Speaker 1: So we're jumping in today with something that has become
Speaker 1: a bit of a Disney trope.
Speaker 2: But before we get into it, I have a question. Yes,
Speaker 2: back in the day, did you have a favorite sports
Speaker 2: based movie. Doesn't he have to be Disney?
Speaker 3: Remember the Titans?
Speaker 2: That was yours? Remember the Titans? Really, I hate to
Speaker 2: say this, I've never seen it.
Speaker 3: You are kidding me right now?
Speaker 2: Is that the it's the football movie? Right, the football movie?
Speaker 2: Is this the one? Wait, I'm sorry, is this the.
Speaker 3: One where the Washington right?
Speaker 2: Is this traffic?
Speaker 1: Is this the one they have the scene where they
Speaker 1: lay in traffic that people got into a whole lot
Speaker 1: of trouble for, so they ended up cutting it from
Speaker 1: the movie.
Speaker 3: I don't know that you would know more than about
Speaker 3: it if that's the case. I don't know that. But
Speaker 3: it's it's set in a time where oh, that's the program.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, that's a movie called the Program. Different movie.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's it's set in the time where he's an
Speaker 3: African American coach like that in a like a white
Speaker 3: suburban town. It's a big deal. He gets obviously a
Speaker 3: lot of hate, hate and paniers in it. She's like
Speaker 3: a teeny tiny little bopper.
Speaker 4: She's so cute.
Speaker 3: She's so cute in it. It's just the message is
Speaker 3: so awesome. I mean, you know, obviously my coaching. You know,
Speaker 3: I love coaches pep talks and how they how they
Speaker 3: really dive into their kids and their students' lives. This
Speaker 3: is just one of like the most epic coach driven movies.
Speaker 3: It's so good.
Speaker 2: I love a coach driven movie, and.
Speaker 3: I love like the football scenes are so intense and
Speaker 3: so good, Like it's so good to watch yours.
Speaker 2: You know. I'd love to say Who's because Who's Just
Speaker 2: is a phenomenal movie. I haven't seen it again. Who's
Speaker 2: Just like Old School, just a great, great movie. I'd
Speaker 2: love to say The Natural, But at the same time,
Speaker 2: It's Red.
Speaker 3: It's bad.
Speaker 2: Rad is my favorite movie of the sports movie of
Speaker 2: all time because.
Speaker 1: A be what would be considered a cheesy BMX movie
Speaker 1: from the eighties that is just the best.
Speaker 2: It's like Lori Laughlin's one of her first movies.
Speaker 4: Okay, and it's like slightly I feel.
Speaker 2: Like my sister liked it. Oh, such a good movie.
Speaker 2: So I man, I'd love to put it. You've come
Speaker 2: up with this amazing It's like Denzel Washington teaching his team, like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, you gotta try. I'm rad. It's about writing
Speaker 2: hell track at the end.
Speaker 3: And you know what, though, those movies are so I
Speaker 3: just I love the like intensity of watching any sport.
Speaker 3: I just I really do.
Speaker 2: I like sports movies.
Speaker 3: They're so good there.
Speaker 4: I like them as much as I like a musical.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: I love them them slightly more.
Speaker 3: Even if I don't know anything about the sport, I
Speaker 3: can totally get into. I can watch a documentary I watched.
Speaker 3: I get into like phases. I watched three baseball documentaries
Speaker 3: on these coaches. I couldn't even tell you what the
Speaker 3: names were, but I was so into it because they
Speaker 3: were It was one was a picture, one was a coach,
Speaker 3: one was you.
Speaker 2: Know, a batter. I love sports stuff like I do too,
Speaker 2: all right, So then I just have to recommend look
Speaker 2: into the ESPN thirty for thirties. You'll absolutely love them.
Speaker 4: They'll chair thirty for thirties, Okay, you will love them.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that brings us right to the movie that
Speaker 1: we're gonna do today. But before then, I want to
Speaker 1: welcome you to Magical Rewind. It's the show that makes
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Speaker 2: The Waves, Tsunamis and the high School's musical I'm Wilfredll.
Speaker 3: And I'm Sabrina Brian.
Speaker 1: And for today's episode, we're getting into referees pose for
Speaker 1: the two thousand and four Blind high School wrestler drama
Speaker 1: Going to the matt This is another entry into the
Speaker 1: Disney Original movies that revolves as we were talking about sports,
Speaker 1: which is obviously a huge trope in the Disney world.
Speaker 1: Oh the Disney world, which is it's very common, But
Speaker 1: this one has a very big difference, actually has several differences.
Speaker 1: But one is it has a seventy percent favorable score
Speaker 1: on Rotten Tomatoes, which for a Disney Channel original movie
Speaker 1: is really really high. For comparison, Luck of the Irish
Speaker 1: is at fifty three percent.
Speaker 2: Just asked me, dah La me lad. But in the
Speaker 2: vein of Rudy or Coach Carter or Remember the Titans,
Speaker 2: or Hoosier's or rad on a smaller level, it doesn't
Speaker 2: take much to figure out how this movie plays out.
Speaker 2: But we need to break it down because okay, I
Speaker 2: want to get right into this. What did you think
Speaker 2: of this movie? Right?
Speaker 3: What did I think of the movie?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Right?
Speaker 3: I think before I got into the movie, I didn't.
Speaker 2: Want to start there. Then did you know this movie
Speaker 2: even existed?
Speaker 3: Never seen it? Never seen it?
Speaker 2: Had you heard that it was a thing?
Speaker 3: No? I never heard about it never. And honestly, I'm
Speaker 3: not a wrestling fan.
Speaker 4: Okay, I think I go straight to w WE.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, not No, I'm not really a big fan.
Speaker 3: But and and even in high school, I knew no wrestlers.
Speaker 3: I didn't know anything about the sport. I was never
Speaker 3: around anyone that was a wrestler. So I really wasn't
Speaker 3: thinking I was gonna like it. I kind of was.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, cool, and we've got Andy Lawrence.
Speaker 3: He's incredible. I had no idea where it was going.
Speaker 3: So the whole time the movie kept getting better and
Speaker 3: better and breaking through my expectations more and more. And
Speaker 3: I loved this movie. He did, I did? Did you
Speaker 3: like it?
Speaker 2: What I agree with? This is? Okay? You want my thoughts? Yes,
Speaker 2: this is the best d com we've watched so far
Speaker 2: by far.
Speaker 4: You know what you and I are really, I'm telling
Speaker 4: you you are.
Speaker 3: Really becoming just so on the same path with these agree,
Speaker 3: I was gonna say the same thing. I love Descendants.
Speaker 3: It's great on a great different level. It's like apples
Speaker 3: and oranges. This is absolutely the best movie.
Speaker 2: We've watched this movie all the way around. Yes, I amazing.
Speaker 3: Oh I'm getting chills thinking about it. I love this
Speaker 3: movie so much. And I was so scared about how
Speaker 3: much I loved it because I wasn't sure what the
Speaker 3: thoughts was with you, and I didn't want you to
Speaker 3: think I was. I don't.
Speaker 4: I was like, am I just this is emotional?
Speaker 3: Lately?
Speaker 2: I watched this with my wife. She will walk out
Speaker 2: of some of these dcoms like, all right, you're on
Speaker 2: your own for the rest of this kind of thing.
Speaker 2: We sat there riveted by this movie. It was well written,
Speaker 2: well directed, well at the acting next level.
Speaker 3: I couldn't wait to get to the notes, and I
Speaker 3: was scrolling going did this nominated?
Speaker 2: For God?
Speaker 3: I was so into it.
Speaker 2: It so good.
Speaker 3: This movie felt like a I mean, we talk about
Speaker 3: these are movies, not films. This felt like a film
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 1: I agree with you one hundred percent. It seemed like
Speaker 1: it was on a completely different level.
