Jackie Chan Adventures & Rush Hour: Martial Arts, Wisdom, and Certified Hood Detectives

Uh , actually , to where we're going to talk about jackie chan adventures and rush hour , but that depends on what's going to where we're going to get deep into Rush Hour and then maybe talk a little bit more about Rush Hour 2 .

But for now , we're going to focus on Jackie Chan Adventures and maybe talk about a little bit of Rush Hour while I still have Kokugatsu on the panel . So , without further ado , let's go ahead and zone in on it . So , koki , how are you feeling about Jackie Chan Adventures ?

I have watched old school chinese kung fu movies , black and white color . Uh , literally my like list of like gently ling xiaolong , like literally jackie chan , bruce lee just the list goes on . I have seen so many old school Chinese films and so Jackie Chan obviously is a fan favorite of my mom's household .

So literally when I heard about Jackie Chan Adventures and I saw the little TV like commercial pop up , I was excited . I was like , holy shit , we got a cartoon for Jackie Chan . Oh , hell , yes , this is about to be lit lit . I'm happy as hell .

Like I was super excited about it , because one of the things I was also happy about is that during the time period Jackie Chan did start making more American movies , but at the time it still kind of had like that old school Chinese feel where it was like everything felt kind of wires and stuff . And so this one is like okay , now you're doing it animated .

You can't use a wire . It's cheap , we're gonna . It's gonna feel more realistic as far as like an animation plus thinking of cartoons , I was a kid , I was super excited . The biggest shock to me is understanding the fact that this was not voiced by jackie chan , because I forgot the dude who did it .

But he did a fantastic job because , for Because , for the longest time I thought it was Jackie .

Aside from that , he's like oh , I do all of my stunts . I don't want nothing to look fake . And I remember that interview when he was just like oh , why is it you do your own stunts ? He says because I want my kids to watch my movies . I don't want them thinking that , oh , there was a stunt double that did it .

I want them looking at it and being like my dad did that . He's like this just brings like a joy to me for that and I'm like hell , yes , I completely understand .

So it's just obviously the show was like I had high hopes for it and then watching it even better , getting an opportunity of meeting jackie , his meeting the animated jackie , his niece , uncle , my god , uncle just fucking awesome .

Um , and then even , like you know , the villain turned hero as well , to get a chance to like see their family kind of come together . They do how they go on all these different adventures with the talismans . The show itself is fantastic . It's one that I go back and I have actually gone back and re-watched , unfortunately not as recently .

It was been about four years , about four years ago , since I last went back and re-watched it , but even then , during that time , it was still enjoyable to watch every single episode . It was fun . The humor still continues on to this day . It's one that even kids nowadays would still appreciate and enjoy . Just overall , fantastic .

Chef's Kiss absolute 5 out of 5 , 10 out of 10 for me , no question on to that .

But you know , he also has Martial arts training and you know , sometimes you have like these , uh , indiana jones , laura , crock , tomb raider type situation where some folks might want to steal some shit , um for greedy reasons , and he's pretty much trying to stop that . Um yeah , um , sorry , I was getting a phone call .

Um , out of all the talismans , kookagasoo , what would you say your favorite was ?

Ooh , speaking on to talismans as well I know we're not doing a comparison show into it it was one of the things I like more about jackie chan adventures than charlotte showdown . But charlotte showdown had this damn near unlimited amount of shingon woo they could just come up with off their ass .

But um , with the talismans they're limited amount as far as , like , that's only just for the chinese zodiac and that's it . So it was like you know you were able to have more control into as far as what happened . It wasn't just like some random thing that was going on , it was just these specific list of talisman .

Yeah , I would say those two probably like my tie into that . You would think the rooster , considering the fact that my Chinese zodiac is actually the rooster . Oh , it was the rabbit and the boar . Oh , okay , okay , Gotcha gotcha , you would think the rooster , considering the fact that my Chinese zodiac is actually the rooster .

