The Most ILL-CONCEIVED Buddy Cop Comedy of All Time (Theodore Rex) (ft.
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2018
- Whoopi Goldberg and a dinosaur star in this gut-wrenching drama about love and loss.
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"Like -- Someone had to have f**ked a dinosaur and died right?"
-- Allison Pregler, 2018
This is the king of "who was this made for?" movies.
This looks like it could of been a perfect sequel to the Super Mario Bros movie. Humans and dinosaurs would have to learn to co-exist, some humans don't trust dinosaurs, etc. Both movies seem to have that "cyber-junk" feel, where stuff is futuristic, but people live in a garbage dump at the same time.
I think you two may have broken a Guinness world record: the longest conversation between two people about the film _Theodore Rex._ And if that isn't an official record, it should be.
It was certainly longer than the conversation between the director and the actors regarding what the fuck they were supposed to be doing.
@@jamstonjulian6947 HAHAHA I love you
Yeah I agree
I'm sure it beats Siskel and Ebert's conversation for length.
Siskel: This sucks!
Ebert: No, it blows!
Both: Despite being physically impossible, it both sucks and blows simultaneously!
I just realized something...Netflix's Bright is exactly the same as Theodore Rex! Think about it! Confused allegory, buddy cop dynamic that makes no sense, and terrible prosthetic work that the film makers linger on because it looks "cool" history truly repeats itself.
Campbellzilla Dinosaur lives don’t matter today
Campbellzilla *Lindsay Ellis screams in the distance*
Rap Critic's new single: Dinosaur Cop
Also: completely meandering script and tone mostly made of pointless action!
It's also an expensive Direct-To-Video movie with a 90 million dollar budget, which was a record breaker for Netflix.
A dinosaur and baked goods?
...
This film adaptation of Yoshi's Cookie is strange.
"Does Whoopi Dream of Electric Paychecks?" was a fuckin A+ joke Phelan! Bring it home!
When I was a kid and we had those Scholastic order forms, occasionally they wouldn't have your book in stock so they would end up with something entirely random. One year I ordered "Julie of the Wolves" and ended up with the official novelization of "Theodore Rex".
That is cruel. Julie of the Wolves is awesome.
It’s true what they say, they really will make a novelization out of anything.
Just so you know, the first 10 seconds of the Movie Nights theme is now the tone we use at the carwash when we page people over the P.A. system.
The owner wanted something less abrasive than the default static noises.
loooool amazing
@@AllisonPregler , you should cover the Dean Stockwell, Columbo episode.
ua-cam.com/video/ZRcBrF9t8so/v-deo.html
If there was a Dinosaur civil rights movement, would it have been led by Martin Luthersaurus Rex Jr.?
BraninT oh snap
Malcolm Rex.
@@ExtremeMadnessX We didn't land on the asteroid! The asteroid landed on earth and wiped out dinosaurs sixty-five million years ago!
No feathers on the T Rex?!? Suspension of disbelief ruined!!
#stillabetterdinosaurthanindominus
2:38 If dinosaurs were brought back as sentient citizens and racoons are about to be given the same treatment, does this make Theodore Rex the origin story of Rocket Racoon and a prequel to Guardians of the Galaxy?
I mean this movie certainly feels like it takes place in a universe with *a* cinematic Howard the Duck... I just don’t think it’s the MCU Howard.
Mr. Snrub lol you should read the original rocket raccoon comics. Like the original originals. They are far far far stranger than that
Ah-HAAAAA!
I’m thinking Wabuu!
Child abduction plot? Exploding transforming butterflies? Why? Was "dinosaur murder mystery" not an enticing enough concept for these writers?
For real. I feel like this could have been really awesome if they'd kept it more focused on the "buddy cop with dinosaur" idea and cut out all the bullshit. Especially for someone like myself who adores pretty much all things dinosaurs, this could have been really enjoyable. I'm disappointed by the wasted potential. So often movie creators have interesting premises but completely fuck it all up, and it's so frustrating.
Kitchen sink approach.
This movie could of been so much better if Oro was the scientist. Then he could use SCIIIIEEEENNCCCEEEE and make dinosaurs fly and maybe create them to or something....YEEEE.
CWDTrixie yes and super crotch duck could provide his narrative throughout the film.
The dinosaur suits reminds me of Dinosaurs, that early 90s sitcom created by the Jim Henson Creature Shop.
