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Street Fighter is Better Than You Remember?

Street Fighter the movie

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November 05, 2021
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M. Bison is the best, I love Bison dollars! Guile isn't all that great though.
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Allison: Street Fighter was a video game.

Phelous: Yeah.

Allison: But did you also, Phelan, that there was a movie?

Phelous: Oh, I've never heard about this, how'd that one go?

Allison: Everyone loved it, it was critically acclaimed.

Phelous: Alright, well, that's all I need from I see it.

(The scene cuts to the title card.)

Phelous: So Street Fighter: The Movie is um... uh, Raul Julia's showcase.

Allison: It really is though.

Bison: You come here prepared to fight a madman, and instead you found A GOD?!

Allison: I know this is, like, a lot of people point this out, but it's really true. Like, he didn't have to go that hard in this movie, and he really did. Like, he was great in this movie, and, like, it was like a genuinely good performance and then just way over the top when it needed to be.

Phelous: Yeah, yeah, he brings different levels because he brings, like, the serious dictator lines like with the Tuesday line everyone loves.

Chun-Li: You don't remember?!

Bison: For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.

Phelous: But then he's just like hamming it up so hard in the battle with Guile near the end.

Bison: For I beheld Satan as he fell from Heaven!

Allison: I think what was great too is this great contrast between not only the characters on screen but behind the scenes as well between him and Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Bison: You will have to do better than that!

Guile: Okay!

Allison: Because you have Raul Julia doing this, like, Shakespearean performance, way over the top, he gets blown up, and then you get this flat ass line, like.. n- "You're off the air."

Phelous: Yeah. "Looks like you're off the air, Bison."

Allison: (laughs) Like, it was the worst.

Guile: Bison, you're off the air!

Jean-Claude Van Damme: But the people from Street Fighter will become alive.

Guile: You're off the air!

Allison: It's worse when you hear about behind the scenes. Like, Raul Julia was dealing with a lot of stuff, you know, he had a lot of personal health problems, so, like... He was, like, constantly, like, on the ball and, like, learning his lines and, like, um, getting into character and studying dictators to figure out, you know, what this is all about. Meanwhile, Jean-Claude Van Damme is blowing 10 grand on coke every day, not showing up on the set, yeah. (laughs)

Phelous: Yeah, coming in late, yeah. He- he would come late or not at all, like, put filming back days constantly, so they ripped pages out of the script to speed things. (laughs)

Allison: Yeah. Yeah, I don't think that was just Jean-Claude Van Damme, but...

Phelous: It wasn't just him, but I mean, he didn't sound like he helped.

Allison: No, didn't help an already, like, bad situation.

Guile: And then... I'll make them pay.

Allison: I feel like compared to, like, Mortal Kombat, which is often compared to it, they– they make it work and make you believe in its world. There are some ridiculous things to it, but it is played seriously and it's really fun.

Phelous: They do a lot of good character work in the original Mortal Kombat movie, which is what elevates it I think quite a bit.

Allison: I would say that is the best video game adaptation ever done, like, genuinely a very good movie, and it's very purposeful in how it's made. You can tell, like, the sets and, um, the choreography and everything, like, comes together really beautifully. Street Fighter sort of succeeds despite itself.

Phelous: Yeah.

Allison: Like, it's not really, like, a greatly crafted movie–

Phelous: No, like…

Allison: –but it's super entertaining.

Bison: You came from across the world to fight me soldier. Now's your chance.

Bison: Pathetic!

Phelous: A lot of the casting could work fine. I mean, it does in the context of the movie they made. But, like, if they made a better movie, I could see some of these elements slotting in better, not Jean-Claude Van Damme, some of them.

Allison: No, Jean-Claude Van Damme is the one thing that would not work even if it was a good movie.

Phelous: Yeah, no.

Guile: No.

Allison: Um, you could cast him as another role because he's a great martial artist, but I don't believe him as Mr. America.

Phelous: No.

Allison: And it's not just the fact that, like, he's American because you could be American and have an accent or you can become a citizen of a–

Phelous: Yeah, he’s got the U.S flag tattooed like–

Allison: Yeah, he’s got the U.S flag, he's constantly talking about America and recruitment, this is a very quintessentially American main character.

