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Smurfs & Slashers: Two Reboots That Missed the Mark
Double disappointments and nostalgic misfires take center stage as Nathan and returning co-host Lexie tackle two recent reboots that left them questioning Hollywood's remake obsession.
First up is the animated Smurfs movie starring Rihanna as Smurfette and James Corden as No Name. What should have been a simple children's film instead delivers a confusing mess with forced humor, pointless musical numbers, and an identity crisis about its target audience. "I fell asleep during the movie," Nathan confesses, while Lexie struggles to find anything positive to say beyond "Rihanna wasn't that bad." Their scathing critique culminates in rock-bottom ratings, with Nathan giving it a firm zero stars and Lexi jokingly awarding it "negative 100."
The conversation shifts to the 2025 reboot of "I Know What You Did Last Summer," which brings back original stars Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. alongside newcomers Madelyn Cline and Chase Sui Wonders. Nathan breaks down the film's major departures from the 1997 original, including its shocking twist involving Freddie Prinze Jr.'s character and surprise cameo from Sarah Michelle Gellar. While appreciating the nostalgia factor and the film's ability to keep viewers guessing, Nathan can't overlook its fundamental flaws: "Every character that you're supposed to care about is super annoying and you want them to die."
Beyond individual critiques, the hosts explore deeper questions about Hollywood's reboot culture and how difficult it is to balance honoring source material while creating something fresh. When does nostalgia enhance storytelling, and when does it simply mask creative bankruptcy? Despite their disappointments, Nathan and Lexie's chemistry and unfiltered honesty make for an entertaining deep dive into what makes remakes succeed or fail spectacularly.
Tune in next time for Nathan's review of the highly anticipated Fantastic Four reboot. Will it break the disappointing remake streak? Only time will tell.
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Speaker 2:Hello everyone and welcome to a Cinema Sunday episode of the Couch Critic. I'm your host, nathan, and on today's episode I'm reviewing not one but two movies. That's right, this is a double feature episode and I have my special co-host once again, lexi hey.
Speaker 3:Lexi, how are you? Hey, I'm back, y'all.
Speaker 2:That's right Now. I thought she was teasing when she said she would see the first movie we're going to talk about. I thought she was really joking. But no, she went to go see it.
Speaker 3:I'm so sad.
Speaker 2:The movie is Smurfs. It's Smurfs, everybody out of the two movies I'm reviewing. She chose to go see Smurfs and if you can't tell by the way I'm saying the title Smurfs you should already know how I feel about this movie. But before we talk about our likes if there are any and dislikes, I have to go over the synopsis. When Papa Smurf is taken by evil wizards Rosamel and Gargamel If there are any and dislikes, I have to go over the synopsis. When Papa Smurf is taken by evil wizards Rosamel and Gargamel, smurfette leads the Smurfs on a mission to the real world to save him. Smurf stars Rihanna as Smurfette, james Corden as no Name, nick Offerman as Ken, jp Carliac as Razamel and Gargamel and I'm surprised on IMDb that it doesn't you have to like scroll a lot to go see that John Goodman play Papa Smurf.
Speaker 2:Now let me just say right now, the only reason I want to go see this movie is because it's on my movie list. I saw the trailer for it and I'm like this is going to be a bucket of suck. And I was not wrong. I was not wrong. I'm pretty sure I fell asleep during the movie. I went to an AMC theater that has the recliners, so I reclined my chair all the way back and I literally fell asleep. I don't know how what I missed, but I'm pretty sure I missed some stuff. So I'm not really gonna have anything, anything good to say about this movie at all. So, lexi, I'm gonna let you share some of your thoughts on Smurfs.
