so dumb it’s brilliant | GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (REACTION) 

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The more reactions I watch, the more amazed I am that all of us completely missed Blanc calling "Andi" Helen when they run into each other before she gets shot.

Best part of this film is how before the flashback as an audience member you’re wondering when the murder mystery is going to start; but after the flashback reveal, you realize Benoit and Helen have been in the murder mystery the entire time. Such a smart story.

I like how the sisters were named Cassandra and Helen. In ancient Greek mythology, Cassandra was blessed with visions of the future, but cursed that no one would believe her. And Helen started a war that burned everything to the ground.

I personally thought it was a nice touch for Miles to have an idea stolen from him. Helen used his idea for "Disruption" against him. First she started small with things that everyone agreed needed to be broken(the glass sculptures), then went bigger and bigger until people were telling her she needed to top. Then crossed the line by torching the Mona Lisa. Also, what I found the funniest was that Benoit was actually more angry about the stupidity of the murders than the murders themselves. He was just so disappointed.

The guy that played Darryl was the same actor that played the trooper in the first movie. It's my head Canon that he was there undercover as Benoit's backup

Cody googling who the world's greatest detective was, being Batman of course and in turn have Blanc say he wasn't Batman was perfect

4:49 That is Yo-Yo Ma the world famous Cellist (Cello Player). 6:28 The Amung Us players were Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Stephen Sondheim, Angela Lansbury, and Natasha Lyonne 8:15 Another pandemic joke, it was the cure for C-19 That Light Sculture is called an "Infinity Icosahedron Light Sculpture", All the glass panels are 1 way mirrors, and all the joints have LCD lights lining them inside.

The styling of Miles holding the napkin like Elizabeth Holmes holding the little Theranos vial in that news article though. So many little details that call for many rewatchings.

42:35 He had one of the most famous paintings in the world on a loan, and for most people that would be enough. But no, he just HAD to install an override to its protective case.

I haven't seen anyone notice but when he runs into her right before she "dies" he says Helen. I noticed it and didn't think anything of it for a couple of minutes lol

I loved the cast. I loved Daniel Craig. I loved how Hugh Grant clarified the fact that he is “married to James Bond” in this movie. I can’t wait for the next one. Funny how Daniel Craig has now made at least 2 movie franchises centered around him.

The double-take at Serena's cameo is golden. One would think MIles would be cheap enough to get pre-taped workouts, but he went the whole hog.

Miles removing Andy from the company was inspired by Mark Zuckerberg doing the same to his friend Eduardo. It was mocking tech billionaires in general but especially Mr. Meta.

"It's Batman." "I am not Batman" That got me laughing, not gonna lie

Miles did'nt have any ideas on his own the entire movie Even is clothing styles in the flashbacks are stolen from others (Tom Cruise's character in Magnolia and Steve Jobs) and the picture with him holding the napkin is a direct reference of Elizabeth Holmes (the infamous Theranos founder) The "use a gun when the light's are off" came from Blanc himself and burning the napkin came from Lionel who asked him why he didn't do it already and kept it As Blanc realised at the end, he not a genius but a opportunistic bumb ass with a lot of selfconfidence

I like how before the flashback we can see Helen put the recorder in birdies bag also when miles makes duke take his glass

the fax machine was a small hint that the murderer was miles. apple doesn’t let the bad guy use their products in scripted media (and miles had a few references to steve jobs). and blanc playing among us told us there’s gonna be an imposter in the mix. the level of hints to the characters, the plot, etc is really layered and well placed. each find it so fun to discover. i definitely recommend multiple viewings.

Loved it, loved your reaction, but was anyone else freaked out when Chucky suddenly appeared in the background?

That Batman line was such perfect timing I couldn’t stop laughing😂😂😂😂

I'm proud that I knew Cody was allergic to pineapples, remembering I heard him say so after they got off the ship and before they got the spray in their mouths.

This screenplay is definitely worthy of an Oscar. Calling it now.

The hourly Dong was played by Joseph Gordon Levitt.

I actually do like this one better because it is the kind of murder mystery I really like. I was in the minority and only just kinda liked the first one but found this one hilarous on all levels. I love that we are watching a mystery inside a mystery and that Benoit expected an intelligent adversary which is why he had trouble figuring out who the murderer was being bad at dumb things.

