Welcome to teen Girl Talk. Teen Girl Talk. I'm ce Za Kota. I'm Frank Kakota with the birthday girl. Hey, where cor my scissors? Actual birthday? It's true and it's one of my picks. It is hashtag FBF, which shows how out of touch I am with things. I was like, oh, this is an actual hashtag because I feel like I haven't. I've seen a bunch of throwback Thursdays, but I feel like Flashback Friday has kind of like, first of all, I don't think the name fits
the movie very much. Enjoyed the movie. Let me say that right up front. I think this could have been called because there's a line at one point in the movie where one of the main character's friends says, this feels like a made for TV movie parent trap. I wish they had called it made for TV movie parent Trap. I think they probably would have run into some legal LIGs with that, but I agree this movie was like I was chuckling through it. Then there's one line in this movie that made me bust
out laugh. It was so good. I feel like a lot of the writing is very good, Like, yeah, I mean it would have to be with this right where there's just like, you can't really do visual gags. I mean, no, well you in a normal situation like this, you couldn't do visual gags really, but they managed to pull them off in this movie. This movie is very like does a lot of very little.
It's done all through screens in the same way that like Searching or host Friend Request, like those movies, and I met on the face of it, I would say, like, oh, a very online movie or a movie done all through screen, Like, I can't imagine it being good. But it's a pretty solid concept and has produced I think some like fairly modest budget movies that I very much enjoyed. Yeah. I mentioned Host because I watched in the Men of the Jedi episode about that, But I'm like, that
is too scary for Frank. Host is not to be confused with the Host, a movie we watched last month. Yeah, but the Host was not scary, except for the terrible relationships and putting your consciousness into a komatost Emily Browning. Yeah, it's it's not cool. Don't do that. Yeah, if you have the opportunity to do that, don't because it's creepy and weird and you shouldn't do it. Emily Browning's had enough that has to deal with enough in her other movies. True, Wait, is she a Game of
Thrones person? No? But like, let's say she was in Sucker Punch that didn't turn out well for her. She was in Sleeping Beauty, so that really didn't turn out well for her. And she was in that Tom Hardy movie which also did not turn out well for her. Oh. For some reason, I thought you were gonna say Tom and Jerry. No. I was like, if I was in Tom and Jerry, I'd want to play Jerry. That's the mouse right. Yes? Okay, so let's talk
about hashtag FBF. Yes. This is a movie about a junior who has to move to from New Jersey to Florida and she is not happy about it. She it. The main character is Annie. She has to leave her longtime friends to because her mom has had a job opportunity in Florida. So the movie starts with her at the airport. She is posting to her Instagram
stories about being excited to fly up to Noork. In the beginning, like the opening credits, we see her parents' divorce conveyed through her Instagram story and there's a point where they show a ferris wheel, where I'm like, that is one thousand percent Santa Monica Boulevard and not New Jersey. But I'm like, whatever, movie, it's very rare that you hear so much New Jersey
in a movie and so much accurate New Jersey. Right. Like, her family is from Red Bank, which is a pretty affluent area, and when we see their house posted on Redfin later, I'm like, oh, she's got funny money. But what do they say, like, oh, you rich rich? Yeah? So uh. Her mom face times her and says, oh, I'm about to do a TED talk, and you took my computer. The the conversation is supposed to lead us to believe that this is all Annie's fault, but what was her mother doing that she did not have
all this stuff organized her notes. I have to believe that a TED talk is not just letting someone up there to go rogue and say whatever they want. So we get like different interludes of Michelle the mom or Sheila. It's Michelle. I thought maybe it was Sheila because of her match dot com. Nay, but I think that Michelle might feel a little freaky dieky. I'm just saying Nope, I mean, there's no shame on her. It's just if you're gonna bring that kind of energy to match dot com stuff like men
like what Swing ding Dong are going to uh contact you. She's like, I got kicked off of Christian Mingles maps dot com and that the one who can contain my energy. So then her mom brings up the fact that Annie has lost a number of phones, really drills down that Annie is irresponsible, and uh lets her know that she's pretty unhappy with what's going on. And so Annie's basically like, too bad, So sad mom, I'm going to New Jersey. But her flight is delayed. So the entirety of this movie
is going to take place in the Florida airport. Yeah. I can't think of a single other movie that's taking place in the Florida airport. Wait, where did Terminals take place? Ternal I have to go. I'm not sure, funny if Annie was in the terminal airport. So, I mean, I guess technically she is, because like I'm assuming they filled this in California. They didn't fly all the way here. That's are you talking about?
