Speaker 1: Sabrina.
Speaker 2: Yes, Will, it's.
Speaker 1: A special one today. It's a special one for a
Speaker 1: number of reasons. Today, I know I'm pretty excited.
Speaker 3: I just want to jump in. Do you just want
Speaker 3: to jump in both feet?
Speaker 4: Get to share all about how your love of musicals
Speaker 4: is just gaining week by week as we go through
Speaker 4: these movies.
Speaker 1: You know, me just need to.
Speaker 4: Know how much like you are now, like I want
Speaker 4: to be John Travolta exactly again.
Speaker 1: I just love where a whole group of people get
Speaker 1: together and for some reason know the dance, know the song,
Speaker 1: and it's like they've all just rehearsed without rehearsing. You know,
Speaker 1: That's my thing I have.
Speaker 4: Actually, when we get into it, it made me realize
Speaker 4: there are different kinds of musicals and I can't wait
Speaker 4: to figure out which ones are best suited for you. Yes,
Speaker 4: I agree this was different than the first one.
Speaker 1: Is it was? It was? Well, we will talk about that.
Speaker 1: So first, welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show that
Speaker 1: makes you want to grab your friends, your pjs, and
Speaker 1: your popcorn and go back to a time when all
Speaker 1: the houses were smart, the wave, Tsunamis and the high
Speaker 1: school's musical. I'm Will for Dell.
Speaker 2: And I'm Sabrina Bryan.
Speaker 1: Guys. Next up is Sequel Town. Yes, we're tackling a
Speaker 1: movie we've been waiting to address for quite some time
Speaker 1: on the pod.
Speaker 3: Some might even say that we're howling at the moon
Speaker 3: for it.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right. This week we own the night with
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen's Zombies two. It's the second installment in what
Speaker 1: is currently jocking for the number one position for the
Speaker 1: channel's top movie franchise.
Speaker 3: It's neck and neck with Descendants, but.
Speaker 1: If you ask our very special guest her thoughts, this
Speaker 1: sits at number one all by itself. And to think
Speaker 1: it all started with a failed pilot. Now joining us
Speaker 1: this week to recap this dcom is my fellow pod
Speaker 1: Meets World co host, one of the nation's top adult
Speaker 1: zombies fans, or zomb heads as I'm calling them.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: You probably know her as Rachel on Friends, Diane on Cheers.
Speaker 1: He was also Sivil Shepherd on Moonlighting. No, she was,
Speaker 1: of course TVs Topanga. Yes, it is Danielle Fischel joining
Speaker 1: us this week. Danielle, thank you for coming on Magic as.
Speaker 2: I'm so thrilled to join you. Guys. I'm a big
Speaker 2: fan of your pod.
Speaker 1: Uh And so even know we were doing this who
Speaker 1: are you?
Speaker 2: Who are you, sir? To be like watching siblings bicker
Speaker 2: the whole time, I would know nothing about that. I
Speaker 2: would know ye will I know you? You ish on you.
Speaker 5: Poop you pooh pooh on the musical I do. They're
Speaker 5: in my onion. There is no way you can poo
Speaker 5: poo the zombies.
Speaker 1: You just wait, I can poo poo anything that's true.
Speaker 4: The first Zombi he loves get one of his highest ratings.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, actually admitted on the podcast that he
Speaker 4: is now like zombie head. Yes, well, yes, he definitely
Speaker 4: is like about the musicals because we do have a
Speaker 4: huge issue from him on how these musicals handle themselves.
Speaker 4: And I'm a little nervous to hear about it because,
Speaker 4: in my opinion, I think we went back a couple
Speaker 4: of steps of what will enjoys from a musical. While
Speaker 4: I was watching this, I went, oh, no, oh God,
Speaker 4: And Danielle's gonna be honest with us.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Well we'll get into it. We'll get
Speaker 1: in into it all. But so we have talked obviously
Speaker 1: a lot about how both you and Ryder Strong helped
Speaker 1: to launch this podcast for us, and immediately both started
Speaker 1: fighting over which Zombies movie you would come on.
Speaker 5: And literally the day you guys announced the podcast, Writer
Speaker 5: and I were like, we got into it.
Speaker 2: But you know, Writer and I, we are nothing if
Speaker 2: not adults.
Speaker 1: That's true, That's very true.
Speaker 4: What my first question for you, though, is how did
Speaker 4: you get in? Both of you guys, how did you
Speaker 4: really get into watching the zombie movies. It had to
Speaker 4: have been with your kids, of.
Speaker 5: Course, it was with my kids. And my oldest son
Speaker 5: has liked being scared. He has liked horror. He has
Speaker 5: liked Halloween, the absolute antithesis of me.
Speaker 2: I do not like being scared. I do not like horror.
Speaker 5: I do did not like Halloween. But then you have
Speaker 5: a child and they are just their own little person.
Speaker 5: And he saw the Zombies advertisement on Disney Plus and
Speaker 5: he saw it was for Zombies too. Because Adler was
Speaker 5: born in twenty nineteen, it was like Zombies two was
Speaker 5: already out for a while.
Speaker 2: I don't even know, you know, he was like he
Speaker 2: was young, but he saw it and he was like,
Speaker 2: what is that? And it looked intriguing to him.
Speaker 5: He wanted to watch it, so we did, and I
Speaker 5: immediately was like, this is a banger. Anyone who has
Speaker 5: kids knows that your children like to watch the same
Speaker 5: thing over and over and over again.
Speaker 2: So when you, as a.
Speaker 5: Parent find something you like, you're regularly swaying them to
Speaker 5: that thing. Like you turn on the TV and you're like,
Speaker 5: everyone watches zombies, Zombie. We're zombiing, right, We're gonna zombie today.
Speaker 5: And that was me with these movies.
Speaker 1: Okay, is now is too your favorite of the of
Speaker 1: because the fourth one's about to be released?
Speaker 5: Or was just I know it's coming out, so it's
Speaker 5: coming out May twenty third. I think, yeah, May twenty third.
Speaker 5: I have a dear friend, Malachi who's in Zombies four,
Speaker 5: very excited for Z four. You know what Z one
Speaker 5: and Z two as I'm gonna call them. Oh, George
Speaker 5: just said July tenth, You may twenty third, July tenth.
Speaker 5: Is there any difference between those two things?
Speaker 3: Now, it's coming on July tenth year, but July tenth
Speaker 3: in the South, just so.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows exactly, or twenty third.
Speaker 1: At Danielle's house, Jill loses.
Speaker 2: If it comes out May twenty third.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't get around to it till July tenth anyway,
Speaker 5: so it's totally fine. So I love Zombies one, and
Speaker 5: then I was very nervous for Zombies two. I was like,
Speaker 5: oh no, how could this possibly And I think it's
Speaker 5: at the very least just as good. Okay, I think
Speaker 5: I prefer the music of Zombies two to Zombies one.
Speaker 2: So music alone old, Yeah, I think I think music
Speaker 2: alone Zombies two wins for me.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: I think as bands, like for some reason, we feel
Speaker 4: like we have to decide which was better, and we
Speaker 4: just just like they can't.
Speaker 1: You don't have to, but you do.
Speaker 4: You're looking at the music. I mean, because now for me,
Speaker 4: I was just in shock and awe. I loved the
Speaker 4: first one so much. Yeah, and so it was like
Speaker 4: I literally just kind of just sat and watched it
Speaker 4: and enjoyed it. Versus this one. I knew what to expect.
Speaker 4: I didn't know what to expect the last time. I
Speaker 4: knew what to expect. I was a ginormous fan of
Speaker 4: the choreography the first time. So now I'm looking at
Speaker 4: that and you know, it's just like you have a
Speaker 4: little bit more of an ability to kind of feel
Speaker 4: like you're critiquing, especially if you were a big fan
Speaker 4: of the first one.
Speaker 1: Yea, yeah, that was me. I well, let's see, let's
Speaker 1: see how we're going to do here. People. By the way, Danielle,
Speaker 1: I talk very fast and we just run over each other.
Speaker 1: So when you want to jump in with your expertise,
Speaker 1: please just jump in with your.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, sure, yeah, that's that's how we roll here.
Speaker 5: I can't believe I don't have to leave lead this podcast.
Speaker 5: I just get Jack gets nice and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 1: Zombies two, or zombis de as they say in France,
Speaker 1: debuted on February fourteenth, twenty twenty, Yes, Valentine's Day, which
Speaker 1: is exactly the zombie ish, most zombie I guess holiday
Speaker 1: you could have, almost exactly two years after the original,
Speaker 1: which as we know, was a big hit for the studio,
Speaker 1: bringing in just over two point five million viewers on
Speaker 1: premiere night. Now we've talked about the different numbers, how
Speaker 1: nowadays two point five is really good. Where some of
Speaker 1: these early high school musicals were pulling in eighteen nineteen
Speaker 1: twenty million, But nowadays with the kids and their little
Speaker 1: iPads and the stuff, they're focus going all over the place,
Speaker 1: two point five million on premiere night, still pretty damn good,
Speaker 1: and now with a sequel. The channel knew what they
Speaker 1: had on their hands and promoted it beyond belief, and
Speaker 1: yet it attracted almost exactly the same number of viewers.
Speaker 1: For its debut, they clocked two point four to seven
Speaker 1: million viewers, so just under the two point five million
Speaker 1: the Zombies one attracted. But it did perform better than
Speaker 1: the original with young adult between the ages of eighteen
Speaker 1: and forty nine, which is very important, so you win
Speaker 1: some and you lose them. And also Zombies two had
Speaker 1: a better critical response at its predecessor. So, Danielle, you
Speaker 1: might be onto something.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I could be a critic.
Speaker 1: You know, you absolutely good. The Rotten Tomatoes average is
Speaker 1: seven point five out of ten, which is actually pretty
Speaker 1: damn good for a d com. It's no Dad Napped,
Speaker 1: but it's.
Speaker 2: Up it isnap. What was the score of Dad Napped?
Speaker 1: It was negative six, to the point where the star
Speaker 1: of Dad Nap, George Newburn, came on and the first
Speaker 1: thing he asked was why did you review Dad Napped?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: I love it, I love it exactly. This movie was
Speaker 1: shot over two month period in wait for our people.
Speaker 1: No shock here Toronto, and we're going to get in
Speaker 1: the cast and crew in a bit. But they were lucky,
Speaker 1: frankly to get everyone back. One thing that makes Zombies
Speaker 1: so unique than the fact that while they're singing and
Speaker 1: dancing zombies and we talked about this for the original,
Speaker 1: the movie features no prior Disney Channel stars, which really
Speaker 1: hadn't been done before. They started from scratch with a
Speaker 1: lot of unknown at the time, So I'm sure that
Speaker 1: helped with scheduling and booking the follow up with all
Speaker 1: the same actors, because again, you're not Bookings and DAYA
Speaker 1: and everybody else right now. We talked about this a
Speaker 1: little on Pod Mets World, Danielle, But your relationship with dcoms,
Speaker 1: how were you never asked to star in a Disney
Speaker 1: chap wild or were you?
Speaker 2: And you turned out no, I was never asked a
Speaker 2: star on a d com.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you why. I was like an ugly stepchild
Speaker 5: to Disney and ABC. I the whole time we were
Speaker 5: on Boy Meets World, I was paid significantly less than
Speaker 5: every other cast member.
Speaker 2: Everybody just acted like I was lucky to be there.
Speaker 5: Nobody, nobody gave it about me, so I flew real
Speaker 5: under the radar.
Speaker 1: It's so true and so weird because you are clearly
Speaker 1: the most famous character and person from Boy Meets World.
Speaker 1: Now I mean clear. I mean there's no I don't
Speaker 1: know about that. I may be the most recognizable, but
Speaker 1: I mean when people think about Boy Meets World, I
Speaker 1: think Topanga.
Speaker 2: People don't pass by you without knowing who you are.
Speaker 1: Oh no, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2: And hair, yes, hair is. Hair's a big one. If
Speaker 2: I have my hair in like a braid and a hat,
Speaker 2: I can possibly scale. I can.
Speaker 1: There's Topanga in a braid and a hat. Happens again?
Speaker 1: Can verify? Okay? Now, per usual, everybody, He's Zombies two
Speaker 1: is available to stream right now.
Speaker 3: In Disney Plus. Watch it now, watch it later, Do
Speaker 3: a little dance.
Speaker 1: Make a little love, get down, get down tonight, you
Speaker 1: know what ever you want to do? Did you watch
Speaker 1: it later?
Speaker 2: So Z two came out in twenty twenty.
Speaker 5: Adler was born in twenty nineteen, So when Z two
Speaker 5: came out and it was all over Disney Plus, Adler
Speaker 5: was like, I want to watch that. So then we
Speaker 5: were like okay, And I don't think we started with
Speaker 5: Z two. I think we were like, but we may have.
Speaker 5: We may have watched it first and then been like, oh,
Speaker 5: there's others. Let's once he loved it and we watched,
Speaker 5: so we may have watched him out of order.
Speaker 2: I don't remember.
Speaker 1: Okay, you can kind of jump into and figure out
Speaker 1: what's going on.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, they do, especially in the beginning, like
Speaker 4: they do so much to kind of give you backstory
Speaker 4: of what's happened. Correct, not necessarily what happened in the
Speaker 4: first movie, but what within their world.
Speaker 1: Which which is kind of cool. Sabrina, were you as
Speaker 1: excited to get to the sequel afterwards?
Speaker 4: I was, I'm dying to get to so many of
Speaker 4: these sequels and I just see how they compared to
Speaker 4: each other.
Speaker 2: But also, like I said, I loved this was super creative.
Speaker 4: This and Descendants blew me away of how creative they
Speaker 4: are to do these very cool storylines. And then my god,
Speaker 4: the acting and dancing and just talent that these kids have.
Speaker 2: It just is like magical.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I couldn't wait to see how these storylines evolved,
Speaker 4: And because we interviewed so many of them, we knew
Speaker 4: that they were going to be introducing new.
Speaker 2: I guess groups of characters or whatever it was.
Speaker 1: Dicast on the.
