Speaker 1: Sabrina, Were you ever a bad enough kid to where
Speaker 1: you were threatened to be put in military school?
Speaker 2: I could actually say, no, oh that's good. Is that
Speaker 2: shock you?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: No, I could see you being a good kid. I
Speaker 1: could see you being a good kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there wasn't a military school. There were some kids
Speaker 2: that would their families would take them up to Utah.
Speaker 2: There was like a big thing that they go to Utah,
Speaker 2: like of like a place in Utah they would go,
Speaker 2: But there was very close within our district, like a
Speaker 2: continuation school. And that wasn't that wasn't something that was
Speaker 2: decided on by you as like a parent or by
Speaker 2: your parents. It was like the school like if you
Speaker 2: failed out of a certain amount of.
Speaker 3: Classes, okay, it's like extra.
Speaker 2: School, truancy's tardiness like all that, like, like it was
Speaker 2: like a behavioral thing. But also I had to do
Speaker 2: a school. They would go to the continuation school that
Speaker 2: was in our area. And I remember that being something
Speaker 2: that like I was terrified to go. If I didn't
Speaker 2: get good grades, that's where I was going.
Speaker 1: I was like the boogeyman is like, if you don't
Speaker 1: get good grades, you're going to continuation school.
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding, because it was like and there was
Speaker 2: you know, there was behavior problems there as well, and
Speaker 2: so it was like, you know, I was like.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't survive.
Speaker 2: The girls there, the guys there, they're all so much
Speaker 2: like tougher, and you know, that's just not where I'm from.
Speaker 1: That's why, the same reason I never break the law
Speaker 1: because I knew, I know, I wouldn't last a day
Speaker 1: in prison.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I wouldn't do it. Yep.
Speaker 1: So well, okay, well I guess the reason we're talking
Speaker 1: about this I think everybody knows by now.
Speaker 3: First of all, welcome back to Magical.
Speaker 1: Rewind, the show that makes you want to grab your riends,
Speaker 1: your pjs, and your popcorn and go back to a
Speaker 1: time when all the houses are smart, the waves tsunamis,
Speaker 1: and Sabrina was not in continuation school.
Speaker 3: I'm Wilford Dell.
Speaker 2: And I'm Sabrina.
Speaker 3: Brian ten hunt A's front Maggots.
Speaker 1: The barracks better be spotless at oh five hundred hours,
Speaker 1: because we're falling in line. It's time to recap two
Speaker 1: thousand and two's military coming of age comedy Cadet Kelly.
Speaker 3: This is a fan favorite.
Speaker 1: This one was released March eighth, two thousand and two,
Speaker 1: and premier to a whopping seven point eight million viewers,
Speaker 1: mostly because it was the first movie to ever get
Speaker 1: the ABC treatment in the Wonderful World of Disney series,
Speaker 1: which pisses me off and makes no sense to me,
Speaker 1: because why can I watch this one but I can't
Speaker 1: watch My Date with the President's Daughter h double hockey stick.
Speaker 1: So maybe because it was also.
Speaker 3: A Disney Channel movie. Yeah, they the Wonderful disneyed I.
Speaker 2: Don't, okay, So you got to explain that a little
Speaker 2: bit more. It was, so it premiered on the Disney
Speaker 2: Channel or premiere I think it was.
Speaker 1: I think it was did both, frankly, I think it was,
Speaker 1: and it got the ABC Wonderful World of Disney treatment
Speaker 1: on a Saturday or Sunday night. But then I think
Speaker 1: was almost was also simultaneously a dcom which ours was
Speaker 1: not ours. Was just a Wonderful World a Disney movie,
Speaker 1: which is why I think you can watch Cadet Kelly
Speaker 1: and you can't watch anything else, much to my mother's chagrin.
Speaker 4: Yes, but the.
Speaker 1: Wonderf World of Disney series, that's obviously a big milestone
Speaker 1: and a successful debut by all accounts, no shock for anybody.
Speaker 3: This was filmed in Kenyata.
Speaker 1: Yes this was Kenyati and that's Canada for all the
Speaker 1: people up there in Canada by the way, but this
Speaker 1: marked the second one ever that was produced to our
Speaker 1: north and it was made specifically at two places. The
Speaker 1: most prominent was Robert Land Academy, which is a private
Speaker 1: military style boot camp in West Lincoln that closed last year.
Speaker 1: So over the years it had a share of controversies,
Speaker 1: but in December twenty twenty four everything came to a
Speaker 1: head when the school faced over fifty lawsuits for alleged
Speaker 1: physical and sexual abuse, only to rise to one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty accusations by the end of the year. So
Speaker 1: it seems maybe Cadet Kelly was a rare bright spot
Speaker 1: for this location and thankfully forced them to close.
Speaker 3: The other notable.
Speaker 1: Location was Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary School, Oh that's mouthful
Speaker 1: in Ontario. Founded in eighteen forty seven, The all girls
Speaker 1: school is highly regarded for his history and academics.
Speaker 3: And that one is still open.
Speaker 1: But to avoid stolen valor the actors in this movie,
Speaker 1: he worked with a military advisor named Lieutenant William T.
Speaker 3: Bates.
Speaker 1: He ruled with an iron fist apparently, and drill them
Speaker 1: in boot camp style situations, often having them rehearse complicated
Speaker 1: rifle drill routines. Pretty serious, and I think, frankly the
Speaker 1: authenticity worked watching the movie and since it's released, this
Speaker 1: movie has gained a large queer following based on the
Speaker 1: relationship between the two female main characters in the movie,
Speaker 1: a fact I don't get because I didn't see any
Speaker 1: chemistry between anyone in this film at all. And the
Speaker 1: fact that the supposed love interest storyline is absolutely never
Speaker 1: taken seriously.
Speaker 3: It wasn't even a love interest. It made no sense.
Speaker 3: We'll get into that.
Speaker 1: Keep that in mind when the Rainbow Blanket comes into
Speaker 1: play as well, though, because that's also an important thing.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you're gonna watch or listen to
Speaker 1: Magical Rewind today thinking hey, Will's gonna love kidek Kelly,
Speaker 1: turn it off now. I can tell you I didn't
Speaker 1: hate Candet Kelly, but I certainly didn't love.
Speaker 5: It this dcon in today we fight weekend, fight all
Speaker 5: day long.
Speaker 1: How about we fight about stuff that makes no sense
Speaker 1: and just throw it in the movie and then that's
Speaker 1: the movie. This dcom has had some legs over the years,
Speaker 1: mostly thanks to its recognizable Y two K friendly cast,
Speaker 1: and it drips of nostalgia, notably in the film's tagline.
Speaker 3: Too cool for rules, But as I.
Speaker 1: Said, it is not too cool to stream. Cadet Kelly
Speaker 1: is available right now in Disney Plus. You can check
Speaker 1: it out before or after our recap. We've heard both
Speaker 1: experiences are pretty enjoyable. It's a little like sitting in
Speaker 1: front or sitting in back of the roller coaster. The
Speaker 1: ri is going to be funn either way. It just
Speaker 1: depends on what you can handle and where you want
Speaker 1: the vomit to land.
Speaker 3: So just buckle up and hold on tight. You did
Speaker 3: you you knew about some I mean, this is one
Speaker 3: that even I knew about.
Speaker 2: So I was waiting for this one. This one was
Speaker 2: one that I loved. And I was at this point
Speaker 2: a senior year in high school when this one came out,
Speaker 2: and I again, you know, I was a Disney kid.
Speaker 2: I loved it. Didn't care that I was still watching
Speaker 2: Disney Channel original movies and doing all the things while
Speaker 2: I was in high school.
Speaker 3: I didn't care.
Speaker 6: But I for me too.
Speaker 2: A part of it was. I really loved watching you know,
Speaker 2: Christy Carls from Romano was one of my favorites to watch.
Speaker 2: I just thought like her comedic timing and everything was
Speaker 2: so awesome. Hillary Duff was the golden girl of the
Speaker 2: Channel at that time, so it was just like, you know,
Speaker 2: I that was to me looking at like, okay, not
Speaker 2: you know, somewhat studying them right, like, this is what
Speaker 2: you've got to be, this is what you gotta look like,
Speaker 2: how you how you implement characters, whatever, And Christy just
Speaker 2: freaking nails this out of the park. Watch her do
Speaker 2: this character all day and I almost felt like it
Speaker 2: was hilarious. When I was watching her on Armed Forces,
Speaker 2: she could tell Kelly I just had so many flashbacks,
Speaker 2: but she killed it. This movie was her to bottom one.
Speaker 3: Hundred percent agree with you.
Speaker 1: I'd obviously heard of this movie because I have Christy's
Speaker 1: a friend, I'd worked with her. We've talked about it.
Speaker 1: So everybody needs to hide their favorite blanket from home,
Speaker 1: because it's time for the synopsis. A fashion obsessed teen
Speaker 1: is forced to attend a strict military academy, where her
Speaker 1: free spirited attitude clashes with rigid discipline. But as she
Speaker 1: struggles to fit in, she finds confidence, friendship, and a
Speaker 1: new sense of purpose.
Speaker 3: So you liked it, this is early thoughts you did.
Speaker 6: Yes, it was an easy watch for me.
Speaker 2: It was I think, honestly, I'm one of those fans
Speaker 2: out there that listens to our podcast and I don't
Speaker 2: care about the flaws of this movie. It's I know,
Speaker 2: And it's not that I don't see them. It's not
Speaker 2: that I.
Speaker 3: Don't I just don't care.
Speaker 2: I just don't care. I literally just this body was
Speaker 2: And of course, even like watching the movement, I cringed
Speaker 2: at watching some of the movement. I know you're gonna
Speaker 2: ask me that later. We'll get into it later. But
Speaker 2: even that still I did back then, and I still
Speaker 2: just didn't care.
Speaker 6: Like I loved them as a duo.
Speaker 2: They were on the two biggest shows of the channel
Speaker 2: at that time. To see them together, I was like
Speaker 2: in all in And I was again watching it this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Christy was great. She was Christy was great.
Speaker 1: And Gary Cole you can never go wrong with Gary
Speaker 1: Coley's one of my favorite actors ever.
Speaker 3: He's awesome in this role.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I meant there was a lot of very
Speaker 1: the woman who played the mom will get into that.
Speaker 1: A lot of the cast very good. Some of the
Speaker 1: story no sense at all, Yes.
Speaker 2: But that I didn't remember.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Condet Kelly was directed by Larry Shaw.
Speaker 1: He is a veteran TV director with credits on twenty one,
Speaker 1: Jump Street, Great Show, Park Lewis, Can't Lose, Another great show,
Speaker 1: and an important TV show for this movie, Disney Channel's
Speaker 1: Lizzie McGuire. He was also an executive producer and director
Speaker 1: of the smash hit Desperate Housewives and the movie Stars
Speaker 1: a Disney Channel homegrown superstar Hillary Duff. She plays Cadet Kelly,
Speaker 1: and her big break was the show Lizzie MacGuire, a
Speaker 1: juggernaut for the student that would eventually become its own dcom,
Speaker 1: a movie we already recappedh I was like, oh, so
Speaker 1: the whole show is about her being a pop star,
Speaker 1: and You're like, Nope, never sang a note before the movie.
Speaker 3: Okay, great, Like all good Disney kids.
Speaker 1: She was also a pop star, releasing four albums between
Speaker 1: two thousand and two and two thousand and seven. While
Speaker 1: starring in movies like Agent Cody Banks, Cheaper by the Dozen,
Speaker 1: and The Cinderella Story. She most recently was on the
Speaker 1: TV show Younger and the failed spin off How I
Speaker 1: Met Your Father. But she is back in the spotlight
Speaker 1: right now for her new pop album Luck or Something,
Speaker 1: an unexpected return to singing alongside her husband, producer Matthew Koma. Also,
Speaker 1: Hillary is apparently part of a toxic mom group, but
Speaker 1: then again, who cares Hilariously Online it says that Duff
Speaker 1: was made an honorary Cadet by the Academy after filming
Speaker 1: Okay Cool and then We've Got My pal and former
Speaker 1: Magical Rewind guest Christy Carlson Romano as Jennifer. At the time,
Speaker 1: Christy was a Disney Channel star on the show Even Stevens,
Speaker 1: another sitcom that morphed into a d com.
Speaker 3: She also voiced.
Speaker 1: Kim Possible Kim on Disney alongside myself and some other people.
Speaker 1: I guess Christy is returning to a Disney adjacent project
Speaker 1: in production right now. It is the first ever Hallmark
Speaker 1: Disney collaboration holiday ever after a Disney wish come true,
Speaker 1: and it's nice to know that I was snubbed by
Speaker 1: both Disney and Hallmark at the same time. It is
Speaker 1: currently filming at the Park in Florida and starring Lacey
Speaker 1: Shaver and this will be fun and we have already
Speaker 1: committed to recapping it.
Speaker 2: Oh for sure.
Speaker 3: Definitely.
Speaker 1: Linda Cash plays Samantha, that's Kelly's mom. We know her
Speaker 1: from the dcom Full Court Miracle, a movie we recapped.
Speaker 1: Cash is also part of Christopher Guests Acting Company, appearing
Speaker 1: in Best in Show and Waiting for Gufman.
Speaker 3: She's awesome.