When you rewatch it (and you know you will) please pay attention to the music after Blanc says 'I'm not Batman'. when he gets the idea to have Helen impersonate Andi the composer subtly lays in the Danny Elfman Batman theme in the underscore. It's just one of many cheeky little details that makes this movie so much fun and so textured. Notice among the crystal and glass sculptures is a replica of the knives sculpture from the first movie. When Andi holds up the napkin Leslie Odam Jr. says to Edward norton 'You kept it? You didn't even burn it?' which gives Miles the idea of burning it. He then mugs to his scientist friend, aknowledging that the idea came from him. Miles shows his idiocy all the way through the movie... mispronouncing Gillian Flynn's name, etc. Cameos: The asian man who describes a fugue at Birdie's party is the famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The voice of the hourly DONG is actor Joseph Gordon Levitt who has had parts in all of the directors' movies since BRICK. (He did a voice on tv in a scene from Knives Out at Marta's mother's house)...

My favorite comment (that I’m not sure who said first) is that the first movie is an autumn movie, and the second movie is a summer movie. I want the next one to be winter themed! Also SPOILER: the movie starts on my bday 5/13, and Whiskey’s bday is my best friend’s bday 5/9~

The smoke alarm in the smokeless garden is the same alarm from the Golden eye N64 video game.

I appreciate that someone else made the Hellraiser inference and I would pay good money to see Benoit Blanc versus the Cenobites. Just imagine: Rich Dinghole opens the box and plans to sacrifice 5 people (or however many) he knows by inviting them to his home to solve his "murder" and Blanc gets tied up in it, figures out he is alive, and then rules lawyers his way into convincing the Cenobites that Dinghole's offer can't be accepted and they drag him to Hell anyway. Pinhead makes some sort of offer to Blanc for being interesting and Blanc is his usual self, says something coy about the spouse trying a challah recipe soon that he promised he'd help with, and peaces out the end Roll Credits. Take my money.

HOW IS NO REACTOR RECOGNIZING ANGELA FLIPPING LANSBURY

My favorite line in this movie is the breastification of America lmao. Imo just as good as the first can't wait for more

26:08 BEST PART OF THE VIDEO

the 1st one was such a great mystery, it was great that they went the opposite direction. dumb antagonist who escapes but still doesnt escape

Miles did one smart thing this entire movie, he sent andy a box knowing she was dead.

Movie was actually good and super fun watch again again

About halfway through I was 1000% convinced it was Derol. Because they were trained from the get-go that he didn't exist, even if he was right in front of them. Goes to show I could never be a detective lol

I’m a newer subscriber to you guys but I just love your reaction videos to popular movies/shows, especially horror. Keep it up, you’re both awesome! 🙂

Happy new year! This movie is fantastic, love every single cast member. Let’s get to 100k!

I love that you got it but “for all the wrong reasons.” You stuck with it! I figured it out and then second guessed it away by the end. 🤪

The drink switch was is the original scene its pretty epic how the movie makes you forget

I highly recommend watching The Brothers Bloom. Same director, similar feel but with conmen.

The music guy is Yo-Yo Ma. Joseph Gordon-Levitt voiced the "Dong." Woo! You guessed it early!

Apparently at the time of filming, Ethan Hawke was in the area filming for Moon Knight and came down to set for a day.

Ill forever love the ending of this movie, her face as she hits the button is so good. Helen was the true disruptor, she did what no one else would and burned the fucking mona lisa 😂😂

42:08 Amongst all the self-important phones she's the only true disruptor.

They recognized Kareen and Natasha but not Yo-Yo Ma, Stephen Sondheim, and Angela Lansbury, lol

I couldn’t help but think… That’s a big Dukey!

I like how the plot has layers like an oger. shit i meant onion

Oh yeah, and Netflicks essentially paid for a sequel already, and Both Johnson and Craig have indicated they're happy to make *at least* one more. So I think there'll be a sequel. Probably a couple of years or so away as Johnson likes to have immaculate plots and then direct the film, so it can't be rushed. But it will be worth the wait.

40:40 Fun Fact: That reaction was real, in one shot and accidental but it made the Final Cut.

I love the real world celebrity comparisons to the "Glass Onion" characters in this film. Miles Bron ( Edward Norton ) = Elon Musk Duke Cody ( David Bautista ) = Joe Rogan Lionel Toussaint ( Leslie Odom Jr. ) = Steve Wozniak ( to Miles Steve job ) Birdie Jay ( Kate Hudson ) = Kim/Kourtney/Khloe Kardashian Claire Debella ( Kathryn Hahn ) = Corrupt Politicians Derol = Kato Kaelin Alpha, Miles Company = 2022 Twitter Miles Car = Tesla

I won't be surprised if they make a Knives Out trilogy.

I think that the group saw an opportunity to cut ties with Miles, and they took it. He was going to crush all of their futures. They probably didn't flip on him out of the goodness of their heart.