Speaker 2: Original four of them. Yeah, they had a lot. So
Speaker 2: Zombies for me is like Godfather.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: One one is great? Yeah, two maybe even better than
Speaker 5: one and three.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, we haven't seen the third one. Ye oh jeez,
Speaker 1: you know, I like, you know, you gotta finish it up.
Speaker 2: You got it up, you got it, you know.
Speaker 1: But but still great, but just not quite.
Speaker 2: As if you did never get to it, it would
Speaker 2: be okay.
Speaker 1: That would be okay, fair enough, Okay, well, okay, now
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see the third one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now let's get into our synopsis.
Speaker 1: Though, cheerleader Addison and zombie Z face a new challenge
Speaker 1: to their school's harmony when mysterious where wolves arrive in Seabrook.
Speaker 1: Were Wolves was this exciting? Were you guys both excited
Speaker 1: that they threw were wolves in?
Speaker 7: Loved it, thrill, loved it, loved and thought they did
Speaker 7: the werewolves in such a good way too.
Speaker 1: Totally well, especially for dancing, singing were wolves, which are
Speaker 1: like the least nor of the were.
Speaker 5: Wolves sexy, sexy, where you were I never like.
Speaker 2: A girl life have thought, well, I'd like to be
Speaker 2: a were wolf.
Speaker 5: Watching this movie, I'm like, all right, if I had
Speaker 5: to beast from the undead, I would be a werewolf.
Speaker 7: They do talk, they do talk about how they have
Speaker 7: great hair, so I think the monster for you.
Speaker 5: But they also still get like vampire teeth, which I
Speaker 5: know we're supposed to be like dog like ninety.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love the eyes.
Speaker 1: Sexy Twilight wolves.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, yeah, in Twilight they actually turn into wolves.
Speaker 1: So I actually liked that.
Speaker 2: This was just it was easy to like just I
Speaker 2: just got humans.
Speaker 4: They were still humans if they just had like these
Speaker 4: werewolf qualities that like would come out, especially when they
Speaker 4: were being fierce.
Speaker 2: And then.
Speaker 1: No, it was better in Twilight. The whole time they're
Speaker 1: walking around with their shirts off in the rain, I
Speaker 1: just kept thinking, how are you not getting sick every year?
Speaker 1: That was going through my head, and as you've been.
Speaker 2: Sick for a year, not what the rest of the
Speaker 2: fan base was thinking.
Speaker 1: Well, that's what I was thinking.
Speaker 2: Different.
Speaker 1: Zombies two was directed by dcom master Paul Howen, which
Speaker 1: we've talked about. We've just been dominated by his filmography lately,
Speaker 1: but to remind you, he started on Kids Incorporated. I
Speaker 1: won't sing the theme song Sabrina the Teenage Witch and
Speaker 1: Alex Mack and then eventually got into the channel's movie
Speaker 1: Biz with and you could recite this list with me
Speaker 1: by now, Luck of the Irish, you wish read it
Speaker 1: and weep Jump in Cheetah Girls, One World, Camp, Rock
Speaker 1: to Let It Shine, and now the entire Zombies franchise.
Speaker 1: What a frickin' legend. The movie stars the returning Milo
Speaker 1: Manheim as Zed We love Milo so much and unknown
Speaker 1: when he was cast in Zombies. He's since appeared on
Speaker 1: the Connors in Somewhat Adult Decom which we also love,
Speaker 1: prompacked Eli Ross Thanksgiving, which I'm guessing is a scary Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: and in the Suprena Carpenter music video for Feathers, which
Speaker 1: is a whole bunch of words I don't understand.
Speaker 2: In a row It's just feather, feather?
Speaker 1: Oh is it feather? There you go? Is that okay?
Speaker 1: Does she do that with cappuccino? I don't know, it's espresso.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. She just needs to
Speaker 1: we need to talk about how she's dressing.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 1: He is the only son, of course, of Emmy and
Speaker 1: Golden Globe winner Cameron Manhein Meg.
Speaker 2: Donnaldy Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 3: Oh, he was on Dancing and he was on Dancing
Speaker 3: with the Stars, Sabrina.
Speaker 2: He was and he was so good. I mean, I.
Speaker 1: I've never watched Dancing with the.
Speaker 3: Stars, Meg Donnelly. Friend of the show is Addison.
Speaker 1: She was also a new name when she entered the
Speaker 1: Zombie universe and has since released pop music of her
Speaker 1: own and played Taylor Auto on the show American Housewife.
Speaker 1: Friend of the show, Trevor Toorgman plays Bucky. He's hilarious
Speaker 1: and we interviewed him for this very podcast, as we
Speaker 1: did Meg, so you can go find those on our
Speaker 1: dedicated feed. He is an incredible dancer who was on
Speaker 1: the Next Step for over one hundred and thirty episodes
Speaker 1: and recently appeared in the new hilarious seth Rogen show
Speaker 1: The Studio.
Speaker 3: Then we got Chandler Kinney. She's a new addition to Zomblies.
Speaker 3: She played Willa. Chandler had already been on some.
Speaker 1: Disney TV shows that I'm sure you're aware of, one
Speaker 1: of them called Girl Meets World Not familiar with It
Speaker 1: and Casey Undercover, but also starred in the television version
Speaker 1: of Lethal Weapon. She also later played Tabby on Pretty
Speaker 1: Little Liar's Original Sin. She was also on Dancy with
Speaker 1: the Stars producer Lisa Thank You, also on Dancing with
Speaker 1: the Star. Ariel Martin, known as Baby Ariel, is also
Speaker 1: a new edition as Winter. Ariel's career began with popular
Speaker 1: lip sync videos on an app called Music dot Lee,
Speaker 1: which would turn into a little something called the TikTok
Speaker 1: Her massive following turned into a real Hollywood career, appearing
Speaker 1: on Bizarre Vark and it's just musically not music dot
Speaker 1: l y as old Magil said, and I'm saying TikTok
Speaker 1: am I saying that correctly. Thank You, appeared on biz
Speaker 1: Vark and Henry Danger, then getting the call for Zombies two.
Speaker 1: She also recently appeared in the movie Suncoast Danielle shooting
Speaker 1: it at you is Bizarre Vark. It's what it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a strange name. Danielle favorite character in Zombies go
Speaker 1: Willa Bamn interesting like that.
Speaker 2: I am obsessed with all things Willa. I think she her.
Speaker 5: Dancing, She is so stunningly beautiful. I cannot keep my
Speaker 5: eyes off her. Her singing is amazing. She definitely has
Speaker 5: a lot of good character development and like, I understand
Speaker 5: her motivations, I understand why, I understand everything that's going
Speaker 5: on for her.
Speaker 2: I think she's I just in Zombies too. Willa is
Speaker 2: my favorite.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, love that. Zombies' two runs O g'z people
Speaker 1: ninety four minutes. This is awkward because we're big Zombies
Speaker 1: fans here, But that's four minutes.
Speaker 2: Past, four minutes past the perfect movie.
Speaker 1: I know we can all agree is say it with me.
Speaker 1: Sabrina too long. Well, let's see if we can get
Speaker 1: over it. But a bad decision by a beloved film
Speaker 1: franchise here, four minutes too long. It's okay, we're gonna
Speaker 1: stick with it.
Speaker 2: Four minutes is better than like eight or twelve.
Speaker 3: It's hey, we've had some that are a one hundred
Speaker 3: and something minutes.
Speaker 2: They probably could tell you where they could cut those
Speaker 2: four minutes.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you could have some of those dance.
Speaker 5: Numbers where there's like not even words happening, there's just
Speaker 5: dancing and like yeah and.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, and we're I'm like, we could have just
Speaker 2: trim trim those out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, trim it a little bit. We would have been
Speaker 1: ninety minutes. We'll talk to Paul about doing a director's
Speaker 1: cut that's ninety minutes long. Thank you, We Will. Zombies
Speaker 1: two is or Again. Zombie is di is written by
Speaker 1: David Light and Joseph Rasso, And we talked about this
Speaker 1: during Zombies one, But this whole franchise is based on
Speaker 1: a pilot they shot for Disney called Zombies Versus Cheerleaders.
Speaker 1: The show was not picked up by the channel, but
Speaker 1: when it came time to think about dcom ideas, this
Speaker 1: once again popped up, and the rest is history, just
Speaker 1: now in a different format, the longer format. It's a
Speaker 1: nine hour pilot now. And of course we can't talk
Speaker 1: about a Zombies movie without the mention of the Disney
Speaker 1: Records soundtrack. It was released in conjunction with the film's
Speaker 1: debut and featured new original songs by the cast. The
Speaker 1: first single was we Got This, an incredibly savvy move
Speaker 1: by the company. They also dropped a mashup of We
Speaker 1: Own the Night from this movie and Night Falls from
Speaker 1: their also recently released Descendants three. Synergy at its best, people,
Speaker 1: and it got obviously a ton of Disney radio area.
Speaker 7: God they are so smart, smart people.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh.
Speaker 9: Yep.
Speaker 1: The soundtrack has garnered over two hundred million streams and
Speaker 1: sold over two hundred and fifty thousand records. Favorite song
Speaker 1: right now? What were your favorites? Danielle Sabrina go we
Speaker 1: Own the Night.
Speaker 5: Yes, give it all the Grammys, give it, the Grammys,
Speaker 5: give it, the Oscars, give it an Emmy.
Speaker 2: We Do to Night is a bop.
Speaker 4: I didn't go back and rewatch it, but when they
Speaker 4: were at the prom, Sorry, I'm skipping forward.
Speaker 2: That song came back right. That was from the first movie. Yes,
Speaker 2: so is a crossover? Correct, Yes, they bring that one
Speaker 2: back sometimes.
Speaker 1: Thank you Jez.
Speaker 2: Yes, I loved it that part.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh yes, because it's to me still,
Speaker 4: I think that's still the best song.
Speaker 2: And I oh, you like the romance song. I normally don't.
Speaker 4: I am very sappy, but I normally don't. I normally
Speaker 4: like the high energy one. But that song, to me
Speaker 4: is just so good. It stands out.
Speaker 5: They're harmonizing and that song is gorgeous. I do like
Speaker 5: that song, but no, I got a dance. I want
Speaker 5: to shake my booty. That song can come out when
Speaker 5: I I've made several comments about wanting to do a
Speaker 5: Parent's Night out dance club where it starts at six
Speaker 5: and goes till nine and everyone's asleep by ten and
Speaker 5: and But the music that needs to be played has
Speaker 5: to be a mix of modern day and nineties like
Speaker 5: stuff that people our age love. But also because we
Speaker 5: all have kids, or most of us have kids, it
Speaker 5: has to include some of our kids' favorite music because honestly,
Speaker 5: some of those are bops too. We Own the Night
Speaker 5: is like the number one song I think of I
Speaker 5: want to dance to at my my parents club.
Speaker 3: It's just that's all the best.
Speaker 1: It is a great song. I would also need to
Speaker 1: let It Go in there somewhere.
Speaker 2: Just because from from Frozen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great song. I sing it all the time, my.
Speaker 2: Literally my least favorite song of all time.
Speaker 1: Then I know what I'm getting you.
Speaker 2: The songs in the world let It Go could really I'm.
Speaker 1: Not only going to sing that for you on tape,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to sing it with this Scientis infection
Speaker 1: so it sounds even better. And you just like it's
Speaker 1: just gonna be played on a loop. You're gonna love it. Okay, Wow, Okay, everybody,
Speaker 1: let's get the Moonstone because it's time for a recharge
Speaker 1: and let's get into this movie. We open on an
Speaker 1: animated sequence with Zed and Addison telling us how great
Speaker 1: life has been between humans and zombies and Seabrook now,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't always like that. Legend has it. When
Speaker 1: settlers first arrived, they found wild beasts with sharp claws.
Speaker 1: The settlers had to fight off an attack and in
Speaker 1: the process found a precious energy source to hide it
Speaker 1: from the beasts forever. They protected it by hiding it
Speaker 1: in a secret spot, and now the town is rich
Speaker 1: from harnessing the energy, and the beasts are a distant memory.
Speaker 1: The town forgot monsters even existed until there was an
Speaker 1: explosion that the energy plant years ago, creating zombies and
Speaker 1: the premise for our franchise, and then we get the title.
Speaker 1: Zombies too were thrown onto the beach where Zed emerges
Speaker 1: from the sand mimicking zombies return from the grave. A
Speaker 1: handful of nearby kids scream, but he is just playing around.
Speaker 1: Zombies and Seabrook are now just part of the community,
Speaker 1: joined by his little sister Zoe, who is adorable. Ze
Speaker 1: explains all of the old anti monster laws were abolished
Speaker 1: and once segregated and now upgraded, zombie Town is now
Speaker 1: open to everyone, including Z's football coach who just opened
Speaker 1: a froyo kart during the off season as a side hustle.
Speaker 2: Is this the number one movie to talk about froyo?
Speaker 7: Is this?
Speaker 2: I can't think of another movie that mentions froyo.
Speaker 7: I mean it's like part of like a sort of
Speaker 7: part of the storyline too. It's not just like an offset,
Speaker 7: like they bring it back and talk about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Wolves are like also they have froyo.
Speaker 2: It's like they really. I was wondering if maybe they
Speaker 2: were gonna do a froyo spinoff.
Speaker 1: You never know. Yeah, there's that one. Yeah, that one
Speaker 1: Western Froyo Johnson and Theros that was different, but this
Speaker 1: could be.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was trying to think of back in twenty twenty,
Speaker 4: like was that the start of I'm like, no, you'll
Speaker 4: get a little bit around for Pinkberry and all thees.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that was dinner sometimes it was such a
Speaker 2: big thing talked about.
Speaker 1: Yeah. By the way out in La Pinkberry still not
Speaker 1: as good as pink Dot. Just for the record, true,
Speaker 1: thank you. We also learned that in a few days
Speaker 1: they will be tearing down the long defunct Seabrook power
Speaker 1: plant to make way for a new cheer pavilion as
Speaker 1: the accidental birthplace of the town zombies. This is a
Speaker 1: major step for the city and Zed has no problem
Speaker 1: taking credit for it. And Zed's dead has been hired
Speaker 1: as a foreman for the demo crew, so it's coming
Speaker 1: up roses for everybody. And then we enter cheer camp.
