Speaker 1: So you and I did our press day yesterday.
Speaker 2: We did, and one of the questions that we asked,
Speaker 2: we went on the Spotify channel of it, what is
Speaker 2: it the Radio Disney. What's not Radio Disney anymore, but
Speaker 2: it's like the Disney Serious XM Disney Hits channel. Yes,
Speaker 2: and they were asking us to pick our four favorite
Speaker 2: songs and all that cut, which then led me to
Speaker 2: one of my earliest memories, which was watching Mary Poppins.
Speaker 2: I gotta be three. I'm three or four at the most,
Speaker 2: and I'm watching Mary Poppins and I spent the whole
Speaker 2: day learning the words to super Califragilistic Xpialidocious. What was
Speaker 2: your first ever Disney song that you remember that?
Speaker 3: I remember part of your World Little Mermaid really okay? Yes?
Speaker 3: And then when I started training vocally, that was my
Speaker 3: first song that I was learning techniques and things like that.
Speaker 3: That was the first song that I actually did. But
Speaker 3: I remember it when I was really little, you know,
Speaker 3: the looking up through that whole just wishing to get
Speaker 3: out of this horrible kingdom under the royal Kingdom. That
Speaker 3: just is absolute garbage, you know. And my my favorite
Speaker 3: line is maybe they don't reprimand their daughters. That's like
Speaker 3: my favorite line in the movie. Now, as an adult,
Speaker 3: you know her idea of thinking, oh yeah, if you
Speaker 3: use your legs, you know, and walk on sand, obviously
Speaker 3: your your parents respect you more right and give you
Speaker 3: whatever you want.
Speaker 2: Well, it's the it is the perfect grass is always
Speaker 2: greener on the other side through the ocean. Oh my,
Speaker 2: I think I'm sorry. I would have stayed in the
Speaker 2: kingdom as much as I would have loved to have
Speaker 2: gone up and fallen in love.
Speaker 3: She went from one kingdom to the next.
Speaker 2: Right, exactly.
Speaker 3: It wasn't like she Yeah, she traded side upgrade. I'm
Speaker 3: not sure she leveled up really.
Speaker 2: Oh my, exactly. Well, welcome to Magical Rewind, the show
Speaker 2: that makes you want to grab your friends, your pj's,
Speaker 2: and your popcorn and go back to a time when
Speaker 2: all the houses were smart, the waves, tsunamis and the
Speaker 2: high school's musical.
Speaker 3: I'm Wilford Dell and I'm Sabrina Bryan.
Speaker 2: Oh today, let's grab your pom poms break out the
Speaker 2: salsa moves because this week we've got the spirit. Yes
Speaker 2: we do, We've got the spirit. How about you? For
Speaker 2: two thousand and two's coming of age drama gotta kick
Speaker 2: it up once again with an exclamation point. Disney's answer
Speaker 2: to Bring it On also at the good point, which
Speaker 2: was the sleeper hit theatrical release from two years before this,
Speaker 2: which exploded. I mean the Bring It On was enormous.
Speaker 2: I went and saw Bring It On in the theater
Speaker 2: with people. It was everybody else I did. It was great.
Speaker 2: Chater movie is great. Okay, gotta love it. But this
Speaker 2: movie brings a Latina swing to things and most notably,
Speaker 2: is one of only a few quote unquote based on
Speaker 2: a true story movies that the Disney Channel has ever made,
Speaker 2: and it's based on the true life experience of Megan Cole,
Speaker 2: who actually co produced the movie and was involved in
Speaker 2: the Teach for America program that places instructors and under
Speaker 2: resource schools all across America. She was a Harvard graduate
Speaker 2: who found herself at the Nimitz Middle School in Huntington Park, California,
Speaker 2: where she started the school's first competitive dance program. If
Speaker 2: you'd like to watch this movie first, it is available
Speaker 2: on Disney Plus. So this is not when you have
Speaker 2: to YouTube. Go to Disney Plus and you can watch
Speaker 2: it there. If you want to watch along with us.
Speaker 2: If you don't, you can go back and watch it later.
Speaker 2: But we're getting out ahead of ourselves, so before we
Speaker 2: end up with four weeks to detention, let's get to
Speaker 2: the synopsis. Biology teacher, Miss Bartlett is new at the
Speaker 2: rough around the edge is Marshall Middle School. I am
Speaker 2: emphasizing middle school for as we talk about more things.
Speaker 2: But when she finds herself as the new dance teacher,
Speaker 2: she must battle troubled relationships, failing grades, low self esteem,
Speaker 2: and a lack of funds. But with a group of
Speaker 2: inspired students in their new CIP did I say that right?
Speaker 2: Ci sipe attitude, they can prove anything is possible. Now,
Speaker 2: as I was watching this movie, one thing was going
Speaker 2: through my head, which is this is like made for you,
Speaker 2: This is your wheelhouse movie because not only is it
Speaker 2: dancing and all the other stuff, but don't you coach
Speaker 2: a team that's like this.
Speaker 3: Basically, I will tell you right now, this movie is
Speaker 3: hands down the hardest one I've had to watch, because
Speaker 3: I coach a dance team that competes at these competitions
Speaker 3: that they are putting on the screen, and I am
Speaker 3: going to my nationals tomorrow. We start we did a
Speaker 3: Nationals of Florida and then there's the Nationals here at
Speaker 3: over by the Convention Center. I could say that because
Speaker 3: this isn't happening within real time audience, so you know,
Speaker 3: but yes, I'm going to it tomorrow. This was really hard.
Speaker 3: I am in it, so I'm gonna preface that. And
Speaker 3: I say this because right now I am in the
Speaker 3: midst of critiquing choreography, both mine, my competitors. I mean,
Speaker 3: I am in it. So it was so hard for
Speaker 3: me to sit and enjoy this movie because all I
Speaker 3: could think of is the routines that were on the
Speaker 3: you know, while they're dancing, the dancing they're doing on
Speaker 3: the side, how they are practicing. It was so tough.
Speaker 2: You took this movie personally?
Speaker 3: Yes, I did well. I could not let myself just
Speaker 3: chill out. It was so hard, and I was getting
Speaker 3: frustrated with myself. Sometimes I wish that you and I
Speaker 3: would watch these movies together, but there's no You would
Speaker 3: have hated me. You would have hated me. I could
Speaker 3: not stop talking. No one was in the room with
Speaker 3: me while I was watching this. I was talking to
Speaker 3: myself that was what what are they doing? How does
Speaker 3: that make sense? What kind of coaches?
Speaker 2: This?
Speaker 3: Are you serious? Worst coach? I mean, okay, So I
Speaker 3: had to get that out. I just had to blurt
Speaker 3: it out.
Speaker 2: We will, we will will. I want to get into
Speaker 2: that because there's I have. I have legitimate and I'm
Speaker 2: not I'm not trying to bash the movie at all.
Speaker 2: I am getting way better at watching the movies for
Speaker 2: how you're supposed to watch the movie exactly. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm trying to get into that mindset. Well, that's
Speaker 2: what I want to get into. But I normally I
Speaker 2: also and he does not like when I do this,
Speaker 2: but producer Jensen gives us some breakdowns of the movie
Speaker 2: and he'll give us some lines to say occasionally. And
Speaker 2: the one he wrote I have to say. And I
Speaker 2: know you hated, Jensen, but I'm calling you out for
Speaker 2: this one because it says that Sabrina is a true
Speaker 2: expert of stuff like this. This is like if they
Speaker 2: made a d com about a guy who loves mash
Speaker 2: and has a wife named Susan.
Speaker 3: I just laugh. I read it, dude, I laughed out
Speaker 3: loud flaw that line.
Speaker 2: And I'm not taking credit, sorry Jensen, but so I
Speaker 2: mean again, was any of it real? Are the competition?
Speaker 2: The competitions like this, and yes, okay.
Speaker 3: So real? When we get to our Sabrina seas it's okay. Well,
Speaker 3: first of all, I had my Sabrina Sea's list was
Speaker 3: like five pages long. But it then I had to go,
Speaker 3: we'll not gonna understand that. The audience isn't gonna get that. Okay,
Speaker 3: you're going way too deep here, you know it, So
Speaker 3: I had to take it down. And then the final
Speaker 3: one is kind of more of a little real life
Speaker 3: insight of the competition.
Speaker 1: So originally it would have been Sabrina sees too much?
Speaker 3: Yes, Sabrina, just close your eyes.
Speaker 2: You're seeing too much this.
Speaker 3: Time, too much? Calm it down. It's a Disney movie.
Speaker 3: Everyone loves this movie for so many reasons. So that's
Speaker 3: what I'm gonna focus on the reasons why people did
Speaker 3: love this movie.
Speaker 2: Do your dancers put petroleum jelly on their teeth so
Speaker 2: they smile?
