Speaker 1: Hello, will are you right to this descendant?
Speaker 2: Wow? Oh oh, I know I got nothing, I got
Speaker 2: nothing to start with. This is this is the best
Speaker 2: entrance I've seen in a podcast in a long time. Wow.
Speaker 1: Yes, I just had to get a specially descendant. Ready.
Speaker 1: I was moved by this movie as you can.
Speaker 2: I can tell this movie wormed its way into your well,
Speaker 2: your hair what we would.
Speaker 3: Say, okay, no, but for real, I gotta take it
Speaker 3: off because it is so hot.
Speaker 1: It's just to say hi and I am ready.
Speaker 2: That is a great way to start.
Speaker 1: Had to be.
Speaker 2: Oh that was well then that leads me right into it.
Speaker 2: Perfect start for the show this week. Yes, what's your
Speaker 2: favorite Disney villain ever?
Speaker 3: Ooh, you know, I really was very attuned to Maleficent.
Speaker 3: I really like just as far as it being like
Speaker 3: to me, like one of the scariest villains, right, like
Speaker 3: one of the ultimate scariest villains. So, I mean it's
Speaker 3: perfect for what we're doing today because she was all
Speaker 3: over it.
Speaker 2: I love that. Yeah, she's I mean she was she
Speaker 2: was bad before Disney made bad bad, and that was
Speaker 2: pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: I think as a voiceover actor, I have because his
Speaker 2: voice is so legendary and iconic. I have to go
Speaker 2: with Scar and Jeremy Iron's performance King that A. It
Speaker 2: scared the hell out of me, and his voice is
Speaker 2: just so cool. The characters so evil, I know, well
Speaker 2: him tough to beat.
Speaker 3: Scar and Mufassa's voices together were just like I mean,
Speaker 3: talk about like the epitome of stepping into like what
Speaker 3: you would think a line would actually sound like r right,
Speaker 3: both of them especially they're fighting scenes and stuff.
Speaker 2: But when you can have that James Earl Jones voice
Speaker 2: to do Darth Vader and be the ultimate bad guy
Speaker 2: but then also b Mufasa and be the ultimate good guy,
Speaker 2: come on.
Speaker 1: Best dad ever?
Speaker 2: Like best dad ever? Oh wow, if.
Speaker 1: I could have him just talk to me all day
Speaker 1: in general.
Speaker 2: Hey, exactly, every time I hear any voice that just
Speaker 2: should be James Earl j just exactly. Well, Welcome back
Speaker 2: to Magical Rewind, the show that makes you want to
Speaker 2: grab your friends, your PJS, and your popcorn and go
Speaker 2: back to a time when all the houses were smart,
Speaker 2: the waves, tsunamis and the high School's musical.
Speaker 1: I'm Wilford Dell and I'm Sabrina Bryan.
Speaker 2: Oh well, everybody so excited because the hits just keep coming.
Speaker 2: Here on Magical Rewind we are NonStop and we are
Speaker 2: we are hitting it hard, we are hitting it fast,
Speaker 2: and as this week, we're approaching a movie that spawned
Speaker 2: one of the channel's most successful franchises of all time
Speaker 2: by far, the twenty fifteen film Wait you hear this?
Speaker 2: We're talking about today? It would turn into two sequels,
Speaker 2: a prequel spinoff, series of shorts, an animated spinoff, and
Speaker 2: a royal wedding television special. The soundtrack hit number one
Speaker 2: on the Billboard Top two hundred charts. They've sold almost
Speaker 2: four million dollars, and it accomplished something that very few
Speaker 2: Disney projects have ever had the chance of even attempting,
Speaker 2: yet alone crushing like they have, which is completely messing
Speaker 2: with their own cherished ip. They turned all their care
Speaker 2: oh amazing. So I am, of course talking about The
Speaker 2: Descendants a juggernaut and a great representation of what the
Speaker 2: dcom has suddenly morphed into. We've gone from the smaller,
Speaker 2: awesome brink kind of hey, we're roller Blade and stuff to.
Speaker 3: This into full blown giant musicals like giant.
Speaker 2: Feature films, insane dance numbers and hundreds of extras, great locations.
Speaker 2: I mean, it is just we've gone from one extreme
Speaker 2: to the another. It's amazing. If you want to watch
Speaker 2: with us. By the way, it's on Disney Plus now
Speaker 2: so you can go watch it, come back to or
Speaker 2: of course hang out for the conversation and just reminisce
Speaker 2: freely nice.
Speaker 3: So I have been so excited to talk to you
Speaker 3: about this one because I know when it comes to musicals,
Speaker 3: we've talked in the past that you are not necessarily
Speaker 3: a lover of break into dance and singing like, yes,
Speaker 3: I mean how you feel through song like I know,
Speaker 3: not your cup of tea.
Speaker 2: No, I love musical movies. I love movies that are
Speaker 2: about music, like if you give me a commitment or
Speaker 2: a ray or a walk line or a Cheetah girls,
Speaker 2: where it's like it works into the story. It's somebody performing,
Speaker 2: you're actually vocalists. Yeah, I don't have a problem with that.
Speaker 2: My problem comes with when you're walking down the street
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden everyone breaks into song and
Speaker 2: somehow the postal worker behind you also knows the dance
Speaker 2: steps right. That throws me. That being said, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be completely and totally honest. I went into this movie going, okay,
Speaker 2: just get out of your own way, try to watch musical.
Speaker 2: It's it'll be okay. I love this movie, Yes, okay,
Speaker 2: I've been humming the songs all week. I loved the characters.
Speaker 2: I thought the acting was on point. I absolutely loved
Speaker 2: this movie to the point where, and this is not
Speaker 2: a joke, I stopped myself from watching the second one
Speaker 2: because I know that we're gonna eventually do it on
Speaker 2: the show, so I said, no, hold off, but I
Speaker 2: wanted to go right into part two.
Speaker 1: I did too.
Speaker 3: It was so hard to not, just because of course
Speaker 3: on Disney, plus it comes.
Speaker 1: Right there for you, and really, what the loick of
Speaker 1: a button?
Speaker 3: And it was so hard to go no, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: wait because we have other movies, and I kind of
Speaker 3: like the anticipation knowing that the second and the third
Speaker 3: they get better and better. Happened with High School Musical,
Speaker 3: I know from my experience with The Cheetah.
Speaker 1: Girls that's how it was.
Speaker 3: So, you know, the the actors get more involved in
Speaker 3: the characters, everything builds, the dance scenes better, like.
Speaker 1: It just all all evolves. And so I didn't want
Speaker 1: to jump into it too fast?
Speaker 2: You said this before you so again, I haven't seen
Speaker 2: a lot of these. So you you think Cheatagirls Too
Speaker 2: is better than Cheatagirls?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 2: And you think High School Musical two is better than
Speaker 2: High School Musical.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think on certain levels, like for instance, budget, right,
Speaker 3: what the what the movie has to go? Now? This
Speaker 3: was a giant one from the start, so sure, I
Speaker 3: can't even imagine where it's gonna go. We had a
Speaker 3: digital oh, I mean, it's a dragon dragging. We wouldn't
Speaker 3: Game of Throne so fast. So I don't know. I
Speaker 3: think it would go the same way that I feel
Speaker 3: the other franchises that they have done, And it's just
Speaker 3: necessarily that they're better storylines all the time. It's it's
Speaker 3: just you can see that the actors are really comfortable
Speaker 3: in their characters.
Speaker 1: You know these movies pretty quickly.
Speaker 3: They're not it's not a TV series where you're seeing
Speaker 3: them together for months and months and months and months.
Speaker 1: This is they're fast. They make movies fairly fast.
Speaker 2: Well this was I mean again, it was night and
Speaker 2: day from some of the Disney Channel movies we've already seen.
Speaker 1: Of course, yes, even the Wonderful World at.
Speaker 2: Disney, which had more money. You know, my date with
Speaker 2: the President's daughter. You go from that budget to this budget.
Speaker 2: And granted it's it's twenty years later, but still, I
Speaker 2: mean it's night and day. So okay, you liked it, right, Oh?
Speaker 1: I loved it. I loved it. I am.
Speaker 3: I mean, I borrowed this purple wig, but I think
Speaker 3: you need to actually purchase one so that I can
Speaker 3: get Monroe hooked on this and then this could possibly
Speaker 3: be you know, Halloween the next year.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, you don't need a wig. You could
Speaker 2: just die the hair. You could just go you could
Speaker 2: go straight maul and just die the hair.
Speaker 1: Oh are you crazy? Are you crazy? You know how
Speaker 1: hard it is to get this blonde?
Speaker 2: Will? No?
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 1: I'm not mad about it?
