Zapped

What happens when Zoey has an app that controls boys?… Will and Sabrina are watched Zapped starring Zendaya and Spencer Boldman.

This film premiered in 2014 as a Disney Channel Original Movie.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hi, Sabrina. Hey will Okay, quick question. What's the app
on your phone you use the most.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Oh, You're gonna look so horribly down on me, but
it's definitely my Instagram, Is it really?

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Oh wow?

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Because other than that, I mean I'm on like a
Tetris kick. Other than that, I'm not really on.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
My phone that much.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Or of course my it's like my camera whatever game
I'm on.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Actually, you know what, hold on, I don't feel like I.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Use my phone that much. I do go on Instagram.
I probably at this point right now am using my
audio books app more than my Instagram.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
On that.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
I love throwing on my audiobook and like or like
I heart and like listening to like a podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
But I'm not familiar them.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
No, you're not familiar with that.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
I'm not familiar with my heart never heard it.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
But other than that, like unless I'm working or whatever,
I think that's kind of the only apps I use. Okay,
but I've got a bunch of them, which is ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Oh yeah, I've got fifty two apps too, like a thousand.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Don't use any of them? What about you? Since you're
not on a Xagram.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Apps that I use eight to ten hours every single day.
And it's my clock app because I use it as
my clock. Oh okay, I sleep with my phone next
to me, with my with my clock app.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh my gosh, yeah, I have never seen Oh why.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
When you can make it lighter darker? So when I travel,
I always have the same I have the same clock
and alarm everywhere I go at my house, travel, whatever
I do.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, I use my phone for my clock too, for
like my my wake up call.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
There you go, clock app, There you go, there you go.
Your Well, it's true that.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Brings us perfectly to today's wonderful film. But first, welcome
back 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 I'm Wilfordell.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
And I'm Sabrina Brian.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Well. Nothing says Disney Channel like manipulating men with your smartphone.
So this week we're diving into the twenty fourteen sci
fi comedy Zapped, starring one of Hollywood's biggest modern day names,
and it's just one name of that, Zindaiya Sabrina Are
you Zindia fan?

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Oh you know it? The last time we covered one
of her movies.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
I I'm a huge like I love her.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
I've I just I have always from the first time
I watched her, just have thought this girl is a star.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
I mean, she she is. She's just unreal.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
And then this one, unlike the other one, we got
like a small hint of her dancing nobility. This movie
you got to see how magnificent she is as.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
A dancing Yeah, in a stupid, pointless scene that meant
nothing to anything.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
To anyone to and including me.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
But I don't care, Like I would watch that section
over and over again, Okay, I would.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
I think she's so great.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
It made me actually go on YouTube start downloading all
of her Dancing with the Stars clips.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
And Dancing with the Stars, Oh yeah, she murdered it,
And I don't I think she was. I think Lisa's no.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Okay, I was gonna say, I think it was a
classic unfortunate thing that tends to happen on Dancing with
the Stars is the best dancer doesn't win.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Right where they gave it to somebody who dances on
TikTok and then claims she's not professional. I get it started.
Don't get me started, don't get me started. All the
all the bets are off when it's about my best friend, like,
oh yeah, so don't get me don't I get it?

Speaker 3 (03:59):
I get I get it.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
I agree she's a star. But we will get into
that in a little bit. Zapped itself debut on June
twenty seven to twenty fourteen, and since we noted the
first decom appearance of a cell phone back in the day,
we got to now announce it's our first app the
listen and obey app yeis. The movie was filmed in
the dcom capital of the North Kanada and is based

(04:21):
on a book called Boys Are Dogs Isn't That Wonderful,
which might just be the most on the nose awful
title in the history of titles. It was written by
Ya author and obvious man hater Leslie Mark Golis, and
it's part of a series called Annabelle Unleashed, which makes
sense because the original title of this movie was Unleashed.
Each book in the series apparently has to do with animals,

(04:43):
so check out some of the titles. Boys or Dogs,
Girls Acting, Caddie, Everybody bugs Out One Tough Chick and
Monkey Business. Did you have any book series you read
as a kid.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
I think I remember, you know, uh the box cart
series books series?

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (05:04):
The I don't know, I don't know and goose bumps.
I remember, yeah, Steint arl Stein. Yeah, I read what about.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
You just box Car Children, The box Car Children.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Okay, there we go.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
No, I read fantasy stories after fans, so like the Belgariad,
the Malorian series my favorite than the Choose your own
Adventure books and who do you have?

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Somebody that got you in them? Like that steered you
in that direction.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah. My third grade teacher with the she she had
us read The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynn read Banks,
which is one of the greatest books ever, and that
got me kind of into the fantasy world after that. Okay, yeah,
then it was just.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
All because you're talking, what age that you jumped into
this fantasy world?

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (05:45):
Eight?

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Eight? Yeah, the third grade, so yeah, eighter nine is
when I started real. But but I started with the
choose your own adventure books. Then you go to the
Peers Anthony books, which as a kid you think are great,
the Zant books, and you read as an adult and they're
just like horrifyingly awful. And then I found the Belk
series when I was probably about twelve, and that just
changed my whole life. That was just when I started
reading about Bell Grath and Paul Gara and Gary and

(06:07):
it was like, Oh my god, the world just opened
up to me. It was the coolest thing in the world.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
There was a.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Book that was that's mentioned in this movie that caught
me off guard a little bit, just because I know
in this movie that we just know.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Which to kill a mocking Oh yeah, which, of course
every every young girl's favorite book, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Zapp was also Oh We'll get there. Zapps was also
a broadcast success, bringing in five point seven million viewers
for its debut, making it the most watched broadcast on
cable that night. Okay, did you watch it? Did you

(06:41):
know about this? Twenty fourteen? You missed all this too?

Speaker 3 (06:44):
I was not at all.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
I knew nothing of this obviously either, and I'm glad
I didn't. Zapp is available right now to watch on
Disney Plus, which can either guide you through our recap
or our recap can guide you through your viewing. Either way,
a guide will be hired, so please do a background
check and keep it professional. Well, get the JV squad
ready to perform. Here's our synopsis. High schooler Zoe discovers

(07:07):
a magical app that lets her control boys like dogs.
At first, it makes her life easier, but soon chaos
erupts when she learns that controlling people isn't the same
as connecting with them. Early thoughts, Sabrina, what did you
think of this movie?

Speaker 3 (07:22):
This movie was rough for me.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
It was it felt like one hundred thousand minutes long,
and at the beginning, I just kept like the I know,
we get really like extreme rooms and things like that,
but the bedroom for her, the bathroom, like there was
just so many things that I was like, this is
really like over the top two big. Disney does big,

(07:48):
but like's they're always they're usually hone it into just
that perfect level, and just even from the the house
in general, even that I just I don't know, I
things were throwing me off from the very beginning of
this movie, and sometimes, you know, we both talk about it.
We got to like maybe we're in a weird headspace

(08:08):
and we're not like going, Okay, no, this is a
Disney movie. We're gonna kind of like and then once
we get in the zone it gets better. That never
happened for me, and I was very frustrated because again
I love Zendia and everything that she's in I feel
like is gold and I was like looking for the gold.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
I was right, I'm on a gold hunt, on a.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Gold hunt, and I can't find it. Sydiya, I'm sorry.
I had like anxiety from it. It's just you know, yeah, it.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Was not my not my jam. This movie was not
my jam. It was yours, though, Wasn't it my favorite
so far?

Speaker 1 (08:43):
I loved this I hated this movie. This is I
think possibly, and I don't mean possibly. No, I'm gonna
say it. This is the worst movie we've watched so far,
in my opinion, totally my opinion. I could think of
nothing I hated more than I hated this movie. And
I agree with you one hundred percent. She is a star.

(09:04):
None of the acting was bad. It wasn't like the
acting was bad, it was just so. She was fine.
I get she's a star. The story, the script, there
was nothing about this movie that I liked. It was
a really bad movie. In my opinion.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
I found a pink blazer that I really loved.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Okay, war, Okay, there you go.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Well then, and I did like the dancing, Like I said,
I thought.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
That anything her troop and.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
What she did. You know, I was excited for this,
like battle. I love a dance battle and.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
You kidding my dance battle King is I know?

