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#47: Old Dogs/National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets

#47: Old Dogs/National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets

FromTravolta/Cage


#47: Old Dogs/National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets

FromTravolta/Cage

ratings:
Length:
68 minutes
Released:
Mar 9, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Film critic Caroline Siede (The AV Club, FOX Digital) joins us on a globe-trotting double feature with two distinctly inconsequential sets of stakes!  In Old Dogs, Travolta teams up with the late, great Robin Williams (and the team behind the execrable but profitable Wild Hogs) for a maddening, dizzyingly-edited nightmare about two fiftysomething men tasked with taking care of two young kids. Problem is, the movie's barely about the kids, and instead reads like a disconnected series of frantic, frequently racist sketches with some of the broadest acting outside of British panto! (And not in a good way!) Luckily, we sail towards steadier waters with National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets, in which Cage's Constitution-loving Boy Scout Ben Gates embarks on the greatest adventure of all: trying to save his family from getting cancelled by historical revisionists! It's a silly, pointless lark, but its greatest weakness (aping the first National Treasure to a fault) is its greatest strength (National Treasure is pretty fun).    Join us as we talk about facial paralysis, bad British accents, Bruce Greenwood playing another President, and what happens when raunchy R-rated Touchstone comedies get whittled down to kid-friendly stumps for Disney! Pledge to our Patreon at patreon.com/travoltacage Follow us on Twitter @travoltacage Email us questions at travoltacagepod@gmail.com Podcast theme by Jon Biegen Podcast logo by Felipe Sobreiro
Released:
Mar 9, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

A deep dive into the strange, fascinating careers of two of cinema's most prolific weirdos -- John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. With Nathan Rabin (Nathan Rabin's Happy Cast) and Clint Worthington (Consequence of Sound, The Spool).