FIFTH ELEMENT is nothing like I expected 

"How does someone look so normal and yet abnormal, all at the same time?" Because he's the human chameleon that is Gary Oldman.

"This is nothing like I expected it to be..." And Chris Tucker hadn't even shown up yet... 🤣🤣🤣

Honestly, I'm so glad this movie never got a sequel. Let this timeless masterpiece exist on its own.

This movie is two straight hours of non stop batshit insanity and I love every second of it.

You do realize you will be saying "Multi-pass" the rest of your life.

“Aziz! Light!” Is probably the most quoted line in my household. Every time a kid forgets to turn off a light, a booming “Aziz! Light!” echos throughout the house.

The more you watch it, the more you realize the brilliance of it. If I see it listed when I'm channel surfing, I have to watch, no matter whether it's at the beginning of the movie, the middle, or 5 minutes until the end. The first viewing is chaotic. With each subsequent viewing, the chaos becomes nuance.

Ashleigh: *"I'll never get tired of big ships entering from the side of the screen"* SpaceBalls I: *enters stage right*

"Sir, are you classified as human?" "Negative, I am a meat popsicle." Infinitely quotable.

Fun fact: The Opera song was written to highlight a rapid-fire vocal fluctuation that should be impossible for a person to sing, which is why it is performed by an alien. Actual singers took this as a challenge, and over the years, many videos have come out showing people performing the song to prove it's possible.

IMO, The Fifth Element is the pinnacle of Luc Besson's career. He has yet to top it. The amazing cast and crew (the costumes! The set design! The makeup! The special effects!), the plot, the editing, the soundtrack, the humor both intended and unintended, the feast both visual and auditory, the story....AH! I love it so much. Five stars for me.

Another fun fact about this movie: the preproduction of this film was (of course) very complex, take some years, and at some point the director had a year with nothing to do. He used that year to write and direct a more simple movie, without s big budget like the Fifth Element. The movie he write and direct on a break from this movie? Leon -The Professional.

When my friend got into microbrewing, his first ale was named "Aziz, Light!"

He's not smoking the cigarette backwards. The joke is that for your safety they have reversed the proportions, and now the cigarette is almost all filter. Zorg was played by Gary Oldman, who was also Sirius Black.

in all these years have only realised the 4 characters in the temple are the four elements...the priest is grounding, the trainee priest has his head in the clouds all the time, ruby's words flow like water and bruce is the fire, he just blows shit up!

“What’s wrong with you? What you screaming for?” Is one of my favorite lines. I still say it all the time 😂😂😂

Love *WAS* the fifth element. It took me decades for it to click in my head, but Leeloo was actually the fifth STONE, and had to have love added to her like the other stones needed their element added to them. Of course, you can't love a rock, so she had to be a person. :)

Chris Tucker's over-the-top performance made this movie twice as funny!

"We're 3D printing a dead thing?". That is easily the best description of Lilu's resurrection scene.

"Princess Leia on steroids." LOL

One of the things I love about this movie (and there are SO MANY things to love about this movie) is that the 'bad guy' and the 'good guy' never meet.

Fun Fact: Chris Tucker’s role, Ruby Rhod, was originally offered to Prince. He obviously turned it down but you can see how that character was pretty much created with him in mind. 💜

Ian Holm, the priest, is one of my all time favorite actors. He can do small, independent films like Chariots of Fire, The Sweet Hereafter, and Big Night (all good films) to sci-fi like this and Alien, to fantasy like Lord of the Rings and Brazil, to animation like Ratatouille, as well as filmed versions of Shakespeare's plays. Very versatile. Sadly, he left us in 2020.

Lelu was not in one of those "big metal suits", she was in the sarcophagus that the big metal suits took from the pyramid.

Ashleigh's best line in the review: "If she farts in that, it's gonna fog up!" I'm going to be laughing at that one for a while. 😆

Gary Oldman (Zorg) is such a great actor. He can play any role and make it awesome.

The costumes were created by French runway fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier who was known for his avant garde designs. This is a French American production. Milla Jovovich was a super model turned actress who is also a sci-fi nerd. She played Alice in several Resident Evil movies. The innovation with this is the fashion elements in sci-fi.

