Speaker 1: You know, it occurred to me that as we're still
Speaker 1: getting to know each other, the two of us, that
Speaker 1: there's very personal questions about you and me backwards, going
Speaker 1: both ways that I have yet to ask, and I
Speaker 1: think I'm going to go just straight, very personal right now. Okay,
Speaker 1: something if our relationship is to grow, our friendship is
Speaker 1: to grow, I need to know.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: It's normally the first thing I ask any first date,
Speaker 1: any first anything, any first friendship. So I'm surprised we
Speaker 1: haven't covered this, right, Okay, favorite superhero favorite superheroes.
Speaker 3: We're not going to like this answer, and this might
Speaker 3: actually finish why our friendship. I am not really into superheroes,
Speaker 3: kind of that's okay.
Speaker 1: You can still have a favorite if you're not into them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get.
Speaker 3: I mean I've always liked I I loved Catwoman and Batman.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, a superhero, she's a villain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know she Selena Kyle has a very interesting backstory.
Speaker 1: Plus the whole relationship with Bruce. Yes, kind of Italian thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Guess that would kind of be it.
Speaker 3: But I honestly, and that was what I when we
Speaker 3: get into the movie, I've just it was I had.
Speaker 1: In the Superheroes either. I'm sorry, I'm covering everything behind me.
Speaker 1: I can't see everything.
Speaker 2: I kept thinking, I'm mad. Will's gonna hate me after
Speaker 2: this movie.
Speaker 3: I mean, I didn't know what that game in uh
Speaker 3: in A was.
Speaker 4: So you're talking about back to quit that this is
Speaker 4: really gonna destroy our you know, It's okay. I'm just
Speaker 4: putting you in a different friend category. That's all right,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I win just you're a wonderful friend. I just you
Speaker 1: won't be a superhero friend. You won't be a comic
Speaker 1: con friend.
Speaker 3: That's okay, Oh I wouldn't. I mean, I do love
Speaker 3: big Bank theory. I feel like I learned quite a
Speaker 3: bit from there.
Speaker 1: Oh god, and all your superhero Oh my god, it's
Speaker 1: all about big Bank, the question.
Speaker 2: Of comic con and all of that. But honestly, it's
Speaker 2: just not my jam. It isn't okay fair enough.
Speaker 1: Well, you got two little kids, so you might have
Speaker 1: to get into all of it.
Speaker 2: I know who is yours.
Speaker 1: Batman's always been.
Speaker 2: To beat, Okay, Yeah, I think he's probably the best.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Well, it's also I'm a big fan of the fact
Speaker 1: that he's just a guy.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Yes, he's got a lot of money, and he uses
Speaker 1: a lot of gadgets and he does all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. But he's just a man. He has no superpowers, yes,
Speaker 1: he is, just has the will to make things better, right,
Speaker 1: So I think that that's and a guy that.
Speaker 2: Can make all those cool gadgets for him.
Speaker 1: That's exactly you know what you strike me as you
Speaker 1: strike me as a Booster Gold fan, what exactly exactly
Speaker 1: I'm gonna now. It's so funny because half of the
Speaker 1: audience just went what and half just went, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: I get it. Oh oh yeah, I have to go
Speaker 1: check it out. But either way, I'm telling you it's
Speaker 1: great anyway. Yes, welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show
Speaker 1: that makes you want to grab your friends, your pjs
Speaker 1: and your popcorn and go back to a time when
Speaker 1: all the houses were smart, the waves, tsunamis and the
Speaker 1: high schools and musical.
Speaker 2: I'm Wilfordlle and I'm Sabrina Brian Well.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Earth Protectors. Listening very closely to the following
Speaker 1: instructions because we're getting into two thousand's family superhero comedy, up,
Speaker 1: Up and away. This is an important one, believe it
Speaker 1: or not, folks, because this predates Pixars, The Incredibles, Sky High,
Speaker 1: and The Thunderman's This tcom is a bit of a
Speaker 1: trailblazer for many many reasons, though not super well received
Speaker 1: with its what we can only call dismal twenty seven
Speaker 1: percent rotten Tomato score and lack of inclusion on any
Speaker 1: of the lists, and for some reasons I disagree with that.
Speaker 1: We'll get into it. Airing originally on January twenty second,
Speaker 1: two thousand, fresh off the fear of Y two K,
Speaker 1: which this movie appears to reflect a little bit. It
Speaker 1: is produced by Heartbreak Productions, which is run by Paula Hart,
Speaker 1: the mom of Melissa Joan Hart. Paula is a friend
Speaker 1: and I texted her last night who not to go
Speaker 1: back to a conversation we were having before we actually
Speaker 1: started recording. Paula right now, well for a lot of
Speaker 1: the years, she lives in Paris, and she is one
Speaker 1: of the welcomers, greets and helpers at the Olympics right now,
Speaker 1: so she is doing a whole bunch of stuff there
Speaker 1: and sending up pictures in her outfit and everything. And
Speaker 1: when I said to her, Hey, we're doing up up
Speaker 1: in a way, she just sent back all these emojis
Speaker 1: like this is so great. So Paula's great, Melissa's.
Speaker 2: Great, that's rad, that's so cool.
Speaker 1: This is that's right. The Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Sabrina's Mom.
Speaker 1: This is her movie. A lot of people don't know
Speaker 1: that Paula Hart was an EP of Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
Speaker 1: Her story is absolutely incredible. She's the person who initially
Speaker 1: secured the rights for her daughter to star in Sabrina
Speaker 1: the Teenage Witch. And she's told us the stor story before.
Speaker 1: She literally walked in to the people that owned the rights,
Speaker 1: which I think was the Archie comic people, and ended
Speaker 1: up walking out securing the rights for a dollar. Wow thing. Ever,
Speaker 1: then she went on to produce around two dozen TV movies.
Speaker 1: Did you did you know that Mel's mom? That Melissa's mom.
Speaker 1: I had no idea that your company never Yeah, that
Speaker 1: is she was involved in Clarissa and involved then in
Speaker 1: Sabrina and all of Melissa's stuff. And Melissa and I
Speaker 1: are doing a film together and Paula is one of
Speaker 1: the producers of the film and I are doing su
Speaker 1: I Love. She was a Juggernaut and was.
Speaker 2: She a part of it before Melissa got the.
Speaker 1: Role Sabrina the teenage witch.
Speaker 2: No, Clarissa, No, I believe that Sabria.
Speaker 1: I think mel got the role as a kid, because
Speaker 1: that's when when she was on Clarissa is when she
Speaker 1: and I dated, Okay, so I think that was I
Speaker 1: mean she was thirteen or fourteen, we were both teenage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were both Nickelodeon kids. So I think that is
Speaker 1: when I believe she got the role. And then Paula
Speaker 1: got more involved in behind the scenes and then found
Speaker 1: Sabrina and then just was off to the races by right.
Speaker 2: Yes, wow, cool, But we'll.
Speaker 1: Get deeper into that aspect later. But yes, this is
Speaker 1: the first true Disney production with superheroes. Nowadays, with the
Speaker 1: company owning Marvel, the MCU is basically their bread and butter,
Speaker 1: and it's hard to think of a time when they
Speaker 1: weren't in the comic book business. But humble beginnings are
Speaker 1: right here with Up, Up and Away, which is even
Speaker 1: you know, kind of strange that again, this seems to
Speaker 1: be one of their first forays. Why it's hard to
Speaker 1: believe that for that reason alone, it's not on some
Speaker 1: of some people's best list, because hey, you know this
Speaker 1: is this is important for Disney.
Speaker 3: You know, we have so many different requests. I haven't
Speaker 3: even seen this come oh across our table as a
Speaker 3: request to do.
Speaker 1: No, and I never heard of it. Not to jump ahead,
Speaker 1: but I'd never heard of it. Even mentions some of
Speaker 1: future Disney huge superheroes such as Spider Man and Mary
Speaker 1: Jane and people like that are all mentioned in this movie,
Speaker 1: pre them having anything to do with Disney. Right if
Speaker 1: you want to watch along. By the way, the movie
Speaker 1: is currently streaming on Disney Plus, so it's just sitting
Speaker 1: there for you to watch now or you know, when
Speaker 1: we're done talking. But only you can fight forest fires,
Speaker 1: and only you can make that decision. This is all
Speaker 1: possible because the movie's director and star. But first you
Speaker 1: just mentioned that nobody had had talked about whether we
Speaker 1: should do this or not. Had you heard of Up
Speaker 1: Up and a Way?
Speaker 2: No, not at all, I owe neither.
Speaker 3: I was surprised when it was like, oh, this is
Speaker 3: a superhero Okay, I have never heard of a dcon
Speaker 3: that had superheroes in it, so that was interesting.
Speaker 1: I hadn't either. And the funny part about it is
Speaker 1: for the first time in a very long while, the
Speaker 1: title makes perfect sense. Right, Finally, this is not thirteenth
Speaker 1: Year or susieq. No, this is saying what it is.
Speaker 1: We didn't know what it was, but it's saying what
Speaker 1: it is, which is great. So before we throw soccer
Speaker 1: ball in the air and pretend to know how to fly,
Speaker 1: why don't we get into this. Anom, the only normal
Speaker 1: member of a superpowered family, feels left out and confused
Speaker 1: until he has a chance to use a talent of
Speaker 1: his own to save everyone around him. Early thoughts, what
Speaker 1: did you think?
Speaker 2: I was worried that I was gonna just not like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, because.
Speaker 1: I superheroes are your musicals.
Speaker 2: I know it, Yes they are. They are.
Speaker 1: We figured out.
Speaker 3: I was thinking, you know, as we're starting, and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 3: I did not understand the zucchini bread.
Speaker 2: Didn't get it.
Speaker 1: Yep, weren't supposed to warrants.
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly, but it's it was kind of at first
Speaker 3: going and then I just kind of I just I
Speaker 3: just really sat back and relaxed and was like.
Speaker 2: This is cute.
