Ever wondered what happened behind the scenes of Beverly Hills Cop's latest film? Join us on the Oh Brother Podcast as we unwrap the decades-long journey and the hurdles Eddie Murphy faced to bring Axel Foley back to life. Discover how the fourth installment of this iconic franchise overcame a development purgatory spanning since the 90s, and how Eddie Murphy aims to redeem the series after the third film's fiasco. You’ll get an exclusive peek at the Netflix release and witness the directorial debut of Mark Malloy, alongside the return of familiar faces like Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Paul Reiser, and Bronson Pinchot, plus the fresh energy brought by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Kevin Bacon. We also chat about the film's reception, its place on Netflix's trending list, and ponder over a potential fifth installment.
Is bringing in Axel Foley's estranged daughter a stroke of genius or a narrative misstep? Our discussion dives deep into the new dynamics, debating the chemistry between characters old and new. We ponder whether Judge Reinhold's Rosewood got the screen time he deserved and how the presence of Gordon-Levitt and Bacon impacted the film. From nostalgic soundtracks to classic humor, we dissect the elements that made some of us cheer and others groan. Whether you're a die-hard Beverly Hills Cop fan or a newcomer, our balanced insights and lively debates will give you plenty to think about. Tune in and decide if this latest trip to Beverly Hills is worth your time!
Ever wondered what happened behind the scenes of Beverly Hills Cop's latest film? Join us on the Oh Brother Podcast as we unwrap the decades-long journey and the hurdles Eddie Murphy faced to bring Axel Foley back to life. Discover how the fourth installment of this iconic franchise overcame a development purgatory spanning since the 90s, and how Eddie Murphy aims to redeem the series after the third film's fiasco. You’ll get an exclusive peek at the Netflix release and witness the directorial debut of Mark Malloy, alongside the return of familiar faces like Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Paul Reiser, and Bronson Pinchot, plus the fresh energy brought by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Kevin Bacon. We also chat about the film's reception, its place on Netflix's trending list, and ponder over a potential fifth installment.
Is bringing in Axel Foley's estranged daughter a stroke of genius or a narrative misstep? Our discussion dives deep into the new dynamics, debating the chemistry between characters old and new. We ponder whether Judge Reinhold's Rosewood got the screen time he deserved and how the presence of Gordon-Levitt and Bacon impacted the film. From nostalgic soundtracks to classic humor, we dissect the elements that made some of us cheer and others groan. Whether you're a die-hard Beverly Hills Cop fan or a newcomer, our balanced insights and lively debates will give you plenty to think about. Tune in and decide if this latest trip to Beverly Hills is worth your time!
Welcome to the O'Brother Podcast with hosts Dan and Mike Smith, brothers from the same mother with different opinions on movies, tv, video games and more plus celebrity interviews. Get ready, get set. It's time for the O'Brother Podcast. Welcome to the O'Brother Podcast. Me, your host, dan Smith. My sign is always my brother from the same mother, mike Smith.
Speaker 2:
How's it going today, Dan?
Speaker 1:
It's going. Good, man, we're back. We're going to talk about Beverly Hills Cop Axel F man, I can't believe it's been 30 years. It's crazy. We did a first look on this, like we do most films. Um, I was eagerly in, you know, anticipating it. I mean not just because it's been 30 years, but I liked certainly like the original beverly hills cop and two was okay, three was a complete, three was a train wreck, right, and murphy himself says that.
Speaker 1:
Eddie murphy is on record, in fact, that I think he's quoted as saying it's one of the reasons that he did this film which, yes, you know, this one's been in. We won't go down the litany of like that right you know, but it's been in development purgatory since, like the 90s, since the third one right which, because he wanted to make up for this.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, for the third one right, right and there's a a joke you pointed out in the movie.