Speaker 3:Okay, so I did also see the trailer. I kind of knew it wasn't going to be that great, but I do love the Smurfs because they're little people and if anybody who knows me knows I am very short, so teen little people. I'm trying to find something nice to say about it, but there's not too many things you can say. One Okay, one no-name was pretty much the lead, which was ugh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't know James Corden was the popular. I thought most people don't like James Corden. I don't understand why he was the lead. Sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 3:So I I have a twofold thing. I like I don't dislike James Corden. I know he said a whole bunch of crazy stuff. However, like I used to really enjoy the carpool karaoke stuff and all of that, every movie he's been in it's flopped. Just about Into the Woods may be the only one I can think of that did not somewhat flop, and Into the Woods because it was Into the Woods. I feel like Every movie he's been in it flopped, kat Flopped. This is about the flop. Can we stop putting this man in movies? Thank you, okay, low key Rihanna was probably the only good thing about the movie and I just don't think her voice fit well for that movie. But what she was given with she did not bad, but it was a horrible movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't. I think they were trying too much to be like kind of like trolls a little bit, Because they had some singing numbers in it which I felt, totally felt out of place in the movie.
Speaker 2:They seem more like music videos than they do like a serious song being sung during the movie and I think I mean, I know Rihanna is popular, I'm not saying she's not popular, but I think that was like the big selling factor was that Rihanna was playing Smurfette, and someone who doesn't care about music nowadays, I was like I don't care that she's playing. I know, the last time they tried to do this with Smurfs, katy Perry played Smurfette, I believe. Yeah, they always feel like they need this popular at the time singer to play Smurfette.
Speaker 3:Katy Perry and then Demi Lovato played her as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so they always feel they need a popular female singer to play the part. Now James Corden can sing. Like you said, he was in Into the Woods. I'm assuming that was him singing the song that his character sings. It's just, this movie was just all over the place. Obviously it was taking no Name and helping him learn what his Smurf name should be, and it's one of those movies where you go see it and you're like who's the audience for this movie? Obviously the Smurfs is kids, but then some of the stuff that's in it, like obviously they're trying to Some of the jokes were.
Speaker 3:The jokes were not even funny.
Speaker 2:No, nothing in this movie was funny. I don't think I laughed one time. And again, I'm not the demographic. Okay, this is obviously geared towards kids because it's cartoony, but at the same time you have some of the stuff that's in it like, especially towards the end, where they have sound effects, smurf bleeping out what are supposed to be curse words in a kids movie. I don't understand why they do that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was just Well, I guess they thought they was going to get the nostalgic group of people who liked the memes, who was going to go see the movie because they liked it. That's what we all did when Lion King came out. Half of us was too old to was going to go see the movie because they liked it. That's what we all did when Lion King came out. Half of us was too old to be going to watch Lion King, but we wouldn't go see it because it was like the solid of it but it was horrible. Well, no, no, no.
Speaker 2:I'm saying I don't understand why they feel the need to put jokes that kids shouldn't be watching and hearing, like the whole bleeping out curse words.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was weird, it was weird. That felt overdone too, because they kept doing it Like the first time. Ha ha, maybe it was done like what? Five different times.
Speaker 2:Well, and my thing is like when I saw the trailer, they did the whole, you know putting is like. When I saw the trailer, they did the whole, you know, putting the word Smurf in place of other words, which they do as much as I thought they were going to, based on the trailer, if anything. They did one scene where I felt like they got it out of their system, like they did it like multiple times in a row and then they didn't really do that for the rest of the movie.
Speaker 2:So I think they were getting that out of their system because I mean, I don't think I've ever seen the other attempt at a live action smurfs movie, but I think they did that a lot in that as well, because why not, you know, I guess. But yeah, there's nothing to say about this movie, there's nothing redeemable, nothing funny. I will. Well, and they kind of copied Inside Out, because there's that moment in Inside Out yeah, to get to the train, go through this cave place and they go through different dimensions. Well, that's essentially what they did in this movie they go through a cave and they go through different like genres, like video games.
Speaker 2:And there was one moment, one single moment in this movie and my friend, our friend Taj, will appreciate the fact that I thought this part was funny was when they did the really short anime section of the Smurfs. I actually did laugh at that. I laughed at that one single moment and then maybe that's when I fell asleep, I don't know. But yeah, this movie is not worth your time. Do not take your kids to this, do not wait for it. This dream, it's just not.
