WEBVTT - Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:17.599 Hi, Sabrina, Hey Will, were you excited for this one? 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:22.160 I got my new Dott Hawaiian shirt. The journeys do. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:24.279 Of course, you need to have one to party during 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:25.920 the day and one to party at night. Everybody knows 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:26.880 that about shirts. 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:27.880 True, that's true. 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:30.040 But I know you were such a fan of the 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:30.560 first one. 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:35.479 I know, and I'm I was nervous. I was nervous, Okay, 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:37.000 nervous going into it. 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.199 I was nervous going in and let I leave it 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:41.199 at that. I was. 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.560 I was so nervous because I'm like, you know, this 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:48.800 is this is my top three, this is my Mount Rushmore. 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.239 You know, of of the the d coms for me. 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.960 You know this, you know, and we all know a 0:00:56.040 --> 0:01:00.800 second one doesn't doesn't always mean it's as good or 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:05.880 better or the same, you know. I just I was nervous, 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:09.360 especially because you know, I love myself some Brandon. 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.120 Banks, I know, I know we all do, and he's 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:12.880 friend of the show. So we'll get into it. 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:13.000 Well. 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.280 First of all, right, welcome back to Magical Rewind, the 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:16.759 show that makes you want to grab your friends, your 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.520 PJS and your popcorn and go back to a time 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:23.399 when all the houses were smart. The Waves Tsunami's two suit. 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.959 I just did there, Yeah, and I said, how's it smart? 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.160 Welcome back to the show. I'm Will for Dell. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:30.919 And I'm Sabrina Brian. 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:36.000 Aloha, Aloha aloha. Yes, it is time to surf the 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:40.160 turf and take on a longboarded, long requested sequel. We're 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.160 trading in the waves for dirt to watch the two 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:44.880 thousand and seven sequel to Johnny Tsunami, now with a 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:50.680 more fitting title, Johnny Kappahala back on board. Okay, so 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:52.600 we talked about I'm not even gonna get into it yet. 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:56.400 We're back here, we are, we're doing some sequels. We've 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:57.920 been here a while. But this was when I was 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.560 nervous for you because for our producers this would be 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.760 like we did double Teamed two. So I, uh, what 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:05.200 I like. 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.720 I don't think that's quite as fair. 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:08.720 You loved it. 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:12.280 You loved it, but it's because it was a great movie. 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.920 It was a great movie. It was a great movie. 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.880 Double two so much. This movie debuted on the Disney 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:22.280 Channel June eighth, two thousand and seven, a whopping eight 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:27.040 years after the original. Talk about striking while the iron 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:31.040 is cold, That is quite a down period for the series. 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:32.880 You have to wonder if kids watching the channel in 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.600 two thousand and seven even knew the first movie existed. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.160 I mean again, that's the thing about Disney Channel eight 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.040 years later, if you watched it even at eight, yeah, 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.240 you're probably still not watching Disney Channel at sixteen. Maybe, 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.720 but probably not. It's very niche, so much. 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:51.960 A new generation that have their eyes on this now franchise. 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.359 So that's probably why they didn't call it Johnny Tsunami two, 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.720 because there was no recognition. Furthering that point, John Kapahaala 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.720 Back on Board brought in only one point eight million viewers, 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.079 which is a very disappointing number for the era. Keep 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:05.600 in mind in two thousand and seven, that same year, 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.600 Twitch Is to this time It's Personal brought in about 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:12.000 seven million viewers, and High School Musical two broke every 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:16.320 record of the world possible with seventeen point two million, 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.080 So one point eight million. It was like I watched 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:22.280 it by myself. Now, though the movie's essence is based 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:25.320 in Hawaii, it was actually shot in New Zealand, more 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.520 specifically West Auckland. This is a trade we've seen before 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.160 and a common move by d Coom's looking, you know, 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:33.600 for Hawaii, so for some reason they go to a 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.120 much farther away place. It has to be a money thing, 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:36.560 it has. 