Speaker 3 (09:47):
And it just kind of fell flat because it really
just didn't matter at that point. It did.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Nothing mattered. I don't understand it, but I am excited. Eventually,
it's towards the end to talk about one of the
most awkwards I think we have seen yet on the Channel.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
I can't wait. I can't wait, Chef's Kiss, I can't
wait well. As mentioned earlier, the movie stars Zendaya, who
began her career on the Channel as Rocky on a
show called Shake It Up, then as the star of
Casey Undercover. She also appeared on episodes of Good Luck,
Charlie and Aunt Farm and was put on the musical
Fast Track as well releasing pop music through Disney Records.
And this was actually her second t com. She first

(10:23):
starred in Front of Me as alongside Bella Thorne, a
film we've already recapped, so go check out our archives
for that Zinda would eventually grow up and become one
of the most sought after talents in Hollywood, and rightfully so.
She is in the Spider Man movies, The Greatest Showman,
the Dune franchisees Challengers, and the HBO show Euphoria, which
makes me jump to my knees and Thank God I
didn't have children, which won her the Golden Globe and

(10:46):
the Emmy. I watched one episode of that and I
was like, if kids are like this, Oh my god,
I don't want have anything to do with anybody. Yeah,
oh god, the drugs and say ah. Anyway. She's also
set to voice a new character in the upcoming Shrek
movie and to star in the movie I Cannot Wait For,
Cannot Wait For, Cannot Wait four, based on my favorite
book of all time, Christopher Noland's next movie, The Odyssey.
Oh just the little things I'm hearing about it. I'm

(11:07):
salivating already. And we've got Spencer Boldman as cool guy
Jackson Kale. He was a Disney star as well. He
played Adam Davenport on the show Labrats and guest starred
on I Carly Jesse and Mighty Med. In twenty twenty two,
he was in four episodes of Welcome to Chippendale's, but
not a ton of acting as of late. Then you've
got Chanelle harkwayl if sick. I hope I'm saying that

(11:28):
right plays Rachel. We've seen her before in one of
our old favorite T coms, Radio Rebel, and more recently
she appeared on the TV shows Sacred Lies, Supernatural, Happy Face,
and a Million Little Things. Amelia McCarthy plays Taylor, and
she's another magical rewind fae from her time in the
Zombies movies. God, these just made me long for a
Zombies movie. You may recognize her as Lacey, one of

(11:49):
the human cheerleaders alongside Addison. And most importantly, this movie
runs Sorry I'm taking a pause, my anger subside a
hundred and two minutes, an absolutely disgusting number twelve over
the bulls Eye of ninety and just the wrong foot
to start on. If you ask you, my disappointment is immeasurable,
and my day is ruined, Actually several days are ruined

(12:12):
because I couldn't get through this movie in one sitting
and stopping and starting and stopping and starting, and.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Then having to rewind because you're like, wait, what I
think I've I think I missed it, I went too
far because I'm lost.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yes, and we don't like to blame anybody for that
on this show. But if you're looking to blame somebody,
it's director and actor Peter Delouiz. He's best known as
Officer Doug Penhall awesome alongside Johnny Depp in the eighty
show twenty one Jump Street, one of my favorite shows
of all time, and he was great on that show.
He also started in Squest twenty thirty two and Stargate
SG one, but he's also a very established director with

(12:46):
quite a career. Deluiz started with some episodes of twenty
one Jump Street and then continued to shows like Kyle
x Y Andromeda, VIP and Silk Stockings. But now he
is heavy in the Hallmark Game Lucky, directing movies like
Love Under the Olive, Treenica on Rye and A Brush
with Love. On the writing side of things, author and
again man hater Leslie Margalisee got her credit for writing

(13:08):
the book the script is based on. Then we have
the Eddie brothers, Billy and Matt. We've mentioned them before
as the writers of teen Beach two, and this was
their first movie. They go on to write a few
other d cooms, Bad hair Day and Invisible Sister, which
ironically we haven't seen the transition of their career, then
took them to the Monster High Movies, and they also

(13:29):
wrote on a Disney Junior show Eureka. By the way,
I didn't get a laugh for that, and I think
the irony of us having not seen Invisible Sister was
pretty great. There Sabrina, But whatever, I'll try harder.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
I I got caught. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
I got caught on Bad hair Day because I think
we saw we did do Bad hair Day at this point.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
Bad hair Day is the one with the so the
one whole day. Yeah we did that one.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeaheah, the wig and yes, okay, yes, we want to
make sure that's what's I got the cop.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yeah, I got interviewed the woman.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
Who played police officer.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yea, I know I missed your your good one joke.
I'm so sorry, my.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Good wall Oh that was such a backwards like what
you'd say, Oh my god, she's a sweet spirit.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
I'm so sorry. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Well, I did not mean it that way. I got
stuck on the Bad hair Day and missed your joke.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
I'm sorry, I'm gonna have you know it's you know
you're funny when you have to point out every one
of your jokes. And now everybody sit, bag, bark, shake, rollover,
good boy, it's time to break down. Zapped Exactly, we

(14:46):
opened up a fancy wedding and app alerts young Zoe
Stevens that it's time for the toast. Also, what the
hell app is that? Talk about? Specific Also, there's an
awful lot of z's in this movie. Zapped with Sundeia
as Zoey Zoe Yeah. She announces that she's not only
the daughter of the bride, she's the maid of honor.
She's thrilled about her mom's new husband, Ted, but emphasizes
that her and her mom had been alone together for

(15:07):
quite some time, and now she'll have a whole new
family to live with, not only just Ted, but his
son's Adam, Zach and Ben. They're all messy, smelly bros.
And the idea of living with four guys because the
dog two is Humphrey is also a male, is weighing
heavily on her mind. She must accept that her life
is completely changing, but it's not going to be easy.
As she raises her glass, the boys trigger a chain
of events that sends Humphrey running unto the table and

(15:29):
a fondu bowl full of chocolate. It doubses Zoe head
to toe and now she looks like carry on prom night.
Zoe takes a deep breath and angrily finishes the toes
to her new family and remind you don't just keep
in your head about her being covered with stuff, because
it happens over and over and over. Yeah, we jumped
to a week later. Zoe's asleep in her room at
six forty five, and yes, since it's the main character's bedroom,

(15:50):
forced to learn a little about her in the form
of posters highlighting dance and music. This was obviously your
favorite bedroom we've ever seen, am I right? Little for you?

Speaker 2 (15:58):
It just didn't make sense to me. She's just moving
into this house and she's got it's just so decorated.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
To me, it was like, you don't know why that
bothered me.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
That's why I had to be like, Okay, check yourself,
where are you mentally?

Speaker 3 (16:14):
Why is this irritating you? Like?

Speaker 2 (16:16):
I don't know why, but honestly, I literally, I mean
we're two minutes in I thought she was so cute.
I thought I loved her toast. I thought I was like, gosh,
she's such a cute actress.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
She looks gorgeous. YEP, I get to the room and bam,
I'm irritated. I'm like, what's going on?

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Like, okay, I guess the irritation isn't gonna stop. So
then we are startled by a bullhorn. It's Ted now,
screaming like a drill sergeant telling the boys to get
up for the bus. The kids fumble all over each
other as Zoe walks out of her room confused. Ted
tries his hardest to adjust for the new female in
the house, but it's just not working. Now. In her bathroom,
Zoe is working with a beauty planner app because why not,

(16:53):
to get ready for school, and she's interrupted by her
youngest stepbrother who tries to share a sink and fidgets
with her makeup cover in the room and powder. She's
also disgusted by the pea around the toilet bowl. The
reality of her new testosterone filled family and their frat
house style is just not working. With each man set
very much in their ways, it's starting to sink in
for her. Life's going to be very different. The brothers

(17:14):
even take to the kitchen to make disgusting protein pancakes,
stealing her cottage cheese and acting all around like animals,
like no human kids ever do in the history of
the world. Three brothers that are making Hey, it's right
before school, let's cook pancake never happens. Zoe looks to
her mom for help, but her mom can't do anything
about it because she's barely there in this movie in

(17:34):
an absolutely useless character. They just do things differently here.
Her mom tries to calm the situation by presenting her
with her childhood music box, a gift from her deceased
dad shaped like a castle. Also, tomorrow marks her first
day of high school and dance tryouts. Back in the kitchen,
the brows are still brown out, leading to an eruption
when the middle sun starts the blender before putting the

(17:55):
lid on once again, drenching Zoe head to toe. We
are five minutes into this film. She's been covered with twice.
It's now the next day at school and Zoe is
taking everything in. A skater almost crashes into her jocks,
are lifting weights in the parking lot, nerds are playing
video games and there's a group of smelly guys who
are just smelly. None of this makes any sense the

(18:19):
skating Okay, totally understand that. Yeah, but did you often
find guys with their shirts off in the parking lot
or the quad just lifting weights on full benches?

Speaker 3 (18:27):
No?

Speaker 2 (18:28):
And we've got to pause on that because I'm like,
practices and standards and practices, that's like big thing.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
I've talked about it a lot.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
I had to wear leggings under every single skirt that
I ever wore on the channel.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Why can these guys be half naked?

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, lots of man nipples.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Understand, And they come twice like they actually talk about
it later on and You're just like, this is weird
to me. It was uncomfortable? Am I weird to think
that on the channel? It's uncomfortable to have like teenage
guys without shirts on and they're like lifting weight Like
that was just like a weird.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Thing to be on the channel in general.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
But every group that she's encountering our boys too, which
I thought that was strange. I mean, I get it,
this is we know what the right is, but like
that was weird that there were no girls at all
in this And then yes, like when we walked past
the football team's locker room right, like there, that's where
they are after practice and their doors are open, it

(19:28):
stinks like it's gross.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Just sure.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Locker room, right, And yeah, I'm sure there are smelly
boys in school, but not like this, like this is
just a group of kids.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
You don't care about their school? Are you going to?

