Speaker 1: So with the movie that we're watching today, it made
Speaker 1: me think of a question I wanted to ask you
Speaker 1: that I'm not sure we've ever talked about, because, Okay,
Speaker 1: when I was a little kid, little little kid, I
Speaker 1: wanted to be an astronaut. Ooh, so what did you
Speaker 1: What's the first thing you remember wanting to be when
Speaker 1: you grew up.
Speaker 2: Geez, that's a tough.
Speaker 1: One, there, will I like I got, I go for
Speaker 1: the hard hitting questions to start.
Speaker 2: I know, my gosh, I know that I've always wanted
Speaker 2: to be a mom, but I really wanted to be
Speaker 2: a geologist when I was like six or seven.
Speaker 3: That was your opinion.
Speaker 1: That's one you don't normally hear little kids saying, is
Speaker 1: I want to be a geologist?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Well, then you've clearly never had even
Speaker 2: one conversation with my parents, because my dad loves to
Speaker 2: talk about that I had. I was really I was
Speaker 2: a lot more of a tomboy when I was younger,
Speaker 2: and so I was out on my bike and all
Speaker 2: over you know where we lived in our neighborhood. In
Speaker 2: my backyard, we were redoing the backyard, so there was
Speaker 2: a ton of rocks and my mom would come home
Speaker 2: and I had picked up all these rocks and I
Speaker 2: would wash them in my bathroom scene the one I
Speaker 2: used to get ready and would clog the drain. She
Speaker 2: would have that. And then I also was also more
Speaker 2: into animals and kind of just science y type stuffs.
Speaker 2: To where there was well, I thought, that's really what
Speaker 2: I thought was a pond. I would I would jump
Speaker 2: in with my friend Lindsay and we would get the
Speaker 2: we would pull out tadpoles, and my mom kept going
Speaker 2: where and that she would come home and in my
Speaker 2: bath where I bathed would be are filled with these
Speaker 2: like nasty little creatures there, and they were tadpoles, so
Speaker 2: I thought I could raise them. That was my things.
Speaker 3: Had to become like your army, your undead army of
Speaker 3: the knights, No.
Speaker 2: Just to be I got. I thought. I thought they
Speaker 2: would be frogs. I wanted frogs, and I would climb
Speaker 2: up trees and I would find like bird ness, like
Speaker 2: I was into all kinds.
Speaker 3: Of were like a young Steve Irwin, I gets so.
Speaker 2: But rocks was a big thing for me too. I'd
Speaker 2: find rocks in this pond too and pull them out,
Speaker 2: and I mean they were gross. What I thought was
Speaker 2: a pawn ended up being a sewer. Oh okay, yes,
Speaker 2: this is a sewer under this overpassed by a golf course.
Speaker 2: It was just right off the golf course, but it
Speaker 2: was It wasn't like necessarily a really bad sewer, but
Speaker 2: it was not.
Speaker 3: It was one of the nicer sewers in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it wasn't. It wasn't gross as I thought,
Speaker 2: the nice one. Oh.
Speaker 1: I learn so much about you every time I get
Speaker 1: to ask these questions.
Speaker 3: I'm so happy.
Speaker 2: Thanks for that ass. Well.
Speaker 1: Welcome the Magical Rewind, the show that makes you want
Speaker 1: to grab your friends, your PJS, and your popcorn and
Speaker 1: go back to a time when all the houses were smart,
Speaker 1: the waves, Tsunamis and the high School's musical.
Speaker 3: I'm WILFORDLL and I'm Sabrina Brian.
Speaker 4: Cedas Lapitas, Sabrina Cedas lapdes Well.
Speaker 1: It is a brand new week here on Magical Rewind,
Speaker 1: and we're hopping onto the space station or Space Day
Speaker 1: to analyze the nineteen ninety nine Disney Channel original movie
Speaker 1: Zenon Girl of the twenty first Century. Yes, we are here, folks,
Speaker 1: We are officially at Zenon this is one of the
Speaker 1: most requested ones we've had. This is based on the
Speaker 1: book of the same title by Marilyn Sadler and Roger
Speaker 1: Bolan that actually became a series of five books, and
Speaker 1: much like our beloved fuzz Bucket, I put beloved in
Speaker 1: quotes in case you don't know me. This was originally
Speaker 1: conceived to be a television pilot, but instead became one
Speaker 1: of the most successful franchises the channel had for many,
Speaker 1: many years. It first aired on January twenty third, nineteen nine,
Speaker 1: after a delay from what was supposed to be a
Speaker 1: December nineteen ninety eight air date, but we cannot seem
Speaker 1: to find the reason why the date was changed, which
Speaker 1: is strange. And then it was released on home video
Speaker 1: VHS in September two thousand. So this was the sixth
Speaker 1: dcom ever released, you know they we've talked about the
Speaker 1: different iterations that Disney Channel has gone through with their movies,
Speaker 1: so once it became d com, this is only the
Speaker 1: sixth one ever done. And the only other one of
Speaker 1: those six we've talked about so far is Brink Early
Speaker 1: two of the first six.
Speaker 3: We're getting there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this was another one that was a third party
Speaker 1: studio production, much like Radio Rebel, which we just did,
Speaker 1: but this time the studio was De Passa Entertainment was
Speaker 1: in charge. They were still filming in Vancouver and this
Speaker 1: was the first of a trilogy. It's sequel, Xenon the
Speaker 1: Zequel Yes Great title was released in two thousand and one,
Speaker 1: and Xenon Z three followed in two thousand and four.
Speaker 1: And you can watch Xenon Girl of the Twenty first
Speaker 1: Century now on Disney Plus. So go check it out
Speaker 1: or listen when we're done. We're not your parents. We're
Speaker 1: not going to ground you. You get to make the decision.
Speaker 2: Although some of the comments on Instagram have been asking
Speaker 2: for us to post what we're coming, because they do,
Speaker 2: but they want to take it over the weekend. We're
Speaker 2: definitely going to try to make make adjustments to make
Speaker 2: sure that you know, okay, so what's next? Because they
Speaker 2: do it sounds like they are wanting to listen or
Speaker 2: watch before they listened totally.
Speaker 3: We will make sure that that is adjusted. Now.
Speaker 1: I have a feeling you might have been a Girl
Speaker 1: of the twenty first Century yourself. Did you had you
Speaker 1: seen Xenon? Were you a Xenon fan before we watched.
Speaker 2: I had definitely seen zeneon. This was again while I
Speaker 2: was in the although I was a little bit older,
Speaker 2: I was, you know, still still a part of it
Speaker 2: for sure. And it's right around the time where you know,
Speaker 2: I was auditioning a ton in the Disney Channel. And
Speaker 2: I loved these movies, not just because I wanted to
Speaker 2: obviously be in them. I thought the characters were so fun.
