatever.
Our audience whom we effectively referred to as the Empire, they wanted to go deeper.
We're going to go deeper.
Here's how this works.
Two questions.
Question number one is what I see this film again.
If the answers know them were done here.
But if the answer is yes, how far am I willing to go to see it?
Dispect your runs from top to bottom, full price at the theater, twilight,
matinee, early morning, second run, red box netflix cable.
Rob, yes, sir, would you see this film again?
I would, and how would you rate it then?
What are you willing to see at what level?
I think it's a solid red box rental.
Like it's worth leaving the house for, but I don't know that I would pay 12, 13 bucks to see it.
All right.
Like a matinee wouldn't kill me.
But I think this is one that you could have fun with the kids at home with people.
What about the dollar theater?
Second run.
No, no, because you could just because I'm not a fan of those dollar theaters.
Your bias aside at the family said, hey, let's go to the dollar theater.
Let's see if it's, oh yeah, I go.
I mean, if that was the case, yeah, but you also wouldn't hurt me to do an early morning on a Saturday,
or maybe a midday showing because it's a good fun family film.
All right, but before we end this whole thing though, because it is Ash Brannon directing Rock Dog.
We have to think, Austin and everybody at Slyfox, Zyyy, Zyyyy, Zyyyy, Zyyyy, Zyyyy,
we're such fans of those guys.
Thank you guys so much for letting us come.
Or let me come and see this.
Everybody, me.
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