Speaker 1:
That's quite subtle yeah, this, uh, and so this is on netflix exclusively, uh, which is one of the things I think we commented on when we did the first look. So it as of this recording, it just came out a few days ago, on July 3rd, just before the holiday 2024. Just shy of two hours, it's an hour and 58 minutes. Directed by Mark Malloy, who I know we talked about this in the first look as well. This is his first, this is directorial debut. And then run down the cast. You get a lot of the main players from the original. You know three films with, obviously, eddie murphy is axel left. He also produces joseph gordon levitt is new to the, the franchise. He plays bobby abbott. We'll talk about his character, um taylor page, who plays murphy's white white daughter in the film Jane judge Reinhold is back, as Billy John Ashton is back from retirement.
Speaker 1:
Apparently from he wasn't in three Correct Right, he was retired.
Speaker 2:
Now was was three, because I watched the original, but I I didn't go any further than that. But one of them, judge reinhold, you know, has like, yeah, it was three ak-47s. Right, right, was that three or two?
Speaker 1:
it was, it was three but it was being set up before then. That wasn't really a brand, but they took it to a ridiculous extreme.
Speaker 2:
Insane level.
Speaker 1:
John Ashton I mentioned is back as Taggart. He's back in spirit, anyway, he's back. Paul Reiser is back. Bronson Pinchot is back as Serge. I didn't recognize him Really I wouldn't. It looks exactly the same.
Speaker 2:
He just had a blonde wig this time right, maybe it was the wig, but exactly the same. I I knew it was him from the voice. But if you said you know without him saying anything, if you said who is that, I would be like no clue yeah.
Speaker 1:
And then kevin bacon is another new, uh, right cast member here who plays a detective, a cop, whatever. He's a crooked cop. We pretty quickly figured that out I mean, I probably figured it out as soon as I saw him on camera Except for Chief Taggart, correct, correct, yeah, john Ashton's character. So you know, as of right now, as of today, this is the number one film on Netflix. Yeah, and I didn't realize but the fifth is already in development, seeing this.
Speaker 2:
I thought, yeah, there could be a fifth one, unlike coming to america, which I think that's also in development, a third one, third one, yeah, but the second one was horrible, the one he did for amazon it says um it.
Speaker 1:
Production began back in 2022. Oh wow yeah, and you know it was interesting when you go through that list of everybody that's been connected to this project over the years the guys that were attached just before Mark Malloy came in, as to direct left to go direct Batgirl, which we now know ended up getting shelved, wow. So that's kind of I wonder is that that's gotta show? Up somewhere I don't know I mean, wasn't pattinson?
Speaker 2:
didn't even he make a an appearance in it?
Speaker 1:
I don't, I don't, I don't know, I don't recall I think that's what I heard- yeah, uh, right now it's. It's got a meta score I think of about 55 on IMDb and a split on Rotten Tomatoes 60, 80, with 80% being the audience. Take Okay, okay.
Speaker 1:
But yeah the first one comes out in 84, beverly Hills Cop, 1987. First one comes out in 84, beverly Hills Cop, 1987. And then the third one we mentioned, 1994, which was one of the funniest things in the film that you mentioned that I shared with you, which is Joseph Gordon-Levitt's characters.
Speaker 2:
I like his look. By the way, he's got a beard A beard he looks pretty good.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, kind of long hair. Murphy's axle is sitting beside him at his desk because he's a cop too, and he at one point he says have you even looked at your own sort of rap sheet? Have you seen your file? And he's going through. He goes yeah, that you did this and that that was. This was 84, then there's 87, 1994, not your finest hour which was just a great, and he doesn't react at all. That was great, you know, eddie murphy just kind of rolled with.
Speaker 1:
It was really funny I liked from the beginning where they you know and I don't often like this, but I like that they leaned into, like the, the classic soundtrack right off the bat, like before I hit hit record, you were singing Bob Seger, that's right, shakedown.
Speaker 2:
And.
Speaker 1:
I liked it in this.
