Speaker 1: Did you have dolls when you were growing up? I did?
Speaker 1: What was your favorite like doll? Line? Were you a
Speaker 1: Barbie person? Did you like Skipper? I remember, God, I
Speaker 1: can't believe I even know what Skipper is. But do
Speaker 1: you remember all this stuff I do?
Speaker 2: But my bar and I had the Barbie dream House
Speaker 2: and tons of them, the cars, the all the stuff
Speaker 2: I did. But those that my Barbie dolls were not
Speaker 2: actually my favorite doll.
Speaker 1: What was your favorite doll?
Speaker 2: A Barbie? A doll that was you know? I was
Speaker 2: really like tiny, and my doll Gidget was.
Speaker 3: Almost my size. She was just smaller than me.
Speaker 1: And my Gidget like from the fifties television Gidget was it? No?
Speaker 2: No, She had blonde hair, big blue eyes, and I
Speaker 2: like could put her in a like a high chair
Speaker 2: and I would curl her hair. She didn't have hair
Speaker 2: that you couldn't curl, or maybe my mom didn't let
Speaker 2: me heat it.
Speaker 3: I probably eat it, that's probably better.
Speaker 1: But I would to stay with her hair.
Speaker 2: And she was and she had a little cassette tape,
Speaker 2: you know in the back to where I could put
Speaker 2: cassette TETs and she'd say, tell me stories and we
Speaker 2: would I would use that like as we were just
Speaker 2: chatting right like. And I loved her and I still
Speaker 2: have her, and she's up in my I thought about
Speaker 2: her while I was watching this. She's up in my raptor,
Speaker 2: like the rafters in my garage, and anytime I go
Speaker 2: up there, I swear she.
Speaker 4: Moves, go oh God, and she's all like dirty and gross,
Speaker 4: and her hair's just like fried hopful now, like a
Speaker 4: pathetic looking doll.
Speaker 3: But I cannot get rid of her. She was just
Speaker 3: such a huge part of.
Speaker 2: It's not I don't even know why I'm holding onto it,
Speaker 2: so it's not like I'll ever give it to Monroe
Speaker 2: that will terrify.
Speaker 1: I'm googling it now because I want to see if
Speaker 1: I can find an image of Gidget I.
Speaker 3: But then someone told me that wasn't her name.
Speaker 1: Might I'm thinking that's the name you gave her, because
Speaker 1: I'm dying to know what the name is. I don't
Speaker 1: want to know the doll.
Speaker 2: She was bit like she had like she wasn't like
Speaker 2: a doll, like it's like a Barbie size in any sort.
Speaker 3: She was like a giant, giant doll.
Speaker 2: And I loved her, and she had so many outfits
Speaker 2: I still have a lot of the outfits.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, note to self, when I go to your house,
Speaker 1: don't go open to the crawl space.
Speaker 2: I'll go up looking for like a suitcase or like
Speaker 2: my snowboard, and then boo, there's oh.
Speaker 1: God, just smoking a cigarette. How are you, Sabrina. It's
Speaker 1: nice that time.
Speaker 3: It looks like she has been smoking for decade.
Speaker 1: Exact nice. Great, Oh man, you weren't.
Speaker 3: Expecting that story.
Speaker 1: Where are you, tiny little meth head up there? Awesome? Well,
Speaker 1: we welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show that makes
Speaker 1: you want to grab your friends, your pjs and your
Speaker 1: popcorn and go back to a time and all the
Speaker 1: houses are smart, the waves tsunamis, and Sabrina's doll wasn't
Speaker 1: working the streets.
Speaker 3: I'm Wilfredell and I'm Sabrina Brian.
Speaker 1: Well, if all of you out there have ever watched
Speaker 1: the horror movie Child's Play and thought to yourself, hmm,
Speaker 1: this would be a good movie. If the chucky doll
Speaker 1: wasn't scary at all it was actually just Tyr Banks,
Speaker 1: then boy, you're in luck, cause we're getting into the
Speaker 1: two thousand wonderful Old of Disney Fever Dream Life Size. Now,
Speaker 1: this is a movie that was regularly mentioned by our
Speaker 1: listeners on our social media and I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: it was brought up sarcastically or if people actually like it,
Speaker 1: but it was highly requested for at least two reasons,
Speaker 1: and those are two big name stars. Life Size debut
Speaker 1: on March fifth and two thousand on ABC. So this
Speaker 1: is basically a network d com. We don't like to
Speaker 1: say that it's a wonderful old of Disney though that
Speaker 1: sort of defeats a definition if we call it a
Speaker 1: ABC dcom. This movie is also regularly seen as the
Speaker 1: first ever live action Barbie movie, despite not having the
Speaker 1: rights of the iconic character. The director has even revealed
Speaker 1: that the original title for the movie was Ken and Barbie.
Speaker 1: So over two decades before Greta Gerwig, Fine inspiration and
Speaker 1: a Doll coming to life. We give you Life Size.
Speaker 1: Another change they made to the original script actually plays
Speaker 1: into the movie's music. The big theme song be a Star.
Speaker 1: Oh we'll get into that might be the dolls calling card,
Speaker 1: but that's because the doll's original name in the script
Speaker 1: was Star, but because of appending doll that was in
Speaker 1: development by a company, they were legally forced to change
Speaker 1: the name, but they left the song as is cuz
Speaker 1: why not. And that's not even in the top ten
Speaker 1: confusing things in this movie. And while we're talking about music,
Speaker 1: Life Size features two songs by the Irish girl group
Speaker 1: Bewitched and one from another Disney signed act, Some Ladies
Speaker 1: That were Very Close to My Heart Nobody's Angel. The
Speaker 1: pop act appeared on an episode of Boy Meets World
Speaker 1: as a group of sisters that Corey and Shawn magically
Speaker 1: meet at a diner on a road trip. Surreal episode,
Speaker 1: but nice Girls. Filming took place over three weeks in Vancouver,
Speaker 1: so even though it aired on ABC, it still took
Speaker 1: place in the northern d com capital, and eagle eyed
Speaker 1: viewers can easily catch locations thanks to the BC license
Speaker 1: plates and international flag scene throughout the movie. But who's
Speaker 1: nitpicking Life Size? We are that too. It's our job
Speaker 1: right here, yep. Thanks to a modest six million dollar budget,
Speaker 1: Life Size was considered a big hit for Disney and
Speaker 1: deemed a cult classic quote sleepover rewatch staple unquote. Collider
Speaker 1: contributor Kendall Myers said it handles difficult subject matter and
Speaker 1: allows Eve to ask deep questions about themes like femininity, grief,
Speaker 1: and self discovery. I feel like I watched a different film,
Speaker 1: Laura Piaister of E said, quote, we are not ready
Speaker 1: for the movie. We actually got an unexpectedly funny and
Speaker 1: sweet film that was also a lot more feminist on
Speaker 1: quote than remembered. Again, I feel like I watched a
Speaker 1: different movie. It goes without saying. Discourse about Life Size
Speaker 1: escalated after the billion dollar performance of Barbie and similar
Speaker 1: themes that happened there. We already talked about your doll situation.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get into Methead Abbey or whatever
Speaker 1: the doll's name was. Again, also thanks to the viral
Speaker 1: life of this movie. Eighteen years after Life Size debuted,
Speaker 1: Life Size two, this time It's Personal, aired on Freeform
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen with Tyra Banks reprising her role, but
Speaker 1: Lohn missed out due to what was being called scheduling conflicts.
Speaker 1: But as recently as March of this year, Tyra has
Speaker 1: talked about the development of Life Size three. So we'll
Speaker 1: have to wait and see if it takes another eighteen
Speaker 1: years to complete the trilogy, and Life Size, of course,
Speaker 1: is currently available to watch on Disney Plus but it
Speaker 1: was absent from all streaming services for a very long
Speaker 1: time since it was a wonderful World of Disney release,
Speaker 1: which we know those can get tangled. That was the
Speaker 1: same thing for My Date with the President's Daughter and
Speaker 1: ah Doable hockey Sticks. Though unlike those mil To Incredible films,
Speaker 1: it did get a DVD and Blu Ray release. Thank you,
Speaker 1: I Love How You Laughed. I'm to talk about that later.
Speaker 1: It was never available for purchase or rental online until
Speaker 1: just a few weeks ago, and on November seventh of
Speaker 1: this year, it was added to Disney Plus in a
Speaker 1: new HD widescreen transfer. Hallelujah. So you know what to do.
Speaker 1: Watch it now or watch it later. Luke Skywarker and
Speaker 1: Darth Vader hate the game, not the player. Let's sing
Speaker 1: Daughters by John Mayer. Huh you like it? Thats a song? Anyway?
Speaker 1: What did you know about Life Size before we were
Speaker 1: assigned it as a homework assignment?
Speaker 2: Okay, here's the thing. I thought I had watched this
Speaker 2: movie before.
Speaker 3: I thought I did. I really did.
Speaker 2: I recognized Tyra Banks being it Lindsay Lohan, But as
Speaker 2: I was watching it and the storyline starts to play out,
Speaker 2: I realized the movie I was thinking of was it
Speaker 2: involved where it was a mannequin that turned into a
Speaker 2: life size person.
Speaker 1: So maybe you were thinking of mannequin, Is.
Speaker 3: That a man?
Speaker 1: Is that?
Speaker 3: It is that it?
Speaker 1: Well, there's twasnquin and then there's Mannequin two. I think
Speaker 1: they made a second one who somebody else plays the
Speaker 1: mast Okay.
Speaker 3: I think that's what I was thinking when I thought, yes.
Speaker 1: There was like the original mannequin. If memory serves as
Speaker 1: like she was an Egyptian princess or something and a
Speaker 1: curse was put on her and she was made into
Speaker 1: a mannequin, and then she's awakened again at night to
Speaker 1: help him modern day, like do the storefronts in New
Speaker 1: York City.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, that's sounding more familiar than what I thought.
Speaker 2: So I had really honestly thought, and I guess they
Speaker 2: just have known about the Lindsay Loan and Tyra Banks
Speaker 2: movie because I the second it starts going and the
Speaker 2: the storyline.
Speaker 3: Of how the how the doll everything, I was like, Oh, this.
Speaker 1: Is not this is this is not this is okay.
Speaker 3: So what I watching Mannequin it is called yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: So no, I had.
Speaker 2: Nothing as far as seeing it before. Okay, but I
Speaker 2: was excited to see Tyra Banks and Lindsay Lowan. I
Speaker 2: love Lindsay Lohan, so I was going, I'm gonna sit
Speaker 2: through another great movie that Lindsay Lohan did when she
Speaker 2: was little.
Speaker 1: Did you well get into that? I obviously had heard
Speaker 1: nothing about this, didn't know anything about it, never even
Speaker 1: heard the title. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much
Speaker 1: for this.
Speaker 3: One, and now it's time.
Speaker 1: To bring a beautiful stranger to work. Let's get into
Speaker 1: the synopsis. A lonely teen accidentally brings a fashion doll
Speaker 1: to life while trying to resurrect her late mother. Together,
Speaker 1: they navigate friendship, identity, and growing up as the doll
Speaker 1: learns what it actually means to be human. Early thoughts, Sabrina,
Speaker 1: what did you think of the movie?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: Early thoughts? I had to.
Speaker 2: Turn it off for a second because I instantly realized
Speaker 2: I wasn't in the right mindset to watch it and
Speaker 2: I needed I instantly realized I needed to be I
Speaker 2: needed to be in a younger like watching it as someone.
Speaker 3: Maybe a little bit like an eight year old.
Speaker 2: That's where I felt like I was going, Okay, this
Speaker 2: isn't You're not getting into that like age demo of.
Speaker 3: Where it is.
Speaker 2: So I had to stop, reset, sat back down, and
Speaker 2: it did get better because at first I came Yeah,
Speaker 2: at first, I was like, this doesn't like there was
Speaker 2: I was noticing too many things right from the beginning.