I stand by the fact that Peg is the best

i think the directors and movies that went away from pretending like covid never happened kinda missed out on having some amazing jokes. the among us joke is one of my favs lmfao

Rian Johnson should write mystery novels. He has a serious talent for the genre.

26:09 LOL

When i first read the title of the movie i thought it was CLASS UNION but… yeah

Listen I'm just sayin, Beniot, confirmed gay by Rian, didn't have a gag reflex when the rest of the disrupters did. This movie is so fucking detailed I'm not sure if thats on purpose or not

And there aint no damn way a book gonna save you from a bullet 💀 so many dumb plot holes in this movie am i like the only one that notices. Like why did he have the hot sauce on him?? Or why did miles invite andi when he knew she was dead?

yo this was a BLAST you guys crack me up lol

when you get the chance something else to add to the list of things to watch gotta check the underworld series along with teen wolf the tv show and the movie and vox machina

This has nothing to do with the vid lol but I'm wondering if you both will be reacting to The Menu soon. Just watched it today and just another awesome addition to the year of horror that is 2022

You telling me miles didmt know when she got there that she was already dead so why did he invite her? And love how everyone just talks out loud without worrying about cameras and stuff like that

@BRIDGECO: 16:27 The doctor just had an ENTIRE MONOLOGUE explaining JUST THAT, about 40 seconds earlier... PAY SOME ATTENTION, PEOPLE! 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

Slightly funny detail, Benoit Blanc is the least fazed by the vaccine, and he's also gay. Not sure if it was an intentional joke but it's a bit funny to me.

Does he have to pay the $1 billion?

Netlix payed for 3 thats 2

Do more stranger things 😊

First

"It's Batman." "I am NOT Batman." Holy shit, flawless timing. 😆

“A fugue is a beautiful musical puzzle, based on just one tune, and when you layer this tune on top of itself, it starts to change and turns into a beautiful new structure.” Yo-Yo Ma essentially spoils the structure of the film in the beginning. We see the entire murder from the perspective of everyone else, thinking that Blanc and Andi (Helen) are not in cahoots. But once the film reveals that Andi is actually Helen and shows the perspective of Blanc and Helen, the whole puzzle (or film) "starts to change into a beautiful new structure". It's brilliant. It's a fresh take on the Murder Mystery genre.

The director wants each Benoit Blanc movie to stand on its own. He didn't even want Knives Out to be listed anywhere in marketing materials for this movie but the studios went ahead and did it anyway. I think it would have been better if it was just listed as a Benoit Blanc Mystery. Cody you did an excellent impression of him. The movie truly was brilliant. I preferred Glass Onion better over Knives Out

In Knives Out, the cast didn't know the voice he'd be using until that scene where he stops Martha from confessing to the family. That look of shock on the familys' face is real, cause they weren't expecting that accent. 😁

It's rewarding to rewatch -- a lot of stuff is set up early but you don't notice it until it pays off later. I recommend watching at least once and, every time Birdie speaks, watch the other characters in the frame. There are some great reactions. (And then, after Birdie is a joke throughout the movie, she's the first one to turn at the end.)

One of the craziest things about this movie, even on rewatches and reactions, Blanc calls her Helen out loud before the reveal that there's even a sister. And no one ever catches it. This movie doesn't hide everything just to reveal it at the end, some stuff they just blantly throw out there to test the memory and awareness of the audience. And that makes for an awesome murder mystery film. 10 out of 10 easily. Great reaction! The batman bar was priceless!!!!!

I love the fact that the final shot of the movie is Helen sitting on the doc, in the exact pose as the Mona Lisa.

This film is amazing bc every piece of dialogue and every scene (besides the random guy lol) is essential to the plot. Down to the smokeless garden bc the entire fortress is run on Klear & a fire could spark an explosion. Every single scene is essential, which I think is amazing 😂

