WEBVTT - Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:16.920 Sabrina, did you ever study any martial arts? 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:21.400 I mean study on like a professional level or like we. 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:24.079 Study professional Did you ever go to karate classes or 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:24.920 any of that kind of stuff? 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:26.960 No, I didn't. I didn't know any of that like that. 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:33.639 Which one? Wait, do you mean like on a professional 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:34.320 scale or more? 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:35.120 Oh no, I've never. 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.280 Done no, like in my own home, feeling like I 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:43.480 did my own professional training. Yes thing, No, wow, I'm 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:48.919 telling you right now, hands down, like everything about like 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:55.600 Karate Kid, Ninja Ninja specifically was my wheelhouse of like 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:56.880 dying to. 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.520 Be Yeah, me too. My dad's nickname for me. 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:01.600 My whole life has been Ninja because all I did 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:03.120 was watching Ninja Jinja movies. 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.000 And I mean my dogs are named after the three 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.720 Ninja like characters, Rockey and Emily, like this was my 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:10.479 world and I. 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:12.480 One of writings Strong's best friends was one of the 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:13.600 three Ninjas growing up. 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:14.920 Oh my gosh, I know. 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:16.840 And it was very hard when we were at Disneyland 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:18.000 to not talk about that. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.959 Can we talk about your friend being Ninja? Like? 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:24.160 Is he still doing ninja stuff? 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.920 Did you watch old school ninja movies like Real, like 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.320 Sho Kasugi, like Revenge of the Ninja Return of the 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:31.800 Ninja kind of Ninja MILLI. 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:35.520 No, I lived in the Disney world from you know this, 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:40.280 Like no, it was starting Disney stuff like kids, kid 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:41.200 friendly stuff. 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:44.679 You got to get into the real gut slashing ninja 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:46.440 star through the eye throwing. 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.360 Kind of No, that's not the fun Nina. 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:50.000 Good that is. 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.720 First of all, ninjas aren't fun. They're awesome and they're 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:53.320 trained to sass. 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:57.280 It's like like like, you know, like power rangers like 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.720 that was like my like home, I mean I did 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:01.160 I Arrangers are superheroes. 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:01.920 They weren't ninjas. 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:06.360 Well they were like ninjas no, no, no, no, wow, yes 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:06.960 they were. 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:07.600 No. 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:12.960 Power rangers were endowed with magical powers essentially like superpowers 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:15.959 to become a clan, not even a clan, to become 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:20.040 a team of of superheroes that happened to do martial arts. 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:24.880 Ninjas weren't highly trained martial arts. Secret assassins is what 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:25.560 ninjas are. 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.320 I'm telling you right now, you're not going to burst 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:32.440 my bubble of how I feel that. 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:34.640 I don't think so. I just think that you're It's 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:35.799 like you're you're looking you know what. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.040 It's the equivalent of you're looking at it be me 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.280 looking at a dance team and going, oh, they're a 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.639 cheerleading squad, and you'd be like, no, no, no, no. Those 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.639 are two very different things. That's the difference in looking 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.600 at the Power Rangers and saying they're ninjas. You're looking 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.440 at a dance squad and calling them cheerleaders. No, not 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:53.799 so sorry? 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:55.480 Am I wrong? 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:55.680 Though? 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:57.359 Team? 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.040 And I was like, they're a cheer squad, you would 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.480 be like, that's not what they are. Power Rangers are 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.000 not Ninja's my friend. I'm gonna here's what you're gonna 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:05.920 start with. The You're gonna start. 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.800 With the old school Revenge of the Ninja with Sho Kasugi. 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:10.720 That's where you're gonna start. 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:13.440 Don't then you don't like Ninja's my friend? 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:15.360 Okay, fine, but I do. 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.919 Okay, We're gonna make sure you watch the real stuff. Okay. Well, 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:22.280 and for everybody else. 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:24.480 Welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show that makes you 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.520 want to grab your friends, your PJS, and your popcorn 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:28.040 and go back to a time when all the houses 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.800 are smart, the wave tsunamis and apparently the Power Rangers 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:32.560 were ninjas. 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:36.680 Yes they weren't. I will for Dell and Brian Ready 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:37.120 to fight. 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:43.680 Well, dig into your ancestry and search for traces of 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.000 a Yin Warrior, because we're attacking the two thousand and 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.800 six High School Martial Arts d com Wendy WU Homecoming Warrior. 