Rip Girls

Do you surf? Have we talked about this? Do we talk about this during johnny Tsunami? We no?

I think we mainly talked about snowboarding because he didn't he really really didn't see a lot of surfing in Johnny'sunami, And we.

Haven't seen back on the board yet, which is probably, Oh, we've.

Got to it's coming to summertime. We got to put that on the list. So my parents had like a timeshare in Hawaii, So that was our summer trip that we did for a lot of years. And so I would do a lot of surfing there and I was, you know, being in southern California. I actually had a friend who's I didn't have a ton but I had one friend, Crystal, whose dad was a surfer like right,

Was this a real guy?

So cool? No, it was my friend Crystal's big brother, like it was that living in southern California. That was like a thing, like you know, like the man I married Jordan. He was a surfer like you know, like it when I met him, Like his backboard of his bed was a big surf board. So that was know something that I loved. I did it. I can't say I never got past along board, so I was not I don't consider myself a surfer because I was not

And oh really, yeah, they're more scared of you than you are.

Then, Oh, okay, I'm sure that's true. Really, you know a lot of sharks they've told of.

Course, friends with a bunch of sharks. They're ye pretty skinnish.

Now now the ocean and the beach it's sandy. It's I mean, even wango tango. I didn't go out into the actual audience. I stayed on the platform.

Can't do the sand.

Oh my.

I've only been Hawaii once. It was in twenty nineteen. Is the first time I've ever been at first Hawaii. Okay, I tried surfing once. I stood up once. I'm basically a pro. I don't ever need to do it again. I'm sure I even have a video of it, so that's all I need.

Is so fun, It's so but it's it's what people don't realize until you actually get on the board. How hard is it? Like your shoulders, your your body is scraped up from the wax and the sand and the salt water and all that. I mean, it is so much harder than what you would ever really imagine, even just getting out there. I mean, it's like stuff you to work out. You paddle, and you paddle and then you ride, especially when you're like a beginner, which I don't think I ever advanced from that state.

I did, I didn't do it enough.

But you ride one wave in then and you look back and you're like, I gotta go the way back.

Well, that's that's that's the old seinfeld joke. Seinfeldt said that surfing is just the ocean continuously kicking you out of it, like I want you in here, keep getting out.

Take your ass over and over again, and for some reason you just need to get back out and try to do one more wave, and you're.

Still not good one. I was great. I was a pro when you were pro. I love video. That's all I need.

That's the thing about you, Will is that you just like you just master everything I do.

I conquer. I do things once, I'm professional at it, and I never have to do them again. And I try to go.

You'll never surf again.

I don't need your good I surfed a wave. I've got it on video.

You got the award, got the medal.

On video, exactly. Thank you very much. On to the next as we are onto the next film. Look at that brought it right back. 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 are smart. The waves. Tsunamis and the High School's musical. I'm Wilford Dell.

And I'm Sabrina ready to rip it up?

Nice? Oh, I like it. I like it. Well, it's eating up here people, because summer's here and we're celebrating at the beach with our newest d com. It's two thousand surf family drama, rip Girls, or as we've been calling it here Julie Tsunami. Yes, I had joked about that last week when I teased up. But reality, rip Girls not a good title. We've seen this a few times now, Sabrina, Am I right here? This I didn't

Oh, well, of course that's incredibly disappointing. But what did it make you think it was gonna?

I thought I was going to be watching a surf movie, a good ROMP surf movie, a kid Disney Channel surf movie, which this was at all.

You don't think that was it?

I do all God, No, surfing had almost nothing to do with this movie was about surfing.

Yeah, I let me be okay, let me be clear of this. I auditioned for this movie. And if you saw Sabrina and this era with my brown hair and I was always tan.

But they cast that other guy to play ConA, you would have been great.

I would have been great as ConA. I swear to god, ConA.

You would have been great. But they cast out.

So I auditioned for it. And this is one of the Channel movies that I got like I kind of got down the line, you know, close to it. Remember watching it super excited. Like I said, although I wasn't a surfer, surfer, surfing was a big part of just being in so Calend growing up. Sure loved it and I remember going there wasn't that much surfing. And this was at a time when this big surf movies came. I'm trying to think of the names of them, like the Blue Crush. Blue Crush was out. This was during

I just no, I just want I just thought it was going to be a surfing movie and it kind of wasn't a surfing movie, which again it wasn't. I didn't mind the direction it went. I just don't like if something's called Johnny and the Ghost Squad and there's no Ghost Squad, then you've mistitled your thing. You know what I mean? If I go to a Hamburger joint and they only serve spaghetti, then.

It's not actually a Hamburger j and girl cheese. Yes, okay, okay. So I went into rig done, like what would this have been?

I don't know, it would have been something more of you know, the Yeah Hawaii or or something with your history or something with a mom relationship. I mean, something that did Rip Girls makes it sound like, you know, if it's called BMX Bandits and there's no bmxing in it, it's misnamed. So Ripped Girls to me, I was like

Had a ton of snowboarding. So yes, me think it makes me think, though, what is it? Was it the difficulty of being able to try to because again, surfing is a tough sport, and maybe it was like a difficulty of trying to find young enough.

I just think I was misnamed. I think this was always the movie and always the attention. They just they they and I don't again, I don't know how this was touted back in the day. I don't know how they actually promoted it. But I mean, if they promoted it as it's just shots of surfing and then you

I feel like it's got to be location areas something to film.

