Princess Protection Program

Summary

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Pod Meets World – "Princess Protection Program" (Feb 10, 2026)

Podcast: Pod Meets World / iHeartPodcasts
Hosts: Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle, Rider Strong
Guest Co-Host: Sabrina Bryan
Episode Focus: Disney Channel’s Princess Protection Program (2009)

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Episode Overview

In this lively episode, Will Friedle and guest Sabrina Bryan take listeners on a nostalgic deep-dive into Disney's 2009 DCOM Princess Protection Program, starring Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez. The hosts offer laughter-filled analysis, behind-the-scenes trivia, and their signature “Magical Rewind” on the movie’s legacy, performances, and the wider Disney Channel star machine. Their discussion highlights the film’s charm and shortcomings, and wrestles with how Disney talents like Lovato and Gomez transition from child stardom to adult careers.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. PPP’s Place in Disney Channel History

• Ratings & Awards: Premiered June 26, 2009 to 8.5 million viewers, nearly doubling CBS’s numbers that night. Won the 2009 Teen Choice Award for Choice Summer Movie; Selena Gomez also won Choice Summer TV.
  • “That's pretty big. And Princess Protection Program... was apparently way ahead of its time.” (04:11 | Will)
• Original Promotion: Disney encouraged viewers to count every time “princess” was said for access to exclusive episodes of Wizards of Waverly Place and Sonny with a Chance.
• Notable Firsts: Filmed in Puerto Rico—the first Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) to do so.
  • “Ppp... was filmed in Puerto Rico... Have you been to Puerto Rico?” (05:57 | Will)

2. Selena Gomez & Demi Lovato: Chemistry, Casting, and Friendship

• Casting Switch-Up: Originally, Gomez was set to play Princess Rosie and Lovato as Carter, but the roles were switched last minute.
  • “I could not imagine them flipped. They are. They're perfect in the roles they played.” (12:55 | Will)
• Star Chemistry: The hosts repeatedly highlight the genuine affection and seamless teamwork between Lovato and Gomez.
  • “They didn't seem like they were, like, on camera kind of fighting for anything. ...They look like they were just having a great time being able to work together.” (15:39 | Sabrina)
• Real-Life Friendship & Fallout: The hosts touch on the duo’s early friendship from the Barney days to their reported present-day distance, joking about the drama and rumors.
  • “They have since driven. ...now you're not even friends. Friendly. Sorry, I just made that up. But for some reason it worked.” (09:34 | Will, joking)

3. Movie Structure, Tone, and Missed Opportunities

• Tone Issues: The hosts note that the film wavers between “realist” fish-out-of-water comedy and a more over-the-top, Disney Princess fantasy, and fails to fully commit to either.
  • “At first, I didn't understand the tone of the movie, and I still think the tone is a little bit muddled.” (12:55 | Will)
  • “It actually flipped me into thinking about the Descendants and how they really leaned into...the Disney classic cartoon princesses would be like.” (13:43 | Sabrina)
• “Go Full Disney” Critique: Both agree the film could have leaned harder into magical whimsy, suggesting an “Enchanted” style portal between a fairy tale world and Louisiana.
  • “This is where the slightest tweak in the script... could have made this one of the greatest decoms of all time.” (40:40 | Will)

4. Disney Star Machine: Growing Up under the Mouse

• Why Do Some Succeed After Disney?: The hosts debate why only a few former Disney Channel actors break out into superstar status, using Gomez as a case study for relatability and hard work.
  • “She’s like that girl next door... Super sweet and very humble. ...she took her role as someone who kids look up to really serious.” (19:24 | Sabrina)
• The “Break the Mold” Theory: The conversation notes how stars often take on radically different, sometimes “edgy” roles post-Disney (e.g., Spring Breakers) to avoid typecasting.
  • “To break out of that mold, to truly show you're not that, it seems like swinging for the fences is...the norm.” (21:45 | Will)

5. Plot Recap & Commentary

[Major beats discussed and timestamped:]

• Opening Setup (31:23-34:00)
  • Carter Mason (Gomez) is a bait shop worker and outcast; Princess Rosalinda (Lovato) is forced into hiding after her country is seized.
• Princess Protection Program HQ (39:54-42:14)
  • Underground agency for hiding endangered princesses, complete with transformation sequence ("stage three: transformation").
  • “They will make her unrecognizable by cutting her hair and changing her wardrobe. But the process puts her into a panic...” (42:28 | Will)
• Fish-Out-Of-Water Comedy (46:34-54:54)
  • Rosie reacts incredulously to American life—struggling with chores, school, and hamburgers.
  • “She looks at a banana like it's a dinosaur egg, which seems way over the top. This is where I was like, okay, is she from our world or not?” (42:28 | Will)
• Makeover & Homecoming Campaign (58:49-63:54)
  • Rosie’s popularity surges; she and Carter bond and help underdogs, which leads to them both on the homecoming court.
• Mean Girl Antics & Climax (66:15-71:22)
  • Rivals (Chelsea/Brooke) uncover Rosie's secret; the girls plot to fool the villain with a mask-switch at the big dance.
  • “As they wait for the announcement, General Kane sneaks up on who he thinks is Rosie, but is actually Carter.” (68:40 | Will)
• Happy Endings (71:23-72:40)
  • Kane is arrested; Rosie is restored to her throne; Carter is celebrated for her bravery.
  • “In the end, Carter has become the real princess.” (70:30 | Will)
• Notable Critique: The hosts believe the film’s resolution and several subplots (like the "Ed’s documentary" arc) deserved better payoffs.
  • “Loose threads...I wonder if they were setting it up...to have a sequel.” (83:19 | Sabrina)

6. Notable Quotes & Fun Moments

• “If you have a problem with popping peas or alliteration, turn your channels off right now, because we're going to be popping peas all day as we talk once again about the Princess Protection Program.” (04:23 | Will)
• “To me, it was an easy watch...the star potential on camera was just surreal.” (12:05 | Sabrina)
• “I wanted to keep doing family stuff...I didn't end up blowing up and being Miley Cyrus.” (22:58 | Sabrina, discussing post-Disney careers)
• “This was. Would love to, and I don't think I'll ever say this again about any movie...go more Disney with this movie.” (87:03 | Will)

7. Ratings and Final Thoughts

• Sabrina’s verdict: 8/10 Princesses
  • “I loved this movie. ...these two girls...are fire on camera together... solid eight princesses.” (87:17 | Sabrina)
• Will’s verdict: 7/10 Princesses
  • “It's an easy watch... there are holes... and for a lot of it, I just didn't care. They are very...great.” (87:03 | Will)
• Bottom Line: Strong performances from Gomez and Lovato elevate what is otherwise a "fun but flawed" DCOM.

8. Fun & Games Segment

• Demi, Selena, or Phoebe?: The hosts play a lighthearted “Who said it?” game with quotes from Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, or Phoebe Buffay (Friends), injecting more pop culture nostalgia. (77:48-79:51)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [04:23] — Alliterative Introduction & Film Impact
• [11:02] — Sabrina’s First Impressions
• [12:55] — Cast Chemistry and Tone Discussion
• [19:12] — What Makes Some Disney Stars Transcend?
• [40:37] — Princess Protection Program Headquarters
• [46:34] — Culture Clash Comedy & Bananas
• [58:49] — Homecoming Plot, Mean Girls, and Makeover
• [66:15] — The Unmasking, Villain Face-Off, and Resolution
• [72:03] — Ed & Carter (Should-Be) Endgame; Finale Critique
• [76:42] — Five-Star and One-Star Audience Reviews
• [77:48] — Demi or Selena or Phoebe? Game
• [87:17] — Final Ratings & Episode Wrap-Up

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Notable "Sabrina Sees" Observations

• Sabrina suggests the "disguise" transformation was underwhelming; wishes they’d gone for a more radical change.
• The fate of the documentary subplot (“Ed’s project”) bugged her — missed opportunity for a clever ending montage.
• Wonders if loose threads were intentional setup for a possible sequel.

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In Closing

Princess Protection Program is warmly remembered for the palpable chemistry between Disney’s brightest, but criticized for a muddled tone and missed story potential. The hosts have fun, nitpick with love, and ultimately recommend the film as a breezy, feel-good watch—especially for fans of Gomez and Lovato.

"Would love to have gone more Disney with this movie." (87:03 | Will Friedle)

— Listen wherever you get podcasts. Next up: 2002's A Ring of Endless Light – the first dolphin DCOM!

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[Podcast Host 1]

Sabrina yes. I'm not normally a tiara person.

[Sabrina Bryant]

No, really?

[Podcast Host 1]

But you're rocking it.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I gotta be honest, there's some things that are just made for people and I think tiaras are made for me.

[Podcast Host 1]

Were they? Now, is this a toy tiara or is this a tiara that's worth several hundred million dollars with the size of the. Yeah, with the pink diamond at the front.

[Sabrina Bryant]

And to be honest, I'm almost positive this is like an exact replica of what is used in this movie. Like, oh, so this is so similar. This is what I, I was like, oh, I've got that one.

[Podcast Host 1]

And that perfectly brings us to today's wonderful film. Well, we'll see if it's wonderful actually. But first, welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show that makes you want to grab your friends, your PJs and your popcorn and go back to a time when all the houses were smart. The wave tsunamis and everyone called me Lord William. I'm Will Friedle.

