J.C. Howard

It's not for me anymore.

That same humor that I laughed at when I was 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, that humor isn't for me.

But they delivered what they promised.

And there were, that said, some things that did work for me.

There was a lot of meta jokes about the franchise itself.

There was commentary and references to crypto and Twitch streaming and EV charging infrastructure.

And without saying too much, there was a little bit of K-pop in there that was incredibly delightful to me.

The thing is that stuff accounts for maybe a third of the movie.

The rest is the same five or six jokes from 20 years ago.

Like I said, if you like it, then you'll love it.

Yeah.

I think I have to kind of come down in between the two of you in a lot of ways.

And I think in typical JC fashion, I'll offer one of the most generous reasons of this movie.

It is parody.

It is not as much satire as it should be.

The movie being what it is, I think is why some of the meta jokes worked for me.

We've kind of talked about this a little bit, but the original movie was produced by Miramax, which at the time was run by Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob Weinstein.

And Marlon Wayans has talked about how, in a sense, they lost this franchise to the Weinsteins, who made those other three sequels without the Wayans.

And so I feel like a lot of the jokes about Anna and Regina doing some of those sequels and some of the meta commentary about Hollywood –

I feel like for them, this was their kind of way to process everything that happened to them with this franchise.