Speaker 1: Canadian local Andrea Lewis plays Carls. This is her first
Speaker 1: Disney dcom. She's most recognizable for her time on the
Speaker 1: TV series Degrassi The Next Generation, which I think is
Speaker 1: the only show they actually make in Canada. Every Canadian
Speaker 1: has been on some version of Degrassi.
Speaker 3: And then Amy Garcia is Sargeant Gloria.
Speaker 1: She's been on a lot of TV shows, including George
Speaker 1: Lopezant Dexter, but is known as the star of Lucifer
Speaker 1: And though I don't think we can officially put him
Speaker 1: in the Dabney Reynolds chair, but I think we can.
Speaker 1: We have Garry Cole credited as Sir Cole is a
Speaker 1: premier character actor, best known as the smug boss Bill
Speaker 1: Lumberg in the cult hit off The Space Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: not gonna work for me and Mike Brady in the
Speaker 1: hilariously Brady movies of the nineties, which were so much
Speaker 1: better than they had any right to be. But you've
Speaker 1: also seen him in Talladagon Knights. Okay, just listen to this.
Speaker 1: Leave him in like crazy awesome and this isn't the
Speaker 1: whole This is just some I'm sure Talladaga Knights, Dodgeball,
Speaker 1: Veep Entourage, Pineapple Express, and win a date with Tad
Speaker 1: Hamilton if that's not enough. He's also a prominent voice
Speaker 1: actor and another star of Kim Bossible. He voiced doctor
Speaker 1: James Timothy Possible, but could also be heard on Family Guy, Bob's, Burger's,
Speaker 1: Scooby Doo, and the movie Hop, just to name a few.
Speaker 1: Everybody loves Gary Cole, and for good reason. He is
Speaker 1: a legend, and he's awesome in this as well.
Speaker 3: Never been.
Speaker 1: He's one of those actors where you've never been like,
Speaker 1: you know, who wasn't good in this movie?
Speaker 3: Gary Cole. That's never been said in the history of
Speaker 3: the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for real, every character he takes on is so
Speaker 2: he kills it.
Speaker 3: He kills it every time.
Speaker 6: Believable, like that He's been that person his whole money.
Speaker 3: Can be funny with it, he can be really mean
Speaker 3: with it. He can He's just awesome.
Speaker 1: And another familiar face, Sean Ashmore, is the honky love
Speaker 1: interest Brad, who was there for no reason whatsoever other
Speaker 1: than the people say, hey, there he got guys hunky,
Speaker 1: apparently because he had no storyline with anybody.
Speaker 3: Another good supposed factor be found online.
Speaker 1: It says that Ashmore spent three months at a military
Speaker 1: school and taking voice lessons to study for the role.
Speaker 3: Who knows if that's true, but let's pretend it is.
Speaker 1: Ashmore is best known as Bobby Drake aka Iceman and
Speaker 1: the X Man movies of the two thousands, but first
Speaker 1: broke out of the cult kids TV show Anamorphs.
Speaker 3: I think is what it's called. Do you know Anamorphs Sabrina?
Speaker 3: I have no idea.
Speaker 6: That does not seem like it would be in my wheelhouse.
Speaker 1: It's not either, but here was. So this was the
Speaker 1: synopsis of Anamorphs.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: Five teenagers and an alien with the ability to turn
Speaker 1: into any beast they touch, versus an army of parasitic
Speaker 1: aliens who are slowly infult try Earth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would definitely not.
Speaker 1: With dancing and singing. So now it's perfect for you.
Speaker 1: I guess it was a book series Lisa's okay. Yeah uh.
Speaker 1: Sean has been in a ton of movies and TV
Speaker 1: shows and can currently be seen on the ABC hit
Speaker 1: show The Rookie. Now, with all that out of the way,
Speaker 1: let's get down to brass tacks. How long is Cadet Kelly?
Speaker 1: Because you know that's all that matters. If you've listened
Speaker 1: to the show before.
Speaker 3: We're hoping for less than ninety minutes, or ninety minutes
Speaker 3: at the most. No more, no less.
Speaker 1: Cadet Kelly is one hundred and one minutes long. Come ony,
Speaker 1: way too long. The army demands precision. It's eleven over
Speaker 1: and you never like to see three digits and add
Speaker 1: that extra one at the end. Yuck. Terrible decision by
Speaker 1: everyone involved. There's no way of sugarcoating it. I wish
Speaker 1: I had a way.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: It's proud.
Speaker 3: Yeah, too long now, it's just it's not crap. It's
Speaker 3: just too long.
Speaker 1: And when it comes to it, by the way, again
Speaker 1: reiterating didn't hate this movie, but didn't love this movie.
Speaker 3: Everyone else is like kiddet Kelly, isn't the I love
Speaker 3: some of the performances.
Speaker 1: And when it comes to writers, we've got Gail Parent,
Speaker 1: a season TV writer who cut her teeth on some
Speaker 1: classics like Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, The Carol Burnett Show,
Speaker 1: and Golden Girls Three Juggernauts. But she's also a two
Speaker 1: time Emmy winner for the Tracy Olman led TV show
Speaker 1: Tracy takes On. But not a lot of movies On
Speaker 1: parents IMDb page, we've got The Main Events starring barbar
Speaker 1: streisand and Ryan O'Neil, Disney's Confessions of a Teenage Drama,
Speaker 1: Queen starring Lizzie Lohan, and this movie, And as is
Speaker 1: a common occurrence with d COM's To See, we shared
Speaker 1: a credit with a relative newcomer, and Cadet Kelly, of course,
Speaker 1: is no different.
Speaker 3: We've got Michael Walsh.
Speaker 1: His only credits are an episode of American Masters and
Speaker 1: Cadet Kelly and the narration parts for the nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: nine video version of the musical Joseph and The Amazing
Speaker 1: Technicolor Dream Coade. The journalist slash author was mostly politically focused,
Speaker 1: writing for the San Francisco Examiner, the New York Times,
Speaker 1: Vanity Fair and many others. And now it's time for
Speaker 1: a st I'm at an obstacle course where recapping candet Kelly,
Speaker 1: we start off in the busy streets of New York City,
Speaker 1: landing in the New York Middle School of Arts, and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh wow, they're all twenty in middle school.
Speaker 1: Students are all over the quad. So did you think
Speaker 1: they look middle school age? Do you think that she
Speaker 1: looks middle school age?
Speaker 3: No? These are fairly high schoolers.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but young, young freshman, sophomore.
Speaker 3: But this is not a seventh grader. No, it's not. Okay.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: Students are all over the quad, some painting, some playing
Speaker 1: the bongos. Other ribbon dancing, which is our main character,
Speaker 1: is doing right now, and Kelly is happily participating.
Speaker 3: Have you ever ribbon danced.
Speaker 2: Like officially or like by myself?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, first of all, give me a second
Speaker 1: to picture you ribbon dancing alone in your home?
Speaker 3: Yes, I love well?
Speaker 2: No, okay, so officially no, oh no, no one.
Speaker 3: I was never taught, but you taught ribbon dancer.
Speaker 2: I am a self taught Olympic ribbon ym night, and
Speaker 2: I will tell you that's one of the first things.
Speaker 2: I don't remember it because I wasn't really super young
Speaker 2: when I started dancing. I was like seven, versus Miniro
Speaker 2: started at two. Her first class, they put that little
Speaker 2: stick with the ribbon on the end of it, put
Speaker 2: put on Frozen.
Speaker 6: Homegirl was in her element.
Speaker 3: Actually which frozen? Did they put on? Let It Go?
Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, and just I mean you could when the
Speaker 2: song ended, she was like devastated.
Speaker 3: I'm devastated every time that song ends. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: But yeah, no, ribbon dancing, like what they were doing
Speaker 2: in that quad was what I think a lot of
Speaker 2: girls have done, like in their home and whatever. Actual
Speaker 2: ribbon dancing looks very hard, learning the skill of it
Speaker 2: versus just flipping it around and doing a cartwell and
Speaker 2: pulling your leg up and trying.
Speaker 3: To very strange. But you were good at it, I'm sure.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Olympic I was of gold medal every time.
Speaker 1: Of course, every time, Kelly It turns out as our narrator,
Speaker 1: and she tells us that some stories just need to
Speaker 1: be told.
Speaker 3: She just didn't know that meant her memoir. As they
Speaker 3: finished their ribbon routine, Kelly's best friend Amanda announces the
Speaker 3: routine's name Dance of Family.
Speaker 1: Their teacher loves it now because of course they're not
Speaker 1: actually teaching anything in the school, it seems like. And
Speaker 1: ask Kelly how her personal family project is going. She's
Speaker 1: making a video documentary called La Familia and very excited
Speaker 1: with its direction. And that's when she spots her vest
Speaker 1: wearing dad. He's walking by with a cameraon hand, snapping
Speaker 1: a shot, and then mid filming, he just falls off
Speaker 1: of a wall. I was like, Oh, he's going to
Speaker 1: be a clumsy guy. Okay, cool, love it, love clumsy.
Speaker 2: Clumsy's funny.
Speaker 3: Well again, I was just like, all right, no, it's
Speaker 3: Disney I get it. Clumsy's funny.
Speaker 2: And instantly this first scene instantly draws you into this
Speaker 2: is a Disney chair original movie.
Speaker 6: This is a world for young for young kids.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: And that's where we're going, and starts from absolutely it's funky.
Speaker 2: Her hair from the start. Okay, she's not an average kid.
Speaker 2: She's a kid that wears blue hair. Like it's like
Speaker 2: that had blue hair. I didn't even notice that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. She does.
Speaker 2: Through the whole time she's in New York. She has
Speaker 2: like colored like pieces in her hair.
Speaker 3: I did not know that.
Speaker 1: Now, after school, Kelly has turned the tables and is
Speaker 1: filming her dad, an international photojournalist, about to leave on
Speaker 1: a long work trip. He's also going to like three
Speaker 1: of the most dangerous places in the world. He's like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to the Sudan and Chad and he's naming
Speaker 1: like all these places that weren't safe at the time.
Speaker 1: They keep in touch during his adventures through a dedicated
Speaker 1: cell phone. She explains that her parents are divorced and
Speaker 1: sometimes that's lonely for her dad, but she's helping him
Speaker 1: still have a terrific time. The father daughter duo stopped
Speaker 1: for a dirty water hot dog, which is still the
Speaker 1: best part of New York, and she successfully hails a
Speaker 1: trio of taxis after her dad was unsuccessful.
Speaker 3: And I didn't understand this.
Speaker 1: Are we supposed to think that she's a hot middle schooler,
Speaker 1: which is why the three taxis screamed to a halt.
Speaker 2: No, it's like he's not able to call a taxi,
Speaker 2: but she can't. She's like the like obvious, like great
Speaker 2: New Yorker that can okay hail a taxi, which by
Speaker 2: the way, is like a real thing. I go to
Speaker 2: New York with Keehley and she just like instantly gets
Speaker 2: a taxi. It takes me twenty minutes. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: oh no, sorry, sorry, I didn't know you were still busy.
Speaker 2: Oh so sorry, oh oh oh ah, let's just walk
Speaker 2: and Keeley's like, no, let's get a taxi.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, that that creeped me out. Okay, good, I'm
Speaker 1: glad it's not that.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, it was like she's she's the one that's
Speaker 2: like responsible, she can get stuff done.
Speaker 1: Great, loves by that all day, thank god. Now, in
Speaker 1: a penthouse home office, Kelly films her mom talking to
Speaker 1: somebody about a twelve hundred page contract. It looks like
Speaker 1: her parents still get along, which is nice, and apparently
Speaker 1: filming is the most dangerous activity in the world because
Speaker 1: Kelly accidentally then bumps into a fish bowl, crashing it
Speaker 1: to the floor. And this is where like, okay, so
Speaker 1: they're setting the dad up as a bumbling goof and
Speaker 1: she has some of his bumbling qualities, which obviously are
Speaker 1: going to transfer, you know, transfer with her into the
Speaker 1: the military academy. Spoiler art, they don't at all, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, perfectly coordinated after so they built this whole.
Speaker 3: Thing up like, Oh, she's bumbling, She's in yep, Nope,
Speaker 3: never comes back again.
Speaker 1: After letting the audience know all the fish have survived,
Speaker 1: Kelly's mom suggests she slows down a little, but Kelly's
Speaker 1: dad explains, you must feel art. You can tell these
Speaker 1: two opposite ways of thinking are probably what broke up
Speaker 1: the marriage.
Speaker 3: But then the doorbell rings. It's her mom's boyfriend.
Speaker 1: We hear some sexy music and she pulls him into
Speaker 1: the apartment and starts making out with him with her
Speaker 1: child the next husband behind her, which I thought was
Speaker 1: very odd. Kelly films the action, which makes it even odder,
Speaker 1: revealing that this is the first man she's been with
Speaker 1: since the divorce. And again, video cameras are somehow dangerous
Speaker 1: as guns, because Kelly then pokes him in the nose
Speaker 1: with the lens and he starts bleeding all over the place.
Speaker 1: Yeah again, remember how bumbling she is, because it's never
Speaker 1: gonna come back again. Later, at dinner with the date
Speaker 1: all bandes up, Kelly continues to say whatever she's thinking,
Speaker 1: announcing that she thinks her mom is in love. It
Speaker 1: creates an awkward moment, but tonight is actually a celebration.