Speaker 1: Dozens of pink clad tumblers and gymnasts and the school's mascot, Shrimpy,
Speaker 1: eagerly practiced for a week of activities. Addison, their best
Speaker 1: friend Bree, could not be more excited. Addison claims the
Speaker 1: cheer squad is now unified, but cheer Captain Bucky, Oh, Bucky,
Speaker 1: Addison's cousin, still runs a very tight and anal ship.
Speaker 3: Danielle, do you love Bucky as much as we do?
Speaker 2: Listen, I really I like Bucky.
Speaker 5: There are a few moments where I think Bucky allowed
Speaker 5: someone told him how funny he was, and someone was like,
Speaker 5: you're hilarious, And then there are a couple of moments
Speaker 5: where he was like, if I just push a little bit,
Speaker 5: it'll be even funnier, because everything I do is great,
Speaker 5: And I wished maybe somebody had said, you're doing.
Speaker 2: A little much you're at a ten. We need you
Speaker 2: had an eight.
Speaker 3: I thought exactly the same thing in this movie.
Speaker 1: It was like, ooh, he's pushing a little hard, a
Speaker 1: little hard.
Speaker 5: He's so he is still so funny, but there are
Speaker 5: a couple of moments that I think could have been
Speaker 5: even funnier.
Speaker 2: If he wasn't so wink wink.
Speaker 7: Agree on hundred, I think I do see how from
Speaker 7: the first movie he was given that feedback. He was
Speaker 7: absolutely he was great in the first movie.
Speaker 2: He did the same. He did the perfect amount in
Speaker 2: the first movie.
Speaker 1: He really did.
Speaker 2: He was over the top, but it wasn't too much.
Speaker 2: It was great.
Speaker 5: It was the feedback he then just It's like I
Speaker 5: wish somebody had said, listen, you can't believe all the good,
Speaker 5: because if you do, then you have to believe all
Speaker 5: of the bad. And so just just keep being you
Speaker 5: don't allow what the feedback you've heard to change anything
Speaker 5: about what you're doing.
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more. And for the record, it happens
Speaker 1: to the best of us. I've have episodes of Boy
Speaker 1: Meets World where I did exactly the same thing. I
Speaker 1: was told I was the funniest guy in the room,
Speaker 1: and I pushed too hard.
Speaker 2: It just it just happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does.
Speaker 4: You love that we have an interview with him and
Speaker 4: how he came up with this character and like his
Speaker 4: girlfriend was filming him for his audition piece, and you know,
Speaker 4: like he just kind of saw it and just went
Speaker 4: for it.
Speaker 1: And they love that.
Speaker 4: They were not expecting him to be that kind of
Speaker 4: character when it was great in the first movie.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah agreed. Bucky, alongside Shrimpy, tells the squad about the
Speaker 1: bloodthirsty monsters that used to live in the Seabrook Woods
Speaker 1: who reportedly would eat cheerleaders, but calls those stories silly
Speaker 1: and make believe. He points out top squad members Lacey, Stacey,
Speaker 1: and jac known collectively as the Aces, to lead the
Speaker 1: A Team Veterans, then assigns Addison and Brie as leaders
Speaker 1: of the Z Team Newbies, which includes zombies for the
Speaker 1: first time. I'me ever, Danielle. Were you a cheerleader? Oh? Man?
Speaker 2: I wanted to be a cheerleader so bad.
Speaker 7: You were working right.
Speaker 2: I was on Boy Meets World, so I couldn't be
Speaker 2: a cheerleader, but all of my girlfriends were cheerleaders.
Speaker 1: Who was a cheerleader my mom was a.
Speaker 2: Song leader in the high school, and so like that
Speaker 2: was was so cool. She went to.
Speaker 5: Lawera in Anaheim. Okay, so my mom was a song
Speaker 5: leader in high school. I went to Calabasas High and
Speaker 5: all my friends were cheerleaders, and it was like I
Speaker 5: would think to myself, Yes, if if I were not working,
Speaker 5: I would.
Speaker 2: Have been on show, television show.
Speaker 5: I would have been a forgotten cheerleader for Calabasas High,
Speaker 5: a forgotten one.
Speaker 1: Oh. We are now back at the power plant. Zed
Speaker 1: runs into his best friend Eliza, who god I love
Speaker 1: so much, who is protesting the demolition. She says it's
Speaker 1: an important part of zombie history, but Ze sees his progress.
Speaker 1: Zombies can even go to the high school.
Speaker 5: Prawn now ty In and Shrimpy. There's also maybe a
Speaker 5: little too much Shrimpy in this movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot too much. I was afraid one of
Speaker 2: you is gonna be like a big shrimp head.
Speaker 1: Okay, shellfish in this I get it. It was like
Speaker 1: it was it took that.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll get into the came its own character for
Speaker 2: no reason. So who is allowing Shrimpy to drive the bus?
Speaker 1: Well we'll get into that, because that I don't. I
Speaker 1: didn't understand that at all, but it's also parts of
Speaker 1: this movie. It was like it took. The first movie
Speaker 1: was tongue in cheek and this was tongue in cheekier
Speaker 1: and a little bit far at times for me. Yes,
Speaker 1: but anyway, Yes, the prawn now, of course is the problem,
Speaker 1: and it's a super sized prowm on Saturday on Saturday Night.
Speaker 3: But Eliza isn't sold. She returns to protesting like.
Speaker 1: She's in rage against the machine. Z also reminds us
Speaker 1: of the z the bracelet technology that keeps zombies rage
Speaker 1: at bay, helping their species coexist with humans. We're now
Speaker 1: back at cheer camp. The veterans of the newbies will
Speaker 1: compete for the cheer Camp cop, something the vets always win,
Speaker 1: but with Addison or Z squad ready for the competition, hey,
Speaker 1: anything can happen. Addison also reminds us all about her hair,
Speaker 1: which is still bright white, a reveal at the end
Speaker 1: of Zombies One when she removed her wig and debuted
Speaker 1: a unique birth effect that's the perfect target for bullying.
Speaker 1: One of our other favorite zombies from the first movie,
Speaker 1: meet Heead Bonzo, is also a camper ready to stop
Speaker 1: the competition which is starting now. Addison leads a group
Speaker 1: into a routine and cheer, also kicking off our first song,
Speaker 1: Better than Ever. It's a duet with the cheer team
Speaker 1: and Zed and allies over at the plant. The gist
Speaker 1: of the song, Addison praises her squad, Bucky diss is it,
Speaker 1: Zed praises the plant demolition, and Eliza fears it, and
Speaker 1: Zed announces his plan to take Addison to Prawn and
Speaker 1: make the school's Wall of fame together. What did we
Speaker 1: think of the first song? Better than Ever?
Speaker 4: I was like, yes, finally, Why did it take so
Speaker 4: oh damn long for them to start dancing and doing
Speaker 4: what I need them to do?
Speaker 2: You're right, it was. It was a slow burn getting it.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 7: However, then I'm going because I've got will now, I
Speaker 7: have Will in the back of my head here always
Speaker 7: talking right, And the.
Speaker 4: Rules of this competition were non existent, and id I'm
Speaker 4: big on rules.
Speaker 2: Really big on rules, and I'm like, it's right.
Speaker 4: I mean, the first team goes and does a completely
Speaker 4: different obstacle and then all of a sudden, our zombies
Speaker 4: are just allowed to zip line.
Speaker 1: Like that's all ship.
Speaker 7: They didn't win the cup.
Speaker 2: They took a different direction.
Speaker 5: You can't do that.
Speaker 2: However, the dancing was was great and I loved the
Speaker 2: song it was it got me.
Speaker 6: I love that.
Speaker 1: I'm in Sabrina's head to the point where she's now questioning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, this is garbage. He didn't bump me,
Speaker 2: didn't know.
Speaker 1: He didn't win.
Speaker 2: The wall change the wall changed you. I mean like
Speaker 2: you prepared. They prepared. They were like, listen, if we're
Speaker 2: going to win this, we have to do an obstacle course.
Speaker 2: And honestly they were right. If you were to just
Speaker 2: compare those two things, yeah one is better than the other.
Speaker 1: Yeah great. This is also where we get our first
Speaker 1: sign of the extra money spent on the sequel, because
Speaker 1: Bucky shoots a new cheerleader through the air with a
Speaker 1: large water cannon and nothing says big budget cannon.
Speaker 3: He got all, yeah, you've got a water cannon budget.
Speaker 1: You know you're doing good. By the way, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you're aware of this, Danielle, but the budget
Speaker 1: for Zombies four was forty million dollars. Three d COM
Speaker 1: for forty million dollars for the for z four. That's
Speaker 1: where the d COM is nowadays. Forty million dollars.
Speaker 2: How much are the How much of that do you
Speaker 2: think went to.
Speaker 1: Paul thirty eight million?
Speaker 7: Wells, yeah, exactly if he took some hits with some
Speaker 7: of the other movie.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah again Dad. It is now the last day
Speaker 1: of cheer camp and time for the final challenge. The
Speaker 1: newbies would have to crush the final course in order
Speaker 1: to win. But Z Squad, they're not giving up. Uh okay.
Speaker 1: We talked about the Sabrina. You're the resident dance judge,
Speaker 1: good dancing. What do you think are we seeing the sequel?
Speaker 1: Is it a step up? I see what you did
Speaker 1: dance joke.
Speaker 2: I feel like I was.
Speaker 5: More.
Speaker 4: There's a thing about it. It's a thing I was
Speaker 4: going to say at Sabrina Seas, but I'll just say
Speaker 4: it now. I was distracted by the age of the
Speaker 4: dancers this movie so much that I could really I
Speaker 4: had to rewind and watch this.
Speaker 5: Everyone was eighteen to play younger, No like twenty five,
Speaker 5: twenty eight, that's what.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it was like they were a lot.
Speaker 4: Older looking, and it was off putting because the rest
Speaker 4: of the cast, I think is casts really well. They age,
Speaker 4: They're all appropriate, every single one of them. Well, the
Speaker 4: main main ones. Some of the b characters not so much.
Speaker 4: But I was a little distracted this first one, though
Speaker 4: I was in. I start to get more and more
Speaker 4: by the.
Speaker 1: Time the possibility that if they didn't spend so much
Speaker 1: time dancing, they would do better at school, and they've
Speaker 1: just been held back because all they're doing is dancing.
Speaker 1: Maybe you are study and you can.
Speaker 2: Get gaywise, we know how much you love to study,
Speaker 2: so they really.
Speaker 1: Should have taken study.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: The song ends with the z team making the ultimate
Speaker 1: comeback and winning the trophy, but to Bucky's dismay, he
Speaker 1: didn't want that to happen. We also see Zed leaving
Speaker 1: zombie Town to meet Addison, set now to return from
Speaker 1: camp as a champion. At the camp, Bucky also annun
Speaker 1: says he'll be running for and most likely winning, the
Speaker 1: position of school class president, which means they'll need a
Speaker 1: new cheer captain. The Aces want to take over, but
Speaker 1: b suggests that Addison is the perfect candidate because she
Speaker 1: would unify the team. We are now in the bus
Speaker 1: back home, which as Daniel pointed out, was driven by Shrimpy.
Speaker 1: Okay reveals she wants Bonzo to ask her to prawn.
Speaker 1: But he can't even look at her, but he's carving
Speaker 1: an apple with her perfect likeness. Addison wonders if Zed
Speaker 1: just flat out forgot about asking her, but he definitely
Speaker 1: has it. In fact, he's working on something down the
Speaker 1: road with his sister. The bus passes a trip wire,
Speaker 1: triggering a sign that says, Addison, will you go to
Speaker 1: the prawn with? And then bam, the bus crashes into Zed,
Speaker 1: who was working on finishing his big prawn posal. He's
Speaker 1: been flung on the top of the bus as it
Speaker 1: speeds down the road for miles, as if there aren't
Speaker 1: breaks in the.
Speaker 4: Bus driven by a mascot who cannot see out of
Speaker 4: his mascot, you.
Speaker 1: Can't see where the break is. He doesn't know.
Speaker 2: He can't look down, he only can look straight, and
Speaker 2: he can't find it.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm thinking is the hit the brick.
Speaker 2: He doesn't even slow down. It's like, what is going
Speaker 2: on here?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: That part, that's the one thing I didn't believe.
Speaker 1: I didn't believe it.
Speaker 2: I didn't believe it.
Speaker 1: I didn't didn't it.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I get, I get you have to end up in
Speaker 1: the forbidden forest, but come on, you're nine miles with
Speaker 1: this guy on the top.
Speaker 2: We're four minutes long. Guess what, I don't need this stunt. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you crash into Z. He's on top.
Speaker 5: The guy slams onto Shrimpy slams on his brakes, Z
Speaker 5: goes flying off and we continue save at least a minute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I wanted to end up in the forbidden forest?
Speaker 1: Is the point? Like, there's better ways to do it
Speaker 1: than not hitting the brakes.
Speaker 4: Well, we also highlight on how Disney when they come
Speaker 4: across these like very dangerous things and I put like
Speaker 4: thirteen minutes and we've almost killed Zed and a bus
Speaker 4: full of children.
Speaker 2: Yes, correct with head is watching is driving it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, every time you work for Disney, they always s
Speaker 1: and P is like make sure the kids are buckled up.
Speaker 3: Everyone has to be wearing SEP. But the giant shrimp
Speaker 3: can drive the bus.
Speaker 5: Come on, I mean one of my favorite one of
Speaker 5: my favorite notes from Girl Meets World took place in
Speaker 5: New York and there was a line where someone asked
Speaker 5: one of the kids, said, come on, let's go grab
Speaker 5: a slice after school, and and Disney was wondering if
Speaker 5: maybe we could say a fruit bowl instead. Oh my gosh, yeah,
Speaker 5: well you want to go, you want to go grab
Speaker 5: a fruit.
Speaker 1: Bowl like we do in New York, like all kids
Speaker 1: all step over the needles to buy a fruit bowl.
