Rip Girls

Summary

Pod Meets World: Episode Summary – "Rip Girls"

Introduction

In the "Rip Girls" episode of Pod Meets World, hosts Sabrina Bryan and Will Friedle delve into their nostalgic rewatch of the 2000 Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) Rip Girls. Throughout the episode, they analyze the film's plot, character development, production choices, and overall execution, blending their personal experiences with critical insights.

Plot Overview

Sabrina and Will begin by recapping the movie's storyline. Rip Girls follows 13-year-old Sydney Miller, who travels to Hawaii with her father Ben and stepmother Elizabeth to settle the estate of her deceased mother. The film intertwines themes of heritage, family dynamics, and the challenges of adapting to a new environment.

Notable Quote:
Will Friedle reflects on his expectations versus reality, stating, “I thought I was gonna be watching a surf movie... which this was not at all” (07:40).

Character Analysis

The hosts commend the film's casting, highlighting the authenticity of the young actors who portray their characters at appropriate ages. Sabrina shares her personal connection, mentioning her audition for the lead role and her admiration for the stepmother character, Elizabeth.

Notable Quote:
Sabrina praises the stepmother, saying, “I loved this character and I was so grateful that this relationship was represented” (38:02).

Production Choices and Critiques

A significant portion of the discussion focuses on the film's production decisions, particularly its misleading title and lack of surfing elements despite being marketed as a surf movie. Sabrina and Will express their disappointment with the title Rip Girls, arguing that it set incorrect expectations for the audience.

Notable Quote:
Will criticizes the title, noting, “Do not call it Rip Girls if it's not a surfing movie” (93:15).

They also address technical aspects such as the use of computer-generated whales, which they found subpar and detracted from the film's immersive experience. The abrupt insertion of unrelated footage, like clips from other locations such as the Lincoln Memorial, further confused the narrative.

Notable Quote:
Will comments on the CGI whales, saying, “They just have a big surf board maybe for three more minutes or had some kind of surfing contest” (20:47).

Themes and Emotional Depth

Despite its flaws, Sabrina and Will acknowledge the movie’s emotional depth, particularly the portrayal of grief and healing within the family. They appreciate the authentic conversations between the adult characters, Ben and Elizabeth, as they navigate their loss and strive to support Sydney.

Notable Quote:
Will highlights the film’s emotional moments, stating, “She's trying to find it in herself to make a decision” (56:31).

Final Thoughts and Ratings

In their concluding segments, both hosts rate Rip Girls, balancing their critiques with appreciation for the film's intentions and moments of genuine emotion. Sabrina and Will settle on a shared rating of 7 out of 10, acknowledging the movie's strengths in character portrayal and emotional storytelling while lamenting its inconsistencies and production shortcomings.

Notable Quote:
Sabrina concludes, “I thought it was good and it was really fun to rewatch because it was a movie that I saw when I was younger and I enjoyed it” (96:35).

Conclusion

The "Rip Girls" episode of Pod Meets World offers a comprehensive and honest examination of the Disney Channel movie. Sabrina Bryan and Will Friedle provide listeners with a balanced perspective, blending nostalgia with critical analysis. Their discussion not only highlights the film's memorable moments but also its areas for improvement, making it a valuable listen for fans and newcomers alike.

Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Will Friedle (07:40): “I thought I was gonna be watching a surf movie... which this was not at all.”
• Sabrina Bryan (38:02): “I loved this character and I was so grateful that this relationship was represented.”
• Will Friedle (93:15): “Do not call it Rip Girls if it's not a surfing movie.”
• Will Friedle (20:47): “They just have a big surf board maybe for three more minutes or had some kind of surfing contest.”
• Will Friedle (56:31): “She's trying to find it in herself to make a decision.”
• Sabrina Bryan (96:35): “I thought it was good and it was really fun to rewatch because it was a movie that I saw when I was younger and I enjoyed it.”

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This summary provides an in-depth look into the "Rip Girls" episode of Pod Meets World, capturing the essence of Sabrina Bryan and Will Friedle's discussion while incorporating key quotes and timestamps for reference.

Transcript

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[Sabrina Bryan]

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[Will Friedle]

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[Will Friedle]

Do you surf? Have we talked about this? Did we talk about this during Johnny Tsunami?

[Sabrina Bryan]

We No, I think we mainly talked about snowboarding, because he. He really, really didn't see a lot of surfing in Johnny Tsunami.

[Will Friedle]

And we haven't seen back on the board yet, which is probably the surfing one.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, we've got to. It's coming to summ time. We got to put that on the list. So my parents had, like, a timeshare in Hawaii, so that was our summer trip that we did for a lot of years. And so I would do a lot of surfing there. And I was, you know, being in Southern California, I actually had a friend who's. I didn't have a ton, but I had one friend, Crystal, whose dad was a surfer.

[Will Friedle]

Like, right.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Like, Lloyd was a big surfer guy. And her brother also. I mean, total. Just like, you know, rip curl. Felt like the family was sponsored by them type of thing. Like.

[Will Friedle]

Okay.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And they would surf all the time.

[Will Friedle]

It's a lifestyle, I guess.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Go out with her and learn a lot from her dad and her brother, who was so cute. And I had a giant crush on him.

[Will Friedle]

Oh, you did, did you?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, yeah. He would. That. That was my type in that. In that day. Like that surfer, like, Sandy hair, crazy tan, you know. And then I remember it being so cool because he actually moved out after high school to Hawaii. And he lived in a tree house. He lived in a tree house.

[Will Friedle]

Was he animated? Was this a real guy?

[Sabrina Bryan]

So cool. No, it was my friend Crystal's big brother. Like, it was he that. So that living in Southern California, that was like a thing. Like, you know, like the man I married, Jordan, he was a surfer. Like, you like it. When I met him, like, his backboard of his bed was a big surfboard. So that was, you know, something that I loved. I did it. I can't say I never got past a longboard. So I was not. I don't consider myself a surfer because I was not a great surfer. I didn't get to do it a ton, but I did love to get out in the water. Now you. You will have to cut my right hand off to get me in the ocean. I hate the ocean. I'm so scared of sharks and.

[Will Friedle]

Oh, really?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Ye.

[Will Friedle]

They're more scared of you than you are of them.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, okay. I'm sure that's true. Oh, really? You know, a lot of sharks. They've told you.

[Will Friedle]

Of course, I'm friends with. Friends with a bunch of sharks.

[Sabrina Bryan]

They're pretty skittish now. Now the ocean and the beach, it's Sandy, it's. I mean, even Wango Tango, I didn't go out into the Audience. I stayed on the platform.

[Will Friedle]

Can't do the sand. Oh, my. I've only been to Hawaii once. It was in 2019. It's the first time I'd ever been. First and only time I've been to Hawaii.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Okay.

[Will Friedle]

I tried surfing once. I stood up once. I'm basically a pro. I don't ever need to do it again. I'm sure I even have a video of it. So that's all I need.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Surfing is so fun. It's so. But it's. It's what people don't realize until you actually get on the board, how hard it is. Like the. Your shoulders, your everything, your body is scraped up from the wax and the sand and the salt water and all that. I mean, it is so much harder than what you would ever really imagine, even just getting out there. I mean, it's like you've.

[Will Friedle]

It's a workout.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You paddle and you paddle and then you ride. Especially when you're like a beginner, which I don't think I ever advanced from that stage.

[Will Friedle]

I did. I did the only time I surfed. I'm a pro.

[Sabrina Bryan]

But you ride one wave in and you look back and you're like, I gotta go all the way, all the way back out there to do well.

[Will Friedle]

That's the. That's the old Seinfeld joke. Seinfeld said that surfing is just the ocean continuously kicking you out of it. Like, I don't want you in here.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Keep getting out, kick out ass over and over again. And for some reason, you just need to get back out and try to do one more wave, and you're still not good.

[Will Friedle]

I did the one. I was great. I was a pro. That's all I needed.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You did one wave and you were a pro. I loved it.

[Will Friedle]

Got it on video. Got it on video. That's all I needed.

[Sabrina Bryan]

That's the thing about you, Will, is that you just, like, you just master everything I do.

[Will Friedle]

I conquer. I do things once, I'm professional at it, and I never have to do them again. And I try to get it on video.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You'll never surf again.

[Will Friedle]

I don't need to. I surfed a wave. I've got it on video.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You got the award, got the medal, got the medal.

[Will Friedle]

I got it on video. Exactly. Thank you very much. On to the next. As we are on to the next film. Look at that. Brought it right back. 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 housers are smart. The wave tsunamis and the high school's musical. I'm Will Friedle.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And I'm Sabrina. Ready to rip it up.

[Will Friedle]

Oh, nice. Oh, I like it. I like it. Well, it's heating up here, people. Cause summer's here and we're celebrating at the beach with our newest ecom. And it's 2000 surf family drama Rip Girls. Or as we've been calling it here, Julie, Tsunami. Yes, I had joked about that last week when I teased up, but in reality, Rip Girls. Not a good title. We've seen this a few times now. Sabrina, am I right here? This. I. I didn't get it. I thought it made me think. So I'm not going to get into what we thought about the movie yet, but it made me. I'm just going to put it this way. It made me think the movie was going to be one thing and then it was something else, which always disappoints me in a way.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, of course. That's incredibly disappointing. But what did it make you think it was gonna.

[Will Friedle]

I thought I was gonna be watching a surf movie. A good romp surf movie. A kid Disney Channel surf movie, which this was not at all.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You don't think that was it?

[Will Friedle]

No. God, no. Surfing had almost nothing to do with. This movie was about surfing.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, I, I. Let me be okay, Let me be clear of this. I auditioned for this movie, and if you saw Sabrina and this era with my brown hair and I was always.

[Will Friedle]

Tan, but they cast that other guy to play Kona, you would have been great.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I would have been great as Kona. I swear to God, it would have been the best.

[Will Friedle]

Kona, you would have been great. But they cast that other guy.

[Sabrina Bryan]

So I auditioned for it and I. This is one of the channel movies that I got. I kind of got down the line, you know, pretty close to it. Remember watching it? Super excited. Like I said, although I wasn't a surfer, surfer survivor, surfing was a big part of just being in SoCal and growing up. And I loved it. And I remember going, there wasn't that much surfing in it. And this was at a time when this big surf movies came. I'm trying to think of the names of them, like the.

[Will Friedle]

Oh, like Blue Crush.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Blue Crush was out. This was during that era that, like, especially Girl Surfing rocks was a huge brand that was like, yeah. Killing it in the game. And I remember going, well, that's Disney's take on it. Like kind of hit or miss, kind of, you know, just Not a great one. It was not soon enough, Johnny.