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.920 Absolutely dan it's want to become our new Toronto. 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:42.120 To be honest, it exactly we've got. Now we've got 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.440 to add a New Zealand to the mix. But yeah, 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:46.360 we need a three sided coin, which I don't know 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.720 if we're gonna be able to find. And we should 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:50.680 address the elephant in the room right now. The movie 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.000 is not about surfing, that's right. This movie, a sequel 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.960 to a film about surfing, is about mountain boarding. 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:56.440 Right. 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.000 Had you ever heard of mountain boarding before this movie? 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:00.920 I hadn't. I hadn't. 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.080 Well, it was really popular for this one month in 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:05.080 two thousand and seven. 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:10.080 I don't know why. Though it was coolist. This was 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:15.320 the coolest looking I was like, wow, so dangerous. 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:19.039 Kind of disagree. Really, yes, part of it looks cool, 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.200 But then when the boards attached your feet, they could 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.920 do one trick move, they could spend okay, like you're 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:26.960 on a skateboard, you could do a whole bunch of stuff. 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:28.599 I guess if you're in a pipe you can do 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:30.800 the same. I guess if you get really good, you 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:32.160 could do the same stuff you do on a snowboard 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:33.640 because you're attached to a snowboarding Yeah. 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:35.760 So I guess to me it was an annie up 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:39.800 because it looked so much more dangerous than snowboarding in 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.400 the sense that like rocks and just like the snow 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.960 at least, especially if you're not going off terrain like 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.679 in the in the snow, you're not going off the path. 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:53.560 That's kind of what is it groomed right, and you 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.440 go into like the woody wood area of the snowboarding, stop, 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.400 get that's scary. But this was like, there's no way 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.719 to groom it. That was literally just like go find 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.880 a mountain. Yeah, find the ditches in the mountain. Don't 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.360 find them, hit them correctly, don't hit them. 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:12.080 This was dangerous, Yeah, super dangerous. I guess you're right. 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.640 I guess you're right. If you if you like snowboarding, 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:16.320 this would be a natural progression you could kind of 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.080 do it. But they tried this with skiing too. They 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.400 tried land skiing in like the eighties, and it just 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:20.880 never worked. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.400 So I have anywhere that it's a fine video of that because. 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.159 You do it's really funny because their shorts and everything, 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.160 like we're land skiing, and it just didn't look good 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:30.960 the entire cast. By the way, I had to learn 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.320 how to mountain board, which is no easy task, but 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.159 the movie employed some mountain board experts to not only 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.560 help but double for jumps and stunts. We've got a 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:42.360 Cony Kama who was the main consultant, Leon Robbins, Cody Stewart, 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:46.640 Jared Cronin, Ryan Slater, Ben Toolman, and Joe Lowry, who 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.760 of course are all household mountain boarding names if you 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.560 ask me. The dcom also got a home video and 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.960 DVD released something that was more successful than the lousy 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:58.080 premiere just a few months after the airing on October ninth. Now, 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:01.840 without spoiling your thoughts on the movie, do you still 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.000 wish it was about surfing because it was such an 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.400 important part of the first movie? Yes, me too. Why 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:09.160 would you not do this about surfing. 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.279 Even if we could have just gotten a couple more 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:20.839 surfing moments? Just just I really felt that was lacking. 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.360 Yeah, I felt exactly the same way as you did, surf. 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:28.080 Make it about surfing, especially knowing the one thing that 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:29.839 I did know that about this movie was it was 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:33.760 It was filmed in New Zealand. Yeah, because I and 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.960 I told us yeah, now back on board. So it 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:38.720 was a little bit like I was waiting for it 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:40.800 to happen and it just never did. 