"A squeal to The 6th Sense" is wild! I'm flabbergasted, that is the unintentionally funniest thing I've heard in years,

The more you watch this movie, the more you like it. The first time, it can get a little chaotic. The second time, it's still a litlle bit, but you think the movie is really well directed. The third time, this is your eternal favorite movie, and it never change. There is just so much details in the universe, the aesthetic is soooo weird that's iconic, and the dialogues are really well constructed !

A lot of people have trouble with mixed-genre films. We watch so much stuff that fits genre expectations that we’re kind of trained into having expectations for what “good” looks like in a film. So I can see that killing a little of the joy. This movie is pure chaos in a lot of ways but the thematic elements about human nature get more and more noticeable and interesting with each watch.

If I remember correctly, the explosion in the cruise ship when Ruby is counting to 10 was the largest indoor explosion ever filmed at the time. Besson started writing the story when he was 16 years old, as a novel, and a decade later decided it should be a film and rewrote it for film and even later on filmed it. The costumes? They were designed by none other than Jean-Paul Gaultier. The Diva's song was written to be impossible and the singer told the composer that some of the note changes were outside of how fast the human voice could change pitch. So she sang some of the parts individually and they pieced those together later digitally. However, since then, a handful of people have actually sung it successfully. And it's glorious.

Favorite lines, "Are you classified as human?" "Negative, I am a meat popcicle." I've said this randomly for the last 20 years.

You took stars off because it was such a wild mix of genres. Honestly, that's one of the things that makes it so good. That was a lot more common years ago, where we'd have movies that didn't quite fit in any single genre, and they were better because of that. Plus for this one in particular, the director's known for going full-on weird. I see movies like this as more of a full meal, cinematically speaking.

Fact: The Fifth Element is a French production that was perceived by many to be a Hollywood production because it had Bruce Willis and English was the main language.

He looks like Val Kilmer because Gary Oldman looks like everyone, everywhere 😂

"Aahh! What's wrong with you!? What you screaming for? Every 5 minutes there's a bomb or something! I'm leaving! Bzzzz!"😂 This is a huge cult hit. King Gary Oldman (Gordon in Nolan Batman movies, etc).. Chris Tucker (Friday, Rush Hour).. Ian Holm (Bilbo in lord of the rings).

he wasnt smoking the cigarette backwards, more like in addition to only 4 smokes a day,the length of the filter is the length of what the tobacco paper thingy is today and the tobacco is the length of what the filter is today.

At the beginning, "I think this will be Sci-fi and futuristic" At the end "This was not at all what I expected" !?! Only a 3? Magic microwaves, Floating food trucks, Space Vacation Resorts, varied Aliens, a cat? Cool Explosions, crazy guns, the old Good vs Evil battling over Existence? That's all the Elements of a 5 ! 😄

“Why are there only children, where are the adults here?” Me, every time I wade into social media threads. 😂

making it both action and funny was a 7/5 for me. I have rewatched this dozens of times. The brilliant editing and visual gags make it one of the greats in my opinion. Luc Besson and Edgar Wright both do this so well. Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim, and this movie are top notch

I love how Chris tucker has the same hair style as egon from the Ghostbusters cartoon from the 80s

Ashleigh: "OMG, what do you need? Communicate!" Leeloo: "Multipass" 😂😂😂

My friends and I quote this movie almost daily. "Super Green", "Pop it, D-Man", "Gimme the cash". There is a line for just about every situation.

The editing on it, with the comic cuts between scenes, and lines shared between characters, is part of what makes it my favourite film.

Jean Paul Gautier designed the costumes and several extras and minor characters were models. The film was heavily influenced by French sci Fi comics and famous French comic artists Mobius did a lot of the production design.

"You know, sometimes evil just ta- THE FUCK IS THAT?" omg when i tell you i almost died laughing

That animal print I had a friend that does a great impression of Chris Tucker but when he showed up to a Halloween party dressed up like this I almost died 😂

The local newspaper movie critic HATED this movie with the power of lemons. Even after it got a huge fan base, he stood his by his review. The one bit i recall clearly was "If they took all the scenes and wrote them on index cards, then threw all the cards on to the floor and picked them up at random, it would have made just as much sense." The gun you asked about at the start was a German pistol commonly known as a Broom Handled Mauser. It was one of the first semi-automatics and used an internal magazine like a bolt action hunting rifle. They were loaded with stripper clips. You can also see them in Sherlock Holmes Game of Shadows where they talked about in one scene.