Speaker 2 (19:44):
I don't know, but this is one another thing that
I'm like. This was the second thing of so extra.
These things were so over the top that was weird
for me because again, yes, we're expecting that of the channel,
but the channel usually has a really good radar of
what's just too.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, and this again, this is twenty fourteen. This is
not big huge Disney channel of nineteen ninety eight.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
No, this is we are Yeah, are they veering back.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Into I don't know, maybe they tried.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
I remember feeling we said something similar about Zindea's other dcom.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
Yeah, a little bit bigger than it needed to be.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Well, they obviously are seeing her and she's good at it.
They're seeing her as like a very physical comedian. But
it was just it was by I was like smelly groups,
how is that it's not even a thing. Okay, Nerds
get it, Jocks get it.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
Yeah, scholey guys like, what the hell is that?

Speaker 5 (20:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (20:38):
I don't know. Yeah anyway, Now, she eventually stumbles on
Trip this guy or the Tripster or Tripathon. He's a
surfer type actually named trip and she asks him for help,
but instead he just farts on her. Yes, this actually happened.
I had to look around my room for hidden cameras
in case I was on a frank show. He just

(20:59):
turns around and farts on the beautiful new girl in school, right.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
Not even turns around, like lifts his bub and ull.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Like on the gorgeous brand new girl. Who's just because
first of all, there's nowhere in the world where any
guy looks at Zindian is like, who's the ugly girl?
Like she's stunning and just walks into the school and
the first thing this guy does is fart on her,
like you do so ugh. By this point, I was like,
I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to get through
this movie. In the Malaise of Gas, Zoe meets Rachel,

(21:29):
a cool boy, crazy girl in a fedora who wants
to be a friendly face and a helping hand. Rachel says,
all the boys in school are cute but gross knuckleheads.
Rachel's main target is a boy named Charlie who looks
a lot like Justin Long, so let's just call him
Justin Short. Eventually, Rachel leads Zoe to a classroom where
she's startled by a movie about praying Mantis's Praying Manti
prankmmit about a praying mantis that they're all watching. And

(21:52):
I was thinking to myself, movies on the first day
of school. Really okay? Her shriek makes her the center
of attention, and lo and behold, she's in the wrong class.
Algebra's on the other side of campus. Thanks so much
for Dora Rachel for leading me in the wrong direction. Also,
we're introduced to Jackson Kale and yes, that's what I'm
gonna say his name every time, who's instructed to show
a where to go. He's a real rebel type and
a stupid beanie in and sunglasses and a leather jacket

(22:15):
with the sleeves rolled up. Dude, are you hot or cold?
Which one are you? Because you're wearing multiple layers and
you have a leather jacket on and sunglasses and class.
But you're rolling up the sleeves. Are you hot or cold?
Figure at the out? This movie angered me.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
Also why is he like thirty five years old?

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Right?

Speaker 3 (22:38):
He was so old, so much older looking than the
rest of the cast.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
Then everybody else, and the character was so like whoever, Okay,
so I don't know what the book is like this,
but whoever wrote like just didn't understand boyser men at all.
Where it's like, well, you're either a smelly idiot, oh
you're the cool guy who also plays chess and whiz leather.

(23:03):
It's like there's not a normal boy in this whole movie.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Yeah, there's no like guy, just guy. How is this
of her new brothers?

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Right now? At the beginning, he's the and we'll get
into this movie seriously angered me all I know, there
was so yeah, I just it was I'm.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Okay with pointing out things that got like the pain
and the toilet that drives me crazy.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
Yeah, and the boys don't pull up.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
But the thing if you ever go you know, so
many restaurants bathrooms are like unisex now, and if you
go to a bathroom and you see that.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
It's just out, it's it's gross.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
It outrages me. I can't handle it, Like this is
a everyone should be respectful on it, like like girls
are gross too. Anyway, I'm fine with that kind of
stuff me too, to point that out, but this is
so extreme, making it seem like.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
Every guy has is just disgusting.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
The worst, and I'm like, whoa except the one guy
who's a caricature of what whoever wrote this thinks every is.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
He's a bad boy but also a chess champion. Yeah,
and it's like.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
In the park and just read the books.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
By himself and his jacket with a beanie all the time.
It was so ridiculous, but anyway, so yeah, anyway, he
looks like justin Bobby from the Hills and is actually
a honky genius. On their walk, Rachel stumbles through her
words and he's openly flirting with her. He eventually wanders off,
and we notice a pretty and concerned blonde has been

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watching this interaction the entire time. And now at the
Dance Squad audition, Zoe rives a bit late and joins Rachel,
who traded in her fedora for a flat brim sideways
baseball cap, and guess what, that blonde girl who was
suspiciously watching Zoe talk to Jackson Kale. Well, she's tailor
and she's the captain of the varsity team. Running the audition.
With an iron fist, she announces the varsity team is full,

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but there may be a spot if you're perfect. Zoe
tries to introduce herself, but only gets attitude in return,
and even worse, when Zoe looks in her gym bag,
her shoes are covered in the boy's pancake mix. Because,
of course, as Zoe ties on her pancake sneakers, Taylor
quickly busts out a routine to memorize.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
Okay, but why didn't she go to the bathroom and
just like get some towels and clean them off before
she puts them?

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Can I also ask a question, as you're a resident
dance expert, couldn't she have danced barefoot?

Speaker 3 (25:35):
She could have. I don't feel like she would have
wanted to.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
I understand better choice than pancake shoes.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
The choice would have been to go to the bathroom,
grab some towels, ripe off your shoes, and then put
them on like that would have been the choice.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Or she had tennis shoes on already.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
They weren't like dance in your shoes. They weren't like
hip hop tennis, right, they weren't. They weren't kicks.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
As the kids say. Yeah, kicks to me will always
be a serial.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
But she could have worn those.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
It was very like, you know, yeah it was again,
it was just like these were just odd choices throughout
the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah, you know what it seemed like to me, and
I'm just realizing this. It seemed I know it was
a YA book, but it seemed like this was a
book written for kids that were eight or nine. Then
they decided to just put them in high school without
changing any of the stuff that happens in the book. Yeah,
Like like like if this were if it was the
exact same movie, but they were all in the fifth grade, right,

(26:42):
smelly boys and missing the toilet, then all of this
would make sense to me.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah, or even yes, even if they were the age
of We just watched a few of the new episodes
of Wizards of Waverley Place.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yeah, the Wizards Beyond Waverley Place, Like yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
That they're young character in that she's like probably in
like fifth or sixth grade, Like.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
That could have worked make them make them nine or ten.
Then it seemed like that's what this book was. And
they went, no, we're not going to change a thing
about the book, but we're gonna make everybody fifteen. It's like, well, then.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Changes Sendea in it. So they're like, we need something
for Sendaia, so we're.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Going to add some We're gonna add some some dance elements.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yes, it was such very.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
Some opportunities for her to have music. I do believe.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
I don't know for sure, but it did seem like
she was on the sound her soundtrack, like the main.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
Which we're catching. Yes, there we go, there's a popline
they were.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Taylor quickly busts out of routine to memorize. No candidates
can remember the moves except for Zoe, who not only
nails it, but she adds some flavor to it. Everyone
is impressed except Taylor, who now hates Zoe for two reasons,
being a good dancer and talking to her ex The
dance felt a little goofy to me. But what did
you think, dance expert of the this first one?

Speaker 3 (27:59):
The first Yeah, I was kind of like, oh uh oh, oh.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Don't do it. Don't do it to my girlsz Yeah,
don't do it to Zeke.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, that part was kind of weird, but this was
the thing. When I saw what they were going to do,
I went h oh. Then Zendia did it and know
the choreography was not like great, but.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Look, and that's.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
Where you tell the level of just like skills she
has that she can make something like that. It's like
watching Alison Stoner do some of the choreography that was
that we saw in Camp Rock and they looked amazing
doing it.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yeah, they're great. Zoe does eventually slip on pancake mix
and fall onto Rachel and then causes everyone to get rejected.
Zoe begs for any way to make the team, and
as a result, she's added to the JV team along
with Rachel, filling out a squad made up of just

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nerdy boys because again, boys suck. Back at the house,
so he's even more disturbed by the boys. They're bathing
Humphrey in the tub and they ransacked her room, even
breaking her dad's castle box. She can't believe how awful
her life is. She wonders if there's anything on her
phone that can help, and that's when she finds Listen
and Obey an app that costs nine to ninety nine
and allegedly makes it so you can command your dog

(29:22):
to do anything if you really think about it. This
won't help her issues with the boys at all, but
she installs it anyway. She immediately uses the app to
get Humphrey to sit and then shake, and it works.
She's impressed, but right then the dog reaches up and
snatches the phone out of her hands, drops it into
a water filled bathtub. When the youngest stepbrother tries to
drive it through centrifugal force centrifugal centric, spinning it around

(29:44):
a lot over his head. It's centrifuical, but it's just
a hard word to say. He accidentally flings it out
the window and onto a satellite dish, then down the
solar panels, landing in a bowl of wet dog food,
causing it to short and spark uncontrollably. After retrieving it,
she just lays in bed depressed. Her mom suggest something
she found online, putting the phone in a bowl of rice.
Have you ever done this?

