Speaker 1: You have a new background, Sabrina, where are you right now?
Speaker 2: I'm at my parents' house. I discovered not too long
Speaker 2: ago that there was a scheduled outage in our neighborhood.
Speaker 2: We've had some utilities working guys out for gosh a
Speaker 2: couple of months now, and the power went out and
Speaker 2: I got on my little chat with my neighbors and they're.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, it's been scheduled for a while.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh cool, No, okay, I go find
Speaker 2: somewhere to go podcast because it's not here.
Speaker 1: How well you live close to your folks though, right?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they live probably about i'd say, like twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five minutes away, so not too bad.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: I love it there. It makes it easy, especially with
Speaker 2: the kiddos.
Speaker 1: If I need help, yeah, I can imagine.
Speaker 2: Or there's there's fires here not two long couple weeks ago,
Speaker 2: and so they were gonna come to our house that
Speaker 2: they got evacuated.
Speaker 3: So it's nice to be close with them. I really
Speaker 3: love it. It's what pulled me back from La back
Speaker 3: to Orange Counties.
Speaker 1: Even La Orange County, I'm a six hour flight to
Speaker 1: get home, and you got to take two and then
Speaker 1: you gotta yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean LA to Orange County. It could
Speaker 2: be forty five minutes or it could be two and
Speaker 2: a half hours. You just don't know. And so I
Speaker 2: was excited to get back to Orange County, just be
Speaker 2: closer to my parents. They're getting older, you know, scared, get.
Speaker 3: Nervous about friend Kat.
Speaker 2: Make sure they're all right.
Speaker 1: I understand. Well, I mean, being that close to your
Speaker 1: family is truly magical.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 1: Oh did you see what I just did? How I
Speaker 1: just transitioned into our film. That was a transition. First
Speaker 1: of all, welcome back to Magical rewind the show that
Speaker 1: makes you want to grab your friends, your pjs and
Speaker 1: your popcorn and go back to a time when all
Speaker 1: the houses were smart. The Waves tsunamis in the high
Speaker 1: School's musical.
Speaker 3: I'm Wilfordlle and I'm Sabrina Bryan, and.
Speaker 1: You're gonna understand my dare, I say, brilliant transition. Hi,
Speaker 1: thank you, I'm gunning.
Speaker 3: I think you dare.
Speaker 1: I think I dare. It's where Eagles dare. So pack
Speaker 1: your bags and leave your wands at home, because we're
Speaker 1: going on vacation, even if you don't want to. It's
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine Wizards of Waverly Place the movie.
Speaker 1: This is the decom installment of one of Disney Channel's
Speaker 1: most successful TV shows of all time, of course, Wizards
Speaker 1: of Waverley Place, which ran for one hundred and six
Speaker 1: episodes or four seasons from two thousand and seven to
Speaker 1: twenty twelve, So this film doesn't fall into the formula
Speaker 1: of yesteryear, where a show would finish a three season
Speaker 1: run and then tie it with a bow with a movie.
Speaker 1: People actually don't know where this movie exactly fits in
Speaker 1: chronological order, but fans suspect it took place in August
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine when it comes to canon. So
Speaker 1: this movie really was just a result of the show
Speaker 1: being so popular and seeing a long form story available
Speaker 1: for ratings, and Wow, ratings did it bring. I should
Speaker 1: start by saying I have never seen Wizards of Waverley
Speaker 1: Place episode.
Speaker 2: I have to admit I have not either, and after
Speaker 2: this movie, I'm asking myself why. I agree freaking loved
Speaker 2: it and I want to know more about these characters.
Speaker 2: I loved the relationships they each had. Gosh, the chemistry
Speaker 2: was amazing. Sorry, I'm going I'm getting out of myself.
Speaker 1: Get ahead, but that's fine. I was gonna say, I
Speaker 1: think I did myself a bit of a disservice because,
Speaker 1: as we'll get into at least the very beginning, because
Speaker 1: I hadn't didn't know the characters where they dropped, especially
Speaker 1: the Selena Gomez character where they drop you right in
Speaker 1: the middle of it, I was kind of like, oh,
Speaker 1: she's unpleasant and I and luckily it changes. A movie
Speaker 1: goes on, and I'm guessing that if you watch the show,
Speaker 1: that is not the case. You you grow with her,
Speaker 1: so you understand why she's such a horrible human being
Speaker 1: when you first meet her.
Speaker 3: She's just a full blown teenager. She is she is,
Speaker 3: but is my first night of wo Monroe.
Speaker 2: Could possibly turn out to be Holy cow. That is
Speaker 2: a lot of talk back, young Liddy.
Speaker 1: Yes, in the first seventeen or twenty minutes, she's just
Speaker 1: very unlikable, and I think that's that she's not if
Speaker 1: you watch the show. My guess is, if you watch
Speaker 1: the show, you see her ebb and flow, you see
Speaker 1: the different versions of her U see and you know
Speaker 1: she just think you're right. She starts full ten as
Speaker 1: a teenager. Yeah, but man, I'm not going to jump ahead,
Speaker 1: but I really like it too, But anyway, For those
Speaker 1: who don't know, the series centers on Alex Russo, a
Speaker 1: teen girl wizard who lives in Greenwich Village or Greenwich
Speaker 1: if you don't know how to say it, New York
Speaker 1: on Yes Waverly Place. She has two brothers, the older sibling,
Speaker 1: Justin and the baby of the family, Max, and all
Speaker 1: three of them have magical abilities that have been handed
Speaker 1: down to them from their father. They're training with their
Speaker 1: dad now, knowing that one of them will compete to
Speaker 1: win sole custody of all of the family powers. Most
Speaker 1: episodes detail young Alex's attempts to hide her abilities at
Speaker 1: school and amongst friends, creating problems and dilemmas she has
Speaker 1: to get out of. The show revolves around family, youth,
Speaker 1: and responsibility, and contained fantasy elements which you know, I
Speaker 1: am absolutely here for. And how popular? How was this
Speaker 1: TV show? You might be asking. Well, like most Disney Juggernauts,
Speaker 1: it became a franchise, a two time Emmy winner, enjoyed
Speaker 1: consistently high ratings stroughut its entire run, and the series
Speaker 1: finale was the most watched final episode in the history
Speaker 1: of the channel. Wow.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: The merchandise, of course, was prevalent, as Disney tends to do,
Speaker 1: and it would introduce the world to a young Selena Gomez,
Speaker 1: who would go on to become one of the most
Speaker 1: successful modern day actresses and producers working. Also, this isn't
Speaker 1: the only Waverley placed d com, which led me to
Speaker 1: call producers last night saying, am I watching the right one?
Speaker 1: Hopefully we get to the second one at some point two.
Speaker 1: And also, now the show, as I'm sure everybody has
Speaker 1: heard at this point, is returning to the Disney Channel
Speaker 1: a reboot produced by Gomez entitled Wizards Beyond Waverley Place,
Speaker 1: Little Batman Beyond Not I want to think with some
Speaker 1: it's not, but I just like making about me with
Speaker 1: some familiar faces. It's a new story banking on the
Speaker 1: nostalgia from the original. This movie, though, debuted on August
Speaker 1: twenty eight, two, two thousand and nine, and received eleven
Speaker 1: point four million viewers yikes, making it the second most
Speaker 1: viewed d com ever, just behind High School Musical two.
Speaker 1: It was also the Disney Channels number one scripted telecast
Speaker 1: of all of two thousand and nine, and won the
Speaker 1: Emmy for Outstanding Children's programming. That is a rarity for
Speaker 1: a d com. This was a juger. Not like we said,
Speaker 1: the movie was filmed primarily in San Juan, Puerto Rico,
Speaker 1: because again, you're not gonna make Vancouver or Toronto or Utah.
Speaker 1: It looked like the Caribbean where they want to get it.
Speaker 3: Jui, but they would not succeed.
Speaker 1: Would we would have seen this one, we would have
Speaker 1: we would have seen this one coming. So yes, it
Speaker 1: was filmed in San Juan, Porto Rico. And as the plot,
Speaker 1: which we'll get into, mirrored almost exactly what we saw
Speaker 1: in the Even Stevens movie, and a few stage shots
Speaker 1: were filmed in Toronto, so Toronto does get a little
Speaker 1: bit of a nod. There were two fun facts here.
Speaker 1: While in the set, Selena noticed a stray dog on
Speaker 1: one of the locations and the crew began feeding him.
Speaker 1: They named him Caz, and eventually Selena ended up bringing
Speaker 1: him home with her. Wow, talk about straight up, Annie, Like,
Speaker 1: you are a homeless dog on the streets and now
Speaker 1: you're Selena Gomez's dog. How is that not a Disney
Speaker 1: Channel show right there?
Speaker 2: Well, and that's a pretty big I bet you that's
Speaker 2: got to be a pretty big process to bring a
Speaker 2: dog from Puerto Rico up to where she lives.
Speaker 1: That had to be in quite the amazing But that's right.
Speaker 1: But the journeys for that layer up and second, nearby
Speaker 1: in Puerto Rico, Johnny Depp was shooting a movie called
Speaker 1: The Run Diary, and when Johnny heard that The Wizard's
Speaker 1: movie was shooting nearby, he visited the set with his kids,
Speaker 1: who were huge fans of the show. How cool is
Speaker 1: that You're there doing your d com and Johnny Depp
Speaker 1: shows up?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Really, really cool. The movie also did have a big
Speaker 1: Disney soundtrack. I know it was very that's what I
Speaker 1: call music nineties kind of soundtrack, but I really liked
Speaker 1: this soundtrack that included three Selena Gomez songs and a
Speaker 1: ton of cover songs from Disney stars like Mitch Musto
Speaker 1: performing The Police's Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Speaker 1: and Alian Aj recording Loving Spoonfuls Do You Believe In Magic?
Speaker 1: It did crack the Billboard top two hundred and ended
Speaker 1: up selling over one hundred thousand copies. Now this seems
Speaker 1: like a no brainer, but The Wizards of Waverley Place
Speaker 1: movie is available to stream right now on Disney Plus,
Speaker 1: you can watch it before you hear us or listen
Speaker 1: to us first. It's not a race. It's not even
Speaker 1: a marathon because frankly, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: no one's running. We're all just sitting here. So you
Speaker 1: do you okay, Sabrina, we just talked about this. You
Speaker 1: hadn't seen the show, right, I hadn't.
Speaker 2: But of course you know Selena was on a on
Speaker 2: my yellow team of Disney Channel games.
Speaker 1: Is that one of the reasons that you didn't watch
Speaker 1: the show because you were convinced she was one of
Speaker 1: the reasons you lost all the time.