Speaker 3: No? But I've heard that in Not that I was
Speaker 3: real big in it, but I heard that that's a
Speaker 3: patcheant thing.
Speaker 1: Is it just so it tastes so gross that you
Speaker 1: don't want to shut your mouth?
Speaker 3: I don't know. Again, I'm not a pageant girl, but
Speaker 3: I've heard it before, but it was referenced in the
Speaker 3: pageant world.
Speaker 2: Okay, interesting, let's give our initial thoughts. What were your
Speaker 2: initial thoughts of the movie.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I didn't get that it was a middle
Speaker 3: school until the very end credit when it says what
Speaker 3: happened after the girls made second place? And then it
Speaker 3: staid I don't know how. I just wasn't hearing it.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it was said over and over again because.
Speaker 2: You didn't want to because it's weird middle school.
Speaker 3: They don't look like middle school. And middle school is
Speaker 3: six through eighth grade. It is not ninth grade. It
Speaker 3: maybe in my area, so in the Southern California district area.
Speaker 2: That's most most of it is. You're correct because I
Speaker 2: was the same way middle school six seven eight. But
Speaker 2: there are some schools that go K through six and
Speaker 2: then seven eight nine is another school. They're rare, okay,
Speaker 2: but mostly they do K through six and then seven
Speaker 2: eight will be a different school.
Speaker 3: And that that's what I did. Right there, was to
Speaker 3: sixth grade. Then I went to junior High. I didn't
Speaker 3: go to middle school. I went to junior high, which
Speaker 3: was seventh and eighth grade, and then I went to
Speaker 3: high school. The middle school's in my area. If there
Speaker 3: is a middle part, you know, that's not junior high.
Speaker 3: A middle school is six seventh and eighth graders. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so the whole part, you know, I really wasn't caught
Speaker 3: up in that while I watched at the end, I
Speaker 3: went way a minute.
Speaker 2: But when you think about it, it changes everything. Yes,
Speaker 2: it feels like a loophole that they used to cast
Speaker 2: older actors. Frankly, okay, and I want to talk about
Speaker 2: that a bit because there are certain things. When I
Speaker 2: was a freshman in high school, which is ninth grade,
Speaker 2: I was one of the younger kids because my birthdays
Speaker 2: in the summer same. I was thirteen.
Speaker 3: Yes, I turned fourteen the like first or second week.
Speaker 2: Of school, so thirteen. Maybe I was fourteen when I
Speaker 2: started school, But that's young. She's got a guy who
Speaker 2: he's an older boyfriend there. I mean, they're supposed to
Speaker 2: be like thirteen years old in this.
Speaker 3: Movie, which he's older.
Speaker 2: Threw me the whole time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that was weird.
Speaker 1: Though I had trouble. I did not dislike the movie.
Speaker 2: I had trouble, And I'm totally honest as a forty
Speaker 2: seven year old man, I had trouble connecting with this film.
Speaker 2: I just I really did. I had trouble connecting with
Speaker 2: this movie. I could absolutely see one hundred percent how
Speaker 2: young girls or young women watching this movie eleven, twelve,
Speaker 2: thirteen years old would love this movie.
Speaker 1: I totally get.
Speaker 3: I had the opposite. I could not disconnect from this.
Speaker 2: I could not take myself out that could not get
Speaker 2: myself out of it. Well, again, it's part so in
Speaker 2: your wheelhouse. This is a great movie for you.
Speaker 3: But yes, you're right. I had a hard time with
Speaker 3: the plotline that they were pushing. I don't know what year,
Speaker 3: I know it was years before this, but it was
Speaker 3: sort of trying to push a little dangerous Minds movie.
Speaker 2: Yes, we have to talk about that, because it talked.
Speaker 3: About gangs, keeping the kids out a gang.
Speaker 1: He doesn't age great nowadays.
Speaker 3: None of these kids looked like they were remotely going.
Speaker 3: Even Chewie was not gang looking.
Speaker 2: No, these are all good kids.
Speaker 3: But again, it's a Disney movie. I know it's a
Speaker 3: Disney movie, you know. I mean, I don't think they
Speaker 3: needed to go as far as saying gangs. They could
Speaker 3: have just said to keep them out of trouble, keeping
Speaker 3: off the streets, you know, keep them active, not going
Speaker 3: home and sitting on a couch, you know.
Speaker 2: Because they were all good kids.
Speaker 1: They really were, Yeah, they were.
Speaker 3: They all seemed like great kids.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Some of them were sassy. The opening scene within the
Speaker 3: classrouse Holy moly, yeah you kidding me. Sit down.
Speaker 2: Speaking of that, we should we should talk about the
Speaker 2: cast because the cast has some obvious standout people.
Speaker 3: So, my gosh, how amazing would it have been to
Speaker 3: be a part of a cast that is now.
Speaker 2: Just huge, huge. So the movie stars someone who had
Speaker 2: a twenty twenty three for the Ages, to say the least.
Speaker 2: But it really all started here because America Ferarra is
Speaker 2: Yolanda Yoli Vargas and this was her first job on TV.
Speaker 2: She'd only been in one movie so far in her
Speaker 2: career called Real Women Have Curves, and it was earlier
Speaker 2: that year. Everybody probably knows her as the star of
Speaker 2: Ugly Betty, where she won an Emmy for Best Lead
Speaker 2: Actress in a Comedy and Superstore, but you might also
Speaker 2: know her from Sisterhood of the Traveler Pants. Love that movie,
Speaker 2: a nice, small.
Speaker 1: Little movie that nobody else saw.
Speaker 2: The other year, what was it called Barbie Yes, and
Speaker 2: where she's currently nominated for an ost where.
Speaker 3: She has the most incredible monologue that every woman.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it yet, so dull, I haven't seen it.
Speaker 3: Well, I can't recite it for you, but that is
Speaker 3: a monologue that every woman can relate.
Speaker 2: It's already ruined it for me because I know she speaks,
Speaker 2: and you said, now she's got a monologue. I can't
Speaker 2: watch the movie.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't know one little thing about no Kid. And
Speaker 2: then there's Camille Gwatti as Daisy sealinis the most talented
Speaker 2: of the bunch and bestie's with Yoli, who has also
Speaker 2: a super questionable relationship with a much older boyfriend. But
Speaker 2: she also is the one who has the abilities to
Speaker 2: obviously propel her beyond the Marshall Middle School, but has
Speaker 2: an attitude she's by far the biggest troublemaker and so
Speaker 2: they have to She's got to curb that if she
Speaker 2: wants to move forward in life. Johanna Flores is Marisol,
Speaker 2: who has dreams of becoming an elegant ballerina, but lacks
Speaker 2: the resources or encouragement. Frankly, and we'll get into her
Speaker 2: life a little bit right. Sabrina Wiener is Esmeralda Rena,
Speaker 2: and she's the nicest, almost goodie two shoes of the
Speaker 2: bunch who we think is possible she's a narc I
Speaker 2: don't know, you don't know how to what's gonna come
Speaker 2: up with that, but it is interesting.
Speaker 3: Oh Man, watching her do that contemporary solo audition piece
Speaker 3: was so funny.
Speaker 2: Funny was that the the interpretive dance piece, because.
Speaker 3: She's a great dancers, she's a good dan.
Speaker 2: That whole scene was very funny. And then Susan Egan
Speaker 2: is the tech employee turned new teacher and coach Heather Bartlett.
Speaker 2: She originated the role of Bell in Theadway adaptation of
Speaker 2: Beauty and the Beast in nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 1: She was nominated for a Tony Award.
Speaker 2: Is a total Disney legend, but she's known now for
Speaker 2: her voice acting, which is my world. She's Meg and
Speaker 2: the Disney animated movie Hercules, and is still working for
Speaker 2: the company on video games like Kingdom Hearts, which I
Speaker 2: was in as well, and Disney Speedstorm. So she and
Speaker 2: I might have actually worked together and never met, because sometimes,
Speaker 2: especially video games, you record at different times most of the.
Speaker 3: Time, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2: And then of course there's the very recognizable character actor
Speaker 2: Miguel Sandoval who plays principal Zavala, and you might know
Speaker 2: him from every movie all the time, Jurassic Park, Clear
Speaker 2: and Present, Danger, Get Shorty. He was on HBO's Barry.
Speaker 2: He has almost two hundred credits to his name. If
Speaker 2: you want to go look him up, you'll be there
Speaker 2: for hours looking at this man's resume. And did six
Speaker 2: years of the TV show Medium the Movies, as we
Speaker 2: like to talk about. It runs a very meager seventy
Speaker 2: eight minutes. This is a fast, fast movie, our shortest
Speaker 2: film yet and twelve minutes below the perfect Disney bulls Eye.