Phelous: Yeah, and that’s kinda like.. that’s what Guile is, he is kind of like a Mr. America guy in Street Fighter anyways, so it's– it's weird to cast Jean-Claude Van Damme as that.

Jean-Claude Van Damme: No.

Allison: And still, instead, we got, like, the Belgian Grand Slam over there.

Phelous: Yeah.

Guile: No.

Allison: "Oh America, I'm just from– a boy from America."

Phelous: Yeah.

Guile: No.

Jean-Claude Van Damme: No.

Phelous: "That's great, we can all go home, or you can come with me and kill Bison!"

Guile: Bison is getting paid off for his crimes. But we can all go home. I'm not going home. And I'm going to kick that son-of-a-bitch Bison's ass so HARD. Now who wants to go home and who wants to go with ME!

Jean-Claude Van Damme: No.

Allison: I love th– I think my favorite from him was, like, "Your ass is six months overdue and it is mine."

Phelous: "And it is mine."

Allison: Like, the guy reacting to him like "What?"

Guile: Your ass is six months overdue, and it's mine.

Sagat: Guile?

Jean-Claude Van Damme: Great job!

Phelous: That's during their great air ra– I mean, sea raid because they weren't allowed to do an air raid on Bison's place, which he does in the Thunder in Paradise boat.

Allison: Yeah. Yeah, it looked exactly like the Thunder in Paradise boat, and I think Hulk Hogan honestly would be a better Guile, to be honest.

Phelous: Yeah.

Megan Whitaker: What are you doing?

Hurricane Spencer: The psychological warfare.

Jean-Claude Van Damme: Great job!

Allison: It's not often I say Hulk Hogan could improve this performance, but he really could.

Phelous: That would've been amazing. Hulk Hogan as Guile.

Allison: Yes.

Hurricane Spencer: Guy, for an eye.

Bison: I guess you didn't SEE that, did you?

Phelous: You like the other movie, like, where he had the hair like–

Allison: Yeah, Assault on Devil's Mountain or something like that, like, when he looked like a normal human being.

Phelous: Right. Yeah, really.

Allison: You can kind of make it work, or his, like, a Secret Agent Club hair, like, the buzz cut going on, he could be a Guile.

Phelous: Yeah. Mmm-hmm.

Allison: This movie had, like, a shit ton going on behind the scenes, like, because, uh, in Thailand, they wouldn't let them do, uh, the air raid stuff because they– they couldn't get approval for all the planes. There was some threat of a military coup, so they– all the roads were closed by the military, so they had to bring in their actors on speed boats, and... and on top of that all the– the problems with Jean-Claude Van Damme, just all sorts of things that they had to work with. So it's kind of amazing they had a movie that is a movie.

Phelous: Yeah. It's entertaining enough. It's kinda like the Mario movie in that respect, it's not a great adaptation of the source material, but it's something I can always come back to and watch once in a while and get an amusement out of.

Zangief: Quick! Change the channel!

Allison: Well, this had Balrog, uh, having the guy who was in that Police Squad episode.

Phelous: Yeah. This is, like, something we like to quote once in a while to this guy. He's like "'Forget it'? Nobody says 'forget it' to me!"

Det. Frank Drebin: Buddy Briggs could break every bone in your body.

The Champ: Yeah, well, he must be a pretty good boxer.

Buddy: Ah, forget it.

The Champ: "Forget it"? Nobody says "forget it" to me!

Phelous: It's funny because he was a boxer in that m– I even realize it was him. I recognized him I think is in Die Hard and I was like "Oh, that's the boxer guy from Police Squad!"

Allison: I wouldn't remember that except for you just going "Nobody says 'forget it' to me!"

Phelous: Yeah. I just always thought there was a really funny line in that show.

Allison: "Roses are red, violets are blue..."

Phelous: "I'm gonna break your face."

The Champ: Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, I'm gonna break your face.

The Champ: Jack and Jill went up the hill, I'm gonna break your face!

Allison: And you pointed out, too, in the end when he dresses up for no reason, they all– they're like "It's the end, we gotta be in our costumes," he's in his, like, boxer outfit, and you're like "Yeah, let me cushion my blows with my boxing gloves."