[Will Friedle]

No, I just wanted. I just thought it was going to be a surfing movie and it kind of wasn't a surfing movie, which again, it wasn't. I didn't mind the direction it went. I just don't like if something's called Johnny and the Ghost Squad and there's no Ghost Squad, then you've mistitled your thing. You know what I mean? If I go to a hamburger joint and they only serve spaghetti, then it's not actually a hamburger.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And grilled cheese. Yes. Okay. Okay.

[Will Friedle]

So I went into Ripped Girls.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Done. Like, what would this have been?

[Will Friedle]

I don't know. It would have been something more of, you know. Yeah. Hawaii or. Or something with your history or something with a mom relationship. I mean, something that did rip Girls makes it sound like, you know, if it's called BMX Bandits and there's no BMXing in it, it's misnamed. So Rip Girls. To me, I was like expecting a surfing movie. I was coming in going like, oh, it's going to be those great water shots. It's going to be tons of really beautiful surfing. It's going to be the good team of surfers against the bad team of surfers. There's going to be some kind of competition.

[Sabrina Bryan]

There's obviously going to be the Brink version.

[Will Friedle]

Exactly. At the end, they both got to chase for the waves and Johnny Tsunami.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Still had a ton of snowboarding. So it makes me think. It makes me think, though, what is it? Was it the difficulty of being able to try to. Because again, surfing is a tough sport and maybe it was like a difficulty of trying to find young enough persons.

[Will Friedle]

I just think it was misnamed. I think this was always the movie and always the attention. They just, they, they. And I don't. Again, I don't know how this was touted back in the day. I don't know how they actually promoted it. But I mean, if they promoted it as it's just shots of surfing and then you see this movie, it's disappointing. If they promoted it as a young girl going a kind of fish out of water, going to a new place and struggling internally with her family and learning about that kind of journey, then it's a great movie. But if you go and expect a surfing movie.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Will Friedle]

So if. Yeah, again, if it's called Milton and the Parachute Gang and there's no parachuting, it's misnamed. So anyway, by the way, don't you want to see Milton in the Parachute game now. Great film. We're going to have to watch that. Yeah. Ironically, no parachutes in the entire movie. It's exactly like this. This movie debuted on the Disney Channel on April 22, 2000, and was filmed in Queensland, Australia, doubling as Hawaii. It is a rare international film location, but I guess it makes sense if you're looking for some beautiful beaches. But I never understand it's got to be a money thing, because I don't understand how flying everybody, the whole cast, the whole everybody to Australia is cheaper than doing it to Hawaii. But I don't know. It's obviously things in the industry that I know nothing about, tax stuff and where they can shoot, and obviously it makes a difference. But it seems like it'd be more expensive to go to Australia. But what do I know?

[Sabrina Bryan]

I feel like it's got to be location areas, something.

[Will Friedle]

And another rarity, much like the original Zombies movie, this one did not include any previous Disney stars in the cast. They employed all unknown actors, and I think they all did a pretty good job. And frankly, so do our friends at Complex. On their list, one that we commonly reference, Rip Girls placed at number 12 on their list of the 25 best DCOMs. And we've got more here. It's number 29 on Entertainment Weekly's list of top 30 and number 54 on Collider. All impressive placings, especially for a movie you don't really hear mentioned as one of the greats. And to add to that, it has never been released on VHS or dvd, which is amazing. But on the other side of the spectrum, Tim Ryan of the Honolulu Star Bulletin called it unrealistic. And we kind of have to give his opinion some weight, considering Hawaii is supposed to be location for the film, and its culture plays a major part in the story. So when somebody from Hawaii goes, not so much. You got to listen. So you talked about this. You grew up in Orange county, you were around surfers, all that kind of stuff. Was your friend's older brother your Kona?

[Sabrina Bryan]

I mean? No, because he did not talk to me very much.

[Will Friedle]

Ah, okay, fair enough.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Was he a lot older from afar? Oh, from a falcona.

[Will Friedle]

From afar.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, he was much older. I mean, okay, she was a year older than I am, and he was probably three, four, or five years older than her. So he was like, yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Does he still live in a tree house?

[Sabrina Bryan]

No, he doesn't, I think. But he did live in Australia. Like, his whole life is still, like, was for a long time. Last time I checked in, still very much around Surfing, his surfs. And he's got total life.

[Will Friedle]

It's a total lifestyle, baby.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Surfers. Yeah, yeah, for sure.

[Will Friedle]

It's a total lifestyle. One of my favorite shows ever is 100 foot wave. Go check that out, yo. It's amazing. And yes, like most films we watch, Rip Girls is available to stream on Disney right now. So you can watch it before listening to our recap or wait until after and see how much we got. Right. We're just winging it here, so honestly, the fact that we nail any of the details is just a blessing. Let us know in the comments. Although we have disabled our comments and we'll never, ever see them. All right, Sabrina, did you know Rip Girls was. Well, of course we talked about this. You auditioned. So of course, you know, Rip Girls was a movie.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I was very much aware of this movie and was excited and very excited when it came out to see, like, again. Okay, what was, you know, when I auditioned? How, you know, it's like you start kind of like using them as like education for yourself when you're trying to nail one of these roles. What could I have done better, you know?

[Will Friedle]

Are you going to let us know what your audition scene was?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Okay, so I remember I auditioned for the lead and then I also did audition for Gia too. Once they. Once I went in, they said, also can we would love to hear. Hear you. So I know her audition scene. I don't remember what the leads audition was.

[Will Friedle]

Okay, gotcha. Gotcha.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Didn't spark a memory.

[Will Friedle]

No, I.

[Sabrina Bryan]

When you auditioned for Kona.

[Will Friedle]

When I auditioned for Kona, my frosted tips apparently were too frosted.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Too frosted.

[Will Friedle]

I was told mine were like frosted flakes. Thank you very much.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And I thought I to from here. I want to make statement. Thought she did a great job. Thought they all did.

[Will Friedle]

The cath. The acting was not. I. Again, if I knew what I was getting into a little more with the title, you wouldn't, you know, I would.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You like irritated? Was it like a little irritated or.

[Will Friedle]

Just kind of like you just go in expecting one thing and you lied to a little bit? I just. You go in expecting one thing and you end up with something else again. If I go to a burger joint and all they have is spaghetti, even the best plate of spaghetti is not going to change the fact that I was expecting a burger.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

So I was expecting Rip Girls to be exactly what I even said to Sue. I'm like, oh, man, tonight's movie, I don't know what it's going to be about. But it's surfing. There's going to be some sort of contest. There's going to be the bad team, there's going to be the good team. None of that happened. So I was like, oh, okay, I get it. But now let's paddle out into the waves. And it's actually called duck diving to go under the waves. See, I'm a professional server. And we're going to get into the synopsis. 13 year old Sydney Miller must travel to Hawaii with her father and stepmother to settle the estate of her deceased mom. By connecting with the island, learning how to surf and making new friends, she discovers a deeper connection with her heritage and must decide between selling her mom's land or preserving it for generations to come. Cultivating in a giant contest at the end where we get to see some awesome surfing between a good team and a bad team. I'm kidding. I added that last part, which would have been awesome.

[Sabrina Bryan]

That's what you wanted.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. Well, we know you've been to Hawaii a lot. Have you been to Australia?

[Sabrina Bryan]

I haven't and it's definitely on our list of places we want to go. I have heard such fun things about Australia.

[Will Friedle]

It's fun. It depends where you go. I, I enjoyed it. The people are super friendly. A lot of it's very pretty. But I remember distinctly being on a plane for 14 days, landing and being like, I just was on a plane forever. To land back in California is kind of what it seems like. But again, really, it really, it seemed very much like we were in a city in California, super nice people.

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1.

[Will Friedle]

It was a lot of fun. It really was. I'm glad I went. It was a lot of fun. But I, I need to see more of the country is what.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Okay. One thing I, I did hear and know that I would never drive there because they are very crazy about their. Like getting a ticket in Australia is so likely if you.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, well, it's also. Everything in the country wants you dead. Have you not seen these videos where it's like people have to flush their toilets because the spiders are the size of your head and there's just snakes in your cereal bowl and like that.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Like it's spiders that build their own.

[Will Friedle]

Houses and knock on your door to try to lure you out? Yeah, no, it's.

[Sabrina Bryan]

That is the part of it that I would. I mean, I have friends. They. There was a huge like, you know, study abroad thing at Chapman and Australia was like a big thing and they came home with these like insane stories. But they were also living like in Someone's like back house, like where there was like, no, like legitimate, like walls. I'm like, what?

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, it's everything.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I travel and go to hotels. Like I'm not going into a cabin of any sort.

[Will Friedle]

Especially it seems like, yeah, everything wants you to die. Yeah. But the people are super friendly.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh good.

[Will Friedle]

The movie is directed by a new name to us, a woman. Yet another rare occurrence for dcoms. Her name is Joyce Chopra. And right after college, all these stories are so cool. Chopra and her first husband opened a European style coffee shop in New York that turned into a music nightclub called Club 47. Everyone from Bob Dylan to Joan Baez performed there and would later get its own documentary called for the Love of the Music.

[Sabrina Bryan]

This is the club of 40 47. Are you kidding me, right? Oh my God.

[Will Friedle]

That's so. It's amazing, wasn't it? Joyce Chopper was a feminist filmmaker focusing on documentaries. One from 1974 was an autobiographical film about her own pregnancy and how it affected her career in moviemaking. The labor also put her in the record books as the first person to ever give birth on live tv. Crazy. I don't even want to know who sponsored that. She transitioned into full length narrative movies like the Lemon Sisters starring Diane Keaton and Carol Kane. And she also direct TV shows like Law and Order, Crossing Jordan and Everwood. And then Camilla Bell plays Sydney Miller, the main character of RIP Girls. Part of the good team that's got to fight the bad team for. Nope, none of that happened. Camila had the most experience on the set, having already appeared in movies like Practical Magic where she played an 11 year old Sandra Bullock, the Lost World and a Steven Seagal movie called the Patriot. Must be one of his later ones because I've never heard of it. But being the lead character of anything was new territory for her. She would go on to appear in movies like 2006 is when a stranger calls for push and 10,000 BC. Dwyer Brown plays Ben Miller. He's best known as playing Kevin Costner's dad in Field of Dreams. But he also appeared in movies like To Live and Die in la, Great chase Scene, the Cutting Edge, Red Dragon and cult horror classics House and House 2. This time it's personal. That's right, I added that part. And this guy did a ton of TV from ER to Resolian Isles. And his last credit was from 2016. And honestly, everyone else was a total newcomer. Well, except for one actor, someone who we recently interviewed for a awesome Pod meets World episode. He's character actor legend Keone Young, who plays Beau Keone, was not only on Boy Meets World, but has hundreds of TV and movie credits. If we seriously, if we started his IMDb back when we started Pod Meets World, we would still be listing his credits. Just Ben and everything. Men in Black 3, the Crank movies, Honeymoon in Vegas, TV shows like the Golden Girls, Websters, Cheers plus all the above. He is a voiceover legend. Seriously, if I read 10% of what he voiced, we'd be here for three hours. But to highlight a few GI Joe, World of Warcraft, Mists of Pandaria, Star Wars Rebels, and hi High Puffy Emi Yumi. Okay, let's get this out of the way right now because it's important. The movie runs 87 minutes 3 below the 90 target. So they could have held a shot of a wave maybe for three more minutes or had some kind of surfing contest. That would have been fine. Congrats to them though.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Three minutes every contest.

