Speaker 1: Sabrina, did you ever study any martial arts?
Speaker 2: I mean study on like a professional level or like we.
Speaker 3: Study professional Did you ever go to karate classes or
Speaker 3: any of that kind of stuff?
Speaker 2: No, I didn't. I didn't know any of that like that.
Speaker 3: Which one? Wait, do you mean like on a professional
Speaker 3: scale or more?
Speaker 1: Oh no, I've never.
Speaker 2: Done no, like in my own home, feeling like I
Speaker 2: did my own professional training. Yes thing, No, wow, I'm
Speaker 2: telling you right now, hands down, like everything about like
Speaker 2: Karate Kid, Ninja Ninja specifically was my wheelhouse of like
Speaker 2: dying to.
Speaker 1: Be Yeah, me too. My dad's nickname for me.
Speaker 3: My whole life has been Ninja because all I did
Speaker 3: was watching Ninja Jinja movies.
Speaker 2: And I mean my dogs are named after the three
Speaker 2: Ninja like characters, Rockey and Emily, like this was my
Speaker 2: world and I.
Speaker 3: One of writings Strong's best friends was one of the
Speaker 3: three Ninjas growing up.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I know.
Speaker 2: And it was very hard when we were at Disneyland
Speaker 2: to not talk about that.
Speaker 1: Can we talk about your friend being Ninja? Like?
Speaker 2: Is he still doing ninja stuff?
Speaker 3: Did you watch old school ninja movies like Real, like
Speaker 3: Sho Kasugi, like Revenge of the Ninja Return of the
Speaker 3: Ninja kind of Ninja MILLI.
Speaker 2: No, I lived in the Disney world from you know this,
Speaker 2: Like no, it was starting Disney stuff like kids, kid
Speaker 2: friendly stuff.
Speaker 3: You got to get into the real gut slashing ninja
Speaker 3: star through the eye throwing.
Speaker 2: Kind of No, that's not the fun Nina.
Speaker 1: Good that is.
Speaker 3: First of all, ninjas aren't fun. They're awesome and they're
Speaker 3: trained to sass.
Speaker 2: It's like like like, you know, like power rangers like
Speaker 2: that was like my like home, I mean I did
Speaker 2: I Arrangers are superheroes.
Speaker 1: They weren't ninjas.
Speaker 2: Well they were like ninjas no, no, no, no, wow, yes
Speaker 2: they were.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: Power rangers were endowed with magical powers essentially like superpowers
Speaker 3: to become a clan, not even a clan, to become
Speaker 3: a team of of superheroes that happened to do martial arts.
Speaker 1: Ninjas weren't highly trained martial arts. Secret assassins is what
Speaker 1: ninjas are.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now, you're not going to burst
Speaker 2: my bubble of how I feel that.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I just think that you're It's
Speaker 1: like you're you're looking you know what.
Speaker 3: It's the equivalent of you're looking at it be me
Speaker 3: looking at a dance team and going, oh, they're a
Speaker 3: cheerleading squad, and you'd be like, no, no, no, no. Those
Speaker 3: are two very different things. That's the difference in looking
Speaker 3: at the Power Rangers and saying they're ninjas. You're looking
Speaker 3: at a dance squad and calling them cheerleaders. No, not
Speaker 3: so sorry?
Speaker 1: Am I wrong?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 2: Team?
Speaker 3: And I was like, they're a cheer squad, you would
Speaker 3: be like, that's not what they are. Power Rangers are
Speaker 3: not Ninja's my friend. I'm gonna here's what you're gonna
Speaker 3: start with. The You're gonna start.
Speaker 1: With the old school Revenge of the Ninja with Sho Kasugi.
Speaker 2: That's where you're gonna start.
Speaker 1: Don't then you don't like Ninja's my friend?
Speaker 2: Okay, fine, but I do.
Speaker 1: Okay, We're gonna make sure you watch the real stuff. Okay. Well,
Speaker 1: and for everybody else.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show that makes you
Speaker 3: want to grab your friends, your PJS, and your popcorn
Speaker 3: and go back to a time when all the houses
Speaker 3: are smart, the wave tsunamis and apparently the Power Rangers
Speaker 3: were ninjas.
Speaker 1: Yes they weren't. I will for Dell and Brian Ready
Speaker 1: to fight.
Speaker 3: Well, dig into your ancestry and search for traces of
Speaker 3: a Yin Warrior, because we're attacking the two thousand and
Speaker 3: six High School Martial Arts d com Wendy WU Homecoming Warrior.
Speaker 3: It premiered on June sixteenth, two thousand and six, and
Speaker 3: scored an impressive five point seven million viewers that night.
Speaker 3: Ready for This, making it the fifth highest rated d
Speaker 3: com of all time.
Speaker 1: I bet you didn't see that coming. I didn't.
Speaker 3: I gonna be honest, I'm gonna just jump ahead. I
Speaker 3: hadn't even heard of this movie, so the idea that
Speaker 3: this is the fifth highest dcom ever is pretty impressive.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It also received the highest rating ever for a dcom
Speaker 3: on Disney Channel Japan.
Speaker 1: In addition to the film, the movie.
Speaker 3: Stars took over the block of programming leading to the debut,
Speaker 3: so Disney Channel really put their weight behind this one,
Speaker 3: and it certainly paid off. They also repurposed the movie
Speaker 3: for two other versions, the kickin version, which is kik
Speaker 3: Apostrophe I N which included five new scenes, and a
Speaker 3: remixed version where the cast answered viewer questions and taught
Speaker 3: karate moves. The movie's budget was just five million dollars,
Speaker 3: in impressively low amount for the time considering its success,
Speaker 3: but a lot can be accredited to the film's star.
Speaker 3: A Disney kid who is having quite a moment right now.
Speaker 3: That is Brenda Song, one of our favorites. She reportedly
Speaker 3: trained for two weeks with sixteen hour days. She did
Speaker 3: most of her own stunts and said she pushed herself
Speaker 3: to the max as a tribute to her mom, who
Speaker 3: had battled breast.
Speaker 1: Cancer the year before. Really cool. You also saw the
Speaker 1: work she put in.
Speaker 3: We found this fact online and it might be the
Speaker 3: most two thousand and six sentence ever, but I'm gonna
Speaker 3: say it anyway. The film was originally set to air
Speaker 3: on June second, two thousand and six, but was pushed
Speaker 3: back by Disney Channel due to technical difficulties involving the
Speaker 3: film's official website, which is, you know, in two thousand
Speaker 3: and six, they're still new having websites for all this
Speaker 3: kind of stuff. It was out and people were doing it,
Speaker 3: but it was still like are you on that internet thing?
Speaker 1: Also, a large.
Speaker 3: Amount of criticism online about this movie involves Asian stereotypes. Luckily,
Speaker 3: something we seem to be moving farther away from in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six, but it has to be said it
Speaker 3: was a different time, especially when it came to Asian
Speaker 3: representation movies, or well lack thereof, for that matter. Though
Speaker 3: the movie was set in California, most of the film
Speaker 3: was actually filmed in Auckland, New Zealand, which was a
Speaker 3: decision made to accommodate the film's action director. Now, I'm
Speaker 3: going to do a blanket apology right here to everyone.
Speaker 3: There are names that I'm going to say, and I'm
Speaker 3: sure i'm going to butcher the pronunciation as somebody who
Speaker 3: grew up with a name that nobody got right.
Speaker 1: I don't like when people mispronounce my name.
Speaker 3: I apologize because I know i'm gonna mess these up.
Speaker 1: But bear with me. So I'm going to do the
Speaker 1: best I can.
Speaker 2: Better you than me, because I would have absolutely butcher that.
Speaker 3: I am going to try. So apologies to everyone involved.
Speaker 3: When I eventually mangle your name, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: But here we go.
Speaker 3: So the film's action director was Cooachi Sakamoto, the brains
Speaker 3: behind the original Power Rangers fights. There we Go, which
Speaker 3: is kind of a cool piece of trivia and Sakamoto
Speaker 3: was able to bring in a lot of actors from
Speaker 3: Power Rangers, including Sally Martin, who is the Blue Power
Speaker 3: Ranger in Power Rangers Ninja Storm.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, see it's still not the wrong already.
Speaker 3: Really, are they throwing Ninja stars and slicing people over,
Speaker 3: you know, assassinating people in the middle of the night
Speaker 3: for gold, then they're not ninjas. And Anna Hutchinson who
Speaker 3: played the Yellow Ranger in Jungle Fury. They shot at
Speaker 3: Long College and use some of their students as extras,
Speaker 3: all part of a quick twenty four day shoot, which
Speaker 3: is fast and Wendy Woo was just the eighth dcom
Speaker 3: ever to get the TVPG rating thanks to all the
Speaker 3: fight scenes of the eight. We have now watched four Twitches,
Speaker 3: Halloween Town, Halloween Town two, and Mom's Got a Date
Speaker 3: with a Vampire?
Speaker 1: Do you think that it was PG for Mom's Gotta Date.
Speaker 3: With Vampire because it was so bad and yeah, fighting
Speaker 3: words again, but vampire fighting words?
Speaker 2: Halloween Town, Halloween probably.
Speaker 1: Scary, probably because of the scary aspect. I would think.
Speaker 1: Are Twitches Twitches again?
Speaker 3: You had you had like the girls didn't they had
Speaker 3: killed people that the father was dead and he was killed.
Speaker 2: By to look into like the diet, like the rules
Speaker 2: of like.
Speaker 1: Write the breakdown or what.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you never know because I know back in the day,
Speaker 3: it's like if they showed somebody smoking, that got a
Speaker 3: new rating, if they showed somebody yes, seca.
Speaker 1: So you never know what it could possibly be.
Speaker 3: But anyway, yeah, you might be asking yourself, this movie
Speaker 3: sure sounds like a hit for the channel.
Speaker 1: Will you be right?
Speaker 3: But so why was there no sequel? That's a good
Speaker 3: question mark. Did you get that? Did you get that? No?
Speaker 1: Have you seen you haven't seen the Room? Oh god,
Speaker 1: oh Serena, we gotta talk.
Speaker 3: Okay, the talk, I gotta start. Sorry, your education. The
Speaker 3: Room is considered with the worst, like the worst movie
Speaker 3: you ever made. It's brilliant And that's one of the
Speaker 3: famous lines. Good question mark. So there was a sequel
Speaker 3: greenlit in two thousand and seven, as reported by Variety,
Speaker 3: but it was eventually cut from the Disney schedule and
Speaker 3: never spoken of again. The idea for the follow up
Speaker 3: was said to involve an alternate ending of the movie
Speaker 3: found on it's DVD, where Yang Lo, who was obviously
Speaker 3: the bad guy, was shown to have secretly inhabited the
Speaker 3: body of the Wu family dog. Now I told you,
Speaker 3: I already broke protocol and jumped ahead and told you
Speaker 3: that I'd never heard of this movie.
Speaker 1: Had you heard of Wendy Wu?
Speaker 2: I had heard, but never had seen this right in
Speaker 2: two thousand and six, Like, I've been a fan of
Speaker 2: Brenda's song for just I mean since the day she
Speaker 2: like spoke one line, this your first song, thank you
Speaker 2: very much, and so yes, I mean, and it was
Speaker 2: awesome and I heard it, but I had never seen it.
Speaker 2: So I was really really excited to know we were
Speaker 2: watching this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah I did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you already said you had never heard of
Speaker 2: never heard of this, but again that's I just I
Speaker 2: had missed all these So yeah, I guess. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think when people talk about Brenda's song,
Speaker 2: they talk about this movie like.
Speaker 1: Okay, well there's a big I can see why.
Speaker 2: Because in all of the stuff she did on the Channel,
Speaker 2: she was like a part of the ensemble or she was,
Speaker 2: you know, the like the second character. This was like
Speaker 2: her get own movie. So it was a pretty big
Speaker 2: moment on the Channel.
Speaker 1: I can see that.
Speaker 3: And again, when when she hops on screen, you can
Speaker 3: see why she became a star.
Speaker 1: Uh, you too can learn more about Wendy Wu.
Speaker 3: She's available right now to stream on Disney Plus, and
Speaker 3: you have the choice to watch it before or after
Speaker 3: our recap. But we've been told that if you listen before,
Speaker 3: you'll be the recipient of fifteen years of good luck.
Speaker 3: No no, wait, it was fifteen years of bad luck.
Speaker 3: There was fit who knows?
Speaker 1: Just try, we let us know.
Speaker 2: It does help to watch the movie and have your
Speaker 2: kind of own opinions before you start hearing us as.
Speaker 2: It really helps.
Speaker 3: I think you and I if we went back and
Speaker 3: looked at everything, I think you and I are on
Speaker 3: the same page more often than we're not.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 3: I feel like very rare that I'm like, this is
Speaker 3: the worst movie ever, and you're like I loved it.
Speaker 1: Like that almost never.
Speaker 2: Happens, almost never, but in.
Speaker 1: The times it does. I explain basically, why why? Then
Speaker 1: we go from there. That's it, that's the problem.