Speaker 1: Her mom and this man have an announcement they're getting
Speaker 1: married this summer. Kelly looks rattled, but recovers and eventually
Speaker 1: gives her blessing. She knows he's a great guy and
Speaker 1: he obviously loves her mom, but she doesn't know what
Speaker 1: to call him. He suggests either his name Joe or
Speaker 1: maybe sir. She decides to go with sir and suggests
Speaker 1: he loosens up a little if he's going to be
Speaker 1: a part of their family.
Speaker 3: This is where.
Speaker 5: She was just starting to annoy me. Yeah, the character's
Speaker 5: just kind of annoying. I think she was supposed to
Speaker 5: be throughout the whole movie.
Speaker 2: I mean, like, uh, she gets.
Speaker 3: Better the last five to seven minutes.
Speaker 2: Yes, it gets better, But I think that was like
Speaker 2: she's like a she she just talks and says whatever
Speaker 2: she thinks. She's like annoying. She's like a real freshman
Speaker 2: in high school the eighth grade, who like kind of
Speaker 2: just says whatever they that comes to their head. I
Speaker 2: will say in anything. When I was watching it, I
Speaker 2: was going, Wow, she's actually kind of a cool kid,
Speaker 2: because it's like you usually see in these movies moms
Speaker 2: getting married. Oh, I hate him.
Speaker 3: She's very supportive.
Speaker 2: So she's so supportive in that sense, very supportive, And
Speaker 2: it's when I started to remember and watched it again.
Speaker 2: The storyline of talking about a mixed family is what
Speaker 2: I started to really like love about this movie and
Speaker 2: all the way through the end of showing that two
Speaker 2: families can combine, it can be loving, it can be
Speaker 2: still a great sense of support. They can you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like, you know the great things about
Speaker 2: having a mixed family. So that's where I started going,
Speaker 2: She's cool, Like we don't we rarely see kids characters reacting.
Speaker 1: To a reism very much a role with it kind
Speaker 1: of person which which is?
Speaker 3: Which is which?
Speaker 1: That part I agree with you one hundred percent because
Speaker 1: you know spoiler we talk about it later. But when
Speaker 1: her mom then says I'm pregnant, she's like really supportive
Speaker 1: of it, yes, and trying to be supportive with sir
Speaker 1: and no, I get all that.
Speaker 2: No Christmas in this kid's body, no selfishness.
Speaker 6: Like that part is the part of the character that
Speaker 6: I really like.
Speaker 2: But I do think that like she is playing this
Speaker 2: very young too, very young, and the script is allowing
Speaker 2: it to be played very young.
Speaker 3: Which I would have had her play her age a
Speaker 3: little more.
Speaker 2: Yes, and that part of the annoy of the young
Speaker 2: part is that annoying younger kid that doesn't know when
Speaker 2: when to talk and when.
Speaker 3: To like, she nailed it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, at bedtime, Kelly's mom explains to her daughter that
Speaker 1: the marriage will beneficial for both of them, and she
Speaker 1: reiterates she loves Sir. But once left alone, it's obvious
Speaker 1: that Kelly is affected, as any kid would be. It's
Speaker 1: another day in the busy streets in New York, now,
Speaker 1: just a day away from the wedding, which I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: that's quick. Kelly's mom and Sir have picked up the
Speaker 1: dress after a big day of shopping, and Sir is
Speaker 1: in his military uniform. This is where we learn he's
Speaker 1: a retired general. Sir puts his soon to be wife
Speaker 1: in a taxi and tells her not to forget the
Speaker 1: plan for tomorrow. She admits she hasn't told Kelly yet,
Speaker 1: but she will today and has promised. While the mother
Speaker 1: and daughter are trying on makeup, she reveals that Sir
Speaker 1: has a new job, one he's always wanted. But and
Speaker 1: here's the bad part, they'll have to move upstate. She's
Speaker 1: gonna quit her job and become a homemaker. Kelly can't
Speaker 1: believe what she's hearing, and honestly, her mom doesn't seem
Speaker 1: totally confident either. How can they move and she's moving schools?
Speaker 1: This is obviously a lot to take in. Sir Will
Speaker 1: be the principle of a new school, but he's even
Speaker 1: more than a principal. He's a commandant because it's a
Speaker 1: military school, and man, that's a big change, you know,
Speaker 1: like with uniforms where they march together. Kelly's having a
Speaker 1: panic attack right in the middle of Manhattan, rightfully, so
Speaker 1: she swears she isn't going and suggests they go alone,
Speaker 1: or she moves in with Amanda, but her mom explains
Speaker 1: families don't.
Speaker 3: Leave anyone behind.
Speaker 1: Now, back at home, Kelly tells her friend a man,
Speaker 1: of the bad news. She's adamant. She's gonna hate it
Speaker 1: because as an art student, she can't even imagine sitting
Speaker 1: at desks. The school she's in doesn't have a single desk,
Speaker 1: which is weird.
Speaker 2: School that she's at.
Speaker 1: Is just God's Yeah, I agreed, this is the yeah,
Speaker 1: this is oh, this is a great idea. Military school
Speaker 1: is perfect they're both so disgusted that this is the
Speaker 1: exchange they give right here, no, yes, out of context,
Speaker 1: that sounds really creepy. And as Kelly packs her luggage,
Speaker 1: she makes it clear she is not going, and then
Speaker 1: we get an optical flip our favorite. We're at George
Speaker 1: Washington Military Academy, established in eighteen eighty two, and she
Speaker 1: definitely went.
Speaker 3: She had to go.
Speaker 1: Soldiers are everywhere, rifles are being twirled, and one high
Speaker 1: ranking officials even yelling at some students. And you could
Speaker 1: tell right as they're painting through everybody that this was
Speaker 1: an actual military school. You can tell these are some
Speaker 1: students that knew the rifles, knew what they were doing.
Speaker 3: This is clearly shot at a place. It was great. Yeah,
Speaker 3: very loved. Yeah, the great background, you tell what was
Speaker 3: going on.
Speaker 1: Really, it wasn't like, oh, we're just gonna pick a
Speaker 1: random high school and put some extras in.
Speaker 2: The gun in somewhere.
Speaker 3: It's like, no, they did.
Speaker 1: That several times in this movie where it was like, wow,
Speaker 1: these this is good. So yeah, the soldiers are everwhere,
Speaker 1: rifles are being twirled, and one high rank officials even
Speaker 1: yelling at some students. Kelly arrives dressed like if Madonna
Speaker 1: and Rainbow Bride had had a baby. She lugs around
Speaker 1: a huge piece of luggage and wonders where she can
Speaker 1: get a Cafe mocha. And at first I thought this
Speaker 1: was a mistake because we hadn't had her voice over.
Speaker 3: In a while. So all of a sudden, she's standing.
Speaker 1: There and she's like, where can I get a Cafe Mocha?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, her lips didn't move.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I did the same thing. I thought the
Speaker 2: same thing. I also, this is when it clicked. This
Speaker 2: character's not far off from Lizzie McGuire. And when they're
Speaker 2: doing the voiceover even more, it's because she had that cartoon, remember,
Speaker 2: and that in this in the movie. Yeah, in the
Speaker 2: movie too, but in the show. Yeah, that was her
Speaker 2: like thought process was the cartoon and when her voiceover
Speaker 2: and I'm like, this voiceover is really it's starting to
Speaker 2: bug me because it made me it reminded me too
Speaker 2: much of Lizzie McGuire.
Speaker 1: I've heard that actually one of our producers as well,
Speaker 1: that it was this was essentially just her character from
Speaker 1: Lizzy McGuire in a military uniform like this could have
Speaker 1: been Lizzie McGuire presents cadet Kelly, but I've never seen
Speaker 1: anything but where she was playing the Italian girl too,
Speaker 1: with the American accent that.
Speaker 2: We can't we cannot go back there.
Speaker 3: You can't move it's we must move forward. We must
Speaker 3: move forward. Yes.
Speaker 1: She sticks out like a sore thumb and catches the
Speaker 1: attention of another girl who looks very proper and feels important.
Speaker 1: Kelly eventually spots her stepdad, who's clearly a very big
Speaker 1: deal at the school. She then arrives at the barracks
Speaker 1: and it immediately greeted with strange looks and whispers from
Speaker 1: fellow students.
Speaker 3: She takes a seat in her bed and meets.
Speaker 1: Carla, who promises she'll end up liking the school even
Speaker 1: if they have Captain Stone as a squad leader. Again, apparently,
Speaker 1: Captain Stone has killed seven campers already and three more
Speaker 1: are expected to die. I'm kidding the box and exactly
Speaker 1: they just disappear. Apparently Captain Stone is the meanest sixteen
Speaker 1: year old in America, and like some dude named Brad,
Speaker 1: the best looking guy round. Kelly unpacks her personal rainbow
Speaker 1: blanket and Carla warns her that everything, absolutely, everything has
Speaker 1: to be by the book, but Kelly insists she's keeping
Speaker 1: her individuality.
Speaker 3: Let's see how that works out.
Speaker 1: And then we hear aloud tint the girl's rank and
Speaker 1: file as a pair of combat boots walk the line.
Speaker 1: Kelly is still in bed, focused on her colorful blanket,
Speaker 1: unaware she should be at attention, and again totally fair.
Speaker 3: She doesn't know what the hell's going on.
Speaker 1: It's Captain Stone and she looks pissed. The cadet major
Speaker 1: runs to Kelly's bed and snatches the blanket. Kelly is
Speaker 1: close behind. What does this girl think she's doing? They
Speaker 1: exchange words, and the Captain stomps on the blanket with
Speaker 1: her boot. Kelly is now on her list and she's
Speaker 1: a maggot. I remember that because it's said over and
Speaker 1: over and.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: And again this was where I was like, Oh, she's
Speaker 1: going to change the school. That's why she's there. She's
Speaker 1: going to turn it around. All the girls are going
Speaker 1: to start to become individuals and start to you know,
Speaker 1: shoot against the system, and they're all gonna have blankets.
Speaker 3: Nope, none of that happens either. They're all good.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I figured they're all gonna have like, you
Speaker 1: know what, I got this. I've been hiding that I wanted,
Speaker 1: waiting for the scene, Like I've been hiding this. My
Speaker 1: dad gave me this, and I've been hiding. Oh you know,
Speaker 1: my sister gave me this, and I've been hiding. Nope,
Speaker 1: never happened. She's going to change the school and then
Speaker 1: conforms perfectly. The next morning, we hear the bugle wake
Speaker 1: up call and it scares Kelly right out of bed.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: With now, thank you with now, every student properly dressed
Speaker 1: in at attention, Kelly joins late, shirt on, tucked bracelets,
Speaker 1: and a handkerchief still on. Captain Stone announces the day's
Speaker 1: schedule and Kelly is baffled by military time, forcing her
Speaker 1: into another face to face with Captain Stone. By the way,
Speaker 1: if you're ever weirded out by military time, no matter
Speaker 1: what number you hear, just subtract twelve. It's true, fourteen
Speaker 1: hundred hours. So what time would fourteen hundred hours be?
Speaker 3: Two? There you go, Just subtract twelve. Easiest thing in
Speaker 3: the world. I grew up with my dad and being
Speaker 3: in the Navy.
Speaker 1: My dad loved all the military stuff, so we would
Speaker 1: always hear like, I'll pick you up at twenty one thirty.
Speaker 3: You got it? So my god, he'd do it with
Speaker 3: a smile on his face. But that's he just loved
Speaker 3: the military time.
Speaker 2: I hate. That would have been my best excuse to
Speaker 2: never be on time. I didn't understand anybody. You mean
Speaker 2: you said you were picking me up at twenty one thirty.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the military time is not the correct time to
Speaker 6: explain to me, I.
Speaker 2: Please, sir.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, she's once again called a maggot, which happens all
Speaker 1: the time. And when the new cadet tries to salute
Speaker 1: her superior, Kelly's bracelets and hats go flying, and just
Speaker 1: as Captain Stone is about to flip out, Carla asked
Speaker 1: for permission to speak. The kind soul volunteers to help
Speaker 1: you at Kelly and will now be in charge of
Speaker 1: teaching the maggot all the rules. I thought it was
Speaker 1: very sweet of her, and you'd like this character right
Speaker 1: off the bat, right off, and Carlo's first lesson for
Speaker 1: Kelly and listen two things the city girl has never mastered.
Speaker 1: Now touring the campus, Karla teaches Kelly all about rank
Speaker 1: and greetings, leading the Nubie to just salute everyone she passes,
Speaker 1: which is not how you do it. They skirt by
Speaker 1: Captain Stone, who appears much more vulnerable. She's nervous to
Speaker 1: go talk to her crush, Hatty Brad, who is training nearby.
Speaker 1: Even Kelly thinks he's the cutest boy she's ever seen.
Speaker 1: He looks like a rock star, and she would know
Speaker 1: because she's been close to en Sync. But Captain Stone
Speaker 1: will for sure be with him at Friday Night's Welcome
Speaker 1: Back dance. Kelly loves the idea of a dance too,
Speaker 1: especially because they can wear real clothes there.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, this is where I was like, what's happening.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Captain Stone is building up the courage to bump
Speaker 1: into Brad and mention the dance. It started with the
Speaker 1: girl saying, oh, and I'm sure she's going to be
Speaker 1: with Brad again this year, So she's nervous to go
Speaker 1: up to her boyfriend.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think they were in a relationship. I
Speaker 2: think they just went to the dance together. But like,
Speaker 2: nothing's progressed, which should tell.
