WEBVTT - Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:16.680 You have a new background, Sabrina, where are you right now? 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:21.160 I'm at my parents' house. I discovered not too long 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:25.000 ago that there was a scheduled outage in our neighborhood. 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:29.040 We've had some utilities working guys out for gosh a 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.800 couple of months now, and the power went out and 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:35.479 I got on my little chat with my neighbors and they're. 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:36.960 Like, yeah, it's been scheduled for a while. 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:39.640 I was like, oh cool, No, okay, I go find 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:41.560 somewhere to go podcast because it's not here. 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:44.400 How well you live close to your folks though, right? 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:46.720 Oh yeah, they live probably about i'd say, like twenty 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:49.120 twenty five minutes away, so not too bad. 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:49.519 I know. 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:53.239 I love it there. It makes it easy, especially with 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:53.880 the kiddos. 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:55.920 If I need help, yeah, I can imagine. 0:00:56.000 --> 0:01:01.319 Or there's there's fires here not two long couple weeks ago, 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:03.280 and so they were gonna come to our house that 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:04.560 they got evacuated. 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.280 So it's nice to be close with them. I really 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.320 love it. It's what pulled me back from La back 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:10.200 to Orange Counties. 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.840 Even La Orange County, I'm a six hour flight to 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:14.760 get home, and you got to take two and then 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:15.640 you gotta yeah. 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:17.840 Yeah, but I mean LA to Orange County. It could 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:19.600 be forty five minutes or it could be two and 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.200 a half hours. You just don't know. And so I 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.600 was excited to get back to Orange County, just be 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:29.000 closer to my parents. They're getting older, you know, scared, get. 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:29.880 Nervous about friend Kat. 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:30.920 Make sure they're all right. 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.320 I understand. Well, I mean, being that close to your 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:36.680 family is truly magical. 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:37.360 It is. 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:39.200 Oh did you see what I just did? How I 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:43.360 just transitioned into our film. That was a transition. First 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.520 of all, welcome back to Magical rewind the show that 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.480 makes you want to grab your friends, your pjs and 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:49.640 your popcorn and go back to a time when all 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.000 the houses were smart. The Waves tsunamis in the high 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:52.720 School's musical. 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.240 I'm Wilfordlle and I'm Sabrina Bryan, and. 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:59.840 You're gonna understand my dare, I say, brilliant transition. Hi, 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:00.840 thank you, I'm gunning. 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:01.760 I think you dare. 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:05.720 I think I dare. It's where Eagles dare. So pack 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.600 your bags and leave your wands at home, because we're 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.440 going on vacation, even if you don't want to. It's 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:16.240 two thousand and nine Wizards of Waverly Place the movie. 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.239 This is the decom installment of one of Disney Channel's 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.080 most successful TV shows of all time, of course, Wizards 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.120 of Waverley Place, which ran for one hundred and six 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.679 episodes or four seasons from two thousand and seven to 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:31.040 twenty twelve, So this film doesn't fall into the formula 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:33.560 of yesteryear, where a show would finish a three season 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:35.720 run and then tie it with a bow with a movie. 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:39.000 People actually don't know where this movie exactly fits in 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:42.760 chronological order, but fans suspect it took place in August 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.040 two thousand and nine when it comes to canon. So 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.040 this movie really was just a result of the show 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.960 being so popular and seeing a long form story available 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:53.760 for ratings, and Wow, ratings did it bring. I should 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:57.720 start by saying I have never seen Wizards of Waverley 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.239 Place episode. 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.959 I have to admit I have not either, and after 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:07.600 this movie, I'm asking myself why. I agree freaking loved 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:11.080 it and I want to know more about these characters. 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:15.760 I loved the relationships they each had. Gosh, the chemistry 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.240 was amazing. Sorry, I'm going I'm getting out of myself. 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.760 Get ahead, but that's fine. I was gonna say, I 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.240 think I did myself a bit of a disservice because, 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:26.120 as we'll get into at least the very beginning, because 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:29.760 I hadn't didn't know the characters where they dropped, especially 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:31.720 the Selena Gomez character where they drop you right in 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:33.560 the middle of it, I was kind of like, oh, 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:38.320 she's unpleasant and I and luckily it changes. A movie 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.080 goes on, and I'm guessing that if you watch the show, 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.040 that is not the case. You you grow with her, 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.040 so you understand why she's such a horrible human being 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:47.920 when you first meet her. 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.720 She's just a full blown teenager. She is she is, 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.360 but is my first night of wo Monroe. 