And another rarity. Much like the original Zombies movie, this one did not include any previous Disney stars in the cast. They employed all unknown actors and I think they all did a pretty good job, and frankly so to our friends at Complex. On their list one that we commonly reference, Rip Girls placed number twelve on their list of the twenty five best d Coms, and we've got more here. It's number twenty nine on Entertainment Weekly's list of Top

I mean no, because he did not talk to me.

Ah, okay, fair enough.

Was a lot older from Afar. From Afar, Yeah, he was much older. I mean okay, she was a year older than I am, and he was probably three, four or five years older. So he was like, yeah, does he still in tree house? No, he does it, I think, but he did live in Australia. Like his whole life is still like was for a long time last time I checked in, still very much around surfing his serfs and he's total life. It's a total lifetle baby surfers.

Yeah, for sure, it's a total life style. One of my favorite shows ever is one hundred Foot Wave. Go check that out, yo, It's amazing. And yes, like most films we watch, Rip Girls is available to stream on Disney Plus right now, so you can watch it before listening to our recap or wait until after and see how much we got right. We're just wringing it here, so honestly, the fact that we nail any of the

I very much aware of this movie and was very excited when it came out to see Like again, okay, what was you know when I auditioned? How you know, it's like you start kind of like using them as like education for yourself when you're trying to nil one of these roles? What could I have done better?

You know, you gotta let us do what your audition scene was?

Okay, So I remember I auditioned for the lead, and then I also did audition for Gia too. Once they once I went in, they said, also, can we would love to hear you? So I know her audition scene. I don't remember what the leads auditions.

Okay, gotcha?

Gotcha didn't spark a memory? No, I uh, when you auditioned for ConA.

When I auditioned for ConA, my frosted tips apparently were too frosted. I was told mine was like frosted flakes, Thank you very much.

And I thought, I from here, I want to make statement. Thought she did a great job.

Thought did the cat The acting was not? Again, if I knew what I was getting into a little more with the title.

You would know I irritated. Was it like a little irritated.

Like you just go in expecting.

A little bit.

I just you go in expecting one thing and you end up with something else. Again, if I go to a burger joint and all they have is spaghetti, even the best plate of spaghetti is not going to change the fact that I was expecting a burger. Yes, so I was expecting Rip Girls to be exactly what I even said to Sue. I'm like, oh, man, tonight's movie. I don't know what it's going to be about, but it's surfing. There's going to be some sort of contest. There's going to be the bad team, there's going to

I haven't, and it's definitely on our list of places we want to go. I've heard such funny things about Australia.

It's fun. It depends where you go. I enjoyed it. The people are super friendly. A lot of it's very pretty. But I remember distinctly being on a plane for fourteen days landing and being like I just was on a plane forever. To land back in California is kind of like what it seems like, but again it really is where. It seemed very much like we were in a city in California, super nice people. It was a lot of fun, it really was. I'm glad I went. It was a

Okay, problem, one thing I did hear and know that I would never drive there because they are very crazy about their like getting a ticket in Australia is so likely if you Yeah.

Well, it's also everything in the country wants you dead. Have you not seen these videos where it's like people have to flush their toilets because the spiders are the size of your head and there's just in your cereal bowl.

And like that, like its spiders.

Yeah that build their own houses and knock on your door to try to lure you out. Yeah.

No, that is the part of it that I would I mean I have friends. There was a huge like you know, study abroad things at Chapman and Australia was like a big thing, and they came home with these like insane stories. But they were also living like in someone's like back house, like where there was like no like legitimate like walls.

I'm like what, Yeah, it's everything.

I travel and go to oaked El's like I'm not going into a cabin of any.

Sort, especially there. It seems like, yeah, everything wants you to do. Yeah, the people are super friendly.

Uh.

The movie is directed by a new name to us, a woman, yet another rare occurrence for Decom's her name is Joyce Chopra and right after college, all these stories are so cool. Chopra and her first husband opened a European style coffee shop in New York that turned into a music nightclub called Club forty seven. Everyone from Bob Dylan to Joan Bias performed there and would later get its own documentary called for the Love of a Music The.

Club of forty seven.

Right, Oh my godness, It's amazing, wasn't it. Joyce Chopper was a feminist filmmaker focusing on documentaries. One from nineteen seventy four was an autobiographical film about her own pregnancy and how it affected her career in movie making. The labor also put her in the record books as the first person to ever give birth on live TV. Crazy. I don't even want to know who sponsored that. She transitioned into full length narrative movies like The Lemon Sisters

Congrats to them, though three minutes contest, heys.

Three minutes more than they had. Historya will look back on them positively and the movie was written by Jan Rosenberg, who has kind of a crazy career, making for a very rare female director and writer team. Rosenberg wrote a Disney Live action classic starring a young Meredith Salinger and John Cusack called Journey of Natty Gan. She also directed nineteen ninety one's White Fang and eventually Bambi two. This time It's Personal, a movie that recently surprised us both

And by and by the way, I don't hate Sydney's dad going I like, you're too young to go.

Off, but especially when your mom died the same way, I could see being freaked out about going to the beach, which even just going to the beach in general.

But still we're on like an island. We don't know anyone. You certainly don't know anyone little girl, Like, no, you, no, you might not act.

Thirteen when walking down to the beach. Be that big a deal for a kid you're thirteen. I'd been sued by the time I was thirteen.