Speaker 3: But that's not what they said in the beginning.
Speaker 1: She said right away, Oh, I'm sure she's gonna be
Speaker 1: with Brad again this year, not going to the dance
Speaker 1: with Bread again this year. She said, we've got her again,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure she's gonna be with Brad and he's
Speaker 1: just the hottest guy in school.
Speaker 3: So they set it up like they're dating.
Speaker 1: And then I'm like, wait, okay, so she's too nervous
Speaker 1: to go and talk to her boyfriend.
Speaker 2: Oh, I thought they were just gonna go together anyway.
Speaker 1: It didn't make any sense because she wants to bump
Speaker 1: into him to mention the dance.
Speaker 3: But Kelly is cruising for a bruise, and so she.
Speaker 1: Makes a bee line for Brad to beat Captain Stone
Speaker 1: to the punch.
Speaker 3: For what reason, It's just.
Speaker 2: Came to the dance. I thought she was like, all right,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna beat you to it. I'm gonna go and
Speaker 2: and put my name on the table. How about how
Speaker 2: about Kelly?
Speaker 3: How about.
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 3: I'm Lizzy. You can hear me talking.
Speaker 2: It's like, don't do anything. Well, missed opportunity girl.
Speaker 1: Kelly salutes him just seconds before his superior. Brad salutes back,
Speaker 1: but is very confused, as as was I. Kelly smugly
Speaker 1: grins at Captain Stone, who as a result isn't rage,
Speaker 1: So she's now just actively trying to piss off the
Speaker 1: good woman in charge. Maybe maybe it was just a
Speaker 1: get back for the blanket stunt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's not even like a good one.
Speaker 1: It's not like you did anything sly where you can
Speaker 1: get away with it. You just openly poked her in
Speaker 1: the eye, right, It's like, why would you do this?
Speaker 2: So, however, these are the moments that I remember loving
Speaker 2: it was the two Disney Channel stars battling it out
Speaker 2: like their little walks and they're looking at each other
Speaker 2: like they like they did these so well, this is
Speaker 2: the funny stuff that I did, absolutely love it, But
Speaker 2: this is watching it again.
Speaker 1: But that's a writing thing to me, because then all
Speaker 1: you do is you say, I bet you she's gonna
Speaker 1: try to ask Brad out again. My god, she hasn't
Speaker 1: gotten up the courage to ask him out in three
Speaker 1: years something like that. So when it is the two
Speaker 1: of them going, then it's it makes more sense because
Speaker 1: this one was It's just like she's dated this guy,
Speaker 1: or they've gone to the dance a bunch of times,
Speaker 1: but she's too scared to talk to him.
Speaker 3: So now Lizzie McGuire jumps in and talk to him
Speaker 3: like it didn't. Yeah, it didn't.
Speaker 1: It was just a writing thing for me, not an
Speaker 1: acting thing. It was not even a story thing. It
Speaker 1: was just a straight up writing thing. It didn't make
Speaker 1: any sense. But anyway, now in math class, at least
Speaker 1: she's learning real things at a desk, Kelly arrives late
Speaker 1: and is again the center of unwanted attention. Then later
Speaker 1: in history class, Kelly continues to baffle when she finds
Speaker 1: it necessary to stand up and announce she's a conscient
Speaker 1: subjector to war, which obviously would not go over well at.
Speaker 3: A military school.
Speaker 1: And then back at the barracks, the girls are talking
Speaker 1: about their dresses for the dance, something finally Kelly can
Speaker 1: connect with. Carlo seems interested in the event, but pulls
Speaker 1: away from engaging, and she it was a little much
Speaker 1: the way they had her play this sometimes, where it
Speaker 1: was like there was nothing subtle about the time she
Speaker 1: turns and walks away, like you know, she does it
Speaker 1: later when she realizes she's not friends, it's like it's
Speaker 1: very heavy handed, but yes, but also.
Speaker 2: Like we never really get any true backstory of what
Speaker 2: she's actually talking about.
Speaker 3: She didn't you're just not a dress a family of
Speaker 3: a home life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like like I'm like, is she later on we
Speaker 2: taught we hear what this is the scene I think
Speaker 2: where we hear like she's she just that's not what
Speaker 2: she was able to do. And it's like, but like
Speaker 2: what why.
Speaker 3: Is it right?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: Give us something you know?
Speaker 2: Is your is your family too far away to be
Speaker 2: able to go see them?
Speaker 6: Or is it that you're like an organ like I
Speaker 6: would like to I need a.
Speaker 2: Little bit more. I want I like this character one
Speaker 2: one of my favorites. I need a little bit more
Speaker 2: is something I felt was missing for sure?
Speaker 3: Agreed one hundred uh.
Speaker 1: When Kelly sees her friend new friends unexpected reaction, she
Speaker 1: decides to ask her. On a walk on the track
Speaker 1: that Kelly learns about the schools decorated and storied drill Team,
Speaker 1: a cornerstone of the institution. They also bump into Sir
Speaker 1: on the way home, and Kelly says they're on their
Speaker 1: way to their house to pick out dresses for the dance.
Speaker 1: He adorably suggests they pick up something nice. Were you
Speaker 1: now the first time you saw it? This is my
Speaker 1: first time?
Speaker 3: Were you?
Speaker 1: Was there any part of you that thought he was
Speaker 1: going to turn out to be a really good guy
Speaker 1: and a good dad. I thought they were going to
Speaker 1: go straight up Disney Channel where he was going to
Speaker 1: be like the rigid sir.
Speaker 3: They were never going to get along. Maybe at the
Speaker 3: end something was going to happen. They were, but not
Speaker 3: like this to what they did with the character.
Speaker 6: No, I I yes, that's how I figured.
Speaker 2: He was just going to be kind of a jerk,
Speaker 2: like somebody you know, and like kind of broke her dad.
Speaker 2: It was going to be the person that broke her down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when I were a caricature of the commandant of
Speaker 1: a school.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I thought it was going to be. Too. Yeah,
Speaker 3: very very pleasantly surprised with what they I don't.
Speaker 2: Remember like really loving him that much, but watching this back,
Speaker 2: I was like, Oh, like he's really trying. He's trying
Speaker 2: to figure it out. He's not trying to be like
Speaker 2: just too much. He's just he's in an awkward position.
Speaker 2: Maybe they should have thought about it, given it a
Speaker 2: little bit more time before they did this, But like,
Speaker 2: I mean, we're going to go past that because it's
Speaker 2: the movie. But he seems like a really.
Speaker 6: Great guy like trying, trying.
Speaker 1: This is the first inclination that he's like a normal guy,
Speaker 1: and I was like, Okay, he is trying.
Speaker 3: This is cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I really liked how they did that with
Speaker 1: a character, because they easily could have just made him
Speaker 1: a jerk the whole way through, done the straight up
Speaker 1: Disney Channel kind of caricature of the stern general, and
Speaker 1: they didn't.
Speaker 3: They they gave him some depth. And then you cast
Speaker 3: Gary Cole, which.
Speaker 2: Is it seems more like a STU character, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: agree loves to have like a good dad.
Speaker 3: Ye, good good dad. In the video, I agree in
Speaker 3: the video.
Speaker 1: In the movie yeah, and this is of course yes
Speaker 1: where she reveals that the commandant is her stepdad, so
Speaker 1: Carla is the first to know.
Speaker 3: Carla's just telling Captain Stone for brownie points.
Speaker 1: But Kelly and Sis she fights her own battles. Now
Speaker 1: at home and looking through outfits, Kelly's mom rushes into
Speaker 1: me Carla. It seems like the former businesswoman is trying
Speaker 1: her hardest to become a housewife, but the journey's been
Speaker 1: a little rough. As Kelly picks a dress, she wonders
Speaker 1: if there might be a feminine side to military life
Speaker 1: after all, and we get another quick optical flip where
Speaker 1: she falls face first into the mud during morning drills.
Speaker 3: While she struggles, however, Hottie Brad.
Speaker 1: Is dominating the obstacle course, and when Kelly wants to
Speaker 1: give up, Captain Stone is right there to call her
Speaker 1: a maggot and unsuccessfully command her to repel down a rope.
Speaker 3: Later, the troops have now lined up for the end
Speaker 3: of the day.
Speaker 1: The dance is just hours away, but Cadet Kelly is
Speaker 1: still stuck on the obstacle course, unable to climb down
Speaker 1: from a wall. She even tries to order a Caesar
Speaker 1: salad from Captain Stone, but Kelly does finally slide down,
Speaker 1: crashing to the floor, but she's not finished yet. Captain
Speaker 1: Stone says she'll need to keep doing the course until
Speaker 1: she gets it right and probably miss the dance. Captain
Speaker 1: Stone also knows that Sir is her stepdad and just
Speaker 1: doesn't care. Kelly acknowledges she's been outplayed and jumps right
Speaker 1: back into the course just as it begins to rain.
Speaker 1: That's when Sergeant Gloria Ramos, another awesome character, has taken
Speaker 1: over for Stone, and this girl apparently hates dances or
Speaker 1: anything fun. But somehow Kelly eventually connects with Ramos, but
Speaker 1: it still takes long time for her to properly finish
Speaker 1: the course.
Speaker 3: This is a nightmare. But also I still find her annoying.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 1: Sorry, It's just my least favorite character. Unfortunately, the entire
Speaker 1: thing was the lead character. I liked everyone they surrounded
Speaker 1: her with, but.
Speaker 3: She just kind of annoyed me.
Speaker 2: Sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And this is another character where if somebody had
Speaker 1: told me that they actually cast somebody from a military
Speaker 1: school who knew what they were doing, I would have
Speaker 1: thought it was Gloria Raymonds. Yes, she's really good at
Speaker 1: this role. And I was like, oh, I think she
Speaker 1: has some kind of history with.
Speaker 6: This right, Oh my gosh, that's so true.
Speaker 3: I was right there. She was absolutely great.
Speaker 1: Eventually she's dismissed for the dance, but then accidentally rolls
Speaker 1: down a muddy hill for fourteen minutes.
Speaker 3: It's the longest hill in the world.
Speaker 1: They have the dance at the bottom of Everest, and
Speaker 1: she just rolls and rolls and rolls and rolls and rolls,
Speaker 1: rolls and rolls, and the mud eventually crashing right through
Speaker 1: the venue's entrance. The wild chain of events ends with
Speaker 1: a very muddy Kelly Bear hugging Captain Stone and ruining
Speaker 1: her white gown, who she has to get through forty
Speaker 1: two people just to find as she rolls in. The
Speaker 1: entire school laughs as they mud wrestle, ending in a
Speaker 1: big clause and a smile from Brad equips there's someone
Speaker 1: who knows how to get down and dirty. And now
Speaker 1: it's starting to feel a little bit like Carrie remember
Speaker 1: that movie. So I don't know if this is supposed
Speaker 1: to be funny or it's supposed to be bullying who
Speaker 1: were supposed to feel bad for. But this whole setup
Speaker 1: was weird.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just feel like it was again just
Speaker 2: like a Disney out of this, like just going into
Speaker 2: the comedy. Yep, I don't really feel like to me,
Speaker 2: I feel like the person who would have done this.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm gonna go ahead and take the beating
Speaker 2: from the fans. But had this been Christie's role to
Speaker 2: do it, it would have come across. I would have
Speaker 2: been peen in my pants laughing this role. Yeah, Like
Speaker 2: to me, like Hillary Dues like comedy, like wasn't isn't
Speaker 2: that over the top? Like super what is it physical physical, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like like Christy would have.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I also I'm laughly just thinking about her face in
Speaker 2: the way she just like goes like one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty into stuff like that. I think it would have
Speaker 2: been a funnier moment that is not being that was
Speaker 2: kind of like it was funny. It was funny, it
Speaker 2: was Disney, but it would have been It could have
Speaker 2: just been so much bigger.
Speaker 1: I also don't blame the actors for for any of this,
Speaker 1: because they needed a better setup to her then rolling
Speaker 1: through the open door and then literally running another fifty
Speaker 1: or sixty feet without being able to stop. Have her
Speaker 1: slide on marble, have Christy closer to the front door,
Speaker 1: I mean something to get help the actors out a
Speaker 1: little bit just from a staging standpoint, because the bit
Speaker 1: would have worked a lot better. Oh yeah, had it
Speaker 1: been directed better. And that wasn't on either Lizzie or Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah.
Speaker 3: That I don't blame them for that.
Speaker 1: It just they that could have been directed better to
Speaker 1: Yeah again, have her slide.
Speaker 2: Better, like like set up within the set would have been.
Speaker 1: She literally had to get through like half the crowd
Speaker 1: to even get to and then you're like, is she
Speaker 1: doing that on purpose?
Speaker 3: Because then she is just kind of a yes, I
Speaker 3: don't get what's going on.