Speaker 3: I forgot she was on my team. That's but so anyway,
Speaker 3: I was Alena, very, very very aware of the show.
Speaker 3: I was it was huge.
Speaker 2: This was right during you know, the time of the
Speaker 2: Chance and you know they I knew this was a
Speaker 2: big show that the kids loved, but I still had
Speaker 2: not seen it at all, nor had I seen this movie.
Speaker 2: So I was really excited because I did. I had big,
Speaker 2: big hopes for it, thinking.
Speaker 1: Was she nice with Selena Gomez? Nice in person?
Speaker 3: She's so sweet, she really is.
Speaker 1: She made the characters are jarring at me, like she's
Speaker 1: a really good actress because I hate you.
Speaker 3: You know, she's a sweet, sweet, sweet girl.
Speaker 2: And anytime I've ran into her since then, when I
Speaker 2: did Dance with the Stars, years later she came, She's
Speaker 2: performed on it, you know, anytime getting a chance to
Speaker 2: hang out with her.
Speaker 3: She's very very nice.
Speaker 1: I've heard her.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, and I mean her makeup line. I mean,
Speaker 2: this girl has no ends. She's she's definitely business.
Speaker 3: Absolutely and loves to give back.
Speaker 2: You know, She's got lots of lots of different companies
Speaker 2: that also give back, and she's just wonderful.
Speaker 3: I can't say enough of it.
Speaker 1: And again this is I have to say because my
Speaker 1: wife loves Murders in the Building, which she's also on.
Speaker 1: I've seen it. This is the first thing I've ever
Speaker 1: seen Selena Gomez on Wow. So I had and it
Speaker 1: just showed me how talented she was, because I've I'd
Speaker 1: heard from so many different sources that she's a wonderful person,
Speaker 1: easy to work with, very friendly, like you said, very giving.
Speaker 1: And so to go right into the character knowing nothing
Speaker 1: about it, being like, man, I'm glad I don't have
Speaker 1: kids was really interesting. But before you run off to
Speaker 1: find the stone, of Dreams. Let's get into the synopsis.
Speaker 1: While on vacation, teen wizard Alex Russo accidentally casts a
Speaker 1: spell that erases her family's existence, forcing her and her
Speaker 1: brothers to test their bond and reverse it. We gave
Speaker 1: early thoughts. We both liked it, right, I really liked it.
Speaker 3: I did too.
Speaker 1: I think me too. Yeah.
Speaker 2: By the end of it, I felt like, all right,
Speaker 2: I think I'm ready for my Harry Potter epic. Like
Speaker 2: binge watching, I feel like I'm there now, I'm into magic.
Speaker 3: I like magic now.
Speaker 1: No, there's I don't know what to do with that, Sabrina.
Speaker 1: I don't know what because there's very few people.
Speaker 2: From what little scenes I've seen of Harry Potter, you
Speaker 2: had the wands and they're in that big area that
Speaker 2: they like do games.
Speaker 1: At I understand. But what I'm saying is there's very
Speaker 1: few people in the world. I'm guessing very few people
Speaker 1: in the world that have said, Okay, I watched the
Speaker 1: Wizards of Waverley Place movie, I'm now ready for Harry Potter.
Speaker 1: I like. I don't think that's ever been uttered in
Speaker 1: the world.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to disagree with you.
Speaker 1: Harry Potter's wonderful Wizard story.
Speaker 3: Now I'm ready for it.
Speaker 1: Now, well, we're gonna do a We're gonna do seven
Speaker 1: episodes of you watching all the Harry Potter movies, because
Speaker 1: damn girl, they are great. But it's not they go
Speaker 1: by so quick anyway. We're not gonna get into that
Speaker 1: right now. We both loved it. The Wizard's Movie is
Speaker 1: directed by lev L. Spiro, who, like a few other
Speaker 1: directors we've highlighted, started his career in the B movies
Speaker 1: world with amazing titles like A Manual, A World of Desire,
Speaker 1: and Justine's Seduction of Innocence yikes. Eventually, Spiro would transition
Speaker 1: to kids TV with The Jersey Cousin Skeeter and The
Speaker 1: dcom Minute Men, which we liked. Weirdly, it does not
Speaker 1: look like he ever directed The Wizards Place TV show,
Speaker 1: but his resume is vast with shows like Modern Family, Jonas,
Speaker 1: Weed's Arrested Development and The OC and The Movie Stars.
Speaker 1: As we were talking about before, Selena Gomez as Alex Russo.
Speaker 1: Selena got a start on Barney only to become one
Speaker 1: of the most quintessential Disney pop stars ever with a
Speaker 1: very successful music and TV career throughout the company, leading
Speaker 1: to crossovers with Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers, and
Speaker 1: her adult career, of course, would flourish even more, starting
Speaker 1: with Harmony Krin's image shattering spring Breakers and including a
Speaker 1: voice in the Hotel Transylvania movies and now a starring
Speaker 1: role alongside Steve Martin Martin short, as we just talked
Speaker 1: about in Only Murders in the Building, which is another juggernaut,
Speaker 1: And like I said, she is executive producer now of
Speaker 1: the Waverley reboot for Disney, which is so cool that
Speaker 1: they're letting people come back and have a hand in
Speaker 1: the projects that they help make so popular. David Henry
Speaker 1: plays the older brother Justin. David started his career all
Speaker 1: over TV on shows like Judging, Amy Method, and Red
Speaker 1: and That's So Raven, which landed him in the Disney atmosphere,
Speaker 1: and right onto this show he was also phenomenal. He
Speaker 1: would star also play the son on over sixty episodes
Speaker 1: of How I Met Your Mother. He also played young
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan in a recent movie Reagan, which is happily named.
Speaker 1: Jake T. Austin is the youngest brother Max. Jake's first
Speaker 1: job was on Blues Clues. I love that We've got
Speaker 1: Barney and Blues Clues, playing Steve's friend for a few episodes,
Speaker 1: but he entered the d com stratosphere in two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven in Johnny Kappahala Back on the Board, which
Speaker 1: we still have to watch can't wait. He is also
Speaker 1: the voice of Diego on Dora the Explorer and was
Speaker 1: one of the stars of the Network TV show The Fosters,
Speaker 1: which I also believe Ryder Strong's wife Alex was on
Speaker 1: Nice David Delowize is the Dad Jerry. He's the son
Speaker 1: of legendary actor Dom Delowize and has appeared on shows
Speaker 1: like EO and Bones. Then you got the Mom Teresa.
Speaker 1: She's played by Maria Kanalis Barrera, whose voice you may
Speaker 1: recognize yes as Hawk Girl in the animated series Justice League.
Speaker 1: She and I used to work together all the time.
Speaker 1: She's amazing or from another dcom favorite, Camp Rock. Jennifer
Speaker 1: Stone is Harper, Alex's weird best friend. And of course
Speaker 1: you got Steve Valentine. He plays Archie the Magician and
Speaker 1: in real life Steve is a magician, so great casting there.
Speaker 1: He is a character actor with tons of credits. He
Speaker 1: was great tons of credits, especially in kids entertainment. You
Speaker 1: might recognize him from Teen Beach Movie or Avalon High,
Speaker 1: or as Dracula in the Monster High movies, or as
Speaker 1: ponytail Man in the film Trojan War, starring a young Wilfredell.
Speaker 1: Like I told you, I want to make it all
Speaker 1: about me. This movie is ninety eight minutes long, which
Speaker 1: is too long. Long off our target by eight minutes.
Speaker 1: It didn't feel too long, but just for us, it's
Speaker 1: too long. And it's written, of course by the Wizards
Speaker 1: of Waverley Place creator Todd J. Greenwald, well, mostly because
Speaker 1: there are his characters and his creation, but as Decom
Speaker 1: favorite Dan Berenson shares the script credit, so this might
Speaker 1: be one of those times he came in and did
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff. We've mentioned Dan many times, as
Speaker 1: he's also the writer Stuck in the Suburbs, Halloween Town High,
Speaker 1: The Cheeah Girls, One World, and Teen Beach two, and
Speaker 1: that is just to name a few rock star Decom writer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm saying, all right, so let's cast a spell right
Speaker 1: into the Wizards of Waverly Place movie. Cast a spell
Speaker 1: for us, Sabrina, but make it a Harry Potter spell. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna sew work on that the Harry Potter stuff.
Speaker 1: Since we're opening, I'll say helloha, mora. There we go.
Speaker 1: That's a Harry Potter opening spell. Anyway. We open on
Speaker 1: the Waverley Place Street sign just outside the Waverley Substation,
Speaker 1: a subway station turned into a sub shop. Brilliant, We
Speaker 1: get a cool zoom in. Just as Alex Russo snoops
Speaker 1: through her brother Justin's bag and cannot believe what she's seeing,
Speaker 1: And just as she reaches in, she is suddenly sucked
Speaker 1: into the bag. She flails left and right and then
Speaker 1: is even up inside the bag. It goes down to
Speaker 1: her waist, knocking things around the diner. Now during the struggle,
Speaker 1: her parents, Jerry and Teresa come down and they only
Speaker 1: see Alex's two legs attached to the bag. Justin and
Speaker 1: their younger brother Max joined the party. Max wants to
Speaker 1: keep it like it's a bet, and Justin admits he
Speaker 1: puts a spell on the bag because he knew his
Speaker 1: sister would snoop. After some pressure from their parents, Justin
Speaker 1: recites the spell to undo the bag. Magic was used
Speaker 1: to protect the bag. Reverse the spell reverse I'm sorry
Speaker 1: to say against it makes me laugh. Magic was used
Speaker 1: to protect the bag. Reverse the spell release the Hag
Speaker 1: seems like a mean spell, but a perfect older brother's bell. Yes,
Speaker 1: the bag removes itself from Alex, and she reveals she's
Speaker 1: found her brother was hiding the family wand and book
Speaker 1: of Forbidden spells. She thinks he took it out of
Speaker 1: their dad's layer without permission, but it's revealed that they're
Speaker 1: dad actually gave it to Justin, and Alex feels very
Speaker 1: very betrayed. Now, this is where having some backstory of
Speaker 1: who the characters were would have been very helpful, because
Speaker 1: there's things that we learned that as we went on.
Speaker 1: I started to pick up. But I'm sure people instantly knew. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, the brother and sister are essentially competing to
Speaker 1: which one's going to become a wizard, and it's a
Speaker 1: whole family thing, and so this.
Speaker 2: Is stuff still a little taxing at first trying to
Speaker 2: put the pieces together. Versus when we saw even Stevens movie,
Speaker 2: it was so easy to go, oh, boom boom, boom boom,
Speaker 2: these are the characters.
Speaker 3: Here we go.