[Sabrina Bryant]

And I am Lady Sabrina Bryant.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yes, yes, and we're a pretty good dynamic duo. But this week we have quite the dynamic duo to review. It's a movie with not one, but two of the channel's biggest and brightest modern day stars. Princesses who have gone on to big and bright adult careers. It's 2009's DCOM coming of age comedy starring Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez. The Princess Protection Program. If you have a problem with popping peas or alliteration, turn your channels off right now because we're going to be popping peas all day as we talk once again about the Princess Protection Program. Say that three times fast, please. Princess Protection Program. Yes. So the movie debuted on June 26, 2009 to a very large audience of 8.5 million viewers. It nearly doubled the viewership of CBS that night and won the overall time slot. That's pretty big. And Princess protection program, or PPP won 2009's Teen Choice Award for Choice Summer Movie. And Choice Summer TV went to Selena Gomez, who beat out Demi Lovato for the same movie. The director also took home the DJ Award for outstanding Directorial achievement in a children's program. So this is a big win all around for the Disney brand. Also, I did notice something a little unique about this movie. It debuted on the channel June 26th and then was released on DVD four days later. That is a crazy turnaround that we haven't seen before. But you do of course see similar plans working out in 2026 with same day streaming releases. But Princess Protection program was apparently way ahead of its time. Ppp, which is like I like I call it or just piece would be P Cubed. P Cubed was filmed in Puerto Rico between March and April of 2008, marking the first Disney original movie shot there. Sabrina, have you been to Puerto Rico?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes. And the funny thing is is I feel like it was in 2008. That was the first time I went there. We did a Cheetah Girls concert.

[Podcast Host 1]

Cool.

[Sabrina Bryant]

We took our tour to Puerto Rico and that being a big deal for the channel. So I'm going like that struck me when I saw that it was filmed there. I was like, ooh, I wonder if there was something bigger that we of course are in our own La La Land, don't know, happening within the channel. And then I've been back several times. I got when I was doing the Dancing with the Stars live on cruises, we were in the Caribbean and that was one of the big ports we went to.

[Podcast Host 1]

So I got what is Puerto Rico like? I hear it's beautiful.

[Sabrina Bryant]

It's gorgeous. It's gorgeous. And it's got. It's got just super unique vibes about it. A lot of the school buses are like painted and all rigged up and stuff. Like it's just got a really happy, awesome vibe. And also a lot of historical things that you could just walk around and go see. And you know you can do the island pretty quickly and it's just food's great there. Everything I love. I've never had a bad time in Puerto Rico.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah, I gotta go. It's one. It's definitely a bucket list place for me. Production utilized. Speaking of some of the historic stuff they utilize some of historic buildings like the Collegio, San Ignacio de Loyola and Carazio Lake in T Hula Alto. I think I said all those right. This movie also involved one of the channel's most original marketing plans. Disney promoted the film's premiere by offering never before seen episodes of their original series Wizards of Waverly Place and Sunny with a chance as an online reward if viewers could correctly count the number of times the words princess or princesses were spoken during the film. It's like a Disney version of a drinking game. It's true they encourage kids not to drink, but to enter the correct answer into their website and reap the benefits. And you don't just cast Demi and Selena without taking their music seriously. And PPP had two original songs. One is a duet between the two superstars called One and the Same, written by former pop star Vitamin C. I just said a whole bunch of words I don't understand.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh my gosh. Wow.

[Podcast Host 1]

I love vitamin C. I take it.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Every day she sang a song Graduation.

[Podcast Host 1]

I believe so Vitamin C is a woman.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Okay, it is. And she had this bright, just like radiant red hair.

[Podcast Host 1]

Okay. Very cool looking that's also very, very good for health. And the other is by Disney dude who we, you know, I'd love to say friend of the pod, but he's not. We like him, but he doesn't like. Apparently Mitchell Musso called the girl can't help it. Both songs made it onto Disney Channel compilation album later, but the movie also licensed tracks from Lovato, Diana Page and another group, ksm, which believe it or not, I am familiar with. Ksm. That's not even a joke. There was an all girl band movie that my friend was going to do and we did a table read with ksm. They were all very nice.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh cool.

[Podcast Host 1]

One crazy fact I found online. Originally Selena was set to play Rosie, which Demi ended up playing, and Demi was set to play Carter. But Disney decided to switch their parts just before filming and it worked out in my opinion and apparently the actresses felt the same way. And the lore between these two stars goes back really far. I don't claim to be any expert, so I'm going to need some help with the tea. But these two were apparently best friends who first met on the set of Barney. But then one of them started dating the purple dinosaur. It made the other one really jealous.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Very awkward.

[Podcast Host 1]

They have since driven. I love you and you both love me and now you're not even friends. Friendly. Sorry, I just made that up. But for some reason it worked. Thank you yeah, they drifted apart since they've confirmed they are no longer friends. Well, close friends anyway, but quote unquote, support each other from a distance. Which is a nice way of saying they hate each other, but they don't want anybody on Instagram to know that. Over the years, this movie has also supplied the Internet with its fair share of memes. One is a slightly demonic laughing shot of Lovato. Another quotes the I hate you back and forth the main characters have. But yes, this movie is now seen as beautifully cringy and thus ready for the memes. And you can watch all three P's right now. Gotcha. I'm gonna see saying pee all day. It's so strange. And I'm sorry, but in the future, for producers, if we can avoid saying three Ps and available to stream right next to each other, I would really appreciate that on Disney. But of course it is. You can tinkle these two girlies. No, I'm not gonna do it. You can see. All righty.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Okey dokey.

[Podcast Host 1]

See these two girlies when they were still besties before our or after. We suggest this is going to be fun. Calling all of your friends over to view it as a group. But first, draw straws. Don't explain why or what any of the rules are. Then once they've selected, announce it's fine. I'll just watch it later and send them all home. Good luck. I think that'll be fun. Sabrina, the question du jour. Did you know anything about PPP before watching it for the podcast?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Not. Except for I knew that there was a dcom and this was like the greatest timing because they were so close. Both their shows were such big hits. Demi's career for singing was really starting to thrive. Like, I remember the rumbling and how awesome it was, but I had never watched. I knew it was called Princess something and that was kind of it. But when I tell you this was on our list, I was so excited to finally actually sit down and watch this movie because I love both of them in different ways. I think both of them are incredible. And I mean, it was. I was really excited to watch.

[Podcast Host 1]

Okay. Knock, knock.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Who's there?

[Podcast Host 1]

I'd never heard of this movie before.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

Now if we could all please rise for the pride of Costaluna. It's the synopsis. A princess whose country has been invaded goes into hiding in Louisiana, where she has to learn to act like an ordinary teenager. What were your early thoughts on princess protection program? Did you like it? Did you not like it? Easy. Watch What Was it for you?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah. To me, it was an easy watch. There were some of the stuff that I was looking at. The villains that we find very early on in the movie kept drawing my eye every time they were on camera, and I had to look it up. I waited till the end. I'll show you later. And Sabrina sees who I was wanting both of these gentlemen to be so badly. And I don't know why, but I just. I. At some point in the movie, it just clipped in my head like, this is them. I knew it wasn't the right actor, but like, this is. This is the actor. I don't know why, but as far as the movie goes, I thought it was good. I thought it was cute. I thought there were great moments from both of these main characters. And, I mean, the star potential on camera was just surreal.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryant]

What about you, Will?

[Podcast Host 1]

Okay, well, let's talk about this right off the bat. The both of them are great, and they're great together, and they command the screen. I could not imagine them flipped. They are. They're perfect in the roles that they played. At first, I didn't understand the tone of the movie, and I still think the tone is a little bit muddled. Like, there's part of me. It went from. And we'll get into it. It went from, like, kind of Disney Princess, which is what I thought they were gonna do more. And then it kind of went away to more teen drama. And then with. With little sprinkles of Teen Princess. And I found myself, instead of saying, man, I wish they leaned more into making it real. I almost found myself wishing they leaned more into making it more Disney.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes. It actually flipped me into thinking about the Descendants and how they really leaned into the princess of, you know, what our Disney classic cartoon princesses would be like.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah. Make the villain more absurd.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes. I also felt that way, and I think that's why I was thinking about this actor, because the actor, had he been cast doing this, those villain parts would have been to the nine.

[Podcast Host 1]

There you go. So that's. That's what I mean. It's like. It's like this easily could have been a movie where it picture the same exact movie, except you get rid of something that really isn't necessary in the movie, which is the Princess Protection program. Like, it could. He could have been a real CIA agent, FBI agent, whatever you want him as. And an actual princess from an actual place had to be put in Witness Protection program. You didn't need to go to an underground bunker where you find out Other princesses are. Are being in this program. Like, if you want. What I'm saying is pick one lane.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

Like, if you want to go that way, that's great. Go to the underground bunker and then show, you know, that Ariel. You know, there's a video of Ariel in the background, and she's in protection somewhere, and it becomes very Disney. She's being followed by an actual, like, Disney type of villain. So pick kind of which route you're gonna go. Is it fun, almost Disney absurdist, or is it. There's a real princess that's in the witness protection program that needs to be safe. And I felt like they didn't really pick a lane for which one of those things they wanted to do. But at the end of the day, none of it kind of really mattered. Just because you saw these two young girls, young women, and they were great together, and they command the screen. You knew what was gonna happen. I mean, there was nothing where it was like, wow, good twist or anything. You knew the story going in. But when you've got this kind of young star power for young kids watching, it was great.

[Sabrina Bryant]

What I really loved about these two girls as a duo was they both seemed to be very comfortable and love their aspect of what they brought. They didn't seem like they were, like, on camera kind of fighting for anything. They were really happy to be both that same level of, you know what I mean, a star in the movie. And I loved that. It didn't seem like there was any kind of, like, back and forth, any kind of catty stuff. They look like they were just having a great time being able to work together.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah. This movie was directed by Alison Liddy Brown, as I mentioned, a DGA Award winner for the movie. She has an acclaimed TV career dating back to the late 90s on shows like. And the shows are really impressive. The Secret World of Alex Mack, even Stevens. Cousin Skeeter, which I'd never heard before and have now heard over and over and over again, and Xena, but has since worked on everything else. Tons of great. Everyone's saying they love. Everyone's talking about Cousin Skeeter. I'd never heard it. And now it's all.

[Sabrina Bryant]

This is the.

[Podcast Host 1]

It's like a puppet or something. Marcus Togi talked about it, right?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes. And I was in the opening credits, like, as a dancer on.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yes. God. Okay. Because we think we talked about it on Pod Meets World, too. So we've got to see this.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Wow. That's crazy. Okay.