Speaker 2: There's no way you didn't catch yourself or at least
Speaker 2: just fall flat on the ground by the time you
Speaker 2: got to her. So yeah, so she looked a little
Speaker 2: bit more like you're just like, you're now targeting a
Speaker 2: girl in a white dress too, of all beings, like
Speaker 2: the whitest of white dresses, perfectly clear, like you're targeting
Speaker 2: her versus.
Speaker 1: Ever fall in front of her and as she slips
Speaker 1: and falls, mud splashes.
Speaker 3: Up onto the white dress as opposed to like grabbing her.
Speaker 3: Just yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: If it was to show there was a lot of people,
Speaker 2: That's why it would have been so embarrassing, But that's
Speaker 2: an easy you fleece the camera to the rest of
Speaker 2: the hall that's filled with people. So yeah, it just
Speaker 2: kind of was a miss because it could have been
Speaker 2: like a just insanely.
Speaker 3: Super funny yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 6: But instead it just was yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The following cadet, Kelly pays for her muddy mistake,
Speaker 1: though when she's called into Sirr's office, he's disappointed. In
Speaker 1: her first week, Yes, she's only been there a week,
Speaker 1: and she continues to be clueless, lacking any self awareness.
Speaker 1: In the process, Sir explains that uniformity and service is
Speaker 1: what the school strives for, and with that, he sends
Speaker 1: her home. She dejectedly walks back to the house. And
Speaker 1: this is when I just noticed how small Hillary Duff
Speaker 1: actually is. She looks like a five year old wearing
Speaker 1: a Halloween costume. She's like a little kid.
Speaker 3: In this scene, she.
Speaker 1: Calls her dad on that which is the first time
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, maybe she is cast at the
Speaker 1: right age, because at first she seemed too old, now
Speaker 1: she seems too young.
Speaker 3: She calls, You're never gonna make me happy.
Speaker 1: She calls her dad on the cell phone and leaves
Speaker 1: a voice message admitting she's having a very hard time,
Speaker 1: but not to worry about her. She decides she'll tell
Speaker 1: her mom they need to go back to New York
Speaker 1: and the city because they're in upstate. Once home, Kelly
Speaker 1: sits with her mom, but before she can get a
Speaker 1: word out, and even bigger bomb is dropped. Her mom
Speaker 1: is pregnant. Kelly is somewhere between excited and shocked, but
Speaker 1: they profess their love for one another, and it's a
Speaker 1: nice moment. In the end, Kelly's a very sweet girl
Speaker 1: because as annoying as I find her, exactly what you
Speaker 1: were saying, Sabrina, she rolls with it. She is supportive,
Speaker 1: flis and very family oriented.
Speaker 2: Y yes, she put I mean even just finding this
Speaker 2: new friend at instantly finding like feeling some kind of
Speaker 2: vibe that maybe she doesn't have a dress. Let's go
Speaker 2: to my house. I've got a bunch of us. You
Speaker 2: can pick whichever one, even when the dresses like the girls.
Speaker 2: Carl was like, no, you pick first. She's like, oh no,
Speaker 2: that's not any fun for me. You pick?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What like the sweetest, sweetest.
Speaker 1: Sweetest, I would say she is a slightly annoying character
Speaker 1: with a very good heart. I think that's fair. I
Speaker 1: think that's fair. Now, I think that's fair. To soften
Speaker 1: the blow, Kelly has given a paint set to create
Speaker 1: paintings for the baby's room. It's all smiles and laughs,
Speaker 1: but Kelly still has some bad news for her mom.
Speaker 1: But instead of demanding the move, she pivots last minute
Speaker 1: and just talks about how good of a friend.
Speaker 3: Carla has become.
Speaker 1: Then Sir arrives at home and congratulates Kelly on becoming
Speaker 1: a big sister. He offers her a handshake like he
Speaker 1: just sold her a car. Kelly quickly realizes Sir isn't
Speaker 1: exactly dad material yet, so now making Sir more fatherly
Speaker 1: is added of her.
Speaker 3: List of things to accomplish. And this is where everything just.
Speaker 1: Starts to get jumbled in this movie for me again,
Speaker 1: completely from a writing standpoint, Yes, she's now got fifty
Speaker 1: two things that she's supposed to be doing. Some of
Speaker 1: them are followed through, some of them aren't. But it's like,
Speaker 1: what is this movie about? Is this movie about a
Speaker 1: girl from New York City moving and joining a military
Speaker 1: academy and having to learn to conform because that's what
Speaker 1: she does. Yes, it's not about I'm going to change
Speaker 1: this school and everybody's going to start to be more
Speaker 1: like me, because that's not what happens. She becomes more
Speaker 1: like everybody else. I've got to turn.
Speaker 3: So that's one thing.
Speaker 1: One of her missions is I'm going to change this
Speaker 1: school to be more like me. One of her missions
Speaker 1: is her dad, her stepdad, has got to become more fatherly.
Speaker 1: Then we get into the whole thing about now she's
Speaker 1: a big part of the drill team.
Speaker 2: Well, we're skipping ahead.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, I'm just saying though, it's like
Speaker 1: so many freaking things the change.
Speaker 2: Fo yeah, yeah, and we've already gotten like she's mentioned
Speaker 2: a bunch of times, like I have to do everything,
Speaker 2: Like she's got this, Like with her dad, I have
Speaker 2: to take care of it. I have to get the taxi.
Speaker 2: I have to keep him in line, keep him organized
Speaker 2: or whatever it is, Like she has to like maintenance
Speaker 2: her dad in his life. She's already got that. She
Speaker 2: has to keep her mom happy with the new life
Speaker 2: that she's doing. She's got all these things, which I
Speaker 2: guess is kind of what kids sort of feel like
Speaker 2: when they're coming of age, like they're taking on these responsibilities.
Speaker 1: Some But I don't you know, I don't know if
Speaker 1: most twelve year olds are like I have to keep
Speaker 1: my family together and I have to do this and
Speaker 1: I have to have my new stepdad.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of families. I mean, again, you
Speaker 2: and I couldn't relate because we didn't grow up with
Speaker 2: any kind of you know, tear within the family household.
Speaker 1: But do you think it's on the twelve year old
Speaker 1: kids they feel like they have to keep the family together.
Speaker 2: I think that a lot of kids out there and
Speaker 2: when they're like this is like a like it's not
Speaker 2: like the beginning of the divorce. The divorce has happened,
Speaker 2: it's been a while. The parents are co parenting very well,
Speaker 2: but this is a change, and when change happens, kids
Speaker 2: take a lot of that change on themselves.
Speaker 1: You could be on right, you're you're right, we you
Speaker 1: and I don't know what that's like. So it could, yeah,
Speaker 1: could one hundred percent be that I have no, I
Speaker 1: don't know. It seemed like but it just seemed like
Speaker 1: from a story.
Speaker 2: It's a writing point, like where are we going? What
Speaker 2: is the goal?
Speaker 3: What's the mission? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I need a mission.
Speaker 3: What's the movie I need?
Speaker 2: I need it?
Speaker 3: Captain Yeah? Mission?
Speaker 1: What is the movie about? But anyway, so yes. The
Speaker 1: next morning, she's woken by the trumpet once again. Uh,
Speaker 1: and though she's at attention for Captain Stone this time,
Speaker 1: her rainbow blanket is still peeking out of the bed.
Speaker 1: As punishment, Captain Stone rips it into pieces and you'll
Speaker 1: be shocked to hear. With tears in Kelly's eyes, she
Speaker 1: calls her a maggot.
Speaker 3: That night, Kelly can't sleep.
Speaker 1: She's not gonna just let somebody bully her, so she
Speaker 1: decides to pull out her paints and sneak into Captain
Speaker 1: Stone's bedroom. And now the next morning, Captain Stone enters
Speaker 1: the barracks while the entire back of her head somehow
Speaker 1: got painted in the middle of the night without waking
Speaker 1: her up. It's rock hard and everyone's laughing. The Captain screams,
Speaker 1: and it's more again like carry if you ask me.
Speaker 1: We are now back on the obstacle course Cadet. Kelly
Speaker 1: is showing some progress. She repels down this time, but
Speaker 1: unfortunately Captain Stone is waiting for her with court martial papers.
Speaker 1: She knows Kelly painted her hair and now she's.
Speaker 3: Going to pay for it.
Speaker 1: Back at home, Sir breaks the news to his wife.
Speaker 1: Kelly will appear in cadet court. The students will decide
Speaker 1: if she's guilty, and then Sir will decide the punishment.
Speaker 1: This puts him in a very difficult position. He wanted
Speaker 1: this job his entire life, and he's not just going
Speaker 1: to lose it by taking it easy on his stepdaughter.
Speaker 1: Kelly overhears the conversation and cries. Her Mom suggests apologizing
Speaker 1: in court, Kelly reminds her she's never asked to move.
Speaker 3: Here and then runs off crying again.
Speaker 1: When now we're in Cadet court, Stone is listing off
Speaker 1: in fractions to the jury, which is run.
Speaker 3: By hot Bread.
Speaker 1: She exposes the painted hair and Kelly's lawyer, Carla pulls
Speaker 1: out that the paint wash out, and once argument so done,
Speaker 1: that jury deliberates before Kelly can even apologize, and within
Speaker 1: second she's found guilty and so now she's off to
Speaker 1: Serve's office for a punishment. He then sentences her to
Speaker 1: the drill team. She'll become equipment manager and this is
Speaker 1: Cadet Kelly's worst case scenario. She oversees not only the
Speaker 1: uniforms in the boots, also the rifles starting Monday. I
Speaker 1: was impressed by the decision. However, it now becomes another
Speaker 1: movie again. Yes, it's like we're like a half hour
Speaker 1: into this movie, thirty five minutes into this movie, and
Speaker 1: now we're gonna get to the step up part part.
Speaker 2: I think we're longer than that, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: We're like hitting forty forty five minutes. We're like really
Speaker 2: half way.
Speaker 1: And now all of a sudden, it's a whole nother
Speaker 1: part of the whole new thing where the thing she
Speaker 1: hated and couldn't believe now she's completely conforming and she
Speaker 1: wants to be a part of this thing.
Speaker 2: And by the way, during the time of this movie,
Speaker 2: while it's getting rolled out, the marketing, the like commercials
Speaker 2: and things like that on the channel is all about
Speaker 2: the guns and the like, yeah of this, And it's like,
Speaker 2: besides getting walking by a team that's practicing, we've gotten
Speaker 2: none of this. We've got none of the like I
Speaker 2: don't know what they necessarily call this.
Speaker 3: Actual drill drill team, it's.
Speaker 2: The drill team, but like the actual like the flipping
Speaker 2: of the right thing or whatever, that is what they
Speaker 2: have sold us as audiences. Then that's what I'm looking for.
Speaker 2: And I'm waiting for the competition. And I really like,
Speaker 2: nowhere near inside.
Speaker 3: That's what That's what I'm saying. It's like that make
Speaker 3: it about that. I want to see more of the competition.
Speaker 1: I want to see more of her finding this micro
Speaker 1: world we've talked about, right, and that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: And I'm now forty five minutes in, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: now this is gonna be the.
Speaker 3: Movie, like they just changed the movie again.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's like, okay, now this Now she's got to
Speaker 1: conform even more to be part of this and so yeah, okay. So,
Speaker 1: as Kelly leaves, her dad calls from the jungle. She
Speaker 1: fills him in on everything, but he's not even listening.
Speaker 1: Once again, he falls while taking a picture. This is
Speaker 1: very confusing the scene for me. Is he a bad dad?
Speaker 1: Why is this in cclude?
Speaker 3: Why is this there?
Speaker 1: You didn't need this, It just this is one of
Speaker 1: the things you could have cut out to get closer
Speaker 1: to time. The dad isn't there right now. He said
Speaker 1: he was gone, have a phone called do whatever. Leave
Speaker 1: the message, But you don't need to cut to him
Speaker 1: falling again. This man can't stand on his feet while
Speaker 1: he's taking a picture.
Speaker 3: It's really weird.
Speaker 2: Also, it's like so unbelievable that he's in like the
Speaker 2: Safari or wherever he's actually supposed to be, like the
Speaker 2: way they did. Okay, it didn't look good.
Speaker 1: The next morning, Kelly reports to drill team and immediately
Speaker 1: starts shining boots. While she's hard at work, she's singing
Speaker 1: creative songs about Captain Stone and then Hot Brand and
Speaker 1: walks in and shows her how to actually shine the shoes.
Speaker 3: Uh. Yeah, I didn't know. That's why they called it
Speaker 3: a bit shine.
Speaker 2: I don't know, But.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this was flirty. I didn't find chemistry.
Speaker 1: I don't think he likes either of these two girls.
Speaker 1: I didn't find chemistry between any of them.
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why people in the queer community love this
Speaker 1: so much, is because the best chemistry in the movie,
Speaker 1: if you want to call it flirty, does come between
Speaker 1: the two girls.
Speaker 3: So, I mean, you know, see that.
Speaker 6: But the chemistry and the.
Speaker 3: Yea, that's what I mean.
Speaker 1: There's some kind of something which then progresses to them
Speaker 1: doing their.
Speaker 3: Kind of dance.
Speaker 1: I mean it's more than with Brad, who it's really weird, like.
Speaker 2: You said, kind of an unnecessary character her to just
Speaker 2: be like some type of hattie if yeah, just me.
Speaker 1: Why do they have to put They didn't have to
Speaker 1: make him, they didn't have to give them a love interest.