Speaker 2: It's like, here's why they're in that, like little sister aspect,
Speaker 2: like I don't know why. I try. Everyone, please stop
Speaker 2: giving me so much on Instagram. I freaking try.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll give you on Instagram.
Speaker 2: No, it's like thinking they're like, oh well, then Will
Speaker 2: says it's realis like goes along with it, and I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, no, no, I don't agree. You and I will.
Speaker 3: We'll fight about certain movies, but you can see. I
Speaker 3: mean again, some of them are aren't great, and the
Speaker 3: ones that are we enjoy.
Speaker 2: Yes, just the way it is, I feel like I
Speaker 2: pull you. I mean the fact that you love musicals.
Speaker 2: Now you just like are dying to Like You're like,
Speaker 2: when's the next musical? Guys?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? Why is nobody breaking into song? Yea,
Speaker 1: her name is Brenda song? Why is she not singing.
Speaker 2: For god opportunity to break into song right now?
Speaker 1: Why? Thank you? Thank you?
Speaker 2: And I feel like that's because of me, Like you
Speaker 2: love it because I love it?
Speaker 1: I agree U.
Speaker 3: Now let's see if we love this one. It is
Speaker 3: time for our synopsis. Teen girl Wendy Wu focuses on
Speaker 3: becoming Homecoming Queen until she learns she has the soul
Speaker 3: of an ancient female warrior destined to battle an evil spirit. Okay, Sabrina,
Speaker 3: it's time to enter the temple. What are your early
Speaker 3: thoughts on Wendy Wu Homecoming Warrior?
Speaker 2: What did you think I want you to know? Hands down,
Speaker 2: I went into this movie already loving it because I
Speaker 2: do love nit just and.
Speaker 1: I love Okay fair enough, and.
Speaker 2: I was like, will's not even going to care that?
Speaker 2: Like I I didn't even have my phone next to me.
Speaker 2: I went after and put some notes, but I was
Speaker 2: ready to love this movie. Brenda song check, Ninja aspect check,
Speaker 2: like just evil demon that we are going to destroy
Speaker 2: and like overcome a check. I was already like I
Speaker 2: knew this is what was gonna be and I was
Speaker 2: like already obsessed. So I went into this a little unfair.
Speaker 2: I don't think I went in I went into it
Speaker 2: with an absolute bias, and I have no no regard,
Speaker 2: like no, I don't care, I just.
Speaker 3: Okay, but no regret to be bad because you couldnot
Speaker 3: live up to your hype where you did it live
Speaker 3: up to the hype you were hoping.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, there was no point where I was like, oh
Speaker 2: this is stupid. I'm like everything that they did that,
Speaker 2: even the most ridiculous thing that happened on the screen,
Speaker 2: I was like, don't care, okay care, I loved it.
Speaker 2: I went in already loving this absolute bias, didn't care
Speaker 2: and I'm like, Will's gonna murder me because I don't care,
Speaker 2: not for any aspect of anything, and there was no
Speaker 2: there was no wrong in this movie for me. Those
Speaker 2: are my early thoughts. That's gonna be my just put
Speaker 2: a tent on it.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm not gonna go that far, but I I
Speaker 3: don't disagree this. This this hit kind of all of
Speaker 3: I don't know Brenda song as well as you the
Speaker 3: things I've seen her and I like, but this hit
Speaker 3: the fantastical side, the martial arts side, the history side.
Speaker 3: I love when they put a culture's folklore into something.
Speaker 3: It's like one of my favorite things in the world.
Speaker 2: So it was like the heavy hitters they had like,
Speaker 2: oh it just was Will. This was just like one
Speaker 2: of our like oh thank god, we like, I'm just
Speaker 2: so excited for it. And not to mention like the
Speaker 2: fact that Disney went for it, and they went for it,
Speaker 2: they went for the backfield. They were wanted to knock
Speaker 2: it out of the park because this was a big
Speaker 2: like again, you're going into the culture aspect, You're going
Speaker 2: into a lot of stuff that like a lot of
Speaker 2: people could fight back on. Yeah, and Disney just were like,
Speaker 2: you know what, we're Disney. We're gonna do it. We're
Speaker 2: gonna do it right.
Speaker 3: You're also doing a highly choreographed martial arts movie that
Speaker 3: was done well, like it all looked great. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: got the wirework from like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon kind
Speaker 3: of stuff.
Speaker 2: So and this was the time of all that happening, right,
Speaker 2: Like I don't know the dates like you would because
Speaker 2: you have your little bit better of like.
Speaker 3: Google these Crouching Tiger came out in two thousand, so
Speaker 3: six years later. But this was still okay. God, if
Speaker 3: you want to see a movie, go watch House of
Speaker 3: Flying Daggers.
Speaker 1: It is so good.
Speaker 3: It's the same kind of same kind of thing as
Speaker 3: as a Crouching Tiger. It's that you're right, it's this
Speaker 3: early two thousands of the beautiful Asian background and the
Speaker 3: outfits and the martial arts awesome.
Speaker 2: The only we'll get it there tiny bit of things
Speaker 2: that I'm like.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm gonna nitpick.
Speaker 3: The movie was far from per There was some stupid
Speaker 3: that happen in this movie, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: But overall I didn't care. I don't know. This was
Speaker 1: not a perfect film.
Speaker 3: I didn't walk away going like, oh my god, it's
Speaker 3: on Goldland Pond.
Speaker 1: But it was good. Yes, but so yes, I'm still
Speaker 1: gonna nitpick. But here we go. So the director again,
Speaker 1: we're working on names everybody.
Speaker 3: So the director was John Leang, a New Zealand native
Speaker 3: who directed a ton of action TV, including Xena Warrior,
Speaker 3: Princess Hercules, and The Hitchhiker Right.
Speaker 1: He also has Power.
Speaker 3: Rangers history, which seems like a prerequisite for this movie,
Speaker 3: and his Disney history mostly rests in the channel adjacent
Speaker 3: TV show The Adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson, which
Speaker 3: I think is just a family that gets lost, and
Speaker 3: like I said, it stars a Disney darling all over
Speaker 3: the press nowadays. For a big career resurgence, it's Brenda's
Speaker 3: song as Wendy Woo, a child actor best known as
Speaker 3: London Tipton on the Sweet Life of Zach and Cody,
Speaker 3: but her overall Disney Channel game is quite possibly unmatched.
Speaker 1: She also appeared on shows like Phil of the.
Speaker 3: Future That's So Raven, Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverley, Place
Speaker 3: in Phineas and ferb.
Speaker 1: So I have to ask with get a clue?
Speaker 3: The Ultimate Christmas Present, The Sweet Life movie Stuck in
Speaker 3: the Suburbs and Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana. Is
Speaker 3: Brenda Song officially the queen of d COM's do we
Speaker 3: have to crowny?
Speaker 2: I think she needs to be at least Lady Brenda,
Speaker 2: like she has to be. If she's not the queen,
Speaker 2: she's at least a lady.
Speaker 1: But who else could we put above her? Who is done?
Speaker 3: I mean there might be bigger names, like when you
Speaker 3: get Miley Cyrus or Selena Gomez. So there might be
Speaker 3: bigger names, yes, bigger d coms.
Speaker 2: And because she's a little bit older, she's a tiny
Speaker 2: bit prestigious, like and she's I.
Speaker 3: Think you might have to say all Hail the Queen.
Speaker 3: I really think you might have to say all Hale
Speaker 3: the Queen. Yep, it's it's quite possible. And nowadays you
Speaker 3: heard her in the massive Disney hit Zootopia two this
Speaker 3: time it's personal as Kitty Linsley, I think, and on
Speaker 3: Disney's Amphibia. But she's also been on shows like Running Point,
Speaker 3: Dolfa Station nineteen and Dad's and movie like The Social
Speaker 3: Network and The Last Showgirl. Shinkoyamata plays Shen. He was
Speaker 3: unfreaking believable in the Tom Cruise movie, The Last Samurai.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've seen that, but he was
Speaker 3: really good and holds several black belts in various different
Speaker 3: styles of martial arts. By the way, a lot of
Speaker 3: people hated that Tom Cruise movie. It's one of my
Speaker 3: favorite guilty pleasure movies. I thought it was great.
Speaker 1: Susan Chang is Nina.
Speaker 3: Chang has been in a ton of television shows and
Speaker 3: some of the biggest of all time. She appeared on
Speaker 3: a bunch of Dharma and Greg episodes, Charmed, Monk, Victorious,
Speaker 3: Big Bang Theory, and Veep, but she's best known as
Speaker 3: Tobin in Mis Congeniality Too.
Speaker 1: Also this time It's Personal. Justin chawng plays Peter.
Speaker 3: He might be known to many of our listeners as
Speaker 3: Tony Lee on The Nick Show Just Jordan, but I
Speaker 3: think he's most famous from his time as Eric in
Speaker 3: the Twilight Movies.
Speaker 1: The former child.
Speaker 3: Actor also wrote and directed the movie Blue by You,
Speaker 3: which he starred in opposite Alsia Vickennder. He's also set
Speaker 3: to direct an upcoming biopic on the band Sublime.
Speaker 1: Oh I think will be My God? So can we
Speaker 1: not practice? Santaia?
Speaker 3: Thank you from your all star blind fans out there.
Speaker 3: But does Justin troung involve himself in common sense? See,
Speaker 3: we love it when a movie hits our target of
Speaker 3: ninety minutes. That's the perfect length of a film. So
Speaker 3: where does Wendy wou sit when it comes to duration?
Speaker 1: It is ninety one minutes?
Speaker 3: Oh horror people, one minute off and not on the
Speaker 3: right side of history, tire. Sixty seconds too long, a
Speaker 3: number that easily could have been shaved off. It's a
Speaker 3: mistake by all involved. Start to kick this one off
Speaker 3: with such film.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, that would have been cut from
Speaker 2: the fight scene which nope, do not message.
Speaker 3: Could really you couldn't. You couldn't maybe cut a minute
Speaker 3: out of her baking cupcakes?
Speaker 1: There you go. See this is how I put you
Speaker 1: back and on the right side of the world.
Speaker 2: All right, okay, okay, And we have a bevy of
Speaker 2: raven talking about.
Speaker 1: Go thank you.
Speaker 3: We could I lost sixty seconds a cupcake and it
Speaker 3: would have been the same movie chat exactly, all right, okay,
Speaker 3: same movie.
Speaker 1: Yes, we have a bevy of writers on this one.
Speaker 3: It might be a glimpse into why we didn't hit
Speaker 3: ninety because there's too many cooks. Lydia Look is listed
Speaker 3: as a writer and this is her only movie, but
Speaker 3: she was a working actor successful for many years. She
Speaker 3: was Miss Selina Wu for ten years on General Hospital
Speaker 3: and appeared on TV shows like Bones, Pushing Daisies, and
Speaker 3: NCIS Los Angeles. Not sure how she got involved with
Speaker 3: this project as a writer though, but interesting, interesting resume.
Speaker 3: We also have Mark Cbrooks, a writer from The Steve
Speaker 3: Harvey Show whose most recent credit is as story editor
Speaker 3: on the documentary Surviving R.
Speaker 1: Kelly. It's quite a different vibe, and of course we're
Speaker 1: not done.
Speaker 3: Still got a big writing team now, Vince Treng and
Speaker 3: Ben Montegno. They are Emmy winners for their work on
Speaker 3: Wizards of Waverley Place and have tons of credits including
Speaker 3: Married with Children, Growing Pains, Neds To Classified, Empty Nest,
Speaker 3: and The Steve Harvey Show.
Speaker 1: So wow, wow, all right, everybody, let's.
Speaker 3: Not grab ninja stars because well she's not actually a ninja.
Speaker 1: But let's get into the film itself.
Speaker 3: We open on a map zooming right into Mongolia, then
Speaker 3: a beautiful temple. A handful of monks are practicing karate flips,
Speaker 3: sparring and trying to take down one particular ponytailed monk.
Speaker 1: None of this is Shen, but.
Speaker 3: He's very good, even using a dart to shatter a
Speaker 3: nearby monk's cup.
Speaker 1: And before you say it, a dart is not the
Speaker 1: same as a throwing star. So it very much gives
Speaker 1: vibes of a shaolin temple. But I don't think supposed
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 3: But as the shaolin demo continues, it's eventually interrupted by
Speaker 3: a wise elder surrounded by his minions, not the cartoon minions,
Speaker 3: but monk minions. But cartoon minions would have been really
Speaker 3: cool too. The elder monk tells Shen that the evil
Speaker 3: yang Low has awakened and is arriving soon. Shen assures
Speaker 3: him he's up for the task and is handed an
Speaker 3: old looking jewelry box filled with gold animal statues, a snake,
Speaker 3: a tiger, a leopard, and a crane. Four of the
Speaker 3: five deadly venoms, only the dragon is missing. Schnlarn and
Speaker 3: at this point I was like, Okay, I'm in it.
Speaker 1: Martial arts.
Speaker 3: Martial arts, cool mystical stuff.
Speaker 1: Now we're talking about the dragon and the crane. Yep,
Speaker 1: I'm in you got me.