Speaker 3 (30:04):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (30:05):
I have too, but man, it just totally ruins the rice.
I love rice. Zoe doesn't even really care about the
phone anymore. She just can't take living with these boys.
They're ruining her life. Her mom suggests joining her family
on a run to the park later, but she decides
to stay in bed, and the phone is still ominously
sparking in the rice. The next day, she's awoken again
by the blowhorn. She grabs her phone out of the

(30:25):
rice and hey, it works. Everything's still there too. Maybe
today will be a better day after all, But of
course it's not because boys. The boys are just as
gross as ever, hogging the bathroom and causing chaos. But
she does have one thing under control, Humphrey the dog.
She uses a new app to make Comfrey sit, but
now he doesn't do anything, And at the same time,

(30:46):
a mailman makes his way to the front door. As
she tries again to say sit, no response for the dog,
but the mailman involuntarily falls to his butt. Then she says,
lie down, and yep, the mailman lies down. Shake he shakes. Also,
shake is not that dog command. When you ask a
dog to shake, you're not asking to shake, You're asking
to give you their paw. So none of this made
any sense. This will happen a lot in the movie.

(31:08):
Have you ever told the dog to shake? And what
you meant, was this?

Speaker 2 (31:12):
No, No, My dog Rocky used to do I would
do high five and he would pop, like pop my hand.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Yeah, we say five, we say Sammy gives nucks, we
go knocks and she raised it up and she goes,
I mean yeah, yeah, shake. But that's what shakes are.
When you ask a dog to shake, it means give
me your paw, not shake our old dog. When you
would swimming, he knew shake it out, which after you
get out of pool, we go, all right, shake it out,
and then he'd shake it out. But shake means give
your paw. So this was another weird kind of like

(31:41):
why she now she doesn't see anything that the mailman
is doing because her back is turned to the front door.
She doesn't even see when she says do a trick,
which is again not a thing, and the postal care
does a front flip. Then one of the brothers appears
with a gross, sloppy nacho borsh twitch and she tells
him to put it down, which she does obediently. Then

(32:02):
she tells him to pick it up and he does
it in a zombie like fashion. Okay, she's now not
actively using the app, so does the phone just need
to be near her. I am now officially confused again
for now. The nineteenth reason what's.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Going on that is exactly what I was gonna point out,
is she's just giving these commands at this point.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
I mean, I don't know, I don't understand.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yeah, the rules. What are we talking about? The rule?

Speaker 2 (32:34):
Because sometimes she's got her phone and she's like speaking
into it and hitting a button and hitting a button
to like make it happen. And then but at this point,
right now in the movie, she's just saying things and
the phone is just like magically making it happen. I
don't know if there there's already there's like a blurred
lines of these rules. They're not making sense at all.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
We need the rules, people, we need the rules.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
We need rules otherwise a follower makes sense.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yes, thank you. And now at school, she tells Rachel,
who's back in a fedora, that the boys in her
life are acting weird, and then on cue trip runs
up and farts on her again. When has this happened
in the history of the world anyway, I don't even
want to say the word again. The girls are rightfully disgusted,
as would any normal human be, but no one would

(33:23):
ever do this. We see that the app is on
in her pocket and she tells him to stop, and
he stops. So she just accidentally kept the app on
the entire time. Okay, Sindana, Yeah, okay, y see either way,
Trip turns zombie and completely freezes his mouth agape. She
puts two and two together and realizes she has a
magic app. She says speak and Trip responds, you're you've

(33:46):
been whipped by the Trip. She quickly instructs him to
shut his mouth, and he does. They go back and
forth with commands until she almost instructs him to take
a poop in the hallway. This movie is so weird.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Weird it is like, I don't even know it's so
And by this point.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
I'm openly yelling at my screen by myself. My wife
can hear me from across the house, going what's wrong,
And I'm like, this, Bobby's the worst thing I've ever dake.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
I mean, but also, and this is the thing.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
No one else seems to notice that this stuff is happening,
which also is strange to me because it's not like
small things, it's like big things. We get later on
to like she freezes the whole school with all the guys. Yeah,
like the yoga and the this, and like it's not
weird to anyone. Nope, Nope, including the adults, the very

(34:40):
small amount of adults that we have in the movie.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
Nope, who are so awful too. By the way, Rachel
can't believe this. What is up with Zoe's phone? It's
the most amazing thing in human history. But when she
tries it on the mean girl dancers, it doesn't work.
So the app only works with men because girls are
too caddy. That's what she was talking about. Boys or
dogs and girls are caddy. Also, you have an app

(35:02):
now in your phone that can control all boys. It
seems like nobody really gives this the do that. It's
you've just found huge magical powers and everyone's like, wow,
you got a app on your phone that controls boys.
It's like what I felt like I was taking crazy
pills halfway through this.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
Yes, Also, like what would you honestly want to use
that for? I don't know, Like, what would you what
would be the purpose of doing this? Like in her world?

Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah, I don't know. We're gonna find out, I guess,
and so Zoe and Rachel I will exactly I'll hit
a little bell boom. Maybe I found it. I say
that because I have no bells around me, because I
wouldn't have to hit it anyway. And so Zoe and
Rachel make their way to the quad to try it
out some more. They tell skaters to stop, causing one
dude to crash. The gamers are told to do something

(35:53):
good for their well being, so they drop their mobile
devices to start yoga. The gross unhygienic guys are told
the fit themselves, and the jocks are told to put
their shirts back on, then quickly told to take them
off again because they're buff hotties. Why can you imagine
if this was boys telling girls to take something off? Right?

Speaker 2 (36:12):
And the way that they you know, this is how
it was written for them in the script, but the
way they play it, it's like.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
Strip clubbish.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Yeah yeah, Like they're like, oh, take that off?

Speaker 5 (36:24):
What?

Speaker 3 (36:24):
I'm sorry, I don't know what?

Speaker 1 (36:27):
What? What network?

Speaker 3 (36:29):
I'm watching this movie on now? Very weird.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
And that's when they see Charlie Wang, the justin short
kid that Rachel likes, but he's too emotionally closed off,
and so Zoe instructs him to be more open about
his feelings, causing him to jump up and talk to
the Fedora Queen. And now even the tripmeister is told
to be nice to Zoe, even saying toodles as he leaves.
She now controls the male population at the school and
she is loving it. Back at home, her oldest stepbrother,

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who is arguably the most ADHD character we've ever seen
the d com she tells him to be fo focused
and he reacts by focusing on a nearby lampshade to
admire it, like she just dosed him with acid. Then
her middle brother appears with a jelly pickle taco carmel Sunday,
so he's told to go make better things. She forces
her dad to bring down the volume of his voice
and commands her little brother to be clean, two things

(37:16):
that'll definitely make her life easier. Happy with herself, she
decides to walk on free to the park, and on
the way she talks to him about her newfound power,
admitting it might not be ethical, but it's working, and
then she runs into Jackson Gale and the flirting resumes.
He's reading to kill a mockingbird in the park because
he's a bad boy with a heart and a brain.
It turns out to be Zoe's favorite book, because what

(37:38):
fifteen year old girl's favorite book isn't To Kill a Mockingbird.
The butting courtship continues back at home. Zoe's mom walks
in to see the boys cleaning making locally sourced or
dus and Ted talking in a reasonable tone. Also, the
oldest is still staring at a lampshade, and you figure
by day two of this, maybe they'd call somebody. The
next morning. Their dad can't yell his normal good morning

(37:59):
routine wish. Now unable to startle anybody, Zoe finally gets
the morning calm she's been looking for. At school, the
boys are still under her spell, and Charlie is all
over Rachel. Even the gross boys are waxing their eyebrows
and wearing vests. Any problem caused by boys have been
solved thanks to the app. Taylor and the varsity dance
squad are practicing hard in the gym while the pitiful

(38:19):
JV team is starting their first practice. Zoe is nominated
as captain, and she quickly realizes the team is doomed,
but she has an idea. She pulls out her phone
and uses the app instructing the guys to follow her lead,
and just like that, she has a killer squad of
almost professional dancers. When Taylor sees the new results, she's confused,
how did they suddenly become not terrible? And why is

(38:40):
Zoe talking into her phone, which, by the way, was
something she didn't need to do earlier, So now she's
talking into her phone?