Speaker 2: All right. So before we break the barrier here pun intended,
Speaker 2: why don't we get into the synopsis of the film,
Speaker 2: the soon to be crowned Prince son of Aradon.
Speaker 1: Oh, dream boat is Dreamboat? That kid so cute?
Speaker 2: I love. We're already into that. We'll get into some
Speaker 2: strange things when it comes to the lineage of whatever
Speaker 2: the royalty line is here and why this kid is
Speaker 2: taking the plastic crown at sixteen while his father is
Speaker 2: still capable. But we'll get into all that in a bit. No,
Speaker 2: he's fine. The pseudabe crowned prince, son of Aradon, offers
Speaker 2: the trouble making children of iconic Disney villains the chance
Speaker 2: to attend prep school in his once off limits kingdom. So,
Speaker 2: with instructions from their parents to forever corrupt the monarchy,
Speaker 2: will they help the villains regain power or embrace their
Speaker 2: innate goodness and save the good guys. As for the cast,
Speaker 2: who were phenomenal from top to bottom, they really were
Speaker 2: top notch young actors. It stars Dove Cameron as mal
Speaker 2: who was the devious daughter of Maleficent. She started her
Speaker 2: Disney journey everybody, I'm sure knows on Livin Maddie from
Speaker 2: twenty thirteen to twenty seventeen, which she won an Emmy four,
Speaker 2: which is anytime you can win an Emmy on a
Speaker 2: Disney Channel show as a young actor, that's you're getting
Speaker 2: it out of it. Yes, it's so difficult to do.
Speaker 2: A lot of peop people are nominated, but actually winning
Speaker 2: Disney Channel shows as a young actor very difficult, So
Speaker 2: kudos to her on that. Since then, she has become
Speaker 2: a serious, bona fide pop start, even winning the Best
Speaker 2: New Artist at the twenty twenty three American Music Awards
Speaker 2: and the MTV VMA's I mean, I'm crazy. And it's
Speaker 2: worth noting she has forty eight million Instagram followers and
Speaker 2: I did the math. That is forty eight million more
Speaker 2: than me.
Speaker 1: I knew you were gonna say that.
Speaker 2: I thought that was crazy.
Speaker 1: But she may or may not actually post here and there.
Speaker 2: Oh does she not post a lot? I get I
Speaker 2: don't know, you know, she does? You do not? I
Speaker 2: see what you're saying. Yes, Oh, I see what you're saying. Yes.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: So apparently being on Instagram is one of the first
Speaker 2: ways to gain followers.
Speaker 1: Helps to gain your followers, I've heard.
Speaker 2: I've heard that's true.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: Next, we have Cameron Boyce, who we tragically lost in
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen at just twenty years old due to complications
Speaker 2: from a seizure. And it was not just a huge
Speaker 2: loss for the Disney family. I knew very little about
Speaker 2: this young man, and I met some people that knew him,
Speaker 2: and then I read his story. You did not have
Speaker 2: to know anything about this guy to be affected by
Speaker 2: his loss. It seemed like he was the epitome of
Speaker 2: just a good human being who was crushing it in
Speaker 2: his career. Oh, everybody loved him.
Speaker 3: He was in the middle of this, he was in
Speaker 3: he was I think he had other projects that were
Speaker 3: on the table, and you know, for his parents and
Speaker 3: his family to lose a family member that young. I
Speaker 3: fully cried when I actually read into what happened.
Speaker 1: I knew he had passed away, but I didn't know
Speaker 1: from what. And you know, that.
Speaker 3: Is devastating to hear totally it was. He seemed like
Speaker 3: he was such a great friend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some people knew nothing about Disney, knew nothing about
Speaker 2: his films, and just read his story and were so
Speaker 2: captivated by it. Talk about somebody who pops and sparkles
Speaker 2: on the screen and who has left just an incredible leg.
Speaker 2: So that was a terrible loss. And then uh booboo
Speaker 2: Stewart as Jay the sticky figure, son of ja'far. He
Speaker 2: was in Twilight, but he was, my guess, is a
Speaker 2: shirtless young man who turned into something. If I know
Speaker 2: anything about Twilight, yes, I was team shirt By the way,
Speaker 2: I don't know what that means, but keep your shirts
Speaker 2: on it's rained. Yes, yes, exactly, that's what I thought.
Speaker 1: It was very very true. Yes, it's funny.
Speaker 3: While we were watching, as I said, this guy could
Speaker 3: have been in Twilight.
Speaker 1: Well it turns out he.
Speaker 3: Wasn't Twentylight because he like perfectly could just slit right
Speaker 3: into that cast.
Speaker 1: And you know, he was.
Speaker 3: He was rough and he looked you know, masculine, and
Speaker 3: he just I mean I loved his character. Long hair
Speaker 3: and long hair, the gorgeous bone structure. I mean, and
Speaker 3: I loved his character.
Speaker 2: So that's two for you so far. You've got him,
Speaker 2: and you've got You've got the Crown.
Speaker 3: Prince Kenny Ortegan knows what he's doing when he's casting
Speaker 3: these men. I mean, he knows how to find the
Speaker 3: most prettiest in the bunch. Really he does there. I mean,
Speaker 3: these are good looking guys.
Speaker 2: Okay, So were you team Jacob or were you Team Edward?
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 3: If I could, I've watched the movies because I felt
Speaker 3: like I had to so many people loved them.
Speaker 1: I probably would have been team Yeah. I'm team Jacob.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, fair enough. I was team Woke. I'm in
Speaker 2: the ruck. Thead Ooh, I have this is not this
Speaker 2: is not the movie I thought it was. Then we
Speaker 2: have Sophia Carson plays Evy, the self obsessed daughter of
Speaker 2: the Evil Queen, which is a phenomenal character we'll get into.
Speaker 2: And she's had some Disney stops of course before doing
Speaker 2: this movie, including the New Adventures in Babysitting remake with
Speaker 2: Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 3: Yes, I got to sit behind them at their premiere.
Speaker 3: It was so exciting. That was a huge Disney Channel movie.
Speaker 3: I think it was their hundredth or was.
Speaker 2: That the hundredth. I knew they did something special for.
Speaker 3: The Yeah, they did a big, big premiere and had
Speaker 3: a lot of people back and I was fortunate enough
Speaker 3: to be able to sit right behind them, which was
Speaker 3: so fun because they.
Speaker 1: Were giggling and laughing and you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: like reliving while they were watching.
Speaker 2: Oh, We're gonna have to watch that movie, yea at
Speaker 2: some point, and I'll have to get out of my
Speaker 2: own head because I so fell in love with Elizabeth
Speaker 2: Shoe with that and Karate Kid in the first one
Speaker 2: that I'll try to keep it. Yes, it'll be fine,
Speaker 2: I'll be okay.
Speaker 1: It's different enough that you don't really.
Speaker 2: That's great. Yeah, Hey, I liked the New Karate Kid
Speaker 2: whole nother story. But since she was in you know,
Speaker 2: did her Disney stuff, did her adventures in babysitting. She's
Speaker 2: become a force in Hollywood and fashion, but more importantly,
Speaker 2: she's become very vocal and a huge voice in philanthropy
Speaker 2: and social issues, which is great. So she's used her
Speaker 2: platform to try to make the world a better place.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 2: And then, of course we have one of the cooler
Speaker 2: actor names in all of Disney history, Jedediah good Acre. Wow,
Speaker 2: Chad Charming. I don't know what's better, Chad Charming or
Speaker 2: Jedediah good Acre because they're both great names.
Speaker 1: Yes, wow.
Speaker 2: And of course Disney does what Disney does, and like
Speaker 2: they did with President's Daughter and Cheetah Girls and other movies,
Speaker 2: they will pull in one or two very big name
Speaker 2: actors to do these, and so Kristin Chennawi placed the
Speaker 2: head villain Maleficent, which of course she was in Wicked,
Speaker 2: she was in West Wing, She's been in everything. She
Speaker 2: is a Dynamo and Godway superstar. Yeahpid Way Superstar. I
Speaker 2: had no idea she was in this movie. You know
Speaker 2: this is my real scene.
Speaker 3: It so I had no idea, and when she popped
Speaker 3: on my screen, I oh, man, oh.
Speaker 2: I would talk about it. Built for a role, I mean, she.
Speaker 1: I can't wait she has this moment.
Speaker 3: I watched at least five or six times, kept rewinding it,
Speaker 3: kept rewinding. It was making me belly laugh so hard
Speaker 3: because she's just so funny.
Speaker 1: She's funny and like evil and she doesn't nailed.
Speaker 2: This, agreed. And then another Disney legend, Kathy and Jimmy,
Speaker 2: who's the evil Queen. She was in hocus Pocus and
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of other snakes.
