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The 220 first one of these things.
My name is Rob I am the executive producer of the Clubhouse podcast now I have to consider
myself an animal person, sorry.
I'm not alone for this particular episode joining me across the desk as he tends to
do from time to time is the official fact checker of this show and a man that doesn't
want to refer to animals in the terms of food like hot dog.
He prefers the other way to say it.
You may know it was fun, don't go, but his mom and name him Don Ford, I'm going to call him
Don Ford.
Welcome sir.
Good Koboski or whatever they call it.
Be a keel boss.
Yeah, that one.
Whatever we do, one of these things, it is to review something and this is no exception.
We are today or tonight or whenever you're listening to this, we are reviewing the brand
new film from Controversial Director Todd Solons, it is called Weener Dog.
We run some of the cast members here for you.
Julie Delpott.
Julie Delpott.
Greta Gerwig, Kieran Kolkin, real virtual Garcia is a brief appearance in this.
Danny DeVito is in this thing, very star-studded cast, Ellen Burston is in this thing as
well, Tracy Letz, Zoyship Mammett, these are names that you probably may not recognize
as you would recognize if you saw them.
Before we start this whole thing.
Yes sir.
We have to think of best friends.
And a lot integrated marketing Josh and Daniel, everybody, thanks for the invite to this
thing.
That's a good thing.
Yeah, we're going to do a jingle for this.
I'm still working on it.
Yeah, we'll get it then.
All you really need to know about this film is it is it's done in four parts.
There are four separate stories that are all connected by a Weener Dog.
The film opens with the Weener Dog, bringing brought to a animal shelter.
Yep.
It is adopted in the first story by Julie Delpty's family, the mother father and a young
boy.
The second story is actually a recurring character from Todd Solon's film, welcome to the
dollhouse, as Greta Gerwig plays Heather Monterrozzo's character, Dawn Weener.
Okay.
She adopts the dog.
The third story is Danny DeVito's story where he is a struggling screenwriter slash
college professor and the fourth story deals with Ellen Burston, who is dealing with her
granddaughter.
Who was a granddaughter in that?
She was the last name I gave you, hold on.
I believe it was Zosha Mammets, who played her.
Okay.
So let me just put this out there on front street.
This movie is as much about a Weener Dog as four rooms as about a hotel.
The longer this film goes, the less of the dog is in the film.
In the first story, the dog has a big impact compared to the other three.
Correct.
It really does.
In the second story, there's a presence of the dog.
Dog plays role.
In the third one, it's a very questionable presence.
Except at the end.
The fourth one is what it is.
This is Todd Solans.
And if you don't know who Todd Solans is, he did films like Welcome to the Dollhouse
like we talked about before a movie called Happiness.
This is not a dude who anybody can consider to be normal.
He relishes in humor that is very dark.
He's the kind of director that he's going to push the envelope as far as he possibly
can.
He's also done a film called Storytelling.
Some of them, as you might know, life during wartime, dark horse, fear anxiety and
depression.
Not really uplifting titles.
Now, if you go to my written review at www.cobasplacas.com, that's our website.
I put on there.
This is kind of like the South Park where no, nothing's off limits.
They'll insult anybody.
And they will go in some humor that is beyond the PC envelope like you cannot believe.
If you like insulting humor and stuff that's not the normal humor where, oh my God,
they went there, they just went there, this is your kind of movie.
I wouldn't call it insulting humor.
It's dark humor because there's a difference because when you do insulting humor, and
something humor is kind of what family guy does.
Yeah.
I didn't even really give you, it even South Park is fairly tame compared to it.
Oh, yes.
Totally.
But it's in that same kind of realm where if you watch South Park, they go to places
as you would, oh, they went there.
Oh, no, no, it's the same thing on this.
I had an expectation going into this film because I got told me to go to IMDB and read the
trivia.
So I did, and I'm glad I did, yeah, because when this film premiered its Sundance this
year, when the, it wasn't even the end of the film, it's probably about five minutes
before the end of the film.
Everything happens that caused people to boo and walk out.
Yeah.
If you want to know, go seek it out.
I'm not going to tell you.
In our particular showing, I counted six people that walked out before the credits
ruled at the end.
The first one walked out at the 18 minute mark.
Yeah, there is a specific shot at the end near the end of the first story that takes
way too long.
It's kind of one of those, I know you get the point, but I'm going to keep showing you
this to grow you out even more.
The trail.
The trail, yeah.
We'll leave it at that.
And that was the first person I saw walk out of the film.