Phelous: Yeah. Nonsense. It's like the bad guys, like, dress half of the cast up in their proper outfits from the games, like Ken and Ryu, Chun-Li. I always forget T. Hawk's in this movie. He's just there. Like, I swear, he just shows up at the end. Maybe he was dressed up in the military garb until the end where he's dressed more like a Native American, but just like "Oh, hey, T. Hawk, yeah, thanks for your help!" "I was here." Like, okay.

Allison: See, I didn't play Street Fighter very much, like, I think my brothers might have had one of the games, but that one I'm less familiar with than Mortal Kombat, but even I know, like, it's kind of a disappointment with some of the characters, and, like, I don't know what happened with Blanka, I just don't know.

Phelous: You're pointing out he's kind of like a mix of Lou Ferrigno Hulk and Carrot Top. Yeah, buff Carrot Top.

Allison: Current Carrot Top, you won't be able to see it, he's– he comes out. He's got, like, the fun fur type hair, too. Like, I feel like the rest of them you could kind of make work, it's still very like '70s Incredible Hulk, but like, the hair is bad.

Phelous: Yeah, I feel like you're definitely– you need more prosthetics to make him into more of a monstery form for it to work as a good Blanka.

Allison: They could have just had Lou Ferrigno and just done that, honestly.

Phelous: Yeah, honest– Like, it looks so much like him.

Allison: Well, he barely spoke, and the fact they had, um, an actor cast, like, and then a stunt actor uncredited playing him for most of it, it's like, why did you bother with that? Just get a stunt actor. He doesn't say anything. Like, he mumbles some stuff.

Phelous: It's a weird way they realize Blanka in this, because they make him an old friend of Guile's, who's, like, at the beginning of the movie already captured by Bison, and Bison says, "Oh, you're a friend of Guile's, well, turn him into a monster," and, like, we don't really get anything out of him before this happens, it was kind of, "Why bother with this storyline for Blanka?"

Allison: There's such a big build up with this, this– this whole Blanka thing in the big reveal, it's like the secondary–

Phelous: The fart to the finish.

Allison: The fart to the finish, yeah.

Allison: Ain't that worried he's gonna take over with stupid wiener Blanka? I don't think so.

Phelous: Mmm-hmm. Nah. They're never gonna approve your Bison dollars with this as your plan.

Allison: No, "After I kidnap the queen."

Phelous: "After I kidnap the queen, one Bison dollar be worth five British pounds."

Sagat: This money isn't worth the paper it's printed on!

Bison: Every Bison dollar will be worth 5 British pounds, once I've kidnapped their queen.

Allison: Then Saget, or Saget? What is his name?

Phelous: Sagat.

Allison: Sagat. Saget. Bob Saget.

Phelous: Bob Saget comes in.

Allison: So he tells– so he tells Bob Saget that's what he's going to pay him with and that's what it's going to be worth, he's good for it, he's like "I guess. What else do I got?"

Phelous: It's one of the parts that is genuinely funny in the movie when he pays Sagat and he's like "What?"

Sagat: Is this a joke? I must have been insane to think I could do business with you, Bison!

Phelous: It's weird, 'cause there's parts of the movie they're really genuinely funny like that. I always love the Zangief line where they see the truck full of explosives coming at them on the monitor and he goes "Quick, change the channel!"

Zangief: Quick! Change the channel!

Allison: His character was great. I love he has a face turn in, like, The 11th Hour, right at the end just because he genuinely didn't know he was working for the bad guy, he's like "Oh, it's the bad guy, never mind."

Zangief: The enemies of peace and freedom are at our halls!

Dee Jay: Our boss is the enemy of freedom and peace, these people have come all over the world to stop him.

Zangief: General Bison... is a bad guy?

Second Nazi: Are we the baddies?

Dee Jay: He paid me a freakin' fortune!

Zangief: You got paid?

Allison: "You were– you were paid?"

Phelous: Yeah.

Allison: And he holds the door open for two seconds and then he doesn't get arrested in the end, he's like "I didn't commit any crimes, I'm fine."

Phelous: Yeah. Yeah, "I was good at the very end, so, you know, redeemed."

Allison: His– his buddies must have been pissed.

Phelous: Dee Jay is great, too, which is weird, it's like they swapped Dee Jay and Balrog for good and bad for seemingly no reason, but...

Allison: He was really good.

Phelous: Yeah, he's really funny in the background of Bison in a few scenes. There's a part where they think Guile's been shot by Ken, and he's like, "Oh, that's great, right, Bison," he's like, "On the contrary, I mourn." He's like, "Okay."