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:44.320 No, I did. It's Johnny Sunami too. It's about crocheting, 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.840 like wait what So now, musically this sequel did feel 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.039 more Disney Channel than maybe the actual movie did. The 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.760 soundtrack feature the one and only Joe Bros. Who were 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:55.920 signed to Hollywood Records at the time. The song hold 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.200 On from their two thousand and seven self titled album, 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:00.400 and it was used in a montage and I'm sure 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.480 most of our producers sang along with it the second 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.880 it came on. We also hear plain White teas of 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.120 Hey there, Delilah fame and music from two bands we 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.160 know nothing about, Wide Awake and Dark Black T Shirt, 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.600 which was I'm kidding, that's not that was a joke. 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.360 T Squad is the other one worth noting here. One 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:20.280 of the members of T Squad was Boo Boo Stewart, 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.320 who would later see as Jay in the Descendants franchise. 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.400 So it all comes back around and despite the rough reception, 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.120 Johnny Kapahaala Back on Board did win two awards, the 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.400 Humanities Prize for Children's Live Action and Award. The original 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.800 movie was nominated for but didn't win, and it's weird 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.320 that that didn't. The first one didn't win, but this 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.560 one did, and it won the WGA Award for Children's 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.640 Long Form Script. It also won the award for only 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.920 mountain boarding movie ever made. I think it would be 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:48.400 safe to say that we're not talking out of school. 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.640 Johnny Appalla is negatively received, especially when you take into 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:55.720 consideration that the original film is considered a absolute dcom classic. 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:59.960 We all loved it. Great movie. Okay, so obviously both 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.200 us knew this movie existed. We've been giddy about it 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.240 for quite some time. So let's just take some time 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:05.720 to remind you that we interviewed the star of the 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.440 original Johnny Tsunami and this movie, Brandon Baker, right here 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.960 on Magical Rewind. Just search for us in any streaming 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.080 service and hear all the memories just shooting the first film, 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.320 what it was like. He's so cool, We loved him, 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.840 friend of the show. He's undoubtedly going to be knighted 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.280 at some point by us. He is great and he 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:26.680 can marry you. Yes, like me. He is an ordained 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:27.800 minister if you. 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:31.680 Are looking for minister, or an ordained minister in Colorado. 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.319 Yeah. Or he'll travel because he's got to travel. Yeah, 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.640 he's got boards so he can come. Now it's time 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.520 to don your dirt devil's uniform and get to thrashing. 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.679 Because here's the synopsis. Back in Hawaii, it's New Zealand. 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:49.199 For his grandfather's wedding, Johnnykappihala meets his new twelve year 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.680 old uncle Chris, a rebellious mountain border who starts an 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.240 all out turf four and leads everyone into competition to 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:59.160 save the family business. Ooh, a lot going on there, Sabrina. 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.320 It's time to face the music. Early thoughts, Johnny Cappahalla 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.400 back on board. What did you think of the movie? 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:09.640 You know, I again, this one hundred percent for me 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.720 was one of those movies I laid into the nostalgia 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.960 of the first movie. I had not seen it, and 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:20.560 I was just positively watching this and thinking great thoughts. 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:22.480 Wow. 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.720 I was like it was one of those movies where 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:30.720 if it wasn't horrific, I was gonna love it. If 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:37.160 it wasn't just that awful, awful, terrible, so many holes. Like, 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.960 if it wasn't super terrible, I was gonna love it. 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.800 And that's where I stand. 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.080 Okay, this this was how you will. This was not 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.840 a good movie. Oh this was not Come on, this 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.040 was come on this. First of all, Brandon Baker awesome, 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.640 can do no wrong. He was phenomenal in the first movie. 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.720 He was phenomenal in the second movie. Most of the 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:02.439 cast was good. Yes, the little kid was not really 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:04.960 Oh god. First of all, the character was annoying. It 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:06.720 you just wanted the character. 