I think it's the same team with the effects...if only they had gotten the writers too
Theory: The Dinosaurs sitcom and Theodore Rex take place in the same universe, hence explaining why the dinosaurs are already evolved and anthropomorphic despite only recently being restored.
Hey, it makes more sense than anything the movie actually did.
Come to think of it, the cops in the show were grossly incompetent too.
@@Tareltonlives Yup. Same people made them.
"Are you trying to bribes us?" "Because we think you should"
Donald: Sora! It's Sephiroth!
Sephiroth: cookies, cookies, cookies, gonna kill Aerith, *snap snap* *makes random noises*
Ah, you looked him up before me. How dare you? lol
EDIT: So, I didn't finish the video before looking it up and commenting. Now I'm an idiot.
Disney owns the Muppets now, right? So, Seph vs cookie monster in the next KH is just possible...
You know, that would improve Kingdom Hearts
George Newbern nooooo! 😭
Fun fact: In the first Kingdom Hearts Sephiroth was played by Lance Bass for some reason.
Why was he even IN Kingdom Hearts? I know FFVII is really popular but Sephiroth is a jarringly dark villain for that series.
Hmm... it's a buddy cop movie that forewent a theatrical release, with a contemporary(...ish) urban setting that features sapient fantasy creatures, stars a notable minority actor in the declining portion of their career as the main human character, and has an extremely muddled racism metaphor. So, this is the Bright of the 1990s?
And world-building that raises a whole bunch of unanswered questions.
MrRadar
And just like bright
This has a cool idea
And an interesting world
But didn't do much
“Dinosaur lives don’t matter today”
“American cyborgs are still giving us shit for the Alamo“
Yes! And it sucks! Just like Bright!
When I clicked on this video, I didn't expect to hear a discussion about the logistics of humans having sex with dinosaurs.
I preferred this channel when it was about BAD movies. This is Whoopi's Philadelphia... in the sense that I haven't seen that one either.
It'd be cool if they'd done it in a more film noir, dark humor type way, like Avenue Q or HappyTime Murders.
Imagine it.
Theodore Rex is a a gruff depressed detective sitting at his desk smoking too many cigarettes and wondering if its worth living in this city. No matter how hard he's tried to make a difference to the dinosaur community, the human cops have just kept slapping him down
Now he's thinking that all he needs is one last case to make money to bust this joint, and out of nowhere, Whoopi Goldberg walks into his office like a seductress, she walks up to him, takes the cigarrette from his mouth and says "Born ham, that is basically me"
Because Happytime Murders was such a sensation. No, I think they should have gone in the direction of kid-friendly.
At this point, Phelous is wishing he was watching a Dingo animation film instead of this film.
All these dinosaurs are SO STOOPID
😂
I think this movie would make so much more sense if the evil genius guy was either a) a clone of the original genius who made the dinosaurs or b) the grandson or great-grandson of said original genius.
Him being a vegetarian is odd considering the type of dinosaur he's based on.
Thats kind of the joke...
Theodore is (in his own stupid words) "a recovering carnivore." So I guess meat is like a drug to Dinassholes in this universe? Also I guess he won't just get sick like what would normally happen if you made a creature with a primarily meat-based diet (which was also supposedly cannibalistic) cut it out completely.
Look at me trying to find logic in this piece of garbage, pathetic.
They couldn't get triceracop for this one.
Triceracop. See, that's a decent title-it's an actual pun!
I was honestly offended.
I found out years after first watching this film that it's (loosely) based on a detective novel called Anonymous Rex. In the novel, Rex disguises himself as a human.
Not sure how that works.
Which is extra funny cause the Sci-fi channel made a movie more directly based on Anonymous Rex (going by the same title) in 2004.
Does he have fake mustache or something
@@limalepakko6074 It's like... he has a human skin suit like a Doctor Who villain?? I don't know how exactly it works in the book, lol.
@@Valzahd whoa
Every buddy cop film can be improved by adding a dinosaur for no reason. Said no one ever!
I never saw this as a kid, but would hear about it from time to time and I was always CERTAIN it had to be a joke. Like an extended SNL skit or something that couldn't POSSIBLY actually be a feature length film
I wish I never learned the truth
That's George Newbern voicing Theodore Rex...which makes me wonder how Whoopi Goldberg could have fared in the DC Animated Universe, where voice direction was more of a priority.
And Bud Cort voiced Toyman in the DCAU, bringing this all around.
