Can we all appreciate AJ trying really, really hard to not interrupt? All the power to him.

The original movie was pretty subtle in the racial undertones of the movie. Subtleness is something missing from a lot of modern media.

Alex got to complete a sentence without being interrupted! That's progress ☺😋

AJ: "It was uneven." *Gives it a 5* I guess it really was uneven.

"I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious" - A Great man

Hollywood is not going to let a good movie get in the way of... "THE MESSAGE"

The Candyman that we were expecting - "I am, the writing on the wall. The sweet smell of blood. Be my victim." The Candyman that we got - "I hear you're looking for Candyman bitch. Well you found him."

A "little heavy handed"? As opposed to the original, the subtlety in this one was a jackhammer on the head.

The worse thing about this movie was the ending. They just added a extra villain, even though Candyman was already actively killing people.

Why did they change the backstory of Candyman? The premise of him being tortured by slave owners for romancing with a white woman was fine premise. He didn’t just kill white people, he killed anyone that didn’t respect his legend. Why not just build off the original?

How did they not realize that Brianna didn't say Candyman 5 times. She did it 4 times. The officer said it the 5th time so Candyman would be aimed towards him instead of her.

Jordan Peele made something that was a heavy handed "white people bad" message. wow i'm shocked

Was way too heavy handed with the messages. Only took like 30mins for me and my buddy to realize that only white people were being targeted, which really killed the suspense during the killing scenes. You immediately knew who was gonna live and who was gonna die just by looking at them lol. Was borderline comedic.

I figured people wouldn’t get hooked

"Hey kids do you remember candyman? Well here is racistman!"

Jordan Peel only makes one movie. If you see his name anywhere near something, you don't even really have to watch it to have seen it.

'weaponize candyman' gave me the biggest giggle in quite awhile.

It stops being a message when it’s literally said by the main character like three times in the movie. They went full race card with it

It's good to send a message, but it has to be done right, because if the optics of your message are bad, it doesn't matter in the slightest what your intentions are, people won't sympathize.

I caught a showing after work. Yikes. The whole production had a “made for TV vibe (beautiful cinematography aside).” The heavy handed, exposition-heavy approach just wasn’t it. The off-screen kills merely added insult to injury. There were some interesting concepts introduced though. Still drivel IMO.

I love the OG candy man, but I have no interest in "kill whitey man"

The horror genre gets zero respect from Hollywood, and it pisses me off.

Jordan "I don't hire white people" Peele should have been a red flag from the beginning

*Can't wait to see what Joe and the guys say about Aliens Fireteam Elite.*

That lovecraft-esque atmosphere of the original will NEVER be replicated.

I don't watch movies like this to be lectured so I'm skipping this.

Wait a minute, a Jordan Peele movie is heavily racial in messaging and tone?? No waaaaaaaaay

I actually agree with everything yall said .... during my viewing experience, soon as it started pushing the race relations narrative, I was like why but we're here now so let's see what they do with this.... I just wish movie producers could understand that Black people are scared of other shit besides police, gangs, and slavery chains. Like I was petrified of Freddy Kruger and Leather Face. I guess they wanted Tony to be the big pay off but I wanted him to be a main feature

The ending was so bad, they ruined a movie with a lot of potential just to push their narrative.

Can't wait the watch candyman! Candyman 1992!

As soon as they said Tony Todd was underused and that this was not scary, I immediately took this off my radar…sounds like a waste of time

The original frightened the life out of me as a kid. I still won't say his name in the mirror to this day. Looking forward to seeing what this one is like with my lady over the weeknd.

14:25 their ratings.

Saw this coming a mile away. A shame really because I was actually somewhat excited about it. Maybe I'll watch it on Netflix.

Great review, I really enjoy the format you guys have for these reviews. Especially combining non-spoilers and spoilers in one video now

Just got back from the cinema (and I saved your review to watch after)! The original is one of my favs of all time. This one had no subtlety, the protag had no agency at all, there were zero scares, and it truly missed the point so hard. Biggest issue, gentrification doesn't displace a community into one place - there was no community left in Cabrini Green, therefore no 'congregation' to create the Candyman. The original legend was birthed through collective psychological fear, trapping the very people who are the most victimised in their situation as it preys on them. This version was totally lost in translation and Candyman had zero presence in the movie. Also too many characters were just caricatures and not realistic at all. This was a boring slasher. A beautiful one, but still ultimately fell flat. 5/10.

