Midweek Mention... The Bad Education Movie

SPEAKER_01 0:12

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SPEAKER_04 1:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:06

Crumbs. Bloody hell. They don't really do it.

SPEAKER_04 1:09

You used to get your beard done. Yeah, of course I do. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:12

I used to get a separate, like an hour-long appointment, half-hour hair, half hour beard. They don't really do it anymore. Yeah. They just do do all quickly.

SPEAKER_01 1:19

He'll do all the uh sculpt your beard for it. He'll do all of that if you want it. I don't really go for all that, but he But you have this time. I like the hot towel, the whole proper thing. Yeah, he'll do it. He does all that and uh he forces me to have a lot of it. Against your will. No, but it's not like pins you down. It's like it's not a barber chair, it's like a restraint. It's like the electric chair. Yeah. So he's he's a cool guy. Well he's he's he's certainly sorted you out, but he's he's sculpted your beard this time as well. Every time. Yeah, every time.

SPEAKER_04 1:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:49

Even when you don't have a beard.

SPEAKER_04 1:50

Yeah.

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Yeah. Right, okay. He does all my topiary. Wow. Okay, Jean's. That segues it very well.

SPEAKER_02 1:57

That's why we say it to this week's midweek episode. Sure. Which was chosen in a sort of lottery type fashion.

SPEAKER_01 2:07

I propose we never do this again.

SPEAKER_02 2:09

Well, it's the luck of the draw, I guess. There's been a bit of a hectic week, so we're just doing two shorter episodes this week. Yeah. We didn't have any theme or anything connected to them, so I asked you to just pick some numbers. Yeah. And then I scrolled those numbers on the Amazon Prime menu, and we ended up with this, the Bad Education movie. Yeah. Now, this it's a 2015 movie, but it's a feature-length send-off for Jack Whitehall's BBC 3 sitcom Bad Education, which I didn't know was a thing.

SPEAKER_01 2:39

Yeah, I don't I'd actually watched it.

SPEAKER_02 2:41

Part of the reason for that is just genuinely fucking hate Jack Whitehall. I know you do, yeah. I'm sure he's very nice and his family and friends probably like him, but I don't find him funny. There's I don't hate him, I just don't find him funny. I don't find that sort of posh. Bumbling toff. Posh. Oh, I've said swear word. It's just fucking greats on me, so I wasn't thrilled when this was what came up.

SPEAKER_01 3:01

But he reminds me a little bit of Max. From Munich. Yeah, a little bit, just a tiny little bit, just because of that toff. I went to boarding school, everyone was a fencer. From the home counties. Yeah, the Royal Berkshire, all that sort of stuff. He Max was way cooler. Yeah. But he moved with circles with those people. Targuin.

SPEAKER_02 3:22

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:22

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 3:23

Because there is a Targuin in this. So the premise of this, I think I'm the only one you've seen it before.

SPEAKER_01 3:29

I have actually seen a bit of a TV series to my absolute shame. And I've seen the movie. Yeah. So I watched this yesterday.

SPEAKER_02 3:36

My missus bailed out after three minutes. I might tell you what you need to know.

SPEAKER_01 3:40

Who's he directed by side? Was it Martin Scorsese?

SPEAKER_02 3:44

No, I don't think I think he was busy on the D.

SPEAKER_01 3:45

Was it the Colin brothers? I think he was busy on the Twitter. Because I didn't see this for the pod and have done no research, so I'll get it. It must have been a big shot.

SPEAKER_02 3:52

I I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 3:55

Let's let's see. That's a long time ago. That is 11 years now.

SPEAKER_01 4:00

That's somewhere with some pull if it's got Whitehall. I'm pretty sure it was that was Stephen Stephens. Elliot Hegerty. Ah, of course. The Hegmeister. And he's also done other things, maybe.

SPEAKER_02 4:10

Or maybe he's done nothing. Look, it's the camera is pointing at the people who are in the film. Yeah. And I'm gonna tell you right out the gate, I thought this was fucking awful. Yeah. But I'm sure that there are lots of people who work really hard and no one set out to make a bad movie. Maybe it isn't a bad movie, I just didn't like it.

SPEAKER_00 4:29

Does it have some funny moments? I'm trying to think. There's a he's zip lining bollock naked. Is he? They repeat that gag.

SPEAKER_02 4:35

They repeat that gag later on when he needs to be rescued from the castle. So the premise, the whole premise of it is that he is a teacher.