But no , uh , if I would say outside of sheep , I did like the whole combination between um rooster , and I think it was rooster , and uh Rooster , and I think it was Rooster . And Fuck , I'm thinking like Rooster and Pig or something like that , where they like when they figured out that if you combine Super speed with levitation you get flight .

That ain't dragon . Let's be real , come on , dog .

And then you know , oh , I can dodge out the way . Like yeah , sure it could be pretty fast , but it still is dodgeable . Like multiple times in the show they've dodged those fire blasts all the time .

That's how shindu was able to like resurrect and shit , but not like until we got all the talisman . Then he was like , okay , now I'm able to like , take my full form again , but like , but think about it , like you can make any inanimate object animated , and then it's like you just make contrast and shit .

I'm like , hey , man , like in the once again , in the right applications , this is actually a pretty good talisman it really is .

But the show Gushing Over Mag magical girls is literally involves a main character . That's her ability is being able to turn inanimate objects animate to do like into living creatures to do whatever they want , whatever she wants to do , so she can hit anything . She can hit like the air and make air bubbles . Um , she can hit the flower , turn it .

Well , flowers , yeah , they're not necessarily in anime , but still , um , she can hit a ball and make something , make a prison out of it and stuff like that . Like she's able , whatever she hits with her magic wand , she's able to turn anime and then to do stuff with .

So , like it's a really underrated ability because she's the one of the most overpowered characters in the show and that's literally her main ability . It's just that it's a really underrated ability because she's one of the most overpowered characters in the show and that's literally her main ability .

It's just that it's like I could just turn animate objects like inanimate objects animate and do whatever I want to do . Yeah , that's a heavily underrated ability . Yeah , I'm just agreeing with you on that , most definitely . Now I have a question for you who had the most wisdom ? Uncle from Jackie Chan Adventures or Uncle Iroh ?

I'd be like , well , hold on a second . There's actually people who actually went and video of every single quote that Uncle

Iroh said . And when you go back and really listen to it , all of his wisdom is common sense . And he points it out that all this stuff is pretty easy to hear about . It's just difficult to do it , which is right . If common sense was common , it wouldn't be called common sense , it'd just be our normal basic knowledge , our normal sense of duty .

But it's not so . It's just kind of what it is , but it's um , but uncle , uncle would just hit out just this random wisdom , this random stuff that don't make sense . You'd be like , bro , what jackie would constantly be like , what does that even mean ?

And then , all of a sudden , jackie gets hit with something and he's like , oh , you meant for me to do this ? Why don't you just say that it's so hilarious ? Because I'm just to just be saying the most off the wall stuff and you be like that doesn't make any sense .

And then all of a sudden it happens and you're like , oh , oh , okay , it actually does make sense . My bad , my bad , but no , I was just curious on today because there's something about old , old Asian people's wisdom . It's just different , like it always is different when they have to hit them poetic quotes and stuff .

Granted , every now and again , there are a couple episodes where Jackie winds up telling her to do something and she's like no , that doesn't make . And again , there are a couple episodes where Jackie winds up telling her to do something and she's like no , that doesn't make sense , you need to do this . And he was wrong . It does happen . Those can be wrong .

But , most cases .

So where she don't Like with uncle , you don't play that shit . So she kinda gotta step correct with uncle , but with Uncle you don't play that shit . So like she kind of got a step correct with Uncle , but with Uncle Jackie it's more like uh , hey , man , let's go do something fun .

I'm like , no , you need to go to school and get an education and shit , and I got a job to do . I'm like that's boring . I'm like let's go do what I want to be with you . I'm like , and then she Tags along anyway . I'm like Jade , I told you to stay home . I'm like , man , fuck off .

I like him in the fact that he's not the person that happens in every single RPG , where it's like when you're fighting the villain , they're always overpowered and then finally , when they join your side , they like become weak as hell . I'm happy that's not the case for him . Like he has the same wings as you .