Speaker 2: They looked like they'd be amazing to film. So I
Speaker 2: was watching every monthly. I even no matter what they
Speaker 2: were coming out, I was watching every single one. Again,
Speaker 2: didn't love all of them, but this one, of course,
Speaker 2: I mean, I cannot wait. That was so fun to rewatch.
Speaker 3: I know, this was definitely cool.
Speaker 1: I also will get We're gonna get into the synopsis,
Speaker 1: but very briefly the way it was so funny that
Speaker 1: we started with My Date with the President's Daughter and
Speaker 1: then Cheetah Girls, because the very opening of this movie
Speaker 1: seemed like a mashup of both, where it was the
Speaker 1: girl in a bedroom kind of you knew she was
Speaker 1: a little different, but you didn't know how she's already
Speaker 1: speaking with her own language like the cheetah chatter, and
Speaker 1: then she opens the window and you see Earth like
Speaker 1: Hallie opened the window and you saw that she was
Speaker 1: in the White House.
Speaker 3: So it had that same kind of vibe going all
Speaker 3: the way through.
Speaker 1: But before we take a dive into the recycled bin
Speaker 1: for clothes, read my flapping lips. Here is our synopsis.
Speaker 1: Xenon is a thirteen year old girl living on a
Speaker 1: space station orbiting the Earth in twenty forty nine. When
Speaker 1: one of her antics goes too far, her parents decide
Speaker 1: she must be grounded literally when they banish her to Earth,
Speaker 1: which we'll get into that, they literally throw her off
Speaker 1: of the space station to live with her aunt Judy.
Speaker 1: She has trouble blending in, but when she uncovers an
Speaker 1: evil plan to destroy her family space station, she must
Speaker 1: work together with her new found friends to thwart the villains.
Speaker 1: Early thoughts, Sabrina, what did you think of this movie?
Speaker 2: Okay, I have to go back to the opening because
Speaker 2: I was just my sabritacies. I love this, I love this,
Speaker 2: I love this. This was so fun. All of the
Speaker 2: you know, what we've already found out with talking to
Speaker 2: Stu is the iPad that was not out at that point.
Speaker 2: I mean, now I know, and I'm you know, unfortunately,
Speaker 2: this is not a time when I had a chance
Speaker 2: to have Monroe sit and watch because I have to
Speaker 2: watch it an additional time besides my two times, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: to watch it with her because she talks.
Speaker 3: The whole time.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that you know, I kept thinking when Roe
Speaker 2: wouldn't even think that's weird, we're different or cool. Her
Speaker 2: normal life already is this, you know, this iPad world,
Speaker 2: and so already that's how she wakes up in the
Speaker 2: morning and then you know, seeing the earth, and I
Speaker 2: just I loved it. I thought, I've reaching that it
Speaker 2: kept going her her going into you know, we meet
Speaker 2: everyone so quickly, which I love to do, and there
Speaker 2: was just so many things that were just ahead of
Speaker 2: its time right from the beginning, and I it was
Speaker 2: so fun. I loved all the pops of color, I
Speaker 2: loved the set. I loved everything right from the beginning.
Speaker 3: I don't disagree.
Speaker 1: I thought it was I I'm really glad we got
Speaker 1: to talk to Stu first, because too, the whole thing
Speaker 1: about it being Eloise in the hotel, you could totally
Speaker 1: see that coming around.
Speaker 2: I did not know what he was talking about at
Speaker 2: that time, but I did keep thinking about his references.
Speaker 3: I yeah, and it worked.
Speaker 1: So it was fun to kind of see where his
Speaker 1: mindset was when he was writing it and how he
Speaker 1: adapted the book and did all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: So I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought it was great.
Speaker 1: The acting in this movie is top notch. From the
Speaker 1: adults and from the kids. It's yes, we're going to
Speaker 1: get into your your friend Raven. But she's just so
Speaker 1: good at everything. She's so natural.
Speaker 2: She's just the cutest of cue next level, I know.
Speaker 2: And I loved hearing that. Stu loved working with her,
Speaker 2: and I mean, you know, not just professionalism, but she's
Speaker 2: just so good. Kirsten Storms, she was made to be
Speaker 2: a Disney Channel legend and you can see it in
Speaker 2: this movie. This was before she was doing a lot
Speaker 2: on the channel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are rumors that actually the director originally wanted Raven.
Speaker 3: To star as xenon Oh really, but.
Speaker 1: Then something happened and it went to Kirsten Storms, and
Speaker 1: then they brought her in. So we're talking about Kirsten Storms,
Speaker 1: who the movie stars as xenon Car and in her
Speaker 1: first ever lead role, and she commanded the screen.
Speaker 3: She was great.
Speaker 1: We all recognized her as Emily from the classic Johnny Tsunami,
Speaker 1: a favorite here on the podcast, but she also appeared
Speaker 1: on that So Raven Seventh Heaven, Days of Our Lives
Speaker 1: and has been on General Hospital now for twenty years.
Speaker 3: I mean twenty years.
Speaker 1: On the same show. Really impressive, Yes, just amazing. And
Speaker 1: then we've got the legendary Raven Simone who plays Xenon's
Speaker 1: bestie Nebula Wade.
Speaker 3: Another movie with the.
Speaker 5: Names that name I know, I'm I put it down.
Speaker 5: We got to put it on the list incredible names.
Speaker 5: This was her first ever d com. So you got
Speaker 5: Kirsten Storms in her first lead role. You've got Raven
Speaker 5: Simone in her first ever d com.
Speaker 1: You know her basically from birth when she started on
Speaker 1: The Cosby Show and then she did The Cheetah Girls
Speaker 1: that so Raven has continued to produce an act and
Speaker 1: has become a force in Hollywood. Then you've got a
Speaker 1: very recognizable nineties character actor Stuart Penkin, who plays Commander Plank.
Speaker 1: The second he walks on screen, everybody recognized him. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's the man in charge of the space station. He
Speaker 1: was in movies like Congo, Fatal Attraction, and arachnophobia, and
Speaker 1: he and I actually did an episode of Batman Beyond
Speaker 1: together called Meltdown, which is one of the cooler episodes,
Speaker 1: and we recorded together, and he's a very nice guy.
Speaker 1: And Gregory Smith plays Xenon's love interest, Greg so good casting.
