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Lesbian Space Princess - Streamin' Demons review special guest JM Brannyk
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Jo brings Box back to talk Lesbian Space Princess, the Australian adult-animated quest about the galaxy's most boring royal rescuing the ex who dumped her in public. They agree the animation and songs are award-worthy. They agree the writing is not. They also agree the best-developed character is the spaceship. Spoiler-light, content very R-rated.
The setup — Saira, the most boring royal in a galaxy where everyone's queer, gets publicly dumped by bounty-hunter girlfriend Kiki at her own birthday party and decides the fix is a perilous quest to win her back. Nobody's sure she should.
Anxiety as a personality — Crippling anxiety, imposter syndrome, two impossibly cool moms. Box finds her relatable; Jo clocks her as Meg-meets-Lisa-Simpson with the volume up.
Willow, robbed — The non-binary singer-songwriter is the funniest, most fully-formed character in the thing — pineapple on the pillow — and the script forgets she exists. Both of us mad about it.
The ship has the arc — The actual best-developed character is the talking spaceship (Richard Roxburgh, Dracula in Van Helsing). That's a writing problem and a running joke.
The straight white maleans — Aunty Donna's man-cave villains look exactly like the Mooninites and land the sharpest jokes — when those jokes don't meander or lean too hard on "women game too."
Craft vs. script — Gorgeous animation, great color, terrific voices, genuinely good songs. The writing runs on hack and potty jokes, the Safety Bubble bit dies on arrival, and the ending is forced and unresolved — plot-driven where it needed to be character-driven.
The verdict — A low-stakes popcorn movie that flies by and is more fun than it has any right to be. Better than Bros. Worth a cinema seat with friends — just not with your parents.
Find Box — Instagram @jmbrannyk, new writing project on the way. Jelly Beans the cat supervised throughout.
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Transcript
Introduction and Humor
00:00:07
Jo
everyone, Joe here and with my guest host, Amelie, no, Emil, no, Sophia, ah oh no, Charlotte, Box. My guest host Box, which is actually invisible.
00:00:19
Jo
It's an invisible box.
00:00:20
box
J.M. Branick, hi.
00:00:22
Jo
Hello, Brandix Hand, how are you?
00:00:26
Jo
You know, i I was talking to someone yesterday because I was joking that they want to do a podcast.
00:00:26
box
How you doing?
00:00:33
Jo
I'm like, you know, we can review porn. I'm oh, already did that with Box.
00:00:39
box
Yeah, I've been doing that a lot these days.
00:00:39
Jo
And they didn't believe me.
00:00:41
box
You know, times are tough.
00:00:41
Jo
Porn?
00:00:43
box
Yeah.
00:00:44
Jo
Even reviewing or doing it?
00:00:47
box
ah Only fans. It's just my hand, though. And it's just me going like, oh, good job.
00:00:50
Jo
Hey.
00:00:53
Jo
Oh, keep doing that. Oh, yeah, no, no, no. I like that. Oh, yeah. Come on, I like those hands.
00:00:57
box
All right, now you gotta to pay me for that. Thank you.
00:01:01
Jo
If it keeps going, it'll be like this.
00:01:02
box
Gas is expensive, man.
00:01:04
Jo
I just kind of basically I cum aerosol now.
00:01:11
Jo
She goes, oh, I just, hope I don't have an asthma attack.
00:01:13
box
Thanks for having me on.
00:01:15
Jo
Oh shit, there you go.
00:01:17
box
oh Oh, there we go
00:01:17
Jo
Yeah.
00:01:20
Jo
People in the world are like, dude, you just wasted your fucking asthma medication that could like, whatever.
00:01:25
box
I mean, you're so rich you can do that, right?
00:01:30
Jo
Just sweet, let me say,
00:01:30
box
and such this
00:01:33
Jo
Not after the fucking Canadians couldn't win a goddamn home game. Not rich no more,
Exploring 'Lesbian Space Princess 2025'
00:01:37
Jo
fuckers. Oh, so anyways, welcome to Streaming Demons, where we're talking about lesbians today.
00:01:44
box
Yeah, from space.
00:01:46
Jo
From space, and there might be princesses.
00:01:49
box
There might be.
00:01:49
Jo
Or one.
00:01:50
box
At least one.
00:01:50
Jo
One princess. room Yeah. It is Lesbian Space Princess 2025.
00:01:54
box
is less useful
00:01:57
Jo
And it's coming to you in the UK and Ireland June 19th in the cinemas. So go to the movies or not. Watch your thing first and go, maybe i don't want to see this shit. So...
00:02:08
box
Oh, that's cool that it's coming to cinemas. Good job.
00:02:12
Jo
Yeah. There is an IMDb. I'll just read it off. A space princess is thrust out in her shelter life, enter a galactic quest to save her bounty hunter ex-girlfriend from the straight white Malians.
00:02:24
Jo
Starring... I'm going to kill your names right now.
00:02:28
box
Just try your baths.
00:02:28
Jo
Shabana Aziz. Bernie Vendille.
00:02:31
box
Yeah.
00:02:32
Jo
Jordan Raskopoulos. Raskopoulos.
00:02:38
Jo
Written by Leila Varges and M.L. Hugh Hobbs. Also directed by the two. So, I know you and I talked about, and spoiler alert, this might be a gay movie.
00:02:53
box
Just a tad? it might be a lesbian movie. Just a little tad.
