Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

Welcome to the Jungle, we got fun and games!  Or just one game, and that's JUMANJI!  Drew and CJ are joined this week by new comedian and friend, Madeline Medlin, as we start our Jungle Cruise through the Jumanji series.

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[Music]
And welcome back guys, welcome back to another episode of Quarter-Mail podcast.
I am one of your lovely hosts, CJ Waltson joined with the esteemed, the just got his new fresh do so he looking good out here for the ladies.
What a win!
Just out here on the Quarter-Mail podcast looking hot, thirst-trap in it with my eyes.
I'm loving the thirst trap look.
How many things you missed in this y'all pose?
I'm loving your pose.
Man, I don't have any pose.
Well, your pose, oh my pose. I don't have any pose to put that on.
You got to get your thirst trap pose on.
And we are joined by someone that's awesome, my funny Maddie.
One of the most amazing humans on earth probably.
I just want to say I was not prepared for Drew to look this sexy.
I can't help, yeah, try to control yourself off.
I was not prepared.
Oh, I tell you, a $20 great clip haircut man, it'll change.
Do they wash your hair there too?
No.
They don't give you like a little temple massage?
You need a good temple, a good deep, good condition.
I am not, I have friends that have the whole barber shop experience or the ones where you get your foot massage.
I'll never, I'm just like a, just go get that.
No, no, no, no, as a man, I think I should treat you because you deserve to be pampered every once in a while.
Oh, well thank you.
You're my good friend.
How can you go to foot massage parlors?
I've never been to a foot massage parlors.
Now, your leader connected to your heart.
So he's saying he's, he will, will eventually get to talking about Drew Mungi.
No, because I, I were talking about Drew Mungi because he would not survive in Drew Mungi right now.
Not even not even a little bit.
My skills would be, I would have allergies and, um, way too pampered.
Yeah, I would, I would, and I'd want to snack.
And speaking of survive, did you, yeah, I'd be young.
As I was there, I'd be like, when's my next meal?
Speaking of meal, you look like a little snack all week.
You look real good.
I, I tried to bring out my best Dwayne, the rock Johnson.
Yeah, this is great.
I've been working on a bravestone, a bravestone car.
Right, you've been working on your what?
My, my, my smoldering intensity.
Yes, I see.
Have you guys been, that, that was the first thing I noticed about the movie was like, how can I,
how can I work on my smoldering intensity and life?
For those who don't know, the reason she's saying smolder intensity and the reason he's talking about his allergies is because we just got through watching one of my favorite movies of all time.
Drew Mungi, Drew Mungi, Drew Mungi, Drew Mungi, Drew Mungi, Drew Mungi, I don't know why I have to do that.
Now, here's the big question.
Did you, did you watch the Robin Williams one or the rock one?
No, I, I've watched the Robin Williams when I watched the rock one.
I was, when we were supposed to watch the rock one, but it wouldn't, it wouldn't be abnormal abnormal in this podcast.
For me, show up watching two different movies.
Yes, true.
And that would have been a fun little thing if that happened again.
And that's okay because they were too perfectly executed movies.
Okay.
I will, I will love it.
Before we get in the red, she'll reach, she'll get to know our new guest.
I would love to, please, Maddie, tell us about yourself and tell us where you came from.
Oh, wow.
And also, wait, I need to know what is your like affiliation with either like the fast and furious or what is your affiliation with Drew Mungi?
Drew Mungi.
And Drew Mungi.
Hello, I'm Madeline Medlon as she graciously described.
I'm, I'm a local comedian. I moved here from North Carolina originally.
I'm a theater kid growing up, shut out theater kids.
Don't give up. It gets worse.
Oh, that's the spirit. That's just what you need to hear.
There is always something to regret later. I promise.
So I moved to Nashville about a year ago and started getting into the comedy scene last December.
It's been going really well.
Made some great friends.
Yeah, I think sexy folks over here.
And my relationship with fast and furious is that the movie with the cars?
That is the movie with cars.
Not later.
Not later.
You're not making me the light in the queen.
Not by the queen. We're okay.
Yeah.
No, I have seen one.
Ah.
The first one or just like a random one out of 10.
Was one of them.
Oh, okay.
I know.
Yeah.
There's a lot.
Yeah, there's 10 regular ones.
There's two free movies. There's one spin off.
There's a three season like Netflix series and video game and there's a board game.
And a cartoon.
And a cartoon.
They got more fast and furious movies than I got marriages.
And that's same.
That's okay.
How many marriages?
Enough.
Enough.
Enough.
Enough to know never to do it again.
We'll say that.
That's the third time to charm.
You know, together guy that I was interested in the fast and furious movies is Paul Walker.
Is he available?
Um, and heaven.
And heaven.
He's kind of what we call dead.
And heaven.
Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe,
maybe there's a chance.
Maybe there's.
There's a chance there in the next three marriages in heaven.
Okay.
Where it's at.
You got to have to get in line.
Because Paul was quite.
I don't know.
Maybe it's maybe in heaven, you know, multiple marriages is a thing.
Who knows?
Maybe you never know.
We'll find out when we get there.
There we go.
So we're going to have an.
What about your relationship with Jumanji?
Jumanji.
I will say I'm definitely a big Robin Williams fan.
So most of my experience was with the first one.
And that's one of those movies you watch with your folks.
You know, when you're growing up.
Because they say it has good life lessons.
This new one I will say did not.
You like it.
Lessons.
No, they're probably were some in there.
And I guess we can dive into that later.
But yeah, it definitely was vastly different.
But growing up, I grew up in a very conservative household.
So my parents had to screen every movie that I watched growing up.
And so this one made the cut.
I will say this one with the rocker.
Well, the old one.
This new one.
It was like growing up in 2017.
This one.
They mentioned some male appendages in there.
So quickly, so early on in the day.
So fast.
Like is this?
I was very happy about that.
Right.
Like it was every year.
You're watching it.
You're like, this is a kids movie.
But then you're like, but wait a minute.
About 20 minutes in.
Then a really long funny, but long dick joke.
That's what she said.
A whole scene.
Yeah, whole entire scene devoted.
I was okay with that.
It was good.
But like it was funny because you're like, this is a kids movie.