Speaker 2: It wasn't as hard. This was kind of going oh okay,
Speaker 2: oh okay, all right, you know this is this kid,
Speaker 2: this is the responsible one. Yeah, the younger one's just funny,
Speaker 2: you know that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And in all fairness, it's difficult when you come
Speaker 1: back to my nerdom. It is difficult, difficult to do
Speaker 1: when you have a magical system in place, because you've
Speaker 1: got to know, they obviously had rules set up that
Speaker 1: we didn't know anything about. But I imagine that shows
Speaker 1: Oh they're not my rules, they're magic's rules, my friend.
Speaker 1: But I imagine we'll have a lot of people saying, like, oh,
Speaker 1: if you watch the show, they laid all this out,
Speaker 1: They laid out all the rules for.
Speaker 3: The show because you knew what I was. You figured
Speaker 3: it out. It was easy peasy.
Speaker 2: From then on air, Like it just took a minute,
Speaker 2: and it was kind of you know, and that's hard
Speaker 2: to do. It's hard to sit down and start really
Speaker 2: kind of letting yourself enjoy the movie because you are
Speaker 2: letting your brain kind of go in overdrive trying to
Speaker 2: put pieces together.
Speaker 1: Three hundred percent. You had to like try to catch up.
Speaker 1: But that was on us, not on them. Yes, Jerry
Speaker 1: tells Alex she can use the spell book and family wand.
Speaker 1: One day when she passes her exams, it takes a
Speaker 1: certain level of responsibility to handle. She argues she is
Speaker 1: responsible and can be trusted. She looks for some back
Speaker 1: up here from a little brother, Max, who is now
Speaker 1: engulfed in the bag himself. Mom Teresa doesn't care about
Speaker 1: the WAND, but she knows Alex is on thin ice.
Speaker 1: And this is where again first intro to the character
Speaker 1: didn't know anything about it. She's talking back to everybody,
Speaker 1: making fun of everybody. I was like, Wow, you're horribly
Speaker 1: unlikable at the beginning, but then I really I imagine
Speaker 1: if you watch the show, this was kind of the
Speaker 1: fun character and its twenty minutes in. I loved her
Speaker 1: and wanted to be funular if we were the same age.
Speaker 1: Justin demands the wand and spell book back from Alex,
Speaker 1: but she secretly does the old switcheroo. She's holding the
Speaker 1: real spell book behind her back. The kids are warned
Speaker 1: finish packing tonight because they are leaving on a vacation soon.
Speaker 1: Alex's best for this was also a little confusing. I
Speaker 1: didn't understand what was going on, but it starts to
Speaker 1: make sense. So they were going on vacation, but they
Speaker 1: weren't going to bring Alex with them. She asked to
Speaker 1: stay home, and they were going to let her stay home.
Speaker 2: She was going to stay first with her friend Harper.
Speaker 1: Right, So that's perfect timing because her best friend, Harper
Speaker 1: arrives all dressed up like Madonna was a flapper, just
Speaker 1: as I did. Neither, and I never noticed clothes, but
Speaker 1: even I was like huh. Just as Jerry and Teresa
Speaker 1: are leaving, Teresa realizes they're going to a party that
Speaker 1: Alex is not allowed to go to, and this is
Speaker 1: where we learned that they're letting Alex stay home. So
Speaker 1: this is where I was like, Okay, now starting to
Speaker 1: make a little bit more sense. Instead of going on
Speaker 1: the vacation, which is a big deal, they were giving
Speaker 1: her an opportunity to kind of stand on her own
Speaker 1: two feet. She then tries to go around her mom
Speaker 1: and ask her dad about the party, but Jerry says
Speaker 1: no walking, flying, teleporting, or popping out of the building
Speaker 1: while they're gone. Once they leave, Alex assures Harper they're
Speaker 1: still going to the party and they won't have to
Speaker 1: leave the apartment. This is where I thought about you,
Speaker 1: because you and I are exactly the same way. We're
Speaker 1: both rule followers, right. So the second she's like I'm
Speaker 1: doing what I want. I've been given this one opportunity
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna blow that opportunity because I would have
Speaker 1: to go to this part, I was like, not a
Speaker 1: rule follower.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I will sell you. There's like high school
Speaker 2: girls that have come across within my team that I'll hear, like,
Speaker 2: you know, just funny stories from their moms, and they
Speaker 2: their moms have to explain all the things that they
Speaker 2: cannot do because they will find that loophole. And You're like,
Speaker 2: how I wouldn't even think I'm that was way out
Speaker 2: of my range. I wouldn't have even thought of a
Speaker 2: loophole of any sort like this.
Speaker 1: So you hear you can't go me too. When you
Speaker 1: just heard you can't go, that means you can't go,
Speaker 1: not like I have to find another way to go.
Speaker 1: So I felt the same way as like, I'm so
Speaker 1: anxious that this mean girl is pulling one over on
Speaker 1: her parents. Strange anyway, but boom. We instantly then cut
Speaker 1: to the diner subway cart, now enchanted and driving at
Speaker 1: full speed through the New York subway system. Very cool.
Speaker 1: Loved this great way.
Speaker 2: That they're a little shaky just here and there, but
Speaker 2: for the most part, I feel like they did a great.
Speaker 3: Job with the subway situation.
Speaker 1: I agree, and it's very magical. Again, very Harry Potter,
Speaker 1: but this is not Harry Potter, but it kind of is.
Speaker 1: Harper says that this is a very bad idea and
Speaker 1: they almost hit another train just as a very casual
Speaker 1: Alex realizes she has the map upside down and they're
Speaker 1: going the wrong way. She tries another spell from the
Speaker 1: Forbidden spell Book and the subway takes a sudden stop
Speaker 1: and then starts going backwards. A ton of chaos until
Speaker 1: the girls see an end sign and Alex quickly grabs
Speaker 1: her wand and gets them out of there. It does
Speaker 1: it's like she's just like randomly shaking you back and forth.
Speaker 3: By Harry Potters.
Speaker 1: That is that pretty much not saying anything and just
Speaker 1: doing this back and forth shaky weird are they do
Speaker 1: you think the episodes of the show are this insane?
Speaker 1: Because they do? It says that the movie has over
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty special effects for a dcom.
Speaker 3: Which is crazy. Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: There was like ninety I think, or eighty. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll be off a little bit. In Jurassic Park. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: I mean it was something that the CGI was this,
Speaker 1: there's way more here.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean I would assume, like how we've seen so
Speaker 2: many things with the channel.
Speaker 3: Is it probably started out not so.
Speaker 2: Many and then groove to where by the time this
Speaker 2: dcom and then I'm sure the second D cooms even crazier.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I just feel like it probably grew with the
Speaker 2: love for the show growing and the amount of viewers and.
Speaker 1: All, and then yeah, I went from there in your
Speaker 1: show does well, Yeah, that makes sense. Do you think
Speaker 1: they're good decom effects or do you think these are bad?
Speaker 2: I think they go in and out. I think towards
Speaker 2: the end, when we're fully doing green screen, it was
Speaker 2: a little like, man, everything else has looks so good
Speaker 2: up until year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I get what they were doing. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: threw me a bit. Yeah, I agree. Suddenly they're back
Speaker 1: in this safe diner, only to find out that it
Speaker 1: was Justin who actually saved them, not Alex. Justin said
Speaker 1: he's not going to tell their parents and ruin their vacation.
Speaker 1: One night before it happens. He also reveals that this
Speaker 1: was the first time he used his full powered wizard
Speaker 1: wand and it worked perfectly. And then just then the
Speaker 1: train basically falls apart, just as their parents return home,
Speaker 1: and Harper scoots off. The next day, we're in Alex's room,
Speaker 1: and we learned she's now going on the vacation. You
Speaker 1: had your chance, kiddo, and you blew it, so now
Speaker 1: you're coming with us. She's being forced to be in
Speaker 1: full family mode for two straights. As a result, She's
Speaker 1: determined to win the Wizard competition to be a full
Speaker 1: time wizard. Harper asked, well, what if you fall in
Speaker 1: love with the mortal and have to give up your
Speaker 1: powers like your dad did. Just then, Teresa enters the room.
Speaker 1: She says it was romantic and offers Alex help packing.
Speaker 1: Alex brushes her off because she's, of course, got a
Speaker 1: ton of attitude because it's her mother's fault that she
Speaker 1: broke the rules. I'll get there with her, and it
Speaker 1: happens right around the corner. But at the beginning, I'm like,
Speaker 1: now you have an attitude because you broke the rules.
Speaker 1: Come up, right, I'm not even a parent. I couldn't imagine.
Speaker 1: Alex brushes her off, Harper dashes off, which seems to
Speaker 1: do quite a bit. She's like, I'm leaving and takes off,
Speaker 1: and Alex finishes packing with a flick of her wrist.
Speaker 1: A few seconds later, she turns it messy again because
Speaker 1: her mom, Teresa, has deemed this vacation magic free. And meanwhile,
Speaker 1: all the kids are being forced to hand over their wands,
Speaker 1: even though Justin says they're going to the Caribbean, which
Speaker 1: is one of the most magical places on Earth. But
Speaker 1: the next morning, the time has come they're leaving for
Speaker 1: a vacation. They're staying at the resort where their parents met.
Speaker 1: The kids are all trying to fit all they can
Speaker 1: into their luggage. We also see includes you know, secret
Speaker 1: spell books for Alex, matching embarrassing tropical outfits for the family.
Speaker 1: This made me think of just one question. Have you
Speaker 1: done it? Have you done?
Speaker 3: Are you crazy?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: I have a own a cricket, and I also am
Speaker 2: a frequent shopper on Etsy getting all things matching. I
Speaker 2: used to when I didn't have children. My dog had
Speaker 2: to wear matching outfits and shurances and stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1: It's in your wheelhouse, your magical wheelhouse.
Speaker 2: I love matching things, whether it's with friends or family
Speaker 2: or what I think, it's always fun. That's one of
Speaker 2: the only reasons why I really really like Halloween is
Speaker 2: getting family outfits together.
Speaker 1: Now, well we dress the same for our photo shoot.
Speaker 1: You and I were in matching outfits.
Speaker 2: There you go, Yes, and that or may not have
Speaker 2: been my idea, just kidding. I'm not going to take
Speaker 2: that one, but yeah, of course, I mean the ones
Speaker 2: I originally purchased were like the big fluffy like.
Speaker 3: With the hoods, and Tara got more of a suitable
Speaker 3: she did it Workedriate.
Speaker 1: It's never appropriate pajamas. There's no such thing. This is though, anyway,
Speaker 1: where we hear the meat cute tale of the Russo's,
Speaker 1: which apparently lasts for the entire flight to the Caribbean.
