 Oh, it is. It's not bad. It's so juicy. It's so juicy. F**k! Follow us on personal YouTube channels, the description below. Yep. Today we take a little break from our, uh, classic month. Yep. Uh, just, we told you it might happen. Yep. Uh, if something new drops, we would do that. Yep. So, uh, we do have other classic films to get to before this month ends. Yep. So we'll be getting to those. Yep. So don't worry. Yep. If something new drops on Amazon, Tritium? Doast. Yes. Uh, and the, uh, not to be confused with Doast. Uh, what's your name? Um, it's the Malialum, which we have yet to see the original first one. But, for those of you who've been around, we did see the original Hindi. I asked the team, I said, is there a reason to watch the first one outside of just watching it? Is it any different in terms of story than the Hindi? You might say it's a better version, but is there any other information that we'd be missing? They said no. They said no, we could just jump in this one. Which made us get to the review sooner. Yes. Yeah. I forgot my computer. Well, in the meantime, what's funny is I didn't realize it too. Corbin forgets stuff like the pewter. Like the pewter? Yeah. Your pewter. That's what happens after you have all those beans. Anyways. Yes. Adricium II, it's a gripping tale of the investigation of the whole family which is threatened by it. Yeah. You know what else? Basically, it follows the story of the first one. What happened after... I don't know if I want to say it's anybody's... I know. The first one. But you could... I mean, you said it's a gripping tale. Spider Monkeys have gripping tales. That's true. Yeah. But it takes place six years after the events of the last one. We kind of can't go through this without... So if you want to watch it, don't be spoiled. Go watch it. It's on Amazon. It's free if you have a membership. Well, we don't have to... We don't have to spoil it. I'm just saying, you can't really talk about this without knowing... Yeah. We'll try our best. Regardless. Obviously, starring Mohan and directed by Jisoo Joseph, written by Jisoo Joseph and a whole bunch of other people as well. So, Rick, your initial thoughts, please. Stupid babies. I love you. And I just... I will never lie to you. And I will... I'm about to anger a lot of you and I'm very, very sorry, but I would rather be honest with you and love each other than you'd be mad at me and love... I didn't lie. Yeah, I didn't either. And before we get into it, and a bunch of comments say, don't watch Malayalam films you don't understand. This is our 11th. We've loved 10 of them. So... Regardless, I will go over what I did enjoy, but there was more I did not enjoy than I enjoyed. I thought whenever you eventually got there, it was, I guess, seemingly interesting what they... The little twists and turns kind of like at the last one. Mohan, I thought, did a fine job. He didn't really have a ton to work with, I think. But he obviously... He didn't put in a bad performance. I did really enjoy the T-Shop worker. I thought he did really well. I thought... So... Okay, let's take a break for Corbin. Hey, what'd you think of Drisham too? I really liked the T-Shop worker. So here's the thing. Okay. And if you only like reviews that praise what you also like... You came to the wrong place. We're not just going to do that. And I feel like... You might be new here because this is a new film. And you might think we don't know anything. We've seen almost 200 Indian films, 11 Malayalam and all previous to this one I loved. And I thought we're somewhere high artistry, including when they came out this year that I think is the best film of the so far, which is the Great Indian Kitchen. Yeah. I thought the biggest issue with this film that I think if they would have gotten rid of it, it could have been a thousand times better. It was the melodramatic soap opera style of filming and editing. And I just couldn't get past that. I hate that. I hate soap operas. And if you don't know what we're talking about, if you've never seen a soap opera, it's overemphasizing people's reactions. If something dramatic happens, you zoom in on every single person in the room for some reason that helps us, even though we know when to be shocked because your story is telling us when to be shocked. And so I think if they would have eliminated that and just made it a simple shot and stuff like that, I think it could have been a thousand percent better of a film. Because I actually don't think it's actually... I'm acting, of course. But I actually don't think that was the main problem. I don't know if you agree. But I think it was actually mostly the overdramatic editing and score. But behind it, that for some reason they were... I don't know if that's how the first one was, but they were making it very, very melodramatic. And I hate that. I hate it. Just consider us pen and teller right now, guys. Yeah. I'm just nodding in agreement with my partner here. Just I... We don't enjoy doing reviews of films that I've only actually heard praise for. No. Everything we watch, we go in wanting it. It's like, why would you want a movie you're watching to be bad or you don't enjoy it? Every film I ever watch, I'm rooting for it to be good. I'm looking for ways to praise it. I'm even asking myself, where am I imposing certain things on it? I ought not be imposing. And yeah. Is that all that and more? Oh, I know. There's more, but I'm saying the biggest issue. If they would have taken this issue out, it would have been a C-plus film. Yeah. If the soap opera melodrama in every way, shape and form, score, editing, lighting, direction of the actors, everything, it was a soap opera. If that had been changed, that would have dramatically solved half of the problem I had with it. The other half of the problem I had with it was as much as there wasn't anything in the acting that was anything that I found