No, honestly, yes, I that is not I feel like they're no no really no, no, I mean maybe I'll feel different, but at this point, no.

At thirteen, you you weren't able to just like walk to a beach. Again, we're talking about kind of a closed off island. You're walking, She's not like grabbing a snorkel.

I was allowed to like ride my bike up to like the shopping center that was, you know, outside of the neighborhood and across like one major street.

And that's way more dangerous than going to the beach.

But will, what were you doing at thirteen when you had time on your own? I already know because you have told me.

Okay, I'm not a good example. I'm a very good example. What were you doing that at thirteen when.

You would that I was around people that that were but you did definitely, Yeah, but that's because I was.

I was a bust, like I'd been smoking for years by thirteen.

That's what I mean. But like the beach to me again, the ocean puts a whole other factor in it, Like how would I ever know if you went into the ocean and got like he was not being mean? Like honestly, like, how am I gonna know?

I don't think he was being mean. I think though he was being overly cautious. I think a thirteen year old on a small island walking to a beach by his again.

If he was with the friend. Okay, but no, no, I don't even like when my song leaders when we're at Disney World go to the restroom on their own. Take a buddy, okay, take somebody with you to make sure that you don't venture off and die somewhere.

Okay.

Well, and nobody takes you, And nobody takes you because you're cute. Okay, people are looking to take you. Got a cute things.

Maybe it's different with girls, because I mean again, at thirteen, we were riding our motorcycles in the woods and camping out all the time.

And we knew where you were at. This is different. She doesn't know where she is.

We will disagree agree. She's kinna knock because it's like right down anyway. Okay. Sabrinas is clearly team her dad, Team Ben. She argues, though, that she's thirteen, not a baby. I would argue that as well. Elizabeth even tries to get Vince Ben, but he's scared of riptides and currents. Okay, that's fair. Sidney tries to compromise. She won't go in the water, she'll just take pictures. And so the next

Yes?

Do you remember most things about the script?

Uh? Not most things? I remember this.

Did ConA have a broken arm in the script? Yes he did, Yes, you're sure.

Yeah, I'm almost positive because what kept him on the sand. Otherwise he would have been out in the ocean and she wouldn't have right.

But but he's still skateboarding, he's still swimming after her, all that kind of stuff. It just seemed like, like why he could have still stayed and had a conversation where the fact that he had a broken arm meant nothing to the story.

Later Yeah, yeah, he just didn't need to.

And so in my head, I was like, does he did? They have to change it because the actor broke his arm right before they were going to start.

Oh, I don't think so.

You remember he had a broken arm in the script, Okay, Because to me, I was like, it makes no sense that this kid has a broken arm, Like it just it did nothing for the story. He's still doing all his skateboarding stuff. So they want to keep him on the beach. That's fine. They can keep them there to talk with her and he can still run in and catch a wave or two. Yeah, because it just didn't I didn't understand why he had a broken arm. It just was completely and totally unnecessary, right.

I mean, I mean feel like I remember friends that would break their arms and they would still skate versus like, you can't go in the water with your count.

He went in several times. I guess he's trying to save people, but still I don't get that I understood.

I mean, I feel like it's like he's not going to not go in to save someone, but like, I know, it just.

Didn't Yeah, it didn't seem it didn't seem like it did anything for the story that the guy had a broken arm. Frankly, I just.

What beached him, Like, yeah, I mean to go into the water and get them to be able to have time away from the friends.

Which easily could have done that without him with the weird story of having a broken arm. Anyway, he says longboards like Sydney's are for relaxing cruises, but a short board is extreme. She's impressed and calls him a poet, which honestly seems undeserves His words weren't poetic at all.

But I thought she was going to finish the sentence. It's like, you're a poet. You don't even know.

I don't even know. I swear.

I was like, oh God, oh, oh, oh, is.

That where we're going? Oh my god, Yeah, I didn't think it was poetic, but to each his own. He also quickly realizes she's never served before, so she admits a little secret between Chicago and her nervous dad. She's never even thought about surfing before. We cut it later and the girls are having a small tutorial for Sydney, and now she's ready. Uh, you didn't lose sound in your podcast. I'm just pausing because I have no idea how long the scene was supposed to represent in real life.

It never very Sabrina sees what happened to the box?

Where's where's Johnny binoculars? Like?

What happened? Did we ever find was that the real estate people don't know her mom's best friend that we find later? Was it?

I don't know, it's a guy on the other side of the beach where there are surfing competitions. Yeah, because it was so weird and he just never comes up again, was it?

I mean, do you think that there was a scene that ends up getting explained and that's just what hit the floor? That was the three minutes we lost for me?

Maybe it's three minutes about binocular john Like, I don't know.

I don't know either.

Never happens again. Sidney now paddles out into the ocean and falls off, then gets back up and tries again. At the end of the day, She's frustrated, but Gia tells her not to worry. She'll get it, but Sidney reveals she's only in Hawaii for two weeks. She is confused. What about the house, isn't it hers?

Now?