[Will Friedle]

Hey, it's three minutes more than they had. History will look back on them positively. And the movie was written by Jan Rosenberg, who has kind of a crazy career making for a very rare female director and writer team. Rosenberg wrote a Disney live action classic starring a young Meredith Salinger and John Cusack called Journey of Natty Gann. She also directed 1991's White Fang and eventually Bambi 2. This time it's personal. A movie that recently surprised us both during one of our games about sequels. I've never seen it. Hopefully Bambi's dad doesn't die in the start of this one like his mom died in the start of the first one. God, it's still traumatized. She also was the script supervisor on the original Piranha movies. Rock and Roll. High School with the Ramones. So Cool and the Howling.

[Chiquis Rivera]

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[Will Friedle]

Okay, it's time to make a decision. Are we selling the land for millions? Honoring a Hawaiian tradition by keeping the house or just getting into the movie? I say we start with RIP Girls and go from there. Here we go. We open with our main character Sydney flying into Hawaii, peeking out the window at some amazing island views. She's coming home. Well, sort of. She was born there but doesn't remember anything because she left when she was really young. And her dad Ben, who we also learn is a bit of a worry, wore it with his daughter, never wanted to come back after her mom died. Sidney isn't sure she even remembers her mom anymore without thinking of a photo. But also she has a new stepmom she likes very much named Elizabeth. The family eventually lands and they drive through the island as the opening credits roll. When they eventually arrive, we see a quick POV from someone hiding in the bushes watching them with binoculars. And so far this could be a pretty good horror film where Sidney and her family are haunted by the ghost of her mother hell bent on killing the new stepmom. Also, keep this stalker in mind, we're going to talk about him later. Sidney then walks around the beautiful house in the woods around it taking photos. She stumbles onto a beach where she sees kids surfing and takes pictures of them shredding too. And I was still optimistic. At this point she admits she's more into art and computers so she normally wouldn't try something like hanging 10 back in the house. Sidney is cautious when entering. She finds her way into her dusty bedroom which seems untouched for quite some time except for a stray black cat that gives us a little jump scare See Horror movie and then a colorful local named Bo enters. He's impressed with Sidney and puts a lei around her neck. He's the lawyer of Sydney's grandma's will who has recently died. He explains since Sidney is the last living heir, everything including the entire plantation goes to her, but the only condition is she must stay in Hawaii for two weeks. Bo explains the Makai Kuau and I'm apologizing to everybody through this entire episode for all the mispronunciations because there will be a ton of the Makai Kuau have been ranching on the property for five generations and even though the house is run down, the land is very fertile. But Ben doesn't get it. This is high end beachfront property. Why would they keep it for farming? Beau tries to explain even though there have Already been offers on the land, there is still value in tradition. As the old argument of value over money begins, Sydney finds her way to a cabinet that magically opens by itself, clearly still in a horror movie. None of that made sense. Inside she spots a bound book which looks very similar to the Necronomicon Ex Mortis from the Evil Dead. It's an album filled with old timey pictures of her family. She runs it over to her dad, who instantly notices a picture of his deceased wife, Sidney's mom, holding a surfboard. He's clearly stung with sadness and Sidney is very interested to learn more. That night amidst the storm, Sidney unpacks her room and returns to looking at the photo. She decides to put it on her vanity mirror. The next morning, landscapers are already working on the property and Sydney sees that stray cat again. It runs off. So she falls into the jungle like you do eventually right to a wooden door. She opens the door, awakening an owl and getting her first glimpse inside. It's run down and filled with sharp tools. Then she jumps and reveals a surfboard just before another jump scare from the owl. So this is. It's basically a Stephen King book At this point, Sidney decides to take the surfboard, which is. Let's not be. You know, it's theft, it's petty theft. She runs off, stumbling.

[Sabrina Bryan]

She owns it. It's a property.

[Will Friedle]

Well, that, that. Come on. She doesn't know all the stuff that's in there. Come on. Can't just be taking stuff. Was the truck hers too? I guess so. I guess she does. I guess it is hers. She runs off, stumbling into a girl on a bike, causing a brutal crash. It's a local girl named Gia who for good reason is mad about the run in. But she quickly changes her tune when she sees Sidney's sick board, quote unquote. When the now heel Gia asks how it rides, Sidney fibs, implying it's awesome. The local quickly realizes who Sydney is, the long lost relative here to read the will. The island is small and news travels fast. Later that night, Ben says he was thinking about taking a hike tomorrow, but Elizabeth suggests a nearby quilt exhibit, which, yeah, awesome. Sounds like a blast for a kid. Sidney reveals she was thinking about maybe going to the beach alone. She wants to meet up with Gia and her friends, but Ben is clearly not comfortable with this. Sidney promises she'll be careful, but he says no. She argues. She's 13, not a baby, by the way, for the first time in a good long while, looked 13. Yes, actor look 13. Everybody seemed to Be very appropriately age wise cast. It wasn't like, wait, she's supposed to be eight or eight. You know something? It was all very. They all looked their ages, which was great.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And by, and by the way, I don't hate Sydney's dad going, I like you're too young to go off, but.

[Will Friedle]

Especially when your mom died the same way I could see being freaked out about going to the beach, which even just going to the beach in general.

[Sabrina Bryan]

But still we're on like an island. We don't know anyone. You certainly don't know anyone, little girl. Like, no, you know, you might at.

[Will Friedle]

13, walking down to the beach be that big a deal for a kid. You're 13. I'd been sued by the time I was 13.

[Sabrina Bryan]

No, I. Honestly. Yes. I. That is not. I feel like they're. No, no, really, no, no. I mean, maybe I'll feel different, but at this point, no, at 13, you.

[Will Friedle]

You weren't able to just like walk to a beach again, we're talking about a kind of a closed off island. You're walking. She's not like grabbing a snorkel.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I was allowed to like ride my bike up to like the shopping center that was, you know, outside of the neighborhood and across like one major street.

[Will Friedle]

And that's way more dangerous than going to the beach.

[Sabrina Bryan]

But Will, what were you doing at 13 when you had time on your own? I already know because you have told me.

[Will Friedle]

Okay. I'm not a good example. In some ways I'm a very good example. Well, were you doing bad things at 13 when you arrived?

[Sabrina Bryan]

But I was around people that, that were.

[Will Friedle]

But you didn't.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Definitely. Yeah, but that's because I was, I was a wuss.

[Will Friedle]

Like I'd been smoking for years by 13.

[Sabrina Bryan]

That's what I mean. And, but like the, the beach to me again, the ocean puts a whole other factor in it. Like, how would I ever know if you went into the ocean and got like. He was not being mean. Like, honestly, like, how am I going to know?

[Will Friedle]

I don't think he was being mean. I think though he was being overly cautious. I think a 13 year old on a small island walking to a beach by is not.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Again, she was okay. But no, you know, I don't even like when my song leaders when we're at Disney World, go to the restroom on their own. Take a buddy, okay? Take somebody with you to make sure that you don't venture off and die somewhere.

[Will Friedle]

Okay.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And nobody takes you. And nobody takes you because you're cute. Okay. People are looking to take you kind of cute things.

[Will Friedle]

Maybe it's different with girls because, I mean, again, at 13, we were riding our motorcycles in the woods and camping out all the time, but you knew.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Where you were at. This is different. This is different. She doesn't know where she is.

[Will Friedle]

We will disagree.

[Sabrina Bryan]

We are back home.

[Will Friedle]

She's gonna nut because it's like, right there. Anyway, okay, Sabrina is. Is clearly team her dad, team Ben. She argues, though, that she's 13, not a baby. I would argue that as well. Elizabeth even tries to convince Ben, but he's scared of riptides and currents. Okay, that's fair. Sidney tries to compromise. She won't go in the water. She'll just take pictures. And so the next day, we see the plan. She's given a cell phone in case of an emergency in 2000, which I'm surprised didn't have to be carried in a backpack. Sydney leaves for the beach just as two real estate agents arrive to talk about selling the house. While they're busy with introductions, she sneaks into the shed and takes the found surfboard with her. Uh oh. She might be a rule breaker. When she arrives at the beach, Gia and the gang are already catching some waves. Happy to see her, Gia encourages her to jump. But Sidney wants to hang out a little and survey their little homemade beach house. Sidney meets Gia's pals, Linnea and Malay. Then they're joined by some cute surfer boys, including one frosted tip hunk named Kona, who broke his arm trying a skateboard trick. He's stuck in the sand for now, so Sidney immediately starts taking pictures of him and. And he explains, everyone surfs on the island unless they're a major dork. Okay, question. Do you think. Do you remember reading the script?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

Do you remember most things about the script?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Not most things. I remember this relationship.

[Will Friedle]

Did Kona have a broken arm in the script?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

He did.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

You're sure?

[Sabrina Bryan]

I'm. Yeah, I'm almost positive. Because that's what kept him on the sand. Otherwise he would have been out in the ocean and she wouldn't have.

[Will Friedle]

Right, But. But he's still skateboarding, he's still swimming after her, all that kind of stuff. It just seemed like. Like why he could have still stayed and had a conversation with her. The fact that he had a broken arm meant nothing to the story later.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Like, he just didn't need to end that. So in my head I was like, does he. Did they have to change it because the actor broke his arm right before they were gonna start.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, no, I don't think so.

[Will Friedle]

You remember he had a broken arm in the script. Okay. Because to me, I was like, it makes no sense that this kid has a broken arm. Like, it just. It did nothing for the story. He's still doing all his skateboarding stuff, so they want to keep him on the beach. That's fine. They can keep him there to talk with her, and he can still run in and catch a wave or two.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Because it just didn't. I didn't understand why he had a broken arm. It just was completely and totally unnecessary.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Right. I mean, feel like I remember friends that would break their arms and they would still skate versus, like, you can't go in the water with your cat.

[Will Friedle]

He went in several times. I get he's trying to save people, but still, he's trying to save. I understand. I mean, I feel like it's like.

