Gotta Kick It Up!

Sí se puede! Grab your pom poms as Will and Sabrina watch "Gotta Kick It Up!" starring Camille Guaty, America Ferrera and Susan Egan.

The film premiered in 2002 as a Disney Channel Original Movie.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
So you and I did our press day yesterday.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
We did, and one of the questions that we asked,
we went on the Spotify channel of it, what is
it the Radio Disney. What's not Radio Disney anymore, but
it's like the Disney Serious XM Disney Hits channel. Yes,
and they were asking us to pick our four favorite
songs and all that cut, which then led me to
one of my earliest memories, which was watching Mary Poppins.

(00:43):
I gotta be three. I'm three or four at the most,
and I'm watching Mary Poppins and I spent the whole
day learning the words to super Califragilistic Xpialidocious. What was
your first ever Disney song that you remember that?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
I remember part of your World Little Mermaid really okay? Yes?
And then when I started training vocally, that was my
first song that I was learning techniques and things like that.
That was the first song that I actually did. But
I remember it when I was really little, you know,

(01:22):
the looking up through that whole just wishing to get
out of this horrible kingdom under the royal Kingdom. That
just is absolute garbage, you know. And my my favorite
line is maybe they don't reprimand their daughters. That's like
my favorite line in the movie. Now, as an adult,
you know her idea of thinking, oh yeah, if you

(01:44):
use your legs, you know, and walk on sand, obviously
your your parents respect you more right and give you
whatever you want.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well, it's the it is the perfect grass is always
greener on the other side through the ocean. Oh my,
I think I'm sorry. I would have stayed in the
kingdom as much as I would have loved to have
gone up and fallen in love.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
She went from one kingdom to the next.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Right, exactly.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
It wasn't like she Yeah, she traded side upgrade. I'm
not sure she leveled up really.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Oh my, exactly. Well, welcome to Magical Rewind, the show
that makes you want to grab your friends, your pj's,
and your popcorn and go back to a time when
all the houses were smart, the waves, tsunamis and the
high school's musical.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
I'm Wilford Dell and I'm Sabrina Bryan.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh today, let's grab your pom poms break out the
salsa moves because this week we've got the spirit. Yes
we do, We've got the spirit. How about you? For
two thousand and two's coming of age drama gotta kick
it up once again with an exclamation point. Disney's answer
to Bring it On also at the good point, which
was the sleeper hit theatrical release from two years before this,

(02:52):
which exploded. I mean the Bring It On was enormous.
I went and saw Bring It On in the theater
with people. It was everybody else I did. It was great.
Chater movie is great. Okay, gotta love it. But this
movie brings a Latina swing to things and most notably,
is one of only a few quote unquote based on
a true story movies that the Disney Channel has ever made,

(03:14):
and it's based on the true life experience of Megan Cole,
who actually co produced the movie and was involved in
the Teach for America program that places instructors and under
resource schools all across America. She was a Harvard graduate
who found herself at the Nimitz Middle School in Huntington Park, California,
where she started the school's first competitive dance program. If
you'd like to watch this movie first, it is available

(03:35):
on Disney Plus. So this is not when you have
to YouTube. Go to Disney Plus and you can watch
it there. If you want to watch along with us.
If you don't, you can go back and watch it later.
But we're getting out ahead of ourselves, so before we
end up with four weeks to detention, let's get to
the synopsis. Biology teacher, Miss Bartlett is new at the
rough around the edge is Marshall Middle School. I am

(03:57):
emphasizing middle school for as we talk about more things.
But when she finds herself as the new dance teacher,
she must battle troubled relationships, failing grades, low self esteem,
and a lack of funds. But with a group of
inspired students in their new CIP did I say that right?
Ci sipe attitude, they can prove anything is possible. Now,

(04:21):
as I was watching this movie, one thing was going
through my head, which is this is like made for you,
This is your wheelhouse movie because not only is it
dancing and all the other stuff, but don't you coach
a team that's like this.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Basically, I will tell you right now, this movie is
hands down the hardest one I've had to watch, because
I coach a dance team that competes at these competitions
that they are putting on the screen, and I am
going to my nationals tomorrow. We start we did a

(04:56):
Nationals of Florida and then there's the Nationals here at
over by the Convention Center. I could say that because
this isn't happening within real time audience, so you know,
but yes, I'm going to it tomorrow. This was really hard.
I am in it, so I'm gonna preface that. And
I say this because right now I am in the

(05:17):
midst of critiquing choreography, both mine, my competitors. I mean,
I am in it. So it was so hard for
me to sit and enjoy this movie because all I
could think of is the routines that were on the
you know, while they're dancing, the dancing they're doing on
the side, how they are practicing. It was so tough.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
You took this movie personally?

Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yes, I did well. I could not let myself just
chill out. It was so hard, and I was getting
frustrated with myself. Sometimes I wish that you and I
would watch these movies together, but there's no You would
have hated me. You would have hated me. I could
not stop talking. No one was in the room with
me while I was watching this. I was talking to
myself that was what what are they doing? How does
that make sense? What kind of coaches?

Speaker 2 (06:02):
This?

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Are you serious? Worst coach? I mean, okay, So I
had to get that out. I just had to blurt
it out.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
We will, we will will. I want to get into
that because there's I have. I have legitimate and I'm
not I'm not trying to bash the movie at all.
I am getting way better at watching the movies for
how you're supposed to watch the movie exactly. You know,
I'm I'm trying to get into that mindset. Well, that's
what I want to get into. But I normally I
also and he does not like when I do this,
but producer Jensen gives us some breakdowns of the movie

(06:32):
and he'll give us some lines to say occasionally. And
the one he wrote I have to say. And I
know you hated, Jensen, but I'm calling you out for
this one because it says that Sabrina is a true
expert of stuff like this. This is like if they
made a d com about a guy who loves mash
and has a wife named Susan.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
I just laugh. I read it, dude, I laughed out
loud flaw that line.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
And I'm not taking credit, sorry Jensen, but so I
mean again, was any of it real? Are the competition?
The competitions like this, and yes, okay.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
So real? When we get to our Sabrina seas it's okay. Well,
first of all, I had my Sabrina Sea's list was
like five pages long. But it then I had to go,
we'll not gonna understand that. The audience isn't gonna get that. Okay,
you're going way too deep here, you know it, So
I had to take it down. And then the final

(07:27):
one is kind of more of a little real life
insight of the competition.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
So originally it would have been Sabrina sees too much?

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yes, Sabrina, just close your eyes.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
You're seeing too much this.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Time, too much? Calm it down. It's a Disney movie.
Everyone loves this movie for so many reasons. So that's
what I'm gonna focus on the reasons why people did
love this movie.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Do your dancers put petroleum jelly on their teeth so
they smile?