Playable.
Well.
I love it.
Here's the thing about this movie is if you pretend it's not a
Jumanji movie, I didn't mind it.
Really?
If it's just like Dwayne the Rock Johnson number seven in a
Jumanji movie.
Well, yeah.
And I guess now I'm more in the universe after watching the second one.
I've been fully engrossed.
And now I'm I am more okay calling this Jumanji, but I felt like it was
so different than the first one.
Yeah.
That part of my problem was I went in, explain it.
And what I got was 137% different.
And then about midway into the movie, I kind of dropped the pretense.
I was like, oh, this is going to be a similar movie.
And I didn't mind it after that.
So what would you call this movie if you wouldn't watch it much?
I still like the, I think they should welcome to the jungle.
And Guns and Roses.
Yeah.
The second one was called, yeah?
No, this one was welcome to the jungle.
The second one was the next level.
The next level.
Yeah.
But whenever they started playing, welcome to the jungle, I cared a little bit more.
You know me, I love a good Easter egg in a movie.
Love a good Easter egg.
And this movie had a thousand and one Easter eggs compared to the original with the
late great, the incomparable, beautiful Robin Williams.
So I mean, just.
Yeah.
And you forget, I forget how amazing Robin Williams was as an actor.
When you think about all the different roles he had and all that.
He was amazing as a being.
I mean, I have to agree with that.
And I'm glad we did give him his flowers while he was here.
Yeah.
I am so glad.
But people remember he wasn't just a great actor.
He was also a fucking great comic.
He was absolutely.
Yeah.
He was a great comic.
And in Jumanji, he really did embody the world.
I wanted to get into some little callbacks about that.
Like when you said like comparing it, because a lot of people did go in wanting to
compare the Jumanji to to this Jumanji.
And of course, you're going to want to do that, you know.
So Nick Jonas's.
Treehouse was built by Alan Parish, the Robin Williams in the 1995 original.
And the elephant game piece reappears briefly.
Okay.
Yeah.
So well, it wasn't each of the big statues or whatever in the island,
a Jumanji piece.
Yes.
Every big statue was a Jumanji piece.
The writers wanted to make something entirely new.
After Chris Van Alzberg direct sequels,
The Horror Had already been applauded in the film in 2005.
A Jumanji for those who didn't know actually began as a 1981's children's book,
The Huge Access of the original 1995 set the stage for the sequels.
Oh, I probably wouldn't have been able to read it.
I don't think I read it, but I remember it being a book.
Yeah.
The first one used to freak me out a little bit.
And I think that's the idea of that happening, at least kind of back in my head.
I was like, oh, I think that's why they made it into a movie because as a book,
because your imagination is going to run wild.
And so the literal convictions in the book, I remember that is like,
holy fucking shit.
But it was, it was, it was, it's still a great book.
It said by the 19 by 20 tens, reboding, rebooting as a video game adventure,
left the story tap into a whole new generation and made sure it wasn't a simple rehash
of the board game classic.
Right.
And why wasn't the board game banned?
I don't know if you like it, should I?
I mean, if they can't ban Ouija boards and AK ban, Jumanji.
So I'm saying we're like, banding books about like,
if we're here an underwear or something,
but we can't ban a game that like might endanger their child.
Thanks.
No, yeah, I don't know.
I don't, I don't even know why this, yeah, I don't even know why stuff that gets banned is banned.
Actually, nine times a little time when something gets banned,
that puts it on my radar to read.
Oh, absolutely.
Let me put that on my list.
Kendall, now, yes, yes, absolutely.
The game board is a physical layout and the path inside the Jumanji world is the same as the original game
near the films and and the camera zooms out to show the jungle shaped like an old board.
And Jack Black.
Oh, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, the best thing about that movie was
and I'm not knocking my girl, my girl was ridiculous in this movie.
But the fact that they had the fourth out to put the rock, Kevin Hart and Jack Black all in one movie.
Absolutely.
And they were acting like other people.
That was the fun part of the movie, both these movies is like,
you are watching the rock, but you're watching the rock.
As a teenager.
The rock act like himself, like he's not acting like himself, because he doesn't know he's himself.
Like that, that's probably the best thing about this movie is the fucking fact that he is a bitch.
Yeah.
And doesn't, he's a little bitch, but he doesn't, but he's like the smartest in the,
oh, I did, it's nothing bad about this movie.
I don't care.
I'm gonna be confident.
Right.
Yeah.
Well, he's the, he's in the body of the stereotypical hero of a movie like this,
but his personality is not the stereotypical hero and he's figuring it out as a good,
but I mean, Jack Black as the high school girl was the type.
High pass.
I mean, and he, and, and, and I apologize to this one, the fact that you have, but like,
I don't know.
To, to get ready for that role.
He, whoever the girl, like whoever the girl was who played the actual high school,
the Brittany, the Brittany, or Bethany, right?
Bethany, that's the same thing.
He just like sat down with her and was like, tell me everything about you.
Tell me about your day.
Tell me about your thing.
He did a, he did extensive research on Bethany, the person, and learned how she talked and learned
out, because, and then that's what he did.
And, to be in the role, was he, I mean, he took it really seriously.
No, those were on some of my fun facts.
Um, one was, Duane Johnson's character.
Does the Heinz pays homage to Indiana Jones and on Solo, especially in his built in gear.
Yeah, that, I didn't notice that, but you're right.
Yeah.
He's a huge, a Harrison Ford fan.
So the props reflected that the video game logic extends beyond the story.
The logic extends beyond the script.
Uh, the uns, uh, unsettle playstation and Sony product placements.
If anybody noticed that, it was a lot of Sony and, uh, place things.
Yeah, they were playing Street Fighter V, not the beginning of the game.
Um, exactly.
Reminding viewers that Sony was made, um, made the film subtle and details.
Alice's nickname Jefferson C. Plane, McDonough, is a slide nod to McDonough,
referencing the actor who played Aaron Allen Parrish's father in the original.
Huh.
Here's something else fun.
The boom box dance fight is a tongue in cheek nod to both the video game and power ups and the more whimsical tone of the first film.
I, I need to go back and rewatch the first film, but it's so many.
We'll record this podcast in their time ago.
Right.