You're talking about the Tom Hanks movie, right, yes, all right now, There's a There's a another movie starring Margot Robbie the Parish Gayel Airport, Oh, Charles de Gaull Airport, Yes, Charles the Goal Airport and padis France. Okay, so she's not in the terminal airport. So Annie decides to make the best of it, and she uh FaceTime calls her friends from
her mom's MacBook and they're excited that she's coming home. They tell her that a football player that is, you know, sort of the hunk du jour has asked about her, and she wants to know if they think he is going to ask her to the homecoming dance, and they're kind of like,
uh, I don't know. Basically, they're saying no without actually saying no. So then she's like a little bit cranky with them, but has decided that the way that she is going to fix her life so she will get to leave uh Florida and move back to New Jersey for her senior year, is she will like set up her parents because she saw that her mom had ordered lingerie on nordstrom dot com. Nordstrums gets a lot of love in this movie, and he then goes on a shopping spree and spends roughly forty five
hundred dollars on door strum. And so her friends are like, this is not a great They're good friends because they're like, this is not a great idea. I don't think this is very fun. I kind of think you're making a mistake. Maybe you shouldn't do this. And Annie's like, no, full throttle all the time. We are not I'm going to either get my parents back together or destroy my mother of through her job and through her finances and also harmantic life. Balling forward, Annie is very I would say,
instrumental in if she wanted to troll her mother's life. She's doing a really, really good job because this is not just similar to the technique that they used in Hackers, where they're trying to destroy the lead detective's life who's
coming after the hackers. So I mean they post a Craigslist ad for that band, and then in hashtag FBF, Annie decides to ruin her mom's match dot com profile and again, the match dot Com name is schul f or she'll f and uh, it's because her name is Michelle and her last name starts with an F. But uh, Annie's friends quickly point out that this is a really unfortunate screen name to have because of what it sounds like. Yeah, so I just want to point out, uh at one point a
few things. One, her mom has terrible cybersecurity. Her password is password one two three. I didn't even notice that. I know that Annie said everyone can guess your password. Your passwords really obvious, but I didn't even notice that I was password one two three. Yeah, I need to introduce Michelle to a little movie called Hackers, and then you can also introduce her
to I'm not sure what we've done any movies with you. You should introduce her to our lifetime protagonists who uses photoshop, because Michelle is terrible at photoshop. Also, photos in this movie are so funny. And later we see Annie do a photoshop of a kakatoo or a cockatile into her mother's match dot com profile picture, and it is such a sloppy, purposely sloppy photoshop,
but it's so funny. And I don't know if this is the intention of the filmmakers, but the fact that men are still messaging her on this Yankee profile is very true to life as a person that was on dating apps for a while. Everyone's like oh, your pictures have to look good and show that you have friends and interest and activities. If you are a lady existing on the internet, or even if you're not a lady, if you're a
catfish. If there are photos portraying a person that men are attracted to, it doesn't matter how crazy or bad those photos are, you are going to get messaged you're not wrong. But also like those messages, probably not, but also like, there is one that isn't photoshopped, which is supposed to be a picture of Annie, her mom as a baby, her mom and her dad, and that is a poorly photoshop picture of Ashley Judd and the guy who plays her dad onto another family. Like it looks like the Michael
Scott, Yeah, photoshopping his head. And I'm like, okay, did she like photoshop out out the real dad to put somebody else? He's like,
no, that's just supposed to be what it is. Like the child looks like from a completely different picture, like the huge like in scale, because it's supposed to be like maybe a two or three year old, but the scale is all off to the point where this child would probably standing their height would reach above Ashley Judd's waist, but Ashley Judd or her husband is holding this giant toddler and the light is coming from all directions in these photos,
so it's impossible to know kind of like where the sun is. And nobody's skin tones match. Like the dad who we see in this movie is very handsome, but like this photo makes him look like clawed from GTA three and not even like upscale called from GTA three. I was like, oh, ps two graphics. Uh. I mean when Frank says the skin tones don't match, he means that like the light source again, and someone went really buck wild with the blur tools, so they don't look human, they