00:02:59
Jo
Yeah. The tags on IMDb are like, adult animation, raunchy comedy, space sci-fi, animation, comedy, fan...
00:03:00
box
Sorry, you're gonna hear call.
00:03:05
Jo
like Guys, who the fuck did your IMDB? Slap them up. It's you, just fucking video type yourself slapping the shit of yourself because fantasy, comedy, romance, sci-fi, you really need an LGBTQ tag because your thing is literally called fucking lesbian space princess.
00:03:19
box
fuck.
00:03:21
box
Maybe they thought it was just going to be, you know, so apparent that they didn't want to put it in the LGBTQ class.
00:03:30
Jo
Maybe, maybe.
00:03:30
box
Maybe that's... They're like, maybe they'll get the point if they see that it's lesbian.
00:03:37
Jo
Lesbian. i thought it was from Lesbos. I thought it like an ancient like fucking documentary.
00:03:44
box
You know, it might have been. it might be a future documentary.
00:03:50
Jo
And it could be and this is something I'm glad you came out of. I'm guessing the the North Korean detention center that you were in to do this.
00:04:01
Jo
Because we differed at Bros.
00:04:06
box
we We often do. Yes.
00:04:09
Jo
Yeah. Because I thought it was like a humongous piece of shit I would never watch. you' like But you either support I'm like, no, don't.
00:04:16
box
ah Oh, yeah, gay bros. Yeah.
00:04:20
Jo
Yeah. And you watched it. You watched Bros. Did you like it? No, thank you.
00:04:25
box
was fine.
00:04:27
Jo
Thank you. Enough said. Exactly. I don't need to waste my money to support anyone.
00:04:31
box
There were some parts I liked and there were some parts I didn't like.
00:04:36
Jo
I liked when I got the popcorn.
00:04:36
box
But, you know, un thought honestly, though, I've seen way worse movies.
00:04:39
Jo
And then the movie.
00:04:43
box
So some of them on stream in Demons.
00:04:44
Jo
Yo. Yeah. Bros. Better than Cannibal Honeclast.
00:04:51
box
Yeah, you could say that. Yeah. Is it as culturally?
00:04:54
Jo
But you know what we can say about this one? lesbian Is lesbian space princess better than bros?
00:05:01
box
Yes.
00:05:02
Jo
Yeah, I agree. So I agree.
00:05:04
box
Yeah. There's a lot more art and thought and i think writing that went into lesbian space princess.
00:05:11
Jo
story.
00:05:14
Jo
oh what A lot of stuff goes into lesbian space princess.
00:05:19
box
Yeah. A lot does.
00:05:21
Jo
And how would you fill that space if you were a lesbian princess?
Character Analysis and Comparisons
00:05:24
Jo
How would you fill that space?
00:05:27
box
In space or that space? Because that's the galaxy.
00:05:29
Jo
That space.
00:05:32
Jo
Well, okay. So for those of you, we're not going to give you a spoiler-free review. And we're just going talk about some stuff because again, June 19th, UK and Ireland, you can see it in the cinemas.
00:05:43
box
Yeah. You can go to theaters.
00:05:46
Jo
Yeah. So it was a spoiler free one and it really does follow the story about a space princess who has like their first girlfriend ever. But you find out like it's not unique.
00:05:57
box
Like, she has extreme anxiety. Extreme anxiety. And she also has a lot of imposter syndrome from her moms who are, like, the best of the best, the coolest.
00:06:02
Jo
Yes. Yes.
00:06:07
Jo
Huge.
00:06:12
box
And she's not.
00:06:15
Jo
Correct.
00:06:15
box
So it's all about her journey into becoming herself.
00:06:23
Jo
Right. Sort of. Because it's actually like if Meg from Family Guy and Lisa Simpson merged into a lesbian space princess, it would be her.
00:06:34
box
More anxiety. We need more anxiety.
00:06:36
Jo
More anxiety than Lisa.
00:06:37
box
like we can
00:06:37
Jo
Okay, so I was going for like anxiety and like the social outcastness of Meg.
00:06:41
box
Yeah, it's... I would say she's the antithesis of Tina from Bob's Burgers because Tina embraces her weirdness, whereas our main character does not.
00:06:55
box
Syra is her name.
00:06:57
Jo
Saira.
00:06:58
box
Syra.
00:06:58
Jo
I'll just call her Sarah.
00:07:00
box
You know, you reminded me of that ship.
00:07:01
Jo
That's her name.
00:07:04
box
ah You reminded me of that ship.
00:07:07
Jo
Yeah, there's a talking ship in there.
00:07:09
box
There is a talking ship and it has a journey.
00:07:10
Jo
inbox cause ah you I remind you of the ship.
00:07:14
box
Yeah, a little bit. Yeah.
00:07:17
Jo
Because I get people to where they need to go.
00:07:21
box
Because you try your hardest.
00:07:26
Jo
like because I get covered in semen. What?
00:07:29
box
yeah Yeah, a couple times actually.
00:07:33
Jo
think there was a few times. So it's a cute little movie.
00:07:35
box
There was.
00:07:41
box
it's not It's not one that you bring food it's not when you bring your mom and dad to, i would say.
00:07:41
Jo
I'll say this. It's a cute little movie. the
00:07:49
Jo
but Someone actually says that in the comments at IMDb. Like, don't this is not for your mom.
00:07:53
box
Yeah, I would say this is for your gale pals.