Sidney says they can't move because of her parents' jobs. But you can tell she wishes that they could back at home. Elizabeth asked Sidney about her day. Sidney says taking pictures went great, but she's concerned about how weird her dad has been acting lately. Elizabeth is as sure Sydney it's not her Adults sometimes get lost in their own boring adult problems. Sidney thinks he's worried too much,

This stepmom dynamic has been one of my favorite parenting relationship. She was a great character seeing she was a great character all the way through the movie. Loved this character and I was so great, so so grateful that this relationship was represented. And this is one of the things that I love about Disney, and y'all know this even

I agree percent. Could it be something with Home Coming, Home Waves Home. I don't know. Oh I don't ride, but it's even that it's like you're still that it's a surfing movie. I don't know, because there was.

A little bit of surf. There's a little and they talk about culture and why of course.

But they didn't show it. Why not call it skateboarding ConA skateboarding movie. There's basically as much of that as there is a surfing. I mean like two or three little surfing scenes. That's it. This was not a surfing.

Movie to be called rip girls, right right.

Anyway, We cut to Ben and Sydney now with Bo at the real estate office. The agent's explained that the current offers from someone who wanted to buy the property years ago, but Sydney's grandma wasn't interested in selling. She loved her land and didn't even look at the proposal. But Sydney and her dad do want to look at it. It's from a company looking to build a new resort, but the historical house and shed would have to be demolished,

Two thousands, your two thousand, But.

It's probably in the millions, don't you reckon? I mean, like, oh, for sure two million bucks? Maybe No, I bet you one point five.

No, I would think it'd be closer to.

Ten even in two thousand you think, I guess it's beach front.

It's a plantation and it's beach front.

Yeah, I guess that's true. So ten to fifteen mil. Yeah, that it's tough to turn down.

Uh.

It could have been called rich girls have been called rich girls. Yeah girls, Yeah exactly. You're offering me twenty five million dollars. It was nice to meet you, Johnny. It's gum whatever.

So to like again, I'm on this dad's side so hard because it's also Liken your team. Ben Ben is like, I'm like, okay, because you put me on, you give me a resort or you give me this big piece of land that I have zero idea of how to maintain, like the mountain.

You just give me a farm, can't do it.

Myself, Like my my cousin bought a two hundred acres in uh West Virginia, and I like my first thing was like, how do you.

Gonna do who?

Who does it? Like? Who do you do? Who does that for you? And she's like We're gonna do it?

And I'm like, yeah, you work the land? No, all right? So that's the movie would have ended right there with just Sabrina signing the papers exactly.

Would be yes sign sign sign like also, like it didn't look like they had staff doing it, like who is maintaining this land?

That well, they had some people that were out there. They did show the people cleaning up the resort and cleaning up the land. They showed a kind of a crew out there cleaning up. So that part my.

If it was people had jobs, I'm not trying to get anyone's like livelihood and situation, so then like that might be a part. But like ten million dollars.

I thought you're called seriously, the movie would have been it would have been a short film about Sabrina going and signing papers to become rich.

I would love to inherit something. Let me tell you when Sabrina Brian is not inheriting anything. But if it was, it was worth.

Ten million signing on the dotted line.

Thank you very much, stamp nails, son.

And movie over, thank you very much. Nice. You wouldn't have met any of the other people on the island. I would have gone, I would have gotten a sandwich. I would have signed the papers. I would have been, We'll find you a nice boy somewhere else. We're now worth twenty five million dollars.

We have just upped our auntie. Wow.

Later, well, some people who don't think on that, don't think like that, are staying on the island. So later, Gia and the girls are back out surfing kind of. When Sydney returns longboarded hand, Gia encourages her she'll own waves today and as a result, this is another thing. We get a loud song and said the nervously paddles out and catches a wave. She gets up and almost makes it all the way to the shore before wiping out. She's thrilled, what a success. Great. Did the mix of

Oh really, because it was like, wow, I could.

I was like, I can't hear some of the dialogue. The background music is so loud.

Oh I didn't. I didn't know. I didn't, but I did. Like this was like a true right in there with Brink and Johnny's Sunami, like the vibe of the ska music.

Yeah, and show us more of that as you're studying. You're about to do the final surf off, like I'm wait on god, why is that not happening?

Uh?

Yeah, there's the big race down Death Valley Hill or whatever.

Anyway, I already saw that in Brink. They can't do but we saw it and everything and break my god.

If they had the even Buffalo Dreams had a race, it's like, oh my god. So anyway, even ConA saw it while carefully skateboarding nearby with his broken arm for no reason. Ga says ConA is her best friend and realizes Sydney likes likes him, oh double. Like time she encourages Sidney to say something to him, he'll be stoked. She says, ConA is a good listener and an incredible artist, and now I kind of want to date ConA. But for now, they've got waves to catch. Sydney paddles out

Does make weed tea for you?

She does not? So does not make weed tea for me? Nor do I drink weed tea? She does? She does not. But that kind of spiritual like I love that almost hippie vibe. You know, I grew up in a town with a lot of hippies, so like almost hippie vibe. Older woman probably smells like pechuli. She's gorgeous. She yeah knows, is like connected to the land. Big fan of that.

I can't handle that. You assume what people smell.

Like, Oh yeah, but I'm also right. That's the thing. I'm also right. I know exactly how she smells. She smells like it's like kind of lavender, kind of petuli and happiness.

We bring our guests on. When now I'm going to ask from here on out, what do you think they smell?

What do you think that? I'd be happy to, I'd be happy to. Malia reveals the surfboard was Sidney's mom's. They were best friends since childhood and that's who she meant. Sidney looks so much like Malia wants to show her something, so they drive off on an ATV to hike up a mountain, finding a beautiful view of another beach. Malia says, this time every year, whales land here with their young and it's a sacred event. The first time she saw the whales was with Gia's mom at a magical ceremony.