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.480 It premiered on June sixteenth, two thousand and six, and 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.800 scored an impressive five point seven million viewers that night. 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.560 Ready for This, making it the fifth highest rated d 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:01.440 com of all time. 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.240 I bet you didn't see that coming. I didn't. 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.520 I gonna be honest, I'm gonna just jump ahead. I 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.280 hadn't even heard of this movie, so the idea that 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:12.440 this is the fifth highest dcom ever is pretty impressive. 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:13.720 Yeah. 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.760 It also received the highest rating ever for a dcom 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:17.839 on Disney Channel Japan. 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:19.680 In addition to the film, the movie. 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:22.760 Stars took over the block of programming leading to the debut, 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.080 so Disney Channel really put their weight behind this one, 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:29.800 and it certainly paid off. They also repurposed the movie 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:33.800 for two other versions, the kickin version, which is kik 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:38.280 Apostrophe I N which included five new scenes, and a 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.360 remixed version where the cast answered viewer questions and taught 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.800 karate moves. The movie's budget was just five million dollars, 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.560 in impressively low amount for the time considering its success, 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.279 but a lot can be accredited to the film's star. 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.000 A Disney kid who is having quite a moment right now. 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.560 That is Brenda Song, one of our favorites. She reportedly 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.480 trained for two weeks with sixteen hour days. She did 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.120 most of her own stunts and said she pushed herself 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.000 to the max as a tribute to her mom, who 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:04.160 had battled breast. 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.599 Cancer the year before. Really cool. You also saw the 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:07.280 work she put in. 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:09.680 We found this fact online and it might be the 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.200 most two thousand and six sentence ever, but I'm gonna 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.960 say it anyway. The film was originally set to air 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.279 on June second, two thousand and six, but was pushed 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.960 back by Disney Channel due to technical difficulties involving the 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:25.039 film's official website, which is, you know, in two thousand 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.120 and six, they're still new having websites for all this 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.760 kind of stuff. It was out and people were doing it, 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:32.600 but it was still like are you on that internet thing? 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:34.680 Also, a large. 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.839 Amount of criticism online about this movie involves Asian stereotypes. Luckily, 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.200 something we seem to be moving farther away from in 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.839 twenty twenty six, but it has to be said it 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:44.839 was a different time, especially when it came to Asian 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:49.680 representation movies, or well lack thereof, for that matter. Though 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:51.480 the movie was set in California, most of the film 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.120 was actually filmed in Auckland, New Zealand, which was a 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.120 decision made to accommodate the film's action director. Now, I'm 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.160 going to do a blanket apology right here to everyone. 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.880 There are names that I'm going to say, and I'm 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.840 sure i'm going to butcher the pronunciation as somebody who 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:08.760 grew up with a name that nobody got right. 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.240 I don't like when people mispronounce my name. 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:14.120 I apologize because I know i'm gonna mess these up. 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.240 But bear with me. So I'm going to do the 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:16.720 best I can. 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:20.159 Better you than me, because I would have absolutely butcher that. 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.040 I am going to try. So apologies to everyone involved. 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.560 When I eventually mangle your name, I'm so sorry. 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:26.480 But here we go. 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:30.719 So the film's action director was Cooachi Sakamoto, the brains 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:34.359 behind the original Power Rangers fights. There we Go, which 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.599 is kind of a cool piece of trivia and Sakamoto 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:38.480 was able to bring in a lot of actors from 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:40.880 Power Rangers, including Sally Martin, who is the Blue Power 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.839 Ranger in Power Rangers Ninja Storm. 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:47.200 Uh huh, see it's still not the wrong already. 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.599 Really, are they throwing Ninja stars and slicing people over, 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:52.680 you know, assassinating people in the middle of the night 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:56.480 for gold, then they're not ninjas. And Anna Hutchinson who 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.680 played the Yellow Ranger in Jungle Fury. They shot at 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.080 Long College and use some of their students as extras, 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.920 all part of a quick twenty four day shoot, which 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.880 is fast and Wendy Woo was just the eighth dcom 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.440 ever to get the TVPG rating thanks to all the 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:14.280 fight scenes of the eight. We have now watched four Twitches, 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.200 Halloween Town, Halloween Town two, and Mom's Got a Date 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:17.840 with a Vampire? 