[Sabrina Bryan]

He'S not gonna not go in to save someone, but, like, I know. It just didn't.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. It didn't seem. It didn't seem like it did anything for the story that the guy had a broken arm. Frankly, I just. And I was like.

[Sabrina Bryan]

The only wonder thing was that that's what beached him. Like, that's what made him, like, not go into the water. Them. To be able to have time away from the friends to which he easily could.

[Will Friedle]

Easily could have done that without him with a weird story of having a broken arm. Anyway, he says long boards like Sydney's are for relaxing cruises, but a short board is extreme. She's impressed and calls him a poet, which honestly seems undeserved. His words weren't poetic at all, but to each his own.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I thought she was gonna finish the sentence. It's like, you're a poet you don't.

[Will Friedle]

Even know, and you don't even know it.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I swear, I was like, oh, God. Oh, oh, oh. Is that where we're going?

[Will Friedle]

Oh, thank God. Yeah. I didn't think it was poetic, but to each his own. He also quickly realizes she's never surfed before. So she admits her little secret between Chicago and her nervous dad. She's never even thought about surfing before. We cut to later, and the girls are having a small tutorial for Sydney. And now she's ready. You didn't lose sound in your podcast. I'm just pausing because I have no idea how long the scene was supposed to represent in real life, but in the run of the movie, they teach her for about four seconds. I don't see how. And then Gia says having fear is part of the fun. And Sidney gives in and walks into the water. And guess who we see as now after the quickest montage in film history as she walks in the water? The creeper from the beginning of the movie still with binoculars. And then this is something again. I wanted you to keep this in mind that everyone forgot existed. And then guess what? It never happens again. We never see this again. It's never dressed again. It's. It's this guy's broken arm. Why the hell would they even do this? It never happens again.

[Sabrina Bryan]

My very last Sabrina sees is what happened to the Banox.

[Will Friedle]

Where's. Where's Johnny? Binoculars.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Like, what happened? Did we ever find. Was it the real estate people?

[Will Friedle]

We don't know.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Her mom's best friend that we find later. Was it.

[Will Friedle]

I don't know. It's a guy on the other side of the beach where there are surfing competitions.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, because it's so weird. And how did they not.

[Will Friedle]

Never comes up again.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Was it. I mean, do you think that it was a scene that ends up getting explained and that's just what hit the floor? That was the three minutes we lost from the night.

[Will Friedle]

Maybe it's three minutes about Binocular John. Like. I don't know.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I don't know either.

[Will Friedle]

Never happens again. Sidney now paddles out into the ocean and falls off. Then gets back up and tries again. At the end of the day, she's frustrated, but tells her not to worry, she'll get it. But Sydney reveals she's only in Hawaii for two weeks. Gia is confused. What about the house? Isn't it hers now? Sydney says they can't move because of her parents jobs, but you can tell she wishes that they could. Back at home, Elizabeth asks Sydney about her day. Sydney says taking pictures went great, but she's concerned about how weird her dad has been acting lately. Elizabeth assures Sydney it's not her. Adults sometimes get lost in their own boring adult problems. Sydney thinks he's worried too much, especially because she's very careful in life. Elizabeth actually agrees and praises her. And it's a very nice parenting scene, something we rarely see in dcom. So congrats to. I keep saying RIP Girls. Can we please, by the end of this podcast, come up with a better name than RIP Girls?

[Sabrina Bryan]

I will say this stepmom dynamic has been one of my favorite parenting relationships.

[Will Friedle]

She was a great character.

[Sabrina Bryan]

She was a great character all the way through the movie.

[Will Friedle]

I agree 100%.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I loved this character and I was so great. So Grateful that this relationship was represented. And this is one of the things that I love about Disney. And y' all know this if you've been listening to this podcast. This kind of representation of being seen is why Disney had such great fans, is because this spoke to a very big group of people and kids and how. I think. I mean, it was awesome. Like the stepparent.

[Will Friedle]

I agree.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Awesome.

[Will Friedle]

Yep. I agree 100%. Could it be something with home coming home, waves home? I don't know.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, I don't ride the wave ride.

[Will Friedle]

But it's even that. It's like you're still. Then it's a surfing movie. I don't know.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Because there was a little bit of surfing. A little bit of surfing movie had. There was a little bit of surfing.

[Will Friedle]

There's a little. And they talk about surfing.

[Sabrina Bryan]

The culture in Hawaii, of course, but.

[Will Friedle]

They didn't show it. Why not call it skateboarding Kona Skateboarding movie. There's basically as much of that as there is of surfing.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I mean, there was more surfing than that.

[Will Friedle]

There's like two or three little surfing scenes. That's it. This was not a surfing movie.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Right. To be called Rip Girls.

[Will Friedle]

Right? Right. Anyway, we cut to Ben and Sydney now with Beau at the real estate office. The agents explained that the current offers from someone who wanted to buy the property years ago. But Sydney's grandma wasn't interested in selling. She loved her land and didn't even look at the proposal. But Sydney and her dad do want to look at it. It's from a company looking to build a new resort. But the historical house and shed would have to be demolished. But they'll keep the name Horden Resort. At Plantation mackay. The agents say they can talk to Horton about keeping the structure, but also the beach is currently set to be for just resort guests. It's all very concerning to Sydney.

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[Will Friedle]

What do you think the offer was for? I mean beach? It's supposed to be 2000.

[Sabrina Bryan]

We talking 2000 your 2000.

[Will Friedle]

But it's probably in the millions, don't you reckon? I mean, like.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, for sure.

[Will Friedle]

Two million bucks, maybe.

[Sabrina Bryan]

No, I bet you would.

[Will Friedle]

1.5.

[Sabrina Bryan]

No, I would think it'd be closer.

[Will Friedle]

To 10 even in 2000. You think? I guess it's beachfront.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It's a plantation, and it's beachfront.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, I guess that's true. So 10, 15 mil. Yeah, it's tough to turn down. It could have been called Rich Girls. Could have been called Rich Girls. Yeah, exactly. You offered me $25 million. It was nice to meet you, Johnny. It's Gia. What?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Also too, like, again, I'm on this dad's side. So hard. Because it's also like.

[Will Friedle]

Your team. Ben.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Ben is like. I'm like, okay, because you put me on. You give me a resort or you give me this big piece of land that I have zero idea of how to maintain. Like, the amount.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, you just gave me a farm, essentially.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I can't do it myself. Like, Mike, my Cousin bought a 200 acres in West Virginia, and my first thing was like, what are you gonna do? Who does it? Like, who do you do? Who does that for you? And she's like, we're gonna do it.

[Will Friedle]

And I'm like, yeah, you work the land. No, you work the land. All right. So that the movie would have ended right there with just Sabrina signing the papers.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Exactly. I would be.

[Chiquis Rivera]

Yes.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Sign, sign, sign. Like, also, like, it didn't look like they had staff doing it. Like, who is maintaining this land that they.

[Will Friedle]

Well, they had some people that were out there. They did show the people cleaning up the resort and cleaning up the land. They showed a kind of a crew out there cleaning up.

[Sabrina Bryan]

So that part might. If it was. If it was people had jobs. I'm not trying to get anyone's, like, livelihood in the situation. So then, like, that might be a part, but, like, $10 million.

[Will Friedle]

I thought you were gone. Seriously, the movie would have been. It would have been a short film about Sabrina going and signing papers to become rich.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I would love to inherit something. Let me tell you, Lynn, Sabrina Bryant is not inheriting anything. But if it was, and it was worth 10 million.

[Will Friedle]

Signing on the dotted line. Thank you very much.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Stamp mailed, done.

[Will Friedle]

And movie over. Thank you very much. Movie roll cards. You wouldn't have met any of the other people on the island. I would have gone. I would have gotten a sandwich. I would have signed the papers.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I would have been in another Kona. You can find another.

[Will Friedle]

We'll find you a nice boy somewhere else. Yes, we're now worth $25 million.

[Sabrina Bryan]

We have just upped our ante.

[Will Friedle]

Wow. Later. Well, some people who don't think on that, don't think like that, are staying on the island. So later, Gia and the girls are back out surfing, kind of, when Sydney returns, longboard at hand, Gia encourages her. She'll own the waves today. And as a result. This is another thing. We get a loud song as Sidney nervously paddles out and catches a wave. She gets up and almost makes it all the way to the shore before wiping out. She's thrilled. What a success. Yes. Great. Did the mix of this movie seem really off to you? There was background music that was so loud at times that I had to put on the subtitles.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, really? Okay.

[Will Friedle]

Because it was like, wow, I could. I was like, I can't hear some of the dialogue, the background music is so loud.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, I didn't. I didn't.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

No, I didn't, But I did. Like, this was like a true. Right in there with Brink and Johnny Tsunami. Like the. The vibe of the. The ska music I loved. I love.

[Will Friedle]

Show us more of that as you're studying. If you're about to do the final surf off. Like, I'm. Wait. Oh, God. Why is that not happening? Yeah, there's the big race down Death Valley Hill or whatever.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Anyway, I already saw that in Brink. They can't do it, but we saw it in everything.

[Will Friedle]

We saw it in Brink. My God, they had it. Even Buffalo Dreams had a race that's like, my God. So anyway, even Kona saw it while carefully skateboarding nearby with his broken arm for no reason. Gia says Kona is her best friend and realizes Sidney likes likes him. Oh, double like time. She encourages Sydney to say something to him. He'll be stoked. She says Kona's a good listener and an incredible artist. And now I kind of want to date Kona. But for now, they've got waves to catch. Sidney paddles out again and readies for the next wave. But at the last minute, Gia yells, don't catch this one. But it's too late. Sidney is thrown off the board immediately and thrown underwater. Gia and Kona are concerned and rush to save her. She's still struggling in the current when Kona, who's underwater, cast and all, pulls her out, saves her life. Back on land, Sydney's bleeding. She's cut her head. How's she gonna explain this to her parents? Gia has Kona get her mom for help, and then Sydney finds herself lying in a hammock In a small house filled with scary looking masks. It's been a while since we've been in a horror movie, so this is a welcome return. And they really. They shot it like that. I mean, they shot. It was like scary. Matt. It's like, wait, aren't these. These are like historical, religious, almost artifacts. And the way they shot it was almost like scary scary. And it's like, I get she's supposed to be waking up from it, but these are also supposed to be like their ancestors spirits, I think. So I feel like they made it a little scary for no kind of reason.