Speaker 1: Just make him the drills like the other drill sergeant.
Speaker 1: He's Captain Stone's boss kind of thing. Yeah, but we're
Speaker 1: now drill practice that Kelly observes the team just two
Speaker 1: weeks from their next meet their first step to regionals,
Speaker 1: and Kelly's actually starting to see the beauty and drill.
Speaker 1: She notices similarities to ballet. Later, Kelly convinces Carla to
Speaker 1: help manage the equipment and admits that her home story
Speaker 1: is even harder than boot camp, so Kelly invites her
Speaker 1: over for dinner and a sleepover on Friday night. The
Speaker 1: next day, the two girls are shining shoes when Hot
Speaker 1: Brad enters again. Kelly jumps at him for attention, but
Speaker 1: Captain Stone immediately pulls him away to practice. Now left
Speaker 1: alone cadet, Kelly is starting to practice with the rifle
Speaker 1: because this is how she's going to change the school
Speaker 1: to become more like her is by conforming to everything
Speaker 1: they do. This sport is growing on her. And now
Speaker 1: it's the day the big George Washington Invitational tournament and
Speaker 1: Rahway enters the gym and the second they walk in,
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is a real team doing a real thing.
Speaker 3: Like they're incredible.
Speaker 1: They're very intimidating, especially because Captain Stone is already having
Speaker 1: some issues with their uniform. But guess who's there to
Speaker 1: save the day. The newly amazing equipment manager Kelly.
Speaker 2: Who slightly annoying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, slightly annoying Kelly, slightly annoying, Condet Kelly reporting for duty, Sir,
Speaker 1: who now is taking your job very seriously.
Speaker 3: Sir notices and is impressed.
Speaker 1: And now the competition has begun, which feels a lot
Speaker 1: like West Side Story, but with ammunition. The team's march
Speaker 1: and shot at each other, then starts swinging their rifles.
Speaker 1: George Washington goes first and has an impressive but predictable showing.
Speaker 1: Then it's Rawway's turn and they start with a ton
Speaker 1: of dancing, which for some reason, Wow's Brad and the crew,
Speaker 1: And when the rifles come out, we realize they're just
Speaker 1: a bunch of ringers. They have some unreal maneuvers and
Speaker 1: an all star captain even Sir noses squads toast and
Speaker 1: they have these two women come out and do this
Speaker 1: kind of dance march military thing that was shot in
Speaker 1: a very wide two shot kind of with some close
Speaker 1: ups to see what they're doing.
Speaker 3: But they're really cool. Keep that in mind. That's gonna
Speaker 3: matter later.
Speaker 1: George Washington knows they have to practice more. Captain Stone
Speaker 1: calls their performance a failure, but Brad cuts her off.
Speaker 1: That's hot Brad by the way, he insists they have
Speaker 1: the gun skills, they just need originality, creativity and exhibition,
Speaker 1: because originality and creativity is exactly.
Speaker 3: What the military is looking for. With hot Brad now
Speaker 3: pouting alone, but.
Speaker 2: Come on, you can't really. This is what I love
Speaker 2: about the micro worlds. Like when we're talking about jump rope,
Speaker 2: I don't know about jump rope, but if they tell
Speaker 2: me that's what it is, I'm like, okay, so yeah,
Speaker 2: no believing them. I'm believing them one hundred percent a point.
Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, I don't think that you're gonna have
Speaker 1: a military school that's going to break out into like
Speaker 1: step up kind of danc routines, No, and get points
Speaker 1: for that in a military competition, a precision competition.
Speaker 2: I believe with any type of dance, having a little
Speaker 2: bit of a flare and a tiny bit of a
Speaker 2: difference of a style, sure, and you being the new
Speaker 2: one out there doing it, if it's executed well in
Speaker 2: a lot of the times most of the time of
Speaker 2: the time, is beneficial.
Speaker 1: To your prof I agree, But this is not a
Speaker 1: dance competition. It's a drill competition based on precision.
Speaker 2: These people were doing the but that's why I think
Speaker 2: I know you got rhythm in the now.
Speaker 3: Fair enough, fair enough, you got it. You got your
Speaker 3: the dance. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's a rifle you could throw whatever.
Speaker 3: You give me.
Speaker 2: Rhythm, you give me some like intricate movement. You're at
Speaker 2: god dance.
Speaker 3: You got it. Fair enough.
Speaker 1: Brad's now pouting alone in the locker room, though that's
Speaker 1: hot brat by the way, Kelly sees this as her opportunity.
Speaker 1: She starts goofily dancing with the rifle, trying to cheer
Speaker 1: up the team captain. And not only are spirits listed,
Speaker 1: but he has an idea he wants to see more
Speaker 1: of her moves. Of course he does, and just like that,
Speaker 1: she has yet another goal to get Brad's drill team
Speaker 1: a medal, because that's now her thing. The next day
Speaker 1: that Kelly gives Sergeant Ramos a friendship bracelet. She explains,
Speaker 1: you make a wish and it falls off. Your wish
Speaker 1: comes true. She also offers her a scarf from Nepal
Speaker 1: or Bengals from Marrakesh, all gifts from her dad's travels.
Speaker 1: It's her way of paying for a drill team tutor,
Speaker 1: and it worked. She starts aggressively practicing with Ramos right away.
Speaker 1: Kelly isn't very good, but she's willing to learn, and
Speaker 1: she comes no surprise that we then get a big
Speaker 1: old training montage, love a montage. Kelly makes tremendous progress,
Speaker 1: and when it's time to try out, she kills it.
Speaker 3: Captain Stone is an impressed though, and Brad that's hot.
Speaker 3: Brad keeps a poker face again. They're trying out for Nationals.
Speaker 1: They've already done a demo, but now they're auditioning people
Speaker 1: to be on the team.
Speaker 2: None of that made that was a big what the hell?
Speaker 2: Just does it make any sense? However, I did think
Speaker 2: you would appreciate the fact that she didn't just get
Speaker 2: thrown in there and like knows the moves, Like you're
Speaker 2: showing her work in progress, you're showing her learning that.
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure why. I couldn't remember from when I
Speaker 2: watched it before why there was like a quiz aspect
Speaker 2: of it, like trivia type stuff. But that makes sense later.
Speaker 2: But I mean, she's learning, she's actually doing improvement. You
Speaker 2: see it, And I thought you'd really appreciate that, turning
Speaker 2: coming a professional instead.
Speaker 1: Of turning the school to do more her thing. She's
Speaker 1: just conforming to the school.
Speaker 3: She's jumping in I can't which I like, but that.
Speaker 1: That wasn't very decom there's almost nothing dcom about that.
Speaker 1: The next morning, when the new team members are supposed
Speaker 1: to be announced, she's called to Sirr's office. He didn't
Speaker 1: know she was trying out for the team, and he
Speaker 1: seems angry, but instead of yelling at her, he's actually
Speaker 1: very proud and she's made the team and now as
Speaker 1: a podcast.
Speaker 3: We can officially say he's a great step dad.
Speaker 1: Sure, little stern, little cold, but has good intentions. He
Speaker 1: tries to shake her hand again, but she stops him.
Speaker 1: If joining the drill team was his lesson to teach,
Speaker 1: she has one for him. You can't be a drill
Speaker 1: sergeant for a baby. He accepts the statement and his
Speaker 1: all ears it's very nice and so now as a
Speaker 1: drill team member, she admires her uniform for the first
Speaker 1: time ever, and on the field for practice, she runs
Speaker 1: into Captain Stone, who's obviously not happy to see her
Speaker 1: least favorite.
Speaker 3: Cadet now teammate. Hilariously during the scene.
Speaker 1: The song that plays is by Macy Gray and it's
Speaker 1: called relating to a psychopath.
Speaker 3: Little on the nose in my opinion.
Speaker 1: Kelly watches her leader dance and decides to join in.
Speaker 1: At first, Stone is angry and pushes her away. This
Speaker 1: was a weird scene. Stone is angry and pushes her away,
Speaker 1: but Kelly doesn't give up. It quickly turns into a
Speaker 1: dance battle, step up style and the two soldiers trading
Speaker 1: routines and eventually just straight up hip hop dancing with Fury.
Speaker 3: Kind of.
Speaker 1: This is quite a scene and might just find itself
Speaker 1: up there with the Camp Rock March for the best memes,
Speaker 1: Sabrina walk me through whatever.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but the funny part. Okay, first of all, no,
Speaker 2: I would I would assume this was something that those
Speaker 2: two actresses look back at and go oh like, hey,
Speaker 2: I've got them, I've got the same we got them. Okay,
Speaker 2: you just kind of go, I remember, it's the same
Speaker 2: thing as I thought about in Camp Rock, thinking about
Speaker 2: Allison Stone or looking at some of that choreography going
Speaker 2: it felt awkward and it looks awkward, like I just
Speaker 2: I know that that's this because I don't know who
Speaker 2: they got to choreograph this or where this movement came from,
Speaker 2: but it didn't really It wasn't like far enough to
Speaker 2: be hip hop, but it wasn't.
Speaker 3: Like the steps clapping, like you.
Speaker 2: Know, the step clapping that they do from like fraternities
Speaker 2: and stuff. It wasn't that. It just was very it
Speaker 2: was not.
Speaker 6: Very familiar, very very great expert in that.
Speaker 3: It wasn't that.
Speaker 2: But then it's like they were playing it off like, oh,
Speaker 2: that was so good, like we're going to use some
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 6: But I fully forgot that I used to do this
Speaker 6: with my friends.
Speaker 2: Is that when they pat, I can't do it, but
Speaker 2: they pat like Chris Cross crisscrossd They sit there and
Speaker 2: walk around each other and they're like, yeah, Chris Cross crisscroutch.
Speaker 3: There you go, that's dancing, bro. I love intimidation right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah I could go faster Chris crosskriscrusker. And then, of course,
Speaker 1: while walking by, hot Brad notices how unhinged this showdown
Speaker 1: is and loves when.
Speaker 2: He loves it, that's how good loves it.
Speaker 1: He slow class and tells the girls this is what
Speaker 1: the team needs. He wants to work their moves and
Speaker 1: fiery spirit into their regional routine. Of course, now in
Speaker 1: history class, Kelly starting to pay attention and realize the
Speaker 1: importance of teamwork and unity. With her new understanding, she
Speaker 1: approaches Stone to make peace and work on new moves.
Speaker 1: The captain is resistant at first, but eventually cracks a
Speaker 1: smile and is on board. At home, Kelly is helping
Speaker 1: her mom set the table for dinner when there's a
Speaker 1: knock on the door. It's her dad. He's back from
Speaker 1: abroad and brought a sweater. He claims it's from a
Speaker 1: sultant Kelly is so happy to see him, and he
Speaker 1: shakes hands with Sir. You could tell Stepdad's a little
Speaker 1: reserve and skeptical when it comes to a biological dad.
Speaker 1: But during dinner, Kelly's mom is now visibly pregnant and
Speaker 1: appears to have conquered homemaking, which is nice.
Speaker 3: She's killing it.
Speaker 1: Kelly's dad has taken on a nearby assignment at Rockbridge Mountain,
Speaker 1: and so he'll be able to attend the regional tournament.
Speaker 3: Kelly makes some pinky.
Speaker 1: Promise and is ecstatic, and so we jump right into
Speaker 1: the George Washington team. Arriving for the big competition, Ben
Speaker 1: is very confident and promises Sir some secret weapons.
Speaker 3: And then another big surprise.
Speaker 1: Amanda, Kelly's bestie from New York, came to watch, and
Speaker 1: we get these noises when they hug. There is obviously
Speaker 1: some culture shock here her old friend meeting her new friends,
Speaker 1: especially because Carla is very comically bummed realizing that she
Speaker 1: isn't Kelly's best friend.
Speaker 6: It's been three months, Carla, You've got to calm down.
Speaker 2: I love you, choice, I really love you, but like chill.
Speaker 1: Ye, Sir Clock's Carla's And again from a writing standpoint,
Speaker 1: this would have hit harder had we known more about
Speaker 1: Carla Is passed, which they did not.
Speaker 3: They just allude to. They don't tell us.
Speaker 2: Yes, she had like severe like like abandonment issues.
Speaker 3: Yeah, her brother left.
Speaker 2: Off like out of her world very quickly, something like that.
Speaker 2: But this at this point is just like girl you've
Speaker 2: known her for. Her mom is what now six months pregnant,
Speaker 2: so like it hasn't been long.
Speaker 3: Give her a break, Sir Clock's collars disappointment in frowns.
Speaker 3: But there's no time to dwell. It's time for regionals.
Speaker 1: Each soldiers immediately put to the test when higher up
Speaker 1: scream at them to recite facts like the importance of
Speaker 1: the stripes on a flag or what makes up the
Speaker 1: Marine Corps logo. Kelly has asked two questions and answered
Speaker 1: them both correctly. She follows that up with a perfect
Speaker 1: arm and rifle motion and she's off to a great start.
Speaker 1: But when she looks to the stands, her dad is
Speaker 1: nowhere to be found. By the way, she's the only
Speaker 1: soldier who decides to smile through the entire thing.
Speaker 3: George Washington scores it perfect ten out of ten in.