Speaker 1: Once they arrive at the hotel, Alex meets Javier Acute
Speaker 1: Activities counselor and immediately starts to feel better about the trip.
Speaker 1: We get some stunning establishing shots of the Caribbean. It
Speaker 1: almost feels like a tourism package, which again must have
Speaker 1: been Puerto Rico. Which have you been to Puerto Rico? Yes. That.
Speaker 2: On the cruises that I did within the Caribbean, Puerto
Speaker 2: Rico was usually our first stop. Yeah, amazing, so many incredible,
Speaker 2: amazing things. You can just get out and walk anywhere
Speaker 2: and you come across some really cool things to look
Speaker 2: at that are very historical. There's always lots of stories
Speaker 2: behind it. It's it's really awesome.
Speaker 3: I loved you.
Speaker 1: That sounds great. I've never been and I really like
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 3: And the food is rid oculous.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Oh yeah, love to try it. So
Speaker 1: immediately though, we get a family activities montage with Magic
Speaker 1: Carpet Ride playing from Disney Records band KSM. Remember KSM?
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, I remember.
Speaker 3: I can't put up their face to it, but I
Speaker 3: know the KSM.
Speaker 1: I remember KSM because friend of boy Meets World writer
Speaker 1: Boyman's World, Jeff Sherman wrote a script about an all
Speaker 1: girl band that Rider and I did a readthrough for,
Speaker 1: and the all girl band he cast was KSM.
Speaker 2: This is this is probably, if I'm not wrong, that
Speaker 2: at least what I put in my spring seas the
Speaker 2: first like big song that kind of takes over it
Speaker 2: obviously because it's the montage, and I was like oh yeah,
Speaker 2: here we are back at.
Speaker 3: An awesome Disney soundtrack.
Speaker 2: Sounds like they're going to do it, and I immediately
Speaker 2: what Selena is gonna be on like several of these songs,
Speaker 2: and made super stoked about it.
Speaker 1: Didn't the movie open with love and spoonful do a
Speaker 1: little magic whatever. We're right off the bat and open
Speaker 1: with something where it like sucked me and I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: they're using real music, which I thought is great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the montage is when you really like, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: you kick it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I love it. Now we see the Russo's
Speaker 1: ocean rock climbing, which looked really cool sightseeing and revealing
Speaker 1: that Alex and Justin have brought wands to the paradise
Speaker 1: after all. Oh sneaky, sneaky. Now out in town, the
Speaker 1: kids see a nearby street magician, Archie, who is unsuccessfully
Speaker 1: playing pick a card with a parrot Giselle. Max decides
Speaker 1: to have a little fun and volunteers showing off some
Speaker 1: subtle magic powers during a balloon trick, loading the wannabe
Speaker 1: magician into the sky and making him look very impressive.
Speaker 1: Even those parents are furious about the display. The magician
Speaker 1: wants to know more about this kid and overhears at
Speaker 1: they're wizards. He jumps in and reveals he was also
Speaker 1: a wizard, but he lost the family competition to their
Speaker 1: older brother. This is where I realize, like, oh, I
Speaker 1: get the family competition thing. But so if you lose,
Speaker 1: you get nothing. Yeah, you're like you're mortal again, right,
Speaker 1: Like you get that's it. One person gets to be
Speaker 1: a wizard. Which if you're pitching that show, that's intense
Speaker 1: where it's like the brother there's a you know, a
Speaker 1: healthy competition because the other two members of the family
Speaker 1: are killed, it's like, oh my god, you know crazy though.
Speaker 3: It's why would you ever join? Why would you ever
Speaker 3: want to do this competition?
Speaker 1: And I'm guessing they explain that in the show this
Speaker 1: is the things were the magical system that we missed.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing they say, like you.
Speaker 2: Have to compete because I wondered about it the whole time.
Speaker 3: Why would we want to do this?
Speaker 1: Then?
Speaker 3: Why not just now of us are going to lose
Speaker 3: our powers completely?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seemed it seemed harsh, but we'll have to
Speaker 1: go back and watch the show to figure out exactly
Speaker 1: what that is. Ye send all your emails to Sabrina
Speaker 1: and the parrot, it turns out, was also a wizard.
Speaker 1: She's actually a beautiful woman that apparently this archie magician
Speaker 1: is in love with. The Russo's try to avoid the
Speaker 1: desperate panhandler, but he offers up his wizarding sight seeing services,
Speaker 1: even mentioning and I want to say this right, La
Speaker 1: Piedra delos suenos. Did I say that right to me? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm hoping because you might have some Spanish background that
Speaker 1: you could tell me if I said it right.
Speaker 3: That is not the case.
Speaker 2: Well, sorry, I think I said AKA the Stone of Dreams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you mispronounced stone La Piedra delos senos. I think
Speaker 1: is the way you're supposed to say it, which, as
Speaker 1: Sabrina just said, is the Stone of dreams. Justin immediately
Speaker 1: knows how hidden that thing is. It is the most
Speaker 1: important wizard artifact ever. And this is where I started
Speaker 1: to get real Brady Bunch Tiki Doll vibes a certain
Speaker 1: certain generation and people know what I'm just talking about.
Speaker 1: This artifact can literally do anything. The magician claims he
Speaker 1: has a map to find it, but also it seems
Speaker 1: like he might be lying, because tons of wizards try
Speaker 1: to find it every year, and a lot of them
Speaker 1: we find out end up dead. The magician is desperate.
Speaker 1: He needs their help and wants to turn the parrot
Speaker 1: back into a human, but it's too dangerous and the
Speaker 1: family isn't hearing it. But Archie isn't giving up. Neither
Speaker 1: is the parrot. We're not back at the hotel. The
Speaker 1: family is doing what Alex wants to do. Windsurfing lessons
Speaker 1: with Javier. Have you ever tried windsurfing?
Speaker 3: I have not.
Speaker 2: I have, and after seeing this, that does not look
Speaker 2: like something that I'd be interested in doing forty years old.
Speaker 1: No, see you you just said your your what was
Speaker 1: the inappropriate thing? You said your magical whatever, it's right
Speaker 1: up your magical alley. I will match you with inappropriate
Speaker 1: and say that I went windsurfing once and had a
Speaker 1: ton of trouble getting it up. Oh wow, I couldn't
Speaker 1: get the sale out of the water. It was like
Speaker 1: heavy when it was sting, and oh, I'll.
Speaker 2: Leave my Sabrita sees of this magical windscurfing thing.
Speaker 3: At that point it was difficult.
Speaker 2: There was something that was so hilarious happening while this
Speaker 2: going back and forth.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh, I can't wait to see. But it was.
Speaker 1: It was windsurfing was difficult. Some more back and forth
Speaker 1: magic between Alex and Justin. While windsurfing, she realizes he
Speaker 1: has the wand but good news is Javier invites Alex
Speaker 1: to a party later that night. She asked her mom,
Speaker 1: and she's quick to shoot her down. He is too
Speaker 1: old for her and he's probably just buttering her up
Speaker 1: for more windsurfing lessons. Alex even tries to cast a
Speaker 1: spell to change her mother's mind, but she just doesn't
Speaker 1: have enough juice without the wand so still in this cranky,
Speaker 1: whiny she is every scene. She's unlikable at this point.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: And again, honestly, the pull of kids that age. When
Speaker 2: you're sixteen years old, I'm sure I feel like you're independent. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a lot of kids in general get their license at sixteen,
Speaker 2: but there's still a lot of rules and a lot
Speaker 2: of things that they're not allowed to do. So they
Speaker 2: start getting sneaky, and that just is what it ends
Speaker 2: up being.
Speaker 1: Well, it's a really tough time in life because you're
Speaker 1: not a kid and you're not an adult exactly.
Speaker 3: So it's your I've seen all of your boundaries, and.
Speaker 1: It comes out sometimes as being mean, which I think
Speaker 1: she even realized her character even realizes as the movie
Speaker 1: goes on, Yes, which was the saving grace of the
Speaker 1: whole thing. Again, I didn't like her character at this point,
Speaker 1: but I wasn't supposed to do at this point right,
Speaker 1: And I think it would have been different had I
Speaker 1: watched her grow up as the character as opposed to
Speaker 1: this being my first thing. I don't know if the
Speaker 1: show is. I doubt she's mean every episode of every show.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, to me, she's just whiny and bratty. I don't
Speaker 2: really see her as being mean.
Speaker 1: I mean, she's a little mean. She's a little mean
Speaker 1: nor mom and a little like she's a little mean.
Speaker 1: But I get it. It works, It works. It did
Speaker 1: not turn me off. It absolutely works. But that night
Speaker 1: at dinner, Alice confronts Justin about having a wand and
Speaker 1: to see Justin realizes she has the spell book. She
Speaker 1: wants to borrow the wand for an agreeing spell so
Speaker 1: she can do whatever she wants on vacation and to
Speaker 1: avoid blackmail. He does it, but Teresa figures it out
Speaker 1: too quickly and Bulus to Alex's mid practicing magic in
Speaker 1: a room. She says that for the rest of the trip,
Speaker 1: Alex will be pleasant and she is grounded for two
Speaker 1: months once they get home. No dating, no parties, no magic.
Speaker 1: As her mom storms out of the room, Alex aimlessly
Speaker 1: wishes that her parents never met, and the Wand takes action.
Speaker 1: Uh oh, what did she just do? We see the
Speaker 1: book and Wand magically disappear.
Speaker 2: The crazy part is at this point, I am obsessed
Speaker 2: with these two parents. I think they're much great.
Speaker 3: I mean laying the law down. Absolutely not.
Speaker 2: He's too old for you. You can't see how silly
Speaker 2: you look with him even trying this. You know you
Speaker 2: cannot go to a party where you just told me
Speaker 2: thousands of flyers were getting put out. Yea, that is
Speaker 2: a rager, by the way, Mommy knows what a rager is,
Speaker 2: and you will not be going to it. What I
Speaker 2: mean like, I love these parents, I love them, I
Speaker 2: love them, I love them.
Speaker 3: Way to not just let them walk all over you.
Speaker 1: Sixteen years in the future. To Monroe say, fourteen kicking
Speaker 1: years in the future, this is your mom, This is
Speaker 1: exactly and that they're also the parents are totally in
Speaker 1: love with each other. They're a little boofy about it.
Speaker 1: It works. They were great.
Speaker 3: I loved them so much.
Speaker 1: Yes so uh oh wand and book disappear. Alex rushes
Speaker 1: into her parents' room to find her mom, but Teresa
Speaker 1: has no clue who Alex is. She thinks she's the
Speaker 1: hotel concierge and is frankly a little bit rude to
Speaker 1: her kid and to well to the concierge, Alex finds Justin.
