Speaker 1: Hey, Sabrina, I have a question for you that is
Speaker 1: going to of course lead into our wonderful or maybe
Speaker 1: not wonderful. I don't want to give away what our
Speaker 1: feelings are, but our movie of the day. Did you
Speaker 1: ever know any like legitimate geniuses growing up?
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 3: I don't think I did either.
Speaker 1: Like there was one kid that skipped maybe two grades,
Speaker 1: but I never met the kid who was like eleven
Speaker 1: and had a PhD.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, No, I've I've never met anyone. I feel like, well,
Speaker 4: didn't we meet Corbyn Blue? He seems like he was
Speaker 4: a change right exactly.
Speaker 1: It also depends on your definition of genius, because I
Speaker 1: met young actors or singers or dancers that were clearly
Speaker 1: genius level at.
Speaker 4: What Yeah, did I have met a I've had a
Speaker 4: couple of dancers through my program that I feel there
Speaker 4: like genius dancers as far as they just know their
Speaker 4: bodies so well, the way they do their improvs and
Speaker 4: just things like that, like just extraordinary levels.
Speaker 3: That would be me. That would be me.
Speaker 2: I think that you dance, You're on top of the list,
Speaker 2: top of the list.
Speaker 1: That's why I don't dance. It is because no, one
Speaker 1: else will be able to do it after me. It's
Speaker 1: just it would be rude. Yeah, absolutely, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2: But yeah, no, I don't know anyone that was so young.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not at all, Not at all. Me neither. Well
Speaker 3: let's see if we can meet one today. But first,
Speaker 3: let me welcome me back to Magical Rewind, the show
Speaker 3: that makes you want to grab your friends, your pjs
Speaker 3: and your popcorn and go back to a time when
Speaker 3: all the houses were smart, the wave Tsunamis and the
Speaker 3: high School's musical.
Speaker 2: I'm Wilfordell and I'm Sabrina Brian.
Speaker 1: So let's put on some sunglasses, break out the oversized
Speaker 1: leather jacket, and just be a total dick to everyone,
Speaker 1: you see, because.
Speaker 3: It's time to break down. Nineteen ninety nine's dcom comedy Genius.
Speaker 3: This is another one of those very strange third party productions.
Speaker 3: But that third party this time was Deek Dic, which
Speaker 3: I'm sure if you are a certain age you know
Speaker 3: exactly what that is, because after certain cartoons you'd hear Deek.
Speaker 3: It's a famous.
Speaker 1: Production company that had their hands in Inspector, Gadget, Heathcliff
Speaker 1: and the Littles, and whose name stood for, and this
Speaker 1: is the truth. Do it cheap, which Disney loves, which
Speaker 1: makes sense because by nineteen ninety nine they're owned by
Speaker 1: the Disney Company. It was some very easy synergy to
Speaker 1: get it on the channel and add it to the
Speaker 1: Forever Library, which of course reminds me. Genius is available
Speaker 1: now to watch on Disney Plus. So go ahead and
Speaker 1: fire it up now or keep it warm for later.
Speaker 1: It's up to whatever the weather's like in your little
Speaker 1: neck of the woods. It first aired August twenty first,
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, and you'll be happy to hear that
Speaker 1: Genius is unlike I think our last film, which we
Speaker 1: didn't understand why Genius is a critical favorite in the
Speaker 1: world of nostalgia on the list we commonly mentioned this
Speaker 1: is an absolute staple. On Complex's twenty twelve list, this
Speaker 1: was a very very impressive number six of twenty five
Speaker 1: best Dcoms ever, while Collider had it at number thirty one.
Speaker 1: Yet still it sits just under fifty percent on Rotten Tomatoes,
Speaker 1: but Rotten tomatoeses Rotten Tomatoes. It's also worth pointing out
Speaker 1: that many historians consider nineteen ninety nine to be the
Speaker 1: peak dcom year and here's why. Here's some of the
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine's lineup. It has a lot of bangers.
Speaker 1: Some we've already covered, some we haven't, but here you go.
Speaker 1: So ninety nine had Xenon, Girl of twenty first Century,
Speaker 1: Can of Worms, thirteenth Year, Smart House, Johnny Tsunami, Genius,
Speaker 1: Don't Look under the Bed Horse sense.
Speaker 3: It was quite a time to be alive.
Speaker 2: It really was.
Speaker 3: Ninety nine seemed to be the year of the dcom is.
Speaker 4: Absolutely when I was watching d COM's when they aired.
Speaker 3: Right, it's your perfect time.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: The film also involved something which Disney knows a little
Speaker 1: bit about in Love's which is ice hockey. So they
Speaker 1: had The Mighty Ducks in ninety two and D two
Speaker 1: The Mighty Ducks and ninety four both being big hits
Speaker 1: for the studio. Also in ninety eight, Matt Lawrence and
Speaker 1: I did a Wonderful World of Disney called ht Double
Speaker 1: Hockey Sticks, also about hockey.
Speaker 2: That came up on My Disney Plus the other day?
Speaker 3: Did it? Wait? What? How it's not on Disney Plus? No?
Speaker 2: I saw I maybe?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Is it on YouTube? It came up when I was
Speaker 2: watching it.
Speaker 3: It's on YouTube? My guess is Susie King.
Speaker 4: I looked at Jordan, I was like, one time, yoah,
Speaker 4: it was Susie cute. You're right, I said, we have
Speaker 4: not watched this yet, and Jordan's like, I am definitely
Speaker 4: watching that one with you.
Speaker 2: I have to watch it.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, good, well it gets to ah double hockey.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I liked it was a good movie.
Speaker 1: But then, strangely, out of nowhere, Disney then ended up
Speaker 1: owning an actual NHL team of the same name, the
Speaker 1: Mighty Ducks, which still seems fake, but they did.
Speaker 3: Either way.
Speaker 1: This was well known territory for them, so I'm sure
Speaker 1: they welcomed the subject matter with very open arms. Now
Speaker 1: we couldn't completely confirm this, but since so many of
Speaker 1: the actors in this movie are from Canada and it
Speaker 1: involves hockey, it's pretty safe to say this was shot
Speaker 1: in Canada.
Speaker 3: I can also. I mean, let's put it this way.
Speaker 1: One of the guys they originally cut to you on
Speaker 1: the hockey team, and I'll always remember his name, was
Speaker 1: a stuntman.
Speaker 3: Named Branco RECKI really he was.
Speaker 1: Up in Canada and I saw him right there front
Speaker 1: and center, and he's a staple in Canada. I believe
Speaker 1: it was in Toronto. So I'm guessing they shot this
Speaker 1: in Toronto because I recognized him. I was like, I
Speaker 1: know him, so I'm lack and also confirm that I
Speaker 1: think this was shot in Canada. So if I'm wrong, sorry,
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure I'm right.
Speaker 3: Sorry, didn't Now, had you heard of this movie before
Speaker 3: we did the new podcast?
Speaker 2: Nope, even even in ninety nine, even peak when you
Speaker 2: watch out, I did not remember this. And what's weird
Speaker 2: is I loved all of.
Speaker 4: The Mighty Ducks movies that I love that kind of stuff,
Speaker 4: So it is weird that it didn't.
Speaker 2: It didn't hit my radar.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in multiple wheelhouses for you, the hockey.
Speaker 1: D coms and the nineties, and yeah, do you want
Speaker 1: me to actually answer that question whether I've heard of
Speaker 1: this movie or not? I, of course i'd never.
Speaker 3: Heard of this one.
Speaker 1: I've heard of Baby Genius, but I think that's a
Speaker 1: different movie.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that's not this one.
Speaker 1: But before you lace up your skates and float to
Speaker 1: the ceiling, let's get into the synopsis. A brilliant fourteen
Speaker 1: year old maintains a double life of being a studious
Speaker 1: overachiever in college and a cool, flunky middle schooler, all
Speaker 1: as a difficult to juggle attempt to fit in. Early thoughts, Sabrina,
Speaker 1: what'd you think of the film?
Speaker 4: First of all, the second our main character comes on,
Speaker 4: Uh adorable, right, total adorable.
Speaker 2: So adorable. I loved it.
Speaker 4: I loved the beginning, him and his father's their relationship
Speaker 4: was super cute. Always the gadgets that I'll get into
Speaker 4: with sabretta tease, those were fun.
Speaker 2: But I liked it at first. I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is cute.
Speaker 4: I'm totally getting comfy ready to see like a great movie.
Speaker 1: Okay, I did not dislike it. You know again, the
Speaker 1: main kid great, She's awesome. The two of them together
Speaker 1: were wonderful. Some of it makes zero sense, I mean
Speaker 1: even not even for d coms, where you're just kind
Speaker 1: of like, wait, what what just happened there? How did Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of big holes in it. But that
Speaker 1: being said, it is to me and it is what
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 3: Kind of movie. Yeah, hockey college, fun kid, you know, ROMP,
Speaker 3: what do you expect? Yes, the movie?
Speaker 1: Speaking of the fun Kid. The movie stars Trevor Morgan
Speaker 1: as Charlie Boyle aka Chazz Anthony and Trevor was a
Speaker 1: phenomenal child actor. He first broke out on Er in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, which again I only found out was
Speaker 1: actually called Er about a month ago. I just called
Speaker 1: it Err, but is best known as Tommy in The
Speaker 1: Sixth Sense, where he played Hailey, Joe Osma's best friend
Speaker 1: of the movie and apparently they were also best friends
Speaker 1: in real life. Trevor w also went on to play
Speaker 1: Mel Gibson's son in The Patriot, and that performance impressed
Speaker 1: Steven Spielberg so much he was cast as the lead
Speaker 1: Eric Kirby in Jurassic Park three. So quite the resume,
Speaker 1: and Trevor is still acting today and a very familiar name.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four, Emmy Rawsome plays Claire Addison. She
Speaker 1: was only thirteen when this movie was made, like she
Speaker 1: was already six feet tall next time to Trevor, so
Speaker 1: either Trevor hadn't had his growth spurt yet or Emmy
Speaker 1: had hers early. But she had barely been anything by
Speaker 1: the point of doing this movie.
Speaker 3: But since has become a premier name in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Nominated for a Golden Globe in two thousand and five
Speaker 1: for her part in the movie version of Phantom of
Speaker 1: the Opera.