We'll go back and watch the first.
We may know what we're talking about.
Uh, let's get into the movie facts about this, um, so it was, of course, uh, made in, and here's another one, a December movie.
Like you said, this is a family.
Okay, mounted December as well, um, in 2017 in Paris is, it released April, December 20th, a budget 90 million.
How much do you think it did worldwide?
Hmm.
It was budgeted at 90 million.
How much do you think it brought?
I'm going to go.
300 mil.
What do you think?
Really?
I'm going to, I'm going to say it did real well.
I guess low.
Okay.
I was going to think that it flopped.
Did it flop?
Uh, I was going to go 100 mil.
You both were way wrong.
Please suck.
I'm so excited to tell you that it earned a massive 900 and 62.5 million worldwide, making it Sony's highest grossing film domestically until,
Spider-Man, you're kidding.
Why did this move?
No way.
Why did this movie do so well?
Because it was because of smoldering.
Uh, 100%.
The home media for the home buyers that were at home.
So 3.4 million units and may 65 million from the home video.
I mean, like it was a, okay movie, but like 900 million dollars.
900 and 62.
Like groceries.
Yes, I could buy a lot of groceries.
You could buy groceries with that money.
And so we had Dwayne Johnson as Dr. Zander, Smolder, Bravestone.
We had Kevin Hart Franklin, mouse, Finn bar, Jack Black, woo, woo, professor Sheldon or Shelley O'Baron, Kelly Gillan.
Oh, she's so cute.
Ruby Roundhouse.
Nick Jonas, Jefferson C. Plane, McDonough, you, I was directed by Jay Caston, a screenwriter, Scott Rosenberg, Jeff Pinkter, Chris McKenna Eric Summers.
And Tribi, you might not know, it would, uh, the movie shifted from Jermon G. Boyd Game to video game.
And not to change the times, but also draw to draw in modern audience.
That makes sense.
And that we've talked about movies that do that in other situations like more recently.
When we were talking about Twisters, we were talking about how they were appealing to a Gen Z audience.
So there's a lot more social media and stuff like that.
And so like it is, that is a smart thing when movies are remaking when they're thinking like,
what are things that exist now that didn't exist then? So making a video game and making it more like,
I mean, even right at the beginning, the girl with the social media influencer or whatever,
like those are things that you, I mean, you wouldn't have done the first Jermon G.
And you can definitely see in the beginning, like the very first opening scene where the, the dad finds the game on the beach, right?
And he's like, oh my god, you should totally like be invested in this because this is the thing I was invested in.
When I was a kid and I was just invested in like the dad at this bottom half of him.
I was just like, can we see more of the saga of the dad running on the beach?
Can we just see more of that?
I think the only part that I didn't like is when the girl told, told the teacher like,
I don't need to spend my time doing physical education.
Right.
I was like, hey, I don't know. You can't talk to a teacher like, I wouldn't really teach her for.
Yeah, yeah, you really would have a rude kid.
I was so pissed with her.
I thought that was Michelle Fiverr like this whole time.
The gym teacher like the pee.
Oh yeah.
No, this is like, girl, my version of myself, I first know, but now she has such,
I can't remember her name right now, but she has, let me go look at it.
It's Millie Pile Millie Pile Millie Pile Millie Pile.
Sure.
Something like that.
Yeah, she was, I didn't even, she, she's someone I didn't even say.
Yeah, she is. She's a comedian.
I watched this blessed movie three times.
She's actually, she thought it was Michelle Fiverr the whole time.
She actually is a comedian.
She's great.
She any time she is in anything she, I, I always focus on her.
She's really good.
Beautiful.
She's really good.
That scene with her acting out in class was actually pretty good for the,
to show you the character of that girl because what was interesting about her character was she wasn't
like the stereotypical mean girl, like popular mean girl.
She was just like, you could see in the class, she was, she finished her assignment early showing that she was like smarter than the Americans.
And then you could see that she was like self absorbed with like the, what she was saying to the teacher.
But then you saw, there was never a scene in the movie where she was like the stereotypical, like she was never a caddy to the other girl.
In fact, she was very empowering to her once they were in Jumanji.
You had a flirt, right?
Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, I found out as I'm going through the castle and say one of my college, someone I went to college was in this movie.
Stunned.
What was it?
My name is Tracy Bonne.
She plays Fiverrige's mom.
Oh, look at that.
Okay, but the mom's, the mom's given some hardcore advice though.
Yeah, the mom's for killing it.
They were.
That was Tracy Bonne, shout out to Tracy Bonne, graduated from Tennessee State University.
And another, another theater person.
That's cool.
If she wants.
Missy pile.
Missy pile.
She gave the advice.
Oh, it's wet.
You should eat something.
Yeah.
She told her son to eat something.
And that's something that we need to remember.
Oh, no wonder I like missy.
She grew up in Memphis.
Oh, there you go.
That explains a whole lot about her attitude.
I feel like Memphis should sponsor our podcast because we, we talk a lot of, positively about Memphis.
I mean, Memphis, get on this before it gets you.
And here it is, and she was, that's, that, oh, missy.
She's funny.
You're right though, but the, it was nice to see in this being a new, usually the trend with newer movies is the parents are kind of the dumb ones.
They suck.
But this one, all, in all the roles the parents have, they weren't like clueless, but they also, and they were giving good advice.
They weren't, you know, grand, all their kids got abducted by a video game, but who could see that kind of?
That's true.
Kids were still kind of jerks to their parents.
Yeah, and let's, that was all but to say, yeah, let's talk about that.
Yeah, they were assholes.
Yeah, no, they were.
And I grew up in a, in a world where I was allowed to watch Rugrats because the kids were disrespectful to their parents.
And, and Arthur, like, even on, you know, PBS, that wasn't allowed to be respectful.
No, but DW.
Oh, okay.
His sister was, she was a little sassy, you know?
So I wasn't allowed to watch that growing up because, you know, we don't want to show that it's cool to be disrespected parents.
This, this movie might have not made the cut for probably not.
But then I felt kind of bad because I was watching it and I'm like, I can't let my son watch this.
He might be, he might be disrespectful to his parent, IE me.