Again, if you're an animal lover, it's probably not to film for you because it's, people
like, I mean, I've seen comments of like, oh, I love when you're dogs and I'm going to
go see this and I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, like Chad was actually going to bring his
sister who is a huge fan of weird dogs.
He's never had his sister as a plus one.
And I'm glad I got to him because if she had done that, she probably would disown him.
I mean, it's that one thing with the character of the Julie, Julie Duffy's character.
Yeah, she's the mother and the first one.
Yeah, there's a couple of very uncomfortable conversations.
Yes, when she talks about her dog, Chris Sont.
I'm going to go with it.
I'd rather I'm going to glide you to it.
Yeah, I, it, I just like, we're like,
I've looked over you.
We're just like, it went there.
It went, oh, okay, all right, I, yeah, and then the dog has a presence with the third
act with Danny DeVito, you know, he, he has a one hit wonder years ago on one screen play
nice instructor and then he's trying to get everything else, but he just can't get past
there.
And he's also struggling as a job as a professor.
Yes, exactly.
It's a film school.
I mean, there's a lot of dark reality in that, but the dog really doesn't have a presence
until the very end by the elevator in what a presence it is.
We'll leave it at that where you just, I mean, my question is, from the second scene to
the third scene, it doesn't even show how the dog got from the people in the second
scene.
Well, technically it does.
That's what the intermission is.
Well, yeah, but because if you, there is an intermission between the second and
third story.
It's about two minutes long.
It's funny.
It was, it was, I did laugh, but it's literally the dog just walking.
And so the dog walks through all these things and that's what gets him to Danny DeVito.
So that's, that's your point, that's your bridge.
And but how, I mean, even when they're walking him from the walking him on a four of
a strip club, walking him, I mean, it's just, I found out that it'll be a very light
hearted.
I enjoyed the intermission.
Absolutely.
Everything else in this film, I just don't care.
Like, I don't understand the fascination that Hollywood has with Greta Gerwick.
I just don't.
I mean, she acts okay, but she's not something, I'm not president of her fan club.
Like, the mistress of America was horrific to me.
We're acting here, it's not going to get an empty, it's not going to get an empty
for me.
It's not going to get an Oscar nomination at the end of the year.
I know she was channeling Heather Maudarazzo from welcome to the Dollhouse, because
I watched it movie years and years and years and years and years ago.
But it just didn't, I don't know, it just, she didn't do anything for me in this.
Here in Culkin, I enjoyed his performance.
I thought he was good.
Yeah.
Danny DeVito, he did Danny.
Yeah.
This is what he's different.
You different types of roles.
He was more closer to his character, and it's always sunny and fill a delphi, without
the grime.
Exactly.
Ellen Burston is always great.
I'm a huge fan of her.
I felt she was underutilized in this film.
Which he didn't owner the last.
Yes.
She was the elder lady.
And she was just reality on this.
I mean.
And even before you get to the part where everybody walks out, her story takes a really weird
turn.
Where you're just like, what is going on here?
It's, I mean, she calls, I'm going to say minor spoiler three, too.
Don't say the one.
She calls the dog cancer.
Right.
I mean, it's, which is the only person that, actually, though, there's two of
the stories where the dog has a name.
Yeah.
But cancer is like, okay.
I mean, it shows you her outlook on life.
Yeah.
You know, I just, and her thing with her daughter, granddaughter, what, Tara, whatever, the
character, Tara.
Oh, that's a real quick.
That was like, what's going on?
You kind of see what's going on?
Then you realize what was going on and you're just like, she just had no emotion.
But maybe that was the part that the director wanted, but it just like, very uncomfortable
I thought.
It was Zoe, played by Zosia, man.
I was right.
Yeah.
I mean, it's just like, great, great family family get together.
No.
No, it's not.
Exactly.
Exactly.
That's what we're trying to get to point.
What do you want?
How much do you need?
You know, that.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I mean, if you're looking for something to uplift you on a Saturday afternoon, design
it, you know, but that's who's odd to someone's is.
He's not sunshine and rainbows and butterflies.
It's just not who he is.
And there's going to be a lot of people that aren't going to do the research that are
going to go into this film and come out.
I mean, like Chad Sister is going to be a prime example.
Well, hopefully he has worn her to stay with people, people that aren't going to understand
what this thing does.
And hopefully our listeners that are checking out this review right now and maybe some
from some of our colleagues in the press core here in Dallas and all over the country are
I hope we're arming you enough that understand that the movie's called Weener Dog, but
it's not about a Weener Dog.
It's four different stories.