Speaker 3 (07:55):
No? But I've heard that in Not that I was
real big in it, but I heard that that's a
patcheant thing.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Is it just so it tastes so gross that you
don't want to shut your mouth?

Speaker 3 (08:05):
I don't know. Again, I'm not a pageant girl, but
I've heard it before, but it was referenced in the
pageant world.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Okay, interesting, let's give our initial thoughts. What were your
initial thoughts of the movie.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Okay, So I didn't get that it was a middle
school until the very end credit when it says what
happened after the girls made second place? And then it
staid I don't know how. I just wasn't hearing it.
I'm sure it was said over and over again because.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
You didn't want to because it's weird middle school.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
They don't look like middle school. And middle school is
six through eighth grade. It is not ninth grade. It
maybe in my area, so in the Southern California district area.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
That's most most of it is. You're correct because I
was the same way middle school six seven eight. But
there are some schools that go K through six and
then seven eight nine is another school. They're rare, okay,
but mostly they do K through six and then seven
eight will be a different school.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
And that that's what I did. Right there, was to
sixth grade. Then I went to junior High. I didn't
go to middle school. I went to junior high, which
was seventh and eighth grade, and then I went to
high school. The middle school's in my area. If there
is a middle part, you know, that's not junior high.
A middle school is six seventh and eighth graders. Yeah,
so the whole part, you know, I really wasn't caught

(09:25):
up in that while I watched at the end, I
went way a minute.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
But when you think about it, it changes everything. Yes,
it feels like a loophole that they used to cast
older actors. Frankly, okay, and I want to talk about
that a bit because there are certain things. When I
was a freshman in high school, which is ninth grade,
I was one of the younger kids because my birthdays
in the summer same. I was thirteen.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yes, I turned fourteen the like first or second week.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Of school, so thirteen. Maybe I was fourteen when I
started school, But that's young. She's got a guy who
he's an older boyfriend there. I mean, they're supposed to
be like thirteen years old in this.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Movie, which he's older.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Threw me the whole time.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, yeah, that was weird.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Though I had trouble. I did not dislike the movie.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
I had trouble, And I'm totally honest as a forty
seven year old man, I had trouble connecting with this film.
I just I really did. I had trouble connecting with
this movie. I could absolutely see one hundred percent how
young girls or young women watching this movie eleven, twelve,
thirteen years old would love this movie.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
I totally get.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
I had the opposite. I could not disconnect from this.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
I could not take myself out that could not get
myself out of it. Well, again, it's part so in
your wheelhouse. This is a great movie for you.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
But yes, you're right. I had a hard time with
the plotline that they were pushing. I don't know what year,
I know it was years before this, but it was
sort of trying to push a little dangerous Minds movie.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yes, we have to talk about that, because it talked.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
About gangs, keeping the kids out a gang.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
He doesn't age great nowadays.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
None of these kids looked like they were remotely going.
Even Chewie was not gang looking.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
No, these are all good kids.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
But again, it's a Disney movie. I know it's a
Disney movie, you know. I mean, I don't think they
needed to go as far as saying gangs. They could
have just said to keep them out of trouble, keeping
off the streets, you know, keep them active, not going
home and sitting on a couch, you know.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Because they were all good kids.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
They really were, Yeah, they were.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
They all seemed like great kids.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
You know.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Some of them were sassy. The opening scene within the
classrouse Holy moly, yeah you kidding me. Sit down.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Speaking of that, we should we should talk about the
cast because the cast has some obvious standout people.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
So, my gosh, how amazing would it have been to
be a part of a cast that is now.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Just huge, huge. So the movie stars someone who had
a twenty twenty three for the Ages, to say the least.
But it really all started here because America Ferarra is
Yolanda Yoli Vargas and this was her first job on TV.
She'd only been in one movie so far in her
career called Real Women Have Curves, and it was earlier

(12:11):
that year. Everybody probably knows her as the star of
Ugly Betty, where she won an Emmy for Best Lead
Actress in a Comedy and Superstore, but you might also
know her from Sisterhood of the Traveler Pants. Love that movie,
a nice, small.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Little movie that nobody else saw.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
The other year, what was it called Barbie Yes, and
where she's currently nominated for an ost where.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
She has the most incredible monologue that every woman.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
I haven't seen it yet, so dull, I haven't seen it.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Well, I can't recite it for you, but that is
a monologue that every woman can relate.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
It's already ruined it for me because I know she speaks,
and you said, now she's got a monologue. I can't
watch the movie.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
I can't.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
I can't know one little thing about no Kid. And
then there's Camille Gwatti as Daisy sealinis the most talented
of the bunch and bestie's with Yoli, who has also
a super questionable relationship with a much older boyfriend. But
she also is the one who has the abilities to
obviously propel her beyond the Marshall Middle School, but has

(13:07):
an attitude she's by far the biggest troublemaker and so
they have to She's got to curb that if she
wants to move forward in life. Johanna Flores is Marisol,
who has dreams of becoming an elegant ballerina, but lacks
the resources or encouragement. Frankly, and we'll get into her
life a little bit right. Sabrina Wiener is Esmeralda Rena,
and she's the nicest, almost goodie two shoes of the

(13:29):
bunch who we think is possible she's a narc I
don't know, you don't know how to what's gonna come
up with that, but it is interesting.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Oh Man, watching her do that contemporary solo audition piece
was so funny.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Funny was that the the interpretive dance piece, because.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
She's a great dancers, she's a good dan.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
That whole scene was very funny. And then Susan Egan
is the tech employee turned new teacher and coach Heather Bartlett.
She originated the role of Bell in Theadway adaptation of
Beauty and the Beast in nineteen ninety four.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
She was nominated for a Tony Award.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Is a total Disney legend, but she's known now for
her voice acting, which is my world. She's Meg and
the Disney animated movie Hercules, and is still working for
the company on video games like Kingdom Hearts, which I
was in as well, and Disney Speedstorm. So she and
I might have actually worked together and never met, because sometimes,
especially video games, you record at different times most of the.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
Time, okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
And then of course there's the very recognizable character actor
Miguel Sandoval who plays principal Zavala, and you might know
him from every movie all the time, Jurassic Park, Clear
and Present, Danger, Get Shorty. He was on HBO's Barry.
He has almost two hundred credits to his name. If
you want to go look him up, you'll be there
for hours looking at this man's resume. And did six

(14:46):
years of the TV show Medium the Movies, as we
like to talk about. It runs a very meager seventy
eight minutes. This is a fast, fast movie, our shortest
film yet and twelve minutes below the perfect Disney bulls Eye.
It first aired July twenty six, two thousand and two,
to one point one eight million viewers, which is low
as we've seen on the channel from the other movies

(15:08):
that we've talked about, and was filmed at for Dugo
High School into Hunga, California. It was written by Nancy
Dalo Sentos, a producer of the classic j Lo Selena
movie Great Movie, and directed by Ramon Mendez, best known
as director of Stand and Deliver, The nineteen eighty eight
non Disney non dancing, very very good version of this movie.