It wasn't too heated, It wasn't it was literally to the point.

And it wasn't.

Yeah, this was so good for people like again Disney showing like there are other people out there going through this same situation of how do you how do you mourn the loss of one person and move on? Like all of this was just so good.

It really was, And it's one of those things where it does best they do, they do it great, and it's it was. It wasn't man's plaining, It wasn't woman's plaining. It was a real conversation between adults and very well written, very well acted.

And how it would be as a young person to listen to your your parents having this conversation.

Yeah, and the complexity too, yes, grief and the guilt you feel when you move on and you can't fully move on and I'm not I can't be in love with somebody else when the person I love is gone. It's very very deep and really well done.

I would like, do you do you think we'll come across a dcom that goes through not at being someone has died, but like literally just a divorce and a new relationship.

Maybe that could be world's richest ca at. You never know, it could just be there could be another poorly named d coom that's really about this horrible divorce and the struggles.

Because I hope we do. I hope you'll do the like a positive.

Yeah, maybe in some of the newer ones, because in the older ones they don't do that. They don't do that.

It has the one one side has to be gone.

What was the one that we saw not too long ago with the co parenting that they were divorced. He dropped the dad is kind of has to learn to be a better dad. She lives with her mom. We just saw it. I can't remember what it was. He's coming to pick her up at the house. He's always doing other stuff. Oh, I can't remember. We'll remember what it is. Yeah, we gotta do a rewatch rewatch. Yeah,

I have. I've gotten it done a couple times. But the craziest part when I watched it, because I watched it last night. We just went to SeaWorld and passed one of those, and my mom's like, you should get that done at the kids, I'm like, you and Jordan, the four of you should do it. And I was like, no, they always make my nose look so like this because it's not super Why I beat every time I've done it, how they do my nose like it's so annoying. I will not do it again.

I don't.

I don't.

That's how I look when I get photographed, So I don't even forget somebody drawing me. It's just not bad.

Uh do?

What do you think this drawing still exists in real life. Do you think somebody has this drawing frame somewhere because I would love to have this, Yes, actual drawing from the movie.

Yeah, I'm sure, I bet, I hope. I hope that Camille has it.

So we're gonna have to find out because I want to get I want to get somebody to send one of us an awesome dcom Memorabiliay. I mean you have some because you're in it, but and I have some from my wonderful World of Disney days, but I'd like something like, you know, super yeah, skateboard I do is?

Ask Lisa.

She's got some.

She's got too crazy. We got to wear the camp rock hats. Hope.

Yeah, us, Yeah, that's true.

We'll figure out some cool memorabilia out there, for sure.

There is. Sydney asked ConA about this Kaalaalola house in her mom's picture, and he knows all about it. He says it's on the plantation, abandoned and kind of spooky. She's determined, but he has one question, how well do you ride? And we cut to Sydney, Conah and Gea on horse. It's the only way to get to this plantation. Apparently, we get some beautiful scenery shots, and eventually they get to the house, which is not only apparently haunted, it's

I mean, it wasn't tough for me to begin with.

No. I know again, you would have sold it in the phone call. You never would have even been on the plane, been like who died? Yeah, fact, fact it's two thousand, Fax me the stuff. I'll sign right now, right back, man, We're not even done with the conversation.

Yeah, now I can afford the good paper.

The see, had you just held out a little bit, you would have gotten a better offer. But back at home, Sidney still torn, and while thinking it over, she hears some noise outside. It's Gia and Kona. They were sent by Malia. It's time. We're now at the big Whale ceremony at the beach and what looks like a very festive luau, very pretty scene. Upon arrival, Sydney is greeted by Malia with a flower for her ear, taught how

Kiss, and it was a kiss.

It was good, but it was like it was age appropriate. I thought, yes, again, it was not what I think we should start referring to as a c C. K. It was not a Christy Carlson kiss.

Not a Christy Carlson because Christy Carlson is the only person in Disney history to get a makeout such and which she took it to the next level.

I mean, she took it to the next level. This was a nice kiss, though, the next level. I also really liked this scene. It's been done in a bunch of movies, but I like the scene where the guy is kind of or girl is translating and whispering the story into the ear as somebody else tells it. It's just very sweet. I'm a big fan of that and I love it. So it was very very nice. But there's no time. There's no time to celebrate here because

What you didn't think that was all it was? I thought it was.

I only had the money to do one. It was like supposed to be this big thing one whale.

And then the Lincoln memorial.

Exactly suddenly I'm in the movie again.

Suddenly Will pops up.

It was not good.

It was it was, it was.

It was again.

We're on a Disney Channel budget.

You can't cut to just stock footage of whales.

That's the one they found.

But I mean, there's I could cut. You could google whales right now, and even in two thousand, you could have just gone to stock footage of whales. They had to have had it. This was just this was not good. But she has one big question for her mom's friend. Was she there for the accident. Malia says that she was, and it was on a perfect day in the ocean.

You just kind of like wonder Like when the editors, the director, all of that are like watching this back, Wow, can we know what?

I'm sure they did, but it was like, what do we do? What can we do? It's like just pre hit return and run it again.

I didn't repeat? Yeah pretty much so close together, there's not even enough time to get it the first time you can.

It's even the whale was like in bear.