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.840 Could possibly turn out to be Holy cow. That is 0:03:57.840 --> 0:03:59.400 a lot of talk back, young Liddy. 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:01.800 Yes, in the first seventeen or twenty minutes, she's just 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:06.040 very unlikable, and I think that's that she's not if 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:07.760 you watch the show. My guess is, if you watch 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:09.720 the show, you see her ebb and flow, you see 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:11.800 the different versions of her U see and you know 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.320 she just think you're right. She starts full ten as 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:18.000 a teenager. Yeah, but man, I'm not going to jump ahead, 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:19.880 but I really like it too, But anyway, For those 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:21.960 who don't know, the series centers on Alex Russo, a 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.000 teen girl wizard who lives in Greenwich Village or Greenwich 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:26.280 if you don't know how to say it, New York 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:30.200 on Yes Waverly Place. She has two brothers, the older sibling, 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.840 Justin and the baby of the family, Max, and all 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.200 three of them have magical abilities that have been handed 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.680 down to them from their father. They're training with their 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.760 dad now, knowing that one of them will compete to 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:45.360 win sole custody of all of the family powers. Most 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.120 episodes detail young Alex's attempts to hide her abilities at 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.960 school and amongst friends, creating problems and dilemmas she has 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.240 to get out of. The show revolves around family, youth, 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.800 and responsibility, and contained fantasy elements which you know, I 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.480 am absolutely here for. And how popular? How was this 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:04.480 TV show? You might be asking. Well, like most Disney Juggernauts, 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:08.000 it became a franchise, a two time Emmy winner, enjoyed 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.880 consistently high ratings stroughut its entire run, and the series 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:15.480 finale was the most watched final episode in the history 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:17.159 of the channel. Wow. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:17.839 Wow. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.040 The merchandise, of course, was prevalent, as Disney tends to do, 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:23.799 and it would introduce the world to a young Selena Gomez, 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:25.520 who would go on to become one of the most 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:29.800 successful modern day actresses and producers working. Also, this isn't 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.920 the only Waverley placed d com, which led me to 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.440 call producers last night saying, am I watching the right one? 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.280 Hopefully we get to the second one at some point two. 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.680 And also, now the show, as I'm sure everybody has 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.240 heard at this point, is returning to the Disney Channel 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:48.599 a reboot produced by Gomez entitled Wizards Beyond Waverley Place, 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.200 Little Batman Beyond Not I want to think with some 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.320 it's not, but I just like making about me with 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.240 some familiar faces. It's a new story banking on the 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.440 nostalgia from the original. This movie, though, debuted on August 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.040 twenty eight, two, two thousand and nine, and received eleven 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:06.880 point four million viewers yikes, making it the second most 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.800 viewed d com ever, just behind High School Musical two. 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.040 It was also the Disney Channels number one scripted telecast 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.640 of all of two thousand and nine, and won the 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:19.279 Emmy for Outstanding Children's programming. That is a rarity for 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.880 a d com. This was a juger. Not like we said, 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:26.640 the movie was filmed primarily in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:32.160 because again, you're not gonna make Vancouver or Toronto or Utah. 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.120 It looked like the Caribbean where they want to get it. 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.160 Jui, but they would not succeed. 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:38.760 Would we would have seen this one, we would have 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.520 we would have seen this one coming. So yes, it 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:43.600 was filmed in San Juan, Porto Rico. And as the plot, 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.520 which we'll get into, mirrored almost exactly what we saw 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.480 in the Even Stevens movie, and a few stage shots 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.320 were filmed in Toronto, so Toronto does get a little 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.560 bit of a nod. There were two fun facts here. 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.120 While in the set, Selena noticed a stray dog on 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.200 one of the locations and the crew began feeding him. 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.320 They named him Caz, and eventually Selena ended up bringing 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:06.560 him home with her. Wow, talk about straight up, Annie, Like, 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.360 you are a homeless dog on the streets and now 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.160 you're Selena Gomez's dog. How is that not a Disney 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:13.080 Channel show right there? 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.960 Well, and that's a pretty big I bet you that's 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.000 got to be a pretty big process to bring a 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:21.360 dog from Puerto Rico up to where she lives. 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.200 That had to be in quite the amazing But that's right. 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.280 But the journeys for that layer up and second, nearby 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.320 in Puerto Rico, Johnny Depp was shooting a movie called 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.120 The Run Diary, and when Johnny heard that The Wizard's 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.400 movie was shooting nearby, he visited the set with his kids, 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:40.120 who were huge fans of the show. How cool is 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.160 that You're there doing your d com and Johnny Depp 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:43.680 shows up? 