Speaker 3: She's the Phantom of the oh.
Speaker 1: She also played Fiona Gallagher on the popular long running
Speaker 1: cable show Shameless and could be seen great and seen
Speaker 1: in movies like The Day After Tomorrow and Mystic River.
Speaker 1: She most recently played Angeline, in a limited series about
Speaker 1: the Hollywood icon who drives around the city in a
Speaker 1: pink corvette. I saw her like a month ago at Staples,
Speaker 1: not the Staples Center, just the regular Staples where you
Speaker 1: buy Office of Bike and more. Canadian Proof is seen
Speaker 1: with actor Yannick Bison, who plays tough guy Mike McGregor.
Speaker 1: Yanick is very famous up North as Detective William Murdoch
Speaker 1: in the TV show The Murdoch Series, a role he
Speaker 1: has played for fifteen years.
Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah amazing.
Speaker 1: It did actually air here in the States on Ovation
Speaker 1: under the name The Artful Detective. I think my mom
Speaker 1: watched it. But he is Canadian TV royalty A.
Speaker 3: He's amazing.
Speaker 1: And lastly, in the Dabney Coleman spot Rest in Peace, Dabney,
Speaker 1: we have Charles Fleischer. Charles is best known to the
Speaker 1: Disney crowd as the voice of Roger Rabbit and who
Speaker 1: framed Roger Rabbit. He also appeared in David Fincher's Zodiac movie,
Speaker 1: which is nothing like Roger Rabbit at all, as well
Speaker 1: as the original Nightmare on Elm Street and Back to
Speaker 1: the Future too. He has a career that dates all
Speaker 1: the way back to Rowan and Martin's laugh In and
Speaker 1: is just an absolute character actor legend. The movie was
Speaker 1: directed by Rod Daniel, who started in TV on shows
Speaker 1: like Ugh, wait for It Because It's a list of
Speaker 1: some of my favorites WKRP in Cincinnati, Newhart and Magnum
Speaker 1: p I Dun dun Dun dun da du dun da Sorry,
Speaker 1: only to get his big cinematic break with the hit
Speaker 1: movie Teen Wolf in nineteen eighty five. Every when I
Speaker 1: read this man's resume, he suddenly became one of my
Speaker 1: who you wish you could have at your dinner table,
Speaker 1: you know, like the ten people you'd have.
Speaker 3: Rod Daniel was creeping up the list here.
Speaker 1: You would also go on to direct like Fatherlike Son
Speaker 1: K nine and The Super with Joe Peshi, But unfortunately
Speaker 1: he would pass away in twenty sixteen at the age
Speaker 1: of seventy three after a battle with Parkinson's disease. The
Speaker 1: movie was written by John I want to say this
Speaker 1: name right, I think it's Reek and this is his
Speaker 1: only writing credit ever. He was joined by a writing
Speaker 1: team of Jim Lincoln and Dan Studeney, who also worked
Speaker 1: on Honey I Shrunk the Kids, the TV show, as
Speaker 1: well as the Weird Science TV adaptation and much later
Speaker 1: Desperate Housewives, which is not like Honey Kids at all.
Speaker 2: Like either of no, very different.
Speaker 3: Geezh Okay.
Speaker 1: Now do you remember anything you did when you were
Speaker 1: a kid to be cooler at school that you look
Speaker 1: back on.
Speaker 3: And now you're like, Oh, that wasn't that doesn't age?
Speaker 4: Well, mean, oh cool like this, yes when I was,
Speaker 4: I guess. I mean, I don't know if I don't
Speaker 4: hate it. It's just kind of shows where I was
Speaker 4: in life at that time. When I was younger in
Speaker 4: elementary school, and I told you before, I went through
Speaker 4: a little bit of a tomboy stage right really into soccer.
Speaker 4: I also still danced and did all that stuff, but
Speaker 4: I was really into soccer. I loved being able to
Speaker 4: play on the field with the boys. So I you know,
Speaker 4: instead of calling me Sabrina, I asked everyone to call
Speaker 4: me bri and I spelt it were ee, Like I
Speaker 4: started signing my name that way, and I felt like
Speaker 4: Brie was tougher. Brie was it was my nickname. My
Speaker 4: family already calls me, do they still? Yeah, my parents
Speaker 4: and yeah, some of my friends that would catch on,
Speaker 4: Like now I have adult friends that call me Brien.
Speaker 4: I'm like, that was seven hundred years ago.
Speaker 3: Do you like do you like it? Or do you
Speaker 3: not like it? I'm curious. So some people don't like
Speaker 3: their nicknames.
Speaker 2: To me, it depends.
Speaker 4: It weirds me out when someone sort of starts hanging
Speaker 4: around my family more and then just start calling me that.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, my family, Yeah, I get bad.
Speaker 4: New person calls that kind of throws me off, But
Speaker 4: I really don't care for people that have known me
Speaker 4: for a long time.
Speaker 2: It doesn't bother me. But yeah, so I think that's the.
Speaker 4: Only thing that I kind of did go through a
Speaker 4: stage where I really insisted I was one of those
Speaker 4: people that insisted you called me Brie.
Speaker 2: I don't go by s Breen anymore.
Speaker 3: It's and then I.
Speaker 4: Dropped it, like is that weird if I just call
Speaker 4: that's the nickname I hate the most.
Speaker 2: I hate Sab.
Speaker 3: I didn't even know what such a thing. I know,
Speaker 3: I know, I.
Speaker 2: Don't really actually care, but it is one that's.
Speaker 4: Like like it's cringey, like sabah.
Speaker 1: I had a nickname for some people growing Some people
Speaker 1: either call me Wilbur or Wilfred, which I didn't like.
Speaker 3: But now as I got older, I kind of like
Speaker 3: Wilfrid yone.
Speaker 1: I would always say my name. I'd say I'm Wilfred
Speaker 1: L and people you're Wilfrid l. Okay, So I would
Speaker 1: constantly at high Wilford high Will And then an next
Speaker 1: girlfriend called me Wilford all the time. I have some
Speaker 1: friends that call me Wilford, And at first I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I like that, And now I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fine. Yeah, you know, which is just changes to
Speaker 1: the Wilford and Bree show.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I do not do this before telling you.
Speaker 3: Man, it's amazing season two. Now.
Speaker 1: By the way, everything I did was cringe growing up.
Speaker 1: I did never do anything cool. No matter how hard
Speaker 1: I tried, it just didn't work.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't feel like I don't have a lot of
Speaker 4: super regrets. I feel like there's things that I remember,
Speaker 4: like my learning experiences, that I'm like, man, yeah, that
Speaker 4: was not nice or whatever.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I always yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 2: I feel I feel really pretty good.
Speaker 4: I mean I had I you know, I had the
Speaker 4: normal stuff, the normal stuff.
Speaker 3: And by the way, everybody makes mistakes. We're all human.
Speaker 1: The only thing you do is you take those mistakes
Speaker 1: and try to use them to become a better person.
Speaker 3: That's all you can do everybody.
Speaker 4: Of course, yeah, I think that. That's how I look
Speaker 4: at it is. I feel like I learned lessons of
Speaker 4: things that you.
Speaker 3: Know, all they are, Yeah, lessons, that's how you take them.
Speaker 4: I feel the same thing with Brie. It's just like
Speaker 4: a part of me, you know, it's like, yeah again, you.
Speaker 3: Know, we're all human, Sab, we're all human. I won't.
Speaker 3: I won't, I promise.
Speaker 2: Not true, it's not true. I know Jensen's gonna listen
Speaker 2: to this.
Speaker 4: This next trip, next next freaking movie is gonna be
Speaker 4: Sab Sab sadchabsam sasa.
Speaker 3: Never Brie, we won't do that too.
Speaker 1: The movie opens in an empty ice skating rink with
Speaker 1: a little boy and glasses wearing his school uniform suit.
Speaker 1: He's playing hockey by himself and announcing it as if
Speaker 1: he's an all star player against Eric li Intros and
Speaker 1: Mark Messier.
Speaker 3: He shoots his scores. But this is just young Charlie Boyle,
Speaker 3: and he's a little genius, hence the title of the movie.
Speaker 3: He tells his dad, who owns the rink, that he's
Speaker 3: been working on how to use pock velocity and the
Speaker 3: rate of forward momentum, but his dad doesn't understand any
Speaker 3: of it. No one in his family has actually ever
Speaker 3: been to college. He just needs his son to help
Speaker 3: clean up the ice and stop bringing rollerblades into the
Speaker 3: It's bad for business. Charlie has to be somewhere soon,
Speaker 3: so instead of breaking out the zamboni, he debuts his
Speaker 3: new invention, a machine with magnetic charges that messes with
Speaker 3: molecules and cleans the ice with just the press of
Speaker 3: a button. He'd be a jigillionaire.
Speaker 1: That's all I was thinking, is this throwaway invention at
Speaker 1: the beginning.
Speaker 4: I honestly, at this point in the movie thought, oh, okay,
Speaker 4: so this is gonna be about a kid bringing this
Speaker 4: new invention to the world.
Speaker 2: And it's this I thought all I thought.
Speaker 4: I had a whole other idea of where this movie
Speaker 4: was going.
Speaker 2: But it was shown, and then off to college.
Speaker 3: See us, he'd be a bajillionaire. Did you skate? Did
Speaker 3: you grow up ice skating? Because you're an Orange county
Speaker 3: where it's not.
Speaker 4: There are a couple rinks. I did a skate a
Speaker 4: little bit. Yeah, I had it on my resume, that's
Speaker 4: for sure.
Speaker 3: That doesn't mean anything. I had a horseback rider mind.
Speaker 2: All right. But I did have to do it at
Speaker 2: an audition.
Speaker 4: I did have to know how to skate for I
Speaker 4: think that a Christmas movie I did okay, And then
Speaker 4: in high school did you did you ever do this?
Speaker 4: It was called broom hockey.
Speaker 3: No, we're from the East Coast. We used real hockey.
Speaker 2: Okay, well this isn't in a hockey rink. This is
Speaker 2: a hockey.
Speaker 4: It was something that for a time because there was
Speaker 4: a rink in her area where you use not hockey sticks.
Speaker 3: And you go out there in mid nineties, that was
Speaker 3: a big party. Did you play broom hockey?