But it, it was weird because in the, in the scene where the, the Bethany girl was kind of like talking back to the teacher.
As a mom, I was like, you need to go to your room.
Yeah.
As a woman, as a strong and dependent single mom, I was like, you're right.
You can take that phone call if you want.
So it was very split down the middle for me where I understood where she was coming from, like I'm done with my stuff.
But, you know, I'll see.
I was like, I would murder her.
She did that in my class.
I wish she would.
I wish she, I wish she, I wish she could imagine.
I wish she would have said, let's, I'm gonna go away and get to this AI this summary.
Yes.
Let's talk about this and I'm gonna do it in this style of one of my favorite comics.
Kevin Hart.
Hmm.
So let's see.
Let's see if I can nail him.
Let's see.
All right.
Oh, first of all, Jumonji.
Okay, so let's be real.
Ain't nobody in life.
It just ain't that bored.
Okay.
In a no way, you went and walked into a school basement, see a jungle, see a jungle drum, playing video game from 1996 to say, just touch it real quick.
Okay.
I deserve every single hip-hop by coming to you because if that was me, okay, credit is what we wrote within the first minutes like Kevin Hart.
Out does.
All right.
So now explain this to me while my character superpowers are always carrying a backpack and not knowing what a hippopotamus is.
Meanwhile, the wife is over here, built like a brick house, pledging her in as an allergic to nothing except emotional vulnerability.
I eat one slice of cake, cake people, cake people, okay.
And Jumonji kills me off like it's a food allergy.
I said, how's that felt?
What the little devil said demon coated is game is this.
All right.
So look, the plot, the man, the movie's plot.
Man, this thing is like less that makes less sense than the GPS and the core maze.
Okay.
So you have three lives, but one is wasted because someone can't tell a man go from a minefield.
So we got Jack Blackpink, the teenage girl, and honestly, he did the best job.
But if I have to hear him say, oh my god, these are my boobs.
One more time.
I'm gonna throw myself at the Reynolds on purpose.
You know what?
Don't even get me started on the video game logic.
You can't climb a ladder, but you can, but you can climb out of an avalanche and khaki shorts.
Please, the animal stampies are so safe even the CGI rhino wanted a new agent.
So bottom line, if you see the rock flicks, me screaming like my mom's got the bill.
And the world's most nutrition lesson, Jumonji's your movie.
Just don't ask me to play.
I'm allergic to seagulls.
It's all love.
Just not for the damn cake.
Wait, why is allergic to seagulls?
They never, they never explained.
They never explained.
The cake thing other than it was a thing.
At least jungle escalable.
Also, C.J. are you familiar with the superhero, Vixen?
Yes.
Where she has the totem that lets her channel the spirit of any animal.
Yes.
I feel like you're like that with actors.
I was playing with you.
Like with your Kevin Hart impression or your Vint.
I have a female Jackson.
I love to about earlier.
Her debut episode with us, she brought out Keanu Reeves.
No.
No.
So that's it.
If you are if you are in Jumonji and we had to and you had to press your boob to show your skills.
The impersonating.
The impersonating.
I think everyone should have that power in life.
I feel like not that we should walk up a touch everybody's boo, but we should just ask them, hey, like do me this.
Just click there.
Let me see your strengths and weaknesses.
I just want to see your strengths and weaknesses.
You don't want to see that.
Well, dark stuff, man.
I tell you, one of my weakness would 137% be fruit desserts.
I hate them so much.
So your weakness would be much like Kevin Hart's which was okay.
I like cake, but you throw an apple pie at me.
I'm going to cry.
I'm smoldering right now.
I'm listening.
Let's get smoldered.
Alright, Drew, let's see your smolder.
Because I was working.
Let's see your smolder.
Okay, he's got the hair cut.
And that's why he's doing it.
He got that confidence.
Right.
Let's see it.
That's more of a...
That's more like a constipation.
That's more of a...
Are you serious?
Yeah, that's way more of a...
Are you serious?
Listen, if you're a list...
I'm a list of your list.
Everyone's right now.
This is a wonderful episode to pop in the YouTube and observe our smoldering ASMR.
It's something to fall asleep too with fruit, Davis.
I'm about to get into these little movie facts real quick.
And this is one of Drew's favorite parts.
Because I think he has a fetish over listening to bad movie reviews.
Oh, I...
Yeah, I think you...
What?
I think you're like, "Well, fetish is a little strong."
But is it...
I mean, do I look up bad movie reviews without pants on, maybe?
But...
Just twice a week.
Yeah, maybe.
But I'll be...
Who cares about the...
When someone says nice things, okay, good.
Good for you.
You enjoy good things in life.
I want to hear how they break your soul down to a...
Well, I have five because I wanted to change up a little bit.
Now, I do have some good ones.
But my question, would you guys rather hear the five worst ones that I found?
Or the five, four, three to four, nice ones?
We're going to do a variety.
We're going to do a dealish choice, but instead of a deal, we're going to do...
Because that would be CJ.
We're going to do a guest choice.
Do we want things nicer or naughty?
I don't...
That's not the right word.
I'm a Scorpio, so I'm going to say naughty.
All right, let's go.
I don't know enough about astrology to get that, but cool.
You know, she wants that sting of the beast.
She wants that sting of the sting.
All right.
All right, Drew, this is you.
Cool.
And the reason I'm doing this is because I need a Drew laugh.
I needed to be around him today and bubble it up.
And get it ready.
Oh, it's...
It's...
It's festering.
All right.
You ready?
I was on my edge.
I was more on the edge of my seat using a washroom than watching the movie.
The cinematography was for the plot predictable and dumbed down for younger audiences.
Cheesy, forced dialogue and pointless romantic subplots made this movie a total yon.
All right.
Here's the next one.
That might be valid.
That might be valid, okay?
The character development is almost nonexistent.
Nick Jonas was bland.
Kevin Hart's loud mouthstick got grating after a while.
The movie felt like a generic superficial festival.
I'm sorry.
Revis of the original with none of its heart or stakes.
I agree with that one.
There was like, if you just have to pretend like the original doesn't exist to enjoy this one.
And also, I want to highlight you had a reaction to Nick Jonas.
Okay.
You know, just growing up is a millennial.