[Podcast Host 1]

So, yes. She also worked on Tons of Grey's Anatomy, Friday Night Lights, Shameless Parenthood, Chuck. The list goes on and on. But only a handful of movies in the bunch and this is, well, one of them. And yes, we talked about it. It stars Selena Gomez as Carter. Like I said, she started her career on the set of Barney and Friends and has since become one of the industry's biggest names in acting, music and producing. She was a Disney Channel megastar as Alex Russo on Wizards of Waverly Place. It seems like she likes alliterative titles. You got Princess Protection Program, Wizards of Waverly Place, a show that turned into a decom. We already reviewed. But she also showed up on Hannah Montana, Suite Life and assorted Joe Bros. Content. Did she date a Jobro? It seems like she would have dated a Jobro.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I don't.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yes. Okay, we already got that from Lisa. Yes. That's all we need. Yes.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I don't know which one, though.

[Podcast Host 1]

I don't think it matters. It doesn't really matter. She dated a Jobro. That's. That's all we need. Yes. Her adult era. Nick with two ends. She dated Nick. Yes. Her adult era would start in Harmony. Corrine's. I'm saying that right. I hope. Controversial Spring breakers and to roles in Hotel Transylvania movies, Amelia Perez and the hit show. She currently stars alongside Steve Martin and Martin short Only Murders in the Building. And I hate to be the one to say this out loud, I've never seen a single episode. Everyone loves it and my parents love it and I gotta watch it and.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Dream Job in between.

[Podcast Host 1]

Oh, my God, can you believe? And apparently she holds her own and they love her and that's awesome. And in music, she's released three solo number one albums with billions of streams, several Guinness Records, and two Billboard number one songs. And. And this next stat, I couldn't believe because of all the star power out there, apparently she's also the most followed woman on Instagram.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Wow.

[Podcast Host 1]

I mean, I would have said Taylor Swift. I would have said Taylor Swift.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

So that's.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Or Kim.

[Podcast Host 1]

Kim K. Sabrina Carpenter's getting up there. But yeah, that's. That's crazy now. What do you think? So obviously there's talent all over the place on the Disney Channel. What do you think, in your opinion, having seen the Disney machine works in the works of the Disney machine. What makes somebody come out like a Selena Gomez where they become a megastar and other people come out and they kind of do their Disney Channel stuff and then they go off and they have a regular life?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Well, to me, I think it's having obviously an uber amount of talent makes a big part of it.

[Podcast Host 1]

Lots of talented kids come off the channel, though, and then don't ever really go into that.

[Sabrina Bryant]

That's true. She has an aspect that', like, really relatable. She's like that girl next door, I think, that you, like, believe could easily be your best friend had you guys met in real life. Like, like the way she just seems to be very personable to me, I think, and which to me, like, again, I've met her several times. She's always been so, so sweet, you know, never too cool for school. The, you know, Disney Channel games, they want us to put these headbands on and you know what I mean? Some of the girls were like, no, I don't want to do that. And she was like, sure. Like, you know, she's super sweet and very humble. And I think that she. What I think makes a huge difference is she took her role as being like, you know, someone who kids look up to really serious and always kept all the projects she was involved in with like an end, like, positive type thing.

[Podcast Host 1]

Right. But that's on the channel. What I mean is to become successful, it seems like afterwards a lot of the things like whether it be Miley Cyrus or any of these kind of people, they so break the mold by doing something.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I think that's what I'm saying. She embraced the idea of, like, my fan base knows me as, you know, somebody who makes good decisions like things like that. Then why.

[Podcast Host 1]

What was Spring Breakers?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Break out of it.

[Podcast Host 1]

What was Spring breakers and why was it controversial?

[Sabrina Bryant]

So Harmony Corinne is a controversial actor. He did a movie in the 90s called Kids.

[Podcast Host 1]

Oh God, I remember Kids. Kids was crazy. Kids was crazy.

[Sabrina Bryant]

So this was a movie about like four girls going on a wild spring break. It had drugs, it had sex. It had it. So it was her. It was Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and somebody else. I can't remember. So I'm telling you. Yeah, yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

That's what they do.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I never ever heard of that. To me, she was the one out of the. The girls her age. Right? Cause remember, I'm older than them. She was the one. They were the up and coming right after we were doing all of our things that we were looking at em like, why are you doing that? Like, don't. Like, you know, it's not that you can't be normal, you can't have your fun, but like, she was the one that was not like that. Like, she didn't seem like she wanted to grow up really fast.

[Podcast Host 1]

No, I don't think it's about growing up really fast. I think it's about the fact that you are identified with one very kind of saccharine, sweet little girl. Especially for the girls, little girl kind of Persona of your Hannah Montana or you're, you know, Hillary, whatever, the Lizzie McGuire, or you're. You're a wizard on Wizards of Waverly Place. And to break out of that mold, to truly show you're not that it seems like swinging for the fences is a thing that a lot of these especially young women do. And where it's like, I'm gonna go do. I mean, look at. Look at euphoria. So you've got euphoria, you've got spring breakers, you've got all these kind of things where. And I think, unfortunately, that's become the norm of breaking out of Disney Channel. It's not. You very rarely find somebody who becomes a superstar, who was a superstar on Disney Channel, who continues as an adult, as a superstar, unless they do something so mold breaking that it's a little crazy.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I mean, I think probably that's what you would feel in the industry. Like, I'm only gonna get. I'm gonna get typecasted, right? See, for me, I was like, please typecast me that way.

[Podcast Host 1]

I felt the same way. I wanted to keep doing family stuff.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I don't wanna. I don't wanna do that stuff that's gonna be so extreme that it's gonna be so shocking that. You know what I mean? Like, I was good. Like, let me do dancing with the start. Let me be a dancer that loves to dance. But again, I didn't end up blowing up and being Miley Cyrus. I didn't. So maybe that is something. But I also think a part of it, especially for girls that do feel the ceiling, happen to them very quickly as a girl wanting to not be a girl, like a young girl, they want to be seen more as sexy or. You know what I mean? Like, that, I think, is a very natural thing that you go through. Like your early 20s. For me, I was on the Channel in my early 20s.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Different.

[Podcast Host 1]

That makes sense. Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Like, I made that decision later in life that, like, this is what I wanted to do. I kept saying yes to everything that they wanted me to do for the Cheetah Girls without wanting to necessarily have more of, like a sexier, like, you know, it was like, I don't know.

[Podcast Host 1]

Gotta break out of the mold. That is the key, apparently, which is maybe not the greatest key.

[Sabrina Bryant]

But anyway, I don't know. I mean, it's like.

[Podcast Host 1]

I don't know.

[Sabrina Bryant]

You just have to make it for yourself. That decision.

[Podcast Host 1]

You do. Hey, exactly. Everybody's gotta walk their own path. And then you got Demi Lovato as Rosalinda. Demi also starred on Barney and quickly entered the Disney machine as part of the channel interstitials called. You hear that? Interstitials called as the Bell Rings. These were two to five minute comedy sketches shown in between shows. And this, of course, all led to a role in the DCOM Camp Rock, which became a cultural phenomenon working alongside the Joe Bros. She dated a jobro too, right?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes, okay, just. She dated Joe.

[Podcast Host 1]

Okay. Yes, Joe. We're gonna have to have a jobro counter just to see which one of the stars they dated. But Demi's focus since has been in music, where she sold over 254 million records in the United States. Crazy won an MTV video Music Award, 14 Teen Choice Awards, 5 People's Choice Awards, 2 Latin American music Awards and a Grammy nomination. And all this. The impressive part is, unless it's been in a movie, I've never heard a single song. She also has become an ally by openly and honestly talking about her own battles with addiction, eating disorders and sexual identity. And is quite a one two punch here. With Demi and Selena. It was like, let's take our biggest stars and do a movie together. And of course it worked. Nicholas Braun plays Ed. Magical Rewinders will recognize Nicholas from his role in the DCOM Minutemen, but he's been in some legendary teen and YA projects of all time. He starred in Disney's Sky High and Perks of Being a Wallflower. But his real breakout came in adulthood when he was cast as Greg on the HBO hit Succession, a show that got him his first Emmy nomination. He most recently played this Is Crazy, both Andy Kaufman and Jim Henson in Jason Reitman's SNL movie Saturday Night. And another familiar name, Jamie Chung plays Chelsea. Jamie began her career as a housemate on the revolutionary MTV reality show the Real World. No idea that happened. And has turned into both a modeling and acting career. She's appeared in movies like I Now Pronounce youe, Chuck and Larry, Sucker Punch and the Hangovers 2 and 3. She's also the voice of Gogo in Big Hero 6. So yes, this movie stars two of the biggest Disney stars to ever grace the channel. But none of that matters if it's too damn long. So what is the runtime, people? Can we be as excited about the length of this film as we are about the women who share top billing. Well, I'm happy you asked. Princess Protection program, or PPP. Runs 90 minutes. Hallelujah.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Hallelujah.

[Podcast Host 1]

Hallelujah. We've done it again, people. We have hit the target, ring the bell and then go to Taco Bell. What a glorious time. Here at Magical Rewind. We applaud all those involved and continue to hope you are the majority and not the minority. 90 minutes. They've done it. And when we send out thank you cards to everybody for that, let's start with the writers, Annie DeYoung and David Morgenson. Annie began her career on the Honey I Shrunk the Kids TV show and would enter the DCOM orbit with Return to Halloween Town and Johnny Capahalla back on the board. She'd go on to write three more DCOMs after that, Starstruck, 16 Wishes and Girl vs Monster. And announcing right now that I would absolutely love to have her on the podcast because I like to speak to her. And then there's David Morgenson spent most of his career writing on award shows and assorted TV comedies, but his longest tenure was on the Baywatch parody TV show Son of the Beach. But this movie was his last recognizable credit.