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:44.360 Oh? 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.040 Really, really cool. The movie also did have a big 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:51.040 Disney soundtrack. I know it was very that's what I 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:54.480 call music nineties kind of soundtrack, but I really liked 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.720 this soundtrack that included three Selena Gomez songs and a 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.640 ton of cover songs from Disney stars like Mitch Musto 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.960 performing The Police's Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:08.080 and Alian Aj recording Loving Spoonfuls Do You Believe In Magic? 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.760 It did crack the Billboard top two hundred and ended 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:14.480 up selling over one hundred thousand copies. Now this seems 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.360 like a no brainer, but The Wizards of Waverley Place 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.040 movie is available to stream right now on Disney Plus, 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:20.720 you can watch it before you hear us or listen 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.200 to us first. It's not a race. It's not even 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.240 a marathon because frankly, at the end of the day, 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:28.160 no one's running. We're all just sitting here. So you 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:32.240 do you okay, Sabrina, we just talked about this. You 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.560 hadn't seen the show, right, I hadn't. 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.920 But of course you know Selena was on a on 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:41.600 my yellow team of Disney Channel games. 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:43.440 Is that one of the reasons that you didn't watch 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.160 the show because you were convinced she was one of 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:46.199 the reasons you lost all the time. 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:51.319 I forgot she was on my team. That's but so anyway, 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.640 I was Alena, very, very very aware of the show. 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:56.000 I was it was huge. 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.640 This was right during you know, the time of the 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.560 Chance and you know they I knew this was a 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:06.679 big show that the kids loved, but I still had 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.320 not seen it at all, nor had I seen this movie. 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.360 So I was really excited because I did. I had big, 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:13.880 big hopes for it, thinking. 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:15.800 Was she nice with Selena Gomez? Nice in person? 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:17.840 She's so sweet, she really is. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:22.240 She made the characters are jarring at me, like she's 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.280 a really good actress because I hate you. 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.080 You know, she's a sweet, sweet, sweet girl. 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.280 And anytime I've ran into her since then, when I 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:34.240 did Dance with the Stars, years later she came, She's 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:38.000 performed on it, you know, anytime getting a chance to 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:38.640 hang out with her. 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:39.840 She's very very nice. 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:40.520 I've heard her. 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:46.280 Oh my gosh, and I mean her makeup line. I mean, 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:52.160 this girl has no ends. She's she's definitely business. 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.240 Absolutely and loves to give back. 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.240 You know, She's got lots of lots of different companies 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.480 that also give back, and she's just wonderful. 0:09:58.480 --> 0:09:59.679 I can't say enough of it. 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:01.640 And again this is I have to say because my 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.640 wife loves Murders in the Building, which she's also on. 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.400 I've seen it. This is the first thing I've ever 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.800 seen Selena Gomez on Wow. So I had and it 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:11.840 just showed me how talented she was, because I've I'd 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.800 heard from so many different sources that she's a wonderful person, 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:18.280 easy to work with, very friendly, like you said, very giving. 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.880 And so to go right into the character knowing nothing 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.240 about it, being like, man, I'm glad I don't have 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.680 kids was really interesting. But before you run off to 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.120 find the stone, of Dreams. Let's get into the synopsis. 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.800 While on vacation, teen wizard Alex Russo accidentally casts a 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.960 spell that erases her family's existence, forcing her and her 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:40.079 brothers to test their bond and reverse it. We gave 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.160 early thoughts. We both liked it, right, I really liked it. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:43.000 I did too. 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:44.400 I think me too. Yeah. 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.400 By the end of it, I felt like, all right, 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:51.280 I think I'm ready for my Harry Potter epic. Like 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.959 binge watching, I feel like I'm there now, I'm into magic. 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:56.440 I like magic now. 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:01.640 No, there's I don't know what to do with that, Sabrina. 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.600 I don't know what because there's very few people. 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:08.120 From what little scenes I've seen of Harry Potter, you 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:11.440 had the wands and they're in that big area that 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:12.880 they like do games. 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.000 At I understand. But what I'm saying is there's very 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.880 few people in the world. I'm guessing very few people 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:19.680 in the world that have said, Okay, I watched the 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.800 Wizards of Waverley Place movie, I'm now ready for Harry Potter. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.440 I like. I don't think that's ever been uttered in 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:27.040 the world. 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:28.880 I'm gonna have to disagree with you. 