look AI generated. Yeah, it's bizarre, and the AI put a little too much for me Jensen in the Ashley Judd too much athlete who put all this astlete Judd in my Oh my god in this No sorry, okay, I'm close. I have IMDb on my tablet, but that's showing me ads and it showed me a very distracting ad of this movie that's coming out called Atlas, where Jennifer Lopez draws a mech and I'm like, that's not a thing I knew I wanted till now I love Mexico. Is that the one
that they people were posting the videos. It's like a sort of musical theater thing. They all work in like a glass factory. No, this looks like just a straight up like science fiction special infictures traffick Canza where Jennifer Lopez is in a mech oh okay, well fair enough. It seems like she's really making some choices. I wonder if being married to Ben Affleck, He's like, take a chance, bib, and she's like, Okay, I'm
gonna drive it back. Yeah. I think the best way to talk about this film is we at the beginning, we point out all the different conversation threads that are going on and then talk about how Annie will fuck them up, fuck them up and then fix them. Okay. I so ones that I think are sort of self contained because Annie really only talks to them once and it's terrible. Is Susan from the PTA This? I laughed at this. Annie is very mean spirited with Susan. Susan texts what she thinks is
Michelle and says, can't wait to see you at the PTA meeting. My daughter and I made muffins and you know as you know in their world renown, and so she does say something about like Annie acting up and Annie wait, Frank, only after Annie decides that Michelle cannot hang out with Susan, Susan is too wholesome. She's gonna throw a wrench in it. So she replies, nice, try, Susan, not gonna happen, and Susan said replies entirely sympathetically. If someone said that to me, I'd be like what
you said you wanted to be involved with the PTA? Why are you coming at me with this energy? So Susan says, oh, I'm sorry, Like it's something going on with Annie. I know you said that, you know she was having a little bit of trouble, so and you know, maybe it drugs, could you know it? Susan's a little bit of a
busy body. So then Annie comes back two hundred aggression and says, Susan, I don't want to be in the PTA anymore and your muffins suck, and Susan again replies sympathetically, and it's like, oh, I'm sorry, I thought you wanted to be more involved in your daughter's life. Bye. I guess Annie has big DEVI from never have I ever energy. Yes, it's like, uh, anything she perceives as a sort of slight she will
react to with like both fists. No, no, no, no. Because then when the realtor contacts Michelle and they're selling their palatial house of red bag, Annie says, I don't think these people actually want to buy the house. It's haunted, and the realtor is like, oh, okay, well I guess that's unfortunate. Let me tell this the buyers. There is no law that says that you have to disclose that the former owners are soon
to be former owners believe that the house is haunted. I think, like I think, if they're has been like a murder or something, you have to like let them know that. I don't think it's like, hey, there's some bad vibes here, yes, and so like it keeps escalating.
The funniest part is there's no verification that this is Michelle. Annie enters in on the like basically the chat bot on the Redfinn website, and it's like, hey, I know we are doing what is probably over a million dollar transaction with this home, but I only want to chat with you through the chat mechanic on the website of this realtor, like this real estate site. So then instead of calling Michelle, this realtor's like, okay, look,
the buyers are real freaky weirdos. They're so into the ghosts they can't wait to buy this house, like, let's get this done. So then and he says, well, the problem is the ghost smell. And the realtor's like, they know about the septic tank, they don't care. They want to buy this house. And Annie's like, no, ghost sense, I think we should raise the price, because the thing is, when you have a haunted house full of stinky ghosts, why would you not want to ask
more money to people who readily want to buy the house. So the realtor is like, girl, you are wild. I thought you were trying to sell this house. What are you doing? And so then Annie realizes she's been caught out in a weird lie and says, b r B, I'll call you in a minute. Bye. And the realtor's like, bro, come on, these people are hot to buy this ghost house. Yeah, they're like, they love these stinky ghosts. Just let them buy the house. Do you know what the market is like now? Ghost were hot?