Speaker 2:
It worked for me Right, and it starts with Glenn Fry. The heat is on, which was from the first movie. Now, Shakedown wasn't till part two. Two right, Right and another trivia question. Here Bob Seger's only number one hit was shakedown can you believe that that's wild?
Speaker 1:
that's crazy. That's crazy. Well, number one. Certainly not, you know, top 10, but number one, okay. So what so I you know as a, as a sequel, as a as an installment. 30 years later, and considering the direct that was beverly hills, cop 3, I enjoyed it. I don't know if I would have had the same impression if I had paid and gone to the theater to see it. I think this was a perfect film to have on a streaming platform, right.
Speaker 2:
And he again, his last two movies Coming to America 2, and now Beverly Hills Cop Axl F.
Speaker 1:
Right.
Speaker 2:
We really don't know. You know what an audience would you know? From the beginning I was like you. The point of sisters started playing.
Speaker 1:
I was into it from the start and he slipped right into his character from the original he did, and again, if you had seen the third more recently, like he was clearly just phoning that in yes, it was so forced, not to mention the story was horrible.
Speaker 1:
So at least in this I thought it was so forced, not to mention the story was horrible. So at least in this you know it. I thought it was interesting, I thought it worked, bringing in this character as his daughter who he's estranged from, and they end up kind of being this buddy cop duo to solve this there.
Speaker 2:
You don't like where I thought they had great chemistry on her. I think they could have taken her out of this film, oh no way. And made it a tight 90-minute film, that storyline with his daughter.
Speaker 1:
it didn't work for me. I thought it was good. It's what propels the whole thing forward.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, but I think what they could have done is judge reinhold's barely in it well so 20 minutes into it he gets taken away and we never saw him again until the end and I think
Speaker 2:
what that was you know they needed a reason to get him to beverly hills, correct? Right, that was the daughter, correct, it could have been rosewood, which is the character judge reinhold plays. It could have been, you know, he left the force recently because you know he thought there was bad cops and that would be the reason for him to go and I think they would have given him more screen time. I like gordon levitt. I like kevin bacon as a heavy. I didn't think there was chemistry with him in the daughter oh, absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 1:
There was great chemistry. Total disagreement there, no great chemistry.
Speaker 2:
I thought she did a really good job of and granted they've been estranged for five years, right, so there's got to be a little distance there. It's not like lovey dovey and hugs and kisses.
Speaker 1:
I think it was much longer than five years, wasn't it?
Speaker 2:
Well, at one point or something like. Well, at one point she says to him why don't you just go back to Detroit and we'll? I'll see you in the next five years? So that's where I got the five years.
Speaker 1:
Okay, they really weren't specific, specific, I don't remember that detail but yeah, that quote right and it isn't like we knew of this character or there was some relationship in the third one that we. You know that obviously this has transpired over the 30 year period. But right, there's, no, there's no better way to get a character like that to return to beverly hills than his daughter basically being held hostage or threatened rather um I think they could have done it with rosewood that's not enough.
Speaker 1:
That doesn't have enough magnitude. Okay, he loves rosewood, their brothers, whatever, but not enough to go back to beverly hills I think so, shenanigans.
Speaker 2:
He's right well part two that would have been lazy. Part two the reason he went back was because the chief was in trouble. I think it's what makes this one fresh.
Speaker 1:
I think it's part of why it was good. If it was, if this character wasn't wasn't in it, then we don't have the joseph joseph gordon levitt character, who I thought was really good. No, you could have kept him, but no, you couldn't have because he had a relationship with the daughter, right, but there was a whole angle there, they really didn't even, they didn't we didn't know how serious it was that he was having intercourse with his daughter and there was this all that's it? That wasn't just it.
Speaker 2:
That wasn't just it I, I don't know and I'm not, I'm not trash in the film.
Speaker 1:
It was as you said it, I think it would just come off as like a lazy fourth installment. Okay, Well getting back together.