00:07:58
Jo
Maybe. Because the nudity or the content?
00:07:58
box
Your envy friends.
00:08:02
box
I think a little bit of the content, but there's a lot of genitalia involved.
00:08:07
Jo
There is.
00:08:09
box
So, you know, if you're not comfortable with with your parents and getting covered in jizz toys, maybe leave it out.
00:08:19
Jo
But then again, if you leave it out, they'll get coverage is more. So just put it in.
00:08:24
box
No.
00:08:29
Jo
So the premise she has a hot girlfriend who doesn't like her.
00:08:29
box
We're not explaining this very well.
00:08:36
box
She has a hot girlfriend who is... think she's She's a bounty hunter, but she's kind of, in a way, useless because she's so narcissistic.
00:08:46
Jo
Yeah. Did you like her? Curious.
00:08:49
box
No, not really. I liked Willow, but they got fucked over.
00:08:55
Jo
Okay, that's interesting and because i see the same thing. And without spoiling too much, we'll just go through. So you're you're watching this thing and it's ah not a very likable, like there's an ex-girlfriend. And so you automatically go like, why are you risking your life for your ex-girlfriend? We kind of go like, I want to get back together. But no, she's a vile piece of shit.
00:09:19
box
Well, here's the part is that we see them break up. And it's not only we see them break up, but like the whole planet sees them break up. And so that's like the catalyst of all of this is like, she breaks up with Syrah very publicly at her birthday party.
00:09:37
Jo
Right.
00:09:39
box
and And so it's poor Saira at her own birthday party gifts her ex-girlfriend. And this is not a spoiler. This is like the first five minutes.
00:09:49
Jo
first Yeah.
00:09:49
box
um
00:09:49
Jo
Yeah.
00:09:50
box
A two week photograph album, you know, like a very clingy gift. Like we've been together two weeks. Here's every picture of. what we've been been doing together, basically. And at that point, her ex-girlfriend is like, well, her girlfriend becomes the ex-girlfriend, and is like, nah, you're too boring. You're boring. And then Jett's out.
00:10:15
Jo
Right. Which is what she's known for. Like, she's known as the most boring royal.
00:10:20
box
Right.
00:10:22
box
Right.
00:10:24
Jo
so It's kind of like that the tropes are already kind of in play. And yet, Princess Saria is not doing herself any fucking favors with her level of anxiety and clinging to this. It's like she's not, and not for nothing, she's not really a likable character it's to the entire fucking thing.
00:10:40
box
Yeah, no, she's she's relatable. um i think a lot of young women will find her very relatable.
00:10:49
Jo
I was like, because they're not likable?
00:10:52
box
No, because there's a lot of anxiety and a lot of pressure. And, you know, she says sorry a lot, you know, because um she feels inadequate and she just wants someone to love her.
00:11:05
box
And I'm not going to spoil it, but somebody in the end does.
00:11:09
Jo
Right.
00:11:12
Jo
Okay, because maybe I fell asleep in this.
00:11:16
box
so...
00:11:16
Jo
It's someone and sure maybe does. Yeah. But let's talk about is there, is there is there a hero's journey? She does have like, she makes the decision to go rescue her ex and because, you know, of course that's an end well.
00:11:28
box
Yeah.
00:11:31
Jo
And then she has to go through all these like perilous things. And it's like, you know, that this way is a good way.
00:11:36
box
Well, we gotta talk about the breeze.
00:11:36
Jo
This is the bad way. and
00:11:38
box
We gotta talk about the breeze. The axe.
00:11:43
Jo
Sure.
00:11:44
box
I mean, she's she's put on a MacGuffin mission to to save her ex-girlfriend. Yes.
00:11:51
Jo
Yes.
00:11:54
box
And honestly...
00:11:54
Jo
She has to summon something that she can't summon in for the 16th time, although her parents did the first time.
00:12:00
box
Yes, right. and And that's why it's also she has like this imposter syndrome because her parents are so great and so cool. And like when she was a kid, people would come over and be like, are your parents going to be there?
00:12:13
box
or your mom's going to be there? And she's like, no.
00:12:14
Jo
Yeah.
00:12:15
box
And you're like, oh, never mind.
00:12:17
Jo
and And that was one of the things when it happens early on, it made me think I was, okay, when I first saw the movie, okay, so she is a lesbian space princess, but I thought it was, she was lesbian and that was not as mainstream as it was in the movie.
00:12:35
Jo
You know what I'm saying?
00:12:35
box
No, everybody in her kingdom is lesbian.
00:12:36
Jo
It's like,
00:12:39
box
Yeah.
00:12:39
Jo
yeah Right. And hold the let the clit jokes, which I've made my my own a couple of times. But it's like, yeah, the entire fucking galaxy is lesbian.
00:12:50
box
Yeah, well, it's a galaxy.
00:12:51
Jo
Or gay.
00:12:53
box
It's a galaxy. And then outside are the straights.
00:12:54
Jo
Yeah.
00:12:57
Jo
The straight...
00:12:57
box
So, like, I would say every queer person is in the galaxy. Maybe not specifically lesbian, but everybody... in the galaxy is a little...
00:13:08
Jo
Okay. A little zesty.
00:13:11
box
what is that A little... Well, they're're they're queer of some kind.
00:13:15
Jo
Yeah.
00:13:16
box
I'd be in the galaxy.