Yes, everybody's just trying to buy a ghost has some Red Bank, New Jersey, like, I can't wait to live in the place where Kevin Smith told people he lived. Actually coming it's plane actually coming from Highlands, New Jersey. They're like, we can't wait to live near Jane saw A Bob's Secret Stash. They're like, the only thing that might break this deal is if it is not in walking distance. Jay and Silent above Secret Slash. They're like, no, you are very lucky. You could walk there and
buy comic books every day if you want. And they're like, will the stinky ghosts follow me? Well, I forever have a stink companion And they're like, yeah, probably, I don't know, but you will disclose the stink ghost to me till today. So I don't really have any details. But yeah, I was gonna be like, but you probably won't notice because you're going to a comics store and some of them stink. But I've been to the Secret Stash. That one doesn't smell bad. There's a different comic
store which women name remained nameless, that does. I walked in and Amelia walked out as like, buddy, you're on your I told my friend, you're on your I can't be in here because it's smelled so bad. Bringing endorsement does not stink. I mean it's pretty good for a comic store anyway. Mistakes a person knowing comic books to profess this because I'm like, I guess next up, I think we should talk about cheese Bud. Okay,
Cheesebud is. I Am gonna go out on a limb and say one of the most self aware male characters we have ever encountered, Cheesebud is very aware of his anxiety. Again, seems wildly understanding in the face of Annie's rudeness. Yeah, like, Cheesebud is just trying to figure this cliament and like he becomes it takes so long before he becomes understandably frustrated with Annie. Yeah, so like, look, I am from New Jersey, like born and
raised in New Jersey. I know that we have a refutation for being like very direct, maybe a little aggressive. Annie even to me, I'm like, whoa, Annie, you are very out of pocket right now because and we're calling him Cheesebud because that is his Instagram handle and that's what he goes by. That's always listened in the credits, he is trying to contact her to figure out how they're splitting this group project, and he says, you know, I'd really like to get a handle on this because we have a
big science project Doe next week as well. Oh that's the other thing. Annie has been harassing her science teacher, as her mom say, sending emails like Annie has just moved to Florida and you guys teach different, so she's gonna need some time to adjust. She was a straight A student in New Jersey, and Geraldine, the teacher comes back and is like, well,
guess what Annie's disruptive in class? I think this email is presumptuous, and no, Annie does not get more time, and so that Annie fires off a very aggressive email about how the teacher is out of line and dah dah da da da, and like you're not a psychologist, so you don't know, like Annie jel. They're gonna be like this movie is tied up between Annie, her parents, and a nice little bo Then will be repercussions after
this for every walk. What is so funny is that, like at you know, this is not a spoiler alert to say that Annie is going to disclose to her parents all of this wackiness that she did and apologize. Her mom has no idea how badly Annie has ruined her reputation. Like everyone is going to take that. Michelle is a total crack pot, just firing off mean text and emails. Yeah, and the the financial cost is going is nearly ten thousand dollars. Oh my gosh, I forgot about the concert ticket.
We'll get there. So but yeah, and she oh, hello, he was sitting on my lap, which he rarely does. But then he left. Now he's looking at the window. They had a visit from Oscar the cat. But so, you know the and then when she finally sends her apology email because spoiler and he apologizes. There everyone at the end of this movie, She's just like okay. And she will also stop daring people to lick like chemist chemical strewn like you know, Bunsen burners and whatnot.