SPEAKER_04 4:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:42

And he's trying to make out that he's like a bit of a lad and he's going to take his class away. It's the end of their sixth form, I think. Yeah. They don't call him sometimes they call him set, other times they just call him his name. Right.

SPEAKER_01 4:56

I'm trying to think the TV cast, there's like there's a very flamboyant homosexual, there's a slutty teenage girl. They're best mates. There's a uh like a really nerdy fat kid, kid in a wheelchair. Yeah. What else have we gone? Aggressive bully.

SPEAKER_03 5:12

There's the ginger fringe and the guy that keeps telling that he's wanking people off.

SPEAKER_00 5:15

Chinese stereotypical mass genius.

SPEAKER_02 5:19

I don't know, they don't really get into the sort of academia of it. No. Um this is the end of their GCSCs, and they want he wants to take them around a tear-up. The original panels go to Vegas. Yeah. But there is a trip. So it starts off with a trip where they go to Amsterdam. That's right. Um they spike him with mushrooms. Yeah. And he has a freak out. They use the kid in the wheelchair to push the front of the queue. And they go to the and then he starts like spinning out and he ends up stealing the model of Anne Frank. Yeah. He pulls he's wearing a hoodie, and he goes up like Elliot from E.T. Yeah. And then he's what's going on. He gets the Anne Frank like in the front of his bicycle. Yeah. And then yeah, he does the whole E.T. thing and he just crashes into the canal seat anal. And so that's like the kind of level of humour. That's probably the high point in terms of humour. So the the PTA then, led by I don't know the names, one of the kids in the class, it's his mother. She was in the thick of it.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

She's a real fierce matron B type. Yeah, no, right.

SPEAKER_02 6:24

So one of the first times she appears, that she is in the PTA meeting, she says, Look, this guy, there's no way that he's taken away again, blah, blah, blah. So Harry Enfield is fucking in it. Harry, they're like, look, let's go and see him in the classroom now, you'll see that everything's right, and they're having a right fucking tear-up. They're doing it's a history lesson, and they're doing a kind of siege battle thing where they've torn the classroom upside down. You've seen the class hamster. Bearing in mind, all of these people look the same age as Jack Whitehall. There's no differential between the classmates and him. Yeah. And as she walks in, the mum of this kid walks in to see how the class is getting on, the hamster goes into something which propels it up. Like it's like the aircon unit or something like that. And it goes between her.

SPEAKER_01 7:14

You think of like movies School of Rock, for example, where they've actually used like school-age kids to do it and they've been brilliant and these kids you couldn't really tell as I say, you couldn't really tell how much any one of them could have played the teacher. Yeah. I thought, is that the love interest? I mean, I suppose it's fucking go. Like here I am going to bat for this. But the whole premise is that he's only slightly older than the people that he's teaching. Yeah. Because he's just less Right, really he is.

SPEAKER_02 7:43

So they do they are going to go on a trip, but this time the chip is going to be chaperoned by this lady. Yeah. We should figure out her name because she's great in the thick of it. So they end up not going to Vegas, they go to the Eden Project. That's right, yeah. And it's just all really biff. They end up having her The Eden Project's great. No, it's not what they had in mind though. Yeah. It's a difference. So they're they get they're down in Cornwall and they end up having her kidnapped and put on a boat to France.

SPEAKER_01 8:11

I think sedated and put on a Yeah, but no, isn't there a it's a bit like bait that there's a kind of Cornish gentrification? John of Scanlon, that's it, yeah. There's like gentrification in the people of Cornwall trying to declare it's like the Well, there's a few things that get a bit in it.

SPEAKER_02 8:27

He keeps banging on about how he used to do fencing. Yeah. He what he wants to get a tattoo and they're going to tattoo him in glass, and he only gets the CLA bit of the tattoo. That's something to do with the in Glenn. It's the Cornish Liberation Army. That's right, yeah. So what happens is when they get down and they end up going to like a some really lame Cornish strip club where the the one of the strippers has got a wooden leg. Yeah. All this sort of stuff. So he's trying to send up all these Cornish stereotypes. But then they do then lean into this whole, you know, these fiercely like local, proud Cornish people. Militant Cornish. And they want to they want their own independence.

SPEAKER_01 9:01

So the Cornish wing of the IRA.

SPEAKER_02 9:04

Basically, yeah. There's other gags where they go to some religious site and there's a uh foreskin on display. That's right. Which he has to ends up putting in his mouth.

SPEAKER_01 9:11

Yeah, and it gets replaced with a pork scrap thing.

