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About our movie today, or about something else, or about everything.
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Well wait, how do I get it for when I'm going to go dancing? Then how does one find this stuff?
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Okay, cool, because my problem when I'm doing my extensions is not that my leg slips out of my hand, It's that my hips slips out of its joint. So I don't know if that is Do these pants help that? Or do you still have to dance? They don't teach you how to dance?
Right, Unfortunately, it does not teach you, gotcha. The official website is sobriofficial dot com. Nice and so yes, it's so exciting. Well, I've been so giddy all week. I just I can't believe this is finally happening.
Well, that's really cool. Is it just pants? Is it pants and tops?
Where pants and tops? So it's broad tops. There's a short one there's a mid and then there's a little bit of a longer one. We've got Midnight Blue and then we've got our Onyx Cheetah and our They're nice. It's it's subtle. It's not hot, Pink. I will actually do one eventually. It's a subtle it's gorgeous. Oh they're so so beautiful.
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They're not miracle workers.
Yeah, exactly, exactly, they're pants. They are not talented and exactly Well, congratulations on that, and welcome back everybody to Magical Rewind, the show that makes you want to grab your friends, your pjs and your popcorn and go back to your time. And all the houses were smart, the waves tsunamis, and the pants had little grippy things on me. No, and the high school's musical I'm Will.
For Now and I'm Sabrina Brian.
Well, it's time to tackle a new d coom here on Magical Rewind and it's one with a very common theme for kids movies, taking hostages. It's two thousand and
nine's crime comedy Dad Napped. This movie, filled with a lot of very familiar Disney faces, debuted on February sixteenth, two thousand and nine, to a large fanfare, actually four point six million viewers be exact, This was a big hit for the channel, even besting the huge Nickelodeon Movie of the Year Spectacular by over thirty nine percent, and frankly, I'm never gonna watch that, so I won't know which
one's better either way. Here's the thing about this movie, though, is despite it's Nielsen's success, Dad Nap was not a favorite for critics, scoring a forty five percent on the Popcorn Meter, with critic David Neussaer, I think I'm saying that name right, calling it quote the lowest common denominator quote end quote, underwhelming second unquote. But we are not going to let that sway our votes. We are of
the people. And of course, despite these critical insults, it did get a sequel in the form of a young adult book. Dad Napped Junior novel was released around the same time as the movie, so it does appear that Disney had high hopes for this film. Interesting, Dad Napped was shot on a very decent decom budget of four point five million dollars and they shot it in wait for it. Utah, We're back, baby. I feel like I have so long right the world all make.
Forgot what Salt Lake City look like for a minute, right?
Okay?
So we asked this a couple questions to start the show. What was your expertise when it came to Dad Naps? Had you heard of Dad Nap? Did you know Dad Nap or your Dad Naps fan?
I did not, but I will tell you I'm a fan of every single person that's on that screen. So I feel a little bit like I should have paid attention to this one, because, Yeah, this cast was incredible.
I agree the cast was great.
What about you, will, is this was this year your top one?
Uh?
Never know?
Never you thought when you think of d com you don't think of Dad Nap.
I don't. I don't think of Dad No. I when everybody knows when I think of d com I uh think of when I'm not even going to think of it. I'm not gonna say a bad title because we've been through it. Go back and watch our old feed. You'll know the ones I like and the ones that I don't like. So here we go, floss floss, floss. It's
time we get into the synopsis Young Melissa Moore. You'll understand that, hopefully young Melissa Morris is desperate to gain more attention from her best selling author Dad, so when her father gets kidnapped by obsessive fans, she must come to the rescue, like the protagonist in one of his popular spy novels, Sabrina. Early thoughts on Dad Nap Take it Away? What do you think?
I found myself at a place where I have been before with these d coms. I absolutely hated this Dad for k I was just beyond disappointed. I literally could not get out of my feelings about this dad for the first fifteen to almost twenty minutes of this movie. Like you are the most selfish, self absorbed A whole?
Is that all we're gonna get? Just a whole? That's it?
You are such a a anyway, you suck you suck lawyers. Such a guy. I hated him so bad, and he's like one of my favorite characters on Friends.
Yeah, well he's also a good guy. Somebody I've known for a long time. That's George Newburn, who's the voice of Superman in Justice League.
He's I did not know that anyway, kids, this character was unreal as an adult acting and behaving this way. I was very disappointed.
Did you like the movie?
Though?
I was.
It was kind of a lot to take in, right, There's such a big cast. It was a little overwhelming for me at the beginning to see everyone that kept popping up and up and up and up. As you're going, you're going, oh my god, Moises, is you? Oh my god? You know you're going, okay, okay, what's your character? What you know? It was a little I wasn't able to really sit and chill on it for a while. It wasn't until like halfway more closer to the end that I was able to finally like relax and just watch
the movie. What about you?
Oh, Sabrina Brian, This is a tough one for me. This movie is bananas and not kind of in a good way. This did not feel like a decom to me, you know what this felt like? To me, this felt like a Nickelodeon movie.
I was just gonna say, it doesn't feel even like a Paul Hohan no at all.
That's why. And you know, little spoiler alert. We we got to interview Jason Earls for our Park Copper episode and I specifically asked, does did this movie start with a different director and then Paul Howan took over?
Because we know not've done that.
Felt the same. The story doesn't make any sense. It is super weird, The characters are weird. The main girl is having like some sort of a Melton mental break. It is this movie was I had to watch this movie in chunks, like this was not a movie that I was able to sit down and watch from beginning. And this was a rough one for me. Yeah, totally was great that Disney Disney Banger after Disney Banger. When it comes to the cast, nobody's acting was bad, Like, no,
not at all, everything at all. What I was not a character thing.
What I felt was very hard to grasp was each of these characters are such or each of these actors are such phenomenal actors. But the characters I feel like they had to. It was like they were battling a little bit as far as not not not the actors, but just the characters. All were so big and so extreme and had to be so funny, every single one of them, and when on screen together, That's what I said. I was like overwhelmed a little.
It was it was this this movie for me, it was like the things they were having this great young cast try to accomplish were next to impossible. And it was one after another.
Especially towards the end, and all of that always about I love a good food fight. I got to do one when I was an extra on the Matilda movie, Like so much fun, so fun for kids on set. This was just like by the end of it, I'm like, oh my god, why are everything so colorful and gooey and being you?
This one didn't do anything, but yeah, this was This was a rough one for me because we've seen some good ones.
Yeah, and luckily he is such a good physical actor that like it makes it totally fine. But poor guy, poor guy.
Wait, this was this was a This was like a fever dream wrapped in a tab of acid that was then dipped into ayahuasca. Like this was a weird movie, but anyway it was.
It was overwhelming for me for sure.