Speaker 2: I also recognized too, I have seen the movie Barbie,
Speaker 2: and their take on it of being a very big
Speaker 2: on comedy aspect of it was like blurring my my
Speaker 2: vision and my thoughts.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it yet. I haven't seen it yet,
Speaker 1: so yeah.
Speaker 3: So I had to reset.
Speaker 2: I was like, nope, you're not going into this. This
Speaker 2: is a fan favorite. I know the fans out there
Speaker 2: are loving it. They're excited for us to rewatch this.
Speaker 2: Everyone is because it just came on Disney plus pull
Speaker 2: your together.
Speaker 3: And start over.
Speaker 2: And it got It got better immensely, immensely from the
Speaker 2: beginning because at first I was going down. I was
Speaker 2: going hard, like I mean it was. It was going
Speaker 2: down a steep slope real quick.
Speaker 1: O me. Yeah, this movie for me was again I
Speaker 1: have no nostalgia attach to these movies, so I can
Speaker 1: sit there and say, hey, I'm gonna try to watch
Speaker 1: it like a kid, but I can't. I can't. I'm
Speaker 1: an almost fifty year old man watching a movie, and
Speaker 1: sometimes so to me when I'm watching these movies. Great
Speaker 1: movies don't matter how old you are when you watch them. Right,
Speaker 1: Christmas Story is always going to be a great movie.
Speaker 1: I don't need to watch it as if I'm eight.
Speaker 1: The Zombies movies, Descendants, some of the things we've seen,
Speaker 1: I don't need to stop it.
Speaker 3: I guess that we just watched.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, there are movies that we've seen that
Speaker 1: are great and I don't and we get some hate
Speaker 1: online where it's like, you don't understand you have to
Speaker 1: watch this movie like you're five. No, I'm sorry. A
Speaker 1: great movie I shouldn't have to watch like that. And
Speaker 1: this movie, a lot of this movie made no sense.
Speaker 1: The things that were happening in this movie were weird
Speaker 1: and made no I mean, just made no sense. And
Speaker 1: they're talking about feminism and it's like a lot of
Speaker 1: the parts of this movie are, hey, if you were
Speaker 1: just a little prettier, your life's gonna get better, and
Speaker 1: that's feminism, Like, come on, that's not feminism at all.
Speaker 2: But see if you watch the Barbie movie. Now, the
Speaker 2: new it it.
Speaker 3: They do it right. It's in highlights. Yes, even more
Speaker 3: that this messaging is far.
Speaker 2: From feminism and that's what we've been taught as being
Speaker 2: the correct thing for a very long time.
Speaker 1: And yeah, that's what this has weird. This was this
Speaker 1: was weird to me. And again I will say this
Speaker 1: right right off the bat. If they do a lit
Speaker 1: they put a list together of some of the best
Speaker 1: child actress of all time, there's no way Lindsay Lohan
Speaker 1: is not on that list. Absolutely, She's great. She is
Speaker 1: a very competent young actress. In this movie and in
Speaker 1: most of the other movies that I've seen. I know
Speaker 1: she's had her problems later in life. Thank god, she's
Speaker 1: having a resurgence. Now we'll get into that a little bit.
Speaker 1: But as a young actress and in films like this,
Speaker 1: she was good, so good. It's the material and this
Speaker 1: script to me was just very weird. Yeah, so let's
Speaker 1: get into it, okay. The movie was directed by Mark Rossman,
Speaker 1: a name we recently put in the Spotlight as he
Speaker 1: was the man behind the dcom Model Behavior, which we liked,
Speaker 1: which makes sense to me since they have very similar
Speaker 1: vibes in the movie. Thematically, and they definitely do. You
Speaker 1: can see that. He also directed episodes of Even Stevens
Speaker 1: and Lizzie MacGuire, which turned into a very fruitful relationship
Speaker 1: with Hillary duff as he teamed up with her in
Speaker 1: movies A Cinderella Story and The Perfect Man, which, contrary
Speaker 1: to popular belief, is not a documentary about me. And
Speaker 1: like I said, this movie has a long life thanks
Speaker 1: to its two main stars. First up, we have thirteen
Speaker 1: year old Lindsay Lohan as Casey Stewart. This was part
Speaker 1: of Lohan's three picture deal with Disney, the first real
Speaker 1: fruitful result of a newfound teenage fame thanks to her
Speaker 1: film debut in The Parent Trap. Lohan was one of
Speaker 1: the brightest stars of her generation, and rightfully so. Mean
Speaker 1: Girls be an absolute classic, and her appearances on Snela
Speaker 1: also major standouts. But of course, she gained a reputation
Speaker 1: as a party girl and had hard times in her
Speaker 1: personal life, as many young stars do. We've seen them all,
Speaker 1: but luckily for all of us, she's currently in a
Speaker 1: career resurgence and seems happier than ever and she looks
Speaker 1: great and so you know, seriously rooting for Lindsay Lohan absolutely.
Speaker 1: She recently starred in the Disney hit Freakier Friday and
Speaker 1: is right back in the Hollywood Mix. You said you
Speaker 1: were a big Lohan fan too, right, Oh.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean she had me at parent trap like
Speaker 2: hook Line Sinker. She's just so good and truly everything
Speaker 2: that she's in. Yeah, I'll watch it. I'll absolutely watch it.
Speaker 2: I will definitely support and I love you know, everyone
Speaker 2: loves a comeback story, and I'm happy to be one
Speaker 2: of the ones root for her.
Speaker 1: And until you walk in somebody's shoes and you know
Speaker 1: how difficult. Everybody said, well, you're a big star, you
Speaker 1: shouldn't have any problems. Again, I was not that level
Speaker 1: or even close and so and that's hard enough. So
Speaker 1: I couldn't imagine you're dealing with that, you old famous.
Speaker 1: It's very difficult when you're eleven. Let's give some people
Speaker 1: a break.
Speaker 3: I mean, she got her.
Speaker 2: It seemed like her stardom hit and when it hit,
Speaker 2: it exploded her so fast, so fast.
Speaker 1: And that can be daunting. So it is also worth
Speaker 1: pointing out Lohan's siblings, Michael, Aliana and Dakota show up
Speaker 1: in the movie as uncredited cameos, cheering in the football Stands.
Speaker 1: And then we got Tyra Banks and what was her
Speaker 1: first starring role. Banks was one of the world's biggest
Speaker 1: supermodels who had a meteoric rise to fame as the
Speaker 1: host of America's Next Top Model and her own talk show,
Speaker 1: The Tyra Banks Show. She also appeared in movies like
Speaker 1: Higher Learning, Coyote, Ugly, and Love and Basketball. She most
Speaker 1: recently appeared on Blackish and the drama bell Air. She
Speaker 1: moved a bit out of the spotlight, but it's still
Speaker 1: it's Tyra Banks. And she was also great, and she's
Speaker 1: just distractingly good looking.
Speaker 3: My goodness.
Speaker 2: It was again just like Sarah Jessica Parker in Hocus Focus.
Speaker 3: Every time she comes from scene, you're like, god, you
Speaker 3: just take my back the way. It's like, it's not
Speaker 3: like I don't know.
Speaker 2: Tyra Banks is a gorgeous woman, but this movie, it's.
Speaker 3: Everything about her was just insane.
Speaker 1: It's daggering, yep, amazing wow. And then we got veteran
Speaker 1: character actor Jerry Burns is Ben Stewart Casey's dad. He
Speaker 1: is best known as Win Duffy from the TV show Justified,
Speaker 1: but his long list of projects goes from Hill Street Blues,
Speaker 1: great show and Blossom, great show to Lucifer and burn
Speaker 1: Notice and the rest of the cast is mostly rounded
Speaker 1: out with less familiar faces. But I did want to
Speaker 1: point out Jillian Fargee as Ellen and Magical Rewinders. Though
Speaker 1: might remember her from the first zene On movie where
Speaker 1: she played a reporter. Okay, so maybe don't remember her,
Speaker 1: but either way she Yeah, she's a see it on,
Speaker 1: So we're bringing it, bring it in full circle. Yes,
Speaker 1: we know the movie is life Size, but is it
Speaker 1: too long? Well, let's find out. Life Size runs one
Speaker 1: hundred and one minutes, brutal result, you hate to see
Speaker 1: it eleven minutes over the target, which is painfully over
Speaker 1: the top and just respectful. I will try my hardest
Speaker 1: to move on, but I feel as though my good
Speaker 1: name has been besmirched.
Speaker 2: The disrespectful, dispectful to me personally, to me time and energy.
Speaker 1: One hundred and one minutes, like I'm just pulling time
Speaker 1: off of trees. Yikes. Life Size writing credits are split
Speaker 1: between the director Rossman and Stephanie Moore. Moore's only real
Speaker 1: writing credit is Life Size one, and then she got
Speaker 1: the character credit in the sequel. And now let's get
Speaker 1: your tiny little convertible ready because sunny Vale is always
Speaker 1: eighty degrees and NASA is waiting. Let's get in to
Speaker 1: life size. We're thrown right into a retro commercial for
Speaker 1: a doll named Eve Very Barbie Codd gallivanting on the beach.
Speaker 1: She's catching waves in sunny Veil, driving a convertible to
Speaker 1: flirt with boys, and going to the mall. We hear
Speaker 1: the upbeat be a Star theme song, and overall Eve
Speaker 1: seems like she's kind of got her together. Career wise.
Speaker 1: She gon to be a doctor, or a cop or
Speaker 1: a homemaker, while at night she can attend an elegant
Speaker 1: ball with a handsome man friend. And then boom, we
Speaker 1: are instantly thrown into real life. A group of girls
Speaker 1: are checking out Eve dolls in the window of a
Speaker 1: toy store. The youngest doesn't want one. She wants something
Speaker 1: with quote unquote microchips. She walks off, depressing the shop owner.
Speaker 1: Now we're on a football field. The players of Windsor
Speaker 1: are stinking up the joint, yelling at each other after
Speaker 1: dropped pass and when it was a drop pass, I
Speaker 1: mean this, dude, it's like sorry to hitch you in
Speaker 1: the hands, bro, I mean, dude, I get that, but
Speaker 1: you're wide open and wow, maybe make him alignment because
Speaker 1: that guy he's got hands like feet the QB. Then
Speaker 1: Casey Stewart is taken out of the game by the
Speaker 1: coach for a bad attitude. As Casey takes off a helmet,
Speaker 1: she's revealed to be a girl, Lindsay Lowhand to be specific,
Speaker 1: and I thought that was kind of a cool reveal
Speaker 1: of the character. The receiver, who goes by the last
Speaker 1: name Wiener, and Casey continue to bicker as they walk
Speaker 1: off the field, with Casey being told to go home
Speaker 1: and play with her dolls. Now on the bench, the
Speaker 1: coach is not happy. The behavior has to stop. It's
Speaker 1: just a game. She looks at the stands and unfortunately
Speaker 1: doesn't spot any of her family members there, and that's
Speaker 1: because her dad, Ben is busy at work, just realizing
Speaker 1: he's missed her game. He's clearly bummed. His coworkers try
Speaker 1: to make him feel better, and this is where we
Speaker 1: start getting some of the weirdest coworkers in the.
Speaker 3: History coworkers of life.
Speaker 1: He's h and R a nightmare. O. God. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: been busy trying to make partner and Casey will understand,
Speaker 1: but he's not buying it. His pretty coworker, Drew they're
Speaker 1: like in a meeting and is just openly hitting on him, essentially,
Speaker 1: you know, offers to make him and his daughter dinner
Speaker 1: as an opportunity to relax. He politely passes tomorrow's Casey's birthday,
Speaker 1: and he promises her.
Speaker 2: Opportunity to relax, opportunity to hop in his bed.
