I never liked any of Allison's own stuff yet somehow she was one of my favorites on Brad's "Midnight Screenings". They had really natural chemistry and played off each other well. I can't stand the phony "THIS MOVIE MADE ME SO ANGRY!" tantrum shtick but watching people genuinely irritated after a movie trying to deconstruct why really hits the spot for me. Brad & Allison both didn't like "The House" and absolutely hated "Sisters". They get into how both films largely disregarded a script in favor of "line-o-rama" where they endlessly let actors inprov unfunny non-punchline humor.
That "line-o-rama" style didn't bother Allison too much here though. She tries to defend the movie politician-style while Brad starts off the review fairly neutral but looks noticeably more irritated as he recounts the movie's flaws. Here's some quotes from that review:
"Honestly, I thought it was great. I had a good time. I liked it a lot." - Allison
"I thought it was meh." - Brad
"At the end the ghost gets basically killed by being zapped in the balls." - Brad
"That was funny though to me. That they zapped him in the balls. I thought it was funny." - Allison
"I thought the ghosts some of them were genuinely creepy in it." - Allison
"They looked better than they did in the trailer." - Brad
"I liked the look of the ghosts a lot. I liked the big neon look but I like that some of them were creepy." - Allison
"Nothing in this movie creeped me out more than stuff in the first one." - Brad
"Yeah..I mean...it was that sort of feel. It felt a little more dangerous though because people actually died in this one." - Allison
"If you compare the two to be completely honest and I knew it was going to be this way...of course the original one." - Allison
"Yeah, the first one is better." - Brad
"But my feeling is why not both? Little taco girl. Why not both? Because I like both of them, I don't think they're equal by any stretch of the imagination. But I thought this one was fun. I would rewatch it." - Allison
"I wouldn't. I would recommend it as a rental because I laughed enough in it. It was a lot of space between when I did laugh in the movie." - Brad
"I loved seeing them kick ass. That was really important to me. I hate to sound like the like feminist like oh they're a bunch of girls and I like seeing girls doing this stuff but it really is important to me." - Allison
"It's really nice to have a reboot that goes in a different direction because their are lots of references but it follows it's own plot. It doesn't feel like it's just a rehash for the most part." - Allison
"To a point it does cause they really do follow a lot of the same act structure that the first movie did." - Brad
"I felt like it was different enough. It didn't feel like a rehash to me." - Allison
"It did to me. [Brad explains in detail how it roughly follows the same plot beat for beat]" - Brad
"I do love the idea that the villain is the logo which is funny to me." - Allison
"You know what I look forward to? Because I did like this movie. I look forward to them doing a sequel and other things and doing more of their own thing with it." - Allison
"Everyone's always going to think the originals better and that's fine but I think that this is worth opening up a new universe and a new opportunity and I think that this is really great for young girls to be able to have that kind of character to represent you." - Allison
"You know what I look forward to? When they make a sequel cause I think they will. I think it will do well enough to make a sequel." - Allison
"I liked that this was a really colorful movie. Like the costumes were colorful, the ghosts were colorful. I liked the look of the equipment." - Allison
"If you hated the trailers you'll probably hate the movie." - Allison
"I didn't like the trailers and I just kinda thought the movie was meh." - Brad
"The trailer was less than the movie. They let them down a little bit." - Allison
"Yeah. Honestly somebody should probably lose their job over those trailers." - Brad
"But, you know, comedy trailers are really hard to do though. You shouldn't represent the whole movie in a trailer anyways but they do it so often. But it's really hard to convey these things in little bite sized bits to say what this movie is but it definitely was not as good as the movie is." - Allison