Speaker 1: So that that was a very strange thing. He's flung
Speaker 1: on the top of the bus. It speeds down the road,
Speaker 1: everyone screaming is holding out for dear life. Eventually, he
Speaker 1: jumps off just as the buss, of course, crashes into
Speaker 1: the woods. Don't let shrimp drive people. Addison tries to
Speaker 1: check on Zed, but instead finds herself in the very
Speaker 1: scary part of the forest with whispering all around her.
Speaker 1: She tears her uniform on a passing tree and it's
Speaker 1: quickly surrounded by growling and howling high school age kids.
Speaker 1: She's grabbed by the arm instinctually punches, only to see
Speaker 1: that was z. She apologizes. They embrace. They're very, very
Speaker 1: happy to see.
Speaker 2: You, yes, Adison.
Speaker 1: Addison tells the cheer squad they're surrounded by where wolves.
Speaker 1: As a result, Bucky races to the school. Him jumping
Speaker 1: off the bus was that was a laugh out loud moment.
Speaker 1: For dives off the bus, but he races to the
Speaker 1: school to let everyone know their discovery and calls an
Speaker 1: emergency school meeting because he's the cheer captain, so of
Speaker 1: course he can do that. Addison tells her aunt Missy
Speaker 1: Mayor Sebrook, and her uncle Dale, the principal of the school,
Speaker 1: that everything's fine, but Aunt Missy isn't hearing it. She's
Speaker 1: got to do something about this. She starts the meeting
Speaker 1: by reinstating the anti Monster Laws. I have questions. The
Speaker 1: Zobbies are devastated, but the humans applaud well, everyone except Addison,
Speaker 1: who calls it unfair. Okay, so now the monster laws,
Speaker 1: They're still allowed to go to school, they just can't
Speaker 1: go to the prom.
Speaker 2: This does not correlate with the first movie. The entire movie.
Speaker 1: You can't play football and he can't go to the prom.
Speaker 2: There's a curfew.
Speaker 1: You have to be still allowed to go to the
Speaker 1: high school.
Speaker 2: Right, well, yeah, because you have to educate them.
Speaker 1: But they in the first movie the anti Monster laws,
Speaker 1: they weren't allowed to go to school with them. That
Speaker 1: drove me nuts. This is where the rules were out
Speaker 1: the window, and I'm like, ah, hell, will is gonna
Speaker 1: lose it?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I just I was like, what I don't understand? Is
Speaker 1: this a municipal law? Is this a county law, Like,
Speaker 1: I didn't understand what was going on, so they they
Speaker 1: lost me a little. Yeah, anyway, they're now reunited. Zed
Speaker 1: throws a little attitude at Addison. Why didn't she write
Speaker 1: or respond to any of his letters? She insists she did,
Speaker 1: Actually she did a lot, but the Aces shredded all
Speaker 1: of their letters to make pom poms. With that, z
Speaker 1: bends down in one knee and asser to prawn, but
Speaker 1: she quickly says no. She's like, no, no, no, because
Speaker 1: the anti monster laws banned zombies from going to pron
Speaker 1: but not anything else.
Speaker 2: Apparently, you know what, this is one of my first
Speaker 2: This is when I have two notes on this in
Speaker 2: this movie about please. This is where it's very clear
Speaker 2: they eighty R.
Speaker 5: This is the first one when Addison is smiling at
Speaker 5: him after she says no, and he's like he's bombed,
Speaker 5: and then he realizes, oh, that's why you said no,
Speaker 5: and then he's like, oh, we just have to get
Speaker 5: rid of these blood thirsty werewolves and she smiles.
Speaker 2: She smiles.
Speaker 5: At the end, they added her going they added a
Speaker 5: chuckle through her smile, but you can totally tell it's
Speaker 5: eight R.
Speaker 1: So she's just like this.
Speaker 2: And we'll get to the next one when it comes up.
Speaker 2: But this is my first EIGHTR moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great one. Yes. Hey. If the were wolves,
Speaker 1: though Zed says, are all that stand of the way
Speaker 1: of them going as a couple, then he promises he's
Speaker 1: going to fix it, which had been the big smile
Speaker 1: on his face, which is very funny me. Meanwhile, it
Speaker 1: is chaos in Seabrook as word of the reinstated monster
Speaker 1: laws and were wolves make the rounds. Zombies are rushing
Speaker 1: back to zombie Town to make curfew. Even coaches Froyo
Speaker 1: card is closed for good. It's hitting everybody, but little
Speaker 1: Zoe is they're fraid of the werewolves. She tells a
Speaker 1: very suspicious plant worker she wants to find one because
Speaker 1: she wants a ware friend. But of course that plant
Speaker 1: worker is actually an undercover scout, a werewolf named Wyatt,
Speaker 1: who has returned to the forest with a glowing necklace.
Speaker 1: His eyes turned red and his fang sharpened. As he
Speaker 1: returns the gem back to his neck. He breaks the
Speaker 1: news to another werewolf, his sister Willa. They have been exposed,
Speaker 1: but Willa isn't concerned, but Wyatt knows they need to
Speaker 1: find the great Alpha to lead them to the Moonstone.
Speaker 1: And this is where my fantasy head was going. Okay,
Speaker 1: I love quest. Yeah, werewolves need energy for the necklaces
Speaker 1: or they will die without it. Whyatt needs to find
Speaker 1: the girl with the white hair? Oh but will it
Speaker 1: doubts and Alpha even exists? Whytt has that piece of
Speaker 1: Addison's uniform she snagged on the tree and notices it
Speaker 1: from sebro Kai. I knew where this joke was going,
Speaker 1: and I was so happy, I thought when one of
Speaker 1: them was like, yes, we can smell her out and
Speaker 1: he's like, well, her name's on the back, Like that's
Speaker 1: kind of where I thought.
Speaker 9: It was going.
Speaker 5: This is the second moment of big time adr literally
Speaker 5: Yah's so it does. It happens very fast in this
Speaker 5: scene where she's like, I don't even think the Alpha
Speaker 5: exists and he says she's real and she's going to
Speaker 5: lead us to the Moonstone. Then there is there are
Speaker 5: at least three rather long shots where Wyatt is not
Speaker 5: on camera at all while he.
Speaker 2: Says and you know, we don't have much time.
Speaker 5: Our pack is getting sick, our necklaces are almost out
Speaker 5: of power.
Speaker 2: We need to find the Moonstone.
Speaker 1: All through.
Speaker 2: He's not on camera for a moment of that.
Speaker 5: It's all behind him while they're doing reaction shots of
Speaker 5: everyone else. And then the other female wolf, not Willa,
Speaker 5: she says and then when she does, we can recharge
Speaker 5: our necklaces. And so I know that what happened was
Speaker 5: they went from him saying she's real and she's going
Speaker 5: to lead us to the Moonstone, to that girl saying
Speaker 5: and when she does, we can recharge our necklaces.
Speaker 2: But they were like, we need more, didn't explain.
Speaker 5: Anything, didn't explain that the moonstones need to be recharged.
Speaker 2: So they did it all in ADR, and I was like,
Speaker 2: oh man, this ADR is doing some work.
Speaker 1: The entire plot of the film. Oh that's so funny.
Speaker 1: That's true. Yes, so yeah, they've been exposed. But Willa,
Speaker 1: she's not concerned. They have to find the great Alpha,
Speaker 1: the Moonstone, all this stuff. The girl with the white hair,
Speaker 1: Wyatt has a piece of Addison's uniform, as we said,
Speaker 1: snagged on the tree. And notice this is from seabrook.
Speaker 1: Hi He's ready to go find her, and Willa will
Speaker 1: join him tonight. And this is when we get our
Speaker 1: collective favorite song and big set piece we All the Night,
Speaker 1: a big introduction song for the newest edition to the
Speaker 1: Zombie Universe, wear Wolves. We didn't even talk about this
Speaker 1: song because we love it. We love it. This was
Speaker 1: a great song. This was a great song performance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like the were Wolf Gang. It was so cool.
Speaker 1: The Werewolves.
Speaker 4: So those actors are above twenty eight thirty. They are
Speaker 4: brilliant and wonderful dancers.
Speaker 2: They really were. They were so good.
Speaker 7: They took on that character of being a were wolf
Speaker 7: and they just they hit the market.
Speaker 2: Was so good, so good?
Speaker 1: Did am I the only one who kind of wished
Speaker 1: they added a little bit of sound effect or some
Speaker 1: kind of gravitas to their howls.
Speaker 2: Yeah, instead of just they were a little weak. They
Speaker 2: were a little weak.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were weak being electronic something kind of cool.
Speaker 1: To give that howl a little more umph would have
Speaker 1: been would have been great. That was my only problem,
Speaker 1: was like, oh, they're they're just kind of doing a
Speaker 1: howl anyway. They were wolves with their children in tow
Speaker 1: because they're all thirty, have now arrived at school, where
Speaker 1: they decide to hide an event and wait until morning.
Speaker 1: And the next day when Zed and Adison arrive at school,
Speaker 1: she's still bummed about Prawn, but he knows he's going
Speaker 1: to save the day. He doesn't want her to skip Prawn.
Speaker 1: I keep saying Prawn, and it's just now sounds weird
Speaker 1: in my head. So he has an idea. We fast
Speaker 1: forward to a big school president nomination pep rally. The
Speaker 1: band starts playing, a large banner is rolled out, and
Speaker 1: Bucky He's presidential campaign has begun too great fanfare. But
Speaker 1: what he didn't expect is that Zed is also going
Speaker 1: to announce his candidacy, which of course infuriates the cheer captain.
Speaker 1: Even with the newly reinstated anti monster laws, which makes
Speaker 1: no sense, Zed can officially run for president. If he wins,
Speaker 1: he will allow zombies to go to Prawn, take Addison,
Speaker 1: and then be immortalized on the Prawn Wall of Fame.
Speaker 1: And with that, the battle for school President has been said.
Speaker 1: Which is the moon, of course, that the were wolves
Speaker 1: finally emerge from the air vent. They know the Alpha
Speaker 1: is near and they're afraid of nothing, well except silver
Speaker 1: and ticks and Rabi's But back at the PEP rally,
Speaker 1: in the middle of Zaid's announcement, the were wolves enter
Speaker 1: the auditorium and everyone goes running, even the zombies. The
Speaker 1: wolves immediately make a b line for Addison, but Zed
Speaker 1: and his football teammates surround her, creating a very gnarly
Speaker 1: face off. Well it demands the Moonstone from Adison, but
Speaker 1: she has no idea what the hell they're talking about.
Speaker 3: But Eliza has an idea. If they remove their z
Speaker 3: bands and zombie out, they.
Speaker 1: Can you know, get rid of the zombies. No, they
Speaker 1: can ward the wolves away. But Zed of course isn't
Speaker 1: having it. They are not monsters, and just as the
Speaker 1: were wolves are about to attack, whyatt realizes they can't
Speaker 1: attack the whole town. They'll never get the moonstone if
Speaker 1: everyone is on high alert. Willa agrees and everyone stands
Speaker 1: down for now. Will apologizes and lies, claiming that since
Speaker 1: the Forbidden forces in the school district, they just want
Speaker 1: to enroll, which then it's Zed and Addison going, okay,
Speaker 1: you're now in the school.
Speaker 3: As if they have the power to enroll an entire
Speaker 3: pack of were wolves.
Speaker 1: That's okay, they're high school.
Speaker 2: Come on, they're very powerful in this movie.
Speaker 5: Zed and Addison have so much power from this first
Speaker 5: movie and they were just like no one's gonna.
Speaker 1: Argue, congratulations, you are now officially in school. Here you go.
Speaker 8: Yes.
Speaker 1: Later that same day, Zed, Eliza, and even Bonzo are
Speaker 1: now actively campaigning in the quad. Zed knows zombies will
Speaker 1: vote for him, humans will vote for Bucky. They split
Speaker 1: right down the middle of the school. The were wolves
Speaker 1: are now the swing vote because of course they've been
Speaker 1: there for a day. They are in fact Ohio, so
Speaker 1: he can win the werewolves over. He just needs to
Speaker 1: teach him how to fit in, which of course is
Speaker 1: not going to be easy. And then Addison arrives and
Speaker 1: announces she is officially in the running for cheer captain
Speaker 1: and is running the practice tomorrow, which is a very
Speaker 1: big deal. But this causes a major problem because the
Speaker 1: only way Addison can oh follow me here people, because
Speaker 1: this is where it gets crazy. Only way Addison can
Speaker 1: become cheer captain is if Bucky wins the election, and
Speaker 1: that would mean Zed lost, so it's a real catch
Speaker 1: twenty two. But they both agree right there they can
Speaker 1: live with the results either way as long as they
Speaker 1: have each other. Yeah, that's love. People in the library,
Speaker 1: Addison notices why it is spying on her and another werewolf,
Speaker 1: Quirky Winter tries to intimidate Bree by eating her homework.
Speaker 1: The doggy my homework very funny joke, and Willa has
Speaker 1: her own issues. She's read the school's history books and
Speaker 1: it claims where wolves attack the Seabrooks settlers, but she
Speaker 1: knows that's a lie. We actually learned the settlers struck
Speaker 1: first and stole the moonstone. Wow, history is written by
Speaker 1: the winner people. That's just how it is. A gem
Speaker 1: that we also learn messes with electron x foreshadowing. I
Speaker 1: would say so much foreshadowing.
Speaker 2: Remember this, people, this comes back.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, this is six shadowing. It's not even five shadowing.
Speaker 1: It's so much. Later on, the wolves are hanging out
Speaker 1: in zombie Town, complaining about the way that they've been
Speaker 1: treated so far. When Zed and Eliza approach to Pander
Speaker 1: for votes, Eliza promises that as zombie president, will represent
Speaker 1: them as newcomers in the town. Zed's done it before,
Speaker 1: but Winter says they don't need more friends. Eliza points
Speaker 1: out that zombies and werewolves are a lot alike. The
Speaker 1: moonstone necklace is a lot like their z band, but
Speaker 1: actually it's the opposite. That's what we come to learn.