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.400 Do you think that it was PG for Mom's Gotta Date. 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:25.160 With Vampire because it was so bad and yeah, fighting 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.000 words again, but vampire fighting words? 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.320 Halloween Town, Halloween probably. 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.640 Scary, probably because of the scary aspect. I would think. 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.360 Are Twitches Twitches again? 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:38.520 You had you had like the girls didn't they had 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.040 killed people that the father was dead and he was killed. 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:44.720 By to look into like the diet, like the rules 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:45.200 of like. 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:46.040 Write the breakdown or what. 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:47.960 Yeah, you never know because I know back in the day, 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:49.640 it's like if they showed somebody smoking, that got a 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:51.239 new rating, if they showed somebody yes, seca. 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.080 So you never know what it could possibly be. 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.880 But anyway, yeah, you might be asking yourself, this movie 0:07:57.920 --> 0:07:59.600 sure sounds like a hit for the channel. 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:00.640 Will you be right? 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.600 But so why was there no sequel? That's a good 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:07.240 question mark. Did you get that? Did you get that? No? 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.680 Have you seen you haven't seen the Room? Oh god, 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:11.360 oh Serena, we gotta talk. 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:16.640 Okay, the talk, I gotta start. Sorry, your education. The 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:18.320 Room is considered with the worst, like the worst movie 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.200 you ever made. It's brilliant And that's one of the 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:24.000 famous lines. Good question mark. So there was a sequel 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.600 greenlit in two thousand and seven, as reported by Variety, 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:29.120 but it was eventually cut from the Disney schedule and 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.079 never spoken of again. The idea for the follow up 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.160 was said to involve an alternate ending of the movie 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.800 found on it's DVD, where Yang Lo, who was obviously 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.120 the bad guy, was shown to have secretly inhabited the 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:43.000 body of the Wu family dog. Now I told you, 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:44.960 I already broke protocol and jumped ahead and told you 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:46.120 that I'd never heard of this movie. 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:47.320 Had you heard of Wendy Wu? 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:52.960 I had heard, but never had seen this right in 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.000 two thousand and six, Like, I've been a fan of 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.280 Brenda's song for just I mean since the day she 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.760 like spoke one line, this your first song, thank you 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:06.600 very much, and so yes, I mean, and it was 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.679 awesome and I heard it, but I had never seen it. 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:13.080 So I was really really excited to know we were 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:14.400 watching this one. 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:15.360 Yeah I did. 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.480 Yeah, And you already said you had never heard of 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:20.559 never heard of this, but again that's I just I 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.560 had missed all these So yeah, I guess. I mean, 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.360 I don't know. I think when people talk about Brenda's song, 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.560 they talk about this movie like. 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.040 Okay, well there's a big I can see why. 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.640 Because in all of the stuff she did on the Channel, 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:37.400 she was like a part of the ensemble or she was, 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.840 you know, the like the second character. This was like 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:44.680 her get own movie. So it was a pretty big 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:45.559 moment on the Channel. 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:46.400 I can see that. 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:48.960 And again, when when she hops on screen, you can 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:50.240 see why she became a star. 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.200 Uh, you too can learn more about Wendy Wu. 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.960 She's available right now to stream on Disney Plus, and 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.160 you have the choice to watch it before or after 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.120 our recap. But we've been told that if you listen before, 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.960 you'll be the recipient of fifteen years of good luck. 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.200 No no, wait, it was fifteen years of bad luck. 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:08.640 There was fit who knows? 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:09.800 Just try, we let us know. 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.840 It does help to watch the movie and have your 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:19.000 kind of own opinions before you start hearing us as. 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:20.080 It really helps. 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:22.559 I think you and I if we went back and 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.200 looked at everything, I think you and I are on 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:26.920 the same page more often than we're not. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:27.920 It's crazy. 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:30.559 I feel like very rare that I'm like, this is 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:32.839 the worst movie ever, and you're like I loved it. 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:34.160 Like that almost never. 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.959 Happens, almost never, but in. 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.960 The times it does. I explain basically, why why? Then 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:44.800 we go from there. That's it, that's the problem. 