Speaker 3:It's not like it's so bad and, like I said, I love the smurfs and when we first talked about this I was rooting for a good Smurf movie and I'm like.
Speaker 2:Well, here's the thing Nobody cares about the Smurfs. No offense to people who actually still like the Smurfs. If you're listening to this episode and you're like, how dare you I still like the Smurfs. Or if you're like Lexi, how dare you I still like the Smurfs? Nobody that I know in the vicinity of my sphere of knowing people besides lexi, care at all about the smurfs. Like, nobody wanted a smurf smooth yeah, then you let go nobody let it go.
Speaker 3:We haven't had a good one, let it go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in the worst they tried I think I think they did the first one and I think that think that did get a sequel and they waited years. And then they're like, hey, let's do this one. And let me say one more thing, and we're just going to go ahead and review this thing, because there's really nothing to say about this movie the whole bringing them to the real world was it just me, or was that completely pointless? They did not need to go to the real world.
Speaker 3:The entire storyline was pointless because it was all over the place. I literally left that movie going when y'all went to write this. What was our end goal? Because I don't think we understood the end goal.
Speaker 2:The whole point of the movie is that no name needs to get a name. Yeah, that's the only point. Well, he gets these powers, like early in the movie, so that, right, there could have been oh well, here's your name. But they had to create this whole stupid storyline and they had to have them go to the real world for some random reason. Literally, the only way to the real world is because they went to Paris, because they showed the Eiffel tower, because then later, when it's revealed that Smurfette was created by I guess I don't know if this is like really Smurf lore that Smurf was Smurfette was created to tempt the Smurfs, basically because she's the only female Smurf. She was created to tempt the Smurfs to. I don't even know, but there's like a picture of her with Rosamel and Gargamel and they're in front of the Eiffel Tower and that's literally the only reason why they go to Paris. There's no other reason. There's no reason. I was like it was bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this movie was bad, so let's go ahead. Is there anything else you want to? Share about your thoughts about this movie before we rate it.
Speaker 3:I think we covered it all, like the songs was. I don't understand why. I think they's trying to be trolls. They copied no, and I'm trying to find something good about it. And when my my good thing is rihanna wasn't that bad. That's's how bad this movie was.
Speaker 2:And I love John Goodman. I love John Goodman. John Goodman was good too. Yeah, I love Nick Offerman. I love all the people that are in this movie, except maybe James Corden. I love all the casting choices, but this movie just fell flat.
Speaker 3:It was just a big blue and I'm like they could have gave them a better. I don't know. Let's just rate it. I'm ready to rate it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's rate this. So, Lexi, what would you give the 2025 attempt at Smurfs? What would you give it?
Speaker 3:Can I give my real rating yeah, negative 100.
Speaker 2:There you go. Hey, you know what. You gotta be honest, I'm not gonna be as harsh, I'm gonna. I'm not gonna be as harsh because, again, I'm not. I'm not the. I'm not the audience that they're going for, even though some of the stuff is not suitable for what I think the audience they're going for is, it is still a kids movie. It was boring. As I don't know what, I fell asleep. So I'm going to give Smurfs, the 2025 attempt, a zero out of five stars. So not negative 100, but not a one either. I'm giving it a straight up zero. It's not worth your time. There's so many other things that are already available for kids that you can watch. Don't waste your time on Smurfs.
Speaker 3:I would rather watch Miss Rachel what. What I would rather watch Miss Rachel for five hours.
Speaker 2:There you go. So that is movie number one on this double feature Cinema Sunday. And if you thought that movie was good, just wait to the second one, the reboot of I Know what you Did Last Summer. And because they couldn't think of an original title, they called it I Know what you Did Last Summer. Yeah, they just they just stuck with the original title, which I thought was funny because, as you know, the the opening credits they show the like, the different production companies that made this movie. I kid you, not One of the production companies is called original films. I was like that that right there kicked it all for me. I'm like, really, the production company that made this movie is called original. So if you can't tell by my sarcastic manner of this, you should already be able to tell what I think of this movie. But before I get my likes and dislikes because there are a few likes, there are a few let me go over the synopsis.