Speaker 1: Zed suggests they try to fit in like the zombies did.
Speaker 1: Join a club, play football, just lighten up, and we
Speaker 1: get our third song of very Bruno mars Uptown funk
Speaker 1: inspired track, cold, like the Zombies do. This is Zed's
Speaker 1: advice to the werewolves for fitting in, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like it's working. What do you think of song
Speaker 1: number three?
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Sabrina. I really liked it. I like how
Speaker 2: it it they end up going.
Speaker 4: It's like a battle and then it's combined and it
Speaker 4: goes back and forth, like I loved.
Speaker 2: I loved this movie, but I love this part of it.
Speaker 7: I also think I am not as big of a
Speaker 7: fan of the cheerleading dancing in this movie.
Speaker 2: I didn't like it in the first movie either.
Speaker 7: So when it's the zombies and the werewolves, now okay,
Speaker 7: like so good all hands down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this reminded me so much of like a Michael
Speaker 5: Jackson music video, like you know, the chan the dance off,
Speaker 5: a cool dance off with great music. And I love
Speaker 5: that the were wolves we get their personality. They're like
Speaker 5: kind of sarcastic, where you know they put on the hat,
Speaker 5: they're like, it's invaluable to us, right, and then we
Speaker 5: see them like.
Speaker 2: Throw the hats on the ground, like I just love
Speaker 2: all that.
Speaker 5: I love the way they incorporate their personalities into the lyrics.
Speaker 4: It's just I love they showcase the way the zombies
Speaker 4: move with their arms versus the way that the yea,
Speaker 4: you know how they've got more of like a gral
Speaker 4: effect for the where well, you can definitely see the
Speaker 4: style choice, which is so.
Speaker 2: Good for this choreographer to do. This choreographer was good,
Speaker 2: really good.
Speaker 1: Yeah. This is also a perfect Disney being Disney in
Speaker 1: that it's a song about the differences between doing what
Speaker 1: you have to do to fit in and staying true
Speaker 1: to yourself, which is just such a Disney thing.
Speaker 3: It's still teaching a lesson, but doing it in their
Speaker 3: fun kind of way.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, we are now back at school. Zed knows his
Speaker 1: pulling numbers are bad. Eliza says he needs to deliver
Speaker 1: a killer speech tomorrow, but Ze's strategy is a little different.
Speaker 1: He's haging in pictures all over campus, depicting him as
Speaker 1: more human, forcing voters to forget he's a zombie, and this,
Speaker 1: of course does not make Eliza happy. And now it's
Speaker 1: time for the big Addison led cheer practice. She's ready
Speaker 1: to start, but the team is distracted and scared. The
Speaker 1: entire pack of were wolves menacingly watch on from the bleachers,
Speaker 1: and instead of kicking him out, Addison invites the group
Speaker 1: to join in on the fun, and as a result,
Speaker 1: we get a dance number with both the cheer team
Speaker 1: and the new werewolves, and yes, everyone knows the same
Speaker 1: dancer team immediately without practicing and talking about it in
Speaker 1: any way, shape or form. It ends the big finish,
Speaker 1: making the cheerleaders and were wolves new friends that kiss
Speaker 1: off anybody else or that.
Speaker 4: Just here, I will say this is where the change
Speaker 4: starts to happen, and you start to realize that they're
Speaker 4: talking in these musical numbers more than they're actually singing
Speaker 4: words because of the difference of style. It's more of
Speaker 4: like a hip hop are in the zone to where
Speaker 4: they're doing more talking. So that's where people can start
Speaker 4: like going, that's not the kind of musical I like.
Speaker 2: I like it when it's an actual song versus like there's.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're speaking lines with more of just like a
Speaker 4: melody versus an actual song. So this is when I
Speaker 4: started going. This was the first time I went, oh,
Speaker 4: this is different for me, and I'm not sure if
Speaker 4: I like it. I'm starting to do I like this
Speaker 4: or not. I.
Speaker 5: As someone who generally leans more toward will with my
Speaker 5: feeling of musicals, I actually prefer this.
Speaker 2: I prefer the.
Speaker 5: Hip hop version of it, where it's rhythmic and musical
Speaker 5: like music ish without being like full song and dance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, I like it in the difference. This is
Speaker 2: what I see the biggest difference between this franchise and
Speaker 2: high school musical. Yes, yes, yes, very big different style.
Speaker 1: Of totally and I think I like I prefer this
Speaker 1: style of musical to the high school musical musical.
Speaker 2: Like, there are moments still that we get both of it.
Speaker 2: It's a nice this one's a nice hybrid.
Speaker 1: It is it definitely is that and Eliza enter just
Speaker 1: as the dance ends, and they notice why it is
Speaker 1: really into Addison Z thinks she's just trying to win
Speaker 1: some votes, so he's not threatened spoiler alert, he's threatened meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Why it tells out that's true? Whyatt tells Adison that
Speaker 1: wolves work well together, and when she reminds him she's
Speaker 1: not a wolf. For some reason, he doesn't seem very
Speaker 1: sold on that maybe she is. Bucky also announces that
Speaker 1: Addison will be his official replacement when he wins the election.
Speaker 1: She's thrilled, but why. It reminds her she's a born
Speaker 1: leader and there are things greater than cheer. He touches
Speaker 1: her hand in a passionate way just to drive the
Speaker 1: point home, and that's when she notices poor z saw
Speaker 1: it all. He's clearly but hurt, so she runs after him.
Speaker 1: He complains about how easy the werewolves have been able
Speaker 1: to fit in while it was just so difficult for
Speaker 1: the zombies. He just wants to win the election and
Speaker 1: take Addison to Prawn, but she faults him for having
Speaker 1: to lose his identity in the process. He then delivers
Speaker 1: a two cheat, reminding her that she wore a wig
Speaker 1: for the entire first movie and I audibly yelled oh
Speaker 1: snap while watching that, which I think is something the
Speaker 1: kids still say.
Speaker 3: But let's be honest, this relationship is fading fast.
Speaker 1: Addison admits her current identity crisis and runs off just
Speaker 1: in time for a new song. Yes, and this is
Speaker 1: the quiet. This is now become a trope that we've
Speaker 1: noticed in the musicals of breaking off and having a
Speaker 1: ballad yes, but always in the high school hallway. We've
Speaker 1: seen him in high School Musical and it's just I'm
Speaker 1: walking down. This one is called Gotta Find Where I Belong,
Speaker 1: and they sing it as Addison and Z separately roam
Speaker 1: the school pouting about how they feel alone and can't
Speaker 1: connect with anybody or each other.
Speaker 3: This is more of a ballad. Did you did you
Speaker 3: both like this kind of song?
Speaker 1: Or was it a little?
Speaker 2: This isn't my favorite. I don't love it.
Speaker 1: I don't know why because again comes for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, that's fair, because we do like we do
Speaker 4: know already and I've already seen Addison and Z slam
Speaker 4: down just like the best ballad together in the first movie.
Speaker 2: This one didn't to me. This one didn't live up
Speaker 2: to that one.
Speaker 5: I agree that this song does not live up to
Speaker 5: the to the Sunday song from the first and especially
Speaker 5: what we see later with it. But but what I'll
Speaker 5: say from a relatability standpoint is that it totally makes
Speaker 5: sense that, first of all, there need to be some
Speaker 5: higher stakes between the two of them. If their relationship
Speaker 5: is just always rock solid and they're always connected and
Speaker 5: they're always together, then you get that scene earlier in
Speaker 5: the movie where it goes, well, no matter what happens,
Speaker 5: we're okay because we have each.
Speaker 2: Other, and we had to we had to show ooh,
Speaker 2: there's some cracks in.
Speaker 4: This in this relationship forty minutes into this powerhouse couple
Speaker 4: not being so damn perfect exactly.
Speaker 5: And so from that standpoint, I kind of liked it.
Speaker 5: I like that they both have their solo journeys where
Speaker 5: they're and they're they're struggling. But I don't necessarily know
Speaker 5: that this song is my favorite, right, yeah, favorite time,
Speaker 5: But I like I see, I see, I see the
Speaker 5: importance of it to the movie that it was me.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, we've.
Speaker 1: Seen this before. And if just ask Bella, if you
Speaker 1: want to ruin a relationship, throw a werewolf in. That's
Speaker 1: just all real.
Speaker 2: Yeah that it ends. Try to have a throuble with
Speaker 2: a werewolf.
Speaker 1: Good god, geez, because after you do what you gotta
Speaker 1: do in bed, he'll just sleep at the foot. That's
Speaker 1: the perfect way to do it. Once that emo song ends,
Speaker 1: which is what it is, Addison is at home and
Speaker 1: hears something at her front door. She expects it to
Speaker 1: be Z but no one's there. Just a large scratch,
Speaker 1: most likely left by a werewolf. She then looks up
Speaker 1: to see why in this whole pack of werewolves just
Speaker 1: staring at her, she needs to go with them. It's important.
Speaker 1: And the only thing going through my head was like,
Speaker 1: you could knock. You actually had to ruin my door.
Speaker 2: Why we'rrein the door? Did anyone just get scream vibes
Speaker 2: from this?
Speaker 1: I instantly went, oh my god, Yeah, what's gonna happen?
Speaker 4: Yes, she was Drew Barrymore, I mean with the wig
Speaker 4: and everything as well. I was like, this is reminding
Speaker 4: me you scream a little bit, don't go outside.
Speaker 2: Shut the door.
Speaker 5: But that is another thing I like kind of about
Speaker 5: this movie, the the uh danger of the werewolves. They
Speaker 5: do a good job of keeping it through the entire thing.
Speaker 5: You're always like, I'm not sure I trust you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, when are you gonna snap?
Speaker 5: Are you gonna be a part of us? That's what
Speaker 5: I kept waiting to happen, like when are you? When
Speaker 5: are we all going to? But no, they are like
Speaker 5: a editing point.
Speaker 2: We're gonna eat you all. It's pretty good.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 3: I love that we're gonna rip you apart and kill
Speaker 3: you while singing and dancing.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's where they.
Speaker 2: Really get, so you're gonna enjoy it?
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly we are.
Speaker 1: Now while walking with her into the dark Forbidden Forest,
Speaker 1: Winter is clearly getting sicker. The wolves really need this
Speaker 1: moonstone to heal everybody. Meanwhile, just as curfew is announced,
Speaker 1: Zed finds Eliza and Bonzo and tells them he needs
Speaker 1: to find Addison to apologize, and just in time, reappears. Panicked.
Speaker 1: Addison texted her that she needs help, but she can't
Speaker 1: find her and she's not picking up her phone. Also, somehow,
Speaker 1: while worried that her best friend is dead, Breeze still
Speaker 1: finds time to flirt with Bonzo. Luckily, Eliza is able
Speaker 1: to track Addison's phone to the forest. And this can't
Speaker 1: be good because it's called the Forbidden Forest, but it
Speaker 1: actually is kind of cool. Addison has been introduced to
Speaker 1: the Wolf's Den, the were wolf headquarters that also looks
Speaker 1: kind of like a cool speed easy. She's welcomed by
Speaker 1: all the werewolves except Willa, who still doesn't trust her
Speaker 1: because she's human. But Wyatt has a vision. It's Addison
Speaker 1: as a werewolf, and more specifically, as the Great Alpha
Speaker 1: that can lead them to the Moonstone. But first another song.
Speaker 1: Uh a, before we get to the song. This might
Speaker 1: be because the first movie when they were kind of
Speaker 1: at the zombie it was I think the building where
Speaker 1: the zombies were created, where they did that first great
Speaker 1: dance scene where it was the real hip hop one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looked like that club.
Speaker 3: Was my first That was my coolest set until this one.
Speaker 1: This is a really cool set. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a central light coming through the trees and
Speaker 5: the light flare, I know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was them walking into it that you're going, Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm starting to see where this upgraded budget's going, and
Speaker 4: I'm loving.
Speaker 1: It, loving it. Very cool. Now, what did you think
Speaker 1: of the song, which is called to the Wild, a
Speaker 1: track about the Great Alpha and the werewolf community, or
Speaker 1: were we fans of this?
Speaker 2: I love it?
Speaker 1: I know this.
Speaker 2: This was a good song too. Yeah, yeah, it's great.
Speaker 2: This is another one of those bops that you can
Speaker 2: put on and and dance to and happy.
Speaker 3: You close your club down at eight forty five.
Speaker 2: You're right, we could start with and this is this
Speaker 2: is how we end it.
Speaker 3: You're absolutely call to the Wild.
Speaker 1: As long as the call is very early in the night,
Speaker 1: we are fine, exactly.
Speaker 2: We're all good with it.
Speaker 1: We're all good with the yeah, because I normally don't
Speaker 1: answer the phone after dark. Willa chimes in with her
Speaker 1: hating ways as well. There's a very cool dance routine
Speaker 1: here that involves large sticks of bamboo in a cross
Speaker 1: between hopscotch and kind of limbo.
Speaker 3: Sabrina, you do a lot of danceing. Have you ever
Speaker 3: bamboo danced?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 4: I haven't, but oh my gosh, I was watching it,
Speaker 4: going that looks like it was so sketchy to learn to.
Speaker 4: I mean, one false move and you're getting an ankle cracked,
Speaker 4: you know, But I thought it was cool, and I
Speaker 4: thought it you know, I do love We've seen this.
Speaker 2: We saw it in uh the Beach movie that teen Beach.
Speaker 4: We saw it in you know, high school musical Descendants
Speaker 4: where they're using props. I'm always down for a prop
Speaker 4: and it always puts it on another level because props
Speaker 4: are so hard to dance with.
Speaker 7: Yes, they are just so difficult. So this was pretty
Speaker 7: like pretty impressive.
Speaker 1: I was really like, yeah, I liked it too.
Speaker 5: I'm no, I'm no pro about dancing, but I completely
Speaker 5: agree watching it, You're.
Speaker 1: Like, Wow, this is number. Yeah, it was very very cool.
Speaker 1: Props are hard to dance with. I'm even harder. The
Speaker 1: song ends with Addison accepting her possible wear wolf roots
Speaker 1: and transforming into a version of the Great Alpha Now
Speaker 1: with this beautiful flowing hair and bohemian kind of wardrobe.
