April Movies - Week 1

Good Afternoon Ladies & Gentlemen,

ELEVEN DAYS on vacation... more to come... or at least an episode of the podcast about it... but hey, a few movies were seen too...

April 1 – Ape vs. Mecha Ape (2023)
 
That’s right… we’re celebrating APE-RIL so now it’s time for an Asylum production about an ape that was sent into space & came back with Alien DNA to make it huge in a previous movie (“Ape vs. Monster” which we haven’t seen) and he’s the only thing that can stop the robotic government weapon created in his image, Mecha Ape… and hijinx ensue. The star of this movie… in fact the only one you or really anybody outside of Asylum productions would know… is Tom Arnold as the Secretary of Defense or something. How did we like it?
 
Rating - ???/10 – Find out on Everything I Learned From Movies, available on all major podcatchers!!!
 
April 3 – MXP: Most Extreme Primate (2003)
 
Okay, from the producers of MVP: Most Valuable Primate & the Air Bud cinematic universes, this is apparently the 3rd in the series after MVP & MVP 2: Most Vertical Primate (skateboarding one we’ve never seen) about the chimpanzee Jack, who starred in junior hockey… then apparently did enough to end up on the cover of a skateboarding magazine (in this movie)… but NOW he’s accidentally flown to Colorado instead of Mexico (yup) and get into the world of snowboarding. The plot… is f**king dumb. I was screaming at the TV during the airport switcheroo thing for ALL the reasons… I’ve never heard of a snowboarding event requiring a team of two to win (somehow?)… there’s a bank robbery gone wrong subplot involving the Mafia or something… just to have two stoner idiots trying to steal a chimp… and a bunch more. HOWEVER, these movies tend to at least be somewhat fun & entertaining in the way they portray this crazy world that they inhabit… so how does this one do?!?
 
Rating - ???/10 – This is our Patreon Exclusive episode available with dozens of others for just $2 a month at Patreon.com/eilfmovies
 
April 5 – Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
 
We saw this baby opening Thursday night… and this movie finally gets it!!! A bunch of monsters teaming up & fighting like it’s the Royal Rumble… alliances are formed… podcasters involved… the male lead has some charisma… mystical people… an even more hollow Earth… Congo references throughout… literal blood baths… Predator traps… and MORE!!!
 
Rating – 10/10 – The only thing missing was Kong using that robotic arm to speak with sign language
 
April 7 – MVP 2: Most Vertical Primate (2001)
 
After Jack the Chimp is kicked out of the ZHL hockey league for a crime he didn’t commit… he runs away to join up with a homeless boy and shred on a skateboard… and hijinx ensue. Yes, another “from the producers of Air Bud” or the ABCU as I call it… and yeah, it wasn’t that bad. How does it compare to MVP, MXP & Spymate?
 
Rating - ???/10 – This one will be coming out NEXT APE-RIL & the episode is a little special because… we make some 2025 time capsule predictions

So yeah, until next time... how about that eclipse huh?

​Steve