Speaker 2:A group of friends are terrorized by a stalker who knows about a gruesome incident from their past. I Know what you Did Last Summer stars Madeline Klein as Danica Richards, chase Sue Wonders as Ava Brooks, jonah Horror King as Milo Griffin and Tyreek Withers as Teddy Spencer. Also, this is not a spoiler, because it was revealed in the trailer that Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr are in this movie as well. But I am going to say, before I talk anything else about this movie, that's right, I am going to spoil the crap out of this movie. I'm going to tell all the cameos, I'm going to tell who did it, why they did it and why this movie made no sense compared to the 1997 original.
Speaker 2:I Know what you Did Last Summer, which I, and why this movie made no sense compared to the 1997 original. I Know what you Did Last Summer, which I. Did re-watch that one and I re-watched the sequel. So, lexi, you did not go see this new one, correct? No, but you're okay with staying on the episode and hearing all the stuff about the movie.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because I watched the original so I know a little bit about the storyline. So yeah, Did you?
Speaker 2:ever see the sequel. I still know what you did last time.
Speaker 3:Yes, and I thought it was stupid.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I I'm not like I hate or love like they were what they were my big pull was Jennifer LeFouette. She was probably one of my first Hollywood crushes, so she was like the main reason why I went to go see that first movie. And then I watched the second one and then I was like, oh, she's in this one too, and so is Freddie Prinze Jr, and that's cool. But my first spoiler for you is that there is another cameo from another person, from the original, the very first, and it is Sarah Michelle Gellar. She is in this movie and you may be saying, wait, didn't her character die? Yes, did the character die.
Speaker 2:She's like in a dream sequence and one of the characters, falls asleep and she's in the dream because her character is similar to Sarah Michelle Gellar's character. She's like the beauty queen character, so it was really cool to see her in this movie. It was really random, though it really didn't mean anything to the movie because, spoiler number two, the character that has that dream, does not die in the movie. She doesn't die. So let me just start off by saying I am a male. Okay, I'm going to have opinions about this movie that some females may not have opinions about. Okay, this movie was all obviously going for a certain slant of female empowerment, which I'm not saying I have anything against female empowerment, you know power to the women, but this movie was very much, very one-sided. Let me just say that Because of the two main female characters who, spoiler, do not die in the movie I'm not saying they should have died, but I will say they should have died Because they're super annoying. Let me start with that.
Speaker 2:Actually, this is one of those movies that every single character that you're supposed to care about super annoying and you want them to die. You want the killer to kill them because they're how stupid they are. And this is where it differs from the original movie you wanted I at. I at least wanted Jennifer loves you at character to live. Actually I wanted Sarah Michelle Gellar's character. Actually I wanted Brian Felipe's character to live.
Speaker 2:The only character I didn't care about dying was actually for Prince Jr's character because of acting was atrocious, and then if you watch it, it because they're trying to make you think that he was the killer in the first one for like the first half. First it was the guy from the Big Bang Theory who played Max. They were making you think he was the bad guy and then they try to make you think Freddie Prinze Jr was the bad guy. But anyway, so the first original movie had no characters in it that I was like man, I hope this character dies, except maybe Freddy Pringles. But this one I wanted every single character to die Because they were just the most annoying, stupid, dumb characters I've ever seen in a horror movie in a while, and it was just so.
Speaker 3:When you say stupid dumb characters on the scale of horror movies, are we talking like screen dumb? No, Are we getting a screen dumb.
Speaker 2:The acting choices were just dumb. Like the beauty queen character you have. Like the original, you have Sarah Michelle Gellar, who's like a very strong character. Her character's really strong. She's not your typical, you know, oh, my goodness, I'm a really strong. She's not your typical, you know, oh, my goodness, I'm a beauty queen. She's not really that typical character. This character in this one was that typical character.