Speaker 3: I still don't love wrestling. I will say that I
Speaker 3: don't love the sport, but I am definitely going to
Speaker 3: watch this one again. My my husband is you gotta
Speaker 3: get over at Springett. We get it and I know
Speaker 3: you like it because I'm like, you gotta watch it,
Speaker 3: bab You have you watched this one?
Speaker 2: Wait? The best coon there's ever been.
Speaker 1: It's great so far, it is the best econ we've watched.
Speaker 1: I will say, I grew up so small, we're on.
Speaker 3: The same page. I was kind of nervous.
Speaker 1: Okay, we are the small town that I grew up in.
Speaker 1: We were Our school was famous for two things, soccer
Speaker 1: and wrestling.
Speaker 3: Will I swear I have it in my notes literally
Speaker 3: right here. I want to know if this was something
Speaker 3: that was big on the West Coast for you.
Speaker 2: Huge, huge East Coast. My my was very well known
Speaker 2: for their wrestling program.
Speaker 3: We had a lot of people attend the the oh yeah,
Speaker 3: the matches, every yeah, the meets.
Speaker 2: Everyone was at the meets.
Speaker 1: It was there were We had students that were going
Speaker 1: on to wrestle for Annapolis that were wrestling for huge schools.
Speaker 2: I mean we were. We were state champs over and
Speaker 2: I say wee, as if I had anything to do
Speaker 2: with it.
Speaker 4: But that was my next question. Did you wrestle?
Speaker 2: No? No, not at all with anxiety. That's it. So no,
Speaker 2: I was not a wrestling guy at all, but.
Speaker 1: Watching it, I was a big fan of watching wrestling
Speaker 1: because it was it became exciting, it did which and
Speaker 1: when you watch this movie you can see why.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I think we need to break down the movie.
Speaker 1: So before let's do it, we fireman carry this one
Speaker 1: to a pin. Thank you, as you can tell that
Speaker 1: I'm great with all the lingo we're gonna hear hear
Speaker 1: in the synopsis of the film, So here it is.
Speaker 2: Uh. City Kid Jason Jace Neufeld is the new student
Speaker 2: at a rural high school and and is also blind. UH.
Speaker 1: When he feels his musical skills aren't helping him fit in,
Speaker 1: he decides to join the wrestling team, which is a
Speaker 1: big attempt for someone with his disability. It stars Andy
Speaker 1: Lawrence's Jace.
Speaker 2: Andy, of course, is the youngest brother of the Lawrence Dynasty,
Speaker 2: a group of three brothers who have just had a
Speaker 2: headlock on being young actors in Hollywood. Joey Lawrence obviously
Speaker 2: is the oldest and he found the most fame on
Speaker 2: Blossom and as a bona fide pop star. He also
Speaker 2: started on Giving Me a Break. He's been acting since
Speaker 2: he was like five years old. Matthew Lawrence not his
Speaker 2: pop oh yes album.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: Then there's the middle one, Matthew who I don't know
Speaker 2: what he's done. I've never really heard of him. And
Speaker 2: then there's Andy, who appeared on shows like Blossom with
Speaker 2: his brother as well Tom Arnold's Tom and recently he
Speaker 2: was on Hawaii five Oh.
Speaker 1: He was also the voice of TJ on Recess, and
Speaker 1: he starred in Brotherly Love as this com along with
Speaker 1: Joey and I want to say, Matthew Is that what
Speaker 1: his name was?
Speaker 2: That ran from ninety five to ninety seven. I'm kidding.
Speaker 2: I love Maddie.
Speaker 1: We did boy Me Tworld together. He's a close friend
Speaker 1: and I love him forever. Cleo Thomas plays the new
Speaker 1: best friend Fly and you may recognize him from one
Speaker 1: of the greatest movies starring children. I'm sorry, I will
Speaker 1: say that in a very long time. I'll put it
Speaker 1: up there with things like goonies and stuff like people
Speaker 1: are like, you gotta be kidding me, But Holes was
Speaker 1: a great movie, so he was in Holes. He was
Speaker 1: also in Walking Tall. He's done rap albums.
Speaker 2: They've put him on tour with bowow Ice Cube and
Speaker 2: Snoop Dogg, and he's now a very very popular streamer
Speaker 2: on Twitch.
Speaker 1: I actually saw him at D twenty three not too
Speaker 1: long ago. We had a very nice conversation. It was
Speaker 1: a ton of fun.
Speaker 2: He's such a nice guy and just also kills it
Speaker 2: in this movie. Then we've got Alessandra Torresani, who plays
Speaker 2: Mary Beth Rice, who's the love interest and tutor. She
Speaker 2: later appeared in a handful of Big Bang Theory episodes
Speaker 2: as Claire, and has worked consistently over the years, showing
Speaker 2: up on Batwoman, The Fosters, and American Horror Story Again.
Speaker 2: Amazing D B. Sweeney who talk about sports movies. He
Speaker 2: plays Coach Rice. He's a hugely accomplished actor that we've
Speaker 2: seen in so many things including the cutting end edge
Speaker 2: eight Man Out, great movie, Fire this Guy, great movie,
Speaker 2: and on Two and a Half Men. I mean he's
Speaker 2: been TV. Sweeney's that guy where if you see him
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, this is going to be a decent movie.
Speaker 2: Is absolutely cutting edge topic and in the Dabney Coleman
Speaker 2: position of this film. We have Wayne Brady who plays
Speaker 2: the blind music teacher mister Wyatt. He was super hot
Speaker 2: during this time because he was on whose line is
Speaker 2: it any way? Just killing it? The Drew Carey show.
Speaker 2: He's done. Just go look at his IMDb. It is
Speaker 2: an uncountable amount of projects.
Speaker 1: And he's moved into hosting as his main gig in
Speaker 1: the twenty twenties, leading Let's Make a Deal Now for years.
Speaker 1: It was directed by Stuart Gillard, who also helmed Teenage Mutant, Ninja,
Speaker 1: Turtles three, and other dcoms like Twitches, Twitches two, Hatching Pete,
Speaker 1: The Famous Hatching Pete, and Full Court Miracle. More recently,
Speaker 1: he executive produced TV shows like Salvation, Charmed and So
Speaker 1: Helped Me Todd.
Speaker 2: It was written apparently by a whole team of people.
Speaker 2: Chris Nolan, who is not the same Chris Nolan who
Speaker 2: did Oppenheimer, is one of the writers and got a
Speaker 2: story by credit alongside his wife Lorie Nolan, and then
Speaker 2: also with teleplay credit. Steve Bloom, not the voiceover actor,
Speaker 2: who is kind of a big get here because he
Speaker 2: wrote James and the Giant Peach for Disney in nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety six, Jack Frost in nineteen ninety eight, and then
Speaker 2: there's Stu Krieger who wrote The Land Before Time and
Speaker 2: Gotta Kick It Up and Spartan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: They're obviously bringing in serious talent. You can see it.
Speaker 1: It's on the screen. You can see the writing is
Speaker 1: a I really love this movie. Yes, it runs a
Speaker 1: tight ninety two minutes, which is two from the target,
Speaker 1: and it aired in March of two thousand and four,
Speaker 1: marking a recent twenty year anniversary. Another twenty year anniversary,
Speaker 1: so that's pretty amazing. Nothing makes me feel older than
Speaker 1: all these twenty twenty five, thirty year anniversary of things
Speaker 1: that we're watching where it's all of a sudden, it's.
Speaker 2: Like and it's our forty fifth anniversary. Oh jeez, I
Speaker 2: just feel old, I know. Like I said, there are
Speaker 2: so many pots reviews of this movie. Laura Frieze or
Speaker 2: fries A Variety wrote, Although a bit heavy on the
Speaker 2: slow most sports sequence, Gillard otherwise nicely balances action with drama,
Speaker 2: touching on universal themes of alienation and the undue pressures
Speaker 2: of high school sports. The film earned We talked about
Speaker 2: this the film earned a nomination for a Director's Guild
Speaker 2: Award for Stuart Giller and a Humanitarian Award nomination for
Speaker 2: the writers.