Speaker 4: Yeah? You do it after like a homecoming dance, and
Speaker 4: you know, after the dance, you guys go and do
Speaker 4: broom hockey or whatever, and so dangerous. Oh yeah, that
Speaker 4: was such a bad idea. I don't know if they
Speaker 4: still do that anymore, but.
Speaker 3: I call it the wrist breaker Challenge, wrist.
Speaker 2: Breaker shin cracker. I mean, it just was like so bad.
Speaker 4: I mean, so many people got hurt. It was so
Speaker 4: DUMBA that was a little bit of it too. And
Speaker 4: then I went recently and I was so scared. We
Speaker 4: were on the tiniest rink because again I live in
Speaker 4: Orange County. Sure they set up rings during the wintertime.
Speaker 4: This diameter of this rink was way too small for
Speaker 4: adults and children to be on at the same time.
Speaker 2: I kept seeing I just.
Speaker 4: Kept seeing one of these little kids just slice their
Speaker 4: their's skate up in the air and come straight towards
Speaker 4: my jugular.
Speaker 2: I was like, throwing off of this.
Speaker 3: I don't like it.
Speaker 2: This is dangerous. These people don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 2: I don't really know what I'm doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was not good at it, even growing no,
Speaker 3: even growing up back east, I had to learn for
Speaker 3: h double hockey.
Speaker 2: He just made fun of me about it. And I
Speaker 2: remember you telling.
Speaker 4: Me specifically about a situation with a pros ice skater.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Nancy Kerrigan.
Speaker 1: Nancy Kerrigan was I skated with Nancy Kerrigan and I
Speaker 1: skated with some most of the professional hockey players from
Speaker 1: acha ball hockey sticks, and I still don't. But again,
Speaker 1: I'm a good skater, I'm a good skier, I'm a
Speaker 1: good snowboarder. I'm a good skateboarder. I can't stop on
Speaker 1: any of those things. So going straight in one line
Speaker 1: not a problem. Stopping that doesn't.
Speaker 2: Work the stopping. Can you turn?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I can turn, so maybe you could just turn.
Speaker 1: No, it's bad for everybody involved, Sabrina, don't start with me.
Speaker 3: Charlie himself is now off to the street hockey game
Speaker 3: where he hopes he finally gets to come off the
Speaker 3: bench to play, and this is where we get our
Speaker 3: first rollerblading scene, another big thing in Disney movies.
Speaker 1: As kids play hockey in the street, Charlie is of
Speaker 1: course completely ignored parked on the bench because well, all
Speaker 1: the kids think he's a dork. Even after he debuts
Speaker 1: his rocket speed special puck, he's still just too dorky
Speaker 1: to play. And while bench we see that Charlie's troubles
Speaker 1: aren't just with his hockey stick. It's also with his
Speaker 1: riz with the ladies. As it was because he tries
Speaker 1: to talk to a girl seated next to him and ooh,
Speaker 1: it does not go well, to the point where she
Speaker 1: just gets up and walks away without even responding. It
Speaker 1: was like a very sixth sense kind of moment where
Speaker 1: it's like, hm, maybe Charlie's actually dead this whole time.
Speaker 1: Later that night, Charlie is working in his room and
Speaker 1: he tells his dad he just wants to be cool.
Speaker 1: His dad says everything will work itself out when he
Speaker 1: goes to Harvard, and he reveals an acceptance letter for
Speaker 1: the eighth grader and similar ones from Princeton, MIT, and Caltech.
Speaker 3: But even with these big names giving him absolutely full rides,
Speaker 3: full scholarships, Charlie wants to go to the Northern University
Speaker 3: of Wisconsin, where he's also been asked to not only
Speaker 3: go as a student, but to teach some courses because
Speaker 3: his hero doctor Krickstein works there and is very close
Speaker 3: to discovering the graviton, a way to manipulate and even
Speaker 3: defy gravity. It's a gravity particle, is what they're trying
Speaker 3: to find, and a way to manipulate and even defy gravity.
Speaker 3: And Krickstein's lab is just below the school's hockey rink
Speaker 3: because they have to keep the all the machinery for
Speaker 3: the gravitron, gravitator, graviteam cold. So it's underneath hockey.
Speaker 1: And so it's all of Charlie's favorite things wrapped into one,
Speaker 1: science and hockey. He's sure he wants to go there,
Speaker 1: so his father throws out his Harvard letter in a
Speaker 1: very dramatic slow motion effect where you see that the
Speaker 1: letter slowly fall Harvard label first into the trash can.
Speaker 1: We are now off to Northern University of Wisconsin for
Speaker 1: Charlie's first day.
Speaker 3: He stumbles onto the hockey team.
Speaker 1: Practice because he knows that's where he wants to go,
Speaker 1: and boom.
Speaker 3: He watches from afar.
Speaker 1: The coach explains that they need to beat Rumson this year,
Speaker 1: obviously setting up who their big rivals are, and to
Speaker 1: do that they have to avoid the Rumson rack, which
Speaker 1: is a shady move where they distract a team member
Speaker 1: and then attack their star player, essentially just trying to
Speaker 1: knock him out of the game. It starts first with
Speaker 1: an assault on the umpire or the referee and the
Speaker 1: ref and then goes into a full on assault on
Speaker 1: the team player.
Speaker 3: It's pretty it's very.
Speaker 1: Shady and Northern university is very happy because they thought
Speaker 1: they were finally going to get a rink without a
Speaker 1: science flab underneath it, But they have since found out
Speaker 1: that they recruited some quote unquote kid genius to work
Speaker 1: with doctor Krickstein and it has ruined their chances.
Speaker 3: For their own arena. Also, if they don't beat Rumson,
Speaker 3: the team could be dissolved and the coach could lose
Speaker 3: his job. Lots of stuff writing on this one game
Speaker 3: seems to be an awful lot of lives writing on
Speaker 3: this Now, just when the angry team starts slamming their
Speaker 3: sticks and want to know who this nerd kid is
Speaker 3: that has ruined their chances of having their own rink,
Speaker 3: the university d Of course, Charlie is trying to hunker away, like, oh,
Speaker 3: they can't see me. The university dean.
Speaker 1: Pops up and yells out Charlie Boyle and reveals our
Speaker 1: kid in hiding. The dean has been looking for Charlie everywhere.
Speaker 1: It's time to go meet doctor Krickstein, but the hockey
Speaker 1: team now knows exactly who they want to kill.
Speaker 3: Oh jeeves.
Speaker 1: Now we get down to Krickstein's lab and it is
Speaker 1: actually pretty much a dump the gravity chan Tron, Big Gravity.
Speaker 1: The gravity machine looks like it's just a big toy,
Speaker 1: nothing like Charlie was actually hoping for. And he even
Speaker 1: has a quick flashback to that weird Harvard Special Effect
Speaker 1: shot where the letter is falling slowly into the trash can.
Speaker 1: But the professor is really excited to see Charlie and
Speaker 1: shares his passion for apparently eradicating this horrible thing we
Speaker 1: know of as gravity.
Speaker 3: I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: He obviously just wants to make people float, and the
Speaker 1: idea of stuff floating all over the place is a
Speaker 1: dream for both of these young well one young and
Speaker 1: one older scientist. But Charlie is in for it now
Speaker 1: because he is stuck. But he's like, hey, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ride this out. We're going to do what we have
Speaker 1: to do, and at least he has his roommate to
Speaker 1: look forward to, which led me to a question. You
Speaker 1: went to college, I never did?
Speaker 3: Did you have a roommate?
Speaker 2: I did?
Speaker 3: Did you enjoy said roommate? Oh, geez, I did?
Speaker 2: That seems like a lie, you know.
Speaker 3: Like a lie, Sabrina.
Speaker 4: I'll just you know, well, the first semester I only
Speaker 4: was in the dorms, for a semester, and out of
Speaker 4: that semester, I was shooting the first Cheetah Girls movie
Speaker 4: for eight of the weeks, right, So I was not
Speaker 4: very quickly. I was not there that much. I shared
Speaker 4: it with two roommates. We first got there and kind
Speaker 4: of set it up, and we all had very different
Speaker 4: decor ideas, which were very similar to our styles. I
Speaker 4: had one girl who had SpongeBob SquarePants everything. Okay, I
Speaker 4: had my Everyone's gonna probably giggle at this, but I
Speaker 4: had like a Cheetah black and white.
Speaker 2: This was really really before the Cheetah Girls that I.
Speaker 4: Had gotten to my buddy already. Yeah, animal print was
Speaker 4: very big. It was like animal print stuff. My other
Speaker 4: roommate was a film major and she had her favorite
Speaker 4: you know. She had Chicago and Cabaret posters. She also
Speaker 4: is a big Candles fan. Yeah, so I mean, I thought,
Speaker 4: no problem. I again, I like different styles. I don't
Speaker 4: need people to be the same ways. I'm thinking, really,
Speaker 4: I'm very excited. We're getting ready to go to our
Speaker 4: first day of freshman orientation. They had been kind of
Speaker 4: talking a lot. I was trying to chime in, you know,
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day. We were all
Speaker 4: going to go to orientation as everyone does the first
Speaker 4: day with your dormmates because that's all you know on campus.
Speaker 2: And I'm I'll never forget this.
Speaker 4: I'm in the bathroom and I'm straightening my hair and
Speaker 4: I hear the door shut and I'm like, hello, Hello.
Speaker 3: They left you? Sa I.
Speaker 4: No, Luckily there was the We had a suite, so
Speaker 4: it was a dorm a dormant in the middle we shared,
Speaker 4: you know, like a Jack and Jill bedroom type thing,
Speaker 4: and luckily are sueet mates.
Speaker 2: They hadn't left yet, so I was like, can I
Speaker 2: come with you guys? They're like sure, and we went down.
Speaker 2: But that was kind of the dynamic, you know, they
Speaker 2: just kind of you know, didn't.
Speaker 3: Oh did you ever become friends with them? Or No?
Speaker 4: Not really, you know, it was I got along with them,
Speaker 4: they didn't. They didn't bother me. I don't know if
Speaker 4: I really bothered them. Again, I wasn't there that long.
Speaker 3: I take it there not still in your lives.
Speaker 4: No, I think I've I might be friends with one
Speaker 4: of them on Facebook or Instagram or something like that.