Speaker 3: I mean, And so therefore she worked with Kenny Ortega,
Speaker 3: who also did hocus Pocus before. That was awesome to
Speaker 3: see them now working together again. She's one of my
Speaker 3: favorite actresses and characters from Sister act I love her
Speaker 3: in that movie, and she had some of the same
Speaker 3: kind of moments where she just shines. She just takes
Speaker 3: the scene and just completely shines in it.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: That is one of the things I really loved about
Speaker 2: this movie. We've started, we've seen in the you know,
Speaker 2: we're just getting into this, but it's occasionally you were
Speaker 2: able to see that Disney back in the day seemed
Speaker 2: to spend a little more time on the younger actors,
Speaker 2: and maybe some of the adult actors weren't featured weren't
Speaker 2: that great. The character was a little strange. All the
Speaker 2: adults in this movie killed it.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: This cast from top to bottom was phenomenal, just so good.
Speaker 2: So you mentioned several times, now Kenny Ortega, who directed
Speaker 2: this film obviously and started in choreography. Yes, I will
Speaker 2: let you talk to that because you're the dancer person.
Speaker 2: But he started with Michael Jackson, Gloria as Stefan, Olivia Newton,
Speaker 2: John Gene Kelly, and Xanadu. But he's become Disney I
Speaker 2: mean quite quite literally a Disney legend, because he was
Speaker 2: given in twenty nineteen the coveted Disney Legend Award. I
Speaker 2: mean he directed High School Musical, which kind of changed
Speaker 2: the dcom forever. Right, Yeah, the.
Speaker 3: High School, first highchol musical came out not too long
Speaker 3: about a year or so, I would say, after the
Speaker 3: first Cheetah Girls, which was the first like jump into
Speaker 3: actual musicals, and they learned a lot from that movie.
Speaker 3: And you can tell from that movie the growth that
Speaker 3: the channel had the knowledge that they had as far
Speaker 3: as putting into music, creating sets, creating things that like
Speaker 3: were very music forward and performance forward, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, where they had the places for dancers to
Speaker 3: be and how to make it.
Speaker 1: Very big numbers, big, huge.
Speaker 3: Numbers, and I mean working with him, he's so visual.
Speaker 3: Can he goes into space and he just I love
Speaker 3: watching this movie because I could see Kenny all over.
Speaker 2: You've worked with him, haven't you.
Speaker 1: He's he did our second movie.
Speaker 2: Okay, so he did Chetah Girls too.
Speaker 1: Oh, Chetah Girls too.
Speaker 3: So so walking around everywhere we were on set, it was,
Speaker 3: you know, he's looking at how he wants the camera
Speaker 3: to pan and how to see this, and how to
Speaker 3: use the stage and the props and and everything. And
Speaker 3: you know, one of my favorite movies he did was Newsy's.
Speaker 2: He was, oh yeah, there, master legend.
Speaker 1: You can see it.
Speaker 3: And it's he has the ability to make things so
Speaker 3: big and just become iconic.
Speaker 1: He's just a master at his work. He really is.
Speaker 2: I think Ryder Strong has talked about on Pody's World
Speaker 2: how he auditioned for Newsies. Oh yeah, so so I
Speaker 2: think he probably got to the to the level of
Speaker 2: meeting Kenny Ortega. And by the way, mister Ortega, if
Speaker 2: you're listening, I cannot sing and strange enough and an
Speaker 2: even worst dancer, but call me so if you're looking
Speaker 2: for me, I'm here. I don't know why, and you
Speaker 2: could find me on Instagram with zero followers, but there
Speaker 2: I am. Come on, I'd love to do one of these.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a legend.
Speaker 3: He has not just a bunch of stories, but you
Speaker 3: can just he cares so much about his actors and
Speaker 3: and their their characters. I feel like what he did
Speaker 3: with me and helping create and develop more dimensions of
Speaker 3: my character, Like I just I learned so much from
Speaker 3: him and he just everyone that works with them has
Speaker 3: such great things to say.
Speaker 1: You know, he really is just an awesome, awesome guy.
Speaker 2: Hopefully we can talk to him one day, I hope,
Speaker 2: so that would be cool. As everybody knows, the actor
Speaker 2: is only as good as the words on the page.
Speaker 2: And the film was written by Joseanne McGibbon and Sarah Perriott.
Speaker 2: Hope I'm saying that right. And it's actually longer for
Speaker 2: a dcom than was expected. It was kind of amazed,
Speaker 2: but yeah, he kind of hits the ninety minute mark,
Speaker 2: and this one was one hundred and twelve, so it
Speaker 2: was actually kind of a lot longer. But the thing
Speaker 2: that's so funny was, I think one of the reasons
Speaker 2: why it became so long was a lot of people
Speaker 2: don't know. It was not originally supposed to be a musical.
Speaker 3: That's what I was going to say. I had no idea,
Speaker 3: did you before we found that out?
Speaker 1: I had no idea.
Speaker 2: Some of the actors didn't know it was going to
Speaker 2: be a musical, That's the truth.
Speaker 1: Sophia Carson.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, Oh by the way, you're in a lavish
Speaker 2: musical production with big dance numbers, right, yes, yeah, very
Speaker 2: very strange, but it did. So it was originally the
Speaker 2: story is, it was supposed to be this big action
Speaker 2: adventure comedy, and then Kenny Ortega again got involved, and
Speaker 2: they went, well, I mean, what are we going to do.
Speaker 2: It's like, we have the greatest stunt man in the
Speaker 2: history of the world, but we're not going to put
Speaker 2: any stunts in the film. Right, So it's like, you've
Speaker 2: got the one of the greatest choreographers ever and directors,
Speaker 2: why are we not going to make this a musical?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: And the storyline and the characters. I mean, it just
Speaker 3: lends you to so much music. I mean it, you know,
Speaker 3: there's just too many characters that have like music driven parts,
Speaker 3: you know, things like that. And then of course having
Speaker 3: the cast that they did, Dove Cameron, Sophia Carr, I mean,
Speaker 3: their actual seekers, use them, use the talent the way
Speaker 3: you know, Disney Channel knows how to do best. Absolutely,
Speaker 3: it makes so much sense. I can't how disappointing it
Speaker 3: would have been to not being musicals, you know, had
Speaker 3: that not happen.
Speaker 2: No, I agree. As for the reception of the film,
Speaker 2: the movie first aired on July thirty first, twenty fifteen,
Speaker 2: but it debuted on the Disney Channel app, which was
Speaker 2: a new marketing tool they were trying at the time,
Speaker 2: and it was viewed more than a million times there,
Speaker 2: then viewed by six point six million people on premiere
Speaker 2: night and over twelve million within seven days on DVR
Speaker 2: I missed DVR. That made it the fifth most watch
Speaker 2: original movie in cable history, and the critics and fans
Speaker 2: seemed universally to love this thing. This movie was just
Speaker 2: all the way across the board considered a success. It
Speaker 2: was filmed in Vancouver and the rumor, I don't think
Speaker 2: we can actually get up we're getting a final number.
Speaker 2: But apparently the entire film was done for under ten million,
Speaker 2: which is impressive for Disney Channel to see a that
Speaker 2: they gave that much money, knowing it's Disney Channel, right,
Speaker 2: but be what they did with that kind of money
Speaker 2: where you're in a mythical place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was great, Yes, it was great. All right,
Speaker 1: So one question for you, Yeah, who was your favorite descendant?
Speaker 2: Oh that's tough. If they were all so good, I
Speaker 2: to me, And they were all good, and I mean
Speaker 2: that they were all truly good. They grabbed their characters.
Speaker 2: They each had moments that were wonderful, they each had
Speaker 2: songs that were wonderful. But now just grabs you. I mean,
Speaker 2: she she's so good, she's incredible. I mean she the
Speaker 2: second she comes on screen, You're like, that's a star, Yes,
Speaker 2: a star.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: So she really does grab and hold on to you.
Speaker 2: And and so it would be hard pressed for me
Speaker 2: to pick somebody else. I mean, I mean, she's obviously
Speaker 2: set up as the lead of the film, but she
Speaker 2: really brings the depth to this character that was, I agree,
Speaker 2: pretty remarkable. Oh yeah, So is at yours as well.
Speaker 3: No, it depends what you're talking about. So like there's
Speaker 3: three levels, right obviously, first thing you're going to look
Speaker 3: at when when you're into what we're into, which is acting,
Speaker 3: and you know the job. I loved mal the The
Speaker 3: next thing, Sophia Carson's wardrobe was the coolest wardrobe I've
Speaker 3: ever seen on the Disney Channel. I will get into
Speaker 3: that just a little bit longer, because there were some
Speaker 3: questionable things for me. The Prince he was just so sweet,
Speaker 3: Prince Ben revided me of Duncan Will.
Speaker 1: It's just oh, he just was so great and so nice.