[Sabrina Bryan]

But yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Yes. We are back in a horror movie. Gia's mom Malia helps Sydney up and gives her a secret cure. Tea. Sydney admits she doesn't remember much. Malia says to Sidney, you're so much like her. But before she can explain what she meant, Gia returns. She says Kona's cast is soggy because it got all wet, but he's a hero now. He wants to know when she'll be back surfing, but Sidney's instinct is to quit. Good instinct. Something's hard just quit. Especially when she notices her surfboard is wrecked. But Gia's mom can fix it, just like she can make healing tea. And now I want to date Gia's mom, who, frankly, I love these kind of characters. It's the slightly older, still really good looking. It's kind of a trope. Really good looking, slightly spiritual, you know, guide, for lack of a better term, makes we. Yeah, first of all, straight up, ayahuasca. She was tripping balls for hours. That's a woman. So.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, that's your woman.

[Will Friedle]

Big, big crush on her. Big crush on her.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Does sue make weed tea for you?

[Will Friedle]

She does not. Sue does not make weed tea for me, nor do I drink weed tea. She does not. But that kind of spiritual, like, I love that almost hippie vibe, you know, I grew up in a town with a lot of hippies, so, like, almost hippie vibe. Older woman probably smells like patchouli. She's gorgeous. She. Yeah. Nose is like connected to the land. Big fan of that.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I can't handle that. You assume what people smell like.

[Will Friedle]

Oh, yeah. But I'm also right. That's the thing. I'm also right. I know exactly how she smells. She smells like. It's like kind of lavender, kind of patchouli and happiness.

[Sabrina Bryan]

We bring our guests on when? Now I'm going to ask, from here on out, what do you think they smell?

[Will Friedle]

What do you think? I'd be happy to. I'D be happy to.

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[Will Friedle]

Malia reveals the surfboard was Sydney's moms. They were best friends since childhood, and that's who she meant. Sydney looks so much like Malia wants to show her something. So they drive off on an ATV to hike up a mountain, finding a beautiful view of another beach. Malia says this time every year, whales land here with their young and it's a sacred event. The first time she saw the whales was with Gia's mom at a magical ceremony. Sidney hopes the whales arrive during her trip so she can go to the ceremony herself. Malia brings Sidney back home where her parents were scared sick, but only Elizabeth is there. Her dad is actually out looking for her. Still, Elizabeth notices the cut, but Sidney hides how she got injured. And that's when Ben returns. He's happy she's alive, of course, but very concerned. And she can't lie. She admits she wants to be part of something. Always has. And so she went surfing. Now her dad is furious. I understand this. It's literally how he lost his wife. He sends Sydney to her room and blames Malia, fair old friend. It's actually not Malia's fault so much as Gia's. But anyway. Old friends Ben and Malia argue as Sidney leaves her room. Ben thinks Malia is encouraging her to surf, but Malia's focused on how little she knows about her mother. Good adult conversation where they're both kind of right. She thinks the ocean is a great healer and Ben thinks it's a great destroyer. On her way out, Malia encourages Ben to live again. He needs to heal. And now alone with her husband, Elizabeth agrees. Ben says once they're back in Chicago, everything will be better. But Elizabeth knows he's wrong. If he. And the speech she gave was really great. If he. And so adult. If he was having an affair, she'd know what to do with that and fight through it because she believes in them as a couple. But the grief is too much. How can she fight a ghost? And to top it all off, Sidney has heard everything. And it was another really good scene between adults. Very well written, very well acted.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Wasn't it? Wasn't too heated. It wasn't. It was literally to the point. And like I said, yeah, this was so good for people. Like again, Disney showing like there are other people out there going through this same situation of how do you. How do you mourn the loss of. Of one person and move on? Like, all of this was just so good.

[Will Friedle]

It really was. And it's one of those things where she does best. They do. They do it great. And it wasn't mansplaining, it wasn't womansplaining. It was a real conversation between adults and very well written, very well acted.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And how it would be as a young person to listen to your parents having this conversation and the complexity of.

[Will Friedle]

Grief and the guilt you feel when you move on and you can't fully move on and I can't be in love with somebody else when the person I love is gone. It's very, very deep and really well done.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I would like. Do you think we'll come across a decom that goes through not it being someone has died, but like literally just a divorce and a new relationship?

[Will Friedle]

Maybe that could be world's richest cat. You never know. It could just be. That could be another poorly named decom that's really about this horrible divorce and the struggle.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Because I hope we do. I hope.

[Will Friedle]

I hope so too.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Like a positive.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. Maybe in some of the newer ones because in the older ones they don't do that.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I don't.

[Will Friedle]

They don't do that.

[Sabrina Bryan]

So it has the. The one. One side has to be gone.

[Will Friedle]

What was the one that we saw not too long ago with the co parenting that they were divorced. He dropped the. The dad is kind of has to learn to be a better dad. She lives with her mom. We just saw it. I can't remember what it was. He's coming to pick her up at the house. He's always doing other stuff. Oh, I can't remember. We'll remember what it is.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Shoot. Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, we'll remember what it is. We gotta do a rewatch of our rewatch. Let's do that. We'll have to do that. Later that night, out on the patio, Sydney looks through one of her mom's old yearbooks and sees pictures of her in front of another house named Kaala Loa. The next morning, she rushes up to Gia and the girls on the beach, who are meditating, praying to the quote unquote original surfer chicken above while braiding each other's hair to bring better waves. While they concentrate, the surfer boys playfully attack them with Super Soakers. And guess who's back skating? It's hero, pretty boy Kona. Sidney finally gets a chance to thank him for saving her life. Which I was like, yeah, it's about time you go over and be like, hey, thanks for saving my life.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

And he made something for her. It's a theme park, like caricature drawing of her surfing and taking photos at the same time. Did you get one of these done as a kid where they take the thing you hate most about yourself and make it three times the size for $19?

[Sabrina Bryan]

I have. I've gotten it done a couple times. But the craziest part, when I watched it. Cause I watched it last night. We just went to SeaWorld and passed one of those. And my mom's like, you should get that done at the kids. I'm like, you and Jordan, the four of you should do it. And I was like, no. They always make my nose look so like this. Because it's not super. Why I hate every time I've done it. I've hated how they do my nose. Like, it's so annoying. I will not do it again.

[Will Friedle]

I don't. I don't. That's how I look when I get photographed. So I don't even forget somebody drawing me. It's just that bad. Do you think this drawing still exists in real life? Do you think somebody has this drawing framed somewhere? Because I would love to have this. The actual drawing from the movie.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, I'm sure. I hope that Camille has it. That would be a cool shape.

[Will Friedle]

We're have to find out because I want to get. I want to get somebody to send one of us. That's an awesome dcom memorabilia. I mean, you have some because you're in it, but. And I have some from my wonderful world of Disney days. But I'd like something like, you know, super cool. Yeah. A skateboard from Branch.

[Sabrina Bryan]

All you gotta do is ask Lisa. She's got some. She's got some crazy. We got to wear the Camp Rock hats, I hope for us.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, that's true. We'll figure it Out.

[Sabrina Bryan]

There's some cool memorabilia out there.

[Will Friedle]

For sure there is. Sydney asked Kona about this Kaala Loa house in her mom's picture and he knows all about it. He says it's on the plantation, abandoned and kind of spooked. She's determined. But he has one question. How well do you ride? And we cut to Sydney, Kona and Gia on horses. It's the only way to get to this plantation apparently. We get some beautiful scenery shots and eventually they get to the house, which is not only apparently haunted, it's where all the cool parties used to be. Once they enter, Sydney immediately feels the presence of her mom. She stumbles into her mom's childhood bedroom. Back at the realtor's office, the agents have called in Sidney, her parents and Beau. The Hortons have upped their offer. Now, see, Sabrina, had you not signed, you would have gotten more money. With a 72 hour window for response. And it's apparently such a good offer, it's an easy decision to sell. But back at home, Sydney still seems torn. See, I would have added a line to show how much money it is when they say to her, hey, I hope you've picked your Ivy League college. I would have had the other realtor say, because now you can afford to buy it just to show that it's a ton of money. Yes, because you want. I get. It's a tough, you know, it's. It's supposed to be a tough decision, but if you make it it so ridiculously life altering in money that the decision is crazy, then it makes it for a tougher decision. But anyway, yes, I think it'd be good.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I mean, it wasn't tough for me to begin with.

[Will Friedle]

No, I know. Again, you would have sold it in the phone call. You never would have even been on the plane. Been like, who? Who died? Yeah, fact, fact. It's 2000. Fax me the stuff. I'll sign right now. Ma' am. We're not even done with the conversation. Yeah, I signed already because now I.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Can afford the good paper.

[Will Friedle]

See, had you just held out a little bit, you would have gotten a better offer. Offer. But back at home, Sydney's still torn. And while thinking it over, she hears some noise outside. It's Gia and Kona. They were sent by Malia. It's time. We're now at the big whale ceremony at the beach and what looks like a very festive luau. A very pretty scene. Upon arrival, Sydney is greeted by Malia with a flower for her ear. Taught how to hula by kia and treated to Hawaiian delicacies. One elder is telling the story to a group of kids about a boy and a girl and a tsunami in forbidden love. And not only is there a happy ending in the story, but Kona and Sidney kiss.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And it was a kiss.

[Will Friedle]

It was a kiss, but it was like it was age appropriate, I thought. Yes, again, it was not what I think we should start referring to as a cck. It was not a Christy Carlson kiss.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Not a Christy Carlson. Because Christy Carlson is the only person in Disney history to get a makeout session with Tongue.

[Will Friedle]

She took it to the next level. I mean, she took it to the next level. This was a nice kiss, though. I also really liked this scene. It's been done in a bunch of movies, but I like the scene where the guy is kind of. Or girl is translating and whispering the story into the ear as somebody else tells it. It's just very sweet. I'm a big fan of that and I love. So it was very, very nice. But there's no time to celebrate here because the whales are here. Sidney watches on with Malia, is very impressed by the beauty of just a horribly computer graphic single whale.

[Sabrina Bryan]

What? You didn't think that was a real whale.

[Will Friedle]

It was bad.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You thought it would. Wait, you're doing it right now. That wasn't a real whale.

[Will Friedle]

They only had the money to do one. It was like supposed to be this big thing and one whale comes and.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Then badly splashes and then we are back at the Lincoln Memorial. Exactly.

[Will Friedle]

Suddenly I'm in the movie again.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Suddenly Will pops up and Will Lincoln Memorial.

[Will Friedle]

It was not good. It wasn't.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It was. It was like, again, we're on a Disney Channel budget.

[Will Friedle]

You can't cut to just stock footage of whales.

[Sabrina Bryan]

That's the one they found.