It is so hard to believe, that such a talented man "Mr Bruce Willis", will no longer be making movies. Having been diagnosed with aphasia in 2022. This is a disease that you cannot recover from. Thank you Mr Willis Love and Prayers 🙏💖

14:19 The cop who spills his McDonalds soda is played by the actor Mac MacDonald, who plays the captain in the British sci-fi series Red Dwarf. So not only did McDonalds pay for their product placement, they also managed to have their brand in the end credits.

@26:56 “You know, if she farts in that skirt it’s gonna fog up.” - Ashleigh That’s the kind of commentary I come here for. 😂

One of my favorite movies 4 sure. It's a great mix of sci-fi, Comedy, Action, campiness and a lil drama. It was a refreshing perspective about life in the future . Fun Fact, The actress who played Plava Laguna (The Diva) was actually the director's ( Luc Besson) girlfriend, a Model. The actress that had been originally cast backed out at the last minute as Production for the movie was about to start. She begrudgingly agreed because she didn't believe in mixing work and personal life. There's an interview on RU-vid about 30mins , with her discussing it all and the makeup process, Learning choreography, learning the Opera (she had to lip sync) Costume etc ... Its So good. Lastly, When everyone is ready to see the Divas Operatic Performance, All thier reactions where Genuine ✨✨😳😳. They had never seen the actress in full makeup and costume as well as hearing the Song for the first time (if not mistaken)

I LOL'd so loudly at 23:10 "Princess Leia on steroids" 😂

This is an enormously clever and fun movie. All the characters are weird and unique and the story doesn't follow a typical adventure story pattern.

Rumore is that, at the end of filming, the creator/director ordered that all the Mondojiuan suits be destroyed, and they were all but one. The head costume designer couldn't bring themselves to destroy all of them and kept one. The Mondojiuan language was actually fully developed into a full language. He and Mila Jovovich would actually have full-blown conversations in it.

Your hesitation of seeing the diva has me giggling! Absolutely my favorite part! I love the song, the diva and the fight scene. Put it all together and it’s so beautiful! I knew you’d get into it once you ears her sing!

This is one of my all time favorites. It's honestly one of the best movies ever made (in my humble opinion), it has sci-fi, romance, comedy, action, and a bit of heartfelt moments. Each character is nicely fleshed out and everyone has a moment to shine. Overall, it's timeless ✨✨

"Leeloo Dallas, Multipass!" And thus, a meme was born. I love this movie, been an all-time favorite for ages, because of the pure insanity of it all. Great reaction, Ashleigh.

Mixed-Genre Monday, Asheleigh Fun Fact" You missed to recognize "Aziz", the sketch artist that shoots at the Alien being as Luke Perry (RIP) {best known for playing Dylan McKay in "90210" tv series 1990 to 2000} Gary Oldman is a highly talented actor. Mostly, he never does the expected interpretation of the character most people would think of. He is known for finding the 'unusual', distinct, and memorable aspect of the character. Who would have imagined a "bad space villain" with a Midwest, rural accent? This is what makes him so revered and respected. Chris Tucker (Ruby Rhod) is more know for the iconic "Daaammmnn" in "Friday", "Money Talks, QT's "Jackie Brown", and his most known character Dect. James Carter in the "Rush Hour" film series with Jackie Chan. He has won 4 movie awards for that character. This is one of those films that need to be seen a few times to fully enjoy. You miss many details and cameos that have importance and make the film more enjoyable. Further watchings lead to a greater understanding of all the 'elements' (pun intended) that are involved in the film. Milla Jovovich is better known for her "Resident Evil" movie series and was a famous model before doing this film. there are more ingenius aspects to the movie that require several viewings.