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[Podcast Host 1]

Alright, let's find out what happens when two worlds collide and hang out at a bait shop. It's time for Princess protection program. We open on the bayou. We see alligators, turtles and dragonflies. We are of course in New York City. Ah, you still there with me? I'm kidding. We're in the swamps of Louisiana. We learn of Joe's Bait Shack, a local business where young Carter Mason is behind the counter furiously writing something. When a customer throws some bait, she's at first offended. But when she sees it's her cutie classmate Donnie. Call him Hot Donnie. She gives him a pass. But he doesn't even know her name, which she obviously knows his. This was weird because I didn't understand this first part and I was very worried. Right off the bat. He asks her how much for the bait? And she responds free. A deal is a deal. Free bait in exchange for never having to take the bus again. Okay. As he leaves, she sprints out the following but is stopped by her dad. He embarrasses her a little bit and says goodbye. So the dot. So apparently Donnie is going to drive her to school every day as part of some deal that they made. But he doesn't know her name. So when did they make this deal? And then Donnie has a sweet new convertible with two other girls, Brooke and Chelsea. They're already inside. Attitudes thrown around. And eventually Donnie leaves without her claiming there isn't enough room in the car. So what the was the deal?

[Sabrina Bryant]

I don't know. And also why when her dad that doesn't his job takes him away. I mean he does seem to run this.

[Podcast Host 1]

Like he's like the head security guy of the Princess protection program.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes, but like he also has this bait shop. Like it's his. It's right outside their house. We've got another work related place outside of someone's living.

[Podcast Host 1]

This at least makes sense if you like live on the bayou. Like at least it's better than like it's a bakery, garage, house.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Like what? His car is right there. Why can't he drive her to school?

[Podcast Host 1]

Oh, see, I didn't. That didn't bother me because again, a lot of parents are like, you're making your way to school and. Or she's like, no, I want to hit your ride with hot Donnie. But A, how do you make a deal with somebody you don't know their name? B, then there's no deal. She just gives him the bait. And then he just drives away. So had they spoken before and made some deal that then we don't. This was a weird start. And I was like, oh, right from the beginning, this could be.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Lisa thinks she was trying to hit on him.

[Podcast Host 1]

I think she was trying to hit on him because he has no idea who she is. Because. But. But the deal is a deal. Like, they. They. Then they both played it wrong.

[Sabrina Bryant]

She said it before. She, like, she's like, trying to be like, well, like, a deal's a deal. Like, we're gonna do this, right? And then she kind of cringes when he's like, okay, you can see her be like.

[Podcast Host 1]

Give it a cringe.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Like, she just, like, messed up what she was trying to do. So I think it's just like the shy girl trying to take her chance at the hot guy who has no idea who she is.

[Podcast Host 1]

Needed a rewrite. That shouldn't have been a deal. A deal. It should have been like, I'll make a deal with you. You can have that for free if I never have to ride on the bus again. Like that. Instead of like, remember that deal we had? And by the way, you don't know my name.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Why is he there picking up. This is one of my spring seeds. Why is he picking up bait right before school?

[Podcast Host 1]

Because that's the time when bait is the freshest. Is right before school. Everybody knows that.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Spring.

[Podcast Host 1]

That's because then you leave. You take the bag of worms and you leave it in your convertible in the hot sun. Everybody knows what?

[Sabrina Bryant]

I mean, like, where's he gonna take this bait? And we never ever once see him.

[Podcast Host 1]

Wait a second.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Or doing anything.

[Podcast Host 1]

I'm sorry. Are you telling me you would not start your day in Orange county by going to the local bait shack, buying a bag of bait, and then going to high school? What the hell was your school like?

[Sabrina Bryant]

I've only been fishing once, and it was a terrible experience. I'll never do that again.

[Podcast Host 1]

Fishing, I love. Anyway, we'll go. We'll go sometime. You're just gonna have to bait my hook. Anyway, so Carter hitches a ride with her dad, furious of those girls. His phone rings. It's his boss sending him on another work trip. It's a quote unquote routine op and will only take two days max, but that's what he always says. They pull up to Lake Monroe High School and exchange a cute secret handshake. And ladies and gentlemen, it's official. We have a good dcom dad. Meanwhile, in a massive castle far away, her royal highness, Princess Rosalinda Marie Montoya Fiore is presented with a large amount of pop and circumstance. She's in a rehearsal for her big coronation next month. With the help of Mr. Elegante, her dress designer and friend nearby, her mom is thanking a familiar looking soldier. Hey, wait. It's Carter's dad. And he's being called Major Mason. So apparently, is he part of the army of this country? And if he's not, and he's just part of the prince's protection program, are they not allowed guns? Are they only sent places where they still sword fight? I have so many questions. That's why they should have gone more Disney. That's what I'm saying. I'm saying go way more Disney with all this stuff. Like, almost like there's two worlds you're going through where you're like, walking through the veil of real life in Louisiana to then a literal Disney princess, like, go even bigger with it. Because this is like, well, if you're in the real world and we're sending you on an op, maybe we won't send you a loan with just a sword. So it's. You know, that's what I mean. It's like, make it where it's. You literally have to walk through the underground bunker and you leave our world.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Like an enchanted world.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yes. Got it. It's like the Land of Narnia, and you come into Disney Princess land where this PPP exists. That's why I was like, go one way or another, right? It's like, I just. And again, I did. I love the idea. The idea's great. And I was just. Just. I wasn't sure what it was yet. Where it was just like, okay, is this. Is she a real princess? Is this a place that's supposed to exist in our world, like this land? Or is he going to a world where then you're protecting it like Descendants, where it's like, through this thing, this veil, there's an actual world. And so I was kind of wondering which way they were going with it. I just didn't get it. And if it is the real world, maybe more than one guy with just a sword. But this was the job he left for. He's there to look after Princess Rosalinda. It seems Rosalinda's dad recently passed away, making her the future sole queen of Costa Luna Luna. It's a lot of pressure and responsibility, and her mom is afraid that General Kane, an enemy of their country, will take advantage of that. So Major Mason promises dependable security. And so her mom now Joins Rosalinda for the rehearsal, practicing a crowning in front of her subjects, quote, unquote, that will officially make her next in line. The official continues to run through by asking if there's any objections. And out of nowhere, a very threatening sword again is thrown at Rosalinda, taking the crown right off her head. An elegant, but not elegante. That's just the dress designer. Thank you very much. General Kane of Acosta Estrella announces his objection. Where the hell is Mason and his dependable security?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah, what's he waiting for? Right there. Yes.

[Podcast Host 1]

How strong is your country when this general and two guys now with swords can take the whole place over?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Well, we quickly see that her. You know, the guy that looks like the castle security. That's like, helping her through the coronation aspect. He's instantly like. I was like, oh, my. He just flipped, like, so quick. Was he already planning this? Was he the one?

[Podcast Host 1]

I don't know what's happening. This is the nicest coup that has ever taken place anywhere in history. And that's why I was like, wait, is this a real land? Are we supposed to imagine we're in in the world, like, our world right now? Are we supposed to be in princessland land? And they kind of explain it by just going, oh, it's not on many maps. What does that mean?

[Sabrina Bryant]

It's really small. It's really small.

[Podcast Host 1]

Okay, so he claims the princess is too young to be queen and his country needs to unite with Costaluna. He will step in as the president of both lands and instructs his troops to kidnap the family. With that, we get a scrimmage for the women as General Kane nonchalantly walks away. And finally, we see Major Mason unsheathe his small pair of knitting scissors that they allowed him to have. I'm kidding. They gave him a sword. What the hell, bro? He cuts a drape and uses it to swing into action, knocking out some bad guys and landing in front of the ladies. Mason rushes Rosalinda off, and her mom stays behind. She's eventually pulled in different directions for safety. Elegante sees that Rosalinda has been able to escape, and he grins. Mason and the future queen run down the castle stairs and eventually meet back with her mom. She says she knew General Kane would show up, so she set up an emergency plan with Mason. Mason. She makes Rosalinda promise to follow his lead. But before they leave, her mom hands her a necklace to always remember that no matter where she is, she is a princess. Mason and Rosalinda leave the grounds, followed Close behind by Kane's henchmen. But the good guys board a waiting helicopter that's just there and take off just in time. A crying Rosalinda leaves her family behind to face Kane, who will now take her mom captive and wait for her daughter's return. The next thing we then see is Rosalinda dropped off on a deserted island. Mason leads her to a large, mysterious electronic elevator door and presses a button. On their way underground, a large video screen appears and the director explains she's been entered in a secret International Princess Program, or the International Princess Protection Program. PPP Actually it should have been the ipp, which sounds weird. Anyway, the elevator finally stops and the director appears. She invites Rosalinda into a full scale operational headquarters for an agency funded by the world's royal family. She claims she's currently hiding 29 princesses because apparently there's princesses all over our world.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I know. Seems like this is where it was like large number.

[Podcast Host 1]

That's what I'm saying. It's like if you're gonna. This is where they. The slightest tweak in the script, the slightest little tweak could have made this one of the greatest decoms of all time. Literally. Like these are the princesses from mythical lands. Like what they used to do with Shrek, where it's like you're seeing kind of the behind the scenes of like the different princesses lives and stuff like that. Yes, do something like that. We're in the in between world, between your world and our world. And the princess is here.

[Sabrina Bryant]

And we set up like with the big giant crazy elevator that they take down below to this like corporeal, you know that they've got like they, they had stuff that being in Puerto Rico, using the castles that they had. It wouldn't have taken them much to make it just more Enchanted.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yes, exactly. You go from the enchanted world to the real world. What was the, the, what was the, the movie? Enchanted.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Enchanted, okay, it's called Enchanted.

[Podcast Host 1]

That's what it is. There you go. So that, so that movie, like the vibe of that movie here.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes.

[Podcast Host 1]

Would have been really interesting because then they could have even taken her character a little farther when she gets to our country.

[Sabrina Bryant]

And actually right around when Enchanted.

[Podcast Host 1]

Okay, that makes sense.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Came out because this was around Cheetah 3 and our wardrobe stylist did Enchanted. That's how I found her.