Speaker 2:
Banana in the tailpipe again you know, yeah, but don't you think the beginning? The guy who directed this popped in the first one and said, okay, I'm going, directed this, popped in the first one and said, okay, I'm gonna do this and this, I'm gonna steal this, I'm gonna steal that a little bit like, yeah, sure, and when he's driving like I don't need for a fourth time to see him driving in beverly hills with the yoga.
Speaker 1:
I liked it, I liked it, I liked it. So stale.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, but it plus, since when can you talk to people while you're in a gas-powered vehicle and you can talk to people with the windows up and they hear you and you can converse? Hey, I can arrest you for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:
I'll screw you Foley. I liked it because of the updating of the references. I thought it was funny and, yeah, you got the music playing. You got Hot in the City kind of remixed by Billy Idol. I think it worked. I like that.
Speaker 2:
And I did like the open and I think it was more for the music than anything else.
Speaker 1:
See, that was one of the only things I had a problem with was that opening sequence with that character, this other cop that obviously this rookie cop that he's trying right at the hockey game. He's just manipulating this kid to to. You know, to break this case wide open, that that he's been following and, uh, I just thought the the chemistry there was the weakest.
Speaker 2:
I thought yeah it's just kind of goofy, although it's, it slid into him. You know creating a persona. You know I'm the I I. You know my grandfather was in the negro leagues. I thought that was hysterical.
Speaker 1:
I've won five stanley cups. Yeah right, murphy was good, it just I don't think the other care, I don't think the other actor. That was a good, a good match, but uh, but yeah, I mean the classic soundtrack. The main cast is back.
Speaker 2:
It's a decent story, um and I thought there was some funny bits. You gotta admit they make taggered out to be a boob. I mean, if he can't, yeah, he trained kevin bacon. Come on, you can't tell he's a corrupt cop the second. You see him right, not just as an audience member, but as a cop.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, yeah, no, he was the butt of the joke for sure. But you know well, I that didn't bother me that much. I I thought it was funny for the most part. But you're right, it's, it's, it's far-fetched, there's no question about it and, and not one, but two slow speed chases. Which I thought was funny. I thought that was a turnoff. I mean he's in a ticket.
Speaker 1:
you know A meter maid vehicle, a meter maid car, and then the actress who played that meter maid was really funny. I thought she held her own in that scene with Murphy.
Speaker 2:
If they didn't shoot the scene in the hockey arena with him on a similar vehicle, I would have been fine, but they did it twice. It was like, okay, we already saw that joke?
Speaker 1:
Yeah, but I thought it was funny because then, in that same sequence, he ends up getting arrested and these cops are driving like one of those matchbox size bmw right pop cars a lego car calls them the lego cops. Yeah, that's I that. That what I didn't like. I didn't like kevin bacon's character. I thought it was way over the top it was over the top he was leaning into it like he was scarface or something.
Speaker 1:
it was just really really silly. Yeah, like, as you said, bad enough that you know the guy that trained him isn't even onto the scent, but to believe that he was in this underworld. And Okay, perfect example. Right, there's a sequence in which Kevin Bacon's character is snorting cocaine. Come on, right right. Which is where I get the Scarface.
Speaker 2:
Like I don come on right right, which is where I get the scar face right, like I don't need that and it was so unnecessary. Yeah, he was already set up as a bad guy. He's got these goons working for him and he justifies it to you know, foley and his daughter, it was just stupid, it was stupid luis guzman, who good lord I mean this guy's been around since forever.
Speaker 1:
He's been at everything. Carlito's way comes to mind, but it was another performance. I felt like we didn't need that right.
Speaker 2:
That didn't land as well for me, you know yeah, he was a little bit flamboyant, which isn't his kind of thing, and he like loves karaoke.
Speaker 1:
It was just unnecessary. There's one really bad edit in the film that I picked up on and I'm sure you didn't, but go back and watch it. Yeah, I pulled the time stamp just so folks could go back to view this right at about 22 minutes and 25 seconds. This is on the ride into beverly hills. He's in this old beat-up bronco. Yes, rent a wreck. Yeah, he takes a right on a street. It says yes, it just goes. It's clearly on the track right.
