Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Hello, hello, hello and welcome back to another episode of Movie Deputy Reviews where we are interrogating a movie for its plot and content. And movies like the one we're going to be talking about today are why I say that I interrogate movies for their plot and content. Because this one though, it has a cute plot that plays on some other ideas that we have seen before. Not. I mean we see that in so many movies nowadays. There's no such thing as an original thought in Hollywood. So movies have to piggyback off of other ideas and such just to even find their footing.
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[00:01:47] So but with Hipig on the poster it says the G oat. So basically the goat, greatest of all time of finding lost animals as a pig. So it's kinda, it's not too hard to put two and two together that he's a bounty hunter.
[00:02:02] I'm referring specifically to Hip Pig himself. Well, so he used to do it with this other person that he used to help and they used to like down. They used to go after lost animals and return them to their owners or return them to their homes or return them to the facilities where they were.
[00:02:18] That is where this movie Very quickly gets on a very slippery slope is very soon into the movie. We are, pardon me, taken in depth into an animal testing facility. Now, stuff like this just does not belong in kids movies. Pardon me, I just gotta take a drink here for a second. My throat is just going crazy.
[00:02:44] My apologies on that.
[00:02:46] But like I said, it's just a very short thing into this movie that we see this animal testing facility. And mind you, some of the scenes that come from that are quite hilarious. But that is just the slippery slope where this movie starts to just get really.
[00:03:03] It's like, oh, why are they doing these things?
[00:03:09] Well, we could see kind of what happens there. And then we kind of get a little bit more of how Hip Pig is introducing himself and he says his. This is his own description of himself. He's half James Bond, half Dr. Doolittle and half Mandalorian. Now he's fully aware that that's three halves, but that's how he describes himself.
[00:03:31] And it's just then we as. There's just so many things where the movie kind of loses its footing even further. We see a nuclear power plant where they're doing even more testing with animals. And because some of the scenes from that are a little bit more than what you're going to expect. And that's kind of the animal testing I'm referring to.
[00:03:54] And like I said, there are some scenes of hilarity that come from that, but you can't get the other stuff out of your head. And then we see that and we see how he is contracted to go find these lost animals and bring them home. Well, he gets contracted to go find this elephant and she's escaped from this like very barbaric type circus lifestyle.
[00:04:18] And she escapes from this. And she wants to get back to Asia. She wants to go home. And his job is to capture her and bring her back.
[00:04:26] And the story itself, as this carries along through the story itself has some merit. It's cute in places. I have to give this credit because this is one of the few cartoon movies that we have seen in quite some time that just has gratuitous violence, like old Looney Tunes style violence. So I am giving it credit for that because we just don't see enough of that anymore. Just in general. They're so worried about offending us that we don't. They see a lot of that. But this movie kind of crosses a bunch of those different lines into. I mean, there's obvious inspirations from the Madagascar movies. There's a little bit of an inspiration from Zootopia, you're going to recognize a very. It looks like a very familiar face. It's not the same person, but it's a very familiar face from Megamind. And then there's some things from. Some from the Incredibles. And you may be thinking, okay, this actually sounds like it's a good movie that, like I said, it gets on a really slippery slope. We've got animal abuse in the circus industry, and to the point where it even shows, like, some of the things that are happening and some of the inhumane conditions in cartoon form, which is just wrong on so many levels. And then it has to.
[00:05:44] It doesn't have to, but it can't help itself. It has to insert a bunch of woke ideas and very progressive ideas into parts of the storyline. And you're like, but why is this happening? And even along the way, there's even some jokes that are not necessarily aimed at the younger crowds on this. And again, hence why I'm giving this a guilty rating. If you want your kids to watch this, that's fine. I did see this in the theater like everybody else.
[00:06:15] And when I did see this, there were some families with other young children there. And within about the first 10, 15 minutes of the film, most of them got up and left. There were two families, both with children, I'd probably say less than the age of three, and they did stick it out, but their kids weren't paying a whole lot of attention to the movie. I think it was more for the adult's sake. But the ones that had kids in, like, the five, I'd say I don't. I don't actually know because I didn't stop and ask their ages, but I guess five to eight years old.
[00:06:42] They were becoming quite upset at certain parts of this movie, and honestly, I don't blame them.
[00:06:49] It just. It's not what you expect. I am expecting something like this to not be in the theaters very long. It's probably going to be out on instant video probably before we know it. Score wise, I was really debating on this score because I personally, I want to give it a lower score, but I have to stay true to the Deputy scale.
[00:07:09] And staying true to the Deputy scale, I'm coming in at a 4.5 out of 10, this one. There's a lot of this stuff that is downright watchable but forgettable. There's parts of this that are going to be quite disturbing that are not going to be forgettable for many people, and there's just other parts of this that are just unnecessary. Like I said, there are cute parts to this. There are parts that are downright funny. And like I said, I have to give it credit for the gratuitous violence. Just like I said, we haven't seen stuff like that since the whole Wile E. Coyote Acme days with Looney Tunes. And so we see a couple scenes like that, and it's just those are literally some of the moments that I smiled, like legitimately smiled while watching this. But the movie as a whole just, I don't think is strong enough to carry it for those few upticks in the story itself. So I'm hoping that this helps you a little bit, especially if you've got little ones.
[00:08:09] If this does appeal to you, feel free to check it out. Like I said, I'm not saying don't, but like I said, wait till it's on instant video. I mean, it's not bad enough to completely give it a 3 because there are those cute moments to the story.
[00:08:22] But like I said, I'm coming under this at a 4.5 out of 10 on the Deputy scale. So if you want the latest and greatest movie deputy content, you know which buttons to push. And as always, I'll be back soon. Bye.