Speaker 1: Like I'm saying it's a little much, yeah, but he
Speaker 1: says tomorrow's Casey's birthday, and he's promised her a night
Speaker 1: alone together once Drew leaves. His then super pervy mail
Speaker 1: coworker Richie is impressed by the obvious post gospel date
Speaker 1: he could have agreed to, but Ben says, even two
Speaker 1: years later, he's not ready to move on, even though
Speaker 1: Karen would have wanted him to. And yes, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: we've got a dead mom alert. That night, Casey is
Speaker 1: working on her computer looking at resurrection spells on a
Speaker 1: very budget Internet one point zero website, you know, like
Speaker 1: young keen girls did in the year two thousand. She's
Speaker 1: looking to bring back a lost soul and has suggested
Speaker 1: a book called Hole's Craft, a book of the Dead
Speaker 1: Life Reborn. She finds a nearby store that has it
Speaker 1: in stock. It's called Past Pages, and as a book nerd,
Speaker 1: when she walked into that store, I was like, oh God,
Speaker 1: I just want to stay here for two hours. That's
Speaker 1: worth one hundred and one minutes. Her dad returns home
Speaker 1: from work and she quickly hides her research. She jumps
Speaker 1: into bed and wishes him a good night. Ben knows
Speaker 1: he needs to apologize, but for her, the time has
Speaker 1: long pass for him to apologize. He congratulates her on
Speaker 1: the win. The championship game is now next week, but
Speaker 1: she doesn't expect him to attend at all. We can
Speaker 1: see that this is obviously something that's been going on
Speaker 1: for a while.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Her dad explains that me making partners a big deal
Speaker 1: for him in the family, so he doesn't make any promises,
Speaker 1: but says either way, Sunday will just be them for
Speaker 1: their birthday. She asked if everything happens for a reason,
Speaker 1: and with his dead wife obviously on their mind, he says,
Speaker 1: some things just happen. Casey looks at a frame picture
Speaker 1: of her dead mom and then cries herself to sleep.
Speaker 1: It's a very rough way to start a movie. Yes.
Speaker 1: The next day, those same four girls who were checking
Speaker 1: out Eves dolls at the start of the movie are
Speaker 1: walking down the street once again. Their conversation is interrupted
Speaker 1: as she walks towards them. The youngest girl tells her
Speaker 1: older sister and her older sister's friends to be nice,
Speaker 1: but they aren't. They say she needs to just get
Speaker 1: over her dead mom, and one girl asks her to
Speaker 1: join her at the mall, but Casey quickly declines. She says,
Speaker 1: there's more to life than shopping. I couldn't agree more
Speaker 1: shopping is the worst. Also, get over your dead mom.
Speaker 2: It was like, yikes, damn, I know, I mean, and
Speaker 2: I know girls at certain ages can be harsh, but
Speaker 2: or just a little aloof like not realizing. But right,
Speaker 2: anyone that has ever had anyone they know, even if
Speaker 2: it's just an acquaintance that has had a family member,
Speaker 2: you know pass away, has the ability to have some empathy.
Speaker 1: It's just a jerk, yeah, exactly. After ditching her old friend,
Speaker 1: she makes her way to the bookstore and then goes
Speaker 1: to the occult section and metaphysics section, which is hidden
Speaker 1: in the back like an adult movie closet. Right right,
Speaker 1: it's like she had to sneak in, like you never
Speaker 1: go past.
Speaker 2: If there's hanging beads, you always know you stay on
Speaker 2: the first side.
Speaker 3: You never go past them because there are not good things.
Speaker 1: But anybody, anybody who loves literature will tell you books
Speaker 1: can be dangerous. There's some dangerous books out there. But yes,
Speaker 1: there aren't, thankfully any adult movies. But thankfully for her,
Speaker 1: just the books she was looking for. But it's a
Speaker 1: whopping one hundred and fifty dollars and she only has
Speaker 1: sixty three. And so she does what any god fearing
Speaker 1: young girl would do. She steals the owner, eventually finds
Speaker 1: an IOU note for it, and she runs off. That night,
Speaker 1: Casey's in bed learning how to resurrect a dead person.
Speaker 1: And now it's the next day. It's Casey's birthday. Her
Speaker 1: dad videos her celebrating with a cake. She makes a
Speaker 1: wish and blows out the candles, telling her dad she
Speaker 1: wished for her mom to somehow come back. And I
Speaker 1: think we're all in the same boat. I thought it
Speaker 1: the second had happened, that if you tell someone your wish,
Speaker 1: it doesn't come true. That's just science.
Speaker 3: Of course, what an idiot, It's what I'm on an.
Speaker 1: Idiot, that's who who blows out the candles and goes,
Speaker 1: you know what I wished for? Nobody does that. That movie.
Speaker 1: The movie lost me at that point. I'm kidding, it
Speaker 1: lost me right at the beginning. No, I'm kidding. Her
Speaker 1: dad tells her that magic isn't real. Life doesn't work
Speaker 1: that way, which is what their therapist has also told them.
Speaker 1: Casey is critical of her dad. He never talks about mom,
Speaker 1: and on cue he changes the subject. He shows her
Speaker 1: some old Super Bowl tickets. They reminisce about that day
Speaker 1: and hanging out with her mom, and that's when the
Speaker 1: doorbell rings. It's that pretty coworker jew who obviously can't
Speaker 1: take a hint. He you know, she's saying he forgot
Speaker 1: something at the office, and now she reminds him that
Speaker 1: he promised to review her draft, which is, believe it
Speaker 1: or not, not a euphemism. He invites her in and
Speaker 1: she wishes Casey a happy birthday. It's like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be your mother, damn it, I know. And here's a
Speaker 1: really weird it's weird, it's weird. She hands over a
Speaker 1: gift and it's a special limited edition Eve doll. She's
Speaker 1: wearing a bright orange outfit and can talk. Casey obviously
Speaker 1: isn't impressed. She's too old for dolls, and she's too
Speaker 1: old for dolls. I get where they're going, and I
Speaker 1: get They added the line, well, I didn't play with
Speaker 1: dolls either, but I started collecting them when I was
Speaker 1: your age. It was like, I get what you're doing.
Speaker 1: But a you push in. The guy has already said
Speaker 1: I don't want to see you once. Then he said,
Speaker 1: it's my daughter's birthday and I'm spending the day with
Speaker 1: her by myself. She still shows up.
Speaker 2: Not like you forgot that it was Oh I forgot
Speaker 2: it was I forgot it's her birthday.
Speaker 3: No, you know because you brought a present.
Speaker 2: You purposely tried to ruin this young girl's birthday who
Speaker 2: is suffering from the loss of her mother.
Speaker 3: Yes away and never come back. Thank you who drew?
Speaker 3: It was really.
Speaker 1: Really off putting this character old plushy so plus yah
Speaker 1: and gets worse and gets worse.
Speaker 3: What were you? What? I just to me? What was
Speaker 3: your thought process? You thought you were gonna get some
Speaker 3: points here?
Speaker 1: How did this work? And again? So okay? So now
Speaker 1: she's alone in her room. She throws the eve doll
Speaker 1: on her shelf and goes back to reading that intricate
Speaker 1: resurrection spell and constructing some sort of magic pentagram. She
Speaker 1: needs a remnant from the person she's trying to bring back,
Speaker 1: so she finds her mom's old hair brush. Now, how
Speaker 1: do we know it's her mom's old hairbrush because she
Speaker 1: holds it in whispereds mom's brush, hairbrush.
Speaker 2: Also, that's not your mom's hair brush, that's your great
Speaker 2: grandma from like three hundred years ago.
Speaker 3: That Actually it's such an antique.
Speaker 1: Yeah, was that thou brush?
Speaker 2: I will say, my grandma had a brush a set
Speaker 2: like that. She had a pretty little box and pretty
Speaker 2: set back in the door in a mirror and a puff.
Speaker 1: Yep, but like that was much Noh, yes, and it's
Speaker 1: still obviously the brush has her mom's hair in it.
Speaker 1: She talks out loud to herself again, asking for her
Speaker 1: mom to show up for her one more time. The
Speaker 1: spell's ready, but it only worked once. And then there's
Speaker 1: a knock at the door of her bedroom and it's Drew,
Speaker 1: her father's coworker, who's just trying to take her spot
Speaker 1: as her mom, coming into her bedroom and trying to
Speaker 1: salvage the night with the daughter of the guy she
Speaker 1: wants to bang. It's so off putting.
Speaker 3: Oh and it's like, why are you still here? Why
Speaker 3: are you still here?
Speaker 1: It is so and now I'm gonna I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: in and talk to your daughter, like, who the are you, lady?
Speaker 3: And where is her dad? I was pissed at her dad?
Speaker 1: Thank you?
Speaker 2: Why is this woman going anywhere near you? Obviously know
Speaker 2: she tries she's trying to be polite by taking herself
Speaker 2: out of this awk situation that your person has pushed
Speaker 2: their selves into.
Speaker 3: Now you're allowing.
Speaker 2: Her to take her She looked like she had a
Speaker 2: jacket onto or something like. She looks a little bit
Speaker 2: more comfortable at some point, I can't remember exactly, but
Speaker 2: you're gonna let her go upstairs to your kid's room
Speaker 2: where your kids just trying to have a moment like okay.
Speaker 1: I don't so anyway, our damn list, I'm telling you. So.
Speaker 1: She's impressed with Casey's room and goes to examine one
Speaker 1: of her trophies and just then accidentally drops a football,
Speaker 1: causing chaos around her magic pentagram. Everything goes flying from
Speaker 1: the shelf, including the Eve doll. Casey is obviously upset,
Speaker 1: packs up her magic alter and walks out as Drew
Speaker 1: apologizes and for her magical yeah she does, takes it
Speaker 1: away and now, for no reason at all, now alone,
Speaker 1: Drew uses Casey's dead mom's brush to proudly comb Eve's hair,
Speaker 1: and now the comb has Eve's hair in it. It
Speaker 1: is an insane chain of events with an awful character
Speaker 1: who's pushing her self on this poor little girl who
Speaker 1: is just trying to get through her mother's death. And
Speaker 1: we're like twelve minutes into this movie, Yes we are.
Speaker 2: I'm like, holy cow, this is gonna be such a
Speaker 2: long night, Like.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm so irritated.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm so it was just and I know people
Speaker 1: are gonna come at us, come out, justify this to me.
Speaker 1: I want to hear you justify this to me, because can't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there are there are just some significant parts throughout
Speaker 2: the movie where there are moments like this where you're going,
Speaker 2: what is happening?
Speaker 1: It's unhinged. It's unhinged, And again it's unfortunate because this
Speaker 1: is I'm gonna keep saying this this entire time. Linday
Speaker 1: little Hand's great.
Speaker 3: Great, so good.
Speaker 2: Like even how she like responds to the awkward situation,
Speaker 2: and when she comes in, her freak out is the
Speaker 2: exact way I would have imagine someone her age would
Speaker 2: freak out on somebody.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: She's spot on, spot on yep.
Speaker 1: So she then places the Eve on a nightstand, forcing
Speaker 1: the doll into this poor young girl's life. When Casey returns,
Speaker 1: Drew apologizes because she's obviously still in her room, wishing
Speaker 1: her a happy birthday and mercifully leaving. So now, with
Speaker 1: everything calm, Casey returns to the spell She lights a
Speaker 1: candle and recites the words Zamba tarka ish to nabarum.
Speaker 1: I hope I didn't just bring somebody back. I know.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh jeez, my god, I have a g
Speaker 1: I Joe next to me. I'm gonna wake up with
Speaker 1: this giant g I Joe in my bed.
Speaker 3: You got a lot of the back there, exactly.
Speaker 1: Yikes. The ron stoppable doll is going to come to
Speaker 1: life and kill me. So she keeps saying it, keeps
Speaker 1: doing it, keeps doing it, and the spell book starts
Speaker 1: to shake and glow, and so does Eve. Everything starts
Speaker 1: to glitter and glow, and Eve eventually falls off the nightstand.
Speaker 1: The next morning, Casey's asleep in bed, still chanting the spell,
Speaker 1: and in bed with her it's human Eve half asleep.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, this is where the movie when I like
Speaker 1: so Drew then also messed up. She really, what could
Speaker 1: have resurrected her mom?
Speaker 3: I think?