Speaker 3: It's cute for Disney, you know what I mean. It's
Speaker 3: it wasn't super crazy they had. I mean, it felt
Speaker 3: like the first three or four minutes of the movie,
Speaker 3: so many familiar faces that are toppen in and you're going, wow,
Speaker 3: this cast is stacked, you know, right, And that was
Speaker 3: really cool because I love a lot of those actors
Speaker 3: and the shows that you really recognize them from. But
Speaker 3: so first I was I was cautious. I was kind
Speaker 3: of like ah Man, and I actually loved it. Ended
Speaker 3: up liking it so much more than what I was
Speaker 3: thinking of.
Speaker 1: Me too, I felt the same way, although I it
Speaker 1: was one of those things. One of the reasons I
Speaker 1: loved it not just because the superheroes, not because I
Speaker 1: saw how it helped to pave the way for the genre,
Speaker 1: but also, like Susie Q, this to me was another
Speaker 1: bridging the gap between what dcoms used to be and
Speaker 1: what they eventually became.
Speaker 2: Yes, totally great cast, fun.
Speaker 1: Some of the effects weren't great, but some of them,
Speaker 1: I thought, for their time and the and I think
Speaker 1: budget were not bad at all. Right, the main kid
Speaker 1: was likable as hell.
Speaker 2: So such a doll. Oh, I just loved him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I overall it was fun. It was a fun
Speaker 1: time to watch it. Really was. I've seen way worse.
Speaker 2: We have definitely see the way.
Speaker 1: And that's why the twenty seven percent shock throws me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it did.
Speaker 3: It shocked me because I think it's it's definitely one
Speaker 3: of the better ones than than what we've seen so far.
Speaker 2: You know, fun wasn't Descendants for me.
Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't that for me. It wasn't going
Speaker 1: to the mat It wasn't you know, it wasn't Color
Speaker 1: of Friendship.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I did think that the that the message behind
Speaker 3: it was really cool.
Speaker 2: Though I did like the message.
Speaker 1: I feel the same way now. I already told you
Speaker 1: this entire movie was possible because of one man, and
Speaker 1: that one man is Robert Townsend, who not only directed
Speaker 1: the movie, he stars in it as Jim Marshall aka
Speaker 1: Bronze Eagle, the dad of your typical suburban family who
Speaker 1: moonlights as superheroes. Townsend did the unthinkable with this movie,
Speaker 1: as Disney continued to be very progressive with these t coms,
Speaker 1: not only focusing on a black family, but creating the
Speaker 1: studios first and technically TV's first black superhero way before
Speaker 1: they entered Wakanda. And this makes sense for Townsend, who
Speaker 1: began his career as a comedian who lost out to
Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy in an audition to be come an SNL
Speaker 1: cast member. Instead, he'd write, direct, and produce a movie
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty seven called Hollywood Shuffle Great Movie, a
Speaker 1: semi autobiographical satire of what it was like trying to
Speaker 1: enter the film industry as a black man. It was
Speaker 1: a big surprise hit, and that led to directing other
Speaker 1: movies like The Five Heartbeats Eddie Murphy Raw and the
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three comedy meteor Man, which made him the
Speaker 1: first black superhero in a movie ever Unreal Wow. He'd
Speaker 1: also create a bunch of TV shows like WB's The
Speaker 1: Parenthood and be ET's American Soul. He returned to being
Speaker 1: a superhero in twenty nineteen on the TV show Black Lightning,
Speaker 1: the first network TV show about a black superhero, which
Speaker 1: he also directed, and is currently seen on the massive
Speaker 1: hit TV show and My Wife and I's Favorite Show
Speaker 1: Right Now, The Bear as Sydney's dad. The Man is
Speaker 1: a pioneer and a legend period. He is amazing.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 1: Alex Datcher is Judy Marshall aka Warrior Woman, the mom
Speaker 1: of the family Datuer was a TV veteran who stops
Speaker 1: on hanging with mister Cooper Martin, Sister Sister and good Behavior,
Speaker 1: but is best known for bigger roles in movies Paulish,
Speaker 1: That's Yours, Jury Duty and one of my favorite action
Speaker 1: movies of all time, Passenger fifty seven. Great movie. The
Speaker 1: lead of the film, Scott Marshall, the less than super
Speaker 1: youngest son of the family, is played by Michael Pagan.
Speaker 1: Pagan appeared in some big movies like How Stella Got
Speaker 1: Aur Groove Back, Gridiron, Gang with the Rock, and Denzel's Fallen,
Speaker 1: but appears to have gotten out of the business in
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. The villain of the film, Malcolm, is played
Speaker 1: by Kevin Connolly, and I laughed when I saw kevinkaman screen.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that. Best known as e from the
Speaker 1: HBO show Entourage, but he was also a very successful
Speaker 1: child actor, starring off as Rocky Sun's best friend in
Speaker 1: Rocky five and then as a lead on the show
Speaker 1: Unhappily Ever After, which also starred a puppet and my
Speaker 1: ex girlfriend. The other thing is that when I was
Speaker 1: a Nickelodeon kid, the first show I ever did was
Speaker 1: a show called Don't Just Sit There, And the final
Speaker 1: audition for Don't Just Sit There was I had to
Speaker 1: actually do an episode of the show with the other
Speaker 1: kid that was supposed to it was between the two
Speaker 1: of us, and our final audition was literally the two
Speaker 1: of us hosts an actual show together, and the other
Speaker 1: kid was Kevin Connolly. So when I would run into
Speaker 1: Kevin years later, he would always say, oh, look, you
Speaker 1: still got the one job that I wanted on Nickelodeon.
Speaker 1: Very good guy, very funny. Also his right hand well
Speaker 1: we think evil person with him. The girl who was
Speaker 1: with him is played by Olivia Burnett, who was also
Speaker 1: a mainstay on television, Michael Jacob's mainstay on shows like
Speaker 1: The Torkulsins and Almost Home, Very very popular. Was also
Speaker 1: in She was wonderful, but the movie was terrible. It
Speaker 1: was called The Gift of Love, starring Andy Griffith. She
Speaker 1: played a drifter girl who befriends Andy Griffith after he
Speaker 1: takes his grandson's heart after his grandson was killed in
Speaker 1: an accident. His grandson had the worst Southern accent in
Speaker 1: any movie of all time. It was an absolutely horrible
Speaker 1: performance by this actor, but in all fairness, they only
Speaker 1: gave me two days to study before I knew what
Speaker 1: I was doing when I got there, and then when
Speaker 1: I got there they told me I had to have
Speaker 1: an accent the last day. So not fair. But the
Speaker 1: actor was terrible. He was a young Wilferdell.
Speaker 2: That was.
Speaker 1: Anybody who can find gift of love. I'd like to
Speaker 1: say I'm sorry, but Olivia was great. And lastly, in
Speaker 1: the Dabney Coleman chair, May he rest in peace, Dabney,
Speaker 1: It's Sherman Hemsley. A TV icon for his time. George
Speaker 1: Jefferson himself on The Jeffersons arguably a top ten sitcom
Speaker 1: character of all time, if not top five of all time.
Speaker 1: There you could argue top two or three. It was
Speaker 1: one of the greatest characters in history, starting on an
Speaker 1: archie bunker and then spinning off absolutely unbelievable. He plays
Speaker 1: the Grandpa Edward Marshall aka Steele Condor hilariously in Meteorman
Speaker 1: Townsend also cast a different Jefferson to play one of
Speaker 1: his parents. That time, it was Marla Gibbs, known as
Speaker 1: Floras Johnston to Jefferson fans. The movie is seventy eight minutes,
Speaker 1: which with commercials will make it to an hour and
Speaker 1: a half, but that doesn't count for the bulls Eye.
Speaker 1: We hit the bulls Eye once with Susan. I think
Speaker 1: that's gonna be our pinnacle. So no awesome music this week.
Speaker 1: As we said, it's directed by Townsend, who was a
Speaker 1: big get for Disney, but it was written by Dan Berenson,
Speaker 1: who did a lot for Sabrina, which is probably the
Speaker 1: connection to Paula and Melissa. But he also wrote and
Speaker 1: get ready for this, Stuck in the Suburbs, Halloween Town High, Twitches,
Speaker 1: Hannah Montana, the movie Wizards of Waverley Place, the movie
Speaker 1: Camp Rock, to Teen Beach two, and The Cheetah Girls
Speaker 1: One Word. So he is obviously someone we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about quite a bit and is on this podcast
Speaker 1: to stay wow. And hopefully we can get Dan on
Speaker 1: the podcast. I would love to be honest, because he
Speaker 1: seems to have written just about everything we've already talked about.
Speaker 1: Whether you're into superheroes and superhero movies, you, of course,
Speaker 1: opinions are personal and they don't matter, But you gave
Speaker 1: the wrong answer by saying you did not like superheroes
Speaker 1: at all. Now I know, I'm just waiting for either
Speaker 1: your son or your daughter to become superhero fanatically, and
Speaker 1: you've got to learn the backstory of all these aciteric
Speaker 1: multiple earths and parallel dimensions and everything. Oh man, by
Speaker 1: the way, I have a new movie out called Crisis
Speaker 1: on Infinite Nurse three. Go check that out right now
Speaker 1: and each other. Oh sorry, just telling people anyway.
Speaker 3: I did see Aquaman a bunch of times, because I
Speaker 3: will have the.
Speaker 1: One that's the one you went to was Aquaman.
Speaker 2: I did not go to it.
Speaker 3: I have just seen it a bunch because when we
Speaker 3: were on our cruise for our honeymoon. When you're on
Speaker 3: a cruise ship, there's like seven channels that work, right,
Speaker 3: one of them is a movie channel, and it just
Speaker 3: kind of rea.
Speaker 1: Aquaman the King of the Sea, where he can cause
Speaker 1: boats to sink and everything. This is what they're playing
Speaker 1: on the cruise.
Speaker 3: So I watched it in like fifteen minute increments, sometimes
Speaker 3: the same one over in freaking just whenever it was
Speaker 3: on the TV.
Speaker 2: I did watch that one a lot, Okay, But I.
Speaker 3: Was a fan of that actor because I love Game
Speaker 3: of Throne, so I was like, okay with.
Speaker 1: That Jason Momoa, Yeah, yes, you like the big burly
Speaker 1: guy with the long hair who can throw you over
Speaker 1: the back of a horse. I don't know.