Speaker 2: But no, definitely not like that.
Speaker 4: My my sorority sisters were my community, my my fam
Speaker 4: at college, and I was in and out of college
Speaker 4: a lot, because that's right when the Cheetah.
Speaker 2: Girls were going.
Speaker 4: So but yeah, you know, and I don't I don't
Speaker 4: know if they were being malicious or they or I
Speaker 4: don't know, but it was definitely one of those moment
Speaker 4: they were.
Speaker 3: Just adverse to animal print. That's also possibility.
Speaker 2: Maybe it was definitely one of those moments where I
Speaker 2: felt like.
Speaker 3: Bad mouth SpongeBob.
Speaker 1: That could they might have heard you bad mouthing SpongeBob
Speaker 1: under your breath or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't think so.
Speaker 4: I mean, I was shocked and appalled that that was
Speaker 4: gonna have to be in the room the whole.
Speaker 2: Year, of course, but you know, she do you do?
Speaker 2: You right?
Speaker 4: Like I wasn't gonna change my bedding, that's for sure,
Speaker 4: So it's not like that.
Speaker 3: So she had SpongeBob's bedding as well.
Speaker 4: She puts SpongeBob she was next to the window. She
Speaker 4: puts SpongeBob's curtains up on our window. Okay, well junior
Speaker 4: in college and I was like, okay.
Speaker 2: I mean, what are we gonna do? Like, you know what,
Speaker 2: it's a dorm room.
Speaker 3: It's a dorm room.
Speaker 2: That's the thing about college wells.
Speaker 4: When you have people that you talk to, you're either
Speaker 4: somebody who loved your college room and everyone came to
Speaker 4: your room, or you had a friend who everyone went
Speaker 4: to there.
Speaker 2: I have friends that I went to I didn't.
Speaker 3: I played college guys on ye And how was that?
Speaker 3: It was? It was great?
Speaker 1: I think I played them well anyway. Unfortunately, Charlie's roommate
Speaker 1: is one of the hockey goons that's already mad about
Speaker 1: him in the rink renovation. But he walks in and
Speaker 1: it's called the Layer and it looks like a big
Speaker 1: party spot. Why they would take the eighth grader and
Speaker 1: put him into the hockey party suite I don't understand,
Speaker 1: but obviously they want to set up the characters like that.
Speaker 3: Correct, So it seems like it's either two rooms or
Speaker 3: one massive room that they're sh sharing.
Speaker 4: One of the things in Sabrina's for sure, that was
Speaker 4: not a dorm room in any sense. I mean, you
Speaker 4: can have suites and things like that, but you don't
Speaker 4: have a common area that.
Speaker 2: Big for three for two people like No, it's very Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was huge.
Speaker 4: I mean it reminded me of a movie that man
Speaker 4: was called Skulls, Like they had these dorm rooms.
Speaker 2: You know, they had these dorm rooms where you're just like, dude,
Speaker 2: that looks amazing. You get to college and you're like what, But.
Speaker 1: That's also I think there's Skulls that when you get
Speaker 1: to that level of being the underground, killy kind of cult,
Speaker 1: maybe fraternity, you get I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know a regular anyway.
Speaker 3: Again, I don't know.
Speaker 4: You see movies that have these dorm rooms and then
Speaker 4: you get into yours and you're realizing.
Speaker 2: Your closet's this big, your death.
Speaker 1: College is all just pitch perfect to me. That's all
Speaker 1: I know of college anyway. The hockey goon, Mic obviously
Speaker 1: doesn't want to live with the eighth grade science weed,
Speaker 1: no matter how big the is, creepily big as to
Speaker 1: bring to point it out, and even worse the class
Speaker 1: that Charlie has to teach while the hockey meanies are
Speaker 1: in that too. Mike even throws what can only be
Speaker 1: seen as a giant thing of mashed potatoes or a dead.
Speaker 3: Bird or something normal where from I have no idea.
Speaker 4: You must have brought it with him, bring it to
Speaker 4: the first day of school like they hate their teacher,
Speaker 4: so I.
Speaker 3: Have things to throw at my teacher just in case.
Speaker 1: And when he gets back to the dorm, Mike has
Speaker 1: already moved out, which is very sad.
Speaker 3: He knows he has to live by himself.
Speaker 1: And then of course there's a loud gathering students outside
Speaker 1: that keeps him up all night long. Small footnote here
Speaker 1: there are visible beer bottles and solo cups in the shot,
Speaker 1: giving yet another drinking moment in a.
Speaker 3: D coom our.
Speaker 1: Second ever, this one luckily did not end in six
Speaker 1: different car crashes. While talking about the lack of a
Speaker 1: social life, krick Stein suggests that a good scientist doesn't
Speaker 1: keep repeating the same bad experiment. They have to make
Speaker 1: changes for different results. So when Charlie walks in to
Speaker 1: see a pretty figure skater which remember this scene because
Speaker 1: it is very h double hockey sticks, we do this
Speaker 1: exact scene scene h double hockey sticks. But when he
Speaker 1: sees her skating around, he takes his advice to heart
Speaker 1: and quickly changes from the dork that he normally is
Speaker 1: to a cool guy. He ditches his glasses and on
Speaker 1: the spur of the moment, makes up a persona and
Speaker 1: starts calling himself Chaz Anthony, saying he's from Chicago, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he's like this rizzed up cool character.
Speaker 1: Just think Andrew Dice Clay meets Robert Pattinson. But he
Speaker 1: learns the figure skater isn't a freakishly tall college student.
Speaker 1: She's his age and goes to nearby Franklin Middle School.
Speaker 1: Would you fall him for this transformation, Sabrina, just change
Speaker 1: the name and all of a sudden, you're the cool guy.
Speaker 4: I mean, he I felt was even cuter than with
Speaker 4: I mean I loved him with his glasses and he
Speaker 4: looks so cute.
Speaker 2: I thought, I thought this kid was so adorable.
Speaker 3: So Sabrina's in.
Speaker 2: I probably I would have been. And he seemed like
Speaker 2: a nice guy.
Speaker 3: He wasn't until he became Chazz. Then he became a
Speaker 3: bit of a douche.
Speaker 2: When he showed up at school, but not at the
Speaker 2: school rink.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, that's true. At the rink. He hadn't gone
Speaker 3: full douche yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was him. He was sweet, he looked very nice.
Speaker 2: I thought he was adorable.
Speaker 3: That was good.
Speaker 1: Back in the lab, Charlie realizes what he has to
Speaker 1: do to become a regular kid, and he goes on
Speaker 1: in his computer and he signs up to be a
Speaker 1: student at Franklin Middle School, but as Chaz Anthony, his
Speaker 1: new cool guy persona that also has on sunglasses, the
Speaker 1: world's biggest leather trench coat, and he means business. He
Speaker 1: kind of looks like he's in the matrix if nothing
Speaker 1: actually fit Neo. In his first middle school class, he
Speaker 1: arrives late and acts like the total d bag we
Speaker 1: were just talking about. He's disrupting the teacher and he's
Speaker 1: emulating exactly what he saw the hockey goon Mike do
Speaker 1: to him. He also gets his jacket stuck in the
Speaker 1: door and is it off like he was leaving the class.
Speaker 1: He's got a real class clown kind of jerky vibe.
Speaker 1: He's become a real idiot, but he does it all
Speaker 1: to impress the girl, and he ends up making a
Speaker 1: friend right off the bat Odie and he then looks
Speaker 1: over and bam, there is Claire So in all of
Speaker 1: his classes too. Where he's a rude idiot, He now
Speaker 1: all of a sudden has a girl, well, a girl
Speaker 1: who he likes. We don't know how she feels about
Speaker 1: him yet, and a best friend who's like, bro, you
Speaker 1: are the coolest guy in the world. I can't believe that.
Speaker 1: This is where we get into the whole thing about
Speaker 1: girls liking bad boys.
Speaker 3: Is this true?
Speaker 4: It was for me, but I also really liked the
Speaker 4: like cute, I did you know what, but.
Speaker 3: If bad boy's next to a nerd, you're gonna go
Speaker 3: for the bad boy.
Speaker 2: And yeah, yeah it's true.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, I yeah, your husband wasn't a bad boy, right,
Speaker 3: he seems like a super No, he was the final
Speaker 3: like thank you, okay, thank you?
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Actually, the women get to us. That's just the way
Speaker 1: it is, just the way it is us nerds. We
Speaker 1: grew up to rule the world, for the record. So
Speaker 1: now here's one of the other things that I want
Speaker 1: to point out here. They then do a scene at
Speaker 1: one point where Chaz talks to his two friends about
Speaker 1: how he has a crush on Claire and she's an
Speaker 1: Honor Roll student. But he says, Honor Roll students, trust me,
Speaker 1: they don't feel that way. But all of this conversation
Speaker 1: taking place full voice right next to.
Speaker 4: Claire yep, right next to her, I mean right behind
Speaker 4: her across the desks, is one thing. But the guy
Speaker 4: who's sitting next to her in the desk.
Speaker 3: Yes, he's answering, like, that's a risky move, bro. It
Speaker 3: was weird.
Speaker 4: I was like, what are they doing that'd set her
Speaker 4: up to turn around and go I'm right here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can hear you, boy, I can hear you.
Speaker 3: I'm literally sitting next to you. Do you think I'm
Speaker 3: invisible anyway?
Speaker 1: Now, with everything going on, Chaz now has a huge
Speaker 1: predicament in his life because he now has to rush
Speaker 1: back and forth between junior high and college. But he
Speaker 1: is immediately caught by Krickstein, who saw the enrollment site
Speaker 1: on his computer. So Charlie has to admit to him
Speaker 1: that he's got this double life, and Krickstein, because he
Speaker 1: lived the life that Charlie did, was actually cool with
Speaker 1: it and even a little jealous. But as long as
Speaker 1: he kind of says, dude during college song, she got
Speaker 1: your work done, I'm good, which makes sense. We even
Speaker 1: get a scene where we see Charlie is practicing as Chaz,
Speaker 1: he's trying to be a rapper, and then his elvis
Speaker 1: and it's a very very strange, bizarre, weird scene in
Speaker 1: the movie where he's just they just set up the
Speaker 1: camera and just kind of said, all right.