I unabashedly LOVE this entire fuckin movie. Korben's mother is gold, "Leeloo Dallas Multipass", Tricky, Tiny Lister as the President, Chris Tucker as Ruby Rhod...and I'm such a fucken sap I cry every time at the scene where Leeloo discovers "War" and when Korben is trying to convince her that humans ARE worth saving...

Ashleigh: "Give her true love's kiss" Also Ashleigh: "That's so weird, why would you do that?"

Fun fact: In the movie the antagonist, Zorg, and the protagonist, Korbin, never meet. They almost do but just miss each other at the elevators. This almost never happens in any movie and I love it. In the book they did meet. However, this is one of those cases where the movie really is better than the book.

I laughed out loud at the ending because I remembered the 1990s cartoon, Captain Planet and the Planeteers. Their fifth element was... HEART!!

This was the movie that made me think that they could make The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy into a movie. Humor in Sci Fi is so rare.

AZIZ! LIGHT!

Leeloo is played by Milla Jovavich - she’s a model/actress. She had a small role in Dazed and Confused and she was the lead in the Resident Evil movies.

"Safety Cigarettes!" Nine tenths of the thing is an enormous filter! One way to cut down on your smoking!

The craziest thing of them all is that a movie from 1997 is considered an old and classic movie. As a man born in 1992, I feel very old.

The scene I loved the most is Corben waking up and talking to his friend on the phone. It is perfect worldbuiling and tells us everything about Corben.

This is one of the most quoted movies in my house. A robotic "do you want some more" when offering seconds, "Aziz, LIGHT!" when a movie is over and the lights are too dim to see where people are (it's actually now programmed into my Alexa to turn on house lights when I arrive home... works most of the time) .... and when Covid hit, my daughter bought a "multipass" (same as the movie) to keep her Covid shot record in something she could pull out and finally use that one line if anyone asked. We used a LOTTTTTT of quotes in this house over the years, from Jurassic Park to Armageddon, Saw, Catch Me if you Can, Castaway, ET, Dogma ... and ESPECIALLY Fifth Element. This movie pretty much covers EVERY fandom and movie category all in one.

Underrated movie line. I've answered "meat popsicle" for pronouns, aliases, and who I think I am when asked by customers and management.

I love your reactions: "sometimes the evil is--'da fuck is that?" 😂❤😂

Cornelius is Ian Holm, who was a Shakespearean actor who also showed up in “Alien,” “Lord of the Rings,” and “Ratatouille.” And about 140 other roles…

Ashleigh being grossed and freaked out by the blue opera alien. Yeah...she needs to play Mass Effect 😂🤣

Luc Besson (the director) has a "flavor" ("saveur" , I guess as he's French? 🤷‍♂), and "The Fifth Element" is that favor in spades. The timing and editing and scene swapping... the pacing is immaculate. The production design, value, and quality are ridiculously high-end and fleshed out. The soundtrack goes hard, and if you pay attention, most of the pacing and editing of the film is synched with the music. And there's little touches like Zorg saying to lay off a ton of cab drivers and then Corbin get the notice that he's been fired... nice little touches like those. I think now that you know what you're getting into, if you watch it again at some point, you'll see a lot of those things. But it's still very much a "flavor" movie that you enjoy or you don't. But if you like it... you tend to end up loving it. Plus... I think you'll find that even without another watch, you'll find yourself quoting the movie... more often than you realize. And it is a VERY quotable movie. Leeloo has some many quotables. For me, a common one is when I'm going through a video game and I get tired of all the enemies (Borderlands comes immediately to mind 😅 ) and I go into H.A.M. Mode and slaughter everything, and when the last body hits the floor and the dust settles, I almost always say, "Anyone else want to negotiate?" 🤣 Anyway, it's a great movie. And like I said, it may very well be worth a second viewing for you.

The Diva singing. My favorite part among the many great parts of this movie.

The pistol that you couldn't identify is a German Mauser C96 semi-automatic (1896). Best. Mike.

23:09 'Look at Princess Leia on steroids!'🤣🤣🤣

Ah yes the well known trilogy of "The fifth element" "The sixth sense" and "Se7en"

I've always said that The Fifth Element is the best live action anime that's not based on an anime, because it was like this story was adapted from an anime.

19:35 I LOVE THAT LINE! "This case is empty, the opposite of full!,,, WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH AN EMPTY CASE!!!!!"