Speaker 2: That is not my type at it's really no.
Speaker 1: Susan's either.
Speaker 2: At the same time, I liked him in Game of Thrones,
Speaker 2: so he's great.
Speaker 1: No, he was great. He was the douth Rackey leader.
Speaker 1: He was great. He's he's also I've met him at
Speaker 1: many conventions of it. Was always a very nice guy
Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, but it is. We won't get into
Speaker 1: my love of superhero movies. Here's the thing. I hate
Speaker 1: to say it, but I'm starting to get it's too
Speaker 1: much now everything's a superhero.
Speaker 2: It's a lot the original.
Speaker 1: MCU, the those first movies Ironman also, oh so good.
Speaker 1: Now they're all television shows and everything else, they're all
Speaker 1: it's it's too much now.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, It's tough to remember a time when superhero movies
Speaker 1: didn't rule the world, but this was way ahead of
Speaker 1: its time. For one, it did the unthinkable. It mentions
Speaker 1: both Spider Man and Superman in one script, meaning in
Speaker 1: this movie they exist in the same universe. So maybe
Speaker 1: this is the start of the MCU. Possibly Hilariously, Comic
Speaker 1: book heroes were so under used in movies and TV
Speaker 1: at the time almost consider poisoned creatively that up, Up
Speaker 1: and Away didn't even clear using the superhero names in
Speaker 1: the movie with Marvel or DC, other than kind of
Speaker 1: the seventies with the original Superman movies and then the
Speaker 1: eighties with at least the first two because they were
Speaker 1: Tim Burton Batman movies superheroes. That was kind of it,
Speaker 1: and then there was a bit of a lull. They
Speaker 1: then went to animation, which was my world, and animated superheroes,
Speaker 1: especially during the Bruce Tim time, all that kind of stuff. Batman,
Speaker 1: the animated series Batman Beyond Justice League, all those were
Speaker 1: phenomenally good, but it wasn't really on the big screen.
Speaker 1: And then it came back, of course with Christopher Nolan Batman,
Speaker 1: and then they started the MCU and they did all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff and now it's everywhere.
Speaker 3: Yes, And when they mentioned it, I feel like it
Speaker 3: was like, oh oh, like you're expecting them to make
Speaker 3: up some ones that you've never heard of, and they
Speaker 3: did it.
Speaker 2: They did, and it was like, oh, okay.
Speaker 1: Neat kind of neat all right, so let's get into it.
Speaker 1: The movie kicks off with a logo for Earth Protectors,
Speaker 1: something you're going to get to know very well in
Speaker 1: this movie. We pan out to notice it's from the
Speaker 1: computer of a young lady, Nina, the aforementioned Olivia Burnett,
Speaker 1: finally finishing a program alongside her partner, Malcolm, the guy
Speaker 1: I beat out for don't you sit there? That's how
Speaker 1: I'm going to refer to him right now, and they're
Speaker 1: ready to celebrate. Nina is so happy that her work
Speaker 1: is finally going to be able to save the world,
Speaker 1: but that Malcolm, We're not so sure about his intentions.
Speaker 1: He did the smile that big usually hides an extra
Speaker 1: rowtieth people. We cut to a young Scott Marshall at home,
Speaker 1: messing around with a soccer ball in his room until
Speaker 1: he knocks down his dad with a strong kick to
Speaker 1: the hallway. His dad, Jim, of course, though, can't be
Speaker 1: mad at the son because he says his birthday is
Speaker 1: coming up in four days. But as excited as you
Speaker 1: think Scott would be, he looks like he's a little
Speaker 1: stressed out about it. Downstairs, his mom, Judy calls down
Speaker 1: to the family that also includes an older brother and
Speaker 1: a younger sister, calls him down for breakfast. The Marshals
Speaker 1: really resemble your typical suburban family. They have soccer practice,
Speaker 1: the girl lostter retainer, the older brother's girl crazy, and
Speaker 1: they planning a big birthday party for Scott on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Then there's a knock at the back door. It's Scott's
Speaker 1: best friend, the adorable dorky Randy who this is another
Speaker 1: actor who goes on and do a bunch of things
Speaker 1: like Alpha Dog. He's been in the Time movies, also
Speaker 1: starring as a young kid who arrives holding a tinfoil
Speaker 1: covered loaf of zucchini bread. The family just stops in
Speaker 1: their tracks. They're terrified of something. We get dramatic music
Speaker 1: as they intensely circle the bread. The camera pans in
Speaker 1: on it. The kids quickly tick off for school, but
Speaker 1: that bread is causing a real issue. It is as
Speaker 1: if the kid delivered a nuclear bomb to this family.
Speaker 3: Then they did not in any way control their faces
Speaker 3: and reaction to Nope, like.
Speaker 1: With me Eily, I apologize for bringing you a delicious
Speaker 1: loaf of bread. Family, Marshall and Randy get on their
Speaker 1: bikes and they stopped by Rosen's house. A classmate who
Speaker 1: rises Marshall about recently choking on the soccer field. But
Speaker 1: we know obviously that there is a crush going on here,
Speaker 1: even if they both deny it. There are middle school
Speaker 1: boys and girls icky, but they clearly have a thing
Speaker 1: for each other. They're supposed to be seventh graders, and
Speaker 1: I guess, you know, as I was watching, I was like,
Speaker 1: do seventh graders not like date and do that' so?
Speaker 1: But of course do I remember doing all that stuff
Speaker 1: and having crushes and you didn't want to talk to them,
Speaker 1: and it was very strange. And I called Shannon Chipley
Speaker 1: one day and told her I loved her, and then
Speaker 1: just hung up the phone. By the way, Shannon is
Speaker 1: still a friend of mine. Shout out.
Speaker 3: I feel like a lot of first kisses happen in
Speaker 3: seventh grade, right.
Speaker 1: It depends on what you mean. Do you mean first
Speaker 1: kiss like tongue or do you mean like first like
Speaker 1: cause my first kiss I remember waking up Julia Gaittano
Speaker 1: in kindergarten with this smooch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, like like a like a making session.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like that's like seventh grade is Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's about right. That's when everybody started to
Speaker 1: have the parties in the basement and Shannon Chipley and Andy
Speaker 1: Foss are making out in front of me, and oh
Speaker 1: that Andy Foss. Andy cameo Andy. Anyway, we are back
Speaker 1: at the Marshalls. The mom and dad are burying the
Speaker 1: zucchini bread in the backyard again as it's some sort
Speaker 1: of giant atomic bomb. They say just being near the
Speaker 1: stuff makes them weaken the knees, but they love zucchini bread.
Speaker 1: So we still don't know what this is about just yet.
Speaker 2: I thought they were going to put a body in
Speaker 2: that hole. That thing was.
Speaker 1: It was a big hole. By the way, I would
Speaker 1: say if you are or if you are getting rid
Speaker 1: of a body, that's the size hole you're gonna need.
Speaker 1: The shallow thing, you're always going to be caught at school,
Speaker 1: by the way. We are now there and Scott's seventh
Speaker 1: grade class is introduced to a big wig from Earth
Speaker 1: Protectors and Environmental's how I'm gonna say it every time,
Speaker 1: by the way, an environmental group that recently donated computers
Speaker 1: to the school. His name is mister Quinn, and we
Speaker 1: see that it is Malcolm from the opening scene of
Speaker 1: the movie. He gets a very rambunctious and frankly undeserved
Speaker 1: round of applause from the class. He explains that everyone
Speaker 1: can save the world with things like recycling and planting trees.
Speaker 1: He's telling all the kids and there crushing up notes
Speaker 1: like hope you're going to recycle that. But he has
Speaker 1: quote unquote updates for the computers, so he hands out
Speaker 1: sea ROMs. Sabrina, when'd you get your first computer?
Speaker 2: I mean my parents had one.
Speaker 1: Every time you say that, I think your parents are
Speaker 1: my age.
Speaker 5: They are not.
Speaker 1: Swear to God, I swear to God. I think your
Speaker 1: parents are my age. Every time you say that, No.
Speaker 3: My parents had one. I didn't have my own one
Speaker 3: until college.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, there was like the family computer when they
Speaker 1: were Yes, that's basically the day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what we had. And then when I went
Speaker 3: to college is when I got I think you could
Speaker 3: rent them from the school too. You think you rent
Speaker 3: it for two years and that would pay it off,
Speaker 3: and then that was the computer you got to take.
Speaker 3: So I think that was probably when I got my
Speaker 3: first one. Everything else is you know my parment as
Speaker 3: we Yeah, I didn't really need it A ton.
Speaker 1: Producer Jensen will find this funny because he knows me
Speaker 1: this well. Just through Podmetsworld and the jokes that we
Speaker 1: have that I never throw anything away in my house.
Speaker 1: When I go home, in my brother's room, there is
Speaker 1: still the fully functional, fully working, fully hooked in original applitude.
Speaker 2: No way, it's still worse.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, everything is still working.
Speaker 3: Like every computer I've gotten since was an expiration day
Speaker 3: of like two years. There's Jordan. I also have a
Speaker 3: hard time throwing things away. I'm a little bit.
Speaker 2: Of a background. In my closet. I have all of
Speaker 2: my Apple like the same them.
Speaker 1: I'm one of those people who believe someday they're going
Speaker 1: to be worth something.
Speaker 2: Like what do I just throw it away?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: You man, thank you?
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: You've just came back a little bit from the superhero thing.
Speaker 2: Jordan is a full like perjer like everything must go.
Speaker 1: She's like, oh look baby teeth. Yeah that's she's She's
Speaker 1: that way exactly the same way we will we okay,
Speaker 1: Well we're with the right people, right exactly. Do you
Speaker 1: remember CD ROMs?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: I do too, I do.
Speaker 1: I used to.
Speaker 2: It's still weird for me to not have my music
Speaker 2: on CDs.
Speaker 1: You know, I still do.
Speaker 2: You know in high school you always had those mixes
Speaker 2: that you still I have for everyone. I had a
Speaker 2: booty mix. It was the like all these booty songs
Speaker 2: like booty Booty, Booty, Booty, booty, booty, bounce booty.