00:13:18
Jo
So what did you think of the straight white mailing ins?
00:13:20
box
Okay, this is... Okay, I have a lot to say about these guys.
Comedy and Critique
00:13:25
Jo
Go for it.
00:13:26
box
And this is one of the critiques that I have of the film. um It's really hard when you have... I think the funniest things coming from them.
00:13:39
Jo
The villains.
00:13:40
box
um Yes, I found them much funnier than a lot because some of the jokes are very irreverent.
00:13:42
Jo
Or the villains.
00:13:48
box
If you like a reverence comedy, you might like this. um I found them kind of like sometimes meandering. Sometimes they just fell really flat. They lean very much obviously into the gayness and the lesbian-ness to where it's like there's a one-off joke of like, and I'm going to miss you, pussy. And it's just literally like a vagina, like an and anthropomorphic vagina.
00:14:13
box
um But I felt the straight white maleans. were probably some of the the best comedic performances, which made me more endeared to them, which I know I'm not supposed to be.
00:14:24
Jo
Okay.
00:14:29
Jo
They're the back and they're they're bad guys and tropes they're bad guys and exaggerated tropes. The man cave. We were dominant.
00:14:36
box
Yes.
00:14:37
Jo
You know, they don't know how to talk to a girl.
00:14:40
box
They mansplain things constantly.
00:14:40
Jo
Chick magnets.
00:14:44
box
um but I felt also, too, with them, it was a little bit...
00:14:45
Jo
Right.
00:14:51
box
there were a lot of things too that could have been like ah fuck you. Like there are women, lesbians in fact, who do play magic, the gathering or who do play, like, I understand like, that's like yeah the, the trope of it.
00:15:02
Jo
Yeah.
00:15:06
box
But at the same point as I'm watching, I'm like, yeah okay, I mean, you could do this in different ways and they did, but sometimes it would hit a little bit too much of like, well, you know, women do that too.
00:15:20
box
they They do that. Like...
00:15:24
Jo
Yeah, I didn't get the...
00:15:25
box
Yeah, I do.
00:15:26
Jo
Again, we understand where they wanted to display it and they're really making it a one-dimensional character from this shit. But yeah, like role-playing games, it goes against...
00:15:35
box
Mm-hmm.
00:15:39
Jo
Women can game.
00:15:41
box
Yeah, and and stuff like that. It would have been, i think, funnier because they're holding her axe hostage, basically, for this brace. um Because they have a chick magnet, um which is going to power up, and then they can get babes, you know?
00:15:58
box
So...
00:15:59
Jo
Yeah.
00:15:59
box
Babes? they're trying to get babes. It would have been, I think, funnier if the girlfriend... I keep calling her the girlfriend. Her name is Kiki in this, but...
00:16:11
box
Like we said, she's kind of a piece of shit. But it would have been funnier if she's like, no, if you tap that and then put that into play, you know, like if she knew the game as well and they're just not listening.
00:16:23
Jo
Yeah, and I don't know if that goes with her character.
00:16:23
box
Which does happen sometimes. I'm not going to say it doesn't. Yeah, exactly.
00:16:27
Jo
Wow.
00:16:27
box
It would have been in her character, and her wheelhouse.
00:16:31
Jo
Yeah, and then I think you're right with the straight man white Malians.
00:16:32
box
What did you feel about them?
00:16:35
Jo
They had the better jokes.
00:16:37
box
They did.
00:16:37
Jo
Like the Shakespeare one.
00:16:39
box
yeah See, I didn't like the Shakespeare one.
00:16:42
Jo
I liked the Shakespeare one because it was like a fucking thought-out joke.
00:16:46
Jo
You know, the delivery might be wonky and like...
00:16:51
box
do agree. i feel like it went on a little too long. ah feel like.
00:16:58
Jo
Yeah. And that's, that's part of it. I'm looking in the IMDB comments for this and it's, it's like a love or hate. It's no, no, ah no pun is pretty binary.
00:17:14
Jo
It's like a lot of ones and like seven, eight.
00:17:17
box
Which is is is ironic because Willow's non-binary. Right.
00:17:21
Jo
Right. But that's the whole point.
00:17:23
box
But you're right. You're right. There is a lot of binary jokes to where it's like, this is a gay joke about, you know, like, and unfortunately, I feel like a lot of gay media tends to lean too much into that instead of just having that
00:17:41
Jo
Alright.
00:17:45
box
it's It's a subtle thing. I get it. like But at the same point, sometimes it leans in too much to where you can alienate a lot of your...
00:17:56
box
Alienate? Ha ha ha ha ha.
00:17:57
Jo
okay
00:17:58
box
um Some of your audience, even the audience, like you like we said, that you're trying to target. like There might be lesbians that are like, wait a minute, I fucking play D&D?
00:18:09
box
fucking play like...
00:18:09
Jo
That's what some said. Yeah. That's what some of the comments are. They're like, uh, she's like, like I am LBGTQ and, uh, what the fuck was this?
00:18:18
box
Yeah, which I think you're going to get with.
00:18:19
Jo
Like, think and someone just took offense on the level of humor being more potty.
00:18:25
box
Yeah, yeah, it it does divulge into that. Like there are a lot of penis and vagina jokes. um
00:18:34
Jo
Tons.
00:18:36
box
A lot of, you know, but um I mean, there is some good jokes in there.
00:18:36
Jo
Like.