Speaker 3: And so genuine and so I mean, I just loved
Speaker 3: his character.
Speaker 1: I thought he was just so sweet.
Speaker 2: Apparently they saw it. Now if I if I have
Speaker 2: this right, because we have so many different backgrounds that
Speaker 2: we've tried to do, our amazing producers do all this
Speaker 2: research for us. I think they ended up seeing Kenny
Speaker 2: Ortaga ended up seeing something like six hundred actors for
Speaker 2: that role.
Speaker 1: I believe it.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I do, I believe it.
Speaker 2: Six hundred actors. But he was he was very very good.
Speaker 3: Ben the son of Bell and the Beast, and I
Speaker 3: just thought he was so so adorable.
Speaker 2: He's great. Why is he becoming kids?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I have to ask. It makes no sense.
Speaker 1: That was the first question of the movie that I had.
Speaker 1: You're sixteen years old? Are you ready to take on
Speaker 1: the sixteen years old?
Speaker 3: I don't even know if I believe in the sixteen
Speaker 3: year old's getting their driver's license anymore.
Speaker 1: If you see them out, he's gonna be king and
Speaker 1: you're gonna be king.
Speaker 2: And his dad is like forty five and in perfect health.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you are in great health, sir. You look in shape.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Can I finish high school? Maybe before I have
Speaker 2: to take over the range of the kingdoms, so you
Speaker 2: guys can go to Sandals, Jamaica or wherever the hell
Speaker 2: you're gonna go.
Speaker 1: I just I can't.
Speaker 2: I didn't get that.
Speaker 3: It made no sense right from the beginning. But again
Speaker 3: I get it one of those things we have to
Speaker 3: let go, let go enjoy. But yes, that was the
Speaker 3: very first question, because it too. It pops up what
Speaker 3: two minutes into the.
Speaker 2: Movie multiple times. Yeah, but it's also keeps coming back
Speaker 2: where it's like you're coming to my corn. Couldn't it
Speaker 2: have been like it's a coming of age thing at sixteen, like, yes,
Speaker 2: I'm not trying.
Speaker 3: To vite it's fuff you will, like they could have
Speaker 3: made up a word for what it would have been.
Speaker 1: Yes, it did not need to be taking over the kingdom.
Speaker 2: No, agreed, one thousand percent agreed. By the way, this
Speaker 2: kingdom has dragons, magic, magical spells, but no gold. Every
Speaker 2: time there was something gold that was clearly plastic and
Speaker 2: bad was the worst. The ring looked bad, a ring
Speaker 2: was the crown looked bad. I know, It's like there
Speaker 2: was no gold in the whole kingdom, which was crazy.
Speaker 1: For the ring and the like the jewelry to look back.
Speaker 3: Because the costuming of this movie was so epic amazing.
Speaker 3: I was so jealous to not be a part of
Speaker 3: this movie once I really got to see this costuming
Speaker 3: because it was so so good, so meticulous on each
Speaker 3: character and everything.
Speaker 1: It was so perfect, dead on.
Speaker 3: And then it was this, you know, worse than like
Speaker 3: your player's jewelry that you get for your three year old,
Speaker 3: Like it was just awful.
Speaker 1: It was bad.
Speaker 2: It looked like the ring Duncan got for Halle with
Speaker 2: the with the little eye tweeting, but that.
Speaker 3: Was supposed to be a gumball ring that made sense
Speaker 3: to me. This was not this is supposed to be
Speaker 3: like an antique.
Speaker 1: Jewelry piece of some sort a royal piece of jewelry.
Speaker 2: My wife was sitting next to me, and she said,
Speaker 2: why why are they crowning him with a Burger king crown,
Speaker 2: which is what it looked like. It was like, this
Speaker 2: is these got it? What's going on does make any sense?
Speaker 2: But the story itself, I think if for the people
Speaker 2: that don't know it, so essentially we've talked about it.
Speaker 2: The evil offspring are coming to this preppy high schoo
Speaker 2: and they have marching orders from their parents to steal
Speaker 2: the fairy godmother's wand and bring it back. Kind of
Speaker 2: they didn't get into it too much. They could have
Speaker 2: been a little more specific. They didn't know if we're
Speaker 2: supposed to bring it back.
Speaker 3: I was not sure what the mission was. What was
Speaker 3: they gonna do once they had it? I didn't understand.
Speaker 2: Got a little muddled.
Speaker 3: Also, the kids did not in any way seem excited
Speaker 3: or like they were gonna succeed at this mission.
Speaker 1: And anyway they were like, Nah, this sounds so dumb.
Speaker 3: I guess I'll go because I have to, but I'm
Speaker 3: not really interested in this mission.
Speaker 1: From the beginning, it felt like that to me, like
Speaker 1: don't care.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, the plan is a little muddled. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: what happens in pure beautiful Disney fashion is these kids
Speaker 2: who were raised to believe that they were bad are
Speaker 2: brought into a nice environment. And it's the Disney explanation
Speaker 2: of nature versus nurture. And so when they're taken out
Speaker 2: of their bad environment and put into a nice environment,
Speaker 2: they realize they want to be good, and that good
Speaker 2: means more than evil. They want to be regular people.
Speaker 2: They want to don't have you know, don't want to
Speaker 2: have to pretend that they're The Eve character, for me,
Speaker 2: was very interesting in what they did with her because
Speaker 2: it was her mom essentially saying, pretend to be an idiot.
Speaker 2: You just need to land a man. That's your entire
Speaker 2: life's purpose. Just land a man and marry him for
Speaker 2: his money, and that's all you need. And there's something
Speaker 2: about telling young girls, showing young girls that it's like, no,
Speaker 2: don't fake being stupid, You're too smart for this. Like
Speaker 2: for some reason, her storyline resonated and I don't know
Speaker 2: why that is, because I'm not a young girl.
Speaker 3: I think it's because that's what unfortunately, so many young
Speaker 3: girls think, you know, you think, oh, let let you know,
Speaker 3: let someone help you. That's what that's what they want
Speaker 3: to do. They want to be able to just to
Speaker 3: help you. And and you're you know, as long as
Speaker 3: you play like kind of more of that like victim
Speaker 3: ish type, you know that the hero comes and sweeps
Speaker 3: you away. It was very money driven. It was all
Speaker 3: about finding a prince. It wasn't finding anyone, it was
Speaker 3: finding a prince. But I think that, you know, in
Speaker 3: Disney true fashion, like part of her storyline was realizing
Speaker 3: how smart she is, you know, and realizing how talented
Speaker 3: she is with her clothing that she's able to do
Speaker 3: and create and all of that, and finding like her
Speaker 3: place of what makes her really special, which is wonderful.
Speaker 3: But it's just crazy that it's not peer pressure that
Speaker 3: was making her think that. It was her mom that
Speaker 3: was weird to me, That's what it was. Wasn't her
Speaker 3: friends thinking that way and she's going with it, you know,
Speaker 3: which is typical. This was her mom legitimately saying you
Speaker 3: need to be dumb and finding prince.
Speaker 1: That's all weird, Like to.
Speaker 2: The part where she's got the little mirror, She's got
Speaker 2: the little mirror that she's with her mirror mirror on
Speaker 2: the wall, and at one point she's wearing the shirt
Speaker 2: that just is fairest. Like all the little things that
Speaker 2: were that they did for the character, I thought it
Speaker 2: was just so good.
Speaker 3: I think was like supposed to be like a replica
Speaker 3: of some sort of the box with the pincushion that
Speaker 3: that yeah, that the you know, the heart was supposed
Speaker 3: to be, remember, was supposed to be give They kept
Speaker 3: referencing the bag, so I kind of looked around and
Speaker 3: that's what I found was like that bag was supposed
Speaker 3: to be that that box that he was supposed to
Speaker 3: come back with her heart in.
Speaker 2: Well, nobody does an Easter egg like Disney. I mean,
Speaker 2: nobody does an Easter egg like Disney. That's cool, and
Speaker 2: I did not notice it. Now, this is not to
Speaker 2: say that there were not parts of this film that were,
Speaker 2: let's say problematic. We've talked about the fact that the
Speaker 2: we don't really know what the plan was. We it
Speaker 2: was a little strange there kind of yeah, their motivation
Speaker 2: and what they were going to do when once they
Speaker 2: got the one, but she also drugs this dude twice,
Speaker 2: twice twice. I mean it's like she she she slipped
Speaker 2: something into this guy's food. So not okay, not okay,
Speaker 2: not okay at all. I mean, but and he the thing.
Speaker 2: But I don't know what was worse for me, And
Speaker 2: maybe you could talk about this a little more. I
Speaker 2: don't know what was worse for me the fact that
Speaker 2: she's drugging this dude multiple times, or that he's like,
Speaker 2: I'm totally cool.