Speaker 3: I love that. Yes, thank you, because it deserves it.
Speaker 2: It was amazing.
Speaker 1: We have to do a quick pre acknowledgment of something here,
Speaker 1: because movies now in twenty twenty four that tell the
Speaker 1: story of blind characters, or really any characters with disabilities,
Speaker 1: should we really involve actors in some capacity that have
Speaker 1: those disabilities as well. I think that is happening more
Speaker 1: and more. But of course the inclusivity that's happening now
Speaker 1: is a wonderful thing. It was not really existing in
Speaker 1: the nineties.
Speaker 2: It's no one's fault. It's just what the times were like.
Speaker 1: But it is worth noting that, you know, it would
Speaker 1: have been nice to see some people that actually had
Speaker 1: some disabilities in the film as well, But again, it
Speaker 1: was the times, and we try to judge it for
Speaker 1: what it was at the time and not for what
Speaker 1: it would be now.
Speaker 2: But it certainly would be a different thing. So it
Speaker 2: starts with here's what I loved. Okay, now we're jumping
Speaker 2: into it because now it's time for both of us
Speaker 2: to gush. It starts with Jason in his New York school.
Speaker 2: It starts with an incredible concert going on. He's a
Speaker 2: rock drummer, and in real life, Andy played all the instruments. Yes,
Speaker 2: he actually you know that.
Speaker 3: I mean I knew that about Andy going into it,
Speaker 3: so it was awesome to get to see him really
Speaker 3: jam I mean.
Speaker 2: I knew he was great at guitar because obviously I
Speaker 2: know Andy, so I've been with him while he's kind
Speaker 2: of picked up the guitar and started jamming. And I
Speaker 2: know he can sing. You know, all his brothers are
Speaker 2: very musical. I didn't know he also played the drums
Speaker 2: and the keyboards. I mean he's a faceted yes, musicians
Speaker 2: he is.
Speaker 3: I mean it was it was awesome. Can you imagine too,
Speaker 3: Like as we know and you know, able to display
Speaker 3: those talents not very often, especially you know when you're younger,
Speaker 3: do you get a role that allows you to show
Speaker 3: that you are more than an actor?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So so excited for him once he started going. I
Speaker 3: was because I again don't know anything about the movie,
Speaker 3: had no idea there was any musical element. So he
Speaker 3: starts playing or start he's playing the drums. I'm like, not, okay,
Speaker 3: all right, okay, Dan, point number one.
Speaker 2: We have to talk a little bit about the fact
Speaker 2: that at this time in his life he looks like
Speaker 2: he is exactly a combination of Matt and Joey. Yes,
Speaker 2: he looks like Matt and sounds like joe Yes.
Speaker 3: But even still, I still think there's moments where he
Speaker 3: gives a look and I'm looking at him, going, you
Speaker 3: look so much Because to me watching watching their show
Speaker 3: growing up, I felt Matt and Joey looked a lot
Speaker 3: more like and and Andy had his own look he
Speaker 3: had He just looked very different. His eye shaped, things
Speaker 3: about him just looked very different. I mean, obviously he's
Speaker 3: the younger one, right, they were, you know the baby. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but this movie, for the first time I really felt
Speaker 3: he looked in the middle.
Speaker 4: It was crazy.
Speaker 1: He also just stole this movie, but I just I
Speaker 1: still want to jump into more of that. But he's
Speaker 1: playing all the stuff for real, which is so impressive.
Speaker 1: And he's performing at Carnegie Hall with the school's jazz band,
Speaker 1: and it's we're setting up that he's blind obviously, and
Speaker 1: that he's uber talented, and he also then it jumps
Speaker 1: to him in the in the park in Central park,
Speaker 1: where we're setting up that he has to move. But
Speaker 1: the thing that I love is they're setting up that
Speaker 1: he's popular, he's athletic, he's got a great group of friends.
Speaker 2: Nobody cares that he's blind. He's just he's got a
Speaker 2: great life. He's in his element all the way around.
Speaker 3: He's comfortable.
Speaker 1: And the writing of that one scene, that's all you
Speaker 1: need is to show that he's got ways of overcoming
Speaker 1: certain sports, because he obviously loves playing sports. So they
Speaker 1: show him shooting, you know, playing baseball and he's pitching
Speaker 1: and hitting all this kind of stuff. So these little
Speaker 1: things that they're doing right off the bat and showing
Speaker 1: how close he is with his friends, they're establishing his
Speaker 1: sports background, the fact that he's popular, the fact that
Speaker 1: he's now moving, and that he was a musician, all
Speaker 1: in one tiny little scene.
Speaker 2: Just too many great writing. Yes, two minutes, Yes, set
Speaker 2: everything up all the way around there.
Speaker 1: And he's also what's interesting is at the if you
Speaker 1: didn't know what this movie was about, starting with him
Speaker 1: at Carnegie Hall and ripping on the drums, you easily
Speaker 1: thought this could be a movie about a blind musician.
Speaker 1: They were going to go a Stevie Wonder Ray, Charles
Speaker 1: jose Feliciano kind of way.
Speaker 2: But they didn't.
Speaker 1: It's a sports movie where they just also let him
Speaker 1: played music. It was ugh anyway, Yeah, it's a great
Speaker 1: way to show uh.
Speaker 2: The opening.
Speaker 1: It also establishes that he's moving to Utah, which, of
Speaker 1: course we have established is the dcom capital of the world.
Speaker 3: And I don't know, I mean, I it's interesting because
Speaker 3: I don't know why it needs to be Utah. There's
Speaker 3: there didn't seem to be a reason it needs to
Speaker 3: be Utah, except for the fact that once you get
Speaker 3: those out exterior shots mountains and the right crown, it's like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, you know, I mean, maybe it could
Speaker 3: be in another mountain town. But yeah, it's it's it's.
Speaker 1: I also, is you ta I'm gonna I'm gonna use
Speaker 1: a word here, I'm not even sure is right.
Speaker 2: I'm putting in quotes.
Speaker 1: They try to make it seem like he's going to
Speaker 1: a quote unquote hicic town. Is that what Utah is considered?
Speaker 3: Is it tend to utass so many times? And that
Speaker 3: is definitely not some away I would ever ever sure
Speaker 3: describe it sure ever.
Speaker 2: I mean it's not a stereotype.
Speaker 3: And I don't know why it had to be Utah
Speaker 3: if that's what he was gonna do. It could have
Speaker 3: been another more maybe somewhere where there was mountains as well,
Speaker 3: but where it is known a little bit more as
Speaker 3: a country or hick. Yeah, whatever they're trying to portray,
Speaker 3: because I just it just that doesn't describe Utah at.
Speaker 2: All to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I thought it was interesting that they
Speaker 1: went that way. But that being said, they get him there,
Speaker 1: he gets into the school and he's kind of a
Speaker 1: jerk right off the bat.
Speaker 2: They didn't like. I thought about.
Speaker 1: Something like and was reminded instantly of having to move
Speaker 1: the kind of fish out of water story of Johnny Tsunami.
Speaker 1: But when Johnny got to his new school, he was
Speaker 1: super cool, he was helpful, he was sharing, and they
Speaker 1: didn't accept him anyway. And I thought it was interesting
Speaker 1: what they did this time, where it's like they kind
Speaker 1: of made Andy's character. They made Jason a bit of
Speaker 1: a jerk coming in, he instantly tries to start some trouble,
Speaker 1: And I'm curious, did you have any trouble liking him
Speaker 1: right off the bat? When they dropped him into the school.
Speaker 3: No, it didn't. I felt it odd in the sense of, well,
Speaker 3: that's a weird choice to go into a new school.
Speaker 3: I felt that odd, but it didn't take it as
Speaker 3: not really liking him. It was I thought that maybe
Speaker 3: there was going to be more backstory coming that he was.
Speaker 4: Really bullying, because I thought it was odd.