As we said, Dad Napped is another Paul Hoan joint, a director that we have covered extensively here on the podcast. He is currently at the Helm of Zombies, a modern day dcom hit franchise, and is no stranger to the medium, having directed Let It Shine, Luck of the Irish, you Wish read It and Weep, Jump In and Cheetah Girls, One World. We've already interviewed this Disney legend. He's a great guy. So as we sit and pat and wait for Zombies four, go check out our talk with him
currently sitting there on our feet. Great interview, awesome guy, great director. Just didn't this one didn't feel like him. But anyway, like we said, this movie is filled with Disney Channel faces. It was a pipeline to get their promising talent into a movie. First up, we've got Emily Osmond as Melissa sixth cent star Haley Joe Osmond is her brother, and we just saw her in the Hannah Montana movie, playing a role she started in the series
of the same name, best friend Lily Truscott. She is also a bit of a pop star of her own during her Disney days. You actually have to hear one of her songs in this movie at the end. She also released a duet with Magical rewinderam Boat Mitchell Musso, and at one point they were singing together. She was also part of the Disney machine, and she was great in this movie. She really was with what they gave her. She carried the whole thing. It was a strange character,
but she hit all the beats. She did it very well. She was funny when she had to be funny. She was sincere when she had to be sincere. She did everything she possibly could with what they gave her. Most recently now you can see her on Young Sheldon as Mandy McAllister, or role she is now revisiting in the just renewed CBS spinoff, starring in George and Mandy's first marriage and then. David Henry is wee'z. David is a
Disney star of the past and current day. Is starring in the original Wizards of Waverley play series and the current reboot, as well as the show's dcom we recently watched for the podcast. He also played Ted Moseby's future son in How I Met Your Mother and shared the role of Ronald Reagan with Tennis Quaid in the twenty twenty four movie Reagan. Jason Earl's new friend of the podcast You'll Get Into You'll You'll understand what that means when you go check out our Parcopper episode is the
villainous MERV Kilbo like he just sounds bad. Merv Merv Kilbo. Earl's is another hand of Montana star. He played Jackson and also starred in the Disney XD series Kicking It Fun. Fact. Earl's also worked as the recent onset acting coach for high school musical The Musical the Series, which is arguably the best named thing ever, and eventually appeared on the show as camp counselor Dow we would moisus Arius is
little brother. Andre Moysis has turned his childhood starred him as Rico also on Hannah Montana into a full fledged acting career, appearing in movies Enders, Game, and Nacho lebre and was most recently seen in the hit limited series Fallout as Norma. I Mean He's Everywhere. Denzel Whittaker is Sheldon and has also appeared in some impressive movies over the years, including Training Day and Black panther Man. And another character actor regular that we've seen is Charles Halford.
He plays the quirky skunk. You've seen Charles in a ton of stuff later in life, looking totally different now in True Detective Outer Banks and The Walking Dead, just to name a few. And of course, Phil Lewis plays Maurice. Lewis's a longtime character actor as well, seen in movies like Heathers and City Slickers, but is best known to our listeners as mister Moseby in the Sweet Life of
Zach and Cody. He also transitioned into a very prolific TV director on shows like Good Luck, Charlie, Mike and Molly, Side, Hug and Bumped. All right, Sabrina, how many of these people did you go to the Disney Channel games with? And were any on your massively losing teams?
You are so rude sometimes.
I'm sorry I couldn't hear you. I was listening to the winners. What were you saying?
It's just I can't I can't even defend myself anymore. It's just what it is. Damn. Anyway, Moiss was actually on my team, okay, uh, Jason was not. We know this because Jason Jason of Sir Jason David Henry was there for sure, because I know Selena Gomez was, but I don't remember hanging out with him, which is weird because I think we're closer in age than I was compared to a lot of those people. And then Emily Osmond. I don't remember what team she was on, but I'm sure she wasn't on mine.
It's just so this was just such a movie where they were just slamming it full of stars. It was amazing.
Yeah. And then and then Phil Phil Phil was I think they're doing He wasn't He was not one of the hosts. He was like one of the hosts. Yeah, he came in and did a couple of things. So so fun, That's what I'm saying, Like, it's like, you don't it's not even just times where we got to compete, but it was like hanging out or doing like interstitials together and things like that. Was just really fun to see all of them.
That's cool. Well, speaking of winning, Dad Nap comes in at are you ready for this? Are you ready for the Sabrina ninety minutes? We've got a winner. People right on target, the perfect length for a d coom. I would like to thank Disney and Team Blue also, I mean just it's a perfect length for probably any movie. Great job everyone, mission accomplished. It was written by Alan Silberberg, who started his career writing the nostalgic game show Doubledare,
which is something from back in my day. That's when I was on Nickelodeon God New Mark Summers. That's what that was my Nickelodeon deck. Oh, I've told you to, haven't I. You know Robin the woman who used to bring all this stuff out on Doubledare, It was his co host. She was my legal guardian when I lived
in Florida doing the Nickelodeon stuff. Yeah, Robin, no way. Yeah, this Double Dare was my that's these were my friends and yes, and would also work out a lot of other early nineties stuff like the all new Mickey Mouse Club, Doug and Chop Chop Ninja. But this was actually his only dcom. And of course Dad Napp is currently available of you on Disney Plus. So if you want to watch it now, you can. If you want to watch it later after you listen to us, you can do
that too. You can do a lot of things because we believe in you. We just know that you're bad at cooking, so stay out of the kitchen. I don't know that, actually, I'm just assuming. Okay, the time is now, let's set a trip trap and get to Dad Napped Almost Ryan. We opened with a dcom mainstay, one that we have talked about so many times, the trope we
can never avoid. It is a pop song playing over the credits while we see details from the room of our young main character we have just keep parting at.
It's starting to it just it's like starting to irritate me, right, it's a and I feel bad because it's you're like you've said it many times in the podcast. It's the greatest way to figure out quickly who this girl is, where she comes from, what she's into, what's her favorite color, all that stuff. It's great, but my god, we can't figure out another way to do this, Like all that's all another version?
Here we go. How many times we got to see it again? None of these movies were supposed to be watched back to back. That's the difference with streaming things. Right away, it's like, wait a minute, these are all the same people doing the same thing every week. Yes, so we we we've seen it. It is uh, we've witnessed it time and time again, because again, as Sabrina just said, it's a very fast way to get to know somebody
without any dialogue or wasting any time. And in this case, in this very specific one, we see baby photos, a book series called trip Zoom. There's girly pink everywhere, and our lead teenager, Melissa Morris. Again they love the literation. Shannon Chipley taking a look at her framed family photo. It's her and her mom and her dad. But then magically, a good looking young man appears in the pic, but then fades away instantly, but she seems hurt by even
the fact that he was there for a moment. All right, So this is obviously going to be about books, which is one of the things I love to talk about. Did you have book series as kids that as a kid that you just loved you couldn't get enough of?
I read the what was it Goosebumps?
Yeah, great series series.
And then I also I care the one I remember was like my first one. I was really into the something about a train track, The box Car Kids, box Car Kids, Yes, box thank you Lisa El explain it, and then I really liked, well, I was really into like national was it national geographic?
Like the I love the gas and stuff like that.
Yeah, those were mainly my things. It wasn't all necessarily like storytelling. It was more like learning about animals or learning about different places in the world. That was like, really what I was into.
That's cool, I love that. Yeah, what about you?
Was it just comics like we'll no, no.
I didn't find comics till much later. The first book I found that changed my life was a book that my third grade teacher read us and then we had to take home and read at night, by an amazing author named Lynn read Banks, called The Indian in the Cupboard. They ended up making a movie about it years and years later, which was terrible, but the book was phenomenal.
And then that led to like choose your own Adventures, and then that led to then the first fantasy series that changed my life, which is by David Eddings, which is called the Belgaria and the Melorian series, and that then it's just fantasy, fantasy, fantasy, fantasy, fantasy, yes, yeah, oh I see it, so, yeah it was I loved it, but anyway, for our film, we fade into Upper Valley High School. It's English class right before the holiday break, and Jeffrey Zimmer is called to the front of the
class for his book report. Jeffrey's report is on Neil Morris's new book from the Trip Zoom series, Freeze Dried too many jokes. I'm not even gonna go there. Now a small detail that is worth pointing out here. Okay, Serena, what would your guest be on how trip Zoom is spelled? Because throughout the movie and the subtitles, we actually see it as both trip t r I P p zoom z O O m E and trip zoom t r I p z o O M. So what do you think it is?
Oh, it was spelled twice your Yeah, which one do you think is right? That was one of my first Serena sees dang.
Yeah, I don't know.
I feel like Disney like likes to throw in like an extra little letter here and there.
Yeah, I think so too, Disney d I s n E y A. So, yeah, your guess is as good as ours. Disney Disney, I like that. That's what it is. From now on, we're rebranding. Okay, Now, although this class is thrilled about this book report, it seems like it's a massive bummer for Melissa. The teacher points out that Freeze Fried Dreams is in even out till tomorrow, but Jeffrey explains that his dad knows a guy who works at the paper factory, so he got an early copy.