Speaker 1: Is there more than one booty famous?
Speaker 2: Oh my friends had it?
Speaker 1: So did your booty mix bring all the boys to
Speaker 1: the yard?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, I was just checking.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: Now follow Malcolm back to his Earth Protectors van filled
Speaker 1: with his nefarious looking team without Nina, of course, and
Speaker 1: he admits he hates kids. This dude is not as
Speaker 1: charitable as he pretends to be. And he's ready to
Speaker 1: test the CD ROM without Nina around, And how is
Speaker 1: he going to test it? Using the new Earth Protectors
Speaker 1: programs to hypnotize the tellers of a bank and instruct
Speaker 1: them to give them wads and wads of cash. And
Speaker 1: it works, but then one of the tellers sneezes and
Speaker 1: they wake up from the trance before Malcolm can even
Speaker 1: walk out. But even as a failure, he realized the
Speaker 1: new power that he now wields. I know Nina is
Speaker 1: being set up as the good person here, but if
Speaker 1: a program hypnotizes people to do even good things, that's bad, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't hypnotize me.
Speaker 2: You're manipulating people without them knowing. That's not okay.
Speaker 1: You. Yeah, hypnotizing not so good. In Jim Marshall's car
Speaker 1: now he's driving around Scott and his friends to a
Speaker 1: soccer game. He pulls over and pretends there's something wrong
Speaker 1: with the car because he's got a superhero signal telling
Speaker 1: him that the bank is being robbed. The kids decide
Speaker 1: to walk to the field, and once they're out of eyeshot,
Speaker 1: Jim looks around, walks off screen, fully disrobes, and for
Speaker 1: the first time, pops on as Bronze Eagle.
Speaker 3: He did the first ever TikTok because that's how all
Speaker 3: the try ons of TikTok happened, Like the girl the
Speaker 3: do you like see the outfit shit the floor and
Speaker 3: then bam, the TikToker is in the outfit. So he's hey,
Speaker 3: he developed the TikTok try on sessh.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's they've just said a bunch of small words.
Speaker 1: The TikTok try on sash, the TikTok tot try on tos,
Speaker 1: the TikTok tos, that's what we're calling it from now on. Okay,
Speaker 1: what did you think of the costumes. This is where
Speaker 1: I thought they could have used. And I get it's
Speaker 1: two thousand and it's a kids movie, but I think
Speaker 1: they could have streamlined. It looked a little Halloween customy
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 3: These well the main characters, and that's a lot to say, well,
Speaker 3: because the main characters had the best costumes of all
Speaker 3: of it. That's one of my Sabrina ses is that.
Speaker 2: Party filled with horrific costumes.
Speaker 1: There aren't There are some bad ones there.
Speaker 2: There were some and there was and then some good effects.
Speaker 1: It was a weird combination some good effects too. Well.
Speaker 2: This is when we first see that. This is the
Speaker 2: first effects that we see, right when he gets up
Speaker 2: and he flies.
Speaker 1: Right, and it's not The flying is not great. But
Speaker 1: again Dcom two thousand, Yes, we're still the to say
Speaker 1: we are working on the technology at this point is
Speaker 1: a huge.
Speaker 3: Undertra but better than I would have expected it to
Speaker 3: be at this point for the Disney technology.
Speaker 1: I don't disagree. I don't disagree. So he yells up
Speaker 1: up and away and fly away in a special effect
Speaker 1: we talked about that compared to today's CGI, looks like
Speaker 1: Atario Graphics. He arrives at the bank. Just as the
Speaker 1: perpetrators are thrown out of the building's windows. They were
Speaker 1: tossed by his wife, now dressed as her alter ego,
Speaker 1: Warrior Woman. And I thought, while her costume was risque,
Speaker 1: it was very wonder Woman, which I kind of dug.
Speaker 1: I thought her costume was better than his costume. That was, yes,
Speaker 1: my humble opinion.
Speaker 2: I would agree on that as well.
Speaker 1: The married couple casually fights the bad guys while focusing
Speaker 1: on each other, talking about their schedule, their marital status,
Speaker 1: who's going to do the laundry. It's a very fun
Speaker 1: cute scene. Mister and missus Smith ask you know, as
Speaker 1: they're talking. A van even tries to run them over,
Speaker 1: and Bronze Eagle just stops it with his finger. Warrior
Speaker 1: Woman then flips over the van. It's very cool, very
Speaker 1: kind of Incredibles or sky High. I kept thinking about
Speaker 1: sky High to the point where so the guys who
Speaker 1: wrote Kim Possible wrote sky High. Great movie, okay, and
Speaker 1: I went to go see, oh, maybe this did Jeez,
Speaker 1: did they rip off sky High here? And then I looked, no,
Speaker 1: this was five years before sky High. Wow, So this
Speaker 1: was first yes, and it seemed like nobody rips off everybody.
Speaker 1: There's I mean, there's no new ideas in Hollywood anyway.
Speaker 1: But when you're talking Incredibles and Sky High the Thundermans,
Speaker 1: you're talking this family superhero trope. This is the start.
Speaker 1: This is that. That's why I can't believe this doesn't
Speaker 1: get any love, because that huge juggernaut of an idea
Speaker 1: of superhero families that has made what a billion dollars
Speaker 1: with the Incredibles and everything that hash. Yeah, with Robert
Speaker 1: Townsend and Up, Up and Away, there's.
Speaker 3: A whole land in California adventure that right for this.
Speaker 3: That's how many characters.
Speaker 1: Yes, Up, Up and Away started all that. It's about
Speaker 1: time it gets it's due. So the couple has saved
Speaker 1: the day. But we also see that Malcolm and the
Speaker 1: Earth Protector thug we're looking on. Okay, So this is
Speaker 1: the part that kind of confused me a little bit.
Speaker 1: So the bad guys that got arrested.
Speaker 2: Are just like we're assisted them. But how did they
Speaker 2: get out of it? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Everybody saw him standing right in front of them when
Speaker 1: they start calling yes God, and he looked.
Speaker 3: There's such a funny little moment too, after he gets
Speaker 3: they call the guy called security.
Speaker 2: He's like, he's.
Speaker 1: Maybe if if he doesn't move.
Speaker 3: I would be like, I'm out.
Speaker 1: It was just so that was confusing all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: he just kind of in Inside Man kind of way,
Speaker 1: snuck away as if he was one of the members
Speaker 1: of the public. So, yeah, that one could have used.
Speaker 2: It goes as far to do a interview about Yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, he's talking to the cops. By the way, if
Speaker 1: you haven't seen Inside Man, check it out. A great,
Speaker 1: great movie. Anyway, Jim finally gets to Scott's soccer game,
Speaker 1: where Scott is well, he's choking again and he's not
Speaker 1: passing to his teammates. He just wants to score the goal,
Speaker 1: even though his crush is open. Everyone's yelling at him
Speaker 1: to pass. Every kid's been in this position before. I
Speaker 1: want to make the basket. I want to do this.
Speaker 1: You missed the open person, and then you muff It
Speaker 1: happens all the time. Scott's older brother finally joins and
Speaker 1: we see that he can run faster than the speed
Speaker 1: of light and has the gift of electrocution. Jim tells
Speaker 1: him to keep his abilities on the DL around Scott
Speaker 1: because he's just sitting in the stadium surrounded by people,
Speaker 1: with lightning going back and forth between his fingers. Dude,
Speaker 1: keep it under the radar.
Speaker 3: I think that's a big part of it though, Thinking
Speaker 3: about a teenager with superheroes, how likely is it that
Speaker 3: they're gonna want to show it off?
Speaker 2: Look how cool I am, Look what.
Speaker 1: I can do. But Serena, I'm gonna coin a phrase
Speaker 1: here that nobody's ever said before. With great power comes
Speaker 1: great responsibility.
Speaker 3: You know, if you think about a teenager, they cannot
Speaker 3: help themselves.
Speaker 1: That's why the teenagers, that's why they're so fun to watch.
Speaker 1: The I know you don't like the superheroes, but why
Speaker 1: you get a Peter Parker is so fun to watch
Speaker 1: because he's such a nerd and bullied in school and
Speaker 1: he can't show anybody his powers. That's the cool part
Speaker 1: about it. Okay, we'll get We're gonna get you their
Speaker 1: sobrinas list Anyway, He says he doesn't want him to
Speaker 1: show his superpowers around Scott because he doesn't have any
Speaker 1: powers of his own. Scott hasn't got him yet, and
Speaker 1: he's supposed to get some by fourteen years old. One
Speaker 1: of the things we learn is that's the cutoff. If
Speaker 1: you haven't gotten your powers by fourteen, you're gonna be
Speaker 1: a quote unquote normal or in Harry potter Land, which
Speaker 1: we're talking about, what would you be called? What are
Speaker 1: the non magical folk called?
Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh, are you seriously gonna have dude trivia
Speaker 3: on a movie that I've never seen?
Speaker 1: Oh it's a Muggle. You're a muggle. You're a Muggle.
Speaker 1: And oh, the list is getting stronger, a longer and
Speaker 1: longer of the stuff I will send you. So he
Speaker 1: might just turn out to be normal and the only
Speaker 1: one in the family that is. Even his little sister,
Speaker 1: which is a very funny on running thing, has the
Speaker 1: ability of laser vision and just keeps lighting things on fire,
Speaker 1: especially when she tried to, you know, start a barbecue
Speaker 1: and they're they're grounding her and giving her timeouts and
Speaker 1: doing stuff like that because she's randomly lighting stuff on
Speaker 1: fire by accident. As Earth protect I'm gona stop doing that.
Speaker 1: As Earth Protectors, I can't keep doing the voice HQ.
Speaker 1: Nina is mad at Malcolm about the bankstut. He says
Speaker 1: it didn't even work, and Nina explains that's because it
Speaker 1: only works on adolescent brains. The plan is to get
Speaker 1: one of these computers that appear to be mind control
Speaker 1: devices to every kid in the country, and they've broken
Speaker 1: into a nearby county jail's computer system to break out
Speaker 1: the gang that just got arrested their other gangs, knowing
Speaker 1: that they might be fighting some superheroes soon because the
Speaker 1: superhero saw them. Now that they're on their radar, we
Speaker 1: got to get our whole gang together because the superheroes
Speaker 1: might be coming after us. We are back at the Jeffersons.