Speaker 1: So? Why not? She also said the book says you
Speaker 1: can only do it once. Is that once per book
Speaker 1: or once per person? Because if it works, why at
Speaker 1: the end wouldn't she say, Dad, the resurrection spell worked,
Speaker 1: Why don't you do it and actually bring Mom back? Well?
Speaker 3: I know, okay, why not?
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't think it was to bring It doesn't
Speaker 2: necessarily mean that it'd be bringing mom back. I believe
Speaker 2: that the idea is that to bring Mom back through
Speaker 2: some way.
Speaker 3: So it could have been a cat, it could have been.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how it's not bringing the actual human back, bringing.
Speaker 3: Her soul back.
Speaker 2: So I felt like I thought this movie was going
Speaker 2: like her soul was in the body of this.
Speaker 1: No, she was trying to resurrect her mom, and instead
Speaker 1: the one thing that she needed, the hair, was now
Speaker 1: the hair of the doll. So the doll came to life.
Speaker 1: So if it was still her mom's hair, she would
Speaker 1: have resurrected her mom.
Speaker 3: Correct, But I thought it was the mix between the
Speaker 3: mom and the doll here.
Speaker 1: Oh see, No, I don't think so.
Speaker 3: I think that's where I was going. That's what I thought.
Speaker 1: Well, but that it didn't play out because she says
Speaker 1: I'm Eve and she has.
Speaker 3: No it didn't, But that's what I thought was going
Speaker 3: to happen.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I know the first time this made no
Speaker 1: sense to me because then I was like, well, wait,
Speaker 1: so then the resurrection spell would have worked. So Drew
Speaker 1: forced herself into your life, forced herself into your room,
Speaker 1: and then messed up an actual opportunity for you to
Speaker 1: resurrect your mom. And then when you find out the
Speaker 1: resurrection spell does work, you don't tell your dad at
Speaker 1: the end to get the book and actually resurrect your
Speaker 1: mom like what it did. That's why I was just going, wait,
Speaker 1: so it worked. She really could have resurrected her mom.
Speaker 3: I don't know where we went.
Speaker 1: We did not because she wakes up next to a
Speaker 1: human ev.
Speaker 2: Mom is coming through this doll. Now she's gonna realize
Speaker 2: it's the mom. And then I find out no, that's
Speaker 2: not it, So then I'm really confused.
Speaker 1: Thank you. So she's half asleep, Casey assumes it's her mom,
Speaker 1: only to open her eyes and scream. She grabs a
Speaker 1: bat and immediately puts two and two together. It's Eve.
Speaker 1: The beautiful supermodel of a human is in fancy red
Speaker 1: dress and proclaims that Casey is her special friend. Eve
Speaker 1: quickly learns her ankles and wristsmooth all articulations that didn't
Speaker 1: exist in the doll. Casey can't believe what she's done.
Speaker 1: Now she'll never be able to bring back her mom,
Speaker 1: but Eve is thrilled. Casey rushes to the book to
Speaker 1: see if she can reverse the spell, but that's in
Speaker 1: volume two, and then her dad pops in. Eve eagerly
Speaker 1: wants to know who that is, but Casey blocks the door.
Speaker 1: If he finds out about Eve, he'll send her back
Speaker 1: to the psychiatrist, which seems like the least of her problems.
Speaker 1: But okay. He reminds his daughter it's their day together,
Speaker 1: but obviously his daughter has other things to tend to.
Speaker 1: He hears Eve's voice and is confused, but gives her
Speaker 1: some time alone. Anyway, Eve is investigating the room and
Speaker 1: starts blasting music and watching TV. Everything is so fascinating,
Speaker 1: but she wonders where all of her clothes and accessories are.
Speaker 1: Casey breaks it to her she's going to be a
Speaker 1: doll again once she gets her hands on volume two
Speaker 1: of the spell Book. This movie is weird now because again,
Speaker 1: so Eve knows she's the doll the whole time, yes,
Speaker 1: but can't move her wrists and arms or move in
Speaker 1: any way, shape or form. So she's just trapped soulless
Speaker 1: in a doll. Yes, So it's hell.
Speaker 2: It's literal hell, right, And this is where I'm telling
Speaker 2: you when you've if you've seen the movie, the.
Speaker 3: Barbie movie, right, But we can't.
Speaker 2: We can't do that, correct, I know, But it's very
Speaker 2: hard to not compare and contrast.
Speaker 1: Because I've never seen it.
Speaker 3: The way they do.
Speaker 2: It makes sense, they explain it, and there's a thing
Speaker 2: that makes sense about it.
Speaker 3: This doesn't, this.
Speaker 1: Doesn't, this doesn't. I don't get it. So now out
Speaker 1: in the town and on their way to the Magic Store,
Speaker 1: which is the bookstore, Eve is stumbling around taking everything in.
Speaker 1: She smells a rose for the first time and loves it.
Speaker 1: Then she smells and she hates it. Back at home,
Speaker 1: Casey's dad walks into a room and sees the spell book,
Speaker 1: the one hundred and fifty dollars receipt, and a bookmark
Speaker 1: with the store's name and over at that same bookstore, Casey,
Speaker 1: who remembers stole the book, sends Eve inside to get
Speaker 1: the second volume, but they don't have it in stock.
Speaker 1: The owner explains to Eve he had volume one, but
Speaker 1: a young girl stole it. Eve excitedly tells him she
Speaker 1: knows who that girl is and walks him outside to
Speaker 1: meet her, which is funny. Casey runs off, knowing she's
Speaker 1: about to get busted, and Eve follows close behind. And
Speaker 1: then in the chase, Casey trips and falls in the
Speaker 1: middle of the street, and now a huge truck is
Speaker 1: speeding towards her that's still nine miles away from her.
Speaker 1: He honks over and over again, but doesn't actually hit
Speaker 1: the brakes.
Speaker 3: At all, break at all, which.
Speaker 1: He had three days to stop the truck.
Speaker 3: At least a block. I don't know it's block.
Speaker 1: Eve holds out her hand, finally getting him to pump
Speaker 1: the brakes and stop right before a palm. Casey's dad
Speaker 1: sees it all. He rushes to embrace his daughter. He
Speaker 1: was returning the book that he found, but is so
Speaker 1: thankful for Eve, who says it was nothing. I was
Speaker 1: a police officer and that was funny. It's the first
Speaker 1: kind of genuine laugh of the movie. It's like bringing
Speaker 1: that back, very funny. This is again where it just
Speaker 1: gets so weird. Casey's dad introduces himself and Eve gets
Speaker 1: to flirting with him quick and an agitated Casey runs
Speaker 1: off again. We're now back at home. Casey's passed out
Speaker 1: on the couch and ice packed her head. She eventually
Speaker 1: wakes up and her dad informs her that she fainted.
Speaker 1: Casey assumed she had a nightmare about a doll coming
Speaker 1: to life, but when she sees Eve's slaughter house, the
Speaker 1: reality sinks in the living doll suggests they go to
Speaker 1: the mall. So the trio, of course, that's what you do. Now,
Speaker 1: pile into Ben's car and Eve is fascinated by the
Speaker 1: convertible and we find ourselves in a true relic of culture,
Speaker 1: a early two thousands mall. It's packed, has a water fountain.
Speaker 1: Eve loves it. Everyone is having a blast at the mall.
Speaker 1: It's like the greatest place anyone has ever been. Everything
Speaker 1: in her hometown of Sunny Vale is plastic, and she
Speaker 1: has no idea where she's even gonna stay. Now. Eve
Speaker 1: gets on her first escalator like she's a fawn taking
Speaker 1: her first steps, and finds a Betsy Johnson dress in
Speaker 1: a store window. She doesn't have a credit card, so
Speaker 1: Ben suggests giving her a loan and offering her the guesthouse,
Speaker 1: which was his dead wife's old studio as temporary housing.
Speaker 1: He's known this woman for a total of like forty
Speaker 1: five minutes, and he's giving her money and moving her
Speaker 1: into their home. I wasn't yelling at the screen at
Speaker 1: this point, but I was like, what is this story? Like,
Speaker 1: what the hell is this story? I don't want to date,
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to move on. I'm not spending enough
Speaker 1: time with my daughter. Total stranger I meet on the street,
Speaker 1: moving her into my home and giving her money in
Speaker 1: forty five minutes. Yeah, it is such a crazy story.
Speaker 1: Like just and if this is all scripts the acting, fine,
Speaker 1: the tank's great, what is this story?
Speaker 3: It's the script?
Speaker 2: But also like, as as anything, even if you could
Speaker 2: try to get some weight behind it, there were no
Speaker 2: real questions of her life in general at all, like
Speaker 2: just a few It wasn't like she.
Speaker 3: Had its chance. But she's telling him any kind.
Speaker 2: Of life story that he would be feeling empathetic towards,
Speaker 2: except for the fact that she has no money and
Speaker 2: doesn't know where she's gonna stay.
Speaker 1: She's pretty and homeless.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those are the only tidbits.
Speaker 1: It's like, that's it. You don't know nothing about this woman.
Speaker 2: I couldn't help but think of now in twenty twenty five, feeling.
Speaker 3: Like this is a scam artist, like just lunching onto
Speaker 3: a poor man.
Speaker 1: And I just really like you and your family and
Speaker 1: if you could give me your Social Security number, that
Speaker 1: would be great. Yeah, really crazy. Uh so yeah, Casey
Speaker 1: obviously can't believe what he's doing, and rightfully so. And
Speaker 1: then he pulls away by taking a call on his
Speaker 1: flip phone. So we'll leave her with the total stranger.
Speaker 1: He rushes off to buy clothes and judge women, and
Speaker 1: for Coats, I, who loves fashion, is clashing with tomboy Casey,
Speaker 1: who knows this is all Drew's fault. And now, with
Speaker 1: a ton of options in hand, it's true and no
Speaker 1: exactly Drue, And now with a ton of options in hand.
Speaker 1: Eve wants Casey to dress her the stranger. No one's
Speaker 1: ever dressed me, you need to dress me. So then
Speaker 1: we have a montage of beautiful tier Banks trying on outfits,
Speaker 1: and you are assuming being stripped, naked and redressed by
Speaker 1: a thirteen year old girl every time. Oh God, come
Speaker 1: after please come after me and tell me why I'm
Speaker 1: wrong about this movie. I will again, I've said this before.
Speaker 1: I will take your criticism and I will wrap it
Speaker 1: like a warm blanket around myself.
Speaker 2: Luckily, you know I usually we usually want to see
Speaker 2: things that prove that, not just having to.
Speaker 3: You know, expect or you know, assume.
Speaker 2: I am so lucky for a very first time, probably
Speaker 2: that they didn't show us scenes Yes, Lindsay Lohlan, thank
Speaker 2: god dressing Tira.
Speaker 1: Dressing Tyra Banks, undressing and dressing a supermodel because Tyra
Speaker 1: Banks needed someone a dress her. So eventually they're joined
Speaker 1: by Ben, who's clearly attracted to one of the most
Speaker 1: beautiful supermodels in the world, who's just appeared with his
Speaker 1: daughter and doesn't mind that apparently, hopefully he doesn't know
Speaker 1: that she's been stripping her naked and dressing her in
Speaker 1: other things. This stranger. The trio go to lunch together
Speaker 1: and Eve eats for the first time. When Ben offers
Speaker 1: her butter for her bread, she just eats the entire square.
Speaker 1: So if you were Casey's dad, what would you do now?
Speaker 1: I mean, this seems like an insane reaction to everything
Speaker 1: that's happening. Am I wrong?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: In all honesty, I mean, as much as I am
Speaker 2: watching it and I am clocking it, I'm putting them
Speaker 2: down into my notes.
Speaker 3: This is insane.
Speaker 2: I just I'm trying so hard because again, I want
Speaker 2: to like this movie, knowing that the nostalgia is there
Speaker 2: for so many it's hard.