Yeah , like , if anything , it's more like now that he's switched over to the good side , you can see the more human side of Toru rather than just being a muscle in a gang you know Exactly , but also getting the human side of him , you start understanding that he literally applies a lot of Uncle's wisdom very well , as much as Jackie and Jay can't understand what

it is that Uncle's saying he's able to , toru is able to where he was able to like . Oh , he means this , okay , we're gonna do this . But then there is every now and again he'll have that face that he's like what the fuck are you talking about ? Oh , man , like he's like .

The issue was the fact of whether or not , why it is that he stayed there , but then being betrayed , even when he didn't necessarily fall short . He did what he was supposed to do , he accomplished his mission . But just being betrayed like that he was like it's not fair .

It's like I didn't care what side I was on , I was loyal and he just betrayed me like that .

great . It was more like he was a hired hand , like you know the whole point of the dark hand , like they're a bunch of hired hands like working for Actually working for Shindu , but the boss was Valmont , but you knowmont was taking um orders from shindu .

But my whole point being is that it was like hired hand , uh , goons or henchmen , whatever you want to call them , and it was more like oh , things were all good until they stabbed me in the back it was more like as long as they're not fucking me over and I'm getting the cut of what are we getting , then I'm like whatever .

But oh , so that's what time y'all ?

I've done nothing but try to kill you guys all the time and you're here to try to save me and jack Jackie's like yeah , he said because I don't believe in really hurting anybody and that everybody still has some type of redeeming quality and he was just like I appreciate that .

Fucking that one dude that replaced what was his name , hock Fu , where he was like all yelling and shit like angry crow angry crow like hey man , this dude is animated what gives me is the fact that he has the easiest thing , and Jack has pointed this out .

He was like literally all of your attacks are deadly , but if you had just stopped announcing what you were saying every single time , you probably would have had some chances .

I said so if you actually play this with Sasuke and I'm not really going to give Sasuke lots of credit , obviously I'm not that person but just still one of those things , you can use him as an example . Whenever he says , whenever he goes for fireball jutsu , he can't actually say it because the fireball spits out your mouth .

So he can't actually say it while doing it , otherwise he'd . So he can't actually say it While doing it , otherwise he can just be Spatting fire while talking .

He would still look old but , uh , inside he was like youthful enough to like actually fight and he was fighting hot , like thank you for sharing angry crow , and then counter it , yeah , I'm like , see that right there , see that right , that's your wake-up call , right there you know what's the scariest thing about kung fu in chinese culture ?

So why , when it comes down for , like , say , skills like boxing , even karate , most people peak out in their 20s , sometimes in their 30s , depending on if their bodies have started breaking down or not . What makes Kung Fu so practical is this when you're young , you're not afraid to take hits because you have that defense .

But as you get older , you know that you can't be taking hits like that . So you have to master your skills . You have to master your own attacks so you're not wasting energy . You don't have as much energy as you did when you were younger . You have to master your counters . You can't take hits like you could when you were younger .

You have to master how to do all of these different things . So chinese culture whenever you literally like the art of kung fu in itself , like when uncle , he was like , oh , I got my mortality , I got my youth back . And he was like , oh , yeah , he's like , I feel I got my youth usefulness back .

Yeah , his youthfulness when he was his strongest , was probably only just a few , maybe like 10 years prior . It was not a . It was not a . Oh , he might turn back to 20 or 30 something years old . No , he , he was at his peak at the age of maybe like 50 , 60 . And that's , that's a .

That's honestly , it's the craziest thing about kung fu , because you see that .

when he was younger he literally like well before he passed because he died young was the fact that he said he still was not a master of his craft yet .

There's no way that , like , you reach your mastery at an old ass age until and baki , baki's no better . So if you've seen I'm not even going to spoil that if you haven't seen it but that one moment in the tournament , in the , uh , sea king tournament , just that alone , that old , that old ass was like a hundred something years old .

He's like , oh , he is the strongest kung fu martial artist in the world . He was like that doesn't make any sense .