Speaker 2:
I caught that.
Speaker 1:
It was so stupid and how do you not pick up on?
Speaker 2:
that I did actually watch it twice, but I noticed it the first time you saw it see and the second time it was even worse because you knew it was coming. Yeah, it was like watching somebody on a disney world ride take a corner.
Speaker 1:
It was silly it was silly, yeah, uh. But all the you know all the other performances, uh, you know the from, from the smallest to, you know, like Murphy I thought they were, they were solid. You know there was some good, there was some like a couple of the bad guys in this that, uh, like they're like basically assassins, guns for hire, working for um, I guess Kevin Bacon's Right, right, the guy with the boots with the you's Right.
Speaker 2:
Right, the guy with the boots Right.
Speaker 1:
The curled up boots and like, didn't have, couldn't see any of his skin. It was tattoos for days and I'm like, what do these guys do for like, is this their? Are they?
Speaker 2:
actor I don't know, and unless we hadn't seen it in the news. We wouldn't believe that you could get out and gun down a car, but we know that that happens. Sadly, it happens so yeah now gordon levitt, blasting them both in the back of the head with no warning that wouldn't happen. But right, you know.
Speaker 1:
So they pushed it over the cliff a little bit, but he was a really good addition to this, like I'd like to see him return.
Speaker 2:
Yes.
Speaker 1:
If, if, if this true, that they're going to develop a fifth.
Speaker 2:
I think I honestly think, if you go back and you take out the daughter you're and you film it, you know you, you adjust the story a little bit, which I think is pretty easy, I think you've got a better movie and it's a tighter movie now now, that is what about all the people who are watching this like beverly hills cop, what's that?
Speaker 1:
you know like? First of all, there's nobody watching this that isn't tapped into that generation of films. I mean you have to be it's number one on netflix. Everybody's aware of it, everybody's and and to and to that point, though, that you say that, yeah, you could put this on and not really see the other three, and I think it would be fairly enjoyable. You wouldn't. You wouldn't get the satisfaction of the nostalgic references, but, but you've got all that main cast coming back and I think the performances stand on their own.
Speaker 2:
But, um, I really liked eddie murphy, you know, unlike three like you said he phoned that in and terrible you know, originally this is a sylvester Stallone film, from the start, beverly Hills Cop, and he even rewrote the movie to fit him Well.
Speaker 1:
you notice, there was a sly reference in there about Rambo.
Speaker 2:
Well, there was in part two as well, where that same poster is on Rosewood's wall. Well, that's it Right, it's.
Speaker 1:
Rosewood's like this obsession with you know this guns and knives and right, just because he's such a meek, seemingly meek character, but yet he's got this. You know, love of heavy artillery.
Speaker 2:
If you never saw Beverly Hills Cop cop, would you tune in for this?
Speaker 1:
because let's face it.
Speaker 2:
He's not really at the top. He got 15 million for this, by the way, I think people will.
Speaker 1:
I think again. Net first of all. Netflix is just the dominant player in the game and I think that was an important part. If it's in the algorithm trending at number one right now, that's not going to hold, of course, but you know people will. I think people will devour it. I think they will regardless, or you know it makes them go back and watch the others don't watch the third one.
Speaker 2:
Don't watch the third one, but in fact I have the first two on 4k and I didn't bother to pick up the Blu-ray of the third.
Speaker 1:
Three is just so bad. And not to mention Detective Todd. I love that character from the original he gets wasted in the first five minutes of the third one, which was brutal, but I did love it. We mentioned Paul Reiser back as Jeffrey.
Speaker 2:
And he had a bigger part.
Speaker 1:
He's now the deputy chief, right and um it just. There's some funny interplay between he and murphy at one point. You know he's saying how bad he looks and he gets out of the car, drops at the airport. Murphy's like says to some cop on the sidewalk you believe we're the same age. He looks horrible. You know he's giving him and bronson pinchell bringing back that same you know get the out of here, no I cannot.