[Will Friedle]

But I mean, there's. I could go. You could Google whales right now. And even in 2000, you could have just gone to stock footage of whales. They had to have had it. This was just. This was not good. But she has one big question for her mom's friend. Was she there for the accident? Malia says that she was. And it was on a perfect day in the ocean. They took their first waves together with huge smiles on their faces. But when they got tired and started coming back to the beach, a huge swell with waves stacking up on top of each other caught her off guard and swept her towards the rocks. Malia says her dad didn't even want to know the story. He just wanted to leave and take Sydney with him. But Malia wants Sydney to know her mom fought through those waves as hard as she could to get back to her daughter. Daughter. But Sydney's still angry. Her mom should have been there for her. Now Malia wants her and her dad to release that anger for their own sakes. And then we see the fake whale again doing exactly the same jump with exactly the same thing. They just hit repeat again on the same bad shot.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, no.

[Will Friedle]

And after a very nice scene, there was that. And it was like, man, there we go.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You just kind of, like, wonder, like, when the people, the editors, the director, all of that are, like, watching this background.

[Unknown]

Can we just cut the footage of whales?

[Will Friedle]

Just cut the stock footage. Whales. Oh, I'm sure they did, but it was like, what do we do? What could we do? It's like, just hit return and run it again, I guess. Rewind and repeat pretty much.

[Sabrina Bryan]

So close together, there's not even enough time to forget it. The first time.

[Will Friedle]

You can. It's. Even the whale was, like, embarrassed.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, the whale was like, I'm sorry. I'm happy to do this again.

[Will Friedle]

Sorry. It's me again. The next morning, Sidney returns home once again to find an angry father. She left him a note, but he still seems worried. She doesn't have much to say to him other than, you should have told me. It shouldn't have been some deep, dark secret. Which is true. And he knows she's talking about the accident. She storms off to her room and rips up the picture of her mom that was on the vanity.

[Sabrina Bryan]

That hurt.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, that hurt me, too. In the kitchen, Ben is spiraling. He tells Elizabeth he keeps thinking he should have saved Leilani, his wife, that day. He didn't think he could ever love anyone again. But then he found Elizabeth. It never seemed fair to him that he can be so happy now, and yet she's dead. But Elizabeth knows she would want him and Sidney and even her to be happy. And this might be the most loving character in the history of dcom. She's a great character. And now I just want to date Elizabeth.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And she never makes it about her. No, she really does it. Like, what an ama. I mean, how hard it would be to have to do this situation with your husband, who, you know, it's such a sensitive thing. And you're also helping raising their child. And, like, it's just like, wow.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. Great character.

[Sabrina Bryan]

She was an amazing character.

[Will Friedle]

Great character.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I would love to get some of that. Great character.

[Will Friedle]

Yes, she was great. She was great.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Over here signing checks.

[Will Friedle]

Your signing Check. Yeah. Again, Sydney wouldn't have been allowed. Your daughter wouldn't have been not allowed out of the house. You're not. You are. We are here for one reason. You are gonna sit in that room until I sign the papers and then we are out. I can't believe we even have to be here. I've called doordash. Sit your there. We'll be right back. That is a much different movie starring Sabrina.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Elizabeth, I'm so sorry. I wish I could be you, but I can't.

[Will Friedle]

Great character. Ben takes his advice and asks Sidney on a walk. Sidney says she just doesn't understand why she knows nothing about her mom. But now Ben is an open book. He tells Sidney how beautiful her mom was and how similar they are. The way she moved, the way she laughed. Being in Hawaii has made him think things through. Makai is her heritage. And so the decision to sell the property is hers and hers alone. Even though she's a kid, she needs to find it in herself. And this. I love this other conversation too, because she's like, well, we could use the money, right? And he's like, yeah, yeah, we could definitely use the money. But, you know, but some people, Disney, a typical Disney thing would be like, hey, don't think about money. It's not about that. You've got to follow your heart. But he was like, yeah, no, we could. We could really use the money. Like, we. That would be helpful. Yes, but that's not important. Whatever Sidney decides, Ben and Elizabeth will be there for her. But let's be honest, Elizabeth is really the important part here. Sidney wonders if they could live in Hawaii. And Ben actually appears to be open to the idea. Back home, Sydney uses Photoshop and the most perfect tape job in the history of the world. She puts one piece of tape on and the picture looks. I mean, I was like, oh, my God.

[Sabrina Bryan]

She's.

[Will Friedle]

She's a tape champion.

[Sabrina Bryan]

A tape champion.

[Will Friedle]

She is. It's incredible. She. She's. That's what it should have been called. That's what it should have been called. Tate Champion girl. She uses Photoshop, which might be one of the first times in 2000 we get to see Photoshop really used on her mom. And they created an image of the two of them together. It was very, very sweet. The next day, Sidney finds Gia's friends near the beach. And now everyone's ignoring her. Even says she smells like dead fish.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Which I felt was like a really harsh.

[Will Friedle]

That's super harsh.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Like, you can't. To me, I would assume. I. I Don't think I had a friend at all or anyone close to me that had a parent that had passed away. But I would assume using that word around them at all is just inappropriate.

[Will Friedle]

Not cool. I agree. I agree.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Caller that says she smells like fish. I guess if you're trying to.

[Will Friedle]

Hey.

[Sabrina Bryan]

But she doesn't need to be a dead fit. Like, that is, like, harsh.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, I agree 100%.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I wanted to pop this girl in the face. Like, yeah, come on. Get. Get a little. Little bit of grace.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, back off.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Give her a little bit of grace. Like, that's not.

[Will Friedle]

But now with the millions of dollars you just got from selling the plantation, you can hire someone to pop her.

[Sabrina Bryan]

In the face of friends, to be honest.

[Will Friedle]

Exactly.

[Sabrina Bryan]

See ya, whatever your name is. Knew you for two minutes.

[Will Friedle]

Bye now.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Check it out.

[Will Friedle]

I'm wealthy. Sydney does not get what's going on. Then she sees a newspaper headline about the resort buying the property. Property. So everyone thinks she's already sold it. Sydney runs off to talk to Gia and Malia. Instead, she finds Kona cleaning a surfboard and listening to Hawaiian rap music. Gia isn't home, and Kona doesn't seem to be mad at her. He's shaping and painting a surfboard for her. It has that theme park image of her surfing and taking photos on it. Very cool. She tells Kona that she hasn't even decided on selling yet. And Kona reveals that Gia has been standing up for her to everyone and is currently at the beach. Sidney runs off and finds her in a quiet place sitting on a rock, watching the waves. We learn that Gia's dad is a deadbeat businessman who doesn't even call her for a birthday. So she sees surfing as a release. By the way, if this movie was called Talking Bout Surfing. Perfect title. They talk about surfing an awful lot. Surf chat. There you go. Surf chicks chat. Something like that.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Surf chicks chat.

[Will Friedle]

So she uses surfing as a release. Sydney reveals that the resort has promised to add preserves for the whales and regulations to the purchase so that a lot of the plantation will actually stay in intact. But Gia isn't sold. It's becoming a resort. So everything will change. The whales won't come back once the lagoon is filled with tourists. It was, in all fairness, one whale, and it was badly computer generated so she could just hit a button and have that whale back anytime she wants. Sydney says she's worried that Gia and Malia are only friends with her because of the inheritance and the whole thing was planned out to save the land. Gia admits that that was sort of the original idea. I was like, oh, it was, but it changed once they got to know each other.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Other.

[Will Friedle]

But Sydney doesn't believe her. She thinks she's been worked, which she kind of has. Gia brings up the lies Sydney told 2. Like being a surfer chick, but that seemed a bit like gaslighting. But Sidley points out an important technicality. She never actually lied. She just admitted the truth and let her assume, which is never really a good argument. They're both kind of wrong. But one seems like, hey, can you surf? And you're like, well. And the other one is like, I'm gonna pretend to be friends with you so you don't sell this important land. Those don't seem. It seems like apples. And I'm gonna be friends with you so you don't sell this important land. It's just like, yikes.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Anyway. Yeah. I thought Gia was wrong there. Frankly.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes. And it got escalated very quickly.

[Will Friedle]

Yes.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Girls around 13.

[Honey German]

Sure.

[Will Friedle]

Boys, too.

[Sabrina Bryan]

So quick.

[Will Friedle]

Like, boys, too.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You're like, oh, man, it's a rough age.

[Will Friedle]

It is. But you know what was missing which could have made this more exciting is a good on the beach fight scene. Like. Like in Point Break. Yeah. Something in Point Break. They're smashing each other's surfboards.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Just run in.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Hit the shoulder.

[Will Friedle]

Keanu Reeves fights back. Like, yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Down the Beast. Fans flying everywhere.

[Will Friedle]

I'm in for that. But it all escalates. Gia calls her a fool and a stupid lovesick puppy, alluding to the idea that Kona was also in on the planet. And so Sydney says she is going to sell the land and hurries back home. Yikes.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I hate you.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. And I hate the people I've met here. And I hate.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I mean, it was like, everyone can go suck it. I'm out. Sign the check. Give me a pen.

[Will Friedle]

Everyone can go suck it. Nice. But that night in bed, she's unable to sleep. She wakes up early to get to the real estate office where the agents have the contract ready, as well as some sparkling cider.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Didn't look like sparkling cider.

[Will Friedle]

No.

[Sabrina Bryan]

They were trying to get me drunk. That looked that. They weren't that minor.

[Will Friedle]

Yep. Alcohol. I agree.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And that is a no. No on Disney Channel.

[Will Friedle]

On any channel, don't serve miners alcohol.

[Sabrina Bryan]

But especially Disney Channel. That did not look like sparkling cider.

[Will Friedle]

That wasn't good.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Wait. That looked like Shandon. You are out of here. Guys, get. You got to crystal.

[Will Friedle]

That's right.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Style. Some Dom Petion. Are you kidding me?

[Will Friedle]

As the paperwork is prepped. She sees Gia, Malia, and friends hopping into a van, and she's still obviously weighing the whole thing out. They toast the sale, and all that's left is the first thing Sabrina would have done in the movie. And that's decide. She takes the pen, ready to complete the purchase when she sees Kona skating alongside the van. And then she moves pen to paper. We cut to Sydney running to Gia's house. Malia is there, painting. Why are all these people so artistically talented? Malia assumed Sidney would be packing by now, but Sydney has news. Malia doesn't want to hear the details. Sydney did what she had to do. She gets it, but thought that maybe if she came home and saw it all again, then it would touch her and connect her to her mom and the land. And with that, she hands Sydney a locket and encourages her to open it. It's her mom's necklace with pictures of them together inside. The next thing we see is Sydney running up to someone she thinks is Gia at the skate ramp. The person ends up being it. Was it a guy? It looked like a guy.

[Sabrina Bryan]

The. Oh, yeah, I. I'm.