Speaker 1: Totally cool game.
Speaker 3: I mean I think I was drinking some coffee or
Speaker 3: like a latte of some sort and spit it out
Speaker 3: when they were in that chariot and he's like, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: when you oh, you mean the love spell? You put
Speaker 3: me on under end because it is And he just
Speaker 3: like explains off and she's like yeah, and he's like
Speaker 3: it's cool.
Speaker 1: Moves on, are you kidding me?
Speaker 3: We can't even have a little bit more of a
Speaker 3: conversation about it.
Speaker 1: Not anything, just cool, moving on. I maybe trust it.
Speaker 2: Comes up a little bit. I got a little bit
Speaker 2: of trust.
Speaker 3: That that I was irritated about. It was like this
Speaker 3: is we're moving too fast here, guys. Let's pump the
Speaker 3: brakes and and you know, talk about this because it's
Speaker 3: really not okay no.
Speaker 2: And I think it's one of those things where you do,
Speaker 2: at some point on the date have to say, I'm
Speaker 2: enjoying spending my time with you, Please don't drug my food.
Speaker 2: I think that just that has to that. You know,
Speaker 2: I don't know if it comes up naturally or you
Speaker 2: have to force the issue. But by the second time
Speaker 2: she's given you it started with the cookie, which so
Speaker 2: is the This is another question. Is the tear that
Speaker 2: they have to get that's what activates the spell? Right
Speaker 2: because Mulan's daughter comes in and takes a bite before
Speaker 2: she adds the chips and there's no.
Speaker 3: Problem, which I had a moment there of what tell me,
Speaker 3: why is this getting so deep? We are spending a
Speaker 3: lot of time on it, and then it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: she's making her cry.
Speaker 2: Now wait, do you think they were forcing the issue?
Speaker 2: Do you think they were trying to make her cry?
Speaker 2: Or do you think they were really feeling it?
Speaker 1: I was actually kind of confused. I was kind of confused.
Speaker 1: I wasn't really sure.
Speaker 3: All I knew was all of a sudden, this movie
Speaker 3: that I've been enjoying has been so happy and funny
Speaker 3: and a perfect mix of evil and good and all
Speaker 3: this stuff. And it just got really deep and I
Speaker 3: was not ready for the depth of what was going on.
Speaker 3: And then it was like, oh so I had like
Speaker 3: a Sabrina moment on that, like Goss got it.
Speaker 2: And they had to bring it back. Then at the
Speaker 2: end where she's once again now by herself making up
Speaker 2: her that part owns Disney mess. That part, she's cooking
Speaker 2: her Disney mess in the in the kitchen again by
Speaker 2: herself and crying into it and you can, I just did,
Speaker 2: and so that's what but it is she's cooking it
Speaker 2: up again, and this time it's her own tears that
Speaker 2: are and and so she can once again drug this guy.
Speaker 3: I know, aside from the drugging, her actually having feelings
Speaker 3: did make me feel some type of way.
Speaker 2: I did, like, you know, it was very nice and
Speaker 2: you could tell she the acting was wonderful. She's conflicted
Speaker 2: the entire time, right, I would say this though, not
Speaker 2: just about the drugging, but about the entire having to
Speaker 2: have the love spell. No, it was kind of obvious
Speaker 2: and maybe just to us as the audience that and
Speaker 2: I can see how the argument be made that because
Speaker 2: they'd never experienced before as their characters this type of crush,
Speaker 2: they wouldn't recognize it if they saw it. But Ben
Speaker 2: wasn't really hiding the fact that he liked her. No,
Speaker 2: even before again she decided to right.
Speaker 1: Was the love spell actually even necessary?
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying now.
Speaker 3: He looked like he was ready to drop that girlfriend
Speaker 3: like a bad abboit. She was annoying and kind of
Speaker 3: I guess his only option that he felt was okay,
Speaker 3: like his mom didn't like her. We found later on
Speaker 3: she annoyed me from the beginning, so I could understand
Speaker 3: multiple days with her where he'd feel like I get that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so I didn't. That's that was strange me.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, the guy obviously likes you. I figured
Speaker 2: when she said it's time for him to get a
Speaker 2: new girlfriend, that, okay, the plan is going to be
Speaker 2: to kind of, in a Disney fashion, seduce this guy,
Speaker 2: and you know what I mean, like to make I'm
Speaker 2: going to become his new girlfriend. But I didn't think
Speaker 2: she was going to resort to Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just just say, well, you ever honestly think
Speaker 3: the absolute answer would be the result of drugs I
Speaker 3: didn't think so.
Speaker 2: Well, I can guess at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: if you go back to some of their original ip
Speaker 2: it was the Poison Apple, and it I mean kind
Speaker 2: of what it is is these are kind of based
Speaker 2: on the Grim's fairy tales, which are some of the darkest,
Speaker 2: you know, cooking kids and ovens kind of stories. So,
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess, you know, a few drops here
Speaker 2: and a few drops there in the Kingdom was something
Speaker 2: that was totally normal for you know, fifties and sixties Disney. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I guess. So we need to talk very briefly
Speaker 2: about the spells that are going on.
Speaker 1: Okay, I agree.
Speaker 2: Because some of the again ten million dollars big budget
Speaker 2: for Disney's huge, but some of the effects are I mean,
Speaker 2: the dragon doesn't look great.
Speaker 1: No, it doesn't, and I feel terrible about it.
Speaker 2: But it's a dragon, which is which is You've got
Speaker 2: a dragon in a Disney Channel movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that that's not something I had a
Speaker 3: zero I no Moleficent, like I said, she's one of
Speaker 3: my favorite villains. I've been to Fantasmic, Oh for seven
Speaker 3: hundred times at.
Speaker 1: The Disneyland resort. I get it.
Speaker 3: I just never thought in this Disney Channel movie we
Speaker 3: were going to get a dragon.
Speaker 2: No, and for what they had and for Disney Channel,
Speaker 2: that's pretty amazing to have this dragon form seen a.
Speaker 1: Huge Game of Thrones fan, though.
Speaker 2: Of course HBO though HBO Channel original movie.
Speaker 3: Right during the time when like Game of Thrones was
Speaker 3: huge already.
Speaker 2: I know that was a little.
Speaker 1: Difficult for me.
Speaker 3: But then when it turned into the Little Baby I
Speaker 3: Love Now, would it have thrown you if all the
Speaker 3: Lanisters at the same time broke into the same song
Speaker 3: and dance, because it would have thrown me off.
Speaker 1: Of the world and back. Oh man.
Speaker 2: By the way, that dragon apparently took over two thousand
Speaker 2: hours to animate, jeez, which is unbelievable.
Speaker 3: I mean, I again, Channel Movie not saying that these
Speaker 3: movies aren't great, it's just that they're not films. That's
Speaker 3: that's that's like a film right now, you're talking about
Speaker 3: a cartoon film, an animated film.
Speaker 2: That's just what.
Speaker 3: It's wonderful that that this is what this sentence is getting.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: It's it's funny that you say that because this is
Speaker 2: the first movie we've watched so far. And I mean
Speaker 2: no disrespect to our films, because I'm talking about our
Speaker 2: films essentially and brink no disrespect to those films, but
Speaker 2: this is the first one I've seen that I wished
Speaker 2: I had seen in the movie theater. Same same, I
Speaker 2: think there's there was a majesty to this one, and
Speaker 2: a lot of that was represented. Ve we do have
Speaker 2: to talk briefly about the music, yes, because a lot
Speaker 2: of that was represented, and again I don't like it,
Speaker 2: but man it don't. I didn't mind it here. They
Speaker 2: had some huge, lavish dance scenes with these incredible songs
Speaker 2: that again I'm still humming. So I mean, do you
Speaker 2: have a favorite song?
Speaker 3: One hundred percent rotten to the core? Again, great beginning
Speaker 3: of the movie. Got a chance to see. It was
Speaker 3: so thriller esque and Kenny Ortega is just perfect, perfect
Speaker 3: way that he knows how to do this kind of music.
Speaker 1: He knows how to get the visuals.
Speaker 3: I mean, it created a villain type I feel and vibe.
Speaker 1: They worked that set like no others.
Speaker 3: Swinging on things, you know, taking taking a fence along
Speaker 3: for a ride, coming out of things, rolling down curbs.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was just it was I was in it.
Speaker 3: That's when I said, oh, I am going to love
Speaker 3: this movie. I am going to love it.
Speaker 2: Then it set up all the characters perfectly, true.
Speaker 1: Quickly, perfectly.
Speaker 3: Then Evil Like Me came on and it switched right
Speaker 3: so it went from the rotten to the core.
Speaker 1: Felt more like an urban you.
Speaker 2: Know now, almost like a step up movie, like a
Speaker 2: dance kind of movie like that.
