Speaker 1: Oh Sabrina, Oh Sabrina, Oh Sabrina. It's time. This is
Speaker 1: the first time we've ever done this. We were like
Speaker 1: we're doing a recap of a movie that just launched,
Speaker 1: where like we've I feel like we're part of the
Speaker 1: zombies world. Now you got to go to the premiere,
Speaker 1: you got to meet the whole cast, you got to
Speaker 1: I couldn't go, and it crushed me that I couldn't go.
Speaker 1: It was something so much fun.
Speaker 2: It was a blast. It was so fun, and I
Speaker 2: do I don't know. I've got to figure out what
Speaker 2: is there like fandom nickname? Am I a zombie head
Speaker 2: or like what am because it is me a zhead?
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: Because that is I mean, and now especially on Instagram
Speaker 2: because I tagged them and I've just been like posting
Speaker 2: so much. It is all that is what my Instagram, Like,
Speaker 2: oh I have now and now I'm like into it.
Speaker 2: I'm here even more behind the scenes than like, wait,
Speaker 2: what happened to my regular feed with my with my
Speaker 2: cooking recipes and my child activity exact?
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, mine is mine is just appliances for the
Speaker 1: kitchen we're redoing. It's just random, like do you need
Speaker 1: a new synk.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't look at this stuff anymore. Just but you
Speaker 1: know what I can look at, yes, is Zombies four,
Speaker 1: and that's why we're here. But before we get into it,
Speaker 1: I just want to welcome you back to Magical Rewind,
Speaker 1: the show that makes you want to grab your friends,
Speaker 1: your PJS and your popcorn and go back to a
Speaker 1: time when all the houses are smart, the waves tsunamis
Speaker 1: and there were four Zombies movies. Yes, that is correct.
Speaker 2: I'm Wilford Dell and I have Sabrina Bryan.
Speaker 1: And like the saying goes, good things come in fours.
Speaker 2: Is that a saying? I don't know.
Speaker 1: And we're here to prove it because we're breaking down
Speaker 1: the newest installment in the Zombies franchise, the just released
Speaker 1: Zombies four. This time it's even more personal than the
Speaker 1: last three times. No Zombies four. Dawn of the Vampires
Speaker 1: is how I say. It's the Dawn of the Vampires
Speaker 1: and no matter when my palace, Abrina got the honor
Speaker 1: of watching it. It debuted July tenth on the Disney Channel,
Speaker 1: a massive premiere for the studio. Then it was available
Speaker 1: to stream on Disney Plus the following day. That was
Speaker 1: a bit of an audible call by the executives, as
Speaker 1: it was initially intended to just be a Disney Plus
Speaker 1: original movie and not involve the Channel. But I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, you can't do that because the whole thing
Speaker 1: started on the Channel, so you gotta make it. Make
Speaker 1: it o g. The movie is the fourth entry of
Speaker 1: the now quad quadrilogy. Yes, this is what we're gonna
Speaker 1: call it, a quadrilogy, following the original twenty eighteen Zombies,
Speaker 1: then twenty twenties Zombies two, and then twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: Zombies three and even years pattern. I assume Disney will
Speaker 1: be following for the next decade or so. Let's start
Speaker 1: with the big difference between Zombies four and its predecessors,
Speaker 1: and that's the filming location. The prior three were all
Speaker 1: filmed in the dcom capital of the World, which I
Speaker 1: think we can kind of call it that now Toronto, Canada.
Speaker 1: But this Disney sent them to Auckland, New Zealand, most
Speaker 1: likely for some pretty sweet tax incentives amongst beautiful beach views.
Speaker 1: It is almost a return to form for Disney, since
Speaker 1: we saw them do exactly the same thing with our
Speaker 1: recently reviewed Ripped Girls or Janie Tsunami, I think is
Speaker 1: what we were calling and I can't remember what we
Speaker 1: ended up calling it the surfing movie that was not
Speaker 1: a surfing movie, Julie Tsunami. There you go. In the press,
Speaker 1: this movie is regularly being called a quote unquote passing
Speaker 1: of the torch for the franchise, introducing new young characters
Speaker 1: to take over. Is that fair, Sabrina?
Speaker 3: I mean absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1: They've literally singing a song about it, which we'll get into.
Speaker 1: We will get to the cast soon enough, but first
Speaker 1: let's talk budget. So similarly to Zombie's three, this movie
Speaker 1: is a massive investment, and boy did it ever look expensive.
Speaker 1: And that's because it costs again a whopping and reported
Speaker 1: forty million dollars. Yes that's forty people, not fourteen forty.
Speaker 1: And man, I mean it looked like it costs forty
Speaker 1: million dollars to me, what did.
Speaker 2: You say it did? In comparison to everything we've seen
Speaker 2: on the channel, this is on a whole other level,
Speaker 2: whole other level which we've already seen a bit of,
Speaker 2: like you mentioned, like in the third one when we
Speaker 2: were talking about the makeup the eyes, how when z
Speaker 2: goes in and out of zombieing out. Yeah, you see
Speaker 2: it there, But this is even the next level. It's
Speaker 2: crazy even higher.
Speaker 1: It added the two new cities and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: It looked great. The only movie with a higher budget
Speaker 1: to date for Disney Channel original movies was Double Teamed,
Speaker 1: which came in at one hundred and fifty three million dollars.
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. All of that was made up. Double Team
Speaker 1: cost eighteen dollars and a pack of gum. I still
Speaker 1: get Mikayla very very quickly doing all of these Podmets
Speaker 1: World live shows and conventions. People are I'm starting to
Speaker 1: hear everywhere. I love Magical Rewind. I'm addicted to Magical Rewind.
Speaker 1: Don't make me you. Double Teamed is the best movie
Speaker 1: ever made. So I just keep going, Oh, that's so sweet,
Speaker 1: and you're wrong. It wasn't rug anyway, So yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: It's really an insane turn of events for a failed
Speaker 1: Disney Channel pilot. It's a This entire series of films
Speaker 1: was a failed pilot for a show that they turned
Speaker 1: into a movie. It is now neck and neck with
Speaker 1: the Descendants for the channels most successful and expensive franchise.
Speaker 1: Not something you ever think could happen when a pilot
Speaker 1: doesn't get picked up. I mean, I know, crazy to
Speaker 1: me that it goes from we don't want your show
Speaker 1: to it is a tent pole of the entire company.
Speaker 1: It's a Disney channel.
Speaker 2: We've got to figure out who it is that we
Speaker 2: need to talk to that was there at the channel
Speaker 2: during the time that the pilot failed, and who it
Speaker 2: was that was the integral part that said, let's just
Speaker 2: make this a d com because we need to hug
Speaker 2: that person.
Speaker 1: We need to give that a big.
Speaker 2: Thank God, I would not I would not have the
Speaker 2: feelings I have right now if someone didn't come up
Speaker 2: with that brilliant idea.
Speaker 1: And the other thing I will say is I see
Speaker 1: how it could have been a television show, but they
Speaker 1: never could have done with the television show what they've
Speaker 1: been able to do with the films. So it landed
Speaker 1: where it was supposed to land, is what I would say.
Speaker 1: But you're right, thank god, somebody figured out we got
Speaker 1: to make this movie, and then.
Speaker 2: They got to figure out who that was, who are.
Speaker 1: It is we need to talk to you? And of
Speaker 1: course you can't talk about zombies itself without getting into
Speaker 1: the soundtrack. We've got another slew of jams released in
Speaker 1: full on the eleventh, but the singles The Place to
Speaker 1: Be and Don't Mess With Us were leaked first to
Speaker 1: drum up excitement for the movie. The album includes some
Speaker 1: of the top songwriters and producers in the business, with
Speaker 1: credits like Demi Lovado, Dove Cameron Paw, Patrol High School Musical,
Speaker 1: The Musical The Show, which is still the greatest title ever,
Speaker 1: and a lot of past zombie movies. How did you
Speaker 1: think the song stacked up with previous bops?
Speaker 2: Honestly, I right from the start, the first bok that
Speaker 2: we hear, I'm like, all right, we in. I was
Speaker 2: so locked and loaded and you were.
Speaker 1: You were just ready to go. And this is why
Speaker 1: I think you.
Speaker 2: I know, oh will I am ready? But I you know,
Speaker 2: honestly though, at the end of the day, the one
Speaker 2: that's been in my head since last Tuesday's premiere party
Speaker 2: that I was at is Someday.
Speaker 1: It just from the first movie.
Speaker 2: Something about that song from the first movie that it's
Speaker 2: one of those things. I don't know what you can
Speaker 2: do to top it because it's just so good and
Speaker 2: I mean it, But in my head watching all four
Speaker 2: of them now and again, this is their first franchise
Speaker 2: of the channel. We have watched every single one, and
Speaker 2: so I do see why that song it's come back
Speaker 2: every I know for my franchise, we didn't bring back songs.
Speaker 2: We didn't bring back Cheetah sisters, And I'm going, why
Speaker 2: the hell didn't we do that? This was like so good?
Speaker 1: Was the third one? I want to know. I don't
Speaker 1: want to know. I don't want to know. Don't tell me.
Speaker 1: I don't want to know. But but no, you're right.
Speaker 1: Here's what I'm gonna say before we get into the
Speaker 1: whole thing. For me, they go in order. The first
Speaker 1: one is my favorite. The second one I thought was
Speaker 1: great but not as good as the first one. The
Speaker 1: third one I thought was good but not as good
Speaker 1: as the first two. And this was my least favorite
Speaker 1: of the four. Oh wow, I and again not a
Speaker 1: bad movie. Definitely not a bad movie. But I thought
Speaker 1: at times it was needlessly convoluted. I don't think they
Speaker 1: figured out exactly we talk about the magical system, what
Speaker 1: the vampires and the Daybreakers actually day Walkers actually do.
Speaker 1: The kids are great, but it played like much more
Speaker 1: of a Disney channel. We can do this if we
Speaker 1: work together like. It was way more that than the
Speaker 1: cleverness of the first one. So I liked it. It
Speaker 1: was it was a fun, fun watch. I thought it
Speaker 1: was again needlessly convoluted. A lot of it didn't make
Speaker 1: a whole mess of sense. The new cast is great.
Speaker 1: Of course, she's adorable. He's great. That they don't have
Speaker 1: the same chemistry that Milo and Meg did. Maybe it'll come,
Speaker 1: but they didn't have it right off the jump like
Speaker 1: Milo and Meg did. There was something about going to
Speaker 1: Seabrook the first time. It's something you'd never experienced before.
Speaker 1: It's the human because we don't know who that that.
Speaker 1: She's party alien at the time, So it's the human
Speaker 1: and the zombie, the prime together. It's the the Romeo
Speaker 1: and Juliet thing. It worked so well. They were so amazing.
Speaker 1: You were just into the world. The music was great,
Speaker 1: and it's they've gotten I don't want to say progressively worse,
Speaker 1: because that's not the right way to put it. They're
Speaker 1: not as good as the first one.
Speaker 2: In order for me, Yeah, I don't know if I
Speaker 2: can one hundred percent agree with this.
Speaker 3: I feel like we kicked off and restarted again.
Speaker 1: So you so you would put this up there with
Speaker 1: as good as the first one.
Speaker 2: I would put it right under the first one.
Speaker 1: Wow, so you like this better than the second one?
Speaker 1: When they introduced the werewolves.
Speaker 2: That's hard for me because you know that if I
Speaker 2: had to pick a monster, that the one I go.
Speaker 3: So that's like kind of a hard question. But in
Speaker 3: the sense that we weren't at.
Speaker 2: Seabrook like we had the new we had enough new
Speaker 2: things versus like the second one, like you said, was
Speaker 2: just kind of somewhat part two, Like it started to
Speaker 2: be the same issue and we were in the same environment.
Speaker 3: Now that you took me out of that environment, I was.
Speaker 2: Able to like reset and and watch it almost like
Speaker 2: as a first time allow these characters to be first
Speaker 2: time characters for me, and we're in a different world.
Speaker 2: We're not having the exact same problems, or that there
Speaker 2: are similar problems, but like it's to stop other things.
Speaker 3: I was just able to kind of start fresh with
Speaker 3: the new set.
Speaker 2: New Zealand was good for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's good. That was in New Zealand. Do
Speaker 1: you do you like well you knew the two new
Speaker 1: leads as much as Milo and Meg.
Speaker 3: I loved Freya. I oh, I felt enough with her,
Speaker 3: not what I.
Speaker 2: Asked, well, oh sorry, her character.
Speaker 1: Do you like the do you think the leads the
Speaker 1: two leads have the same chemistry, that might.
Speaker 2: Have the same chemistry.
Speaker 3: I think they do, but for me, they they this was.
Speaker 2: A lot younger than when we met at Addie and Zed.
Speaker 2: Addison and Zed they felt much younger. Right Like Addison
Speaker 2: and Z already felt a lot they are out like
Speaker 2: a level of maturity. This felt younger. So it just
Speaker 2: was so again I just was taking it on as
Speaker 2: a different a different set of roles, not the same
Speaker 2: as them. I just they were much younger to me.
Speaker 1: This one's the thing I came away with most from
Speaker 1: this one was that it took itself too serious. Like
Speaker 1: the thing I loved about the first one was Bucky
Speaker 1: coming through the I.
Speaker 2: Mean it's like there's a tongue in.
Speaker 1: Cheekness about the zombies world where it's look at these
Speaker 1: cheerleaders and the zombies are zombie. I mean there was
Speaker 1: something so kind of fun about it, where this one
Speaker 1: is very heavy and they wanted to pull the emotion
Speaker 1: and you know what's gonna happen, And so I missed
Speaker 1: the kind of hung in cheek vibe of the first one.
Speaker 1: But I get true, well, we'll get we'll get it.
Speaker 2: I guess I didn't miss it because I didn't really.
Speaker 2: I mean, they had a couple characters that were like,
Speaker 2: you know, quirky and whatever, but not the same not
Speaker 2: a Bucky that this miss dismissed a Bucky. I don't
Speaker 2: think Bucky could have been there, but they needed a bucket.
Speaker 1: Agreed, Yeah, agreed. You took away Bucky and Bonzo. So
Speaker 1: both the crazy kind of characters that you had that
Speaker 1: are supposed to be absurd are gone.
Speaker 3: And everybody best friend to her like right and.
Speaker 1: Yes and gone. Yeah yeah, so you're everybody's taking themselves
Speaker 1: very seriously in this movie. It is. It is like
Speaker 1: the drama version of the zombiesch I get.
Speaker 2: And you couldn't kill my vibe.
Speaker 1: Hey, if you loved it, then I can't kill you.
Speaker 1: And again, I didn't dislike it. I absolutely did not
Speaker 1: dislike it at all.
Speaker 2: You just like the first one better.