[Will Friedle]

It was a guy, right? Yeah, I think it was a guy that from the. From behind looked like Gia. So that was. They cast somebody that looked like Gia from behind, but it was, I think, actually a guy. I apologize if it wasn't, but I think it was. And then Kona arrives, and he seems pretty frustrated with everything that's been going on. He says Gia was really mad at Sydney and yet still doesn't just blurt out her news. Instead, she storms off. She's concerned that Gia is surfing alone, so her and Kona decide to go search for her and make sure she's safe. After slowly climbing down a hill, Sydney spots Gia's clothes near her quiet place from earlier and then spots her surfboard no longer attached to her friend. Oh. And then the movie turns into Baywatch. Sidney grabs a board and takes to the ocean to save Gia. She's immediately slammed by the waves, but notices Gia's arms flailing in the distance. Perfect timing. Sidney dives underwater and grabs her, picks her up onto the board and saves her life. Gia's arm is really torn up from the reef, so Sidney helps her swim back to shore, where Kona is waiting again and gets his cast all soggy again. This thing is never gonna heal. So they help Gia walk back to the beach. Now resting on the sand, Gia wonders why Sidney even came back first. Sidney says she didn't mean it when she said she hated Gia or Hawaii. And Gina says she didn't mean all the things she said to her either. And now, finally, Sidney has one more thing to announce. And for some reason, I get why they're doing this, but it was unnecessary. She pulls out the contract. She actually brought it with her to show that she didn't sign. She could have just said, I didn't sign the contract. It's like. And let me show you the entire. So if you look at page 62.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Wait right here. Also wait right here. I'm Gonna go run three blocks down.

[Will Friedle]

Look at page 62, subset B. You'll notice I did an initial line. 61, right? Just say you didn't sign it. She won't be selling Makai after all. Her family is going to stay there. Gia and Kona celebrate running down the beach screaming. And apparently Gia's arm is fine. Now, back at the house, Ben, Elizabeth and Malia are on the patio talking about what's next for the family. He's got to look for a job because they just gave up $25 million or he's gonna write a novel. Always a good plan. He doesn't really know. He'll figure it out. But he knows he's proud of Sam Sydney, which is very nice. We now cut back to Sydney sitting on her board in the ocean. Oh, that's right. Surfing movie. She places a lay in the water to float away. She says she's not sure if she's saying hello or goodbye, but she knows her mother is watching over her. So either way, it's all aloha. And then she joins her friends for another day of surfing and taking photos to a loud guitar solo again. And that is our film.

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[Will Friedle]

Can we do some real reviews? Sabrina, you've got the five star this week. What do you what do you got for us?

[Sabrina Bryan]

I've got a five star from so Sophia L. I loved it and I wanna own it. In other words, it's good. Thank you.

[Will Friedle]

Short, to the point and right away I have the one star review. It's from. It's Einhard one, but I was hoping the one was actually an exclamation port and it was Einhard, but It's not. It's Einhard1 and reads as follows. Dear God, could it be any worse having three kids? I've seen more Disney Channel movies and probably any man alive. I'm guessing I'm in that category now with you, Einhardt. And I should sue the Walt Disney Company for the time wasted watching this turkey. My daughters even thought this movie was bad. The acting was stuff I bet you meant stiff. The writing was poor, and it isn't even bad enough to make fun of while watching, like, Plan 9 from outer space or they Saved Hitler's Brain.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Wow.

[Will Friedle]

Yikes. We've got our feature presentation this week. Sabrina's favorite. And it's from producer Jensen once again. And this one is called Hawaii Five. Yes or no? We will be given a question about our beautiful 50th state, Hawaii. We have to guess with multiple choice answers. If it's what's one's correct, we get three out of five. Right? We win. Producer Jensen, are you with us today? Yes, I am.

[Unknown]

I'm here.

[Will Friedle]

Okay. I'd like to also thank you for me having to pronounce a lot of these words, which there's no way in hell I'm going to get right. And I'm going to get hate mail because I'm mispronouncing these beautiful words.

[Sabrina Bryan]

They're gorgeous. They are.

[Will Friedle]

They're gorgeous words. And I'm going to get them wrong. And I feel bad. Okay.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Just will. And you're so much better than I.

[Will Friedle]

Am, so we'll see. I doubt. I mean, they did make Australia. Hawaii here. So we're not. We're not like, trying to. I know. Fair enough. Okay, number one, which island is the only one with a royal palace in the United States? Is it A, Maui, B, Oahu, C, Kauai, or D, Killigans? I'll guess first. I'm gonna. I'm gonna say it's Oahu.

[Sabrina Bryan]

A royal palace.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. Because there was a royal family in Hawaii, so there's obviously there's no royalty in the United States. Hey, you've been there.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Seek. Why?

[Will Friedle]

It's B. Oahu palace is located here. Honolulu. Okay.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Hear, like, the tone and the happiness he gets when it's. When I'm wrong. It's just. I mean, it's just like, what did.

[Will Friedle]

Give Jensen his happiness when he can get it? Yeah, I can't hide a smile.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I know you can't. I can literally hear your smile in your tone. Like, it's just. It's just so rude.

[Will Friedle]

I love it. Number two, what is the meaning of the word Hawaii in the Hawaiian language?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, my God, I've been so many luaus. I should probably.

[Will Friedle]

I would think A, homeland, B, eternal paradise, C, place of the gods. Or D, how is it?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, I think we're gonna. I'm gonna go with B, eternal paradise.

[Will Friedle]

I'm gonna go with A. Homeland. It's C, place of gods. Oh, okay.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Interesting. Place of gods. Okay.

[Will Friedle]

Okay, gotcha. What is the name of the channel between the islands of Maui and Molokai? Is it A, Koalakai channel, B, Ellen Huaha channel, Paleolo channel, or the E channel? Nice, Jensen.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I'm gonna go with A because that's the only one I recognize.

[Will Friedle]

I'm gonna go with A too. Getting destroyed. It is C. Yeah. Paleolo. Paleolo.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Wow.

[Will Friedle]

Paleo. Paleolo. Pale. Lolo. Okay. Yeah, channel. Oof. Or Paylo. Paylo channel. That's it. Paylo. Okay. Okay. Number four, what astronomical facility is located at top Mauna Kea? Taking advantage of the mountain's high elevation and clear skies? Is it A, the Ford Solar Observatory, B, the Mazda observatory, C, the Subaru telescope, or D, the Toyota Observatory?

[Sabrina Bryan]

I'm going to go with A. I.

[Will Friedle]

Think it's D, the Toyota Observatory. You guys are getting destroyed. It is C, Subaru telescope. I'm so excited. I also thought that just making that one, the telescope was gonna throw you guys off. Okay, what is finally just thankfully ending this? Number five, what is Hawaii's official state tree? Is it A, the koa tree, B, the monkey pod tree, C, a banyan tree, or D, the giving tree? It's a koa tree, right? Isn't it A, a koa tree?

[Sabrina Bryan]

It might be B, the monkey pod tree.

[Will Friedle]

Okay, what is it? It's A, the coa tree. All right, I got you. Will comes out on top.

[Unknown]

Neither of you win.

[Will Friedle]

It's a good change up from you winning all these, so I'm happy about that. Ah, that was. That was hard.

[Sabrina Bryan]

That was good information to find out about our great state of Hawaii. It's one of my favorite places to visit. I love all the islands.

[Will Friedle]

Can I ask a question, Producer Jensen? Number two, Alan Uehaha Channel. Is that a real Hawaiian word? Yes, it is. Okay. Wow. I can say humahuma nukanuka apuaa. That counts. Wow. Can we do some Sabrina? See?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah. So we. I unfortunately said quite a Few of them already, so that's not great. But one of the first things that hits me at the very beginning is like, how distant was this mom? And you kind of. This is. Again, this comment that I'm making is at the very, very beginning, we're talking a couple minutes in when we. When she looks at this picture and doesn't recognize her at all.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Like, is this mom? I mean, I feel like. I mean, my mom looked incredibly different. She had bright, like bleach blonde hair. Like, you know, but like, there's no picture that someone would put, even a baby picture of my mom that I wouldn't be able to go, that's my mom right there.

[Will Friedle]

Right. I think they're trying to really say that he never spoke about her ever. But it's weird that there's no. No photos. Nothing. Yeah, nothing.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And it's not. Again, this isn't a divorce. That was, you know, angry and awful.

[Will Friedle]

Right.

[Sabrina Bryan]

This is a woman who has passed. This is her mother. And she doesn't know pictures. But then like later on then she recognizes a room that she was in at one point when she said she was in.

[Will Friedle]

Right. Just by feel.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, just by the feel of it. And she remembers it. A two year old remembering anything is a little big enough. A stretch, I feel like. But okay, but this picture, that really bothered me. Like, how is this possible? I. Again, binoculars coming out. My worst nightmare, especially now that we.

[Will Friedle]

Don'T know where this person is.

[Sabrina Bryan]

They could be anywhere. And then again, we saw them twice. And I went at the very end, my very last one was what happened with the binoculars? Nope, it was crazy. There was a couple of times where this is one of the things that I do because I remember, you know, lines being thrown at us and, and trying to make them feel natural or whatever when it's just kind of not how kids really talked a lot. But there was a couple of them when they were first getting initially into the group and it was like, go boy. Like, and you could tell that the actor that threw it out, it was her friend. Like, you could tell she wasn't comfortable saying it either.

[Will Friedle]

Like, I don't like this.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Go boy.

[Will Friedle]

What was that?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Well, it's like this. Like, you just kind of like, yeah.

[Will Friedle]

What I don't want. I don't know what to say here.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, Uncomfortable. And then like the information for me that they were kind of throwing back and forth at the beginning was just a little off. I was having a hard time at the beginning, like that there was some information that was clearly obviously known when you're like wait, how did we know that? You know, throughout the movie they were kind of just like, like throwing at us like we, that, that everyone's understanding and that didn't make sense. And it was a lot about again this like history with the mom, history with the, the plantation. Like I also was thrown off of how this is the only ancestor that's getting this entire plantation. Like it just to me was well.

[Will Friedle]

She'S the last of the line.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, yeah, she's the last of the line. But also like again the, this woman passed away. So like in a trust, we just did our trust. So I know a little bit more. I'm feeling a little, little bit, tiny bit educated on it. Tiny, tiny. That they're so difficult and complex. But like it was like, but they were married. So then the trust would go to, to him but also to her. So like in my opinion, like he would have. My assumption would be that he would have the dad. Ben would have had a little bit more of a say than just this 13 year old girl. Right.

[Will Friedle]

Like I, I think he did. I think they kind of set it up where it's like again he then said we're gonna leave it up to you.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Okay.

[Will Friedle]

But I, okay.