He pulls it out and the class is wildly impressed, and so is the teacher, who rushes to a desk to listen as well. Jeffrey starts his report, he explains that Tina is in the clutches of the ruthless Rudolpho and Trip Zoom is nowhere to be found. Now, as he tells the story, we see it acted out in real time with cutscenes. And this is the only time this happens in the movie ever. Yeah, Now, did you think this is how the movie was going to play out?
That occasionally we would be cutting to Trip Zoom stuff? I mean, obviously, yeah, yeah, Nope, never happens again.
I felt kind of missing. I would have liked to see certain things. I mean, she's already having these hallucinations anyway, It's like.
Right, it's exactly so. But this time, just as Rudolpho approaches Tina with a power saw. We see Trip Zoom in the shadows, and this is the same boy that appeared in Melissa's family photo, so we saw that the boy that appears and disappears is obviously true Zoom. He does a flip off the second story and surprises Rudolpho with a spider man like quip, is it me or are you actually getting uglier burn? Radolpho charges that, Trip, running into a trip wire, which maybe made me think
that might be his signature move, but who knows. While Rudolpho is stunned, Trip gets the handcuffs off of Tina and runs to the roof. By the way, keep that in mind, because if there's gonna be a drinking game for this episode, it's gonna be the amount of times characters are handcuffed in a d com So Trip and Tina run to the roof, but that is a terrible place to hide out because there's nowhere to go but down. As they contemplate their next move, here comes Rudolpho, justin
Timer here picks up a tarp and grabs Tina. He jumps off the roof and uses the sheet as a parachute, landing safely on the ground. They hop on matching dirt bikes and leave in a hurry. Rudolpho yells, this isn't over, Trip Dune. It's supposed to be Zoom, not by a long shot. But the funny thing is it is over because we never see Rudolpho again or any of these characters except the trip guy comes back. What I'm already now, Like.
I know, I'm all right, I'm pushing, I'm going, Oh god, I'm gonna struggle this one.
That's what I thought too. This is when I think. I turned on my phone and started to scroll for about half an.
Hour, and she also and I'm I don't know. It was just I guess edited this way. The amount of eye rolls that Emily is. That's what one of my supriatacies was. Like I was going, I was thinking, not the handcuffs, that's a good one. I was thinking, how many times is she going to I roll.
Iroll the drinking game, I roll. You'll be dead by the second act.
Break.
Yeah, but back in class, the students are hanging on every word from the book report and by the way, this guy just absolutely spoiled the end of this book or the big part of this book for the people where and it hasn't even come out yet. It's like the guy got a copy of Harry Potter, the last one, and just in his book report decided to read the last chapter to the team. So it's like what. But anyway, as he finishes, the class applauds, but Melissa is not moved.
The teacher calls it another literary masterpiece, which is definitely not hyperbole, but also reveals that the writer, Neil Morris, is the dad of one Melissa Morris. The class, of course erupts and start chanting Trip rules just as the bell ring, and now on her way out of class, Melissa turns and spots a huge ad for Trip at school, you know, like all schools that have huge ads for books everywhere. And that's when we enter a new device in the movie something we're going to see a lot of.
She can talk to Trip. In this case, we see his mouth move in the big poster, despite the fact this is a photo and he's a fictional character. So and the it looked bad with the mouth flaps in the eyes. It was just the whole thing was strange. But Melissa, this is where we figure out that Melissa really seems to hate him and the fact that he
takes up so much of her dad's time. So that night at okay, well, okay, all right, okay, that night at Melissa's mom's house, Melissa is watching a TV report about the new book's release, and now the imaginary Trip is bickering with her through the TV screen, and that's when her mom enters the room. Melissa hides her possible schizophrenia and certifiable delusion, saying she's just excited for the
camping trip with her dad tomorrow. We find out that her parents are divorced, but the split was amicable, and I thought, huh, divorce in Disney. I thought, we learned that your your spouse can be dead and that's okay, but divorce is something they usually stay away from. So I was like, okay, and so many kids come from divorce families, it's probably good to throw more divorce in there. It's it's ideal.
I did love too, that the mom was not condescending towards the dad, like she did a great job of co parenting in this moment too.
Which even with him being huge awful.
For kids, Yeah, he did not do well, but I think it was huge for her for that message to be pushed.
Now, do you think personally one of the reasons they got divorced is because he became super wealthy and just bailed on her, and he lived a massive house somewhere.
I took it as he's an ego maniac and couldn't stop talking about himself and his fame and the book. Like she also, she left. I thought it was she'd be walking away from him because of this exact thing that she's having to watch her daughter go through.
Huh, that makes sense. I buy that totally. The next day, Melissa's mom opens the door to see trip, but it's actually a cardboard cutout Neil, Melissa's dad and her exes hiding behind it. He brags about how much his new book is going to sell, which is always cool to do in front of your ex wife who you have divorced before you became JK. Rowling. She quickly shames him into not asking about their daughter, which he doesn't do, and tells him to make the camping trip the best
father daughter experience possible. Melissa enters, giving her dad a big hug and an out from the vacation, but he says he is one hundred and fifty percent hers for the weekend and only hers. While he makes this promise, she sees trip in the corner of the room. Yeah right, He says, he's not so sold on where her dad's attention will be, and this fiction character is probably accurate. Now they're out on the road. The two are in a Mustang convertible, which is a very modest car for
the world's biggest author. They're driving with trips cutout in the backseat, like you do. Melissa talks about packing new boots and the game word Wham and the fun they're going to have. But he breaks some news to her. They first have to stop at the Mercury Zoom Convention. It'll be filled with real Zoomers and he's judging a costume contest. Then they can go camping right after. Now she is obviously nervous about this change of plans, but she agrees to go. And you'll be shocked to hear this,
but the cutout comes to life again. Doubts this plan is going to work out. This fake trip. Cardboard cutout guy.
Is just augh, just and it looks so bad.
It does look very bad. It looks it doesn't look good. The father and daughter enter Mercury, which is a quiet little town, and they see a long line already waiting for him at this Mercury con He again promises her, don't worry, it's only going to be one night. They get inside a hotel, dozens of fans and supposed to be dozens of fans, but there's not enough extras at even a small convention, and it looks very strange. And
for some reason, somebody was cause playing as a scuba diver. Okay, I'm assuming that's a character we're supposed to know from somebody you go to. No one cosplays as a scuba diver, unless there's anyway. I do a lot of conventions, and I love them and they're fun. I've never seen a scuba dive.
I have the biggest question when we get to Sabrina Sees. It's literally actually all my spreena seas. It's just asked about this.
About conventions, Okay, these things, and I love them.
I asked so many questions. I've never been to one.
I've you're gonna I'll take it a.
Theories.
Oh yeah, I will open your eyes to one I will open your eyes to one Sabrina. You're gonna love it. So yes, dozens of cosplayers are cosplaying as his characters. They're making a mess of the lobby. He's helped by the starstruck hotel owner Merv, who puts him in the presidential suite. This is where we see a shady character, Sheldon, hiding out in a phone booth. He says in the phone quote the package has arrived, and on the other end is a young man named Weez at home devising
a plan to quote unquote win the contest. We hangs up and plays a quick turn of Wordwham, which was the same game legally changed enough from Scrabble that Melissa mentioned earlier. No matter his bonus word score move, this all spells trouble. Thank you. At the hotel, MERV walks our duo to their suite, supposedly the establishment's finest, but
it's basically just two beds, a lava lamp, and a chandelier. Later, at the hotel's convention, Neil is being hounded by fans with theories and ideas, and he bumps into a big, nervous fan named Skunk, who gets his name obviously because he's got a white stripe down the center of his hair and he wants to get his book signed. Excited, Skunk runs to show it off to his brother Maurice, who tells him to stop playing around. They're not there
for autographs. Also, there's a supermount of sketchy people at this event, just like criminals everywhere, and I go to these conventions all the time. They're not criminals, they're incredible people. Melissa watches the activities around her dad from afar, taking notes. Then out of nowhere, a man falls from the rafters, suspended by a rope, just like a low budget version of that Mission Possible stunt. He brags about how he's going to win the contest, but Melissa is shocked to
hear about the challenge. He informs her that whoever at this event can prove their quote zoom enough unquote wins prizes, and the prizes are they get to become a character in her dad's next book and the chance to read it before it's published. We also learned that the catchphrase from the book is apparently floss, as in teeth floss. Is this a superhero catchphrase? Am I supposed to get this? Because I don't know what that is.