I might even share it to their page , because I know we have some people who are like martial arts nerds as well inside of our group . Thank you all so

much for joining . I love Kung Fu . I love Kimpo . I love various different styles . I do . I love karate as well too . I like mixed martial arts . I love all different types of martial arts styles . I can see the benefits in each one . But the thing about it is the fact that this dude he's old as hell . He did an example , he um , there's .

So the guy , he's , uh , becoming a mixed martial artist and he's purposely going training with all these different masters across the world because he's trying to build himself up to get the next title . And what happens is is that he literally comes up against this , this real old guy , and old guy's like hold my arm .

And he said I want you to grab it as hard as you can . And the dude is literally pushing at him , like the old man is pushing at him . He says I can't push you , you're significantly stronger than I am . I'm an old man . He's like I can't do this , I can't do this . And dude's like yeah , he says I can't do anything . He said but watch this .

He said I firm my stance and all he did was just drop his arm and pop and the dude fell to the ground instantly and I was like holy shit , wait a second I was like , no , that can't be real . And the dude was so dumb you could see on his face he was dumbfounded . He was like he said , yeah , I can see why they say he's a true master .

He's like , holy fuck , he's like this dude was so much weaker than him , like in full video he winds up saying he's like the dude was so much weaker than him . He was like he was holding him with one arm . He's like he felt like he could break his arm like a twig and the dude put him to the ground like it was just dropping his arm .

And then , like you build that experience because you're no longer , because you're is out of somewhat out of fear as well too . You're no longer because you're is out of somewhat out of fear as well too , because , again , like I said , you can't , you can't , um , you don't have as much stamina as you had before .

You don't have , you can't , you don't have as much durability . So you have to be mindful of your skills , of your tactics , of how you do that stuff . And it's like when you're young , you're more focused on I want to be able to do this move in this attack and this attack . But when you master those basics , just those simple basics of a firm stance .

You're literally an unbeatable . It's just that when you're younger , you're just like oh , I got more stamina , I got more durability , I want to pull off as many attacks as possible . When you're older , this ends in two to three moves . And if you fuck around , you are dead in two to three moves .

And if you fuck around , you are dead in two to three moves and you're like I just got killed by an old nigga . How did this happen ? Because old niggas are masters of their craft , bro , for reals . It's like they know how to not waste energy . They can be done . You see , like , oh , these old guys took down like 20 guys . Like it was nothing .

Yeah , because they ended that shit in one to two moves . It was done . I'm not wasting my time . I'm like , oh , I may have to punch this guy like five or six times , I only have to hit you one time and you're down . That's the scary shit about some like old , old martial artists . They know , they shit .

And so that's one of the things I liked about that with gunkle , when he was like , yeah , he got his immortality , but he didn't need to be super young , he didn't need to be like go back to his 20s , 30s . No , I need to be immortal in my 50s and 60s because I am a martial arts master . I know my shit . It's scary , but it's also so fucking cool .

But , like I promise you , I literally thought it was a whole joke into that video yesterday when I saw that shit I was like oh hell , no , old man didn't even move , he literally just stood there . He's like all I do is just fur my grass and he just dropped his arm . Dude went to the ground and I was like how the fuck did that happen ?

Ooh , even this other example , michael jai white . He's acknowledged as a true martial arts master at a young age because he he learned that young about not wasting energy , not wasting your durability and shit like maximizing technique hold on .

But what my friends would say is how , like I'm great at breathing control , I know how to like do tricks where , like normally people don't know how to do that instinctually , but like , say , for instance , you know how to force your own weight down , so that way it makes it harder for someone to try to pick you up and try to throw you and whatnot .

You know like kind of Fortify your constitution and whatnot . It's like you know all this shit Instinctively but you don't have Any proper training and I'm like yeah , yeah , yeah .

It's one of those things like yeah , that's like before demon slave when you talk about breathing Almost definitely that's always that , demon Slayer , when you talk about breathing Almost definitely that's always .