Yeah, apparently the story for Whoopi being in this is that she WAS fine being sued for backing out...but then she saw what happened to Kim Basinger when she refused to do "Boxing Helena" and figured "Rich and ashamed" was better than "Broke and principled".
Bold of you to assume Whoopi had principles to begin with.
The Bright of the 90's
Dino lives don't matter today!
I think alien nation was the bright of the 90s.
Rewatching this after seeing Allison’s recap of the novelization 📖 🦖
There’s a novel?!
This is what Guinan does in the Holodeck after working 23 hours a day in the bar.
I would say this is the weirdest buddy-buddy mystery movie featuring a human (well, mostly) with a non-human partner I've ever seen, but I am going to wait and see if Detective Pikachu can't top it
"Noah's Ark-slash-Hitler plan" - that's something nobody has ever said before.
It's kinda like _Moonraker_ though. Or _The Spy Who Loved Me_
@@porsche911sbs Or _Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow_.
@@porsche911sbs Or Dr Who's Invasion of the Dinosaurs.
Armin Müller-Stahl is one of the greatest German actors. I'm surprised he's in that, but I'm not one bit surprised he's as unenthusiastic about it as Whoopie...
I admit, when I normally get confused by something while watching a movie, I just assume that I've missed something, didn't pay attention or was just play old too stupid to get it. This whole video re-assured me that it's a natural reaction to have when watching Theodore Rex. Thanks
I'm so used to Phelan's parody/mashup shirts, it completely throws me off when he wears straight merch. It's like I'm playing Where's Waldo? in search of some phantom gag that's not there.
I spent half the review thinking “where do I know him from?” Every time the villain came on the screen. I finally recognized him as the red herring in angels & demons.
"Your partner's a dinosaur and sometimes he kills people." If you remove the dinosaur part, isn't that pretty much the plot outline for Venom?
I always thought that this movie was connected to Super Mario Bros the movie and was the same universe where it's in the continuous story line of the other world of ours.
Do The Last Star Fighter I love that movie please
Another case of "We're gonna take that Oscar back" perfomance.
Like Cuba Gooding Jr in Snow Dogs and Boat Trip.
Whoopi Goldberg was forced to do this by a lawsuit, what's Cuba Gooding Jr.'s excuse for Boat Trip?
@@SavageGreywolf He figured a movie about Homosexuals would bag him another Oscar.
Love the film footage dress Allision
HA! I remember seeing this at the rental store and being excited because I was obsessed with Dinosaurs as a kid and then being extremely embarrassed and disappointed when I made my family watch it with me. I remember trying to save face and acted like I liked it for some reason though.
Keep the collabs rolling, Allison and Phelan!
I like them both, but Allison is a strong solo artist too.
Tom Servo Yeah if she is everybody knows that.
Well i think they’re married or something so i guess collabs are part of the deal
elfomarcio
Not married AFAIK, but dating for sure.
I hope they collaborate long enough to become the Newman-Woodward of UA-cam.
This was director Jonathan R. Betuel return to feature films after 1985's "My Science Project" but also his farewell!
11:01
I guess Alison is also a Teletubbie now...
Dinosaur Civil Rights Freddy is amazing.
I found a slew of Freddy's Nightmares host clips two months ago and they took over my life for a bit.
"Dinosaur Justice Warrior" lol
I feel so sad for Armin Mueller-Stahl - he's still an acting legend in both East and West Germany, but he clearly got not the right directions in this...
Don't feel bad for him, he's 90 years young, enjoying life, and just paints expressionist pictures now. Years ago, he said that he didn't care about any of the movies he was in at all, except for eight or ten of them - the ones that he considers to be really, really good and that are near and dear to his heart.
I have a feeling, this one is not on that short list.
From near where my late Mom was born, seven years younger, seems quite a fascinating actor. Definitely wasted in this movie.
Haha why would you feel bad for him? It was a job and I’m sure he had fun even though the movie was bad. He got paid I’m sure!
Money laundering. That’s the only explanation for how a movie like this exists... right?
So wait - that guy created intelligent dinosaurs, openly says it, and isn't worshipped by the dinosaurs and their human supporters like a god?! Imagine someone stands on a podium and is like "Hey, I created all humans." and is actually right. How would you feel?! I'd be like "Holy shit."
I would ask some questions about the design. Like "Did you have to make us breath with the same pipe that we use for swallowing? Not to mention the piping down stairs!"