Speaker 1: You might recognize him as from Brown on Everwood Dove
Speaker 1: EPs Dean in the show Rookie Blue or the two
Speaker 1: thousand Mel Gibson movie The Patriot where he gets shot
Speaker 1: in the back and killed and it's very, very horrible,
Speaker 1: And the movie actually filmed at his high school. They
Speaker 1: shot this movie at his high school, so we used
Speaker 1: a ton of his friends as extras in the movie,
Speaker 1: which leaves me to question, have you ever gotten friends
Speaker 1: to be in stuff that you're doing?
Speaker 2: Oh? Of course, of course. Keeley and I actually did
Speaker 2: a YouTube show called Well we did two of them.
Speaker 2: We did March Moms, and we pulled in so many
Speaker 2: of our friends to friends that are actors, and then
Speaker 2: of course we would do the mass text messages, Hey,
Speaker 2: we need a bunch of different people to fill in
Speaker 2: the background, you know. So while we were doing that,
Speaker 2: and then again on Bad Sex with Good People, another
Speaker 2: show we did and brought in some fun friends that
Speaker 2: were they were willing to do some really fun and
Speaker 2: kind of outrageous comedy stuff and just had the best time.
Speaker 2: Being on set with your friends is so fun.
Speaker 1: When I did an episode of Are You Afraid of
Speaker 1: the Dark, and we shot it up in Montreal, and
Speaker 1: I just graduated from high school and my best friend,
Speaker 1: who was a year ahead of me, came up to
Speaker 1: Montreal with me and they made him the featured extra
Speaker 1: in the opening scene. And he has had essentially a
Speaker 1: full beard from the time that he was like eight,
Speaker 1: So even though he shaved, he's sitting next me and
Speaker 1: I look like this little kid and everyone's like, who's
Speaker 1: the guy with basically the five o'clock shadow at eight
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning sitting behind you. Oh, that's my friend,
Speaker 1: Matt shout out keeps I love that. So the movie
Speaker 1: runs ninety seven minutes, which is seven minutes north of
Speaker 1: the target. It was directed by Kenneth Johnson, who directed
Speaker 1: the movie Short Circuit Too, Johnny five, and the Shaquille
Speaker 1: O'Neil's superhero movie Steal.
Speaker 3: He was also this is the coolest thing to me.
Speaker 3: He was heavily involved in bringing Alien Nation to TV.
Speaker 1: Where it became a bit of a franchise, and Alien
Speaker 1: Nation was a Fredell family favorite show.
Speaker 2: Found right up the alley of the first I thought
Speaker 2: it was great.
Speaker 1: And I got to go onto the set when I
Speaker 1: was on another show back in the day and interview
Speaker 1: all the actors.
Speaker 3: It was so cool. It was a great show.
Speaker 1: It was written by the original book authors who we
Speaker 1: mentioned before, and new friend of the podcast, d com
Speaker 1: Daddy stuck Rieger. Like he said when he was on
Speaker 1: the show, this is his favorite of the fifteen Disney
Speaker 1: movies he wrote, and he landed the job by, as
Speaker 1: we were saying, pitching it as Eloise on a space station,
Speaker 1: which is completely how it's written.
Speaker 3: Let's get in a little bit to.
Speaker 1: The timeframe of the movie, because this is where things
Speaker 1: can date themselves. And again I'm going to make a
Speaker 1: Batman beyond reference because I think it's apt here. So
Speaker 1: this takes place in twenty forty nine, which is now
Speaker 1: only twenty five years away from where we are now,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't seem like we are any closer to
Speaker 1: living on a space station full time and having school
Speaker 1: and everything the way that we are than we were
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety nine. We're basically the same distance away.
Speaker 1: And here's here's how I was going to make it
Speaker 1: about Batman Beyond. So Batman Beyond took place fifty years
Speaker 1: in the future when we started. But Bruce tim the
Speaker 1: creator of the show, always says Batman Beyond takes place
Speaker 1: fifty years from now. Whenever now is so it took
Speaker 1: place fifty years in the future in ninety nine. It
Speaker 1: takes place fifty years in the future from now. So
Speaker 1: it seems to me like as we're moving forward in time,
Speaker 1: we should be bumping up where Xenon actually is in
Speaker 1: the future.
Speaker 3: Does that make sense?
Speaker 2: But at the same time, with a lot I mean,
Speaker 2: you've got holograms in there, You've got iPad looking things. FaceTime, Yeah,
Speaker 2: FaceTime was not even even still near it, you know.
Speaker 3: No, they predicted a lot of the future.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the lot of the future is now. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: there are still that idea of the whole world or
Speaker 2: you know, cities or counties or whatever being able to
Speaker 2: live up there together as one.
Speaker 1: We're more than twenty five years away from that, I
Speaker 1: would think, I would guess. I mean, yeah, there'll be
Speaker 1: thirty seven different iPhones in those twenty five years thirty
Speaker 1: seven hundred diffent now, but we won't be on a.
Speaker 3: Space there, and you and I will probably not be there.
Speaker 1: No, except what I'm guessing the premise of the movie
Speaker 1: is that some people have stayed on Earth while others
Speaker 1: have boarded the space station, the space stay, as she
Speaker 1: likes to say, and adapted a new lifestyle. Again, the
Speaker 1: things we've talked about, the stuff they got right, the FaceTime,
Speaker 1: the holograms, the tablets. It's also very spot on that
Speaker 1: everyone depends completely on computers in space, but down on
Speaker 1: Earth there's still just the one computer lab in the school, Yes.
Speaker 2: Just one.
Speaker 3: Did you have a computer lab? Yes, we did.
Speaker 1: We did not, at least not one that I not
Speaker 1: one that I know of. We weren't allowed to type
Speaker 1: our papers. I remember back in the day we had
Speaker 1: like a Commodore sixty four back in elementary school, and
Speaker 1: I think it was like the Oregon Trail and stuff
Speaker 1: like that and run go to ten and then the
Speaker 1: thing would run and count. But actual like learning how
Speaker 1: to do computers. No, we didn't do any of that stuff.
Speaker 2: Trail shout out of the Oregon Trail, frustrating you could
Speaker 2: never get there. I don't think I ever, we just
Speaker 2: wanted to hunt.
Speaker 3: That was it. You just wanted to shoot the buffaloes.
Speaker 3: That's all you want.
Speaker 1: Because it was something they did, it was like, yes,
Speaker 1: now they did something also very interesting, and this is
Speaker 1: a credit to Stu Krieger, and it just shows how
Speaker 1: how great the writing is. So when she is kicked
Speaker 1: off the Space Station and has to move to Earth,
Speaker 1: they explain that the town that Judy lives in is
Speaker 1: a throwback town. So they mentioned that l if you
Speaker 1: go to La, you go to New York, you go
Speaker 1: to any of these places. They're very modern. But by
Speaker 1: saying that she lives in a throwback town, they don't
Speaker 1: have to do any of the modern cars, any of them.