Meanwhile , you are running as fast as you can , but you're also checking your breathing , so you can run longer .

I'm not into combat sports hell yeah , but people who are like I know football players , I know basketball players . That's still something you have to do all the time .

You have to maximize your breathing , otherwise , yeah , you're playing a game and you're constantly running over and over and over again that's why cardio is kind of important , almost definitely I mean I know some people will be like cardio , but no , most definitely .

on Jackie Chan Adventures . To be honest with you , To me it was a great show . It was one that I would encourage going back . I would go back and re-watch . There's nothing that you have to dissect with every episode . There is lessons with every episode .

How dare you have a different opinion than me ?

Yeah , you know how many wars would not happen if we all agreed to disagree .

But it's kind of the same thing and , honestly , the same thing does apply with jackie chan adventures as well too . When you really think about a lot of these villains . No scratch that some of the villains were just villains . They just wanted to see the world burn .

But with some guys on there that had ideas of how to make things better , it's just their approach , for it was like easily disagreeable , because most of their approach usually involves enslavement or involves I control everything . Uh , like modder . You know that was one of the biggest things . Would it have been better if Madara had become Hokage ?

Yes and no , and the reason being is because Madara's idea was putting everyone into an infinite Tsukuyomi and controlling everything . You have no free will , and that's always a big thing in today . Assassin's Creed dives into that as well too . You had the assassins versus the order . You want to have Templars versus assassins .

Chaos , freedom , because technically freedom is chaos , nonetheless freedom is chaos . But then , at the same time , order is lack of free will .

Uh , let's just say that I'm going to work on 3D printing the 12 talismans . So if any of you , ladies and gentlemen , are interested , just let me know . We can do fan mail now . So please text us your feedback on the episodes and you can even make suggestions on which episodes or which topics that we should do in the future .

But , of course , if you want those 3D printed talismans , you can always hit us up on Facebook , instagram , discord I know TikTok's going down , I guess Twitter , but I don't really care for Twitter that much . For now , I would say best bet Facebook , instagram , discord .

That's where I'll most likely respond and , with that being said , we are going to go ahead and oak Before I forget Kokugatsu . This is going to be ahead and oak before I forget kogagasu . This is going to be a double feature . Do you have any words you want to say on rush hour ?

Because I understand that you might not be able available for part two , so I'm giving you this chance to like . If you want to talk , feel free yeah , I was like oh shit all right , so kung fu kenya's in rush hour .

the fact that the way he and jackie roasted absolutely roasted chris tucker's character , and he had no idea what the they were saying oh man , that's not fair .

But like the whole thing where ladies will go to um get their done and go to most Chinese shops to get their nails done .

And first thing I also want to mention is this this is just my little controversial opinion , while I have the chance just to kind of mention it If you're upset about you getting your nails done by a lot of Chinese ladies or Vietnamese ladies or Korean ladies because they're not all Chinese chinese , there are various different races stop being disrespectful .

Um , keep in mind onto this . The reason that they're in their craft and their business is because nobody wants to go to a business where their job is touching other people's feet , especially because , in fact , a lot of people don't wash their ass and they be this old and crusty . I have literally walked in with it .

My mom would get her nails done all the time . She knew all the ladies by name . She's watched the kids . She's helped teach the kids english . She was their english teachers . They were also learning um . She was a like the secondary english teacher that helped them in school as well too .

My mom has done that as a side hustle , so I also picked up a little bit of mandarin as well too . So I want you to understand . A lot of times if they talking , it's because of the fact that they're upset , that a lot of customers be coming in and it can tell that y'all don't wash your hands or your feet .

You just you just come in and get your hair , get your nails and your feet done every week , and that's the only time your hands and your feet get washed , and that's disgusting . If you don't want them talking bad about you , take care of yourself , just for the love of god . Anyway , moving forward . Sorry , but it was still one of those things I'm like .