Speaker 3: Shen learns that he's looking for a girl out west
Speaker 3: in Fair Springs, California, and when they unravel a scroll,
Speaker 3: we see a drawing of Macaulay Culkin's wife. We transition
Speaker 3: into a similar drawing, but way worse, this one of
Speaker 3: a girl wearing a tr that reads Wendy. This is
Speaker 3: Wendy Wu drawing herself as homecoming queen, and she is
Speaker 3: not paying attention in class. Now, i'd like to add,
Speaker 3: along with our I was thinking about this so much.
Speaker 3: Along with our starting with the bedroom, which is such
Speaker 3: a regular Disney trope, I'd like to add not paying
Speaker 3: attention in class and the teacher coming over and saying
Speaker 3: your name over and over again.
Speaker 1: I starred in.
Speaker 3: Two movies that my character is introduced this way, which
Speaker 3: was I did. It was the first, Oh god, it
Speaker 3: was not a movie tail the Longo Locket, So Are
Speaker 3: You Afraid the Dark?
Speaker 1: And then Trojan War. Oh so how it starts? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so your characters introduced.
Speaker 3: You hear the teacher and they're like not paying attention,
Speaker 3: and then it's kind of coming out of a dream
Speaker 3: sequence or something.
Speaker 1: So that's another Disney kind of trope I'd like to
Speaker 1: throw out.
Speaker 3: There is the kids sitting in class not paying attention
Speaker 3: and the teacher constantly trying to get their attention.
Speaker 1: So not probably as prevalent as the bedroom.
Speaker 2: No it's not. But you get the dynamic of who
Speaker 2: this kid is within their like social atmosphere. Ye are
Speaker 2: they the cool kid? Are they the kid that's nobody's
Speaker 2: friends with, like you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: Are they like artsy? Are they gamer?
Speaker 1: Are they studious? You can get whatever itself.
Speaker 2: You get like a good idea of like this kid's
Speaker 2: character from their social dynamic, which you think is perfect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so's not paying attention.
Speaker 2: Kids also relate to it. Of course, kid has to
Speaker 2: be stuck. Is an hour's at a desk? Everyone I
Speaker 2: miss it.
Speaker 3: Her teacher smacks a stick on her desk and ask
Speaker 3: her to identify a mountain range on the map of Asia.
Speaker 1: As she stumbles for the answer, she is saved by
Speaker 1: the bell.
Speaker 3: And this was also I was like, okay, no, teacher
Speaker 3: is just gonna let you go when the bell rings.
Speaker 1: If you're mid.
Speaker 3: Question, every teacher goes, ah, I dismiss you, not the bell?
Speaker 1: What is that mountain range?
Speaker 3: And we've all heard that line before in class, so
Speaker 3: I was like, that's not real.
Speaker 1: But then I was like, wait, it's a movie.
Speaker 2: I'm in coaching mode too. And when my girls start
Speaker 2: looking behind me because the clock's behind me and it's
Speaker 2: getting to the time where we're supposed to be, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, do we have an issue? Does anyone have
Speaker 2: a hot date?
Speaker 1: See?
Speaker 2: No, you don't. Okay, Well I'm gonna I'm gonna if
Speaker 2: you don't mind, I'm.
Speaker 3: Gonna see there you go. So there you go. God,
Speaker 3: I want to see you coach.
Speaker 2: Oh man, you would just be so shocked. I want
Speaker 2: to see and I'm not always bright and shiny.
Speaker 1: You promise I will just sit there. I will not.
Speaker 2: I could get through it.
Speaker 1: Way, like, I'd be totally disruptive. It'd be great. That'd
Speaker 1: be awesome. I mean, give me one more. It'd be
Speaker 1: so much fun.
Speaker 3: That sucked.
Speaker 1: That sucked you called out a plia or whatever. I
Speaker 1: get some dance movie. All right. We are now at lunch.
Speaker 3: One of Wendy's friends, Lisa, is crying over a recent breakup.
Speaker 1: She complains that she just wants Wendy's perfect life.
Speaker 3: She's popular, she's the favorite for homecoming queen, and she
Speaker 3: has a perfect boyfriend. And with that, arguably my favorite
Speaker 3: character of the movie, perfect boyfriend Austin arrives with a salad.
Speaker 1: He's such it's great.
Speaker 2: Why is he?
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, it's so well played though. He's just playing
Speaker 3: it like suck. It's like he's a Ken doll kind of.
Speaker 3: It's so funny.
Speaker 2: You saw the Barbie movie, right, you had?
Speaker 1: I did not. We've talked about this.
Speaker 2: Oh, you have to see it because the way Ken
Speaker 2: is played with in the Barbie movie is perfect, like
Speaker 2: that level of douche is and this kid, this kid
Speaker 2: took it and just ran with it.
Speaker 1: He's such a great.
Speaker 2: Actor to do this like he didn't. He was not
Speaker 2: trying to be that like all American football players, cool
Speaker 2: cool boyfriend, and he was like, no, I want to
Speaker 2: play this pitch a total dish him.
Speaker 1: I loved him.
Speaker 3: Me too, So things obviously are not perfect. First, Wendy
Speaker 3: spots Jessica Dawson in the lunch area handing out cookies
Speaker 3: looking for homecoming queen votes. Wendy is not happy about this.
Speaker 3: Even Wendy's brother Peter took a cookie. She throws a
Speaker 3: lipstick his way, just like the monk with a dart earlier,
Speaker 3: and it slices the pastry.
Speaker 1: Which cookies not pastry. That's wrong, and slices the cookie
Speaker 1: in half. Whoa she's got the.
Speaker 2: One is a cookie? Is that a pastry?
Speaker 3: No, it's a dessert. A pastry is like a flaky laminated.
Speaker 3: There's certain things that make something a pastry. You usually
Speaker 3: have to laminate the dough.
Speaker 2: It's like, why you get to make up these rules.
Speaker 3: I'm not making up rules. Who thinks a cookie is
Speaker 3: a pastry? I mean cookie is a pastry? No?
Speaker 2: But she wasn't doing like an Oreolekie's not even the same.
Speaker 3: Like, I'm sorry you're saying Oreo cookie and a chocolate
Speaker 3: chip cookie are two different categories.
Speaker 2: Yes, nobody makes Oreo cookies well people and yes, but
Speaker 2: they're in boxes. It's different. It's like a cookie is a.
Speaker 3: Cookie, cookie, a homemade cookie is still a cookie.
Speaker 2: It's still We got to find a podcast date that
Speaker 2: we can discuss things like this. This is not going
Speaker 2: to go anywhere.
Speaker 1: I don't see the discussion. I get maybe thinking a.
Speaker 3: Cookie is a pastry you'd be wrong, but I get
Speaker 3: seeing it. But it's literally the name cookie. It's called
Speaker 3: Oreo cookie and chocolate chip cookie.
Speaker 2: But I would think it's Okay to be a pastry
Speaker 2: or somebody whatever. Jensen, You're not wrong, love you bro.
Speaker 2: Can I get a Can I get an easy point
Speaker 2: in the game?
Speaker 1: This is a cookie? Is not a pastry? Oh my god.
Speaker 1: It's like saying a pizza is a pasta? No wrong anyway.
Speaker 3: Now we find ourselves in a large music storage area.
Speaker 1: It's filled with Chinese relics.
Speaker 3: Wehndy is complaining to her mom, the museum curator, about
Speaker 3: how Jessica is going to ruin homecoming. How could you
Speaker 3: possibly think a cookie?
Speaker 2: No, this idea, like this is the only thing that
Speaker 2: I will be Like, I'm so over this Jessica lady.
Speaker 2: And how she's able to just like ruin homecoming with
Speaker 2: everything she does.
Speaker 3: It's like I have a question because I know I
Speaker 3: wasn't there for this part of high school.
Speaker 1: I was working at the time.
Speaker 3: Okay, Homecoming, do you actively lobby to become homecoming queen?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 3: Do you do you run like it's an election? Like
Speaker 3: do you try to get votes to become homecoming queen?
Speaker 3: Is this a real thing?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Girls do what they do? You talk quietly, and you
Speaker 2: like pass by each other and give like you talk
Speaker 2: the other girl, like's not how you handle homecoming. Obviously
Speaker 2: I was queen, not even on the court.
Speaker 3: Or maybe it's because all your friends.
Speaker 2: I was not that cool girl. I was like in
Speaker 2: the group, but like never seen.
Speaker 1: Okay, I was busy. You were popular adjacent? Is that
Speaker 1: where you were? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Probably like I had like my my girlfriend, you know,
Speaker 2: Morgan Mackie, like she was the girl and even she
Speaker 2: wasn't up all the time. It was a lot of
Speaker 2: times in.
Speaker 1: My homecoming queen.
Speaker 2: No. No, the the homecoming court what I do respect
Speaker 2: now didn't in the day. Were ended up being the
Speaker 2: ASB kids. But it's because the a SB kids are
Speaker 2: the ones that like put the actual events on, like they, uh,
Speaker 2: student body is I don't know what the a is.
Speaker 1: Oh so it's like student council.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, you didn't know. I think you were
Speaker 2: just like joking with me.
Speaker 1: I don't know any stuff.
Speaker 2: Like the student body like they're like elected to like
Speaker 2: put they're the ones that decide where homecoming is gonna be?
Speaker 2: Is it kind the quad associated student fundraise and do
Speaker 2: the thing to like create the events. So like for
Speaker 2: me in high school, they didn't The courts never really
Speaker 2: represented like who was like the most well known throughout
Speaker 2: the school, but they definitely represented who put the most
Speaker 2: work into creating these beautiful events. And now as an adult,
Speaker 2: I'm like, yes, those are the kids that should be
Speaker 2: up and get the crown because they're the kids that
Speaker 2: are like making it happen. The girl that's like, you know,
Speaker 2: not doing anything, just like cute, and you know, I'm
Speaker 2: sure great person.
Speaker 1: Whatever she gets, she gets my vote every time. Anyway.
Speaker 3: So Wendy is complaining to her mom, the museum curator,
Speaker 3: about how Jessica's going to ruin homecoming. She angrily slams
Speaker 3: her fist on a crate, forcing a nearby base to wobble.
Speaker 3: Seconds away from falling, Wendy thinks fast and kicks over
Speaker 3: a cardboard box, just saving it from a disase Astro's fall.
Speaker 3: But we still don't know where these Daniel LaRusso instincts
Speaker 3: are coming from, and neither does she.
Speaker 1: Whendy's bomb missed it all.
Speaker 3: She's too busy prepping for an exhibit of ancient Chinese
Speaker 3: artifacts in two weeks. This is where I started to go, like, Okay,
Speaker 3: the museum curator who's actually Chinese doesn't know anything about
Speaker 3: the exhibit she's putting up that was like really, but anyway,
Speaker 3: she suggests Wendy forget about homecoming and focus on something
Speaker 3: more important, like chores at home. But all that does
Speaker 3: is give Wendy an idea about cupcakes. Meanwhile, it looks
Speaker 3: like Shen has arrived in Fair Springs, still sporting traditional
Speaker 3: monk garb. He commonly walks down the highway and unsuccessfully
Speaker 3: flags down cars to hitchhike. And he's obviously unsuccessful because
Speaker 3: he's on the wrong side of the road trying to
Speaker 3: do that. So when a van speeds by, he decides
Speaker 3: to run after it and jump on its roof. This
Speaker 3: isn't showing that he basically has mythical powers, eventually sitting
Speaker 3: and meditating as it speeds down the road. No, I
Speaker 3: don't know about you, but this seemed very dangerous to me, Sabrina,
Speaker 3: do you recommen And this is way to travel?
Speaker 1: To our younger.
Speaker 2: Listeners when I was in they actually I don't think No,
Speaker 2: I don't think you should do it. But this is
Speaker 2: like a normal transportation out in India.
Speaker 1: You see them like, oh.
Speaker 2: My gosh, none of them are worried about like I
Speaker 2: don't know, dying from being on top of the.
Speaker 1: Road, and a lot of them do apparently.
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of train deaths and stuff
Speaker 3: like that in India with the overcrowding and it's just
Speaker 3: wild hanging off the side and being hit by wires.
Speaker 2: And I will say this struck a chord though, because
Speaker 2: this was like, at this point, our first like aspect
Speaker 2: of seeing the like the visual effects of him, like
Speaker 2: when he like spad like, it was kind of like, oh,
Speaker 2: because that's the only thing that I was a little
Speaker 2: worried about jumping into the movie was like the special
Speaker 2: effects because they're obviously going to have to what what's
Speaker 2: it going to look like? Because again we're on a
Speaker 2: Diesney Channel budget. So when I saw that, I was
Speaker 2: kind of like, oh, okay, not too bad, not too bad.
Speaker 1: It wasn't too bad. It wasn't too bad.