Speaker 3: Considering he came from a place where it seemed like
Speaker 3: he was really loved and people really enjoyed him and
Speaker 3: rooted for him, or you know, or just really he
Speaker 3: was just a very normal person, a normal kid with
Speaker 3: a normal friend group, and I thought maybe there was
Speaker 3: going to be a backstory that came out, because I
Speaker 3: mean it was a little jarring, whoa, why why are
Speaker 3: you so?
Speaker 4: Why are you so angry?
Speaker 3: But then it's also he really did not want to
Speaker 3: leave New York.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It also later with Wayne Brady kind of saying,
Speaker 2: you know you've had you have a giant chip on
Speaker 2: your shoulder, yes, so that you know, he comes in
Speaker 2: kind of with this attitude and maybe what I think
Speaker 2: what they were going for this is how I kind
Speaker 2: of justified it. But I loved how they went that
Speaker 2: way with the character, where they made him kind of
Speaker 2: the jerk. Not everyone around him was the.
Speaker 3: Jerk, right.
Speaker 4: I did like him?
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too, And I thought maybe it had something
Speaker 1: to do with the fact that he's had to deal
Speaker 1: with this so many different times in his life that
Speaker 1: he are automatically goes into new situations assuming people are going.
Speaker 2: To judge him for his disability.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's so he was putting on a front before
Speaker 3: someone else could. I mean, he was saying the blind
Speaker 3: jokes before someone else was going to make fun of
Speaker 3: him for being blind, like he was calling it first.
Speaker 3: So it didn't make me not like him. It was
Speaker 3: just kind of what his you know, soon to be
Speaker 3: love interest is says well, wow, I mean, do you
Speaker 3: just really gotta i mean coming out of the gates?
Speaker 2: Yeah, coming out man like geez.
Speaker 1: But another great show of how Jase has really learned
Speaker 1: to live his life with his disability.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: The time we meet the very before we even get
Speaker 2: to the school, we get to meet his pal Fly,
Speaker 2: who is on the you know, he's shooting. Jase's shooting
Speaker 2: hoops with the aid of a little speaker that beeps
Speaker 2: to show where the hoop is, and his friend Fly
Speaker 2: comes up. This is the first time that they meet,
Speaker 2: and he's kind of testing to see if he's blind.
Speaker 2: And we can also see kind of how Jace has
Speaker 2: made his way in the world because he's grabbing his
Speaker 2: hand and he talks about how he you know, it's
Speaker 2: the vibrations in the air, so he knows where people are.
Speaker 2: And Fly is still a little put off by the
Speaker 2: new blind kid in school.
Speaker 3: Yes, and I did think it was weird that he
Speaker 3: came to the basketball court, but not to play basketball, right, Yeah, he.
Speaker 1: Was, he was driving by, but maybe he saw somebody
Speaker 1: playing thought it was.
Speaker 2: A new kid. But he he establishes very quickly that
Speaker 2: he is not an.
Speaker 3: Athlete, Right, that's why why would you come to the
Speaker 3: basketball court? That's kind of seems like it's in the
Speaker 3: middle of nowhere.
Speaker 2: It's an interesting point.
Speaker 1: Maybe, okay, maybe he heard the beeping and wanted to
Speaker 1: see what the beeping and stuff was coming from court.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe maybe.
Speaker 2: We'll give it. We'll give him that because the movie
Speaker 2: is so good. Fair enough, So he starts in the school.
Speaker 1: He comes in hot with an attitude. He essentially we
Speaker 1: meet we meet Mary Beth, who we find out is
Speaker 1: going to be his reader. One the people who volunteered
Speaker 1: and one of the things that I find cool about
Speaker 1: every character that they're introducing is they're all kind of
Speaker 1: quippy with each other. Where he even says to her
Speaker 1: right off the bat something along the lines, oh, I know,
Speaker 1: you're doing this for the grade, and she's like, no,
Speaker 1: it's for the money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know. It's like they're just they're all witty, yes,
Speaker 2: and they're joking around with each other, and they're not
Speaker 2: They're they're treating him like they would treat anybody else.
Speaker 2: The only person treating anybody.
Speaker 1: Different is him, right, which again I thought was a
Speaker 1: very interesting way to go with the character, where I
Speaker 1: your lead character is kind of the jerk, yes, And I.
Speaker 3: Thought it was interesting, and I kinda was that that's
Speaker 3: very different than what's a normal, you know, way to
Speaker 3: go with when they get when the I mean, he
Speaker 3: wasn't really necessarily the villain, but the bully, right, the
Speaker 3: lead jock. Yeah, he he kind of leans into him
Speaker 3: more so like what what's wrong?
Speaker 2: What's that with you?
Speaker 3: Why are you?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: But at the same time he he gives him like
Speaker 3: a pass like all right, whatever, you know, and kind
Speaker 3: of just brushes him off instead of remember again going
Speaker 3: back to Johnny's younamy, how angry the got so fast?
Speaker 3: You didn't even know this guy, you know whatever. It
Speaker 3: was interesting. It was a total flip and I really
Speaker 3: enjoyed it. Too cool to see something different.
Speaker 1: You know, they're both kind of being jerks to each other.
Speaker 1: But that's can can happen at high school with that is.
Speaker 3: Such a typical normal hallway exchange at a high school.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: And on the first person that brought up anything about
Speaker 1: blind like he even says, what are you blind? When
Speaker 1: the guy but when he bumps into him, when Jase
Speaker 1: bumps into him and he turns around, he goes, oh, sorry,
Speaker 1: like he apologizes, yeah, I guess you are, and then
Speaker 1: Jace instantly takes it to I'm starting with this guy.
Speaker 2: Calm down. It was great.
Speaker 1: So we're navigating through school, we're meeting some of the
Speaker 1: other characters. Now we get to his music class and
Speaker 1: this is the first time where we meet Wayne Brady's character.
Speaker 3: And I fell out of my seat again. I've I
Speaker 3: didn't look and I love this. This was so fun
Speaker 3: to not look into it is that that's Wayne Brady.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, oh my god. Because I love him.
Speaker 3: I do too love Wayne Brady.
Speaker 2: But also then making turning out where he's blind too.
Speaker 3: Then it hits is is he is he okay all right?
Speaker 3: Wayne Wayne Bline? I was, oh my god, this is
Speaker 3: insane again Bohm point number two or three at this point, and.
Speaker 1: They're sitting there and they're playing I think they're playing
Speaker 1: back and they're playing obviously very nice, and Jason again
Speaker 1: first day of school takes off with the song of
Speaker 1: his own.
Speaker 2: He gets bored. He doesn't want to do it this way.
Speaker 2: He thinks New York is better and they do better
Speaker 2: music and they have a better town and they do
Speaker 2: and so again he's kind of the jerk he is,
Speaker 2: and Wayne by puts him in his place in such
Speaker 2: a great way so quickly. Uh and the oh, it's
Speaker 2: just he even says to him, if you want special treatment,
Speaker 2: go to a special school.
Speaker 3: Right, And that hit hard me. That was like, I mean, oh,
Speaker 3: my cause, exactly, you want people to treat you with respect,
Speaker 3: and you need to treat me as a teacher. I'm
Speaker 3: not going to you know. And the crazy part, you know,
Speaker 3: as as I obviously the teacher is informed already about
Speaker 3: this new student coming right into his class, but no
Speaker 3: one has informed Jase about his teacher, and so that
Speaker 3: the whole way that but when when she leans over
Speaker 3: and says, he's just like you.
Speaker 2: He's just like you. Oh whoops, and then it gives
Speaker 2: Andy the great line or Chase the great line. Well wow,
Speaker 2: it really is the blind leading the blind. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: then and Wayne Brady slaps him down again, like, oh
Speaker 2: look at you, You're so funny. What a clown.
Speaker 1: I mean, just I love that they brought in this
Speaker 1: other character who's like, you've got a chip on your
Speaker 1: shoulder because you're blind.
Speaker 2: I'm blind, we're blind. Deal with it.