[Podcast Host 1]

Interesting. So then you wonder. Cause then you know the scene at the end where then Selena Gomez's character has to go back through the portal to watch her be Crowned. I mean, like, all that stuff. You could have made a bigger Disney kind of deal of it. I think they just missed the boat a little bit on what this was. Cause she walks in and there's two women in ball gowns. Were they supposed to be other princesses?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes. Or like the one that was the. Like the African Queen?

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah, that.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, her shoes. Stunning. Like, it was like, you know. Yeah. They set it up to where they could have easily done that whole thing.

[Podcast Host 1]

That was my biggest criticism is I just tonally felt like they didn't go far enough with the Disney at this time. A lot of times I'm like, oh, God, it's so Disney. Pull it back this time. I think they should have gone full, full thrust into Disney. And it would have been. Would have been great. But anyway. The elevator finally stops. The director appears. She invites Rosalinda into the operational headquarters. She has an Russian accent. For some reason, she claims she's currently hiding 29 princesses who have been threatened in some way. And they take an escalator down to an even busier wing of the operation. It looks like a fancy casino lobby with soldiers walking actual princesses in different directions. And again, it makes more sense if you're in a mythical world that there's princesses all over the place, instead of the fact that there's hundreds of princesses in our world. Rosalinda is now set up for stage three, which is transformation. They will make her unrecognizable by cutting her hair and changing her wardrobe. But the process puts her into a panic mode, and she demands to see Major Mason, the only person she can trust. As a result, she's reunited with her savior, and she demands to be returned home. He explains that General Kane has completely taken over, so that's not possible. But once he's removed from power, she can return. She just needs to blend in and stay safe. Since General Kane is waiting for her to contact her mom, then decipher her location, she's got to stay with him. So if she cares about her country or her mom, she needs to disappear. With this in mind, she returns to the salon for a chop and a new color. She is now Rosie Gonzalez, an average American girl who's now ready for stage four relocation. We're sent back to Louisiana. Major Mason is driving Rosie into town. Driving to his bait shop, she is severely culture shocked, obviously moving in with Major Mason on the swamp. And at the same time, a bus brings Carter back from school. She runs into the house, excited to see her dad, but is Shocked to find a random girl at who stumbles her name during her introduction, which I thought was great. She walks in, she's like, hello. Who. Who are you? It is, of course, Rosie. She's been moved into a bedroom with Carter, and obviously Carter has some questions. She finds her dad working outside. Major Mason explains that the director forced him to bring Rosie home since she only trusts him. Carter realizes she doesn't have a choice here, so she agrees to help the princess blend in as her American cousin. It's a rough start between the girls, but a start nonetheless. Less. And the chemistry is instant between the two. The characters are very well defined, they're very well acted. Even Demi Lovato's cadence as she's reading all the lines, it's. It all works. That night, Carter plays cards with her dad, who needs the girls to get along. He suggests bringing the princess a slice of pizza, and Carter obliges, sighing the entire way. Rosie is still awkwardly sitting in the bedroom, unmoved and uninterested. She does ask Carter to make her bed and get her a pink nightgown, which, of course, does not go over well with Bait Girl. Then, when Rosie excuses herself to the bathroom downstairs, she stumbles on a massive iguana and screams. Carter and her dad explain it's just a lizard, something she's never seen before because she has a royal reptile wrangler, like we all do. My guy's name is Steve. The next morning, Rosie looks at a banana like it's a dinosaur egg, which seems way over the top. This is where I was like, okay, is she from our world or not? Because if she is, why does a banana look like the strangest thing you've ever seen in your life? The banana is part of a family breakfast where Rosie and her dad drink milk straight out of the carton and dig into whatever they find in the fridge. It's not exactly royal, but seems very real. The bus arrives, so the girls rush outside just as Major Mason gets a call from the director. He announces that Princess 379 stage four is complete and that she's safe. So we imagine they have done this with 380 other princesses in our world. Just one little tweak. Now arriving. One little tweak now arriving. At school, the girls are welcomed by classmate Ed and his camcorder. I remember him from Minuteman. I love the stuff that he does. He's so interesting to look at. He's such a good actor. This guy's great at first, the way he's throwing around terms like queen, you'd think he knows the truth about Rosie, but he's just filming a documentary about how he thinks Carter will be the dark horse for the homecoming queen this year. And just in case Carter explains to Ed that she's from Iowa, not a queen. Did this confuse you at all where he's saying queen and everything? And I was like, wait, does he know, like, right. What, what's happening?

[Sabrina Bryant]

I did at first. The, the very like, first two times I was like, oh, Carter's told him what's going on. That seems kind of strange that she would tell him this kind of top secret information. But then I realized, like, oh, no, this is just him. He's filming Carter, thinking Carter's gonna get some kind of of title of some sort. Like, so I realized. But yeah, at first. At first it did. The thing that really confused me is we really do this whole little gig like a couple times and then like never see the actual documentary. That annoyed me at least. Great. At the end of the credits, like some.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah. Some shots of it. Something like. Agreed. That would have been cool.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Some kind of closure with that because it was a cute idea, you know.

[Podcast Host 1]

I agree.

[Sabrina Bryant]

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[Podcast Host 1]

The bell rings and it's time for Carter and Rosie's first class. When Rosie attempts to sit in an open seat, Donnie or Hottie Donnie, depending on if you like him or not, the guy with the convertible at the beginning has a fresh answer that turns into a truly terrible secret. Handshake with his best friend to celebrate the sick burn. But when Donnie turns around to see her, he is stunned by her beauty and gladly gives up her seat. And now the teacher walks in. Who is the single hottest teacher in the history of the world. It's French class, and Rosie immediately outs herself as fluent in not only French, but maybe a dozen other languages as well. I saw none of this. Just trying to get a better look at the teacher, who was stunning, truly stunning looking. It was amazing.

[Sabrina Bryant]

This, by the way, though, this little bit of. You know, anyone that really kind of, like, lives outside the US and how they. People tend to know at least three languages.

[Podcast Host 1]

Oh, it's totally normal.

[Sabrina Bryant]

When we were both in Barcelona, traveling for other things, India, the people that we were around, it wasn't like they had some crazy high education, literally. It was just very normal to have the ability to, like, like, speak fluently in, like, three to four languages.

[Podcast Host 1]

We're one of the only countries in the world where this. The very idea of having more than one language in your head is absurd.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I know.

[Podcast Host 1]

It's two languages. You go to Amsterdam, and everybody in Amsterdam speaks English, German, French, and Dutch.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Toronto, because it's like a melting pot of different.

[Podcast Host 1]

Everyone speaks multiple languages. Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Spain, you know, several. You know, like everyone.

[Podcast Host 1]

Everyone. I. I'd like to as well. I just don't know which one. I think I'm gonna pick Klingon. I think I'm gonna pick Klingon, because Klingon. I'll use that more than anything else. Well, I. Sprachta. I don't know. You know?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Anyway, I think I. I'd love to learn whatever languages they do in the Lord of the Rings.

[Podcast Host 1]

Oh, so there you go.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes. The Lord of the Rings. No, but more so.

[Podcast Host 1]

Game of Thrones.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Game of Thrones.

[Podcast Host 1]

Oh, that was a completely invented language.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah, I know.

[Podcast Host 1]

Was that so cool? Drakkari. Or something like that? I think it's called something I like to wear. Drakkari Nuwari. Thank you very much. Anyway, we are now back in Costa Luna. General Kane spins a globe. Where is this princess? Her mother is brought in for questioning, but she's not talking for the record. Elegante is there too. Taking Cain's measurements, the general details the plan for his eventual reign. And she's quickly taken away. Back in Louisiana, Rosie cuts a long line in the cafeteria and is rightly shamed for it. Don't cut the line in the cast. But she's saved by Hot Donnie, who says, go ahead and cut. She orders a hamburger, which again, she does not know what that is. And that makes sense if she's from a Disney World, not if she lives in our world. Everybody knows what a hamburger is and is off to find her lunch table. That's the other thing. If you make it a mythical land, all these things make sense and you can go even farther with it.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes, and Demi I believe would have been such a great like wide eyed, more like Disney like cartoon character.

[Podcast Host 1]