Um , the movie itself wound up being fantastic . I love the first movie because we're just talking about the first one , right ? Or we're talking about trilogy , or just the whole trilogy , just you . The floor is yours , my friend oh damn , okay , I thought I was gonna break this up . Okay , hold on , never want my laptop .

I only got a couple more minutes , so we're gonna go ahead and run through this real quick . I thought I was going to break this up . Okay , hold on , never want my laptop . I only got a couple more minutes , so we're going to go ahead and run through this real quick , because this is important .

So , first movie I absolutely love the movie and the fact that it was . If I'm correct , this was Jackie Chan's first American movie and he could not so many bloopers into it . But they did wind up doing interviews where they talked about it to where he could not understand . He could not understand english and he could not speak english that well .

There was certain stuff that he knew , but they had to have a translator on site to help him out , and it's so fucking hilarious because there's so many retakes . Yes , there's so many retakes that they had , so , literally , when I think they calculated , they used up .

I think it was like at least 50 or so , 50 or so hours of retakes because jackie chan could not say certain words at all .

And it was hilarious because it's like yo oh , not going to the fact that apparently there's a there's actually a clothing , a fashion designer who I cannot remember his name or the brand's name because I don't really care as much for it , but , um , apparently he named his name .

He named his line , a very specific phrase , a very specific word , on purpose , because of the fact that most asian people can't say the word , can't use the letter t properly , because of how it translates in their language per se . How it translates in like mandarin and chinese and korean and stuff is the fact that they can't say it .

So he purposely made a word that's super difficult for them to say , so he could laugh at them every time they try to pronounce his word , which is really some bullshit . It's not the first time that happens . Charmin , I'm also looking at you and y'all fuck your racist ass anyway , but I like how we had this one to where we can actually laugh a little bit .

We were able to laugh a little bit and like it was funny that they could just kind of go ahead and say I also like how in the first one , chris tucker , they purposely did not tell him that he was not gonna be that uh , jackie chan could not speak english that well , so a lot of those segments were literally chris is like do you understand the words that

are coming out of my mouth ? It's actually improv , because he literally was trying to tell Jackie something and Jackie did not understand it and they actually included it into the movie . So the first movie literally the first movie is a blooper movie , and that's what makes it the best one to me of the trilogy .

It was better because , like this was one of those movies that was supposed to be a little bit more serious , like it was also like the Friday movies where it was like it was supposed to be a little bit more serious but they gave characters a little bit of improv to kind of do so .

Because Jackie Chan was known for being , because Jackie Chan was a comedian in China as well . Not only was he a movie actor , he was also a comedian , so he was known to be funny . So this movie was purposely putting two different comedians from two different cultures together to see what would happen .

The storyline for the first rush hour movie is damn near fledged Like they have to work together to take down the , to take down the gang . It's a very simple basis into that movie , but that was on purpose because it was supposed to just see how they would react together .

Literally it was on purpose to fuck them up and kind of see what was gonna happen and it was like that's really fucked up , but that's actually really funny .

But it's also become that moment where , because of how their interactions went , that they were able to be honest with each other and all the craziness that led to Jackie and Chris being the best of friends . So absolutely love the first movie . It is fucking fantastic . I mean the whole . Honestly .

The first , second and third movie was great , but the first one to me is always going to be the best . It's one of those ones that like , if you try to look up review scores , you'll be like oh , the review scores seem mid . Let's begin . It was because the storyline was supposed to be simple as hell . It was just a play on things .

Sorry , I was getting a phone call from my dad .

. To where it's like At least in Rush Hour 2 , it felt like , okay , we know what we want this movie to be about , where essentially , uh , you have uh jackie and I mean no , excuse me . Uh , you have detective carter and detective uh lee , uh , inspector , chief inspector lee , excuse me you have them going back to hong kong .

You know they're trying to have a vacation . But then , uh , ricky tan and his um gang , uh , was fucking shut up uh . And then it felt like , oh , okay , at least there was like a direction or so to speak , and it's like okay , now that they're used to each other , it felt more like a serious movie , uh , at least as far as structure wise .