Yes! Back to back bad 90s kid's comedies!
Honestly, I'm not surprised you got the Love Interest and the Widow confused-WHY DID THEY USE THE SAME SUIT?
Starting to think the movie has a real tone problem....
Never cut the corpsing. It's hilarious.
William Shatner and Camp Dinosaurs. I think that's what this movie desperately needed :)
The dinosaur suit looks a lot like the ones on the Dinosaurs show.
Well, they both had their puppets made by Jim Henson's creature workshop, so you're not far off
Phelous: ...there's a funny idea about having a dinosaur partner.
Triseracop: I travel through time because dammit, I love you.
Dinosaur: Teamwork is very important!
All the Dingo Pictures, The Stupids, now Theodore Rex. Poor Phelous 😕
At least Dingo Pictures makes more sense than this, even though there is next to nothing happening.
There are still dingo pictures movies left for him to review.
The Stupids 2 or Wrong Turn 7 ?
RocaDeearCenjar that’s fine. He enjoys them and I’ll watch em
That Jurassic Park bit at 13:26 cracked me up.
Allison hair is super cute. Phelan's as well.
Derrick Hackett I prefer her Stupids hairstyle, with the rabbit ears.
You missed an opportunity to use a Simpsons clip.
Homer: I'm the piano from the movie Shine.
Guy: Uh huh, and your name is?
Homer: Uhh, Shiny McShine?
So.... this guy is basically John Hammond.... only HE DID spare a FEW expenses.... Ok.
Days ago, I watched the Puppy Star Xmas video where Theodore Rex is referenced, so I decided to watch this review again...
And I did.
Incest, dinosaur civil rights and Whoppi Goldberges, oh my!
They could have done a whole movie where we see dinosaur people and the culture come to be. That would have been neat. But we gets this because Lucifer is real and wants us to suffer.
@@AllyGatorAnimator Alternative timeline/ parallel universe where dinosaurs didn't extinct is so cool concept that unfortunately was never made right.
Check out 'My Girlfriend is a T-Rex'. It's more or less what you described.
loved the out of nowhere chroma key through Allison
Mom can we get Zootopia?
Mom: No we already have Zootopia at home
Zootopia at home:
Theodore Rex is also "Detective Pikachu at home"
34:59
"It's funny." - Phelan Porteous 2018
Slap that testimonial on the the Thoeodore Rex Blu-Ray!
Hard to imagine that Rex shares a voice actor with Sephiroth from FFVII of all characters.
BowserTheSecond
WHAT
I do really love the costumes! Takes me back to that Dinosaurs sitcom. I had such a crush on Robbie Sinclair. I SWEAR IT WAS A FASE DON'T JUDGE ME!
"We're jerks" is gonna need to be used more.
If this movie was made more recently that long-haired joker guy would be a tumblr sexyman
Absolutely, and it would be hated as "anti-cop" and "SJW" on reddit and UA-cam
... *an* anthropomorphic T-rex...
I feel like this movie was written by someone who doesn't really know what dinosaurs are considering that excusing them being anthropomorphized, dinosaurs were a bunch of extremely different and not all closely related species so having them act like a single magical race that's in-tune with itself feels pretty lazy, not to mention really weird for something that doesn't appear to be "fantasy".
Considering this likely came to be because of the Dinosaurs sitcom and I understand some of the effects types for that show also brought that into this movie.... You get inconsistent crap like that.
Probably green lit it since the sitcom was pretty good.
You know...there's a manga called 'My Girlfriend is a T-Rex' that handwaves something like this in the first page and it makes more sense than this. In about two panels, the comic explained that dinosaurs realized that the world was changing around them even back in the era where they technically were still alive and evolved along side humans and as time went on, even their bodies started to evolve where they gained humanoid features for certain things while retaining their original dinosaur features for others. And depending on the species, they all have their own specific cultures and rituals. So it makes sense only because dinosaurs never went extinct and had time to adapt and humans were used to it because we evolved side-by-side with them. It wasn't something that was instantaneous like this movie makes it seem like. Also there are no stupid powers or anything like that. The only 'abilities' the dinosaurs have are whatever their own species was known to have originally.
A GAG manga did a better job at explaining how anthrro-dinos worked better than this.
@@Quandry1 I guess they missed the gag of the series because what made Dinosaurs work was because it was dinosaurs who acted like humans from the 90s. They didn't need humans in it because the dinosaurs technically were the humans.