You don't talk crap about Nick Jonas or any of the Jonas Brothers.
I say...
I think...
I mean, really?
Because I grew up as a Nick Jonas fan and then I realized that Joe Jonas might be the kinky or one.
So...
I agree.
I'll take both.
Which one is Joe the...
Because this one was the middle one.
And then...
Joe is the middle one.
Oh.
And then Nick is the middle.
Nick is the older younger.
I don't remember what the younger one was.
Nick is the youngest one.
Joe is the middle and then Kevin's the oldest.
I'm not going to lie.
When I saw Joe Jonas in this movie, I thought to myself, oh.
I've been a Nick Jonas fan.
I thought, oh, I can continue watching this.
Okay.
It's like, give me more of the Nick Jonas scenes, please.
I would repeat.
I was okay with it.
Okay.
And overly commercialized, cynical cash grab.
It's full of cliches, lazy writing and characters, forced into stereotypes, with nothing new to offer.
I didn't like it at all.
The humor mostly missed...
Mostly missed...
For me.
Some jokes fail flat or felt forced.
The action scenes were dull and predictable.
Definitely not worth a repeat watch.
Yeah.
Well, some of us had a repeat watch.
Props for doing the same times.
I did once, once a movie, once a...
For the podcast episode.
Whatever I get the first time is what we got.
I have a memory loss problem.
I think this might be the one that's going to take him out.
One of the most annoying cast I've seen in a while, the movie is zixed for no particular reason,
other than to make money off a recognizable brand.
I mean, yeah.
Okay.
Here's the thing about...
I do.
I do appreciate their negativity and what they're bringing to the world.
Which is negativity.
Yeah.
But...
Yeah.
First of all, if I'm going to write a negative review, I'm going to talk about how I offended my soul on the inside
and how it broke me down as a person.
I feel like they're just stating facts.
Which is true.
Which is true.
Which is true.
I mean, so nothing they said was wrong, but it's like, also, you didn't turn on the great gatsby.
You turned on the gatsby.
You did not turn on the gatsby.
You're my rock.
You did not turn on the gatsby.
So I don't know if the great gatsby is a...
It's not...
It's not something your therapist is suggesting.
You know what?
I want you to go home and I want you to turn on Jumanji, starring Dwayne the Rock Johnson.
And I think you'll see a lot of that in you.
I think throughout this whole movie though, he...
I mean, you know who my favorite character was, was Jack Black throughout this whole movie.
You know it, everybody, if y'all out there.
Well, I mean, that seems to be even in negative reviews.
You see people be like, "But Jack Black was good."
I mean, he...
Yeah.
Well, it was a little different because Dwayne was being Dwayne.
You know, Kevin was being Kevin.
The girl was being the hot girl.
Jack.
You know, but Jack's...
But he's definitely...
Yeah, he definitely shown Jack was...
Jack was...
Jack was actually...
Jack was...
Touch it.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, he was all there flirting, coaching sequence.
You're so psychotic.
I'm like, this is probably the reason why I was too nervous.
I was...
I was big, Jack Black, to coach me on the recording.
I think I've read somewhere that might have been a little bit of improv.
I think they...
Sure.
I think they just met...
Right.
I don't know.
I believe that.
I believe that.
I totally believe Jack Black said like, "I can't."
No, like that.
That is all his stupidity.
Yes.
So that there is nothing that I totally believe that.
No, the...
But here's something else nice I'll say about this maybe.
Uh, the hot one.
Ruby, "Ruby Roundhouse" was I...
My girl is...
Yeah, her is the hot one.
The hot one.
Yeah.
I don't...
I don't need names.
She was.
Um, but I liked how...
They didn't...
'cause...
She...
The actress has talked about this several times 'cause when it first came out,
there's critique on like what she was wearing.
And she was like, "They were making a fun of the stereotype of like her clothing and stuff like that."
Actually moving things and...
Yeah, lower crop, like a lower crop.
Yeah, yeah.
And the...
Because of who the character was, she frequently did not play into that stereotype.
At one point, she puts the sweater...
Are the sweatshirt over...
Yes.
Like she's like, "I feel like this...
And then you even see it more in the second one, this might be something we mentioned next week,
but when they're all coming out of the water scene in the next one,
like that's a prime opportunity to have like her coming out of the water sexy scene.
I thought, "Bright, yeah."
And you just kind of assume it's...
'Cause they're going...
And it's almost like they intentionally do not do that, just to remind you that,
"Oh, we're not trying to sexualize this character."
Yeah.
Um, and I thought...
She's a teenager.
Yeah, she...
A is a teenager.
Yeah, I mean, that's probably...
It's like, "Oh, remember, these are actually teenagers."
That's probably a really good point, but I like to think...
I like to believe that we live in a reality where the movie writers are like,
"Let's try to do something better."
And that could be...
I mean, I think a lot of it is a lot of that, and I think...
What she just said, I mean, I agree with that.
But I think that that's it too, you know what I'm saying?
That she wasn't supposed to be sexy.
She's supposed to be a...
Like she said, "I'm a bad-ass, I'm supposed to be kicking ass."
Yeah, she didn't need to.
Yeah.
Yeah, she didn't need to be sexy to get...
So, and I really appreciate it.
But she did succeed at being sexy just organically.
The actress about the teenager.
She did.
She did.
I think that her...
Their character development throughout the whole movie, honestly, even though it was such a silly movie.
It was a good movie.
They needed that...
Those kids needed that, all right, we...
We need to learn how to work together.
Yeah.
And that was the only way to do it was to get inside the damn game, so...
Yeah.
I'm happy for that.
Okay.
That was fun.
Yeah.
It was fun.
I'm not done though, because we still have some more things I need to talk about...
It was a midway reminder everyone listening.
This was fun.
Now, this movie was fun.
This movie was fun.
It was fun.
It will be fun.
This movie was...
I mean, I'm not gonna lie.
This is probably one of my favorite movies, and I'm glad that...
I don't know if you guys enjoyed it, but it's probably one of my favorite movies.
What was it about this movie that was like, favorite for you?
I mean, it was fine for me, but like, to put it on the old favorite list...
I think because, like Madeline said, it was...
Hey, I grew up...
I watched the 95 one.