Speaker 1: Scott is bummed about his soccer stats and is stressed
Speaker 1: about his current lack of super skills. Only three days
Speaker 1: left to his birthday and he's really starting to stress
Speaker 1: about it, so he's just praying that they show up soon.
Speaker 1: He wants to be quote unquote the best superhero ever,
Speaker 1: just like his dad. Scott's mom thinks they should help
Speaker 1: Scott face reality and maybe even cancel his party that's
Speaker 1: going to have all the other superheroes where he takes
Speaker 1: the oath, And I thought, why couldn't they have said
Speaker 1: to him, We'll just have your friends over and make
Speaker 1: it a regular birthday party instead of we'll cancel everything.
Speaker 1: Because you're not gonna be.
Speaker 3: So like, you know, if he doesn't have powers, now
Speaker 3: you're just gonna he's already low.
Speaker 2: You're just gonna push him down even before exactly.
Speaker 1: Well, he doesn't have the power to fight back, so
Speaker 1: he can just kick him while he's down.
Speaker 5: The poor kids seriously.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, we pan over and we see that Scott
Speaker 1: is listening, and he overhears his parents disappointment and it
Speaker 1: just crushes him. So he sneaks off to remove some
Speaker 1: screws from one of the doors, just as with the
Speaker 1: only energy that only Sherman Hemsley can have. Sherman Hemsley
Speaker 1: comes on on the screen. He's also a superhero. He nswers,
Speaker 1: and to greet his grandfather, Scott runs into the house,
Speaker 1: pulling the door that he just took the screws off,
Speaker 1: right off the hinges. The family is so impressed. Ah,
Speaker 1: you got your powers. You have super strength. That's amazing
Speaker 1: and just in the nick of time. But we know
Speaker 1: that he doesn't. He faked it. Scott says his abilities
Speaker 1: come and go. He also lies about being able to
Speaker 1: fly a little, something not even his mom can do. Apparently,
Speaker 1: now I don't mean to keep calling out my friends
Speaker 1: because they're awesome people. But sky High written by the
Speaker 1: guys who did him possible. The kid didn't have his
Speaker 1: superpowers yet both superpowered parents flying was the hardest ability
Speaker 1: that could be there, and lied about having his powers.
Speaker 1: All these things come right from this movie, right from
Speaker 1: this past.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Scott's dad is super proud and his brother is obviously
Speaker 1: jealous because he wants to fly too, so they want
Speaker 1: to see him fly. Now here's a small fun note
Speaker 1: going back to what we're just talking about. Scott's grandma
Speaker 1: says that they had Peter Parker and Mary over for
Speaker 1: dinner the other night, the first ever Spider Man Disney
Speaker 1: mentioned BAM, and then his grandpa texts later about how
Speaker 1: much he hates Clark Kent forgetting a publicist and taking
Speaker 1: the name the Man of Steel, the DC and Marvel
Speaker 1: crossover you've always dreamt of for the first time ever.
Speaker 1: Here in Up Up in a way, Scott is now
Speaker 1: pressured by his family to fly, so he gets his
Speaker 1: training cape and he throws a soccer ball into a tree.
Speaker 1: His family hears it from the inside and thinks it's
Speaker 1: him flying into a branch. When they don't see him,
Speaker 1: they assume he's flying in the sky, and then he
Speaker 1: just grunts and pretends he landed behind them, and they
Speaker 1: all seem to fall for it. This also threw me.
Speaker 1: It seems like they made the family a little stupid,
Speaker 1: Like you couldn't tell that he threw don't you have
Speaker 1: the kids got X ray vision, They've got all this stuff.
Speaker 1: You couldn't tell that he wasn't flying. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: have gone a different way with it, but I get
Speaker 1: what they're doing. But then the grandfather, the wise older superhero,
Speaker 1: calls him out privately. He knows the truth. He says
Speaker 1: superheroes don't lie, but promises he won't tell Scott's parents
Speaker 1: about the lie until after the party. The next morning,
Speaker 1: Scott is cramming in some homework with the Earth Protector's
Speaker 1: computers in the CD ROM, but it's flashing lights and
Speaker 1: using the hey SMR voice. It suddenly hypnotizes Scott, and
Speaker 1: as a result, he just sits in front of the computer,
Speaker 1: staring mindlessly at it for hours. This concerns his dad,
Speaker 1: especially when he hears the bank robber thugs have escaped
Speaker 1: from jail, which we know the Earth Protectors did from
Speaker 1: their headquarters. We also see older brother Adam's Silver Charger
Speaker 1: costume for the first time. Great name, bad costume. When
Speaker 1: they decide to go investigate the bank, it just looks
Speaker 1: like a bad steampunk Halloween bit. It's the word it.
Speaker 1: Do you think this is the worst one, yes, well,
Speaker 1: of the worst of the family, the worst of the family.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I just couldn't imagine how annoying those goggles were
Speaker 3: to wear. They probably were just beyond annoying.
Speaker 1: But steampunk more like steam up. They have those, the
Speaker 1: kind of things where you're in costume all day, you're
Speaker 1: probably like sweating and you can't see through them. Yeah. Also,
Speaker 1: that day at school, Scott and his classmates we notice
Speaker 1: are all dressed in blue. They don't even notice, but
Speaker 1: one kid. The teacher says, did everybody do their homework?
Speaker 1: And they pan to one kid in the front wearing
Speaker 1: red raising his hand, who obviously did not do his homework.
Speaker 1: The Earth Protectors look on from their van in the
Speaker 1: parking lot. It worked, they made all the kids dress
Speaker 1: in blue. Nina sees the power of what she's just created,
Speaker 1: and instantly her mind goes to wanting to get them
Speaker 1: all to compost or even love eating tofu Malcolm says
Speaker 1: he'll take care of all that, but the truth is
Speaker 1: he's already added something to today's lesson without even telling her.
Speaker 1: We see he also gave them a craving for chocolate,
Speaker 1: so he knows that he can. He can do whatever
Speaker 1: he wants with the mind control device, and he is
Speaker 1: going to use this ability because he wants ten or
Speaker 1: twenty billion dollars. He does not care about Nina's altruistic hopes.
Speaker 1: He is in this solely for the dough. Now we
Speaker 1: got Rosen who's continuing the weird seventh grade crush tactics.
Speaker 1: She throws a ball of illuminufoil at Scott to throw
Speaker 1: it away or as fun. We don't really know what
Speaker 1: it is, but his brother catches it instead and instantly
Speaker 1: winces and hides as his hand flashes green. This is
Speaker 1: where we go back to the zucchini bread at the beginning.
Speaker 1: We finally find out what that means. The family's kryptonite
Speaker 1: is not bread. Obviously. The one thing that messes up
Speaker 1: their molecular structure and can kill them is aluminum, so
Speaker 1: that's what it was. They threw the aluminum foil at
Speaker 1: it and boom, now know what their kryptonite is because
Speaker 1: every good superhero, no matter who it is, has kryptonite.
Speaker 2: Has to have something something that can trigger.
Speaker 1: Is obviously Superman's, but any any big superhero, there's always
Speaker 1: something where you can do whatever you want to do.
Speaker 1: The Marshals go on to TV as their superhero identities
Speaker 1: and alert people that an ingenious computer program is controlling minds.
Speaker 1: They announced they made the counteracting software to stop brainwashing,
Speaker 1: but we find out that that's actually a bluff, just
Speaker 1: like Scott's lie, who continues to pretend that he can fly.
Speaker 1: So when Scott's dead, abruptly takes Scott in the air
Speaker 1: with him because he says, hey, you can fly, let's
Speaker 1: go boom up, up and away. He quickly realizes that
Speaker 1: his son is just dead weight, and he lets him
Speaker 1: go because maybe part of me thought it was kind
Speaker 1: of I'm gonna throw you in the deep end just
Speaker 1: to caularn how to swim whim. His parents think maybe
Speaker 1: the problem is he's having trouble concentrating again. They they
Speaker 1: figured out some weird ways to kind of activate his superpowers.
Speaker 1: But yes, Scott falls, by the way, Yes falls plummeting
Speaker 1: towards earth because he would be horribly killed.
Speaker 2: Worst case scenario, Yeah, that pretty much happened.
Speaker 1: Bronze Eagle swoops in and his dad saves him. Now
Speaker 1: it is time for Scott's party, and it's a shindig
Speaker 1: fill with original superheroes. This is where the costumes do
Speaker 1: reveal the budget. I will let you go off on that.
Speaker 1: But there is one Reach who's basically mister Fantastic, Mister
Speaker 1: Fantastic of course from the Final Four, or there's also Elastic.
Speaker 2: Man Elastic Girl from.
Speaker 1: An Incredibles Incredibles. There's plenty of different versions of stretchy people.
Speaker 1: But this is also where you show the difference in
Speaker 1: the film because there's one invisible guy that walks by
Speaker 1: that looks pretty good, and Reach looks pretty good. Also
Speaker 1: a great name, Reaches, a great name for a superhero,
Speaker 1: and then there's some that don't look great. Do you
Speaker 1: want to save him for, Sabrina ceas we can, sure, Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll save him for he says, there are some absolute
Speaker 1: doozies there in front of the whole crowd. By the way, Now,
Speaker 1: Scott's dad names him Warrior Eagle, great name and leads
Speaker 1: him in the heroic oath of truth Justice and integrity,
Speaker 1: and even though Scott stutters and wants to tell his
Speaker 1: dad what's wrong, he eventually, when his dad says, you're
Speaker 1: just supposed to say I do, eventually says I do.
Speaker 1: Over at Earth Protectors, Malcolm convinces Nina to slip a
Speaker 1: homing device onto Bronze Eagle to find their hideout, giving
Speaker 1: her no choice but to sit in an exploding building
Speaker 1: waiting for the superheroes to show up. Malcolm doesn't care
Speaker 1: if they show up or if she dies. Either way
Speaker 1: he wins. This guy is what they call a super dick,
Speaker 1: and now here it has supers. Here is where we
Speaker 1: can talk about I don't know if this was a
Speaker 1: Disney note, if this was a Robert Townsend note. My
Speaker 1: guess is it's Townsend. But it is a perfect way
Speaker 1: to save money on movies like this, and it is
Speaker 1: a brilliant directing note, which is the explosion of the building.