Speaker 2:She was so annoying she made jokes about every single thing. Even the most, even the most gruesome moments she would still make jokes. She gets, she's engaged at the beginning of the movie and then a year later, after the whole accident, she breaks off with that guy and then it opens with her being engaged to another guy and that guy spoiler dies and she's like sad for like a couple of minutes and then she starts making jokes about it. Like am I a widow now? Like what, what? You seriously had somebody die who you supposedly cared about and you're gonna make jokes about that? I don't understand.
Speaker 2:And then they had the main character, ava, who a year after she goes to her friend's bridal shower or whatever and she lands on a plane. And this is something that, lexi, if you've listened to the show before I mentioned things called check-the-box moments moments. Some people know what I mean, some people don't like that. I call it that, but this movie had at least two random, stupid, did not fit the story at all check the box moments. One moment in particular is when she lands on a plane and then it goes to a women's bathroom and she's making out with another girl just randomly yeah yeah, that was my face too. You can't see it, listeners. But alexi's like why? Why did they do that? No reason at all.
Speaker 2:No reason, no reason at all like what, so nothing led up to that it plays nothing into the story, and I guess it because, like it's her way of dealing with, like, the trauma, like she's become like this confused. I don't even know, I don't even know. It doesn't play anything into the story and that character that she made out with she randomly met and she just so happens to do a podcast about serial killers and spoiler, she dies, the podcast girl dies, so she dies, the podcast girl dies, so she dies. And then they have a random moment during a town hall meeting where these two guys are sitting next to each other and they're talking about how you know, don't worry, it's not a killer, it's all this stuff. And then the guy's like, well, what am I going to tell my children sitting next to the guy? So I mean so to me.
Speaker 2:Those, what am I going to tell my children sitting next to the guy? So I mean so to me. Those were two check the box moments in this movie. Ok, I'm moving forward to that because there's a lot I want to say about this movie. So the cool thing about the original movie is who was the killer? Who was the killer in the original movie, do you?
Speaker 3:remember oh, I forgot who was it. It was literally the guy they hit, they hit. Yeah, the guy they hit, they hit. That's who was the killer. Yeah, yeah, because I remember when the scary movie came back, yeah, he didn't die, that's what it was.
Speaker 2:And so, in the second one, who was his accomplice. Do you remember? No, this is like a trivia.
Speaker 1:This is like a trivia.
Speaker 2:This is like I know what you did on Summer Trivia. It was his son. His son was his accomplice. Yeah, he was the mild-mannered Will guy the whole movie. And then I kind of forgot when I rewatched it. I'm like, oh yeah, they did do like a twist kind of thing and it didn't make 100% sense why he was doing it. I guess he was trying to lure her. Oh, because he was the radio guy. The whole thing was a setup. The whole movie was a setup. So I was like, okay, that's cool.
Speaker 3:This movie Don't judge me. The scary movie version is stuck in my head too, so I'm mixing the storylines. I'm there now.
Speaker 2:Right. So this movie doesn't really go that route. Okay, the killer is not the person they hit, which I'm kind of glad they didn't copy like copy and paste exactly. They did some stuff that was copy and paste, but I'm kind of glad it wasn't. So I don't know why I was as upset as I was when I found out who it was, but it ends up being this girl who used to be friends with them. Something happened with her dad so she went off the deep end, kind of went to this support group, met the guy who ends up being killed and, I guess, fell in love with him or something. So she wants revenge on the fact that they killed her boyfriend, even though she was with them when it actually happened. She was there. She was there, but she didn't know it was him until his body washed up a couple weeks later and then she found out it was him.
Speaker 3:They covered it up.
Speaker 2:They covered it up. They did the same thing in cover. They cover it up. They covered it up. They do the same thing in the movie. Yeah, they covered it up that because one of the guy's dad was like head of police or whatever. So he covered up everything because the guy was like, hey, we should, we could go to the. Let's just go to the police. I mean like, we don't have to wait for the police to get here, we can make a statement, go to the police, and they end up not going to the police station. So, long story short, she's the girl who fell in love with the guy is the killer.