But , um , and then rush hour three , same thing with uh , friday after next . It kind of felt like they were trying to borrow the same energy that the first and second energy uh movie has , where it's like a few references like you , you know , if you call back sometimes the plot felt like the first movie or whatnot .

Um , yeah , but overall it was good , but you know , like the first one was always going to be goaded yeah , the first one is absolutely going to be goaded in itself .

They American Chinese government has never really get along , unfortunately . The only thing that they get along with is when it comes down to profit . That's why most of our shit here is made in China . Um , cause that's pretty much it we can get a bunch of Chinese stuff tick tock , which I find funny .

What if the government it became a thing of like , oh , you're leaking , we're leaking information and stuff like that , and that's the whole reason they banned it , shit like that . But um , the thing about it is , once tiktok came , tiktok was actually based off of another platform that already runs in china .

Um , chinese , like a lot of chinese , and um , chinese and korean people actually kind of use the same apps where they're able to sell stuff to each other privately and kind of do some things and stuff Pretty much like how we do with TikTok , how we were pretty much doing with TikTok and it was a chance of getting more of a world interaction , because otherwise ,

if you really pay attention , most of videos like if you ever see Chinese videos pay attention , most of videos like if you ever see chinese videos they'll always have like a specific username to a specific app that you cannot access because they're only available in china or only available in korea , only available in japan per se , because , like , how big the

language barriers become and integrating from east to west , and so it was one of those things where we had , we would have had the opportunity of interacting with more people in places like china , because chinese government still has a big , tight hold on their country , like rush hour was one of the ones , that is , I think it was like either the first or one

of the very few times that we were able to get American producers or an American film crew to actually go into China and be able to film , because right now there's actually YouTubers who go into across the world to , like , I guess , try different foods or meet different like nature scientists , about different plants and things like that , and like they have various

different YouTube series , and I've seen a bunch of them that all of them have said the same thing when you go to china , they say there's a very limited space that they're able to record at and that's it . They do not allow that . They don't give a fuck .

So it wasn't until , um , like rush hour that we really got an opportunity to finally get a recording of like a life in china , like they were actually able to record in china while people were still doing their daily lives . That was does not happen for america because , like the agreement has always been bad .

So now we even have shang chi , where they were able to do the same thing . They were able to actually do some recording in china and I I would really like it . If rush hour never happened , we would not have shang chi in real retrospect right . Everything would have been forged per se .

We would not have had a chance to have a chinese artist be able to make that beautiful um background of the history that was in that movie and stuff .

If russia , we did not get rush hour and we did not get a chance to have jackie chan open that channel for us to be able to do so , we would have never had an opportunity of having movies like this today . So to me . Yeah , rush hour is always going to be goaded .

It's goaded in the fact that , like it's extremely funny , two great comedians , two great actors , um the storyline even being simple . They did a fantastic job of how they did things . But literally this movie paved the way for us to have some of the stuff that we have now um , everything everywhere all at once .

We would not have that if we didn't have rush hour . Just in real retrospect , I'm sad I can't be on for part two because I still , but still . Now I'm also going to put it this way I only acknowledge the first three . I don't acknowledge this rush hour for nonsense . I just want y'all to understand that .

Um , when rush hour one came out was 1998 . Rush hour two came out in 2001 . So literally just three years later we were able to continue , continue the same comedy , continue things go . I like how you said it was . Like you know , it was kind of one of those things like you know what I think it was .

It was like chris tucker , just one , like he literally had a thing . You know what I miss working with jackie . I want to pull out one more rush hour movie .

I think we could kind of do another one , because I have some ideas and I think it'd be funny and I think we kind of do some stuff , and so it was like six years later in 2007 is when we wound up getting rush hour three , and that's's a big difference , like you know three-year difference between two movies and a six-year difference between this other movie .