Speaker 3: Yes, it felt very cool, rocker, you know, but new wage.
Speaker 3: Right then Evil Like Me with Kristin Chenowick and Dove Cameron.
Speaker 3: First of all, Kristen was like, go ahead and step aside, kids,
Speaker 3: this is me right.
Speaker 2: Here, this is my you're great, but this is how
Speaker 2: it's done exactly.
Speaker 3: She brought Broadway to life with it, and it was
Speaker 3: a totally different style than what we had heard so
Speaker 3: far in the movie.
Speaker 2: It just it was like old school Disney. It sounded
Speaker 2: like it was like old.
Speaker 1: School it was.
Speaker 3: It felt like Mary Poppins's idea, you know, and just
Speaker 3: oh man, it was incredible, And I was so happy
Speaker 3: for Dove to be able to get to do that
Speaker 3: with her, because I'm sure she was just soaking in
Speaker 3: every moment and knowing how epic it was that she
Speaker 3: was getting to do this scene with her so those
Speaker 3: two were definitely my favorite. Next in line is did
Speaker 3: I mention?
Speaker 2: Wait? Now, wait, which one is did I mention?
Speaker 1: This is the one? Did I mention it?
Speaker 3: I think when he's telling her he's in the spell
Speaker 3: and he's on the field after.
Speaker 2: The game, Oh, this is the I'm in love with
Speaker 2: you in our id and where they spell out ridiculous,
Speaker 2: yes is it? Did I mention?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: Where just just so their parts of it were so adorable,
Speaker 3: but it was like Elvis.
Speaker 1: He was performing at very Elvis. There was a lot
Speaker 1: of hip.
Speaker 2: Thrust, was whacked on drugshit, just drugged the man.
Speaker 3: But you could sell like, I mean, he did a
Speaker 3: great job, but it was very It was for me like, Okay,
Speaker 3: this isn't as goodness that what we've seen so far,
Speaker 3: but still so sweet and I love that, Like I
Speaker 3: love that he didn't come out more like a zach
Speaker 3: Efron where it was just like oh my, what what
Speaker 3: doesn't this kid have? You know, it was like he
Speaker 3: wasn't like the biggest dancer you could tell, but he was.
Speaker 3: It was cute and again I loved going and swaying
Speaker 3: into that like you know that Elvis Presley like like
Speaker 3: it was just so I don't know it worked for me.
Speaker 2: I rule him into the stands. They throw him like
Speaker 2: fifteen feet into stands past his ex girlfriend. By just
Speaker 2: says it started to sing in front of people like
Speaker 2: I'm not even gonna tell my ex girlfriend I'm breaking
Speaker 2: up with you. Nope, I am just gonna sing to
Speaker 2: the other girl in the stands because again and she messed.
Speaker 1: Me beyondreud though beyondrod.
Speaker 2: On drugs, but so yes, that was that one was
Speaker 2: a little crazy.
Speaker 3: And then her saying it's fine, this is my date
Speaker 3: to the dance now, okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they all moved on very quickly.
Speaker 3: Again, this was another scene that everyone just like Boo
Speaker 3: moved on. No big deal, Ben's no longer with her,
Speaker 3: He's with mal now, like not even.
Speaker 1: A so sorry you're you must be upset or thing like.
Speaker 2: No, of course nothing. I'm I'm predicting for for descendants too,
Speaker 2: And the people are gonna start screaming because of the
Speaker 2: people that have seen it and I have not, but
Speaker 2: I am predicting because they saw it a little bit.
Speaker 2: At the end, I think his ex girlfriend is going
Speaker 2: to hook up with Jack with Boo Boo with Booboo
Speaker 2: with boob I think she's gonna end up with that
Speaker 2: kind of you could see that happening. I think she's
Speaker 2: gonna be brought into the click. I think everybody's gonna
Speaker 2: be gonna be cool with it. Be our guest. I
Speaker 2: frankly loved what they did with it. I really want
Speaker 2: to I did you did not? I kind of dug it,
Speaker 2: you know. I it's hard for me. I am such
Speaker 2: a traditional Disney person. I love, okay, tradition, I love.
Speaker 2: I don't like when things change too much.
Speaker 3: You know. It's it's a little hard for me even
Speaker 3: going to see things like you know, on stage versus
Speaker 3: what's in the movie, like extra new songs. It takes
Speaker 3: me a while to be like, okay, I like it, so,
Speaker 3: you know, but it was such a perfect, perfect song
Speaker 3: words it's seen for what was happening in the movie.
Speaker 3: I mean, it couldn't have been a better thick, you know,
Speaker 3: of a song to do him being the Beast and
Speaker 3: Belle's son.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just all of it was just it was.
Speaker 1: It was a great thing.
Speaker 3: And I you know, making it more into like a
Speaker 3: poppy hip hop type situation, I don't know, I don't
Speaker 3: know that might be going, but I can appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Well, I want to ask you just really very brief explanation,
Speaker 2: what the hell is dubstep and why are people telling
Speaker 2: you I'm supposed to know what it means?
Speaker 1: That went over my head.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think that, producer Jensen, are you here?
Speaker 4: I hate being the resident dubstep expert because that makes
Speaker 4: me truly, truly the worst person on the zoom. But
Speaker 4: I it is a certain type of music that was
Speaker 4: very popular and kind of the middle as to late ats,
Speaker 4: and it's like, uh, it's to you, it's techno music.
Speaker 2: It's like, okay, but it's a certain.
Speaker 4: Type of food.
Speaker 2: Okay, Oh okay.
Speaker 4: It's like you know how like there's so many songs
Speaker 4: in this movie that are instrumental mostly, but they're.
Speaker 2: Like wow, wow, wowt okay, okay, great, all right, back
Speaker 2: to my cave. Thank you, thank you, thanks. So there
Speaker 2: we go. He's forever the resident dubs step expert. Okay,
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, speaking of resident experts dance, you're
Speaker 2: obviously the dance expert. So I'm gonna ask a what
Speaker 2: the your favorite and best dance of the movie was,
Speaker 2: But who was also the best dancer there?
Speaker 1: Got it done so.
Speaker 3: First for sure for me, still rotten to the core,
Speaker 3: rotten to the core, down favorite. I could watch that
Speaker 3: as like an actual music video all the time.
Speaker 1: I really really loved it.
Speaker 3: That much makes sense. The dancing and it was great.
Speaker 3: The stage gene was amazing. Like I said, costuming was
Speaker 3: just so perfect. It set up the movie in the
Speaker 3: most perfect way. I was so about it. Sophia Carson
Speaker 3: killed it this whole movie with her dance dancing.
Speaker 1: She can she can dance.
Speaker 3: So the fact that I find out later that she
Speaker 3: didn't even know it was the musical, I can only
Speaker 3: imagine what her mindset was, like, Oh it's a musical, now, okay,
Speaker 3: here we go, let me show it off.
Speaker 1: Ooh boom, like you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Like she's like, I'm gonna shine in this movie, Like
Speaker 3: this movie is mine.
Speaker 1: She killed it, and she killed it. She was so good.
Speaker 3: Boo Boo was also a great You can tell he's
Speaker 3: got quite a bit of training. I also love that
Speaker 3: he has like some sort of martial arts background of
Speaker 3: some sort.
Speaker 1: He must.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could see that he had the street dancer
Speaker 2: thing that I see in Step Up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think that was like a you know,
Speaker 3: someone doing it for him A double yeah. I think
Speaker 3: that was definitely him doing those martial arts moves, which
Speaker 3: they weren't. I don't know a bunch about all of them,
Speaker 3: but I think they're fairly easy if you have any
Speaker 3: training in.
Speaker 2: It, so you can flip and everything like that. Yet, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: I hurt my back watching.
Speaker 3: But I mean, like they weren't like it wasn't like
Speaker 3: a triple full out on the thing. It was like,
Speaker 3: you know, it wasn't like Olympic style stuff, but it
Speaker 3: was very cool. Not everyone can do it, and I
Speaker 3: believe that he seemed like he had some kind of
Speaker 3: martial art background, which is cool.
Speaker 1: Like that's so cool. I love that.
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Speaker 2: one five star and one one star review from the
Speaker 2: internet machine. They are all real and we don't change
Speaker 2: a word. So which one you want to do today?
Speaker 3: What I want to do the five star because I
Speaker 3: think you're going to just kill the one star.
Speaker 1: It's going to be okay, and I want to hear.
Speaker 2: You read it all right, so you go ahead.