Speaker 2: Go, I thought it was so cute.
Speaker 5: Oh, I love Sabrina's just in on Chazz and Charlie.
Speaker 5: Like Charlie, the bad boy act ramps up.
Speaker 1: He's rollerblading in the class late, he's getting six detentions
Speaker 1: in two days. But he does also create just the
Speaker 1: weirdest remote controlled skeleton display that dances for a science class.
Speaker 1: It starts cool and it looks really real and it
Speaker 1: was cementing as the class clown. It impresses the teacher though,
Speaker 1: because of his scientific thought to build it. But then
Speaker 1: they cut to just really bad animation. Yeah, it's so
Speaker 1: bad it takes you out of it.
Speaker 2: It didn't need to be that way either.
Speaker 4: Just the slight things to keep that going a little bit.
Speaker 2: Just the slight things were great.
Speaker 3: The bunny ears, Yeah, tapping him on the shoulder, all
Speaker 3: that worked great.
Speaker 4: Because he still could have gotten caught it. It's not
Speaker 4: like it needed to be that extreme. It could have
Speaker 4: just kept in that small, like just the hand gestures.
Speaker 4: And then finally because he's got a boom box, Yeah,
Speaker 4: a boombox for yeah, you could see it. He couldn't
Speaker 4: still absolutely gotten caught trying.
Speaker 1: To be you know in 'picuous while holding remote this
Speaker 1: big like who's gonna notice?
Speaker 3: Who's gonna notice that?
Speaker 4: At first no one was, and that starts to hit
Speaker 4: up my Sabrina seats like nobody sees this.
Speaker 2: And then finally like some of the students did.
Speaker 1: And then and then the teacher saw it. But it
Speaker 1: was bad animation. It really took you out of it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't necessary now, But again it impressed the teacher
Speaker 1: because the scientific thought, maybe Chaz is a genius after all,
Speaker 1: just like this eighth grader that the teacher has heard
Speaker 1: about at Northern University. Back at the college, he's running
Speaker 1: back and forth, Charlie continues to teach class and get
Speaker 1: tormented by Mike. We should also note here that Yannick Bison,
Speaker 1: the actor playing Mike, was thirty years old at the
Speaker 1: time of playing the college student and looked every day
Speaker 1: of forty years old. He did, he just they cast
Speaker 1: They went older with this guy. They also he's he's
Speaker 1: he's acting out in class. Mike is acting out in
Speaker 1: class like Chaz is acting out in class. So Chaz
Speaker 1: is obviously taking his cues from Mike. But when Charlie
Speaker 1: is trying to teach the class, and Mike then goes
Speaker 1: up and makes fun of him in the class. Charlie
Speaker 1: then leaves like you're a jerk, which kind of you
Speaker 1: can see. Actually, Mike starts to feel bad about they're
Speaker 1: showing that his forty five year old heart is thawing
Speaker 1: as he's a seenior in high school. Charlie exkews some
Speaker 1: advice from his dad and comes up the idea of
Speaker 1: getting a tutor for his middle school, which he is
Speaker 1: purposely failing, and his crush figure skater Claire would be
Speaker 1: perfect for the job. He's like, Dad, you're a genius
Speaker 1: a tutor. She eventually agrees if she can do it
Speaker 1: after school. That's when we get a terrible song called
Speaker 1: I Would Do Anything played during the montage, and it's
Speaker 1: such a bad song that it's possible that it was
Speaker 1: a replacement song for something Disney Plus couldn't afford to license,
Speaker 1: like My Date with the President's Daughter song. I noticed it.
Speaker 1: That's how bad this song was. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you did, but it was. It wasn't great, And I
Speaker 1: think maybe there's a possibility that, yeah, that was they
Speaker 1: just couldn't license whatever song was there, so they threw
Speaker 1: in something.
Speaker 2: For free to thank Claire all of our hard work.
Speaker 1: Chaz gets through the new Backstreet Boy CD, but also
Speaker 1: realizes her dad, oh no, is the Northern hockey coach.
Speaker 1: Worlds collide yet again, so as the dad comes in,
Speaker 1: he grabs a hockey mask, he hides his face behind
Speaker 1: it and then runs out of the house before he's caught.
Speaker 1: And that's not going to put up any red flags
Speaker 1: at all for the dad trying to meet the new
Speaker 1: boy in her daughter's life. Back at the lab, the graviton, gravitron,
Speaker 1: gravitational field is not working. They have tried everything, but
Speaker 1: they have hit a scientific wall until they decide to
Speaker 1: get their minds off of work and take a little
Speaker 1: dance break, and then the music makes the machine start
Speaker 1: to work. The sound waves were what they were missing.
Speaker 1: They have solved the riddle of the gravitron or gravitron
Speaker 1: or gravity thing, or they ruined it.
Speaker 3: We still don't know.
Speaker 1: There's no real explanation, but it has done something to
Speaker 1: propel their scientific experiment forward.
Speaker 3: We just don't know whatever it's going to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Chaz is starting to make Claire feel better. About
Speaker 1: tutoring him, so his grades are slightly getting better in
Speaker 1: the middle school class, and the science teacher then does
Speaker 1: something that every teacher does. He has set up a
Speaker 1: field trip for the class to go meet this genius
Speaker 1: kid at Northern College. They are leaving instantly. There are
Speaker 1: no permission slips allowed, Nobody talks to parents. We're just
Speaker 1: taking you out onto a bus and we are going somewhere.
Speaker 1: That's when Chaz, who apparently has carte blanche in this
Speaker 1: middle school, just gets up and runs out and he's like, bye, hey, Chaz,
Speaker 1: I'm amazed even came like.
Speaker 3: He says that a bunch of times my teachers would
Speaker 3: have called my parents in thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if I was just deciding to come to class
Speaker 1: whenever I want to, this teacher's.
Speaker 3: Like, hey, glad you made a buddy. Didn't think you
Speaker 3: were coming today. Really strange. But he runs out.
Speaker 1: To hide the true identity of Chaz, Charlie pretends he
Speaker 1: was recently hurt in a science experiment gone wrong and
Speaker 1: appears in a wheelchair, disfigured and in total purple face.
Speaker 1: For his speech, he bounces between being Chaz and then
Speaker 1: now disayb welled Charlie barely making it work. It is
Speaker 1: one of those supposed to be farcical romp kind of
Speaker 1: funny scenes and it works. You know, he's covered in purple,
Speaker 1: and I love the one thing where he's like, hey,
Speaker 1: how do I get this off my face? And he's
Speaker 1: like soap and water?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So what?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Just so first of all, you didn't talk about this
Speaker 4: at all before you put it on?
Speaker 3: No? Yeah, it was permanent, yeah, or radioactive or something
Speaker 3: horrible that could have killed you. Was you found something
Speaker 3: purple in.
Speaker 2: A science lab just put it on?
Speaker 3: Geez.
Speaker 1: So they go back to college now, but Mike thankfully
Speaker 1: has moved back into their dorm and he has apologized
Speaker 1: essentially to Charlie. He says, Charlie, I need your help
Speaker 1: with his schoolwork. He will be kicked off the hockey
Speaker 1: team and out of college, and Charlie of course is
Speaker 1: happy with this because he wants to be friends with
Speaker 1: Mike so badly.
Speaker 3: He wants to fit in at school.
Speaker 1: The guy's been a jerk the entire movie, but he
Speaker 1: comes back and he needs to help, So Charlie's says
Speaker 1: he'll help him with school if Charlie can get help
Speaker 1: with Claire. And so this is a very very common
Speaker 1: dcom trope. Let's trade. Good premise works all the time.
Speaker 1: You do this for me, I'll do that for you.
Speaker 1: Let's do a trade. That's the way it works. We're
Speaker 1: then at some outdoor hockey game with middle schoolers, and
Speaker 1: good news, not only is Chaz playing, but he is dominating.
Speaker 1: That's when he looks over and he sees a quote
Speaker 1: unquote dork sitting on the bench and decides to trade
Speaker 1: out and let him play. It is a very nice
Speaker 1: move from someone who knows how it feels, and Claire
Speaker 1: saw it all happen. The thing I really liked about
Speaker 1: this moment he did it for the kid. He didn't
Speaker 1: do it to impress Claire. They made that very clear
Speaker 1: with the way he did it. He just felt bad
Speaker 1: for the kid. It was very very nice thing to see,
Speaker 1: a very Disney moment, but it was it was nice.
Speaker 1: She invites and of course good things lead to good things,
Speaker 1: so Claire sees it happen.
Speaker 3: She invites him.
Speaker 1: To go to the Northern versus Rumson game with her
Speaker 1: and her dad, but of course that won't work because
Speaker 1: then the coach is going to out him. So he
Speaker 1: says he can't go at all, he needs to watch
Speaker 1: his sister. When all his friends they remind him that
Speaker 1: they said he's an only child, he says, no, sister,
Speaker 1: Mary Christian, She's an invalid nun. We also then get
Speaker 1: it Robert de Niro impression from Chaz here, which was
Speaker 1: a little startling for a dcom.
Speaker 3: It was also just not a good impression. But hey,
Speaker 3: he's a kid. It's just how it worked.
Speaker 1: But this is when I also noticed in this movie
Speaker 1: both Charlie and Claire talk about their moms, but no
Speaker 1: mom's in the movie. We hear a voice, we hear
Speaker 1: Charlie's mom once from the other room. Yes, but but
Speaker 1: moms are not wrapped in this movie at all.
Speaker 4: I thought that the moment that we're getting into, right
Speaker 4: after they get off the bench and they talk about
Speaker 4: Claire's desire and reason why she doesn't play hockey, but
Speaker 4: she also she played, she figure skates, I thought it
Speaker 4: was going to like gonna be a deep moment my
Speaker 4: mom's not here anymore, you know. I was like ready
Speaker 4: for it, and never really happened, just never ca Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's just like oh, you know, going, oh, just kind
Speaker 4: of we're doing some depth with this character.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's very cool. Emmy, as we know, can handle.
Speaker 4: And so it was like, oh, I'm going to see
Speaker 4: a little baby at me do this, and you know
Speaker 4: it didn't happen.
Speaker 3: It just wasn't in the writing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's true. They didn't talk about the mom
Speaker 2: no that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was very strange, which is different, but again
Speaker 4: we're not doing normal dcom producers.