Speaker 2: It first aired July twenty six, two thousand and two,
Speaker 2: to one point one eight million viewers, which is low
Speaker 2: as we've seen on the channel from the other movies
Speaker 2: that we've talked about, and was filmed at for Dugo
Speaker 2: High School into Hunga, California. It was written by Nancy
Speaker 2: Dalo Sentos, a producer of the classic j Lo Selena
Speaker 2: movie Great Movie, and directed by Ramon Mendez, best known
Speaker 2: as director of Stand and Deliver, The nineteen eighty eight
Speaker 2: non Disney non dancing, very very good version of this movie.
Speaker 2: So okay again trying to connect with the film on
Speaker 2: certain levels that I thought the acting was good, Yes,
Speaker 2: you know, certainly the acting was good. The people that
Speaker 2: they cast were engaged and likable and seemed to care
Speaker 2: about the material. I had a serious problem getting over
Speaker 2: the fact that they were in middle school.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Not one of them looks like a middle.
Speaker 2: School It just threw me, and I mean, like really
Speaker 2: not looking like they were in middle school. When Camille
Speaker 2: Oh did the film, she's playing thirteen fourteen, she was
Speaker 2: twenty five.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: So it's not even like eighteen to play fourteen. No,
Speaker 2: she was twenty five years old playing a middle school.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: And then when you realize they're in middle school, she's
Speaker 2: getting she's with an older boyfriend, so he's at least sixteen,
Speaker 2: but they've talked about how he was in school for
Speaker 2: a while and then dropped out so he could be
Speaker 2: closer to eighteen dating a middle schooler. Yeah. I also
Speaker 2: one of the things that threw me, and I watch
Speaker 2: every movie twice. The lead of our film is the
Speaker 2: only person I mean, America Ferrara as well, but some
Speaker 2: of the other girls a lot of the other girls,
Speaker 2: you went into their home life. M h.
Speaker 1: You saw Camille come out of her house.
Speaker 2: But you they didn't get into her home life at all,
Speaker 2: which I thought for the lead of a movie was
Speaker 2: a little.
Speaker 3: Strange and I kept waiting for it me too, thinking
Speaker 3: you know, there was gonna be I mean, the only
Speaker 3: time that she was actually in her her house and
Speaker 3: you saw the walls of her room was when she
Speaker 3: calls to say she'd like an application.
Speaker 1: That was it, and that's it, and it was like
Speaker 1: the late night crying she like it. But that's all
Speaker 1: you see. You don't know anything about her home life.
Speaker 2: You know, the home life of some of the supporting characters,
Speaker 2: but not the lead, but not the lead of.
Speaker 1: Your movie, which I which threw me.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I mean, she did have the boyfriend, so
Speaker 3: you know that was her struggle. Her relationship with her boyfriend,
Speaker 3: that was her struggle, right, But yeah.
Speaker 2: She talks about them. They talk about her mom because
Speaker 2: he says, don't tell your mom that you're thinking of
Speaker 2: dropping out. I'm already a bad enough influence, so right.
Speaker 2: I mean, they mentioned her family life, but but they yeah,
Speaker 2: they don't get into it in any way. Yeah, the
Speaker 2: shape or form. I'd like to reiterate one more time.
Speaker 2: They're supposed to be in middle school. I can't. I
Speaker 2: know people, everyone's gonna be like, dude, get over it.
Speaker 2: They're in middle school. You just have to get over it.
Speaker 3: I will say, it makes sense when you see the
Speaker 3: level of disrespect that they give the teacher, because from
Speaker 3: friends that I know so many of them that our
Speaker 3: school teachers do not. If you know, during their subbing days,
Speaker 3: they said middle school was the hardest age to sure
Speaker 3: because they're pushing boundaries so much. The level of disrespect
Speaker 3: happens way more.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's the only thing that I could say as
Speaker 3: far as making sense as being middle school the rest
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 2: What would you do if your dancers treated you the
Speaker 2: way that her dancers treated her.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, my girls are certainly not perfect,
Speaker 3: but my girls, I will say, are so respectful. I
Speaker 3: don't have to ever do that. You know. Even the
Speaker 3: worst is you know, them you know, maybe not being
Speaker 3: organized or them talking when I'm talking. That's the only
Speaker 3: thing that I ever really had, normal stuff, the normal stuff,
Speaker 3: you know, look at me as I'm talking. That kind
Speaker 3: of stuff. Other than that, I've got such great girls
Speaker 3: that I don't have that if they if they were
Speaker 3: like this, I would have quit coaching way long ago.
Speaker 3: If that was how every year would come in and
Speaker 3: I was constantly having to correct the bad behavior. And
Speaker 3: on that level, there's no way I would continue coaching.
Speaker 2: And you're the high school level. Yes, yeah, Now is
Speaker 2: there have you checked? Is there any chance that your
Speaker 2: girls are actually in their thirties playing high school?
Speaker 3: No? I've questioned it on some other teams though. Let
Speaker 3: me tell you sometimes their girls look a little mature
Speaker 3: compared to my little glitterbugs.
Speaker 2: More mature than the kid in middle schools walking in
Speaker 2: the back round with a beard. There was everybody I'm
Speaker 2: looking at him like that guy looks like he's thirty right.
Speaker 3: Well, because they I'm sure they stocked the you know,
Speaker 3: set list of data, background dancers with adults.
Speaker 1: They had well they had to. I mean, if they
Speaker 1: want to shoot the movie.
Speaker 2: But I'm sorry, but I'm not gonna keep harping on it.
Speaker 2: But you pivot when you get on the set and
Speaker 2: you go, you know what, let's make it high school.
Speaker 1: Let's at least make it it's just high school.
Speaker 3: The would have been nothing wrong.
Speaker 2: With their seniors, and she's getting Now Camille's character has
Speaker 2: a chance to go to college, and so all the
Speaker 2: same exact storyline, but you make them in high school.
Speaker 3: Exactly, it would have really changed absolutely nothing. It would
Speaker 3: have just been more believable.
Speaker 2: Chances are, though at that time they're trying Disney's probably
Speaker 2: trying to appeal to a younger class of kids. Yep.
Speaker 3: But our movie The Cheatah Girls came out the year after,
Speaker 3: and we were freshmen in high school and we were
Speaker 3: ninth graders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there you go. That's right.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to be the same age as the Cheetah
Speaker 1: Girls in this movie.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Wow. Okay, well let's get into the first the early scene.
Speaker 2: So miss Bartlett comes in. She joins her first ever
Speaker 2: biology class. She's apparently fresh out of Silicon Valley and
Speaker 2: now trying to explain why the kids need biology, even though,
Speaker 2: as one of her students says, he'd be quote unquote
Speaker 2: better off bust in some beats. And they all start
Speaker 2: drumming on their desks so Daisy can stand up, and
Speaker 2: she starts dancing all around the room. Again disrespectful to
Speaker 2: a teacher, but not crazy awful. It's not like you
Speaker 2: and not you know, they're not calling her names, They're not.
Speaker 3: No. What was horrible for me is I was trying
Speaker 3: to find the beat that they were going for. I
Speaker 3: could not get the rhythm. I couldn't either that I
Speaker 3: rewound it going am I is it me? And it
Speaker 3: was all over the place. They could have actually established
Speaker 3: a rhythm.
Speaker 2: And now, okay, so I agree with you one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: I also have to ask you a question that I'm
Speaker 2: going to put you on the spot for because I
Speaker 2: don't know this at all. Okay, are they good dancers?
Speaker 3: Oh? You are putting me on the spot.
Speaker 2: I know. Again, I don't know. I could see the
Speaker 2: bat unless I mean, I grew up watching ballet, so
Speaker 2: unless it's Barishnakugh or something like that. I have trouble
Speaker 2: spotting really good dancers. So I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, you know, I think Camille definitely had
Speaker 3: a lot of dance, you know, the higher level of
Speaker 3: dance background. I don't think the other ones America had
Speaker 3: a great rhythm. I don't know how trained she was
Speaker 3: as a dancer, but she definitely has moves that she
Speaker 3: works on, you know, or has you know, worked with
Speaker 3: as far as maybe around the house and you know,
Speaker 3: family or something. But this wasn't like part of the
Speaker 3: movie where you go as a dancer ooh all right.
Speaker 3: I mean, it wasn't like Step Up when you know,
Speaker 3: Channing Tatum busts out some actual dancing and he's just yeah,
Speaker 3: freestyling that. That was not this moment.
Speaker 1: Don't get me started on the Step Up franchise.
Speaker 2: Don't get me started, because I'm one of those guys.
Speaker 3: Who love, oh my god, dance movies.
Speaker 2: The second somebody turns almost and looks at the camera
Speaker 2: and says like we need to protest dance, I will
Speaker 2: set up a tent in front of the theater to
Speaker 2: be the first one in line. Yet and the Step
Speaker 2: Ups just getting progressively better when they really bring Moose in.