(15:28):
So okay again trying to connect with the film on
certain levels that I thought the acting was good, Yes,
you know, certainly the acting was good. The people that
they cast were engaged and likable and seemed to care
about the material. I had a serious problem getting over

(15:50):
the fact that they were in middle school.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah. Not one of them looks like a middle.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
School It just threw me, and I mean, like really
not looking like they were in middle school. When Camille
Oh did the film, she's playing thirteen fourteen, she was
twenty five.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
So it's not even like eighteen to play fourteen. No,
she was twenty five years old playing a middle school.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
And then when you realize they're in middle school, she's
getting she's with an older boyfriend, so he's at least sixteen,
but they've talked about how he was in school for
a while and then dropped out so he could be
closer to eighteen dating a middle schooler. Yeah. I also
one of the things that threw me, and I watch
every movie twice. The lead of our film is the

(16:38):
only person I mean, America Ferrara as well, but some
of the other girls a lot of the other girls,
you went into their home life. M h.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
You saw Camille come out of her house.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
But you they didn't get into her home life at all,
which I thought for the lead of a movie was
a little.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
Strange and I kept waiting for it me too, thinking
you know, there was gonna be I mean, the only
time that she was actually in her her house and
you saw the walls of her room was when she
calls to say she'd like an application.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
That was it, and that's it, and it was like
the late night crying she like it. But that's all
you see. You don't know anything about her home life.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
You know, the home life of some of the supporting characters,
but not the lead, but not the lead of.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Your movie, which I which threw me.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
Right, Yeah, I mean, she did have the boyfriend, so
you know that was her struggle. Her relationship with her boyfriend,
that was her struggle, right, But yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
She talks about them. They talk about her mom because
he says, don't tell your mom that you're thinking of
dropping out. I'm already a bad enough influence, so right.
I mean, they mentioned her family life, but but they yeah,
they don't get into it in any way. Yeah, the
shape or form. I'd like to reiterate one more time.
They're supposed to be in middle school. I can't. I
know people, everyone's gonna be like, dude, get over it.

(17:58):
They're in middle school. You just have to get over it.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
I will say, it makes sense when you see the
level of disrespect that they give the teacher, because from
friends that I know so many of them that our
school teachers do not. If you know, during their subbing days,
they said middle school was the hardest age to sure
because they're pushing boundaries so much. The level of disrespect

(18:22):
happens way more.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
So.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Maybe that's the only thing that I could say as
far as making sense as being middle school the rest
of it.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
What would you do if your dancers treated you the
way that her dancers treated her.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
I mean, you know, my girls are certainly not perfect,
but my girls, I will say, are so respectful. I
don't have to ever do that. You know. Even the
worst is you know, them you know, maybe not being
organized or them talking when I'm talking. That's the only
thing that I ever really had, normal stuff, the normal stuff,

(18:56):
you know, look at me as I'm talking. That kind
of stuff. Other than that, I've got such great girls
that I don't have that if they if they were
like this, I would have quit coaching way long ago.
If that was how every year would come in and
I was constantly having to correct the bad behavior. And
on that level, there's no way I would continue coaching.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
And you're the high school level. Yes, yeah, Now is
there have you checked? Is there any chance that your
girls are actually in their thirties playing high school?

Speaker 3 (19:24):
No? I've questioned it on some other teams though. Let
me tell you sometimes their girls look a little mature
compared to my little glitterbugs.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
More mature than the kid in middle schools walking in
the back round with a beard. There was everybody I'm
looking at him like that guy looks like he's thirty right.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
Well, because they I'm sure they stocked the you know,
set list of data, background dancers with adults.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
They had well they had to. I mean, if they
want to shoot the movie.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
But I'm sorry, but I'm not gonna keep harping on it.
But you pivot when you get on the set and
you go, you know what, let's make it high school.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
Let's at least make it it's just high school.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
The would have been nothing wrong.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
With their seniors, and she's getting Now Camille's character has
a chance to go to college, and so all the
same exact storyline, but you make them in high school.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
Exactly, it would have really changed absolutely nothing. It would
have just been more believable.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Chances are, though at that time they're trying Disney's probably
trying to appeal to a younger class of kids. Yep.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
But our movie The Cheatah Girls came out the year after,
and we were freshmen in high school and we were
ninth graders.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah, so there you go. That's right.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
You're supposed to be the same age as the Cheetah
Girls in this movie.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
Right.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
Wow. Okay, well let's get into the first the early scene.
So miss Bartlett comes in. She joins her first ever
biology class. She's apparently fresh out of Silicon Valley and
now trying to explain why the kids need biology, even though,

(20:50):
as one of her students says, he'd be quote unquote
better off bust in some beats. And they all start
drumming on their desks so Daisy can stand up, and
she starts dancing all around the room. Again disrespectful to
a teacher, but not crazy awful. It's not like you
and not you know, they're not calling her names, They're not.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
No. What was horrible for me is I was trying
to find the beat that they were going for. I
could not get the rhythm. I couldn't either that I
rewound it going am I is it me? And it
was all over the place. They could have actually established
a rhythm.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
And now, okay, so I agree with you one hundred percent.
I also have to ask you a question that I'm
going to put you on the spot for because I
don't know this at all. Okay, are they good dancers?

Speaker 3 (21:36):
Oh? You are putting me on the spot.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
I know. Again, I don't know. I could see the
bat unless I mean, I grew up watching ballet, so
unless it's Barishnakugh or something like that. I have trouble
spotting really good dancers. So I don't know.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah, I think, you know, I think Camille definitely had
a lot of dance, you know, the higher level of
dance background. I don't think the other ones America had
a great rhythm. I don't know how trained she was
as a dancer, but she definitely has moves that she
works on, you know, or has you know, worked with

(22:08):
as far as maybe around the house and you know,
family or something. But this wasn't like part of the
movie where you go as a dancer ooh all right.
I mean, it wasn't like Step Up when you know,
Channing Tatum busts out some actual dancing and he's just yeah,