00:18:41
box
and I'm not to say like there is comedic beats that I did laugh at and I thought were good.
00:18:46
Jo
Right.
00:18:48
box
um I just think that, especially with this media, often they'd lean too heavily into that.
00:18:55
Jo
That was it. like I think the most developed character is the ship.
00:19:00
Jo
You know?
00:19:00
box
Is the what?
00:19:01
Jo
It's the ship.
00:19:03
box
The ship? Yeah, he he has an arc. He actually has an arc.
00:19:06
Jo
Yeah. like That's
Animation and Voice Performance Appreciation
00:19:09
Jo
the thing. like the The most developed and thought through character is the fucking ship. Not the princess, not the ex-girlfriend, not Willow.
00:19:13
box
Yeah.
00:19:17
box
I think the princess does, and I think it's good. i think it's just... um I think the ending...
00:19:23
Jo
I disagree with that one
00:19:26
box
and mean i think the ending needed to be more impactful. Yeah.
00:19:29
Jo
that That's the reason why I disagree with it. Because of the ending.
00:19:32
box
Yeah.
00:19:34
Jo
Right into the ending, I agreed. And then the ending happens like, oh, well, fuck this.
00:19:36
box
Yeah. Yeah, it's it's... It kind of just happens.
00:19:43
Jo
Yeah.
00:19:44
box
Yeah.
00:19:46
Jo
That's basically what the whole thing is. Now, I don't even know who is the God who is the sword person, the weapons guy?
00:19:56
box
Blade, and I loved her.
00:19:56
Jo
Or? Play?
00:19:59
box
i loved her. She she was funny.
00:20:00
Jo
Yes. Yes.
00:20:02
box
i liked that whole sequence. Actually, I really loved that sequence. When we were going through, there's a meditation kind of portion of it where the graphics get kind of trippy.
00:20:13
box
um We go into Saira's mind. I loved all of that.
00:20:17
Jo
Yeah. That was great. The animations fantastic. The color choice is fantastic.
00:20:21
box
Oh, yeah. The animation is great.
00:20:22
Jo
The voices are really well done. And the funny thing about Blade is I cannot find Blade in the fucking IMDB cast right now.
00:20:24
box
Yeah. Yeah.
00:20:28
Jo
So I have to go through the entire cast.
00:20:29
box
hello i Oh, no, I got it. um Blade is run by Queen Kong.
00:20:34
Jo
Okay. ah Queen Kong. Yeah. So Blade is actually one of the better talents here. And then she's or they're buried underneath a fucking safety bubble voice.
00:20:45
box
I did not like Safety Bubble at all. I thought that was ah an irreverent bit.
00:20:51
Jo
A stupid fucking joke that lasted too long even though it lasted like five fucking seconds.
00:20:56
box
Yeah, I unfortunately, like there were a lot of things that I felt could have been cut that would have just made it, you know, better or either neither nor, you know, like, it just was like, oh, that happened.
00:20:57
Jo
Yeah.
00:21:03
Jo
Tighter. Yeah.
00:21:10
box
Okay. You know, like, there There wasn't any lead up to that. There wasn't any, you know, same with the big so giant space dick.
00:21:16
Jo
Well.
00:21:19
box
There wasn't like, oh, we have to go through this galaxy, but we have to beware the giant dick, you know, or whatever, you know.
00:21:26
Jo
Yeah.
00:21:27
box
It just kind of was there.
00:21:27
Jo
it that like there's There's missed opportunities and there's forced opportunities. Because they force some opportunities, it kind of misses a better product.
00:21:39
box
Yeah, better jokes, tighter jokes, and a tighter story.
00:21:44
Jo
Yeah. You want your lesbian space princesses to be tighter.
00:21:45
box
yeah you can you want Yeah, I was waiting for the joke of something tight.
00:21:48
Jo
i agree. Yeah. But I will say this.
00:21:54
box
um
00:21:55
Jo
The Willow.
00:21:59
Jo
Willow works really well.
00:22:01
box
Willow does work really well. it ah Honestly, parts of the movie really reminded me of like a Rebecca Sugar type adventure time you know Steven Universe kind of like where songs are part of it.
00:22:16
Jo
Yeah.
00:22:18
box
Kind of leading you.
00:22:18
Jo
Part of it.
00:22:20
box
They're very sweet songs. They're very fun. They're very poppy. um Willow has a great voice. She's um like a singer-songwriter.
00:22:31
Jo
Gemma Shutron.
00:22:31
box
And yeah and it's it was really good.
00:22:36
box
um And I really liked the character of Willow. um
00:22:41
Jo
Me too.
00:22:43
box
And I feel like she kind of got shit on. i' Sorry, they kind of shit on.
00:22:45
Jo
And that's the reason why I don't like, I don't think that Princess Saria has a great arc. Because not only, like, not really spoilers, she actually gets literally shit on.
00:22:57
Jo
It's like poo.
00:22:57
box
Does she? She's like, no.
00:22:58
Jo
No, fucking no. That was a joke.
00:23:00
box
Oh, oh, sorry.
00:23:01
Jo
I think, I don't know. There's like pink goo, but they don't think that was anything. But yeah, it's kind of like one of those things like, oh my God.
00:23:07
box
There's a lot of goo in this.
00:23:09
Jo
And then just, boop, done.
00:23:11
box
Yeah, which is yeah, which is honestly, they didn't even get an arc, you know?
00:23:18
Jo
No. No, they didn't.