Dee Jay: That's great news general, congratulations!

Bison: On the contrary, I mourn.

Dee Jay: Okay.

Allison: Yeah, he was a good comic foil to him, but he was like just cool enough that it didn't feel like a buffoon, like, you're like "oh, okay, yeah, I guess he could be like a secondhand man to him." His, uh, hair kind of reminded me of, uh, the cat on Red Dwarf.

Phelous: Oh yeah.

Allison: He's kind of like that, maybe the mix of him and the main guy, he's got the little braids.

Phelous: Yeah.

Allison: It's about as much as I know about Red Dwarf.

Allison: What did you think about, uh, Kylie Minogue?

Phelous: I like her in this movie. It's like, Cammy doesn't get to do a whole lot, but I mean, it's not like you look at that and like, "Ugh, she did a bad job" or anything.

Allison: Yeah, well, she was still, like, she'd been acting, but it was not anything, uh, very big and not like for North American audiences, this was her first, like, big film, like, she was known as a singer, but this was, like, a real test of her acting chops.

Chun-Li: What are you doing here?

Cammy: That was going to be my question.

Allison: I think, like, outside of the--the accent was not great.

Cammy: Sagat didn't get to the top of the Asian underworld by taking risks.

Allison: I think, like, she did a really good job and you wouldn't know that she was, like, she hadn't been in a big feature film before.

Phelous: Then Cammy, I guess maybe she was born in Australia and moved over to the UK at some point.

Allison: Everyone has some weird backstory, you got the Hawaiian sumo wrestler, and like it's like, "okay, I guess it's - it's not impossible, but it is a weird choice."

Phelous: Yeah, it's strange.

Allison: But he was still fun, I liked him. Like, I liked that they had a huge cast of people that weren't necessarily well known, but they all made, like... like, really good use of their time like they'd have one or two lines and you would be like, "This is a great delivery."

Ken: (to a Bison trooper) How ya doin'?

Ryu: (to another trooper) Hey, lookin' great!

Ken: (to another trooper) Nice gun!

Ryu: (to another trooper) Hey, great uniforms!

Allison: It's not Shakespeare, except if you're Raul Julia, but it's, you know, you knew it was a video game movie.

Phelous: Yeah, a lot of them stayed memorable, I guess, because they would have a couple good lines in there.

Chun-Li: (derisively referring to Cammy's hairstyle) Pigtails?

Cammy: (referring to Chun-Li's double hair buns) Look who's talking.

Chun-Li: Ugh.

Phelous: Yeah, Kylie Minogue is much better than Jean-Claude Van Damme, so it's just like, maybe Cammy should have just been in charge if they could have gotten rid of Guile.

Cammy: Sir, we're pushing back the enemy, but there's skirmishes on every level. Still no sign of Bison.

Allison: Everyone's carrying Jean-Claude Van Damme through this film.

Jean-Claude Van Damme: Great job!

Allison: And he is a good martial artist, and I do- I laugh at, like, the contrast of like his terrible lines versus everyone else. Like, Raul Julia is, like, acting circles around him.

Guile: Are you man enough to fight with me?

Bison: Anyone who opposes me will be destroyed.

Bison: Keep your own God! In fact, this might be a good time to pray to Him.

Guile: Bison, you're off the air!

Allison: And this is the hero of the film.

Guile: No.

Jean-Claude Van Damme: No.

Allison: And it's weird too, because Guile is not like the main character of Street Fighter, it's not the - the story-

Phelous: No, it should be like Ryu, and they kind of turned Ken and Ryu into these schemey guys who have a face turn. They're kind of dicking around other bad guys because they're trying to sell Sagat like these fake weapons, just get away with some money and stuff.

Sagat: My men have already unloaded the truck and brought the weapons here. Battle!

Phelous: But then it's like, I don't know, supposedly Guile gives them a speech about what's going on, which makes them really think about what they're doing, like, yeah, actually we want to help, but I mean, you can't believe anything comes out of Guile's mouth.

Guile: Now, are you the same as Sagat and Bison, or am I right... and you're different?

Jean-Claude Van Damme: No.