Speaker 1: I just I thought it took it. I thought it
Speaker 1: was needlessly convoluted and it took itself too seriously. That
Speaker 1: was Those are my takeaways from this. Again, you're watching
Speaker 1: a forty million dollar musical with young, bright, shiny new
Speaker 1: actors and good music and man, can she sing so gay?
Speaker 2: As a star? Astoria is she's gonna been, Oh my
Speaker 2: gosh and fifteen she she is a star?
Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent. Absolutely. It was a different vibe
Speaker 1: for me than the first Zombies movie. That's I guess
Speaker 1: that's all I would say. But anyway, okay, well let's
Speaker 1: also talk. Let's talk about dance. As the dance expert.
Speaker 1: I was trying to because you always point out to me,
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, they give like everybody gets a different
Speaker 1: style of dance. The Zombies gonna style, the wherewel's get
Speaker 1: a style. I was trying to spot the differences between
Speaker 1: the day Walkers and and the vampires and everybody else,
Speaker 1: and it seemed like everybody was dancing the same way.
Speaker 1: Am I wrong?
Speaker 2: No, you're correct. That's one of the very first things
Speaker 2: because we get as soon as we were fr I mean,
Speaker 2: we're gonna get like the other things that happened before
Speaker 2: where we meet them. But that was I was like,
Speaker 2: when we're watching their first thing, I'm like, okay, here
Speaker 2: we go. And I was like, oh, but they did
Speaker 2: it differently because if you notice they're doing the same choreography,
Speaker 2: but they are mirroring it. So when the one side's
Speaker 2: using their right arm, the other side saw their left,
Speaker 2: which is cool, so they're more of mirroring. So I
Speaker 2: was like, Okay, this is a different take on what
Speaker 2: we've done. So it's kind of and it's like the
Speaker 2: night versus the Light like monsters, right, And so I
Speaker 2: guess that's kind of what they did instead, because it's
Speaker 2: like two new ones and versus just one new monsters.
Speaker 2: And to me, it was like this was a different
Speaker 2: take on what they've done before, where they're the same
Speaker 2: style but they're opposites. And the fact that they're like
Speaker 2: mirroring each other.
Speaker 1: But even when Zed and Willa and all them were dancing,
Speaker 1: they didn't have their own style anymore. It just seemed
Speaker 1: like everybody was kind of doing these big dances, right.
Speaker 2: I saw hints of it here and there, but it
Speaker 2: wasn't as deliberate as it seemed like. It wasn't as
Speaker 2: much of a choice and deliberate as it seemed like,
Speaker 2: especially in that third movie, to segregate all the different monsters, right.
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know that.
Speaker 2: If that was a choice or if they kind of
Speaker 2: maybe just forgot you have to think too.
Speaker 3: The other ones were done a little bit closer.
Speaker 2: It's been three years since they like they said, there
Speaker 2: was three year break between the last one and this
Speaker 2: one when I was interviewing them. So I wonder if
Speaker 2: things like that kind of just got shuffled, and you know,
Speaker 2: their focus was just mainly on these two new monsters
Speaker 2: or what it was. But it definitely was something that
Speaker 2: was very specifically done and purposely like detailed, where it
Speaker 2: didn't seem like that was what they were focused on.
Speaker 1: This this go Well. The thing that was interesting again
Speaker 1: because talking to you, I look at I'm now actually
Speaker 1: trying to look at the dancing instead of just seeing
Speaker 1: shapes going by me that are shaping its shiny. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the thing that I noticed most is the opening
Speaker 1: number at the college at Mountain College did seem like
Speaker 1: now it was they were all dancing as if they
Speaker 1: were one team. So there was a hybrid of the
Speaker 1: Zobby dance and the alien dance and the Werewolf dance
Speaker 1: that they were all kind of doing now because and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh okay, I picked that up. I
Speaker 1: wonder what the new dance style is going to and
Speaker 1: then it didn't seem like there was any new dance style.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well they're no. I mean, I think their style
Speaker 2: was different, but they were just the same. There was
Speaker 2: not a difference of significant difference between the data and.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's how they did that purpose. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But the choreography, of course credited to I want to
Speaker 1: get this right, Don Draco Johnson, an associate choreographer Taya Wilde,
Speaker 1: obviously has its own style compared to the other movies.
Speaker 2: We're getting a direct like, yes, information from our expert Lisa.
Speaker 2: She's saying the choreographer said, it's more subtle, more like
Speaker 2: a Chicago versus New York dance style.
Speaker 1: Okay, because they're technically from the same place.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, because yes, so it's like that subtle difference
Speaker 2: is like arm movements, but okay, it wasn't something as
Speaker 2: much of like a dinner facile face off.
Speaker 1: Okay, that makes sense because again they're kind of from
Speaker 1: the same place.
Speaker 2: Just fank, God, I need to talk to this choreographer.
Speaker 2: I'm so obsessed with them.
Speaker 1: As I was saying, it goes without saying. You can
Speaker 1: watch Zombies four on Disney Plus it is the big
Speaker 1: channel push for the movie this year, and it is everwhere.
Speaker 1: It's everywhere, every everywhere, so.
Speaker 2: You cannot you can't miss watch TV and Zombies.
Speaker 1: And it's worth the watch absolutely. Also, this is a
Speaker 1: very recent release of our podcast is basically just one
Speaker 1: big spoiler. We're only a weekend so only listen if
Speaker 1: you don't care to get spoiled or you've already seen it.
Speaker 1: But either way you have now been warned. So our
Speaker 1: hands are clean. Our hands are clean. You've been warned,
Speaker 1: just letting you know. Okay, So before Zombies for more
Speaker 1: excited for the new Zombies movie or more excited to
Speaker 1: see the next Descendants. We've only done one Descendants. We
Speaker 1: have a whole other freaking like I.
Speaker 2: Know, to the point where I'm like it's crazy to
Speaker 2: me and it makes me one or because the Descendants
Speaker 2: knocked me off my feet with the level of what
Speaker 2: we saw with Zombies as well, just like so intricate,
Speaker 2: so specific and so creative, and so I'm like now
Speaker 2: going like are they going to be able to hold
Speaker 2: it up? You know? Is how realizing and watching how
Speaker 2: hard it looks to do when you're just entering like
Speaker 2: and bringing a whole new world to your audience.
Speaker 3: I'm very excited to see Descendants.
Speaker 1: I am true.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can say I'm like more
Speaker 2: excited or was more excited. I think I was super well,
Speaker 2: I guess I was because we've gotten a chance to
Speaker 2: interview so many of the actors from this movie, and
Speaker 2: we talked to Paul about it. We've gotten a lot
Speaker 2: of in depth, so we know so much of it,
Speaker 2: and we've talked to people that are so passionate about
Speaker 2: what their work was. But then this franchise that I
Speaker 2: think it did help me just like boost my excitement.
Speaker 2: And then to find out that I was going to
Speaker 2: get a part doing the breast junket and then I
Speaker 2: was gonna get to go all of that, Like I
Speaker 2: just was like, all right, I'm diving in, Like I
Speaker 2: I was so excited to be able to watch and man,
Speaker 2: just like to get the ability to watch the movie
Speaker 2: before anyone else, I have to download like three apps
Speaker 2: like sign all of this paperwork that I would not
Speaker 2: I mean it they lock it down. Then it took
Speaker 2: them like five days to send to me. I mean
Speaker 2: it was this was like I felt like I was
Speaker 2: like top secret agent working here.
Speaker 1: So it was actually very cool, so cool. I'm jealous.
Speaker 1: I hope everybody missed me because I missed y'all.
Speaker 2: We did every don't worry you were. We chatted about
Speaker 2: you and missed you and everyone along as you're.
Speaker 3: Yes, we were.
Speaker 2: No one could stop. That's all Jensen talked about. I
Speaker 2: got to I got to sit next to Jensen in
Speaker 2: the movie, and you know, all he kept saying is, man,
Speaker 2: I wish Will was there.
Speaker 1: You go, I just.
Speaker 2: Kids, we're asking where you were.
Speaker 1: Believe that for a second.
Speaker 2: The popcorn person was asking.
Speaker 1: Everyone, you're just lying. Pants are on a fire. What
Speaker 1: are the chances that we get to go to their
Speaker 1: collaborative tour coming up for the podcast? Do you think that,
Speaker 1: zomb and descend it?
Speaker 3: God, we do.
Speaker 2: It's coming soon, though, it's like in July.
Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna have to fit. Well, we'll have to
Speaker 1: get invited anyway. Now it's the place to be because
Speaker 1: we're legends in the making. That no, it's possible to
Speaker 1: be together as one. So here's the synopsis, z and Addison.
Speaker 1: But by the way, I'm the last person to pick
Speaker 1: this up. I had no idea that all the characters
Speaker 1: first name symbolize what they are. Did you know that?
Speaker 2: I didn't either. One of our fans actually.
Speaker 1: Reach zombie and a Addison is an alien Willa and
Speaker 1: they're all werewolves. And then I thought about the new
Speaker 1: character Nova, who's a day walker, and the only thing
Speaker 1: I come up with is it was for no vampire.
Speaker 2: Oh and I don't.
Speaker 1: Know if that's true or not, but that's how I
Speaker 1: got it, So.
Speaker 4: I thought, I will. I thought maybe a Planet of
Speaker 4: the Apes reference also all possible because she has kind
Speaker 4: of that vibe as a day.
Speaker 1: Washer she does, so that's possible too. I'm curious where
Speaker 1: the origin of the name came from. Yeah, okay, so
Speaker 1: this synopsis, Zed and Addison have just finished their freshman
Speaker 1: year of college and are ready for a summer road trip.
Speaker 1: I have to say I'm very happy they did not
Speaker 1: go with just their first year at college. It would
Speaker 1: have seemed too much like being back at Seabrook, so
Speaker 1: I'm glad they didn't do that. They're ready for a
Speaker 1: summer road trip, but when they unexpectedly discovered the warring
Speaker 1: worlds of two new groups of monsters, their fun is
Speaker 1: threatened forever and clear the way because Zombies four is
Speaker 1: directed by the man behind it all, the same legend
Speaker 1: who's been steering the ship since the very first movie,
Speaker 1: a film he was thrown into last minute. By the way,
Speaker 1: it's the d coom daddy of them all. I will
Speaker 1: call him DCOM Daddy Paul Ho And not only are
Speaker 1: all of these prior movies on his resume, but and
Speaker 1: of course you can just mouth along with me as
Speaker 1: I do the list. Luck of the Irish read it
Speaker 1: and weep Cheetah Girls to One World, Camp Rock to
Speaker 1: and a bevy a big TV shows we can add
Speaker 1: to the list. And what's a DCOM podcast without a
Speaker 1: hoe and interview? So that's right, we've already done it.
Speaker 1: You can go check ours out right now, especially if
Speaker 1: you don't want to be spoiled by anything. It's available
Speaker 1: on the dedicated magical rewind feed. Seriously, give it a listen.
Speaker 1: He's awesome. I can't wait to have him back our
Speaker 1: dm Daddy forecast. Let's start wait to call it.
Speaker 2: We can't wait to see his face on zoom when
Speaker 2: we call him DCOM Daddy. Is the DCM dady going
Speaker 2: to dad, That's what it is.
Speaker 1: He's the DCOM Daddy, we're gonna get shirts made, So
Speaker 1: let's let's start with the names we know. For the cast.
Speaker 1: Star and executive producer Milo Mannheim returns as zombie Zed.
Speaker 1: He kills it every time. It's been said that he
Speaker 1: and his co star were very involved behind the scenes
Speaker 1: with this one, hoping to keep the legacy alive even
Speaker 1: as they take a backseat. And man, did they do
Speaker 1: it with a plumb? The question lies not only in
Speaker 1: Milo's lap, but also Meg Donnelly's Meg returns as Addison,
Speaker 1: the alien human hybrid cheerleader and girlfriend of Zed. Both
Speaker 1: original stars in the movie were unknowns when first cast,
Speaker 1: but now I feel like we'll be seeing way more
Speaker 1: of them outside of the Disney universe, especially with Milo
Speaker 1: just entering the world of theater with Little Shop of Horrors.
Speaker 1: Also back in the mix, we have a Chandler Kinney
Speaker 1: as will of the Werewolf, and Kylie Russell, who is
Speaker 1: not pregnant this time, returns as Eliza, the brainiac zombie.
Speaker 1: And that's it. That's it. That's right, folks. No Aliens,
Speaker 1: no Wyat, no Bucky, no yogurt Coach, not even Rue
Speaker 1: Paul as a UFO. But of course we do see shrimpy,
Speaker 1: which makes no sense. So not all is lost, Serena,
Speaker 1: did it bother you losing so many of the original characters.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're left with what I think from now
Speaker 1: on we're going to refer to as the core four.
Speaker 1: Did it not seeing anybody else? Bug you?
Speaker 2: I think it was. You know, it just set the
Speaker 2: stage right from the start that this is not about
Speaker 2: the rest of what we've seen so far, that this
Speaker 2: is this is a new storyline. We're moving forward in
Speaker 2: a big jump, hop, skip and escadatle away from what
Speaker 2: we've already done. So it at first was kind of like, oh,
Speaker 2: you know and some of the other Again, I didn't
Speaker 2: like look into it or anything before I sat and
Speaker 2: watched it, But we had already kind of known that
Speaker 2: this was this, you know, or anticipate that this was
Speaker 2: like a handing of the torch and all that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff. So this was just like, oh, okay, we're
Speaker 2: doing it, like right from the start, and one number
Speaker 2: yes Trevor did yeah, he said, yeah, no, we are.
Speaker 2: And then also I found out we knew no Bucky.
Speaker 2: Then it was confirmed when I talked to Terry that
Speaker 2: they were not in this next one as far. So
Speaker 2: I was kind of going bracing myself and they said
Speaker 2: that Addison was going to be the only alien that
Speaker 2: was She's ready.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, she's representing the alien definitely
Speaker 1: in this.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So it was kind of like, oh, so I
Speaker 2: was a little anticipating it, but I thought there would
Speaker 2: be a little bit more within that first once it
Speaker 2: started becoming obvious. It was a dancing in the beginning.
Speaker 2: I thought we were going to get a little cameos
Speaker 2: something there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nothing new, nothing. Well, that's the end of the
Speaker 1: old generation, so let's get into the new generation now.
Speaker 1: If you remember, Zombie's one was extremely rare because it
Speaker 1: cast all newcomers. Nobody had any sort of significant Hollywood footprint,
Speaker 1: not even on the channel. But that is not the
Speaker 1: case with Malachi bar Carton, who plays Victor the Vampire.
Speaker 1: He is the new flag bearer on the male side,
Speaker 1: and he first burst onto the scene as Beast Diaz
Speaker 1: in the Disney show Stuck in the Middle. He wasn't
Speaker 1: even ten years old when he was cast. He then
Speaker 1: moved on to play a Kolby Madden on another Disney
Speaker 1: Channel show, The Villains of Valley View, and appeared un bunked,
Speaker 1: just roll with It and both under wraps reboot movies.