Nothing I hate more than racism/Politics and agendas pushed down our throats in movies today. What happened to entertainment these days? Too worried about what real-world they can try and shove down our throats, Before entertaining us first? I love the original. And just how dirty and real it felt. But new feels very clean and just not scary at all. I'm not even going to bother watching this shit, It didn't look good even in the trailers.

Really happy to see AJ letting OJ and Alex talk more and not interrupting them as much. Really cool hearing all their opinions

" did that ever happen? Did they ever execute a child in history"....... one name Joe. Emmett Till

I kinda predicted that when I saw the Jordan Peele association with this film that was gonna happen . That's why I'm just looking at reviews from the pictures of the film and trailer it reminds me of a David Lynch film how well it was filmed . Huge fan of the original candyman all films have the art working for them even those terrible sequels I'd honestly like to know who where the artist in all .

So sad to hear this movie was average and hamfisted. I was really hoping that this was going to knock it out of the park with the horror and tension

Directors are several years past the due date for originality. Throw everything you're use to out of the window, and focus only on, I don't know...perhaps the horror.

Glad you did a review for this. Hoping you will do one for the Night House!

Remember when movies were about escaping realty for an hour or 2? Now there's no escape. This is why I stick to older movies that were actually good

Sounds like another get woke go broke film.

I like the idea of multiple urban legends existing, but is there a reason they ALL have to be Candyman? The reason Candyman is Candyman is because of the circumstances in which he died. Couldn't they have made the other ghost unique in their own legend?

Biggie Smalls... Biggie Smalls... Biggie Smalls.

"I don't know in history if that happened" Emmett Till was one for sure Joe. I'm sure you know that though, can't expect people to pull every piece of info from their memory banks on the spot tho. Good review, regardless of me having a different opinion than you guys. I appreciate your guys' take on this. Thank you.

You can’t mess with the classics you have to have passion for a project.

Does anyone know if Joe is doing a review on the Alien fire team game? I want to know his thoughts on it before I decide to buy it or not

Joe is getting better with not over talking everyone it’s good to see

Get Out got the racial commentary across perfectly, and it was also a freaky movie. Maybe we should of just left it there

Today’s movie review should’ve been sponsored by Honey 🍯 That would’ve been ironic

Anyone with half a brain knew this film would suck. It was pretty obvious based on all the things Jordan Peele said. Honestly he is a hack writer. He has done interesting work but most of his stuff is overrate.

What a misfire. The original story's and movie's whole idea was "What if Urban Legends actually become real if people believe in them?". There was a message of slums being shitty and people living in slums having shitty life but that wasnt the main point of the story. Candyman was basically another version of Bloody Mary, he's closer to Slenderman or SCP-173 or japanese Tall Woman urban legends. He's supposed to be a modern world werewolf or a vampire, a supernatural serial killer with old abandoned slum buildings instead of dracula castles. Or like a creepy modern folklore god in an urban setting which has its worshippers who are afraid of him. You're SUPPOSED to be creeped out just like you do when you read a good horror copypasta.

Whatever happen to just making a good movie out of pure passion. Theres always something that needs to be conveyed loud and clear to the audience about some bs. Give me abugity.