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.800 Harry Potter's wonderful Wizard story. 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:34.160 Now I'm ready for it. 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.360 Now, well, we're gonna do a We're gonna do seven 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:40.160 episodes of you watching all the Harry Potter movies, because 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:44.800 damn girl, they are great. But it's not they go 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:46.880 by so quick anyway. We're not gonna get into that 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.280 right now. We both loved it. The Wizard's Movie is 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:52.680 directed by lev L. Spiro, who, like a few other 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.480 directors we've highlighted, started his career in the B movies 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:59.520 world with amazing titles like A Manual, A World of Desire, 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:05.160 and Justine's Seduction of Innocence yikes. Eventually, Spiro would transition 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:09.400 to kids TV with The Jersey Cousin Skeeter and The 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.440 dcom Minute Men, which we liked. Weirdly, it does not 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.079 look like he ever directed The Wizards Place TV show, 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:19.040 but his resume is vast with shows like Modern Family, Jonas, 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.720 Weed's Arrested Development and The OC and The Movie Stars. 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.520 As we were talking about before, Selena Gomez as Alex Russo. 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.240 Selena got a start on Barney only to become one 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.160 of the most quintessential Disney pop stars ever with a 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.120 very successful music and TV career throughout the company, leading 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.160 to crossovers with Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers, and 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:40.040 her adult career, of course, would flourish even more, starting 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:44.000 with Harmony Krin's image shattering spring Breakers and including a 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.880 voice in the Hotel Transylvania movies and now a starring 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.240 role alongside Steve Martin Martin short, as we just talked 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.439 about in Only Murders in the Building, which is another juggernaut, 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.280 And like I said, she is executive producer now of 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.560 the Waverley reboot for Disney, which is so cool that 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.840 they're letting people come back and have a hand in 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.600 the projects that they help make so popular. David Henry 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.439 plays the older brother Justin. David started his career all 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.480 over TV on shows like Judging, Amy Method, and Red 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.439 and That's So Raven, which landed him in the Disney atmosphere, 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:16.200 and right onto this show he was also phenomenal. He 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:19.800 would star also play the son on over sixty episodes 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:21.960 of How I Met Your Mother. He also played young 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:26.480 Ronald Reagan in a recent movie Reagan, which is happily named. 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.360 Jake T. Austin is the youngest brother Max. Jake's first 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.640 job was on Blues Clues. I love that We've got 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:35.600 Barney and Blues Clues, playing Steve's friend for a few episodes, 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.720 but he entered the d com stratosphere in two thousand 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:41.240 and seven in Johnny Kappahala Back on the Board, which 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.600 we still have to watch can't wait. He is also 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.920 the voice of Diego on Dora the Explorer and was 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.040 one of the stars of the Network TV show The Fosters, 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:52.080 which I also believe Ryder Strong's wife Alex was on 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.800 Nice David Delowize is the Dad Jerry. He's the son 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.560 of legendary actor Dom Delowize and has appeared on shows 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.640 like EO and Bones. Then you got the Mom Teresa. 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:06.120 She's played by Maria Kanalis Barrera, whose voice you may 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.920 recognize yes as Hawk Girl in the animated series Justice League. 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:11.160 She and I used to work together all the time. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:14.880 She's amazing or from another dcom favorite, Camp Rock. Jennifer 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.600 Stone is Harper, Alex's weird best friend. And of course 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.600 you got Steve Valentine. He plays Archie the Magician and 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:24.040 in real life Steve is a magician, so great casting there. 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.040 He is a character actor with tons of credits. He 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.880 was great tons of credits, especially in kids entertainment. You 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.600 might recognize him from Teen Beach Movie or Avalon High, 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.400 or as Dracula in the Monster High movies, or as 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:38.480 ponytail Man in the film Trojan War, starring a young Wilfredell. 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:40.600 Like I told you, I want to make it all 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:44.680 about me. This movie is ninety eight minutes long, which 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:52.160 is too long. Long off our target by eight minutes. 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:53.760 It didn't feel too long, but just for us, it's 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.280 too long. And it's written, of course by the Wizards 0:14:56.280 --> 0:15:00.000 of Waverley Place creator Todd J. Greenwald, well, mostly because 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.640 there are his characters and his creation, but as Decom 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.600 favorite Dan Berenson shares the script credit, so this might 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:08.000 be one of those times he came in and did 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.600 a bunch of stuff. We've mentioned Dan many times, as 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.520 he's also the writer Stuck in the Suburbs, Halloween Town High, 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.520 The Cheeah Girls, One World, and Teen Beach two, and 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:20.040 that is just to name a few rock star Decom writer. Yeah, 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:29.520 I'm saying, all right, so let's cast a spell right 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:33.160 into the Wizards of Waverly Place movie. Cast a spell 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:38.760 for us, Sabrina, but make it a Harry Potter spell. Okay, 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:43.760 we're gonna sew work on that the Harry Potter stuff. 