(22:30):
freestyling that. That was not this moment.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Don't get me started on the Step Up franchise.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
Don't get me started, because I'm one of those guys.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Who love, oh my god, dance movies.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
The second somebody turns almost and looks at the camera
and says like we need to protest dance, I will
set up a tent in front of the theater to
be the first one in line. Yet and the Step
Ups just getting progressively better when they really bring Moose in.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
No, the dancing's just getting dnculous on that. So anyways,
but this was not one of those moments. This was
not oh wow, you know, but it was good. However,
my issue is that a lot of the choreography as well,
you know, as you get through it, there's times where
I'm going to stop in and have some comments about
the choreography that the actors were given.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
And again to go back to the quote unquote disrespect.
They show the teacher in the school at the end
of the day dancing in class, playing music so that
they can have a pep rally. These I mean, yes,
they're they're breaking the rules, but these are not awful
things that they're having them do.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
The the pep rally was cute.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah, they're good kids.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
I love that pep rally.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, that was fun.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
That was a fun moment in the movie, for sure.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
I did not understand since we're starting about the start.
We're talking about the start of the movie. They set
it up where America's character Yoli goes and buys pencils
and stuff she needs and then peanut butter cups and
then she walks in the bully stopper and then destroy
your peanut butter cups and then that's never brought back again.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Any She's not bullied consecutively over and over again.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
No, there was that that just kind of I didn't
know if if the bad the actual bad kids, were
going to come back in any way, shape or form,
or if that was just to distinguish between the real
bad kids and the kind of pseudo bad kids.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
I thought it was to distinguish Camille's character as being
respected and and tough.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yeah, like she could step to be able.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
To push that bully off. That's how I saw it.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
I can see that.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
But then again, it was like never her her being,
you know, her weight. That was not a part of
the the storyline. It was just this one comment, which
to me ended up being I didn't like that if
it was going to be part of a storyline of
something she overcomes and her self confidence, but you only

(24:50):
had a.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Ton of confidence. Oh yeah, no, she was.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
Not suffering through any of that. I loved her character. Yeah,
I loved her.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
I did too.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
No, again, the characters were were great.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
I would like to have seen them maybe a little
bit more done with them, but they acting, especially I
thought was very very good.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
I think it's hard when there's so many of them
to really try to dive in and build and you know,
have overcoming moments for each of them when there's so
many characters.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
I agree, But I mean Susan Egan great performance.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
I mean I would have done a little more with
her character, and some of the stuff was a little strange,
but she was good.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
Did you because I'm not going to say this during
spree seas because it's a different thing. But this was
definitely under it was she not a Reba McIntyre look alike.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
She kind of looked a little bit like Reba kinda she.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
I mean, if I had been watching this movie from
Afar and couldn't really tell, I would have thought that
was Riba.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Okay, I want to make that just the hashtag of
the day.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Thought that was thought that was Riba. She was great,
but she was very good. Looks so much like Riba
to me. I really it took me a while to
get over that. Okay, the Riva fans, this was.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
It was not It was not Riba. I can I
can verify.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
Thank you for that spoiler alert.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Thank you for the spoilers. Can we talk for just
a second about Chewie. Yeah, because he's a super nice guy.
He's he's supportive, uh he he loves being her boyfriend.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
But this guy should not be dating a middle schooler.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Well, I think you're gonna have to get over that. No,
you're right, we've established that. They Let's say, though, just
to kind of get past it, that she was in
high school great boyfriend in a lot of ways, Yes,
hear dating somebody who has just quit school. That's a

(26:41):
big red flag. And I don't know. It's like it
kept going back and forth, it kept going back and forth.
It was, Oh, he's so sweet, but he quit school.
But then he's the one that takes the girls and
and volunteers his gets his buddies to get the girls
to the competition, handles the music.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
For them up, supportive of her.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
Yes, he's super supportive. Then he has, you know, a
little temper tantrum about whether or not she was in
it for him and all this stuff, but then redeems
himself at the end. It has a great moment. That's
when I really clicked back in at the end, going,
this is why I love Disney movies. Look at him,
he's grown up a little bit. It's just nice short

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amount of time. This hi guy.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
I agree with you that it's a bit of a
red flag that you drop out of high school. You
should always finish high school. But they do go out
of their way to say that he's got a job.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
You know, he's holding it together.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
It's not like he's dropped out of high school and
is hanging out on the streets or he's a bad guy.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
He's not a gang member that they allude to Earl.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
No, it just school wasn't for him, and he went
and is handling his business in another way.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
But then sees how successful.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
She is in her career in middle school and decides
to go back to school himself.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Which I loved. I loved.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yea. Well, that's one thing they didn't talk about is
Chewy is actually only in the fourth grade in this movie.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
I'm glad he's going back to glad he's going back
to school.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
That's a lot of miss school opportunity. Yeah, well, I
promise I'm never gonna mention it again. I just think
this entire movie is different if they're in high school
as opposed to middle school. That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Sure, and in how it is set up, she we
would absolutely be in jail.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
So we're gonna have to get over that. We're just
gonna have to.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
Get that's it. Never mentioning it again, it is what
it is, never mentioned again. So then es Marelda. It
works in the school office. She gets is filing because
he's the student. We did this at our school too,
where the students would.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
Work in the office of office aids.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah. Sure, absolutely, and she finds out that miss Bartlett
has Juilliard in her resume and ask the principle if
they can get her to teach the dance squad because
the last teacher has retired and most likely from stress
because the team is terrible. But Bartlett has that you
can are you can tell instantly she's got some kind

(29:04):
of history and it's not a good one with dance
because she wants to shy away from this, right. I
mean she literally says, dancing is part of my past,
like She'm.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Not interested in opening that box again. Yeah, and keep
that shut and locked, thankfu.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
And I wanted to know what she's like, Ooh, there's
a there's a story here, which she kind of tells
three different times in the movie. When she does finally
give in that girls, obviously, you know she wants to
start from what she knows. She's going to put the
team together. They put that, they have the tryouts and

(29:39):
the girls are just not disciplined. They obviously the old
coach was if they can't even do one kind of
kicking or chorus line thing together, then the old coach
literally did nothing nothing, Yes.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
And unfortunately to kind of step in in reality, Unfortunately,
there are schools with programs like that that put together
these kids and then just do nothing or are unqualified
to teach it. You know, they're doing it as you know,
a stipend and they're not really doing much. So that

(30:15):
is very sad. That makes me sad that there's programs
out there like that.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
The guys on Boy Mets World we worked with a
choreographer for three days to do the hot Stuff dance,
and a lot of us were terrible, but we were
in sync after three days.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
Okay, you're right.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
So it's like you figure the slightest little amount of
work and at least the girls. So you kind of
hate the old teacher who you hate the kids, not
their fault, the old teacher.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
It's like you literally did nothing.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Now we do need to address one little thing that
hasn't kind of aged very well, because this is these
movies were really big back in the nineties of kind
of the what is now being called the White Savior setup, right,
like you said, the uh Mind's Cool Runnings blind Side,
where it's you know, the white person comes in to

(31:06):
an underprivileged school or town or something like that and
saves the day. Has an aged great we won't. We're
not gonna harp on it because it's a Disney movie
and we're here to have fun. But not the best
look anymore. But it's it's yeah, it's just a tired trope.
But it leads to some that I mean, not the