Speaker 1: Right, No, you're right, you're right. Charlie and Claire then
Speaker 1: almost kiss on the ice. This is where you really
Speaker 1: notice the height difference. She is four feet taller than him.
Speaker 2: Noticed it didn't get this kid an apple box.
Speaker 1: Seriously or have her bend down or something. But he's
Speaker 1: either very short or she's very tall, or it's a
Speaker 1: combination of two.
Speaker 3: Because it's jarring.
Speaker 1: But then some real hockey blocker kids throw a snowball
Speaker 1: and they ruin the moment, how does he not kill them?
Speaker 1: He was just about to kiss his dream girl. We
Speaker 1: are now back at the lab, with krick Stein off
Speaker 1: to Milwaukee for a conference, leaving Charlie alone with the
Speaker 1: gravitational gravitron gravity and machine for a few days. It's
Speaker 1: also happens to be the night of the Rumson game,
Speaker 1: but he obviously can't go or he'll be spotted by
Speaker 1: both his middle school pals and the college comrades.
Speaker 3: This is not a place to show up for him.
Speaker 1: But Mike shows up at the lab before the game
Speaker 1: and tells Charlie he passed his test thanks to his tutoring,
Speaker 1: and as a thank you, he got him a gift.
Speaker 1: He got him an honorary hockey jersey. It happens very fast.
Speaker 1: It was a Disney sped up moment where they are
Speaker 1: now fast friends, quick tutoring, fast test, customized jersey. Feels
Speaker 1: like it happened in the day, but hey, we know
Speaker 1: some time has passed and it's nice that he has
Speaker 1: been embraced by the hockey team.
Speaker 3: Now, yes, we are at the rink.
Speaker 1: We find out that the RUMs and kids are exclusively
Speaker 1: from broken homes and their fans boo them because they
Speaker 1: like the negative reinforcement, which is such a wildly weird
Speaker 1: detail to throw in, but they do.
Speaker 3: Where It's like, no, those are their fans. They like
Speaker 3: the negatives, so they're just made.
Speaker 1: The only thing that they should have had is like
Speaker 1: the hockey stick should have had blades at the bottom.
Speaker 1: Right where they just go slicing people as they're walking by.
Speaker 1: These are clearly the bad guys wild. It's just weird.
Speaker 1: But it gets weirder because this is where the movie
Speaker 1: starts to go off the rails a little bit. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: In the locker room, Mike now shows his team a
Speaker 1: way to avoid the rumps and rack, which we talked
Speaker 1: about before, which is, by the way, I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: something here, Sabrina, You're never gonna get this. I don't
Speaker 1: even think our producers are going to get this, but
Speaker 1: the rumps and rack. I will guarantee you whoever wrote
Speaker 1: this movie based it on the Malachi Crunch. And there's
Speaker 1: no if. I'll be so excited if somebody in our
Speaker 1: chat goes, oh my god, the Malachi Crunch. But the
Speaker 1: rumps and rack is the Malachi Crunch. I'm not even
Speaker 1: gonna tell you what the hit producer, Tara, no clue,
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, I'm not even gonna tell you what the
Speaker 1: Malachi crunch is.
Speaker 3: Go and google it.
Speaker 2: Okay, anyway, back to our game.
Speaker 1: It is now an idea of how to avoid the
Speaker 1: rumps and rack was given to Mike by Charlie, So
Speaker 1: it's time for the big game, and how are they
Speaker 1: going to avoid it by putting in one of the
Speaker 1: the equipment managers. Yes, is going to dress up as
Speaker 1: Mike in the game, So trying to follow this dress
Speaker 1: up as Mike in.
Speaker 3: The game so that the star players the star player.
Speaker 1: The star player is then going to put on a
Speaker 1: different jersey so the RUMs and rack will happen to
Speaker 1: the equipment manager. Couple things wrong with this plan in
Speaker 1: my opinions.
Speaker 3: First of all, you're taking one of the you're taking
Speaker 3: one of your players off the ice, and you're putting
Speaker 3: an equipment manager on the This isn't going to happen
Speaker 3: in the first thirty seconds of the game. This doesn't
Speaker 3: happen till the third period. Yeah, So they remove one
Speaker 3: entire hockey player from the team and just put an
Speaker 3: equipment manager on. So you're already down one person.
Speaker 1: Second, does no one on Rumson realize that even though
Speaker 1: Mike went from number eight to number seven, he's still
Speaker 1: the best player on the team.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, And also, can this this equipment manager actually skate?
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. None of it makes it.
Speaker 1: He said, why don't you just put another hockey player
Speaker 1: out there?
Speaker 3: Who instead of the equipment manager put another player out.
Speaker 4: Also, the coach is just gonna willingly sacrifice another college child.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense. I thought they were gonna
Speaker 1: go up something scientific.
Speaker 4: Yes, and that was my next question, what does this
Speaker 4: have to do? I mean, this is it should be
Speaker 4: some kind of scientific thing. I thought he was gonna
Speaker 4: give him the puck or or something that was gonna
Speaker 4: one of his inventions of some sort. And this has
Speaker 4: nothing to do with his the way his brain works
Speaker 4: or whatever.
Speaker 2: I know he likes hockey.
Speaker 3: But nope, it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2: And then it got worse.
Speaker 3: It does, It does get worse. Then it gets worse,
Speaker 3: It gets worse.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so it's now time for the big game,
Speaker 1: and as bad as Charlie wants to stay in the
Speaker 1: labb he has to see part of the game, so
Speaker 1: he ends up leaving just at the moment that the
Speaker 1: gravity gravitron machine starts blinking and beeping.
Speaker 3: The coach was reminded that if he loses, he's fired.
Speaker 1: All of this is in front of Claire, his daughter,
Speaker 1: who sits next to him on the bench all game long,
Speaker 1: which is something that literally could never happen. Imagine Phil
Speaker 1: Jackson on the bench with his daughter hanging out with
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan and Scotti Pippen.
Speaker 3: Not gonna happen. So Charlie ends up spotted by Odie
Speaker 3: and his middle school pals, then is spotted by Claire
Speaker 3: from the bench, so to make sure her coach dad
Speaker 3: doesn't see him, he hides under the bleacher, making himself
Speaker 3: out to be a total weirdo to his new crush
Speaker 3: who is constantly bothering your dad in the middle of
Speaker 3: the biggest game of his life where literally if he loses,
Speaker 3: he loses his job, but she keeps going dead. No,
Speaker 3: I want you to meet him is my middle school crush,
Speaker 3: and I wanted him to go, like go back to.
Speaker 2: Your seat in the middle home here.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: So it never happened, but Charlie's idea to avoid the
Speaker 1: rack works somehow, and things look good for Northern, which
Speaker 1: is up one nothing. But he is finally caught by
Speaker 1: Claire and her dad, exposing his double life. She knows Chaz,
Speaker 1: he knows Charlie. Claire is very angry, and when she
Speaker 1: figures it all out and approaches him, he admits he's
Speaker 1: just a big, fat liar. And right then the particle
Speaker 1: accelerator erupts, leaving huge giant red cracks in the ice.
Speaker 1: It looks like the door to Hell has opened up
Speaker 1: for everyone in the town, and everyone reacts completely nonchalantly
Speaker 1: for what looks like to be the end of the world.
Speaker 1: The ref announces the game is postponed until it could
Speaker 1: be fixed.
Speaker 2: Fixed.
Speaker 3: The sign of the apocalypse has come, but the ref
Speaker 3: has announced it's going to be fixed. By the way,
Speaker 3: when a game is suspended, if you suspend a baseball
Speaker 3: game in the middle of the night and it's it's
Speaker 3: it's the ninth inning and they're up six nothing and
Speaker 3: lightning crashes net to suspend. When the game comes back,
Speaker 3: you start in the ninth inning at six nothing. You
Speaker 3: don't start the game over again, which is what they
Speaker 3: did in this case. But that's a whole nother thing.
Speaker 2: Well that anyway, I said they were gonna do.
Speaker 3: They started the game over two minutes left in the game.
Speaker 1: They were about to win, but everyone's now furious that
Speaker 1: Charlie because he ruined it. They had a chance to win.
Speaker 1: Now they have to play the whole game over again,
Speaker 1: which again, that doesn't.
Speaker 3: Make any sense.
Speaker 1: Claire never wants to see him again and starts avoiding
Speaker 1: his calls. Charlie eventually does a real say anything moment.
Speaker 1: He shows up at the middle school with a big
Speaker 1: satellite microphone, apologizing to everyone from outside.
Speaker 3: But even that doesn't work.
Speaker 1: Even creepy giant microphone guy doesn't have Okay, So here's
Speaker 1: where the movie gets even more complicated. With the help
Speaker 1: of Krickstein, who didn't seem to care that he walked
Speaker 1: away from the molecule machine and destroyed the ice rink.
Speaker 1: It doesn't even mention it at first at all. Charlie
Speaker 1: comes up with an idea to make sure Northern wins
Speaker 1: the now scheduled final two minutes of the game, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't the final two minutes of the game. I
Speaker 1: think they played the entire game over again, right, and
Speaker 1: it evolves splitting the particles up, because even when they're separated,
Speaker 1: they will do They mentioned another experiment that happens, and
Speaker 1: I think as an actual experiment. I could be wrong,
Speaker 1: and I know that our huge particle physics community that's
Speaker 1: a big fan of Magical rewind is going to come
Speaker 1: after me for this, But I think it's like when
Speaker 1: even miles apart when one half of the particle does
Speaker 1: one thing, the other particle mimics what it does.
Speaker 3: Okay, so if you hold.
Speaker 1: Your arm out to one side and move your arm,
Speaker 1: the other person holding the removed particle will also move
Speaker 1: their arm. The concept will not only defy gravity but
Speaker 1: also win a Nobel Prize. But they want to use
Speaker 1: that to lead a small college to win one NCAA win.
Speaker 3: Also, if it works, Claire could like Charlie.
Speaker 1: Again, so it's very complicated.
Speaker 3: They split. They split this atom essentially to then cheat. Yes, okay,
Speaker 3: so Charlie convinces his middle school friends and Claire to help.
Speaker 3: They aren't thrilled about it, but they're because they want
Speaker 3: to save everything because again, this is her dad's.