Yeah, that whale was like I'm sorry, I'm ready to do this again.

Sorry it's me again. The next morning, Sydney returns home once again to find an angry father. She left him a note, but he still seems worried. She doesn't have much to say to him other than you should have told me. It shouldn't have been some deep, dark secret, which is true, and he knows she's talking about the accident. She storms off to her room and rips up the picture of her mom that was on the vanity.

I hurt.

Yeah, it hurt me too. In the kitchen, benis spiraling. He tells Elizabeth he keeps thinking he should have saved Leilani, his wife that day. He didn't think he could ever love anyone again, but then he found Elizabeth. It never seemed fair to him that he can be so happy now and yet she's dead. But Elizabeth knows she would want him and Sydney and even her to be happy. And this might be the most loving character in the

And she never makes it about her, No, she really does it. Like what an amazing I mean, how hard it would be to have to do this situation with your husband who you know, it's such a sensitive thing and you're also helping raising their child, and like it's.

Just yeah, wow, yeah, great character.

Was an amazing character, A great character. Love to get some of that great characters.

Yes, she was great, she was great. Your sign check Yeah again you Sidney wouldn't have been allowed. Your daughter wouldn't have been not allowed out of the house. You're not you are. We are here for one reason. You're gonna sit in that room until I signed the papers and then we are out. I can't believe we even have to be here. I've called door dash. Sit you here out there, We'll be right back. That is a much different movie starring Elizabeth.

I'm so sorry. I wish I could be you, but I can't.

Great character. Ben takes his advice and asks Sidney on a walk. Sidney says she just doesn't understand why she knows nothing about her mom, But now Ben is an open book. He tells Sidney how beautiful her mom was and how similar they are, the way she moved, the way she laughed. Being in Hawaiia has made him think things through. Makai is her heritage, and so the decision to sell the property is hers and hers alone, even though she's a kid. She needs to find it in herself.

Which I felt was like a really harsh.

That's super harsh.

Like you can't to me, I would assume, I don't think I had a friend at all or anyone close to me that had a parent that had passed away, But I would assume using that word around them at all.

Is just inappropriate, not cool. I agree, I agree, And you just met her.

That says she smells like fish, I guess if you're trying to hit but she doesn't need to be a dead fit.

Like that is like gorsh Yeah, I agree.

I wanted to pop this girl in the face, like, yeah, come on, get get a little little bit of grace back, Give her a little bit of grace Like that's.

Now, with the millions of dollars you just got from selling the plantation, you can hire someone.

To friends to be honest. Exactly see what your name is, knew you for two minutes by now check get out with wealthy.

Sydney does not get what's going on. Then she sees a newspaper headline about the resort buying the property, so everyone thinks she's already sold it. Sidney runs off to talk to Gia and Malia. Instead, she finds ConA clearing a surf cleaning a surfboard and listening to Hawaiian rap music. Gia isn't home, and ConA doesn't seem to be mad at her. He's shaping and painting a surfboard for her. It has that theme park image of her surfing and

Like that surf chicks Chat.

So she uses surfing as a really Sydney reveals that the resort has promised to add preserves for the whales and regulations to the purchase so that a lot of the plantation will actually stay intact, but Gia isn't sold. It's becoming a resort, so everything will change. The whales won't come back once the lagoon is filled with tourists. It was, in all fairness, one whale, and it was badly computer generated, so she could just hit a button

And it got escalated very quickly. Yes, girls around thirteen.

Boys too, fan so quick like boys too.

You're like, oh man, it's it's a rough.

Age, it is, but you know what was missing, which is more exciting is a good on the beach fight scene like in point Break. Yeah. Something in point Break they're smashing each other's surfboards.

Just running. Yeah, so hit the shoulder.

Eana Reeves fights back like, yeah.

The beach sands flying everywhere.

That's I'm in for that. But it all escalates. Gia calls her a fool and a stupid love sick puppy, eluding to the idea that KNA was also in on the plan, and so Sidney says she is going to sell the land and hurries back home. Yikes. I hate you, yeah, and I hate the people I met here, and I mean it.

Was like everyone can go suck it. I'm out, sign the check, give me a pens.

Go suck it nice. But that night in bed, she's unable to sleep. She wakes up early to get to the real estate office with the agents, have the contract ready as well as some sparkling cider.

Didn't look like sparkerling cider? Is that look that they were that minor yep alcohol? I agree, and that is a no no on Disney Channel.

On any channel, don't serve miner's alcohol.

But especially Disney Channel. That did not look like sparkling cider.

That wasn't good.

Wait, that look like Shandan. You are out of here, guys, get you gotstal That's right some dom betti on? Are you kidding me?

As the paperwork is prepped, she sees Gia, Malia and friends hopping into a van and she's still obviously weighing the whole thing out. They toast the sale and all that's left is the first thing Sabrina would have done the movie, and that's the sign. She takes the pen ready to complete the purchase when she sees ConA skating alongside the van and then she moves pen to paper. We cut to Sydney running to Gia's house. Malia is there painting why are all these people so artistically talented?

The oh yeah.

It was a guy, right, yeah. I think it was a guy that from the from behind looked like Gia. So that was they cast somebody that looked like Gia from behind, but it was I think actually a guy. Apologize if it wasn't, but I think it was. And then ConA arrives and he seems pretty frustrated with everything that's been going on. He says Gia was really mad at Sydney, and yet still doesn't just blurred out her

Here, I also wait right here, I'm gonna go run three blocks down.