Speaker 1: They can make it cheaper.
Speaker 4: Right again, Skuler, instead of making it look cheesy with
Speaker 4: one line, they can go, no, she lives in kind
Speaker 4: of like an old school throwback town. And then a
Speaker 4: couple set deck things here or there, and they sell
Speaker 4: it without having to have flying cars and floating Starbucks
Speaker 4: and all this kind of stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Did you think at all at some point if they did,
Speaker 2: the car would look like the new Tesla suv.
Speaker 1: The truck thing that looks like it was drawn by
Speaker 1: a twelve year old. Somebody on my street just got
Speaker 1: one and it looks like.
Speaker 3: You just threw something.
Speaker 2: So that's what I think you would have to try
Speaker 2: to build something like that because this world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you go back to the future too, they
Speaker 1: just put all these like appliances on regular cars and
Speaker 1: then pretend they're floating down the street.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But yes, I thought that was great. I thought
Speaker 3: that it was a great way to do it.
Speaker 1: Now, somebody comes to you tomorrow and says Sabrina big Fan,
Speaker 1: first time caller, longtime listener, I would love for you
Speaker 1: to come and live on a space station for a year,
Speaker 1: and let's make it a modern space station like this one.
Speaker 3: Would you go, would you space station it up? Or
Speaker 3: would you be like, you know what? Not so much
Speaker 3: for me. I'll stay in my throwback down for.
Speaker 2: A year, make it.
Speaker 3: Think I could make it five years.
Speaker 2: My family, like my husband and kids can't come.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, everybody gets to come, Yes, everybody gets to come.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think I could probably swing it, okay, because
Speaker 2: I think about that a lot with you know, friends
Speaker 2: that have to relocate for their their spouse's job to space,
Speaker 2: not space, but to somewhere where they don't live. I
Speaker 2: feel like I can meet new friends, you can get
Speaker 2: adapt I'm cool to live. I let you know. People think, oh,
Speaker 2: I could never do a cruise ship. I could. That's
Speaker 2: one of the things I want to do. I want
Speaker 2: a cruise around the world for an entire year. I
Speaker 2: want to be a.
Speaker 3: Awful No, it doesn't, it's amazing. You want to be
Speaker 3: for a year?
Speaker 2: Yes, I would totally do it.
Speaker 1: I would rather be in a space station as it
Speaker 1: was slowly decompressing and my eyes were bleeding, than.
Speaker 4: Be on the right cre I've never been a cruise
Speaker 4: at all. I couldn't just imagine being on a boat
Speaker 4: for a year.
Speaker 2: You get off anyway, all right, you can get if
Speaker 2: you're in space, you're stuck. You're probably not going to
Speaker 2: come back back home. The ship you can get off
Speaker 2: of the water and onto land and back on within
Speaker 2: the day. It's not a big that's yeah. I totally
Speaker 2: think I could, and I would totally sign up for that.
Speaker 2: I don't think do you know anyone that is looking
Speaker 2: for space people, I'll do it. Hey, why not?
Speaker 1: The special effects in this movie for nineteen ninety nine
Speaker 1: were pretty great.
Speaker 2: I thought so too, only there was just one shot
Speaker 2: of a close up of her and then her seeming
Speaker 2: almost like too close to the earth.
Speaker 3: When she was oh, when she's floating for the nebulatory.
Speaker 2: Only that was like I was going, oh uh oh
Speaker 2: uh oh. And there's only really one shot that was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we dropped. It didn't look great, but the rest of
Speaker 2: it actually looked pretty good. When she was floating out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the plane flying down plane, Yeah, the shottle and everything,
Speaker 1: it all looked pretty good.
Speaker 3: And I got to say, better than kind of pixel perfect,
Speaker 3: and considering it was nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2: Nine, yeah, saying some of these effects I thought kind.
Speaker 3: Of worked more than even like the Descendants and stuff
Speaker 3: like that, because they seemed on you know, on time
Speaker 3: and on brand, and it was practical sets mixed in
Speaker 3: with kind of some of the colors of the nebulation.
Speaker 3: I thought it all kind of worked.
Speaker 2: I did, too, I really did. I mean, I'd have
Speaker 2: to watch Descendants back to back with this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well we're gonna we well, maybe we'll watch the
Speaker 1: zequel with the Descendants sequel to back to Okay, that
Speaker 1: sounds cool, and then Chetah Girls too.
Speaker 3: We'll just do a two month.
Speaker 2: They're putting this much production and they continued in it.
Speaker 2: Like like I said with Mine, and what I've heard
Speaker 2: with Descendants is they keep getting better. I'm so excited
Speaker 2: to see what's gonna happen with this movie because this
Speaker 2: started off strong.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's what you know. I'm calling it right now.
Speaker 3: We'll have to do sequel month, okay, and we'll just
Speaker 3: do a bunch of sequels back to back. So I
Speaker 3: love that.
Speaker 1: When we open up, we meet Xenon in a very
Speaker 1: cool kind of opening segment. She's a normal teenager late
Speaker 1: for school Russiana class, but you get to see through
Speaker 1: where she's running around, who's bumping into that. She's clearly
Speaker 1: not a normal teenager. She's one floating in space in
Speaker 1: a massive station that looks like a cheese grade. We
Speaker 1: also learned that the president is Chelsea Clinton, who they
Speaker 1: wanted to throw in there.
Speaker 2: Now I wasn't really talked about any ever again that very.
Speaker 1: Beginning, Chelsea Clinton was president of the United States. Now,
Speaker 1: while racing to school like she's the Star Trek version
Speaker 1: of Feris Bueller. She has all the same problems as
Speaker 1: are other main teens in a dcom. She's got issues
Speaker 1: with the Commander Plank, who's the principal. Essentially, she has
Speaker 1: to figure out how she's going to win a contest
Speaker 1: to join the band Microbe, which is her favorite kind
Speaker 1: of n Sync type band, on stage for their first
Speaker 1: ever intergalactic concert. But even when she's a normal team,
Speaker 1: it's done in very kind of surreal surroundings, which I like.
Speaker 3: The space station look great, the sets look great. Yes,
Speaker 3: it all worked, It really did all work.
Speaker 1: And the so the costume designer was actually Linda Matheson
Speaker 1: who also worked on Clueless and romy Michell's high school
Speaker 1: Reunion and Enchanted, So you can see they swung for
Speaker 1: the fences and it played out.
Speaker 3: Where. So where did Z?
Speaker 1: Where does Xenon rank for you among looks of a film,
Speaker 1: you know, the special effects, the costumes, all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff.
Speaker 3: Did it? Was it major or minor?