Speaker 1: So this kid is a Disney System star through and through.
Speaker 1: He's now eighteen years old and has the weight of
Speaker 1: the channel on his back. If you ask me, they
Speaker 1: seem they are making this kid a star. Next up
Speaker 1: our new female lead and Sabrina's favorite, Freya Sky as
Speaker 1: day Walker, Nova Bright Where Malachi, Where Malachi is part
Speaker 1: of the studio home team. Freya is as green as
Speaker 1: they come. Her only two real Hollywood credits are as
Speaker 1: voices into video games. But she as a native of England. Yes,
Speaker 1: she hit her accent well, she is from England as
Speaker 1: you're supposed to say it, and represented the UK in
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Result she
Speaker 1: was signed to Hollywood Records, contracted by Disney Publishing for
Speaker 1: her songwriting skills, and set into a holding deal for
Speaker 1: Disney TV, which is now paid off in a massive way.
Speaker 1: The most shocking part, as I said at the beginning,
Speaker 1: she's fifteen. That voice, that brightness on screen, she is
Speaker 1: fifteen years old, and as we just said, can we
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about our singing voice? Can it
Speaker 1: be argue that this is the best voice we've ever
Speaker 1: heard in a DCM could would she be on the
Speaker 1: list of best voices.
Speaker 3: She'd definitely be up up towards the top.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think she was. Rarely notice how good someone's voices.
Speaker 1: I'm like listening to the song, not the quality of
Speaker 1: the voice. She's got a good voice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she's for what I've seen on her Instagram
Speaker 2: because I am absolutely following her now. She has a
Speaker 2: single that's dropping soon. She showed a little bit of
Speaker 2: music video. She's playing the piano, so she's very versatile
Speaker 2: and she's going to be. Like I said, I really
Speaker 2: just feel she's going to be an epic.
Speaker 1: Okay, so artist, I am suggesting that we have a
Speaker 1: new segment that'll take ten seconds on our new show.
Speaker 1: We're going to call it a fray A check because
Speaker 1: as of right now, at the time of this taping,
Speaker 1: she has only two hundred and thirty nine thousand followers
Speaker 1: on Instagram, and I have a feeling it's.
Speaker 2: Because for the movie aired, she was more in the
Speaker 2: one hundreds. Okay, So, so she's already jumped up quite
Speaker 2: a bit.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna we're gonna start doing it.
Speaker 2: I started following her. She had like one hundred thousand something.
Speaker 1: Okay, so two hundred and thirty nine thousand followers on
Speaker 1: instag Do you have your Instagram near you?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Check check right now. This is our first ever fraya check.
Speaker 2: We're at Freya check e. I love this. This is perfect.
Speaker 2: Watch Lisa's going to do it before me, and you're
Speaker 2: she's doing it.
Speaker 1: I know you're doing She's at three already did She's
Speaker 1: at three hundred and five thousand right now. So from
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty nine when mode.
Speaker 2: Was on airplane mode.
Speaker 1: Where we first check, she's at three hundred and five
Speaker 1: thousand right now, we are going to continue to look.
Speaker 1: That's Freya check number one. I'm guessing it's going to
Speaker 1: jump by leaps and bounds.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but Malachi has over a million.
Speaker 1: Okay, she'll be there very quickly, so fast. Julian Lerner
Speaker 1: is day walker Ray. Julian has a very cool, unique
Speaker 1: look and this makes sense. One of his first jobs
Speaker 1: was as young Pete Davidson on an episode of SNL.
Speaker 1: He also appeared in the movie Yesterday, the Soprano spinoff
Speaker 1: movie The Many Saints of Newark, and was one of
Speaker 1: the stars of the Wonder Years reboot, but most importantly,
Speaker 1: he was cast in the upcoming Bluey movie. And then
Speaker 1: we have Sway Batia is Vera the Vampire. Sway has
Speaker 1: a very cool IMDb page. She was a voice in
Speaker 1: the Netflix animated series Karma's World, a star of the
Speaker 1: Mighty Ducks Game Changers reboot, but most of our cable
Speaker 1: focused audience will recognize her as Sophie Roy on the
Speaker 1: highly acclaimed HBO show Succession. She is great. I hope
Speaker 1: she stays on for all the upcoming movies. And then
Speaker 1: mconan Knife is Vargas the Vampire. Again. I apologize if
Speaker 1: I'm butchering any of these names. He also has a
Speaker 1: very cool name and was a local Australian higher so
Speaker 1: this was his first big mainstream role. The movie runs
Speaker 1: wait for It, people, eighty eight minutes, very close to
Speaker 1: the target, just too short, which we know is better
Speaker 1: than too long. So once again, all hell Daddy d
Speaker 1: com hohen he has done it yet again. This is
Speaker 1: one of the few times in our life where too
Speaker 1: short is better than too long. The movie you take
Speaker 1: that however you want. The movie was written by the
Speaker 1: familiar names of David Light and Joseph Rasso, the team
Speaker 1: behind the original failed Pilot and Pass movies. No surprise
Speaker 1: there since they'll be on board for life. But then
Speaker 1: we have josh A. Kagan, a new name added to
Speaker 1: the mix. He's not new to the family musical however.
Speaker 1: He wrote band Slam, which is the one I brought
Speaker 1: up when we were talking about Lemonade mouth Mouth the Duff,
Speaker 1: the Kim Possible live action film which I'm pretending never happened.
Speaker 1: Under wraps two another d com called upside Down Magic
Speaker 1: and the letter Heavy edm DJ d com say that
Speaker 1: three times again, EDMDJ dcom. We all liked Spin, which
Speaker 1: was a great movie. He seems like a very impressive
Speaker 1: name for the channel. So we're gonna get this guy
Speaker 1: on and ask him why he did that to Kim Possible. Okay,
Speaker 1: now we.
Speaker 2: Need to talk to David and Joseph. That's who we
Speaker 2: got to already. We got to get to everybody.
Speaker 1: We gotta talk to everybody because we gotta we got
Speaker 1: to round out our zombies here, and then we need
Speaker 1: cameos in Zombies five. Now Zombies five Will and Sabrina.
Speaker 2: Which is well, they'll be the ones that told us
Speaker 2: like what ended up happening, why they felt the pilot failed,
Speaker 2: and how it became what should have been from the
Speaker 2: start the movie.
Speaker 1: We're absolutely going to have to have them on because
Speaker 1: we have so many questions. Okay, make sure you've got
Speaker 1: enough blood fruit to go around, because it's time to
Speaker 1: get into Zombies four, Donna the Vampires. Zombie four starts
Speaker 1: the same way we kicked off every Zombies movie so far,
Speaker 1: with an animated recap. Love it. The zombies, aliens, and
Speaker 1: wo wolves are living in harmony, and our main characters
Speaker 1: are at Mountain College where they heard a brand new
Speaker 1: story about another moonstone crashing on Mount Rayburn, creating two
Speaker 1: new monsters and two sanctioned off cities. These are the
Speaker 1: day Walkers and the vampires. Now, Sabrina, I feel like
Speaker 1: we all know about vampires. Did you know about day.
Speaker 3: Walkers in just assuming that they're just not vampires?
Speaker 1: So you you never knew like Blade? Did you ever
Speaker 1: watch Blade? Because Blade was a day walker It's what
Speaker 1: they called them.
Speaker 2: Day wo oh. I've seen the movie Blade so long ago,
Speaker 2: decades and decades ago, but no, I wouldn't remember that.
Speaker 1: So he's a vampire who can handle the sunlight, which
Speaker 1: is one of one of his major powers. He has
Speaker 1: all the powers of a vampire with none of their weaknesses.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, which is kind of what I thought they
Speaker 1: were going for here, But it turns out no, they vampire,
Speaker 1: any of that, none of that. Yeah, it's okay, we'll
Speaker 1: get into that. This is where the fantasy that I.
Speaker 2: Went, oh well, it's not gonna like that.
Speaker 1: Started to do. The moonstone also created a crop called
Speaker 1: blood fruit, which both species need to survive for some reason,
Speaker 1: so they end up fighting over the resource and locked
Speaker 1: themselves off from each other for years as enemies until now.
Speaker 1: And then we're thrown into real life Mountain College in
Speaker 1: the last day of freshman year. Zed talks to the
Speaker 1: camera as an intro we're used to. At this point,
Speaker 1: we find out that football didn't go as well as expected.
Speaker 1: The coach, sadly not yogurt coach, has set him up
Speaker 1: with an intensive football camp for the summer so he
Speaker 1: can get better. So Zed won't be able to see
Speaker 1: everyone at Seabrook, which is a bummer, but he gets it.
Speaker 1: We then cut to Addison cheerleading has been a bit
Speaker 1: of a battle as well. It appears the bigger pond
Speaker 1: has made it tougher for her to stand out if
Speaker 1: she wants to make cheer captain. Eventually, she needs to
Speaker 1: attend a cheer camp all summer, which means she'll also
Speaker 1: be away from her friends, and so we get our
Speaker 1: first musical number, Legends of the making a song about
Speaker 1: the sacrifices they're making this summer to get better at
Speaker 1: their respective sports. We also get to see Zombie Eliza
Speaker 1: for the first time. She's skipped grades and is now
Speaker 1: also in college. She's loving it and of course excelling
Speaker 1: in science. She is also no longer pregnant. She obviously
Speaker 1: had a kid and looks exactly like she did before
Speaker 1: she had a kid.
Speaker 2: Well, at this point, her kid's almost like three years.
Speaker 1: Kid's probably seventeen at this point. It is probably one
Speaker 1: of the dancers behind her, because it's been a while
Speaker 1: since we've seen them. But yes wherewolf Willa is also there,
Speaker 1: having a blasted Mountain college and she can't wait to
Speaker 1: come back next year. And now in Okay. First of all,
Speaker 1: one thing I noticed, I thought the whole point of
Speaker 1: the last movie was z was going to be the
Speaker 1: first monster to get into college. And pave the way
Speaker 1: for the rest. Right, but after his first year, if
Speaker 1: you look in the background, they dressed everybody. There's tons
Speaker 1: of werewolves, there's tons of zombies, there's tons of aliens.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: Well, I think there was a mention in the last
Speaker 4: one that other monsters would be able to go if
Speaker 4: he went, so they kept okay in case it then
Speaker 4: opened it up for other recruits. But you're right in
Speaker 4: that sense. But I do think that they gave a
Speaker 4: small warning that there would be other oh, that it.
Speaker 2: Was possible, because like it it was like him getting
Speaker 2: into it was going to open the door for other
Speaker 2: opportunities for everyone else.
Speaker 1: Okay, so they let in z and then three hundred
Speaker 1: other monsters the same.
Speaker 2: Apparently, Yeah, you know, but like that's how it goes,
Speaker 2: right with college, Like they do their first round and
Speaker 2: then so people go to that college, others don't.
Speaker 3: Then the second round gets to go out on.
Speaker 2: The yahs, Like, yeah, they were on maybe they were
Speaker 2: on the wait list. Maybe you know, they had to
Speaker 2: they had to see how their grades were, how many off.
Speaker 2: You know, there's college I went with it that didn't bother.
Speaker 1: I was just curious, we're now in the quad we
Speaker 1: get our first big dance number, and man, there are
Speaker 1: lots and lots of extras here the budget's first real moment.
Speaker 1: We also get a nice glimpse of the Shrimpy high
Speaker 1: school mascot, which makes no sense now that they're in college,
Speaker 1: but they're.
Speaker 2: And somewhere on on Instagram that they did. There's something
Speaker 2: that happened. I was I didn't have my my volume on,
Speaker 2: but they talk about Shrimpy.
Speaker 3: There's a story behind it. We'll have to find it
Speaker 3: and bring it back.
Speaker 2: At some point. I couldn't figure it out. After I
Speaker 2: tried to find that clip and couldn't figure it out.
Speaker 2: It was an interview, they said, Paul hoan, Okay, here
Speaker 2: we go. Fought to get Shrimpy there because he loves
Speaker 2: Shrimpy and he's Shrimpy, said saying happy birthday to someone
Speaker 2: during the set. The Shrimpy is like the mascot for
Speaker 2: all of them, not just like fine.
Speaker 1: If Daddy dcom wants it, then I'm in.
Speaker 2: And I my one of my first thing of Sabrina
Speaker 2: sees is the shrimp mascot. Paul, is that you why
Speaker 2: is Shrimpy? And here's someone there's something specific going on
Speaker 2: he says.
Speaker 1: Apparently in the interview, he says, Shrimpy is a person.
Speaker 4: Okay, so that would mean that Shrimpy can get into
Speaker 4: college as a person. So it's not a mascot at
Speaker 4: this point. It's Shrimpy a human being.
Speaker 1: Oh wait a minute, is the next movie that we
Speaker 1: think with it's going to be about Shrimpy's like failing.
Speaker 4: They're mad that he's identifying as a human.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's what it is. They're coming to
Speaker 1: get Shrimpy back. I think we've we've cracked it, people,
Speaker 1: We've cracked it. I also love as this giant dance
Speaker 1: number is going on in the quad, there's extras just
Speaker 1: going to classes above them that aren't dancing that are
Speaker 1: probably like, why is everybody dancing on the quad? Like
Speaker 1: if you notice there's a second level where they're not
Speaker 1: dancing at all, they're literally just walking to classes. Hundreds
Speaker 1: of extras above them are just walking to different classes,
Speaker 1: which I thought was such a good touch where it's
Speaker 1: like not everybody's dancing. I thought that was great, Like
Speaker 1: the school's going on as everybody else is still dancing.
Speaker 1: I thought that was very cool. Oh my gosh, I
Speaker 1: didn't got to school. Mid song, our core four revealed
Speaker 1: that they'll be road tripping together, leaving college to their
Speaker 1: respective camps, all of them going in Z's green VW bug.
Speaker 1: They pull out of the parking lot and we enter
Speaker 1: the world of the day Walkers and Hello of forty
Speaker 1: million dollars. It is a beautiful tropical island and beach,
Speaker 1: and we immediately see the day Walkers practicing their magic.