Speaker 3: No, the dancing's just getting dnculous on that. So anyways,
Speaker 3: but this was not one of those moments. This was
Speaker 3: not oh wow, you know, but it was good. However,
Speaker 3: my issue is that a lot of the choreography as well,
Speaker 3: you know, as you get through it, there's times where
Speaker 3: I'm going to stop in and have some comments about
Speaker 3: the choreography that the actors were given.
Speaker 2: And again to go back to the quote unquote disrespect.
Speaker 2: They show the teacher in the school at the end
Speaker 2: of the day dancing in class, playing music so that
Speaker 2: they can have a pep rally. These I mean, yes,
Speaker 2: they're they're breaking the rules, but these are not awful
Speaker 2: things that they're having them do.
Speaker 3: The the pep rally was cute.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're good kids.
Speaker 3: I love that pep rally.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was fun.
Speaker 3: That was a fun moment in the movie, for sure.
Speaker 2: I did not understand since we're starting about the start.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the start of the movie. They set
Speaker 2: it up where America's character Yoli goes and buys pencils
Speaker 2: and stuff she needs and then peanut butter cups and
Speaker 2: then she walks in the bully stopper and then destroy
Speaker 2: your peanut butter cups and then that's never brought back again.
Speaker 3: Any She's not bullied consecutively over and over again.
Speaker 2: No, there was that that just kind of I didn't
Speaker 2: know if if the bad the actual bad kids, were
Speaker 2: going to come back in any way, shape or form,
Speaker 2: or if that was just to distinguish between the real
Speaker 2: bad kids and the kind of pseudo bad kids.
Speaker 3: I thought it was to distinguish Camille's character as being
Speaker 3: respected and and tough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like she could step to be able.
Speaker 3: To push that bully off. That's how I saw it.
Speaker 1: I can see that.
Speaker 3: But then again, it was like never her her being,
Speaker 3: you know, her weight. That was not a part of
Speaker 3: the the storyline. It was just this one comment, which
Speaker 3: to me ended up being I didn't like that if
Speaker 3: it was going to be part of a storyline of
Speaker 3: something she overcomes and her self confidence, but you only
Speaker 3: had a.
Speaker 2: Ton of confidence. Oh yeah, no, she was.
Speaker 3: Not suffering through any of that. I loved her character. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I loved her.
Speaker 2: I did too.
Speaker 1: No, again, the characters were were great.
Speaker 2: I would like to have seen them maybe a little
Speaker 2: bit more done with them, but they acting, especially I
Speaker 2: thought was very very good.
Speaker 3: I think it's hard when there's so many of them
Speaker 3: to really try to dive in and build and you know,
Speaker 3: have overcoming moments for each of them when there's so
Speaker 3: many characters.
Speaker 1: I agree, But I mean Susan Egan great performance.
Speaker 2: I mean I would have done a little more with
Speaker 2: her character, and some of the stuff was a little strange,
Speaker 2: but she was good.
Speaker 3: Did you because I'm not going to say this during
Speaker 3: spree seas because it's a different thing. But this was
Speaker 3: definitely under it was she not a Reba McIntyre look alike.
Speaker 1: She kind of looked a little bit like Reba kinda she.
Speaker 3: I mean, if I had been watching this movie from
Speaker 3: Afar and couldn't really tell, I would have thought that
Speaker 3: was Riba.
Speaker 2: Okay, I want to make that just the hashtag of
Speaker 2: the day.
Speaker 3: Thought that was thought that was Riba. She was great,
Speaker 3: but she was very good. Looks so much like Riba
Speaker 3: to me. I really it took me a while to
Speaker 3: get over that. Okay, the Riva fans, this was.
Speaker 1: It was not It was not Riba. I can I
Speaker 1: can verify.
Speaker 3: Thank you for that spoiler alert.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the spoilers. Can we talk for just
Speaker 2: a second about Chewie. Yeah, because he's a super nice guy.
Speaker 2: He's he's supportive, uh he he loves being her boyfriend.
Speaker 1: But this guy should not be dating a middle schooler.
Speaker 3: Well, I think you're gonna have to get over that. No,
Speaker 3: you're right, we've established that. They Let's say, though, just
Speaker 3: to kind of get past it, that she was in
Speaker 3: high school great boyfriend in a lot of ways, Yes,
Speaker 3: hear dating somebody who has just quit school. That's a
Speaker 3: big red flag. And I don't know. It's like it
Speaker 3: kept going back and forth, it kept going back and forth.
Speaker 3: It was, Oh, he's so sweet, but he quit school.
Speaker 3: But then he's the one that takes the girls and
Speaker 3: and volunteers his gets his buddies to get the girls
Speaker 3: to the competition, handles the music.
Speaker 2: For them up, supportive of her.
Speaker 3: Yes, he's super supportive. Then he has, you know, a
Speaker 3: little temper tantrum about whether or not she was in
Speaker 3: it for him and all this stuff, but then redeems
Speaker 3: himself at the end. It has a great moment. That's
Speaker 3: when I really clicked back in at the end, going,
Speaker 3: this is why I love Disney movies. Look at him,
Speaker 3: he's grown up a little bit. It's just nice short
Speaker 3: amount of time. This hi guy.
Speaker 2: I agree with you that it's a bit of a
Speaker 2: red flag that you drop out of high school. You
Speaker 2: should always finish high school. But they do go out
Speaker 2: of their way to say that he's got a job.
Speaker 1: You know, he's holding it together.
Speaker 2: It's not like he's dropped out of high school and
Speaker 2: is hanging out on the streets or he's a bad guy.
Speaker 3: He's not a gang member that they allude to Earl.
Speaker 2: No, it just school wasn't for him, and he went
Speaker 2: and is handling his business in another way.
Speaker 1: But then sees how successful.
Speaker 2: She is in her career in middle school and decides
Speaker 2: to go back to school himself.
Speaker 3: Which I loved. I loved.
Speaker 2: Yea. Well, that's one thing they didn't talk about is
Speaker 2: Chewy is actually only in the fourth grade in this movie.
Speaker 3: I'm glad he's going back to glad he's going back
Speaker 3: to school.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of miss school opportunity. Yeah, well, I
Speaker 2: promise I'm never gonna mention it again. I just think
Speaker 2: this entire movie is different if they're in high school
Speaker 2: as opposed to middle school. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Sure, and in how it is set up, she we
Speaker 3: would absolutely be in jail.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna have to get over that. We're just
Speaker 3: gonna have to.
Speaker 2: Get that's it. Never mentioning it again, it is what
Speaker 2: it is, never mentioned again. So then es Marelda. It
Speaker 2: works in the school office. She gets is filing because
Speaker 2: he's the student. We did this at our school too,
Speaker 2: where the students would.
Speaker 3: Work in the office of office aids.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Sure, absolutely, and she finds out that miss Bartlett
Speaker 2: has Juilliard in her resume and ask the principle if
Speaker 2: they can get her to teach the dance squad because
Speaker 2: the last teacher has retired and most likely from stress
Speaker 2: because the team is terrible. But Bartlett has that you
Speaker 2: can are you can tell instantly she's got some kind
Speaker 2: of history and it's not a good one with dance
Speaker 2: because she wants to shy away from this, right. I
Speaker 2: mean she literally says, dancing is part of my past,
Speaker 2: like She'm.
Speaker 3: Not interested in opening that box again. Yeah, and keep
Speaker 3: that shut and locked, thankfu.
Speaker 2: And I wanted to know what she's like, Ooh, there's
Speaker 2: a there's a story here, which she kind of tells
Speaker 2: three different times in the movie. When she does finally
Speaker 2: give in that girls, obviously, you know she wants to
Speaker 2: start from what she knows. She's going to put the
Speaker 2: team together. They put that, they have the tryouts and
Speaker 2: the girls are just not disciplined. They obviously the old
Speaker 2: coach was if they can't even do one kind of
Speaker 2: kicking or chorus line thing together, then the old coach
Speaker 2: literally did nothing nothing, Yes.
Speaker 3: And unfortunately to kind of step in in reality, Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: there are schools with programs like that that put together
Speaker 3: these kids and then just do nothing or are unqualified
Speaker 3: to teach it. You know, they're doing it as you know,
Speaker 3: a stipend and they're not really doing much. So that
Speaker 3: is very sad. That makes me sad that there's programs
Speaker 3: out there like that.
Speaker 2: The guys on Boy Mets World we worked with a
Speaker 2: choreographer for three days to do the hot Stuff dance,
Speaker 2: and a lot of us were terrible, but we were
Speaker 2: in sync after three days.
Speaker 3: Okay, you're right.