Speaker 1: He seems like he's pretty normal. He knew their mom
Speaker 1: busted her. But here comes their dad, who doesn't know
Speaker 1: them either. They're starting to figure this out. He even
Speaker 1: uses the guy even uses magic to hit on other women,
Speaker 1: which is weird because he's married to a muggle and
Speaker 1: he's not even supposed to have magic anymore. But he's
Speaker 1: got it. So Alex and Justin break the news to
Speaker 1: Max that their parents have never met. This a spell
Speaker 1: has been cast and their parents never met. And at
Speaker 1: the pool, they realize their dad has the spell book
Speaker 1: in his back pocket. They need to find a way
Speaker 1: to reverse that spell pronto. When Max tries to talk
Speaker 1: to his mom, she actually appears to hate kids, and
Speaker 1: it kind of you know, it ends up him assaulting
Speaker 1: her At the end, he's grabbing onto her and all
Speaker 1: that thing, and then the thing I noticed, which I
Speaker 1: don't know if you noticed this, but his brother grabs
Speaker 1: him and pulls him off of the mom and then
Speaker 1: picks him up, and something goes wrong and he drops.
Speaker 3: Him of the things that I was like, oh that.
Speaker 1: Three times that was an accident.
Speaker 2: You can tell too, because Selina's like shoulder slump, like
Speaker 2: I bet you she was kind of like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: are you okay?
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: He throws that kid on the concrete like that was whatever?
Speaker 3: But yeah, absolutely, but it looks so good. It looked
Speaker 3: so much like real life brothers.
Speaker 1: That it did. Kept it. But you go back and
Speaker 1: look because the two older siblings are looking down like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, is he okay? And then Max looks
Speaker 1: up like what the hell is that? I mean, he
Speaker 1: just throws them down on the ground. That was clearly
Speaker 1: a mistake, but they kept it in. Yeah. So then
Speaker 1: Javier runs up and Alex tells Javier that she is
Speaker 1: too busy to go to the party, and he offers
Speaker 1: her more lessons at a discount rate, proving right there
Speaker 1: that her mother was probably right all along, of course
Speaker 1: she was, she's your mom. Max tries a levitation spell
Speaker 1: on their dad to try to lift the spell book out,
Speaker 1: but he quickly notices and summons the kids to him.
Speaker 1: He turns around with this magical thing and pulls them
Speaker 1: in and then with this voice that they digitally alter,
Speaker 1: says no one touches the book. Only then he starts laughing.
Speaker 1: He got them. He thinks they're just teenage wizard pranksters.
Speaker 1: He loves pranks. He even once turned his math teacher
Speaker 1: into a dog in high school. He's kind of just
Speaker 1: this big goober guy using magic to make his order
Speaker 1: of nacho's bigger, making the Caribbean drums play by themselves.
Speaker 1: He was just this funny, wacky like.
Speaker 3: My dad, big kid everywhere, just you know, so fuddy.
Speaker 1: Or how I would be if I had magical powers.
Speaker 1: First thing I would learn. They'd be like, what do
Speaker 1: you want to learn the secret of life? And about
Speaker 1: be like, no, how do I make my nachos bigger?
Speaker 1: He also reveals he has the titanium wand he's his
Speaker 1: family's wizard and has a ton of power. They ask
Speaker 1: him for advice about Alex's spell, but he doesn't know
Speaker 1: how to reverse it. He just knows they have to
Speaker 1: do something within forty eight hours to prevent the kids
Speaker 1: from losing memories and eventually disappearing. And this is where
Speaker 1: a little bit of back to the Future comes in.
Speaker 1: They need a miracle, and Justin knows exactly what we'll
Speaker 1: do the trick. I'm gonna say it again, La Piedro
Speaker 1: delos Suenos. I think I'm saying that right. That's the
Speaker 1: stone of dreams. It can reverse any spell Sabrina, what
Speaker 1: would your first wish be?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: My gosh, oh your only wish? You get one? What
Speaker 1: would it be? You only get one and you can't
Speaker 1: wish for more wishes? That's the easy one.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Do you have one? Oh, yeah, you do. What would
Speaker 3: it be?
Speaker 1: We've already talked about it, bigger nachos. No, I'd want
Speaker 1: to be if I was a human like just me
Speaker 1: and I found this thing and I could have one wish,
Speaker 1: I'd want magic powers. I'd want to become a wizard.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't feel
Speaker 2: like I'm responsible enough.
Speaker 1: To have Oh I'm not either. It'd be great, so bad. Oh,
Speaker 1: my brother brought me this great shirt. It said, if
Speaker 1: I were a Jedi, I would one hundred percent use
Speaker 1: my powers inappropriately. Yes, absolutely, Well, let me say, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll stick with bigger nachos.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's a better one.
Speaker 1: That's a better one of us. The next morning, the
Speaker 1: boys wake Alex up. She's been sleeping on a hammock
Speaker 1: since they don't have hotel rooms. I don't even want
Speaker 1: to know where the boys are sleeping, probably inside one
Speaker 1: of the big drums. Justin decides him and Alex will
Speaker 1: go find the Stone of Dreams and Max will stay
Speaker 1: behind and make sure their parents don't fall in love
Speaker 1: with anybody else. So the older siblings meet up with
Speaker 1: Archie the magician and his parent for his map, which
Speaker 1: includes a missing piece that no one else has. Ironically,
Speaker 1: their dad walks by and he bought a Taurus map
Speaker 1: to find the act attraction, and they inspire him to
Speaker 1: try it too. It goes without saying Max is having
Speaker 1: trouble keeping tabs on everybody. The journey to find the
Speaker 1: Stone has officially begun, and I love this. I love
Speaker 1: having a quest. It's always such a fun part of
Speaker 1: a movie. Here we go, it's Justin, Alex Archie and
Speaker 1: the annoying parrot who we can't find out what the
Speaker 1: hell the backstory is and the path to start the
Speaker 1: trail is only supposed to appear for those with pure intentions.
Speaker 1: Justin tries first, but strangely is completely unsuccessful. He hands
Speaker 1: the kind of big totem to Alex and the path
Speaker 1: opens up right in front of her. Nice little twist
Speaker 1: of the story. Also, the story of how Giselle, which
Speaker 1: we were just talking about turning too a parent, is
Speaker 1: really becoming a mystery, and the Magician is starting to
Speaker 1: give us some serious bad vibes. But the gang finds
Speaker 1: a double waterfall that is a sign they're heading in
Speaker 1: the right direction, even though there's already quicksandpowers struggles between
Speaker 1: Alex and Justin. Yes, and by quicksand power struggles, I
Speaker 1: mean he literally walks into quicksand and she's just gonna
Speaker 1: let him die unless he gives over the map. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of looking at the screen like, Okay, he's gonna
Speaker 1: drown and be dead, right, But brothers and Sisters, I
Speaker 1: would love to have I would have rewritten it where
Speaker 1: he's just like, all right, let's see what happens, and
Speaker 1: he just keeps sinking and she literally doesn't do anything
Speaker 1: until he's like here, and he's like fine, fine, fine,
Speaker 1: Like yes, she would have in fact let him go. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: we cut back to the hotel. Max is trying to
Speaker 1: set Jerry up with his mom, but he's just not interested.
Speaker 1: He is into the very hot waitress, so Max turns
Speaker 1: her into a dog, just like his dad used to do.
Speaker 1: He eventually convinces Jerry that he's got to go over
Speaker 1: and at least talk to the woman who turns out
Speaker 1: to be his mom, and he goes over, and when
Speaker 1: they do connect, there was a spark, but Jerry isn't
Speaker 1: interested in being with immortal and giving up his powers.
Speaker 1: This is going to be harder than he thought. Also,
Speaker 1: he didn't change the bartender back to a human, He
Speaker 1: just keeps this poor woman a dog. So now I'm
Speaker 1: my guess is the sequel is going to be the
Speaker 1: dog and the parrot team up to kill this family.
Speaker 3: To revenge, to revenge.
Speaker 1: I think so too. We're now back in the jungle,
Speaker 1: where we learn a little more about Arching his parent,
Speaker 1: just a little though, if they get the stone first,
Speaker 1: they realize that if they hold onto the stone first,
Speaker 1: they can make their wishes, and the kids won't be
Speaker 1: able to make their wishes, so they will disappear forever,
Speaker 1: which they say is actually the best possible plan. No
Speaker 1: one will even know they were there, and the parent
Speaker 1: will turn back into a human despite being banished as
Speaker 1: as an animal. She has to be an animal for
Speaker 1: fifty years. And we still don't know the story. And
Speaker 1: it's officially bothering me at this point because the entire
Speaker 1: movie went through and we never learned the story. No,
Speaker 1: and that anger is.
Speaker 3: That it's just that, it's that she used to be
Speaker 3: a beautiful woman.
Speaker 1: That's like literally and then and now has to be
Speaker 1: a parrot for fifty years. And they keep alluding to
Speaker 1: the story. If you're going to allude to a story,
Speaker 1: tell the story, tell the story in some way. Yes, exactly,
Speaker 1: point exactly. Alex and Justin only hit a beautiful river chasm.
Speaker 1: And this might be arguably the best effect in any
Speaker 1: dcom we've seen so far, don't you think. I mean
Speaker 1: it looked this, at least to me, looked pretty great.
Speaker 2: I thought all of since when they go into the jungle,
Speaker 2: I loved all of that set, all of the magic,
Speaker 2: all that it thought, Oh, my gosh, b D.
Speaker 3: Coom, this looks amazing.
Speaker 1: Even Stevens again, like you're in the woods, but it's real,
Speaker 1: you know, like.
Speaker 3: That kind of even Stevens was in the jungle, like.
Speaker 1: The canopies that didn't look good.
Speaker 2: Yet some of it didn't look good. This I thought,
Speaker 2: oh so good, so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you hundred percent. Justin tries to
Speaker 1: clear the way by building a bridge with magic, but
Speaker 1: Alex quickly exposes it as not strong enough to hold them.
Speaker 1: She just flicks a rock and the entire thing collapses. Instead,
Speaker 1: they use levitation spells to successfully ride a rock across
Speaker 1: the river. And this is her idea. And this proves
Speaker 1: that even though she doesn't study as much as her
Speaker 1: brother and she isn't the favorite to win the family
Speaker 1: Wizard title, they may be closer in skills than they thought.