Speaker 1: It is. There has to be more than that. There
Speaker 1: has to be more than I like this movie when
Speaker 1: I was eight to make something great. I'm sorry, there does,
Speaker 1: and we're seeing that all the time with the movies
Speaker 1: that we're watching, because there's plenty of films that we
Speaker 1: are watching that I am watching as an old man
Speaker 1: that are great movies that it does not matter what
Speaker 1: age you are. They're just good. And you might have
Speaker 1: nostalgia attach to this, but I would hope that you
Speaker 1: would also be able to, as a fan, look at
Speaker 1: something with nostalgia. And because again, one of the biggest
Speaker 1: problems I'm having with our entire country and world right now,
Speaker 1: not to go off on a little rant, is the
Speaker 1: fact that people are forgetting that two things can be
Speaker 1: simultaneously true. Correct, So you can have nostalgia for a
Speaker 1: movie that you loved when you were a kid and
Speaker 1: still watch it as an adult and go, this is
Speaker 1: not a good movie. I loved it as a kid,
Speaker 1: but this is crazy without take the nostalgia away, not
Speaker 1: a good movie. So it can't just be you don't
Speaker 1: understand this was awesome when I was eleven, right.
Speaker 3: Because it can be true.
Speaker 2: It could have been awesome to you as an eleven
Speaker 2: year old, but then when you look back at it,
Speaker 2: you see it for what it is you see and go, oh,
Speaker 2: I didn't realize that happened.
Speaker 3: Oh god, this is kind of funny or exactly exact. Wow.
Speaker 2: And also to know, because we progress back when this
Speaker 2: movie was filmed, these things of being with a stranger
Speaker 2: and stuff like not that they weren't they weren't heightened
Speaker 2: like they are now.
Speaker 3: You would never do that now with a kid. You
Speaker 3: would never leave your kid in a store being walked
Speaker 3: around by a stranger.
Speaker 1: Or just invite a stranger into your home and then
Speaker 1: give them money forty five minutes after meeting them. It
Speaker 1: was it's so I hope people see what I'm saying
Speaker 1: that it's I know you're gonna come for me and
Speaker 1: be like Life Size is the best movie ever. It's not.
Speaker 1: It's it mattered to you as a kid. That's different
Speaker 1: than it being a good movie.
Speaker 2: And on all of see or in all honesty, you
Speaker 2: could also understand too that you were just a really
Speaker 2: big Lindsay Lohan fan or you have to really like
Speaker 2: same thing, Like you could be a big you know,
Speaker 2: justin Timberlake fan. Yes, and then watch something that he
Speaker 2: did years ago and go, this is very good. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this was you know.
Speaker 1: And again Lindsay Lohan's great. She's great in this and
Speaker 1: was one of the best young actors of her generation.
Speaker 1: She was looking for an eleven or twelve year old girl.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get a better casting than Lindsay Lohan.
Speaker 1: There's a reason she was signing these deals. She's great.
Speaker 1: This movie is not well. Ben does want to know
Speaker 1: more about sunny Vale, which she explains is the best
Speaker 1: place ever where she's great at a lot of different jobs,
Speaker 1: and coincidentally, Ben needs an assistant because why not, I've
Speaker 1: known you forty five minutes. I'm also gonna give you
Speaker 1: a job, which is a great opportunity for you. Now
Speaker 1: it doesn't know anything about her background. He's a lawyer.
Speaker 1: The idea that being it's it's also it sounds so stupid,
Speaker 1: but it's like disrespectful to women that are administrative assistants
Speaker 1: in law firms where it's like, oh, yeah, you could
Speaker 1: do this kind of like come on, I just met you.
Speaker 3: You could easily do It's ridiculdn't imagine. I know, I
Speaker 3: couldn't even He's a really difficult job.
Speaker 2: You have to go to school to be like somebody's
Speaker 2: administered assistant's a lawyer, Yeah, handling the kinds of things,
Speaker 2: the paperwork, you have to know all of that is
Speaker 2: not just answering calls and pushing him to the next room.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's there's a lot involved, and so he needs
Speaker 1: an assistant. Great opportunity for Eve. She accepts the offer,
Speaker 1: but explains her real job is to inspire girls to
Speaker 1: strive for womanhood and positivity because girls should know anything
Speaker 1: as possible. Ben likes that his dead wife also felt
Speaker 1: the same way. She says the men back in Sunnyville
Speaker 1: are stiff and calls Ben the most interesting man she's
Speaker 1: ever met. Casey senses what's happening here and doesn't like
Speaker 1: it at all. Ben leaves for the restroom, and Casey
Speaker 1: threatens Eve to stay away that night. Casey logs into
Speaker 1: the bookstore website and founds out that volume two will
Speaker 1: arrive in a week, but she only has three days. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: in the guest house, Eve is watching TV and loves
Speaker 1: old movie where a woman slaps a frisky suitor, but
Speaker 1: eventually lands on QBC. Back in the main house, Casey
Speaker 1: tells her dad the truth about the spell and Eve,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't believe it rightfully, So a lot of
Speaker 1: women are named Eve, and though she's odd, there's something
Speaker 1: sweet about her. A frustrated Casey promises she'll prove it
Speaker 1: and rushes into her room. She finds Eve's certificate of
Speaker 1: authenticity with the Dolls registration number and thinks maybe that
Speaker 1: can help her case. And now it's the next day.
Speaker 1: Ben brings Eve to work, of course, which correctly creeps
Speaker 1: out all of his law firm coworkers. This truly appears
Speaker 1: to be some sort of like a sex trafficking situation.
Speaker 1: Who knows, it's just weird. Ben asked the office manager
Speaker 1: to log Eve into the employee database, but that will
Speaker 1: require some info like her last name. She says she
Speaker 1: doesn't have one, which is wrong because Barbie does have
Speaker 1: a last name. Do you know what it is, Mattel, No,
Speaker 1: I took a step. I took a step. I stand
Speaker 1: by my answer. Roberts is Barbie's last name. Her name
Speaker 1: is Barbie Roberts.
Speaker 3: How do you know that?
Speaker 2: I know? Where?
Speaker 3: Where did you read that?
Speaker 1: I know a little bit about I'm a bearer of
Speaker 1: useless knowledge and Barbie's last name is Roberts. Check it out.
Speaker 1: And her previous position, she says, sitting, which was another
Speaker 1: actually funny laugh. But now Eve is ready for work.
Speaker 1: She's going to be Ben's receptionist, but is most just
Speaker 1: intrigued by a screensaver and deleting important files. And that's
Speaker 1: when horny coworker er, Yeah, Richard from Richie from earlier,
Speaker 1: spots Eve and is so excited he offers to help
Speaker 1: and restores all the files, and just as this creep
Speaker 1: ball goes into hyperdrive, Ben returns he needs Eve in
Speaker 1: his office, where she offers him a massage for his
Speaker 1: stiff neck. He loves it, but worries the workplace isn't
Speaker 1: the right place for this, you think, And that's exactly
Speaker 1: when Drew, our favorite lady, walks in and she's rightfully
Speaker 1: creeped out by what she sees, and she should be.
Speaker 2: I honestly don't know why she's so inappropriate in the workplace.
Speaker 2: I mean, what's this? How is this than anything you've done.
Speaker 2: You've really hit on him right at the end of
Speaker 2: a meeting.
Speaker 1: And I guess there is a very real chance I'm
Speaker 1: just an idiot, and I'm fully prepared to accept the
Speaker 1: fact that I'm just an idiot. I did not see
Speaker 1: this as a feminist kind of trope to me in
Speaker 1: this movie. I didn't. I saw this as kind of
Speaker 1: belittling women a little bit in certain parts of this film.
Speaker 1: That's just me. I'm sure I'm getting that wrong. And
Speaker 1: a bunch of people are going to come and tell
Speaker 1: me exactly why it was a feminist thing. The massages,
Speaker 1: that you should be prettier, all that stuff, none of
Speaker 1: that seemed feminist to me. Rightly, I think so.
Speaker 2: Of its time I don't remember it that much, but
Speaker 2: I'm assuming it was more relevant, made more sense of
Speaker 2: the time that this movie was made.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe this is not nineteen eighty nine, this is
Speaker 1: two thousand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 1: I mean this is I know it's a long time ago,
Speaker 1: but it's it's a big difference anyway. Then we get
Speaker 1: a montage of Eve at work, which includes her just
Speaker 1: typing nonsense into her computer, shredding papers, and making blank copies.
Speaker 1: Things are not working out the way that Eve imagined.
Speaker 1: The office manager is seen enough she calls a cab
Speaker 1: for Eve to leave, but the new receptionist just didn't
Speaker 1: get it. Back in sunny Vale, Eve never fails. The
Speaker 1: office manager, who they have dressed up and made to
Speaker 1: look like a bridge troll, explains that you just can't
Speaker 1: be good at everything. Everyone has their own talent, and
Speaker 1: in one of the weirdest dcom turns ever, she says
Speaker 1: if she looked half as good as Eve, she could
Speaker 1: get the guy at the office that she wants, and
Speaker 1: so Eve sees the opportunity for a makeover. She breaks
Speaker 1: out the makeup, goes to work, and around two minutes later,
Speaker 1: the office manager is stunning this.
Speaker 3: Was a big jump out to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah again, if your life would be better, if you
Speaker 1: were just prettier, then you could get the guy at
Speaker 1: the office that you want to get, who.
Speaker 2: Will obviously make your world. Won't be happy until you
Speaker 2: have the guy.
Speaker 1: The guy who, And the only ways you're getting the
Speaker 1: guy is not by working hard or being good at
Speaker 1: your job, or doing any of that stuff which you
Speaker 1: obviously worked your enough to do that it's by the
Speaker 1: cab does arrive, but Eve has won over the office manager,
Speaker 1: who might actually be a different actress. She looks so different.
Speaker 1: It's not obviously, but she's stunningly different. And on the
Speaker 1: other side of town, Casey has arrived at the toy
Speaker 1: store where Drew bought Eve. The store clerk explains that
Speaker 1: every doll has the corresponding registration on the bottom of
Speaker 1: her foot. It can never be removed. Casey finally sees
Speaker 1: this as a way to prove that Eve isn't human.
Speaker 1: It's also a big mistake, because wouldn't every doll have
Speaker 1: a different number? Isn't that the point? That's how you
Speaker 1: know that's your doll? Yes, okay, Well, in the posters
Speaker 1: they're showing and all the stuff they're showing it's the
Speaker 1: same number that's on the bottom of her foot, so
Speaker 1: she doesn't have a different number than all the numbers
Speaker 1: they're showing. They all have the same registration number.
Speaker 3: Oh, I took it as because she's like the original.
Speaker 2: Really, yeah, that's how I get So she got.
Speaker 1: Doll one of one and open the box. What an idiot.
Speaker 3: Collector's item? Drew tried to tell her.
Speaker 1: But Drew's the one who opened it and put her
Speaker 1: on her stand and it's like, what are you doing, dude? Yes, okay.
Speaker 1: So Casey finally sees this as a way to prove
Speaker 1: that Eve isn't human, so once at home, she's quick
Speaker 1: to pull off Eve's shoe and spot the tattoo, now
Speaker 1: her exhibit A. Eve begs her not to show Ben
Speaker 1: yet she's going to a work party tonight with that
Speaker 1: creepo Richie. She loves parties and wants to have a
Speaker 1: little fun before turning back into a doll and So
Speaker 1: that night we find ourselves at the law office Shindig,
Speaker 1: Ben and Drew are there when Richie arrives with his
Speaker 1: very hot Tyra Banks. Drew hopes her self defense skills
Speaker 1: are better than her office skills, inferring that Richie is
Speaker 1: probably going to try to assault her later that that
Speaker 1: was the joke, Like, I hope she can fight him off.
Speaker 1: I mean, Jesus, I'm not getting what everybody else is getting.
Speaker 1: It's my problem. I know it's my problem. I know
Speaker 1: it's Eve immediately goes to town on the buffet while
Speaker 1: Drew and Ben slow dance to soft jazz on the
Speaker 1: dance floor, but Drew consens his mind is somewhere else.
Speaker 1: The two couples eventually meet up to say hi, and
Speaker 1: Eve wants to dance with Ben. She rushes him to
Speaker 1: the floor and they start to samba, but Eve can't
Speaker 1: keep up and Derek Huff would hate this dance.