Allison: They got big Bimmy and Jimmy vibes. I do wonder if the Double Dragon movie influenced this a little bit or if they were influenced by it, I don't know which one came first, but it feels similar in that like a weird video game adaptation like, "We like this- this interplay here, make them kind of, uh, wrap scallions, raga muffins."

Phelous: It is a weird take on them, but I mean, it's still kind of fun in the movie anyway.

Allison: Yeah, like, it doesn't feel like they're boring or misused because they have a place in the story, and you get why they would make them that, because they go undercover at some point and that helps them have a way in that they were they sort of had this prior relationship with Sagat.

Phelous: I do like Ken has some Linden Ashby Johnny Cage vibes.

Allison: He does, yeah.

Phelous: Apparently Jean-Claude Van Damme could have been Johnny Cage at one point in the movie.

Allison: That would be terrible because he can't do one-liners, you hear them in this and it's like, "Ooh."

Phelous: Yeah.

Guile: Bison, you're off the air!

Jean-Claude Van Damme: Great job!

Phelous: And then originally in the original Mortal Kombat game, originally, originally, it is just supposed to be Jean-Claude Van Damme in there instead of Johnny Cage and that would have aged very poorly.

Allison: You know the character I think they utilized the best was that, uh, the Indian guy.

Phelous: Dhalsim.

Allison: Dhalsim, so good.

Phelous: Yeah, it was a wonderful character arc with him. He's a scientist who's captured by Bison and is forced to make Blanka into Blanka, and it's just like he gave up at some point, he's just like "I give up on trying to understand what I'm doing here." He's like, "Apparently I rip my hair out at some point in frustration."

Allison: Yeah, and they cut that scene so it made no sense that, like, this character just like shows up and he's bald in a diaper and he's like, "Hey, I gotta redeem myself or something, anyway, here's some help, I'm gonna take off with my little green goon."

Phelous: Blanka doesn't even do anything after he's a monster, like, he's going like, "Aah!"

Allison: No, he doesn't, they just go like, "Hey, don't be a monster," and he's like, "Grrr."

Phelous: Bison wants to sick him on the hostages he has because they're not paying up and he doesn't come and that's about it.

Allison: Yeah, he– he's like, "You don't deserve a firing squad."

Phelous: Yeah.

Bison: You do not deserve the martial dignity of a firing squad. You shall be killed by a wild beast!

Phelous: Can you imagine how long that would have taken with that Blanka?

Allison: I know.

Phelous: That doesn't look like- he'd be there for hours, like, "I thought this was going to be good, but this is just incredibly boring!"

Allison: People just be killing themselves, like, "I'm tired of waiting for this guy to tear me apart. Come on, just give me a gun or something."

Phelous: "I'll pay you a million Bison dollars for this to just end right now."

Allison: I think the fact that, like, they didn't have a lot of time for, uh, choreography and they had to reshoot a bunch of stuff, like, the fight scene still turned out pretty good. Obviously they had to work around Raul Julia, like, he couldn't do as much of the physical stuff-

Phelous: He was doing a lot, though, considering where he was at the time.

Allison: Oh, yeah, yeah, he was doing a lot of wire work, a lot of physical things–

Phelous: It's established right at the beginning, i guess, that he's overpowering regular people, because they haven't fight a couple of guys they captured, he snaps their necks in two seconds, which is very funny.

Bison: Pathetic!

Bison: Your turn now.

Game Announcer: Perfect!

Allison: That's just like Darth Vader, you know, he's reach out and went, (Darth Vader's breathing sound.)

Phelous: Yeah. Yeah.

Allison: It wasn't until he started getting like fighting with the lasers, it started getting really ridiculous.

Phelous: He's got the Emperor lightning and stuff.

Allison: Yeah. That was so damn good.

Phelous: He's just going crazy at that point with all his deliveries talking about being a God. You got like super crazy energy, and then you got like coked out Jean-Claude Van Damme over there.

Allison: How does Jean-Claude Van Damme do $10 thousand worth of blow and get less energy?

Phelous: Yeah, see, if that was Hogan, we know he gets crazier.

Allison: We should have had more Hulk Hogan in this movie.

Phelous: Yeah, "Complex carbs, brother".

Hurricane Spencer: Complex carbs. Kick in like rocket fuel.

Allison: What about that guy they wanted to play, uh, Ryu in this?