Looks like she's always like they make it look like she's always about to break into song. They never would have her do it but seems like like those kind of things could have been really funny. But anyway, she looks to Carter, but her roommate doesn't offer her a seat. So instead she finds a corner table and sits alone properly working through her lunch like it's a five course royal meal nearby. Cool girl. Chelsea, sitting with Donnie, is weirded out by Rosie's behavior and the fact that this is Carter's cousin. Donnie though, seems very interested in the new student and gets kicked under the table by Chelsea for making it obvious. Eventually, Carter has a change of heart and joins Rosie, concerned that even the way she eats a hamburger is suspicious, which it is. She warns the transfer about the fluent French stuff and eating with her pinkies out. Their conversation is interrupted by the principal who reminds the student body that the homecoming court nominations are coming up. Brooke and Chelsea think they're shoo ins and we learn the three girls with the most votes will be princesses. Then only one will be voted queen at the dance. Rosie can't believe they vote for their queen and anyone could be a princess. That's not how it works. Then out of nowhere, Rosie stands on her seat and nominates her cousin to be on the court, completely embarrassing Carter and sending her right out of the lunch area. Rosie follows close behind. Back at the bait shop, Rosie is still on her tail, but Carter wants to be left alone. Rosie eventually quote unquote orders her to stop and Carter just isn't having it. They get face to face and luckily Major Mason breaks them up. Carter explains that the princess can't even pretend to be a normal teenager and it's a lost cause. But Major Mason says it will work. They just need to give it some time. That night in bed, Rosie is stressed and looking at a locket with a picture of her mom and dad. Dad. The next morning, Carter is getting the bait shop ready when Rosie joins her and is interested in learning what quote unquote chores are. Carter starts her off with inventory, a job that will keep her Busy all day involving worms. Now Carter has time to join her dad painting a boat, while Rosie climbs a shelving unit to get some buckets. A precarious move, by all accounts. Eventually we hear a loud crash and Major Mason finds the princess covered in worms. She shakes it off though, and leaves to bathe. Later, while still in the house, Rosie, now in a flower crown, sees Carter and her dad having a conversation about ordering pizza. But she surprises them with a fancy table setting for dinner. It's a thank you for helping her with the bake catastrophe. Her plan is to serve them and give them matching flower crowns. Rosie reveals her mother was raised a peasant, so she has many recipes that were passed down. Major Mason excitedly admits they haven't had a home cooked meal in a long time. But Carter is hesitant and continues to be snooty, forcing Rosie to excuse herself. Rosie is laying in their bedroom sulking when Carter enters. They each have their gripes. Rosie misses home and Carter assumes she doesn't even want to try and blend in in. She probably just misses her personal chef and private tutors. And so Rosie tells Carter her real story and how important her small little homeland is to her. She inherited Costaluna when her dad died and now her palace has been attacked. Carter's dad is the only reason she's safe and now her mom is being held hostage. This sob story obviously affects Carter. Rosie apologizes and swears she'll try to blend in better. It's the only way to save her mom. They agree that they're going to start all over. Over. And the first step? Bowling. They visit their local alley and Rosie treats it like she's just walked into the Taj Mahal. What is this wonderful place? And again, this makes way more sense if she's from a different place, different land. Carter asks her not to draw attention to herself as they rent shoes from Ed, the documentary director who also works there. Rosie doesn't even know her shoe size. Again, weird. And needs Ed to put them on her feet. Ed plays along in a nearby Chelsea and Brooke are confused and jealous. And guess who else is at the bowling alley? Hot douchey Dottie boy who is clearly into Rosie and not Carter, whose name he still can't remember. When he walks away, Rosie asks Carter if that is her boyfriend, which is a completely unhinged question to ask because he didn't know her name. Yes, but she does offer one gem, noting that Ed looks at Carter the same way Carter looks at Donnie. And with that, it's time to bowl. Rosie's up first and her first frame, a strike. And the second and the third. And now the whole alley is watching again. Carter is chop liver in every way at this fool. She returns her shoes and tells Ed that her cousin can be a real. And then Chelsea finishes the sentence with princess. Now, do you think this was just Disney, the word. When she literally says she can be a real princess? Do you think what they're. What she's saying Disneyland is she can be a real. Yeah, I think so, too. I think this is the closest we get to an actual curse word in a dcom so far.

[Sabrina Bryant]

And it's princess, so.

[Podcast Host 1]

Exactly. Exactly. It's true. It's. Oh, except for that one time. What was it in Camp Rock when Joe said, go yourself. That was a. That was a good point. I was like, what? Joe just came out of nowhere in Camp Rock. Wow. That was amazing. I might have seen the director's cut. I don't know if I might video. It's true. Gotcha. You don't remember that part, do you? Great part.

[Sabrina Bryant]

No, I don't.

[Podcast Host 1]

Chelsea and Brooke realize that Rosie is becoming very popular and they're nervous she's going to win Homecoming Queen. So they start to befriend her and nickname her Ro. That night, as they get ready for bed, Rosie wants to know why Carter is so into Donnie. Carter explains that she's been obsessed with him since elementary school. Rosie admits he looks like a prince, but wonders aloud if he's also beautiful on the inside side. Loved all this. This gives Carter something to think about. Carter's working at the Bait Shop tomorrow and Rosie wants to join her. But Carter puts up some boundaries. That's her thing. They say goodnight with an obvious wall still between them. Even though they said they were going to start over the next day, Rosie wastes no time and gets her own job at Chelsea's dad's yogurt shop. Seems like a cool gig, except Rosie has to wear a goofy cow hat. I loved that cow hat.

[Sabrina Bryant]

That was actually very cute. I thought it was a cute little. It was great little gig.

[Podcast Host 1]

She also gets no training whatsoever and is the only person working at the entire store, which was weird. It feels like she's obviously being set up for disaster. And that's because, well, she is.

[Sabrina Bryant]

She was.

[Podcast Host 1]

Back at the Bait Shop, Ed is filming Carter, still assured she will be a homecoming princess. It's his last day to shoot because the court will be named tomorrow. Carter thinks the whole thing is stupid and wants to do more with her life than be popular. Then Ed Gets a message on his phone and he knows where Rosie is. We cut to a packed yogurt shop where Rosie is not only over her head, but again the only one working there. The line stretches out the door and one guy in a fedora is so mad he angrily snapping photos of her and her mistakes.

[Sabrina Bryant]

While people should just camera or his.

[Podcast Host 1]

Flip phone, it's flip phone where people should just be making fun of his stupid hat. But from outside, Donnie watches the meltdown unfold and begs Chelsea and Brooke to step in. Chelsea waves over another guy, Bull, and quietly whispers instructions in his ear. On her command, Bull sneaks into the shop and presses the tank self clean buttons, creating an all out flood of yogurt and soap and water. The crowd laughs at her misfortune just as Carter and Ed run in to help. But even Bull feels bad about his actions and he runs out. But Carter caught a glimpse of him before he left. Now with Rosie covered in yogurt mess, they realized Chelsea set her up and invited the whole school to come and see her fail. What a princess. That's what I should say.

[Sabrina Bryant]

What a princess.

[Podcast Host 1]

What a princess you are. A total princess. Carter wants to get revenge, but Rosie says she will turn the other cheek and be the bigger person. She walks out of the shop head held high like a princess, maneuvering through the crowd. Crowd gathered to laugh at her. Rosie stops at Chelsea to announce that her father, the king of yogurts, would be very disappointed in her and quits. Also, Carter does get a little bit of revenge by smushing an ice cream cone on Bull's head, shifting the focus onto that stupid goon. So Chelsea's plan backfired. Rosie is more popular than ever. She's likely to be one of the princesses tomorrow, and she could even become queen. Chelsea says she'd rather eat carbs than lose her crown to the new girl. She has a plan on how to stop this. And in the future, I'd like all Disney movies to stop calling anybody Chelsea, because anytime you have to say Chelsea says, it gets very difficult. Back at the bait shop, Rosie is teaching Carter how to burp. An act that would make even Mr. Elegante, the royal dress designer, very angry. She explains, Even though she has a lavish life, it's more important to be a shining light and friend or a source of help to her homeland, like her father was. Carter is finally starting to see the genuine kindness in her fake cousin. And a friendship is starting to blossom back in Costa Luna. General Kang, who is a Disney villain. So it's like they kind of went that way with it. He's not, you know, he's not really threatening. He's not well armed. There's nothing really scary about him. He's a Disney villain, so they should just take it farther. He continues to rule the castle with an iron fist. His plan is to pretend that he's marrying Rosie's mom. And when she sees the announcement, whenever, wherever she is, she will race home to stop it. Back in Louisiana, the school principal announces the homecoming court. It's Chelsea, Carter and Rosie. Brooke was shut out, and Chelsea has no idea how this happened. They texted everyone to vote for Carter instead of Rosie, and now they're both nominated. Chelsea blames Brooke for not being popular enough. Meanwhile, Carter is not thrilled. She doesn't want to be a princess. Donnie approaches Rosie to be his date to the dance, and Carter can't believe what she's seeing. Carter walks off. Rosie says no and chases after her. Back at the house, Carter is humiliated. But Rosie explains that Donnie is not worthy of her. She's more than a bait girl. She's a princess. Rosie decides she'll turn the tables and help Carter feel like royalty and show what she has to offer to the world. It's time to find her inner princess.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Her inner.

[Podcast Host 1]

Her inner. We get a wonderful little montage as the girls show their charitable side. Carter and Rosie offer free tutoring to students in need, read books to little kids, donate clothing, and update Carter's wardrobe. At a thrift shop after a busy day, Carter's impressed with how kind and generous Rosie is. It's the real definition of being a princess. And now they are officially besties. They've both gotten over Barney in the school library book. Sorry. Brooke has a Spanish assignment and is looking for a book with lots of pictures. She stumbles on a Spanish magazine with an article about Princess Rosalinda of Costa Luna. Back at the bait shop, Major Mason gets a call for. Maybe that's why. Maybe this is one of the reasons why I couldn't have been in the world is Then how do they find out that she's part of a Disney thing? I don't know, but there was. There could have been an easy find fix there.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes.

[Podcast Host 1]

Back at the bait shop, Major Mason gets a call from the director about.

[Sabrina Bryant]

This Supposed he could have found the portal.

[Podcast Host 1]

There you go. Perfect. There's something like. Great. What would be interesting is you see a hand and it would be an easy thing to do. You see her hand go through the portal and as it comes out the other side it has a long princess glove on it.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh.

[Podcast Host 1]

Like, it's like as you go into this other land, you get princeified or princessified. So that. See, that'll be interesting. There you go. I'll rewrite it now. Back at the bait shop, Major Mason gets a call from the director about this supposed engagement between Kane and Rosie's mom. They figure out it's obviously just a ploy to draw the princess out, so they decide to hide this from Rosie, but are worried that someone will figure out her identity in the meanwhile. Cut to the school gym, where Chelsea is decorating for the homecoming dance. When Brooke arrives, she reveals the truth about Princess Rosalinda in hopes it can get her back in Chelsea's good graces. They translate the article, figuring out that Rosie has been sent somewhere to hide out and her mom is in prison or a paper bag. They can't translate that part. And now, despite all of her plans backfiring in the past, Chelsea has concocted yet another one. They drive to the bait shop and confront Rosie with the tabloid. Now, to keep the secret, Rosie will need to abandon her crown and endorse Chelsea for queen, which she's fine with as long as Carter keeps hers. Carter sees the mean girls on their way out, driving off and throwing their homecoming dresses into the swamp. Ah, princesses. She rushes. Ah, there you go. She rushes inside to find Rosie, who announces she must return home at once. She's read about the engagement in the magazine, and now she has to stop Kane. But Carter won't let her. It's not safe. Rosie begs her to stay out of her way. She loved Louisiana, but this isn't reality. Her reality is not as much of a fairy tale, and her country needs her. But Carter's not sold. Back In Costa Luna, Mr. Elegante gets a call. It's Carter from Rosie's phone, warning him of her plan. They decide to work together to keep her safe, as Elegante will do anything for his princess. And now Carter needs two dresses. Out on the pier, the girls regroup to talk. Rosie says she's really going to miss Louisiana. And her new best friend Carter, asks for a favor. She wants to help some people at Friday's dance and begs her to stay until then. We get a little montage of Carter talking to the school bus driver and some girls at the yogurt shop. They all meet at the pier to get princess lessons from Rosie and makeup from the bus driver. Back at the castle, though, we've been backstabbed. Did you see this coming, Sabrina? Did you see this coming. Mr. Elegante has taken the information he got from Carter and went straight to General Kang. Sneaky rat. Now.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Sneaky rats.