Speaker 2:
You know, it's a bit but it works it's right works. Now. I don't know about you, but I went in with very low expectations. I was not expecting much, so it didn't take much in the beginning to get me right back into it I, yeah, I had more.
Speaker 1:
I had higher expectations, I think, than you probably, uh, but the um, the third one was so bad once again that, yeah, it didn't take much to outpace that.
Speaker 2:
So correct you know, and again I think there's more good than bad.
Speaker 1:
But I think that um, totally disagree with not having the, because it adds a new dynamic. It's something.
Speaker 2:
Now they can play out even further in the fifth one with the daughter bring again bring joseph gordon levitt back and she did a fantastic job in the role yeah, I didn't have a problem with the actress, I just thought the chemistry wasn't see, I really get like warren fuzzy, but you kind of said it yourself.
Speaker 1:
Maybe that's a testament to it could be right. They're estranged, true, there's there's this resistance for her to even let him in yes, for two-thirds of the film.
Speaker 2:
So I don't know, I'm gonna see what other people think about that I'm in total agreement with the, the score that they gave it on imdb with a with a 60. To me that's where it. That's where it lands yeah, it's better than yeah, it's better than it is bad right, there's your review. Yeah, that's gonna be, uh eb white that's gonna be in his new grammar book yes yeah, they bring him back to life it's a great marketing uh line they can use.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I I agree with that. I mean, I may not put it quite that way, but it's. It was satisfying to me as someone who was a huge fan of the first one and have seen it hundreds of times, probably at this point in my life and again, you know being huge Eagles fans and Glenn Frey fans and Bob Seger was like my number one rock guy Eagles. You mean the music band Right, Not the football team.
Speaker 2:
Sorry, folks eagles you mean the music band, right, and um, sorry folks, another. Another quick trivia heartache tonight by the eagles, written by bob seger. So there's all sorts of connections there and then bob seger.
Speaker 1:
We're going to do like a six degrees of kevin bacon on this one because he's in the goddamn thing. But yeah, it was, um, it was good, it was satisfying. Again, I don't know if I would have the same exact feeling if I had shelled out 17, 18 bucks, right, I don't know. I don't know, but I think, for if you're, if you're a fan of the franchise, you're gonna, you're gonna enjoy the film, and and again, this was a perfect netflix release you know what I mean, if it let's say they did put it in the theater.
Speaker 2:
Not sure it would have done great if fall guy flamed out exactly this would have done much.
Speaker 1:
I don't think it would have made its money back. To be honest, yeah and we'll never know quite how well it does.
Speaker 2:
You know right, and all I know is that mur got $15 million, which I thought was a pretty hefty paycheck given three. So Netflix they're willing to spend money, as is Apple TV and some other streamers like Disney Absolutely.
Speaker 1:
That's where the money's at folks.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
Well, so thumbs up, thumbs halfway. Where are you at with this one?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I think it's a positive, more positive than negative, but so I could have.
Speaker 1:
I could have used the 90 minute helping instead of a two hour okay so if I, if I don't subscribe to netflix, should I subscribe to see this?
Speaker 2:
no, okay no, but it's definitely. I mean, you can get netflix with commercials pretty cheap. We get it because of our phone, right?
Speaker 1:
otherwise I would have had to figure, yeah, I would have had to sign up for like a seven-day trial, you know my 18th but yeah, I, I think it's, uh, I think it's a good, it's a good catch on streaming for sure, and again, especially if you have Netflix already for sure, and I watched it twice, so that says something.
Speaker 2:
I didn't watch it twice for this podcast. I watched it twice because I kind of wanted to see if I missed something the first time.