It comes up at least three or four times in the movie, all the time inredibly Lost. I don't understand it.
That should be it lost lost lost. Yeah, I don't.
I don't.
I didn't either.
I'm out of my realm. I don't know anything.
This is my realm, and I still don't get.
It about It's like, okay, I.
Will say as the voice of God here, Yeah, they used dental floss a lot in the movie. That's what they do to high up the guy. And then I think they to trip people. So maybe that's it should have been explained better. But maybe that is what Trip carries as as.
A weapon, is floss? Okay? Maybe again, well it's a great weapon against ginger vitis. Right right, So black and black build up.
This goes back to what we and maybe they did film these and that hit the cutting room floor to get to that ninety minute.
But the story they cut out, the story they were.
Like the going into like what we got a little bit of the movie.
Thinking maybe see act maybe yeah.
You know moments of the book acting acting. That would have been a time where he if it is floss, he opens up the floss he's got the you know whatever.
Are we gonna get Dad napped? The Paul Hohen cut, maybe the new director's cut.
I should ask him what okay? What was left helping boles here?
Excuse me, Paul, but I have questions. The next morning, Melissa sees that her dad has been working the entire trip so far, just like the car rip predicted, but Neil reminds her he'll pick a contest winner and they'll be on the road by Nune. Cut two. Oh geez, it's one twenty and she is still waiting as Sabrina's favorite dad is doing it again as if. Frustrated, Melissa makes her way out the door, she bumps into Wheeze.
In their exchange, she mentions wordwhim, and the two get a little flirty, realizing they're both impressive whammers to meet jokes again. Not gonna get into that, they go their separate ways, and Wheeze, his little brother and his little brother's friend Andre make their way to a van. Back at the con, a presentation by a contestant trying to prove he's zoom enough ends with an explosionist slime and Weez's little brother emerging to tell Sheldon that the distractor
is locked and loaded. Sheldon radio's wheeze, and the whole gang puts on safety goggles. But we have no idea what we're in for. Then Sheldon turns on a mysterious machine that starts churning onions, pushing the smell right into the convention, which makes me wonder if it's an odor thing, why do you need goggles? But the fan starts to become repulse by the odor. I guess if it's onions, you start to cry. I get that you'd be blinded. Okay, I that one makes No.
Were you not, no, absolutely not, nope, no, no no. Were you not expecting these onions to start shooting out of something to do something?
I didn't know. It's also the giant hose that he just lays at the bottom of the ground. No one sees the thirty five foot hose that's a foot in diameter that he just brings into the convention.
Hey again, I don't know. No, no, it would not be looked at as we promise you.
It's much smaller hoses with much fewer onions at rest. Oh, got it, Okay, So he turns on the machine. It starts churning onions. It pushes the smell into the convention. The fans start to become repulsed by the odor, but Melissa's safe outside talking to her friend on the phone. But inside everyone starts coughing and tearing up and again there are actual onion goggles. You can buy them on Amazon. They head for the doors, thinking it's a ventilation problem.
Neil is also evacuating, but is approached by Andre and hold out the side door. This catches Skunk and Maurice's attention, who apparently also want a piece of Neil outside. In the move that has become as predictable as clockwork, Trip appears and continues to ridicule Melissa. She calls him a jerk and says soon he'll be walking out that door when vacation starts, but we know that won't happen anytime soon. In fact, Weees's brother is with Neil, introducing him to
the tear jerker onion machine in person. It's actually one of his ideas, straight from the trip book, and Neil is impressed. Just as he's thrown into the van to meet Weez and Sheldon, they tie him to a seat with dental floss as Jensen had said, so maybe that explains the floss catchphrase. But as they speed away in this really expensive van, Skunk and Maurice Steele a uniform delivery truck to chase after him. This is their guy too.
I'd also like to point out they stole this giant truck that they then have the entire movie, like, no one's gonna see them in this giant yellow stolen truck that they have for days days, But anyway, Melissa searches for her dad at the con but can't find him anywhere. She does notice a nearby surveillance camera and realizes this might help find her dad. MERV shows her the footage,
and it shows her dad being kidnapped by random teens. Now, in response, she calls the local police to report a missing person, but the cops are skeptical and technically extraordinarily lazy and bad at their jobs. She's been told to wait forty eight hours to fill out a report. By the way, that is not accurate. You don't even need to wait the twenty four hours. You can report somebody missing immediately, just so you know. Just when she thinks
there's nothing she can do, she's visited again. By imaginary trip. He's surprised she's not taking the opportunity to be trip herself, doing whatever she can to get her dad back, but she explains she hates trip. Zoom hits her again while she's down, saying that's why her dad writes about him and not her. Ouch weez. Sheldon and Andre are spinning around in the van with Neil flass. Okay, he's now flost and gagged in the back, so maybe that's what
it is. It has to be flossed because they keep using the flas they're talking about mint and all this kind of stuff. It's very strange. This is when I've felt like, okay, yes, somebody dosed my drink. Skunk and Maurice's uniform truck trails very near by them until the van stopped. Then Skunk hops out and hides in a bush, slowly making his way to the hostage. We still don't know what's going on here. He's been dad napped at this point, with these now two other guys following in
another giant stolen van. Now, while in the van, the kids reveal all the trip traps they use to abduct Neil, and he's actually very impressed. But also ready to be released. Instead, they stuffed the sock back in his mouth and say you wrote it, we do it. The van speeds off again, leaving skunk knocked out in the street. Somehow, Melissa, finally with some trip motivation, calls her dad's phone and Wee's
answers and starts to explain the situation. He says, once Neil agrees to their one demand, they'll let him go. But wait, Melissa recognizes that voice. It's the word wham guy. He also puts two and two together, and just as a car wash employee comes up and asks what type of finish they want for their van, because of course, when you're abducting somebody, you stop to get your car car washed. Melissa hangs up and wonders if she just
got a clue about their location. MERV, But now, why not just go through like a drive through, like, hey, we want to stop and get food. Who stops to get their car? MIRV appears and tells her where the nearest car wash is. We are now back at the car wash and the boys are putting some finishing touches
on the van like you do. When Wees accidentally drops his word wham, guide and sees Melissa and Merv arrive in a red convertible, which is technically a nicer car than the millionaire author has by the way, but anyway. Melissa surveys a scene while Nerv makes a call back to the hotel, but while his attention is diverted, the kidnappers push his convertible into the car wash. Melissa and Merv try to stop it, but instead find themselves completely drenched and soapy from the wash. The car is filled
with water. It's actually a very cool stunt. I've only seen maybe once or twice in a movie, but never to this extent, except maybe on a Podmets World movie that we recapped camp Nowhere. That's the only time it has been this full. It's usually like it gets a little full, but this they really filled up. I also don't buy that at fifteen, you know you're gonna you're gonna learn to drive in another year. You don't know where the break on a car is. I'm sorry, I
don't drive that. She gets and she's like, I don't know where the break is. I don't buy that either. She's also very smart in the movie, so you're gonna know where the break just hit any pedals the car wasn't on. Eventually it'll stop. Melissa, sy, this is where you see. This is where I'm seeing. Yes, Sar, and break next to you. Anything hit a button. Melissa sees the dropped wordwham guide and notices it's a library book
that is due today. We are now back in the kidnapper van, and Neil is losing his patience, but he also notices their library books are due today. What timing and weird? What a weird. He warns them of the late fees, and the group instantly makes a rush turn to avoid the fine. So they have no fear about kidnapping a grown man, but late fees, no way, not gonna happen. I am not paying a nickel. I'll do thirty in the slammer as I'm charged as an adult
for kidnapping. But five cents on an overdoe book I'm not gonna happen.