Speaker 3: Back at Wendy, she's making cupcakes with her dad, who's
Speaker 3: an ad executive. Her grandma's watching her stories on the couch,
Speaker 3: shouting Mandarin at the TV. When Wendy's mom returns from work,
Speaker 3: she desperately needs her with the Chinese stuff at work
Speaker 3: because she doesn't know her own exhibit let alone her
Speaker 3: own culture, and Wendy's grandmother agrees to help. We're now
Speaker 3: back at the museum. It's nighttime and a courier service
Speaker 3: is trying to deliver an old green and gold box. Hilariously,
Speaker 3: it's literally just the box, no protection or mailing label
Speaker 3: or anything like that, which means someone just handed an
Speaker 3: important ancient box to a FedEx guy and said, here
Speaker 3: ship this. The night security guard accepts the package, then
Speaker 3: watch again forgets to re lock the door behind him.
Speaker 3: He takes the box down to the now dark and
Speaker 3: very ominous storage space. Once he leaves to return to
Speaker 3: his desk, the box begins to glow green, killing a
Speaker 3: nearby flower. Shen has dismounted the van roof and arrived
Speaker 3: at Wendy's house, where she's cleaning up her cupcake mess.
Speaker 3: There's a knock of the door and it's Shen, who
Speaker 3: at first appears shaken by the idea that she looks
Speaker 3: different than he expected.
Speaker 1: He claims she's and again I think I'm saying this right.
Speaker 3: Miosen Away Dynasty woman warriors sworn to feet evil and
Speaker 3: it's her time again. She's obviously creeped out by the
Speaker 3: random monk, and as she goes to slam the door,
Speaker 3: Jen has wooshed beyond human ability and is now in
Speaker 3: the house behind her.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Okay, what do you got? Okay, what's from? What's up?
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's like now that I have
Speaker 2: my daughter who is coming to an age that I'm
Speaker 2: really like who because I have so many people that
Speaker 2: help me out, like my girlfriends that take her when
Speaker 2: she's at dance and all this, she's the stranger danger
Speaker 2: has for me gone a little scary that she is,
Speaker 2: Like if someone came up to her and set called
Speaker 2: her by her name, Like that's scary for me because
Speaker 2: she might go, oh, you know my mom or whatever.
Speaker 2: So I am like adamant about stranger danger right now,
Speaker 2: like it's it's in my it's in my vocabulary, it's
Speaker 2: in my thoughts, and talks with her all the time.
Speaker 2: Sure this triggered me.
Speaker 1: Because he's just like jumping in the house behind.
Speaker 2: Her, and in her reaction is not equivalent to what
Speaker 2: I'm gonna need, like I need like the vases just
Speaker 2: starting to be thrown like I This did not This
Speaker 2: was not the equivalence of what I need. Any child,
Speaker 2: any even me, that's even me, any adult stranger to
Speaker 2: come into your house. The reaction was not correct, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, Disney, I rely on you to teach the
Speaker 2: lessons to the children. This wasn't it, So we failed.
Speaker 1: I get I I did not agree.
Speaker 2: Well, I was like, okay, apparently where this is when
Speaker 2: I thought the kung fu fighting would started, Like this
Speaker 2: is when it's like, let's get it going right, stranger
Speaker 2: in your house, girl, And it didn't a moment. So
Speaker 2: it was a mid monk for me.
Speaker 1: I get okay, fair enough. He tells her not to
Speaker 1: be frightened.
Speaker 3: He's a Buddhist monk from the Gingy Mountain temple.
Speaker 2: Kind of like that doesn't help.
Speaker 1: She exactly well.
Speaker 3: She tries to strike him with a broom that just
Speaker 3: magically appeared, and he dodges it with a flip. They
Speaker 3: spar with impressive sets of moves, and now we see
Speaker 3: why they shot this near that fight coordinator, because this
Speaker 3: was a pretty big surprise to see.
Speaker 1: It was a really good fight scene.
Speaker 3: Wendy eventually gets the upper hand and pushes Shen out
Speaker 3: the front door. We're now back at the museum. The
Speaker 3: box is still glowing and rumbling. Finally getting the attention
Speaker 3: of the security guard. He approaches the glow with pepper spray,
Speaker 3: but it pops open and exposes a big green ball
Speaker 3: and releases a spirit who towers over the guard and
Speaker 3: enters his eyes TVPG. Indeed, pretty scary scene, I thought,
Speaker 3: And I can get why they'd have to give this PG,
Speaker 3: because if you're seven or eight and watching this and
Speaker 3: there's a green glow coming in through somebody's eyes after
Speaker 3: a fight scene, I can see why they would need
Speaker 3: to make it a little older. The guard scans the
Speaker 3: mom's desk and takes a frame picture of Peter and
Speaker 3: Wendy while heavily breathing. And now a pizza guy who
Speaker 3: just happens to be Shen's brother Peter, has arrived at
Speaker 3: the museum. The guard unlocks the door, despite the fact
Speaker 3: that we noticed he did not lock it when the
Speaker 3: glowing box was delivered.
Speaker 1: But whatever, I'll let it slide.
Speaker 3: More importantly, al the security guard is now an evil
Speaker 3: d it.
Speaker 1: Peter notices that the evil guard.
Speaker 3: But he doesn't know he's an evil guard at the time,
Speaker 3: has a frame picture of him and his sister, and
Speaker 3: he knows that that's not normal. The guard grunts at
Speaker 3: Wendy and his eyes start glowing. Eventually, the evil Deity
Speaker 3: leaves al and transfers itself to Peter, who immediately walks out.
Speaker 3: The security guard returns to his natural state. Once again,
Speaker 3: he does not lock the door. This man should be fired.
Speaker 1: Back at home, Wendy.
Speaker 3: Is talking on the phone, talking to a friend all
Speaker 3: about the weird monk who tried to fight her earlier.
Speaker 3: She thinks Jessica is to blame somehow, and then she's
Speaker 3: shocked to see Jessica.
Speaker 1: On the news.
Speaker 3: She's the guest weather person and still just politicking for votes.
Speaker 3: Wendy screams into a pillow.
Speaker 1: She is doomed.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, her evil deity brother Peter returns home clearly on
Speaker 3: a mission, but Wendy now has a security guard. It's
Speaker 3: Shen himself, meditating and guarding the front door. The brother's
Speaker 3: vibe alarms him, so he sneaks in to take a
Speaker 3: look inside and sees Evil Deity Peter holding a green
Speaker 3: orb right above Wendy as she's sleeping. Shen quickly glides
Speaker 3: straight up two stories, defying all lives of gravity. And
Speaker 3: this is where you get real crouching tiger, hidden dragon
Speaker 3: kind of vibes, which is totally cool. Shen storms in
Speaker 3: just as the Orb starts stealing Wendy's spirit and glides
Speaker 3: onto a nearby piano, turns in a spinning back kick
Speaker 3: and knocks the ball out of Evil Peter's hands.
Speaker 1: This is so cool.
Speaker 3: The Orb flies into a fish aquarium and extinguishes. Shen
Speaker 3: holds up his own glowing item, which is a golden coin,
Speaker 3: but it does nothing to Evil Peter. The two men
Speaker 3: trade kicks and slaps. All why Wendy stays asleep on
Speaker 3: the couch. Great moves in choreography once again, and all
Speaker 3: the stunt work on wires is really cool. They're exchanging blows,
Speaker 3: great choreography. It's seriously like high level kung Fu movie
Speaker 3: magic in a D comedy.
Speaker 2: It was it was like, oh my gosh. Like again,
Speaker 2: you're kind of going, you're bracing yourself, like, how's.
Speaker 1: Disney gonna do this bad?
Speaker 2: And you're going, oh my gosh, this looks amazing.
Speaker 1: It looks great. It looks five million dollars.
Speaker 2: You couldn't have asked for more with obviously knowing still
Speaker 2: the Disney budget it or the Channel budget and I
Speaker 2: mean even just the stunt people themselves were obviously so
Speaker 2: high quality, Like, you know, it was just so good.
Speaker 3: Everybody clearly knew what they were doing. Yeah, did you
Speaker 3: wish you could have done this in Cheetah Girls? Oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, wire working martial arts while singing strut?
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, well I don't know if struck could have
Speaker 2: gotten to a better level than.
Speaker 1: It was, but that's absolutely true. You know, maybe you're
Speaker 1: you're romantic.
Speaker 2: Dancing bumped up a bit.
Speaker 3: It's your romantic dancing where you're making out with what's
Speaker 3: his name? Oh, you could just wire work it and
Speaker 3: then break into a martial arts fight.
Speaker 2: Yeah maybe.
Speaker 1: Anyway, during the.
Speaker 3: Fight, Shan kicks the orb and it disintegrates, and when
Speaker 3: he uses the glowing Golden coin this time the spirit
Speaker 3: transfers from.
Speaker 1: Peter to the family dog. The end.
Speaker 3: By the way, this is these were people that absolutely
Speaker 3: watched the movie The Hidden.
Speaker 1: The animal slithers outside through a dog.
Speaker 3: Okay, so The Hidden just very quickly it is about
Speaker 3: it's an it's it's so good. Kyle McLaughlin plays a cop,
Speaker 3: at least you think he's a cop, and he's chasing
Speaker 3: this criminal who keeps like stealing bank robberies, stealing cars,
Speaker 3: shooting people. But it's all these different regular citizens that
Speaker 3: all of a sudden just start going haywire and killing
Speaker 3: all these people. And what you find out is it's
Speaker 3: actually an alien inhabiting different bodies and jumping from body
Speaker 3: to body.
Speaker 1: And Kyle McLaughlin's another alien inhabiting.
Speaker 3: A cop who's been chasing this alien criminal through different planets.
Speaker 2: I'm already confused.
Speaker 1: Great dog, it gets it. I'm not gonna give anything away.
Speaker 2: Just go watch the movie.
Speaker 1: Fine, you'll be fine.
Speaker 3: The animal slithers outside the doggy door, and when Peter
Speaker 3: comes in, Shen is nowhere to be found. We see
Speaker 3: that he's hiding on the ceiling and I need to
Speaker 3: have this scene find its way into the rewindis for
Speaker 3: best fight scene, because it's was great. There are several
Speaker 3: scenes in this movie that could have to be up
Speaker 3: there for best fighters.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we got to have a whole category. I
Speaker 2: am hoping there's another dcon.
Speaker 1: That has some fights. If not, just automatically give him yeah.
Speaker 2: Because it's three other what fight scenes?
Speaker 3: How about in what we just talked to Marcus told
Speaker 3: you about it, the movie where the bullies come and
Speaker 3: beat him up in front of the bus stop. That
Speaker 3: was a toothless toothless there you go, So we can
Speaker 3: put this up with the toothless fight scene and see
Speaker 3: which one is better. The next morning, Wendy's mom details
Speaker 3: her upcoming ancient Chinese exhibit, of which she knows nothing about,
Speaker 3: and how it involves the story of evil spirit yan Lo.
Speaker 3: Apparently every ninety years his spirit returns. Wendy's mad at
Speaker 3: her brother, who's still asleep, because she woke up with
Speaker 3: some gold coin necklace around her that he must have
Speaker 3: put on her when she was out.
Speaker 2: She can know that it's not he.
Speaker 3: It's first of all, you ruin it by calling it
Speaker 3: a necklace. It's obviously an ancient mythical medallion. It's calling
Speaker 3: this a necklace is like calling a cookie a pastry.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: So, then Wendy notices a picture of the Gingy Temple
Speaker 3: monks in her mom's workpile. It takes back fifteen hundred years,
Speaker 3: yet somehow I think was still in color, but Wendy
Speaker 3: recognizes his look from her was the picture in color?
Speaker 1: I think it was?
Speaker 3: Which I was like, how is it a fifteen hundred
Speaker 3: year old photograph first of all, which didn't exist, and
Speaker 3: second of.
Speaker 1: All a photographed in color from fifteen hundred years ago.
Speaker 3: Interesting, it takes back fifteen hundred years like he's a polaroid. Well,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, it's because everybody sees.
Speaker 1: It does see that.
Speaker 2: It's like.
Speaker 3: This is a picture from ten thousand years ago. But
Speaker 3: Wendy recognizes this look from her encounter with Shen. She
Speaker 3: leaves without even taking the five hundred vote for me
Speaker 3: cupcakes she worked on all night. And there's nothing I
Speaker 3: hate more in films than wasting coupies.
Speaker 1: So unbelievable out So I'm gonna drop it a point
Speaker 1: just for that.
Speaker 3: Outside, Shen is standing in a tree watching Wendy leave.
Speaker 3: Once she's gone, he rushes into the house to recover
Speaker 3: the coin, only to find her grandmother holding it. She
Speaker 3: knows but it represents, and asks if Wendy is a warrior.
Speaker 3: Shen says yes, then takes the necklace and promises to
Speaker 3: protect her with her life. It's a very nice scene. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: Wendy is walking to school. When she's off at a
Speaker 3: ride from her friends, Shen rushes over, yelling at her
Speaker 3: to wear the coin, and she's instantly freaked out and
Speaker 3: rightfully so, telling her friends to take off. Shen steals
Speaker 3: a kid's scooter and uses it to catch up with
Speaker 3: the car to stop light, which I found interesting because
Speaker 3: he has super speed, so why did he need to
Speaker 3: do that? But anyway, he grabs onto the tail light
Speaker 3: and the girls drag him for blocks up to top speed,
Speaker 3: eventually Fish telling him off and launching him twenty feet
Speaker 3: into a bush. Wendy and her friends agree, let's just
Speaker 3: pretend that never happened, and now it's time for pe
Speaker 3: class and Jessica and Wendy are duking it out on
Speaker 3: the soccer field. Eventually, Wendy takes over as goalie, and
Speaker 3: we see Shen sitting alone in the stands, you know,
Speaker 3: like Shen does because there's often monks just hanging out
Speaker 3: in soccer practice. Wendy makes her way downfield and gets
Speaker 3: a wide open look at Jessica and the goal.