The Weener Dog is like Kevin Bacon.
That's pretty much all you need to know and I just, he's there.
He has a president, especially in the first but after that, it's just more of a prop.
What I'm about to say.
And they're very, very, very, and well, that's what I'm going with this.
What I was going to say is what I'm about to say is going to sound really stupid.
But number one, I didn't say it.
Number two, it really kind of summed up what I think a lot of people are going to
feel as we were sitting, because you know me, I always sit through all the credits.
Yeah.
As people are walking by me, I hear a girl say, if I find out, my tax dollars went to making
this movie, which I kind of giggled inside and I was like, do you think this is PBS?
Because it's not.
Somebody funded this Amazon Studios's name is on this.
So there's money being paid here.
There's going to be a lot of people that aren't familiar with someone's work that are
going to go into this.
Like me, and are going to go, what in the name of all things good and holy just
happened here?
Because this doesn't end well.
I'm just going to say it.
You have the last five minutes.
There's one of it about five minutes before the film ends.
And then right when the film ends, you're going, if you are an animal lover, I will tell
you right now, walk out, leave at the hour 15 mark.
Because if you don't, that's all I'm saying.
We warned you.
You've been warned.
You've been warned.
What's through the watch cage?
How did that go?
For some of those on my watch, 15 minutes in, oh boy.
Because I knew there were four stories, so I was kind of time in amount.
For each one's going to take about 20 minutes.
I'm going to say this.
I love South Park.
Let's see.
I'm a South Park fan.
And I love how they'll go on certain comedy.
They'll go to certain places, you know, but in some way, I kind of enjoyed this film in
that aspect that it hits some comedy, it insults it or whatever you want to call it.
It hits some marks that no other movie or PC movie would ever touch.
And there's a couple times I laughed.
You were going, oh my god, they said that when we're talking about Chris Hunt, I was laughing
on that goal.
Okay, okay.
There are certain topics that I can't, yeah.
I can't bring myself to that conversation as one of them.
Yeah.
I got nothing from this film.
Adam, I'm glad I knew what happened going in.
And I was able to prepare a fellow member of our press corps who was also a huge animal
lover.
I was able to pull him to the side and say, look, this is how this is going to go down.
I need you to be prepared for it because just get ready.
Yeah, I mean, and if you want to know, you can send me an email, rob it to clubhousepodcast.com.
I will be more than happy to tell you.
That's his email.
That is my, you know.
But I don't why, you know, we try to be spoiler free.
Yeah, but understand things get ugly.
Yeah, it doesn't end good.
Leave it at that.
I think we've covered it.
Yeah, so let's, let's get to the final analysis.
The way we do the final analysis on the show.
We're not going to give you thumbs up, thumbs down.
We're not going to give you letters, numbers, grades, stars, whatever, um, our audience
whom we affectionately refer to as the empire.
They want us to dig deeper.
So we're going to do that.
Sure, it will be up to two questions asked here.
The first question is, would either one of us see this film again, if the answer is no,
we're done here.
If the answer is yes, then we grade that, yes, based on how far we're going to go to
see it again.
Your top not just going to be evening show in a theater.
Below that twilight, below not the movie the time.
Below that matinee, below that early morning on a weekend, below that second one of the
dollar theater below that red box below that netflix below that cable.
Dom, would you see this again?
Okay.
This is going to be weird because I'm going to, okay, I'm going to give two on this.
All right.
To the 95, 98% general population mass out there.
Okay.
No.
Okay.
Don't there enough?
Okay.
What about the other five percent?
No, to that weird, like you like that South Park where they go and they push the boundaries,
I recommend it, uh, something like HBO, uh, yeah, something like that.
You know, wait till comes on TV or do the cheap dollar rental, whatever's cheaper.
Because if you like that kind of where it pushes the boundaries, there are some scenes where
I kind of laughed and I kind of found that interesting.
But to the general objective, 98% don't do it.
I'm saying in general now, yeah.
This is a no for me.
I, I rarely use the phrase an hour and a half of my life because this is a 90 minute run
time.
It isn't hour and a half.
I'm never going to get back.
I mean, I hate to be that brutally honest, but it is what it's asked about.
That's what it was.
Yeah.
I will do.
So I'm going to go with a no.
If we don't, we don't give our intake.
We lose our integrity.
So again, though, we've got to think allied for wanting our own opinion.
Thank you for inviting us to this.
Thank you so much, Danielle.
They do such an amazing job.
They do such an amazing job.
They really do.
Yeah.
So it is weiner dog directed by Todd Solens.
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