I mean, I think it's great they're showing kids being responsible.
Kind of.
They're all wearing their seatbelts as they're mowing down pedestrians. And once the kidnappers do arrive at the library, they make an innocent deal with Neil if he shows them the book slap trip Trap, they'll release him. He agrees and starts the challenge in the library. So then, why did they kidnap him in the first place? Why did they kidnap him?
What was the point of either of these groups? Kid No made zero sense, Like he was just.
Saying, why did they dad nap this guy? I did not understand. It's like it was this amazingly planned out thing for nothing. Then we see the sudsy convertible arrive at the library too, still followed very closely. Nobody even held back slightly in this movie, followed closely by the uniform truck, and Melissa runs inside to get her dad, still being heckled by the piece of imaginary trip and
Melissa enters the library trying to find her dad. Neil just finished the book trap for the next librarian to feel the effects. So apparently some poor librarian is going to get trip trapped, but Melissa blindly approaches, checks the book and is splashed with blue paint. The boy's applaud and Neil hugs's daughter, you found me. She's confused, I am too. What the fuff is happening? At this point?
It swear what is going on?
Will what what are we doing here?
I don't know.
I truly do not. At this point, I was looking around my room going like is this fake? Like this can't be it did? The story didn't make any sense.
I rewound a little bit. Did I miss something? Okay, I did? Then I had to fast forward. I was like, yes, again I didn't get it.
I just didn't understand it.
But so again, all the characters, they're all great. Yes, the acting is fine.
It's just this is why it felt like a Nickelodeon movie to me, which don't seem to be on the same level as the Disney movie.
Yeah.
Yeah, so he says, you found me, And now Neil is cool with his kidnappers, like he's Patty Hurst. They like, they haven't been cool with him at all.
But if I walked up to where I'm scared as someone has my dad, I find him and he's like chumming it up, I would have walked up to him and been like, Dad, what the hell is going on here?
What are you doing? What's doing going on? Let's go?
Like, come on, it's time to go whatever, Like.
Yeah, and so Melissa thought she was saving her dad, he admits he's been having fun with Sheldon Andre and Weeze has he He hasn't. It's Stockholm syndrome. That happened very quickly.
Second in the library, and that was fun.
Yes, yeah, Weez tells Melissa. They got off on the wrong foot, and they flirt some more, but she's had enough. She's ready to leave with her dad and start camping. He apologizes to his new crew and follows her out. Neil doesn't understand his daughter's angst. Somehow. She says she's been thinking of this vacation for weeks. She wanted everything to be perfect for them, but every time she's with her dad, he brings Trip along and everything is ruined.
She argues that Trip Zoom is not a fictional character. He's a pain in her butt. Then Skunk and Maurice pop up, now in sheriff's uniforms Neil recognizes the duo as they try to cuff him. Remember this was buddy.
They come up to him and they've got like karate ate and like where's your gun?
Yeah? What have you got?
I know.
All the producers. Can you please isolate the sound of Sabrina saying karate hand jobs and send it to me immediately. Just I'm gonna need to have that on a perpetual loop. Thank you, thank you very much, Blaye. So they're wearing sheriff's uniforms Neil recognizes the duo. They try to cuff them, only then boom, Melissa forces herself into the other cuff wee's. Sheldon and Andre watch the new bad guys put their father and daughter into their truck and decide to chase
after them. He's now been dad napped twice. It's a double dad napping, and everybody knows you get double dad napped, have to get karate hand jobbed. So Sheldon decides to call the police station, but again the cup just keep it in fun, Sabrina. The cop doesn't believe anything regarding Neil Morris, and maybe this town just as a terrible
police force. That's what it seems like. The gang realizes it's up to them and they very closely follow the laundry truck through the night, eventually landing at a creepy drive in Theaters where he follows them. Skunk and Maurice eventually throw their prisoners into their abandoned trailer and it's covered in notes. Neil and Melissa are getting scared. Obviously, Skunk has a knife, but also a plate of snacks. Neil assumes they want money, but Maurice has other plans.
He reveals a notebook filled with papers for Lights Out Lenny, a book that his brother Skunk has been writing. Maurice wants a real writer to finish the book, and that's where Neil comes in. And until the book is fixed, they can't leave no matter how long it takes. So this is where it kind of turns into misery. Neil starts reading chapter one. Quote the sky was dark and the air was cold, and the man held the guns so tight his fingers felt like cheese unquote. Uh oh,
this could take a while. As Neil works on the awful book, the brothers watch a public domain movie outside. Melissa says they need to make a distraction. Her dad isn't so sure. He doesn't want to risk her life on some silly plan. She's furious that her ideas are always quote unquote silly, yet everything he writes for Trip Zoom is genius. She wants to know why he doesn't write about her. He explains that his characters are larger than life, an extraordinary She tears up. She pushes back
he doesn't know any of her interests. He's missed all of her dancer titles and knows nothing about her awards in writing. She wants him to finally admit it. Trip comes first, and just then we hear sirens. Everybody is spooked, but we know it's just the boys van. Skunk and Maurice don't know that, though, and they immediately grab their hostages and try to take off, but Melissa sneakily grabs a zoom book from Skunk's pile on their way out.
Skunk then pushes the captives into the uniform van, telling Neil to keep writing. So he's going to be writing as they drive around in this big stolen van that's bright yellow and has now been missing for days. In the van, Melissa starts giving Skunk's book notes, and her dad actually agrees with everything she's suggesting. But when the uniform truck hits debris in the road, it shakes the
car and Maurice spots his tail. He knows he's being followed, and he didn't even have to look in the they're three feet from they're the only two vans on the road, and they're right behind him, so he's following them. He quickly turns off road, putting them through a dirt obstacle. Course, Skunk opens the back door and starts doing what you do, throwing pants at them, eventually forcing them to avoid the
clothing rack and boom, they're slammed into a ditch. Skunk celebrates as they leave their last possible detractors in the rear view. But just as things are looking good for the batties, they realize they're almost out of gas. Oh no, steal a bigger van next time. Melissa also announces she has to go to the bathroom. Unfortunately, Maurice doesn't trust her, but Skunk says he'll stand by the door when they make it to the gas station, and once they arrive,
he does just that. He uncuffs her shot, He puts on a jacket and waits for her to either number one, number two, or number three. Sabrina, do you think it was one, two or three? What do you think? She set it up as number two? Don't you think? Yes? Okay, I thought so too.
That's number three.
If you don't know, I'm not gonna tell you. Just be lucky. We don't get to four and five once inside, it's number zero actually, as Melissa just surveys, Well, when you're full of it, that's when number four and five. Melissa just surveys the restroom, eventually seeing her imaginary zoom once again in the mirror. He explains he's just in her head, but she keeps him there, and this forces her to realize if he's in her head, then she can think like him. She reaches into her pocket and
pulls out the trip books she stole from Skunk. She finds a page for the quote unquote presidential Pickle, which incidentally was my nickname in high school, and then she finds her lip glosses and circles the word presidential, leaving the paper jammed in a mirror.
You circle it. Why wouldn't you just say what you wanted to say with me?
You mean, right, we're in the presidential suite. They're taking us here.
They're taking us here, because that's.