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely four.
Speaker 1: Eve doesn't get it in Sunny Vale. She's the best
Speaker 1: ballroom dancer. Ben takes over and leads because apparently he
Speaker 1: is an expert, and the two look great together. His
Speaker 1: coworkers love it, well, all the coworkers except Drew, who
Speaker 1: knows she can't compete, and even Ben is taken aback.
Speaker 1: He tells Eve that when he's with her, he forgets
Speaker 1: all about his problems. She emphasizes that life should be fun.
Speaker 1: Now back with Richie. He sees a real love square
Speaker 1: starting to take shape as the dirt ball starts bad
Speaker 1: mouthing his close friend and praising her body. She notes
Speaker 1: she's anatomically correct and now she's speaking Richie's language. He
Speaker 1: suggests they get out of here, and she slaps him
Speaker 1: like she saw in the movie. She doesn't know why,
Speaker 1: she just thought she was supposed to do that because
Speaker 1: he was being forward, and yes, Eve, you're right and
Speaker 1: you're right to slap him. Richie apologizes, and Eve explains
Speaker 1: that women will I love him for being himself, not
Speaker 1: a sleeves bag. Great message. He takes it to heart
Speaker 1: and calls it the most honest thing anyone's ever said
Speaker 1: to him. The band announces they're taking requests, so Eve
Speaker 1: rushes to the stage and asks if they know be
Speaker 1: a star the Dolls theme the keyboard is doesn't, but
Speaker 1: she just if you sing it, we can follow because
Speaker 1: bands love that. Eve accepts the challenge and starts belting
Speaker 1: out the jingle. Now, Tyra, who did fancy herself a
Speaker 1: bit of a singer in real life, is very very pitchy,
Speaker 1: but goes all out. If she was supposed to be
Speaker 1: singing badly on purpose. I don't know, but nothing pointed
Speaker 1: to that. It just wasn't particularly good. Sorry, I apologize,
Speaker 1: it's not good singing. The band joins in as she
Speaker 1: gives off a real pickne girl energy. She encourages everyone
Speaker 1: to dance, singling out a very important judge and grinding
Speaker 1: up against him. But the entire party has fallen in
Speaker 1: love with her, joining in and dancing along. Eve is infectious,
Speaker 1: just like her bees. Also, Richie spots someone. It's now
Speaker 1: the beautiful office manager Ellen. He's so impressed with her
Speaker 1: now because she's pretty. Richie the grossest human being ever
Speaker 1: depicted in the dcom he's gotta be likes her, and
Speaker 1: it turns out he was the guy she wanted to
Speaker 1: notice her so. Later that night, Ben returns home with
Speaker 1: Eve from a night they'll never forget. Casey is asleep
Speaker 1: on the couch, and on their way to the guest house,
Speaker 1: they start pointing out constellations. They gaze at the romantic moon,
Speaker 1: and Eve explains that there's only one thing missing from
Speaker 1: this perfect evening. The tension bills as they get closer
Speaker 1: to one another, and just as they're about to kiss,
Speaker 1: they're interrupted by a crying Casey She screams, Dad, how
Speaker 1: could you? And Eve doesn't understand why Casey's eyes are wet.
Speaker 1: The young girl runs into her room. Ben explains nothing
Speaker 1: happened and he's not falling in love with her. Casey
Speaker 1: can't believe he let Eve stay in the guest house
Speaker 1: fair because it used to be her mom's special place.
Speaker 1: She tells her dad she hates him. The next day,
Speaker 1: at football practice, Casey calls her receiver weien her head again.
Speaker 1: She's benched by the coach, even though tomorrow is the
Speaker 1: big championship game, And just as things look their bleakest,
Speaker 1: Eve arrives in the loudest green raincoat and handkerchief wrapped
Speaker 1: around her head. She looks like the green eminem, trying
Speaker 1: to disguise herself as human. She comes to watch Casey
Speaker 1: play and learn more about what water in her eyes.
Speaker 1: Casey explains what crying is, but Eve still doesn't get it.
Speaker 1: Why was she so sad? Being human seems so easy
Speaker 1: and fun to her?
Speaker 5: That's true, It's like, it's true, it was so good.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, it's true.
Speaker 1: You never know it, would you? Casey says, real life
Speaker 1: isn't actually perfect. Bad things happen people you love can
Speaker 1: just disappear forever, like her mom. She was fine, then
Speaker 1: she went in for a check up and they found something.
Speaker 1: Then she was gone, and nothing's ever been the same. Now,
Speaker 1: these scenes were great, still laughing, We're talking about horrible
Speaker 1: things and she's still picturing the green eminem.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I tried to turn it all together. Okay,
Speaker 3: everybody so funny.
Speaker 1: It's no ranchom. It's also okay. So these scenes though,
Speaker 1: very nice when when it's just Lindsay Lohan and Tyra
Speaker 1: Banks acting great fine.
Speaker 3: I'm feeling the same way.
Speaker 2: This was like an up and down roller coaster, Like
Speaker 2: we just came off of Tyra's routine and then went
Speaker 2: into like this where I'm kind of like, okay, all right, I.
Speaker 1: Just breezed past it because I didn't want you to
Speaker 1: get hate too. But what did you think of Tyra's
Speaker 1: singing and her dance?
Speaker 3: I might have to delete this?
Speaker 6: Is it bad on purpose?
Speaker 1: Guys?
Speaker 3: Hello Jensen?
Speaker 1: Hi, I don't think so.
Speaker 3: I don't think so. This is the notes that I
Speaker 3: have is.
Speaker 2: Again, I don't remember Tyra going for any kind of
Speaker 2: like record situation or like wanting to be in music.
Speaker 6: So oh she definitely wanted to Sabrina.
Speaker 2: She don't remember that. I don't remember that because the
Speaker 2: thing about it, when I say it, when I watched
Speaker 2: it and saw it, and then my notes say, the
Speaker 2: voice and the song, it didn't even seem like they
Speaker 2: put much effort into producing this song.
Speaker 3: The song wasn't that.
Speaker 2: Great, I guess also because it's compared to Bewitched and
Speaker 2: the other girl groups and stuff, but so the production
Speaker 2: didn't seem the same, so that was confusing. But also
Speaker 2: like the way she performs like she knows how to perform,
Speaker 2: but the voice didn't match for me, like the performance,
Speaker 2: so I couldn't even really tell it is that her voice.
Speaker 6: I didn't know she released a song with Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 1: Oh Oh that I'd like to hear.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna need Lisa, Lisa, are you there?
Speaker 3: We've gotta find this leak howse No, it was.
Speaker 2: It was a for me for sure, because it again
Speaker 2: the song didn't seem to match what she was doing
Speaker 2: naturally with her body, because she can move, she can move,
Speaker 2: and she can perform, so it was confusing to me.
Speaker 3: But anyway, we move on to the We move on
Speaker 3: to the green Eminem scene. And this is what I
Speaker 3: was going.
Speaker 2: Okay, like like you said, anytime it's just Tyra and
Speaker 2: and Lindsey or you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Like the thick of the plot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going, all right, we're going somewhere.
Speaker 3: We're thinking this. I keep I keep having the hopes
Speaker 3: that this.
Speaker 2: Is gonna kind of turn around. So that's where I'm
Speaker 2: at at this scene.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're hoping to turn it around.
Speaker 3: This My hopes are high.
Speaker 2: I'm okay, I'm climbing up the rollercoaster yet again, gonna
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: I have already been vomiting halfway through the ride. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm not trying to bash this movie. I'm
Speaker 1: really not. I just I it's this was just so strange. Anyway.
Speaker 1: Eve admits maybe she doesn't know much about being human,
Speaker 1: but what happened to Casey's mom isn't fair and no
Speaker 1: one can ever replace her. Eve has an idea and
Speaker 1: tells Casey to meet her back at the house. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: at the law office, Ben is ready for his big
Speaker 1: deposition tomorrow. It's his final step to becoming a partner,
Speaker 1: but Drew has other things on her mind, like Eve's
Speaker 1: work application that lists her past experience as NASA, the police,
Speaker 1: and being a doctor. Drew is concerned and being a
Speaker 1: real player hater, Ben insists she's harmless. Drew admits she
Speaker 1: may be jealous, but doesn't want him and Casey to
Speaker 1: get hurt on her way out. Ben says, it's nice
Speaker 1: to know you're jealous.
Speaker 3: Okay, now we're really confusing.
Speaker 2: It's just confusing because to me, up till this point,
Speaker 2: I'm not thinking Ben is interested in her.
Speaker 1: No, he's made it very plain that he is not
Speaker 1: interested in her, and she's still bargaining the house.
Speaker 3: And in the sense of it's not that he's just
Speaker 3: not ready, he's not interested in her.
Speaker 1: Thank you. That's just not that that he's.
Speaker 6: Not it's like he accidentally read Richie's line in the script, yes.
Speaker 1: Right right, Like they just didn't they Yeah, they just didn't.
Speaker 2: And after the whole situation with the moon and the kiss,
Speaker 2: like he was clearly interested.
Speaker 3: In this in Eve.
Speaker 2: So what is now all of a sudden flipped that
Speaker 2: it's like, oh, yeah, that's right. I'm not gonna just
Speaker 2: crush my daughter's dreams with like kissing one of these ladies.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go ahead and start flirting with this other
Speaker 2: one who is awful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, we're now back home. In the kitchen, Eve
Speaker 1: is ready to cook. She had a magic recipe book
Speaker 1: in Sunny Vale, but now she'll have to improvise, and
Speaker 1: that quickly becomes a disaster. Eve is breaking down and
Speaker 1: the kitchen's on fire when Casey returns home. Once the
Speaker 1: flames have been extinguished, Eve calls herself stupid and realizes
Speaker 1: she can't do anything well in real life. Casey breaks
Speaker 1: attention by joking around, and the two are finally starting
Speaker 1: to click his pals. That night, they have a little
Speaker 1: slumber party and Eve admits she's hardly helped any girls yet.
Speaker 1: She thinks she's been a disappointment. Casey tries to cheer
Speaker 1: her up, but Eve says it's not easy trying to
Speaker 1: be perfect. Casey says her mom used to say it's
Speaker 1: not about being perfect, it's about trying your best good motto.
Speaker 1: Eve is starting to get it a little bit, but
Speaker 1: knows that Casey isn't happy. She encourages Casey to talk
Speaker 1: to her friends. Her mom would want her to open up.
Speaker 1: They hug just as Ben peeks in the door, seeing
Speaker 1: this real moment of connection. He interrupts him because it's
Speaker 1: way past Casey's bedtime. Once she's asleep, Ben thanks Eve
Speaker 1: for being so kind. He hasn't seen his daughter smile
Speaker 1: like that in forever, but Eve wants to tell him something.
Speaker 1: She went to Casey's football practice and it's obvious his
Speaker 1: absence is affecting her. The next morning, on his way
Speaker 1: to work, Ben stops by Casey's room. He's hyped about
Speaker 1: the big game, but she shows no emotions. He promises
Speaker 1: he'll be there, but she's not buying it. When he leaves,
Speaker 1: she gets an email. We know that because it says
Speaker 1: you've got new mail and huge letters on her computer screen.
Speaker 1: Volume Tube new Mail. Yeah, it's new. This is not
Speaker 1: old mail.
Speaker 3: Not AOL.
Speaker 1: No, you can't do that.
Speaker 3: You've got new mail.