SPEAKER_02 9:14

Yeah. Fucking hell. There's the zip line a bit you mentioned, Riggs, where his trousers drop and you see his dick. Yeah. And then a real close-up of his ball bag.

SPEAKER_01 9:23

Yeah. I think the camera is just behind his testicles, isn't it? As they go down the thing, it's quite funny.

SPEAKER_02 9:28

Because we watched Grimsby Brothers Grimsby last week. And this makes that look quite nuanced. That was kind of, you know, a send-up of those sort of spy things and whatever. It wasn't great, but it was I did laugh at it. There was precious little to laugh at here. And in the end, they they really get caught up in this Cornish liberation thing. Like fucking Lester Freeman from The Wire appears, and you're like, why is it Cornish? No, but he's uh they it's like the FBI get involved because of this the Cornish Liberation Army and whatever. They're planning to blow the place up. They blow up that's the bit with Tarquin, but you're talking about the gentrification bit where they they have him blown up, they blow up his whole gaff. And in the end, it it comes down to Jack Whitehall facing off against Ian Glenn's character, who hasn't honestly there's there's quite a big cast, actually. And they have this is where his fencing practice is.

SPEAKER_01 10:27

Well it's very much an ensemble piece like our other music. He does a piece like the end of Braveheart, doesn't he? They can take our village or land and for and it's it's all just been done before much, much better, even when it's been the piss has been taken out of it.

SPEAKER_02 10:46

It's but they've done the thing about fencing and he has the fight with the fencing, you know he's gonna do the thing where he spins the the foil and disarms him, and then he he's always like it just pokes him. It's like that means I win. And then there's been another running thing about the guy the other guy from school who's in Gavin and Stacey. Yeah, there's a lot of shit haircuts, he's got appalling haircut in this. Well, I think that's on purpose though, isn't it? Yeah, but I didn't honestly like it wasn't funny, it was just like, why have they got hair like that? He's been wanting to get on this tourist helicopter ride the whole way, and that pays off because they appear to rescue him from the top of this turret where he has to just hold on to the road louder and his trousers come down. Okay, you see a dick again. Oh right, okay. So all the jokes that they set up, yeah, they do pay off. They're just not funny. Yeah. Which is a problem. And it's really loud, there's just lots of like young people shouting at you all the time throughout it, and you know, the gags are.

SPEAKER_00 11:41

Is it meant for kids? I mean, it's amazing that it got through, I think, two TV series and BC3 though, and there's just a load of shite on there, I'd say.

SPEAKER_02 11:50

So this has got, you know, a good cast, and I have no doubt that a lot of people worked really hard to make something decent. Yeah. Didn't we land for me? I'm gonna say it, this is in the top five worst things I've watched for the pod. Wow. There you go. I don't know if it'll take slamming salmon's crown.

SPEAKER_01 12:08

But if you've got if you really dislike Jack Whitehall, which you actively dislike him, we've watched that about him.

SPEAKER_02 12:15

I don't honestly don't understand the level of success. Because he's sort of BBC if I'd he'll he'll do the vanilla stuff for the big you know corporates and whatever. Yeah. I see him like do the brick.

SPEAKER_01 12:25

He does the travel stuff with his father and all that sort of stuff.

SPEAKER_02 12:28

Can't they both die? That's just shit. And there's other people who are really talented who don't get this level of success, and you just think, what's that all about? It just makes no sense to me. Yeah. Trash. I did not like this. Well, he's a Nepo baby, isn't he? Because his father was big in the industry. Oh really? Yeah, say no more, say no more. Did it make any money? Probably. Who knows? What was his dad?

SPEAKER_01 12:47

What what did he what did he do?

SPEAKER_03 12:49

Michael Whitehall, he was a TV producer, I think. Something like that. Okay. He does sound quite fancy is that when he speaks, he comes across quite like whatever. I I obviously I haven't watched this. I watched only the end of it and uh the the helicopter and the fencing thing and all that. And I kind of agree with you. I I've never really understood. The only the only reason why I understand why he's been on the breakfast show, he's been on evening things, he's been on in in presenting things, so he's one of them that because he doesn't say anything offensive, he doesn't really make a point of of you know getting people upset. He's not Ricky Gervais, right? He's not whoever you think is more poking the big subjects.

SPEAKER_02 13:34

Yeah, you get him on the chat shows and all the Yanks love him because they think that's all fucking Brits sound like products. So yeah. But would you say strong recommendations?

SPEAKER_01 13:44

Yeah. Definitely. It's a strong avoid for me.