Speaker 2:But it doesn't just stop there. Like I said, jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr are in this movie as well. The girl works at a bar that Freddie Prinze Jr's character works's character works at right. He's like the boss. So the whole movie is is basically if I'm going to sum up the movie I know it took a really long time talking about every single thing about this movie if I sum up this movie, it's basically how did people deal with trauma differently?
Speaker 2:Okay, so you have a character like jennifer love hewitt who is now a professor who basically teaches college students how to deal with trauma in different ways. Okay, so you have that person who takes what's happened to her and is trying to help people deal with it herself, right, and then here's the big plot twist, spoiler alertiler, alert. You have a character like Freddie Prinze Jr who finds out that basically the whole town tried to erase everything that happened to them in 1997, is trying really upset about that and it's just happening all over again to this girl, and so he partners with her and he is the second killer.
Speaker 3:No way.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, they made Freddie Prinze Jr the bad guy. They made made Freddie Prince Jr the bad guy. They made Freddie Prince Jr the bad guy, even though they ended the second one with them basically being married, which they talked about. They did get married and then they got divorced because apparently Freddie Prince Jr just didn't know how to deal with it. And the whole summarization of the movie is you know, all this could have been avoided if men just went to therapy. That's literally what one of the characters say and I'm like are you kidding me when there's like studies out there that like a lot about men's mental health and how, like, because guys are like that we don't like to share our feelings, because we feel like we're going to be a burden to somebody and so we feel like we have to take on everybody's feelings ourselves. Like I deal with that myself, you know, like I deal with that and so like to make to me as a guy, because I mean, women might go see that and they might think it's funny, right, I don't know. But like To me as a guy, I don't think that's funny, because guys really do deal with a lot of having to keep their emotions in check, so they're like the quote unquote strong one in a relationship, at least. So to me. I didn't think that was funny.
Speaker 2:The two main characters, like I said, they both live at the end and they make jokes about everything that basically happened in the whole movie and then like, oh, by the way, stevie the, the female killer, she's not dead. They, they just nonchalantly mentioned that and yeah, it just that's the way it ends. It ends on this stupid, like they're trying to be funny note about everything that happened in the movie. And then there's there's like a mid credit scene where brandy's character is shows up she's watching everything that's unfolded, and jennifer love hewitt's character comes and they're basically hinting that they're going to take on somebody else now Because Jennifer Love Hewitt has a picture with her face crossed out, I think I don't know, and it's a picture of her and Brandy, and so Brandy's like who are we going to mess up now?
Speaker 2:She doesn't use the word mess, who are we going to mess up now? And Jennifer Love Hewitt says that's exactly what I thought you were going to say and that's the end. So sorry to those who are listening, I basically gave you the entire movie and I really didn't say anything that I liked. So the things that I liked about this movie I loved that Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr were in this movie. I thought it was cool that they brought them back and, you know, it kind of made sense. I was actually hoping. I was hoping it could have been Jennifer Love Hewitt's character. That could have been the one who kind of goes insane Because it makes sense. It makes sense what they did.
Speaker 2:Just because I don't like what they did Doesn't mean it doesn't make sense that that that's what they did. I just, I just I don't know. I don't know how I felt about it. I know I didn't like any of the main characters and you're supposed to care about them and I really didn't at all. I and you're supposed to care about them and I really didn't at all, I didn't care that they died, I didn't care what was happening.
Speaker 2:I didn't like how, because it happened multiple times, not just when the fiance gets murdered at the beginning of the movie like multiple times. Like soon after somebody would die, another character would make a joke about it, or make a joke like soon after, or like they would find somebody dead and then, like a few seconds later, they'd be totally. It seemed like they were totally over it. Like that's just not. I mean, I know people process grief differently, but every single character seemed to be that way in the movie and just didn't, just didn't make any sense to me that way in the movie and just didn't, just didn't make any sense to me. And yeah, I didn't, I just didn't I just didn't like the movie, and I don't.