Speaker 3: Stars from Emily A. I love descendants so much. Whether
Speaker 3: you're a little kid, a team like me, or an adult,
Speaker 3: it's fun for the whole family to watch. Henny Ortega
Speaker 3: does such an amazing job. One of my favorite d
Speaker 3: coms for sure. I agree, Emily, I'm there with you, Snick.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree with that at all. I think that
Speaker 2: was I think that's right at the spot. On this
Speaker 2: next one, I'm going to read as is it is
Speaker 2: one star. We don't have who this came from, so
Speaker 2: this is a real we know it's a real review,
Speaker 2: but there's no name.
Speaker 1: But they were too scared to say their name.
Speaker 2: Probably it says, first of all, why is Disney teaching
Speaker 2: kids how to steal people's man? Audrey and Ben were dating,
Speaker 2: and for her to just steal her man like that
Speaker 2: is wrong, and no one really cared about it. They
Speaker 2: just kept praising her while Audrey was hurt. Never really
Speaker 2: saw this coming from Disney.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of with this person, to be honest, because
Speaker 3: I did find it.
Speaker 1: She didn't have a.
Speaker 3: Group of Normally I would think there'd be at least
Speaker 3: like one or two friends. Like everyone just turned the one.
Speaker 3: I mean not the whole crowd needs to care. But
Speaker 3: she doesn't have anyone literally, like she's Aurora's daughter and
Speaker 3: she doesn't have any friends. That's so so sad.
Speaker 2: It is sad. But at the same time, her man
Speaker 2: was drugged to be stolen the West Right. For the record,
Speaker 2: he didn't just choose to watch way like.
Speaker 1: We said before.
Speaker 3: He was kind of already tiptoeing that way anyway. Ben
Speaker 3: was not into her. I agree, that's the book she
Speaker 3: needed to read. He just got that into you, girl, Sorry,
Speaker 3: that into you.
Speaker 2: Oh my. We've got a new game we're gonna play
Speaker 2: this week that I'm very excited about. It's called Consumed. Okay,
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna list off three different pieces of Descendants
Speaker 2: merchandise released by Disney and picked from the get ready
Speaker 2: for it seven pages of possibilities on Amazon. But one
Speaker 2: of these has been made up, So show your work
Speaker 2: here if you know what it is, and we're gonna
Speaker 2: find out which one's fake. Now here's the other thing
Speaker 2: that's fun. You and I don't know which one's fake.
Speaker 2: I don't, I don't swear I neither of us know
Speaker 2: which one is fake. So why don't I'll read the
Speaker 2: first one, you read the second one. We'll go back
Speaker 2: and forth and see what it is. And again we
Speaker 2: do not know which one of these are real and
Speaker 2: which ones are fake. One of these is fake. It's
Speaker 2: like two truths in a lie, but with with amazons
Speaker 2: with merchandise. So the first one is a descendant's tankini
Speaker 2: top not entirely sure what that is and bottom swims
Speaker 2: suit set is a tankinie a bigger bikini.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks like a tank top, but it's an
Speaker 3: actual So it's a two piece.
Speaker 1: It's a two pieces, just long.
Speaker 2: Okay, So a a Descendant's tankini top and bottom swimsuit set.
Speaker 1: That's okable.
Speaker 2: I I would think that would be believable. That makes sense, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Okay, there's got There's no way there's not.
Speaker 3: I feel an ice cube tray with the picture of
Speaker 3: mal that reads chilling like a villain.
Speaker 2: That's gotta be real too, though, isn't it. I mean,
Speaker 2: I want.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm Monroe is real.
Speaker 3: Wake up one day and I've just re designed her
Speaker 3: whole bedrooms.
Speaker 2: Oh see, I'm not even thinking about that. I'm thinking
Speaker 2: about cracking my mouth ice to see chilling like a villain,
Speaker 2: to drop it into bourbon, which they probably normally don't
Speaker 2: do on Disney Shit.
Speaker 3: Oh, I have a Mickey Mouse ice cube maker, aren't those?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Like a Mickey Ahead.
Speaker 2: I had a death Star right, Oh, I saw that
Speaker 2: one Star ice cube so cool. So the third one
Speaker 2: so that okay, we got the tankini top the ice
Speaker 2: cream ice cube tray. And the third one is a
Speaker 2: five foot eight inch life size cardboard cutout stand up
Speaker 2: of jet. That's also got to be I've hower not
Speaker 2: all three of these, not I.
Speaker 3: My friend has the only reason I know she's purchased
Speaker 3: one of those of me.
Speaker 1: So I think the cardboard cutout Wait.
Speaker 2: There's a wait, there's a there's a like there's a
Speaker 2: standing of you and you just throw that in like
Speaker 2: she buried the.
Speaker 3: Lead round to this convention she was at for Delta Gamma,
Speaker 3: because I'm a Delta Gamma and she took it to
Speaker 3: a Delta Gamma convention the whole weekend with her and
Speaker 3: kept taking pictures because I couldn't be there, So she
Speaker 3: brought my cut out.
Speaker 2: Oh, I have so many questions. We'll get into it
Speaker 2: a later time. Okay. So I'm going to say this.
Speaker 2: I hate to say it because it's the one that
Speaker 2: I actually want. But my guess is the ice cube
Speaker 2: tray with mal reading chilling like a villain is face.
Speaker 1: That's probably what it has to be, which is that's
Speaker 1: such a bummer.
Speaker 2: All right, Well let's find out what the fake one is.
Speaker 4: All right, Okay, so the fake one, guys, you got
Speaker 4: it right. It was the ice cube tray with a
Speaker 4: picture of mall that reached.
Speaker 2: That's the one I wanted.
Speaker 4: Listen, it was positive thinking on my end. I was
Speaker 4: hoping I could move Disney to actually make it.
Speaker 2: Oh, that would be the yes.
Speaker 1: Maybe this podcast will make that happen.
Speaker 3: For all those bourbon drinkers out there that are also
Speaker 3: defended fans.
Speaker 2: Good, good job guys, Thank you Jenson. It's the one
Speaker 2: thing that I wanted because I do not fit into
Speaker 2: a Tankini and I do not need a stand up
Speaker 2: of jay No.
Speaker 1: And it would be weird if you had a cardboard
Speaker 1: cut out of Jay at your.
Speaker 2: I can promise you I'm going to have one of
Speaker 2: you back here soon. Though. If you think we're going
Speaker 2: to do this podcast at one point and there's not
Speaker 2: going to be a life size you back there, you
Speaker 2: are getting yourself into that.
Speaker 1: Into that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So the game they're playing. It doesn't make a
Speaker 2: whole lot of sense.
Speaker 3: I was so confused thinking it was lacrosse. But then
Speaker 3: I don't know a lot about lacrosse. So I said
Speaker 3: to myself, Oh, there's a lot of components about lacrosse
Speaker 3: that I really don't know.
Speaker 2: Like lacrosse. Well, no, there's no dragons in this. In
Speaker 2: regular lacrosse. There's a kill zone in this one. It
Speaker 2: seems to be three on, which is.
Speaker 3: So American gladiator. I was so hooked on it. I
Speaker 3: loved that. I love, love, love that, and think that
Speaker 3: should be part of the new sport.
Speaker 2: It's Yes, it's very strange because it's it's probably, of
Speaker 2: course playing off of quidditch, which is such a big
Speaker 2: part of which was my safety school, Hogwarts and all
Speaker 2: of the Harry Potter stuff.
Speaker 1: So is that when they fly around on those broom thingies.
Speaker 2: Did you not read Harry Potter? Do you not know
Speaker 2: Harry Potter?
Speaker 1: I don't know Harry Potter. That was not a Disney movie.
Speaker 2: Oh that just hurt me right in my feel bads,
Speaker 2: not in my zone. Okay. Yes, Quidditch is a game
Speaker 2: that's played in the magical world that you use a
Speaker 2: there's a quaffle, and there's bludgers and golden snitch, and
Speaker 2: you've got seekers and goalkeepers and it's a very.
Speaker 1: Been on the ride. I've been on the ride that
Speaker 1: you ride one of those.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, yes, this one seemed a little more thrown
Speaker 2: together and haphazard than quidditch. Okay, so it was tough
Speaker 2: to follow.
Speaker 3: Tough to Yeah, yeah, I mean it was I think
Speaker 3: also because well, you're flying in the air with the
Speaker 3: other one. I believe that I remember this one they
Speaker 3: chose to do again. We had Booboo that came in
Speaker 3: here with his like martial arts stuff and he was
Speaker 3: like flipping and using people to like jump up and
Speaker 3: over and on and all this stuff too. So there
Speaker 3: wasn't really a lot of like understanding of what this
Speaker 3: game was.
Speaker 2: It just was like he was there there, and essentially
Speaker 2: what I think they were trying to do is Booboo
Speaker 2: comes in, Jay comes in and he's aggressive and so
Speaker 2: like you would in a high school in America, it's like, hey,
Speaker 2: throw in some football pads and let's get him on
Speaker 2: the football field.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think that this is the Princely Aradon equivalent of
Speaker 2: throwing some to get him on the football field.