Speaker 1: So what they do is there's a van blocking it,
Speaker 1: and you've got Kevin Connolly and I forget the other
Speaker 1: actor's name, and if we can find it, I want
Speaker 1: to because I did a movie with him as well.
Speaker 1: He's another super nice guy. They're sitting there he presses
Speaker 1: the detonator button and they flinch. As the ground shakes,
Speaker 1: we hear the giant explosion. Then they get into the
Speaker 1: van and as they drive away we see the building
Speaker 1: on fire. Brilliant way to make it look expensive when
Speaker 1: you didn't have to spend the same amount of money
Speaker 1: you have to blow up a building. Now, let the
Speaker 1: actors do their thing, you drive away. The building's on fire.
Speaker 1: We get it. Everybody gets it. Genius directing and a
Speaker 1: great way to save a lot of money. Everyone at
Speaker 1: Scott's party, of course, because they're all superheroes, gets an
Speaker 1: alert that there is a woman in a burning building.
Speaker 1: So Reach suggests Scott go as his first Warrior Eagle mission.
Speaker 1: Why not, he's been a superhero for a week and
Speaker 1: has had absolutely no training. Kid for a day.
Speaker 3: That's right, ya, one day, and you're gonna send and
Speaker 3: you're very young, fourteen year old to a burning building
Speaker 3: by himself.
Speaker 1: But hey, as they say, and this makes sense, superhero
Speaker 1: one oh one, it's the equivalent of the firefighter saving
Speaker 1: a cat from a tree for a superhero woman burning building. Cake,
Speaker 1: Just get in there and do it. Scott ursly agrees,
Speaker 1: and again with a soccer ball fools his parents into
Speaker 1: thinking he flew away, which is still very concerning in reality.
Speaker 1: Scott rides his bike to the building where Nina is inside,
Speaker 1: coughing and set to die. She's also will definitely die
Speaker 1: because the entire fire department is there and no one
Speaker 1: has a hose or is doing anything to even remotely
Speaker 1: fight the fire whatsoever. Nothing. Eventually, Scott gets there and
Speaker 1: while the birthday party circled around a TV watches on.
Speaker 1: Scott tries to help Nina, but eventually almost kills her
Speaker 1: in the process, until his dad, realizing the lie, now
Speaker 1: flies in at the last minute they're hanging from the building,
Speaker 1: flies in his bronze Eagle and save them. He's obviously
Speaker 1: extraordinarily disappointed in his stupid liar son, and Nina is
Speaker 1: confused about what just happens. Scott also does the ty Olsen,
Speaker 1: by the way, is the name of the actor I
Speaker 1: was thinking of, Tyzon Tyles. Scott does the equivalent of
Speaker 1: a superhero Oh my god, what did you just do
Speaker 1: and loses his mask, so Nina picks it up and
Speaker 1: takes it back to the lab, where they're able to
Speaker 1: take the indentations and cross engineer it to figure out
Speaker 1: his real face, which, believe it or not, is still
Speaker 1: the least like reliable thing in this movie That made
Speaker 1: no sense, but who cares? We get it? They have
Speaker 1: to find out who it is. Back at the Marshall home,
Speaker 1: his parents admit that they love him, with or without
Speaker 1: his powers. He didn't need to lie. They love him
Speaker 1: for whoever he is. He just has to be the
Speaker 1: best version of whoever he is, even though his friends
Speaker 1: at school make fun of the Cape kid they saw
Speaker 1: blow up on TV. The Earth Predectors finally release a
Speaker 1: new CD ROM forcing kids to steal money from their
Speaker 1: parents and give it to them, and Scott gets caught
Speaker 1: after he does this. Do you see all these kids
Speaker 1: walking over kind of mindlessly opening up their parents while
Speaker 1: it's taking out the money. Scott does this as well.
Speaker 1: He doesn't even know he's done this, and then his
Speaker 1: sister uses their X ray vision and notices the money
Speaker 1: in his backpack. She turns him in snitches and up
Speaker 1: in ditches. He swears he's innocent, but his parents ground
Speaker 1: him from soccer, which is the only thing he's been
Speaker 1: looking forward to because he wants to be a captain.
Speaker 1: At school, We're now back at school, brainwashed kids dropping
Speaker 1: off wads of money to the Earth Protectors even without
Speaker 1: thinking about it. They're just walking up and it looks
Speaker 1: like they're handing in their cety their old CD ROMs
Speaker 1: with they're really just handing, you know, mounds of cash
Speaker 1: and Scott. It turns out a teacher approaches him and says, hey,
Speaker 1: you've been selected for a special Earth Protector upgrade. It's
Speaker 1: in the principal's office. He goes in, he sits down
Speaker 1: and is immediately hypnotized. Then Malcolm arrives to ask him
Speaker 1: some questions about his family, like where do they live?
Speaker 1: What's going on?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: No, the bad guy's got him enthralled. Now we're going
Speaker 1: to learn some stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He spills the beans for two hours, but doesn't remember
Speaker 1: a thing because he's been hypnotized the entire time. He
Speaker 1: does notice that Nina is in the Earth Protector's van, though,
Speaker 1: and as she's waiting outside, he kind of says, wait
Speaker 1: a second, that was the girl that I saved from
Speaker 1: the building. She's involved with him. What's going on? So
Speaker 1: that day he gets another special disc for homework, but
Speaker 1: he accidentally switches it with Rosen his friend. So he
Speaker 1: goes saying to his parents, He's back at home now.
Speaker 1: The girl I saved was there at school today. She's
Speaker 1: involved with these Earth Protectors and I have the proof.
Speaker 1: It's right here with this new CD rom they gave me.
Speaker 1: So he shows the disc to his parents. Think you
Speaker 1: don't want to criminate them, But because he switched it
Speaker 1: with Rosen, he has a harmless educational disc. But nearby,
Speaker 1: Rosen's mom all of a sudden walks in and holds
Speaker 1: up a bank and then reports back to the Earth Protectors.
Speaker 1: So that was supposed to happen with the Marshals, but
Speaker 1: of course now two things happen. They think Scott's lying,
Speaker 1: because Scott, you can't keep blaming everybody else for your problems.
Speaker 1: Is this they say? They're like, is this a cry
Speaker 1: for help? Because what the heck is going on? And
Speaker 1: Rosen's mom is now in the clutches of the bad
Speaker 1: guys and she's robbed a bag. So Scott and Randy
Speaker 1: pretend they're sick at school and they call his grandfather,
Speaker 1: who believes the family is already at the Earth Protector's
Speaker 1: Layer and Steele condor. Of course, his grandfather says he's
Speaker 1: gonna come and help, and it's all funny because he's older,
Speaker 1: he's retired, he can't really fly, and he immediately flies
Speaker 1: off into a fence, but very cute and he's right.
Speaker 1: Of course, Scott's parents and siblings are at the headquarters,
Speaker 1: but they've been caught by the bad guys, who of
Speaker 1: course thought they were coming, and they have trapped them
Speaker 1: in a giant aluminum foil cage which has slowly taking
Speaker 1: their power. What did you think about the cage?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Man, I it obviously made sense.
Speaker 3: We know about the foiler all of that, but it
Speaker 3: was such a dinky. Yeah, you're telling me that a
Speaker 3: cage made a foil is gonna stop someone from just
Speaker 3: pushing it.
Speaker 4: That was the thing is, it's it slowly zaps your powers.
Speaker 4: The guy he caught the ball of Yeah, they can
Speaker 4: touch for.
Speaker 1: So they can touch. So you're telling me that the
Speaker 1: four of them together couldn't have just rushed out real
Speaker 1: quick from them?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought mask being how they got that was
Speaker 3: also kind of like, ah, you know, come on, you know,
Speaker 3: same thing.
Speaker 1: So from this point on in the movie, it really
Speaker 1: gets kind of crazy, cartoony.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it starts to lose its sparkle a little bit
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 1: I agree. I agree that there were third act problems
Speaker 1: in this movie. Yeah, definitely were third act problems in
Speaker 1: this movie. I mean that maybe that's what people are
Speaker 1: remembering the end and take away from it, which is
Speaker 1: why they aren't as excited. That's why it's got the
Speaker 1: low rating. So Nina is embarrassed and mad because she's
Speaker 1: just trying to make the world a better place. But
Speaker 1: Malcolm is finally showing his true intentions to her and
Speaker 1: goes full bad guy. She says she should have known
Speaker 1: that he was a bad guy from the day she
Speaker 1: saw him drinking out of a styrofoam cup, eating beef jerkey,
Speaker 1: and wearing a leather belt. He doesn't care about the
Speaker 1: world or animals. It was actually a very funny way
Speaker 1: to say. And Olivia, it seemed like Olivia was kind
Speaker 1: of almost in a different movie. She was great in
Speaker 1: this movie. You've been playing it real the whole time.
Speaker 1: She really was playing it real the whole time. It was.
Speaker 1: She's actually a really, really good actor.
Speaker 3: So knowing this about him kind of goes So he
Speaker 3: was on this plan from the beginning. It wasn't something
Speaker 3: that he just kind of decided a long way. He
Speaker 3: was already manipulating her from the beginning when they first
Speaker 3: created this yeah, you know, seedy situation.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah now and you really now she can
Speaker 1: see it again.
Speaker 2: Super douche, Yeah, super douche. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Scott Rosen, whose mom is also there, and Randy,
Speaker 1: who now knows the truth about Scott's family, basically comes
Speaker 1: Stranger Things and they ride their bikes to the Earth
Speaker 1: Protector while Grandpa is very slowly flying them there. They
Speaker 1: show him flying and he glances over at all the
Speaker 1: traffic that's moving way faster than him. He's like, I
Speaker 1: should have taken a cab. It was very funny. Now
Speaker 1: in What Is Again, we talked about third act problems.