Speaker 1: She looked really cool. I love this transformation.
Speaker 4: I could not wait for her to get out of
Speaker 4: those awful uniforms. These cheer uniforms are so hideous, and
Speaker 4: this is so cool looking.
Speaker 2: She looked red. She looked like Galasi like she yes,
Speaker 2: so good, looks yes. The braids in the hair, Oh,
Speaker 2: it's so cool.
Speaker 7: Her makeup all just like dramatic.
Speaker 1: It was agreed and right then Zed and the gang
Speaker 1: find the den. They assume she's been kidnapped, and Zed
Speaker 1: rushes into savr. He rips off his z band, hoping
Speaker 1: he can do some damage by zombieing out for a battle.
Speaker 1: Now transforms. Zed kicks it off by tossing a wolf
Speaker 1: like twenty feet in the air, but before anything get
Speaker 1: out of hand, Addison slaps the band back onto Zad,
Speaker 1: calming him down immediately. She says, this is actually where
Speaker 1: she wants to be. This may be her pack that
Speaker 1: help text that she sent Brie was actually about chemistry homework. Oops.
Speaker 3: Will it now convinced Addison as one of them.
Speaker 1: Reveals the Great Alpha necklace. It's been set aside for centuries,
Speaker 1: so when she puts it on, if she fully transforms,
Speaker 1: then she is the leader they've been looking for. Instead
Speaker 1: of trying it immediately, she wants to think about it,
Speaker 1: and they give her a day to make the decision,
Speaker 1: which I thought was kind of weird in the movie,
Speaker 1: but where she's they're like, you are the Great Alpha.
Speaker 1: She's like, yes, could I take a DIY?
Speaker 2: Can I just get a moment? I think I'm gonna
Speaker 2: I just need some time to meditate on the sounds reasonable.
Speaker 2: It was so strange and they're like, that sounds reasonable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can.
Speaker 2: I can jump on board with I think I think
Speaker 2: twenty four hours is the appropriate amount of time.
Speaker 1: Have they built it up though? It's like the Alpha, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll decide tomorrow.
Speaker 6: It's like if someone proposes your job, Oh wow, I
Speaker 6: just want to talk it over with some people over
Speaker 6: just to sleep on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we sold on this necklace, Maybe we can get
Speaker 1: a different one. Yeah, exactly is it coming in?
Speaker 7: You do I have to live in the den or
Speaker 7: do I just get free access to the den anytime?
Speaker 1: I will? Can I stay dean adjacent exactly?
Speaker 2: Really enjoy a bead? I not file, not my jam.
Speaker 2: Maybe we could hit a middle ground.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The group then, of course, like you do, feel as
Speaker 1: an earthquake. But it's just a test charge for the
Speaker 1: plant demolition tomorrow, because of course they test explosives first.
Speaker 1: The zombies are still concerned that their birthplace is being destroyed,
Speaker 1: but the Wolves don't care until Addison explains that Seabrook
Speaker 1: power was always fueled by a mysterious energy source.
Speaker 3: What if the source is the Moonstone they've been meeting, Which, again, if.
Speaker 1: The entire town is based on a strange power source
Speaker 1: everybody knows about that, then how the wolves did not know?
Speaker 1: But anyway, I'm letting it go. There's good singing and dancing,
Speaker 1: and they're using bamboo. I'm in. The Wolves buy into
Speaker 1: this and are now focused on saving the power plant,
Speaker 1: and it's possible Moonstone will it takes control of the pack,
Speaker 1: at least until Addison decides her future. The next day,
Speaker 1: Addison's still in where Wolf eats breakfast with her parents,
Speaker 1: who obviously have a lot of questions about her new look.
Speaker 1: Then at school, on the day of the big school
Speaker 1: president debate, Addison's new look is like it would be
Speaker 1: in high school. To the talk of the town. Zed
Speaker 1: finds Addison to tell her he's been up all night.
Speaker 1: She can't be a were wolf, but she loves that
Speaker 1: she found her people. Finally, she shows him the glowing
Speaker 1: moonstone necklace, and she says she's going to miss the
Speaker 1: debate to go find the wolves. She wishes Zed good
Speaker 1: luck and takes off. And this is the first time
Speaker 1: he's lost a face off, a boyfriend face off. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: go find your wolves. I guess I'll just go debate
Speaker 1: Bucky myself. Thanks for the support, lady. The power plant
Speaker 1: demolition is set for five pm, so the werewolves have
Speaker 1: gathered to set a strategy. Will and Why I continue
Speaker 1: to have a power struggle until Addison shows up. It's
Speaker 1: time she accepts her destiny as a full wolf. But
Speaker 1: when she reaches for the necklace, it's gone. She lost it. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know why she thought she lost it, because
Speaker 1: she just showed it to Zed. It was obviously in there.
Speaker 1: Now she doesn't have it. Why wouldn't the first thing
Speaker 1: you think be damn it good my necklace?
Speaker 2: I tell you, why? How dare you?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: Are you serious?
Speaker 5: You gotta be serious right now, said obviously Zed stole it.
Speaker 1: That would be the first thing you think, Danielle.
Speaker 2: Danielle's very suspicious. Absolutely Danny trusting. Yeah, No, Danielle would
Speaker 2: be like which one of you? Which one of you?
Speaker 2: But no Addison and Zed you.
Speaker 7: Adison immediately was like, damn it, zaid what appeal?
Speaker 1: Wow, she's very trusting then that because she lost it
Speaker 1: apparently in the thirty five feet from where she was before,
Speaker 1: he would know.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like there was a big time ellapse. It
Speaker 2: was like I just showed him, just showed me.
Speaker 7: Even if it wasn't okay, Zed did it, I would
Speaker 7: at least go back and reach I lose I know
Speaker 7: all the time, so I know exactly what you need
Speaker 7: to do.
Speaker 2: Your steps, go.
Speaker 7: Back to the hallway that you were at when you
Speaker 7: opened the box.
Speaker 2: Right there with you.
Speaker 5: And I think she needs to if you you know
Speaker 5: what that's saying, if you have to hire a private investigator,
Speaker 5: it's already over.
Speaker 2: If you if you think immediately Zed took it.
Speaker 1: Guess what, you might as well let the guy go fair.
Speaker 1: That's fair. Okay, Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 2: Okay, just because we want you to come back one day,
Speaker 2: We're going to.
Speaker 1: Agree with Danielle because he still zombies. Three and forty
Speaker 1: more to go. We're now back at the debate. Zed
Speaker 1: tells Eliza that he stole Addison's necklace. What Daniel's shock?
Speaker 1: He says, he just can't let her change into a
Speaker 1: werewolf and puts the necklace back into his pocket, and
Speaker 1: then there's no time to waste Buckians that are introduced
Speaker 1: for the debate, leading a straight into her next song,
Speaker 1: also noting that Bondzo is djaying here because of course
Speaker 1: every debate has a DJ and the song is called
Speaker 1: I'm Winning, which is a rap battle between the two candidates,
Speaker 1: which is clearly stolen right from Hamilton Presidential debate. From
Speaker 1: from Hamilton.
Speaker 5: I think to be generous, the generous way of saying
Speaker 5: it is heavily influenced, and it should be fair. It
Speaker 5: would be impossible for their like Hamilton was such a
Speaker 5: cultural phenomenon. It's impossible to not see media as before Hamilton.
Speaker 1: And after Hamilton.
Speaker 2: That's very true, and so this is just post Hamilton
Speaker 2: musical men rap battle thing. That's great.
Speaker 1: Now I have to ask you because you are a
Speaker 1: former winner on the TV show, dropped the mike where
Speaker 1: you so this was going to come up?
Speaker 2: I would have my award here?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So what as as a rap battle champion? Literally? What
Speaker 1: did you think of this rap battle?
Speaker 5: I really like this rap battle. I'm I'm very impressed
Speaker 5: with Milo as a rap battler. I think he does
Speaker 5: everything he does? Is there anything this wee.
Speaker 2: They the world?
Speaker 1: It's As the battle gets more and more intense, Zed's
Speaker 1: z band now with the Moonstone, remember people, it messes
Speaker 1: with technology. Stuck on it, it starts malfunctioning and quickly
Speaker 1: turns him into a zombie.
Speaker 9: H oh.
Speaker 1: The terrified student Bonnie runs in every different direction while
Speaker 1: Zed tries his hardest to fight the urge. He can't
Speaker 1: let the school cmo as a monster. Eliza tries her
Speaker 1: hardest to talk some sense into him, but he throws
Speaker 1: a podium in anger. In a last ditch effort, she
Speaker 1: tries to make him remove the Moonstone from his band,
Speaker 1: and yep, that does the trick. Even though he's back
Speaker 1: to normal, the damage has been done Bucky is now
Speaker 1: a lock to win the election. That's furious, but he
Speaker 1: knows what he has to do. Meanwhile, the werewolves are
Speaker 1: met with power plant security when they arrive to stop
Speaker 1: the demolition. Addison didn't go with them, refinds her, and
Speaker 1: she's pouting in the school hallway about losing the necklace
Speaker 1: and letting her pack down. Her is only interrupted by
Speaker 1: the ze alarm, which I haven't heard in a while.
Speaker 1: There's monster activity at the power plant and Addison knows
Speaker 1: it's the wolves.
Speaker 3: Now she knows she's going to need everyone's help to
Speaker 3: go and save them.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, and she's right. The standoff at the power
Speaker 1: plant has gotten more and more dangerous. Addison's dad, the mayor,
Speaker 1: and Dead's dad, the site's foreman, have both arrived to
Speaker 1: tell the pack they're trespassing, but the wolves explain they
Speaker 1: can't trespass on land that's supposed to be theirs. And
Speaker 1: just right when there's gonna be a throwdown, there's another
Speaker 1: song and more singing and dancing.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this one Water on the floor.
Speaker 1: Yes, Flesh and Bone. It's a song about wherewolf pride
Speaker 1: and how they won't be stopped, which sounds great, But
Speaker 1: of course that's a lie because they are then quickly
Speaker 1: stopped by police tear gas.
Speaker 3: What did we think of this song and all the
Speaker 3: water and everything going on.
Speaker 7: I mean, I don't know if it was needed honestly interesting,
Speaker 7: it was good, a great production. I just don't think
Speaker 7: it was necessarily needed in the storyline. At this point,
Speaker 7: we're out, like, where are we on song number sixteen
Speaker 7: or seventeen?
Speaker 1: Now? Yeah, a lot of songs on the B side
Speaker 1: at this point, A lot of tracks, a lot of them.
Speaker 2: So if there was maybe another one that maybe just
Speaker 2: cut in half or something. To me, it just was
Speaker 2: like not that.
Speaker 7: It wasn't great And it was the production and the water.
Speaker 7: You know me again, I told you you now, we're
Speaker 7: doing water. We've got props, water, all this stuff.
Speaker 3: Have you danced in water? Have you ever done a
Speaker 3: water dance scene?
Speaker 7: Not like a raining scene. It was, but we weren't
Speaker 7: like splsh splashing around in the rain.
Speaker 2: Wasn't it wasn't choreographed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the final took place in the rain.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows that, everyone, everyone, everyone.
Speaker 1: I literally watched it again after this movie last night,
Speaker 1: not even a joke. I went right to the big
Speaker 1: splashy scene at the end.
Speaker 2: It was awesome, But this one was good. I thought
Speaker 2: it was good.
Speaker 7: I just I'm at the point where I'm kind of like,
Speaker 7: I don't know if we need how many more, because.
Speaker 1: I like, I liked this one though. I liked when
Speaker 1: the rest of them came in. So the Wrailwoad was
Speaker 1: arrested one by one and the demolition process begins. The
Speaker 1: power plant, the Moonstone, it's set on pace for destruction.
Speaker 1: But then Addison and the z team cheerleaders rhyme alongside
Speaker 1: the zombies, including Zed, They joined the Flesh and Bone song,
Speaker 1: arguing to save the plant. Mid song, Bonzo sets off
Speaker 1: the fire extinguisher fire sprinklers and this is the cool
Speaker 1: dancer team flash dance style. I when they were all
Speaker 1: in it at the end, I kind of thought this
Speaker 1: was a cool thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, this is exactly what we needed.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 5: May it could have maybe been a little shortened. It
Speaker 5: seemed like there was like a full song as part one,
Speaker 5: and then a full song with them together. Yeah, and
Speaker 5: maybe we could have given yeah one song, maybe twenty
Speaker 5: seconds of one, and then surprise, we're here too, and
Speaker 5: we're on your team. Because obviously we've got to merge
Speaker 5: the wolves and the z's, like, we've got to get
Speaker 5: them to be unified against the man and boys, the man,
Speaker 5: the mayor and the dad doing some work with their reactions.
Speaker 1: Yeah they are, Oh they are, they're they're they're living
Speaker 1: their lives on their face. Yeah, they certainly are.
Speaker 2: Just really I guess we got to look at these
Speaker 2: can't How do I see.
Speaker 1: The youth and it's like they're no longer trespassing because
Speaker 1: they're dancing. They're still trespassing, it's just boreography.
Speaker 2: But they're just more impressed with how good it looks exactly.
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure how they were holding the werewolves down either,
Speaker 2: like in the they were Was it like an electricity?
Speaker 1: No, I think they they they put the silver bracelets
Speaker 1: on them. Is that what they had? They had silver?
Speaker 4: Oh like the z Okay, I'm missed them up like
Speaker 4: controlling them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it was first the silver gas.
Speaker 2: It's like to a vampire, is the silver to a
Speaker 2: were wolf?
Speaker 9: Yea?
Speaker 2: To me, it was it was just that it was
Speaker 2: just that that was just what it was. It wasn't
Speaker 2: like electrical.
Speaker 7: I thought it seemed like it was going to be like,
Speaker 7: you're about to electrocute these kids.
Speaker 2: It was like, like, this seems a little over the top.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're trustpassing, I get it, but they're also
Speaker 2: high school kids.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, no, we were good. I think it was.