Speaker 1: For you?
Speaker 2: It crushed major?
Speaker 3: Did it? Really?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I thought again the sets The only thing I felt
Speaker 2: about the sets, and you know, it didn't necessarily have
Speaker 2: to be much bigger, but it did seem I could
Speaker 2: recognize where they were a lot. You know, they didn't
Speaker 2: have like two when they're on the space station. They
Speaker 2: didn't have too much to seem to work with when
Speaker 2: it comes to the hallways of it. Yeah, but knowing
Speaker 2: that it was two separate things wasn't like too bad.
Speaker 2: But I loved the costuming of this. I thought everyone
Speaker 2: looked so cute. Everyone had their cute little accents of stuff.
Speaker 2: I loved. Well, I don't want to say that.
Speaker 3: One yet because.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it was one of the things that I
Speaker 2: thought was like when it came out, what the heck?
Speaker 3: And oh they explained it and then it made me crack.
Speaker 2: But I really liked did and I was I loved
Speaker 2: to see where this costume designer came from because those
Speaker 2: are all all three of those are favorite movies of mine, and.
Speaker 3: They're all super important. With the costume. The wardrobe is
Speaker 3: very important.
Speaker 2: Yes, and legendary, like people love think about Clueless, Love
Speaker 2: the outfit Romeo Michelle, When do you think about it?
Speaker 2: Romeo Michelle Clueles two of the top Halloween costumes of
Speaker 2: the year. If you're going to go with a girlfriend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I think it's true, you know, absolutely.
Speaker 2: It's totally If you're going to do a duo costume,
Speaker 2: those are two of the first movies you go after.
Speaker 2: And I think on this one. We got to add
Speaker 2: Zee onto the list, you and Monroe. I might do
Speaker 2: it with Monroe because she yes, yeah, sure, I mean
Speaker 2: we could totally make this happen.
Speaker 3: That would be great.
Speaker 2: That might just have to happen this next year.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of crushing it, Major, let's talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about the slang, which Stu did an amazing job
Speaker 1: of incorporating his own language made up in the script.
Speaker 1: So it was Major, Minor O ring stream inky which
Speaker 1: means sketchy, or of course the famous Cetas Lapidis, which
Speaker 1: he completely built out of the universe. Yes, and the
Speaker 1: you know again, it worked the same way the cheetah
Speaker 1: chatter worked. None of that would work if the acting
Speaker 1: wasn't strong, right, But they made it sound like it
Speaker 1: was modern day slang. This is how we talk. It
Speaker 1: didn't sound forced, it didn't sound and it was just
Speaker 1: this is how we talk. I was walking around going
Speaker 1: to ask Cetus Lapidis after.
Speaker 2: Our last movie when we talked about a word being
Speaker 2: repeated over and over and over again. That happened to
Speaker 2: me with Major. I started going, we've got to be
Speaker 2: on sixty eight now, Major, Oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we were talking about a fuzzbucket, fuzzbuget.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We just kept saying fuzzbucket.
Speaker 2: I kept going, oh gosh, that could be well.
Speaker 3: Fuzzbucket was major inky though.
Speaker 2: This one major inky. Yeah, but this one, this was
Speaker 2: so she was just so cute. She did such a
Speaker 2: great job.
Speaker 3: She was amazing. We quickly learned that the space station
Speaker 3: is also getting old.
Speaker 1: They need upgrades and more funding to continue some of
Speaker 1: their work, which it appears can save millions of lives
Speaker 1: with things like bone marrow density experiments, which is what
Speaker 1: Xenon's parents are actually doing with the floating hologram rats.
Speaker 1: And now the billionaire in charge that are funding, Peter Winman,
Speaker 1: is coming to check in and they need to impress them,
Speaker 1: and most importantly, Xenon, who, of course this is the
Speaker 1: eloise portion, is a little troublemaker who is always getting
Speaker 1: into shall we say, mischief, needs to be on her
Speaker 1: best behavior, which should be very easy except she thinks
Speaker 1: Wyndham and his assistant are up to something nefarious. It's
Speaker 1: also important to know that these kids on the space station,
Speaker 1: their ability to have fun is obviously wildly dampened by
Speaker 1: being in space.
Speaker 3: There's not much to do. I've never been to space,
Speaker 3: but I know that there's not a ton to do there.
Speaker 1: Yes, lots of open space, very little air, so probably
Speaker 1: not the coolest place to hang out if you're a kid,
Speaker 1: at least not for an extended period of time.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So the idea that the band's coming up Protozoa,
Speaker 3: who is her you know, her crush, her major crush
Speaker 3: is coming up and Microbe is going to play. They're
Speaker 3: all very, very excited.
Speaker 2: I do love that they love their culture of where
Speaker 2: they're at. Though yes, the idea of going to Earth
Speaker 2: is the worst thing in the world for them, even
Speaker 2: though they are stuck on this space station, they they
Speaker 2: love it.
Speaker 3: It's home.
Speaker 2: They don't have a lot to do, but this is
Speaker 2: their home and they're proud of it and they love it.
Speaker 2: I that part I thought was really great. I you
Speaker 2: know that they weren't kids dying to get out of
Speaker 2: where they grew up.
Speaker 3: That I loved. And that's the other thing I liked.
Speaker 1: Exactly what you're saying, is what you said about moving
Speaker 1: where you're like, I'll make new friends. Kids are uberly adaptable,
Speaker 1: so they adapt to things, like, you know, to pass
Speaker 1: the time, they sneak out and they go into air ducks,
Speaker 1: they go to recycle bins, they dive for clothes, they
Speaker 1: go in a restriction sections. She gets to put herself
Speaker 1: in a spacesuit and go out to watch a nebula
Speaker 1: Like they're breaking the rules, but they're kids on a
Speaker 1: space station, so yeah, it was well written where they're
Speaker 1: little ways to enjoy themselves on.
Speaker 3: A space station.
Speaker 2: Yes, a little trouble. They're not trying to end the world,
Speaker 2: but they're causing a little trouble.
Speaker 3: They are fun for little mischief.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, the problem is once she was on that tether
Speaker 1: outside she sneaks out into space class five solar flare.
Speaker 1: She gets caught, which is another strike against her, and
Speaker 1: then the creepy assistant who's super super creepy, she catches
Speaker 1: this guy trying to break into a class four restricted
Speaker 1: section in the middle of the night and instantly gets
Speaker 1: the ick from this guy and knows something's up. So
Speaker 1: she and her friends, well it's really her, hatch a
Speaker 1: plan to keep their eyes on this guy to make
Speaker 1: sure that they're not going to do anything. They've really
Speaker 1: set it up that if you mess with anything in
Speaker 1: this restricted section, it can kill everybody on the space
Speaker 1: stage literally kill everybody else SPA. Yes, so she tries
Speaker 1: breaking in one night. That's where exactly needs to go,
Speaker 1: exactly like.