Speaker 1: It's a stare down.
Speaker 3: As Wendy preps her kick, she flips the ball into
Speaker 3: the air, does like a ten eighty flippy bicycle kick
Speaker 3: kind of thing straight at Jessica and kicks her right
Speaker 3: in the stomach with the ball and she Flois into
Speaker 3: the back of the net and it's a goal.
Speaker 1: People. Wendy has no idea how she did that, but
Speaker 1: her friends think that that little petit coming.
Speaker 3: And on the other side of campus, Wendy's evil family
Speaker 3: dog arrives at school ooh, and goes straight to mister
Speaker 3: Noon in the principal's office. And when he goes to
Speaker 3: pet the stray dog, which I was at first, I
Speaker 3: was like, who's gonna do that? And I was like,
Speaker 3: I would. I'd just go down and pet a random
Speaker 3: stray dog at my door. So that's totally truss for me. Hell, yes,
Speaker 3: I would. I love dogs, So I'd be like, Hi.
Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? Why are you at my door?
Speaker 1: Do you need to come in? Here's my wallet? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I absolutely would, And then we get glowing eyes and
Speaker 3: it's yet another spirit transfer. Uh oh, it's the hidden Also,
Speaker 3: Shen finds Wendy, who is now contemplating her kick power
Speaker 3: in the stands. He tells her she's in danger and
Speaker 3: she must wear the coin. Wendy just doesn't get it.
Speaker 3: Who is this guy and why was he at her house?
Speaker 3: He explains he traveled from far and it's her destiny
Speaker 3: to help He knows all about her and about her
Speaker 3: mysterious and allegedly has been reincarnated repeatedly to protect warriors
Speaker 3: from Yanglo's spirit as the next descendant. If she doesn't
Speaker 3: defeat the evil spirit, earthquakes, locusts, tornadoes, famines, ocean rising, fire, droughts,
Speaker 3: everything will appear. It's essentially the end of the world.
Speaker 3: Her kung fu training must start now, but instead she
Speaker 3: leaves with her friends for the ball. I was like, dude,
Speaker 3: you were.
Speaker 1: Just told the world's gonna end, but you're gonna go shopping.
Speaker 1: Come on.
Speaker 3: Later on the phone, she tells her friends that Shen
Speaker 3: is her cousin from China, and as a result, her
Speaker 3: friends come up with a very racist idea. They'll wright
Speaker 3: vote for Wendy on a bunch of chopsticks and hand
Speaker 3: them out at lunch. Wendy, of course, says, hey, guys,
Speaker 3: that's pretty much blatantly racist.
Speaker 1: No, I'm kidding. She doesn't say that.
Speaker 3: Instead, she finds Shed in her door again, yapping about
Speaker 3: the coin and the necklace.
Speaker 1: Again, Wendy's had enough.
Speaker 3: She reminds him she never agreed to train, then tells
Speaker 3: him to go away that night, as Shen is still
Speaker 3: perched outside watching over the house. Wendy's grandma covers him
Speaker 3: with a blanket and brings the necklace in and places
Speaker 3: it on Wendy before him, and then it's the next morning.
Speaker 1: Wendy throws it right back at Schen.
Speaker 3: She's not wearing this thing, dude, Just walk away, And
Speaker 3: as she arrives at school for another day, the evil
Speaker 3: deity principle is waiting for her in the parking lot.
Speaker 3: Shen notices and jumps right into action. He sprints to
Speaker 3: the teacher and takes him down. And by him, I
Speaker 3: mean a stunt man in a gray wig who looks
Speaker 3: like the principal.
Speaker 1: Go posit. It's pretty funny.
Speaker 3: Shen also uses the coin, which again transfers the spirit
Speaker 3: from the principal to a bald teacher named mister Medina.
Speaker 1: Luckily no wig was needed for him.
Speaker 3: Wendy reunites with her boyfriend Austin our favorite, and another teacher,
Speaker 3: Mister Tobias, quickly reminds them that public displays of affection
Speaker 3: are not tolerated. And we've talked about this a little
Speaker 3: bit on Podmeats World, but I don't think we have
Speaker 3: talked about this here. Were kids allowed to just blatantly
Speaker 3: make out in high school in your hallways.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was necessarily like allowed to,
Speaker 2: but they did, like they were never.
Speaker 1: Like broken up, like hey, you guys stop kissing.
Speaker 2: Well, I think if a teacher came around, they would, okay,
Speaker 2: they know if I think if the teacher came around
Speaker 2: and they were making out, like and the teacher, the
Speaker 2: kids usually stopped. If the kids didn't stop, the teacher
Speaker 2: would be like, hey, all right, let's break it up up.
Speaker 2: But it wasn't like like let me massive like nothing
Speaker 2: like that. And also dances, I think were the only
Speaker 2: time that the chaperones. The chaperones would come in and
Speaker 2: kind of go all right, that was enough when like
Speaker 2: dancing was happening at like the dances. Now the kids don't.
Speaker 1: In case it got dirty dancing, like sexy dirty dancing.
Speaker 2: I mean, they weren't dancing like that, but like yeah.
Speaker 3: Like bump, come on, say it, let's walk me through it,
Speaker 3: s Rita, I want your face matches your shirt, so
Speaker 3: keep going. Come on, what kind of sexy dances are
Speaker 3: you talking about? Are we talking to Jersey Turnpike and
Speaker 3: what do you t working wasn't.
Speaker 2: A thing when I was in high school. But I
Speaker 2: feel like maybe it was like bumping and grind, okay,
Speaker 2: you know where it was like the girls are in
Speaker 2: front and you're you're popping it, you're popping it, You're
Speaker 2: popping it right and popping it. The boys are back
Speaker 2: there and you know, like it's for all right, I'll
Speaker 2: see you later.
Speaker 1: Well, this is the best. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't think it was cool enough to even attend
Speaker 2: those things.
Speaker 1: I don't even remember, please or whatever.
Speaker 3: We all know that you're selling Oreo pastry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know that's what Honestly, the girls and
Speaker 2: the kids don't even go to the dance anymore.
Speaker 1: They literally get.
Speaker 2: The dresses, get all dolled up, take pictures, get on
Speaker 2: a party bus, and then never even go to the
Speaker 2: dance at all.
Speaker 1: And their kids aren't drinking anymore here or having sex
Speaker 1: with them. What the hell are they doing?
Speaker 2: Vaping? I guess that's like the thing, But like they
Speaker 2: they're literally they're literally just like taking the party bus
Speaker 2: wherever it goes, maybe to dinner or whatever, and like
Speaker 2: that's it. They don't even It makes me so sad,
Speaker 2: especially like my seniors like you guys don't even go
Speaker 2: to the dance and like have the like at least
Speaker 2: like a slow dance or a moment with your girls
Speaker 2: where you're just like, no, they don't.
Speaker 1: It's a weird. Kids are weird, just the way it.
Speaker 2: Is now, I'm depressed.
Speaker 1: No, that's right, you'll be you'll have fun at my problem.
Speaker 2: I know I can't wait, and I'm it's going to
Speaker 2: be so much money you wait to watch you drop it, Like.
Speaker 3: Oh, dude, it's gonna be so hot, it's going to
Speaker 3: be dropped you watch. Speaking of so hot, Austin has
Speaker 3: some news. The San Francisco modeling agency submitted his photos
Speaker 3: to call his pictures eighties Retro, which he's like, is
Speaker 3: that good, but obviously is not.
Speaker 1: Then Shed appears, still with the coin.
Speaker 3: Now to make sure Austin is an evil, Wendy sends
Speaker 3: him off to the bathroom to check for spirits, mostly
Speaker 3: just to ditch them so she can talk to Austin.
Speaker 1: About going to Maria's party.
Speaker 3: Austin's excited to go, especially because he thinks they're going
Speaker 3: to end up homecoming King and Queen. Then dozens of
Speaker 3: women come screaming out of the bathroom, Shen has declared
Speaker 3: their toilet is safe. Jessica sees this all go down
Speaker 3: and is very petty and passive aggressive and has some
Speaker 3: bad news. Wendy is suspended from any extracurricular activity, including
Speaker 3: homecoming court, because their grade average is below a sea
Speaker 3: thanks to world history, and I was like, wow, we've
Speaker 3: got a Disney star of a movie that's a bad student.
Speaker 3: So with midterms in a week and no knowledge of China,
Speaker 3: she is absolutely screwed, except Shen says he can help.
Speaker 3: He knows everything about Chinese history and will tutor her
Speaker 3: as long as she starts taking kung fu and wears
Speaker 3: the coin. And she accepts the offer at the perfect
Speaker 3: time because bad evil deity mister Media is about to pounce,
Speaker 3: but thanks to the coin, the spirit is now transferred
Speaker 3: to somebody new, the school gardener. And I couldn't believe
Speaker 3: it took us forty minutes, but we get our first
Speaker 3: cong fu training montage, this time with Lilith Fair style
Speaker 3: music in the background. Shen teaches Wendy moos, but she's
Speaker 3: taken phone calls neat and potato chips mid lesson and
Speaker 3: when it's time to learn these fifteen hundred years of
Speaker 3: Chinese history. She tells her all she has to do
Speaker 3: is meditate, which sure seems like an odd lesson for
Speaker 3: kids watching. Knowing that this is her only chance, she
Speaker 3: agrees and ends up liking it. She does it in class,
Speaker 3: at home, and at lunch, and thanks to all the
Speaker 3: hard work, if you can call it just meditating hard work,
Speaker 3: she gets an a because now she knows everything, apparently
Speaker 3: without cracking a book, and it's now eligible for Homecoming Queen.
Speaker 1: They really blew past that.
Speaker 3: While celebrating, she roundhouse kicks a kid named Todd, and
Speaker 3: she's either becoming a kung fu master or just assaulting
Speaker 3: random classmates without warning. We're not really sure either way.
Speaker 3: It's a fun movie, but Shen likes what he sees.
Speaker 3: Her skills are coming along nicely, but she needs more training.
Speaker 3: Wendy gets it, but she has Homecoming Queen to worry about,
Speaker 3: and though evil is on his way, she is busy
Speaker 3: being a teenage girl. At home, Wendy is catching a
Speaker 3: vote for me self portrait, and now I'm wondering if
Speaker 3: she draws anything other than pictures of herself. Wendy's grandmother
Speaker 3: admits that she misses China, especially her grandpa's old stories.
Speaker 3: She highlights one tale about a young girl again named
Speaker 3: Mio Shen, who trains to become a Yin warrior every
Speaker 3: ninety years. Wendy immediately recognizes the story and then Shin
Speaker 3: walks into the room. It's obvious that they're working together.
Speaker 3: Grandma calls the tradition and honor. Wendy's mom gets home
Speaker 3: from work and is surprised to see this monk in
Speaker 3: her home. Everybody's like, hey, there's just a monk here.
Speaker 3: That night, Shen joins family dinner, now disguise as a
Speaker 3: visiting great grandnephew. He bonds with Wendy's mom over her
Speaker 3: upcoming I think it's kin dynasty exhibit, which he offers
Speaker 3: to help with. He also promises Peter he'll teach him
Speaker 3: some kung fu, starting with a move he calls monkey
Speaker 3: jumps over the wall. Shen also made traditional mooncakes for
Speaker 3: the family, but Wendy's dad is clearly affected. He kind
Speaker 3: of believes everything is getting too culturally Chinese for him,
Speaker 3: and he retreats upstairs. And I literally paused right here
Speaker 3: and looked up exactly the process for making a mooncake
Speaker 3: and what they're filled with and all that stuff, and
Speaker 3: I so want to try one because they sou they
Speaker 3: look so good. I mean, yeah, just looked really good. Later,
Speaker 3: Wendy's talking to a friend on the phone about Shen.
Speaker 3: It seems like the way he dresses could affect her
Speaker 3: homecoming queen chances, which Wendy thinks is dumb, but she
Speaker 3: still takes Shen to the mall for a new wardrobe
Speaker 3: and we get another. This was a very weird montage,
Speaker 3: the shopping for cool Fedoras.
Speaker 1: It was like it was just a hat montage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it turned into like one of the outfit and
Speaker 2: then at some point it was just hat Fedora like.
Speaker 1: Just and sunglasses and him just spinning.
Speaker 3: And by this by the third minute of spinning the
Speaker 3: sixty seconds.
Speaker 1: It's somewhere maybe one less kangle.
Speaker 3: Hat uh and or avril like from there.
Speaker 2: And kind of like for what like it just was
Speaker 2: like just get him.
Speaker 1: It didn't.
Speaker 2: You're you have a brother that literally looks like the
Speaker 2: same size. Just grab a T shirt and paras.