(31:27):
fact that she's white, but the fact that a teacher
who knows how to dance comes in and sets up
here's what really needs.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
To happen, right and levels up the program right, levels
up everything. That's amazing, amazing and great opportunity for the kid.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Leads to what I thought was the funniest scene of
the movie, which is the audition scene, which is all
of them dancing and them just and then just cutting
to the teacher kind of watching them dancing. Yes, and
again es Merelda with the interpret when she rolls on
the ground twice and is kind of like in the
fetal position. It was hysterical.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Yeah, I love that Sabrina scene on. That was super good.
It was so funny. And that's when so again here
I am actual coach. I coach phenomenal dancers, phenomenal dancers,
and I'm going, okay, not one of them has done
one technical aspect. They've basically just been slide. They've been

(32:24):
doing the chacha slide separately. There's not a lot going
on here. And then when Sabrina's part comes on, I'm like, Oh,
it's to distinguish that they're not really back. Oh got it? Okay,
because you know, sometimes it's tough. Sometimes whoever is directing
or producing the movie doesn't really know a lot about dance.

(32:44):
So they'll have someone come out, an actor, will audition,
do their audition piece, throw a little freestyle in the
audition room, and the director goes, that was great, and
a real dancer is going that was not great, sir,
that was garbage. So I wasn't really quite sure, and
I realized they were setting themselves up to not be
a great set up of real trained, real trained dancers.

(33:07):
So then I clicked into the reality of what was
happening in front of me, and I went, all right,
let's let's not be let's calm down. Okay, this isn't
your team. They're not dancing for you.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Is it wrong that The one of the only things
I was thinking during that scene was they're they're practicing
up on the catwalk because in the in the auto
mechanics room, because they need to use the car down there.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Who's turning on and off the music down there? It's
like somebody has.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
To run down, Oh, that's a good turn, and then all.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
The way back up to do their dance.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
I was stuck on thinking the reality of what happened
with that basketball team happens to me at the school
I work out, and all the my you know, my
friends and coaches that I know throughout Orange County the
dance team, and it happens in college too. The dance
team is like the lowest on the totem pole of

(34:00):
who gets time in the gym and the proper facility
to train the teams. Really we are it's basketball comes in,
Volleyball comes in. We've got these little clinics for baby
kids that you know are learning basketball, and then we
get the time, and then between them it is I
was already again, I'm way too in, I'm way too

(34:22):
connected to this that I didn't even see a perfect
Sabrina C's moment of who was turning on and off that.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
That car, the car with the music.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
Yeah, some of my friends, their dance team dances in
the cafeteria. They push tables aside and that's where they practice,
so sad.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
Yeah, well, okay, I have to ask them, this is
really the first time we're bringing up your whole dance
team and stuff like that. Are they cheaty girls fans?

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Oh? Man, you know, they are not as much. They
think I'm a huge dork, but they do get a
kick out of they do. I think I'm a super goob,
like I'm such a gub to them, But they get
a kick out of other teams When we're at competitions
that will recognize me and want to come up and
take a picture. They get a kick out of that

(35:08):
because to them, I'm just Sabrina. But when someone else
who doesn't get to train with me sees me and
wants to take a picture, they're like, oh, cool, that's
our coach. Other than that, they continue to treat me
like the goop that I am. And I'd prefer that
that would be It would be hard to coach a
bunch of kids that were starry eyed all the time, right, Okay, yeah,
that makes it so I do prefer it. But at
the same time, you know, hey, guys, yeah, I've kind

(35:29):
of done a couple of cool things here and there, right,
But yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yeah, like playing for eighty thousand people. I think that count.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Yeah, I'm fip by the way. Maybe because I use
words like hip, they think i'm a good hip.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yeah. I hate to tell you this, but you, as
I did with my uniform behind me, from my super
Pill Freedo uniform, you just picked your superhero name. You
are from this day on Super Goob. I hate to
tell you, Okay, but you I.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
Want to Kate, then I want to Kate.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Just pick your superhero name.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
Cool. I'm good with that.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
So the audition scene, not even that like before we
got to the dance audition part, but the actual audition scene.
We have everybody come in and the new coach breaks
down what everybody has to do to be on the.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
Team, the expectations of the season, and it seems to
me that they're pretty normal things that they ask.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
Like she says, for instance, you were gonna wear your
gym uniform, white sox, and clean shoes, and one of
the girl leaves. One of the girls stands up and
leaves because she says, I'm not scrubbing my sneakers.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
No, no, thank you, that is way too much work
for me.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
I'm not cleaning my shoes no one can have a
failing grade. Two more girls get up and leave them out.
That is understandable.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
You mean I have to do school at school, I'm
done in order to do this. No, that's too much.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
No, no jewelry, no dark lipstick, no long painted fingernails.
Two more girls leave.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
I have never felt more heard in that last one.
Will What do you mean?

Speaker 2 (37:13):
What does that mean?

Speaker 3 (37:15):
Anyone that has coached under me knows that well. Not
the lipstick, the long fingernails that they are going to
try to dance with is that is a rule? My girls,
they don't even put acrolix on by the time I
have just harped on them about this, the long nails.

(37:36):
What was the other one?

Speaker 1 (37:38):
It was long nails, no dark lipstick, no jewelry.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
Jewelry is another one. They are rules. You cannot compete
with them. That's a rule for cheerleading. So this is
where it's hard because my program is connected with the
cheer squad. So but we give them the same rules.
We're not gonna tell the cheerleaders they can't have long
nails and then let the dancers do it. So we
keep them accountable together. But the girls cannot handle it.

(38:03):
It upsets them every year around homecoming when they want
to get their long nails, and I call them Cardi
B nails. I love Cardi B. I love her nails.
I just don't want my dancers having them during the
season or long while they're supposed to be in uniform.
They're all different colors.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
What's too long because you have long nails? Are those
too long?

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Are those?

Speaker 3 (38:24):
Okay I'm not dancing and I'm not in unify what.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
I'm saying are those? Would those be too long for
your dancers?

Speaker 3 (38:28):
These would be way too long?

Speaker 2 (38:29):
Way too really? Okay?