Speaker 1: And this was the starting of cool brother sister dynamic
Speaker 1: at this bridge crossing where they learn they're kind of
Speaker 1: jealous of each other and why is this so easy
Speaker 1: for you? Well, why are you so perfect? Bob? We're
Speaker 1: starting to really see, even if you don't watch the show,
Speaker 1: you're starting to really see the dynamic between what's going
Speaker 1: on between these families. Yes, they also ditch Archie and
Speaker 1: Giselle wants crossing great idea, which was a bit of
Speaker 1: a surprise though, because I figured they'd be like, we
Speaker 1: can't do that, it's their map. But no, they maybe
Speaker 1: they seem that they know he's a little sketchy, and
Speaker 1: so they're like, we're bouncing by now back at the
Speaker 1: hotel where Jerry was doing some yoga and setting up
Speaker 1: a prank where he'll turn noodles into worms. He really
Speaker 1: is a giant goober in this universe. But it's night
Speaker 1: now in the jungle and Justin and Alex have made
Speaker 1: a campfire. Alex is nervous they won't get the stone
Speaker 1: and they're gonna end up, of course, disappearing, but Justin's
Speaker 1: still optimistic and their bond is getting stronger, especially when
Speaker 1: Justin admits he's hurt that only Alex could open the
Speaker 1: path earlier. His intentions need to be beyond his own success,
Speaker 1: so he knows he's got a serious problem with that.
Speaker 1: I was doing my best not to take the scene
Speaker 1: to a creepy place because it seemed to be a
Speaker 1: little daty. After a while, it almost seemed like an
Speaker 1: intimate dating kind of scene, and it was like, this
Speaker 1: is almost on the borderline if they don't seem like
Speaker 1: brother and sister.
Speaker 3: I felt the same.
Speaker 2: I was, because at first I was going, God, their
Speaker 2: chemistry as a phenomenal sister is so good.
Speaker 3: And then this was well, first of all, I.
Speaker 2: Don't know if this was for everyone out there on
Speaker 2: Disney Plus, but for me, I was like starting to
Speaker 2: screw with the settings.
Speaker 3: It was very dark.
Speaker 1: It was dark. Yeah, it was dark.
Speaker 2: Yeah, doing with the settings, trying to brighten it up
Speaker 2: because it was so dark, but just yeah, it started
Speaker 2: to get a little.
Speaker 3: Bit more intimate.
Speaker 2: It was a little bit more than what I feel
Speaker 2: like they would have been as brother and sister. But
Speaker 2: I know where they were trying to take us as
Speaker 2: far as I do.
Speaker 1: Too, But it did seem a little daity.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: I agree with you one hundred percent. The next morning,
Speaker 1: the duo was woken up by crackling leaves. They use
Speaker 1: magic to stop whatever is making the sound, and they
Speaker 1: end up easing Archie, who's caught back up with the
Speaker 1: Russo's because we saw him. He and the parrot decided
Speaker 1: to climb down the giant ravine.
Speaker 3: Right, so if they could do that by them, why not.
Speaker 1: Just do that?
Speaker 3: Didn't they go by?
Speaker 1: I wasn't going to ask. I wasn't even going to ask.
Speaker 1: I agree with you one hundred percent, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: At the hotel, Max is forgetting things already and rushes
Speaker 1: up to Jerry. He needs help finding his brother and
Speaker 1: sister on their journey, and Jerry, after some cajoling, agrees
Speaker 1: to use his map and come along. But as we know,
Speaker 1: they don't know where to start. But luckily, Teresa stumbles
Speaker 1: onto them and thinks she knows where to start because
Speaker 1: of an artifactur she took earlier in the day. While
Speaker 1: this seems very convenient, it's fate and magic. Everybody knows that.
Speaker 1: So now we have another camp on their own mission
Speaker 1: to get the stone, Jerry, Teresa and Max, and they've
Speaker 1: already found the opening pathway thanks to Max. There's also
Speaker 1: a car there, so you can see that they've driven there,
Speaker 1: and they've fallen into the same traps as the og Crew,
Speaker 1: except when they hit the chasm. Jerry, who's got the
Speaker 1: powerful want and is a full Wizard, can just build
Speaker 1: a He's He's that's the joy of being the full Wizard. Boom,
Speaker 1: this is what you were supposed to do. Also a
Speaker 1: great way to show the difference between having the power
Speaker 1: and not having the power. Absolutely, but Justin Alex and
Speaker 1: Archie hit a wall on their trip. They need to
Speaker 1: find a cave, but only see cliffs apparently. By the way,
Speaker 1: a lot of my favorite comedy was during that, during
Speaker 1: this part where it's like mountains, they're so far away
Speaker 1: and she's holding the thing upside down. He turns it
Speaker 1: and she's like, mountains, we're so close. Like all the
Speaker 1: kind of that kind of witty comedy that was very fast.
Speaker 1: She's really good at.
Speaker 2: So cute at so I also got a kick out of.
Speaker 2: I love physical comedy, and I loved all the banter
Speaker 2: back and forth. When he gets that leaf right like right,
Speaker 2: it slaps her in the field.
Speaker 1: It's such a brother's sister thing.
Speaker 2: Every time they hit like, I feel like poor Justin
Speaker 2: hits mud like a million times.
Speaker 1: Later in the but later in the movie where she
Speaker 1: just keeps doing, Oh my god, we'll get into that
Speaker 1: because I that made that literally made me laugh out loud. Yeah, totally.
Speaker 3: I just loved that. There was like so much of
Speaker 3: that stuff.
Speaker 1: In this agreed. It was great. They need to find
Speaker 1: a cave, but they only seen cliffs. Apparently the quote
Speaker 1: the person who knows the least will know where the
Speaker 1: cave is unquote. Well, Archie and Justin argue about what
Speaker 1: will happen next. Alex finds a young village girl who
Speaker 1: apparently knows the least and leads the way to the cave.
Speaker 1: They quickly learn it's enchanted and doesn't allow magic, which,
Speaker 1: you know, another have to follow the rules because why
Speaker 1: not just Hey, I need the thing, call it to
Speaker 1: my hand. Hey I can freeze this person. Hey I
Speaker 1: can levitate the rocks. They need to cancel your magic
Speaker 1: when you get in good magical rules. Yes, Alex and
Speaker 1: Justin leave the magician at the entrance and walk into
Speaker 1: the unknown. They do have a nice moment, though, another
Speaker 1: one which again it was kind of a hat on
Speaker 1: a hat because it was a nice moment after having
Speaker 1: the night they had before. I would have put this
Speaker 1: in the romantic quasi romantic scene we had the night before. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it was still nice where Alex apologizes for all
Speaker 1: the trouble she's gotten them into and he apologizes for
Speaker 1: being too hard on her. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: they need each other. Again. I would have combined these
Speaker 1: into just that one big scene, but it was.
Speaker 3: All that was needed.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was. And then right when we hit twenty
Speaker 1: five minutes left in the movie, they see the stone.
Speaker 1: It's surrounded by an obstacle course of sorts, very Legends
Speaker 1: of the Hidden Temple or Indiana Jones. Justin slowly makes
Speaker 1: his way over, almost tumbling to his death numerous times,
Speaker 1: and eventually vaulting the stone into the air and it
Speaker 1: lands below the platform that they're on. Alex carefully climbs
Speaker 1: down and retrieves it. I thought she was going to
Speaker 1: go for a tumble and Justin in turn saves her
Speaker 1: from death and everything is a okay movie. Over roll crip, Nope,
Speaker 1: no pear. It flies in and snatches the stone right
Speaker 1: from Justin's hand. So here's what I came up with,
Speaker 1: because I thought the same thing, why not just cross
Speaker 1: the chasm? Why not just fly in and grab the stone?
Speaker 1: And it's because they couldn't find the opening to that.
Speaker 1: They couldn't get the path to open for them because
Speaker 1: they didn't have pure hearts, so they needed them to
Speaker 1: have somebody open the path for them. Is why I
Speaker 1: think they didn't do this because why not just have
Speaker 1: the bird fly and just snag the stone that would
Speaker 1: have been So that makes sense to me. Ah, okay,
Speaker 1: got it, got it?
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, I did think of that.
Speaker 2: I was just thinking of they seem they didn't seem
Speaker 2: to like not know anything though, right right, they seem
Speaker 2: to know that there was gonna be right an untrustworthy
Speaker 2: path across a big ditch.
Speaker 3: Like, Yeah, they seem to know it.
Speaker 2: So that's why I was kind of thinking, Oh, I
Speaker 2: guess maybe they did. Maybe they've been there before and
Speaker 2: haven't been successful or something.
Speaker 1: I think it is just a matter of they couldn't
Speaker 1: open the path that would be god it. So the
Speaker 1: parent flies in snatches the stone right from justin sand
Speaker 1: before he can make a wish. But they don't have
Speaker 1: time to feel bad because Max and their parents arrive.
Speaker 1: They finished the journey and what can only be assumed
Speaker 1: was a world record journey finishing time because it took
Speaker 1: the everyone else two days, it took them twenty minutes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it makes her a very weird reunion, as the parents
Speaker 1: are still clueless to who they are, but Jerry is
Speaker 1: starting to put two and two together and he's falling
Speaker 1: for Teresa, she is feeling the same way. They need
Speaker 1: to figure this out. Alex admits it was her that
Speaker 1: she set the spell, and Jerry quickly refers to a
Speaker 1: spell but book and then says, I can't do anything
Speaker 1: about it, but it seems like maybe one of the
Speaker 1: kids can, but he or she needs to be a
Speaker 1: full wizard. The competition's years away, though they don't have
Speaker 1: that kind of time. Teresa still thinks they have the
Speaker 1: wrong woman and gets into her jeep and drives away.
Speaker 1: She's like, I'm out, might drop don't need this magic
Speaker 1: in my life. Wand drop boop. But in a very
Speaker 1: very shocking development, Max suddenly gets sucked into a vortex
Speaker 1: tornado of time and disappears, so they have to push it.
Speaker 1: There's no time like the President. Jerry, Alex and Justin
Speaker 1: grab the wand and begin the sibling battle. Now this
Speaker 1: is where it does not turn into Harry Potter at all.
Speaker 1: There's no Harry Potter references. It's not taken from Harry
Speaker 1: Potter in any way, shape or form. There's not even
Speaker 1: any similarities. So they are then transported into a magical
Speaker 1: castle on what is definitely a quidditch field, and this
Speaker 1: is unfortunately also where the special effects aren't very special.
Speaker 1: The kids are now in purple jumpsuits and they have
Speaker 1: to compete using only four elements. They're given wands by
Speaker 1: their dad and told whoever can get the powerball wins,
Speaker 1: and it is a powerball, people, not a golden snitch.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for asking. They wish each other luck.
Speaker 1: Ready set magic, Justin starts with a wall of fire.
Speaker 1: Alex counters with a hose and a water twister. Then
Speaker 1: just in time, Justin uses a fire laser knocks her down.