As a lover of Agatha Christie, it’s very funny to me how much this story is just “The Triangle At Roads” & “A Murder Is Announced” tossed into a blender. Mainly because those are my favorite Poirot & Miss Marple mysteries respectively. Triangle is about a bunch of rich people on vacation in Greece, one of whom ends up poisoned after seemingly drinking out of the wrong glass. It turns out the person who originally ordered the drink poisoned the glass himself in order to frame someone else. The biggest clue hinges on the fact everyone had preferred drinks, and that was the only time the killer ordered the victim’s drink, so that when she walked in & ordered it he could go, “Here, take mine.” The motive also involves a cheating scandal which turns out to not at all be what we first thought it’d be. “A Murder Is Announced” is about an entire small down discovering an anonymous invitation to a murder mystery party at one of their neighbor’s homes, but when they get there, she says she has no idea about it. After everyone is gathered in the living room, the lights go out and someone bursts in; in the resulting chaos, the lady of the house ends up injured and the “burglar” ends up shot with a gun belonging to one of the guests. Siblings & mistaken identities play a huge role, but in the end it hinges on the fact that only people who lived in that house could possibly have known how to short out the lights, and the lady of the house was the one who decided to turn the central heating on instead of lighting a fire, ensuring their was no source of light at all in that room. And the motive? Oh, she was impersonating her twin sister, and the “burglar” recognized her for who she really was. We even have the lady’s good friend slipping up and using the wrong name sometimes, and one of the victims is killed for realizing the killer wasn’t where they were supposed to be at the time of the original murder. And both killers go through with it partially for the potential inheritance, but primarily to preserve their own reputations.

the climax of the film follows miles’ speech about disruption and breaking things to a point, then breaking the thing that nobody wants you to break, but in an extremely literal way :)

"Clever!" "I guess..." I've seen an analysis of this scene talking about how it looks clever at first, but when you look deeper, it's not really. It's just a bunch of simple riddles that these 'disrupters' had trouble solving (it's third parties that give a bunch of big answers)

This movie was super fun, now if I’m comparing to the first one. Hands down the first. Does it deserve the meh reviews it got ? Not at all. I hope they do more and a sequel to bullet train omg it was SOOOO GOOD!

Loved Cody’s guessing so much of the plot and seeing his reaction when they materialized!😂

If you want to disrupt something, you start with something small. Something people wanted you to break. But then you keep going. People will tell you to stop. But that's true disruption. Because nobody wants you to break the system itself. Helen started by breaking a glass, then she built up to breaking the entire Glass Onion. Then Miles tried to get her to stop from breaking the Mona Lisa, but she's the true Disruptor.

2 cameos I love: 1st, Hugh Grant is actually Blanc's husband, Phillipe. (Yes, really!) 2nd, Serena Williams: *but* because she's actually reading the famous novel "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon. Referenced in "Knives Out," because Johnson is a Pynchon fan (was a guest on a podcast episode reviewing the Ouija board scene from "Inherent Vice" ...that adaptation's directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, who did "Magnolia"....AND during their Disruptors flashbacks in "Glass Onion," Miles is wardrobed to reference Tom Cruise's character from "Magnolia" !) ...The Yo-Yo Ma cameo's good too.

was just thinking about how id love for you guys to react to this and this popped up! i like the first better, but this was still really good and really fun to watch

37:12 First rule of storytelling - nothing is ever mentioned unless it comes up again later. Even if it's just a case of a leading character passing someone in the street at the beginning of the story and then at the end passing that same person at the end of the story

Angela Lansbury is also in the Zoom call when Blanc is playing Among Us. Most known for playing Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote. Also, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is voice of "the hourly dong".

I love how Blanc calls Clue "a dumb game" and yet that's exactly what he has Helen do - go from room to room, trying to find clues to solve a murder.

The random guy walking around with the corona beer was supposed to represent COVID lol

Every time I watch the scene with Blanc using the hot sauce to make himself cry I half expect Sean Evans to pop out of the bushes saying “Careful around the eyes”

*sees title* No it's not, it's just dumb!

notice how he only burns it after Lionel asks him why he didn’t already burn it, man has literally never had an original thought

Omg the Batman/world's greatest detective bit 😂

The only question I had at the end was whether or not that guitar from the beginning was actually Paul McCartney's guitar. Because as we could see he was playing it right handed. I'd forgotten this little fact but was watching it with my dad and he commented on it straight away - Paul McCartney is left handed. So either that's just a right handed guitar he was playing and lied about who's guitar it was to show off (or he got cheated into renting what he thought was McCartney's guitar because he was too ignorant to know about it), or he's playing a left handed guitar right handed. Though I guess the main point is that that's someone else's property he was playing that he had on a lend, something that could be worth a lot of money to a lot of people, and he just unceremoniously dropped it.

*spray to the throat* "He is unfazed!" *My boyfriend and I side eye each other*

I heared that they planed 3 Knive Out Movies.

Loved your reaction to knives out and am here for this!!

26:07 I almost snorted water out of my nose, the timing of that comment was so perfect XD

38:24 I love about Blanca’s mystery movies is that the more he solves them, the more he grows frustrated over the complex stupidity and shitty ness of the suspects and the execution of the crime!

rian is currently writing the script for knives out 3! so excited