Speaker 3 (38:31):
Okay, so yeah, of course that's you know, hard that
the coach gets to wear them and they can't.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
But you come in just dark lipstick, jacked out in
jewelry with super long nails, like, here's what we're doing.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
Girls, got mister t jewelry And yes, and and my
nails are you know, looking like I can talk with
my nails? Click click click. So anyways, but yes, I
have never felt more heard. My dancers, if they ever
heard that line, would probably look and I was in
the room, would probably look straight at me like this
is where you probably got these wolves.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
I love that so much okay, so yeah, so yeah,
the principal that we've already talked about the h the
idea that the principal coming in and kind of saying,
we're the basketball team's in here. Though they made him
cool about it, where he's like, i'll leave, You're right,
this was a mistake.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
She's like, no, you need the baskets. Both the teachers
are cool. There's almost like a weird sexual tension between
the two of them.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
But that happened.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
Wait a minute, I don't remember this part of this.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
A lot of guys in the direction because there's a
couple scenes where they have them both from off camera
and then come in and face each other and then
step back off camera.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
Again, so close together. Yeah, yes, there's a lot of
personal space being used by both.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
I didn't know what they were what they were going
for there.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
But okay, so a lot of girls leave, but she
ends up getting the team that she gets, And now
we're going to start. Is she starting the way that
you're supposed to start, Sabrina, because I don't any of this.
This is where you said the coaching was.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
Yes. I love that she starts this team with a run.
My girls run a mile before every practice. Okay, it's
part of conditioning, it's part of building strength and endurance.
Makes sense, It's it's also part of you know, I
have a huge push towards treating my dancers as athletes
because they are sure and that's part of every school's

(40:24):
you know program pretty much is that there's a there's
amount of running. Yeah. So I loved that the actual
dance practices didn't seem Again, this is when I what
is she doing? Why aren't they drilling? Why aren't you know,
to the point where when it comes to the first competition,
it's like, well, no, wonder if they look like that.
Those practices were not set up correctly, There's no eaven

(40:47):
gonna look great. It was kind of just chaos. It
just seemed a lot of a lot of chaos, not
actual real good conditioning dancing and things like that. I
would have loved them to be drilling a lot harder.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
I think that that's well, I think the first I
think the reason they did that the first time was
to show that while she took the job as the coach,
dancing was still behind her and she didn't want to
have anything to do with it. And that was one
of the kind of issues I had with the movie
is they they did the you don't seem to really
want to be here thing like three different times. Right,

(41:21):
It wasn't they. It wasn't They didn't come to her
one time and say like, look, you got to teach us.
It was one girl came to her and said, I
feel like you could teach us a lot more. Then
another girl came to her later and said, I feel
like you don't want to be here. Then another girl,
So it seemed like the same scene three times before
she finally said okay, and three times she said, wow,
is it really feel that way? You know, I don't want.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
To Oh I didn't see how yeah, okay, And.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
I would like to have seen a little bit more
like you're saying of, you know, like bring it on,
which again, much bigger film and a lot more time
to develop the characters. But you know, they showed them practicing,
they showed them learning their routines, they showed them getting
better and progressing, whereas this one kind of just went
did a competition and then maybe showed a little bit

(42:08):
of something, but then just another competition where now they're better, right,
and then the last competition where they were a question
for you, is the good luck chanting thing at a
team as you're leaving, Is that a real thing? As
you pass the other team you chant good luck?

Speaker 3 (42:24):
No, not at competitions. That does happen at camps during
the summer that the teams go to.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
That's dropped that one.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
Yes, that's where. That's where that chance that. As far
as my experience, I've never been at a at a
competition that they do that. But it is something that
some some teams do. It's I don't know, it's kind
of cheesy. I feel a lot of teams don't. But
in the sense of what I do love about the

(42:55):
community that we have within these is of course yes
we are all competitive, but there is a big thing
that coaches take really a real big, you know, aspect
that we try to bring in is making these kids
not just competitors but good sportsman's and making sure that
you are you are when you pass you know, different
teams when you're at competitions, you do wish them good

(43:16):
luck good luck today you guys, you know or if
you see it, I love your costume, not not a
fake way, but you know, to it's not about hating
everyone that's out of competition. It's not about that. It's
go out there, do some fierce competition worthy teams out
on the floor, but off the floor, be a good person,
be a good competitor. So that part is is true

(43:37):
true nature.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Yeah, that's great. Well, let's break down what we think
is the best scene of the film. Daisy and her
boyfriend Chewie, who again probably shouldn't be allowed within five
hundred feet of the school, is in the girl's locker room.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
Again a hum like, why are you in the girl's
locker room, Chewie? It's now who let you in here?

Speaker 2 (43:57):
I get what they're doing. It's it's supposed to be Saturday, right,
and you know that nobody's supposed to be there. She's
got to pick something up for her locker. He's there
with his girlfriend.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
H If I were to have if I were to
walk on campus and be on a on a weekend,
which there's a lot of teams that are practicing and
stuff over the weekend. Sure a lot of activities are
happening on school campuses, and I were to walk into
the girl's locker room and one of my girls was
in there with her boyfriend, I would have lost my

(44:31):
she's I would have freaked out.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
So especially if her boyfriend's thirty eight. Yes, that's the
that's there. There in lies the other problem. But they
they grab her stuff and they look inside the gym.
They hear music. They look inside the gym and there
is miss Bartlett flash dancing straight up. Like, now, is

(44:54):
this this is good dancing? Right? Is it good dancing?
I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (44:59):
Sabrina not dance in that era? Nowhere near it? Why
was she transported back so far with the with the
moves style of dancing.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
That's eighties dancing, right, she did not?

Speaker 3 (45:16):
Yes, okay, early eighties, early early eighties before her time
of dancing. She did not look that old if she
was an older teacher and doing that, okay, yeah, why
did she get transported into the flash dance? That's no,
she looked like a young teacher.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
Yeah, yeah, she wasn't particularly hit.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
That bothered me so much. This is when I really
started to lose going. I don't know if I can
watch this anymore. I don't know if this is gonna
get better.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
Because you know it because and then she finishes the
dance and she breaks down crying, which again, good acting beat.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
The way she does it is a great acting moment.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
I will tell you that some people really work through
their emotions and things that are going on through movement,
and I am a pure supporter of that.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
I think she's also alone that they. I think they've
brought it up to where she hasn't danced in a
long time. Right, she's kind of ripping off the band
aid and by herself. Yes, she's getting it's it's cathartic.
She's out there, So I understand that. The then Chewie
and his young girlfriend leave the daisy. They leave the

(46:31):
gym and daisy and and Chewy says, I think the
teacher's hot, which makes sense because they're the same age
and and and she's like, no, the dancing.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
Why has she never shown us that dancing that she
needs to show us that?

Speaker 3 (46:44):
Yeah, I would I would have also been pissed, but
I also would have been like, you're the one that's
teaching needed. I don't want to.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
No, if I want to do that, I want to
go get one of those old videos that people used
to work out to, because I think I'm gonna learn
more off that.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
Okay, Yeah, that's Jane Fonda.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
Okay, you were giving me Jane Fonda, and you're my coach.
I'm out, I am out, throwing my pomp poms in.
I'm done.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
I don't know again, I got it here, Jane.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
All the dancing look the same to me.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
I'm sorry. I just because I don't know it. I
don't know it at all. Again.