Speaker 3: A normal kid. I shouldn't be there, So that's where
Speaker 3: I'm going to go.
Speaker 1: This, by the way, is after the Windham guy has
Speaker 1: pledged and I can again. This is only showing the
Speaker 1: time of nineteen ninety nine five hundred million dollars, yes,
Speaker 1: which in future money and space money might as well
Speaker 1: be thirty five dollars. I think that the Space Shuttle
Speaker 1: when they built it was like thirty five, like like
Speaker 1: billions and billions of dollars, so they that was just
Speaker 1: they should have made it like I'm pledging an extra
Speaker 1: five hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 3: For space remains.
Speaker 2: Made me think of Austin Powers for what a million
Speaker 2: dollars million?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Right, yeah. But she gets caught like it did.
Speaker 1: She gets caught sneaking into the computer system and is
Speaker 1: then grounded by her parents. The problem, of course, is
Speaker 1: when you're on a space station, what being grounded means
Speaker 1: is you are kicked off the space station. Her parents
Speaker 1: sent her away.
Speaker 7: Incredibly harsh, infredibly harsh, I mean, and it was for
Speaker 7: an unknown amount of time. It was to bring me
Speaker 7: back as fast figure out when I can't imagine that
Speaker 7: is quote unquote cheap to dude back. How many times
Speaker 7: the space shuttle thing that goes back and forth between
Speaker 7: Earth even happens.
Speaker 2: But this was under no given amount of time they
Speaker 2: think give for away. Yes, my heart was crushed for
Speaker 2: me too.
Speaker 1: I was really, well, they made another Disney trope we've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of now because we've seen this a
Speaker 1: couple of times. Is good cool sympathetic dad, kind of
Speaker 1: focus driven mom who maybe doesn't care about the kid
Speaker 1: as much as the dad does, or hasn't befriended the
Speaker 1: kid as much as the dad has.
Speaker 3: But they they send her away. It was so I
Speaker 3: was like they're giving away their child.
Speaker 1: By the way, that actor who play the assistant Lutz
Speaker 1: his anenactne Bob Bancroft and man can.
Speaker 3: For everybody.
Speaker 1: He was Frank Man in Parks and rec episodes or
Speaker 1: from Chicago Hope. But he plays such a good creepy guy.
Speaker 2: I thought both of the villains were great. I didn't
Speaker 2: understand the eye twitch that she checks into like he
Speaker 2: had like an which he lies. I thought that was
Speaker 2: going to go somewhere and kind of be more explained,
Speaker 2: and it never was. This guy was amazing start to finish.
Speaker 1: He was so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was great. Oh he was awesome. He did
Speaker 3: a great job. Now did you find it?
Speaker 1: It was strange that it took over a half an hour,
Speaker 1: took like thirty five minutes of her in space before
Speaker 1: then she's grounded and sent to Earth, and it's like
Speaker 1: then they start a whole new movie with a whole
Speaker 1: new group of friends.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep.
Speaker 3: And I think this goes to this being supposed to
Speaker 3: be a TV show. Yes, I'm assuming.
Speaker 2: I mean this was. It was definitely going to be
Speaker 2: this if it was a TV show. You saw how
Speaker 2: it would make sense. Yeah, every episode to kind of
Speaker 2: have stuff going on back and forth, and they had
Speaker 2: to have a full blown cast with her on Earth. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's where it was going to take her for a while. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's where it's just kind of okay. Now, wait, it
Speaker 2: wasn't just one love interest in one friend. It was
Speaker 2: like a whole group of people we had to get
Speaker 2: to know, and all of their storylines got built a
Speaker 2: little bit here and there, the jealous girlfriend, you know,
Speaker 2: all of that stuff, and it was it was a lot.
Speaker 2: It started to be a lot.
Speaker 3: I agree, you know what, so, yeah, I agree, it.
Speaker 1: May It makes way more sense knowing that it was
Speaker 1: supposed to be a television show where it made.
Speaker 2: That first part of her being on Earth kind of slow. Yeah,
Speaker 2: kind of where are we going? Come on, let's pick
Speaker 2: up what's happening, because.
Speaker 1: The pilot episode is clearly until she gets kicked off
Speaker 1: the space station. Yeah, until she gets kicked Yeah, she
Speaker 1: gets kicked off, She lands on Earth, she comes out,
Speaker 1: falls down the stairs, roll credits, and we'll pick it
Speaker 1: up the next time.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But because it was a movie, they have to introduce
Speaker 3: this whole new life. Now we're introducing her.
Speaker 2: Essentially on episode two and episode three or whatever.
Speaker 3: You know, absolutely, so we're back on Earth now.
Speaker 1: We introduced all of her new schoolmates, and most of
Speaker 1: them hate her because of her planetary outer planetary weirdness,
Speaker 1: except one guy, her love interest, Greg, who just keeps
Speaker 1: shooting looks at her, these puppy dog looks.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie, Greg, your puppy dog looks for
Speaker 2: starting to get a little a little creepy for me.
Speaker 2: What was that word again, a little a little inky,
Speaker 2: a little inky for me Greg a little.
Speaker 3: It was it a major inky or minor inky At
Speaker 3: this point, it.
Speaker 2: Was it was minor because he was sweet and wasn't
Speaker 2: doing anything crazy.
Speaker 1: But you know, so we established their relationship quickly, and
Speaker 1: it turns out this guy's very into horses, so much
Speaker 1: so that we spend like ten minutes at a barn
Speaker 1: and then it never comes up again.
Speaker 2: I think again it goes and maybe it will. I okay,
Speaker 2: I will say, I've never seen this sequel.
Speaker 3: Well maybe in the zequel. The zequel could be about sources.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe we're gonna get more of the stuff that
Speaker 2: we didn't get. Feel like we got enough of.
Speaker 1: Okay, that could be, that's my thought. But they're back
Speaker 1: on the space station. So I wonder if Greg's even
Speaker 1: in the sequel.
Speaker 3: I can't wait. Yeah, who knows, I can't wait till sequel.
Speaker 2: Mud he bring his horse.
Speaker 3: That seems crazy. It sounds like the start of a joke.
Speaker 3: So a horse walks into a space station. It does.
Speaker 3: It's very, very crazy.