Speaker 1: That use storms a numerous mud puddles, which had me.
Speaker 1: Every time he trips him one, he's.
Speaker 4: Like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: She's like, sorry, don't know any spells, which is really
Speaker 1: really funny. They're even with the cheesy special effects. Both
Speaker 1: the actors were so good. They're bringing in humor, they're
Speaker 1: bringing in stuff. It just it worked. This is a
Speaker 1: barn burner. We leave the action to go back to
Speaker 1: the hotel where Teresa has returned, and while waiting for
Speaker 1: a VLA, a red corvette pulls up and she spots
Speaker 1: a beautiful woman in a colorful dress sasheg it's the
Speaker 1: only way to put it, sasheg it is, of course
Speaker 1: the parrot Giselle now a human played by Jenny Alden,
Speaker 1: who you may recognize from wedding Crashers. She used the
Speaker 1: stone and is ditching Archie the magician. She's not wearing
Speaker 1: the stone as a necklace, but she insults this guy
Speaker 1: horribly and acts in away you wouldn't even expect from
Speaker 1: a parrot. A defeated Archie asked for just one last
Speaker 1: hug before she ditches him. During the embrace, Teresa arrives
Speaker 1: and she isn't having it. She confronts the no good
Speaker 1: former bird and demands the stone. She doesn't know what's happening,
Speaker 1: but she knows that seeing Max disappear broke her heart.
Speaker 1: She's like, no mother would forget her kids, And then
Speaker 1: when he disappears, she's like, wait, I remember something. This
Speaker 1: might just be her family after all. She has to
Speaker 1: do something about it. Giselle then freezes Teresa. She isn't
Speaker 1: getting anything, but just then Archie reveals his best magic
Speaker 1: trick yet. He took the stone while he was hugging her,
Speaker 1: and he uses his wish to wish her back into
Speaker 1: a bird. We get a pretty good transformation, actually right,
Speaker 1: and then he hands the stone to Teresa and walks
Speaker 1: away with the parrot. Oh, they're gonna live happily ever
Speaker 1: after in their parrot love. Back on the battlefield that
Speaker 1: definitely has nothing whatsoever to do with Harry Potter because
Speaker 1: it's not a quidditch field. Quidditch field Justin has resorted
Speaker 1: to essentially a variation of the Quicksand where he like
Speaker 1: melts his sister into the ground, who volleys by becoming
Speaker 1: a blooming flower that grows right next to the stone.
Speaker 1: She emerges and reaches for it. Justin is getting closer
Speaker 1: and closer. He lunges one last time, and Alex gets
Speaker 1: it at the last second. She is now the full
Speaker 1: time wizard and does a cheap little anime celebration. It
Speaker 1: did not look good. But here's the thing. Here's where
Speaker 1: I thought it was a good twist though. I thought
Speaker 1: they were going to do a typical Disney thing where
Speaker 1: both the kids grabbed it at the same time and
Speaker 1: they shared the power.
Speaker 3: Oh, I thought he was going to get it.
Speaker 1: Oh did you wrest We're both wrong.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought he was going to get it.
Speaker 2: Like, no kids, if you study, foll all of the
Speaker 2: rules of study.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, that's not all right.
Speaker 1: Not fair. She breaks all the rules and she wins it.
Speaker 3: She's a butt head in the beginning and she gets
Speaker 3: all the power.
Speaker 1: Alex needs to help the family, but she needs Justin
Speaker 1: to help with the spell. But and this is great.
Speaker 1: He's like, why would I help you? And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna older brother like be a jerk about it.
Speaker 1: But the reason is because he's forgotten her. The spell
Speaker 1: has taken over, time has ticked and this might be
Speaker 1: the final straw. He needs to remember her. He needs
Speaker 1: to remember her, and Alex is crying. He is everything
Speaker 1: she wants to be. She needs him now more than ever.
Speaker 1: Please don't leave me behind. Justin doesn't know who she is,
Speaker 1: but he would never leave anyone behind, and he believes her.
Speaker 1: They embrace as their dad watches on, smiling, but before
Speaker 1: he can give any advice the time tornado takes him
Speaker 1: away too. No, Justin's gone as well. Roll credits I'm kidding.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: Now alone with her dad, she is trying spell after
Speaker 1: spell but nothing is working. She's begging for help, but
Speaker 1: it's too late. Just then, Teresa shows up, and throws
Speaker 1: the stone to Alex. Alex now has one wish, but
Speaker 1: she has to be careful. She wants it so the
Speaker 1: dad tells her, you can do this in such a
Speaker 1: way where you keep your powers, and she says no,
Speaker 1: She wants everything to be exactly the way it was,
Speaker 1: even if that means she won't be the family wizard.
Speaker 1: She closes her eyes and boom, we are back right
Speaker 1: before Alex made her parents never meet. She is so relieved,
Speaker 1: hugging her mom and so happy that she is grounded.
Speaker 1: Justin and Max are just happy, but confused that she
Speaker 1: gave up her powers. She explained she wanted nothing to
Speaker 1: change and one day they'll battle for real, and even
Speaker 1: Max will be ready. The family embraces enjoy and here
Speaker 1: comes that little himbo Javier. He wants to hang out
Speaker 1: with Alex, but she shoes him away. She wants some
Speaker 1: family time. We pull away on a beautiful shot of
Speaker 1: the Caribbean and the parent flies by, pooping on Teresa
Speaker 1: and there you go, and then we get the always
Speaker 1: popular gag reel over the credits a dcom staple, and
Speaker 1: we hear Selena's cover of I Believe It's Magic, and
Speaker 1: there is your movie.
Speaker 4: Yes, good movie.
Speaker 3: Good movie, good, yes movie?
Speaker 1: I agree? But did everybody like it? Let's find out
Speaker 1: because we're gonna do some real reviews, and I think
Speaker 1: this week I get the joy of the one star review. Yes,
Speaker 1: and this is from somebody named Cooper. Interesting review and
Speaker 1: altogether horrible. Apparently heartwarming film where some moronic kids break
Speaker 1: rules and cry about how stupid they are. Even in
Speaker 1: the story, he seems too idiotic to even be a
Speaker 1: real character. This movie has a cliche save the world
Speaker 1: and family in a deadline plot. Horrible acting, and I'm
Speaker 1: being generous here.
Speaker 3: Wow, could not disagree more?
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree with you, disagree with you, Cooper,
Speaker 1: disagree with you, Cooper. What do you got for five star? Sabrina?
Speaker 2: I have a five star from Terry H. I love
Speaker 2: it when Selena Gomez goes woosh and the other guy
Speaker 2: goes boosh.
Speaker 3: This movie tasted like rainbows.
Speaker 1: Ooh, that is somebody who saw this movie on a
Speaker 1: very strong hit of a We are, now, of course,
Speaker 1: approaching Sabrina's favorite portion the podcast. Every week she loves it.
Speaker 1: That is an ugh of awesomeness for her, by the way,
Speaker 1: because she's having so much fun doing this. Our feature
Speaker 1: this week is called street Smarts. We all know the
Speaker 1: show's title after well known real street in New York,
Speaker 1: Waverley Place, and many a Selena Gomez fan has visited
Speaker 1: to take a picture with one of the street signs. Now,
Speaker 1: we've been given by we, I mean the two of
Speaker 1: us there, uh Sabrina have been given five street names
Speaker 1: made famous in film. We have to decide if it's
Speaker 1: a real street that's being referenced or fake street. Obviously,
Speaker 1: millions of street names exist, but we're deciding if the
Speaker 1: street written about in the film is based on reality
Speaker 1: or not. Out of five wins Number one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because you guys could be real jerks about this one.
Speaker 5: Just for the record, Like, streets exist, we know, are
Speaker 5: they being referenced in the movie. It's all the matters, Okay.
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure we have that right,
Speaker 1: because so far, I would say all five of them
Speaker 1: are real.
Speaker 4: I'm sure road exists.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, you know, or in the actual movie.
Speaker 1: Number one Elm Street from Nightmare on Elm Street. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think it's real because he took he took a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff from real life. Because Freddy Krueger was
Speaker 1: the name of his bully, so that he named them.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to say that's real.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're off to a bad start. It's fake.
Speaker 5: Well it's in the movie, Weirdo. What I'm saying is
Speaker 5: what I'm saying is the street that's depicted in the
Speaker 5: movie does not exist like Waverley Place. The subway is
Speaker 5: supposed to be in the real Waverley Place in Elm Street.
Speaker 5: There is no street like that in real life.
Speaker 3: In real life, gosh, I would there was.
Speaker 1: I would think this was a record.
Speaker 5: I called you a weirdo, but I also would have
Speaker 5: thought it was real.
Speaker 2: Listen where we've developed our wonderful relationship, and then I
Speaker 2: take no offense at this point I would be I
Speaker 2: would be just a on the.
Speaker 3: Ground if I did anymore.
Speaker 1: It just goes the other way. Gentry number two. Okay,
Speaker 1: this one's weird. This is Cherry Tree Lane from Mary Poppins.
Speaker 1: Now I know Cherry Tree Lane was built on stage
Speaker 1: two of Disney where we actually shot Boy meets Whirl. Okay,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if it's based on a real thing.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say no. Do you think you're gonna say yes?
Speaker 2: Aren't you yeah, because well, I mean, I know, when
Speaker 2: you watched one of the most recent Mary Poppins, there's
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 3: It's in that movie for sure.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so then maybe.
Speaker 2: I think she lives or is it the writer lived?
Speaker 1: I think pl Travers, Yeah, I think. All right, then
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna I'm gonna go.
Speaker 3: With Sabrina Trees outside of.
Speaker 1: The All right, I'm gonna go with Sabrina and say
Speaker 1: that it's real.
Speaker 4: Then, terrible decision. It is definitely fake.
Speaker 3: Damn it.
Speaker 1: I was right, go with your own instincts for.
Speaker 4: Film.
Speaker 1: I even knew where they built it.
Speaker 4: I know. Yeah, she convinced me.
Speaker 3: Well, it still could be a thing.
Speaker 2: I swear if you watched the movie with It's where
Speaker 2: it's of her death with.
Speaker 1: Emily, Oh no, you're thinking of of Yeah, I know
Speaker 1: the one you're talking about with Tom Hanks. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: where he plays Walt Disney. Yes, yeah, I can't remember
Speaker 1: the name of what that was called, but yes, that
Speaker 1: was it?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: Anyway, number with Steria Lane from Desperate Housewives, one of
Speaker 1: these has to be real.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, with Steria Lane was it was.
Speaker 1: On Universal Studios, Saving mister Banks by the way, was
Speaker 1: the name of them. No, it was built on Universal
Speaker 1: Studios with so Steria Lane. But now I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's a real place or not. Yeah, I'm going
Speaker 1: with my instinct, though I'm saying no.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna say no. I don't trust anything.