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.120 Since we're opening, I'll say helloha, mora. There we go. 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:50.920 That's a Harry Potter opening spell. Anyway. We open on 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:54.359 the Waverley Place Street sign just outside the Waverley Substation, 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.480 a subway station turned into a sub shop. Brilliant, We 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:00.320 get a cool zoom in. Just as Alex Russo snoops 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.840 through her brother Justin's bag and cannot believe what she's seeing, 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.560 And just as she reaches in, she is suddenly sucked 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.200 into the bag. She flails left and right and then 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.040 is even up inside the bag. It goes down to 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:14.240 her waist, knocking things around the diner. Now during the struggle, 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:17.400 her parents, Jerry and Teresa come down and they only 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.880 see Alex's two legs attached to the bag. Justin and 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.120 their younger brother Max joined the party. Max wants to 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:26.320 keep it like it's a bet, and Justin admits he 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.240 puts a spell on the bag because he knew his 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:33.040 sister would snoop. After some pressure from their parents, Justin 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:36.000 recites the spell to undo the bag. Magic was used 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:39.480 to protect the bag. Reverse the spell reverse I'm sorry 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.480 to say against it makes me laugh. Magic was used 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.160 to protect the bag. Reverse the spell release the Hag 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.320 seems like a mean spell, but a perfect older brother's bell. Yes, 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.720 the bag removes itself from Alex, and she reveals she's 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.520 found her brother was hiding the family wand and book 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.800 of Forbidden spells. She thinks he took it out of 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.000 their dad's layer without permission, but it's revealed that they're 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.920 dad actually gave it to Justin, and Alex feels very 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:09.159 very betrayed. Now, this is where having some backstory of 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.800 who the characters were would have been very helpful, because 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.560 there's things that we learned that as we went on. 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:18.640 I started to pick up. But I'm sure people instantly knew. Yes, 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:22.159 you know, the brother and sister are essentially competing to 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:23.879 which one's going to become a wizard, and it's a 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:25.360 whole family thing, and so this. 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.040 Is stuff still a little taxing at first trying to 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:32.720 put the pieces together. Versus when we saw even Stevens movie, 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.520 it was so easy to go, oh, boom boom, boom boom, 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:37.360 these are the characters. 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:37.760 Here we go. 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.880 It wasn't as hard. This was kind of going oh okay, 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.880 oh okay, all right, you know this is this kid, 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.879 this is the responsible one. Yeah, the younger one's just funny, 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:47.680 you know that kind of thing. 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.800 Yeah, And in all fairness, it's difficult when you come 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:53.000 back to my nerdom. It is difficult, difficult to do 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:54.960 when you have a magical system in place, because you've 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.480 got to know, they obviously had rules set up that 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.399 we didn't know anything about. But I imagine that shows 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.960 Oh they're not my rules, they're magic's rules, my friend. 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:07.159 But I imagine we'll have a lot of people saying, like, oh, 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.280 if you watch the show, they laid all this out, 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:10.320 They laid out all the rules for. 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.320 The show because you knew what I was. You figured 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:14.760 it out. It was easy peasy. 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:16.720 From then on air, Like it just took a minute, 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:19.000 and it was kind of you know, and that's hard 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.160 to do. It's hard to sit down and start really 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:23.560 kind of letting yourself enjoy the movie because you are 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:26.040 letting your brain kind of go in overdrive trying to 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:27.040 put pieces together. 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:29.119 Three hundred percent. You had to like try to catch up. 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:31.760 But that was on us, not on them. Yes, Jerry 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:34.120 tells Alex she can use the spell book and family wand. 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:36.320 One day when she passes her exams, it takes a 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:39.840 certain level of responsibility to handle. She argues she is 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.640 responsible and can be trusted. She looks for some back 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.440 up here from a little brother, Max, who is now 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.320 engulfed in the bag himself. Mom Teresa doesn't care about 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:49.200 the WAND, but she knows Alex is on thin ice. 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.720 And this is where again first intro to the character 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:56.000 didn't know anything about it. She's talking back to everybody, 0:18:56.080 --> 0:19:00.520 making fun of everybody. I was like, Wow, you're horribly 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.920 unlikable at the beginning, but then I really I imagine 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:05.879 if you watch the show, this was kind of the 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.600 fun character and its twenty minutes in. I loved her 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.960 and wanted to be funular if we were the same age. 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:14.960 Justin demands the wand and spell book back from Alex, 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.520 but she secretly does the old switcheroo. She's holding the 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:20.879