Speaker 1: Now, you live your life and you still are the
Speaker 1: best possible person you can be, because this is what
Speaker 1: we've got, and it was just so good. But then
Speaker 1: we finally get to meet Speaking of great actors, we
Speaker 1: get to meet Dbe Sweeney, who plays Coach Rice. And
Speaker 1: here's something I thought they did that was so clever.
Speaker 1: The first time we meet him, he's.
Speaker 2: It's regular gym class, he's having them split up for basketball,
Speaker 2: and he says to Jace, you know what, why why
Speaker 2: don't you take this time to do some homework or something?
Speaker 1: You can't do this in Jason's like don't worry a coach.
Speaker 1: I played basketball at the time. He's like, yep, I
Speaker 1: can't do that here.
Speaker 2: How do you do that?
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, it's a bounce past rule and I've
Speaker 1: got the speaker. He's like, yeah, great, I'll look into it,
Speaker 1: but go sit on the bench.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So they set it up where maybe this guy is
Speaker 1: going to be the jerk and kind of like, Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the villain guy who's really going to hold him.
Speaker 2: Back back, and we've got to fight against him and
Speaker 2: do And then they switch that too to not be
Speaker 2: that at all.
Speaker 1: It was just about who didn't know how to handle
Speaker 1: this new student right away?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: And that that I think happens a lot because I
Speaker 3: think people obviously teachers have a very big job, but
Speaker 3: people tend to forget that they are also human too,
Speaker 3: and also struggle with possibly. I mean, how many students
Speaker 3: you get in a class, how many periods you have,
Speaker 3: how many years you've been teaching. Sometimes you get thrown
Speaker 3: something that you just don't you don't know how to
Speaker 3: handle right, you know, and.
Speaker 1: You think you're doing your best, but you're not really fit.
Speaker 1: You don't it's not what's best. And they're both trying
Speaker 1: to figure it out. But it was such again, kind
Speaker 1: of different for some of the Disney movies. It's a
Speaker 1: character that is one of the supporting characters, a complete
Speaker 1: supporting character, but there's such depth to the character.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that sometimes you don't get in these dcoms.
Speaker 1: You don't always get a supporting character that they've really
Speaker 1: flushed out right, because he also turns out to be
Speaker 1: Mary Beth's dad.
Speaker 3: And the wrestling coach. The wrestling coach, which is great
Speaker 3: because you know the title of the movie.
Speaker 2: You know that's what this is slightly important, that's gonna
Speaker 2: matter down the line at some point, and so he
Speaker 2: you know, it's Mary Beth. When Jase gives this line
Speaker 2: essentially saying, you know, he's having another run in now
Speaker 2: with the main quote unquote bad guy, the captain of
Speaker 2: the wrestling team, even though he kind of started it,
Speaker 2: and he says, man, I would love to take a
Speaker 2: crack at that guy, and it's Mary Beth who says,
Speaker 2: why don't you try wrestling, which starts him down this
Speaker 2: whole journey. There's apparently a blind wrestler from another county
Speaker 2: that had won his weight division, and this leads Jase
Speaker 2: on an entirely new path, and I love that he
Speaker 2: gets his friend Fly because they bonded over music. Right,
Speaker 2: he goes to Fly and essentially says, join the team
Speaker 2: with me. I need your help. We don't see that part,
Speaker 2: but they both both end up with the coach, and
Speaker 2: then the coach is completely receptive to it, which is
Speaker 2: another great a.
Speaker 3: Great time to both of them, too, right to both
Speaker 3: of them. And that's that's one thing I learned in
Speaker 3: this movie is you know, and they make a they
Speaker 3: make a comment about it. You know, you don't have
Speaker 3: to be the biggest, baddest guy to be able to
Speaker 3: be good at this specific sport, which I didn't think
Speaker 3: of that. And it's cool that there's different weight classes
Speaker 3: that allow you to be able to not go in
Speaker 3: there as a smaller guy and get creamed by some giant.
Speaker 3: Right if right smaller you get to it's awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No again. And there was my friend in high school,
Speaker 2: the guy who went on wrestled for Annapolis, I think
Speaker 2: wrestled at that weight class that wrestled. It was either one, one, one,
Speaker 2: o three or ninety five. I mean these are flyweights
Speaker 2: or tiny what. But he was just shredded and could
Speaker 2: throw people around. It was amazing. So he starts to
Speaker 2: get into the idea of wrestling.
Speaker 1: And here's another thing that we we love because we
Speaker 1: have to talk about this right now.
Speaker 2: The parents. Another thing that they did differently in this.
Speaker 2: Really I supported the parents. These were you know, these
Speaker 2: were my parents.
Speaker 3: Like they My parents would have supported me in anything
Speaker 3: I wanted to do. They just wanted me to be
Speaker 3: interested and invested and passionate about something. They did not care.
Speaker 3: I could pick anything.
Speaker 4: It could be art, it could be music, it could
Speaker 4: be writing.
Speaker 3: It wouldn't have mattered. They would have been exactly there
Speaker 3: the way they were with the career that I did
Speaker 3: choose right behind me and anything they could do to help.
Speaker 3: These parents melt in my heart. My mom and dad them.
Speaker 3: I haven't appreciated them, probably as much as I can.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry about any of.
Speaker 3: The teenage years.
Speaker 2: One of the first movies we've seen where both the
Speaker 2: parents are hugely supportive. They just were phenomenal. So he
Speaker 2: they say, go wrestle, We're with you. Whatever you want
Speaker 2: to do, go do.
Speaker 3: My mom does push back a little bit, which I
Speaker 3: think little natural for any mom to not want their
Speaker 3: kids to go into a sport that possibly they could
Speaker 3: get hurt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wrestling, football, hockey, any of that's kind of cool,
Speaker 2: which apparently not going to say, let's talk about the
Speaker 2: safety issue. And that's totally.
Speaker 3: Especially because he does have something that you could hold
Speaker 3: him back and possibly get him hurt.
Speaker 4: Absolutely fair, very fair, totally.
Speaker 2: With her on that Jason Fly join.
Speaker 1: It turns out that coach I completely believes in them,
Speaker 1: and between the coach Mary Beth and Fly, his attitude
Speaker 1: starts getting a little bit better. He's one of the
Speaker 1: things they have him doing the entire time. He's constantly
Speaker 1: making fun of Utah. He doesn't understand what's going on.
Speaker 2: And there's this great scene where he says to her,
Speaker 2: you know, says.
Speaker 1: Something about what you know, I'm sick of being here.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows how to deal with me because I'm blind,
Speaker 1: and she's like, no one cares that you're blind.
Speaker 4: You're a you are a complete a hole.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean that's but that's what she says, is.
Speaker 3: That's what people don't like about you.
Speaker 4: Yes, you're jerk, which.
Speaker 2: Is really maybe jerk was the better word. I'm sure
Speaker 2: we'll bleep the one I said. But that's I mean,
Speaker 2: that's what but that's what happened. That's what I love
Speaker 2: about this is they that we don't care that you're blind.
Speaker 1: You're making fun of us constantly for being Hicks, for
Speaker 1: being from cow Town, New York.
Speaker 2: Is the best thing in the world. You came in
Speaker 2: with an attitude and we don't like it, and it
Speaker 2: made him completely changes and I loved that so that
Speaker 2: it was just her like, no, you're just being a jerk.
Speaker 2: Yeah it so yeah. So we we've got that whole
Speaker 2: kind of depth of character again with our lead. And
Speaker 2: there's so many things going on.
Speaker 1: He's blind, he has moved, it's still the typical fish
Speaker 1: out of water store. There's so much going on in
Speaker 1: this movie that they did so well that man, I
Speaker 1: enjoyed every time I watch it.
Speaker 2: Now, quick question for you, who's the better athlete in
Speaker 2: your opinion? Is it Johnny Tsunami? Is it Jace or
Speaker 2: was it Kyle from Luck of the Irish?