Speaker 1: It didn't. This was this was a strange pnd.
Speaker 3: Yes, back at home, Whendy's dad gave in and ate
Speaker 3: the delicious mooncakes.
Speaker 1: He didn't mean to be rude to Shen. It just
Speaker 1: made him feel like a kid again.
Speaker 3: And since he knows he's turned his back on his
Speaker 3: own culture, it made and feel guilty. But Chenn's reminded
Speaker 3: him he wants to be a Chinese American family, not
Speaker 3: just an American family.
Speaker 1: And I thought this was.
Speaker 3: Really nice and a really interesting way of showing the culture.
Speaker 3: How it's like you can forget your own culture when
Speaker 3: you become you go somewhere else and you assimilate and
Speaker 3: you become part of that culture, and sometimes you can
Speaker 3: kind of forget where.
Speaker 1: You came from. And I thought it was a really
Speaker 1: interesting way of showing that.
Speaker 2: Yes, and it's always nice to like realize, like yes,
Speaker 2: embrace where you are now, but like don't let go
Speaker 2: of where you came from.
Speaker 1: Matters and them together.
Speaker 2: That's, you know, what this country's supposed to be about
Speaker 2: is exactly the other, everything together and finding a way
Speaker 2: that it's all okay, it's all good.
Speaker 1: I agree, So yeah, I thought that was great and
Speaker 1: great forgids.
Speaker 2: Great messaging.
Speaker 3: Yes, another good message, Another good message at school. Wendy
Speaker 3: bumps into Austin who got Blonde? Highlights for homecoming. I
Speaker 3: love this guy.
Speaker 1: He the best. He suggests they stay.
Speaker 3: Away from Shen because people are starting to talk, but
Speaker 3: Wendy fights back and defends the monk just as he
Speaker 3: enters the hallway, yelling vote for Wendy.
Speaker 1: But now he's in some very cool clothes and the
Speaker 1: ladies are flocking to him. Austin is already jealous that
Speaker 1: Shen went from monk to hunk.
Speaker 2: Love it.
Speaker 3: That night, Shen admits he liked the attention. She thanks
Speaker 3: him for adapting, and he eats a chocolate cupcake for
Speaker 3: the first time in any of his lives. Wendy brings
Speaker 3: up girlfriends from his past, and he admits he'd never
Speaker 3: had one.
Speaker 1: He's a monk.
Speaker 3: Wendy also reveals she's never been in love. She's only
Speaker 3: with Austin because people say they look cute together and
Speaker 3: it'll help her win homecoming Queen Wow. The biggest reveal
Speaker 3: is that Shen will never return home. His destiny is
Speaker 3: to sacrifice himself during the battle and die, and they
Speaker 3: just threw that out there. It's like, man, this is
Speaker 3: amazing chocolate. I've never had chocolate. I'm here to die.
Speaker 3: It was like, oh my god.
Speaker 2: Are you okay about that?
Speaker 3: Like, since came on it flavor chocolate head's gonna be
Speaker 3: ripped off.
Speaker 1: I mean so weird.
Speaker 2: Does it worry you at all?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Paused any point, you're just gonna throw yourself in front
Speaker 2: of like is it gonna be a car?
Speaker 1: Doesn't care. He's like, Wow, this cupcakes amazing.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be stabbed in the heart, Like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: now I very depressed.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: He says that his destiny is to sacrifice himself during
Speaker 3: the battle to die. A depressed Wendy suggests that maybe
Speaker 3: his teenage experience should last a little longer, and so
Speaker 3: brings him to a dance party at this get together,
Speaker 3: which of course takes place at the break of two pm,
Speaker 3: apparently because that's what all the best dance parties are.
Speaker 3: Girls again are all horned up for Shan, and as
Speaker 3: a result, Wendy's getting a little jealous. Austin is also
Speaker 3: mad Wendy was supposed to meet up with him and
Speaker 3: do some campaigning, and as a result.
Speaker 1: She breaks up with him.
Speaker 3: On the same day, homeboy got highlights?
Speaker 1: How good?
Speaker 2: I just got highlight?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Frosted tipssty.
Speaker 3: Boom dropping me popping it like it's hot or whatever
Speaker 3: Sabrina said when she was bright red.
Speaker 1: And out on the dance floor.
Speaker 3: Shen is showing off his kung fu flips and splits
Speaker 3: and he's killing it. Wendy sees a girl kiss him
Speaker 3: on the cheek, and now she's very sure she wants
Speaker 3: to bang her cousins. He's not actually her cousin, but
Speaker 3: that's the story. In a fit of rage, and then
Speaker 3: the whole time I'm watching going.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, that's right, they're not cousins. Get out of
Speaker 1: your hand.
Speaker 3: They put that in your like, yeah, this isn't clueless
Speaker 3: where nobody cared that she ended up with her stepbrother
Speaker 3: at the end. So in a fit of rage, she
Speaker 3: throws her coin necklace into a chip bowl and storms out.
Speaker 3: But that was a bad move because one of the
Speaker 3: girls at the party, Tory, appears to be the evil deity.
Speaker 3: Now over by the pool, Wendy is crying when Tory
Speaker 3: appears clearly possessed inside. Shen answers thinly veiled racist questions
Speaker 3: from other students, like do you know yoomin.
Speaker 1: Billy and people in China? But of course he's going
Speaker 1: to know that guy.
Speaker 3: And right when Wendy is about to confide in Tori,
Speaker 3: she reveals the big green, glowing orb.
Speaker 1: Her spirit is in danger.
Speaker 3: Shen sees the coin in the chip bowl and knows
Speaker 3: he's got to help Wendy. He jumps over the pool
Speaker 3: and kicks the ball out of Tory's hands just in time.
Speaker 3: Wendy then kicks Tory and the orb into the pool,
Speaker 3: creating a massive hot tub. All the party goers excitedly
Speaker 3: jump in, and Wendy knows she must complete her training.
Speaker 3: Jessica takes a picture of the soaking wet Tory to
Speaker 3: embarrass her in the yearbook, and as a result, the
Speaker 3: evil deity transfers to Jessica. And this was another problem
Speaker 3: I had. And again we're talking about nipicking. But why
Speaker 3: when you put the orbit into the pool does it
Speaker 3: bubble like it's going crazy? But when he knocked the
Speaker 3: orbit into the fish tank, there was no bubbling in it.
Speaker 2: None. It's yeah, this is the thing. And I knew
Speaker 2: you were going to pick it apart. I will tell
Speaker 2: you right now. I didn't care. But the rules were
Speaker 2: not designated.
Speaker 1: No, no, no rules, no.
Speaker 2: Anything. But like truly, I now no, because watch or
Speaker 2: with you there must be rolls.
Speaker 3: Thank you, and they weren't, and I wasn't gonna say
Speaker 3: anything because I didn't want to be the guy harping
Speaker 3: on it.
Speaker 1: But again, what exactly does the necklace do?
Speaker 2: What does and what does the green ball do?
Speaker 3: The green or the green ball, I think is supposed
Speaker 3: to take her soul, but it doesn't say why the necklace.
Speaker 1: He just holds it up and then the person kind
Speaker 1: of goes ah. But then they don't instantly transfer to
Speaker 1: another body who they.
Speaker 2: In any sense?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Also, if it doesn't matter who you are or why
Speaker 3: you're there, why doesn't the evil body just take over shen?
Speaker 2: Yes, well yeah, maybe did because he didn't have one
Speaker 2: of them, like if it made it would have made
Speaker 2: more sense if he had.
Speaker 3: You just need a scene of him saying I can
Speaker 3: do like, this is what it means, this is what
Speaker 3: the monks exactly, this can't do it right, exactly.
Speaker 2: Mommy, the floor's lava. How are you walking? I'm like,
Speaker 2: because I've got mommy powers, Like the floor's not lava.
Speaker 2: To mommies, you just explain everywhere I go.
Speaker 1: Perfect.
Speaker 3: Interesting, I gotta become a mommy because my floor's lava
Speaker 3: and I can't get out of this room.
Speaker 2: But there has to be rules or an explanation.
Speaker 1: Cliirs, thank you, I just needed ones.
Speaker 3: Let's take out four minutes of cupcake talk and add
Speaker 3: four minutes of rules, and we've got a better film.
Speaker 3: But luckily, Wendy's jumped into full karate mode. It's time
Speaker 3: for her final lesson, and Shen reveals those deadly venom
Speaker 3: statues from earlier. He explains that the missing dragon represents invincibility,
Speaker 3: and then it magically peers as a tattoo on his arm,
Speaker 3: which again, you could have explained a little better.
Speaker 1: She also never gets one, which she should have.
Speaker 3: The statues then bring ancestor ghosts to life in the park,
Speaker 3: causing absolutely nobody walking by to freak out in any way,
Speaker 3: shape or form. Why are you doing this in the
Speaker 3: middle of a whole bunch of people. There are plenty
Speaker 3: of places you could go. Why not do this somewhere else?
Speaker 3: But okay, but Wendy can't learn to fight from these
Speaker 3: random dead monks. They've done nothing wrong to her, and
Speaker 3: she finds it very awkward. So Shen possesses the spirit
Speaker 3: of Wendy's means soccer coach, her principal, the teacher who
Speaker 3: hates public makeout sessions and mister Medina to teach her.
Speaker 3: So this puts Wendy at ease, where now she can
Speaker 3: fight her teachers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this just oddball gang.
Speaker 3: Yes, this is weird. Give her a group of four
Speaker 3: friends that were her age. Tell me you wouldn't want
Speaker 3: to see Frosted Tips guy as one of the monks
Speaker 3: teaching her, Like, I mean, why not put people her
Speaker 3: own age, making the old I get what they were doing,
Speaker 3: but it was this to me was a little strange
Speaker 3: from practicing in the park to now it's your teachers
Speaker 3: teaching you.
Speaker 1: And that doesn't make you uncomfortable.
Speaker 3: Nobody in the park, none of your friends, Nobody notices
Speaker 3: that you're martial artsing out with all of your teachers.
Speaker 2: And teachers that don't look It's not like the pe
Speaker 2: teacher idea or soccer but like, yes, your prince.
Speaker 3: African American teacher looked fine, but the big, heavy set
Speaker 3: white guy is walking on a fence.
Speaker 1: Nobody's going to notice any of this.
Speaker 3: So anyway, yes, so they put her at ease somehow,
Speaker 3: and she masters some amazing moves as a result. This
Speaker 3: training montage and some pretty funny scenes of stuffy white
Speaker 3: teachers doing incredible Karadi moves, and it ends with her
Speaker 3: defeating all of them with a stick. Wendy is ready
Speaker 3: to celebrate with Shen's first cappuccino. Also, we noticed that
Speaker 3: Wendy's grandma was secretly watching on and she of course
Speaker 3: is very happy and very proud. And then Shen's phone
Speaker 3: rings with some very good news. Her friend Lisa is
Speaker 3: on the voting committee and Wendy has one homecoming queen.
Speaker 3: This gives Wendy an idea. What if Shen is her
Speaker 3: date to the dance, but he says he can't go.
Speaker 3: He already has a date with death and it's tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Wendy realizes this big battle is going to be at homecoming.
Speaker 3: Wendy is furious. Why did Shen hide this from her?
Speaker 3: Of course she gives up homecoming immediately to save the world. Nope,
Speaker 3: that's not what happens. And over at the museum, Jessica,
Speaker 3: Remember Jessica, who was the evil Nemesis, has turned into
Speaker 3: the Lord of Darkness to awaken the Stone Soldiers. These
Speaker 3: are the soldiers that were sent by China for that
Speaker 3: Chinese cultural exhibit of it that her mother is in
Speaker 3: charge of and knows nothing about. Then, of course, the
Speaker 3: exactly what did you just get this job? You're a
Speaker 3: museum curator, you're also Chinese. The useless security guard who
Speaker 3: does not locked doors thinks it's justice, stomach grumbling from
Speaker 3: indigestion at first, then runs away when he sees the
Speaker 3: building army. At home, Wendy is getting ready for homecoming
Speaker 3: when her grandmother offers her her family heirloom robe for
Speaker 3: the upcoming battle, but Wendy.
Speaker 1: Explained she's not going to go to battle.
Speaker 3: She's always wanted to be homecoming queen, not a warrior,
Speaker 3: and her grandmother says, are.
Speaker 1: You kidding me?
Speaker 3: You have to go save the world, not go to
Speaker 3: some dumb dance at your high school. Nope, not what
Speaker 3: says her grandmother actually says she respects her decision and
Speaker 3: then leaves. Back at the museum, shehn is a I
Speaker 3: have to confront Jessica and the soldiers. He's ready for battle,
Speaker 3: but quickly learns this army is too much for him.
Speaker 3: We get some more really great kung fu fighting scenes
Speaker 3: before we see Wendy lee for the dance. She reminds
Speaker 3: her mom and dad to arrive before halftime because that's
Speaker 3: when she'll be crowned. And so I'm confused again having
Speaker 3: not been in high school for forty two years and
Speaker 3: also never being there for the senior year. It's a
Speaker 3: homecoming game, right the homecoming so you have a game
Speaker 3: and then it has a time the homecoming court is crowned,
Speaker 3: and then there's a dance.