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:08.119 Oh my gosh. 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.200 That was the thing about the first movie was they 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.280 took so they were supposed to. In my head, the 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.520 way they pitched this movie was, we want to give 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:21.679 Brandon Baker's character his own version of himself when he 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:25.520 was a kid, somebody who's moved out of everything. He knows, 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.679 he's really struggling with it. He is kind of condemnmentor 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.439 the guy, and then he finds this new niche thing. 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.400 In this case, it's mountain boarding. They didn't do that 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:36.920 at all, because the thing we loved about the first 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.760 one was no matter what situation you put him in, 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.000 he was super nice. He was he was sharing his 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.439 magazine with the belize it. He was positive, he was 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.760 having great time. This kid was such a little that 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:50.839 I wanted him to fall down the gorge. I hated him. 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:56.000 Not only that, but the actor was smiling and laughing 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.360 through every scene he was in, which took me right 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.720 out of the movie. Like he's trying to say his lines, 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:02.240 but he's got a smile on his face, ers trying 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.120 to make it look like it was just And I 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:05.760 know we've seen him in other things that he was better. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.040 He was not good in this movie, and it took 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.440 me right out of the film. So the acting wasn't 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:13.240 good for the little kid and the character. I hate it. 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:17.000 Yeah, the character was not a likable character in any sense. 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:21.480 Even no, even towards the end, I wasn't really necessarily 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:24.959 happy that I worked out, you know what I mean? 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.800 For it, it makes no sense. The race at the 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.960 end is unmotivated. It makes no sense. We're racing to 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.120 see which one of us can sell these boards in 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.840 a store. I mean, none of this made sense to me, 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.800 and it hurt my heart because I loved the first one. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:44.760 I love Brandon Baker, He's amazing. The grandfather everybody. I 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.120 was so happy to see them all back, and then 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.120 they kind of I don't blame them for it. They 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.240 did this with the story and I was not a fan. 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.520 But anyway, we'll get into that. The director was Eric Bross, 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.360 a new name to the podcast at the time. Bross 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.760 had recently come off a big TV movie, Martha Behind Bars, 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.720 starring Sybil Shepherd as Martha Stewart in her big tax 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:06.720 fraud court case. Fun fact, my uncle Bobby was her lawyer. 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:07.360 Wow. 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.800 Yeah, my dad's best friend. He also he's gone now, 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.680 but Bob Morvillo great guy. He also directed the movie 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.480 On the Line, starring Lance Bass and featuring a cameo 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:19.080 from nineties wrestler China. Brosse is still working, most recently 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.360 directing a Hallmark movie called Rome in Love, a twenty 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:25.960 thirteen Lifetime film featuring Dolllly Parton called A Country Christmas Story, 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:29.600 and a twenty twelve Blue Lagoon reboot called The Awakening. 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:33.120 And like we mentioned, Brandon Baker the Man himself returns 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.760 now eight years older and basically a grown adult. He 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:37.839 stepped right back into the shoes of Johnny Coppa Halla, 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:39.760 the main character, even though the original movie was called 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:43.600 Johnny Ssunami, his grandfather's nickname, and that's not the only 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.319 controversy with the name. You may remember, the spelling of 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.360 Kappahala is very confusing. In the title it was one pee, 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.120 but in the credits two peas. Get it together, Disney. 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:55.960 This is one of Disney's biggest mysteries. Brandon, of course, 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:57.480 got his big break at twelve years old when he 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.199 played Mowgli in the straight to video Disney seequ To 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.960 the Jungle Book Mowgli's Story. Baker was also seen in 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.640 Even Stevens, The Proud Family, and Boston Public Like we said, 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:07.880 don't be a chicken. Let Brandon marry you. He's an 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.480 awesome dude and he's welcome here anytime. He was great 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.240 in this movie and the New Disney Channel generation is 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.840 represented by Jake T. Austen. He plays step uncle Chris 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:18.560 and this was a rough one for me. It is 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.040 best known as Max Russo on Wizards of Waverley Place, 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.640 where he was great. He was a Channel favorite, bringing 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:25.920 his character to the show's eventual d com and The 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.640 Sweet Life on Deck. He is also the voice of 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.400 Diego in the Door of the Explorer Universe and Fernando 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.280 and Rio and Rio two. He's a very good actor. 