Speaker 1: I think it was the bracelets. Get the silver.
Speaker 2: Bracelets yea, which still burns them.
Speaker 1: But of course that we're good. They're dying anyway. We
Speaker 1: get a flashback here to Zed being persecuted for being
Speaker 1: a zombie in the first movie. He sings about knowing
Speaker 1: the struggle for his hand. They can't make this mistake again.
Speaker 1: We get a big final dance number here, everyone together
Speaker 1: dancing in front of confused police officers, which they would be.
Speaker 1: As the track ends, Zed begs his dad to stop
Speaker 1: the demolition. He thinks about it, and then he agrees
Speaker 1: with the sun. He tells his crew to shut it
Speaker 1: down and announces to start looking for the moonstone tomorrow.
Speaker 1: And apparently the foreman has more power than the mayor
Speaker 1: and anybody else, because he just shuts down the entire project.
Speaker 1: The zombies and where we'll celebrate their big win together.
Speaker 1: But Zed isn't happy. He's going to lose the election,
Speaker 1: and he can't take Addison to Prawn. Even though she
Speaker 1: promises him it's not a big deal. Zed knows it's
Speaker 1: bigger than that. He hands her the moonstone necklace and
Speaker 1: admits he stole it. She can't believe he do that,
Speaker 1: and now doesn't want to go to prom with him anyway.
Speaker 1: So what do you think of that? Zed? See she
Speaker 1: puts on the necklace and after a few seconds when
Speaker 1: she turns around a howl. Nothing changed, And did anybody
Speaker 1: else when you first saw this see this twist coming.
Speaker 1: I knew she wasn't going to be a were wolf.
Speaker 1: They said it. I was like, there's no way she's
Speaker 1: going to be the were wolf.
Speaker 9: It's set up.
Speaker 4: I agree, well, and we also know there's four movies,
Speaker 4: and I feel like that it's exactly where are we going? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you know again thinking about this as being
Speaker 5: a relatable kid trying to figure out where you fit in.
Speaker 5: The thing that I will say is, although I knew
Speaker 5: for sure she was not going to be a werewolf,
Speaker 5: I believed.
Speaker 2: That she believed it was possible.
Speaker 1: That's true, and.
Speaker 5: Just to it for nothing else, just to have the
Speaker 5: answer where do I belong? And so there's a part
Speaker 5: of you that's almost rooting for it, even though I
Speaker 5: knew it wasn't going to I also do just want
Speaker 5: her to have that sense of relief.
Speaker 1: Yes, I agree, good because it's a good character. We
Speaker 1: like it. Yep. But like Maury telling someone you're not
Speaker 1: the father, she is not the Alpha. She's not yet
Speaker 1: found her true identity. But before she can grieve, the
Speaker 1: construction workers found an issue. The remote that controls the
Speaker 1: entire demolition has shorted out, remember, because the Moonstone messes
Speaker 1: with technology, something we definitely have all forgotten by this
Speaker 1: point in the film. And then, in a shocking turn
Speaker 1: of events, the power plant explodes and crumbles to the ground. First, whoa?
Speaker 3: And second, what did we think of the special effects here?
Speaker 2: I thought they were good.
Speaker 4: I would not have expected them to be as good
Speaker 4: as they were the first one. And then when we
Speaker 4: get like a wider shot and the whole thing goes down,
Speaker 4: I was like, wow, I.
Speaker 2: Mean take better than it had to be.
Speaker 1: Absolutely could not agree more. The werewolves, of course, are devastated,
Speaker 1: and they all start coughing immediately, which is the universal
Speaker 1: sign for dying in the dcom This is, of course
Speaker 1: the worst case scenario. The next day at school, the
Speaker 1: news is good. I guess Bri and Bonzo are now
Speaker 1: in a handholding couple, which is decom for sex, but
Speaker 1: because Bucky won the election. The Prawn is tomorrow night
Speaker 1: and it's still humans only, and in the forest the
Speaker 1: werewolves have retreated, all slowly dying again. There's some coughing,
Speaker 1: so you know they're dying. Zed visits the help and
Speaker 1: admits he was wrong about the were wolves. At Prawn,
Speaker 1: Bucky arrives with the Acs and a big pink stretch limo.
Speaker 1: They walk in slow motion, which means they're ready to party,
Speaker 1: but then they're followed by the zombies and the werewolves
Speaker 1: together all informal wear. Bucky blocks the interest it's humans only,
Speaker 1: but Zed explains bad laws are meant to be broken
Speaker 1: and monsters don't follow rules. How cool did this group look?
Speaker 9: It really did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, their wardrobe I literally paused it and looked at
Speaker 4: every single one of them as they were walking like.
Speaker 2: The wardrobe was so good it was they look like
Speaker 2: the again.
Speaker 4: Going back to Michael Jackson music video Bad they are
Speaker 4: so good.
Speaker 5: I also love the melding of the song we saw
Speaker 5: earlier about what do you Do Do you go along
Speaker 5: to get along or do you behave like you know
Speaker 5: you do, stay true to yourself. And now the zombies
Speaker 5: have learned there's a benefit to what the werewolves were saying.
Speaker 5: And the werewolves it's just what a perfect what a
Speaker 5: perfect lesson surgy energy surgy.
Speaker 1: They have got it. They know what's up. So yeah,
Speaker 1: Bucky knows he's outnumbered, so he gives in. And apparently
Speaker 1: there was just one giant switch to shut off the
Speaker 1: entire prawn. Nobody mentioned that, noticing walked over the switch,
Speaker 1: but we're not going to talk about the on off
Speaker 1: pron switch.
Speaker 2: Better than a little light switch.
Speaker 1: Prom's over. Yeah, so he gives in. He's reuniting Bris
Speaker 1: and Bonzo, the true love story of the entire film. Actually,
Speaker 1: Zed and Addison spot each other as well, meeting in
Speaker 1: the middle of the dance floor for a big apology
Speaker 1: from Zed. He knows he was wrong to steal the
Speaker 1: next and this leads us to a song call back
Speaker 1: from the first movies, Someday, the tune that kicked off
Speaker 1: their relationship in the first place. But just when they're
Speaker 1: about to kiss, the buildings starts shaking. There's something emerging
Speaker 1: from the ground creating a fault line all the way
Speaker 1: to the school. The werewolves decide to dive into the tunnel,
Speaker 1: knowing they only have a short amount of time and
Speaker 1: it could hold the moonstone, and guess what, they find
Speaker 1: the moonstone. What luck. The werewolves quickly recharge their necklaces
Speaker 1: on it. It all feels very rushed, like they just
Speaker 1: put this on at the end, like all of a sudden, Oh,
Speaker 1: there's the moonstone. Now we just have to touch our
Speaker 1: necklaces to it, and now everything's okay.
Speaker 3: It just it was like they they finished the script
Speaker 3: and went, oh, we forgot the moonstone.
Speaker 2: No, you're right finished.
Speaker 5: They finished it and they were like, we're already four
Speaker 5: minutes over ninety minutes. Okay, well, you know what, You
Speaker 5: just touch it and it recharges it.
Speaker 3: If you say moonstone three times, you're healthy again.
Speaker 1: It was just very strange. It did just kind of
Speaker 1: seem like it was tacked on there.
Speaker 4: What di I will say was not the greatest, like
Speaker 4: a fet like a fect slash prop, like the moonstone
Speaker 4: did not look yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: Like but they were grabbing it and they're all trying
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 1: It was like, yes, yeah, I agree, I agree, but
Speaker 1: either way, it worked.
Speaker 3: The were wolves are healthy again, but they know they
Speaker 3: don't have a lot of time.
Speaker 1: They try to move the moonstone, but it's just too heavy,
Speaker 1: so Addison the zombie is joining to help. Now the
Speaker 1: whole school is trying to move the stone, but it's
Speaker 1: the process, and all of a sudden, their exit is
Speaker 1: blocked by a giant boulder. Without any other options, Eliza
Speaker 1: encouraged z to take off a Z band to move
Speaker 1: the stone.
Speaker 3: Though he's nervous about it, Zed agrees and removes the band.
Speaker 1: Now zombied out, he clears the pathway for the Moonstone,
Speaker 1: but drops the boulder before he can get out. He's
Speaker 1: now stuck in the tunnel forever, where he dies. Roll credits,
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. I was just seeing if everybody is still
Speaker 1: with what And just when we think we've lost him
Speaker 1: for good, he emerges from the smoke, adjusting his Z band.
Speaker 3: He made it out safely and controlled his zombie urges.
Speaker 1: He embraces Addison, posing perfectly for the Wall of Fame
Speaker 1: human zombies and where wolves are now all living together
Speaker 1: in harmony. We're now back at the Prawn, with the
Speaker 1: nearby Moonstone safely accounted. For the parties in full swing,
Speaker 1: we get one last song in Dance number one for all.
Speaker 1: It's a big choreographed dance track, uniting moves from every
Speaker 1: Seabrook species, even Bucky, who crowns Addison the new cheer Captain,
Speaker 1: and hug Zed. It's time for everyone who accept who
Speaker 1: they are. While clapping on beat, the party moves to
Speaker 1: the Wolf's Den, where Z's dad brings pizza and the
Speaker 1: coach has set up his Froyio card. Again, everyone's abroo.
Speaker 1: The song ends with a big kiss between Zed and Addison,
Speaker 1: and this is where we think the film's over, but
Speaker 1: it's not. We cut to later that night. Addison is
Speaker 1: fast asleep and we see from her window a meteor
Speaker 1: hit Seabrook and a glowing blue light awakens her zaps
Speaker 1: through her white hair, and that's the end of our movie,
Speaker 1: setting us up for what daniel has already told us
Speaker 1: is Zombies three, which isn't that great. So we see
Speaker 1: what we get up there, but that is zombies too. Danielle,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 3: The question is do you want to stick around for
Speaker 3: real reviews in our game or do you want to go?
Speaker 2: Would you like to see what your husband torments with.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I feel like maybe I should. I feel like, yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: Really fun to see him torture Sabrina.
Speaker 2: Oh no, oh no, it's all fun and it's pretty good.
Speaker 3: First of all, we'll do our real reviews. I've got
Speaker 3: the one star this week.
Speaker 1: This is from space Quasar, who says if you're older
Speaker 1: than sixteen, this is probably not for you. The music's
Speaker 1: not too bad, but it isn't good either. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: listen to it on the radio. Thank you, space Quasar.
Speaker 1: I disagree entirely, Sabrina. You've got the five star this week.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 7: It's with Hannah w a brilliant film which again explores
Speaker 7: the complex issue of when and how to protest with
Speaker 7: nuance and sensitivity, presenting different options as all having value.
Speaker 3: Okay, very specific. Five, no music, no movie, Nothing about the.
Speaker 4: Day changes, I think, but it's just saying the message
Speaker 4: of trying to again find yourself free.
Speaker 2: Yep, it's good, it's thank you.
Speaker 1: We are now to Sabrina's favorite part of the program
Speaker 1: every week, which is our feature presentation, the Jensen Corner,
Speaker 1: which we change every week. Producer Jensen, of course comes
Speaker 1: up with a different game every week and tries to
Speaker 1: stump us and normally does. This week it's called now
Speaker 1: you sequel, Now you don't. Oh please, Danielle, we'd love
Speaker 1: you to play along with us pay celebration of a sequel.
Speaker 1: On this week's Magical rewind we'll be given the name
Speaker 1: of a movie and we have to decide if that
Speaker 1: movie was given a sequel or not. If we get
Speaker 1: three out of five, we win. We also know producer
Speaker 1: Jensen goes deep and dark with these things. He spends
Speaker 1: hours and hours. So our first movie prduser jens to
Speaker 1: you with us.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, I'm going to be quieter because my wife's
Speaker 9: here and I don't.
Speaker 1: Want to myself.
Speaker 3: Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 9: Also, like this is a movie related one and she
Speaker 9: knows how many Blu rays and four k's I own.
Speaker 9: It's just right now, guys, I'd rather be less talk.
Speaker 1: Well, I look at it this way, Jensen. When our
Speaker 1: wives eventually leave us, we are going to be very
Speaker 1: very happy together.
Speaker 2: Such great movies we are are.
Speaker 1: Number one movie from nineteen ninety five, Congo. Okay, so
Speaker 1: I know Congo was a Michael Crichton book. I don't
Speaker 1: think there was a second Michael Crichton book. Did they
Speaker 1: make a second Congo? I'm going to say no.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say yes, dam I'm gonna say yes,
Speaker 2: Congo had a part two.
Speaker 9: Congo did not have a part two. No, there was no.
Speaker 1: Way we should.
Speaker 2: It's always best to not go with me.
Speaker 1: Daniell know the rule. I don't ever vote with spread
Speaker 1: it when all else failed. Just pick the opposite of
Speaker 1: what Sabrina did.
Speaker 9: Let her go first.
Speaker 1: Number two, two thousand one's Donnie Darko. Yes, Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say yes as well it did.
Speaker 9: Two thousand and nine's s Darko.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, good, so I'm almost winning here. Number three, Oh,
Speaker 1: I hope they didn't make one. In nineteen eighty four's Splash.
Speaker 2: Yes, I want to say yes because I feel like
Speaker 2: I remember seeing it. It was like worse than Greece too. Yes,
Speaker 2: it was not good. It was not good.
Speaker 9: No Number one Greece. He was pretty good. There's some
Speaker 9: pretty good parts of Greee two. Uh Splash two, nineteen
Speaker 9: eighty eight, but it it spelled.
Speaker 1: To was it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, I was gonna say, my god, I can't believe
Speaker 1: they made us Splash too. Number one or Bambi nineteen
Speaker 1: forty two, and this one opened with the sequel opens
Speaker 1: with Bambi's father being shot. First, No, did they make
Speaker 1: a sequel to bamb I?
Speaker 4: Feel like on Disney Plus there's sequels of all those
Speaker 4: damn movies and you just never knew.
Speaker 1: I know we'll start then, I'm going to say yes.
Speaker 1: You're going to say yes. I'm going to say yes.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say yes too because I like you.
Speaker 2: I think you're right Sabrina that there's a sequel, even
Speaker 2: if we've just never heard of it. I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: with yes.