[Podcast Host 1]

He says. Let's fuel the jet and go to Louisiana. Did you think this was part of the plan or did you think that he had flipped?

[Sabrina Bryant]

I thought it was part of the plan.

[Podcast Host 1]

Me, too. I thought it was part of the plan. Mr. Elegant's not gonna turn. Come on. It wasn't. Yeah, it wasn't a. It wasn't a Sixth Sense moment. The dresses arrived to the girls in America soon after. Rosie is shocked and Carter admits she worked with Elegante. But there is one weird thing. Carter says the pink dress is for Rosie and she got the Caribbean blue for herself. And that's the opposite of what Elegante showed Kane. So keep that in mind, people. Yes, it's the night of the dance, and the girls look elegant in their dresses. Even her dad is impressed, but is pulled away by a call. So Rosie and Carter are off to the dance. But one last thing. Venetian ball masks, like you see in Eyes Wide Shut. Though thank God the dance won't be anything like that again, though, it's a little bit weird. The two girls arrive at the dance alongside all of their less popular friends via the school bus. All of them are wearing the ball masks, concealing their individual identities. Chelsea doesn't get it and falls face first onto the ground in hysteria. But Donnie and Ed are, well, frankly into the look. Inside the dance, everyone is grooving to generic pop music, while Rosie and Carter, now unmasked, are partying with two very nerdy freshmen. Donnie steps in and takes Carter by the hand. He's finally noticing her, but. But you know what? She isn't feeling it. She isn't feeling it now. And rejects him. He says she's been waiting for this since the third grade, but she knows it's only because of her makeover, so she lets him walk away and she returns to the dweeby freshman. Chelsea and Brooke are dealing with all the chaos in their bathroom, but their friendship is broken. Brooke is finally realizing that Chelsea is selfish and stands up for herself. She breaks up with her friend and storms out. All the unpopular girls are so thankful for Carter and Rosie's help, they feel beautiful. So everything is going really well, except General Kane has arrived with a full army of six guys. Just when it's time to announce the home cunning queen. That's apparently the cue for Rosie and Carter and all their friends to put on their masks, because either this party's about to get Weird. Or they have a plan, and then the party gets weird. No, I'm kidding. It's the plan. It's just the plan. And as they wait for the announcement, General Kane sneaks up on who he thinks is Rosie, but is actually Carter. He threatens her. Come with him now or he'll harm her friends. And so she walks out with the villain. What was the plan? Just to switch places and then go to jail in Casaluna?

[Sabrina Bryant]

To me, I thought the plan was they were gonna. They were going to kidnap Carter, and that's how he was gonna actually get in trouble, because he was gonna kidnap Carter, who lives in the U.S. he's on U.S. soil, and he's kidnapping, like, a U.S. citizen. Okay, yes, That's. That's what I feel like the whole plan was.

[Podcast Host 1]

But this was weird to me.

[Sabrina Bryant]

If her dad didn't know that's what. How this was going to.

[Podcast Host 1]

If.

[Sabrina Bryant]

If he thought she was going to keep that mask on the whole flight home, like, that doesn't make sense.

[Podcast Host 1]

I didn't. Yeah, I didn't get it. So I. This. It just got a little convoluted at the end here. But anyway.

[Will Friedle]

Yes.

[Podcast Host 1]

He threatens her. Come with him now or I'll harm her friends. So she goes with the villain. And then the principal announces the queen. It's Rosie. And there she is in the crowd, unharmed. She removes her mask and smiles. Chelsea can't believe it. Meanwhile, as she's crowned the mask, Carter and Kane are moving through the school. Rosie addresses the student body as Ed films her. She says she's learned so much. Most importantly, true friendship, loyalty, and trust. She calls out for Carter to thank her, but she's nowhere to be found. She's been whisked off to a helicopter. Rosie leaves to find her, but Chelsea stops her near the pool. She wants that crown and will stop at nothing until she has it. Rosie goes to hand it over, but pulls it away at the last moment, leading Chelsea right into the pool. And now, with that idiot out of the way, Rosie makes it to the helicopter just in time. She reveals the old switcheroo to Kane. Carter is baffled. The plan was working, but Rosie notes that this is her fight, not Carter's. And with that, the actual princess walks off with the general to fly home. But as they go to hop in the helicopter, they're met by Major Mason and the director. He's busting him for kidnapping. He tries to escape, but Mason catches up with him and cuffs him. So the dad and the Princess Protection Program have to be in on this somehow.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Somehow. Right, Right.

[Podcast Host 1]

But we never saw that part.

[Sabrina Bryant]

No, it's never explained.

[Podcast Host 1]

Okay. Okay. The girls embrace, and in the end, Carter has become the real princess with that Rosie hands over the crown. But someone has something to say about that. It's the completely drenched Chelsea. She snatches the crown and walks away. Carter lets her have it. She needs it more than they do. And I think you need more than just the crown to be the queen. I think you can't just grab it and be like, I'm the queen. I don't think it works that way. Now, I. Okay, so I didn't know if they were always in on Carter's plan, but Major Mason is furious with his daughter, so he. He wasn't obviously in on the plan. She knew she'd be the perfect bait because, you know, she's a bait girl. It's what she says. She's lucky her dad was there to save her, but he always will do that. He rescues princesses. They hug and promise they'll always be a team. So I just. It fell apart a little at the end. I didn't. Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I felt like it was like.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yeah, What? Yeah. What, what? What? Just unraveled.

[Sabrina Bryant]

And then we're.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yes.

[Sabrina Bryant]

And then we're back at the castle. Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

Go back to the castle. Go back to the castle. Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then we're like, oh, we're back to castle Coronation Day. Coronation Day. Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

So what's going on? Well, we're now back in Costaluna. Rosalinda is finally celebrating a big ceremony. It appears Major Mason might now be dating Rosalinda's mom. And Elegante proves he always had her back. I. It did seem like maybe there was something between the two of them. He was just part of Carter's plan and homies for life. Speaking of Carter, she's there with Ed as they start to chant, Long live the Queen. Long live Queen Rosie. Now, do you think Ed and Carter are dating? I hope so. That's the. That's the. The couple I want to see is Ed and Carter.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Right.

[Podcast Host 1]

So I hope they're together. We get a big final Demi Lovato song and a replay of the movie's highlights, which, again, you're a thousand percent right. Sabrina should absolutely have been clips of home movie clips of what he made for his documentary. That's because even I sat there and I was like, we just saw the movie. Why do I need to watch clips of the movie?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host 1]

That's such a better ending.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes. If it's not bloopers, which I'm always a fan of bloopers. If it's not bloopers, then it's gotta be. It should have been great idea.

[Podcast Host 1]

It should have been that it's a great idea. 100% couldn't agree with you anymore. It's a phenomenal ending to the movie. That's what it. Which totally should have would have been. Okay, so when I rewrite it, that's.

[Sabrina Bryant]

The end of the movie. Yes. Keep that in mind, please.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yes, please. So, yes. And then as Rosalinda is showered with flower petals. That is our film.

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[Podcast Host 1]

Can we do some real reviews?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Sabrina yes, I've got a long one today. 5 stars. Unamid A really really nice story. I rate it 10 thumbs up 5 stars. Okie dokie.

[Podcast Host 1]

I love how it's I rate it 10 thumbs up 5 stars 5 stars. I have the 1 star of course, and this is from James C. And that not James C but James C. Just a broken piece of media. All anyone should do to this film is drop a thousand bricks on it. Go watch Die Hard. Not this one star. Die Hard Die Hard. I Again, two very different films.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes Like, I don't understand.

[Podcast Host 1]

One's about a princess running around trying to figure out how to get their life back together. And the other one is the princess protection program. Thank you very much. That was my Nod to John McClane. All right, we have Sabrina's favorite portion of the program Right now, our feature game. This one's going to be called Demi or Selena or Phoebe. Yikes.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Phoebe.

[Podcast Host 1]

To celebrate the superhero, like, teaming of two of Disney's biggest stars, we will be given a quote, and we have to decide who said it. Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, or Phoebe Buffay from Friends.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Okay.

[Will Friedle]

Okay.

[Podcast Host 1]

Three out of five wins. Who are we playing with today?

[Sabrina Bryant]

It's going to be Michaela.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yay, Michaela. So we actually have a shot. Here we go. All right, number one. I believe in second chances, but I don't believe in third or fourth chances. Is that Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, or Phoebe Buffet from Friends?

[Sabrina Bryant]

I will go with Selena Gomez.

[Podcast Host 1]

I'm gonna go with Demi Lovato.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Might be it. It's Selena Gomez.

[Podcast Host 1]

All right, one. Nothing. Sabrina. Number two. Boyfriends and girlfriends are gonna come and go, but this is for life.

[Sabrina Bryant]

That is Phoebe buffet.

[Podcast Host 1]

Phoebe Buffay. 100% correct. Yes. All right, number three. It's fun. God, I love how sexy I am. It's fun. God, I love how sexy I am. It sounds like it's got to be Phoebe again, doesn't it?

[Sabrina Bryant]

It does. And I don't know that episode.

[Podcast Host 1]

I don't either. I don't either.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I don't know, because this is Demi Lovato, and this isn't their characters. Right.

[Podcast Host 1]

I think it's. Yeah, I think it's Demi, Selena, or Phoebe.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I'm gonna go with Demi on this.