Yeah, look at page sixty two, subset B. You'll notice I did an initial line sixty one right, just say you didn't sign it. She won't be selling Makayah after all. Her family is going to stay there. Gia and ConA celebrate, running down the beach screaming and apparently Gia's arm is fine. Now back at the house, Ben, Elizabeth and Malia are on the patio talking about what's next for the family. He's got to look for a job because they just gave up twenty five million dollars. Or he's going to

I've got a five star from Sophia l. I loved it and I want to own it. In other words, it's good, thank.

You, sure to the point, and right away I have the one star review. It's from It's einhard one, but I was hoping the one was actually an exclamation port and it was einhard, but it's not. It's einhard one and reads as follows, dear God, could it be any worse? Having three kids, I've seen more Disney Channel movies than probably any man alive. I'm guessing I'm in that category now with you einheart and I should sue the Walt Disney Company for the time wasted watching this Turkey. My

Yes, I am here.

Okay. I'd like to also thank you for me having to pronounce a lot of these words, which there's no way in how I'm gonna get right. And I'm gonna get hate mail because I'm mispronouncing these.

Beautiful words they are.

They're gorgeous words, and I'm gonna get them wrong and I feel bad. Okay.

Number one best well, and you're so much better than I am, so we'll see.

I doubt.

I mean, they did make Australia Hawaii here, so we're not We're not like trying to.

I know, fair enough, okay. Number one, which island is the only one with a royal palace in the United States? Is it a maui b o wahu see Kawhi or d killigans. I'll guess first. I'm gonna I'm gonna say it's a wahoo.

A royal palace.

Yeah, because there was a royal family in Hawaii, so there's obviously there's no royalty in the United States, and you've been there.

It's b O Pallas is located here.

Here.

Like the tone and the happiness he gets when it's someone I'm wrong, It's just I mean, it's just like.

What happiness when you can.

Get it get if I can't. I can't hide a smile.

I know you can't. I can literally hear your smile in your tone, like it's just it's just so rude.

I just I love it. Number two, What is the meaning of the word Hawaii in the Hawaiian language?

So many luls I should.

Probably I would think a homeland be eternal paradise, see Place of the Gods or D Howie oh oh.

I think we're gonna I'm gonna go with the Eternal Paradise.

I'm gonna go with A Homeland.

It's C Place of God.

Okay, Okay, okay, gotcha. What is the name of the channel between the islands of Maui and Molokai. Is it A Kowala Kai channel, b Ellen Huhaha channel, Paleolo channel, or the E channel? Nice Jensen.

I'm gonna go with A because that's the only one I recognize.

I'm gonna go with A.

Two getting destroyed. It is cy.

Palolo Paleolo Lolo. Okay, yeah, channel channel, that's pay Lolo okay. Number four. What astronomical facility is located atop Mona, Kia taking advantage of the mountains, high elevation and clear skies. Is it A the Ford Solar Observatory, be the Mazda Observatory, see the super Telescope, or D the Toyota Observatory.

I'm gonna go with the A.

I think it's D the Toyota Observatory.

You guys are getting destroyed. It is C Suberu Telescope. I'm so excited. I also thought that just making that wh the telescope was gonna Thrownna.

Okay, what is what is? Finally? Just thankfully ending this number five? What is Hawaii's official state tree? Is it a the CoA tree? B the monkey pod tree, see a Banyan tree? Or d the giving tree. It's a CoA tree, right? Isn't it a a co tree?

It might be the monkey pod tree? Okay?

What is it?

It's a The will comes out on top.

Neither of you win.

It's a good change up from you winning all these though. I'm happy about that.

Ah. That was that was hard.

That was good information to find out about our great state of Hawaii. To favorite places to visit. I love all the islands.

Can I ask a question, Producer Jensen number two alan Oui, haha channel Is that a real Hawaiian word? Yes? It is?

Okay, wow, I.

Can say humhumunukua. That counts.

Wow.

Can we do some Sabrina sease?

Yeah? So we I unfortunately said quite a few of them already, so that's not great. But one of the first things that hits me at the very beginning is like, how distant was this? Mom? And you kind of this is again this comment that I'm making is at the very very beginning, we're talking a couple of minutes in when we when she looks at this picture and doesn't recognize her at all, Yeah, Like, is this mom? I mean, I feel like, I mean, my mom looked incredibly different.

I think they're trying to really say that he never spoke about her ever. But it's weird that there's no photos.

There's photos, and it's not again, it isn't a divorce that was you know, angry and awful. Right, this is a woman who has passed. This is her mother, and she doesn't know pictures. But then like later on, then she recognizes a room that she was in at one point, which was just feel just by the feel of it, and she remembers it a two year old remembering anything as a little big of a stretch. I feel like, but okay, but this picture that really bothered me, Like,

Especially where this person is.

And then again we saw them twice and I went at the very end, my very last one was what happened with the binoculars? No, it was crazy. There was a couple of times where this is one of the things that they do because I remember, you know, lines being thrown at us and trying to make them feel natural or whatever when it's just kind of not how

I don't like this, go boy?

Oh? Was that well it's like this like you just kind of like, yeah, what I don't want to know?

Say here?

Yeah, uncomfortable. And then like the information for me that they were kind of throwing back and forth at the beginning was just a little off. I was having a hard time at the beginning like that. There was some information that was clearly obvious known when you're like, wait, how did we know that?