Speaker 1: Job, this is the hockey team. It's all in on
Speaker 1: this game. So now we're at the game.
Speaker 3: The kids distract the Rumson team and Charlie breaks into
Speaker 3: underneath their bus, finds the exact three skates of the
Speaker 3: three best players on their team, and puts part of
Speaker 3: the particle on each one of these skates. Right, okay,
Speaker 3: they're now using cameras and complex communication devices. This way
Speaker 3: they can control their movements using the skates and the
Speaker 3: little particles that are on the skates, so whatever Claire
Speaker 3: and Charlie do on their roller blades will be mimicked
Speaker 3: by the guys on the ice.
Speaker 1: And again, if you think that sounds like cheating, well,
Speaker 1: in all fairness, it is cheating in a very big way.
Speaker 2: Absolutely cheating. There's no question about it. It's cheating. It's
Speaker 2: manipulating someone's movement.
Speaker 3: It's just Charlie says it's the only way to stop
Speaker 3: Rumson from doing the rack, which again is all also cheating.
Speaker 1: So it makes it okay because two wrongs make it right.
Speaker 1: So cheating to stop cheating. The logic didn't work, But anyway,
Speaker 1: we're in the game finally, and Krickstein is furious at
Speaker 1: Charlie for doing all this.
Speaker 3: He feels like he's betrayed. He now mentions the lab
Speaker 3: mistake the first time. I can't be a part of
Speaker 3: this now. But the good news is.
Speaker 1: The plan actually works, and it leads to the Rumps
Speaker 1: and Stars not only running into each other, but checking
Speaker 1: themselves into boards and doing synchronized dancing.
Speaker 3: How does putting this the particles on the skates make
Speaker 3: them also move their hands in the same That.
Speaker 4: Was my question, Like I mean, if that's how they
Speaker 4: explained it was gonna work, that's one thing. But they
Speaker 4: only talked about it mimicking the skates, the actual skates.
Speaker 4: It's not controlling their bodies, it's controlling the skates. Obviously
Speaker 4: their legs go with the skates.
Speaker 3: But there aren't.
Speaker 2: Gonna go into a proper no ballroom. Hold, no, that's
Speaker 2: not gonna happen.
Speaker 4: And that was say It started to get a little
Speaker 4: two cartoon at this point, too.
Speaker 3: Typically flawed people, scientifically flawed. He didn't make any sense.
Speaker 3: So anyway, they checked themselves into boards.
Speaker 1: They start doing synchronized dancing the crowd, which we learn
Speaker 1: is from behind the scenes promo for the Disney Channel
Speaker 1: was one hundred and fifty extras. They all found this
Speaker 1: absolutely hysterical. But when Rumson has one more chance away
Speaker 1: to win with their final star, one more Malachi crunch,
Speaker 1: guess who saves the day?
Speaker 3: Krickstein. He appears with the final particle on his rollerblades,
Speaker 3: but he's falling everywhere because he can't skate, and he
Speaker 3: glides and he glides right into the graviton gravitron machine,
Speaker 3: forcing Krickstein, Claire, Charlie and the last Rumson Star to
Speaker 3: float after he gets like gets electrocuted.
Speaker 1: So now electricity has flown into the gravitron machine and
Speaker 1: they have now floating.
Speaker 3: The buzzer goes off. Northern's won the game.
Speaker 1: Everyone celebrates, Claire's dad's job is saved, and no one
Speaker 1: mentions the flying players during the game. No one's pointing
Speaker 1: at that. It's just, hey, we won, this is great.
Speaker 3: We now fade into a pickup outdoor hockey game at
Speaker 3: the middle school.
Speaker 1: The kids are drafting players and teams. They get stuck
Speaker 1: with the final pick. Who's going to get stuck with
Speaker 1: the final pick? That's when we learn the final pick
Speaker 1: is Krickstein himself. He has friends now, albeit younger than him,
Speaker 1: but he's learning how to play hockey. Then Mike and
Speaker 1: the college team show up and rather than kick the
Speaker 1: kids off the ice, they want to actually play with them.
Speaker 3: Mike heard about their plan that helped.
Speaker 1: Them win and the anti gravity stuff, and they're really
Speaker 1: thankful for Charlie.
Speaker 3: Who else did they think it could have been that
Speaker 3: made people float and fly? But that's the way it is.
Speaker 1: The kids agree to play under one condition, Krickstein must
Speaker 1: be on the adults team. The professors switch side. I
Speaker 1: say adults. They were college kids except for the main star,
Speaker 1: who was forty eight. The professor switches asides. He gives
Speaker 1: Mike one small secret he can float roll end credits.
Speaker 1: There we go, there's genius.
Speaker 3: Third act needed some help it off the rails. Oh
Speaker 3: they really did. They really got gravity off those rails
Speaker 3: like nuts.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Can we do some real reviews, Sabrina and I think
Speaker 1: you have the joy this week of our one star review.
Speaker 2: I do, and it's from Brandy f.
Speaker 4: While this movie seems like a lot of work to
Speaker 4: trick some girl you've met once into liking you. Also,
Speaker 4: I don't really understand why it was okay for the
Speaker 4: Northerns to cheat and nobody seemed to care that Charlie
Speaker 4: destroyed the ice. That has to be money to fix it,
Speaker 4: you know what, Brandy, I will get to that in
Speaker 4: my Sabrina thease. Thank you for the commons. Those are
Speaker 4: all true. I had questions. We all had questions.
Speaker 2: Why I didn't no one care about anything.
Speaker 3: That happened, right exactly.
Speaker 1: I've got the five star review this week and it
Speaker 1: comes from Jennybabe twenty five.
Speaker 3: Oh my lord, I absolutely adore this movie. It was
Speaker 3: most excellent, better than a lot of Disney movies minus
Speaker 3: Xenon and Brink and Johnny Tsunami. Charlie's other persona, Chaz
Speaker 3: is very hot.
Speaker 1: Five teas with the exception of his hair and the
Speaker 1: part where he makes skeletons dance.
Speaker 3: Two thumbs way up, many peace after the U thank
Speaker 3: you so much, Jennybabe. Twenty five.
Speaker 1: Now we lean into the part of our wonderful podcast
Speaker 1: that I'm not a big fan of, but Sabrina absolutely loves.
Speaker 3: This is SAB's favorite thing ever. It is the feature
Speaker 3: of the week, of course, the games we like to play,
Speaker 3: and this week we're gonna be playing a new version
Speaker 3: of a game we played for teen Beach movie. That's
Speaker 3: when it was called hang four. Now it's called check four.
Speaker 1: We will get four terms associated with hockey according to
Speaker 1: Weekend Warriorshockey dot Com, and we have to guess what
Speaker 1: they stand for from a list of multiple choice options.
Speaker 1: We have four shots to get them right. Once again,
Speaker 1: I've said this every time, Sabrina and I truly do
Speaker 1: not know what the answers to these are.
Speaker 3: We check, We do not know.
Speaker 1: I can also tell you that producer Jensen is not
Speaker 1: on with us today, so Producer Tara will be telling
Speaker 1: us how lame we are and how much we suck.
Speaker 1: Thank you in advanced Producer Tara. Hopefully by this point
Speaker 1: she has already googled the Malachi crunch. So our first
Speaker 1: word that we have is grinder. Is it a let's
Speaker 1: do one?
Speaker 3: Is it? One? A horizontal move with your.
Speaker 1: Skate that allows for quick turns and fast stops. Two
Speaker 1: a shot on goal that shakes feverishly on its way
Speaker 1: to goal. Three a player who makes up for a
Speaker 1: lack of talent by working hard and playing physical. Or
Speaker 1: four a dating app for hockey players to find their
Speaker 1: missing teeth.
Speaker 4: The fourth one's tricky because I feel like there is
Speaker 4: a dating app come grinder.
Speaker 3: Isn't that? It isn't the grinder? The one? It's for
Speaker 3: gay hookups? Isn't that what grinder thinks?
Speaker 2: So I think, all right, So that's a tricky one. Jensen,
Speaker 2: don't fall for that one, will.
Speaker 1: I know what I think it is, because I mean
Speaker 1: I I could be wrong, and you might disagree, but
Speaker 1: I think a grinder to me has the sense of
Speaker 1: a player who makes up for lack of talent by
Speaker 1: working hard and playing physically like you're a grinding.
Speaker 2: Grind, actual hockey term.
Speaker 1: I don't know that's that's I'm sticking with number three, Okay,
Speaker 1: sticking with three.
Speaker 3: What do you? What do you say? And Sabrina, I.
Speaker 4: Think it's a it's option number one, a horizontal move
Speaker 4: with your skate that allows for quick turns and fastops.
Speaker 2: Producer Tara Will, you're correct, Yes, it's three, number three.
Speaker 4: It's not a hockey terms a grinder.
Speaker 3: He's a grinder.
Speaker 2: I mean, I get that, all right?
Speaker 4: Fine, I thought we were talking about I thought we
Speaker 4: were talking about sophisticated moves here, Jensen.
Speaker 3: I'm still blading a hard string. Number Two. Salad is
Speaker 3: salad one, the blood left on the ice after a
Speaker 3: chirpy game. Two beautiful long hair and a hockey player
Speaker 3: sometimes seen in a mullet. Three the wood chipping from
Speaker 3: a hockey stick after its sharpened or breaks during play,
Speaker 3: or four the most traditional postgame meal enjoyed by hockey players.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say number three again. I think it's the
Speaker 3: wood chipping from a hockey stick after sharpen.
Speaker 1: You're gonna stick with three as well? Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: we're both gonna say number three.
Speaker 2: Producer Tara, the answer is number two. Beautiful long hair
Speaker 2: on a hockey player, sometimes seen in a mullet that's
Speaker 2: called salad.
Speaker 3: I like it, Okay, boom, I had a mullet for years.
Speaker 3: I did. We'll get into that later. Don't start with me, break,
Speaker 3: don't start with me. Uh. Next, we've got top Cheddar.
Speaker 1: Is that one a shot that scores in the top
Speaker 1: of the net, either offer just below the crossbar to
Speaker 1: a title given to the highest scoring player in any game.
Speaker 3: Three, the name given to the player with the highest
Speaker 3: salary on every team, or for a term of endearment,
Speaker 3: given to the teammate with the best lactose reaction.