No, so she Annie was daring other classmates to lick the stirs that they use in the beakers when they're stirring chemicals. Annie, come on, and she said, and I quote, she realizes it's not funny. My friend is a junior high teacher in science class and she has to be so vigilant to keep the kids from eating the stuff that they are using for the labs, and she is so scared that one of them is going to eat something and really damage themselves. Annie is not twelve, she knows better. I
was terrified in both chemistry and wood shop. And cheers to the guys in wood shop who were more capable than me, because they were a lot of times like Frank, Frank, frek no, no, no, no, with your thumb, with your thumb, thank you, Like they were like hearing the mom can't cook guys talk about which shop they were like, I don't know what shop in America you have to it's like required that you slice
off a finger, right, you lose a thumb. Yeah, Like there were times they were like, Frank, this is pretty sure you you want me to just to do it? And they they were very helpful and like because they knew I was gonna get hurt. Oh, so you were like the little damsel in distress. Yes, for people who are at my age or like a year older than they're like this slip of a boy does not know how to use the bandsaw, Like what do you call the opposite of
bullying, just being friendly. Yes, I you know, I was scared all through high school and I'm like, oh, nobody's gonna bother me. But my friend was asking me about a park by my house and I'm like, it's a pretty nice park. There are no creeps hanging out. And she's like, she has two small children, and she's like, that is your measuring stick for a park. I was like, think about the parks that were around us when we grew up. There were always drug dealers hanging
out. And I'm like, they're the idiots we went to school with. But there were drug dealers in our shitty parks. And she's like that is true. Are you in my high school? I walked in on a drug deal and I was like, Frank, didn't see you anything, You just kept walking. But again, cheese but nicest guy that Cheesebud is used to sort of punctuate the elevating of Annie's bad behavior. So like first he's like, hey, I want to talk about the product. She's like not now,
I'm busy. And then he's like how about now, because hours and hours and hours are going by with her at the airport. And then she's like, oh fine, let's talk about it. He's like, well, I think I should do chapters one through three, and you can do chapters for through six, and these are some of the themes. And she's like, oh, I'm over this. Bye, And then he like tries to message her again about swaphing chapters and she completely blows her stack and is like,
cheez, Bud, I need you to chill out. This is not life for death. I got real stuff going on, right Jesus Christ period says it. He's like, I wish I had never asked you to be my partner. I'm just gonna do this by myself, completely and totally justified. Cheese Bud is the kind of guy who you inject him on a dating app and he's like, okay that you know. That's good, that's okay, it didn't work out. Best of luck to you. Yeah, safe.
And I have to say something for the actress that plays Annie. I feel like we've had a lot of protagonists that sort of walked this path of being very self involved with their their family's drama, and both the actress and the way this role was written, I never disliked Annie as a character. There were a lot of times where I was like, girl, you are in danger. You have to stop. But like, I never disliked her.
I didn't find myself getting frustrated in the way I have with some other movies, like a lot of those horse girl movies, the protagonist is written so like one tract, maybe I just get it more that she, you know, wants to be around her friends and graduate in a certain place versus taming a wild hourist and experience that I can't really relate to. But I like how she was written as a character, even when she was doing the wrong thing. I was kind of like, I believe she'll figure it out.
I agree with you, And I think a big part of that is, like I think with the subtleties of the writing like and the performance you can get you can kind of get the sense that if Annie wasn't under the stress of her parents' divorce and being in a state she doesn't want to be in, she she would be like, she would be a good friend, she would be like, you know, she'd be understanding, and she'd like
try Like it doesn't like all this. It feels like she is yes, very much a hit the throttle kind of girl, like with her ideas yeah, reaction, That's a much more elegant way to put it. But she had, like underneath it all is a good heart, like you know, if you were going through and she says like I like, she says this, and I agree with her and her friends. If you guys are going
through something like this, I'd help you. But yeah, like no, I think she's just making mistakes and you know, like and again the mistakes will escalate in severity and sort of reactions. Yeah, like going back to my Davy, my Debbie, like comparison before, there were moments where it's like, oh my god, DEVII really like when her friends were like Fabula had just come out and like, I forget what's going on Eleanor, and she's just like, oop's gotta go run over because Paxton needs me. I