00:23:20
box
It was just, the ship gets better arc, yeah.
00:23:21
Jo
The fucking ship gets, that's what was The ship gets an arc.
00:23:26
Jo
Willow does not.
00:23:26
box
than Willow, which I felt like Willow was an incredibly funny and interesting character. The pineapple bit, that that that got me.
00:23:35
Jo
The great backstory.
00:23:38
box
Like, the pineapple on the fucking pillow.
00:23:41
Jo
Yeah, and then the whole like, oh, and didn't Willow... Okay, without spoiling shit. So she's very quirky because of what they do to help Saria.
00:23:49
box
Yeah.
00:23:53
box
Yes. Because...
00:23:59
box
Saira.
00:23:59
Jo
that is explained and it's very jokey, but it's very within the character of Willow to be like, like the the straight person, but the goofy one at the same time.
00:24:06
box
Yes.
00:24:10
box
The quote-unquote straight person.
00:24:10
Jo
it was, it's really endearing. And I like, was frustrated by it.
00:24:15
box
Yeah.
00:24:17
Jo
don't know, man. So all this, this, the sounds fine. The songs are fantastic. Most them are Willow.
00:24:23
box
Yeah, the songs are super fun, very sweet, very...
00:24:26
Jo
Yeah.
00:24:27
box
The animation is gorgeous, very pretty.
00:24:30
Jo
Absolutely.
00:24:32
box
um You can tell they did a lot of work on it.
00:24:32
Jo
Absolutely.
00:24:35
box
um You know, Shabana Aziz as Syrah did a great job, um especially when she gets very anxious and very nervous. I think she did a terrific job.
00:24:50
Jo
Yeah, and this is where it gets kind of wonky for me because I'm looking at the awards and it's
00:24:51
box
Auntie Donna?
00:24:57
Jo
Winner of best sci-fi fantasy feature. I'm like, well, it must have been a fucking film club's last week and who gives a shit. No offense, but think a lot of these, I don't see a lot of the voice actors winning in awards and they should have.
00:25:11
Jo
The animation should win awards.
00:25:12
box
Yeah.
00:25:13
Jo
They should have.
00:25:14
Jo
I don't think the writing should have. Yeah. Absolutely.
00:25:14
box
In animation sound design, sound design, um...
00:25:20
box
like the music, the scoring, you know, these are all award-winning.
00:25:23
Jo
Absolutely.
00:25:27
Jo
Absolutely.
00:25:28
box
Absolutely.
00:25:30
Jo
I agree.
00:25:31
box
Even the, like I said, the the straight white Malians by Auntie Donna, um they were super funny. They were great. And again, it's it's hard when...
00:25:42
Jo
They look like Tali
00:25:47
Jo
from South Park because they're little straight white Malians.
00:25:53
box
Yes, yes.
00:25:55
Jo
Sexy bitch. So that's an issue I also have with the movie is we said the ending in multiple ways.
00:26:07
Jo
Oh, actually, you know what? The straight-light white maleans don't really look like Tali. I said that wrong. They look like ah the Moon Knights.
00:26:17
box
They do! They look exactly like the Moonites.
00:26:18
Jo
the Yeah. From Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
00:26:21
box
Except they're just, they're planks. They're like that one board from Ed, e and Eddie, but like the Moonites.
00:26:24
Jo
Yeah. Yeah.
00:26:31
Jo
ah Absolutely, because of this facial feature with that.
00:26:32
box
Fantastic.
00:26:33
Jo
Oh, Ed and Eddie, that's my fucking callback. that That fucking show got me out of depression a bit. Ed and Eddie.
00:26:39
box
Yeah, no, i I loved the Moonites, actually. They were my favorite, favorite parts of. So maybe I'm just biased. Maybe.
00:26:49
Jo
Maybe as we were connected that, but again, I think it goes back to the writing issues. because they're trying so hard to be edgy queer.
00:26:59
box
Yeah.
00:27:00
Jo
And it just becomes like a fucking...
00:27:00
box
Yes.
00:27:03
box
It becomes almost a mockery of the thing that it's doing.
00:27:04
Jo
They're hack. They're just hack jokes.
00:27:07
box
Yeah.
00:27:08
Jo
Yeah, it's like, I don't know. a hack joke works once in a while, but if you have an hour and a half of it, it's Dane Cook. All offense meant Dane.
00:27:15
box
Oof.
00:27:19
Jo
Not only jokes he ever had were funny, it were once he stole.
00:27:20
box
Oof.
00:27:23
box
Yeah.
00:27:25
Jo
you know I'm not saying that lesbian space princess is still jokes.
00:27:25
box
And I feel like it's...
00:27:28
Jo
I'm just saying you can only do so much hack and before it gets...
00:27:31
box
Right.
00:27:32
Jo
you know
00:27:33
box
It honestly kind of reminded me of what was that one show... um where they're all different cartoons together living in a house. It was like a reality style show.
00:27:44
Jo
Yeah.
00:27:44
box
yeah um They had the Betty Boob character, kind of.
00:27:46
Jo
Oh, man.
00:27:49
box
They had the gay ah elf character.
00:27:53
Jo
Right.
00:27:53
box
um so Something animated. um But it reminded me kind of of that, except more gay, kind of like Q-Force meets that show. But...
00:28:06
box
But in the bad bits, not in the good bits. Like, the good bits were good, but a lot of it was, like you said, kind of hacky, kind of like, oh, this is gross.