I watched the OG Candyman before entering this film. For me it captured everything that was great about the original. Candyman feels scary once again. Scary in the sense that it brought the tension and craziness the original did. I am happy they didn’t make this a cash grab and just go for straight blood and gore. It focused on a the story and left Candyman in the background like the original. The legend is back and to me this film was a solid 9/10. The whole story is about how legends and myths die but another will take it’s place. Everyone tells a story differently because they have personal lenses. They decide how a story is dictated based on how they perceive it. In this one it is about Tony Todd coming back and wanting people to believe in THE CANDYMAN. Not the copycats or false myths that took his place. People forgot about Candyman and instead uses the most recent crazy tragic story. The murder only happen because they believe in it. The people who followed afterwards and became Candyman only became Candyman because people changed the story and believe in someone else. MORAL OF THE STORY IS THEY FEARED THE CANDYMAN BECAUSE OF THE STORIES PEOPLE MADE UP. BUT IF THEY CHANGE THE STORY TO SOMETHING POSITIVE IT WILL BENEFIT MORE THAN HURT. THERE ARE MORE EVILS IN THE WORLD BESIDES AN IRBAN LEGEND PEOPLE MANIFEST WITH THEIR COMMUNITY BELIEFS.The school girls were just to imply that the true legend is beginning to spread inside other communities. Besides like 2 nitpick things, this movie kept me entertained through the whole way. It just up to par with the original for me. I went in with 0 expectation and was blown away at the creativity they brought to story without changing the lore or original. They added more to the lore that I was generally happy with. I understand the message and it follows the message of the original. I’m happy we got Tony Todd for that 3 seconds. Hopefully we get a full Tony Todd sequel. I’m sorry but a lot people aren’t getting this and it’s a shame because it really is an amazing movie. Candyman was never a slasher. I feel like people go in expecting a Halloween but get a more story driven character movie like the original. Even the OG Candyman was never meant to be an Icon. That’s why the OG sequel and third film failed so badly. This movie understood that. I wish the other slasher movies would follow the formula this one did. They respected the OG and added more without changing the rules.

If they didn't use the "Kill the White People" song by Eddie Murphy on SNL for the credits, I consider it a missed opportunity.

remember when we use to watch movies and entertainment to escape reality and everything in it.. Now there's no escape from it

The fact that people still give Jordan peele praise is amusing to me lol "get out" same concept white people bad. "us" white people bad and now candyman.

I haven't seen it yet, but based on the review, the message overwhelms the story. The writers and producers should have made the message subtle instead of writing these films like an essay. 5-10% message 90% plot and story.

I saw in the trailer a scene that looked like a girl summons candyman to get rid of cops. Does this happen in the movie?? Edit: just got through the review. Wow it actually does happen. That's seriously so stupid.

When OJ said MESSAGE I died love don’t be a menace

19:08 Joe do you think a Kid living in Cabrini green in the 70s could afford decent toys

I wish Helen Lyle was more included she did became candyman

I’m just proud I have the same shirt as Alex

I would be so excited for y'all to do one of these for the original, even if it's like 10 minutes. Do it in October if you need it for Halloween content but please I'd love to hear your thoughts on the original

AJ, the souls that represent Candyman are a combination of fiction AND nonfiction. The kid who was pointed out and executed via shown through shadow puppets was a recreation of George Stinney Jr's death, a black teenage boy who was arrested, tried, and convicted in South Carolina in 1944 for the murder of a young white girl, a crime he didn't commit and was sentenced to the electric chair (overturned in 2014). James Byrd Jr was the guy in Texas who moved to a white neighborhood, before he was taken out by three white supremacists, including them lynching him while they attached a hook to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him, where he was killed halfway through the dragging. All it took to realize those deaths was one google search, and I don't understand why you guys didn't do that.

When are you reviewing Fireteam Elite?

I just saw the movie at the drive in and….wow Jordan Peeles writing went off the walls in the final act of the movie. This movie had potential, It could have been better. The message of the movie wasn’t subtle at all like the Original Candyman which had a good balance between racism and gothic horror, also some character backstory were either wasted or dropped in this movie like Anthony’s wife father subplot. But the director did a good job of what she was given and the puppet scenes in this movie were well DONE. Jordan Peele maybe loosing his touch in writing

Oj with the secret office quote lol 😂

I also LOVED these upside-down shots O.o They looked awesome! Glad Joe mentioned those ^^

So basically a racist crappy horror re-boot. Actually was hoping this would be good, damn. Which does not even make narrative sense, because we saw at the end of the first movie that Helen (a white woman) became a vengeful spirit and she was wronged by Candyman (a black man).

I appreciate your review but I think people are forgetting how much of a social commentary the original Candy Man was (some of it in this film felt too forced tho). I personally love social commentary horror films so this was right up my alley. They definitely do fall short with tying together some of the other character storylines but I really enjoyed this movie.

I was thinking of going to give this movie a chance to watch but I always want to hear your review to decide whether or not to see it.

Here! OJ has really upped his opinions and thoughts eh! Very professional kind of commentary about film! Love it

Alex clearly shopping from the same t-shirt rack at Target that I do

Could you review nighthouse as well?