Speaker 2: I mean it could be four. Because these answers are bonkers.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with one. Yeah. I think it's a
Speaker 3: shot shot that scores in the top of the net,
Speaker 3: either off or just below. I think I can hear
Speaker 3: them going.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, we're gonna score top Jeddar top chedd what
Speaker 1: Producer tar.
Speaker 2: Correct, Yeah, that one actually sounds like it doesn't it right? Okay?
Speaker 3: Good, yes, excellent. Git the biscuit now this is our
Speaker 3: last one.
Speaker 1: The biscuit is it a nickname for the puck, a
Speaker 1: nickname for your helmet, a nickname for a hockey stick,
Speaker 1: or nickname for a member of the nineteen seventy three
Speaker 1: Atlanta Flames. Butch Dead Marsh, it's got to be a
Speaker 1: nickname for the puck, pass the biscuit.
Speaker 2: It's gotta be, right.
Speaker 3: I think it's gotta be. It's got to be. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna say nickname.
Speaker 2: It, or it's this random guy that he just threw
Speaker 2: up there for an.
Speaker 1: Option, I just want to I'm telling you, Butch Dead
Speaker 1: Marsh has to be the name of a character in
Speaker 1: a video game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm sticky with a name for.
Speaker 2: The number one, number one for the correct Yes, Okay,
Speaker 2: he threw us up.
Speaker 3: He threw us a biscuit. He threw us a biscuit.
Speaker 3: Thank you, producer, Tara. Now please go google Malachi Crunch.
Speaker 3: Can we now do Sabrina Seas?
Speaker 2: We hit quite a few of them.
Speaker 4: I honestly, like I said, likes this movie, so I
Speaker 4: was really enjoying it. I didn't really nitpick it apart
Speaker 4: until the third act. Yeah, and I let the character,
Speaker 4: this character that I'm going to bring up before I
Speaker 4: let him slide the first time because it was kind
Speaker 4: of just like a funny little moment, but then when
Speaker 4: he came back, it had to go down in my
Speaker 4: Sabrina seas, this principle is up there with some of
Speaker 4: the other principles we've seen.
Speaker 2: Why or Dean? I guess he's the Dean, right, the Dean.
Speaker 4: Why is this guy first of all doing the best
Speaker 4: he Canada Jim Carrey imitation.
Speaker 3: He is funny.
Speaker 4: He is funny, right, but like it was just so
Speaker 4: over the top, and no one else was playing really
Speaker 4: that big in the movie, so it was kind of.
Speaker 3: A little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: He also I recognized him.
Speaker 1: He played the original Lloyd Bron on seinfelm Okay, so
Speaker 1: Lloyd bron was was the friend of that grew up
Speaker 1: near George that he was always being compared to.
Speaker 3: And he was the first Lloyd bron.
Speaker 2: Okay, I bet he was great. I bet he was great.
Speaker 4: He was funny, but it was just he was just
Speaker 4: kind of out of place at a place in this movie.
Speaker 4: His quotes were and if they lose, goodbye coach. No
Speaker 4: win big game, No win Big Game. He became like
Speaker 4: Caveman all of a sudden, and then the second one,
Speaker 4: I don't think I put down the actual quote, but
Speaker 4: him just badgerying this man in front of his daughter,
Speaker 4: who okay should not have been there, but just like
Speaker 4: really going into him and his daughter.
Speaker 2: Is right there.
Speaker 4: It was just so horrible, so he had to be
Speaker 4: he had to be talked about.
Speaker 2: And then the ice cracking over the sound system. I
Speaker 2: don't know if it was.
Speaker 4: Like remain calm, It's like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: I'm not remaining.
Speaker 4: I'm getting the hell out of this arena because it's
Speaker 4: like there's some devilish thing.
Speaker 2: About like pop up out of this.
Speaker 3: I'm like, you look like a volcano.
Speaker 4: Remain calm, no, sir, I'm out, goodbye, see you later.
Speaker 4: And then again there was just these are questions. Did
Speaker 4: nothing happen to the machine? Were we just not caring
Speaker 4: the fact that it ruins the ice rink? We have
Speaker 4: no idea of what happened after that whole situation. Can
Speaker 4: we make these magnetic things, maybe not bright orange, and
Speaker 4: maybe maybe have them.
Speaker 3: Made him camouflage?
Speaker 2: They made him a silver black I mean anything, I get.
Speaker 4: It for the movie, but it was just kind of funny.
Speaker 4: And then I, of course put is it cheating. Yes,
Speaker 4: it is absolutely no question to ask cheating.
Speaker 2: This is not a good idea. Where are the adults?
Speaker 4: Then the adult comes in and it's like, okay, you know, well,
Speaker 4: first you say no, I'm gonna the adults. It's like, no,
Speaker 4: I'm You're not gonna do this. I'm not I'm not
Speaker 4: okay with this. But then he comes in and elves anyway.
Speaker 4: I'm like, the adults in this movie are just ridiculous.
Speaker 4: We're again here, we are once again.
Speaker 1: That was it, and Sabrina will always see cheating. I
Speaker 1: can just tell cheating had.
Speaker 4: Okay, this is a game here evil, there's a winner.
Speaker 2: There are rules, they must be followed, and.
Speaker 1: Now we have to rate the movie one out of
Speaker 1: ten are options for this week. One out of ten,
Speaker 1: slow motion Harvard letter trash cans one out of ten,
Speaker 1: huge leather trench coats one out of ten, mashed potato
Speaker 1: chalkboard bombs, one out of ten, absentee moms one out
Speaker 1: of ten, terrible montage songs, or one out of ten
Speaker 1: ice rings opening up for hell? Which one would you
Speaker 1: like to pick?
Speaker 5: This week?
Speaker 4: We like the ice rings opening up for Okay, that
Speaker 4: was just bunker?
Speaker 3: Was it?
Speaker 1: You I think I went first last time, didn't I?
Speaker 1: Or did you go first last time? I think I did.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll go first. I can't remember. They're starting to
Speaker 2: they're starting to merge. Now we need somebody to help us.
Speaker 4: I know they're starting okay, So again I thought this
Speaker 4: was adorable. I know we hated the montage song, but
Speaker 4: I liked the little montage.
Speaker 3: But them, I thought they were such a little him
Speaker 3: smelling her hair is a little creepy, but okay, I
Speaker 3: buy it for a thirteen year old.
Speaker 4: It's tough to rate these when we know now no
Speaker 4: after I watched it. I didn't know at the time,
Speaker 4: but now knowing that a different producer, I could tell
Speaker 4: along the lines that it's a different producer than normal.
Speaker 4: What's normal on the channel? Yep, because it's kind of different. Right.
Speaker 4: The messaging was like a little astray. Didn't make sense
Speaker 4: that she didn't follow, doesn't follow the Disney realm, right,
Speaker 4: But they did. They the actors everyone did such a
Speaker 4: great job, and I did enjoy it. I thought it
Speaker 4: was cute. The third one pulled it down a bit.
Speaker 4: I probably would have given it an eight. Act three
Speaker 4: was not great, and I think.
Speaker 2: It's gonna pull it down to a seven for me.
Speaker 3: Okay, so still okay, still ice Rinks opening up for hell.
Speaker 2: Ice Rinks opening up for Hell.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm in the same boat. The acting, the kids,
Speaker 1: The kids are great. The third act just fell apart.
Speaker 1: It really just fell apart in this movie. For me,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be giving this six. Okay, six, six point five.
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna stick with six. I'm gonna stick with six.
Speaker 1: Ice rinks opening up here.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna love.
Speaker 4: The little guy as much as I was just thinking
Speaker 4: he was just so cute.
Speaker 3: But he's great.
Speaker 1: But again, the actors are so good. Seeing Emmy Rossam starting,
Speaker 1: I mean all that kind of stuff. I thought that
Speaker 1: some of the adults are funny. I thought casting the
Speaker 1: sixty three year old man as Mike the hockey player
Speaker 1: was great.
Speaker 3: So he's just gonna get older every time I say it.
Speaker 3: But no, I mean again, not a bad movie. The
Speaker 3: third act really made no sense. Yeah, you know, but
Speaker 3: it could minute minute you know, you've got the minute
Speaker 3: men had the the third act that was kind of muddled,
Speaker 3: but at the same time it made sense. You're going
Speaker 3: back in time. You got this. There's consequences. They cheated
Speaker 3: and won and that didn't make any sense, and the
Speaker 3: gravity machine didn't make any sense, and then nobody even
Speaker 3: talking about them gravity machine.
Speaker 4: Yeah they're in the sky. Yeah, No, one's freaked out
Speaker 4: that there's people in the sky.
Speaker 1: Yes, And how does this movie not end with one
Speaker 1: more scene of him accepting the Nobel Prize and then
Speaker 1: all the hockey players there like cheering for him as
Speaker 1: he wins the Nobel Prize? Yeah, how do you not
Speaker 1: have that scene in this movie? But they didn't, So, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be six.
Speaker 4: It just ended in like he has friends now, Yeah, cool, Well,
Speaker 4: which is great, which is great, but it's.
Speaker 2: Yes, of course, but it just was kind of there
Speaker 2: was so much more set up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree. Well, there we go. There is our film.
Speaker 1: So thank you so much for joining us on Genius,
Speaker 1: our third or fourth movie that was not made by
Speaker 1: Disney but was made by Peek.
Speaker 3: Say it that way, because that's how it was.
Speaker 1: Our next movie is one we have been waiting a
Speaker 1: long time for. It is a pod meets world favorite
Speaker 1: decom franchise, the very musical Zombies, and we're gonna be
Speaker 1: watching the first movie in the trilogy but we are
Speaker 1: gonna be joined by somebody to watch this first movie
Speaker 1: with us. He is a huge fan of this movie.
Speaker 1: He specifically didn't ask.
Speaker 3: He told me. He said, when are you doing Zombies?
Speaker 3: I go, We're doing. He goes, I'm coming, I'm watching
Speaker 3: this with you. I went, okay, great, he told me.
Speaker 4: When I came and did my little thing, he told me,
Speaker 4: then I will be there all right.
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Speaker 3: Ryder Strong will be there. Thanks everybody. Bye eight