It creates such a big disassociation . By that point you could literally say we've kind of already had our feel of Rush Hour , but we didn't think there was probably going to be another one . Everyone thought it was going to be a duo and that was it .

It was another one of those ones where they this time they actually gave it a real story . It wasn't just like , oh girl got kidnapped and they got to figure this out and the government , the fbi , didn't really give a fuck about shit . So it was like , well , we're gonna figure it out .

And then they had all these kung fu masters and they had to go through this whole thing and it was funny . Versus rush hour 2 , that actually wound up being like a whole storyline to it that was really supposed to be there and because of that , I will say it diminished some of the comedy .

So at that point the biggest trope was that Jackie Chan could not speak English . By this point , jackie Chan has already gotten significantly more fluent in English . He's been in more movies in America . He's been in works with a lot of different things . He was mostly still present in China . So some of the tropes were like oh , he couldn't understand some stuff .

He was mostly still present in china , but like he , so some of the tropes of like , oh , he couldn't understand some stuff was not as present , so it was not able to be as funny and we kind of just got a chance to focus more on the story . So once we kind of focus more on the story , it felt a little bit more lackluster . We still had our comedy .

It was still funny . Nonetheless , still will go back and re-watch it . Yeah , it was one of those ones that was like , okay , now we have to focus on stories . So now we actually have to see a story building and seeing what's kind of happening from there .

So , but it definitely gets a little bit of a lower rating than the first one and , in my personal opinion , definitely about the same . On to that as well . And Ricky Tan's funniest shit , to be honest , the head of the triad like literally , was just absolutely fucking hilarious and how he was trying to do , how he was doing shit and you know .

Finally , closing off for me with Rush Hour 3 , we finally get a good balance onto things . We finally get a good balance on today . We still get a good balance . And again , like I mentioned , it's a six hour , six years .

I say six hours , sorry , a six year difference , but because of that things you know , take a big , a big change onto this by this point . It's like you're trying to figure things out . They're traveling to different parts of the world .

Now we're still kind of sticking with the story but , like you said , it feels more like a reuse of it , feels more like a reuse of the um , like some of the same old tropes . And at that point it's not so much that it played out , but it was more so like it had been so long that it wasn't quite as funny this time around .

Not gonna say it wasn't just what , it's not gonna hit like it did the first and second movie . So it's like you kind of wait a long time to kind of bring some of this other shit back into it . But that was also one of the ones . It's not chris and jackie's fault . They were excited . It was like , oh , there's going to be a third one .

They weren't sure if there was really going to be one or not . Like you mentioned , they were like , oh , we didn't know that was serious or not . Like was this really going to happen per se . So it was really a production issue that pushed it out so long .

And then , because of how long production took , then Jackie Chan got called into a bunch of other projects by that point , and so during that time he was not able to be available to do a recording for Rush Hour 3 , and he didn't want to talking about that .

Before too , he was like he really did want to when they finally had did decide on it , but by that point he had . So he was so swamped his schedule was packed from beginning , from like the beginning of the day to the end of the day .

He was actually dealing with his own thing where he was trying to still make sure that he could , you know , do these movies , do this stuff that he was doing , and still spend time with his family . So it was like , uh , there's a lot of balance that kind of goes into it . Right now , I just need to balance out my life at this point .

So he's like I'm not able to do it because of that , which we understand . So , yeah , um , the third movie story was I like how they kept it simple . So we wound up getting the assassination of ambassador han , and this time they're really trying to figure things out .

It's a very simple thing , because it wound up just being the ambassador was assassinated , but it was also based on a drug thing . And then we also find out there's a lot of dirty people that's inside the chinese government .

good .

Anyway , but for real , rush Hour 1 , 2 , and 3 , fantastic , excellent choices . I would definitely again , like the first one , always goaded Highest rating , one Five out of five for that one .

Rush Hour 2 , four out of five and I would have to be honest about a three and a half out of five as far as a rush hour , three because of just that time frame , but otherwise that's all I got for y'all and I'll talk to y'all next time all righty .