Speaker 2: So typically, of course, I'm just judging off of my
Speaker 2: experience and now what I see with the team that
Speaker 2: I coach in the high schools that surround my area.
Speaker 2: Homecoming game is usually on the Friday before the dance,
Speaker 2: homecoming assembly, like they usually have like a pep rally
Speaker 2: during the school day where the king gets announced, and
Speaker 2: then at homecoming the halftime show is when they announced
Speaker 2: the queen. But then the dance is then there's a dance,
Speaker 2: separate day. Okay, the game, like the dance can't start
Speaker 2: at ten. The dance is like a different day. It's
Speaker 2: the Saturday after this right here, Disney.
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, they're trying to put it all.
Speaker 2: I got it like somewhat do it all together, but
Speaker 2: like to say, like so the thing is too parents
Speaker 2: aren't the dance so like they get if your kids
Speaker 2: on the court, they get to be there. The dad
Speaker 2: usually walks them and has a The parents get to
Speaker 2: be a part of it, but like the dance, they're
Speaker 2: not there.
Speaker 3: I wasn't there for any of that either way, anyway.
Speaker 2: Either way, I know it.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I wouldn't have I can promise you
Speaker 3: that either way. When she opens the door to leave,
Speaker 3: the possessed teachers are waiting for her, there's still the
Speaker 3: monks and have a message the Hour of Evil as
Speaker 3: she appreciates their confidence, but she's sorry. She has a
Speaker 3: date with her Tiara. Yes, she's gonna let us all
Speaker 3: die so she can become homecoming queen in high school.
Speaker 3: But when she finds out Shen is already in battle alone,
Speaker 3: she knows she has to do something. Back at the museum,
Speaker 3: the awesome fight scene rages on. Jessica slam Shen into
Speaker 3: a box that explodes with what I can only imagine
Speaker 3: where white Christmas lights and firecrackers. He's still able to
Speaker 3: fend them off, and he's doing it.
Speaker 1: It really is good.
Speaker 3: It's good fight scenes, but Jessica and more specifically the
Speaker 3: stunt person wearing a blonde wig, clearly has the upper
Speaker 3: hand that and pause it it's fun, I know.
Speaker 1: Now thrown to the ground, the soldiers surround Shen.
Speaker 3: He is finally trapped, and Justice Jessica announces that evil
Speaker 3: is victorious. The teachers arrive, now calling themselves the Leopard,
Speaker 3: the Snake, the Crane, and the Tiger, and the final
Speaker 3: element storms in. It's Wendy as the Yan Warrior, still
Speaker 3: in her homecoming dress. She's shocked to see the final
Speaker 3: face of Yang lo Is Jessica, but springs into action.
Speaker 3: She tends to an injury. She tends to an injured
Speaker 3: Shen as the teachers fight the army. Once Shen is
Speaker 3: taken care of, Wendy and could go to battle with
Speaker 3: the movie's best fight sequence so far, and just as
Speaker 3: Wendy looks outmatched, the final piece of the puzzle arrives.
Speaker 3: It's Wendy's grandmother with the robe, the heirloom. So of
Speaker 3: course she stops mid fight to change. And now she
Speaker 3: comes back, and now she's ready. Hope, time out, time out.
Speaker 3: I've got to put on a different outfit. The rumble,
Speaker 3: get an evils like you got it. You've got five minutes.
Speaker 1: Take a breath. What do you guys do? What's everybody
Speaker 1: up to? Let's just take take a second and let
Speaker 1: her change.
Speaker 3: The rumble continues and the teachers are starting to defeat
Speaker 3: the soldiers for good, turning them back into little rocks.
Speaker 3: We get an insane move here where Wendy hangs herself
Speaker 3: sideways off a tall shelf and Jessica jumps up to
Speaker 3: kick her. And if you pause the movie during this fight, really,
Speaker 3: at any point you'll see an Asian man wearing a
Speaker 3: wig fighting.
Speaker 1: But I again, like you, at this point, I didn't.
Speaker 3: Any care no matter who it is, though, Wendy summons, oh,
Speaker 3: this was the coolest, and I went, hi, you can?
Speaker 1: Did you know what it is? Okay a minute? You
Speaker 1: know a street fighter too?
Speaker 2: By white watch Wendy Woo's a freaking stream fighter. Why
Speaker 2: didn't we talk about this earlier?
Speaker 3: She full on throws a fireball like ryu hi hu
Speaker 3: can and I just want to turn to do that.
Speaker 3: Oh god, it was so cool, and uh yeah, throws
Speaker 3: it so neat at Jessica. In a final move, it
Speaker 3: surrounds her body and reveals the true glowing spirit of
Speaker 3: Yang Lo.
Speaker 1: He quickly disappears and Jessica returns to reality.
Speaker 3: Everyone on Wendy's team, including a still living Shen bow
Speaker 3: in respect. Wendy tells Jessica she's found something more important
Speaker 3: than winning Homecoming Queen and tells her to hurry up.
Speaker 3: It's her crown to win, so Jessica leaves. Everyone celebrates
Speaker 3: the big win, but just as they're leaving, a stone
Speaker 3: soldier recovers and becomes the almighty yang Loo himself.
Speaker 1: Shen might not be safe after all.
Speaker 3: Yanglo quickly takes care of the teachers without even breaking
Speaker 3: a sweat, and Shen reveals this is the first time
Speaker 3: that yen Lo has actually shown up to fight, so
Speaker 3: without any knowledge of what to do, they're thrown to
Speaker 3: the side with every attack. Yen Lo now holds Shen
Speaker 3: by the neck to steal his and Wendy screams let
Speaker 3: him go, but Shen reminds her this is his destiny.
Speaker 1: But Wendy's grandmother still has hope.
Speaker 3: She tells Wendy to show yen Low everything she's learned,
Speaker 3: and with that, Wendy locks in. She begins to calmly,
Speaker 3: glow and levitate, then shoots lasers at yen Low. He
Speaker 3: screams in pain and is thrown backwards into another box
Speaker 3: filled with Christmas lights and firecrackers. Wendy catches Shen midfall,
Speaker 3: saving him from a terrible backache, but Shen is unresponsive
Speaker 3: and yen Lo has somehow recovered and stomping towards the
Speaker 3: cousin couple.
Speaker 1: He demands that Shen die.
Speaker 3: Wendy tries her hardest, but she can't save him. But
Speaker 3: she once again focuses her energy to his chest, and
Speaker 3: eventually we hear a heartbeat. Shen opens his eyes and
Speaker 3: returns to the fight, teaming up with Wendy for a
Speaker 3: duel kick, killing yen Low once and for Wendy has
Speaker 3: officially changed destiny. The teacher monks are thrilled that yen
Speaker 3: Lo is defeated and dead, for they think ever and
Speaker 3: acknowledge that something bigger than tradition has just happened. The
Speaker 3: monks announced that this will be Shen's final life. They
Speaker 3: encourage him to live it well and stay in California,
Speaker 3: where he's just unfortunately out of nowhere for the first
Speaker 3: time in his life, being taxed to the hill gas
Speaker 3: is expensive. He's like, this is crazy.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm out of California. Forget that.
Speaker 3: With that, the monks as send from their teachers' bodies,
Speaker 3: leaving everyone very confused.
Speaker 1: But Grandma invites everyone over for mooncakes, and just like.
Speaker 3: That, it's party time. But instead of mooncakes, Shin wants
Speaker 3: something a little less ancient Chinese and a little more
Speaker 3: well Italian American. I guess he wants a cappuccino. The
Speaker 3: possible lovers, who are also maybe now cousins but don't
Speaker 3: really know, and now awkwardly Nukes explained to the entire
Speaker 3: school how they're not really cousins, run off together.
Speaker 1: And that's our movie. Oh, Sabrina, let's do some real reviews.
Speaker 2: Okay, you get the five star this week?
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 3: I got the five star and it is by our
Speaker 3: old friend unamous back and his review or her review
Speaker 3: or their review read as such. It's kind of a
Speaker 3: Disney version of kill Bill, but you know, with no blood.
Speaker 3: But it's a fresh, new and interesting idea for a
Speaker 3: Disney Channel film.
Speaker 1: Five stars.
Speaker 3: Don't disagree, don't disagree. What do you got, Sabrina?
Speaker 2: I don't like this review. I don't like it. It's
Speaker 2: a one star from Yaki seven giggling.
Speaker 1: It's just the name, I know, A rare double threat.
Speaker 2: The movie ends with both racism and misogyny.
Speaker 3: One Star than seven, Yes, I disagree frankly, and uh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: There was some racism in the movie.
Speaker 2: There was especially was there a misogyny.
Speaker 3: I mean, I thought was kind of girl empowering, wasn't it.
Speaker 3: I didn't see any misogyny. I definitely saw some racist tendency.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, and I think that that's it's, you know, again,
Speaker 2: Disney taking on something, taking on a culture take. You're
Speaker 2: gonna you're gonna get these outsider looks into, you know,
Speaker 2: things that you play into, especially when you know you
Speaker 2: have to kind of keep it lighthearted and things that people.
Speaker 2: I mean, I didn't see it as terrible, as though
Speaker 2: somebody who was sensitive to that probably would see things
Speaker 2: a little bit harsher. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean the thing with like we're gonna write We're
Speaker 3: gonna write vote for You on Chop six was like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, but in two thousand and six, isn't how
Speaker 2: it reads, And that's what we're saying.
Speaker 1: It's a different six. It's different exactly. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't know when this time was twenty years old.
Speaker 2: Twenty years old, yeah.
Speaker 3: And twenty years from now we are doing something or
Speaker 3: saying something that is completely and totally normal and legitimized.
Speaker 1: Now that's going to.
Speaker 3: Be horrifying twenty fear or twenty years Yes, just the
Speaker 3: way that just the way it works.
Speaker 1: I don't know how as a culture.
Speaker 2: Somebody please chime in. Like when I think of like
Speaker 2: the one of my I love the song it mainly
Speaker 2: just because it's got such like a like a beat,
Speaker 2: but like the everybody was come fight Like, is that
Speaker 2: is that now something that like if you start kind.
Speaker 1: Of probably if you dissect it, right.
Speaker 2: But at the time, that's like a that's a jam,
Speaker 2: that's that's bop like right, But and I love that song.
Speaker 2: I think it's got such like a like bounce to it,
Speaker 2: the beat everything, But like again, now we are needing
Speaker 2: needing to look into more of how it's coming across
Speaker 2: and who it affects.
Speaker 3: Right, We also need to take things for the time
Speaker 3: that they were put out there.
Speaker 1: Yes, and this is twenty years ago. Yeah, so we've
Speaker 1: got to be okay with it. But you know what
Speaker 1: we don't have.
Speaker 3: To be okay with is constantly losing our feature game,
Speaker 3: which is your favorite part of the program.
Speaker 1: And this week, who do we have with us this week?
Speaker 1: Who are we playing with this week? You have Michaela, Michaela,
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 2: And.
Speaker 1: Mikayla.
Speaker 3: Oh it sounds a little bit like like your name
Speaker 3: here because the feature this week is McCall McCall, not McKay,
Speaker 3: McCall yay or McCall no. So to celebrate a great
Speaker 3: performance from Disney Legend Friend's song, to do it no
Speaker 3: nothing whatsoever, nothing whatsoever, Thank you, producer Jensen so Yes.
Speaker 3: To celebrate a great performance from Disney Legend Brenda song,
Speaker 3: we wanted to play a game that centers around the
Speaker 3: man who can call her his better half, macaulay.
Speaker 1: Culkin, lucky bastard.
Speaker 3: We're gonna be given a possible fact about the Home
Speaker 3: Alone star and we have to decide if they are
Speaker 3: true or false by calling them mccallier or pacall no McCalla.
Speaker 3: This is terrible. Three out of five correct ones wins.
Speaker 3: Number one mccaullay Culkin got married at age seventeen. He
Speaker 3: did right not to her, but didn't he have one
Speaker 3: marriage at like seventeen.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say mccaullyer, I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna say mccallyer too true.
Speaker 2: You guys are correct.
Speaker 3: And number two he was in a rock band called
Speaker 3: The Pizza Underground, taking songs by the Velvet Underground and
Speaker 3: remixing them with lyrics about pizza. McCall, I'm gonna say
Speaker 3: McCall no too. But this is gonna be another one
Speaker 3: of those where all he's are right, McCall.
Speaker 1: No, true, it's it, Oh god, it is.
Speaker 3: It's They're all gonna be true again. He's gonna do
Speaker 3: it to us again.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Number three he once sold Val Kilmer a rare twenty
Speaker 3: thousand dollars Nintendo game.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say yes.
Speaker 1: False. Oh it was. That's probably finally all right.
Speaker 3: Number four His godfather is legendary New York pop artist
Speaker 3: Andy Warhol.
Speaker 1: Was he alive?
Speaker 3: Andy Warhol died in eighty six, so I guess Mack
Speaker 3: would have been alive.