Speaker 2:I don't think I was going into it thinking I was gonna love it again. This is just like with smurfs. One of the main reasons I went to go see is because it was on my movie list, but I was hoping maybe it would be good. It just and again, I didn't want it to copy and paste the original movie and it didn't do that. And I didn't want it to copy and paste the second one and it didn't do that. But I at least wanted it to be good, like the first one said, and it wasn't. So those are my thoughts. I mean, I know you didn't see it, but but what do you? I mean, what are you thinking as I'm talking about it?
Speaker 3:Okay. So, like I said, I understand why Freddie is the one that goes insane. I can, I can track that Now they're like Randy involved, so, but you summed that up for me. I just I feel like it just sounds all over the place still, like there was no. Like the storyline makes sense, but the fact that she don't love none of the main characters, that's kind of an issue. It's like they, the characters, you don't care about them, the people who die, that sounds so random. I mean, obviously I don't have no context in it because I didn't watch it, but like the podcast girl, like what did she do to like? And my guess, my big question is did she kill anybody off the group that covered it up?
Speaker 2:well and see that thing like originally, like they first started the kill start first started happening.
Speaker 2:It was people that were like connected to people around them. So like the fiance, because I'm assuming that was the girl that killed him, because that was somebody that the blonde-haired girl loved, and they killed somebody that she loved and the podcast girl I'm assuming that would be freddie prince jr, because she was basically I don't know if she was getting paid to do the podcast, but kind of trying to go viral and become famous off of the tragedy that happened to them in 1997. So I'm assuming that was freddie prince that killed her. But then, yeah, but then the people that actually were a part of it started dying too, and it was basically the two guy characters. And that's when I was like, okay, they're trying to, they don't want to kill all the off the female characters, whatever. And then they, yeah, and so then they, they like kind of teased that the blonde girl got killed, but then she ended up not dying, yeah yeah but I will say this, one another thing that I liked, because I kind of poo poo the majority of this movie.
Speaker 2:It did have me guessing. It did have me guessing who the killer was, and that's kind of what you want in these kind of movies you don't want to know who it is on the very start. There was one moment that I would have been really ticked off if it was somebody that it ended up not being. They try to make it seem like it was going to be like this pastor because he headed up this, basically the group that both the killer and the guy that died in the truck at the beginning they were part of this group together and the pastor led that and the guy who died used the pastor's truck to pick up. I guess he was supposed to pick up the girl but it didn't. But now that makes no sense. That makes no sense that he was going to pick her up because she was with them. I don't know this. This makes nothing. So yeah.
Speaker 3:So like at least with the old movie, like the original, I feel like I was guessing up until the end when I first watched the original. Like oh, he didn't really die, but that was also a long time ago, so that's just my understanding of how I felt at the time. But like it made sense and I'm like I guess I understand. Like oh, she killed, they killed her boo thing, but like she never seen that it was her boo thing.
Speaker 2:Well, I see that thing Like she didn't know it was him until after, like when his body washed on shore and they released who it was.
Speaker 3:He didn't know it was him. Like was his face covered up the whole time?
Speaker 2:Well, they never saw who was in the truck. They just knew somebody was in the truck. They just knew somebody was in the truck. They were trying to save because the truck was slowly falling off the cliff and they're all trying to pull the truck back up and then it just fell off the cliff. So I should have started with that too. They never saw the person who was in the truck, so it's not like, hey, I know that guy.
Speaker 3:What.
Speaker 2:Well, she didn't know it was his truck. Oh, I still got a question. Well, it wasn't his truck, it was the pastor's truck. So she didn't know it was the pastor's truck. So there are I mean there are reasons why she didn't know it was him. Okay, that's why she says I didn't know it was him until days after when his body washed up on the shore and then that something just snapped in her and she wanted to kill everybody.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but you didn't want to kill yourself because you was a part of it.