Speaker 1: Still AOL. Still I know? Ride or Die, Baby Down, No,
Speaker 1: Ride or Die. Volume two of that. I don't know
Speaker 1: what I do If I woke up and AOL was gone,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, It's like, oh, I don't know what
Speaker 1: I do. Volume two of the Spellbook has finally arrived
Speaker 1: at the bookstore. In the guest house, Eve is watching
Speaker 1: the financial news, where Marathon Toys has announced disappointing sales
Speaker 1: figures for their Eve doll. A decision of whether or
Speaker 1: not to cancel the doll will be made in the
Speaker 1: next two weeks. Eve can't believe this. They can't just
Speaker 1: get rid of Sunnyvale. Just then, Casey enters with their
Speaker 1: own news. This spellbook has arrived, but if they don't
Speaker 1: return her home by midnight, everything will become permanent, which,
Speaker 1: based on their new connection, is something Casey wants, and
Speaker 1: she assumes Eve does too. But with the possible Sonny
Speaker 1: Veil shut down, this changes everything. Before Eve can explain,
Speaker 1: Casey runs off for the game, and so now the
Speaker 1: game is about to start, we see the low Hand
Speaker 1: siblings are in the stands Hi Low Hand Siblings. Sadly,
Speaker 1: Casey does not see her dad in the crowd. He's
Speaker 1: stuck in the office, hung up waiting for the deposition
Speaker 1: to start, but he knows he can't miss the game.
Speaker 1: He tells the team they can handle this on their
Speaker 1: own and leaves. On his way out, he runs into
Speaker 1: his boss, who doesn't understand why he's leaving, but Ben
Speaker 1: explains he's not missing his daughter's super Bowl, even if
Speaker 1: it loses him the partnership and he's starting to realize
Speaker 1: what's important. We cut back to the end of the
Speaker 1: first quarter at just as Ben is arriving midplay. Casey
Speaker 1: notices him and gets sacked, but she's still so happy
Speaker 1: to see him. At the same time, Eve has arrived
Speaker 1: at the toy store, just as they're removing Eve dolls
Speaker 1: from their front display. She knows time is of the essence,
Speaker 1: so she runs to the Magical Bookstore. Back at the game,
Speaker 1: there are twelve seconds left and Casey's team is down
Speaker 1: by four, and that's when Eve arrives. She's come to
Speaker 1: say goodbye. She tries to tell Ben, but he's too
Speaker 1: focused on the final play, but Casey notices Eve and waves.
Speaker 1: Casey calls out to play, steps back to find Wiener.
Speaker 1: He's open. She lets it fly and she's tackled, but
Speaker 1: Weiener catches it. Go Weena, Go Weena Go, but at
Speaker 1: the one yard line he's tackled. No touchdown, the windsor
Speaker 1: Wildcats lose.
Speaker 3: No, no happiness in this movie.
Speaker 1: Nope. Eve can't believe it. That's it poor and this
Speaker 1: poor Wiener kid just can't. He finally catches one, but
Speaker 1: he's not fast enough and.
Speaker 3: It's he's like to find a new dream. Football is
Speaker 3: not for him.
Speaker 1: Oh man, or maybe we just need to do the
Speaker 1: Wiener movie. Ben walks down to the field to comfort
Speaker 1: his daughter. He calls it the best pass he's ever
Speaker 1: seen and gives her a big hug. Win or lose.
Speaker 1: She was great out there. He apologizes for not being around,
Speaker 1: but the truth is since the mom has died, things
Speaker 1: have been very rough for him too. And I thought,
Speaker 1: this is my arguably my favorite scene of the whole
Speaker 1: movie is the two of them after her game on
Speaker 1: the field together was great, but he says it's his
Speaker 1: fault and his mom would be so proud of Casey.
Speaker 1: It's a very nice and very surreal moment. Eve sees
Speaker 1: everything unfold from Afar and brings tears to her eyes.
Speaker 1: She feels the water and realizes that she's finally felt pain.
Speaker 1: She notices a sad kid in the stands too, and
Speaker 1: then a couple straight up tongue kissing each other, maybe
Speaker 1: in sadness. I don't know. She's supposed to see all
Speaker 1: the emotion. I don't know, but human emotion is complicated.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's what they're getting at. Wiener and Casey have
Speaker 1: a nice moment too, but Eve ran off. Weiener's mom
Speaker 1: passes along a message. Eve says, goodbye. She found the
Speaker 1: book and someone to read it to her, so she's
Speaker 1: headed back home again. It makes you wonder if the
Speaker 1: first book was one hundred and fifty dollars. Where she's
Speaker 1: getting the money for this book or did she steal
Speaker 1: it too? Never get into that shocked Why is she
Speaker 1: going back? And now Ben is confused? What's going on?
Speaker 1: This stranger we took into our house. There's more tour
Speaker 1: than I thought. Eve takes a cab to the main
Speaker 1: offices of the toy company, where she tells a security
Speaker 1: check in she's home. The worst security guard in history
Speaker 1: thinks she's there for a photo shoot, so sends her
Speaker 1: to a room where the entire Sunnyvale place that has
Speaker 1: been constructed. She notices how tiny it is, but knows
Speaker 1: what she has to do. She starts to spell just
Speaker 1: as Casey and Ben pull up. They rush into the
Speaker 1: building and Web the security guard lets him go too.
Speaker 1: What the hell? Come on everybody back to where this
Speaker 1: literally has no job? If he's just letting everyone go,
Speaker 1: Tyra banks the whole time was a toy And when
Speaker 1: they find the room. All they see is Eve's backpack.
Speaker 1: They're too late, but just as they've given up hope
Speaker 1: human Eve pops up and reveals the spell was completed.
Speaker 1: There isn't much time left. Ben spots the serial number
Speaker 1: on her foot and knows she actually is leaving. He
Speaker 1: takes this amazingly well to find out that a doll
Speaker 1: came to life that he's been fight. He's like, Wow,
Speaker 1: I can't believe it.
Speaker 3: It's like that's unexpected, dude, just like that.
Speaker 1: Also, how do they not have the conversation of don't
Speaker 1: you understand Dad, this works, we can bring mom back
Speaker 1: to life. I don't understand how that never comes up,
Speaker 1: But anyway, okay. Eve says that sunny Vale needs her,
Speaker 1: but Casey can't accept it. She's crying, but Eve explains
Speaker 1: she's learned so much as a human and sunny Val
Speaker 1: is where she belongs. To save Eve forever. Ben thanks
Speaker 1: her and they all hug, and just like that, Eve
Speaker 1: shrinks down to a doll size and becomes plastic. Ben
Speaker 1: picks her up and they decide to put her somewhere
Speaker 1: special in the house. We cut to the toy store,
Speaker 1: where the Eve doll is not only still around. It's thriving.
Speaker 1: New dolls have just derived and families are lined up
Speaker 1: around the block. Casey is hanging out with her friends again, yes,
Speaker 1: the same ones who coldly said she just needs to
Speaker 1: get over her dead mom. They've all reconnected and are
Speaker 1: doing some CD shopping, and we learn that Ben became
Speaker 1: a partner after all and is still hanging out with
Speaker 1: Drew Yikes in the toy store. Kids are freaking out
Speaker 1: over Eve. She's more popular than ever, and we abruptly
Speaker 1: cut to Tyra, who's now singing be a Star again
Speaker 1: backstage near the large Eve placet She's singing off key
Speaker 1: again and dancing around with the lead characters from the movie,
Speaker 1: from Ben to the office manager.
Speaker 7: It's a just strange ending with some awful dancing and singing.
Speaker 7: And that is the end of our absolutely bat crazy movie.
Speaker 1: And again, come for me. All you want about the nostalgia,
Speaker 1: I get it was important to you as a kid.
Speaker 1: This movie was weird. Let's do real reviews. Sabrina, you
Speaker 1: got the five star? What do you got?
Speaker 3: All right? Five star? From Missy p ninety four d.
Speaker 2: Me and hated used to act like we were life
Speaker 2: sized dolls. We wrote numbers on the bottom of our
Speaker 2: feet and picked out the Barbies we wanted to look like. Haha,
Speaker 2: good times. That's actually very relatable, Missy.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie. I think that's great. A lot
Speaker 3: of a lot of young girls did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely. I have the one star. It's from
Speaker 1: co Ryan, which I assume means there are several Ryans
Speaker 1: and he's a co Ryan. This movie is terrible, so
Speaker 1: I suggest instead you go to YouTube and watch the
Speaker 1: video where Tyra Banks is afraid of dolphins. All right,
Speaker 1: one star, thank you, And now, of course we're gonna
Speaker 1: come to our special feature. And it sounds like Sabrina
Speaker 1: is gonna lose because producer Jensen is back with us
Speaker 1: this week.
Speaker 3: My brain has come killing it.
Speaker 1: She's been killing it. Feature this week is called Barbie
Speaker 1: or Manson to honor the obvious influence the iconic Barbie
Speaker 1: doll hat. In this movie, we're going to get a
Speaker 1: girl's name and have to decide if it's one of
Speaker 1: Barbie's many cool friends or one of Charles Manson's infamous
Speaker 1: cult members. We basically have a fifty to fifty chance here,
Speaker 1: but if we get it wrong, we're gonna look very
Speaker 1: dumb three out of five wins. Oh, I know some
Speaker 1: of Charles Manson's the names of some of his followers,
Speaker 1: so I don't know. I don't know them personally. Thank
Speaker 1: you talking a long time ago.
Speaker 6: I mean he didn't date him or anything exactly.
Speaker 3: Tell me.
Speaker 1: Number one Sabrina Linda. Is that a member of Manson's
Speaker 1: cult or is that a Barbie girl day name? Oh?
Speaker 3: Okay, I thought, okay, h Linda. I'm gonna go with.
Speaker 1: Cult, isn't it Linda Kasabian? Is not that her name?
Speaker 1: She is?
Speaker 6: We are both one?
Speaker 1: One up? Okay one one. Number two Chelsea Barbie. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say Barbie as well. Oh two for two.
Speaker 6: Yes, I should not have distanced myself. I gotta, I
Speaker 6: gotta get back into this ellen.
Speaker 1: Number three Patricia, mm gosh.
Speaker 3: That seems like it could be either really honest, it
Speaker 3: could be either.
Speaker 1: The one though, what do you got Barbie or Manson.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go Manson.
Speaker 1: It is Manson. I believe her name is Patricia Crenwinkle.
Speaker 6: That is it? Three in a row.
Speaker 3: I can't you know these last names.
Speaker 1: It's like one of the most famous Hollywood socials.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I just I've watched so many like murder documentaries.
Speaker 1: I know all these.
Speaker 6: Things, but the last two for fun.
Speaker 1: I have nostalgia for murder documentaries. Number four Leslie.
Speaker 3: I think Leslie's Manson too. I don't think there's.
Speaker 1: It's Leslie van Houghton, isn't it? Yes? Number five is Teresa.
Speaker 3: I think Teresa actually could be a Barbie. I think
Speaker 3: it's Barbie's probably alas Barbie.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 6: Five for five A rare double five for five including.
Speaker 3: Name season in full form. Oh my gosh, I got it.
Speaker 6: Now I have to figure one out that involves murder.
Speaker 3: Talk about Manson.
Speaker 1: He's going to be just we're happy to have you
Speaker 1: back and to welcome you back that way, Sir Jensen,
Speaker 1: thank you man. Can we now do a Sabrina ses please?
Speaker 3: Oh god, okay, here we go.
Speaker 2: One of the first things, I mean, I'm five ones down.
Speaker 2: One of the first things was I wasn't ready for
Speaker 2: football in this movie at all.
Speaker 1: No, like I wasn't either, and I liked it. Frankly.
Speaker 1: She was.
Speaker 2: She actually when she threw at the very end, I
Speaker 2: will say she looked like she could throw a football.
Speaker 1: That was clearly not her. Go back and watch again
Speaker 1: it is another face in the helmet. It is it's
Speaker 1: a girl, but it's not Lindsay Lohan. I pause to
Speaker 1: make sure.
Speaker 3: All right, well that was not good. Be a little closer.
Speaker 3: My contacts need to be reevaluated. Clearly.
Speaker 2: The next thing I have is Richie's gross, like in
Speaker 2: all caps, He's just gross.
Speaker 3: We've already gone over that. That's fine. Let's talk about
Speaker 3: her room.
Speaker 2: Okay, this, you know, I think I've said this just
Speaker 2: a few times over the last like going on two years.
Speaker 3: Now. If you could believe it, this room was bat.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, I mean this, The the.