Speaker 3: I wish more happened with the American gladiator throw contraptions.
Speaker 1: I wish yeah had happened.
Speaker 2: When you were a hit you actually lose a limb.
Speaker 3: Well, I just feel that there was a lot of
Speaker 3: There's a lot of opportunity for some comedy with that.
Speaker 3: You know, whether you're going out into the crowd, that
Speaker 3: thing starts malfunctioning. I mean, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: have been like a nice comedic moment.
Speaker 2: Somebody puts a spell on it and it hits other people, right.
Speaker 1: Yes, I feel like it could have been used a
Speaker 1: little bit more.
Speaker 3: But you know, maybe maybe in the second one will
Speaker 3: we just don't know exactly.
Speaker 2: We will have to see when we get there. So
Speaker 2: I don't always see everything that's going on, which surprises
Speaker 2: a lot of Pod New World listeners because I'm usually
Speaker 2: the one on pod which sees everything, which shows how
Speaker 2: little in the world the three of us actually see anything,
Speaker 2: and how somebody like Sabrina sees everything. So what do
Speaker 2: you got for us for Sabrina sees this week?
Speaker 1: This week? This this scene killed me.
Speaker 3: I mean I really took some time to just kind
Speaker 3: of rewatch it a couple times because they just couldn't
Speaker 3: believe it. It's when we have our little man Cameron,
Speaker 3: who is afraid of dogs. And he is not afraid
Speaker 3: of dogs. He is deathly like ye for real, has
Speaker 3: a phobia. Yeah okay, yes, raised that way totally, just
Speaker 3: completely like brainwashed that dogs are these awful creatures.
Speaker 2: Kuela Dell is his mom.
Speaker 3: Zuela Davilla is his mom. I'm with it makes sense.
Speaker 3: This tiny little dog starts running after him. He loses
Speaker 3: his mind, runs into the forest and up a tree
Speaker 3: and freaks out. Okay, I have a phobia of snakes.
Speaker 3: You get a snake around me, I'm not gonna it's
Speaker 3: not funny to me. I really lose my mind. I
Speaker 3: don't go into houses that have reptiles. Even a lizard I.
Speaker 1: Might do, but I really do not like snakes at all.
Speaker 2: I have to make a call and cancel your birthday present.
Speaker 1: Thank you please, because I will not talk to you
Speaker 1: ever again. I'm not even kidding. I'm so scared of that.
Speaker 3: I really am. And he has a phobia of dogs.
Speaker 3: Ben picks up the dog pets. It tells him he's
Speaker 3: not that scary. He takes one look comes right down
Speaker 3: from the tree. Okay, that's fine, all right, okay, all right,
Speaker 3: you know I can understand, all right, maybe I'm freaking out,
Speaker 3: but hold the dog over there, hold it far away,
Speaker 3: far far away from me.
Speaker 1: No, he goes right up. Let the dog lick him everything.
Speaker 1: Then Ben gives him the dog and then walk so way.
Speaker 1: Look it just you lost me.
Speaker 3: It was so again a moment in the movie that
Speaker 3: just I understand where we're going with it and why.
Speaker 3: You know, it's it's a part of him becoming and
Speaker 3: seeing the difference of what's happened in his upbringing and
Speaker 3: the reality.
Speaker 1: And I get I.
Speaker 3: Get it, But it was too if he had a
Speaker 3: real phobia that there is absolutely no way will I
Speaker 3: don't care how.
Speaker 2: Why read each other for that?
Speaker 3: You're gonna bring a snake around me? And yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean he's not eating you. So I'll maybe get down
Speaker 3: out of the tree, but I am not touching the snake,
Speaker 3: nor are you giving me that snake in my arms
Speaker 3: and walking away.
Speaker 1: I would feel you that would be.
Speaker 3: So horrible that that seemed absolutely slaughtered me.
Speaker 2: It did get it, I couldn't get it.
Speaker 3: And then the last one is very quick, but when
Speaker 3: Malificent becomes this little salamander, another reptile, a little lizard,
Speaker 3: mal seems to almost squish her because they're in a
Speaker 3: green screen.
Speaker 2: Look, she almost steps on her, like nine different times.
Speaker 2: I saw that too.
Speaker 1: Your mom, your mom, your mom looked down, look down.
Speaker 2: I saw that.
Speaker 1: Do something again.
Speaker 3: They're working in green screen. She wasn't really exactly sure
Speaker 3: where her mom was. So not her fault, I know.
Speaker 2: And that's at the end where it also doesn't make
Speaker 2: any sense where they're just supposed to grab the wand
Speaker 2: are they then supposed to run out with it. There's
Speaker 2: not a whole lot. I didn't understand what the whole
Speaker 2: point there was. But the music was awesome, and.
Speaker 1: The music was awesome.
Speaker 3: It was the hair extensions added amazing that uh that
Speaker 3: the superhero well does her little spell on It really
Speaker 3: was just taking off the wig and putting extensions in.
Speaker 1: But I mean it worked like over and over and
Speaker 1: over and over again.
Speaker 2: I love that. Well, let's rate it then, and now
Speaker 2: we got to pick how we're going to rate this one. Okay,
Speaker 2: I take it now. You don't want tiny lizards because
Speaker 2: you're not You're not You're not.
Speaker 1: Any person prefer not tiny lizards.
Speaker 2: About dose dose cookies, number of dose cookies, stolen wands,
Speaker 2: museum spinning wheels. What should we do?
Speaker 3: I like the stolen wands, stolen magical, Let's get magical
Speaker 3: magical for magical?
Speaker 2: How many stolen wands out of ten? As everybody knows,
Speaker 2: we do the standard standard deal here one best, ten great?
Speaker 1: How nice stolen wands for me?
Speaker 3: Nine?
Speaker 2: I'm going to agree with you one hundred percent. I'm
Speaker 2: going to give it stolen wands as well, because I have.
Speaker 1: A feeling it's gonna get better, so I want to
Speaker 1: save that ten.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm not giving a ten to anybody unless it's earned.
Speaker 2: But this was close because it also just shows how
Speaker 2: far the dcom has come, even from where we start.
Speaker 2: We started in the in the late nineties. It's not
Speaker 2: like we started back with the Wonderful World the Disneys
Speaker 2: in the sixties, which we're going to get into that
Speaker 2: stuff too, absolutely, but just from ninety seven to twenty fifteen,
Speaker 2: it's so night and day what they're doing with these
Speaker 2: d coms.
Speaker 1: It's so true.
Speaker 3: There's just so much to be able to feel like
Speaker 3: you can take on a character.
Speaker 1: For me, is where it's awesome. I love that. I
Speaker 1: love actual character driven like full blown. This was a.
Speaker 3: Disney Disney Disney magical movie.
Speaker 2: Agreed. Okay, we're on the same page. Yes, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: I really did. I love it.
Speaker 1: I am gonna make you a musical lover.
Speaker 2: That is can I okay those kind of musicals. You
Speaker 2: have as much chance of making me a musical lover
Speaker 2: as I do of making you a snake lover.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, okay, I'm telling it.
Speaker 2: It throws me. It bumps me every time where it's like,
Speaker 2: how did the guy who's delivering the package behind you
Speaker 2: get the memo about the song and the dance?
Speaker 1: I know it's true. It's true, it's true.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that's it for this. Uh this episode Descendants,
Speaker 2: what a watch. This was a good one. Nine nine
Speaker 2: magical wands all the way around. Yes, and after that,
Speaker 2: you're not gonna want to miss this one, trust me.
Speaker 2: Are you ready to bring him? Because we are what
Speaker 2: hanging ten with Johnny Tsunami, which I think is like
Speaker 2: your favorite thing in the world.
Speaker 1: Man, Oh, I cannot wait. And you know what's awesome.
Speaker 3: I've been, obviously as you have with your wife, been
Speaker 3: talking with my husband Jordan and talking about his favorite ones,
Speaker 3: you know, being being a boy, not being an actor,
Speaker 3: you know kinds of movies. And he was so upset
Speaker 3: because he was out of town. When I watched The
Speaker 3: Brink and did know, he was so bummed. And then
Speaker 3: I told him, well, we're gonna do Johnny Sunami. He's like,
Speaker 3: you better not watch that without me.
Speaker 1: I want to rewatch it too.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm watching them all with my wife as well.
Speaker 2: It's been so much fun and getting.
Speaker 1: The kiddos to watch with us too is exciting.
Speaker 2: Good. So that is next, Johnny Tsunami. So it is
Speaker 2: on Disney Plus. So watch along with us and remember
Speaker 2: to subscribe to our feed and you can always follow
Speaker 2: us at Magical rewind Pod on Instagram. Thanks everybody,