Speaker 2:Well, and she says that she was like there were moments that I wanted to kill myself, okay, okay, but yeah, everything you're saying, everything you're saying that could have been like a what the crap moment, what they did cover themselves up with that.
Speaker 3:Okay, so they covered their bases.
Speaker 2:They covered their bases, they knew there were going to be people asking questions like what you're doing right now.
Speaker 3:The first one. Once we realized he was a killer, it all made sense.
Speaker 2:Well, it made sense because he was literally the guy that they hit, literally the guy that they hit. Yeah, in that movie. It would have been kind of cool if the twist was that it was freddie prince jr, because he was dealing with the trauma of what happened a year ago. That would have more, that would have made more sense in those movies than in this one yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2:I don't understand his snap I mean, okay, his, his snap happened because he felt like the town was forgetting what happened to them, they were covering it up, they erased everything on the internet about it. So like there are reasons why he would be upset. But again, I just I didn't get why. If it was just him, if it was just him as the killer, and like, yeah, people are trying to live in Southport and forget everything. And he's like, no, no, no, you ain't forgetting what happened to us. That would have made more sense than it partnering with this girl who lost her boyfriend. Because it was it's not this, it's not the same situation at all. Like, cause they tried to save the guy in the truck. Like, at least, like in the original movie, they didn't even try to save the guy. Yeah, because I've been pretty sure Jennifer LeVue said, hey, he might still be alive, let's call the cops and right away.
Speaker 1:They're like no.
Speaker 2:At least in this one they tried to save the guy and they just couldn't because his truck was heavy. Yeah, guy, and they just couldn't because this truck was heavy. And yeah it was, it was dumb. So I, I mean, I could probably talk about how dumb this movie was for hours, but I won't because I'm gonna go.
Speaker 3:Am I allowed to rate it based off of what you told me?
Speaker 2:I mean, you can, yeah sure. What would you, what would you give, based on my review?
Speaker 3:based Based on your review, I would give this a solid three. No wait. Three out of wait. Zero out of five.
Speaker 2:Out of five You're going to one and a half. Yes, okay, see, I'm going to be nicer. I'm going to be nicer because, again, I was glad that Jennifer Love Hewitt was in it. I'm glad, even though they kind of whatever his character. I'm glad Freddie Prinze Jr was in it. I'm glad Sarah Michelle Gellar was in it. I'm even glad Brandi was in it, because that was a nice callback. I don't know if I guess they're trying to plan another one with them. I don't know.
Speaker 3:But I'm going to give. That's what they did with Scream. I feel like it caught me in Scream at that point. That's what they did. If you saw the Scream franchise, they brought it back.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I don't know. So we'll see, we'll see. But I'm going to give I Know what you Did Last Summer the 2025 reboot a solid 3 out of 5. Boot a solid three out of five. And I know that sounds higher than what you thought I was going to say, but seriously, the fact that jenner williams here was in it and they brought back freddie bridge jr was was a big thing for me, because, you know, I like when they do that and they made jokes about nostalgia. They made jokes about the fact that, you know, nostalgia is overrated and all this and this movie was straight up nostalgia. That's what this movie was. That's majority of people went to go see it because they had those people in this, in this movie. I guarantee that's why people wanted to go see it. So those are my thoughts. Those are me and Lexi's thoughts on Smurfs, the movie that she actually saw for some reason, and I know what you did last summer.
Speaker 2:The movie I saw for some reason, because they're both on my list so you can check out mine, or katie and mine's or somebody else's mind's review of joel noel, which last episode I said wasn't a french, but it actually kind of is. It's a French, german and Scottish movie about a real story which I did not know. I thought it was like a Hallmark movie or something, but it's not. It's based on a real event and it's pretty cool actually. And then next Cinema, saturdays episode. Another highly anticipated movie of mine Fantastic Four. I cannot wait. I know some friends of mine Fantastic Four. I cannot wait. I know some friends of mine probably have already seen it. Don't spoil it. Don't say anything on the couch critic, where every movie gets its close up.
Speaker 1:Every movie gets its close-up, thank you.