was like, oh, Eleanor's mom had abandoned her. Oh that was it, and she and then she like blew up on them, and I was like, and they gave her the sound treatment for a while, and they and she deserved it. And I was also disappointed Debbie. Annie. I'm just like, Annie, You're trying your best at a very difficult circumstance, and this is just an afternoon of you being bad. But again she's very good at it. So what happens is in no particular order. She I
mean, we're in a particular runner. She decides that in order to get her parents back together, they should definitely go to a Bruce Springsteen concert, very Jersey of them. That's where they met. Her mom had snuck down to the first row where her dad had left his seat to go on a beer run, and they ended up hooking up that night. She was married nine months she was married, she was born nine months later into that terrible photoshop photo. And so she's like, Oh, they definitely want floor seats
to a Bruce Springsteen concert. These floor seats were very realistically priced at like twelve hundred dollars each, and she said, like, I guess somewhere in the ballpark of twenty five hundred to three thousand dollars on these tickets. This is after but after the shopping spree that she went on at the Nord Drums where she ended up about forty five dollars. Yes, And so she puts her dad's email into when she's paying for the tickets so that he gets one
of the tickets. He immediately texts his ex wife and is like, what is going on with you? And she's like, I thought for old times sake, and he says, is this because I'm introducing Annie to Courtney with a K this weekend? And Annie's like, watch watch what? So she figures out that her dad is dating this woman. Courtney decides that he needs to receive a cookie cake from his ex wife at work, and so they
have a little brother go in with a GoPro on his head. I thought this part was very funny, and he is supposed to be playing oh, Alison's little brother, Christian, who she's been babysitting and he's been terrorizing her for the entirety of the movie up to this point. Christian goes in with the gofro on his head and is saying, Hello, Hello, is anyone
here? Cookie delivery? Courdy with a K comes over, Christian is staring at her declotage, gives her the cookie cake and she realizes it's addressed to her boyfriend. She starts flipping out. Christian runs away. Obviously. Annie says that was a disaster, and you know, I basically none of this is gonna work, and you guys should have done better and her friend and insults Alison Nita Meyer, who UH has started hanging out with their friend group.
They hang up with her. She then tries to call her mom. Her mom had dropped her. Oh. She watches her mom's Ted Talk and she Annie had edited the opening remarks for her mom's Ted Talk to have Lizzo lyrics and I don't know why. Michelle just reads them out loud and then it's like, I'm so sorry. It just kind of goes on as if
that didn't happen. So she has that disease that Ron Burgundy did an anchorment where so then she has the sort of come to Jesus moment with Cheese Bud when he's like, you need to apologize, and she apologizes to Susan from the PTA the realtor, and UH realizes that making her mom undateable on match dot com when her mom had given up a good prospect in the sky Tom because she wanted to concentrate on her daughter. Maybe Annie starts to have regrets.
So then her friends are like, uh, we have a bigger problem. Courtney with a K has gone viral. She attacked your dad with cake and accused him of cheating. So then Annie facetimes her dad and her dad is covered in cake and work with ever dating when you're working with yes? And Annie says, you know, like can you salvage things with Courtney?
And he's like, I don't particularly think I want to. Yeah. Also, I want to say the one unbelievable part of this movie is that when Christian walked in shouting about a delivery, immediately there wasn't like a bunch of people getting up to go see what was going on. I've been in an office before. The minute anything happens, I'm completely distracted from my work.
I'm like, oh, what's going on? Somebody say Cookie abandoned? There was all like three employees there, just kind of milling around in the back. Even more reason for them to abandon than nothing they were doing. But like, yeah, so Annie and her father have a heart to heart and I love the honesty in this dialogue where he's like, your mom and I were terrible to one another, Like we were terrible together to one another, but for each other. Yeah, he says she was the one, but
now she's not anymore. Yeah, And like he's very understanding of everything that's going on. But let's face facts. The ship is the ship. Storm is coming for the mom, not for him, the financial one, I should say, the maligning of all of the professional and personal relationships in her life. I do want to do you want to point out a few things
about I also great how good Christian was. But the line that made me bust out laughing is when Allison answers the phone, or when like they were figuring out how to they can't just send the cookie cake for delivery, they need somebody to go pick it up. And well it's it's Lindsay and who else are friends? But it's Alison lind Lindsay and oh gosh, I bring