Not confusing, and this movie is confusing, Sabrina. Why you've got you've got pen and ink and you just circle one way? She circled the word, and we've got to go find her, like, yeah, why not just write they've taken us to the presidential suite on the mirror something maybe here, Okay, play to play Devil's advocate. Maybe she thought she had to do it that way, so if he walked in to check to see if she'd left any clues, it wouldn't be that blatant. I don't again,
I'm going for a stretch. I think it's just because it's supposed to be confusing. Yeah, so she jams at leaving the Okay, she exits with a long piece of toilet paper stuck to her shoe, leaving a trail to the truck. She removes her jacket, tosses it to the floor, and get back in the handcuffs shot for the drive. Meanwhile, Maurice is on the phone defending his actions to someone. Maybe they aren't the bosses of this plan after all.
They drive off and Neil returns to writing the book again in the back, until Melissa argues that he needs better conditions to write, and Maurice actually agrees. They're just going to go back to the hotel. Which how did we know that? After the already all right, she already
she circled them? Just then, Andre, Andre, Sheldon and Wheeze stumble on the drive through They see Melissa's jacket the trail of toilet paper from the bathroom and find her page with presidential circleed, but Pickle, of course, was sadly ignored. Weez smells her lip gloss on the paper and knows it's Melissa. Shelter reveals that his idea. He thinks it's a clue for a pickle farm, but Andre knows this means presidential suite, and they leave for the hotel again.
Would it just been easier to write they took us back to the hotel. The uniform truck arrives back at this hotel and they're greeted by the real bad guy, their boss, Mirv. That's right, it's a hotel owner all along. He helped Melissa earlier, but all it did was lead him to her dad. Now he tells his henchman to get me into his room to finish the new book. What a turn of events? Did you see this coming? Did you know Burv was gonna be the bad guy?
I at this point I've forgotten about him, I really did.
I knew at the second game on screen he was all gonna be of course it was gonna be Merv. Of course it was.
Yeah, I mean, I know, I truly was like, I can't believe they have Jason Earl and they've barely used him, Like what the heck?
Yeah, Like he's.
Hilarious, funny, all of them on the castAR. But yeah, you're gonna have them in this movie and just give him this teeny tidy roll.
What Yeah. No, so they get to see him. It's MERVS here and we're now in Merv's room. It looks like a seventies bachelor pad. I loved his room, by the way, outdated and swanky. It was the best.
It was such a good set. It was such a good set.
This is where, so Melissa follow me through. This is handcuffed to the hanging egg chair shot and Neil is placed in front of a laptop. Okay, but now we're back. Keep that in mind. Keep that in mind. We're now back on the road. The boys have forced a pizza delivery guy from Ralph's Pizza Shack to bring them to the hotel. Also, the pizza has the best cross in town, and for some reason, they dance and listen to cool
music on the way in their car. Back at the hotel, Melissa notices a sketch for the MERV and how does she notice this by getting up and walking around? Wait, she was just handcuffed to the chair. Hello, not ere, She's just not anymore. There's bad handcuffs, or she just doesn't want to be in them anymore. So she notices sketches for the MERV an idea for an expensive Vegas like high rise redesign of this particular hotel, and apparently this is his motivation to do this whole plot, which
makes no sense. Somehow, Skunk is getting better at writing, and Melissa and Neil are bonding his father and daughter in the same process. The next day, now the hotel convention is still bumping with book fans and is as messy as ever. The pizza man finally arrives too, So where were they coming from if the other people got there so much faster? But dropping off our teens? How are they driving through the night? Okay, by this point I'm just going okay, let the colors wash over me.
Back inside, Melissa's finishing off the book while Maurice and her dad sleep with Skunk. Also in the shower, she sees an opportunity trip appears, but she's so sick of him only talking in catchphrases, but still asks him what he thinks of her plan, But she knows the answer. She found the confidence within herself. She has a good plan, Foss. Meanwhile, the boys barging to the presidential suite, only to realize Melissa and her dad aren't there. Where is she? Then
Sheldon redeems himself and figures it out. It's like the climax from Zoom Time Boom Time. I think it's called the Signal of strength. It is a signal Zoom uses to lead the cloned rebels to his location. Weez realizes she's brilliant and Andre warns him if you don't ask her out, I will, which was a very funny line. They just need to find the signal, and they need to find it. Now we are back on the con stage. There's a Zoom debate going on until Weez and Andre
break it up. They announced that Neil is in trouble and he needs the Zoomer's help, Floss. Unfortunately, Merv hears all of this and now knows he must stop this group from obviously going and wrecking his master plan, the plan of which we still don't know what the hell is actually going on. This is where we get a montage to yet another pop song, now with a poncho sporting group of Zoomers making water balloons, mixing paint, and creating new trip traps throughout the city for their plan.
Later on, Melissa still needs to figure out what her signal's going to be that's important, but her dad reveals that a lot of trip is actually based on her. She's in the plot, she's in the humor, she's in the heart, and she is the reason that he writes. This beautiful moment is interrupted by Merv, who just needs this book finished. He knows a Zoomer firestorm is brewing outside, and Melissa just wants to know what this is all about. Merv says that he cares about what her dad writes,
not what Skunk's been doing. He wants now try to follow me here because hopefully as I read this out, I'll understand it too. He wants to sell the manuscript to the new and last Neil Morris book to fund his new hotel idea, and until that book is perfect, Neil won't see his princess and locks Melissa in the bathroom. Now, even Skunk and Maurice are little disturbed this isn't what they signed up for, but MERV says they're looking at jail time either way, so they better do what he says.
So he wants to hold this guy, have him write his last book, not what Skunk wants, kill him, sell the book rights, and then build a hotel. That's the Disney Channel plan, folks, that's the plan.
Where we're at.
This is where we are. This is when by this point I think I was looking at everything else in my room going like, oh, that needs to be cleaned up. It was, yes, it's just okay. So outside we're back outside now the Zoomers are ready to go. As Melissa paces the bathroom, she needs to give them the signal. She pulls down a shower curtain and starts raiding the
medicine cabinet, working quickly to create something. Eventually, she writes a very large Z on the sheet and places it outside the window, giving the group the signal that they need. They immediately then storm the hotel. Which again, why not just lean out the window and say come get me, or write something else on the thing. But anyway, they storm the hotel, slingshotting super stinky cheese bombs right into Mirv and his hotel plans. It's an all out attack,
water balloon, spray guns, paint, toilet paper. It's actually really disgusting and gross. It reminds me very much of Nickelodeon stuff. This might be the dirtiest movie we've seen yet, and it forces Merv to retreat, grabbing Neil and Melissa for an escape, but they quickly realize every route is blocked by zoomers and they're attacking from every direction. The fans steal off the streets while Melissa loses her captors with a slip slap zoom trap and reunites with weez to
dental floss up Skunk and Maurice. So yeah, floss floss maybe that is what it is, but they never explained that. At the beginning, the only bad guy left is Merv. He still has Neil and is trying to just get to his car, but that's when Sheldon spots him again, making up for that one time he had a stupid idea and wanted to go to the pickle farm. He yells charge and it's a full on brave heart attack.
Hundreds of kids turn the corner and they ambush Nerve until he's trapped, but he fakes his retreat and runs away again. He's still getting away, but as he's about to round a corner, more recent Skunk still flost up see the mob coming, and for their own redemptions, Skunk tells his brother to spin and they create a trip wire, forcing Merv to fall into what can only be described as a large pile of coalslaw, that's there for some reason that I don't understand. Do you understand what that?
What the reason for that was? What do you think me?
At this point that I lost me?
It was, yes, okay, I'm glad I wasn't the only one.
It was like really pushing of just.
Trying to get through this at this point. This was a rough one for me. I'll be honest, it was.
And it sucked because I want to love all of the movies that we watch, you know, and then the cast is cast is so good and I love Paul Howen and yes, like the whole time, and I'm going, am I just a bad mood right now?
Like I thought the same thing.