[Will Friedle]

Then.

[Podcast Host 1]

I'm gonna stick with Phoebe.

[Angela Yee]

Will is correct.

[Podcast Host 1]

It's Phoebe. Ah, yes. We're tied. Two. Two. All right, number four. I don't actually like dates. I get awkward as I never know what to do. I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna say that's Demi Lovato.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Selena Gomez.

[Podcast Host 1]

Damn. So Demi hasn't said anything unless she's this last one. So you won. I need this one. Now, number five. If I decide I'm the girl to change the world, I can do it anytime. Demi Lovato. Let's hope he put in one. Demi Lovato. Yes. Hey, we both won. See what happens when Jensen isn't here. God.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Well, if he adds anything with Friends, I've definitely got a little bit more of a dance.

[Podcast Host 1]

Ah, I love it. Can we Do a Sabrina Seas, please. And I hope it's all about Friends.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Sabrina Seas. Yes, it is. On Friends. Last night, a new episode dropped.

[Podcast Host 1]

Oh, you would love that.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I would die. Okay, so you mentioned it so quickly. At the end, Major Mason and her mom have a thing. Like, did he kill the king? Like, right from the beginning, I'm like, did he get rid of the king? And Major Mason is like in on it.

[Podcast Host 1]

Maybe he's the real bad guy.

[Sabrina Bryant]

The vibes between them at the very beginning and then at the end, again, like, I'm like, wow. Like, whoa. That was a lot.

[Podcast Host 1]

He's a pretty good looking guy, Major Mason.

[Sabrina Bryant]

He is. I could not place where I know him from.

[Podcast Host 1]

We know him from a thousand things. I wish. I wish I had told. I wish I had said his name, which I should. But I'll find it. I'll find it right now.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Okay. I'll keep going. Okay. So I thought it was funny. I thought this would be mentioning too, how this transformation that she does. They should have had her as like a blonde or a redhead or something totally different, like short hair. And then put. Because there was not much of a transfer, I was like, oh, my gosh. I feel like Hannah Mont. His wigs better than this.

[Podcast Host 1]

Thank you. I agree 100%.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I go under in disguise in any sense. She literally looked exactly like what we had already seen her in. That was not the greatest.

[Podcast Host 1]

Are you a Seinfeld fan?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Not as much as like a. Like a Demi.

[Podcast Host 1]

Okay. Because he was on. He was on Seinfeld. I'm trying to think what you'd know him from.

[Sabrina Bryant]

There's something. He plays a dad in something. I feel.

[Podcast Host 1]

Special Victims Unit. He did an episode of Special Victims Unit. I mean, he's been on everything the guy's been.

[Sabrina Bryant]

He's so familiar.

[Podcast Host 1]

By the way, his name is Tom Verica. So if anybody. We should have said his name because he has been. And did you how to get away with murder?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, there you go.

[Podcast Host 1]

Okay.

[Sabrina Bryant]

There you go.

[Podcast Host 1]

She.

[Sabrina Bryant]

He was the. The husband in that There you go. Or that show. Okay. She also went to the restroom when she first got there to change. Then Carter says it's upstairs, like into the right. She's upstairs. She's coming down. That's when she sees the lizard. And she did not change.

[Podcast Host 1]

Like, oh, good call.

[Sabrina Bryant]

That was a oopsie Daisy. And then one of my. The lines that I felt was just like, where are we going with this was. My mother grew up a peasant, and so she taught me many recipes. That's how she knows how to cook because her mom was a peasant at some point.

[Podcast Host 1]

Of course my mom's a peasant.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Okay. And then this one kind of got me stuck. Cause I kept thinking of, like, cute little extra montages that they could have used with this documentary that he's doing or this class project or whatever it is that this guy's. That. That Ted is filming. And I thought it could be done at the end, but I thought it would. That would have been a great way to not take moments of the storyline. Cause I don't feel like we needed it in the movie, but to kind of finish out a little bit of their storyline, like, as a couple, like Ted and Carter getting together, you know, and like the. The clips of how he thinks he's so great, and then maybe he, like, set the camera up and you know what I mean? Like, them hanging out. It could have a lot of loose.

[Podcast Host 1]

Threads in this movie.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Cute.

[Podcast Host 1]

A lot of loose threads in this movie.

[Sabrina Bryant]

The loose threads, though, I was wondering, like, I wonder if they wanted. At this point, we're thinking that they were setting it up a little bit as the ability to have a sequel.

[Podcast Host 1]

Coming out of it, maybe.

[Sabrina Bryant]

So that would have been something that I would have loved to have known, you know, back in the day with Disney, like, was there, like, sort of talks of the hopes at least of doing a sequel. So they kind of left some things a little.

[Podcast Host 1]

Well, maybe we'll find out on our Park Hopper episode. Yes, we can finally announce both Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato will be joining us for the first. That's not gonna happen. They're not. They're not coming. They're not coming. It's not gonna happen.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, man, I would love it, though. It'd be so great. Of course.

[Podcast Host 1]

Are you kidding? That's not gonna happen ever.

[Angela Yee]

No.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Dang it. But that's my last little Sabrina sees. I really wish I would have gotten a little bit of, like, a little montage of our girl Carter and our boy Ted.

[Podcast Host 1]

Well, I was gonna say you're. You're. You're Ed. Ted. It's also your. Your ending is way better. Way better. To show what the. What he was filming. Way better. 100%. Right? Well, now it's the portion of our program where we actually have to rate the film we just saw. I know. No, no. Let's do one out of 10. Let's do one out of ten. I'm just figuring how we should do it. Let's do 1 out of 10. We're going to make 5 the middle. So we'll do 1 lowest and 10 highest. Yes. So here we go. Our options this week. We've got one out of ten nameless girls you drive to school. One out of ten royal reptile wranglers. One out of ten worms, matching flower crowns, Taj Mahal bowling alleys. One out of ten decom curse words. One of the ten angry fedora guys, Kings of yogurt, bus driver makeovers, Eyes Wide shut dances. Or I'm gonna add one out of ten princesses. What are you gonna pick? Sabrina.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes and yes. Yes and yes. What are you say gonna.

[Podcast Host 1]

There we go. Yay. I think, if memory serves, you go first this time.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I do. All right. So as excited as I was, I loved this movie. I thought it was like, there were definitely holes. I see especially now that once we go through it, you were able to really sort out that rewrite. I would have loved to see that movie. However, these two girls, I would go see any movie. I hope to God they work again together because they are fire on camera together. They just, you can tell the love that they had for each other. They were so excited to at least just get a chance to work together. Like, you could just tell this was like a great environment or at least it seemed like it for them to be filming and doing a movie together. I thought their chemistry was great. I feel like the two of them could really convince me in any characters they threw at them. Right. Loved them. I loved some of the movies songs that we got. I obviously that was such an easy one to jump out at you with Selena and Demi together. I kind of want to go rewatch it again to see where Mitchell's song is, because I didn't hear it at all. That one did not jump out at me, me whatsoever. But I liked this movie. It was an easy watch. And although there are some critiques in us just being super nitpicky because, hey, you know what? I doubt any one of these people that are listening to this podcast actually goes and watches every single one of us.

[Podcast Host 1]

Seriously.

[Sabrina Bryant]

We have done our time. We get to be super nitpicky because we've literally watched them all. But even still, I really liked it. I am giving this a. A solid eight princesses.

[Podcast Host 1]

Yay. Oh, I just want to. I want to hear you swear all the time. You know what? I, I, I don't disagree with anything that you said. It is an easy watch. It's 90 minutes long. They, the two of them together are their stars. There's a reason why the world literally fell in love with both of these girls now, women who have sold albums and are on television shows and doing this and doing that, anything they touched. Yes. And it. They're really good at it, and they're very talented. And I. And yes, you're right. Our job is to nitpick. We watch Disney Channel original movies and we point out flaws. We point out the good part. It's what we do. It's our job. So, yes, there are holes in this movie you could drive a truck through, and for a lot of it, I just didn't care. They are very. They're. They're great. They. And so I'm a little below you, but not too much. I'm giving this a solid Seven Princesses. It is. You know, does this have the same kind of gravitas as a script, as something like Color of Friendship or Going to the Mat? No. Does it have some of the best Disney actors we've seen that really command the screen? Absolutely. And that there's a reason they are who they are. And so this was. Would love to. And I don't think I'll ever say this again about any movie. Movie. Would love to have gone more Disney with. With this movie. They could have really gone Disney princess with her and made it a kind of a mythical land, which I think would have added to the comedy and would have made the drama pop more. But it was enjoyable. I didn't care about it that much. That's just my. My writer brain. So, yes, a solid Seven Princesses for this movie. It is. It is fun. Our next movie. Let's see where we're gonna get to swear in. This one finally scratches an itch. Ooh, I never liked that sentence that I've had since we started this podcast. By the way, if I've. We've been on the podcast for almost three years now. If I had an itch for three years, that's when you call somebody. We'll be looking at 2002's A Ring of Endless Light, which is, believe it or not, our first dolphin decom. I don't know anything about this movie. I hope that means that it's about dolphins, not that it stars one, because. Because I only speak one language and it's not dolphin, so that's gonna be interesting. But you can watch it right now on Disney just to make sure you are ready when it drops. And while we wait, there is no better time to get reacquainted with our dense library of past episodes. We have reviewed over a hundred dcoms from high school Musical to Fuzzbucket or From Really Bad to Amazing. Huh? There we go. I'm kidding. Let's reverse it. And interviewed dozens of DCOM legends and all you do to have do is search for Magical Rewind wherever you get your podcasts and subscribe and they are all in perfect sync right now. For more you can follow us atMagical Rewind podotmail.com I'm kidding. Everybody's still there. You can also follow us on MySpace or I'm kidding, it's Magical Rewind Pod on Instagram. Go check us out and drop us a follow. Let us know why you disagree with everything Sabrina says. Yeah, thanks everybody and we'll see you next time.

[Will Friedle]

Time.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Bye Bye.

[Angela Yee]

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