None of us really understand dinosaurs...
We can make educated conclusions, at best.
So, the fourth review of this movie I've seen so far. Let's go.
I have a very vague memory of catching the second half of this movie when I was channelsurfing as a kid (or young teen, I don´t really remember). I remember being... fascinated by it. It got this dark, early 90´s vibe but with a very cartoony story, it was just STRANGE. Kinda like the Super Mario Bros Movie. Which I also saw. I saw a lot of weird 90´s movies as a kid.
I remember watching the premiere of this movie on TNT back in 1995. There was a lot of things that I remember watching on TNT that I haven't been able to find information on. One of those thins was this stop motion movie on TNT back in 1994. I've searched every single stop motion animation from around that time and have found nothing. All I remember is that it involved an ice sword activated by touching the sword with the crystal. It had somewhat of an Aladdin, Arabic setting but that's all I've got. If anything it kind of reminded me of Secret of Mana on the SNES.
"there's something that could be done here, like if your partner is a dinosaur and maybe he kills somebody and you just go with it"
Let's just say Velocipastor is the spiritual successor to this
This is some odd sequel to the show Dinosaurs.
That would have achieved Legendary Status to Interweaving those Story lines. T-Rex could have been the Baby
Was wondering when you would get to this one Lupa~!
A kid: When did the dinosaurs live?
Me: Oh, years ago!
How do you write The Last Starfighter and then make this?
DocDelray this is one of those movies you see it and you start second guessing everything the filmmakers did before
This dude has serious potential. It’s so sad he killed his own career so soon
I can't believe Bud Cort is in this. Talk about a good time to say: "Alright, let's lose the puppet".
i read the something awful thread on the making of this film. holy shit it reads like the making of a to-Don't list when making a film, this was all supposed to be played straight, it wasnt meant to be a kids movie and then too many changes made it this lol
Link, my dude?
Thunder Squatch
lost to time but this link is the article the site directed me to
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www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=www.slashfilm.com/theodore-rex/&ved=2ahUKEwiCv5ig0P3cAhXItlMKHWq4Du0QFjANegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw2FhjQNqJU7NgywhkDTOEDA
Explains a lot-it's too violent and grin and raunchy for kids, but it's too dumb and immature and jokey for adults.
Tareltonlives
right, my favorite bit is the sudden change and all that money spent on updating the costume of a character that wasnt supposed to be center stage and money spent on the tonal shift but not wanting to spend money on reshoots of earlier work
That's a heck of a shirt Lupa
It's like one of those mock trailers from Tropic thunder was made in reality.
Stephen McHattie, the actor you say is almost Lance Henriksen, I always think of as almost Robert Patrick.
Love seeing you and Phelous reviewing together😻
17:44 That guy looks familiar... wasn't he one of the Three Storms in Big Trouble In Little China, the one with the swords?
It is! That's Peter Kwong! Good eye! I had to look that up
Is that the Ice Cream Bunny you got there in the background?!
Anastasios Gionis ice cream bunny, the ice cream bunny he’s made of ice cream and he’s a bunny.
Anastasios Gionis
No?
Zootopia this film ain't.
I think the toymaker's sentient toy... things are a reference to Sebastian from Bladerunner and his much creepier toys.
I don't know why, but Phelan's entire "dinosaur civil rights" schtick has stuck with me for these last 4 years.
These villains have Next Mutation-level writing, holy crap xD
And I love the "Whoppi Goldberges" callback.
I feel like this kind of movie could be reimagined in a Henry Stickmin style and be glorious.
That toy from Robot Chicken was right about a Tyrannosaurus Rex. It is nature's perfect killer.
I love your guys' videos omg
Love your channel its fire
Teddy wasn't cut to be in the Tricera-COPS
"Hands up!" "I can't! I'm a Tyrannosaurus!"
(Blamblamblamblamblam)
Prehysteria was so much better!
I can't believe they got 33.5 million dollars in budget funding for this complete disaster of a movie.
I would love a completely played straight dinosaur detective movie (preferably hard R) but this does seem a little too non-committal tone wise.
Even a kid friendly one like Zootopia, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, or Detective pikachu could work. It just needed actual EFFORT
Here's a 1996 LA Times article about Goldberg's verbal agreement and attempt to back out:
www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-04-04-ca-54576-story.html
The reveiw we all been waiting for