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:48.800 It's like, here's why they're in that, like little sister aspect, 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.560 like I don't know why. I try. Everyone, please stop 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:55.280 giving me so much on Instagram. I freaking try. 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:57.160 Okay, we'll give you on Instagram. 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.160 No, it's like thinking they're like, oh well, then Will 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.520 says it's realis like goes along with it, and I'm. 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:04.079 Like, no, no, I don't agree. You and I will. 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.520 We'll fight about certain movies, but you can see. I 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.520 mean again, some of them are aren't great, and the 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:11.240 ones that are we enjoy. 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.480 Yes, just the way it is, I feel like I 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.000 pull you. I mean the fact that you love musicals. 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.600 Now you just like are dying to Like You're like, 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:19.880 when's the next musical? Guys? 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:23.280 Oh my god? Why is nobody breaking into song? Yea, 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.839 her name is Brenda song? Why is she not singing. 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.040 For god opportunity to break into song right now? 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:29.719 Why? Thank you? Thank you? 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:31.720 And I feel like that's because of me, Like you 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:33.400 love it because I love it? 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:34.719 I agree U. 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:36.920 Now let's see if we love this one. It is 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.440 time for our synopsis. Teen girl Wendy Wu focuses on 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.199 becoming Homecoming Queen until she learns she has the soul 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:48.280 of an ancient female warrior destined to battle an evil spirit. Okay, Sabrina, 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.160 it's time to enter the temple. What are your early 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.040 thoughts on Wendy Wu Homecoming Warrior? 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.679 What did you think I want you to know? Hands down, 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.360 I went into this movie already loving it because I 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:58.880 do love nit just and. 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.120 I love Okay fair enough, and. 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:03.640 I was like, will's not even going to care that? 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:07.480 Like I I didn't even have my phone next to me. 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:11.760 I went after and put some notes, but I was 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:18.920 ready to love this movie. Brenda song check, Ninja aspect check, 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.800 like just evil demon that we are going to destroy 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.599 and like overcome a check. I was already like I 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.080 knew this is what was gonna be and I was 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:33.280 like already obsessed. So I went into this a little unfair. 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:35.280 I don't think I went in I went into it 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:40.199 with an absolute bias, and I have no no regard, 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:41.959 like no, I don't care, I just. 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.080 Okay, but no regret to be bad because you couldnot 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:46.679 live up to your hype where you did it live 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:47.680 up to the hype you were hoping. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.280 Absolutely, there was no point where I was like, oh 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.680 this is stupid. I'm like everything that they did that, 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.200 even the most ridiculous thing that happened on the screen, 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.920 I was like, don't care, okay care, I loved it. 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:02.480 I went in already loving this absolute bias, didn't care 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:07.280 and I'm like, Will's gonna murder me because I don't care, 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.800 not for any aspect of anything, and there was no 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.200 there was no wrong in this movie for me. Those 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.960 are my early thoughts. That's gonna be my just put 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:16.600 a tent on it. 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.240 Okay, I'm not gonna go that far, but I I 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.520 don't disagree this. This this hit kind of all of 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:26.120 I don't know Brenda song as well as you the 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.839 things I've seen her and I like, but this hit 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:32.280 the fantastical side, the martial arts side, the history side. 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.280 I love when they put a culture's folklore into something. 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:36.920 It's like one of my favorite things in the world. 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:41.240 So it was like the heavy hitters they had like, 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.959 oh it just was Will. This was just like one 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.080 of our like oh thank god, we like, I'm just 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:52.000 so excited for it. And not to mention like the 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:55.720 fact that Disney went for it, and they went for it, 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:59.160 they went for the backfield. They were wanted to knock 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.160 it out of the park because this was a big 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:04.800 like again, you're going into the culture aspect, You're going 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:06.640 into a lot of stuff that like a lot of 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:11.080 people could fight back on. Yeah, and Disney just were like, 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:12.600 you know what, we're Disney. We're gonna do it. We're 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:13.160 gonna do it right. 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:17.000 You're also doing a highly choreographed martial arts movie that 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.360 was done well, like it all looked great. Yeah, it's 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.120 got the wirework from like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon kind 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:23.400 of stuff. 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.160 So and this was the time of all that happening, right, 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.200 Like I don't know the dates like you would because 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.080 you have your little bit better of like. 