Speaker 1: The first round, but they know to stay focused, but
Speaker 1: Kelly's attention is now completely shifted to her missing dad.
Speaker 3: She's rattled, especially when her cell phone rings. Brad isn't happy.
Speaker 1: That's against uniform code, and the phone cuts out almost immediately.
Speaker 1: Captain Still is furious. If it would have rung during
Speaker 1: the routine, they would have all been disqualified. She explains
Speaker 1: that the cell phone is the lifeline between her and
Speaker 1: her dad, but no one is happy, especially Carla, who's
Speaker 1: still bitter about being.
Speaker 3: Best friend number two.
Speaker 1: The team gets ready for the next round as Kelly
Speaker 1: continues to try to reach her dad. Sir gives the
Speaker 1: team a few more words of encouragement and pulls kid
Speaker 1: at Kelly off to the side. He explains, win or lose,
Speaker 1: you'll be great, but she starts to tear up. She's
Speaker 1: worried about her dad. He pinky promised he'd be there.
Speaker 1: It's not like him at all. But have we had
Speaker 1: any indication that he wouldn't just ghost her?
Speaker 2: There's no I thought that was like part of his characters.
Speaker 2: He was like dizzy and kind of like not reliable.
Speaker 1: And that was but they apparently that wasn't a thing.
Speaker 1: They didn't do that either either way. Sir Offerser the
Speaker 1: chance to go look for him, but she'd never let
Speaker 1: her team down, but she's sure something has happened to him.
Speaker 1: Sir offers that they leave together to find him, but
Speaker 1: she knows her duty and how important this is for him.
Speaker 1: But now he commands her they will go and Brad
Speaker 1: will adjust properly. And with that they leave for a
Speaker 1: rock Ridge Point and he doesn't tell his wife, He
Speaker 1: doesn't tell anybody else in the school.
Speaker 3: He doesn't tell any He just they leave even the
Speaker 3: middle of a competition.
Speaker 1: In the competition, rawways up first and they're as awesome
Speaker 1: as expected, and that's when Captain Stone notices that Kelly
Speaker 1: is missing, because again, why tell your team that you're
Speaker 1: not going to be there? Very strange, Brad knows he
Speaker 1: must make an audible moving her entire squad from routine.
Speaker 1: Stone announces, once a maggot, always a maggot, and again,
Speaker 1: do not make a maggot drinking game out of this.
Speaker 3: You'll be dead by the end of this movie.
Speaker 1: Just then, Kelly and Sir arrive at Rock Ridge. Kelly
Speaker 1: races out of the car, screaming her dad's name. She
Speaker 1: has to find him. She notices his camera bag and
Speaker 1: quickly gets ready to climb the dangerous mountain. When she
Speaker 1: gets to the top, she looks over the ledge and
Speaker 1: she was right. Her dad is laying motionless, blood leaking
Speaker 1: from his head. Sabrina, did you think he was going
Speaker 1: to be alive and well and just be a deadbeat
Speaker 1: or did you think this was all gonna happen the
Speaker 1: way that it happened.
Speaker 6: I did not remember this part at all.
Speaker 2: I was like, whoa, he's like like dying, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: I was not expecting that either. I didn't remember any
Speaker 2: of this part at all.
Speaker 3: I thought he was going to be a total deadbeat.
Speaker 1: And then you know, Sir was going to become her
Speaker 1: new like, hey, you got to give him a break
Speaker 1: like that kind of thing. So the fact that they
Speaker 1: went this way with it is again like, oh, now
Speaker 1: she's a rescue lady in the middle of the competition
Speaker 1: which is still going on.
Speaker 3: That you told nobody you were leaving it Just there
Speaker 3: was so much.
Speaker 2: Happening, and we've only really seen her go off this
Speaker 2: type of thing at the very beginning, Like we haven't
Speaker 2: been seen her training.
Speaker 3: They should have kept cutting back, learning more of.
Speaker 2: This repelling thing at all. It was one and done
Speaker 2: that first scene. She does it in the rain and
Speaker 2: then we're good.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: Sir calls her a rescue team, but Kadek Kelly says
Speaker 1: she needs to repel down asap. She's the one that
Speaker 1: needs to do it because her stepdad is too heavy,
Speaker 1: So she uses her new training and Sir's tutelage to
Speaker 1: ease herself down, eventually plopping right next to her dad,
Speaker 1: who has briefly come to I imagine he tried calling
Speaker 1: her when he was on and then went unconscious. I
Speaker 1: still don't know where the first call came from. The
Speaker 1: situation's under control and it's just in time for the
Speaker 1: rescue team and he's taken away from medical attention. Sur
Speaker 1: praises her work and when she salutes him, he asks
Speaker 1: for a hug. It was a very good moment and
Speaker 1: I loved it. She holds both their hands, calling them
Speaker 1: both dads. Sir explains she can have two dads, just
Speaker 1: like she can have two best friends.
Speaker 3: Very nice. It was a very nice moment. That was
Speaker 3: a weird moment, but a good moment.
Speaker 1: Back at the competition, that's right, the competition is still happening.
Speaker 1: George Washington is down five points. It's gonna come down
Speaker 1: to Captain Stone and the absent Kelly. But guess who's
Speaker 1: returned just in time. The maggot right alongside Sir. The
Speaker 1: Commandant explains that Kelly was gone under his command and
Speaker 1: he wishes them luck. It's time for the final performance,
Speaker 1: but before they can take the mat, Kelly apologizes to Carla.
Speaker 3: She accepts the apology and they hug.
Speaker 1: Everything is working out just as Stone and Kelly walk
Speaker 1: onto the mat for their unarmed competition. They have a
Speaker 1: lot of ground to make up, but we get their unconventional,
Speaker 1: almost Paula Abdul inspired routine to the song I'm a
Speaker 1: One Girl. Revolution a little on the nose again. Okay,
Speaker 1: this routine again. If you watch the first one, they
Speaker 1: just filmed the two girls doing it. This one is
Speaker 1: blurry quick cuts. You can't see what's happening. And I'm
Speaker 1: thinking it's because the routine it's probably wasn't that great.
Speaker 3: What did you think The.
Speaker 2: Quick cuts made it obvious that there was not a
Speaker 2: lot of great content. I guess is what they saw
Speaker 2: in the editing room. There was a lot of quick
Speaker 2: cuts that normally you know, and then the ribbons felt
Speaker 2: odd to Yeah, yep, like just you know, it's different
Speaker 2: with like maybe a style, like they put a little
Speaker 2: bit more hip hop style into like the movement that
Speaker 2: is of what you would normally see at one of
Speaker 2: these competitions. But adding like a full prop feels like.
Speaker 6: I don't know, ye, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know that it's believable. I think it's too
Speaker 2: far of a stretch the ribbons, and I don't know
Speaker 2: necessarily that they needed to do it.
Speaker 6: They seemed good with the rifle things.
Speaker 2: Why did we throw those in?
Speaker 3: I don't know know.
Speaker 1: We also didn't get to see her do the rifle
Speaker 1: thing because she had to go save her dad, which
Speaker 1: is the whole thing she was building up for, which
Speaker 1: was the entire.
Speaker 3: Other part movie.
Speaker 1: So anyway, yes, it ends with ribbons because ribbons. Well,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what Sabrina thinks, It met us what
Speaker 1: the judges think. As they finished their routine, Kelly and
Speaker 1: Captain Stone exchange smiles.
Speaker 3: Nailed it, Their friends and.
Speaker 1: Family gave them a standing ovation, and now it's the
Speaker 1: closing reception, time to announces the winner. As expected, it
Speaker 1: comes down to George Washington and Rahwaih and the winner
Speaker 1: is in the closest voting ever by just one point.
Speaker 3: Rahwaih. That's right. Our teams are the first losers. Way
Speaker 3: to go.
Speaker 1: They got a silver medal, Bad Sir and the team
Speaker 1: looked disappointed but accept the defeat. Brad isn't mad they meddled.
Speaker 1: It's actually the best they've done in years, so they're
Speaker 1: going to the finals. Kelly blames herself and Captain Stone agrees,
Speaker 1: but it's total fake out. She says, if Kelly never
Speaker 1: joined the team, they never would have made it this far.
Speaker 1: Stone salutes her, but cont Kelly ditches the formality and
Speaker 1: bear hugs her. Kelly promises next year they'll do even better,
Speaker 1: but Captain Stone is bad news. Her father's being transferred
Speaker 1: to Europe, so she won't be a George Washington next year.
Speaker 1: And now she wants Kelly to be platoon leader to
Speaker 1: deal with all the little maggots.
Speaker 3: They both laughed.
Speaker 1: Then George Washington marches out of the gym with one
Speaker 1: last salute from Sir By the way, if I understand
Speaker 1: military school the way that I think I understand military school,
Speaker 1: you're sent to military school. So the fact that her
Speaker 1: dad is moving to Europe wouldn't change the fact that
Speaker 1: she's still in military school, because she would just be
Speaker 1: there at military.
Speaker 2: Because there was so much of this kind of talk,
Speaker 2: it seemed to me that this was not that kind
Speaker 2: of military school. This wasn't a disciplinary action military school.
Speaker 2: This was a No, it doesn't have to be that
Speaker 2: kids went to that had parents in the service.
Speaker 1: Right, But when you go to military school, you don't.
Speaker 1: It's you get a discount if your parents work there.
Speaker 1: That's true, But no, it's it's not that. It's also
Speaker 1: you're sent to military school. It's not necessary for disciplinary action.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you can go to a military school because your
Speaker 1: parents are in the military, or you want to be
Speaker 1: in the military, so they have a Navy version, they'll
Speaker 1: have a marine version, so which they clearly set up
Speaker 1: here that they had marines.
Speaker 3: There was a Navy version.
Speaker 2: There was because because he lives so close. But I
Speaker 2: guess it's because he was the principal or.
Speaker 3: The right he's the commandant. That's why she's going to
Speaker 3: this school.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, what I'm saying is, if
Speaker 1: Captain Stone wanted to stay at this military school where
Speaker 1: you bored. At the military school, she has her own
Speaker 1: room there. The fact that her dad is being transferred
Speaker 1: to Europe probably wouldn't have made that big a deal. Okay,
Speaker 1: she could have still stayed at the military school. What
Speaker 1: I'm saying so, but usually it's military kids are pulled
Speaker 1: out when they're in a regular school and their parents
Speaker 1: are transferred to them. Okay, So anyway, so now Captain
Speaker 1: Stone wants Kelly to be a platoon leader and deal
Speaker 1: with all the little maggots herself. They both laughed. Then
Speaker 1: George Washington marches out of the gym with one last
Speaker 1: salute from Sir. Kelly reveals this was her autobiography and
Speaker 1: promises that the events were true and genuine, but she
Speaker 1: may have forgotten what everyone was wearing. And oddly that's
Speaker 1: the line the movie ends with, I thought it was
Speaker 1: strange where all of a sudd and now she's doing
Speaker 1: the original project she was supposed to do for her
Speaker 1: middle school. Yeah, but she's no longer a part of which,
Speaker 1: also from a writing standpoint, made no sense whatsoever. Her
Speaker 1: This was La Familia from the original No Desk middle.
Speaker 2: School, family driven school, and I'm gonna call it La Familia.
Speaker 1: It was okay anyway, there's her film, and now we've
Speaker 1: got our real reviews, Sabrina, because you loved it so much,
Speaker 1: why don't you take the five stars?
Speaker 2: I am gonna take the five star. And this is
Speaker 2: from our good friend who nahmed, Yes, I hate Disney films. Okay,
Speaker 2: but this one, this one's good. Hillary Dove, with her
Speaker 2: squeaky little voice, depicts an amazing comedy drama movie.
Speaker 3: Five stars.
Speaker 1: Okay, I've got the one star and it's from De
Speaker 1: Tanya two, which hopefully has better opinions than dtan.
Speaker 3: You one hate that.
Speaker 1: Person, hate her, hate her, so I would have been
Speaker 1: willing to give this a two just because Hillary Duff
Speaker 1: is cute, but then the dad rescue thing near the end,
Speaker 1: can anyone in caps see that this is moronic?
Speaker 3: In caps?
Speaker 1: To repel down a cliff straight over an unconscious victim,
Speaker 1: can you say falling rocks? Then when she gets down there,
Speaker 1: she flips him over like a rag doll. Can you
Speaker 1: say quadriplegic? Because that's how a trauma victim might end
Speaker 1: up easily if you move them, especially twisting the neck
Speaker 1: and spine as she did. After this scene, I almost
Speaker 1: had to go puke one star.
Speaker 3: All right, well, in.
Speaker 6: All honestly, she's not wraw wrong.
Speaker 2: I was thinking the same thing. She's going directly over him,
Speaker 2: and then when she just like whips him around him like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, let's.
Speaker 3: Check your neck injury. There you go.
Speaker 1: And now it's Sabrina's favorite part of the program. We
Speaker 1: have our feature presentation. This one is called Alliteration Nation.
Speaker 1: Cadet Kelly is not the only example of a d
Speaker 1: COM that has withstood the test of time. It's also
Speaker 1: a rare DCOM title with an alliteration, which is when
Speaker 1: multiple words start with the same sound or letter cadet kelly.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna be given other titles with a liver
Speaker 1: with a literation based on past d coms we've watched,
Speaker 1: and we have to guess which movie is being described.