Speaker 3 (38:47):
Now she is. Now we've switched.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
The game, change the rules, and a new rivalry has
been born, and we get a dubstep dance. Had to
look that up where JV pruves they're just as good
as Varsity. I shouldn't have to look these things up
because I don't know if you're aware of this, but
I'm kind of a dance expert.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Now I am very well aware of it, and I
feel like dubstep you should already know.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
Though from.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Deadpool, No, from Step Up, Step Up movies.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
Okay, yeah, it's like a style of it, which.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
I still didn't know what it was. By the way,
if you ever need any instruction in dance or need
to know anything about dance, hit me up.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
I'm so glad that I'm happy to walk you through
already such a great relationship with you that now I'm
already calling you.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
I have to finish my new routine, so I'm definitely
gonna be calling you for.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
That three words shuffleball change. I should four Wards doesn't
think shuffle ball is one word anyway. Zoey brings Taylor
to the principal to make the argument that JV should
now be the school's official dance squad at state championships.
She proposes a dance off to see who's really the best,

(39:57):
and they'll do it at the first basketball game of
the year. Again, none of this makes any sense. This
infuriates Taylor, especially right after the meeting with Jackson Kale
where he asks Zoe to hang out. Meanwhile, the school
basketball team is struggling because of all the changes Zoe
is made to the male athletes, and her stepdad, Ted,
who's the coach, now can't yell out his instructions anymore.
Her magical powers are backfiring. She even references the issues

(40:20):
Michael J. Fox runs into during Back to the Future
and other movies were changing the pass can destroy it,
and the girls, of course come up with the idea
that no, the reason that that doesn't work all the
time is because they're boys again. Boys suck ass. So
she's visibly nervous, so that maybe she is changing the
past or the future or whatever. And yet it's time

(40:40):
for Zoe to hang out with Jackson at the nearby
fifties diner where his chess club meets, because of course
he's also in the chess club. She accidentally calls it
a date mid conversation and melts down, running off to
the bathroom to call Rachel. By the way, okay, I
will say this, he looks like he's forty years old.
Act like you said. The character is ridiculous. Her character

(41:05):
is okay, but kind of But the two of them
together just talking on kind of a date. Make this
the movie You're on Calm with the two of them
where she gets a thirty five year old man she
meets in high school, whatever you want to do. But
the scenes of just the two of them together, even
though he just plays the quiet guy, it's like, this
was okay, just them sitting and talking.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
Yes, every time.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
They were on camera together, it was like, okay, yeah,
I'm good, I'm.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
Good with this. I like chemistry. Her bumbling kind of
quality of not knowing how to date is very intriguing
and killing you and it's like do this, and he's
kind of him being the cool guy, but you also
find out there's more underneath him. Again, the character, the
way they wrote it was ridiculous, but a week of
his character would have been great, and together would have

(41:52):
been awesome.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
Awesome, awesome.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
So but again, this relationship as we see kind of
goes nowhere.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
Means kind of nothing, nothing like yes, it's like there.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
But you're right, if that had been the core of
this movie, I would have loved it, because I did
like them on camera together, like they had a great chemistry. She's,
you know, this stunning girl who was like a blobbery
like fool around him, so cute.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
And if it was something, if it again, not trying
to rewrite the film, but I'm going to rewrite the film,
you know, if it's something like that. Do you remember,
I know exactly do you remember, Oh, what was the
one where Jim a liar? Liar? Oh? Yeah, okay, So
the power that comes happens to him, he can't he
has to tell the truth all the time. It makes

(42:43):
for better comedy, it makes for self deprecating stuff. It
makes for a journey where you have to learn something.
So if the app or something did something to her.
It makes it a different movie, as opposed to she
could control all the awful boys that are around her.
It's like, so if she's now on this date and
she can't control something because of the app where she's

(43:03):
like something, yes, something, it's like then.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
Or she starts talking about herself in the third person
like trip like that.

Speaker 3 (43:13):
Yes, that would have been curious and she would have
killed that.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
She would have told it so well with all of that,
and he likes her despite all these things. Like that
would have been great because the two of them sitting
across the table from each other. That was fine. I
could watch that for ninety minutes, but I can't watch
anything for one hundred and two. So yeah, she calls
it a date. Mid conversation, melts down, runs off to

(43:40):
the bathroom to call Rachel. They decide she can fix
the situation by introducing some competition and element boys love.
So she instructs two nearby chess players, including one in
a turtleneck, to flirt with her, and she returns to Jackson.
They try to rise her up, but Jackson didn't take
the bait. However, he does walk her home and they
almost share a kiss, which again and this moment of

(44:00):
the two of them looking at each other and kind
of fumbling being teenagers very cute. Inside the house, Zoe
then finds her oldest stepbrother on the basketball court, now
just staring at the rim. His focused thing is way
out of control. She decides to ask him for advice
about her date, and he explains that boys are just
as worried and stressed as girls are. They have pressure
in their life too, which is why he was always
running around unfocused. It helps her understand not only the

(44:22):
possible love interest, but her new family too, And I
was like, Okay, two scenes in a row that aren't awful.
I liked her with her brother too and him explaining
about being the new sister and it's just been as
tough in him. I was like, maybe this is a
turning point in the movie, Like maybe I'm gonna be like, Okay, there's.

Speaker 3 (44:38):
An opening in the class. Yes, sunshine, yallow, it will
yellow the light.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
And exactly as I tried to get, their trip farted
on me again. Meanwhile, quiet coach Ted fixes her castle
hand me down with some help from the boys. He
presents it to her and she's clearly touched. Maybe she's
misjudged these guys, or maybe they're only bearable because she
forced them to be. And I was thinking the same thing,
and She's like, this might not be the worst thing,

(45:04):
and I was like, there's still under your spell. Of
course they're great. She decides she will minimize the effects
of the app tomorrow and see what happens, even though
it's the day of the big basketball game dance off,
which means nothing. She wakes up late for school the
next morning, and now the app is turned down. The
boys and students aren't returning their old ways. They're even
acting stranger. Everything is unraveling quickly. Even the guys on

(45:25):
the JV dance squad decide to quit. She doesn't accept
their resignations. Instead uses the app to get them back
in line, but it's just not as effective as it
used to be. The guy's hearts just aren't into it.
But Zoe isn't ready to accept defeat, so she uses
the app again, this time to confuse the varsity mail
cheerleaders or dance squad people whatever they're called dancers. It

(45:46):
appears Zoe has let the power go to her head,
and even Rachel's a little disturbed, and so is Jackson Gale,
who caught the tail end of a little tirade she
went on, calling the varsity squad and Tailor a pack
of dogs. Now, since he's the good guy, the one
in the world, apparently, he's disturbed that she's treating people
the same way Taylor does. She tries to shift the blade,

(46:07):
calling Jackson hot and cold, but he says he just
doesn't know how he feels, and she decides she's gonna
respond by forcing him to kiss her. And now we're
getting into some legal territory here, everybody. Thankfully, he kisses
her cheek on that she aimed, which was cute, but
it was still like, what the hell. He apologizes and

(46:27):
said everything's off. Maybe they just both need some space. Ooh,
break up before they even started really. Back in the gym,
Rachel suggests they end practice for the day, and Zoe
turns off her phone until further notice. Soon after, in
the bathround, Zoe runs into Taylor again, who seems thrilled
about the recent chain of events. Rachel stops by Zoe's
house before this is by the way, she notes, okay,

(46:50):
so at this point, Rachel, no, I'm sorry, not Rachel
Taylor notices that Zoe is speaking into her phone. So
first idea is, well, obviously she has a magical phone
with an app that is controlling all the guys, because
that's of course the first thing you think.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
Right, how did she come to that conclusion?

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Just like it's a thing, Like it's a thing.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
There's a magic phone, right, like that, like those apps
actually exist.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
It just it was like, what God, this is again?
I think this is where I yelled, am I taking
crazy bills? Because I was like, what the hell's happening? No?

Speaker 2 (47:32):
Again it I don't know now, I can't now, I
can't unthink what you were saying before.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
Like this movie or the books or whatever were tailored.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
For a younger, so that makes a lot more sense,
like you know what I mean, a lot more magical
and all that kind of stuff like.

Speaker 3 (47:51):
Like that would have been a thought.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
I don't feel like a thought would have come to
a high schooler, like, no, she must have an app
that's controlling people.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
Yeah, that would be something that like a little kid
might think.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
Right, So this exact same movie set in elementary or
middle school, a young middle school with a young cast. Great,
then I'm buying it. It's all some smelly boys who
are nine or ten.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
Sure, but even just like that, like imagination of being
able to work?

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Yes, so yeah, of course that's the first thing. Two things.
But Rachel stops by Zoe's house before the big basketball
game and Zoe apologizes. She can't believe how she let
this app take over life. She needs to find a
way to fix things, but the app isn't working. It's
only made things worse. And that's when she notices a
paper on refrigerator. It's a notice from a college. A
scout is coming to see Adam play tonight, and since
he's still focused on random things, this is not going

(48:41):
to end well. She now knows she's seriously messing with
his entire future, so the girls run off to the
game to figure it out. At the game, the gym
announcer reveals that practices have been bad and there's a
college scout in the stands, two things no one would
ever announce as an announcer at a basketball game. Who
would do that? Ever? Wow? That it's been bad practice

(49:01):
all week and there's a scout in the stand never. Ever,
It's like whoever wrote this movie had never met an
actual male in their life, and so they second hand
got from another woman got the like another woman met
a man once and told her friend about it, who's

(49:24):
never met a man, and that friend went off and
wrote a movie about men. That's what it seemed like
to me. There's just ninety percent of the stuff happening.
I was like, none of this would ever happen ever. Yeah,
and this is not being Disney Channel.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
I'm okay for the Disney Channel stretch, Like you know
what I mean, I am okay with that.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
This is just to the point where it's just like absurd,
Like it like was like weird. It was just weird.
The Disney's weird stuff.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
The Disney Channel stretch for me is the Italian or
the Spanish guy who plays guitars plays guitar for the
Cheetah Girls, and Doe looks up and falls love and
he comes down while singing a song that I do
know I mean right, but but you know what I
mean though, it's like that they're like boys, but they're

(50:10):
heightened versions of boys. Yes, Doe falls in love with
the dancer, and he's a heightened version of himself. He's
a dancer, but a banker. But no, it turns out, Okay,
those those make sense. They're like still human. Yeah, this
none of this made any sense to me. It was
just like what is going on? And I know I
seem to be bashing this movie, and it's because this

(50:31):
movie sucks. That's why. Yes, you heard me, come at me,
Come at me all day I do. I will defend
movie I got from the beginning.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
I gotta know Lista probably knows the answer of this.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
What is like Team Zendaya called what are they called?
You know, like you know ladys, like they're like monsters
or whatever. Yeah, I gotta know what the who is
gonna come at after us?