Speaker 1: But so through a series of events you find out
Speaker 1: what happened on the space station was actually they put
Speaker 1: a virus in the space station, and the key to
Speaker 1: shutting down the virus was in this little disc that
Speaker 1: then he drops. Of course, Raven happens to find on
Speaker 1: the on the ground, makes it into an earring to
Speaker 1: give to Xenon as a parting gift, and as she
Speaker 1: lands on Earth, then Lutz actually sees, wow, she's got
Speaker 1: that disc that I badly need to make the nefarious
Speaker 1: plan happen, and so on Earth he stops at nothing
Speaker 1: to get the disc back.
Speaker 3: They ransacked the aunt's house. I mean, it's bad.
Speaker 2: When he comes to the ants house, that was like whoa, yes, oh, LUTs,
Speaker 2: and you might be going a little too far. Cannot
Speaker 2: just show up and these poor two kids. Greg tried
Speaker 2: his hardest to be tough and didn't do anything.
Speaker 3: Greg, they're thirteen.
Speaker 1: It's like, Greg tried, but come on, Greg, get on
Speaker 1: your horse and help out a little bit buddy.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 3: I can't do anything. I can't do anything about it.
Speaker 3: So yes, we again.
Speaker 1: We find out it's a computer virus that's gonna infect
Speaker 1: the space station and crash it. So it means that
Speaker 1: Xenon has been right the entire time. She's now got
Speaker 1: to get back to the space station to save everybody.
Speaker 1: So she needs her whole group of earth friends to
Speaker 1: come help her, except of course, for Margie, who we
Speaker 1: haven't talked about. Margie, who might be one of the
Speaker 1: most awful bad girls in dcom history.
Speaker 2: She tries to drown her.
Speaker 3: Essentially, Margie is terrible.
Speaker 2: She is a terrible, terrible, jealous little thing. Yeah, my
Speaker 2: thing is it happened so fast? She catches Greg looking
Speaker 2: at this new girl. No, she makes a comment about
Speaker 2: her when she's walking by before she does anything at.
Speaker 3: The restaurant, when she first sees her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, instance, she sees Greg see her, and instantly this
Speaker 2: girl's gotta go. So I'm gonna try drowning her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna.
Speaker 4: And even when she helps later, it's just to get
Speaker 4: Xenon back off the planet, just to get him back on.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, it's like you're gonna leave Greg and his horses
Speaker 3: to me, my friend.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, she's just yeah, she's she was bad.
Speaker 1: She was she was a bad, bad one. They did
Speaker 1: they Disney really outdid themselves on her badness.
Speaker 2: Yeah, super cute girl, though she's a dorrible.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, but the second she knocks her in the
Speaker 4: pool like you've never seen water before, good luck breathing
Speaker 4: Like wow, harsh oh.
Speaker 3: Man, Can we can we address Zene on s date
Speaker 3: with Greg?
Speaker 2: Yes, I would love to.
Speaker 4: It's part of my Sabrina seas. I think it's so cute,
Speaker 4: nice waterfront restaurant. But she eats so much that he
Speaker 4: shames her for how expenses the date.
Speaker 2: Is going to be, because again he's little. He also says,
Speaker 2: do you know how many horses I'm gonna have to clean?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 2: You cannot just order? That's so rude. You cannot just
Speaker 2: order all of that?
Speaker 3: What do you mean it's a date?
Speaker 2: You should let your date order whatever they want. I mean,
Speaker 2: what kind of dates were you going on at that
Speaker 2: age where you were just saying to your the person,
Speaker 2: you're on a date, Sure, you want a salad? Can
Speaker 2: I get you four appetizers? Looks like you want to
Speaker 2: hold buy a pizza? Does that sound great?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Will that's not okay, she's taking advantage of it.
Speaker 3: Okay, Oh that's great, that's great.
Speaker 1: So while while they're on the date, he could have
Speaker 1: he could have saved a little bit of the money
Speaker 1: to help out in the space station, because the five
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars wasn't going to cut it, and the
Speaker 1: space station is now starting we keep cutting back and
Speaker 1: it's starting to slowly shut down system by system. I'
Speaker 1: llah Passengers with Chris Pratt and what's her name? Where
Speaker 1: just one system at a time? Is I think Passengers
Speaker 1: is just a modern version of Xenon. By the way,
Speaker 1: that's that's my hot take for the day. Okay, So
Speaker 1: her new friends and her absolutely cheap boyfriend now have
Speaker 1: to figure out how they can help the space station.
Speaker 1: So one of her new friends is kind of a
Speaker 1: computer hacker. Yeah, he helps hack one of her tablets
Speaker 1: so that she can contact people on the space station
Speaker 1: at least kind of warn them. And then they figure
Speaker 1: out that that oh, Mike, wait, that's right, Microbe is
Speaker 1: going up to the space station with my boy Proda. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so I'm going to see if I can hop
Speaker 1: on the space station. So of course she walks right
Speaker 1: up to the band and says, can I hop on
Speaker 1: the space Shuttle? And essentially they say yes because she
Speaker 1: won the contest to dance with them, so they say,
Speaker 1: you've got to let her on the space station, even
Speaker 1: though by this point the entire Windom organization is looking
Speaker 1: for her with orders to stop her anywhere.
Speaker 3: She crashes the gate. Mm hmm, makes it to the band.
Speaker 1: They throw her on the Space Shuttle, and now Windom
Speaker 1: and Lutz, hearing that Xenon is on there, jump on
Speaker 1: the Space Shuttle too, and boom, they're also stuck right
Speaker 1: on the shovel.
Speaker 2: Yes, but but also you got to go back and
Speaker 2: talk about the fact that after these five kids run
Speaker 2: right through a gate that's supposed to be highly secured,
Speaker 2: good security, then the ant comes in about five minutes
Speaker 2: later and.
Speaker 3: The same thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, one, there's no extra security.
Speaker 3: Maybe get another guy, yeah, right, at.
Speaker 2: Least one more guy. Nor has Windham been even Hey,
Speaker 2: by the way, that girl you've been talking about that
Speaker 2: we're looking for, she's here here. No, please don't fire
Speaker 2: me because I let her go through the gate.
Speaker 1: By the way, I also called Doug and he's gonna
Speaker 1: come down and help me on guard gate duty because
Speaker 1: it's just me in a broken gate.
Speaker 3: At this point. That was just not the best.
Speaker 2: Security the worst security guard guys.
Speaker 1: So she finally gets back to the space station. Once
Speaker 1: she gets there, she's able to after all this time,
Speaker 1: convince everybody that Wyndham and LUTs are in fact bad guys,
Speaker 1: and she saves the station by of course, repeatedly punching
Speaker 1: buttons into a keypad until she hits the right buttons again.
Speaker 3: Great security. You can just keep typing failed.
Speaker 2: Three times and then finally boom.