Speaker 1:
I don't know that. I love that, this talk of a fifth one. I mean, even if, as you said, you can see where they leave off with this one, that that's okay. I can see a fifth storyline here, but let's just wrap it up with a nice bow, right? You know, the third was terrible. You got some redemption here with this installment. Let's just call it a day.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, this installment, let's just call it a day. Yeah, he's gonna have to move to. I mean, a fifth time, a fifth reason to go back to beverly hills alone the question is would judge reinhold get any more screen time like what?
Speaker 1:
I wonder what's up with that. He was completely relegated to just the answer character.
Speaker 2:
I know and and again. I think that could have been rectified.
Speaker 1:
It's almost like they you know, I don't know what the contract negotiations were, but if you look at three, john ashton isn't in it at all and now he's in it more than reinhold. I don't know true weird, it's weird, yeah, yeah I would have liked to have seen judge reinhold in this one and I think his minutes went to the daughter and that's why I would eliminate that character.
Speaker 2:
But it has nothing to do with her performance. I thought there was a better way and I did want to see more Judge Reinhold.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, well, maybe you keep her, you get rid of Luis Guzman and Kevin Bacon and you make Joseph Gordonph, joseph gordon levitt, the heavy. I liked him. Yeah, make him, definitely liked him. And I got a real quick shout out to the stunt people who did that helicopter work in this film holy shit, yeah, I mean that was some of the most death-defying stunt work in a helicopter I've ever seen.
Speaker 2:
Well, I wondered if it was crazy, if it was, you know a wired kind of a thing.
Speaker 1:
I don't think so.
Speaker 1:
I think this was just because it was very low to the ground and it was like imitating, uh, almost, you know, potential crash in any moment and just, yeah, really wild. So whether I I mean I gotta believe a lot of that was practical, if not all of it, but if, if it isn't I'm wrong and those watching know better, drop it in the comments, let us know so. And if you've seen this film go out to the, you know well. If you're watching this right now, you're on the youtube channel, so don't forget to like and subscribe, uh, but drop us some comments and let us know what you think. Did you like the? Yes, are you a fan of the first three? Right, probably not the third one, but I would really love to hear from someone who hasn't seen the other three, me too.
Speaker 2:
That would be interesting. I want to hear both opinions. I want people like us that know all three. I went to the theater for the first one, so yeah, yeah I want to hear that opinion and I want to hear an opinion from somebody that's just coming into the franchise knowing nothing it would be.
Speaker 1:
It would have been cool if they could have brought in a couple more just really um, you know some, some um supporting cast from some of the previous ones, just like some really out-of-left-field characters that were familiar enough that we would recognize but weren't major cast players in the original three.
Speaker 2:
And, given that this is Netflix, unless it's going to go to Criterion, which it certainly won't it's not going to get a physical release.
Speaker 1:
So there go the extras likely you think I'd like to like get packaged, repackaged now netflix.
Speaker 2:
The president went right out and said, yeah you know, my enemy is physical media, sure and the only the only films that have gone from netflix to physical media have gone criterion ironically, that's how the company started.
Speaker 1:
But uh, what do I know?
Speaker 2:
I know, I know mailing them in the mailbox.
Speaker 1:
You remember that folks, you know that kids back when you used to get movies in the mailbox blockbuster video back in my day didn't they make a reference to blockbuster video.
Speaker 2:
I thought, tag it, didn't this one?
Speaker 1:
tag it. Wow, you let it. She's Tag it. Mike's getting tired folks. We got to wrap it up because the R's are not getting pronounced anymore. So there you go. There's the review. Beverly Hills Cop Axel F on Netflix. Now Check it out. It's a recommendation from the Old Brother podcast. So let us know what you think, mike. So let us know what you think, mike. Don't buy Netflix for this, though. No, don't buy Netflix for this. Yeah, I would agree with that. I don't think it's that solid.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, to be shelling out money for Netflix. So there you go, and that's going to do it for another episode of the oh Brother Podcast. I'm your host, dan Smith, long time, as always my brother from the same mother, mike Smith, and we will see you next time. All right, everyone.