Speaker 3 (50:54):
Because it's definitely gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
Maybe it'll be said. No, I even think I think
Zendeia herself if she ever got my number and hit
me up. The first she'd pick up the phone, she'd
be like, you're right, that movie was terrible, because she's
self aware enough as a performer to know this was
not a good movie.

Speaker 3 (51:10):
Yea, yeah, so she got the wrong She got the
wrong end of the.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
Stick on this one way way, got the fuzzy end
of the low because she is phenomenal and this movie
was not. They z Sweag swaggers zwagger like sweat like you.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
Got yeah waglaggers.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Okay, well, the Zwaggers can come for me, but I'm
gonna stop the guard on them before they get there.
Yi ugh. The coach and the team are still not
in playing shape, so Zoe pulls her stepdad and mom
off to the side and confesses. She tells them everything,

(51:51):
admitting she wasn't ready for her new life, but now
she wants to fix things. She just needs help. The
youngest step brothers suggests they do what they do with
their dog when they need him to stop doing sothing
yell release, but now into the app. Zoe of course
loves the idea because of course her family except her mom,
completely accept the fact that they've been under a spell
from a magical phone. She now, unfortunate though, can't find

(52:12):
her phone. It's gone and the game is starting. Soon
as the team takes the court, Zoe and Rachel figure
out that Taylor took the phone when she saw her
in the bathroom. We cut the Taylor and her underling
examining the phone. They've immediately figured out the app and
its powers, because of course they would. Okay, we already
talked about why they wouldn't put this cick but okay,
so now with the listen and obey app open, she

(52:33):
tells some nearby jocks to shake again. That would mean
shake her hand because it's not a real dogman, but
they shake, but it obviously worked, causing the next thing
we see is Taylor being carried in by some guys
in the basketball game on the throne and then telling
the visiting team to robot dance and her team to
kick their legs like roquettes, and in the weirdest turn
of events yet for a movie already filled with really

(52:54):
weird events, the entire gymnasium just laughs, assuming it's musical
theater inspired flash mob drunk with power. Now, Taylor tells
every man to bow down to her, just as Zoe
and Rachel arrive. Rachel knows this could be the end
of the world as they know it, so she tells
Taylor that the app won't solve anything. Forcing boys to
do what you want doesn't make life any easier. You

(53:14):
have to let guys act like themselves and accept them anyway,
which is well, what I assume is what my wife did,
and quite a message for young girls is this is
this Oh my god, did this rub any? Did you
rub me the wrong way?

Speaker 3 (53:26):
And it is? It does it was? You know you're
you're trying to I'm so big.

Speaker 1 (53:32):
You know.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
I grew up on the Channel. I love it.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
I love the messaging that the movies and the shows
always had.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
This message is terrible. This is terrible good message to
throw out into the universe for young kids to grab onto.
It's weird. It's so strange. This does not in any
way to me reflect what you would normally see on
the Channel. It's just I we agree top to bottom, yep,
right site as all of it. It's just weird.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
It is. Taylor doesn't care about her concerns and even
infers that Zoe used the app to make Jason Kle
Jackson Kle like her and perfectly time he enters the
dim just to hear the accusation, of course, still wearing
the leather jacket and the beanie, which that's got to
smell at this point. But Zoe swears to Jackson she

(54:23):
never used the app on him, but then amidst she
did once just for that awful kiss on the cheek.
To add insult to injury, Taylor forces coach ted to
scoot around and bark like a dog, which she does,
and right before she can command the rest of her
family to do degrading things, Zoe suggests a way to
directly punish her. Taylor can make Zoe do whatever she
wants her to do, no need for an app She'll
just follow her commands, and Zoe is told to beg, pant, sit, shake,

(54:48):
and roll over like a dog, which she does happily.
At this point, I'm like, why did somebody not just
go up? And it's like she's holding your phone, which
is clear, grab your phone, grab your phone back. Have
your mom go up and say give me my daughter's
phone back. Punch her in the face and you.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
Ate chop.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
I don't care, So I just I don't like do something.
But she does. So there's a lie. She's so she's okay,
if you haven't seen the movie, none of this is
a joke. So she does all this stuff. She pants,
she sits, she rolls over like a dog. Watching her
commit these humiliating acts pulls her oldest step brother out

(55:28):
of his trance somehow and he joins her on the floor,
also doing these dog things as a silly sign of unity.
Then coach stepdad Ted breaks out and joins in as well.
Then the rest of her brothers and Jackson Gale follow
suit like it's some sort of line dance. Notice the
mother does not come and join them, which I thought
was really weird. This also, of course infuriated but one

(55:54):
weird thing after another. This also infuriates Taylor, especially because
the app isn't work anymore. Zoe explains, you can never
make a dog turn against its own pack, and then
Rachel reveals herself to be the team mascot and tackles Taylor.
Why did she have to be the mascot to do this?
Couldn't she have tackled her like a while ago, just

(56:16):
run out and tackled her before all the using the
app and doing all this stuff?

Speaker 3 (56:22):
Now why I also thought she was with Zoe? Wasn't
Didn't we see her with Zoe just not long before this?

Speaker 1 (56:30):
Yep? I think we did.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
And then and then she she ends up like somehow
like secretively jumping into this mascot.

Speaker 3 (56:36):
I don't know. I was I was going, wait, what
did she was she doing?

Speaker 1 (56:41):
This?

Speaker 3 (56:41):
Was this the part of the plan?

Speaker 1 (56:43):
I don't I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
This is when I told you how I had to
rewind it I because I think I took a break
before this and went back and went, wait, okay, okay.

Speaker 1 (56:57):
Felt the same way. By the way, at this point,
after watching it in chunks, I looked down at my
watch and said, how is there.

Speaker 3 (57:05):
Still so much? I felt the same way, like, this
is not even almost done. I don't have a couple
of minutes left. There's fifteen, fifteen.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
Or twenty minutes left in the movie.

Speaker 3 (57:18):
And you're going, how, oh, how, how what else is
there to be done?

Speaker 4 (57:24):
Yep?

Speaker 1 (57:25):
So yes, she gets tackled. The tackle hurls the phone
into the air, and Zoe catches it to release everyone
from their trance. The men aren't The men aren't sure
what happened, but who cares. It's game time, and okay,
that's what's left in the movie, the basketball game. And man,
does this basketball game feels so unimportant now? Taylor assumes
Zoe he's going to use the app to control the

(57:46):
school and make every guy like her, but instead, our
main character smashes the phone, breaking it forever. She says,
there's more to life than what's on the phone, and
then the game that means nothing anymore starts. While Zoe
tells the truth to Jackson, she also admits she likes him,
and in turn, he admits that he likes her. He
wants to go on a real date with her, none
of this hangout stuff. Rachel interrupts them. It's time for

(58:07):
the big halftime dance off. Another thing that means gall
at this point, I didn't even remember it was happening.
At the end, I was like, oh my god. And
then they keep cutting to the college scout, like what
the who's taking notes in the front.

Speaker 5 (58:22):
O?

Speaker 3 (58:22):
Yes, of the dance scene, of the dance, Yes, all
of it.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
Anyway. The dance off begins with the varsity squad taking
the court first and performing a great routine. How will
the JV rejects ever ever beat them? Zoe tells her
squad to just follow their hearts and have fun. Without
the power of the app who knows what will happen.
The school uses an applause meter to gauge the winner,
and Varsity is way out ahead. As they wrap up
their performance, it's JV's turn now, and they start with

(58:48):
the traditional hakka, something two of the nerds had been
suggesting for the whole movie. Zoe joins in, and eventually
the whole team breaks out into a very impressive hip
hop er team. Fine, when everything is said and done,
their moves almost break the APPLA and they didn't need
the app after all, which leads me to wonder, if
they're the JV team, why did she have to do
the app to get them to dance? Well, if they

(59:08):
were good dancers the entire time, the JV team has
won and will represent the school at state, we fast forward. Well, okay,
I'm not even gonna get to the fast forward yet
because you're well, we're both resident dance experts, but i'll
throw it to you first. What did you think of
the two dances that meant nothing to anything and we're
just there to watch Sendaya dance.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
I I mean, I kind of just let the varsity
want happen because I was really just wanting to see.

Speaker 3 (59:33):
To be honest, they were okay, they weren't like.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
Noticeably horrible, but they weren't necessarily effective either. I don't
know if that makes sense. You know, It's like it
was kind of the first one was just it was
just kind of average. I don't think it was something
like super impressive of any sort.