Speaker 1: For example, if we get Slamming Siblings, that's first of
Speaker 1: all an awful.
Speaker 2: Title and still the last siblings.
Speaker 3: Yes, so yeah, here we go three out five?
Speaker 4: Got it wrong? Got wrong? Not wrestling slam like slam Duncan.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, first of all, Slamming Siblings sounds like the
Speaker 1: worst porn title ever made, and that's.
Speaker 2: Supposed to be double Team.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna die.
Speaker 4: Here we go. It was great too because she was like, yeah,
Speaker 4: wrestling Jensen her get away with missing the example.
Speaker 1: But on the other hand, well, not, here we go
Speaker 1: three other five wins. So I don't think I understand
Speaker 1: this because Emotional Monster, well I guess that's kind of
Speaker 1: an alliteration.
Speaker 4: Emotional listen. I did play with that one too, but
Speaker 4: emotional emotional Monster does.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that works. Okay, so number one Emotional Monster.
Speaker 2: And we've seen these d coms, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: Emotional Monster is Oh, it's the first one, the one
Speaker 2: with Robin Robin in it.
Speaker 3: Oh, oh, are you talking about fuzz Bucket?
Speaker 2: Fuzz Bucket?
Speaker 4: I mean, are you voting.
Speaker 1: Are you voting?
Speaker 3: Yes, fuzz Buget.
Speaker 4: I don't find fuzz Bucket to be emotional or a monster,
Speaker 4: but I do find the Mummy from under Wraps to
Speaker 4: be emotional.
Speaker 3: And oh there you go.
Speaker 1: Oh this is gonna be a tough one overall. And
Speaker 1: it's movies we've seen. So Number two singing sophomores. It
Speaker 1: can't be pitch perfect, So singing sophomores.
Speaker 3: What's a singing movie? Oh? Oh, high school musical?
Speaker 2: Yes, high school musical for.
Speaker 4: Will got it? Sabrina agreed, one and one each.
Speaker 3: Number three. Phantom Father, Oh, Phantom Father. Do we have
Speaker 3: a dead dad?
Speaker 4: I mean there's a lot of dead dads.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you could easily do Brink as the
Speaker 1: Phantom Father. Phantom Father.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of absent dads too. This one's a
Speaker 4: little more in line.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, Phantom something with a ghost? What do we
Speaker 3: what do we do? That was a ghost Phantom at
Speaker 3: the Megaplex.
Speaker 2: I know, I keep thinking Phantom of the Megaplex, But
Speaker 2: that was.
Speaker 4: I mean, I also wouldn't use a word from this.
Speaker 6: Yes, I know, I know, I know, right, but that's true.
Speaker 3: Phantom Father, ghosts, Phantom Father what's the one with a dad?
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I want to do this one every week now, Yes,
Speaker 4: dad napped?
Speaker 3: Oh god, of course, oh god? Number four Surfing sisters.
Speaker 2: Surfing Sisters.
Speaker 3: Did we do a surfing movie? Oh yeah, what's that?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Oh Curls girls?
Speaker 4: Both you too? So here's here's for the victory. Last one.
Speaker 3: You gotta get Maturing Mermaid. It's gotta be thirteenth year.
Speaker 4: Thirteenth gave you, gave you a slightly easier one. This
Speaker 4: game kind of rules. I might have to bring that.
Speaker 2: I really like it. I'm remembering names though.
Speaker 3: That's the Oh my god, I don't bring that back.
Speaker 3: Thank you Jensen, Thank you all right.
Speaker 2: Sabrito ses Mic Okay, this is one of my favorite
Speaker 2: subrities I've ever seen, because it was like, if you
Speaker 2: go back and rewatch it, you've got to watch. The
Speaker 2: very first scene is literally in the exact exact location.
Speaker 2: So remember the ribbon dancing, Yeah, exact location of Together
Speaker 2: we Can from the Cheetah Girls exactly. That's how I knew,
Speaker 2: because they were even doing at first, I get my
Speaker 2: first Sabrina seas Is, Oh, here we go with those
Speaker 2: wonderful exterior shots of New York and then it goes
Speaker 2: right into this park and I'm like, oh wait, wait
Speaker 2: for us together, we can where we're up on the
Speaker 2: little cement area and the green bag. Oh, it was
Speaker 2: so cute. That's like my favorite Sabrina sees. I've ever
Speaker 2: seen a movie that was the timeline of this movie
Speaker 2: had me all over the place, like the fact that
Speaker 2: like when we're in New York that then they're getting married,
Speaker 2: Like what's which what feels the next day but I
Speaker 2: can't imagine that would really be it. Then which feels
Speaker 2: like what it seems like it's a week later is
Speaker 2: when she finds out she's pregnant, Like wait what like whoa?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're trying to show passage, but.
Speaker 2: They're not doing in any sense really I think. And
Speaker 2: then again, the biggest one was the mom being very pregnant.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like eight months pregnant by that point.
Speaker 2: Right, because she's she's not just like a little pop,
Speaker 2: she's like ready to pop, like she's pregnant pregnant. So
Speaker 2: that was very strange. You didn't even really go into
Speaker 2: it on get now that's somebody who's ready to get
Speaker 2: down and dirty.
Speaker 3: No, I didn't want kids too. I can't.
Speaker 2: It's like, I cannot believe that was said. And then
Speaker 2: the fact that not one adult or anyone was told
Speaker 2: that this child who's out of competition a school event,
Speaker 2: was notified, even the mom that's just right there, right
Speaker 2: there in the bleachers. No one said, Hey, we've.
Speaker 6: Got an emergency, this is what we're going to be doing.
Speaker 2: That was so weird to me because if that's like
Speaker 2: a position I was if one of my girls, if
Speaker 2: we were at one of our competitions and she just
Speaker 2: vanished and I found out it was like her parent
Speaker 2: just left. And of course it's if there's an emergency,
Speaker 2: that's fine, but like I'm in charge of them, Like, yeah.
Speaker 6: You can't just like take them without at least letting
Speaker 6: me know.
Speaker 2: I would be pounding down bathroom doors looking for your child.
Speaker 2: It's like I would be going rampage on this like
Speaker 2: campus or wherever we were. So that was just crazy. Lastly,
Speaker 2: Captain Stone leaving, now you touched on it, and I
Speaker 2: didn't want to get into it just yet because I
Speaker 2: want to save it to me and I want to
Speaker 2: ask Christy because I feel like I remember possible rumors
Speaker 2: of a Cadet Kelly too. That's what I felt like
Speaker 2: they were setting it up like that whole re like
Speaker 2: kind of doing the oh, I'm going to be in Europe,
Speaker 2: you know, to where she comes back and is is
Speaker 2: actually now you know, a platoon leader like that was
Speaker 2: what I felt like was going to be set up
Speaker 2: for a second Cadet Kelly and I can't wait that
Speaker 2: wee do to get our interview if we're gonna get
Speaker 2: the answer, was that actually something that was going and
Speaker 2: like then you know, either Christy wasn't gonna be a
Speaker 2: part of it? Was she maybe a part of it?
Speaker 2: All of that goodness we cannot not get from her?
Speaker 3: Get all right, we'll have to ask when she is there.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Sabrina, You're Wolcome.
Speaker 2: Now is the.
Speaker 3: Time where we rate our movie one out of ten.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it, and I think we should do
Speaker 1: ten as the most this time. The possibilities one out
Speaker 1: of ten. Stars of Kim possible, sad photographer, divorced dads,
Speaker 1: dirty water, hot dogs, surviving fish one at a ten,
Speaker 1: scream gasps one out of ten. Slightly annoying cadets scenes
Speaker 1: from Carrie five year old Soldiers one at a ten
Speaker 1: cold step Dad handshakes or one at a ten West
Speaker 1: Side stories with Amma, what are you going to pick?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get slightly. We have to slightly Cadets.
Speaker 1: All right, and I think I'm supposed to go first
Speaker 1: this time.
Speaker 3: Okay, there's a lot in this movie that was good.
Speaker 1: The cast for the most part was great. You know,
Speaker 1: Gary Cole and Christy can't go wrong. A lot of
Speaker 1: it needed a big rewrite.
Speaker 3: I did not.
Speaker 1: I still don't know what the goal of this movie was.
Speaker 1: At first it was she's gonna go and change changed
Speaker 1: military school, and then she just completely conforms, and then
Speaker 1: it's about her joining the drill team, and then it's
Speaker 1: about family, and then I don't.
Speaker 3: A lot going on. They needed to pick a story.
Speaker 1: That being said, again, it was what it was. It's
Speaker 1: too long. It needed an edit. People are gonna hate me,
Speaker 1: But I'm going to give this six point five.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I thought you were gonna be way harsher.
Speaker 1: No again, because the cast kind of saves it, and
Speaker 1: I get the nostalgia of the movie. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give this a six point five. Annoying Cadets and I
Speaker 1: think that's being generous. I know people have a lot
Speaker 1: of nostalgia attached to this movie, but I think if
Speaker 1: you take the nostalgia out and you actually watch as
Speaker 1: a movie, parts of it just aren't that great.
Speaker 3: Christy shines, Gary Cole shines.
Speaker 1: It needed a massive rewrite, it really did, and they're
Speaker 1: the love story, but the whole Brad thing was absolutely pointless,
Speaker 1: hundred percent, so didn't understand any of that needed a
Speaker 1: big rite.
Speaker 2: So I am going on the stance of what we
Speaker 2: sort of I guess, defend ourselves or like talk exactly
Speaker 2: what you're talking about, trying to take the nostalgia away
Speaker 2: from it. Now. For me, it was an easy watch.
Speaker 2: I loved watching it on that nostalgia level. However, when
Speaker 2: I'm doing this and writing down my little things that
Speaker 2: I noticed and getting confused and really kind of picking
Speaker 2: it apart like we do every other movie, I think
Speaker 2: it's only fair to make sure I'm doing it with
Speaker 2: this one and rating it the same way. Sure, and
Speaker 2: without the nostalgia. I agree with you a lot of
Speaker 2: this stuff of just not I feel like we were
Speaker 2: just like almost like what her character is like, I'm
Speaker 2: bumping into this wall. Okay, I'm gonna turn around and
Speaker 2: go with this story. Okay, I'm gonna go with this
Speaker 2: story life, I'm gonna go with this story. That was
Speaker 2: like something that was really confusing and could have definitely
Speaker 2: been more polished. But at the same time, like you said,
Speaker 2: the cast once again saves the day of any type
Speaker 2: of thing that will pull it down too far. But
Speaker 2: for me, it did pull it down enough. I would
Speaker 2: definitely have rated this up in the Nines.
Speaker 3: Back in the day, Okay.
Speaker 2: Back in the day, and then if I was doing
Speaker 2: nostalgia only, it would still be up there because I
Speaker 2: loved watching this movie.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 2: I loved watching them together. Like I said, these were
Speaker 2: the stars of the channel of my time like when
Speaker 2: I was watching it, and I love seeing them in
Speaker 2: a movie together. However, today I'm going to be giving
Speaker 2: them a seven point five okay, slightly annoying cadets because
Speaker 2: of all of those things that I could not help
Speaker 2: but notice. Yeah, of course, take the nostalgia away. It's
Speaker 2: kind of like it's an okay movie. Yeah, it's an
Speaker 2: okay movie. It's not as great as I remembered it
Speaker 2: being yeap. However, the style is still there and I
Speaker 2: still love them together. And I want them to do
Speaker 2: Cadet Kelly too. I am here for Let them be running.
Speaker 2: Let the two women be running at military school and
Speaker 2: be there you go.
Speaker 3: Thank you everybody for joining us.
Speaker 1: Our next movie is new to the Magical Rewind Feed,
Speaker 1: but we've mentioned it before.
Speaker 3: I can't believe we're doing this.
Speaker 1: It's the two thousand and nine sports mascot comedy Hatching
Speaker 1: Pete You rayb me? This this, oh man, this is
Speaker 1: the movie that Sabrina and I recapped before the podcast
Speaker 1: even debuted. It was our chemistry test. I guess you
Speaker 1: could sell. And here we are two years later, still
Speaker 1: recapping d cooms and returning to your roots.
Speaker 3: Do you remember? Do you gotta watch again?
Speaker 2: Oh? I'm for sure watching it again because until after
Speaker 2: we've seen all of these back to back. Now it's
Speaker 2: gonna be even more hilarious.
Speaker 3: I know. I can't wait. I can't wait.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Well, you can watch it right now in Disney Plus
Speaker 1: and get ready for our next big recap and join
Speaker 1: us over there on our other feed.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: Our park Opper episode is going to have oh an
Speaker 1: old friend.
Speaker 3: Actually, I don't want to call her old because she'll
Speaker 3: hit me. A season friend.
Speaker 1: No, okay, I've known this person for a while, is
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It is one of my closest besties.
Speaker 1: Christy Carlson Romano, Yes that's right, Captain Stone herself or
Speaker 1: Kim Possible or Ren Stevens or just about anything else
Speaker 1: on the channel you want to call her is joining
Speaker 1: us once again because we all know Cadet Kelly's blown up.
Speaker 1: Our timing could not have been better, and she, right
Speaker 1: in the middle of filming a brand new movie, decided
Speaker 1: to join us. For more info, you can follow us
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