Phelous: I guess he played Ryu in some Japanese commercials and stuff. They want him for Ryu and basically, uh, the production did not, so he can be this, uh, extra character, Sawada, which is just the actual actor's last name.

Allison: Yeah, well, he, uh, he couldn't speak English very well was part of it and so they dubbed him for everything except when he was speaking Japanese and, like, whoever they got to dub him was really bad.

Sawada: Uh, Colonel, my commando team is at full readiness.

Allison: The line deliveries were so bad and it sounded like Kermit the Frog to me, it was like, "Uh-"

Phelous: It's much like some people say ice.

Allison: You do not sound like that!

Phelous: "I'm really important, I'm in Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game!"

Allison: "I was in two episodes in the animated series!" I think whoever decided not to make him a main character made a good call, because that would have been terrible.

Phelous: Mm-hmm. I guess he was still not happy, though, on set, but he got demoted to this character with Stinky, uh, the guy who played Ryu-

Allison: Something Mann. Byron Mann.

Phelous: Mann.

Allison:' Who's mean to Mann?

Phelous: He is played by Mann.

Allison: Don't be mean to Mann, man!

Phelous: The like too is like Raul Julia ended up taking this role because his kids wanted him to do it, and it's the same with the guy who played Ken.

Allison: Yeah, yeah, both of them are like "Uh, well, I don't know about this, well, my kids like this Street Fighter game, so I'll do it."

Phelous: Yeah, the guy who played Ken was also like, "Cool, I get to act with Raul Julia, so okay".

Allison: Yeah, it's the same with Mario, all the kids can hold the power.

Phelous: Yeah, they get these actors into these silly video game roles.

Allison: I wonder too, like, when those kids like grew up, like, would they thought about that, like, "My dad did this role because of me"?

Phelous: Yeah. "What have I done?!"

Allison: Hopefully they still like the video games and not like, "oh, cringe!"

Phelous: "Ugh, epic fail, dad–"

Allison: That'd be pretty awesome, though. Can you imagine you're like, oh, yeah, my dad was in Street Fighter: The Movie?

Phelous: Chun-Li was fine too, kind of weird to make her into a reporter, but it's like, alright.

Allison: I feel like she got sidelined a lot, but I feel like it was really difficult to highlight anyone outside of, like, a few people because there's just so many characters.

Phelous: Yeah, they inserted too many, it was a bit of that in Annihilation over filling the cast there, not to the degree of Annihilation I don't think, but-

Allison: Yeah, it didn't feel as annoying as Annihilation, like, it didn't feel disrespectful to the characters, I think there were some odd choices, but it didn't feel like it was made by people that like didn't understand it or didn't like it, I feel like Annihilation had a little bit of that. The bad guy organization is called Shadaloo, so I kept thinking, like, ♪ Shadaloo, couldn't escape if I wanted to, Shadaloo! ♪

Phelous: ♪ Woah, woah, woah, Shadaloo! ♪

Allison: Maybe some people are more into Street Fighter are like "don't make fun of that" but it's a stupid name. Kylie Minogue sees, like, a tattoo or something and she's like "Shadaloo!" I'm like, "That's stupid".

Cammy: Shadaloo Tong!

(DUN DUN DUUUUN!!!)

Allison: Well, this is a fun movie.

Phelous: It's much better than Chun-Li.

Allison: Yep.

Phelous: I guess I almost enjoy some parts of it because it's so stupid, like, Neal McDonough Bison "I Ripped My Child Out of My Wife's Body" and stuff, like, what? Why any of this?

Allison: Would it have been improved if Jean-Claude Van Damme had reprised his role as Guile?

Phelous: No.

Guile: No.

Jean-Claude Van Damme: No.

Phelous: "Bison, I always knew you're Irish!"

Allison: I liked the, uh, the big speech Jean-Claude Van Damme gives to everyone about freedom.

Phelous: Yeah, how "we can go home."

Allison: "Or kick their ass!"

Allison: You know what, I felt in that scene, he was given 110%. Maybe that was one of the scenes that took hours and hours and hours to film.

Phelous: Get a good performance out of him.

Allison: Yeah, I feel like if there's like one scene, like, "yeah, he really put a lot into that," I think it was that scene.

Guile: But we can all go home.

Jean-Claude Van Damme: Oh. Not bad, partner.