grippingly wonderful. The tea shop worker. The tea shop worker. Yeah. There wasn't anything where I was like, for me, after the soap opera, there are so many things about the story I had. I just, it's beyond. There's a lot of self in expository writing that is just, and I know many of you will probably put in the comments, oh yeah, well, Dressium was the biggest box office success in Malayalam history. Doesn't mean a thing with the artistry. So was Phantom Menace. And that's a piece of crap. And I'm not saying this is a piece of crap. I'm just saying the Phantom Menace was a piece of crap. Yeah. And it did box office. It was annoyingly expository in this way. Yeah. Anytime a character has this happen. Have you heard? Yeah. We should be shown that, not told it. Yeah. It's just a basic script writing 101 thing. So by the time, by the time we actually got to the big reveal, which was strained credulity for me. Yeah. And I understand that they said it in the film, it's a film and that's what they were going for. And yes, I think this is better than Phantom Menace. If Phantom Menace was on and this was on, I would be not happy bad and I would watch this. Yeah. Anyways, but yeah, if by the time we actually got to the big reveal, right at the end, I was already so annoyed. I was like, okay, cool. I guess. Yeah. And there was holes in that that I was like, okay, I guess these police officers are complete and other shit and there's no cameras in the police station where they're holding evidence. Or. And I guess he's the only one with a video camera in the entire village. Well, and I was, I was even thinking to myself, okay, is this one of those things where, like we've learned about the judicial system where there's no jury trials and things that we were wondering about with getting evidence and handcuffing people. We've had those questions, right? I just, this, this was like, okay. Well, I do know that like obviously when he, when he confessed to the police officer, right, right. But once again, that's not admissible. Remember, we learned that in crimes. Right. You have to have a, I think it's a magistrate, right? Present if for a quote to be admissible. So obviously he could change his. He did. Yes, obviously. And did his story to make it. And I also think they dragged it out. Obviously, I think it could have been two hours long max. And there was a bunch of information that I understand they did it to show, you know, what he was doing and planning and all that kind of stuff. But it could have been much more brief. And this, this film should have been an hour and a half to two hours max. Yeah. And it also doesn't help that we're watching this after I'm in the thick of watching some of the best cinema on the planet right now from all over the world. And that, and by comparison, have come out of seeing things that are in the running for all of the awards internationally from France and from Spain and from Russia and from Chile and from, I, this was just really, really hard in that regard. And I found it really, even at the end, I don't understand why the parents felt it was a greater punishment for him to live freely with guilt than it would be for him to pay for his crimes because he gave them the DNA. He gave them the dead body at the end. I think it was cremated at the time. Yeah, but still. Well, I don't think you can get DNA out of cremation. Well, no, but I mean, here's the remains. He's admitting it again. And there's the cop again. But he could just say that's not his, that's what. Yeah. I understand. There was a lot of strange credulity. Just strange credulity. And the whole climax. And I understand they explained that, that the hero needs a bit of luck. But I didn't really like that whole thing, that this whole thing was a film. So, we didn't like it. Once again, I don't like doing these reviews in terms of ones that I just, I don't like the film. Especially when all of you love it, like that airplane movie, the Tamil film that we hated. Right. I understand this will probably get more dislikes than likes. I get it. Oh, there will be people who just love him, and they will be very angry that we don't get it. Yeah. Okay. I've loved every other Malayalam. I think we've had, Kumbhavati Nights might be the best Indian film I've ever seen. Like every other Malayalam. Well, and didn't we see the other one with him and we liked him? Yeah. We've seen one other film. We've seen one other film. The face dancing. That was our favorite thing about the film was him. And then he didn't do anything. I agree with you. He didn't do anything bad. No. But it was just, I didn't feel like there was much for him in the script to go with anywhere necessarily. He just, he did what was asked of him to do on the page. Yeah. I felt it. So, once again, I could harp on a lot of this film, and I just, I don't want to. You probably already switched it off. So, yeah. That's what we thought about it and we're going to be honest. And very, you know, it's very, want to be honest and get aggravated about things, especially when there's things that are blaring for you. But I also know filmmakers, they don't go out of their way and wake up and go, hey, let's show up to set today and make a bad movie. Let's just do everything we can. And from script to the end of it, let's just do, that everybody's out to try and do their best and do whatever they can to do what they're going to do. And it, for me, like you, this one just didn't flip the boat by any stretch of the imagination. Once again, we love Mali Alam. We do. We love Mohanl. We want to see, in fact, before we're watching this, we were going to watch a classic Mali Alam and we still might. And I believe it had Mohanl in it. But let us know what's the next Mali Alam cinema we should watch. Let us know why we're idiots. Idiots. I'm sure you will. Hatred's coming. And unsubscribe if you want. Yep. Let us know down below.