Speaker 3 (47:18):
I started getting I'm getting hot right now thinking about
how I felt during this.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
Can's help. So then they go on there, as you
might expect in a Disney movie, they go on. She
learns to work with her team, The team learns to
work with her. They learn to work together. Daisy gets
an opportunity to really show her stuff and gets into
the school that she's going to want to get into.
The team does well. Everybody's happy, good good Disney.

Speaker 3 (47:41):
Can I say I loved every time they did those
close ups on Camille. Yeah, at the beginning of the
of the dances. Man, she's fierce. She those looks.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
Yeah, I would, I would.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
You're about to get a girl, You're about to get it, like,
oh man, she was so hyped. I love that part
time they did it.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
I agree.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
She was like, I'm coming for you. That is exactly
what I tell my girls when they've got there for
yours like jazz dance, Like look at those judges straight
in the eyes and say, you have no idea what
you're about to see. I'm about to blow your mind
with this dance. You know that Camille, Camille goes right
into it.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
She's got the cheetah in her. Yeah, let's do our
real reviews.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
You know.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
Every week we do our real reviews, which we take
a five star review and a one star review, which
are completely and totally real off the internet machine. I
think I did the one star last time, so I'm
going to leave the one star to you. Hey, I
will do the five star. This is from Mom to
three girls. As a parent, I always appreciate it when
we see something on TV that allows me to start

(48:46):
up a conversation with my kids about these issues. My
oldest daughter is a competitive gymnast, and we saw this
movie for the first time a week before her first competition.
This movie was a great way to help her understand
the difference between being quote the best end quote her best.
Seeing the characters work hard to reach their goal while
still having fun really helped her get in the right
frame of mind to compete. Nice nice five star review,

(49:08):
nice thing mom sees it with her with their kids.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
Love that, and one hundred agree to with that messaging.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
Love it, Love that.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
All right. Uh, I'm gonna say this is a one
star from d Element Element Okay, I'm always thinking. I'm
just you know, the user names get a little tricky
for me. Anyway, it's a big file of poo. It's well.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
I mean, the movie does have some very real time.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
Way too hard ch.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
Was way too harsh talking. The direction wasn't bad. I mean, no, agreed,
way too harsh. It was not No. I I especially
going back to that messaging of the five star the
end of it, I got over every single thing that
I was harping on and you know, feeling different again,

(50:07):
trying to disconnect myself. Had a hard time. I think
it's just because I'm in the midst of competition. Yeah,
I would say, yeah, But the end messaging both Chewie's
messaging with what she did, the decision she made with
her boyfriend to just go all right, buddy, kicks, I'm
gonna go ahead and progress my life, him realizing he
needs to do the same, and then as a coach

(50:28):
the best and her best. I could cry right now, thinking, wow, coach, yes,
hit it on the mark of what you should be
teaching your kids. It's not about perfection. It's about your perfection.
It's about you being better every time you go out
there and do it.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
Bam, wow, Okay, just nice. Then I'm not even gonna
say what I was gonna say about having some montageousues.
We're gonna skip right past that and we're gonna go
right to our three and a half. Right, you're right,
you're right on the We're gonna pretend we're not. Okay, okay,
three and a half facts. As everybody knows, that's three
real facts and one fact from the internet machine.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
That might be real. We might just be spreading a rumor.
We can't confirm it.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
We have no idea.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
Do what I think you started last time? Do you
want me to start?

Speaker 3 (51:11):
I did you do this time? You go this time?

Speaker 2 (51:14):
So the films, this is our first one. The film's catchphrase,
the motivating and simple ci sipuete translates to yes I can,
and that was the motto of the United farm Workers
of America and was coined during the nineteen seventy two
to twenty five day fast from activists Caesar Shavez by
the union's co founder Dolores Queta.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
Wow, all right, little history for you, little history. I
love that, Cipe. Let's do it. Yes we can, all right.
The second one is actress Elizabeth Song, who played the
school's receptionist. Miss Kim actually did attend Julliard and earned
a BFA in dance. She'd eventually also appear in a

(51:52):
ton of shows, including The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and
Charmed Wow. Get it Elizabeth Key.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
Yeah. Number three is according to the movie's writer, the
woman who inspired the film came up with the title
kick It Up, which really is just another bring it on.
But there was already a kick it Up movie, so
they added.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
Gotta gotta all right, there was a kick It Up movie?
Was there? I do remember.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
I'm hoping it's either soccer or football related about the
kicker on a.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
Football, you know what? I think that was along the
you remember the era of bend it like Beckham.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
Of course those.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
Movies were I Kick It Up? Was that? Okay, I'm
gonna have to look it up and no, because I
feel like I know that movie exactly because I love soccer.
All right, our half truth maybe not truth. Canner cannot deny,
We're not sure. Mentioned only by Collider. They said that
Gotta Kick It Up was actually cutely referenced in Barbie

(52:47):
by the end of the film, what specifically by America
Frere's husband both in the movie and real life, Ryan
Peers Williams. They don't give the actual example, but they
just say near the end of the film, this might
make me watch it again again because I'm gonna need
to know exactly when that happens.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
Okay, Well, that's all I'm gonna be looking for at
this point.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
Pretty cool. I know you're just gonna be so distracted.
Where's the reference? Where's the reference?

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Yeah, the whole time, You're like, I didn't see anything
of the movie. I'm just waiting for i Gotta Kick
It Up reference. All Right, we're gonna play a little
bit here and Okay, So, considering that one of our
facts was about the title of the movie, some people

(53:36):
that we know have come up with other titles for
the film, all right, and we need to pick what
the best one is. So the first one is is
Sisterhood of the Traveling Dance. We got to rank these,
all right.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
The second one is Cheetah twirls.

Speaker 3 (53:57):
So good, so good.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
The third one is might be my favorite bring it Off?

Speaker 3 (54:08):
No, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
To catch a Predator named Chewy?

Speaker 2 (54:17):
And then an actual real question would have been a
better name.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
Honestly, I would have not been shocked if that was
put on the table during the time of creating this film.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
That would have been a great name. I think that
would have been a great name for the for the movie.
But what's what's your favorite one at that list?