Speaker 1: It's called bambo first bluss.
Speaker 9: The second was Bambi two from two thousand and six.
Speaker 7: H Yes, I said, how many years later?
Speaker 1: Nineteen? You do?
Speaker 9: I can't believe there's a Bambi sequel, but going, my god?
Speaker 1: And number five nineteen sixty eight Rosemary's Baby. I hope.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to say yes just because I would
Speaker 1: love there to be a second Rosemary's Baby.
Speaker 9: No, No, this is true. There is a second Rosemary's
Speaker 9: Baby from nineteen seventy six, and it is called Look
Speaker 9: What's happened to Rosemary's Baby?
Speaker 2: You've got to be kid? Is it a short.
Speaker 9: No, it's a full length, not Polanski.
Speaker 2: Just show me a picture. What what's happened to Rosemary's Baby?
Speaker 2: Just give me, give me two minutes.
Speaker 9: He's actually grown up. She's the editor at Vogue.
Speaker 3: Oh well, I won yet again. Thank you, producer Jensen.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: I got three out of five.
Speaker 1: I think they all got a right. I don't think
Speaker 1: got too wrong. Yeah, well, Sabrina still gets I got
Speaker 1: one wrong.
Speaker 2: Oh see, then you did win. Sabrina and I both
Speaker 2: got too wrong.
Speaker 7: There you go, and now you look up the actual direction,
Speaker 7: say three out of five wins, I've taken away.
Speaker 2: To take you wake away from daniel I never get it. Okay,
Speaker 2: it keeps yours.
Speaker 1: Take the win and depart the field. And now since
Speaker 1: you're still here, I'd first like to do some Sabrina
Speaker 1: sees Sabrina take it away.
Speaker 4: These are actually I've put them into more questions for
Speaker 4: Danielle because there were a couple of things that were
Speaker 4: very confusing for me that I felt like the rules
Speaker 4: maybe I just didn't remember him from the first one
Speaker 4: or what. I want to give a shout out to
Speaker 4: Kylie because now after interviewing her and then now seeing
Speaker 4: her dance again in this second movie, Danielle, if you
Speaker 4: can believe it, she actually said she wasn't a dancer
Speaker 4: and she really didn't feel comfortable going into rehearsals. And
Speaker 4: I'm like, I watched her, and I'm like, girl, you
Speaker 4: are a fantastic dancer. So had to give a shout
Speaker 4: out to her first. Then we can go into the
Speaker 4: questions I have. So Bonzo, Okay, he doesn't speak English.
Speaker 2: I guess right.
Speaker 4: He always speaks zombie zombie, so I guess maybe it
Speaker 4: makes sense. But there's a part where they're they're chanting.
Speaker 4: I think if they were saying not, I think they're
Speaker 4: saying Addie when they were wanting to her to go
Speaker 4: ahead and go for cheer.
Speaker 2: Captain He's sitting.
Speaker 4: There right along with her chanting, and I looked at
Speaker 4: him like, wait, I didn't think that character could actually talk,
Speaker 4: so like he can.
Speaker 2: He can make sound, so I guess he can be
Speaker 2: mimicking just Addie. Yeah, because started to that this is
Speaker 2: it here, I am watching a sequel.
Speaker 4: Now I'm gonna be a little bit more nipiggy, like,
Speaker 4: wait a minute, I get the rules.
Speaker 2: You are in my head.
Speaker 7: It's the worst, and then I had the car. The
Speaker 7: next question was, so in them, it happens a lot.
Speaker 4: When we see the debate and then when he goes
Speaker 4: you know, agro, he goes into zombie, zombifies out and
Speaker 4: the zomb the other zombies that are at school are scared.
Speaker 7: Does this go along with the rules, Like they're scared
Speaker 7: when they could do the thing if they took their
Speaker 7: bracelet off.
Speaker 1: Scared.
Speaker 5: I always take it as in WHOA, they're scared of
Speaker 5: the ramifications of this though this is bad news for
Speaker 5: or us that he's hulking out.
Speaker 4: Basically, Okay, okay, so that's what it is, because throughout
Speaker 4: the movie then as things are happening, they're acting a
Speaker 4: lot more like you know, the other species. They're not
Speaker 4: acting like zombies in the sense of having that like
Speaker 4: empathy of somebody else.
Speaker 2: So I was just kind of confused.
Speaker 4: Wasn't sure if just that's how it would be, or
Speaker 4: if that was like the extras in the movie, not
Speaker 4: realizing that there's supposed.
Speaker 2: To be a different species. It was kind of confusing
Speaker 2: to me, right.
Speaker 1: A little from column Bee.
Speaker 2: You're right, that's true.
Speaker 4: And then my last question and then I have one
Speaker 4: more thing that just I kept seeing and it was
Speaker 4: crazy the kiss that doesn't happen? Did we get a
Speaker 4: kiss in the first movie, because in my head I'm
Speaker 4: thinking of actually making a comment that I couldn't believe
Speaker 4: we did. I didn't get my rom com cas there's
Speaker 4: no rom com kiss in one first movie, because I
Speaker 4: thought in Zombies too, how are are they gonna stop
Speaker 4: this kiss?
Speaker 7: And then when they didn't it, I was like, whoa,
Speaker 7: we finally get the kiss okay, and then the end okay.
Speaker 7: So that that was I couldn't remember from the first movie,
Speaker 7: So I needed you to clear that up. The last
Speaker 7: thing is did anyone else notice that there were like
Speaker 7: twenty four, five hundred and sixty five pastel giant and
Speaker 7: all sizes actually potted plants throughout.
Speaker 1: This entire set. There was a lot of potted plants.
Speaker 1: I noticed there was a big one.
Speaker 4: You first really see them when the the werewolves come in.
Speaker 4: They're into like that columns and they're like hiding hide
Speaker 4: behind them. But then you start noticing I don't remember
Speaker 4: them in the last set, but you see them everywhere.
Speaker 2: They are pastel plants.
Speaker 7: Just it's like if they needed a small little space
Speaker 7: of the screen filled up.
Speaker 2: They just threw threw.
Speaker 1: Space.
Speaker 6: That was it.
Speaker 4: I didn't know if anyone else saw that, but the
Speaker 4: potted plants were overwhelming, like overwhelming.
Speaker 2: I honestly I did notice it.
Speaker 5: And I also thought, I wonder if they're trying to
Speaker 5: say that somehow the moonstone, because it's it's a life force.
Speaker 5: Even even the plants are like, you know what I mean,
Speaker 5: everything is growing, So I even thought maybe they were
Speaker 5: somewhere some of the director Paul was like, listen, we've
Speaker 5: got to fill some space over there, and it's because.
Speaker 2: Of the moonstone.
Speaker 1: It's the moonstone.
Speaker 5: It's giving life force to the plants. And if anybody
Speaker 5: questions me, that's my answer.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well I was questioning him, and I'm glad I
Speaker 2: got an answer.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 1: The guy who created Batman Beyond always said Batman and Batman,
Speaker 1: and I said, when any time I get a question,
Speaker 1: I don't know the answer to you, I just say
Speaker 1: it's magic.
Speaker 3: It's like, okay, perfect, you got it.
Speaker 1: Thanks, And now we'd like to have you join us today,
Speaker 1: Danielle in rating our film. So we do a little
Speaker 1: different here. We do one out of ten, one being
Speaker 1: the lowest and ten being the biggest right, ten being
Speaker 1: the best right. So that's different than a lot of
Speaker 1: people do it right.
Speaker 2: I was to say I've only heard it the other way,
Speaker 2: it would.
Speaker 1: Be great, correct, Correct? We switch it around. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna let you pick how we're going to rate it
Speaker 1: this week, though, Danielle, do you want to do one
Speaker 1: out of ten? Froyo side hustles one out of ten,
Speaker 1: big budget water cannons, were wolf swing states one out
Speaker 1: of ten, glowing necklaces, bamboo dances, water dances one out
Speaker 1: of ten, debate DJs, or one out of ten vifs
Speaker 1: or very important foremans.
Speaker 3: You can also throw in any of your own if
Speaker 3: you'd like to.
Speaker 2: I'd like to give it one out of ten owls.
Speaker 1: Oh and okay, who would like to go first? Oh?
Speaker 2: Man, I don't know, Danielle. Do you want to do
Speaker 2: the honors? Or do you want to wrap it up
Speaker 2: and got up to you?
Speaker 1: You're the you get to check.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you first, because you, guys, I think, are
Speaker 5: gonna maybe you already know. I love it, So I'm
Speaker 5: gonna give it nine out of ten.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, solid, I want to give it a nine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sabrina, do you want to wrap it up or
Speaker 1: do you want me to go next?
Speaker 2: I'll go next because you're back down lower than I am.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 4: Again, I loved the first movie. I still am a
Speaker 4: giant fan of this franchise. There were just a little
Speaker 4: couple of things that, again I feel like, kind of
Speaker 4: slipped through the cracks, just as if we said, you know,
Speaker 4: the acting was a little it was a little too
Speaker 4: gimmicky to cheeky here and there, pushed it a little bit,
Speaker 4: versus I've just felt that first one just was like
Speaker 4: nailing it out of the park.
Speaker 2: I mean, they just hit a home run with it.
Speaker 2: So I did pull it back down, but it's still incredible, dancing,
Speaker 2: the songs, everything. I did really love a lot of it.
Speaker 2: Mine's gonna be an eight point five. Oh, I like that.
Speaker 1: I am kind of right there with both of you.
Speaker 1: I I the first one's better in my opinion. It
Speaker 1: was kind of pushed a little bit, but it's fun,
Speaker 1: it's bright, it's well directed. The Milo and Meg are phenomenal.
Speaker 1: They're great. To see the difference between a d com
Speaker 1: now or even a twenty twenty d com and the
Speaker 1: you know, nineteen ninety four d com is just night
Speaker 1: and day.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna give it a solid eight.
Speaker 2: All right, wow, but it is yeah to nine.
Speaker 1: It is a very fun movie franchise. It really is.
Speaker 1: And again, I'm trying to watch them more as a
Speaker 1: twelve year old. And if I'm twelve or thirteen and
Speaker 1: I come home and I get to watch this so
Speaker 1: are you kidding? I would be the greatest thing ever.
Speaker 2: Imagine being my five and three year old.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I couldn't. That means incredible, so cool,
Speaker 1: And it's just what you were saying before Sabrina. Just
Speaker 1: it's so clever to take zombies and wear wolves. And
Speaker 1: I think the next one's aliens, and then I think
Speaker 1: they do a vampire. I mean, it's like, it's really
Speaker 1: clever to do it like this, so and I think it.
Speaker 2: I mean, That's what I loved about this one was that, like.
Speaker 4: We talked a lot about introducing this new group, and
Speaker 4: while those actors were incredible and brought so much to
Speaker 4: where like it didn't feel like a ugh what I
Speaker 4: was basically the same, because it wasn't. It was a
Speaker 4: totally different movie and had a huge, great new dynamic
Speaker 4: that came in with them.
Speaker 1: I loved it partly, well, thank you everybody. I hope
Speaker 1: you loved it and you loved our episode, but we
Speaker 1: really first need to thank the great Danielle Fischel, who
Speaker 1: was not only my co star on Boy Mets World,
Speaker 1: which aired in the Disney Channel, but she's now one
Speaker 1: of the channel's busiest sitcom directors. What shows you have
Speaker 1: coming up for the people who are glued to Disney Channel.
Speaker 5: I am about ready to start directing for Vamporine, which
Speaker 5: I'm very excited about. They took the cartoon from Disney Channel,
Speaker 5: the Vambourina cartoon, and they.
Speaker 2: Made it live action.
Speaker 5: So I start directing there in a couple of weeks,
Speaker 5: and then you know, Shifting Gears was picked up.
Speaker 2: Fingers crossed.
Speaker 5: I'm going to get to do a couple of those
Speaker 5: for ABC, and I'm still waiting to hear about Lopez
Speaker 5: versus Lopez. Fingers crossed that season four gets picked up,
Speaker 5: and a show I directed a couple of months ago
Speaker 5: is going to be premiering in July for Disney Channel.
Speaker 5: It is called Electric Bloom and it's amazing.
Speaker 1: Okay, so tons of Disney Channels stuff coming up. Synergy, folks.
Speaker 1: We keep saying it. We just want to keep pumping
Speaker 1: out the Disney stuff and our next movie will be
Speaker 1: a magical World of Disney Injury. Yes, that's right, We're
Speaker 1: going all the way back to nineteen eighty seven's gambling
Speaker 1: adventure You Ruined my life.
Speaker 3: Yes, all those words I just said, I don't understand
Speaker 3: them either.
Speaker 1: Quite a one though. And this one is on the
Speaker 1: YouTube's for free, so go and check it out there.
Speaker 1: And this week over on our magical rewind feed, we're
Speaker 1: speaking with Jane Sibbett, an incredible actress. You may know
Speaker 1: from Friends or Herman's Head or dozens of other TV shows,
Speaker 1: but we know her as the mom in Buffalo Dreams.
Speaker 1: And we talked to her all about her experience on
Speaker 1: that movie and letting her movie son go out into
Speaker 1: the woods on a vision quest. Here's a small snippet
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 8: Here's a little tiny thing. And I again, and I
Speaker 8: get that I've taken from this. There was a woman
Speaker 8: that was atmosphere and she was wearing these beautiful churchoise
Speaker 8: earrings and I just complimented, like, those are so beautiful,
Speaker 8: and she just looks so thank you, and that she's
Speaker 8: hands them to me.
Speaker 2: Jeez.
Speaker 8: Yeah, And I said, oh no, no, no, no, I
Speaker 8: just was a complimenting and she said, no, that's our tradition,
Speaker 8: you compliment. You must give that.
Speaker 1: Oh super careful about what I call right now, you
Speaker 1: can check that out this week when it's released on
Speaker 1: our dedicated Magical Rewind feed to search Magical Rewind wherever
Speaker 1: you get your podcast, and you can hear all of
Speaker 1: the incredible decom related interviews we've done and for more info,
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