Phelous: Then in the boat after that, though, it almost looks like he's pulling out a flask.

Allison: Yeah, it did look like it, it, what was it, a key–

Phelous: There's some weird kind of cassetti plot to watch some– because he watches some video of him and Blanka to remind us that he knew him before he's like, oh, he's the Hulk now!

Allison: Is that what it was? I always forget everything about Blanka until I see this again.

Phelous: Yeah, it's a lot to easily forgetting this. I always forget that the scientist guy's even Dhalsim, you're like, oh, I know.

Allison: Yeah, and then you look at IMDb and you're like "Who's who? Oh, alright, I guess that's serious."

Allison: Chun-Li, she had the biggest vendetta with Bison. She really should have been the one to fight him in the end, not stupid Guile.

Phelous: Yeah, just seems like Guile's really trying to insert himself here. "I am Bison's number one enemy!" Bison's kind of all over the place how much he cares about Guile 'cause when they think Ken shot him, he's like "Oh, I wanted to fight to Guile one-on-one in honorable combat," and then when Guile's coming to Bison's in his boats, he pulls out the arcade sticks and is trying to blow him up before he gets there.

Allison: Arcade sticks was very good. Whoever decided on that was a genius.

Phelous: But then when Guile gets there, he's like "Oh yes, now we'll have honorable combat, that's what I always wanted!"

Allison: He's such an honorable guy. I love when he goes in his little chamber to gas his weiner friends, and he's just like "Hohohoho, hehehehe!"

Phelous: Yeah.

Allison: The skull fades into him, like, yes!

Phelous: Bison deserved to win and maybe he did, because at the very end, he pulls like a Shredder sticks his hand out of the ground and it says, like, computers', like, rebooting, it's like "Make a Selection," "World Domination."

Allison: The gall of this movie; Raul vaya con dios, psssh, you're back from the dead. Why would you do that, though? Why would you do that? They knew! That was for the home video, it wasn't in the theater. Yeah.

Phelous: Was it? Oh, that's weird.

Allison: But maybe they were gonna have another guy, I don't know. Whatever happened.

Phelous: Yeah, that's a strange addition.

Allison: Well, it is strange to do that it.

Phelous: It is.

Allison: Like, I get, like, the sequel bait, but, like, I don't - I'm not sure that was the direction to go.

Phelous: Mmm-hmm.

Allison: He probably would have laughed about it.

Phelous: Maybe.

Allison: He seemed like he had a good sense of humor, I didn't know him personally, we might have thought it was funny.

Phelous: Maybe.

Allison: I would think it was funny.

Allison: Well, did it, uh, hold up to Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game?

Phelous: With The Movie: The Game where it's trying to be sort of Mortal Kombat meets Street Fighter.

Phelous: Oh, one thing I did like, when, uh, Ken fake shoots Guile and he's in slow motion, like, "Augh! Augh! Augh!'

Game Announcer: You Lose!

Allison: There was - there was a bit too with Guile.

Phelous: When Chun-Li discovers him pretending to be dead in the morgue?

Allison: Oh no, that was funny.

Phelous: I did like that because, like, he pops off the slab and he shares the squib pad, but his clothes are like perfectly clean all around it.

Allison: There was some part where, like, he jumps out at Bison, he comes out doing a kick, but it's like completely like this forever, he comes like Xena jumping toward the boat.

Phelous: Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Elelelelele! Dun dun dun-de dun dun dun, Guile!

Allison: Elelelelele!

Phelous: After the Bison headquarters explodes and stuff, everyone's just like "Let's pose!"

Allison: "Yea"– Poor Kylie Minogue, she had the worst one to try and pretend was, like, a thing you would be doing at that time. Everyone else is kind of like, you know, "Yeah!" or "Yeah!" and then she's like "Ho-psshh," turn around on her butt, yeah.

Phelous: Yeah, Cammy is there on her butt pose. Yeah.

Kylie Minogue: Cammy is possibly everything I'm not.

Phelous: We did it! We reviewed it!

(outro music)

Allison: You know, what should have happened when they posed, it's like, um, Police Squad. Like, they're all posed and then–

Phelous: Yeah.

Allison: –"Uh.... uh," bird flies by.

Phelous: It'll be great.

Allison: Just pourin' coffee.

Phelous: "I'm gonna break your face."

Allison: Quick, change the channel!

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