Speaker 2: So it's like you figure the slightest little amount of
Speaker 2: work and at least the girls. So you kind of
Speaker 2: hate the old teacher who you hate the kids, not
Speaker 2: their fault, the old teacher.
Speaker 1: It's like you literally did nothing.
Speaker 2: Now we do need to address one little thing that
Speaker 2: hasn't kind of aged very well, because this is these
Speaker 2: movies were really big back in the nineties of kind
Speaker 2: of the what is now being called the White Savior setup, right,
Speaker 2: like you said, the uh Mind's Cool Runnings blind Side,
Speaker 2: where it's you know, the white person comes in to
Speaker 2: an underprivileged school or town or something like that and
Speaker 2: saves the day. Has an aged great we won't. We're
Speaker 2: not gonna harp on it because it's a Disney movie
Speaker 2: and we're here to have fun. But not the best
Speaker 2: look anymore. But it's it's yeah, it's just a tired trope.
Speaker 2: But it leads to some that I mean, not the
Speaker 2: fact that she's white, but the fact that a teacher
Speaker 2: who knows how to dance comes in and sets up
Speaker 2: here's what really needs.
Speaker 3: To happen, right and levels up the program right, levels
Speaker 3: up everything. That's amazing, amazing and great opportunity for the kid.
Speaker 2: Leads to what I thought was the funniest scene of
Speaker 2: the movie, which is the audition scene, which is all
Speaker 2: of them dancing and them just and then just cutting
Speaker 2: to the teacher kind of watching them dancing. Yes, and
Speaker 2: again es Merelda with the interpret when she rolls on
Speaker 2: the ground twice and is kind of like in the
Speaker 2: fetal position. It was hysterical.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that Sabrina scene on. That was super good.
Speaker 3: It was so funny. And that's when so again here
Speaker 3: I am actual coach. I coach phenomenal dancers, phenomenal dancers,
Speaker 3: and I'm going, okay, not one of them has done
Speaker 3: one technical aspect. They've basically just been slide. They've been
Speaker 3: doing the chacha slide separately. There's not a lot going
Speaker 3: on here. And then when Sabrina's part comes on, I'm like, Oh,
Speaker 3: it's to distinguish that they're not really back. Oh got it? Okay,
Speaker 3: because you know, sometimes it's tough. Sometimes whoever is directing
Speaker 3: or producing the movie doesn't really know a lot about dance.
Speaker 3: So they'll have someone come out, an actor, will audition,
Speaker 3: do their audition piece, throw a little freestyle in the
Speaker 3: audition room, and the director goes, that was great, and
Speaker 3: a real dancer is going that was not great, sir,
Speaker 3: that was garbage. So I wasn't really quite sure, and
Speaker 3: I realized they were setting themselves up to not be
Speaker 3: a great set up of real trained, real trained dancers.
Speaker 3: So then I clicked into the reality of what was
Speaker 3: happening in front of me, and I went, all right,
Speaker 3: let's let's not be let's calm down. Okay, this isn't
Speaker 3: your team. They're not dancing for you.
Speaker 2: Is it wrong that The one of the only things
Speaker 2: I was thinking during that scene was they're they're practicing
Speaker 2: up on the catwalk because in the in the auto
Speaker 2: mechanics room, because they need to use the car down there.
Speaker 1: Who's turning on and off the music down there? It's
Speaker 1: like somebody has.
Speaker 3: To run down, Oh, that's a good turn, and then all.
Speaker 2: The way back up to do their dance.
Speaker 3: I was stuck on thinking the reality of what happened
Speaker 3: with that basketball team happens to me at the school
Speaker 3: I work out, and all the my you know, my
Speaker 3: friends and coaches that I know throughout Orange County the
Speaker 3: dance team, and it happens in college too. The dance
Speaker 3: team is like the lowest on the totem pole of
Speaker 3: who gets time in the gym and the proper facility
Speaker 3: to train the teams. Really we are it's basketball comes in,
Speaker 3: Volleyball comes in. We've got these little clinics for baby
Speaker 3: kids that you know are learning basketball, and then we
Speaker 3: get the time, and then between them it is I
Speaker 3: was already again, I'm way too in, I'm way too
Speaker 3: connected to this that I didn't even see a perfect
Speaker 3: Sabrina C's moment of who was turning on and off that.
Speaker 2: That car, the car with the music.
Speaker 3: Yeah, some of my friends, their dance team dances in
Speaker 3: the cafeteria. They push tables aside and that's where they practice,
Speaker 3: so sad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, okay, I have to ask them, this is
Speaker 2: really the first time we're bringing up your whole dance
Speaker 2: team and stuff like that. Are they cheaty girls fans?
Speaker 3: Oh? Man, you know, they are not as much. They
Speaker 3: think I'm a huge dork, but they do get a
Speaker 3: kick out of they do. I think I'm a super goob,
Speaker 3: like I'm such a gub to them, But they get
Speaker 3: a kick out of other teams When we're at competitions
Speaker 3: that will recognize me and want to come up and
Speaker 3: take a picture. They get a kick out of that
Speaker 3: because to them, I'm just Sabrina. But when someone else
Speaker 3: who doesn't get to train with me sees me and
Speaker 3: wants to take a picture, they're like, oh, cool, that's
Speaker 3: our coach. Other than that, they continue to treat me
Speaker 3: like the goop that I am. And I'd prefer that
Speaker 3: that would be It would be hard to coach a
Speaker 3: bunch of kids that were starry eyed all the time, right, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: that makes it so I do prefer it. But at
Speaker 3: the same time, you know, hey, guys, yeah, I've kind
Speaker 3: of done a couple of cool things here and there, right,
Speaker 3: But yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like playing for eighty thousand people. I think that count.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm fip by the way. Maybe because I use
Speaker 3: words like hip, they think i'm a good hip.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I hate to tell you this, but you, as
Speaker 2: I did with my uniform behind me, from my super
Speaker 2: Pill Freedo uniform, you just picked your superhero name. You
Speaker 2: are from this day on Super Goob. I hate to
Speaker 2: tell you, Okay, but you I.
Speaker 3: Want to Kate, then I want to Kate.
Speaker 2: Just pick your superhero name.
Speaker 3: Cool. I'm good with that.
Speaker 2: So the audition scene, not even that like before we
Speaker 2: got to the dance audition part, but the actual audition scene.
Speaker 2: We have everybody come in and the new coach breaks
Speaker 2: down what everybody has to do to be on the.
Speaker 3: Team, the expectations of the season, and it seems to
Speaker 3: me that they're pretty normal things that they ask.
Speaker 2: Like she says, for instance, you were gonna wear your
Speaker 2: gym uniform, white sox, and clean shoes, and one of
Speaker 2: the girl leaves. One of the girls stands up and
Speaker 2: leaves because she says, I'm not scrubbing my sneakers.
Speaker 3: No, no, thank you, that is way too much work
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 2: I'm not cleaning my shoes no one can have a
Speaker 2: failing grade. Two more girls get up and leave them out.
Speaker 2: That is understandable.
Speaker 3: You mean I have to do school at school, I'm
Speaker 3: done in order to do this. No, that's too much.
Speaker 2: No, no jewelry, no dark lipstick, no long painted fingernails.
Speaker 2: Two more girls leave.
Speaker 3: I have never felt more heard in that last one.
Speaker 3: Will What do you mean?
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 3: Anyone that has coached under me knows that well. Not
Speaker 3: the lipstick, the long fingernails that they are going to
Speaker 3: try to dance with is that is a rule? My girls,
Speaker 3: they don't even put acrolix on by the time I
Speaker 3: have just harped on them about this, the long nails.
Speaker 3: What was the other one?
Speaker 1: It was long nails, no dark lipstick, no jewelry.
Speaker 3: Jewelry is another one. They are rules. You cannot compete
Speaker 3: with them. That's a rule for cheerleading. So this is
Speaker 3: where it's hard because my program is connected with the
Speaker 3: cheer squad. So but we give them the same rules.
Speaker 3: We're not gonna tell the cheerleaders they can't have long
Speaker 3: nails and then let the dancers do it. So we
Speaker 3: keep them accountable together. But the girls cannot handle it.
Speaker 3: It upsets them every year around homecoming when they want
Speaker 3: to get their long nails, and I call them Cardi
Speaker 3: B nails. I love Cardi B. I love her nails.
Speaker 3: I just don't want my dancers having them during the
Speaker 3: season or long while they're supposed to be in uniform.
Speaker 3: They're all different colors.
Speaker 1: What's too long because you have long nails? Are those
Speaker 1: too long?
Speaker 2: Are those?
Speaker 3: Okay I'm not dancing and I'm not in unify what.
Speaker 2: I'm saying are those? Would those be too long for
Speaker 2: your dancers?
Speaker 3: These would be way too long?
Speaker 2: Way too really? Okay?