Speaker 1: In What Is arguably the movies were seen, the kids
Speaker 1: arrive at Earth Protectors and pretend to shoot the bad
Speaker 1: guys by stomping on bubble wrap that just magically apparently
Speaker 1: they're in a bubble wrap warehouse, and once the bubble
Speaker 1: wrap runs out, they go into a full home alone mode,
Speaker 1: with the kids tripping people with jump ropes, pushing rolls
Speaker 1: of bubble wrap onto villains, and then they're reacting like
Speaker 1: the thing of bubble wrap. Weighed a thousand pounds. It
Speaker 1: was like running from the boulder in Indiana. Jones, It
Speaker 1: was really kind of ridiculous. This is where you're kind
Speaker 1: of going, Oh, they just wanted to wrap They seem
Speaker 1: like they just wanted to wrap it up at this. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Once they eventually catch Scott, Nina ties him up with aluminum,
Speaker 1: but she just wants him to play along. She kind
Speaker 1: of says, you've got to get us out of this.
Speaker 1: She knows now that she's trapped, so she tries to
Speaker 1: do whatever she can. First to make Malcolm. She tries
Speaker 1: to interrupt the download, then she gets caught doing that.
Speaker 1: Then she tries to make Malcolm think that they're on
Speaker 1: the same team. He starts to realize that that's not
Speaker 1: going to work. She is fleecing him, so he gets
Speaker 1: her kicked out. Essentially, she's now a prisoner as well.
Speaker 1: We're now counting down to a full DNA restructure on
Speaker 1: the Marshals and we're almost out of time. But with
Speaker 1: a few seconds left, Scott gets a soccer ball from
Speaker 1: somewhere we don't explain where. He's obviously in a bubble
Speaker 1: wrap soccer ball warehouse and jukes all the bad guys.
Speaker 1: He's now Pele all of a sudden, ending up with
Speaker 1: kicking the ball through the cage into a small hole
Speaker 1: and smashing into the computer, which apports the computer program somehow,
Speaker 1: and he frees his parents, where then offscreen Warrior Woman
Speaker 1: jumps in. They're no longer staggered by the tinfoil that's
Speaker 1: around them, even though there's still a bunch of tinfoil
Speaker 1: around them. She kills everyone and or you know, incapacitates everybody.
Speaker 1: It's the whole thing is really really I keep using
Speaker 1: I have very words that I use all the time. Odd, strange, weird,
Speaker 1: and bizarre. This was odd, strange, weird, em bizarre, all.
Speaker 2: Of them this bizarre man. Yeah.
Speaker 1: In the end, Scott's dad is super proud of Scott
Speaker 1: for saving them even without superpowers, because one of the
Speaker 1: lessons that he've been trying to teach Scott is you
Speaker 1: can be a hero without any superpowers at all. Again,
Speaker 1: I go back to Batman. You just need a ton
Speaker 1: of money. They also wipe the mind of everyone at
Speaker 1: Earth Protectors, including Nina, who also suggested destroying all the
Speaker 1: dis in the computers. Now Rosen and Scott finally, after
Speaker 1: all this time, admit to liking each other. Will you
Speaker 1: go to the dance with me?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: I will. I want to go to that, And then
Speaker 1: they have to wipe her mind too. I felt so
Speaker 1: bad for Scott, the first girl talk to and you've
Speaker 1: got to wipe her mind.
Speaker 2: But his mom said, a great piece of advice is
Speaker 2: if she really likes you before this, she'll still like Yes.
Speaker 1: No amount of superhero mind wipe.
Speaker 2: Will state that love exactly.
Speaker 1: It's house, But they do, in a show of friendship,
Speaker 1: decide to let Randy keep his memories so that Scott
Speaker 1: has someone to talk to about everything that's going on. So,
Speaker 1: just as the coast is clear and things are con grandpas,
Speaker 1: the ocndor burst through the wall. He finally made it.
Speaker 1: He should have taken that cab. We are now back
Speaker 1: in the suburbs. The marshals are back to their regular
Speaker 1: lives and Rosen bikes by. But they're back to, you know,
Speaker 1: crapping on each other for their kind of flirting, pushing
Speaker 1: each other pigtails in the in the inkwell kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: The crush is still secret, but Amy and Scott vote
Speaker 1: for each other to become captains for the team. They
Speaker 1: have become co captains, so who knows what will happen
Speaker 1: in the future. I'd like to think they still go
Speaker 1: to the dance together. And we end the movie with
Speaker 1: Randy and Scott talking about how Scott Nosegreen Hornet and
Speaker 1: more unclear superhero ip and then the credits roll. I
Speaker 1: did you like how he never got superpowers? Yes, me too,
Speaker 1: I did. I like that he just is a normal
Speaker 1: guy who still saves day and he never I was
Speaker 1: sitting here going, I wonder when they're gonna give him superpowers.
Speaker 1: I wonder when they get it, and they never did,
Speaker 1: and that made me very happy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it becomes It makes the movie more
Speaker 3: relatable to kids.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I feel like you can switch it on with the
Speaker 3: messaging and everything, you can kind of switch on. How
Speaker 3: A lot of kids feel this way in junior high
Speaker 3: when this is when I feel like athletic sports and
Speaker 3: things like that, some kids really excel and some kids don't,
Speaker 3: and they're thinking, you know, they don't have the gift
Speaker 3: or whatever, and that's not you know, but it's like
Speaker 3: you find what's good for you.
Speaker 2: You figure out what what what is your superpower? You
Speaker 2: know what I mean, and that drama.
Speaker 1: Whatever you want anything chess, I mean, there's plenty of
Speaker 1: things you can do. Absolutely, you're going to kill it
Speaker 1: at Yeah.
Speaker 3: I like cool, just your super smart learn on.
Speaker 1: I agree undred percent. I loved how they didn't force
Speaker 1: it in there where all of a sudden you can
Speaker 1: fly like now, this is yeah, right, this is great.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it's time for some real reviews.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I think it's your turn to do the
Speaker 2: fox star.
Speaker 1: I think you're one hundred percent right. So we've got
Speaker 1: a five star review here from Extra in the background,
Speaker 1: and it's your kids will like it. Don't expect Batman
Speaker 1: or RoboCop. But if you're in the mood for some
Speaker 1: nice doesn't take itself seriously entertainment, you might want to
Speaker 1: give it a shot. And I think that's kind of
Speaker 1: right on the right on the button for a five
Speaker 1: star review. And I agree one hundred percent. What do
Speaker 1: you got for the one star there, Sabrina.
Speaker 3: Are one star comes from Carlos m Good for kids
Speaker 3: who just got back from the dentist and are high
Speaker 3: on gas.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, alrighty, thank you, Carlos AM.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think any dcon would be great for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, okay, we have you know features that we
Speaker 1: do every week from your favorite producer Jensen, who loves
Speaker 1: to give me things that you're going to be so
Speaker 1: good at all the way around, and with the hard
Speaker 1: tug he likes to just dust you off and hold
Speaker 1: you up to the light. Because we've got a new
Speaker 1: one here and it is a feature. So we are
Speaker 1: entering the comic book superhero genre and as you know,
Speaker 1: that's kind of my thing. Yes, so they the producer Jensen,
Speaker 1: this time has created a game that speaks to well
Speaker 1: my strengths. And as the voice of Batman, that's me.
Speaker 1: I know a thing or two about the genre. So, Sabrina,
Speaker 1: I'm going to read you quotes from superheroes, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do it in my Batman voice. And you have
Speaker 1: to guess the comic book icon who originally said it.
Speaker 1: If you get three out of five, right, you're a winner.
Speaker 1: Oh so here we go. Here's the first one, Truth
Speaker 1: Justice and a better tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Justice League.
Speaker 5: No it's not Justice League, it's Superman and we are
Speaker 5: off to a great start.
Speaker 1: There's also Truth Justice in the American way, which is
Speaker 1: the original Superman. But I think they wanted to make
Speaker 1: it more for everybody, more and more common more. Number two, Flame.
Speaker 2: On flame on flash.
Speaker 1: He's on a team with three other people.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, she's responded Flash. She's also wrong.
Speaker 1: It's human.
Speaker 5: You know flash, the guy who does fire flash.
Speaker 2: I don't what what what human?
Speaker 5: Human torch? Did you think human torture? Did you was
Speaker 5: like flash paper? Like how you burn flash paper? Do
Speaker 5: you think flashes made out of flash paper?
Speaker 2: You know? What?
Speaker 1: Is my favorite relationship? Okay? Number three I said this today.
Speaker 1: With great power comes great responsibility?
Speaker 2: Superman, Batman? Did you say Batman?
Speaker 5: The first answer that we already did. No, it's not
Speaker 5: that twice it's also not responsibility man.
Speaker 2: It's great responsibility.
Speaker 5: It's spider Man. It's probably one of the more famous ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's actually Uncle Ben told that spider Man, but
Speaker 1: he repeated it numerous but he does, he does. All right,
Speaker 1: How about this? It's clober in Time.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, uh clober in time.
Speaker 1: Oh, same team with four people we just talked about.
Speaker 5: I mean same team.
Speaker 2: That doesn't mean anything. Team of four people.
Speaker 5: It rhymes with the sing what it rhymes with? The sing?
Speaker 2: The sing? Yeah? I don't know no, Green Lantern.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the thing, it's the thing thing. Okay, last one.
Speaker 1: Jensen put this last one in just for you. I'm Batman.
Speaker 2: I'm Batman, Batman. I guess one.
Speaker 3: Okay, guys, okay, but did you were you impressed I
Speaker 3: knew the names Green Lantern?
Speaker 2: Did you think I was gonna know?
Speaker 5: That one?
Speaker 2: Is the Hulka superhero?
Speaker 1: Yes, part of Justice League. Yeah, she's part of the Avengers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, part of the the Avengers.
Speaker 1: Okay. The thing is is technically also part of the
Speaker 1: Avengers because he's part of the Fantastic Four, which are
Speaker 1: now joining the m CU.
Speaker 5: He would say like Hulk would be Hulk smashed, but
Speaker 5: that one was that was obviously okay.
Speaker 1: All right, well that's fine, we'll get there.
Speaker 5: Not fiveing bad and the one said the word bad.