Speaker 3 (59:57):
It was just just it was a dance mediocre.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
Yeah, I wasn't like anything great or but then you know,
Zendaya is trupe like they're great.

Speaker 3 (01:00:06):
It was fine, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
To me, it was kind of funny with the hakka,
like it was kind of like, Okay, I guess we're
really going for I'm not really quite sure, like why
Maui has jumped into my screen from Mauana.

Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
But that's what we're going for, okay, yep.

Speaker 3 (01:00:21):
But again, Zendaya was just like mesmerizing, so I was okay.

Speaker 1 (01:00:25):
She's a star. She's a star every time. You can't
take your eyes off her.

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
Amazing performer.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
Like I'm like, oh man, I wish I'd gone to
the show when she was on Dancing with the Stars
because she's just so good.

Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
I'm sure so good life.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
I didn't know she was on Dancing with the Stars.
I have never watched that show until the season. But
she's great. You can't take your eyes off her. She's
a total star. So we fast forward to sometime in
the future. Is always entire families getting ready for that
jog and Zowa's going to join them. It appears they
have successfully blended together and created one big happy music
movie over. Nope, movies not over. We then find ourselves

(01:01:02):
back in the tradition of characters dancing new music, mixing
with bloopers for the credits. We even see one more
scene where Ted accidentally calls Zoe Zendeia and you would
think that's the end of the movie again, but no,
we get a rare dcom after credits scene. We see
a male student cleaning the gym. He tries to impress
a pretty girl by doing all the work for her detention.
While sweeping, he notices the broken cell phone in the trash.

(01:01:23):
He examines it, and when the girl sprays it with
her perfume, it starts to spark again and we're right
back where we started. App ready to put everyone in
a trance. But more importantly, thank god, we're at the
end of our movie. Who are these characters that we
saw at the end, What did they have to do
with anything? None of this made any sense? Thank god,
this movie.

Speaker 3 (01:01:40):
Set up for a second one. I mean, I don't know,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
Oh, it's just bad. So anyway, let's do the real
reviews Sabrina and you've got the one star and we
have an honorable mention this week too as well. So
can you read us our one star reviews?

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
Absolutely? This one star comes from Shanny.

Speaker 3 (01:02:07):
St Creey movie.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
I'm against men personally, so this movie did spread a
good message. But dogs are the best and it's mean
to connect them to men. Love it adorable?

Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
That to me is as good and normal and like
like thought out a review as the film was. Yeah, okay,
but the honorable mention might be the greatest review I've
ever heard in my life. Can you read the one
star honorable mention too? Please?

Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
Honorable mention one star by Brian Frederick. If COVID nineteen
in cancer teamed up to make a movie, this would
be it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
It would be this.

Speaker 1 (01:02:48):
Oh there is a review for the Ages people. I've
got a five star review, which I'm amazed we found one.
Thank you, sir Jensen. This is a five star review
from izy h. Hello again, guys. I watched this movie
with my loud friends again, but they were okay this
time because I threw popcorn at them lol. First of all,

(01:03:09):
this movie is so good and shows a clear message
that girls rule and boys suck.

Speaker 4 (01:03:13):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
I knew so many people like the Queens Anddeia, the
boy from Radio Rebel and the dude from lab Rats,
the blonde mean girl from Zombies, someone from Make It Pop,
and a guy from Descendants. I think the only improvement
would be that all the characters wear plaid. Five stars. Wow,
thank you, Izzy h Babe.

Speaker 3 (01:03:30):
Next time.

Speaker 1 (01:03:33):
We break the pill in half. And now we come
to Sabrina's favorite favorite part of our program, the feature
game that we have. And so here we go to
celebrate the debut of apps in a d com. Thanks
to the listen and obey app terrible name for a product,
by the way, we were going to be given the
original names for apps or websites and we have to

(01:03:53):
guess from a multiple choice list which very popular technological
giant it became. So, for example, here's an easy one.
Uber Cab became Uber three out of five wins. Number
one Peekaboo was peekaboo, a Twitter, b TikTok or c Snapchat.

Speaker 3 (01:04:13):
I'm gonna go a cee Snapchat.

Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
I am too. I've never once ever used Snapchat. I
don't know what it is, but well I think if
I know what it is, it's like that's the one
where the picture comes up and then disappears, right it, well.

Speaker 3 (01:04:25):
It it's only up for twenty four hours. Was like
the idea of it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
I think it before before we start. I'm sorry, we
know the producer Jensen isn't here. Who do we have
with us? Reading? Reading us? This week?

Speaker 6 (01:04:36):
You're stuck with Lisa like you've never stuck with the
joy to have.

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
So yeah, there was this idea of like this was.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
I feel like Snapchat was right after like Facebook or whatever,
where you put something, you post something, and it's on forever.
This was this was it only goes, It only is
on for twenty four hours, and then it disappears. And
that's when my kids would think, like, oh, it's not that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
Big of a deal if I post like a lot
of issues.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
That happened with Snapchat originally was like the kind of
scandalous things that kids were posting because they thought they
could just like take it off. But it's like anyone
can screenshot it, anyone can see it, you know. Soever
people peek a boo makes sense to.

Speaker 1 (01:05:18):
Me, me too, snap Snapchat. We're gonna go both go.

Speaker 6 (01:05:21):
And see you're both correct.

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
Yes, okay. The next one, number two, Confinity is confinity
a PayPal, b zell or C cash App.

Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
I'm gonna go with a PayPal.

Speaker 1 (01:05:37):
I'm going to agree with you a PayPal.

Speaker 6 (01:05:40):
It is PayPal.

Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
Yes we are two for two. Number number three bourbon
b U R b N Bourbon. Was that a due
lingo B Instagram or see WhatsApp? I'm gonna say it's
b Instagram.

Speaker 3 (01:05:59):
I guess I don't understand bourbon at all.

Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
I don't either, which is why it's so weird.

Speaker 3 (01:06:03):
I'm going to go and see WhatsApp.

Speaker 6 (01:06:06):
It is Instagram.

Speaker 1 (01:06:07):
Hey, I already want I wonder what that what that
would be so weird to the obviously the guys you
created it, they knew exactly what that meant. It was
something like, well, I drank bourbon one night and I
came up with this idea. It's going to be something
like that. Number four BackRub was BackRub a Google B

(01:06:28):
discord or see uber.

Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
Background. I feel like is Google.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
I don't know why I'm gonna say Google this one.
For some reason, I'm going to say Google too, it
is Google. Hey, for.

Speaker 4 (01:06:44):
We won?

Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
We both won. And Number five kibble was kibble A Amazon, B,
Facebook or C Netflix.

Speaker 3 (01:06:53):
I think I don't know why I'm gonna go with
Amazon a A.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
I'm going to say, ce Netflix, did you just.

Speaker 6 (01:07:01):
Get a perfect score?

Speaker 3 (01:07:06):
Five or five? Do you know any of those for sure?
Right away? I knew like two, Okay, did you know
the Kibble one?

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:07:15):
I knew BackRub, but I can't remember what the other
one was.

Speaker 1 (01:07:17):
By the way, Bourbon, BackRub and Kibble and Confinity all
guesses for me. I figured peekaboo with Snapchat, but all
the rest of yeah, completely guessed.

Speaker 6 (01:07:25):
Buy that lottery ticket right now?

Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
Will yes?

Speaker 1 (01:07:27):
Seriously? Surreal? Wow? Can we do Sabrina C's please?

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
I thought you would actually catch on to this one,
but this movie, Zendaya is the queen of like Jackets,
Slash Blazers, Slash always has a second layer on.

Speaker 3 (01:07:48):
I didn't notice that she was just I mean, and
they were cute.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
And that's probably why I recognize it a little bit more,
just like her friend always had a hat on. If
it wasn't a fedora, it was like a sideways hip
hop hat.

Speaker 5 (01:08:00):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
And so yeah, to the point where my second one
is when her friend why can't I think of what
Zoe's best friend's name is?

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
Ohel?

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
When Rachel comes out of the mascot. I almost didn't
recognize her because she did not have a on like
your hat, yeah, which she It was like, your face
looks different because she don't have half of it covers.
Brought me straight to my second one, and then the

(01:08:32):
the last thing was just the bad girl's handshake. You
know how we've seen.

Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
I wanted to.

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
Actually, this is a question kind of for our producers,
who are complete, like amazing just pros at everything. Yes,
did that handshake ever become like a meme or anything
like that, because there's a very distinct handshake between the
bad girls right before they do their thing. They have
like a flip, a hair flip into this or that. Lisa,

(01:08:59):
do you know if anything happened from that, because it
was a pretty good handshake.

Speaker 6 (01:09:03):
I do not remember. I don't know. I think get
this one the one scene in that movie where they
get on the floor.

Speaker 1 (01:09:11):
On that one next.

Speaker 6 (01:09:13):
Other than that, I don't remember the handshake.

Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
I just recently saw my last one was I mentioned
it earlier in the podcast that there was one of
the most awkward scenes and this is like on the
top five most awkward scenes like on Instagram.

Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
It kind of made me go into it because I
hadn't we had seen this movie yet.