Speaker 3: Okay, so yeah, of course that's you know, hard that
Speaker 3: the coach gets to wear them and they can't.
Speaker 2: But you come in just dark lipstick, jacked out in
Speaker 2: jewelry with super long nails, like, here's what we're doing.
Speaker 3: Girls, got mister t jewelry And yes, and and my
Speaker 3: nails are you know, looking like I can talk with
Speaker 3: my nails? Click click click. So anyways, but yes, I
Speaker 3: have never felt more heard. My dancers, if they ever
Speaker 3: heard that line, would probably look and I was in
Speaker 3: the room, would probably look straight at me like this
Speaker 3: is where you probably got these wolves.
Speaker 2: I love that so much okay, so yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 2: the principal that we've already talked about the h the
Speaker 2: idea that the principal coming in and kind of saying,
Speaker 2: we're the basketball team's in here. Though they made him
Speaker 2: cool about it, where he's like, i'll leave, You're right,
Speaker 2: this was a mistake.
Speaker 1: She's like, no, you need the baskets. Both the teachers
Speaker 1: are cool. There's almost like a weird sexual tension between
Speaker 1: the two of them.
Speaker 2: But that happened.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, I don't remember this part of this.
Speaker 2: A lot of guys in the direction because there's a
Speaker 2: couple scenes where they have them both from off camera
Speaker 2: and then come in and face each other and then
Speaker 2: step back off camera.
Speaker 3: Again, so close together. Yeah, yes, there's a lot of
Speaker 3: personal space being used by both.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what they were what they were going
Speaker 1: for there.
Speaker 2: But okay, so a lot of girls leave, but she
Speaker 2: ends up getting the team that she gets, And now
Speaker 2: we're going to start. Is she starting the way that
Speaker 2: you're supposed to start, Sabrina, because I don't any of this.
Speaker 2: This is where you said the coaching was.
Speaker 3: Yes. I love that she starts this team with a run.
Speaker 3: My girls run a mile before every practice. Okay, it's
Speaker 3: part of conditioning, it's part of building strength and endurance.
Speaker 3: Makes sense, It's it's also part of you know, I
Speaker 3: have a huge push towards treating my dancers as athletes
Speaker 3: because they are sure and that's part of every school's
Speaker 3: you know program pretty much is that there's a there's
Speaker 3: amount of running. Yeah. So I loved that the actual
Speaker 3: dance practices didn't seem Again, this is when I what
Speaker 3: is she doing? Why aren't they drilling? Why aren't you know,
Speaker 3: to the point where when it comes to the first competition,
Speaker 3: it's like, well, no, wonder if they look like that.
Speaker 3: Those practices were not set up correctly, There's no eaven
Speaker 3: gonna look great. It was kind of just chaos. It
Speaker 3: just seemed a lot of a lot of chaos, not
Speaker 3: actual real good conditioning dancing and things like that. I
Speaker 3: would have loved them to be drilling a lot harder.
Speaker 2: I think that that's well, I think the first I
Speaker 2: think the reason they did that the first time was
Speaker 2: to show that while she took the job as the coach,
Speaker 2: dancing was still behind her and she didn't want to
Speaker 2: have anything to do with it. And that was one
Speaker 2: of the kind of issues I had with the movie
Speaker 2: is they they did the you don't seem to really
Speaker 2: want to be here thing like three different times. Right,
Speaker 2: It wasn't they. It wasn't They didn't come to her
Speaker 2: one time and say like, look, you got to teach us.
Speaker 2: It was one girl came to her and said, I
Speaker 2: feel like you could teach us a lot more. Then
Speaker 2: another girl came to her later and said, I feel
Speaker 2: like you don't want to be here. Then another girl,
Speaker 2: So it seemed like the same scene three times before
Speaker 2: she finally said okay, and three times she said, wow,
Speaker 2: is it really feel that way? You know, I don't want.
Speaker 3: To Oh I didn't see how yeah, okay, And.
Speaker 2: I would like to have seen a little bit more
Speaker 2: like you're saying of, you know, like bring it on,
Speaker 2: which again, much bigger film and a lot more time
Speaker 2: to develop the characters. But you know, they showed them practicing,
Speaker 2: they showed them learning their routines, they showed them getting
Speaker 2: better and progressing, whereas this one kind of just went
Speaker 2: did a competition and then maybe showed a little bit
Speaker 2: of something, but then just another competition where now they're better, right,
Speaker 2: and then the last competition where they were a question
Speaker 2: for you, is the good luck chanting thing at a
Speaker 2: team as you're leaving, Is that a real thing? As
Speaker 2: you pass the other team you chant good luck?
Speaker 3: No, not at competitions. That does happen at camps during
Speaker 3: the summer that the teams go to.
Speaker 1: That's dropped that one.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's where. That's where that chance that. As far
Speaker 3: as my experience, I've never been at a at a
Speaker 3: competition that they do that. But it is something that
Speaker 3: some some teams do. It's I don't know, it's kind
Speaker 3: of cheesy. I feel a lot of teams don't. But
Speaker 3: in the sense of what I do love about the
Speaker 3: community that we have within these is of course yes
Speaker 3: we are all competitive, but there is a big thing
Speaker 3: that coaches take really a real big, you know, aspect
Speaker 3: that we try to bring in is making these kids
Speaker 3: not just competitors but good sportsman's and making sure that
Speaker 3: you are you are when you pass you know, different
Speaker 3: teams when you're at competitions, you do wish them good
Speaker 3: luck good luck today you guys, you know or if
Speaker 3: you see it, I love your costume, not not a
Speaker 3: fake way, but you know, to it's not about hating
Speaker 3: everyone that's out of competition. It's not about that. It's
Speaker 3: go out there, do some fierce competition worthy teams out
Speaker 3: on the floor, but off the floor, be a good person,
Speaker 3: be a good competitor. So that part is is true
Speaker 3: true nature.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great. Well, let's break down what we think
Speaker 2: is the best scene of the film. Daisy and her
Speaker 2: boyfriend Chewie, who again probably shouldn't be allowed within five
Speaker 2: hundred feet of the school, is in the girl's locker room.
Speaker 3: Again a hum like, why are you in the girl's
Speaker 3: locker room, Chewie? It's now who let you in here?
Speaker 2: I get what they're doing. It's it's supposed to be Saturday, right,
Speaker 2: and you know that nobody's supposed to be there. She's
Speaker 2: got to pick something up for her locker. He's there
Speaker 2: with his girlfriend.
Speaker 3: H If I were to have if I were to
Speaker 3: walk on campus and be on a on a weekend,
Speaker 3: which there's a lot of teams that are practicing and
Speaker 3: stuff over the weekend. Sure a lot of activities are
Speaker 3: happening on school campuses, and I were to walk into
Speaker 3: the girl's locker room and one of my girls was
Speaker 3: in there with her boyfriend, I would have lost my
Speaker 3: she's I would have freaked out.
Speaker 2: So especially if her boyfriend's thirty eight. Yes, that's the
Speaker 2: that's there. There in lies the other problem. But they
Speaker 2: they grab her stuff and they look inside the gym.
Speaker 2: They hear music. They look inside the gym and there
Speaker 2: is miss Bartlett flash dancing straight up. Like, now, is
Speaker 2: this this is good dancing? Right? Is it good dancing?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Sabrina not dance in that era? Nowhere near it? Why
Speaker 3: was she transported back so far with the with the
Speaker 3: moves style of dancing.
Speaker 1: That's eighties dancing, right, she did not?
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, early eighties, early early eighties before her time
Speaker 3: of dancing. She did not look that old if she
Speaker 3: was an older teacher and doing that, okay, yeah, why
Speaker 3: did she get transported into the flash dance? That's no,
Speaker 3: she looked like a young teacher.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, she wasn't particularly hit.
Speaker 3: That bothered me so much. This is when I really
Speaker 3: started to lose going. I don't know if I can
Speaker 3: watch this anymore. I don't know if this is gonna
Speaker 3: get better.
Speaker 2: Because you know it because and then she finishes the
Speaker 2: dance and she breaks down crying, which again, good acting beat.
Speaker 1: The way she does it is a great acting moment.
Speaker 3: I will tell you that some people really work through
Speaker 3: their emotions and things that are going on through movement,
Speaker 3: and I am a pure supporter of that.
Speaker 2: I think she's also alone that they. I think they've
Speaker 2: brought it up to where she hasn't danced in a
Speaker 2: long time. Right, she's kind of ripping off the band
Speaker 2: aid and by herself. Yes, she's getting it's it's cathartic.
Speaker 2: She's out there, So I understand that. The then Chewie
Speaker 2: and his young girlfriend leave the daisy. They leave the
Speaker 2: gym and daisy and and Chewy says, I think the
Speaker 2: teacher's hot, which makes sense because they're the same age
Speaker 2: and and and she's like, no, the dancing.