When the original Candyman is considered a "psychological thriller..."

I hovered over it last night, felt disgust that I couldn’t explain, now I know why, hard pass. I’m not evil.

Agree completely. As i was walking out of the theatre i tried to think of one scene or moment that i could take away that i really enjoyed and the only one i could think of was that opening shot of the upside down cityscape. That shot was a perfect opening and really captured the uneasiness and ominous tone that i was looking for over the next 90 minutes or so.

The original is a psychological masterpiece, no sequel can hold a flame to it, and I doubt the remake in woke 21 will be any better, if anything I bet it's way worse.

Awesome review, guys!!! Also, I dig the Evil Dead 2 shirt, AngryJoe!!!🤘🤘

Tony Todd came to Atlanta two days ago. He said that there most likely will be another sequel. I think the original candyman absorbed all the previous canndymen to be reborn.

I'd LOVE to see a movie called "Bloody Mary".

“I wanted more of the wh*re.” 🤣

Always love your reviews ✨

So to answer your question about the spirit of vengeance thing. Before William Burke decided to artificially turn candy man into what is now what seems to be an anti hero. The orginal format of calling candy man's name grants you death regardless of right or wrong. So he wasn't a weapon of vengeance before Anthony bridged the new legend.

I really despise identity politics. It is quite literally destroying all equality that has been fought for. No longer can people be judged just on the quality of their character, but whatever their skin colour or sexual orientation is. Instead of a story about a man and woman loving each other *for their character*, despite their skin colour; we get a story about racial violence... So bloody regressive. 🙄

Liked the original. Virginia Madsen was great and it had a brilliant soundtrack by Philip Glass. Won’t bother with this one.

The stick puppets look cool, maybe release only those parts?

Nice Shirt Joe..recently found a second vhs copy of Evil Dead 2 in french..

They come through the mirror, is actually based on a true story where a projects building had crawl spaces in-between the medicine cabinets, and some guys went into their neighbors house shot them and robbed them.

watch the night house! came out last week and by far my favorite horror movie since hereditary

You doing any reaction to gamescom? Some decent looking games there

Can you guys review Nightmare of the Wolf?

Why can black people just have a Horror movie, But nooooo it has to be about RAcE and InJusTicE....Like CMON why do all major black project have to talk about this

Yeah I figured that this wouldn’t be good. Guys, if you haven’t seen the original film, watch it! I think it’s on Netflix, it’s a great film, with Tony Todd making a scary, disturbing, yet oddly charming killer.

The final summon kinda confused me. When she mentions his name the 4th time the cop moved the mirror back to his face so does the 5th name dont count.

After the the initial opening laundry scene it started to give the same vibe as the first film with moody music and some great shots of architecture with building's in the clouds giving the impression of are they upside down or not and throughout the movie there were some great shots of buildings and curved angle rooms and doorways up to the scene were he goes to speak to the critic at her apartment the circular corridors and the whole mirror interaction with himself it felt very cubric like the shining .i watched it a second time and it made for a better watch but it still gave me the impression that there was an initial concept but thing's were thrown in for relevance to todays racial and ecenomic prolems wich left the movie trying to be to many things it forgot its premise and over shadowed itself .the movie lacked verbal interaction between anthony and candyman while the visuals were good but it needed the verbal interaction to give the sense of him being pulled into the mind of candyman and the epiphany of his own past it was also a bit of a clone to helens story from the first wich in a way i suppose cant be helped because there must be a reason for the main character to seek the story .maybe it could of been from the prospective of a police officer new to the job or becoming borderline immune to peoples pain and the problems he sees around him even maybe with him or her at the point of lashing out dealing with families who encourage there children in the gangster life and a family who do everything they can to protect there children from it with the cop amongst it seeing all sides of the spectrum while discovering candyman and the reasons he became what he is .The story of the issues of race could of been a base story not even having to be subtle about it and not overshadowing the story of candyman i think there was a middle class vibe to it that gave it a sort of pretentious outside view of things happening helens story captured it better as she and her friend really felt like outsiders looking in even though her friend was black there was the feeling they had better starts in life and lived life on different sides of the tracks the fact that the old blocks on the green had been knocked down didnt help the story either .i still found it a good watch but it lacked so much of what i was hoping for as a fan maybe the 3rd will be the charm