And then this was just...
I just wanted to sit back and be like, I want to see how...
What they do as compared to the 95.
Right.
I had my drink and playing with my puppies.
Didn't they watch them?
No, okay.
This is a good drinking and playing with a puppy movie.
Good drinking.
There's a bowl of popcorn.
There's a puppy right there.
It is...
100% of different movie though.
Oh, definitely.
100%.
Like, like you said, you could have named me...
A totally different thing.
And I'd be like, this is a new thing.
It's not Jumanji at all.
But it definitely is very different, but good in its own way.
And I wondered why they did that because I agree with you.
They could have named it Jungle Island.
Yeah, they could have gone with a different...
But I know what.
But there are also...
There's money.
But they are intentional in that, like, it stated in this movie and the next one, like,
it is part of the Jumanji universe.
They're between the very first scene where, you know, at the end of the Robin Williams Jumanji,
they throw the game in the beach and then it comes up on shore.
And this one...
With the hot dad.
Yep.
With the hot dad who could forget.
It sounds like...
But, like, and then they make references to it and with all the Easter eggs that CJ pointed out,
like, it's not like they...
They are really digging into this hole.
No, they're connected, I promise.
And then the rest of us are like, what are they?
This movie definitely connected with me on, like, a dream level.
Like, last night...
I would definitely say that.
I had a dream about snakes last night.
I'm not even kidding you.
Like, I had a...
I went to sleep.
I was thinking it was going to be a good one.
I'm like, we're going to be good.
We're going to go do podcast things with my friends.
And had a nightmare about snakes.
And if you've seen the movie, you know snakes are involved.
Yeah.
And in the dream, there was, like, this giant box.
And I, like, reached in and was having like throw snakes out of my house.
It was like a pretty traumatic thing.
So this movie will really cut deep, you know?
You think that...
The fact is true about snakes.
Like, if you stared it without blinking it...
Yes.
Is that a true thing?
Well, I'm never going to try.
But, like, I was like...
I was like, that's a huge...
There are so many snakes.
I like to go on hikes and think that I would know what to do.
If I came across a snake, I would not.
I would not.
I'd probably scream and run the other way.
But I feel like I would too.
But I probably would not stare it in the eye, like...
Yeah.
Like they did in the movie.
But it seemed to work, but I'm not Nick Jonas.
If I was Nick Jonas, I could 100%.
I'm probably staring at snakes in the movie.
There's nothing that man can't stare at.
He can stare at me.
Any day?
Very.
Nick Jonas, if you're listening to this podcast...
Nick Jonas is married, but Joe is single.
Oh, yeah.
Joe is single.
A Reese...
You know?
Joe is single.
Do I want to rate the movie before we...
Speak the movie before we do the movie.
Too fast.
Too fast to be.
So this is how this goes.
Okay.
You can do too fast, which means you loved it.
You're going to tell everybody about it.
Fast is...
Enjoy this.
I'll...
You know...
I'll go to bed.
I enjoyed it.
100% of the day.
100% of the day.
I was like, "Hey, snakes.
Furious."
I didn't like it.
It was okay.
You know, or too furious.
I hated it.
It was worse for my life.
And I'm so upset that CJ even put me to watch this stupid ass movie.
And I'm going to fight her.
That's a dream.
I hate this movie so much.
I hate CJ.
And I think I put an unfriendly one on Facebook.
Yeah.
And in defense.
And maybe murder entire family.
That one.
Oh.
That's too scary.
That might be like cats in the movie starring Taylor Swift.
I think that's what that was.
I have no ceiling movie.
But I don't want to have to.
I don't want to have to rampage on CJ's family.
Don't watch them so much.
Don't watch it.
I guess fast.
Fast, probably.
Yeah.
Like, I wouldn't recommend.
But like, I had a few chuckles.
And I can 100% credit all of the fast to probably Nick Jones pre-in it.
And that's just the 1993 in me.
And growing up in that.
I mean, it was really well done.
It was really.
They did a good job.
And, you know, I love Dwayne the Rock Johnson in any jungle movie.
Which seems to really like.
So in any Dwayne the Rock movie.
I'm here for.
This is at least the third jungle movie.
That's the understatement.
Technically fast five was the first one.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure, but technically fast five was in Brazil.
And they do have jungles.
So the kid likes his jungles.
The kid loves, I mean, that's where he's from.
He's from an island.
So he likes being in the.
I think so.
Okay.
Yeah, I will give it.
I will give it also a fast.
I'm going to give it like a, like a low fast.
Like a, like a reasonably quick.
Like.
Oh my.
Maybe we should.
A brisk ball.
Should we add that in our rating?
A brisk ball?
A brisk ball.
Yeah.
A power, a power.
A power.
Just.
Oh, a power with equal weight.
Yeah, yeah.
Guys, we're going to add this in.
They've done it.
I'm sorry.
We're going to add in fast.
Uh, fast, too fast.
A brisk walk furious or too furious because a brisk walk is exactly what he said.
Yeah, because here's the thing.
When I was halfway into the movie.
I was like, this is stupid.
Um, but then I forgot it was in Jumanji movie got into the plot.
I was watching.
And you know what?
By the end, I enjoyed it.
Okay.
And I went into the sequel ready to keep going with these characters.
You know, so like, I, I enjoyed it.
You're proud of them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But if someone like texted me like, Hey, man, do you want to go watch Jumanji?
I'd be like, we don't have to.
No, I'm like, I'm, I'm, I'm loving this brisk walk.
And I hope we keep it in.
I hope you did because that is a great term.
I love this.
That's a brisk walk with or without ankle weights.
I don't know because the ankle weights means I'm slowing myself down.
Yeah, I'm not gonna do that.
But your bullies without ankle weights.
But you building some calves.
Those some calves, but it's all about the calves and the cabinets.
See?
Um, I'm going with, uh, uh, fast.
Um, it's, it's not, well, the only reason because I'm a, I'm a Robin Williams girl.
Yeah.
Uh, and I'm never, I'm, I'm gonna be biased.
I'm like, no, you're not gonna take me away from Robin.
So it didn't bother you that this was like as if we saw Robin Williams through a mod of cliff and said, let's do a different movie.