Speaker 1: Why has she never shown us that dancing that she
Speaker 1: needs to show us that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would I would have also been pissed, but
Speaker 3: I also would have been like, you're the one that's
Speaker 3: teaching needed. I don't want to.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: No, if I want to do that, I want to
Speaker 3: go get one of those old videos that people used
Speaker 3: to work out to, because I think I'm gonna learn
Speaker 3: more off that.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, that's Jane Fonda.
Speaker 3: Okay, you were giving me Jane Fonda, and you're my coach.
Speaker 3: I'm out, I am out, throwing my pomp poms in.
Speaker 3: I'm done.
Speaker 2: I don't know again, I got it here, Jane.
Speaker 1: All the dancing look the same to me.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I just because I don't know it. I
Speaker 2: don't know it at all. Again.
Speaker 3: I started getting I'm getting hot right now thinking about
Speaker 3: how I felt during this.
Speaker 2: Can's help. So then they go on there, as you
Speaker 2: might expect in a Disney movie, they go on. She
Speaker 2: learns to work with her team, The team learns to
Speaker 2: work with her. They learn to work together. Daisy gets
Speaker 2: an opportunity to really show her stuff and gets into
Speaker 2: the school that she's going to want to get into.
Speaker 2: The team does well. Everybody's happy, good good Disney.
Speaker 3: Can I say I loved every time they did those
Speaker 3: close ups on Camille. Yeah, at the beginning of the
Speaker 3: of the dances. Man, she's fierce. She those looks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would, I would.
Speaker 3: You're about to get a girl, You're about to get it, like,
Speaker 3: oh man, she was so hyped. I love that part
Speaker 3: time they did it.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 3: She was like, I'm coming for you. That is exactly
Speaker 3: what I tell my girls when they've got there for
Speaker 3: yours like jazz dance, Like look at those judges straight
Speaker 3: in the eyes and say, you have no idea what
Speaker 3: you're about to see. I'm about to blow your mind
Speaker 3: with this dance. You know that Camille, Camille goes right
Speaker 3: into it.
Speaker 1: She's got the cheetah in her. Yeah, let's do our
Speaker 1: real reviews.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Every week we do our real reviews, which we take
Speaker 2: a five star review and a one star review, which
Speaker 2: are completely and totally real off the internet machine. I
Speaker 2: think I did the one star last time, so I'm
Speaker 2: going to leave the one star to you. Hey, I
Speaker 2: will do the five star. This is from Mom to
Speaker 2: three girls. As a parent, I always appreciate it when
Speaker 2: we see something on TV that allows me to start
Speaker 2: up a conversation with my kids about these issues. My
Speaker 2: oldest daughter is a competitive gymnast, and we saw this
Speaker 2: movie for the first time a week before her first competition.
Speaker 2: This movie was a great way to help her understand
Speaker 2: the difference between being quote the best end quote her best.
Speaker 2: Seeing the characters work hard to reach their goal while
Speaker 2: still having fun really helped her get in the right
Speaker 2: frame of mind to compete. Nice nice five star review,
Speaker 2: nice thing mom sees it with her with their kids.
Speaker 3: Love that, and one hundred agree to with that messaging.
Speaker 1: Love it, Love that.
Speaker 3: All right. Uh, I'm gonna say this is a one
Speaker 3: star from d Element Element Okay, I'm always thinking. I'm
Speaker 3: just you know, the user names get a little tricky
Speaker 3: for me. Anyway, it's a big file of poo. It's well.
Speaker 1: I mean, the movie does have some very real time.
Speaker 2: Way too hard ch.
Speaker 3: Was way too harsh talking. The direction wasn't bad. I mean, no, agreed,
Speaker 3: way too harsh. It was not No. I I especially
Speaker 3: going back to that messaging of the five star the
Speaker 3: end of it, I got over every single thing that
Speaker 3: I was harping on and you know, feeling different again,
Speaker 3: trying to disconnect myself. Had a hard time. I think
Speaker 3: it's just because I'm in the midst of competition. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I would say, yeah, But the end messaging both Chewie's
Speaker 3: messaging with what she did, the decision she made with
Speaker 3: her boyfriend to just go all right, buddy, kicks, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go ahead and progress my life, him realizing he
Speaker 3: needs to do the same, and then as a coach
Speaker 3: the best and her best. I could cry right now, thinking, wow, coach, yes,
Speaker 3: hit it on the mark of what you should be
Speaker 3: teaching your kids. It's not about perfection. It's about your perfection.
Speaker 3: It's about you being better every time you go out
Speaker 3: there and do it.
Speaker 2: Bam, wow, Okay, just nice. Then I'm not even gonna
Speaker 2: say what I was gonna say about having some montageousues.
Speaker 2: We're gonna skip right past that and we're gonna go
Speaker 2: right to our three and a half. Right, you're right,
Speaker 2: you're right on the We're gonna pretend we're not. Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: three and a half facts. As everybody knows, that's three
Speaker 2: real facts and one fact from the internet machine.
Speaker 1: That might be real. We might just be spreading a rumor.
Speaker 1: We can't confirm it.
Speaker 3: We have no idea.
Speaker 1: Do what I think you started last time? Do you
Speaker 1: want me to start?
Speaker 3: I did you do this time? You go this time?
Speaker 2: So the films, this is our first one. The film's catchphrase,
Speaker 2: the motivating and simple ci sipuete translates to yes I can,
Speaker 2: and that was the motto of the United farm Workers
Speaker 2: of America and was coined during the nineteen seventy two
Speaker 2: to twenty five day fast from activists Caesar Shavez by
Speaker 2: the union's co founder Dolores Queta.
Speaker 3: Wow, all right, little history for you, little history. I
Speaker 3: love that, Cipe. Let's do it. Yes we can, all right.
Speaker 3: The second one is actress Elizabeth Song, who played the
Speaker 3: school's receptionist. Miss Kim actually did attend Julliard and earned
Speaker 3: a BFA in dance. She'd eventually also appear in a
Speaker 3: ton of shows, including The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and
Speaker 3: Charmed Wow. Get it Elizabeth Key.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Number three is according to the movie's writer, the
Speaker 2: woman who inspired the film came up with the title
Speaker 2: kick It Up, which really is just another bring it on.
Speaker 2: But there was already a kick it Up movie, so
Speaker 2: they added.
Speaker 3: Gotta gotta all right, there was a kick It Up movie?
Speaker 3: Was there? I do remember.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping it's either soccer or football related about the
Speaker 2: kicker on a.
Speaker 3: Football, you know what? I think that was along the
Speaker 3: you remember the era of bend it like Beckham.
Speaker 2: Of course those.
Speaker 3: Movies were I Kick It Up? Was that? Okay, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna have to look it up and no, because I
Speaker 3: feel like I know that movie exactly because I love soccer.
Speaker 3: All right, our half truth maybe not truth. Canner cannot deny,
Speaker 3: We're not sure. Mentioned only by Collider. They said that
Speaker 3: Gotta Kick It Up was actually cutely referenced in Barbie
Speaker 3: by the end of the film, what specifically by America
Speaker 3: Frere's husband both in the movie and real life, Ryan
Speaker 3: Peers Williams. They don't give the actual example, but they
Speaker 3: just say near the end of the film, this might
Speaker 3: make me watch it again again because I'm gonna need
Speaker 3: to know exactly when that happens.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, that's all I'm gonna be looking for at
Speaker 1: this point.
Speaker 3: Pretty cool. I know you're just gonna be so distracted.
Speaker 3: Where's the reference? Where's the reference?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the whole time, You're like, I didn't see anything
Speaker 2: of the movie. I'm just waiting for i Gotta Kick
Speaker 2: It Up reference. All Right, we're gonna play a little
Speaker 2: bit here and Okay, So, considering that one of our
Speaker 2: facts was about the title of the movie, some people
Speaker 2: that we know have come up with other titles for
Speaker 2: the film, all right, and we need to pick what
Speaker 2: the best one is. So the first one is is
Speaker 2: Sisterhood of the Traveling Dance. We got to rank these,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: The second one is Cheetah twirls.
Speaker 3: So good, so good.
Speaker 1: The third one is might be my favorite bring it Off?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: To catch a Predator named Chewy?
Speaker 2: And then an actual real question would have been a
Speaker 2: better name.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I would have not been shocked if that was
Speaker 3: put on the table during the time of creating this film.
Speaker 2: That would have been a great name. I think that
Speaker 2: would have been a great name for the for the movie.
Speaker 2: But what's what's your favorite one at that list?
Speaker 3: Be honest, bring it off? I think I'm going You're gonna.
Speaker 2: Go bring it Off. As as funny as to catch
Speaker 2: a Predator named Chewy is, I don't think that could
Speaker 2: be a Disney movie. I think Bring It Off wins.
