Paw Patrol : The Dino Movie VS CHUM

Tosin and Holly Nessling compare a family cinema trip with a home-streamed shark thriller in this week’s value-for-money showdown. The episode is mostly about whether a tired parent is better off spending money on a kids’ movie or a horror-adjacent shark film, but it also turns into a very funny discussion of terrible genre movies, franchise sprawl, and why some films are so bad they become a challenge.We discuss Paw Patrol the Dino Movie, Chum, and a few other recent watches, with Holly giving the sharper critical takedown and Tosin explaining the realities of summer holidays, children, and cinema survival. Key topics - In this episode, Tosin explains why Paw Patrol the Dino Movie was the inevitable cinema choice during the first summer holidays as a parent, with his wife on nights and two children to entertain. - Holly shares Chum, a Prime Video shark film paid for with Amex points, and the conversation quickly becomes a postmortem on a wildly implausible plot. - The hosts compare theatrical Paw Patrol releases with the many TV-style spin-offs, noting how the franchise keeps expanding by adding new pups and new themes. - Tosin describes Paw Patrol as a simple rescue-action formula for kids, with Ryder and the pups responding to emergencies in their vehicles, while the Dino Movie adds dinosaurs, an island, and a villain scheme involving diamonds and a volcano. - Holly’s review of Chum focuses on the film’s absurd logic, including a grieving husband who uses homeless people as bait, a shark cage with no oxygen, and a revenge plan that makes little sense even by shark-movie standards. - The episode contrasts good bad movies with merely bad ones, with the hosts noting that some low-budget shark films are entertaining because they embrace their absurdity, while Chum mostly just confuses. - Tosin raises the point that Paw Patrol is clearly made for children, but still compares it unfavorably to Toy Story 5 as a film with more for adults and kids alike. - The conversation includes a brief side discussion of Dangerous Animals, Birdpocalypse, Monster Nado, and other benchmark bad-shark or bad-CGI films. - Holly notes that Chum at least uses some real great white shark footage, even if the human-shark interactions are clumsy and the script is baffling. - Tosin closes by recommending Android on BBC iPlayer as a better next watch for Holly, before the pair wrap up with listener feedback and a quick mention of another movie, Over Your Dead Body. Timestamps00:00 - Cinema or sofa: the week’s big value-for-money question 01:25 - How the show compares cinema trips with streaming watches 04:42 - Tosin’s cinema pick: Paw Patrol the Dino Movie 05:23 - Holly’s home pick: Chum on Prime Video 08:05 - What Paw Patrol actually is and why the kids love it 10:12 - Snoop Dogg and Paris Hilton voice a yacht rescue setup 11:09 - The island, the dinosaurs, and Maya Humdinger’s diamond scheme 12:38 - Why every Paw Patrol movie seems to add another pup 14:11 - Why Paw Patrol works for exhausted parents but not as a great film 17:28 - Holly starts explaining Chum’s Malta shark premise 19:38 - The wedding boat trip that goes very wrong 21:11 - A grieving husband turns into the real villain 22:46 - Why Chum makes almost no sense at all 23:14 - Homeless people as bait and the shark cage plan 24:42 - Holly’s one-star review and the global warming line that annoys her 27:23 - The shark effects: real footage, some CGI, and not much else 29:13 - Why bad shark films can be fun, but this one mostly isn’t 30:54 - Listener feedback on The Boys season five 32:21 - Sign-off, plus a recommendation for Android on BBC iPlayer 33:42 - Bonus chat: Over Your Dead Body on Prime Video 36:37 - ChatGPT’s surprisingly accurate summary of Chum’s plot 38:09 - Why short movies have at least one virtue: they get on with it