Let's do something way worse.
Um, it bothered me, but I still enjoyed what they tried to do.
Yeah.
Do you think Robin would have liked it?
Sorry, deep question.
Ooh.
I think he would have gave it a nod.
And I think that Robin Williams in his humility and in his, in his intelligence would have saw it the way they drew just on it for what it is.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think that that's the type of man that Robin Williams was like, you know what?
He was a uDier.
I'll do my best.
Yeah.
I think because he's so intelligent and he understands this might not be for me, but it's for you.
And that's one of my favorite things about doing this podcast that I feel like I've learned is I can watch a movie.
And one of my first thoughts with this movie until they did like a 20 minute dick joke was like, oh, this is like clearly made for kids.
It was such a long time.
It was, they committed to the band.
And I think that's probably would have turned him off.
Yeah.
But not really.
I, not turned him off to the point of, yo, but I think he would have been like, okay.
Yeah.
Why though?
I think five minutes, but a 10 minute 15.
I think at that point, Robin would be like, Hey, guys, it took someone that fluff out.
Yeah.
Yeah, definitely.
I don't.
I don't want to joke man.
He's just saying that he'd be like, we could.
So that, that's how I feel about point.
Yeah, but I do, I do like, um, I do like watching another movie like this and recognizing like maybe I'm not the target audience and that's fine.
Yeah.
Who is the target audience?
This one for sure felt like a teen or teen or teen or teen or teen or teen or teen or teen or teen or what I was trying to like this for sure felt like the brisk walk.
The teen or the teen or maybe.
But that, that was my confusion is like, because I watched it with my 11 year old.
And I was like, is this the 11 year old like it?
He did, but he laughed at the cuss words a lot.
And as you do.
So yeah, this is the movie.
Well, how old is he?
11.
Okay, if he didn't have these, it'd be some wrong.
I'd be like, are you okay?
Right.
So I didn't know like, he just said the bad word.
He said all the bad words and he really liked it.
And so I, I couldn't tell if it was like a kid's mood, like art to kids movies have just cuss words all the time.
Look, look, we can't stop there because, uh, uh, the little mermaid was writing P.E.G.
And A and A was a lot of sexual pensions.
True.
Going on between Eric and Ariel.
Well, yeah, I mean, everything, I mean, that movie is the Lion King includes murder.
I was a, have y'all met Disney?
Those like, rarely do you made a Disney main character that is like making good decisions.
Exactly.
Including Walt.
Yep.
For sure.
So I don't want to hit it.
By the end, by the end, they're probably fine.
Yeah.
Like Ariel.
As long as you listen to the whole movie.
Ariel was just not living her best life.
Oh, she was stopping by an air well.
Ariel was, Ariel was, and I'm going over here.
I'm going over here in my day.
You needed to be on punishment.
She's materialistic.
She's dissipating her dad.
She literally made a deal with a witch to get a guy gave away her best quality, her singing voice.
Yeah.
Because her legs were not it.
Okay.
And me and me and he biz-tum.
Well, I mean, that's what happens when you meet a dude once and you're like, I should probably sell my voice.
That's true.
I should have a guy give up my, nobody ever looked at the little mermaid the way we do.
No.
Two in the next week when we talk about the little mermaid.
And now we're going to talk about my three favorite scenes and they have to guess which scene made me laugh the most.
Are you familiar with this Madeline?
I read the email.
That is like music to my ears.
That's my, CJ, that's my kink is when people actually read the emails that I sent them.
Word for word.
I replied and everything.
I replied all actually.
Nice.
Okay.
So I'm going to give you three scenes that made me a giggle.
Oh, all right.
And you have to know and if you guess right then of course Drew gets the point and if you don't, I can just do get the point.
I'll be back next week.
Yeah, we're in the hair.
Yeah, right.
Because he's sexy.
Yeah, that's the end of that.
All right.
These are the scenes that made me giggle.
Like, ah, that's funny.
And we're picking the one that made you giggle the most.
The most.
Okay.
Like two truths in a life.
The strengths and the weaknesses thing.
When they started pressing their blue pee, yep, yep, yep, the booby present.
The booby present is always good.
Good booby present.
I'm not going to say that.
This is a booby present.
The rhino scene when, when he can, we got pushed out the airplane.
All right.
That's a strong one.
Yeah.
And the way he described the rain, and the learning to pee scene, the fact that she's like, oh my god, that's a piano.
Okay.
She was dead one during the expo and she's trying to throw herself.
Yeah, absolutely.
But I like it.
I like it.
So which one do you think CJ found the funniest?
Keep in mind, you both know me.
And you know I'm silly.
So this is going to be hard because those are my silliest scenes.
See?
What you guys do that, I'm going to eat a slice of this key lime from a famous diner called City Cafe down here.
Oh, shit.
Nucleus is wonderful.
Nucleus is wonderful.
CJ is wonderful at bringing food onto this podcast for her.
Yeah.
Nucleus offered.
That's not what I was offered some.
I was not.
And it's okay.
I'm going to get, okay, I could see myself being wrong on this one.
This is a toughy, but I'm going to go.
I'm going to go penis one.
That's the one I was going to go.
You always got to go with the penis.
Do you?
That's it.
That's maybe not.
It is 2025.
I think you don't always have to go.
Well, now even women can go to penis.
So the penis thing was my face.
Oh, look at that.
Look at us go.
There is no way.
There is no way that I could not imagine.
Oh, my God.
Look at the touch to my body.
Ew.
Yay.
No, I would have been.
It's time to say that as a girl growing up, I've always thought of that.
I tried to do it once and it did not go correctly.
You think make actual funnels?
No, I know.
I know, but I wanted to do like the guys and be like, yeah, sword fight.
Play with a little bit.
Play with a little bit.
And also guys don't do that as often as it's said.
Why not?
Why would you ruin our dream?
Because it's disgusting.
It's like I, it's mad.
I'm a flopped around.
If you ever woke up as a dude and then we went camping and you rushed at me, ready to sword fight, I would be, I would be, I would be, no, but I mean like when you're by yourself, you don't do this.
Oh, 100% do that with their boots.
Oh, okay.
Okay, I misunderstood.
I thought she meant like that dude's dude.