Speaker 1: It's not a whole lot different than the effects we see,
Speaker 1: to be honest, in like Harry Potter movies, they're kind
Speaker 1: of that level.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The group, wearing red and gold, shoots fireballs and perform
Speaker 1: intense karate routines as practice, and a young blonde named
Speaker 1: Nova is instructing the group on how to protect their
Speaker 1: blood fruit from vampires. There was also a little girl
Speaker 1: who walks up and says, why do we have to
Speaker 1: stay here? We never see the little girl again, has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with anything, no point in having her
Speaker 1: there whatsoever, to be somebody's kid. Soon they will make
Speaker 1: the pilgrimage to get the fruit, but Nova is distracted
Speaker 1: by vivid dreams of a cute boy in a cloak,
Speaker 1: only interrupted by her dad, the day Walker leader Commander Bright,
Speaker 1: who had just fabulous blonde hair and would have been
Speaker 1: the part that I wanted to play. He needs her
Speaker 1: focused on the task at hand, because those vampires will
Speaker 1: do anything for blood fruit, and one day she's set
Speaker 1: to take over for him. They traveled to the big
Speaker 1: day Walker command Center, which is mostly made up a
Speaker 1: CGI but looks pretty good. And this is when I
Speaker 1: realized that Paul Hoen used every single dollar that Disney
Speaker 1: gave him. I think we have to put can we
Speaker 1: can we officially put this above Descendants on a scale
Speaker 1: of production value, But I guess we can't really say
Speaker 1: that yet because we've only seen the first one. So
Speaker 1: for all we know, the last Descendants movie is like
Speaker 1: watching a Marvel movie. We don't know.
Speaker 2: That's very true, that's that's actually true. But I do
Speaker 2: think it's safe to say that they went into Descendants.
Speaker 2: I don't remember what the budget was, but because it
Speaker 2: was Kenny like and knowing like the production value and
Speaker 2: what that was, I feel like there was probably a
Speaker 2: lot more given in that first Descendance movie than what
Speaker 2: was in the first Zombies.
Speaker 1: Do you think after these movies are done and they
Speaker 1: give Paul Hoan and Kenny Artaga, like they do everything
Speaker 1: you think. Eventually, they're just gonna have them fight to
Speaker 1: the death. So there's just gonna be one of them
Speaker 1: left to see who actually is is the decom daddy
Speaker 1: of them all. It's gonna be like a pay per
Speaker 1: view fight to the death between Kenny Ortega and Paul Howan.
Speaker 1: We'll have to see it be interesting.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, anyway, well that would.
Speaker 1: Be We also hear meet Ray, a top soldier for
Speaker 1: the day Walkers, very excited to be on the front
Speaker 1: line for the Blood Fruit battle, which is I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be saying an awful lot. He's a bit of a
Speaker 1: kiss butt and very loyal to the commander. Then we're
Speaker 1: over on the vampire side of the island, Shadyville, where
Speaker 1: of course it's much darker but just as expensive looking,
Speaker 1: and it's a real blade Runner kind of vibe. Looked great.
Speaker 1: Two vampires, Vargas and Vera, are prepping for their blood
Speaker 1: Fruit trip too. Then Victor, their leader's nephew, is late
Speaker 1: and haphazardly lands nearby with flying upside down, which doesn't okay,
Speaker 1: we'll get into the flying later, oh the flying. Anyway,
Speaker 1: he lands nearby, he is a slacker with a lot
Speaker 1: of charisma. He's happy to leave shady Vilsteins. He knows
Speaker 1: there's a whole wide world out there, but Vera isn't
Speaker 1: so sure. She's happy to be living the night life.
Speaker 1: Oh she likes to boogie worth figuring out. Now are
Speaker 1: we that was for you, Sabrita? Are we to assume
Speaker 1: that day? So? Okay, so this is where I start
Speaker 1: going to visit. So day walkers walk in the day
Speaker 1: because they can't walk in the night. And vampires, like
Speaker 1: in all a vampire folklore that's ever existed in the
Speaker 1: history of the world, sleep during the day and can't
Speaker 1: be harmed or and then they can be harmed or
Speaker 1: killed by the son. That's what's right, right, that's where
Speaker 1: we stand at this point.
Speaker 2: Yes, because the worlds are bright and dark.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's place here's where the rule is start. Okay, gotcha. Eventually,
Speaker 1: their adult leader, the vampire Eldris, announces it's time to
Speaker 1: start their trip. The harvest is upon us, and then
Speaker 1: we're back with the Core four in Zed's green VW
Speaker 1: set is driving, but he's on a headset phone with
Speaker 1: his coach. The biggest headset you've ever seen in your life,
Speaker 1: which I think all that stuff is very funny. He's
Speaker 1: constantly helping him to visualize, learn plays, and think about
Speaker 1: nothing but football. This seems counterproductive in my opinion. But
Speaker 1: short and Addison isn't much better. She's focused on learning
Speaker 1: cheers and balancing on a pyramid. But then the get
Speaker 1: how do you read about balancing on a pyramid? Anyway?
Speaker 1: But then the gang is stunned by a wave of
Speaker 1: electricity that shakes the car and turns off Zed's z bracelet.
Speaker 1: He begins to zombie out in the car swerves in
Speaker 1: every direction. As Zed goes in and out of being
Speaker 1: a monster, he pulls the steering wheel right out of
Speaker 1: the car, crashing the car and flipping it into the forest.
Speaker 1: More very big, expensive stunts. It looked great. The car
Speaker 1: is now although I will say why they only had
Speaker 1: the horn go off once when it's slammed on, Why
Speaker 1: it didn't go eh boom boom boom boom boom. I
Speaker 1: don't understand. They only have to do it. The car's
Speaker 1: now upside down and the group is safe. But Willa,
Speaker 1: the werewolf senses something bad nearby. The three others agree
Speaker 1: to follow her to see what's up. Now, you'd assume
Speaker 1: they'd walk together, but no, Addison is on her own.
Speaker 1: When she finds a portal, it transports her from bright
Speaker 1: Beach to dark Knight with just one step, another kind
Speaker 1: of cool looking visual effect.
Speaker 2: And did you Yeah? I was just like what, mainly
Speaker 2: because of how they like just first of all, they
Speaker 2: all this not okay to teach kids, like all right,
Speaker 2: you guys, get lost, everyone break up on your own.
Speaker 1: Yes, there's a buddy system for a reason.
Speaker 2: There buddy system, and Willa and Eliza are doing just that.
Speaker 2: They went together. Why are we breaking up so that
Speaker 2: already I'm like getting annoyed? Unsafe? Unsafe? My boyfriend ever
Speaker 2: said all right, yeah, let's we just got stranded. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go this way, You're gonna go this way, And
Speaker 2: I'm like, you can keep going because we're broken up. Done,
Speaker 2: you're believing me.
Speaker 1: Stay together people, okay?
Speaker 2: But then they just walk like they're just walking and
Speaker 2: go through it. I don't know, I guess I'm not.
Speaker 2: This isn't my world to know what much about portals,
Speaker 2: But to me, there shouldn't there.
Speaker 1: Have been like a no, that's how a portal works
Speaker 1: you just.
Speaker 2: Walk and then all of a sudden you've gone through
Speaker 2: a portal.
Speaker 1: This isn't This isn't a portal so much is what
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be as a veil. It's essentially a
Speaker 1: big long line. It's a shimmering veil. Again, this is
Speaker 1: my fantasy nerd brain. It's a shimmering veil between light
Speaker 1: and dark that you can just cross over. First of all,
Speaker 1: I understand why they have it where you can just
Speaker 1: cross over it with no effects. But this is where
Speaker 1: the magic started.
Speaker 2: To I mean, there's like you like, you know, like
Speaker 2: the things are you have to like touch like a
Speaker 2: mirror and.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, my arm. But that's a portal. That's a portal.
Speaker 1: This is a veil.
Speaker 2: This is a veil.
Speaker 1: This is a veil. It's a shimmering veil. That that
Speaker 1: that that's like the length of the thing. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: know it's it's a but yes. Uh. She discovers Shadyville
Speaker 1: in the distance, which seems like a pretty shady place
Speaker 1: to be. She wonders if someone in that town can
Speaker 1: tell her what's going on. That was my shady joke.
Speaker 1: By the way, Zed is also just freely walking by
Speaker 1: himself after almost dying in a car crash, and the
Speaker 1: portal he stumbles right into I'm gonna say veil he
Speaker 1: walks across, brings him to the day Walker's camp. Zed,
Speaker 1: who looks very out of place, approaches the day Walkers
Speaker 1: on their way to the orchard, but is welcomed by
Speaker 1: a Nova flipkick. She does. She hammers him. She thinks
Speaker 1: he's a vampire, but Zed explains he's actually a zombie.
Speaker 3: Sed always gets his ass kicked.
Speaker 1: He does, he does, and he's like the strongest one.
Speaker 2: I love it by girls.
Speaker 1: Milo, by the way, is so funny in this movie.
Speaker 1: He wasn't this funny in the other three. I don't
Speaker 1: think because he was so funny in the other three,
Speaker 1: But I thought he was really really funny in this movie. Great,
Speaker 1: he's got a big future in comedy. Ray still wants
Speaker 1: to attack Zed, but Nova calls him off. Commander Bright
Speaker 1: is also concerned with the intruder, but Nova doesn't think
Speaker 1: he's a vampire. He doesn't have fangs and is too clueless. Instead,
Speaker 1: they decide to use him as a recruit for the harvest.
Speaker 1: Now he's Nova's responsibility because what just like that? None
Speaker 1: of that again, I know they've got to get him
Speaker 1: in there, but it's like, hey, who's this stranger, I'm
Speaker 1: a zombie. Okay, that's it. That's it.
Speaker 2: Come on, this is the part. This and then there's
Speaker 2: just one other scene that I know you're gonna attack
Speaker 2: really hard, and I'm okay with it because it was
Speaker 2: my least favorite as well. But this right here, this
Speaker 2: section is when I struggled. And I told Tara because
Speaker 2: I you know, when we were sitting her and I
Speaker 2: were actually in the premiere together, and I went, oh,
Speaker 2: this was my This is the part that I just get.
Speaker 2: And then she goes, really I did. They didn't bother
Speaker 2: me at all.
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, I don't get. It's just like, hey,
Speaker 1: all right, you're on our teape.
Speaker 2: First of all, the veil or the whale or whatever
Speaker 2: you have to go through, and then you go through it,
Speaker 2: and then it's like, hey, I swear I'm not not
Speaker 2: an intruder. Oh yeah, okay, he's your problem now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a part of the team. Come on, you're
Speaker 1: with me, strange guy.
Speaker 2: They almost lost me here, I almost lost.
Speaker 1: There was a couple of My strength is strong, but
Speaker 1: there's a couple of things that really needed rewrites like.
Speaker 2: It was just like too this part was too quick
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 1: He really needed rewrites for this movie, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: a couple things, but anyway, we are now back on
Speaker 1: the dark side of the island. The vampires have started
Speaker 1: their trek to the orchard too, just as Addison stumbles
Speaker 1: out of the group. She's happy to see any form
Speaker 1: of life, but they immediately assume she's a day walker
Speaker 1: and attacker with this very cool thunder windstorm kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Still wasn't entirely sure what their power was or how
Speaker 1: that has anything to do with vampires. It elevates her
Speaker 1: up into the sky until Victor decides to step in
Speaker 1: and save her. She lands fifty feet away and assures
Speaker 1: them she's just a cheerleader. The elder just wants to
Speaker 1: throw into the dungeon, but Victor continues to protect her
Speaker 1: and convinces his aunt to let her help pick fruit,
Speaker 1: so again, she's just part of the team. Addison notices
Speaker 1: a sketch Victor's holding of a beautiful blonde girl. He
Speaker 1: says it's just a girl he's been imagining in his dreams.
Speaker 1: Back on the bright day Walker beach, Zeden's new day
Speaker 1: Walker friends lead us in a new song, the Place
Speaker 1: to Be and introduction for our new monsters. We learn
Speaker 1: the day Walkers get their power from the light Stone,
Speaker 1: a solar flare of sorts, and the Vampires get their
Speaker 1: power from a dark stone, which I guess you could
Speaker 1: have guessed. These two groups definitely do not like each
Speaker 1: other and there's little hope for future friendship. This was
Speaker 1: actually the first single from the movie, released back in May.
Speaker 1: So what do we think of this routine and the
Speaker 1: movie and the song and everything. Keep in mind it
Speaker 1: did involve some water dancing, which always seems like a plus.
Speaker 1: Did you did you like this? Was this a bop?
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 2: I do like this song?
Speaker 3: I do?
Speaker 2: I feel like when it comes to introducing, like you said,
Speaker 2: the new style, the new the new monsters, it's not
Speaker 2: the best that we've seen within the previous other movies, right,
Speaker 2: and then it bothered me. I'm all for some water dancing.
Speaker 2: I love it. It's always great to the streets you have,
Speaker 2: you have to stay wet after you get dry, you
Speaker 2: don't just instantly dry. And a lot of them were
Speaker 2: like and then hit hit to another scene, hit to
Speaker 2: another shot, Hit back to them, and they're fully dry,
Speaker 2: and continued.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's one of their mythical vampire powers. Maybe instantly dry.
Speaker 2: The only thing that kind of got me a little
Speaker 2: bit of like, no, I'm good to be wet, but
Speaker 2: you got it. You don't just instantly dry.
Speaker 1: No one does, I am gonna say, and this is
Speaker 1: it's just true. I went I watched the entire film,
Speaker 1: and then I went back and watched all the music
Speaker 1: and the dance numbers. Again. I do not remember a
Speaker 1: single song, not a single one. I do not remember
Speaker 1: a single song. No really. We also get a moment
Speaker 1: in the song where both Victor and Nova have emotional solos,
Speaker 1: looking for someone out there that understands that they want
Speaker 1: more from their lives, and obviously, of course they're talking
Speaker 1: about each other. Now. The day Walkers are the first
Speaker 1: to land at the orchard, followed closely behind by the vampires,
Speaker 1: and this is where things start to get real confusing.
Speaker 1: The orchard's bright and sunny, and though it's startling at first,
Speaker 1: we find out the sun doesn't actually hurt vampires at all.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, it's like a warm blanket. What what? What?
Speaker 1: So what?
Speaker 2: I went, Oh, gonna lose.
Speaker 1: Well, what, they're vampires.
Speaker 2: I know that that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get you have to make PG kind of vampires.
Speaker 1: They did it in what was that other awful vampire movies,
Speaker 1: the Twilight movies where it's like we're vegetarians. What so
Speaker 1: the the whole it's this to me was just it
Speaker 1: was like, what then, why are you always in the
Speaker 1: dark and they're always in the light. If it doesn't
Speaker 1: do anything.
Speaker 2: Why do they live that way? Then? If it's not
Speaker 2: a big deal.
Speaker 1: Right, and why why maybe even have it just out
Speaker 1: a line where where when the vampires walk out, it
Speaker 1: could even be like they're not gonna go out, it's
Speaker 1: gonna kill us. It's gonna kill us. And then a
Speaker 1: doesen't and you find out they've been lied to forever
Speaker 1: or something where yeah, I mean there's nothing there.
Speaker 2: Just the orchard could have been kind of like a
Speaker 2: half dark that's they're comfortable where they're not like y,
Speaker 2: you know, but they're the orchard is ship and you know, but.