You know?

Things? Throughout the movie they were kind of just like throwing at us, like we that that everyone's understanding and that didn't make sense, And it was a lot about again this like history with the mom, history with the plantation. Like I also was thrown off of how this is the only ancestor that's getting this entire plantation, Like it just to me with the line yeah, yeah, she's the last of the line. But also like again, this woman passed away, so like in a trust, we just did

Think he did. I think they kind of set it up where it's like again he then said, we're going to leave it up.

To you, okay, but okay, so yeah, because I mean it was like yeah thirteen first of all, too, in most trust, nothing gets done until you're like the miners eighteen oh.

Yeah, no, she wouldn't have been able to sign any kind again as the parent of the son of two lawyers. As they hand her the pen, it's like if thirteen year olds can't sign anything, their parents have to sign it's a Disney movie.

Yeah, they're going wait a minute, like that's not actually whatever.

They're not going to hand the pen to the thirteen year old. They also handed her champagne.

So that's my last one. I go, well, we're handing miners champagne nowadays, So like, okay, yay, Disney Channel just threw the rolls up in the air. There's paper flying everywhere. We're just gonna just wing it everything not masse.

Oh yeah, I'm so happy.

We'll say this this movie I on Like I remember again, this was in the time where I was watching DCOM after decommination, sure, loving them, loving most of them to be honest at that time. And this movie again, like you said, like there was enough enough of the surfing tiny bit, but even when we see her friend who's struggling, like how first of all, what was going on because she was treading water? But was she stuck under.

Her I don't they don't, they don't explain it. I think there's see I think she's supposed to be in the what I think she's supposed to be in the rip current, I think is what they're kind of showing.

And I guess because it's not an animation movie, it's like definitely hard to like film something like that. But like she's not moving, she's so if you.

Go back and you watch it again, I'm not I think they show I know, but fair enough. I think they show her being sucked under the water, as if she's being held under by the rip and then they cut to the rocks, which is how her mom died. Oh, so I think they're showing they're trying to show that Gia is essentially in exactly the same position her mom was and she was able to save my momn.

Have you ever been stuck in a ripra I have, and you're like humbling, You're like tumbling. It's the waves coming oceans, the waves coming over and you're getting pulled in like it's like you're like going like that's what's the scariest part of it is your feet, your legs are going over you and you're doing these like summersaults in the water and.

That's just to spin you closer to a shark's mouth. That's it. Yeah, I know, but the she was just like, yeah, it wasn't. I also, honestly, the the the picture she was taking, especially at the beginning during the movie, where they just freeze frame and it was usually kind of out of focus and bad. I was like, Okay, they're

Yeah, And again I think it's like, to me, I just kind of equivalate it to just being like the limitations of what they had.

I've got to imagine they went through this with Johnny Ssunami, and they went through this with all all their movies. Like this, shooting in the water just adds a whole nother aspect of shooting a film. I feel like that's.

Gotta be the biggest reason of why they did not have more surfing elements. Now they could have thought of a better name.

I guess you don't make it a surfing movie.

Yes, And then like I said, the last thing was you know that that part was my last thing with the friend, Like I didn't understand the drama of like trying to reach out and go get her, like obviously she was underwater, but it was like we could have had.

I think it was too tough to show because they wanted to show that, so I think they also tried to explain it because she hit the re so she couldn't use her arm, so she couldn't swim with her arm. But then afterwards she's like jumping up on the beach and grabbing hard. Then she's fine. So yeah, it was there was some anyway. Okay, well, thank you Sabrina. It's now time to rate the film, and I think I

Pay think it, you know, give a little nod to my fave, my favor movie. Let's dude you Julisnami's.

Okay, you got it. We're gonna do one to attend. Julie sunamis, okay, I go first, you go first. The title threw me. I can't get over it. I'm gonna be totally honest. I can't. Don't set me up for a surfing movie. If it's not a surfing movie, do not call it BMX bandit's if they're neither bmxing nor bandits in the movie. That's not you know again, that's if call it something else. If you're not going to show war amongst the stars, don't call it star wars.

So for me, I'm literally just a tiny bit above. You agreed there were not necessarily just things kind of just like brushed over very quickly that I would have loved a little bit more explaining or you know, things here in Yeah, Well, that I think was if they if they if there there was something that led up to it that they decided to cut, they should have cut those. It's not like it was it would have

Know there's got to be some thirteen year old killer surfers in Hawaii, in Australia, Ortia.

There should there could have been, but that's not where we know that. That's not Disney's like place. They don't do a lot, so they don't have a lot of intel, I guess. So anyway, I thought it was good and it was really fun to rewatch because it was a movie that I saw when I was younger, and I enjoyed it, and the auditioned for and I auditioned for it, and I remember being bummed when it came out, going, Man,

I agree, I agree.

I couldn't because I wanted more surfing.

Yep, I agree with you one hundred percent.

But I could go to movie.

I'm actually gonna change I'm going to change my vote. I'm going to change my number, which I don't think I've ever done before. And I'm gonna agree with you at a seven because the kids were good.

The kids were and for the time how much adults we got in it too. It wasn't too adults, and it wasn't two kids where the adults just weren't involved. They were. The storylines of the adults were awesome.

Yeah, no, you're right. I could give it a seven and live with that. So it's going to be seven.

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