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.680 There's a lot of very good actors that sometimes don't 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.000 work with the right people, the right director, the right whatever, 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.800 and sometimes the performance isn't great, and this one needed 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:46.599 some work. Kerry Hero Yuki Tagawa also returns as the 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.840 big guy himself, Johnny Tsunami. Tigawa was a cult favorite 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.680 character actor, mostly because he played Shang Sung in the 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:56.880 nineteen ninety five Mortal Kombat movie Mortal Combat, great movie 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:58.920 and most of the video game since, and he appeared 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.400 in movies like Double seven, License to Kill, two thousand 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:03.360 and one's Planet of the Apes, and most famously, the 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.640 nineteen eighty seven critically beloved film The Last Emperor. In 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.000 twenty fifteen, he had a nice return to TV as 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.440 I hope I don't apologize if I butcher this name, 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.600 Nobusuke Tagomi. I believe it is how you say it 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.480 in the TV show The Man in the High Castle. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.440 But very sadly and such a big loss for Hollywood. 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.000 He passed away last year at the age of seventy five, 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:26.520 and that one seriously hurt my heart. Another former Magical 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.520 rewind guest and friend of the podcast, Robin Lively plays Karla, 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.280 the much younger future bride of Johnny Tsunami. She was 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:34.840 not in the original movie and was a real get 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.280 for Disney. Honestly, we spoke to her on this podcast 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.600 for another Disney Channel original movie, The Legend. It's I'm 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:42.720 saying it. I'm saying it with a smile. I always 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:47.920 do buzz Bucket, that's right. Lively was an always busy 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:51.800 young actor, appearing in Wildcats, Karate Kid Part Three, Chicago Hope, 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:53.920 and the cult classic Teen Witch. So take that. 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:54.880 Yes. 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.280 She continues to act on shows like nine to one one, 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.960 Lone Star, Cobra Kai, where she revisited her Karate Kid, 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.680 The Good Doctor, The Bad Doctor, The Okay Doctor, and 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.920 she's now shown up on one of TV's biggest hits, Landman. 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.240 She's also married to the great Bart Johnson of High 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.600 School Musical fame. He's a large man in Person two 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:16.920 and he interviewed him and we released his podcast right 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.880 here on this very feet. And Lively wasn't the only 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.560 Karate Kid alum in this movie. We have ug Okamoto 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:26.120 returning as the dad Pete Kapahala. Okamoto was in a 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.520 bunch of classic eighty movies. Okay, I'm just gonna list 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.520 these movies, and this might as well be called Will's 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:35.360 greatest hits of all time because they're awesome movies like 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.920 Real Genius, Karate Kid two, and my favorite of all time, 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:42.200 Better Off Dead? Uh where he played? Please tell me 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:51.680 you've seen Better Off Dead? Oh my god, Sabrina. Okay, well, 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:56.080 it's phenomenal. He plays one of two drivers and he 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.640 just talks like Howard Cosell drag racing with a young 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.240 John Kusack every time they appear at the same stoplight. 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.360 He would also return to his karate kid roots on 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.880 Cobra Kai for almost twenty five episodes and appeared in 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.280 the movies Inception in Pearl Harbor and Man, do I 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.360 want to talk to him? Okay, all this karate kid 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.360 talk is maybe one a roundhouse kick. Anyone who likes 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.480 movies longer than ninety minutes. We all know that's the 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.280 target we're looking for when it comes to lengthy our 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:22.240 magical rewind people. So let's see what Johnny Kappahala back 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.280 near the board, near your board, all about the board 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:29.720 came in at it's ninety minutes, ring the barrel call 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:33.440 the authorities. We have hit the target people. I'd like 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:35.960 