Speaker 3: The decor of the room made no sense.
Speaker 2: You know, we we will kind of joke about how okay,
Speaker 2: now we get to see the things that she's into,
Speaker 2: and the this and the that with their rooms, like
Speaker 2: the showing of the rooms telling fashion or super Sportsy
Speaker 2: Girl or super you know, skater guy for.
Speaker 3: For our favorite movie. Ever, this room made no sense.
Speaker 2: You didn't get an idea at all except for that
Speaker 2: maybe she was like a teenager. It had at one
Speaker 2: point like a kite, a kite hanging on the wall,
Speaker 2: and then a random glow star behind her.
Speaker 3: Bed, a white buffet that.
Speaker 2: You would have in your living room with doors and
Speaker 2: like trinkets inside of it, and the bedroom was in
Speaker 2: front of the buffet that was on the wall. It
Speaker 2: was the most It was so distracting to me.
Speaker 3: I couldn't stand it.
Speaker 2: I hated all of the the scenes in her bedroom
Speaker 2: because of it.
Speaker 3: That person that was part of like set design fired.
Speaker 3: That was bad.
Speaker 1: That was really bad.
Speaker 2: Because if that was her personality or that made sense, Okay, fine,
Speaker 2: I'll go with it.
Speaker 3: But it didn't give you any clue into what besides
Speaker 3: the three or four pictures they.
Speaker 2: Had of her the family right that bedroom was like
Speaker 2: made no sense.
Speaker 3: It was drove me crazy.
Speaker 2: I knew because of our before we watched this, and
Speaker 2: our kind of our trailer of our last episode, and
Speaker 2: you had mentioned that the girl group that you.
Speaker 1: Knew, Nobody's Angel, Nobody's Angel, was.
Speaker 3: Gonna be in this.
Speaker 2: I had to say, uh oh that mall Montage music
Speaker 2: was that Nobody's Angel. But then Nobody's Angel song came
Speaker 2: on and I was like, oh, yeah, no, never okay,
Speaker 2: but it was such a bad song.
Speaker 3: It was like a awful song.
Speaker 2: It was ever producing Ah, this song later on in
Speaker 2: the show produced that one.
Speaker 3: It was bad. And then.
Speaker 2: This is starting to get a little bit kind of
Speaker 2: silly because we picked apart this movie so much. I
Speaker 2: didn't understand how she can't dress herself. But then she
Speaker 2: had like different wigs on and different hairstyles throughout the movie.
Speaker 2: That just kind of if that was gonna be a
Speaker 2: situation where she was gonna need help, they could have
Speaker 2: just cut that whole scene. Probably Honestly, we didn't talk
Speaker 2: about how awkward it wasn't weird that Drew and Ben
Speaker 2: were dancing at this like company party.
Speaker 3: They were like dancing, but they were like slow dancing.
Speaker 3: That was just so weird. And then my last.
Speaker 2: One was I thought you would have got this one.
Speaker 2: Oh no, there's just two. The second to last one
Speaker 2: when she's like she's looking up at the stars. It's
Speaker 2: that scene she's looking at the stars and she's like
Speaker 2: talking about them, and then she goes.
Speaker 3: Oh Ben, look the moon or the moon like a second,
Speaker 3: oh Ben, look the moon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's brilliant.
Speaker 3: Iroound it like seven times. It was so funny, like
Speaker 3: the moon is over there, it's wonderful.
Speaker 2: And the last one is I thought you'd come say
Speaker 2: this too, Come on, Bruce, kill him for me.
Speaker 3: That was what the parent he sat down next to,
Speaker 3: and the football came right, come on, Bruce, kill them
Speaker 3: for me. Oh my god, they're like eleven years old. Mom,
Speaker 3: stop saying that. That's not okay. I'm not gonna kill
Speaker 3: any one out here.
Speaker 1: No, it's good, it's all good.
Speaker 3: There were some good laughs in this movie.
Speaker 1: There were There were sometimes I was laughing with it.
Speaker 1: Most of the times I was laughing at it. But yes,
Speaker 1: there were some. And now it's time to radar film
Speaker 1: one out of ten, ten best, one worst. Not even
Speaker 1: going to do a joke about it this week. I
Speaker 1: got nothing left, I got nothing. So our options this
Speaker 1: week are one out of ten documentaries about me, huh,
Speaker 1: that's the perfect man. One out of ten Wieners. I
Speaker 1: hope you don't pick that one. One out of ten
Speaker 1: magic pentagrams, dead mom hair brushes, two thousands malls, Wianers
Speaker 1: again again, one out of ten Bridge troll office Managers,
Speaker 1: new emails, one out of ten low hand Siblings, sad
Speaker 1: tongue kisses or I'm going to also put in one
Speaker 1: out of ten disguised green Eminem's Sabrina.
Speaker 6: I also have one more to add in. Yes, okay Wieners.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 3: So we're going what is it gremms?
Speaker 1: Oh no, it's gonna be disguised green eminem disis. All right,
Speaker 1: Well you did hocus focus. I think you You went
Speaker 1: first last time, didn't you. I think yes, Yeah, so
Speaker 1: it's my turn. Oh it's my turn to go first.
Speaker 1: It was yesterday.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, Uh, this was a solid film. I'm giving this
Speaker 1: a nine. I'm not. I am not And again you
Speaker 1: can all come for me. I get that I cannot
Speaker 1: watch this with any nostalgia attached. I once again say
Speaker 1: with nostalgia, without nostalgia, good movies are good movies. It
Speaker 1: shouldn't matter that you liked him as a kid. You
Speaker 1: should still be able to look at you know, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite movies as a kid was Rad. I
Speaker 1: will always say Rad is the best movie ever. I
Speaker 1: can still look at Rad and go it's actually kind
Speaker 1: of a crap movie, but I loved it. That's a
Speaker 1: different thing. Yes, So, with no nostalgia attached to this
Speaker 1: was a we keep saying, but it's true. This was
Speaker 1: a crazy movie. The dad was strange. She had no
Speaker 1: reaction to the fact that his daughter actually resurrected somebody.
Speaker 1: The resurrection was just nobody's mentioning that she literally brought
Speaker 1: a thing back to life, and then she could have
Speaker 1: brought her momd back. It was one thing after another
Speaker 1: that the characters were weird. Drew was weird. If not
Speaker 1: for Lindsay Lohan, this might have been one of the
Speaker 1: lowest rated movies that I had, just because this was
Speaker 1: all over the place. I'm going to generously, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: because of Lindsay Lohan's performance alone, give this a four
Speaker 1: point five disguised green Eminem's She's great. Tyra Banks was good.
Speaker 1: Just the story and the script and some of the
Speaker 1: characters made no sense. So I'm four point five, I
Speaker 1: think is a good score for this movie. Four point
Speaker 1: five disguised green Eminem's Yes, Sabrina, what do you got?
Speaker 2: I agree with you with so much of it, and
Speaker 2: the hard part for me, and I know this isn't
Speaker 2: even a point of view.
Speaker 3: What you came from is this movie.
Speaker 2: I think if we went the comedy route and they
Speaker 2: did things along the lines of actually making it a
Speaker 2: feminist movie, and you know, again, I know we're not
Speaker 2: supposed to do, but watching the Barbie movie and seeing how.
Speaker 3: It can be done right.
Speaker 2: Yes, in that sense, to me, her as a doll
Speaker 2: really didn't consistently work throughout the rest of the movie.
Speaker 2: It went in and out, It wasn't consistent, It didn't
Speaker 2: flow in that sense, and so just it's hard not
Speaker 2: to compare, especially to a movie that was so great
Speaker 2: done recently.
Speaker 3: And I know that's true. And again, I know, I
Speaker 3: know I'm gonna get.
Speaker 2: Heat for this as well, but I again I just couldn't.
Speaker 3: I couldn't go with it.
Speaker 2: And I really really tried, I really did, but this
Speaker 2: was not my favorite one. I wouldn't say I would
Speaker 2: even want to try it one more time because there
Speaker 2: was a lot of off put things. The things that
Speaker 2: I don't like are things that maybe weren't that relevant
Speaker 2: then but are now that.
Speaker 1: The creepy relationship is. Maybe that's what it.
Speaker 3: Just didn't age well for me. And so that's the thing.
Speaker 2: And even when you try to go back, you're kind
Speaker 2: of like with that, with the mix of the holes
Speaker 2: in the script and the things just being very strange.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give it a five point five, okay.
Speaker 2: And you know, five point five disguise cream.
Speaker 1: Perfect, that's oh.
Speaker 3: Man, yeah, I can. I have to, and I don't
Speaker 3: like giving bad ones. I don't even on the roll
Speaker 3: for a couple of good ones and good ones just
Speaker 3: recently that really first us up.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm hoping I'm hoping that most of the comments
Speaker 1: are going to be people going like, oh, I suggested
Speaker 1: this because it's crazy. I suggested this because I knew
Speaker 1: you guys were not like. I suggested it because it's
Speaker 1: the best movie I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: I also don't think it's necessarily fair. I do feel
Speaker 2: like in our comments people are saying that's insane, but
Speaker 2: they're not actually rewatching it themselves. So make sure you
Speaker 2: rewatch it so you can tell if you actually agree
Speaker 2: or disagree.
Speaker 1: And remember as you're watching them that nostalgia is a
Speaker 1: wonderful thing. But you can two things can be true.
Speaker 1: You can love the movie that when you saw it
Speaker 1: as a kid and understand that it's not that good.
Speaker 1: That's that's okay. So yeah, but anyway, thank you for
Speaker 1: joining us. Our next movie is frankly the perfect start
Speaker 1: for December. We're finally cracking at Christmas movies this year,
Speaker 1: and we're kicking it off with the two thousand and
Speaker 1: one d com Twas the Night, starring Walter White himself,
Speaker 1: Brian Cranston, and I'm seriously hoping this movie is all
Speaker 1: about meth, just like Breaking Bad. But I'm guessing. I'm
Speaker 1: guessing the entire entire titles not Twas the Night made Me.
Speaker 3: If it's not a Christmas film, I'm gonna be just
Speaker 3: so upset.
Speaker 1: It is it is, it is, Okay.
Speaker 2: I'm ready to get into Christmas spirit getting there. We
Speaker 2: did Hollow to the fullest.
Speaker 1: Here we go, and now it's ready.
Speaker 3: I'm ready to be thankful, yep, and into Christmas.
Speaker 1: That's fine. We're going to deck the halls with Christmas movies.
Speaker 1: And while we wait for that, we have a very
Speaker 1: fun interview this week, premiering on our dedicated magical rewind Feed.
Speaker 1: It's Felicia Barton, who was one of the incredible singers
Speaker 1: you hear weekly on the biggest show in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five America, Dancing with the Stars, which we will have
Speaker 1: a lot of questions about, and she's also written songs
Speaker 1: for Demi Lovado and Leah Michelle. But for magical rewind fans,
Speaker 1: she is the mother of Disney's new It Boy, a
Speaker 1: young man who has been on the channel since. Who
Speaker 1: was basically in Diaper's Malachi Barton from Villains of Valley Views,
Speaker 1: Stuck in the Middle, Zombies four and soon the new
Speaker 1: camp Rock And now we get a totally new and
Speaker 1: unique perspective what it's like when you're the mom of
Speaker 1: a Disney Channel star. And it isn't easy. So let's
Speaker 1: take a quick listen on what you can expect from
Speaker 1: the amazing Felicia.
Speaker 8: He really did fall into this, It's crazy. When he
Speaker 8: was four years old. We were I'd signed to steal
Speaker 8: Out in LA, and I was coming back and for
Speaker 8: work between Nashville and LA and writing music for artists
Speaker 8: and doing the whole thing.
Speaker 3: I went into the studio.
Speaker 8: Session and the guy that owned the studio walked into
Speaker 8: my session and he was like, Hey, is that your
Speaker 8: kid outside on top of a car dancing to Justin Bieber.
Speaker 1: Probably that was a very surprisingly cool interview and one
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