00:28:17
box
This is kind of gross-out humor, which I need to look drawn together.
00:28:19
Jo
drawn together, by the way.
00:28:22
box
That's it.
00:28:22
Jo
Yeah, I had to Google that shit.
00:28:23
box
That's it. Thank you.
00:28:24
Jo
Yeah, well, thank you, Google.
00:28:24
box
I'm like...
00:28:26
Jo
But yeah, no.
00:28:27
box
It's kind of like Q4s and drawn together, and... You know, when it comes to the bad bits, when it comes to the good bits, it's very funny, very, in a way, Aquatine meets Rebecca Sugar, which is whatever you think that that is.
00:28:43
Jo
Yeah. But that's that's that's
Film Conclusion and Theater Experience
00:28:47
Jo
what it is. like
00:28:48
box
Yeah.
00:28:49
Jo
it's a complete movie. The bad doesn't necessarily outweigh the good.
00:28:51
box
Yeah.
00:28:54
box
Right.
00:28:55
Jo
i would, I enjoyed it. i didn't hate it. I just didn't like the way it ended and whatever, but that's any movie.
00:29:04
box
Yeah, and and with comedy, you're always going to get that tonal dissonance where you kind of like roll your eyes because sometimes they're throwing spaghetti at the wall to catch people with jokes that...
00:29:16
Jo
Yeah.
00:29:17
box
They're trying to do every kind of humor, I suppose, you know to catch any kind of like, okay, well, the people who like vulgar jokes might like this. The people who like really super gay jokes might like this.
00:29:31
box
um And me, I like the stupid joke with the pineapple on a pillow.
00:29:35
Jo
i That's a great joke. I like the pineapple a lot.
00:29:37
box
That was a great time. I laughed pretty good.
00:29:39
Jo
Yeah. And it so fits within...
00:29:41
box
But again, that was Willow.
00:29:43
Jo
Yeah, exactly. Like, that's i'm saying. Like, that's why I really like that character because it's it's one of those fully fleshed out characters that unfortunately, frustratingly, don't go nowhere.
00:29:56
box
Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:59
Jo
It's like wasted opportunity, Willow.
00:29:59
box
And I felt that the end... Yeah, it it really was. Because they they were very funny.
00:30:04
Jo
Like, the movie for fucking forgets her. Or them, sorry.
00:30:09
box
Yeah. Yeah. um Yeah. and And to be honest, I did not like the conclusion with the straight white maleans.
00:30:20
box
I thought it was very...
00:30:20
Jo
meaning they're forced yeah
00:30:23
box
Honestly, it was forced and it was forced in two separate ways. Like, I felt like It would be if you completely ripped the identity from the lesbian space princess.
00:30:39
box
It's like, that doesn't work like that. Like, I understand, like, that's an easy out and an easy way to end this, but things don't always work like that.
00:30:47
Jo
yeah
00:30:51
Jo
No, and it's okay to have bad people in a movie, even in comedy.
00:30:51
box
And...
00:30:55
box
Yeah, and I think it would be better if they were just, like, they didn't listen at all and just We're like, alright, see ya later, bye.
00:31:03
Jo
More true to the characters.
00:31:05
box
Like, we're gonna keep doing the things that we do. You know?
00:31:08
Jo
Yeah. It'll be more true to the characters that are trying to paint in the beginning.
00:31:09
box
But...
00:31:12
box
Yeah.
00:31:12
Jo
And it was like the magical...
00:31:13
box
Yeah.
00:31:14
Jo
It went from...
00:31:15
box
Everything's wrapped in a bow.
00:31:15
Jo
oh But that's it. It goes to character. It's not character driven. It's completely plot driven movie. That's why.
00:31:26
box
it doesn't really wrap up in a bow. Like, there's a lot of and unanswered questions and a lot of unresolved, just very unresolved things to where it's not the triumphant ending that I think they were hoping for.
00:31:31
Jo
had some questions, missing characters. all
00:31:43
box
i would have rather have cut Space Bubble and, like, a few irreverent jokes and had a longer ending that
00:31:43
Jo
I don't know it's editing.
00:31:55
box
was more explorative of the end. You know, like, i don't know. It's hard to say without spoiling things.
00:32:01
Jo
No, I agree. And I think that's, again, sometimes you don't know if it's writing or editing or both. And Parentist Guide, moderate sexuality, moderate gore, severe profanity, moderate everything else. but It's a fucking cartoon.
00:32:18
Jo
So if you were, we both watched screeners, right?
00:32:20
box
There's a lot of sexuality in it.
00:32:26
box
I actually watched this from Fandor.
00:32:29
Jo
Fandor. Well, so you watch it on TV
00:32:33
box
i i watched it, yes, through a streaming service.
00:32:39
Jo
Would you have wanted to see this in the theaters? Which you can if you're in u k and Ireland, June nineteenth
00:32:45
box
You know, honestly, could be a fun experience if you get all your buddies out, you know, like, if you have, you know, you, I'm not I don't think it's legal in Australia, but, you know, it's a good, fun, buddy, chill movie.
00:33:02
box
Like, I could see me taking a couple of my friends, grabbing some popcorn. It's a real popcorn movie.
00:33:08
Jo
It is.
00:33:08
box
And just having a fun time. You know, it's not going to change your life. um But I think it's a fun time with friends.