to thank the cast and crew, but really it's all 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:40.880 cousin me ninety minutes. People, You're welcome. We actually speaking 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.960 of the team. We have four writers on this movie, 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.600 which is a real team effort. There's Annie Deyung. Her 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.200 career started on Honey I Shrunk the Kids, the TV show, 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.200 and she was behind a few dcom's, Returned to Halloween Town, 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:56.920 the recently reviewed Princess Protection Program, Starstruck, and twenty fourteen's 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.720 Girl Versus Monster, which I think was her last credit 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:04.400 on IMV. And we have Max Ensko. Max was Annie's 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:06.600 writing partner on a lot of projects, including Return to 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.320 Halloween Town and another one called The Ron Clark Story 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:13.040 starring Matthew Perry. His last credit was also in twenty fourteen. 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.119 And then there's Anne Austin, who wrote the original movie. 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.680 She was a Power Rangers VET of almost ten years. 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.040 She's been engulfed in the animated Barbie universe as a 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:24.120 head writer and producer. I am in the New Barbie Show, 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:27.240 so I may have worked with Ann, and another Power 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:29.760 Rangers writer teamed up with her on both this movie 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:33.520 and the original. His name is Douglas Sloan. He also 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.560 wrote the d com Motocross and in addition to also 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:39.280 joining Ann on some newer Barbie projects, he writes on 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.600 all the How to Train Your Dragon TV projects, which 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:44.000 is one of my favorite series of all time, How 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:54.320 to Train Your Dreaming. That's awesome. Okay, so now the 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.840 shop is opening soon, it's time to destroy the dirt 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:00.959 devils and get into Johnny Cappahala back on board. We 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.440 open on a snowy hilltop as our hero Johnny Cappahala 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.080 is prepping the snowboard and reminds the audience all about 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.840 who he is. He realizes ninety percent of the viewers 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:10.880 have forgotten the details of the movie they watched eight 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.679 years ago or never saw in the first place. So 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:17.199 let's just consider this a very needed re establishing shot. 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.560 Kappahola moved from sunny Hawaii to snowy Vermont and traded 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.960 the surfboard for a snowboard. Then it's revealed that he's 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:24.520 on the edge of a cliff hundreds of feet above 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:26.920 the ground. He's teetering off the edge, flirting with death. 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:29.520 He eventually loses his balance and rockets to his death. 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.080 Screaming the whole way down, but instead of crashing head first, 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:35.080 we transition to a sunny beach. Kappahla is now surfing 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.480 on a surfboard, still in a heavy jacket in winter gear. 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.080 He wipes out and we hear someone calling his name. 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:42.280 He wakes up in the back of the car sweating. 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.520 He was, of course having a nightmare. His parents are 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:46.960 driving and they're back in Hawaii for his grandpa, Johnny 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.720 Tsunami's wedding. They're excited to be back, but it's a 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:53.000 little weird because he hasn't met the fiance, Carla, And 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.600 the even bigger issue is she has a mysterious son 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:59.520 named Chris. So now Johnny's dad has a brother, I guess, 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:01.920 and John and he has a new uncle. That's all 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.480 we know at this point. He has an uncle. Johnny's 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:06.280 parents plan on staying in the city for a few days, 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:07.879 so they've set up a ride for Johnny to get 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.600 to his grandpa's early and it's his buddy Sam from 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.119 the first movie, somebody you definitely don't remember at all 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:15.720 because we don't remember him, and we got paid to 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.760 watch this movie recently, So did you remember Sam? 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:21.520 Sam? Was this was a recast? 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:28.480 Was originally the military guy? Yes, yes, but this wasn't 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:31.840 the same actor. No, Well, then I do remember the character. 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:33.840 I thought he was a different the character. 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:37.520 It just the recast looks nothing like the original. 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.840 The Thompson Young was awesome in that movie. Maybe he 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:42.840 just didn't want to do it. 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.159 I'm assuming. I'm assuming that's what it was. 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:50.560 The other thing he literally, other than the Batmobile, that 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:53.440