Speaker 3: It's Nami. I mean, these questions are just ridiculous that
Speaker 3: you could ask anymore. Okay, I love way more. Well, Okay,
Speaker 3: but are you talking about again the difference of you
Speaker 3: could obviously tell Andy was the one doing all of
Speaker 3: the movement.
Speaker 1: Right right, I think not even Andy Jase though I
Speaker 1: think they show him playing baseball, they show him playing basketball,
Speaker 1: they show him wrestling. I mean as an athlete, he's
Speaker 1: the better athlete, right, You just like snowboarding better?
Speaker 2: Fair, Okay, I.
Speaker 3: Think you're absolutely right with that. That that's fine with me.
Speaker 2: The other thing I loved about this movie is he
Speaker 2: starts he's bad. He's not a good wrestler at the beginning,
Speaker 2: either here fly or it's not like I'm amazing.
Speaker 3: I was ready for him to like go out there
Speaker 3: and like totally kill it right and and blow everyone
Speaker 3: out of the water and the coach to be flabbergasted.
Speaker 3: You know. I was really honestly ready for that, and
Speaker 3: it was like, oh, okay, they're not going that way.
Speaker 2: He kept surprising me. Yes, me too. I loved it.
Speaker 1: And I also loved how it then became Mary Beth
Speaker 1: who comes to him and essentially says, it's like a dance.
Speaker 2: Your balance is wrong. You've got to and they have
Speaker 2: that great scene where she's got the stuffed kind of
Speaker 2: bear going around. You're the dancer, I'm not the dancer.
Speaker 2: Is is the dance stuff they're doing there is it
Speaker 2: Does it translate into wrestling.
Speaker 3: I'm going to go into that during Sabrina ceas.
Speaker 2: Okay good, stay tuned, okay tuned. So it works.
Speaker 1: And meanwhile, it's also heating up their romance, which the
Speaker 1: two of them together are so freaking cute.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do with myself.
Speaker 3: They're so rudeble we've seen there a couple, we've seen.
Speaker 3: What I also love is this is one of the
Speaker 3: first times of these movies where the girl love interest
Speaker 3: does not annoy the hell out of me, and I
Speaker 3: like loved her the whole time normally point and it again,
Speaker 3: nothing to do with the acting of the others. It
Speaker 3: was the storyline and the things they had the girls
Speaker 3: do that were so rude and awful. She has glorious
Speaker 3: moments over and over again throughout this whole movie.
Speaker 2: Amazing, another wonderful character and Uh, you just you are
Speaker 2: rooting for them from the beginning. It's so great.
Speaker 1: So her uh teaching action, he works, he finally wins.
Speaker 1: He's starting to turn things around. The team starting respect him,
Speaker 1: the captain of the wrestling team. UH is starting to
Speaker 1: kind of befriend him a little bit. And this is
Speaker 1: kind of like a drum Line thing. Remember in Drumline
Speaker 1: where they kind.
Speaker 2: Of the the bad guy and the good guy they
Speaker 2: start to get together and work together and become just
Speaker 2: like this powerhouse. Yes, it's the same thing. So it
Speaker 2: turns out that the Captain John is failing Spanish and
Speaker 2: he needs some guessing what.
Speaker 3: Jason He's there to help, which is a and his
Speaker 3: his mindset of where he is in this new place,
Speaker 3: and he offers, that's where tell me you started loving Jason?
Speaker 2: Then I did? I did.
Speaker 1: I loved just seeing the change all the way around
Speaker 1: that was going. We get to see watching him get
Speaker 1: bigger and bigger and bigger. The dislocating of the shoulder scene,
Speaker 1: uh was did you did you.
Speaker 2: Cover your eyes during that?
Speaker 1: I've seen that happen in real life and all I
Speaker 1: could still hear.
Speaker 3: The sound locate their knee. I just recently had one
Speaker 3: last summer. It was the grossest thing I have ever
Speaker 3: went and I had to help her and calm her down,
Speaker 3: where in my mind my brain was itching because I
Speaker 3: wanted to freak out. It is so Also side note,
Speaker 3: as a small kid, my almost used to dislocate. Oh
Speaker 3: and my sisters eight years older than me. All her
Speaker 3: friends loved to grab me by my hands and swing
Speaker 3: me around and pop pop. They would come out and
Speaker 3: my dad had to put them back in.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, okay yeah.
Speaker 3: And then my partner Mark Ballas dislocated his arm while
Speaker 3: we were dancing on Dancing with the Stars right before
Speaker 3: the finale.
Speaker 4: It was it's horrible.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I can't, I can't, I can't, Okay, moving on.
Speaker 2: Moving on.
Speaker 3: I can hear the pops, I can hear. So to
Speaker 3: take a break, I had to take a break. I
Speaker 3: had to get some water.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's oh, I can't, I can't do it. So
Speaker 1: we get to we're building up. He's getting better with
Speaker 1: each match. We finally get to the regional championships where
Speaker 1: so we don't want to ruin a lot of the movie.
Speaker 1: We want people to go back and watch it, obviously,
Speaker 1: but through a series of events, he now has to
Speaker 1: wrestle against the state champion, who's got one of the again,
Speaker 1: one of the greatest Disney bad guy names ever. First
Speaker 1: of all, it's like they cast young Johnny from Karate Kid.
Speaker 1: He looks kind of the same from the same ill
Speaker 1: and his name is t Rex Turner awesome, awesome, and
Speaker 1: is so good again to show you how awesome this
Speaker 1: movie is and how it kept me on my toes
Speaker 1: the entire time. Jace does not have to come out
Speaker 1: and win. You're down by twenty points, you've got to
Speaker 1: pin him.
Speaker 2: It's none of that. He just has to not get
Speaker 2: pinned himself, which made it very real, where it is
Speaker 2: not like this big trope at the end where all
Speaker 2: of a sudden you've got to beat Johnny or t Rex.
Speaker 2: In this case, you just have to survive the match
Speaker 2: against the stage. But it's made it so real. It
Speaker 2: was great.
Speaker 4: But in a sense, I feel like if it were
Speaker 4: just running a circle.
Speaker 2: I don't think you're allowed to do that. I think
Speaker 2: eventually the running in a circle, Sabrina, they're gonna call
Speaker 2: you out for I think I would try. Thought that
Speaker 2: would have been great. You would have run in the
Speaker 2: circle and then dislocated your elbow. Again, I don't think
Speaker 2: either of us know enough about the rules of wrestling,
Speaker 2: but I'm guessing that's not allowed about it because that.
Speaker 3: Would be my first instinct though, just just run, just
Speaker 3: run now running roll roll. We're tuck and roll.
Speaker 2: Tuck and Roll were you in though, did they have
Speaker 2: you with the fire match?
Speaker 3: I was totally thinker the like I said, my favorite
Speaker 3: thing about sports movies is the intensity of whatever sport
Speaker 3: it is when it when the stakes are high, you
Speaker 3: feel it. I felt like again, And you know, I
Speaker 3: always tune into the music of stuff, like scores are
Speaker 3: just so important when it comes to these things. And
Speaker 3: the music was on. It was like nail biting, you know,
Speaker 3: it was. It was amazing.
Speaker 2: I loved it, I'm saying. And so the movie ends. Again,
Speaker 2: we don't like to give too many things away, but
Speaker 2: let's just say it's a good ending.
Speaker 1: Perfect, you know, the the ends with everybody's arm in
Speaker 1: the air. You love Jase, you love the journey he's
Speaker 1: taken the entire way there, you're with him the entire time,
Speaker 1: you're with all of his friends, you're with Fly, you're
Speaker 1: with Mary Best, the coach's parents. It was great character
Speaker 1: after great character, and then it ends with a rap
Speaker 1: song about rest.
Speaker 2: I can't, dude, why don't you take the rap song?
Speaker 4: I think you know, I honestly just can't.
Speaker 3: Just I don't enjoy This is similar to when a
Speaker 3: random band, like when it's random, if it were I
Speaker 3: just didn't feel as if it was cohesive with it,
Speaker 3: even the music that we have been hearing that the
Speaker 3: music started with. I just didn't. I couldn't it the
Speaker 3: same as Luck of the Irish. Where the hell did
Speaker 3: this come from?