Like, here's the problem. The IMDb just has the actresses like Lindsay's actually Lindsay's the blonde one, right, yes, okay, yeah, Like actually J's characters name isn't there? Maria Canals Barrera who played Core, her name isn't there. Kylie Russell, who played one of the the non Lindsay friend whose name I cannot remember. Her name isn't there? Emily Skinner who played
Lindsay. Lindsay's character name isn't there? This movie has eleven people. But anyway, Allison, the unwanted friend is the one who will pick them up and take them to the thing. And he's like, so, Allison, how do you already have your license? Did you get held back a year? And the actual stink or the casual stank that an he puts on that phrase made me lose my goddam mine of laughter. It is such a good line delivery and the fan that Allison puts up with it and just kind of
ignores the barb. I'm just like, good on you, Allison, Rise above it, Rise above like black flag. I do want to like spend the last part of this episode talking about the relationship with the friends, because I think that was very well written and very very real. But like, eventually Annie calls her mom. It's the last person she calls, and she's like, oh, thank god you're still there. She talks about how like they have a chat, and you know, her mom is like, why
am I getting a four thousand dollars notification from nor Strums? Like, and they talk, they you know, tell each other, they love each other, and they forgive each other. And then the mom is now going to go through now is going to invade her daughter's privacy, because she's on her daughter's laptop and points out that her daughter's password was also easy to get. Like the film ends with any like, no, Mom, don't go in
there. She's like, mom, no, Mom. Like and this is in the sequel f F two, Michelle finds out her daughter rights Keen to Hearts fan fiction. She's like, who told you to be this big of a nerd? She's like, no, Mom, I I figured out the plot to Kingdom Hearts. Like, don't you lie to me? Nobody knows the plot the Kingdom Hearts. This is like way too inside baseball for me. I'm like, I believe you. But the Kingdom Hearts fans they know what's up. I'm sure they do that plot line levery theme at best,
They're like, oh that thing with like the sword key things. Yeah, It's just like why is Cloud here? Why is Well here? Why did we combine five Fantacy and Disney? Why did it work so well? But still confusing? Who knows? Okay. I did see a very good TikTok where somebody pointed out that Usher was using his Super Bowl performance to summon Kingdom Hearts. I'm like, this is so good if I can find it. I'll put it on the Facebook anyway. Let's talk about the friend group.
Annie does not like change, especially the change that she is not there for. She does not like Alison joined the group. Much like the Pretty Little Liars, she is not a big fan of Alison. Mm hmm, you know which one is? Okay again to Inside Baseball, is that the what you keep calling a people sized dollhouse but it's actually just a regular house? No? No, Mona is the one who had the people who had the
reguar house. But she was keeping Spencer's evil twin in mm hmm, and somebody else who I forget who was not another Spencer, but yeah, she was keeping them in. And no, Allison is the really mean person who for some reason everybody pretended was sad was missing. Okay, so right, right, but is she a No, she wasn't a. There were other people that were A. I think Ezra, I think there was. Just Ezra was a for a little bit because he became obsessed with Alison, you
know, because he's a disgusting, awful man. Right. I saw something recently where they were talking about how it might have been I love like a deep dive on a conspiracy on YouTube. It's like how I found out about mewing And my friend who's a teacher, is like all of the students are mewing now. They were shocked that she knew about it. She's like,
I have a friend that watches weirdo TikTok not TikTok YouTube. But someone was talking, probably in a video preview about how Pretty Little Liars basically was like pre grooming because they never like really kind of said like this is bad and I have not watched enough of it to like really speak to that. But was did anyone ever call Ezra al for being a predator? Was anyone ever
like Ezra your predator? No? And he like when he goes to talk to his the parents about it, wait, he like knocks on the door and they're like, hi, who are you And he's like actually, basically and like he uses the Romeo and Juliet laws mean, like the Romeo and Juliet laws is basically like like as long as nothing happened before the person was like eighteen, ye, yeah, that's it is. It is a troubling thing. If that's your opening salvo. Yeah, He's like okay, okay,
okay, I know, I know you're not gonna love this. I know this looks terrible and I'm a predator, but the laws on my side. But hear me out. I thought about this long and hard to figure out how to manipulate it in my favor, and I think I finally got there. Spoilers for the end of season five. I was really bunned when Ezra got shot and didn't die. I was like, just write him off. He just gets shot. Send Aria on like a like revenge Quest. It would be such a better show if Ezra was not in it. But
no, they let him live. They let him live anyway. So, speaking of our our current pretty liar, Annie it she So I'm gonna call the person Kylie because I can't remember her name off the top of my head, and I'm gonna I'm gonna see if there's a Wikipedia page about this. But she's constantly doing fun makeup and throughout this movie, like at a certain point they're like like like, uh, Kylie, you look like a drag. Queen's like, thank you, That's what I was going for. Yeah,