Speaker 1: What movie is this from? Sabrina? Welcome to Jurassic Park.
Speaker 2: Now a Jurassic Park. I am a big fan of
Speaker 2: I love Jurassic Park.
Speaker 5: Oh it's Jaws.
Speaker 1: That Shirk's real big. Let's take et back to wear
Speaker 1: his planet. Yes, we'll get there. I'm gonna work. We're
Speaker 1: gonna work on the Sabrina and someday down the line,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a superhero quiz and you're gonna be like,
Speaker 1: I know that one. I know that one because my
Speaker 1: wife was the same way. And now you say anything
Speaker 1: to her and she's like, oh, come on, Captain America,
Speaker 1: come on really, yes'm we're going to get there.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: That seems like Penny from the from Big Bank period.
Speaker 3: She all of a sudden knows things and it's like, wait,
Speaker 3: why do I know that?
Speaker 1: Anyway, thank you producer Jensen for once again educator full time.
Speaker 2: I had your great time, Jensen, Thank you, jeez.
Speaker 1: Can we do Can we do Sabrina Ses?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: So there was a lot to see with this, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, it was definitely one of those D coms
Speaker 3: that had a lot of more cartoony vibes. Obviously because
Speaker 3: right we touched on it before. The first thing that
Speaker 3: came up to me was this girl has never played
Speaker 3: soccer a day in her life.
Speaker 2: That kick was so bad. It was just like, wow,
Speaker 2: she if if soccer was on her resume? She lied,
Speaker 2: There's just no way. That was a really bad kick.
Speaker 1: I'd like to point out she might be she might
Speaker 1: be recovering because just three years earlier, she was almost
Speaker 1: killed by Dante's Peak with Pierce Brasmen got so recovery, Yeah,
Speaker 1: recovery on the the explosion of Dante's Peak, just saying yes.
Speaker 2: In the we we touched a little bit.
Speaker 3: When her brother is doing his voltage between his fingers,
Speaker 3: there is literally in the shot the screen a woman's
Speaker 3: face right here.
Speaker 2: I was just like, Okay, the same thing.
Speaker 1: He's not. He's not doing this. It's not like this
Speaker 1: close feature that's it's like a giant it's like a light. Yeah, totally.
Speaker 2: I mean, so eye catch you.
Speaker 3: There's no way someone would sit next to you and
Speaker 3: not realize what you were doing exactly. I loved that, Like,
Speaker 3: I really loved their funny things. An example was they're
Speaker 3: broccoli pudding, you know, like that they had. They had
Speaker 3: a lot of really fun, kind of catchy stuff throughout it.
Speaker 3: The flying scene was probably the worst. Flying that was
Speaker 3: one of the worst scenes of.
Speaker 1: The I felt it doesn't look great.
Speaker 3: And then it takes me to the barbecue party costumes.
Speaker 3: There's two people we didn't mention. There was a random
Speaker 3: guy just in a suit. He was like balding into
Speaker 3: the back and like he just had a random suit
Speaker 3: on just just like.
Speaker 1: A brown that could have been their account suit.
Speaker 3: I guess it was weird, But why would he be
Speaker 3: at the party with all the superheroes if he was
Speaker 3: a normal person.
Speaker 1: But maybe he's like the Justice Leaguess accountant. So they
Speaker 1: invited all the parties.
Speaker 2: Got it. The worst of the costumes was between two people.
Speaker 2: There was just a Trojan.
Speaker 3: Okay, And then there was this girl who had more
Speaker 3: of a budget, like a higher budget costume looking, but
Speaker 3: her lining was all right in like lower abdomen into
Speaker 3: the legs, just like oh really pink, and it was
Speaker 3: just lying. It was like the whole time, I'm going
Speaker 3: I would have died if that was my costume. You're
Speaker 3: just gonna only look at my crash. There's just no
Speaker 3: way you can look anywhere else.
Speaker 1: But that was that's based on a real superhero. That's
Speaker 1: crotch girl.
Speaker 2: Okay, well then maybe that's what it was.
Speaker 5: But I also thought, for the record, I also thought
Speaker 5: the Bombs costume was really racy for Disney.
Speaker 2: It was the lining of the breast area was.
Speaker 1: Very wonder Woman.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but at.
Speaker 3: Least it would look nice and looked expensive compared to
Speaker 3: some of these at the Barbigue. That was just really
Speaker 3: an eyesore and very hard to get over. I couldn't
Speaker 3: wait for that thing to be done. So yeah, that's
Speaker 3: my Sabrina Seas with just a lot of a lot
Speaker 3: of random stupid costumes.
Speaker 2: The guy in the suit in.
Speaker 1: All fairness, the Trojan, like the guy who's just the trojan.
Speaker 1: There is a this is true. There is a superhero
Speaker 1: named Shining Night Night. I mean, he's a Night from
Speaker 1: the round Table that actually was cursed and is still
Speaker 1: alive today.
Speaker 2: I was very old looking. He did not look like
Speaker 2: this was a superhero.
Speaker 1: There's no gotcha.
Speaker 2: Were crazy like the Spartan yourself.
Speaker 1: But anyway.
Speaker 3: The last one was the fake out with the fireman
Speaker 3: before he goes into the building. How he was a
Speaker 3: quick thing and then he just starts circling and the
Speaker 3: Fireman's like, I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, okay, guy, he's following. You get this this fourteen
Speaker 2: year old down.
Speaker 1: Like it can also grab a hose and I do
Speaker 1: something down a flame here or there that could be helpful.
Speaker 2: And that's it of Sabrina Seeds for this movie.
Speaker 1: And now we come to the time where we must
Speaker 1: rate our movie one out of ten. One being the worst,
Speaker 1: ten being the best. Are options for this week. One
Speaker 1: out of ten CD ROMs, one out of ten, scary breads,
Speaker 1: one out of ten, actors from Entourage, one out of ten,
Speaker 1: middle schoolers in blue, one out of ten, magically appearing
Speaker 1: bubble wraps, one out of ten, oscreen building explosions, or
Speaker 1: one out of ten. Styrofoam cups, beef jerkys, and leather belts.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you pick this week, so I think
Speaker 1: you go first this time. I went first last time.
Speaker 1: How many styrofoam cups, beef jerkys, and leather belts would
Speaker 1: you give this movie?
Speaker 3: I think for me because the end really kind of
Speaker 3: got to that.
Speaker 2: Cheesy yeah level, all the rest of it down. Then
Speaker 2: when the Grandpa comes in, he sort of saves it
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 3: I have to say, but I think I'm I've got
Speaker 3: to go with this on a seven styrofoam cups, beef jerkys,
Speaker 3: and leather belts.
Speaker 1: You and I are going to give this exactly the
Speaker 1: same number. It's the number as I was watching. It
Speaker 1: was a seven to a seven point five, And it's
Speaker 1: because this movie deserves more recognition than it gets simply
Speaker 1: for everything it did for Disney superhero movies, movies that
Speaker 1: came after it that took the same exact kind of
Speaker 1: genre and storyline sided with this, and it deserves a
Speaker 1: little bit of recognition for that. I thought the acting
Speaker 1: was good.
Speaker 3: So good from the young actors as yes, who were
Speaker 3: put up.
Speaker 2: Against some heavy hitters right, yes, you know.
Speaker 1: Very Disney esque kind of performances. It once again shows
Speaker 1: where d coms can go. I thought it was an
Speaker 1: enjoyable seventy eight minutes. Again we've seen way worse. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, also give this seven style from cups, beef
Speaker 1: jerkys and leather belts. Is this a ten?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: But is this a two or three? Like people are saying.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Definitely not. So there you go, everybody, Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for joining us for Up, Up, and Away, a
Speaker 1: little sleeper, enjoyable seventy eight minute film. I didn't know
Speaker 1: what to expect, and it was fully enjoyed it. It was.
Speaker 1: That's a fun, fun way to spend seventy eight minutes.
Speaker 1: It really is. And for our next Parkopper episode, we
Speaker 1: have a very special guest joining us. Sometimes guests come
Speaker 1: and we have to schedule them a lit little bit
Speaker 1: later a little time, and they're so cool and so
Speaker 1: much fun that we have to tack them onto another
Speaker 1: movie they're not even in, but the movies they're in
Speaker 1: are so cool. Yeah, I'm talking about High Schoolmusical again.
Speaker 1: That's right. We have somebody else joining us on our
Speaker 1: next Park Copper episode from High School Musical. Coach Bolton himself,
Speaker 1: Bart Johnson is going to be joining us. We are
Speaker 1: so excited. It was so much fun to talk to him.
Speaker 1: Why don't you take a listen to just a little
Speaker 1: snippet of our conversation with Coach Bolton.
Speaker 6: I've never played a dad before, Like, I know, Coach
Speaker 6: was kind of young for that. I'd always been you know,
Speaker 6: I was still playing the roles where you're like, I'm
Speaker 6: playing the basketball.
Speaker 1: Here's Zach. You're yeah, I'm not on the outside looking
Speaker 1: at this.
Speaker 5: So this is like ritory for me.
Speaker 6: So, well, what you wear? Would you wear the audition?
Speaker 6: I was like, like a T shirt and pair of jeans.
Speaker 6: He's like, listen, you gotta go in there and you
Speaker 6: got to act your age. You know, you got to
Speaker 6: play zac Efron's dad. I'm like, Who's who's that? Guf front, like,
Speaker 6: nobody knew who he was at that point. You know
Speaker 6: who's that. He's like, well he's you know, he's this
Speaker 6: teenage kid.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh god, I'm not old enough to have
Speaker 1: a teenage kid. That's crazy. Thanks everybody. That is going
Speaker 1: to be so much fun. And don't forget to hop
Speaker 1: over to our park Opper episode because man, did he
Speaker 1: have some stories. Our next movie is Genius. Literally, that's it.
Speaker 1: That's the movie title. It's from nineteen ninety nine and
Speaker 1: it stars a name you might know now, Emmy Rossam,
Speaker 1: who this is well before, of course she was on Shameless.
Speaker 1: So again, our movie is Genius. It's on Disney Plus.
Speaker 1: So get ready with us and see if you agree
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