Speaker 1: So why they should have been because the roots are
Speaker 1: different later, so why not have one dark side of
Speaker 1: the orchard and one light side of the orchard. Something happened,
Speaker 1: but this made no sense. You need some rules. Superman
Speaker 1: can't just be all powerful. He has to have Kryptonite,
Speaker 1: he has to have you know, magic.
Speaker 2: Bound boundaries to everything.
Speaker 1: You have to have something that you know, Z the
Speaker 1: Z bands him. Oh my god, there are weaknesses to
Speaker 1: all this. That's the point. And so this was just hey,
Speaker 1: this is warm, like wait what So yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't I was gone, it's hard to.
Speaker 2: I think it's hard to because it's not just like
Speaker 2: you know, you you love that world in those different
Speaker 2: kinds of movies. That's not something.
Speaker 3: But still like vampires are vampires there?
Speaker 2: That isn't that is a worldwide thank you rule for vampires.
Speaker 2: You don't have to be in the world to like
Speaker 2: know that. So yeah, and I do. I think if
Speaker 2: they thought they just needed to just there's a there
Speaker 2: was a way to make it work.
Speaker 1: Then how are they different than day Walkers other than
Speaker 1: the fact that they like it dark.
Speaker 2: I don't know. They do this swirly thing and they went, yeah,
Speaker 2: the fireirly thing absolutely did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is where it was so convoluted with the
Speaker 1: magical system and what what are they doing? But either way,
Speaker 1: this is when both groups running to each other, forcing
Speaker 1: the day walkers to sprint to the Orchard Gate, where
Speaker 1: they all realize they're locked out. So after all that
Speaker 1: setup about how much they hate each other, they just
Speaker 1: stand there, shoulders shoulder, just stand. There was this weird
Speaker 1: to you. They're just like, hey, it's up, Hey, how
Speaker 1: you doing. Can't what's what's going on? Can't stand well?
Speaker 2: And then as they're walking down, like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: it's just the fact that Addison and z didn't like
Speaker 2: instant I mean, you look so different than everyone else,
Speaker 2: Like like for my husband, I could spot Jordan's yeah,
Speaker 2: sea of two hundred people, like he's right there, you know,
Speaker 2: same with me with him. So it's like it's weird
Speaker 2: that they were like it took him so long to
Speaker 2: be like, oh hey, hey we did.
Speaker 1: Three movies together already. Yes, So this was just it
Speaker 1: was just strange, you're just standing around. The big headline here, though,
Speaker 1: is that Nova sees Victor for the first time, and
Speaker 1: they both realize this is the person of their dreams
Speaker 1: and also Zad Allison or reunited. But Addison and the
Speaker 1: Eldris and Commander Bright have a war of words and
Speaker 1: just before an all out war breaks which it doesn't
Speaker 1: in any way between the two gangs which are just
Speaker 1: standing around our core. Four step up to point out
Speaker 1: a bigger problem at hand. No one can get through
Speaker 1: this gate without what appears to be three keys. Okay,
Speaker 1: so had none of these people. So here's what I
Speaker 1: was trying to figure out. They and they did explain
Speaker 1: this right. There was blood fruit, which both societies monsters
Speaker 1: need to survive, that was growing at their respectives town
Speaker 1: and then that started to die, so they had to
Speaker 1: come to the orchard to harvest. Yes, so this isn't
Speaker 1: a yearly thing where they harvest the fruit.
Speaker 2: No, it's they're going because all of their their orchards
Speaker 2: that they have are dyed, that are that they normally
Speaker 2: harvest from are dying. Okay, and they know, but they
Speaker 2: know that locked away is this you.
Speaker 1: Know, But they didn't know it was locked away because
Speaker 1: they all showed up and went why is it locked?
Speaker 2: But they tell us at the very beginning of the
Speaker 2: movie that it's.
Speaker 1: Locked, that it was, but they didn't know it was
Speaker 1: locked because they're like, well, there's we need keys, and
Speaker 1: the ones like I'm gonna fly over it. And then
Speaker 1: she throws a rock and oh there's a force field.
Speaker 1: How do they not know any of this before they
Speaker 1: showed up?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, so no, in the in the little
Speaker 2: characterture thing, the lock that they have or is that
Speaker 2: it's the the bars that were at the tunnel.
Speaker 1: Right, that's what That's what that's what was locked. So
Speaker 1: they don't know that the orchard is locked up. They
Speaker 1: get there, we get three keys.
Speaker 2: How to this isn't any blocked up? I guess not.
Speaker 2: I guess not. They knew that there was gates that
Speaker 2: were blocking up at the like cave area.
Speaker 1: Right, But how do they not know when they get
Speaker 1: there that there's these the series of keys and there's
Speaker 1: a force field on their orchard?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I guess Their answer, apparently was built by both
Speaker 2: of them, was yeah, but it seemed like that that
Speaker 2: blocking of it or whatever like that. I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's a good point exactly.
Speaker 2: That's a really good This is where.
Speaker 1: The magical systems come in and stuff has to make sense. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: and maybe we're gonna get like, oh, we missed something, maybe,
Speaker 1: but I don't think we did because I went back
Speaker 1: and looked again, and they just don't know any other Okay, right, okay,
Speaker 1: and so no exactly okay, okay, anyway, no one could
Speaker 1: get through this gate that no one knew about, apparently
Speaker 1: without even though their society has built it with without
Speaker 1: these three keys. So Addison has proposal the two groups
Speaker 1: will work together to find the keys while staying at
Speaker 1: a perfectly placed nearby camp. And why should these two
Speaker 1: warring factors do this well, because our core for are
Speaker 1: living proof that all monsters can work together both sides,
Speaker 1: except very quickly, after years of enmity, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: there they're okay with this, and that puts sketchy.
Speaker 2: It's sketchy. You could tell, like, all right, yeah, we'll
Speaker 2: go with this, like.
Speaker 1: Right, but they out they're lifelong enemies that are like,
Speaker 1: we should send our kids to camp. And Nova and
Speaker 1: Victor are put in charge of the experiment. Okay, But
Speaker 1: even though they put their differences aside, Nova's commander Dad
Speaker 1: sidebars with her and demand she take all the fruit
Speaker 1: in the end, no matter what happens, even if it
Speaker 1: means destroying every vampire. She seems torn, but Nova and
Speaker 1: company man Ray give their word that's what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: The crews eventually arrive at camp Rayburn, with trash talk
Speaker 1: already at an all time high. Also, we learn that
Speaker 1: the day walkers have no problem with night, so they're
Speaker 1: just walkers. Just walker. There's no there's no like. I
Speaker 1: just I just need to know the rules. I get
Speaker 1: the singing and the dancing and the love story. But
Speaker 1: give me some rules that make some semblance of sense,
Speaker 1: because I don't get what it is, and that maybe
Speaker 1: it's me. Maybe I'm stupid and I just don't get
Speaker 1: what it is. But you've got vampires that can walk
Speaker 1: in the day and day walkers that can walk in
Speaker 1: the night. They both eat the same fruit. None of
Speaker 1: them drink blood, some of them have fire, others fly
Speaker 1: while upside down and backwards. What is happening? I just
Speaker 1: need to know what's happening to get it.
Speaker 2: I'm sitting over there going, oh my god, this little couple.
Speaker 1: Is I know, and I just need what's happening. That's it,
Speaker 1: that's all.
Speaker 2: About all or I just do the song. All I
Speaker 2: want is for them to get together and continue this
Speaker 2: massive franchise.
Speaker 1: I just need some rules. Please just send the script
Speaker 1: to somebody who's there.
Speaker 2: Must Zombie five. That's the true for me.
Speaker 1: Okay, I just need some rules, That's all I need,
Speaker 1: and just send it. You write the script the way
Speaker 1: you want to write the script, this beautiful script that's
Speaker 1: singing and lovely and all that and forty million dollars,
Speaker 1: and then send it to somebody who's read a fantasy novel.
Speaker 1: That's all you need is just and they're gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna add four lines that are gonna make everything make
Speaker 1: sense because this it was just like what you needed
Speaker 1: at the time. Okay, Hey, let's fly upside down? Why? Okay?
Speaker 1: And again I didn't dislike the movie, that's the fun part.
Speaker 1: I just wish I had the rules anyway. Victor and
Speaker 1: Nova are still exchanging glances while Zeda Addison have become
Speaker 1: the head counselors at this camp. They know what it's
Speaker 1: like to bring people together, so it's a natural position
Speaker 1: for them to take everyone. Everyone notices both vampire and
Speaker 1: DayWalker symbols on the cabins, giving the location some confusing history,
Speaker 1: but not nearly as confusing as this joke. While they
Speaker 1: moved in, can we please play the clip?
Speaker 2: This place probably used to be a day Walker camp
Speaker 2: and then vampires stole it and ruined it.
Speaker 1: Just like Commander Bright says, you.
Speaker 2: Do with everything. You know what the elder says about
Speaker 2: day walkers? Will you not eat soap to have shiny insides?
Speaker 1: They are naturally shiny? I don't understand. D never comes
Speaker 1: back up?
Speaker 2: Yeah we got it, Yes, yes, yes, we could hear it.
Speaker 1: Never will just does it like it? Well?
Speaker 4: It never?
Speaker 1: It never comes back up. It's never explained. It's not
Speaker 1: even a joke.
Speaker 2: It's just needs a fun me, you know what, the
Speaker 2: will win things like that happen in this fora Do
Speaker 2: you know what I did? I went with it because
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't know these kinds of things. Is
Speaker 2: there something about the day Walkers with soap? I literally
Speaker 2: just was like, oh, okay.
Speaker 1: Knows, Hey, I hear that you can't hear the darkness.
Speaker 2: Let me ask whill about that soap?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: Anyway, despite the FI is it liquid? Is it a bar?
Speaker 1: Who knows? Who knows? Are they drinking palm olive? What's happening? Anyway?
Speaker 1: Despite the failed gag that made no sense, the day
Speaker 1: Walkers and vampires find their bunks, the vampires sleeping coffins,
Speaker 1: by the way, which also makes no sense because the
Speaker 1: sun doesn't bother men in any way, shape or form
Speaker 1: in this movie, but whatever. Eliza also sets up a
Speaker 1: workstation to find out what's up with the wavelength that
Speaker 1: made them crash their car. Outside, Zed Addison sit by
Speaker 1: a camp fire to catch up. They've both been so
Speaker 1: busy during the school year and with plans for the summer,
Speaker 1: it's tough to work on their relationship and I've got
Speaker 1: to just love the two of them together. But this
Speaker 1: camp journey will be a nice moment for them. After all.
Speaker 1: They also know that Victor and Nova's forbidden attraction reminds
Speaker 1: them of a certain couple. They know. It was very
Speaker 1: nice to see the mirroring. And here we get some
Speaker 1: much needed updates on the cast members not paid to
Speaker 1: return for part four. This is what I was waiting for.
Speaker 1: They explained a little bit about it. Bucky has returned
Speaker 1: from space, Bonzo and Breeze started their first summer jobs,
Speaker 1: and where Wolf Winter is teaching meditation. Would love an
Speaker 1: update on the coach's yogurt shop, but we assume he's
Speaker 1: doing well. But that'll do.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Elsewhere at the campsite, Victor and Nova had realized their
Speaker 1: visions were red. They have a Romeo and Juliet Balcony
Speaker 1: moment singing a very quick duet and this really shows
Speaker 1: off frays Guy's voice. Again, this was not to me.
Speaker 1: I get what they were doing and I love the
Speaker 1: kind of bonding them together. This did not have the
Speaker 1: gravitas of Milo and Meg in the cafeteria room. It
Speaker 1: just yes, that was so much more day when they're
Speaker 1: and you're.
Speaker 2: Right, this was to me a lot more of the
Speaker 2: like instantly super dramatic, right the is when you saw
Speaker 2: the difference of the light and the airy and the Yes,
Speaker 2: there's drama with it, but they're just like this like
Speaker 2: magnetic force that just can't ever ever go away, and
Speaker 2: I hope it continues for the rest of our lives.
Speaker 2: And the other one was like so deep, they were
Speaker 2: so deep.
Speaker 1: That there was a light to it that that I miss.
Speaker 1: It just didn't have the same feel to me.
Speaker 2: But I wonder if it felt like it had to,
Speaker 2: because again, like just the two actors in general just
Speaker 2: are they're younger. They are just such a younger energy
Speaker 2: than what Addison and Zed were in the first one.
Speaker 1: No, that's true, that's one hundred percent trure that might
Speaker 1: make you know when you're younger. Everything is life and death.
Speaker 1: It's supposed to be life and death for their people.
Speaker 1: But that's what I mean about not being as lighthearted
Speaker 1: and tongue in cheek as the first one. You needed
Speaker 1: some buddy, You needed something like that to jump in.
Speaker 1: They tried with things like.
Speaker 2: Feels so good when he knows that the will Will said,
Speaker 2: we needed some Bucky wed.
Speaker 1: We needed some Bucky. Yeah, everyone's asking me if I've
Speaker 1: seen Twilight. I did, and then quickly scraped out my eyes.
Speaker 1: The next morning, the vampires and day Walker's continue their
Speaker 1: very fragile relationship, with Victor and Nova leading the way
Speaker 1: to find these keys. This leads to our next song,
Speaker 1: Don't Mess with Us, a back and forth between the
Speaker 1: two groups, threatening each other with Ray and vera battle rapping.
Speaker 1: At one point, the union is truly a ticking time bomb.
Speaker 1: This was This was a good song. I again, I
Speaker 1: don't remember much about I remember liking it, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I can't even put the song in my head as
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here talking about it. It's kind of a
Speaker 1: step up adjacent routine, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I do, And it reminded a couple of the things,
Speaker 2: and when I get to Sabrina season, I know you
Speaker 2: don't want to.
Speaker 3: Talk about the movie, but I have to because it's
Speaker 3: Paul there.
Speaker 2: This was the second thing that I went, oh, this
Speaker 2: is a little bit like our our Cheetah Girls three
Speaker 2: there we have like a battle type.
Speaker 1: Of Okay, yeah, don't tell me too much, don't I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna.
Speaker 2: I won't tell you too much, but it is. I
Speaker 2: do know firsthand that Paul knows how to do these,
Speaker 2: so it's it was good to see the.
Speaker 1: Clash of the two of them together. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's the Sharks and the Jets. I mean, that's been
Speaker 1: in musicals forever, so it's great. It's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The song also marks the first time Victor and Nova
Speaker 1: admit that they've been seeing vision of each other. And
Speaker 1: during all the dance fighting, they solved the first puzzle
Speaker 1: and get the first key they can work together. After all,
Speaker 1: one key installed into the wall, two more to go.