I am always like, oh, no, no, no, no.
I am always like, what's your name?
What's your name?
My name is this?
Yeah.
No, you know how dude's like playing with boobs?
We do it too.
We also like the boobs.
Yeah.
It's definitely.
Listen, now you guys know, hey, comment below.
What's your, I don't even want to know how to finish that question.
What's your name?
The left?
It's like a twix.
Are you a lefty or a whitey?
You know what I'm saying?
It's, it's, which one are you?
Which one are you going to do?
Let us know.
Let us know.
Thank you.
This was funny.
He got the point.
Tim it.
Yeah.
You got two points.
Now you're back in the lead.
Yeah.
It's, yeah, we're, we're cruising.
Cruising and burying.
That's fine.
Madeline, what's coming up in your life?
Where can we find you?
Of course everyone is always in our notes as to where you can find her, but if you're listening
and driving, we don't want you to crash or hold on you.
So you can find me on Instagram as most people.
And I am Madeline.medeline.
And that is confusing.
I agree.
That's the most, that's very clear.
You know, we're just going to call it for what it is.
My parents named me that.
Madeline.
Madeline, Madeline, M-A-D-E-L-I-N-E dot M-E-D-L-I-N on Instagram.
Um, and I do have some shows coming up.
I was just trying to say you got some, we got a show, yeah, we're coming up.
We do.
It's so freaking wild because I, I'd, if you would ask me a year ago, would you have shows?
I'd be like, yeah, no, probably not.
But somehow we do.
So I have some shows coming up.
I have one on October 4th at Third Coast Comedy Club.
Nice.
I have one on the 11th of October at Plaza Mariathe.
Plaza Mariathe.
One Jason Alhondro is putting on that one.
That's gonna be a fun one.
It sounds like a wonderful food.
In addition to wonderful comedy.
It's a really cool venue.
It's very cool.
If you haven't been to Plaza Mariathe, I love Plaza Mariathe.
I might go back over there tomorrow because I'm hungry.
Let's do it right now.
It's just a little podcast right now.
I'm gonna get some tacos.
Sounds good.
And the last one, I'm really excited about this one.
On the 17th of October, my buddy Evan Burke has put me on the show at the National Comedy
Loft.
Oh yeah.
I'm super excited about that one because he was actually my instructor at the comedy class
that I had along with Drew.
Drew was a substitute.
Yeah, I'm a great substitute, everything.
I never call me first.
And if you need a solid second, I'm there.
That's actually how I met Drew the first time was he was a substitute in my class with Evan
Burke.
And now I'm gonna show with Evan doing a podcast.
I'm Drew and I'm like, is the world colliding?
I will say, as a compliment to Madeline, I have seen you since you've been in class.
And I've even had you on our field of art shows where the clean comedy collective and you
do really well and you've improved and you have a really cool, like, great comedic voice.
And so, good one.
Which one?
Multiple.
Multiple.
All the voices.
But so, you're killing it and just, you know, keep doing it.
We have no other choice.
No, yeah, at this point in your two-firing.
No, yeah, no.
I'm quitting comedy.
Are you?
Yeah, what time is it?
No?
Yeah, I'll pick it back up.
I'll pick it back up in an hour or two.
Okay, yeah.
I'll pick it back up in an hour.
It's because she knows in the next hour she's got to talk about the second Jumanji movement.
More and more than 10.
But this has been rad.
Thanks for coming.
Thank you.
Thank you.
We're having us.
Will you come back?
I mean, will you have that?
I mean, yeah.
I mean, then I'll come back.
All right.
That works out.
All right, so make sure you check us out on all platforms except X because we don't do that.
And you shouldn't either.
And you shouldn't either.
So go ahead and drop, drop that.
Check us out on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, all of that fun stuff.
We'll see you in the next one.
Um, TikTok.
Oh, yeah, and TikTok.
Oh, but you know, and on Instagram or Facebook, I'm pretty sure it'll be out by then.
We are doing, we're doing like a people's choice for one of our movies that we're not.
So if you're here in this, feel free to drop us fan mail, message us or comment on whatever
that you're on.
If you have a movie suggestion for something we should cover, at least one of our movies,
who we're getting close to the end of the season, we got, we have the other Jumanji, we
have the two national treasures.
We have a people's choice.
I think we might also have a Kenny's choice.
Do we have a Kenny's choice?
I think we have a Kenny's choice.
We've got a Kenny's choice.
So I think that's it.
And then, then after that, we'll do a little bonus spooky season, a little bit, that's
CJ's in charge of, but we do have a, like you guys help us pick a movie.
So if you're here in this, go check us out on Instagram.
Speaking of which, speaking of spooky season, just want to put this out there, just in case,
my man is getting a star on the Hollywood walk of ash.
October 31.
I don't know.
Do you know who it is?
If I'm saying right around Halloween, if I'm putting my hand up like this, who am I talking
about?
Freddie goodness.
Freddie goodness.
Freddie goodness.
I'm getting a star on the Hollywood walk of fame.
October 31.
That's exciting.
So you're never it's never too late.
I'm like, we got two of our veteran actors who are Keith David, who definitely deserves
that star.
And my man, who my mother worked me for many, many years.
I ain't trauma.
I ain't trauma.
She just, I just wasn't supposed to watch it and then I did it and then I got a whoop and
she didn't scream it first.
Yeah, no.
No, she knew what it was.
You know, you're not supposed to be watching.
I ain't there on L3 as a kid.
Yeah.
And I'm like, that's scary.
So no, but I can't like some people, I know you have like a lot of people want to say
trauma.
You know, I just did what I wasn't supposed to do and got my butt with.
And it just is what it's character building.
It is either we're like, no, that was a good movie or like, now I know.
Now I know.
And then we'll never not be a time where I don't watch any, uh, night, or on L3 every last
one of them.
Very cool.
I have not seen any of them.
I'm an apparently I've just said the most god awful thing you could say on a, well,
we just got our people's choice.
Two to next week where we killed room.
We're gone.
All right, guys.
Thank you so much.
I've got to get on my brother.
So we've got to, we've got to cut this right now and just make sure you live your life one
quarter mile at a time.
We'll see you next time, guys.
Peace.
See you later.