What up everybody welcome to show me the meaning Wisecrack's movie podcast show me the Marmalade show us the freaking Marmalade. I knew that was coming. I think that is going to be the theme of this episode. We're going to be talking about the Marmalade sweetness that is the film pattington two of course we'll dip into pattington the original as well, but we're going to focus on what is the top rated

fresh rotten tomatoes film of all time at a hundred friggin' percent. It's pattington to 2017 directed by Paul King and co-written by King and Simon Farnaby. If you're not British or you don't pay attention to British comedy, you don't know who Simon is, but he is frickin' hilarious as well as obviously a good screenwriter here. The film stars Ben Wysha as the voice of pattington, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, one of my personal favorites, Brendan Gleason,

one of my personal favorites, Julie Walters, Jim Broadband, Peter Capoli, another personal favorite, and of course I guess a lot of our mother's favorites, Hugh Grant. Yeah, my one of mine too. Love Hugh Grant. So, okay, let's skip a little bit of the hype stuff and let's just talk about our experiences when we first watched this film and then what has it been like on repeated viewings?

Go ahead, talk about your experience with pattington to, and of course maybe pattington the original. Yeah, I'll just say both. To me, I guess the number one adjective when I think about these movies is delightful. Just sheer bliss, joy, and it's a kind of cinema that I wish happened more. It's definitely a family film that exists. It's not just for kids.

In fact, in the first one, there's two kids in the family, but there are two of the characters we see the least. It's kind of about the bear and the dad, a lot, which is interesting. But yeah, I just think that these movies are amazing. The moment that I'll never forget from watching the two in terms of, because I didn't really know what I was getting myself into, but the moment that he gets to Grand Central Station or whatever.

And nobody notices them because they're all busy doing human shit. And then that's the moment I'm like, yeah, our pattington station, yes. And that was the moment I'm like, oh, so in this world, a bear walking around is just normal. And I'm like, yeah, I love this universe already. Yeah, they really set that up well. So yeah, I just love the world. I love pattington. I love Marmalade now. And yeah, these movies are great.

Is that the scene when it's all dogs must be carried or whatever, however, the sign is phrased? And so he misunderstood that's a little that's a little later in the movie when he's with the family. They're going, they're going to where they go and to visit in the first film that they're trying to come in the first.

I decided to walk and said, yeah, well, you you mentioned the, I think the dogs must be carried things in the first movie. I can't remember.

Okay, that was a second. And also, I just love that the, you can basically sum this, the thrust of the plot of this film in, you know, pattington trying to get a pop-up book, which is just also a delightful plot for a movie. Yeah, exactly.

And going to prison in the meantime. Yes, yes. All right, Raymond, what about you, brother?

I got to echo everything Ryan said. These movies are absolutely delightful. I saw them a while ago. My girlfriend's a huge fan of them. And she was excited. We were doing this on the podcast.

As I kind of mentioned before, having watched the first and second one, I think is a double feature a while ago.

There, there was a little bit that was muddy in my head about what gangs happened in which movie and that, you know, I knew the basic premise for number two was the pop-up book, but I couldn't quite remember what the basic crux of the first one was.

So these were a pleasure to rewatch to get them fresh in my mind before the podcast.

These movies are so much better than they have any right to be. They kind of remind me of the Lego movie in that regard where it's like this.

This should, you expect to know what this thing is before you turn it on that. Oh, it's just going to be some cheap movie, you know, aimed at kids. It's going to be maybe not necessarily low brow humor, but not necessarily the most sophisticated sort of approach.

And I think that it's kind of amazing that they not only have such an entertaining and funny script, both of these movies, but they also work in some more serious themes, you know, especially regarding pattington status as like an immigrant and existing kind of on the margins of London in the first one.

And then in the second one, they kind of get into like what it means to reform and like how how a society can better function just by acknowledging the decency and dignity of other humans.

And it's I think these movies are wonderful. I think they have a great message at their center and kids could do a whole heck of a lot worse than watching these films. And on top of that, they do a nice job of introducing some of the vernacular of silent comedians.

Like Buster Keaton, who we mentioned last week and Charlie Chaplin, especially in the second one, there's a direct a direct illusion to Charlie Chaplin's modern times.

And I'm always for helping helping kids have like an access point to older movies like that. So all around two thumbs up, I'm glad that pattington two is our new citizen cane.

It has taken its place as the greatest movie of all time. You must adore it.

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