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
But this clip where they are doing the dog thing
and they're all they all join in. This was on
like Disney's number like top five, and it was like
number two. It was it was I started researching it
a little bit because we have seen some of them.
It's one of them was from the others one.

Speaker 1 (01:09:49):
Camp Rock twere they walk in the dance That one
is on it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
I'm trying to think of. And then there was like
a waver Waverly place one and then this was on it.
But anyway, so yes, so I had to make sure
we talked about it. I thought we would have anyway,
but it was bonkers.

Speaker 3 (01:10:07):
It was so weird. It was like, even though we
had already.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
Seen so many just strange moments and characters and things
that were going on, this still happened. And it happened
at the end of the movie, and then again we
already talked about it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:21):
Then I was like, oh my.

Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
God, we still have so much more time and we've
already passed the ninety minute mark. At this point, You're
just like going, what else could we do that's going
to just make this movie?

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
Ough?

Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
Yep, that was it. I'm at this, Okay, I'm I
never do this. I've literally I don't think I've done
this in however many movies we have reviewed. Yeah, but
I need to ask producer Lisa, Yes, did you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
Like this movie?

Speaker 5 (01:10:48):
I will tell you I I did not rewatch it.
I have not seen it since I did press for
it in twenty fourteen. Okay, but the answer is probably no.
But I will tell you that you can tell difference.
So there's about a handful of Disney Channel movies that
were made by an outside company.

Speaker 6 (01:11:05):
So it's like sixteen Wishes, Radio.

Speaker 3 (01:11:08):
Rebel, this, this Radio Rebel.

Speaker 5 (01:11:10):
There's a couple others, and you can tell because they're
also very heavily Canadian with like their actors, and you
can just kind of tell a difference. And these ones
Disney just kind of licensed. So it doesn't really have
that same magic of a real DCOM.

Speaker 7 (01:11:26):
Doesn't definitely well, yeah, like a fully produced, fully bringing
in Disney writers, bringing in the whole thing.

Speaker 3 (01:11:37):
This movie fully misses the mark of a d COM
for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
And now that you said that, with the other ones,
I feel like there were differences that you can see,
Like I remember thinking Radio Rebel didn't. We liked it,
but it didn't seem like a what we were used
to seeing in G comms.

Speaker 1 (01:11:59):
So okay, well, now we get to the point. Thank you.
I had to ask producer Lisa because I was so
curious because if you came on and said, this is
my favorite movie and I would have to meet it
at park ten paces away, because it's possible that I
don't want to know. I don't want to know. Okay,
So now we have to rate this movie. Uh, let's

(01:12:21):
do one out of ten this time, and we're gonna
make ten. No, we'll make ten the biggest. Okay, okay,
So our options are one out of ten, hanukkahs on
rye one out of ten, chocolate carries fart bombs. Please
don't pick that one. Justin Schortz one at a ten,
sloppy Nacho borsch witches, jelly pickle, taco Carmel Sundays one

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out of ten, Shake dog commands, musical theater inspired flash
mobs are one out of ten. Confusing after credit scenes.
Which one would you like to do this week?

Speaker 3 (01:12:55):
I guess confusing after credits scenes?

Speaker 1 (01:12:58):
Okay, I agree, I think do I go first this time?
Or do you go first?

Speaker 3 (01:13:03):
I think it's my turn to go first.

Speaker 1 (01:13:06):
Take the gosh.

Speaker 3 (01:13:08):
You know again, love Zendaya. I can't say that more
at all, because this, to me was an unfortunate situation
she put had was put placed in.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
Now we've done interviews and and David Henry, who we
have recently talked to, mentioned because I wasn't on a
TV show for them, like on their shows, I was
in the D coms for them, he had mentioned that
they're like in their contract of some sort, they had
ties and like that this was an expectation.

Speaker 3 (01:13:43):
So because that's what he talked about with Dad Nap, Yeah,
that stuck with me a lot during this movie.

Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
Was this something that she read and would have possibly
passed on, but because in her contract with her show,
was kind of.

Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
Couraged a little bit more to do this.

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
I don't know, but it just didn't seem like a
like a like a project she would have really jumped on.
For me, this didn't seem like her brand either, if
that makes sense. So I struggled really bad with this one.
I again, I'm put in a position where I love
the actor, love everything about them and their career.

Speaker 3 (01:14:23):
This was a miss, A huge miss for me.

Speaker 1 (01:14:25):
So I.

Speaker 2 (01:14:28):
This is one of my worst ratings, and I want
to say I'm sorry before I get I.

Speaker 3 (01:14:35):
Don't tell my girl but and her zwaggers. But I'm
giving this a four point five confusing after credit.

Speaker 1 (01:14:47):
Okay, after credit scene means that's fair. Oh, I thought
it hurts.

Speaker 3 (01:14:52):
It hurts me.

Speaker 1 (01:14:53):
I agree with everything you said. She's a star. You
gotta take her kind of out of the equation because
we're here to talk about movies. Okay, So Double Teamed
are all the other movies that I've given lower ratings
to that I didn't like. I can get why other
people would like. I could watch something like Double Teamed
and see why somebody would would watch that at a

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certain age or any time and be like, you know what,
this was one of my favorite movies. Okay, it wasn't
for me, but I get that. Yeah, I don't. I
don't see how anyone could watch this movie and like
this movie. I don't. I don't understand it. So I
think you were amazingly generous again taking her out of
the equation. I'm giving this too confusing. Gosh, after the scenes,

(01:15:35):
I liked nothing of this movie. This was if this
if Zendaya wasn't in this movie. This is the one
of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life.
I just watched Troll two, which is considered the worst
movie ever made, and I had so much more fun
watching Troll Too than I had watching this movie.

Speaker 3 (01:15:53):
Troll to like the cartoon No Troll.

Speaker 1 (01:15:56):
Troll what is considered one of the worst movies of
all times. A movie called t which literally has nothing
to do as a goblin. Yeah, well it's supposed to be,
but it's not. It's like the dumbest older older Okay,
it's it's awful, but it's awful in a fun, fun way.
And yes, I think Jennifer Anderson was in the first
Troll movie and the second one had nothing to do
with it. It was about goblins, but it became famous.

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They've did They did a documentary. Michael Paul Stevenson, who
was the kid star of Troll two, did a documentary
on Netflix. It's really funny about making this movie. It's
great that at least was tongue in cheek and fun
and I enjoyed watching one of the worst movie. This
was just bad. Everything about it was bad. The acting
was fine. I'm taking the acting completely out of the
equation because even the other actors in the project who

(01:16:41):
had the you know, had to do characters like the
Fartmeister or whatever his name was. The acting wasn't bad.

Speaker 3 (01:16:49):
You sold it. It just was weird that they were
doing it.

Speaker 1 (01:16:51):
In general, I do not blame the cast for this
one at all, which is the cast alone bumps this
up to a two for me. Wow, A too confusing
after credit scenes. This was not a good movie. I
again stand by this was not a good movie. Get
why people would be like Double Teamed was great or
you're such a jerk, Brink is amazing. I get that

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point of view.

Speaker 4 (01:17:13):
This.

Speaker 1 (01:17:13):
I don't see how you can defend this movie. It
was just bad. Anyway, there we are wrapping it up,
thank god. Next week we're doing Zapped two. No, I'm
kidding right now, exactly, No, please, I think I think
our next movie is gonna be awesome. I'm hoping because

(01:17:36):
we really liked the first one. Yes, that's right, we're
going back to spooky season and sequel season. It's time
to tackle Halloween Town too with with my good friend Kimberly.
So I'm I'm excited for this one because we liked
the first one. We love the world. Some people I
think even like the second one better than they like
the first one. Yeah, I'm excited for I am too,

(01:17:58):
and I need a good palate cleanser now. So, as
you can imagine, Halloween Town two is available to stream
on Disney Plus, so make sure you go and do
your homework. But before we all get scared together, let's
take a trip back to what we were talking about
to camp Rock. For our park Opper episode, we spoke
to Anna Maria Perez to Tagli, who is known to
magical rewinders as Ella from the Camp Rock movies or

(01:18:21):
Ashley de Witt from Hannah Montana. With all this chatter
about an upcoming Camp Rock sequel, we had an awful
lot to talk about. So let's hear a preview of
what you can expect.

Speaker 8 (01:18:30):
We had a different director, we had a different choreographer.
The dancing was so much harder, and I did half
of that movie with a sprain foot, so all of
the dance numbers, especially we Can't Back Down, which is
the you know, the sign language one. I was struggling
and me watching it back, I was like, I could

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see that struggle.

Speaker 3 (01:18:53):
I'm sure.

Speaker 8 (01:18:54):
Now that I'm telling everyone, people will watch it back
and be like, oh, yeah, but she did not turn
on beat.

Speaker 1 (01:19:01):
Ooh that was a good one. Yes it was. Make
sure to subscribe to the dedicated Magical Rewind feed so
you don't miss it, and listen to all of our
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I'm so mad the movie's over. Actually, what's funny. The
movie's done and yet somehow there's still fifteen minutes left.

(01:19:23):
Thanks everybody, we'll see you next time. Bye.