Speaker 2: Why? Yeah, some of the lyrics. We've got to the mat,
Speaker 2: we attack and we'll never let up. You'd better get
Speaker 2: up and take one for the team or we'll get
Speaker 2: fed up. It's one for all.
Speaker 1: The sun will shine for us, will run you over
Speaker 1: like a bus and will leave you in the dust.
Speaker 2: And it goes from there. It's it did. It took
Speaker 2: took me out of a look because I was coming
Speaker 2: off of, like again, this Hoosiers kind of amazing end,
Speaker 2: and it ended with this song and it was a
Speaker 2: little oh so.
Speaker 1: Not many things really, not many things in the negative
Speaker 1: category in this movie.
Speaker 2: Literally not many things negative. And this is such a nip,
Speaker 2: but the final song was not.
Speaker 3: I mean I would have had if I didn't, if
Speaker 3: we didn't do what we do with these movies, they
Speaker 3: would have just turned it.
Speaker 2: Off and said, you know what, right, Yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: want to hear it.
Speaker 3: But I was worried something would happen, would.
Speaker 2: Sat for after the credits, just to see what was happening. Nice.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's do some real reviews, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be totally honest.
Speaker 2: It was very difficult to find a bad review for
Speaker 2: this movie.
Speaker 3: I know, I very can imagine.
Speaker 2: Because the movie was great. We could gush about, uh everything,
Speaker 2: the script and all that stuff. We have to touch
Speaker 2: a little bit more on the acting.
Speaker 1: Andy Lawrence was so good in this movie that I
Speaker 1: thought he should have been nominated for something.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you want.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying. I was so disappointed to say that
Speaker 3: when we got it. I'm glad that they got the
Speaker 3: nominations that they did, but me, I feel as if
Speaker 3: he was robbed of not getting nominated in something. I
Speaker 3: think now in twenty twenty four, if a movie this
Speaker 3: good came out from the Channel, it would certainly get recognized.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was not a bad actor in this No
Speaker 1: Tire movie.
Speaker 3: It goes to show you. I don't think the d
Speaker 3: coms get celebrated in the industry as much as they should.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think the.
Speaker 3: Shows the shows, do you know. I don't keep up
Speaker 3: on all the nominations, probably as much as I should,
Speaker 3: but in my opinion, they just don't get what they
Speaker 3: don't they They are these messages, the actors that they
Speaker 3: get to do these movies.
Speaker 4: It's just it's it's it's it's it's sad to me.
Speaker 2: No, but it man, this they were all just so good.
Speaker 2: I mean, Andy just knocked this out of the park.
Speaker 2: It was amazing. But why don't I do the five
Speaker 2: star this time? And you do the one stars? That fair?
Speaker 2: I think I've been doing Yeah, r So here we go.
Speaker 2: So this is a five star is from ce Marella.
Speaker 1: I think that's how I'm think I'm saying that right,
Speaker 1: And it says, wow, this was actually a pretty good movie.
Speaker 1: I thought it just be some stupid movie, and after
Speaker 1: Pixel Perfect, I didn't have a lot of faith in it.
Speaker 1: Oh no, But Andrew Lawrence gives a realistic and praiseworthy performance,
Speaker 1: absolutely drew. Everyone in the cast is good as well,
Speaker 1: including Cleo Thomas, who sadly doesn't get enough screen time.
Speaker 2: Also Drue. But nothing's perfect. I agree with everything that
Speaker 2: was just said there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I yeah, you know, I I think you
Speaker 3: could maybe lay a little easy on Pixel Perfect there.
Speaker 2: But that's okay, Yeah, that was It's kind of aless shot.
Speaker 2: That was kind of a needless shot.
Speaker 3: But yeah, right, but we'll say yes, not needed to say.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, fine, uh the one star. Now,
Speaker 3: I'm just going to prep you. As I get through it,
Speaker 3: you start to see where this frustration comes from. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and you'll you'll you'll hear you do it, you do.
Speaker 3: Sarah says, I just couldn't get myself to like jas Okay,
Speaker 3: he's such an obnoxious character that I felt satisfied whenever
Speaker 3: someone would tell him off for being a jerk.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
Speaker 3: On top of that, here we go. I happened to
Speaker 3: be from Utah, and the movie's portrayal of the state
Speaker 3: is a little rude. No one here would think it's
Speaker 3: funny to bully a blind kid just for being blind,
Speaker 3: but they may get annoyed by repeatedly calling us hicks. Anyway,
Speaker 3: I can see why a lot of people might enjoy this,
Speaker 3: but it wasn't my cup of tea.
Speaker 2: If you're from Utah, that's fair.
Speaker 3: That would upset me, you know. We obviously here in
Speaker 3: Orange County there's a huge stereotype of what happens. Anytime
Speaker 3: anyone wants to bring up they talk about one show
Speaker 3: in particular, Real Housewives of Orange County.
Speaker 2: Oh, I thought it was the OC. Isn't that another one? Yeah?
Speaker 4: That was just a kid's show, My wife's Orange County,
Speaker 4: So I.
Speaker 3: Guess yeah, there are few people like that, okay, but
Speaker 3: we are not all like.
Speaker 2: Exactly No, so that's a fair I think the five
Speaker 2: star review is fought on, and I think if you're
Speaker 2: from Utah, the one star review was pretty fair enough.
Speaker 2: But that leads us to another wonderful thing. We've got
Speaker 2: another name battle, name battle, the name battle. So both
Speaker 2: Jason Fly are obviously great, but we've got to add
Speaker 2: t Rex Turner into the dcom Hall of Fame of names. Yes,
Speaker 2: so now we've got Yeah, I'm throwing these out. What
Speaker 2: do you think is better? Would you? Do you like
Speaker 2: t Rex Turner or Jackal Johnson from from Cheetah Girls.
Speaker 2: And I know you're biased, but you.
Speaker 3: Like Jackal Johnson. I do think it's just it just
Speaker 3: rolls off the tongue fair enough.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree. T Rex Turner or Chad Charming from
Speaker 2: The Rex Turner. Okay, t Rex Turner or O'Riley O'Reilly
Speaker 2: from Luck of the Irish it's like not even trying Irish, Oh,
Speaker 2: Irish guy, It's like, come on, it's so funny.
Speaker 4: I like O'Riley.
Speaker 2: Okay, Oh, this is a tough one for you because
Speaker 2: I know how you feel. T Rex Turner or Johnny
Speaker 2: Tsunami just skip it.
Speaker 3: It's Johnny Tsunami, will or t Rex Turner or the
Speaker 3: legendary mister Fister from you, lucky dog.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say this out loud. Nothing will ever beat
Speaker 2: mister Fister for nothing, hands down. Oh my gosh, am
Speaker 2: like getting hot.
Speaker 3: It's so funny, it's so I cannot believe that one
Speaker 3: got made, made the cut on the Disney Channel. I
Speaker 3: love it.
Speaker 2: Can we do?
Speaker 3: Sabrina sees yes, yes and again as we are talked
Speaker 3: about with finding a bad review. I really couldn't tear
Speaker 3: this movie apart. I know with it.
Speaker 2: It was tough.
Speaker 3: The dance slash Matt session, Yes, this confused me as
Speaker 3: all get out.
Speaker 2: With the Big Dog the Teddy before.
Speaker 3: I kept going, wait, is she so she is gonna
Speaker 3: give so this is dancing? No, no, no, it's not
Speaker 3: this is this is this is wrestling. No, it's dressing
Speaker 3: dancing again. Okay, now there's a dot, okay, and then
Speaker 3: finally was okay this. I was so confused if she
Speaker 3: was actually gonna start dancing, because then I started going
Speaker 3: I start almost positive to go back. Was I not
Speaker 3: paying attention? Is there a dance of some sort that
Speaker 3: he's going to that he wants he's asked her to
Speaker 3: help him with, like is there homecoming coming up? Or
Speaker 3: I honestly that part so I wasn't even looking at
Speaker 3: the the level or.