Speaker 1: That night, the vampires and day Walkers celebrate together. We
Speaker 1: also get one huge plot point that you can that
Speaker 1: you can either accept or not. Vampires don't drink blood,
Speaker 1: they just use the blood fruit, so they don't drink blood,
Speaker 1: they can walk outside, the sun doesn't affect them. They
Speaker 1: have the power of wind, and they can fly. None
Speaker 1: of this is vampiresh none of it. Yeah, the flying
Speaker 1: kind of if you go back to Dracula being able
Speaker 1: to turn himself into a bat. But other than that
Speaker 1: and that, the stupid Twilight movies were for some reason.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they move quickly and.
Speaker 1: He glittered in the sunlight, was like, what the what is?
Speaker 2: And in the new interview with the Vampire series they
Speaker 2: somewhat fly.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so maybe some vampire. But it's like
Speaker 1: they just made it all up anyway. If they don't
Speaker 1: call them vampires.
Speaker 4: Make up.
Speaker 2: I just called them a different kind of months. Yeah,
Speaker 2: make them.
Speaker 1: DayWalker and whatever night walker, that's all you gotta do.
Speaker 1: And they live in day and night. Then you can
Speaker 1: make up your own rules. Don't. If you call something
Speaker 1: a car, it's then not a submarine, it's a car.
Speaker 1: It's like, you've got it. You can bend the rules.
Speaker 1: You can't just make them up anyway, right, Yeah. Sorry,
Speaker 1: this is the nerd in me that just hates this stuff.
Speaker 1: I hate it and I like the movie. It's just Oh,
Speaker 1: the nerd in me is excuse me, but the vampire
Speaker 1: is not allowed to. Yeah, that's me right now, and
Speaker 1: I have no problem with it. Also, as the group's
Speaker 1: co mingle, we get a clink of mugs from Zeded
Speaker 1: and Addison, and I think we can assume that this
Speaker 1: scene is the way they told you about Sabrina where
Speaker 1: they felt like grandparents.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's the the when they clink those little mugs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I love that. With the campers in bed,
Speaker 1: the Core for regroup over Schmores, which I love my
Speaker 1: life perfectly, saying in a funny, weird way Schmores. The
Speaker 1: group wonders if there's more to life than just being
Speaker 1: a football star and a cheerleader Captain, what about being
Speaker 1: around all those you love? But Zed and Addison still
Speaker 1: see their individual goals as more important. But then out
Speaker 1: of nowhere, that wavelength thing hits again, now even stronger,
Speaker 1: and each of the core four now feel the rage,
Speaker 1: all barely able to keep their monsters at day. It passes,
Speaker 1: but Zed is the one most affected. They realize this
Speaker 1: will hurt their family and friends back home if it
Speaker 1: gets more powerful, so it can also affect Seabrook. They
Speaker 1: got to figure this out. Meanwhile, Victor and Nova have
Speaker 1: a small rendezvous and suspicious Ray Ray catches a glimpse
Speaker 1: of the meeting. The two arrival leaders visit a cave
Speaker 1: filled with old Vampire and day Walker symbols, proving that
Speaker 1: at one time they did in fact work together. Didn't
Speaker 1: they also figure this out at the camp that was
Speaker 1: the Yes Okay? This leads to some vulnerable talk about
Speaker 1: wanting to be more than just leaders for their family's rivalry,
Speaker 1: and the full length song of what we heard a
Speaker 1: little earlier, Dream Come True. It's all about their me
Speaker 1: attraction and how they feel connected despite their cultural differences.
Speaker 1: It is a soft spoken, building ballad that peaks with
Speaker 1: the two floating at full speed through the sky upside down,
Speaker 1: a stunt that probably matched the entire budget of the
Speaker 1: first Cheater Girls movie. So what did you think about
Speaker 1: the song and the scene? Did the flying bother you
Speaker 1: all the kind of it? Did?
Speaker 2: I didn't. This is the scene that I went and
Speaker 2: I get it. I mean, they had the budget to
Speaker 2: do it. I'm sure it was very cool to film,
Speaker 2: sure so different. Not very many channel movies have we
Speaker 2: seen this in, But I didn't really actually love it
Speaker 2: that much. Kind I liked this song.
Speaker 3: I thought the song could have been cut shorter, and
Speaker 3: this scene could have not gone for as long as
Speaker 3: it did.
Speaker 2: It was kind of like I'm ready, you know again,
Speaker 2: I'm ready to see when is Ze gonna drop to
Speaker 2: a knee and give me a proposal for Addison's exactly?
Speaker 1: Oh man, Zombies five Now they're on their honeymoon.
Speaker 2: I've already put it in the atmosphere when I interviewed them,
Speaker 2: just because I know they're executive producers and that they
Speaker 2: can now make that happen for me.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine that work on Zombie part Alien Baby?
Speaker 1: That would be the coolest.
Speaker 2: Part to play. I know now we're talking really getting
Speaker 2: creative and being able to make your own rules because
Speaker 2: who knows?
Speaker 1: Yes, right, thank you? Okay. As the song comes to
Speaker 1: an end, they stumble onto the second puzzle and it's
Speaker 1: quickly solved, and thus the second key was built on love.
Speaker 1: They bring the discovery back to the camp and inserted
Speaker 1: it into the wall, surrounded by everybody. No, it's a
Speaker 1: happy moment at first, it triggers an earthquake as a
Speaker 1: ball rises from underground. The statue says only one team
Speaker 1: can win, making the group think that either of the date.
Speaker 2: So did they.
Speaker 1: Okay, did the the day walkers and vampires built this
Speaker 1: lock together to hide the orchard from their own future generations?
Speaker 1: But built this elaborate thing to where can they win
Speaker 1: if they just put it? Was so needlessly confusing to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I assume trouble started brewing, right like within two
Speaker 2: groups of people that are in there're supposed to be
Speaker 2: a unit, but they're obviously different, right different, Trouble started brewing.
Speaker 2: They s elders basically were like, we need to just
Speaker 2: take a minute, give some space.
Speaker 3: We're going to create this thing so that they need.
Speaker 2: They're going to have to come together to enjoy this
Speaker 2: and to be able to enjoy the fruits the labor
Speaker 2: of all of our ancestors.
Speaker 1: Then you make it easy where you hide the orchard.
Speaker 1: That's the point. I They have to work find the
Speaker 1: orchard like that it's not hidden with yes something, but
Speaker 1: instead of magical locks and a ball, you've got to
Speaker 1: push one side or the other to work together. I
Speaker 1: get why not just have to work together to even
Speaker 1: find the mythical orchard because everything's I mean, it's like
Speaker 1: you know where it is, but it's locked and there's
Speaker 1: a vailue.
Speaker 2: Where where would it be?
Speaker 1: It would be exactly the same way with rules these
Speaker 1: are god. They could sing a song about it, what
Speaker 1: rhymes with we can't find the orchard? Okay, but that's
Speaker 1: anyway they bring it. They had started back in the wall, okay,
Speaker 1: so only one team can win. The ball rises rounderground
Speaker 1: the stat she says only one team can win, making
Speaker 1: the group think that either the day Walkers or the
Speaker 1: vampires have to push the ball to one side by
Speaker 1: themselves and they're always meant to fight it out. As
Speaker 1: the group gets in a position to fight over the ball,
Speaker 1: the pulse hits again, pushing z into full zombie mode.
Speaker 1: It quickly passes, but he's unable to rebound. Everyone realizes
Speaker 1: that they've taken this too far, and they head back
Speaker 1: to the camp. Elizah checks her data and notices the
Speaker 1: pulse has gotten strong enough to eventually turn that into
Speaker 1: a zombie forever. She also thinks she knows where it's
Speaker 1: coming from underground, and so Zeed is forced to go
Speaker 1: subterranean to investigate, leaving us to his big solo number,
Speaker 1: which is a rap song called Kerosene. It's his version
Speaker 1: of Eminem's Lose Yourself all about how to you know
Speaker 1: he has to step up even if he dies as
Speaker 1: a result. What did you think of this song?
Speaker 2: I didn't hate it. It wasn't one of my favorites.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know how much I love like
Speaker 2: the super rappie type songs within this genre of movies
Speaker 2: that were watching, but it was okay. I didn't it
Speaker 2: wasn't one of my favorites. I kind of just breezed
Speaker 2: through it. What did you think?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I breaking right into a rap song sometimes for me,
Speaker 1: really worked this one. It wasn't bad. He can obviously
Speaker 1: rap right.
Speaker 2: We've seen him do it.
Speaker 1: We've seen him do it before, and I guess I
Speaker 1: like occasionally switching up the vibe of the song. But
Speaker 1: it felt a little out of place to me this one.
Speaker 1: It just it's going kind of from ballads to this
Speaker 1: straight up, kind of heavy rap song. Felt a little
Speaker 1: jarring to me. But he did it well, So yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Did have a fun inside baseball thing from the premiere.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you noticed, Sabrina. There's a line
Speaker 4: in the song where he says like something something bruh,
Speaker 4: like he he like says it very funny. In the
Speaker 4: middle of his rap, the entire cast wrapped it. Did
Speaker 4: you hear that part or no?
Speaker 2: I do remember them rapping, but it was like I
Speaker 2: didn't know.
Speaker 1: Wait, at the premiere, people stopped.
Speaker 2: There was a couple of times where they came in
Speaker 2: and like they were.
Speaker 4: The big one. The one I noticed the most was
Speaker 4: during the rap. He kind of jokingly like you could
Speaker 4: tell it was probably a joke with it in the
Speaker 4: cast the way he says, like something bruh. They all
Speaker 4: yelled it like like Rocky horror.
Speaker 1: Oh that's cool. Oh that's cool, man. I miss so much.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Anyway, it was one of the most fun premiere where.
Speaker 1: You stopped where you stopped. It did not it was
Speaker 1: terrible and you did not have a good time. That's
Speaker 1: what I want to continue to hear.
Speaker 2: So funny.
Speaker 1: I know Danielle and Jensen said the same thing. I
Speaker 1: just missed it. Anyway. Zeedrapel's underground but eventually falls, causing
Speaker 1: the entire ground to give way, taking Willa and Eliza
Speaker 1: with him, and now Zed is stuck under a huge boulder.
Speaker 1: The camp hears them screaming and runs to help to
Speaker 1: save them. Eliza zombies out, which is a rare occurrence
Speaker 1: in the movies, and Willa goes in a beast mode
Speaker 1: to move the rock he's freed, but they also notice
Speaker 1: a broken tower on top of the blood fruit roots
Speaker 1: that the real cause of the pulses. Apparently this tower.
Speaker 1: The roots were screaming for help and the towers working
Speaker 1: as an antenna for their cries, so they have to
Speaker 1: free the roots. So hey, nothing like adding another weird
Speaker 1: layer of weirdness to the weirdness. Zed starts rapping again,
Speaker 1: but he can't move the tower. It's just too much,
Speaker 1: even with Willa and Eliza's help. But that's when the
Speaker 1: entire camp arrives to join in on the kerosene hook
Speaker 1: and push and pull. Together. They eventually move the tower
Speaker 1: and save the roots as one unit, saving monster kind
Speaker 1: once again. But there's still that huge ball statue that
Speaker 1: says one Team. I don't want to say ball statue
Speaker 1: anymore than I have been, says one Team, And they're
Speaker 1: still worrying about that. Vampires and day walkers are back
Speaker 1: to bickering about who it's referring to. When Addison takes control,
Speaker 1: she explains the histories of zombies and humans in Seabrook.
Speaker 1: She says real change can happen if you find strength
Speaker 1: in people's differences. She wants them to stand together and
Speaker 1: fight for their futures, and like a half alien coach Lombardi,
Speaker 1: she convinces them to be one team, but now alone
Speaker 1: dey Walker. Ray reminds Nova of their promise to her dad.
Speaker 1: They're supposed to take all the blood fruit, but he
Speaker 1: can't believe she's been working with a vampire but who's
Speaker 1: just them but with air powers. But Nova stands strong.
Speaker 1: She's gonna work with Victor and his team, even if
Speaker 1: Ray and her dad doesn't like it. But this leads
Speaker 1: to another song, My Own Way, which was a stellar
Speaker 1: vocal performance from Nova. It really was. It's all about
Speaker 1: the internal conflicts between her promise to her dad and
Speaker 1: her heart. She doesn't want to let her people down,
Speaker 1: but she needs to find her own way. And remember,
Speaker 1: as you're listening to her songs, she's fifteen years old. Crazy.
Speaker 1: The next morning, they're back at the third puzzle ball,
Speaker 1: working together to move it. It eventually cracks in half,
Speaker 1: exposing the final key, but it's encased in amber. The
Speaker 1: day walkers and vampires use their superpowers to melt it down,
Speaker 1: and now the gate can be opened. It's time to harvest.
Speaker 1: The orchard is beautiful, surrounded by a waterfall and endless greenery,
Speaker 1: covered with blood fruit, which looks just like apples with
Speaker 1: melted cheese on top. There is definitely enough for them
Speaker 1: to share. Not sure what all the fuss is about.
Speaker 1: There's plenty to go around. But that's when Commander Bright arrives.
Speaker 1: He was tipped off by ray that little The Commander
Speaker 1: can't believe his daughter was going to disobey him and
Speaker 1: let the vampires get all the blood fruit. This obviously
Speaker 1: a fends victor since it means his new sweetheart has
Speaker 1: been lying to him, and that's exactly when the Eldress arrives,
Speaker 1: also via snitch to her too, so those two people
Speaker 1: can go and rotten hell for all I care. Snitches
Speaker 1: wind up in ditches. As a result of all this
Speaker 1: supposed backstabbing, Commander Bright throws a fireball at the vampires,
Speaker 1: but it's deterred at the last second by the Eldress,
Speaker 1: leading the explosion right to the crops ough, so when
Speaker 1: it lands, it burns down half of the orchard, exposing
Speaker 1: some very mediocrecy gi it was the only part that
Speaker 1: actually looked kind of cheesy and sending out another pulse,
Speaker 1: knocking Z to the ground. This means war camps over,
Speaker 1: so both sides leave to prepare for battle. Why not?
Speaker 1: Why not fight? Why not just fight right there? Do
Speaker 1: they really need to freshen up?
Speaker 2: Especially because when they do come back nothing, they don't
Speaker 2: bring anything. There's no leg I mean, there's no.
Speaker 1: Let's go get our weapons, Let's go get our No,
Speaker 1: that's I'm gonna kick your ass in like two days
Speaker 1: from now because I need some sleep and my stomach
Speaker 1: isn't feeling Yeah, this is my foot's kind of hurting.
Speaker 1: Just fight, It didn't make any sense. Commander Bright is
Speaker 1: very disappointed in his daughter, and Ray swears he didn't
Speaker 1: know his tattle tales would lead to this. Bud, of
Speaker 1: course you did with the camp splip back into sides
Speaker 1: and a battle on the horizon because they didn't just
Speaker 1: fight Nova in Victor's relationship is on the rocks. The
Speaker 1: Core four know what they have to do. They gotta
Speaker 1: do something, so they returned to the suffering roots. Zed
Speaker 1: is on his last leg and realizing he's been focusing
Speaker 1: on the wrong stuff. Who cares if he becomes to
Speaker 1: starting QB. He needs to be around his friends and family.