Speaker 3 (54:36):
Be honest, bring it off? I think I'm going You're gonna.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
Go bring it Off. As as funny as to catch
a Predator named Chewy is, I don't think that could
be a Disney movie. I think Bring It Off wins.
Although Sisterhood of the Traveling Dance is also pretty great.
Can we we've talked about some of them, can we
do some Sabrina sees.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
Yeah, this is one that I mean. I was, after
again having a hard time to disconnect myself. It all
came to this culmination of the end. So I was
going to talk to you about how many times the
dancers that were supposed to be the better teams were
so often timing you could tell that the choreography was

(55:22):
those were real. I could tell those were real routines
that they somehow got their hands on teams and brought
them in to film something, right. I could tell because
their choreography was significantly different than what these actors were
doing the main team that we were watching, significantly different

(55:43):
because those routines were not really necessarily put together, like
a real palm routine. And then we get to the end, right,
They're going to the regionals, right, they get to the regionals,
which I don't know what the other competitions they were
calling actually were, because regionals are your first competition of
the season, and then you go to is regionals. Those

(56:05):
are like, you know, your your warm up comps, right, right,
So that was confusing to me. But all of a sudden,
they go up next Los Alamidos and I'm like, wait, oh, well,
maybe you know there's some kind of significance with the
movie bring it on as far as it being modern

(56:26):
day high school and I think a high school centennial
is where the storyline of this big reference. So I'm going, oh,
they must have heard about Los Alamitos. Okay, cool, and
then Los Alele the team comes out in there.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
I recognize the uniform team, a huge.

Speaker 3 (56:46):
That's been around, and they're so good. My girlfriend shout
out Jen Ramirez, who has coached them for years and
built a phenomenal program. Those are her girls there, and
I'm going, I'm instantly text messaging Jen, Jen, what's going on?
And she goes, I think you're texting the wrong Jen, Sabrina,
I wasn't in a movie. I'd love to be in

(57:06):
a movie. What are you talking about. I'm like, Jen,
I'm looking at your girls' uniforms and she goes, oh,
that's right. They did do this. So somehow one of
her JV coaches was within the industry with choreography, found
out about them looking for Palm teams and her girls
were in it.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
Oh that's cool.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
Isn't that cool? So I recognize and then it just
and I'm going, and of course theirs was the best
team routine that had gone out onto the film, you know,
on stage at that point. But what a cool I
mean again, I'm trying to disconnect, disconnect and disconnect. Well
right back in because my friend's team is in front
of me dancing. They look great. They look sharp. They

(57:45):
looked what I wish the rest of the teams that
competed as well. As you know, the last performance was good.
I feel like they could have gotten a few more
dancers that were really technical to make it look like
they were closer to the level of the Los Ale
dancers that they were competing against, because the end says
they got second, fair right, you know, they got second,

(58:09):
but I wish it would have been a little bit
more comparable of where they were dance wise. But again
that's me being a dancer. Not everyone's a dancer. Not
everyone understands Like, I didn't know that. Did it look?
Did you see a huge difference in the dancing?

Speaker 2 (58:24):
No? I mean again, there was some I was watching
it with Sue, who was like, hey, wow, that's they
see some of them seem off, But I don't.

Speaker 3 (58:31):
I was it couldn't tell, right, Okay, I couldn't. Okay,
So that's what I'm saying. Sometimes, you know, again our
own experiences. I'm sure people watch Johnny Tsunami and things.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
And that's not how you surve for those.

Speaker 3 (58:43):
Guys can't board worth crap, you know, or whatever.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
So okay, yeah, you watch it differently as a dancer,
you do, I get that. Yeah, well, can we rate
it now? Yeah, let's rate it. So one out of ten,
drumming desktops, sexy dances that end in crying, Julliard dropouts,
Dusty pomp poms? What do? What should we do? Dusty pompoms? Horn?

Speaker 3 (59:09):
They did dust.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
It does? I'm sorry that sounds like a porn name.

Speaker 3 (59:17):
The poms they use at the first competition are so
wrong in so many ways. Oh, they were so funny.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
You're right. You could have done Sabrina Sea. You could
have done an hour of Sabrina Seas because you know
this so well?

Speaker 3 (59:29):
Yes, I mean they had. They were back in the
day with what the the you know, nineteen seventies dancing
we saw with the pomp poms, with the with the.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
Bob they set it up.

Speaker 1 (59:38):
They're all covered in like, uh yeah, they're covered in dust.

Speaker 3 (59:41):
They're giants.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
I say, then we gotta stick with dusty pompoms.

Speaker 3 (59:46):
We're gonna stick with dusty It's okay.

Speaker 2 (59:49):
One out of ten dusty pomp poms.

Speaker 3 (59:50):
What do you give this movie? I, in all honesty
to wrap it up, no matter how much. Again I
was nitpicking up stuff, sir, I shouldn't have been nitpicking
at I really liked the end.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
Mission, the end, the message.

Speaker 3 (01:00:06):
Messaging to me brought it so high up in my ranking.
I think it's a solid seven point five or seven five.

Speaker 2 (01:00:14):
Okay, you know we're not too far off. I was
gonna give it a six point five to a seven.
Dusty pom poms. Again I had and this is completely
on me, This is not the movie. I just had
trouble connecting with this movie because there wasn't a whole
lot for a forty seven year old man to watching
this movie. And again, that's not how I'm supposed to
be watching it, but that's how I have to watch it.
So I did not dislike it. The acting was solid,

(01:00:34):
the cast is great.

Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
Thing was great.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
Yeah, I thought there was, you know, some obvious issues
with the with the some of the spacing of the movie,
some of the timing of the movie. I could not
and this is like again just stuck in my head
the age thing through me. Yeah, but not, you know,
not a bad movie. Again, there's movies I like less
than others, but I haven't sat through one and been like,
this is the worst thing I've ever seen in my mind,
not at.

Speaker 3 (01:00:56):
All not at all, even with me getting caught up
on you know, technicalities of.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
The dance world.

Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
Still a great movie. I mean, we've got a whole
Latin cast that is doing wonderful out there.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
I just felt girl empowerment of just living your own life,
not allowing you want to make decisions for you, you
make your own choices and not let yourself get pulled back.
All of that to me was great.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
Always trust Disney for a good message exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
I loved that part. All right.

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
Well, thanks everybody for joining us for gott to Kick
It Up. Uh, and make sure to sign up for
our feed because we have a park Opper episode this
week with Camille Guatti. Yes, the amazing Daisy from Gotta
Kick It Up. I can't wait to talk to her,
which is awesome bad ass. Yeah, she totally is. And
the next movie we're going to be watching is Mash
with my wife Susan. No, I'm kidding, that is not

(01:01:46):
at all what it is. The next movie we're going
to be watching just it's just like wait, what just
in time for Saint Patrick's Day. Yes, we're gonna be
watching the comedy that a lot of people have asked
us to which is the luck of the Irish.

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
So I'm pretty sure it's on Disney Plus.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
You can go over and you can watch it before
we kind of talk about the film, or you can
let us talk about the film first and you can
watch it after.

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
It's completely up to you. That's the joy of freedom.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
So remember to subscribe to our feed and you can
follow us at Magical rewind Pod on Instagram. Thank you
all so much for joining us, and we will see
you next time.

Speaker 3 (01:02:23):
Thank you bye.

Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
They were in middle school