I just like not wanting.
So funny you say that I thought the same thing, Like.
Am I just in a mood? Like? Is that is that what's happening?
Yeah, and no, it just this did not feel like dcom at all. It felt like a bad Nickelodeon movie. Yes, you know, like the vibe was just wrong.
I also watched Nickelodeon growing up, but like it wasn't as on the caliber for me as like the Disney story.
Agree, agreed, And this felt like that.
Yeah, yeah, so it was strange. Strange.
Yeah. So the kids celebrate as the real police finally arrive and with no sign of the lazy cop, who, of course, could have ended this movie an hour ago. Now, yep, but we're thank you. We are now back at the convention, without the threat of evil looming. Neil speaks to his fans. He thanks them for their triptastic efforts. Everyone there will get a signed copy of his next book. He also says it's time to reward the winner of the Zoom
Enough Prize. He picks Andre Sheldon and Wieze, some guys who really stepped up in the face of danger, ignoring the fact that they were actually his first kidnappers and definitely had awful intentions, and put socks in his mouth repeatedly. But who cares, as We's then yells reading rocks, good message, weird way to say it. Zoom appears once again for Melissa, but instead of getting into their normal war of words, she thanks him. She couldn't have done it without him,
but he's not hearing it. She did it, She did it all on her own. And Neil announces he has one more prize for his inspiration. He's awarding his daughter. That's right, there, you go. She gets the prize. She's been the inspiration for everything. The fans give her a standing ovation as the father and daughter embrace on stage. The crowd chance Floss as a handcuffed shot Skunk and
Maurice watch on. Skunk is still optimistic. Dostoyevsky wrote some really cool stuff while in the Slammer, and just like that, they're taken away to prison. It's finally time for Neila Melissa's vacation. Wheeze shyly gives her his number in case she wants to, you know, go out. She says yes, but makes him promise it'll be a normal date. No weird costumes, no dental floss, and no police intervention. That's
a pretty lame date if you ask me. He agrees, and hey, man, if you're not wearing kattumes and using dental floss for something you didn't get lucky that night. He agrees, and then the Morris duo drive off as the Zoomers once again chant floss, and then we get bloopers, but not even the bloopers weren't good. It's just characters getting hit in the face with slime and dowse with water. As the credits pass by and we hear Emily Osmond's en track called hero in Me. Did you know at
the time this was an Emily Ozma song. Oh that's cool and that is our movie.
There we go.
I figured, yeah, I kind of did too, but at that point my ears were on fire and my eyes were bleeding. So, okay, this was a rough one for me, folks, I'm sorry, this was a really rough one for me.
Just hate it. Especially talking to Jason.
I know what you mean. You hate that. You don't like them as much as we don't like them, you know.
But even himself he said when he read it it was weird. Yeah, when they did it, it felt weird.
But here's the thing, we have to be Okay, I don't care if you've got five dollars or five hundred million. Some movies are gonna be good, and some movies are gonna be not that great, and some movies are gonna be terrible, and there's gonna be everything in between. Yeah, that we are getting spoiled by some of these movies.
A because I know I'm watching them in the wrong state of mind, and I know that they're good movies for what they're supposed to be, And I'm trying to get better at being like, this is a good movie. I'm just being a jerk about it because I'm watching it in the wrong frame of mind or whatever. And this is actually a good movie for what it's supposed to be. That being said, some of these just aren't
gonna be good movies. Yeah, And this just wasn't a good great cast, great director, It looked nice, Yeah, but the story and the script were terrible.
I'm sorry.
I don't understand the movies. I don't understand the motivation for kidnapping either time. None of it made any sense. They didn't explain anything. It just wasn't a good It just.
Didn't hit the mark. And that is what's so.
It's so rare to be this off.
Yeah, to be this off. It just is so rare, and it's like, what's sucks for me? What I think I start why I think? I was like almost getting irritated? Is this movie? You know? Within this time while they were filming this was Disney's way to give the kids on their channel that aren't the number one on the call sheet, right, they're the twos, the threes, the fours, whatever, giving them an opportunity to have a shining light on them.
Yep.
So I really had high hopes that this was going to be just such a great movie because I'm sure the kids appreciated it. I'm sure their parents did you know what I mean? Like all of that, like it was it should it was set up to be something really great and again and am I just in a bad mood right now? I'm just not interested in watching this?
Or did I set my expectations just too high? Like I kept trying to make it my fault, but it was like, but I'm lost, I'm lost and this isn't like making sense, and so you know we'll get to my sacs subritis ses are more so like suggestion.
Yeah yeah, yeah, I know, no I will, I will say this. I I was very impressed with Emily Osma. Yeah, I thought for what they gave her, I thought she she did great. They should have had her star and a number of other d coms because she They didn't give her a whole lot and she every beat was real and you easily could have made this where this was like, this was terrible, but she was great. So there's there's some bright lights. But yes, this was a
tough one. Well let's see what other people thought about it, and let's do our real reviews. Do you want the five star, the one start? You want the one?
All right?
I will take the five star and the five star is written by our old friend who Noma is back. Here we go. Everyone experiences being written as a book. Every day we realize something is always missing. But in fact it was beside us all along. Treasure someone you love and never let it go away without regrets. Five star. I'm not sure the person even saw the movie, but there you go. Can you give us the one star?
Oh? Yes, the one star was from Zachary. Oh why are you kidnapping dads?
It's a logical question. One star? Okay, Well we are gonna come to the fun part. My favorite and of course bring his favorite part of the podcast. We are doing our future game this week, and our future game this week is called lit or Miss. Thank you very much. Producer Jensen can come up with him, Kenny. We're gonna be giving the names of classical books and four choices of authors. If we get three of five authors correctly,
we win. I'm gonna let you pick first every time because I just glanced at them and I think I know the answer to.
All do you? Yes? Damn it?
So go ahead. We're gonna start number one. Pride and Prejudice was Pride and Prejudice written by A. Emily Dickinson, B. Jane Austen see Charlotte Bronte or D Judy Blue.
You Jensen please say d.
U C. Charlotte Bronte is who you think? Okay? I'm pretty sure Pride and Prejudice is actually a Jane Austen novel. It's b chance, it's okay, number per chance. Number two, Moby Dick was that a Mark Twain, B. William Faulkner, c Herman Melville or D. Dan brown S. D Oh my god, Moby Dick would have been great written by Dan Brown where it's like Moby Dick is actually you know Jesus's dad.
B.
William Faukner. Okay, I'm gonna go with the right answer, which is C Herman Melville. Now percentage wise the next one she's supposed to get just percentage why supposed to get? Oh, no, number three, to kill a mockingbird?
I'm gonna I'm asking percentage.
A percentage you're supposed to get this one? Here we go.
Is it A Truman Capote, B. JD. Salinger, C. Harper Lee or D. Jackie Collins.
Okay, Oh, I don't know, I have no a.
Oh the percentages failed us. It is C.
Harper Lee. Is the answer to to kill a mockingbird? She was? She was Truman Capote's assistant, and that was the book. She went off and wrote on her own.
It is, by the way, it is harder to get zero right then it would be to get all five percentage wise. Number four.
The fact that you get so much joy Jensen of creating this bolt is just insane.
I don't know which joy as much as.
It likes joy.
Shame on you, You're bliss. Shame on you, boss boss.
Number four. The picture of Dorian Gray.
Never listens to this episode. She's gonna be so irritated. Why reader, Oh my god.
Yes, picture of Dorian Gray, A, Edgar Allan Poe, b Oscar Wilde, C Charles Dickens or d J. K Rowling. A. Okay, it's b Oscar Wilde is the answer.
We are so close to a no hitter. I'm so excited. I can't take that. One more number five, one more crowd? So silent?
Is it? A? Is it? You're just picking A? I mean it's the same chances it's a Victor Hugo, b Emily Sola See Gustave Flaubert or d Jim Davis. Hey, you're gonna go a day. It is A.