Speaker 1: Nova and Victor show up concerned about Zed and they
Speaker 1: get to talk out their problems. Novah says she's her
Speaker 1: own person and being with him as made her realize
Speaker 1: she needs to go her own way. She knows they
Speaker 1: have to work together and be together. They hold hands
Speaker 1: and notice the dying roots are from both the Vampire
Speaker 1: and day Walker orchards, which okay. And on top of that,
Speaker 1: the tower is a place where the light and dark
Speaker 1: stones can be placed. And I don't know why they
Speaker 1: didn't notice that the first time they saw the tower,
Speaker 1: because they were there and there was a big tower.
Speaker 1: I don't get it. The duo realizes their moonstones can
Speaker 1: work together to feed all the orchard. The problem is
Speaker 1: they need to steal the most protected things in their
Speaker 1: villages and bring them back quickly. It's impossible, but nothing
Speaker 1: is impossible when you have a song. So we get possible,
Speaker 1: which is a literal torch path track. We know this
Speaker 1: because those are the exact words and the lyrics. It's
Speaker 1: Zeda Addison giving the Zombies franchise over to Victor and
Speaker 1: Nova encouraging them to try to get the stones because
Speaker 1: anything is possible. As a result, Victor and Nova successfully
Speaker 1: round up their troops. Is one saying, let's rep for
Speaker 1: the next gen. I mean, they're really hitting the nail
Speaker 1: on the head right. Then the campers all work together
Speaker 1: to gather up the remaining blood fruit before any possible
Speaker 1: war very convoluted. As the song continues, Commander Bright's troops
Speaker 1: and the vampires leave their villages, giving our main characters
Speaker 1: the chances to steal the stones. There's some cool fighting
Speaker 1: scenes here with some of the guards, but it was
Speaker 1: also really easy for Victor and Nova to take the stones.
Speaker 1: This thing that was supposed to be impossible turned out
Speaker 1: to be really simple.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well but in both sides remembered though there it
Speaker 2: doesn't seem as though there's anyone else around in each
Speaker 2: of these Like what are we calling them villages or whatever?
Speaker 2: There's no, there's not a real because I thought the
Speaker 2: same thing. I was like, that was crazy. There's there's
Speaker 2: two guards. This is the most treasured thing that they own, right,
Speaker 2: But then at the same time, there wasn't really anyone
Speaker 2: outside the day walkers, and they haven't ever seen each
Speaker 2: other like will Nova and and Victor have never seen
Speaker 2: each other. This isn't like they are ever like worried
Speaker 2: or not not worried. But there's not like these like.
Speaker 1: Threats to them. Yeah, so I feel like that why
Speaker 1: would stones be impossible to the point where they have
Speaker 1: to write a song about it?
Speaker 2: Well, because it's like how could they ever, I mean
Speaker 2: for them for Nova to ever think of even moving
Speaker 2: that is it's the same way as the werewolves when
Speaker 2: we had the were Wolve's moonstone.
Speaker 3: You don't like, you know, well, I guess that was different.
Speaker 2: They had to find it, but I don't know. It
Speaker 2: just is like that's like crazy, but it's a crazy
Speaker 2: thing to think of, Like, don't do that.
Speaker 1: Then don't call the song impossible. It's not. It's not
Speaker 1: impossible to do.
Speaker 2: They share it highly likely, No.
Speaker 1: They just yeah, they shouldn't do it. It's like we
Speaker 1: can't take it. It's not Wow, it's impossible. It's not impossible.
Speaker 1: It's actually super easy. So come up with a different
Speaker 1: name for this song.
Speaker 2: All right, now, okay, we've gotten you into the dark side.
Speaker 1: Thank god, the dark side. The light doesn't hurt me
Speaker 1: with stones in hand now, which again is super easy
Speaker 1: to do. Vera tries to stop Victor, but he implores
Speaker 1: her to question the things that don't make sense. It
Speaker 1: changes her mind and she decides to cover for him
Speaker 1: as he runs away. And now, just as Commander Bright
Speaker 1: and the Elders arrive at the orchard, they realize all
Speaker 1: the blood fruit is gone, and they command their troops
Speaker 1: to find it. Victor and Nova do make the impossible
Speaker 1: possible and get the stones back to the camp cave,
Speaker 1: but are met by their disappointed aunt and dad. But
Speaker 1: now instead of falling in line, Ray decides to step
Speaker 1: up and do a weird bird impression while shooting fireballs.
Speaker 1: This gives Victor and Nova a chance to climb the
Speaker 1: tower with their stones. Then, while the duo fight off
Speaker 1: attacks of their angry Boomer leaders, Zeed and Addison lend
Speaker 1: a helping hand to hold up the tower as it
Speaker 1: teeters on falling. But it's too much. Forsett. He's already
Speaker 1: weak and we'll need to fully zombie out to make
Speaker 1: a difference, even if it makes him a zombie forever.
Speaker 1: He tells Addison he loves her he always has, then
Speaker 1: removes his z band. Now a monster, he's able to
Speaker 1: balance the tower just in time. Addison tries to reclip
Speaker 1: the Z band to his arm, but it says failed.
Speaker 1: They sing the well known song Someday, which is still
Speaker 1: the best song I think of the entire franchise, originally
Speaker 1: from Zombies one, forcing Addison to cry. The kids finally
Speaker 1: place the stones on the tower, causing an explosion that
Speaker 1: rocks everyone. Or I could say that rocks everyone. That's
Speaker 1: probably the better way to say it. Don't edit that out.
Speaker 1: That just sounded bad, and I want to keep it
Speaker 1: exactly like that. We get some more of that sweet
Speaker 1: Disney effects budget with a huge thunderstorm as the now
Speaker 1: connected stone shoot electricity back and forth, working as one,
Speaker 1: and then it begins to rain and everyone is ecstatic.
Speaker 1: The water has healed z and turned Commander Bright and
Speaker 1: the elders into happy people. Victor and Nova race to
Speaker 1: see the crops. The rain has caused all the new
Speaker 1: Blood fruit to bloom, and not just in the orchard,
Speaker 1: but all throughout the island. Was it ever mentioned that
Speaker 1: they needed rain.
Speaker 4: It's a one line ad and it's not in it,
Speaker 4: And all you had to do is say we have
Speaker 4: had crops in one hundred and fifty years because it
Speaker 4: hasn't rained. It's the easiest line.
Speaker 1: Ever ever, and they're now just like, oh my god, rain,
Speaker 1: were we trying to find rain? Okay, cause again it's
Speaker 1: just it gets convoluted. It's like there was never mentioned
Speaker 1: rain ever.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, but maybe this may I mean, we're not
Speaker 2: there yet, but maybe the water aspect is sort of
Speaker 2: it starts to be a part of what we have
Speaker 2: to look.
Speaker 3: Forward to in the future.
Speaker 1: Right, But there's maybe that giant waterfalls in the orchard.
Speaker 3: Oh that's true.
Speaker 1: Yes, So what's the point of the rain? Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I also thought when you put them together, something was
Speaker 1: going to connect with the wind and fire and give
Speaker 1: them each one power. That was wind fire something No, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: So but we know there's more. So maybe those things
Speaker 2: will come up in the future movies.
Speaker 1: Yep, we'll see. Well, if you think that too long,
Speaker 1: didn't read, you're in luck will explains it. All The
Speaker 1: vampires and day walkers kept their moonstarts apart for too long,
Speaker 1: and it caused the orchards to die, which it didn't.
Speaker 1: Maybe the orchards were apart, but the actual orchard was thriving.
Speaker 1: The pulse of the roots pain affected everyone. The island,
Speaker 1: the camp, and the orchard were built by their ancestors
Speaker 1: together to enjoy together. They decide that once a year
Speaker 1: they'll all come to the camp to meet up and
Speaker 1: bring balance to their orchard, and of course set up squels.
Speaker 1: Commander Bright and the elders now realize the future is
Speaker 1: in good hands. As everyone enjoys their blood fruit in
Speaker 1: the form of kebabs and cakes, we get our final
Speaker 1: big number, which is show the world. It's an all
Speaker 1: cast celebration about how the real goal of life is
Speaker 1: to be with friends and family, because then anything is possible,
Speaker 1: including really easily stealing moonstones. The Light and Dark have
Speaker 1: come together and it's time to dance, but that's not
Speaker 1: the end. We're now in a beautiful hilltop. The next morning,
Speaker 1: Zeded and Addison have decided to ditch their football and
Speaker 1: cheerleading camps to spend the summer back at home in
Speaker 1: Seabrook with those who love them no matter what, especially
Speaker 1: each other. We get another flashback proprize song with the
Speaker 1: two of them singing Ain't No Doubt about It originally
Speaker 1: from Zombies three, and each of them getting a tap
Speaker 1: dance solo. Then passionately kissing Sabrina's tap dancing hard. It
Speaker 1: seems like it'd be hard.
Speaker 2: It is very hard, That's what I figured.
Speaker 1: And then we get another ending. Victor and Nova are
Speaker 1: on the beach saying goodbye and promising to see each
Speaker 1: other soon, but as they leave, Nova can't take it.
Speaker 1: She runs back to him for a passionate embrace, mostly
Speaker 1: because he's eighteen and she's fifteen, so they can't kiss
Speaker 1: in this movie. And then big spoiler alert here, people,
Speaker 1: the hug is interrupted by a huge tornado coming from
Speaker 1: the bottom of the ocean, reaching high into the sky.
Speaker 1: It appears we have water monsters, shrimp pies on the
Speaker 1: horizon or mermaids, something we predicted at the end of
Speaker 1: the third one, and most likely the plot for Zombies five.
Speaker 1: They should call it Zombies five. This one will make sense.
Speaker 1: And that's our movie, all right. I've got the one
Speaker 1: star review. And again, this movie just came out, so
Speaker 1: we're getting reviews already. These are all new, hot off
Speaker 1: the presses.
Speaker 2: Of course.
Speaker 1: Of course, our one star review is from Alicia V.
Speaker 1: I didn't like it much. It should have just been vampires.
Speaker 1: That was the whole point of the movie. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: interesting review. I don't agree it's one star at all.
Speaker 1: I had serious problems with some story points in this movie,
Speaker 1: but I didn't agree this was one star movie. Not
Speaker 1: at all, Sabrina, what do you got for five star?
Speaker 2: All right, I'm so excited I get the five star.
Speaker 2: This is from gene h. I loved it. Milo is
Speaker 2: a fanatic actor. And yes that is spelled wrong. It's
Speaker 2: not fantastic actor. It's a fanatic actor.
Speaker 1: I think she wants fantastic Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's okay. I agree he I am a
Speaker 2: fanatic fan of of the fantastic actor in which that
Speaker 2: is mine. Yea, He's amazing, amazing, they.
Speaker 1: Both are, and the new kids are great. I just
Speaker 1: had story problems. I didn't have actor problems. I had
Speaker 1: story problems. No, okay, Well, we're now coming, of course,
Speaker 1: to Sabrina's favorite portion of the program, which is a feature.
Speaker 1: It's our feature game by our producer Jensen, who loves
Speaker 1: to stump us. This one's called do you remember now?
Speaker 1: With Zombies four under our belts, it's time to test
Speaker 1: our knowledge and memory or lack thereof. We'll be given
Speaker 1: a song title. Oh, I don't know any of the songs.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, this is gonna be.
Speaker 1: All you, Sabrina. We'll be given a song title. We
Speaker 1: have to decide if we first heard it in zombies one,
Speaker 1: zombies two, zombies three, or cats. Higher number five out
Speaker 1: of seven gets us a win. I don't.
Speaker 4: There's also there's also possibility of zombies four, just so
Speaker 4: it's out there.
Speaker 1: Okay, Oh oh, I know one of them. Oh I'm
Speaker 1: looking at the list. I too, I know what I
Speaker 1: know what is. So the number number one is call
Speaker 1: to the Wild. I have to imagine that is going
Speaker 1: to be about were wolves. So I'm gonna say that's
Speaker 1: from zombies two. Okay, wouldn't you think zombies to Okay.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that was the easiest.
Speaker 1: That was the easiest one. Well, no, because I know
Speaker 1: the next one because I made.
Speaker 2: Exception from zombies zombies.
Speaker 1: Okay, because I remember going like, wow, they're not even
Speaker 1: hiding this anymore.
Speaker 3: Yes, we have to talk about that when we do
Speaker 3: my Sabrias.
Speaker 1: Okay, number lush and three, flesh and Bone. That's got
Speaker 1: to be cats, you think, Yeah, I'm gonna say it
Speaker 1: zombies one.
Speaker 3: Okay, flesh and Bone.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna stick with cats in Zombies.
Speaker 1: One, Yes, all right. Number four my own way.
Speaker 2: He talks to you in the chat.
Speaker 1: He doesn't, I swear not gonna give me these you
Speaker 1: kidding screen share? Screenshare? He wants us to lose? Are
Speaker 1: you kidding? Number four is my own way? Didn't wasn't
Speaker 1: that justin the one we just saw? Isn't she saying
Speaker 1: about how she she's got to go around?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think this is from Zombies.
Speaker 4: Four word Zombies four? So will is one away Sabrina.
Speaker 2: Tub Yeah, yeah, I'm four for four.
Speaker 1: For the record. Uh. Number five is we got this?
Speaker 4: Just for the record. I think I think this is
Speaker 4: where it gets kind of hard.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think okay, yeah, Uh for some reason?
Speaker 2: Is that that is that this the first song in
Speaker 2: the second movie with the cheerleaders we got this or
Speaker 2: like that? Remember that when they're doing the obstacle course
Speaker 2: that they oh is it that?
Speaker 1: Or was it that? Is it the aliens when they're
Speaker 1: when the aliens are doing the test and they're like
Speaker 1: doing every their the tests are amazing. Oh I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say Zombies three.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, you're right though, because that was something else
Speaker 2: that was called something a that was like something this.
Speaker 4: Never happened, something never happens. Will was wrong, and you
Speaker 4: followed him. It's zombies two?
Speaker 1: You were right?
Speaker 2: Was he right? Was it that song?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: Number stand stand?
Speaker 2: Stand? Is this a real zombies or is this in cats?
Speaker 2: We haven't had one for cats.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm guessing number seven is going to be from cats,
Speaker 1: but I could be right. Number six stand? I think
Speaker 1: it's was it zombies one?
Speaker 2: Zombies one? Stand? I don't have a clue.
Speaker 1: I don't either. I'm going to guess zombies one, but
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I don't know if I'm right.
Speaker 4: You guys can additions in zombies one? Both?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: Stand?
Speaker 2: Okay? This is a total flush and bone is actually zombies.
