 Hey guys, this is Jared from So Is It Any Good and we just saw Baby Driver. Ben, Ben, we're doing the review. Sorry? We're doing the review. Oh sorry, I was just listening to the Baby Driver soundtrack. It's quite good. So I'm Ben. That's Jared. And like I said, we just saw Baby Driver. Baby Driver tells the story of Baby, coincidentally. A getaway driver for a team of crooks led by Kevin Spacey's Doc. And the pull-in-off heists, Baby's the driver. He's fucking sick. And he's got this condition that makes him need to wear headphones at all times. So the soundtrack is fucking rocking. He gets drafted in for one last job, but things don't exactly go to plan. And it's Ben's moment you catch feelings. It's the moment you catch a bullet. So Ben, is it any good? Yeah, I think you know it's good, Jared. You know it's good. Well, I saw it. So yeah, I know it's good. It's the most rhetorical question in a way. Yeah, I think all the reviews for this ahead of us seeing it were really overwhelmingly positive. And we should probably say up front that we're both huge Edgar Wright fanboys. Massive fanboys. Yeah, basically there was no fight back from the rest of the team. It's always any good that we would see this. We basically just said, look, we're gone. There was no arguments. And it completely lives up to expectations for me. The only thing that I was worried about coming into this was that I'd get fatigued from the premise of this, which is music, soundtracking, the action in the film. It was great in the trailer, but I'm thinking to myself, can they keep this going for two hours? And he does. Like, absolutely. I didn't feel fatigued at all during this whole thing. What about you? I felt fatigued, but just because of how awesome it was. It's basically edge of your seat in the entire movie. Soundtrack, as you said, is awesome. There's like 35 songs in there and barely a breath in between them. But it never feels like too much. And it never feels like a jukebox. They're perfectly picked for the scene. As you said, they're timed expertly to the action and even the dialogue in some cases. It's unlike anything I've ever seen. So there's the obvious choices on this soundtrack. You know, you've got Queen on there, which harks back to Shaun of the Dead again. But you've also got unexpected choices. There's Barry White on here. Barry White. A lot of old 70s prog rock on here, like T-Rex. And there's also a bit of folk and blues on there as well. So varied. Yeah, it's absolutely like an eclectic mixtape, as you would expect from Edgar Wright. But he hasn't gone for the obvious choices here. Like, you'd expect at some point to see maybe some Led Zeppelin or something. But it's a little more obscure than that. And when he does use well-known songs, he always does it in sort of a tongue-in-cheek kind of cheesy kind of way. Yeah. But overall, I think this is like easily, this will be hard to beat for soundtrack of the year. I don't think Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk will be high on the rotation on people's Spotify this year. So I think Edgar Wright's pretty safe with the soundtrack on this one. So how's the cast? Ansel Elgort. Is he a leading man? You bet your arse he is. He owns this from the minute he steps on screen. He has an extended musical number in his car, the first thing you see him. And then he has another musical number walking down the street. And if you don't believe that character doing those things, it would come off as cheesy. But I think he puts 110% into it. And then he just grows and grows and grows as the movie goes on. Jamie Foxx is excellent, playing a completely unhinged character named Bats. Who's Bats, you're crazy. I have a feeling that was where they were going with that. Lily James is one of the actors that I was slightly disappointed with. Not because she's not charismatic and she's quite bright-eyed, her character's kind of... She's not bad. No, she's not bad in any way. I don't think she's overly three-dimensional. I think they probably could have given her just a little more... Humanized her maybe just a little more. And I can see that being probably one of the only criticism of this film. Edgar Wright hasn't given her quite enough to do. But other than that, top to bottom I think it's a great cast. And Edgar Wright asked a lot of these guys. You just know he would have done take after take after take. So they must all enjoy working with him. Yeah, well everything is so precise. All the movements and everything. It's almost like a musical number. Every scene where they have to hit certain beats of the song. So yeah, I can imagine he worked them like nothing else. Well, you know, if there's any justice, this movie should win a best editing Oscar. Oh yeah, definitely. Because you've never seen something so well put together. And even someone who doesn't really appreciate the craft of editing would just be blown away by this. There's just such an energy to every single cut in the entire film. So it's a yes from me guys. Yes from me. And if you'd like to see more of our bright shining faces. We're the same person by the way. We really are. You could interchange us at any point. You're Ben on Jared, right? Whatever. It works both ways. Yeah. Hit the subscribe button down below if you want to see more from us. Or go to our Facebook page. And until next time, we'll see you at the movies. See you guys. Ben, you're my right home.