she does joker makeup. Yeah, and Okay, another thing that she uh Another thing that Annie buys is she buys a pizzas for all her friends, but not but not Alison because Allison is not her friend. Well, I mean, Allison's on the call, so you can't really blame Annie for not buying pizza for Allison, who she didn't even know was in the friend
group. Yet, the confusing thing for me in this movie is that at a certain point she says that each of the girls says they're going to a different class, and I'm like, wait, is this happening during COVID where things are online still or what? Because they're calling from home and then like we're gonna go to class and I'm like, should the school day be going
on that? It's confusing, but you know what, in a good movie, I'm much more willing to ignore stuff like that, you know, like if this was if this was after Oh boy, when I harped down on that. But you know what, once we'll slip up. I don't care, And they might be I don't know how schools are run currently. There might be a thing where maybe they went home for lunch. I don't know. But they could also be a tent no, because they're all in high
school. I was about stay called, but are we sure this is not a weekend. I mean they said they were going to class. I don't know, Okay, it doesn't matter. Her friends are both also hysterical the way they deliver lines, Like they keep doing the wazz app thing that was popular when like Cissy and I were teenagers from the budweiserd It's very funny, and they're like really into Like someone puts a scream gift of the which I think is from scary movie, so it's quite a throwback. Yeah, she
uh, like they're running commentary is amazing. Like at a certain point, they're just referring to the man that Michelle is dating as daddy, and Annie cannot dissuade them from doing it. She's like, do you have to go with Daddy? Like yes, they are, Like at a certain point they refer they say you're dad's dating at ten Maybe it's okay. They basically say, you're dad's dating a smoke show and he seems happy, Like why didn't you just let him live? Yeah? And Annie's like, never, he
will bend to my will. And I think they also just casually bring up that one of the girls is by I think Lindsay is when they talk about all the different girls, guys and girls she's had pressures on, and at a certain point, like it's like, hey, before that was Sailor Move, before that was Peppermint Patty, and Lizzy's just like, hey, you cannot tell me you didn't also think Peppermint Patty was a smoke show. Yes, I feel Peppermint Patty grow to me. Margaret Qualley's character and drive Away
Dolls, I would agree. Yeah, so yeah, Oh, there's also a new Peanuts like cartoon coming on on Netflix called Welcome Home Franklin. Ah cute, yeah, which I always slope like yeah, because my name isn't used in a whole lot of stuff, Like my friends make fun of me for this, but I'm always like, guys, it's my name, you
know. Like so I always had a special kinship to like Franklin from the Peanuts because he was a cool guy on like that stupid turtle that I hate on this very day, and that turtle didn't do anything wrong, but all my friends made fun of me and use that turtle as an example. I mean, so the turtles catching unwant like undeserved smoke is what you're saying. Maybe that turtle grew up and joint like Joined does an auxiliary teenage man naga
turtle. That's what I'm gonna imagine. But yeah, and like it is heartbreaking when Annie falling like turns on her friends and starts blaming them for this. And I have to say, like, I beta Allison was there for them even though she was just insulted twice by Annie. She's like she's going
through a lot. Yeah, I mean that's what happened with Jonah stepping in when David was being like ridiculous and never have I ever, So you know, sometimes when one friend is not being great, another can be the support. But I think we would both recommend this movie, right, Oh, I would definitely recommend this movie. I like when you told me the concept of like, eh, that's that's that sounds okay. Then I got to watch it, like this is a very good movie. Yeah, I definitely
enjoyed it. It's, like I would say, still pretty light even with the content it covers. And I watched it on Hoopla, which is a library app, and Frank watched it on TV so you can find it places for free as well. You know, you know what I did like is on the IMDb app on my tablet. It showed me where stuff is streaming on. So you look at a movie, it's like, oh it's here. That's very that's super useful. Like I can't tell you how many weeks we go to record and I'm like, Frank, where am I finding the
movie this week? So frantically googleing. So next week we're doing Zaft, which is the zend A movie. I am very excited about it. Yes, if you want to write us, you can write us a real teen girl talk at gmail dot com. We have a Facebook group and page that Frank moder eats And until next week, I am Susie Coda Team Coda. Have your birthday, Susie, yay? You like to a more don't got on the shomer f Yeah? You like to pick your bunnies setting on the
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