"If she farts in that skirt, it's going to fog up." You're killing me!

"you know if she farts in that skirt its gonna fog up" EXCELLENT, that got me good 🤣🤣🤣

I have a cat named Leeloo because of this movie. I’m probably not the only one. That said, fine, I’ll watch The Fifth Element again. 😊

Ashleigh, the mixed genres and fast pacing you took off stars for is exactly the thing that made this movie such a hit in the 90s. Action, Sci-Fi and Comedy each had formulas that were getting predictible. This movie combined them all in a very entertaining way. It's also a great date movie, it has romance for her, action for him and laughs for both of them. The Deva's music has also become iconic. The composer tried to make it sound alien, something no human singer could do; Albanian opera lyric soprano Inva Mula said, "hold my beer."

Mila did an interview talking about playing Leeloo, it was super interesting. That language is an entire language created and she learned the whole thing. She had a lot of hand in how Leeloo was portrayed, she is still really proud of her.

"The most terrible intelligence imaginable, Mr. President..." Ashleigh: "Ah. The most intelligent intelligence...." Ma'am, where you cheefing on the cheeba cabbage before this viewing or was that late-set Dyslexia setting in?

Ashleigh : "This man loves his bombs." "He really do love his bombs." Also Ashleigh : "I love a good explosion." 😜

Gary Oldman can be Jim Gordon in the Nolan Batman movies, Sirius Black in Harry Potter and Zorg in this movie. Dude is a master of the craft.

Things To Know: 1) Aziz! Light! 2) Korben isn't smoking the cigarette backwards. It's all filter. 3) Printing Leeloo is still probably the coolest sci-fi scene I have seen since the movie released. 4) Much like dogs playing basketball, there ain't no rule saying you can't slap a priest. 5) Aknot is beautiful - you're just spacist. 6) The guy whose ears get blown out when the president crushed the bug is the musician Tricky. 7) Much like dogs playing basketball, there ain't no rule saying priest can't be strapped. 8) Ruby Rhod is still the most fabulous man to ever grace a screen. 9) Zorg's receptionist has *the best look* just like everyone else, but I especially love her nail painter. 10) Ruby's dress is an all-time look. 11) Diva Plavalaguna is stunning - you're just spacist. 12) Also, excuse us while the Diva *absolutely slays* on that song. Her voice is literally other-worldly. 13) The way Plavalaguna falls is just... poetry. Visual poetry.Much like dogs playing basketball, there ain't no rule 14) Ruby Rhod, accidental war correspondent, is an entire mood, and I love him. 15) The Mangalores were real calm after Korben killed them all... so the general wasn't lying. 16) He said "Count to 10" *not* "Count to 0", so there's your problem... 17) Korben is the finest soldier earth has to offer. Course he counts fast and shoots straight. 18) Korben is certified on *all* the weapons and vehicles required for the mission... 19) Ruby is nothing if not a professional. 20) Much like dogs playing basketball, there ain't no rule saying you can't talk to the president like that. 21) Thank god Korben is shallow - don't get me wrong, Leeloo is amazing, but he ain't had time to lock onto the big L with her yet! 22) That's no moon! 23) Korben's mom... just explains too much about Korben.

8:20 "KITTY!!!!!!!" 🤣

This movie is one of those low -key movies that you find yourself quoting and thinking about from time to time. Each time you watch it, it also gets more fun.

The fact you don't recognize and realized how amazing an actor Gary Oldman saddens me...

Ashley's catching up like it's the Serenity, and then the movie about to break her, LOL.

That flesh pet was laughing it's a$$ off while Zorg was being choked by a cherry, some pet 🤣

As someone who has lived on the 19th floor in NYC for 25+ years, surrounded by great local takeout and delivery, I wish floating Chinese food takeout boats actually existed...

Fun fact: Tucker was only supposed to have *a few scenes* but the director changed all that, after his characters introduction in the movie.

I highly recommend 'Throw Momma from the Train'!

Every time I ask someone if they want some more of something, I say it exactly like the robot at the airport!! 😂😂

The truly amazing bit is how Ruby stayed "ON" the whole time.