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.480 Google these Crouching Tiger came out in two thousand, so 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.400 six years later. But this was still okay. God, if 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:37.960 you want to see a movie, go watch House of 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:38.600 Flying Daggers. 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:39.960 It is so good. 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.600 It's the same kind of same kind of thing as 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.200 as a Crouching Tiger. It's that you're right, it's this 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:49.800 early two thousands of the beautiful Asian background and the 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:52.000 outfits and the martial arts awesome. 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:56.320 The only we'll get it there tiny bit of things 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:56.840 that I'm like. 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:58.800 Oh, I'm gonna nitpick. 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.160 The movie was far from per There was some stupid 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.280 that happen in this movie, don't get me wrong. 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:09.200 But overall I didn't care. I don't know. This was 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:10.200 not a perfect film. 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:11.720 I didn't walk away going like, oh my god, it's 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:12.560 on Goldland Pond. 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.400 But it was good. Yes, but so yes, I'm still 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.320 gonna nitpick. But here we go. So the director again, 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:20.120 we're working on names everybody. 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.240 So the director was John Leang, a New Zealand native 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:26.520 who directed a ton of action TV, including Xena Warrior, 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.560 Princess Hercules, and The Hitchhiker Right. 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:30.800 He also has Power. 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.680 Rangers history, which seems like a prerequisite for this movie, 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:37.200 and his Disney history mostly rests in the channel adjacent 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.920 TV show The Adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson, which 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:43.560 I think is just a family that gets lost, and 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.920 like I said, it stars a Disney darling all over 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.800 the press nowadays. For a big career resurgence, it's Brenda's 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.360 song as Wendy Woo, a child actor best known as 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.600 London Tipton on the Sweet Life of Zach and Cody, 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:58.760 but her overall Disney Channel game is quite possibly unmatched. 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:00.760 She also appeared on shows like Phil of the. 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:04.080 Future That's So Raven, Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverley, Place 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:05.160 in Phineas and ferb. 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.240 So I have to ask with get a clue? 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.120 The Ultimate Christmas Present, The Sweet Life movie Stuck in 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:15.520 the Suburbs and Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana. Is 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.640 Brenda Song officially the queen of d COM's do we 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:19.240 have to crowny? 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:23.080 I think she needs to be at least Lady Brenda, 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.680 like she has to be. If she's not the queen, 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:27.000 she's at least a lady. 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:29.480 But who else could we put above her? Who is done? 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.800 I mean there might be bigger names, like when you 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:35.400 get Miley Cyrus or Selena Gomez. So there might be 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.400 bigger names, yes, bigger d coms. 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.080 And because she's a little bit older, she's a tiny 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:45.120 bit prestigious, like and she's I. 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.440 Think you might have to say all Hail the Queen. 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.680 I really think you might have to say all Hale 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.640 the Queen. Yep, it's it's quite possible. And nowadays you 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.160 heard her in the massive Disney hit Zootopia two this 0:16:56.240 --> 0:17:00.720 time it's personal as Kitty Linsley, I think, and on 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.920 Disney's Amphibia. But she's also been on shows like Running Point, 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:07.439 Dolfa Station nineteen and Dad's and movie like The Social 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:12.840 Network and The Last Showgirl. Shinkoyamata plays Shen. He was 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:16.320 unfreaking believable in the Tom Cruise movie, The Last Samurai. 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:17.639 I don't know if you've seen that, but he was 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:21.160 really good and holds several black belts in various different 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:22.800 styles of martial arts. By the way, a lot of 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.000 people hated that Tom Cruise movie. It's one of my 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:26.879 favorite guilty pleasure movies. I thought it was great. 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.000 Susan Chang is Nina. 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.560 Chang has been in a ton of television shows and 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:33.880 some of the biggest of all time. She appeared on 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:38.000 a bunch of Dharma and Greg episodes, Charmed, Monk, Victorious, 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:40.800 Big Bang Theory, and Veep, but she's best known as 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:42.920 Tobin in Mis Congeniality Too. 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.920 Also this time It's Personal. Justin chawng plays Peter. 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:47.800 He might be known to many of our listeners as 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.399 Tony Lee on The Nick Show Just Jordan, but I 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:52.080 think he's most famous from his time as Eric in 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:52.919 the Twilight Movies. 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:54.159 The former child. 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:55.960 Actor also wrote and directed the movie Blue by You, 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:59.200