Speaker 2: It's a were wolf song?
Speaker 4: It was? Did I make a mistake?
Speaker 1: Did Jensen get one wrong?
Speaker 4: What number was? What number was flushing bone on the board?
Speaker 4: I have it as one?
Speaker 1: Three?
Speaker 2: Okay? Well, it does make sense. And that's what Will said.
Speaker 2: It's got to be the.
Speaker 4: I guess keep it in, keep it in. That means
Speaker 4: that they got it right.
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay. And then number seven is the old grumpy cat,
Speaker 1: the old grumpy grumble counter.
Speaker 2: I'm guessing that drum by gumby.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we.
Speaker 4: Both your memories way better than Yes, a lot of
Speaker 4: them was.
Speaker 1: Total guesses on my part. Just for the record, can
Speaker 1: we do some Sabrina sees.
Speaker 2: Yes, there's short because you know, I just lived for
Speaker 2: this movie. I didn't care much about it. There are
Speaker 2: a few couple like a few things the little girl
Speaker 2: in the beginning, like you said, because I was expecting
Speaker 2: her to come into play at some point and she
Speaker 2: never did. And I think the only reason because then
Speaker 2: again when I watched it again and we were in
Speaker 2: the movie theater, that stuck with me a little bit
Speaker 2: like did I miss her? And then it was kind
Speaker 2: of like I think again because Freya was just so
Speaker 2: young looking, having a little little girl, and maybe that
Speaker 2: it kind of helped age her up a little bit
Speaker 2: and made it seem like, you know, she really could be,
Speaker 2: you know, the leader of the next leader of the
Speaker 2: town because she was really young.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could be ready to.
Speaker 2: And then there's two times when we have a glimpse
Speaker 2: of what it just brought me. It was nostalgic for
Speaker 2: me and I out there have seen Cheetah three where
Speaker 2: the car crash scene is something that I remember filming
Speaker 2: that is like so Paul in the sense of he
Speaker 2: loves that kind of stuff. He had the best time
Speaker 2: being the one doing the camera in our car crash
Speaker 2: scene that we do. We are not a car crash,
Speaker 2: but we have like a crazy car scene that you'll see.
Speaker 2: And then the battle, the battle between the two. The
Speaker 2: two things, those were just nice fun things for me,
Speaker 2: and it was like nostalgic, yeah, like of working with Paul.
Speaker 2: I was just so excited that Paul has this fourth
Speaker 2: movie that's just awesome, and so that was just fun
Speaker 2: to like, and I talked to him about that on
Speaker 2: the Red carpet. He's like, I know, isn't that or whatever.
Speaker 2: So then the next thing was like the aggression that
Speaker 2: they had, even though obviously they're worried about someone new
Speaker 2: coming on, but in all reality, neither Addison or z
Speaker 2: looked like a day walker or a vampire in really
Speaker 2: any way. So the fact that they were ready to
Speaker 2: just like kill these people, I was like, Wow, this
Speaker 2: is violent, violent Violet Violet, and I really just died
Speaker 2: when then I'm skipping through so much more. The camp
Speaker 2: stuff was kind of like there was so many funny
Speaker 2: moments of how they were so positive that they could
Speaker 2: get these kids together, and every moment they were just kidding,
Speaker 2: like let's eat them, let's yell them, let's yell yeah.
Speaker 2: And I felt like that's when both of them really
Speaker 2: shined in a new light, like this like kind of
Speaker 2: humor light that we didn't I don't feel like we
Speaker 2: saw as much in the other movies. And then the
Speaker 2: last one was we haven't talked about it. This dad
Speaker 2: of Nova, we have to put him on the list.
Speaker 2: He's the worst, the worst of all. He's not the
Speaker 2: worst dad ever, but he's on the list because it's
Speaker 2: literally like the weight of the world is on your shoulders,
Speaker 2: you teeny tiny, fifteen year old, and I can't believe
Speaker 2: that I'm gonna I'm also gonna go. I'm gonna go,
Speaker 2: and you are gonna make all the right decisions, and
Speaker 2: then I cannot believe that you you stumbled a bit,
Speaker 2: You've kill them. But I'm also just not good yes,
Speaker 2: And I'm also just not gonna be here for any
Speaker 2: of it. I'm gonna come in at the last minute
Speaker 2: and then I'm gonna bark at you because you didn't
Speaker 2: do it right, and then I'm gonna go again it
Speaker 2: sounds fair. So he was a bad dad. And that's
Speaker 2: that's really it. All the other stuff I've said, and
Speaker 2: it's all stuff that I love. The tap dancing was
Speaker 2: such a amazing like fred Astaires, like Ginger Rogers, something
Speaker 2: I would dream to be able to have in a movie,
Speaker 2: and I was so happy for the two of them
Speaker 2: to be able to get that. Yes, tap is very difficult.
Speaker 2: They didn't do a totally crazy, difficult dance, but I
Speaker 2: thought it was like a really awesome little just a
Speaker 2: little sparkle for me that I thought was a great
Speaker 2: addition to the movie. Because I'm sure that was kind
Speaker 2: of thought after later loved it.
Speaker 1: Okay, uh, it's time to rate. It's it's we're now
Speaker 1: coming to the point of our program where we're gonna rate.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do one out of ten this time because
Speaker 1: it's zombies and one's gonna be the worst and ten
Speaker 1: is gonna be the best for zombies. Our options this
Speaker 1: week we want to do one out of ten. Mconan
Speaker 1: knives one out of ten, not day just regular walkers, naturally,
Speaker 1: shiny insides one out of ten, missing cast member updates,
Speaker 1: schmores one out of ten half alien coach, Lombardes, apples
Speaker 1: with melted cheese, one out of ten, weird bird impressions
Speaker 1: or one out of ten kebabs and cakes. What would
Speaker 1: you like to do?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do one or one out of ten?
Speaker 4: What are the.
Speaker 1: Rules so you pick? You pick which ones you want?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do. I could we do just walkers, not Day,
Speaker 2: not Day, just regular rockers, just regular.
Speaker 1: So we'll pick not Day, just regular Walkers. I think
Speaker 1: it's I turned to go first this time. I had
Speaker 1: problems with this movie. I liked the movie again, Milo
Speaker 1: and Meg together awesome. I loved seeing the Core four.
Speaker 1: They were great. I think Passing the Torch was wonderful.
Speaker 1: I love the two new people that they cast. I
Speaker 1: didn't think the chemistry was as good as Milo and Meg,
Speaker 1: but that's a tough thing to tap right away. I
Speaker 1: can see them moving on. I had a ton of
Speaker 1: problems with the how convoluted the script was. A lot
Speaker 1: of it just didn't make any sense. It seemed like
Speaker 1: they were making some stuff up as they were going along.
Speaker 1: That that being said, I love the franchise. I you know,
Speaker 1: I don't remember much of the music, not you know
Speaker 1: the fact that we just won the game. Aside, I
Speaker 1: don't remember a lot of the music.
Speaker 2: But a lot of that music wasn't from the right righteah.
Speaker 1: So I just this was they go in order for me.
Speaker 1: As I said at the beginning, Zombies one is my favorite,
Speaker 1: Zombi's two was great, but not as good as the
Speaker 1: first one, and so on and so on. This was
Speaker 1: my least favorite of the four. I just thought the
Speaker 1: script is too convoluted. I'm very excited to see what
Speaker 1: they do in the future. I hope they add some rules,
Speaker 1: something to make some sense. But I'm gonna give this
Speaker 1: it's my lowest rating of all my zombies so far.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give this a seven point five not.
Speaker 2: It's still not bad.
Speaker 1: It's not bad, not a bad movie. It is not
Speaker 1: a bad movie. It's again for kids for a musical.
Speaker 1: It's bright, there's dancing. She's gonna be a big star.
Speaker 1: He's already a Disney Channel star. I get all that.
Speaker 1: So I was in and I'm I like the franchise.
Speaker 1: I do. If this was standalone and it wasn't part
Speaker 1: of a franchise that I didn't already know and love,
Speaker 1: this would have been a much harsher score because there's
Speaker 1: it's not as light as the other movies. There isn't
Speaker 1: the tongue in cheapness about it. I missed kind of
Speaker 1: the buckiness of it. It was too much in the
Speaker 1: third one, but like the first two, he was kind
Speaker 1: of perfect. So yeah, I'm I'm I'm happy with a
Speaker 1: seven point five, not Day just regular Walkers. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of that is I'm giving it because of
Speaker 1: the franchise it's part of as opposed to just this
Speaker 1: movie itself. I had problems with this movie, but yeah,
Speaker 1: but I still love the franchise.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, I to me. One of the things, especially
Speaker 2: the anticipation of passing the torch, right, this is something
Speaker 2: that's obviously going on with a couple of the franchise,
Speaker 2: the Cheetah Girls being one of them, of wanting to
Speaker 2: bring back that essence but not knowing where to go.
Speaker 2: How do you do a reboot? Like all that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff is is tough, It's not an easy thing
Speaker 2: to do. Very seldom does a reboot come out and
Speaker 2: people love it. So it's hard to figure out where
Speaker 2: that sweet spot is. And I was worried, like, how
Speaker 2: are they gonna do this. Who doesn't love Addison and
Speaker 2: Zed I know I do. I'm obsessed. It's been so
Speaker 2: long since I have fallen for like a couple like
Speaker 2: this in the movies, and that I just I'm obsessed
Speaker 2: with them. I can't imagine, you know, before seeing this,
Speaker 2: how they would ever not be in part of this
Speaker 2: franchise right or be the main character. With that being said,
Speaker 2: I think the way they did this was a great
Speaker 2: way to pass the torch and continue the franchise for
Speaker 2: the future. I didn't know if it could be done,
Speaker 2: and for me, this is the way to do it.
Speaker 2: And also knowing that Meg and Milo aren't gonna one
Speaker 2: hundred percent ever disappear. They're always going to be a
Speaker 2: part of it, and I think the fans will obviously
Speaker 2: always love that.
Speaker 3: But this was a really great way on how to
Speaker 3: do that passing of the torch. When you go to
Speaker 3: do what we're doing and you're dissecting it, of course,
Speaker 3: this is where we're gonna be. We're going to fight
Speaker 3: the flaws. That's what we're looking to do, right, that's
Speaker 3: the job.
Speaker 2: And even within that, it was still like because I
Speaker 2: just fell for these two characters and know their chemistry,
Speaker 2: the shoes they had to fill. I don't think they
Speaker 2: one hundred percent got there, but I could see the
Speaker 2: potential of them getting there.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: The more that within the next couple of movies they're great.
Speaker 2: The the talent, the cast of dancers within New Zealand
Speaker 2: was phenomenal. These these kids knew how to get it done.
Speaker 2: They were great on camera, they were vibrant. Again. I
Speaker 2: loved the new we didn't even talk about it, but
Speaker 2: the wardrobe that they all had, the differences, like, there
Speaker 2: was so many things that are true zombie that I
Speaker 2: thought this this this movie brought. But of course, yes,
Speaker 2: being such a big thing and taking us completely out
Speaker 2: of Seabrook, there was a lot of stuff to do,
Speaker 2: and I don't think they hit everything the way they've
Speaker 2: done it in the past.
Speaker 4: So I can we go on record for everyone's cut?
Speaker 4: So Will has one, two, three, four, Sabrina I have.
Speaker 2: For me, I have one, and I think I would
Speaker 2: have to do a tie between the second and the
Speaker 2: Werewolf and this one, and then the third would be
Speaker 2: my least, but I still love the third.
Speaker 4: I have two four three?
Speaker 2: Yeah really two first in one four three Okay, So anyway,
Speaker 2: but saying that I still loved it. I still I
Speaker 2: love the new characters. I can't wait to see where
Speaker 2: this is going. I hope to God that we get
Speaker 2: it sooner than three years from now. I'm going to
Speaker 2: give this a nine.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: I know, I just love this franchise so much. I do.
Speaker 2: I'm ready to look past all that stuff. I just
Speaker 2: love you guys. Freya, You're a star. Can't wait to
Speaker 2: see what you do. I love you as Nova, I
Speaker 2: love Malachai, I love all mall. I love love every week,
Speaker 2: not day, just regular walkers for me.
Speaker 1: I love that. Okay, Well, thank you everybody for joining
Speaker 1: us as we wrap what we were hopefully not wrapping
Speaker 1: up the Zombies franchise, but at least wrapping up the ones.
Speaker 1: We're caught up for one franchise, which we've never been before,
Speaker 1: so that's kind of cool. And uh, we're going to
Speaker 1: be taking a little summer recap break, everybody, just a
Speaker 1: few weeks off from analyzing d cooms. But that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you're going to be without new Magical rewinds. We
Speaker 1: have some incredible interviews lined up. They'll each be released
Speaker 1: on the dedicated Magical rewind feed for you and listen
Speaker 1: these heavy hitters we talked to. Next week we'll be
Speaker 1: chatting with a Zombies veteran Terry who better known as Aspen,
Speaker 1: one of the aliens from Zombies three. They beamed down
Speaker 1: to chat with us, and let's kick it all off
Speaker 1: with a little preview of what you're in for.
Speaker 5: I actually cut my hair for the role and I
Speaker 5: died it.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: I was the only one that died it, which you know,
Speaker 5: was really amazing and also had its own struggles because
Speaker 5: I had really dark hair obviously, so like the way
Speaker 5: that it stays and you know, stuff like that. But
Speaker 5: when it was good, it was good. Oh, it was
Speaker 5: really cool.
Speaker 2: Did you keep it? How long did you keep it?
Speaker 2: After filming where you were like, I'm diggin this kept
Speaker 2: it for a while.
Speaker 1: And then the week after that, we're sitting down with
Speaker 1: Brian Stepanic, Yes, a family TV legend, a prolific actor.
Speaker 1: You know him from the Sweet Life with Zach and Cody, Nick, Ricky,
Speaker 1: Dicky and Don, The Loud House and Young Sheldon. But
Speaker 1: most importantly for us, hatching Pete. Actually, even more importantly
Speaker 1: though maybe the most importantly, is one of the He
Speaker 1: is the esteemed host of the Disney Channel games. We
Speaker 1: got really in the weeds with him on this trust Me.
Speaker 1: We talked some Simon Says and what it was like
Speaker 1: to work with all these annoying little Brady kids that
Speaker 1: for Disney Channel kids. I'm kidding, I'm sure he loved it.
Speaker 1: And then after that we could probably just sleep, take
Speaker 1: it easy. But no, no, no, we're gonna be chatting with
Speaker 1: the duo we never expected on the podcast. It's Heidi
Speaker 1: and Heather Burge, the real basketball player Twins, whose life
Speaker 1: was the inspiration for the movie that nobody liked Double Team.
Speaker 2: Don't everyone lie, everyone but.
Speaker 1: Me, don't ever say that we don't live that dcom life.
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