Speaker 2: Although Sisterhood of the Traveling Dance is also pretty great.
Speaker 2: Can we we've talked about some of them, can we
Speaker 2: do some Sabrina sees.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is one that I mean. I was, after
Speaker 3: again having a hard time to disconnect myself. It all
Speaker 3: came to this culmination of the end. So I was
Speaker 3: going to talk to you about how many times the
Speaker 3: dancers that were supposed to be the better teams were
Speaker 3: so often timing you could tell that the choreography was
Speaker 3: those were real. I could tell those were real routines
Speaker 3: that they somehow got their hands on teams and brought
Speaker 3: them in to film something, right. I could tell because
Speaker 3: their choreography was significantly different than what these actors were
Speaker 3: doing the main team that we were watching, significantly different
Speaker 3: because those routines were not really necessarily put together, like
Speaker 3: a real palm routine. And then we get to the end, right,
Speaker 3: They're going to the regionals, right, they get to the regionals,
Speaker 3: which I don't know what the other competitions they were
Speaker 3: calling actually were, because regionals are your first competition of
Speaker 3: the season, and then you go to is regionals. Those
Speaker 3: are like, you know, your your warm up comps, right, right,
Speaker 3: So that was confusing to me. But all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: they go up next Los Alamidos and I'm like, wait, oh, well,
Speaker 3: maybe you know there's some kind of significance with the
Speaker 3: movie bring it on as far as it being modern
Speaker 3: day high school and I think a high school centennial
Speaker 3: is where the storyline of this big reference. So I'm going, oh,
Speaker 3: they must have heard about Los Alamitos. Okay, cool, and
Speaker 3: then Los Alele the team comes out in there.
Speaker 2: I recognize the uniform team, a huge.
Speaker 3: That's been around, and they're so good. My girlfriend shout
Speaker 3: out Jen Ramirez, who has coached them for years and
Speaker 3: built a phenomenal program. Those are her girls there, and
Speaker 3: I'm going, I'm instantly text messaging Jen, Jen, what's going on?
Speaker 3: And she goes, I think you're texting the wrong Jen, Sabrina,
Speaker 3: I wasn't in a movie. I'd love to be in
Speaker 3: a movie. What are you talking about. I'm like, Jen,
Speaker 3: I'm looking at your girls' uniforms and she goes, oh,
Speaker 3: that's right. They did do this. So somehow one of
Speaker 3: her JV coaches was within the industry with choreography, found
Speaker 3: out about them looking for Palm teams and her girls
Speaker 3: were in it.
Speaker 2: Oh that's cool.
Speaker 3: Isn't that cool? So I recognize and then it just
Speaker 3: and I'm going, and of course theirs was the best
Speaker 3: team routine that had gone out onto the film, you know,
Speaker 3: on stage at that point. But what a cool I
Speaker 3: mean again, I'm trying to disconnect, disconnect and disconnect. Well
Speaker 3: right back in because my friend's team is in front
Speaker 3: of me dancing. They look great. They look sharp. They
Speaker 3: looked what I wish the rest of the teams that
Speaker 3: competed as well. As you know, the last performance was good.
Speaker 3: I feel like they could have gotten a few more
Speaker 3: dancers that were really technical to make it look like
Speaker 3: they were closer to the level of the Los Ale
Speaker 3: dancers that they were competing against, because the end says
Speaker 3: they got second, fair right, you know, they got second,
Speaker 3: but I wish it would have been a little bit
Speaker 3: more comparable of where they were dance wise. But again
Speaker 3: that's me being a dancer. Not everyone's a dancer. Not
Speaker 3: everyone understands Like, I didn't know that. Did it look?
Speaker 3: Did you see a huge difference in the dancing?
Speaker 2: No? I mean again, there was some I was watching
Speaker 2: it with Sue, who was like, hey, wow, that's they
Speaker 2: see some of them seem off, But I don't.
Speaker 3: I was it couldn't tell, right, Okay, I couldn't. Okay,
Speaker 3: So that's what I'm saying. Sometimes, you know, again our
Speaker 3: own experiences. I'm sure people watch Johnny Tsunami and things.
Speaker 2: And that's not how you surve for those.
Speaker 3: Guys can't board worth crap, you know, or whatever.
Speaker 2: So okay, yeah, you watch it differently as a dancer,
Speaker 2: you do, I get that. Yeah, well, can we rate
Speaker 2: it now? Yeah, let's rate it. So one out of ten,
Speaker 2: drumming desktops, sexy dances that end in crying, Julliard dropouts,
Speaker 2: Dusty pomp poms? What do? What should we do? Dusty pompoms? Horn?
Speaker 3: They did dust.
Speaker 2: It does? I'm sorry that sounds like a porn name.
Speaker 3: The poms they use at the first competition are so
Speaker 3: wrong in so many ways. Oh, they were so funny.
Speaker 2: You're right. You could have done Sabrina Sea. You could
Speaker 2: have done an hour of Sabrina Seas because you know
Speaker 2: this so well?
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean they had. They were back in the
Speaker 3: day with what the the you know, nineteen seventies dancing
Speaker 3: we saw with the pomp poms, with the with the.
Speaker 2: Bob they set it up.
Speaker 1: They're all covered in like, uh yeah, they're covered in dust.
Speaker 3: They're giants.
Speaker 1: I say, then we gotta stick with dusty pompoms.
Speaker 3: We're gonna stick with dusty It's okay.
Speaker 2: One out of ten dusty pomp poms.
Speaker 3: What do you give this movie? I, in all honesty
Speaker 3: to wrap it up, no matter how much. Again I
Speaker 3: was nitpicking up stuff, sir, I shouldn't have been nitpicking
Speaker 3: at I really liked the end.
Speaker 2: Mission, the end, the message.
Speaker 3: Messaging to me brought it so high up in my ranking.
Speaker 3: I think it's a solid seven point five or seven five.
Speaker 2: Okay, you know we're not too far off. I was
Speaker 2: gonna give it a six point five to a seven.
Speaker 2: Dusty pom poms. Again I had and this is completely
Speaker 2: on me, This is not the movie. I just had
Speaker 2: trouble connecting with this movie because there wasn't a whole
Speaker 2: lot for a forty seven year old man to watching
Speaker 2: this movie. And again, that's not how I'm supposed to
Speaker 2: be watching it, but that's how I have to watch it.
Speaker 2: So I did not dislike it. The acting was solid,
Speaker 2: the cast is great.
Speaker 3: Thing was great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought there was, you know, some obvious issues
Speaker 2: with the with the some of the spacing of the movie,
Speaker 2: some of the timing of the movie. I could not
Speaker 2: and this is like again just stuck in my head
Speaker 2: the age thing through me. Yeah, but not, you know,
Speaker 2: not a bad movie. Again, there's movies I like less
Speaker 2: than others, but I haven't sat through one and been like,
Speaker 2: this is the worst thing I've ever seen in my mind,
Speaker 2: not at.
Speaker 3: All not at all, even with me getting caught up
Speaker 3: on you know, technicalities of.
Speaker 1: The dance world.
Speaker 3: Still a great movie. I mean, we've got a whole
Speaker 3: Latin cast that is doing wonderful out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just felt girl empowerment of just living your own life,
Speaker 3: not allowing you want to make decisions for you, you
Speaker 3: make your own choices and not let yourself get pulled back.
Speaker 3: All of that to me was great.
Speaker 1: Always trust Disney for a good message exactly.
Speaker 3: I loved that part. All right.
Speaker 2: Well, thanks everybody for joining us for gott to Kick
Speaker 2: It Up. Uh, and make sure to sign up for
Speaker 2: our feed because we have a park Opper episode this
Speaker 2: week with Camille Guatti. Yes, the amazing Daisy from Gotta
Speaker 2: Kick It Up. I can't wait to talk to her,
Speaker 2: which is awesome bad ass. Yeah, she totally is. And
Speaker 2: the next movie we're going to be watching is Mash
Speaker 2: with my wife Susan. No, I'm kidding, that is not
Speaker 2: at all what it is. The next movie we're going
Speaker 2: to be watching just it's just like wait, what just
Speaker 2: in time for Saint Patrick's Day. Yes, we're gonna be
Speaker 2: watching the comedy that a lot of people have asked
Speaker 2: us to which is the luck of the Irish.
Speaker 1: So I'm pretty sure it's on Disney Plus.
Speaker 2: You can go over and you can watch it before
Speaker 2: we kind of talk about the film, or you can
Speaker 2: let us talk about the film first and you can
Speaker 2: watch it after.
Speaker 1: It's completely up to you. That's the joy of freedom.
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Speaker 2: all so much for joining us, and we will see
Speaker 2: you next time.
Speaker 3: Thank you bye.
Speaker 1: They were in middle school