[Sabrina Bryan]

So yeah, because I see it was like yeah, 13 first of all too. In most trusts nothing gets done until you're like the, the miners. 18.

[Will Friedle]

Oh yeah. No, she wouldn't have been able to sign any con again as the parent of the son of two lawyers as they hand her the pen. It's like a 13 year old can't sign anything. Their parents would have to sign too. It's a Disney movie. Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

They're taking it down going, wait a minute, like that's not actually whatever.

[Will Friedle]

They're not going to hand the pen to the 13 year old. They also handed her champagne.

[Sabrina Bryan]

So that's my last one. I go, well we're handing minors champagne nowadays, so like it. Okay.

[Will Friedle]

Yay, we got an F. Words Art. Sabrina. Yay.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Disney Channel just threw the rules up in the air. There's paper flying everywhere. We're just gonna, just wing it. We're gonna wing everything. Nothing makes sense.

[Will Friedle]

Oh yeah. I'm so happy. It's my best.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I will say this movie. I honestly, I remember again this was in the time where I was watching dcom after dcom and I loving most of them to be honest at that time. And this movie again, like you said, like there was enough, enough of the surfing. Tiny bit. But even when we see her Friend who's struggling. Like, how. First of all, what was going on? Because she was treading water, but. But was she stuck under her.

[Will Friedle]

They don't. They don't explain it. I think there's. See, I think she's supposed to be.

[Sabrina Bryan]

In the rip thing of.

[Will Friedle]

Well, I think she's supposed to be in the rip current, I think, is what they're kind of showing.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And I guess because it's not an animation movie, it's, like, definitely hard to, like, film something like that, but, like, she's not moving.

[Will Friedle]

So if you go back and you watch it again.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I'm not.

[Will Friedle]

I think they show. I know, but fair enough. I think they show her start being sucked under the water as if she's being held under by the rip. And then they cut to the rocks, which is how her mom died.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh.

[Will Friedle]

So I think they're showing. They're trying to show that Gia is essentially in exactly the same position her mom was in.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Right.

[Will Friedle]

And she was able to save her mom.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Have you ever been stuck in a rip? I have. And you're, like, tumbling. You're, like, tumbling. It's the waves. It's the waves coming over and you getting pulled in. Like, it's like. You're like.

[Will Friedle]

Like going.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Like. That's what's the scariest part of it is you're. Your feet, your legs are going over you, and you're doing these, like, somersaults in the water and this just to.

[Will Friedle]

Spin you closer to a shark's mouth. That's it.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, I know, but the girl, she was just like.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, it wasn't. I also. I'll be honest with you. The. The. The. The picture she was taking, especially at the beginning during the movie, where they just freeze frame, and it was usually kind of out of focus and bad. I was like, okay, they're just showing bad pictures. And then there's some that are clearly taken from the water where she's supposed to be in the water looking up at the surfer. And then they cut to her, like, still only in, like, half of an inch of water. And I'm like, okay, who took that shot?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

So there were some interesting.

[Sabrina Bryan]

She needed to have, like, a new outfit.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, there were some interesting acting choices or directing choices.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah. And again, I think it's like, to me, I just kind of equivalent it to just being, like, the limitations of what they had with their ability.

[Will Friedle]

I've got to imagine they went through this with Johnny Tsunami, and they went through this with all other movies like this shooting in the Water just adds a whole nother aspect of shooting a film.

[Sabrina Bryan]

That's why I feel like there's got. That's gotta be the biggest reason of why they did not have more surfing elements now. They could have thought of a better name, I guess.

[Will Friedle]

Thank you. Don't make it a surfing movie.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes. And then like I said, the last thing was, you know, that, that part was my last thing with the friend. Like, I didn't understand the drama of, like, trying to reach out and go get her. Like, obviously she would. Was underwater, but it was like we could have had. I mean, can you.

[Will Friedle]

I think it was too tough to show because they wanted to show that. So I think they also tried to explain it because she hit the wreath so she. She couldn't use her arm. So she couldn't swim with her arm. But then afterwards she's like jumping up on the beach, then she's fine. So. Yeah, it was. There was some. Anyway. Okay.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It was that.

[Will Friedle]

Well, thank you, Sabrina. It's now time to rate the film. And I. I think I go first this time, do I not? Yes. Who went first? Okay. All right. Our options this week. And I say we do one out of ten. Okay, let's just. We'll keep it easy and we'll make one the worst and ten the best. Our options this week. One out of ten horror movie decoms. One out of ten sick boards, enthralling quilt exhibits. One out of ten soggy casts. Which sounds like a sex thing. One out of ten Julie Tsunamis. One out of ten computer graphic whales, dead fish smells, or one out of ten unexplained peeping toms. Which would you like to do this week, Sabrina? I'm gonna let you pick.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I think it, you know, give a little nod to my fave. My fave movie. Let's do Julie Tsunamis.

[Will Friedle]

Okay. You got it. We're gonna do one out of ten Julie Tsunamis. Okay. I go first.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You go first.

[Will Friedle]

The title threw me. I can't get over it. I'm gonna be totally honest.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You couldn't.

[Will Friedle]

I can't.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You could not get over it.

[Will Friedle]

Don't set me up for a surfing movie if it's not a surfing movie. Do not call it BMX bandits if there are neither BMXing nor bandits in the movie. That's not. You know, again, that's if. Call it something else. If you're not going to show War Amongst the Stars, don't call it Star Wars. So I was expecting a surfing movie. I was expecting a Disney Channel. Typical Girl out of water comes and joins this cool clique in Hawaii. They teach her how to surf. There's the good surfer, there's the bad surfer. There's the locals that don't want to have anything and ends in the big surfing competition. Dcom. That's what I'm expecting. It wasn't that.

[Sabrina Bryan]

No, it wasn't bad.

[Will Friedle]

First of all, the good things, it was pretty to watch. The, The. The. The landscape looked incredible. The acting was good. I thought some of the characters were very well written. The adults were great. I loved the relationships. Was not expecting this movie. That being said, I think I'm being fair all the way around in giving this movie a 6.5. Julie Tsunamis. I think that's a pretty fair score. They had. They had. I known what was gonna happen and it was gonna be this and not a surfing movie. It probably could have been a seven or a seven and a half, but some of the stuff, the, The. The whale thing was really bad. Not her not knowing anything about her mom was really strange.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

So, yes, I. I think I'm fair at a. At a 6.5, I could go a soft 7, but I'm gonna keep it a 6.5. Julie Tsunamis. What about you?

[Sabrina Bryan]

So for me, I'm literally just a tiny bit above you. Agreed. There. There were not necessarily holes, just things kind of just like brushed over very quickly that I would have loved a little bit more explaining or, you know, things here.

[Will Friedle]

But the guy with the binoculars.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, well, that I think was if they. If they. If there. There was something that led up to it that they decided to. To cut. They should have cut those. It's not like it was. It would have taken much. I mean, we would have been to like 81 minutes or whatever.

[Will Friedle]

Come on.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Sorry. 85. 84 minutes or whatever. So it's not like they would have really cut a ton. It's just kind of weird. Again, I thought all the kids. To me, this was. If you see this movie and then go, okay, put it in the timeframe of where Disney was. It's perfectly where it was shot and filmed and everything. It's right in that mecca. You can see it. Of course, we've seen Disney just explode and just build and be so much better than this. So this isn't one of the best dcoms, but for me, it was the nostalgia. It was. It was the movies that I was watching all the time. And, you know, they aren't always great. Like I said, or like you said, I think what would have made this even better would have been more surfing, you know. But again, I just don't know where they would have found those child actors to be able to do that or because this was really well casted in her being 13. Fine doubles that age.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, maybe.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You know what I mean? Like we, you know, there's got to.

[Will Friedle]

Be some 13 year old killer surfers in Hawaii.

[Sabrina Bryan]

In Australia.

[Will Friedle]

Or Australia. Or Australia.

[Sabrina Bryan]

There could have been, but that's not where we know that. That's not Disney's like place. They don't do a lot, so they don't have a lot of intel. I guess. So anyway, I thought it was good and it was really fun to rewatch because it was a movie that I saw when I was younger and I enjoyed it. And you auditioned for her and I auditioned for it. And I remember being bummed when it came out going, man. And that would have been cool. I would have loved to have like learned how to surf even more than what I know right now. And yada, yada, whatever. I'm gonna give it a 7. Julie Tsunamis. Because I did like it. I remember liking it. There were definitely some flaws. I wanted more. I would have loved to give this an 8 and a half type.

[Will Friedle]

I agree. I agree.

[Sabrina Bryan]

But I couldn't because I wanted more surfing.

[Will Friedle]

Yep. I agree with you 100% but not a movie. I'm actually gonna change. I'm gonna change my vote. I'm gonna change my number, which I don't think I' and I'm gonna agree with you at a seven because the kids were good.

[Sabrina Bryan]

The kids were great.

[Will Friedle]

And you're right for the time it was for Disney.

[Sabrina Bryan]

How much adults we got in it too. It wasn't two adults and it wasn't two kids where the adults just weren't involved. They were. The storylines of the adults were awesome.

[Will Friedle]

Yep. No, you're right. I could give it a seven and live with that. So it's gonna be seven. Both of us. Wow.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Guys starting to rub off on this.

[Will Friedle]

Julia, you are. Even to get him to cheat. I'm telling you. Hey, I'm rubbing off on you. You dropped an F bomb today.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Cool things are happening here on Magical Rewind.

[Will Friedle]

I'm telling you. I'm telling you. We're rubbing off on each other.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And I gave him an MF bomb. Let's just say that that's what it was. That's what it boosts you. That's what it did.

[Will Friedle]

It did. It boosted it up. Thank God. Our next movie. Oh, people, we are doing our first threequel ever. We're gearing up for the debut of Zombies 4 with our recap of Zombies 3. We can't wait any longer. We need to catch up on the franchise. It is time for the newest installment and obviously this one is available to stream now on Disney. So you can get ahead of the podcast now and check it out. And for more info you can follow us at Magical Rewind Pod on the Instagram machine. Bye everybody.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Bye.

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[Will Friedle]

Gilmore Girls has a new home on Start tv, the network celebrating strong, smart women in iconic dramas. You can catch it every weekday at 5:00pm 4:00pm Central and 11:00pm 10:00pm Central. And now they've added a five hour block every Saturday from 5 to 10:00pm 4:00pm to 9:00pm Central. Whether you're watching for the first time or coming back to Stars Hollow, it's all on Start tv. Start TV is easy to find, stream it, watch it on cable, satellite, or free over the air. Head to starttv.com to see how to watch where you live.

[Sabrina Bryan]

This is an iHeart podcast.