Speaker 5: If you saw it on the Universal Studios tramp tour,
Speaker 5: it is not a real street.
Speaker 4: Yes, I was right, Okay, good, okay.
Speaker 1: Yes. Number four, I know this one Baker Street from
Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes. I just passed Baker Street in London. I
Speaker 1: was just there. It's a real place.
Speaker 3: Oh wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Then I'll go with Will because I'm never right Will.
Speaker 5: It's finally starting to listen to things exactly.
Speaker 1: I had Cherry Tree Lane, I would have just won.
Speaker 1: It's Number five is Lombard Street in Vertigo.
Speaker 3: That seems like a real street.
Speaker 1: It is a real street. Lombard Street in San Francis
Speaker 1: Goes is a real place. It's the most crooked street
Speaker 1: in the world.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, I've been down that can you can you
Speaker 2: drive it or only take alley or no, you can drive?
Speaker 1: You can drive and drive it?
Speaker 4: Yeah from the full House credits.
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh, okay, okay, well, those guys, you let them
Speaker 2: let it convinced.
Speaker 4: Two out of five.
Speaker 1: I got no, we got three loser.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really living it up them getting better and better, except.
Speaker 3: For I'm not at all.
Speaker 1: Can we do some sabrina ceas please?
Speaker 3: Yes we can.
Speaker 2: The biggest thing that I saw, and listen, I cannot
Speaker 2: really pound on it too much because if you watch
Speaker 2: one or three of the Cheetah Girls movies, I'm right
Speaker 2: up there. But the over accessorized looks of the two
Speaker 2: thousand and nine is flaming in this movie. Like on Fire,
Speaker 2: there's a million bracelets belt over a T shirt, which
Speaker 2: I just don't know how that ever became a trench.
Speaker 3: I am guilty of it.
Speaker 2: So again, don't come for me, guys, because I know
Speaker 2: that it was just that way in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 3: But my god, it was crazy. It was just unbelievable.
Speaker 2: On the other side, though, I will say that this
Speaker 2: mom had these sexiest attire I have ever seen in
Speaker 2: a d comp rocket. It was everything was tight and
Speaker 2: not necessarily booblicious, but everything was cinched and she was
Speaker 2: showing skin and I was there for it because she
Speaker 2: looked like a hot mom on this vacation.
Speaker 3: So I loved it.
Speaker 2: And then the last thing about the outfits, these boots
Speaker 2: that she had to wear for the majority of the movie.
Speaker 2: The white boats didn't make sense when she was around
Speaker 2: the beach. They came from the beach and she had
Speaker 2: these white boots. She went into the jungle, she had
Speaker 2: these white boots.
Speaker 3: I hated them. They were awful. That's just my opinion.
Speaker 1: So you go to a jungle, no white boots.
Speaker 3: Well, they were the weirdest white boots.
Speaker 2: They were not like I know, if she looks back
Speaker 2: at it, she goes, God, who let me wear those
Speaker 2: white boots?
Speaker 3: Not cute.
Speaker 2: Then the last thing I would say is just the
Speaker 2: oh the windsurfers.
Speaker 3: I yes, So during that film, the parents never leave
Speaker 3: the beach.
Speaker 2: But if you see that, if you go back and watch,
Speaker 2: they're like, it's like they thought they were on Oh
Speaker 2: they were.
Speaker 1: They tell them like, hey, you're on the water too.
Speaker 1: Imagine you're on the water.
Speaker 3: Yes, imagine you're on the water.
Speaker 2: When they're on the sand, and I don't know, maybe
Speaker 2: it's because, like you said, it was really hard to
Speaker 2: keep a hold and it.
Speaker 3: Looked like it is.
Speaker 2: It's tough to hold them up and it looked like
Speaker 2: that whole shooting that they had while they were in
Speaker 2: Puerto Rico, the wind was going. Next, you could see
Speaker 2: all of the actor's hair was they were trying to get.
Speaker 1: There was the one scene where the mom literally held
Speaker 1: her hair back the whole time she was walking and
Speaker 1: talking in the scene and held her hair.
Speaker 3: Back pretty much Selena's.
Speaker 2: By the time she gets to Puerto Rico, her hair
Speaker 2: is completely back in like at least a half a
Speaker 2: half down, So that might have been what it was happening.
Speaker 1: Was the wind, Wait, what's a half of what's what's
Speaker 1: a paptown?
Speaker 3: Half a half down?
Speaker 1: Oh? Half a half down? Like you said, half a paptown.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is a pap town?
Speaker 3: Half a half down?
Speaker 2: So that was basically how her hair was, and it
Speaker 2: was probably because the wind.
Speaker 3: And something.
Speaker 2: You can't do anything about it when you're shooting outside.
Speaker 3: And the last was just like a rebuttal of all the.
Speaker 2: Movies that this movie seemed like at one point or
Speaker 2: the other.
Speaker 3: Of course we did, Harry Potter.
Speaker 2: You mentioned it as well. As soon as the would
Speaker 2: lose memory and all that stuff was back to the future,
Speaker 2: we had Indiana Jones. I mean that whole set looked
Speaker 2: like it. Then we had Aladdin with the Ago, the
Speaker 2: parrot that comes the jewel or good one, and.
Speaker 3: Then at the end it was a mix.
Speaker 2: For me. Of course, I don't know Harry Potter as well,
Speaker 2: but I have seen The Hunger Games and that hole
Speaker 2: back and forth, and they're in new like uniforms and
Speaker 2: all that. I mean, that's a long list of other
Speaker 2: movies that this movie is not, but.
Speaker 1: Exactly that.
Speaker 3: Had a bunch of them so good that Sabrina.
Speaker 1: Seas for I like it. And now, of course we
Speaker 1: have to rate our film one out of ten and
Speaker 1: our options this week one out of ten. Transformed subway
Speaker 1: restaurants one out of ten, Caribbean tourism videos one out
Speaker 1: of ten, sketchy ass parrots one out of ten, magical
Speaker 1: nachos one out of ten, couber magical dads one out
Speaker 1: of ten, quidditch lawsuits one out of ten, time tornadoes
Speaker 1: one out of ten, Cheap little Anime celebrations or one
Speaker 1: out of ten Little Himbo Javier's I'm gonna let you
Speaker 1: pick this week, which, yes, what would you like? Screena
Speaker 1: like I.
Speaker 2: Picked last week, But that's Okay, I'm gonna go with
Speaker 2: Quidditch Lawsuits because it was just.
Speaker 1: Too exactly what I would have picked.
Speaker 3: And I'm obviously a big Harry Potter fan.
Speaker 1: Now I could tell. I could tell this movie should
Speaker 1: have been called Harry Potter and the Selena in the
Speaker 1: Waverley Place movie. Yes, all right, So did I go?
Speaker 1: I think I went first? Last week? Did I go?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm gonna remember. I know where I am.
Speaker 1: So I got a problem with this. Okay, I really
Speaker 1: liked this movie. I think I would have liked it
Speaker 1: a little more had I known the characters better. And
Speaker 1: that's on me, that's not on the movie. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give this movie a solid eight point five. Nice
Speaker 1: because again I found her to be very annoying at
Speaker 1: the beginning. Just the character. I hear, she's a lovely person.
Speaker 1: I'm the character I found to be very teenagery and
Speaker 1: maybe that's why I never want kids, So that was
Speaker 1: a little bit difficult for me. But good acting. The
Speaker 1: movie looked great, it was entertaining. I knew what I
Speaker 1: was going to get it was, but mostly it was
Speaker 1: about Selena Gomez and David Henry, who were great. They
Speaker 1: had so much chemistry they carried the film. The parents
Speaker 1: were really good, the kid who played Max, all the
Speaker 1: whole family dynamic was great. So I give this a
Speaker 1: solid eight point five Quidditch Lawsuits all the way around.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: I actually am gonna bump it up a little bit
Speaker 2: to nine. Okay, nine Quidditch Lawsuits for Me.
Speaker 3: Same thing.
Speaker 2: Love the characters, love the chemistry of all of them.
Speaker 2: I loved the mother daughter and again it it is
Speaker 2: a little jarring, but sixteen year olds are jarring.
Speaker 3: It's a tough age.
Speaker 2: I think that one thing the Channel knows how to
Speaker 2: do is make those storylines where you grow, and I
Speaker 2: love that for the audience. I loved the soundtrack. I
Speaker 2: didn't love, but I could meet halfway with the over
Speaker 2: accessorized outfit.
Speaker 1: Fair enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I just I really did. I thought it
Speaker 2: looked great. I thought it was such a good movie,
Speaker 2: and it's made me a fan. I do want to
Speaker 2: now either go back and watch Wizards or jump on
Speaker 2: this new wagon and this new era of where they're
Speaker 2: going to take the show from where they left off.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to watch the second one.
Speaker 3: So nine Quidditch Lawsuits for Me.
Speaker 1: That's great, and I think I agree. I agree with
Speaker 1: you one hundred percent, and I think that's probably one
Speaker 1: of the biggest compliments you can give any film like
Speaker 1: this is I want to go back and watch the show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I you can. There could be no higher
Speaker 1: praise than Hey, now, I want to go watch the rest.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us this week. Our next movie
Speaker 1: on Magical Rewind is the two thousand sports comedy Ali
Speaker 1: Katz Strike, which, despite every instinct I have, is not
Speaker 1: about using cats to bowl. It's on Disney Plus, so
Speaker 1: you can watch it whenever you like, And we're going
Speaker 1: to be backtracking a little bit for our dedicated Magical
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Speaker 1: it and weep the fantasy high school story starring the
Speaker 1: sisters Panabaker, because we interviewed Marquis C. Brown aka Lindsay
Speaker 1: all about our time on set, and she brought the heat.
Speaker 1: Here is a small snippet of what to expect.
Speaker 6: Funny enough, I auditioned for high school musical maybe like
Speaker 6: I don't know, a couple weeks before, maybe a month before,
Speaker 6: Like at that time, I can't remember.
Speaker 3: It's like years ago.
Speaker 6: At this point, but still Glens, it really does.
Speaker 4: But I auditioned for that.
Speaker 6: I was so prepared, you know, in your mind, you're like,
Speaker 6: you spent all the time preparing for the audition. I
Speaker 6: go in and I just bomb it, like completely bumb
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, remember my lines. I'm getting nervous, and it's
Speaker 6: like it's those random times where I always found it
Speaker 6: was random times where I'm actually getting nervous. You think
Speaker 6: that you're so prepared, You're like, oh yeah, nothing, get
Speaker 6: it there.
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