Speaker 1: Then Mac, McAll it. It's what people call him.
Speaker 2: You call him back? Did he tell you to call
Speaker 2: him mac?
Speaker 1: Everyone calls him.
Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: I worked with this brother. I did it, did a
Speaker 1: show with with with his brother first. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I didn't go fish on NBC with Kieren. Uh. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say McCall no, McCall, yay.
Speaker 2: Sabrina's right. False.
Speaker 1: Okay, you kind of thank God for that one.
Speaker 3: And number five, McCauley bought Marilyn Manson his first pack
Speaker 3: of cigarettes.
Speaker 1: We haven't had a ya in a while. Mccaullyer.
Speaker 2: That seems wild, maccaullyer, I guess it's true.
Speaker 1: Wow. So Sabrina won and I think I lost. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Can we do a Sabrina sees please?
Speaker 2: All right, Sabrina seas. There's not much that I saw
Speaker 2: that was imperfect.
Speaker 1: I loved anything was perfect.
Speaker 2: It was perfect. The Hoco comment from the coach threw
Speaker 2: me off a little bit, like it felt like the
Speaker 2: in general and again, like you said, with the fighting
Speaker 2: in general, the like adult child contact or respect level
Speaker 2: and just the like the you're a kid and I'm
Speaker 2: an adult, like that whole thing throughout the dynamic that
Speaker 2: was very off to me, Like the coach, I can't,
Speaker 2: I just was. I just wrote down comment and I'm trying.
Speaker 2: I wish. I think I thought I was gonna remember it.
Speaker 2: But it was like something about Hoko and it was
Speaker 2: like the Hoko and it was just like it was
Speaker 2: weird that an adult would say that to a kid,
Speaker 2: Like there was a lot of things that kind of
Speaker 2: and then when they morph in and now they're fighting
Speaker 2: and it makes more sense for her to fight these
Speaker 2: like adults. Like the dynamics were very strange throughout the movie.
Speaker 2: To me, they just kind of kept hitting me going like.
Speaker 1: It seem right.
Speaker 2: That happened quite a bit. The locked door, it was
Speaker 2: my number one.
Speaker 1: Lock the door, not locking doors. Unlock the door. You
Speaker 1: didn't lock again.
Speaker 2: I talked about the like getting triggered by like stranger danger.
Speaker 2: It did. I was wrong when I was talking about
Speaker 2: it earlier. It did end up in that, but like
Speaker 2: the initial aspect of like not freaking out, it was
Speaker 2: like what are you doing instead of being like.
Speaker 1: Get out of my house? Strange persons that really hit me.
Speaker 2: There was the Hero song. The movie had some very
Speaker 2: significant we didn't This wasn't discussed at all, but the
Speaker 2: songs that were throughout this movie.
Speaker 1: Were just some of them are weird.
Speaker 2: But it was of the time that the channel had
Speaker 2: the ability and the the reach for great producers, and
Speaker 2: this movie could have had some epic Like the score
Speaker 2: of this movie could have been so much bigger. And
Speaker 2: that was a little bit of augh.
Speaker 3: People sometimes don't know how expensive music can be.
Speaker 2: That's a good point.
Speaker 3: So if you've got a five million dollar budget and
Speaker 3: you're already shooting in Auckland, New Zealand, they might have
Speaker 3: just not had the money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good but I would say though, like
Speaker 2: the reach that the channel, like you're talking two thousand
Speaker 2: and six, right, this is towards the end of the
Speaker 2: Cheetah Girls. This is the height of camp rock. Like
Speaker 2: you've got producers at your fingertips. It was strange to
Speaker 2: me that, like I mean at the that that it
Speaker 2: wasn't a better score. It just it seemed But you're right,
Speaker 2: you do have to make choices when you're doing budgets.
Speaker 2: The age of these kids was a little like the
Speaker 2: driver's scene, the driving scene when the three of them
Speaker 2: are in By the way, did you like that car?
Speaker 2: I was like, Oh, I wonder if wil likes that car?
Speaker 2: Was it a good car?
Speaker 1: Because it's like, yeah, the powder Blue that's one of
Speaker 1: the cars.
Speaker 3: The convertible version of that car is one of the
Speaker 3: first cars I learned how to drive in a sixty
Speaker 3: seven muscles.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's a beautiful car. Beautiful I think
Speaker 1: I think it.
Speaker 2: Was like, oh, he's going to talk about this car.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful car. It's a beautiful car.
Speaker 2: It's it's a great cars American sixteen yearl driver. No,
Speaker 2: did they.
Speaker 3: Look my brother one of my brother's first car. No way,
Speaker 3: it was sixteen same color too, But it.
Speaker 2: Was your parents buy your brother that car.
Speaker 3: No. My my parents always did the same thing with us,
Speaker 3: where for anything big like that, we had to earn
Speaker 3: half and they would match. Okay, that's so my brother,
Speaker 3: my brother earned money to buy this was beat on,
Speaker 3: but it was he loved it. So he had a
Speaker 3: sixty seven. Actually I think his was technician the succession.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the one was gorgeous. Yes, they're stunning, they're stunning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is what's a must so gorgeous. Okay, So
Speaker 2: this car to me, for this age of a driver
Speaker 2: didn't match up either minute.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay.
Speaker 2: And then at the end, what do we think his
Speaker 2: age was?
Speaker 3: I thought he was in his early fifties. No, I
Speaker 3: would have said, he's supposed to be playing twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: Too old for a high school girl. Yes, but they
Speaker 3: don't do anything, they don't notice, they don't ever do anything.
Speaker 2: Oh, don't you think it was like leaned in on
Speaker 2: at the end that they're like now kind of like
Speaker 2: an actual couple.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: I I think also maybe what they were trying to
Speaker 3: do with the very opening scene of him fighting all
Speaker 3: the other guys and I'm putting putting the thing over no, no,
Speaker 3: because and he's like he put the thing over the
Speaker 3: other monk's head and they were kind of playing, is
Speaker 3: maybe showing that he's younger than we think. Yes, like
Speaker 3: he still has that kind of vibe. So maybe he's
Speaker 3: supposed to be the equivalent of high school too. He
Speaker 3: just never got to experience high school. But he's clearly
Speaker 3: the actor is clearly like in his twenties at the time.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, And it reads that way like he was
Speaker 2: too old to have a love interest in this little girl.
Speaker 3: And notice she's the one who does the love interest stuff.
Speaker 3: He never even gives her a moment of seeing like
Speaker 3: he's interested, not a moment no yeah no.
Speaker 2: But she is Google eyed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that.
Speaker 3: Makes sense out there, aren't there a lot of sixteen
Speaker 3: seventeen year old girls that are Google eyed over twenty
Speaker 3: twenty one year old men.
Speaker 2: I would like for the channel to not lean into
Speaker 2: such things.
Speaker 3: Well, I like that they didn't the guy didn't do anything.
Speaker 2: No, but I also again, the end is the only
Speaker 2: part me that I was like, ooh, like it was
Speaker 2: like it fell a little Okay, we're really kind of
Speaker 2: leaning a little bit too much. However, the end one
Speaker 2: hundred percent. I know. We talked about this at the
Speaker 2: front of the show. The end alluded to there being
Speaker 2: a next chapter to this story.
Speaker 1: That's why. Well apparently there was supposed to be one
Speaker 1: and then it just disappeared.
Speaker 2: Love to do more research, so we need to get
Speaker 2: somebody from the movie to tell us the realness.
Speaker 3: Oh that's how you recognize him. Shinkoyamata was also in
Speaker 3: the Disney Channel Games.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, no, I yes, no, the yes, and he
Speaker 2: was he was, Yes, he was, he was, he was
Speaker 2: And this was around that that was the Disney Channel Games.
Speaker 2: Was the same era, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, No, you were also talking about the.
Speaker 2: Dad, the dad, but I don't remember where I found
Speaker 2: him remember him from?
Speaker 1: But it wasn't the Ki Kid, No, it wasn't.
Speaker 2: But the whole cast, by the way, super good looking.
Speaker 2: We didn't even talk about how great looking this gas was.
Speaker 2: The grandma was gorgeous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, gorgeous woman like.
Speaker 2: Everyone was so pretty in this movie, even the even
Speaker 2: the you know, the arch Nemesis loved everyone. I thought
Speaker 2: they were great. Oh yeah, anyway, that was my last one.
Speaker 2: The was questionable to me.
Speaker 1: Luckily he didn't do anything, and.
Speaker 2: He was on what deem he was. He was on
Speaker 2: the green team, I think, and oh we kept going
Speaker 2: oh shen like, Oh, of course, it's got so much talent.
Speaker 3: See there you go great? Can we please rank our film?
Speaker 3: And I'm not even gonna mess around with it today.
Speaker 3: We're gonna we're gonna go from one to ten straight.
Speaker 2: Four.
Speaker 3: One is gonna be the lowest, ten is gonna be
Speaker 3: the highest. I don't have time. I can't I can't
Speaker 3: mess around our options this week one out of ten.
Speaker 3: Deadly venoms one out of ten. Unpackaged items from FedEx
Speaker 3: one out of ten. Bad security guards ceilings one out
Speaker 3: of ten, egotistical self portraits, cool fedoras, breakup hair highlights
Speaker 3: one out of ten. Thinly veiled racist questions, dance halftimes one.
Speaker 1: Out of ten.
Speaker 3: Christmas lights and firecracker boxes or my favorite one out
Speaker 3: of ten Kissing cousins.
Speaker 1: Which one you're trying to lock the door.
Speaker 3: You go that, Well, you've just picked it. There you go, Sabrina,
Speaker 3: So I believe is.
Speaker 1: It I go first?
Speaker 2: I think it's your turn.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's my turn. Okay.
Speaker 3: So I liked this movie. Again, I had problems with it.
Speaker 3: Certain things were weird and made no sense. But you're
Speaker 3: gonna have problems with every movie. But the idea of
Speaker 3: putting the the mystical kind of uh background to it
Speaker 3: and the whole history behind everything, the great wirework, martial arts,
Speaker 3: big fan of that stuff. Still had the high school thing.
Speaker 3: I really liked this movie.
Speaker 1: I just like you.
Speaker 3: I also am realizing that I can determine whether I
Speaker 3: like a movie by the fact if I can just
Speaker 3: sit there and watch the whole thing without having to
Speaker 3: pause it, walk out of the room, look at my phone,
Speaker 3: do other things, I can just sit there and watch
Speaker 3: the movie. And I could just sit there and watch
Speaker 3: this movie. Yes, So I'm going to give this and
Speaker 3: I think this is a pretty solid score. I'm going
Speaker 3: to give this an eight.
Speaker 1: Lock the Doors.
Speaker 3: For this film, and I think it's deserved. I think
Speaker 3: it was I think this was a fun movie all
Speaker 3: the way around. So I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: Yes, I am up there right there with you. Like
Speaker 2: I said, I was like hook line singer from.
Speaker 1: The get Like.
Speaker 2: I loved it. I was so happy. I didn't really,
Speaker 2: I guess, I mean, obviously somewhat have an idea of
Speaker 2: maybe what the movie will be, but I had no
Speaker 2: idea it was this good. I thought it was so great.
Speaker 2: I love Brenda's song, I love everything she does, the Queen,
Speaker 2: the Queen rains she does. She just lives to just
Speaker 2: do the best work for the channel. And I thought
Speaker 2: it was a great movie. I there's of course some funny,
Speaker 2: silly things that just are ridiculous, but I was there
Speaker 2: for it. I thought it was great for a kid
Speaker 2: movie to be that good. With the anime like the
Speaker 2: not animation, special effects, all of that. I thought it
Speaker 2: was great. I'm giving it a nine. What the.
Speaker 1: Love God, Love of God, Well, I love that. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you everybody for joining us. Go check this movie out.
Speaker 1: It was definitely worth it. So thanks everybody. Don't forget
Speaker 1: to join us next time.
Speaker 3: You can follow us at Magical rewind Pod on the
Speaker 3: Instagram machine. And uh, I'd also very much like to
Speaker 3: start some sort of petition or something so we can
Speaker 3: absolutely tell Sabrina that cookies and pastries are two completely
Speaker 3: different things. Like it's like apples and pastries, two completely
Speaker 3: different bakery. But that doesn't you could get soup at
Speaker 3: a bakery that doesn't doesn't necessarily make it, you know,
Speaker 3: a pastry.
Speaker 2: It's not before the area the window.
Speaker 1: I can't so anything in that window to you as pastry.
Speaker 2: I mean, it would be fine with it being called
Speaker 2: the pastry. You're the problem, will it's you? When you
Speaker 2: and there's cookies, it's a pastry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my god, that's wrong.
Speaker 3: It's normally everyone's entitled to their own opinions, but your
Speaker 3: opinions are just wrong. Oh my all right, well we'll
Speaker 3: see everybody next time, and please send all of your
Speaker 3: letters telling Sabrina why she's absolutely wrong to magical rewind
Speaker 3: pod at the Instagram machine.
Speaker 1: Thanks you.
Speaker 2: They actually message good, good, keep it up, or.
Speaker 1: Or that they're with me. Bye, Love you guys,