Speaker 2: The right the skill involved.
Speaker 4: In the actual all of it at all. It just
Speaker 4: completely confused me.
Speaker 3: And then I started laughing at myself, and I was like,
Speaker 3: will is going to.
Speaker 2: Like something.
Speaker 4: Else?
Speaker 3: Yes, I get it, but I was very confused for
Speaker 3: a minute. It was not so I didn't It didn't.
Speaker 3: I felt like the dancing was, you know what, she
Speaker 3: obviously isn't like some kind of dancer trying to do
Speaker 3: that nothing. It just I didn't understand her she was
Speaker 3: actually gonna teach him to dance or wrestle. I cause
Speaker 3: again I know nothing about wrestling, so I didn't know
Speaker 3: that this is a dance on the floor. I didn't
Speaker 3: know that. I didn't get it. Anyway. The next one
Speaker 3: was was soon after that with I just had to
Speaker 3: know his line of as beautiful as her heart. Oh
Speaker 3: what did your wife think about that?
Speaker 2: Oh? She loved it? She was it? Not just amazing, such.
Speaker 3: A great line, Yes.
Speaker 2: Rooting for them all the way.
Speaker 3: And then the next part. And I'd love to find
Speaker 3: out whether or not Wayne Brady, I don't know him
Speaker 3: as a musical person, if he was playing the drums
Speaker 3: that those the jam sessions.
Speaker 2: Oh we're we're so good?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so good, And I just I can't wait to
Speaker 3: find out. Hint, hint, if you.
Speaker 4: Know what that part was like?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you.
Speaker 3: Know, between them, I want to know more about it.
Speaker 1: Those movies definitely, yeah, used music in a great way
Speaker 1: where all of a sudden it's a sports movie, but
Speaker 1: then occasionally there'd be a musical break that worked.
Speaker 3: So then there's that's my last thing on my Sabrina Seas.
Speaker 3: I think I already know the answer, But will did it?
Speaker 3: Did you hate that? Because you don't normally like loved
Speaker 3: it just random music or musical.
Speaker 4: It wasn't musical at all, but you loved it, Okay.
Speaker 2: Used perfectly. I loved it. I'm in. I'm in only
Speaker 2: do music like that from now on.
Speaker 3: Yes, But of course I thought of you. I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm hoping, yep, Will is loving this because I am
Speaker 3: loving it. But I'm also feeling very emotional.
Speaker 2: I loved it. I loved it. I was in I
Speaker 2: loved the music. They had me the entire time. This
Speaker 2: is this is by far my favorite d COM that
Speaker 2: we've watched to this point. So now we have to
Speaker 2: rate it? What do you?
Speaker 1: One out of ten? One hundred and three pound freshman
Speaker 1: Wayne Brady riff offfs, I know, I'm sorry, I know
Speaker 1: the one I want to pick.
Speaker 3: Did you do it? Then?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: I want to do because of the conversation we just
Speaker 1: had with your elbows, with Knews, with everything else.
Speaker 2: I want to do one out of ten. Dislocated shoulders
Speaker 2: so good since they happened quite a bit, and I
Speaker 2: think they do.
Speaker 4: They are very jazz bands.
Speaker 2: Those are good too, but located shoulders go ahead. One
Speaker 2: out of ten.
Speaker 4: I'm going to give it a ten. I'm jumping there.
Speaker 4: I'm jumping there.
Speaker 1: I never thought I would give a d com a ten,
Speaker 1: And even if I said to myself, I was gonna
Speaker 1: wait and nine point five will be the highest I go,
Speaker 1: just in case there's one better down the line.
Speaker 2: But this movie was so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah that I'm still gonna say nine point five.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna hold off on giving no way. I have to,
Speaker 2: I have.
Speaker 3: Will You've got to be kidding me.
Speaker 1: Have to give it a nine point five because I
Speaker 1: don't know if it ten exists.
Speaker 2: There was a couple of tiny little nitpicky things, but
Speaker 2: I mean tiny little nitpicky things. But this movie was
Speaker 2: essentially a ten. But I'm holding off the ten because
Speaker 2: I don't know if anything's actually I'm going for it.
Speaker 2: But this movie was so good, a rightful Yeah, you're
Speaker 2: probably right, You're probably right, You're probably right.
Speaker 3: I'm so in it. I'm I'm gonna watch this again again.
Speaker 1: And it comes down to you. I can't believe that
Speaker 1: we hadn't heard of this because it was just this.
Speaker 1: Seems like this should have transcended a dcom and been
Speaker 1: released in a theater or something like we should have
Speaker 1: heard about this put on ABC, I mean something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was such a good movie.
Speaker 3: That so good. I can't imagine you're doing a second one,
Speaker 3: right though, you know what I mean. There's no I
Speaker 3: didn't see where the storyline really could go.
Speaker 2: No, it was perfectly encaplisulated so perfect.
Speaker 3: I agree, it was so good. I agree, open middle,
Speaker 3: closing ten ten.
Speaker 2: We did it ten across the board.
Speaker 1: And the best acting we have seen so far from
Speaker 1: a cast in a d com by far. And that's
Speaker 1: not saying that the other actors were bad. Any other
Speaker 1: movies are bad. This just took it to a whole
Speaker 1: other level. Every single actor in this movie was great,
Speaker 1: from the lead in Andy to the bullies on the
Speaker 1: wrestling team, the quote unquote bullies on the wrestling team,
Speaker 1: people who had two.
Speaker 2: Or three lines. Everybody, Yes, good in this movie.
Speaker 3: Yes, even the kid who's Andy or Jase took his spot.
Speaker 2: He was great.
Speaker 3: He was a small character, but he had a great moment.
Speaker 3: They gave him a great moment.
Speaker 2: You were It was well written, it was amazingly acted. Please,
Speaker 2: if you have not seen this, go out and watch
Speaker 2: Going to the Mat because it was awesome.
Speaker 1: So thank you all for joining us for what is
Speaker 1: I in our opinion, I will say it's Sabrina, the
Speaker 1: best movie we've seen so far in the dcom world.
Speaker 1: It was wonderful, I will agree.
Speaker 2: And the next movie we have I have not seen
Speaker 2: yet I know nothing about, but I've heard so much
Speaker 2: about so ah. The next movie is the incomparable nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty six Wonderful World of Disney.
Speaker 1: Harry Creature masterpiece, fuzz Bucket. It is on Disney Plus,
Speaker 1: so make sure you watch it before next week.
Speaker 2: But I don't know anything about this movie. Do you
Speaker 2: know anything about this movie?
Speaker 3: Scared of it? I am? I don't know what this
Speaker 3: is gonna be about.
Speaker 2: Kind of can't wait though, Yeah, for sure, but.
Speaker 3: It's funny because I'm kind of nervous.
Speaker 2: Oh, I am too, but I can't.
Speaker 1: We're also coming off of our favorite d com so far,
Speaker 1: so to go from going to the Matt to Fuzzbucket,
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is gonna be a side
Speaker 1: step or we are going to be going way backwards,
Speaker 1: or if it's my first full ten I might be like,
Speaker 1: fuzz Bucket's the best movie I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 3: If you say fuzzbuck is the best movie I But
Speaker 3: we don't gotta be something that that happens. If this
Speaker 3: knocks us off of our feet, it's I I love it,
Speaker 3: But everyone that has told us about it really likes it.
Speaker 1: Yes, so we're gonna have to check it out. And
Speaker 1: so are you again, Fuzzbucket. It is on Disney Plus,
Speaker 1: so go check it out before we're not next week,
Speaker 1: and remember to subscribe to our feed and you can
Speaker 1: always follow us at Magical rewind Pod on the Instagram Machine.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us and we'll see
Speaker 2: you next time.
Speaker 4: Bye bye