00:33:19
Jo
No, it's its is it's a dollar cinema.
00:33:19
box
don't be the, i like, I don't want to say don't be the weirdo weirdo that's alone in the theater. Like, I mean, like, you can be. I'm usually the weirdo alone in the theater, but, you know.
00:33:29
Jo
Thank you. I'm like, dude.
00:33:33
box
But if you have queer friends, if if you're part of a queer, or even if you're not and you just want, you know, something that's kind of silly, kind of really good animation, it's a pretty short movie, to be honest.
00:33:33
Jo
Like I go...
00:33:45
box
Um,
00:33:47
Jo
R25.
00:33:47
box
It's going to keep you entertained, I feel like.
00:33:51
Jo
It flies by. Nothing really drags.
00:33:53
box
It does. No, it doesn't.
00:33:58
Jo
Besides the plot line. But that, you know, again, a MacGuffin's MacGuffin.
00:34:02
box
Yeah, MacGuffin's a MacGuffin, and thank God we got the MacGuffin, feel like, in the midpoint, or are very, like, it wasn't, it didn't drag out, thank God.
00:34:09
Jo
Midway, yeah, about halfway.
00:34:13
Jo
No.
00:34:13
box
um And you get to see Blade.
00:34:14
Jo
No, it's not Holy Grail. It's not Indiana. what I love Indiana Jones Holy Grail, but the whole point was it's called the Holy Grail. The MacGuffins, only part of it. The MacGuffins, like, the gets the outdoor.
00:34:23
box
Right.
00:34:26
box
Exactly. Exactly. And that's the way a MacGuffin should be. Like, this is just a part of the bigger story. And I think they did that well.
00:34:35
Jo
now And I agree. i would watch this in i would watch this in the theater. I would... I think it's a good popcorn movie. It's low stakes.
00:34:50
Jo
You know?
00:34:50
box
It's fun animation. it's It's something like we are seeing more and more animation being in the theaters. And I think that's a really important in and fantastic thing.
00:35:04
box
Like we're seeing digital circus in theaters. We're seeing um a lot more indie things coming to theaters.
00:35:10
Jo
Yeah.
00:35:12
box
And I think that is absolutely worth supporting, 100%. hundred percent So I don't, you know, I will say the, what is it, the bros, gay bros movie, like, I still stand by that principle of, like, we need to support these things, but I feel like this is a better movie.
00:35:17
Jo
Absolutely.
00:35:31
box
This
00:35:32
Jo
Oh, you think this is a better movie? oh my fucking God.
00:35:37
box
is a better movie. This is a better movie.
00:35:39
Jo
The trailer to this movie is the better movie than Bros.
00:35:39
box
I will say that, yes. Yeah. Yeah, it it kind of is, yeah.
00:35:46
Jo
And and the the messed up thing is the ship is actually Richard Roxburgh, who if you might know from Ben Helsing being Dracula.
00:35:46
box
I mean, like...
00:35:54
box
Oh, yeah. Yeah. And it's cute. He's actually married to one of the women who played his wife's in Dracula that they met on Dracula and they got married.
00:36:04
Jo
That's cute.
00:36:05
box
It's very cute.
00:36:06
Jo
So like the the cast is good, like the
00:36:07
box
like The cast is great. If you love Australian accents, but not too thick of about Australian accents, this is a great one.
00:36:16
Jo
Hugh Jacksman.
00:36:17
box
ju
00:36:17
Jo
If you like the Hugh Jacksman level as Wolverine.
00:36:20
box
Yeah, like when when they say nar.
00:36:20
Jo
Right about there.
00:36:22
box
Nar. No.
00:36:24
Jo
so So there you have it.
00:36:24
box
I can't even do it.
00:36:25
Jo
June 19th, UK and Ireland. Go watch Lesbian Space Princess in the theater. Bring some friends.
00:36:31
box
I'm probably...
00:36:31
Jo
Have some fun. Have some popcorn.
00:36:33
box
Yeah.
00:36:33
Jo
Unplug a bit. And it's it's pretty enjoyable.
00:36:35
box
Couple drinks, like...
00:36:36
Jo
i agree.
00:36:38
box
Yeah. Absolutely.
00:36:40
Jo
So this is the part of the show where... No, that's sprockets I'm thinking of. on we where We dance. All right, Box, it's been really fun having you again.
00:36:49
box
done Thank you.
00:36:50
Jo
where can people find you on the interwebs?
00:36:51
box
Thank you. um I am, you can find me on Instagram, jambrannick. I am going to be writing in a new format online soon.
00:37:07
box
i will get more info on that later. But yeah, that's kind of where you can find me at right now.
00:37:09
Jo
Cool.
00:37:13
box
You can also say hi to Jelly Beans because she's been here the entire time.
00:37:18
Jo
Hello, jelly beans. Meow, meow. The cat's like, what the shit am I doing? I'm just like,
00:37:25
box
She's like, I want all the attention except for it at this moment right now.
00:37:29
Jo
oh, I'm going to make it up. What the fuck? Very cool to have you again. Nice to see you. And then, of course, you like and subscribe our shit.
00:37:33
box
Yeah.
00:37:35
Jo
Go find us on Instagrams and whatever. On behalf myself, Joe and J.M. Branick, we bid you good day. Bye, y'all.
00:37:44
box
Happy Pride, everyone.
00:37:46
Jo
That too, I think. Is that this month? don't know.