She just needed to not hear the names. What she got right is pick a letter A, B or C. That's awesome. I think that's honestly, this is the best boss for alcome.
Shame.
But by the way, Jensen, I'm gonna need a copy of Moby Dick written by Dan Brown.
Sounds like a job for chat GBT.
Thank you so much, producer Jensen for once again making my day. That is absolutely wonderful. Can we do some Sabrina sees.
Yes, please, We've got to get past this. Okay, So well, we basically talked about every single one that was on it. Just the question of the craziness one of the things that I, honestly, I'm so glad you brought up. How we did not see that kind of idea of an action play of the book so that we got a little bit more. That would have been an easy way for them to give us the information of these holes. And again I don't know, I would assume that they did,
but for some reason pulled them out. It has to be. But the only one we didn't talk about was, you know, we did like that would explain floss, because floss is not explained at all, how he uses flaws, why floss is a thing would be done easily by just doing a quick scene with him with the floss and why these kids are using floss to tie people up and whatever.
And then I did notice the handcuff situation. I thought that was a second one of she thinks back about something that her dad wrote in the movie of how he gotten out of handcuffs before, and that's how she gets out of it.
That would have been nice to see.
The only thing we didn't see or didn't talk about, but that was like an extra thing, like using that as a way to explain some of the stuff that I get it. You're you're trying to keep it quick and moving, but like it would have been a little bit helpful. But I did have to ask you, do you feel like you were triggered because it's all around this con thing that you go to and you know the ins and outs of it.
Like, well, it just was it just it seemed to be written by somebody who's never really been to a con That's what I mean. Yeah, that's some of it is that you know, like the stuff they do on stage, if they have a contest or something, that stuff can happen. People dressing up, that stuff can clearly happen. Nobody's throwing slime and stuff all over the place at a convention.
That doesn't happen. Also, the author of the book would be sitting behind a desk with his book set up, and there'd be a line of people waiting to meet him and sign there. He's not just what You're not just randomly walking around signing autographs at a convention. You're like, you have a table set up and people come and talk to you and do so they were let's say if I'm being generous, they were playing it fast and loose with the con world.
Okay, y, yes, which I think for some you know, I what it seems like. Again, I've never done it, but I watched Big Bang Theory all the time. They talk about cons a lot, and a lot of the people go are like really huge and amazing fans and so awesome. I would think that this would be like something that they'd be like, that's not how it is at all, Like what you know, it would be like somebody who does right for Big Bang to not ever go to them like yeah, I mean.
Again, they got some of it right, but a lot of it not right, just way way off. And I want to take you to one because they are so much fun and so inclusive and everybody's welcome and everybody can just be weird and nerdy. It's the greatest thing.
It's awesome, so fun, so fun, you know. But I feel like that that was something that was kind of going, I bet you will so irritate. It can't be this can't be what it's like like it just you know. And then I was also we like, as the author of the thing that they're all coming like it's very unsafe. He has like no security like of any sort, like not walking around, not how it's done, you know, and staying at that same hotel, like people could walk that happens.
That happened. Oh there's times where you're you're staying at the hotel where the convention actually takes place, and you're riding in the elevator with all the fans and all that stuff. That's actually that thing happened. That happens quite often.
I could follow you to your room.
I mean, you have weird things. Had major problems with Danielle before.
Not just Danielle. I've had people follow me to different countries, like.
When we oh my god, oh yeah, no, I got it. Can be back when we were on tour, it was so important of where we like, it was to the point where we had to like take a van away from the bus and get dropped off because if they followed our bus, then now we're like, you know, in a hotel room with somebody.
And you know how many times that we were on tour for Podney's World Live or would there be a group of people waiting in the lobby for us.
Oh gosh, no, that is so unsafe.
Yeah, Okay, anyway, that's real. That happens a lot. Wow, okay, all right, we weren't staying at the murk, but that's all right.
I think. God yeah, I mean Adrian had her entire luggage stolen by like one of the fans that was out like it saw us come in and our the assistant was like taking you know, the fans supposed to put it on a bell hop and like literally she on tour had no clothes nothing.
That's the thing is ninety nine point nine percent of the fans you meet are the nicest, the best, coolest, Yes, just you just want to hang out with them. They're respectful, they're the greatest people in the world. It's that tinye point one percent.
But the problem is that point one percent stays with you forever. Yeah, you never forget that. Those those very small and very far between. Oh yeah, very very small for sure, you know. Wow.
All right, all right, can we read our our options for this week? Yeah, I'm not gonna make a joke on it. One to ten, one bad, ten good. Uh. Our options this week one out of ten Spoiler Book reports, one out of ten legally acceptable scrabble ripoffs onion smells floss floss flosses one out of ten, book splat trip traps, one out of ten, Stockholm syndromes, one out of ten, double kidnappings, presidential pickles, one out of ten, best pizza cross in town, or one out of ten large piles
of coleslaw. I think I get to pick this week, don't I do? And just because it's so difficult to say, I want to do one out of ten book slap books. Ye, screw book splat trip traps.
All right, all right, I think you went first last week.
If I did, I believe I did.
Okay, so I'm going to go first. And this was rough because again I have such so much love and so much respect for these acts, and I freaking love me some Paul Owen. This was tough for me. There was too many holes for me to even enjoy it at all at times. But the cast was phenomenal and they did a great job, so that bumps it up for me a little bit. I'm giving this a five point five book slap trap traps into that way, five five point five book slap traps.
There you go. Yeah, the the cast saved it a little bit, but not enough for me. This was this was I mean, it just was all over the place. This was such a strange movie. Again, great cast, I didn't even think about this before you said it. You're one hundred percent right. It was a great opportunity for the seconds and thirds on the call sheets to have something to do, and they all did great with what they were given. But the problem is what they were
given was not good. So yeah, this is this is to be a four for me four booksplat Trip Traps. This just this was not a good movie. And some of them aren't gonna be good. And I think most people know that we're fans, and fans don't want to be I don't want to sit here in bash Disney.
I don't want to bash actors that we like, and not every movie is gonna be good, and this, unfortunately is you know, we're gonna be able to count on one hand with four fingers left over the amount of Paul Hoan movies that aren't good on the Disney Channel.
Seriously, this is and I think it goes to show too. Like we've talked to now Paul and Jason Earles, this what I don't think this is something they look back at super fondly either like thinking it was you know, like, I don't feel like they felt like this was their They mean, at least neither of them mentioned this one.
Yeah. No, And I think they both just think it's just weird because it's it is. It's just weird. It's fever dreamish, nothing makes sense, nothing comes back. Wait, why are they even kidnapping it? It is a very strange movie all the way around. Yeah, yeah, well so okay, Well, thank you everybody for joining us for our next movie. We're actually only gonna go back for a few years for a more recent edition of the collection. It's twenty twenty one's Spin, available now to watch via Disney Plus.
And this week, as we've talked about many times now in our dedicated magical Rewine Feed, we are absolutely thrilled to have chatted with a Disney legend merv from Dad napped himself and from another little something. What was that thing he did? The anamn tana.
It's Jason Earl's Hannah Banana, as he calls it.
Hannah Banana, And we talk about everything. It was a really, really fun conversation. It really was. Here is a small taste of what's to come.
I did a bunch of extra work for Disney before I ever booked anything.
And really that's cool if.
You watch that, So Raven, I'm in a ton of that, So Raven, including my favorite behind the scenes thing of there was I think it was an episode where she was like running for student office or something and they were supposed to be an auditorium full of students, but like on a Disney budget sometimes there's nine, there was literally like twenty of us, right, and we wore our stuff and we sat in a section, and then we went and we changed our clothes and they sat that's
another section. And then so when you look at the scene, like there's a shot where I'm in like four places.
It's in port of an outfit.
It's fantastic.
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