Speaker 1: Your iPhone shuts down after like four times. Right, but
Speaker 1: you're but the space station. You can just keep keep going.
Speaker 1: You can just keep going, no lockdown. It is the
Speaker 1: computer equivalent of smashing through a gate because Doug is
Speaker 1: not on guard duty, which is great. All this leads
Speaker 1: up to finally the bad guys are arrested, and then
Speaker 1: Micro gets to play at a concert up there in
Speaker 1: space finally, which is great.
Speaker 2: Epic little performance that any loves love the dad.
Speaker 1: Love to see Protozoa playing up there. She shows how
Speaker 1: how thankful a friend she is. She gives her dancing
Speaker 1: prize to her best friend Raven, who gets up there
Speaker 1: to dance. She kisses Greg goodbye over FaceTime, and then
Speaker 1: that was just it.
Speaker 3: That was like the end of the movie. There was
Speaker 3: no real.
Speaker 1: Goodbye with her and Greg, which I'm hoping he's in
Speaker 1: the zequel. I hope Greg is in the l I
Speaker 1: do too. Are they still dating? Is this a long
Speaker 1: distance relationship at this point? Is it that's what I'm
Speaker 1: h orbit relationship. I think what it is my orbit.
Speaker 2: Major relationship, minor not sure, not sure, We're not sure?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I hope we get it in the zequel.
Speaker 1: If the zequel starts with her on FaceTime with Greg like, hey,
Speaker 1: hey babe, I'm going to be coming to see you
Speaker 1: in like a month kind of thing.
Speaker 3: That'd be great, but who knows.
Speaker 4: And then him call her babe, didn't space babe, Hey,
Speaker 4: space babe, Hey space babe.
Speaker 2: The best.
Speaker 3: Hey, space Babe, I'm gonna see you. I got my
Speaker 3: horses and I'm gonna come see you on the space stations.
Speaker 2: They're ready to go.
Speaker 3: I think i'd be awesome.
Speaker 2: And so that's it.
Speaker 1: And then of course we end with the song super
Speaker 1: Nova Girl, after your Zoom Zoom song, which you came
Speaker 1: in singing today.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it's just so good. I honestly was
Speaker 2: getting ready. I turned on the end I to just
Speaker 2: hear just getting in my.
Speaker 3: Group, getting in the zoom zoom groop my zen on zoom.
Speaker 3: Oh that's the best.
Speaker 1: Why don't we start some real reviews. We know what
Speaker 1: we think and what we've said about this film. Let's
Speaker 1: see what other people think, Sabrina, what's our one star
Speaker 1: review for the day?
Speaker 2: I really thought, you know, Jensen was gonna have a
Speaker 2: hard time finding a one star review on this movie.
Speaker 3: I think, how can you have a problem?
Speaker 6: I not.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know he'd find one, but never has
Speaker 2: a problem. But you know, I just feel like this
Speaker 2: movie was so good. So I'm unfortunately, guys, he did
Speaker 2: find one and it's by Corbyn B We're gonna have
Speaker 2: to find out if that's Corbyn Blue or not.
Speaker 6: I will.
Speaker 2: Secret hat just kidding. All right, here we go. One star.
Speaker 2: The worst movie I ever watched. Makes me feel like
Speaker 2: scooping my eyes out with spoons and burning them in
Speaker 2: a fire.
Speaker 3: There's no gray area in that review. There's no like well,
Speaker 3: but I'm open to interpretation. I've got to watch it
Speaker 3: again kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Listen, I rather that be. If you're gonna have this
Speaker 2: negative review, stick with it. Don't don't start don't start.
Speaker 3: Wobbling on me and behind it like like a bad gait.
Speaker 2: I know we're probably not supposed to say our opinions,
Speaker 2: but Corbyn, you could not be more wrong. You hate.
Speaker 1: I am now going to read the five star review
Speaker 1: by somebody named Hasna, and it's my favorite five star
Speaker 1: review I've ever read in my life. I'm reading it verbatim.
Speaker 1: A memorable night. I had a fantastic evening at Xenon
Speaker 1: in Dubai with my friends. Amazing food and drinks. Thank
Speaker 1: you for the nice night. Yes, this person left a
Speaker 1: food review for a place called Xenon that is a
Speaker 1: restaurant in Dubai, and it is my favorite five.
Speaker 3: Star review I've ever read. It's perfect. We do not
Speaker 3: make these up people, Producer Jensen finds all these I
Speaker 3: want to read it again. A memorable night.
Speaker 1: I had a fantastic evening at Xenon and my friends,
Speaker 1: amazing food and drinks. Thank you for the nice night.
Speaker 1: I think that says it all about Xenon. Frankly sure,
Speaker 1: and I'm very happy with our reviews. We are now
Speaker 1: going to jump into a new game, which we'd like
Speaker 1: to do every once in a while.
Speaker 3: I love it, and a new game, this one we're
Speaker 3: calling quote end quote.
Speaker 1: We're going to get three quotes about the movie Xenon
Speaker 1: Girl of twenty first Century. One of them is real,
Speaker 1: an actual quote from one of the cast or crew,
Speaker 1: but the other two are completely made up.
Speaker 3: And we have to figure out which one is real.
Speaker 3: I have no idea which one's real and which isn't. Okay,
Speaker 3: I don't think you know which one's real or which
Speaker 3: which one is I do not.
Speaker 2: I do not.
Speaker 3: So here we go.
Speaker 1: Quote number one. I say, we read them all and
Speaker 1: then at the end we pick what it is. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: So here are real or fake? Number one quote. The
Speaker 1: shots and the recycling bins were brutal. We'd spend six
Speaker 1: to eight hours in there just trying to get the
Speaker 1: lighting right. Then someone figured out that the first AD's
Speaker 1: dog had been taking poops in there. It smelled like
Speaker 1: feces and rubber. End quote number two quote. A lot
Speaker 1: of people think our movie predicted FaceTime, which might be true.
Speaker 1: But I also think we influence the way people wear vests.
Speaker 1: Before the first movie, I hardly saw vests. Now all
Speaker 1: I see are vests. End quote number three quote. There
Speaker 1: was talk of actually doing a Xenon series and Xenon
Speaker 1: movies in theaters. Something happened that prevented it. It might
Speaker 1: have been nine to eleven end quote.
Speaker 2: The only one that I would hope would actually be
Speaker 2: true on this one is the first one.
Speaker 3: The other one. See the ones are terrible. Yeah, I hope.
Speaker 3: I hope the first one is true too.
Speaker 2: They don't hope that someone had to shoot in a
Speaker 2: place where someone's dog was booping a lot.
Speaker 3: But I have a fear that the third one is
Speaker 3: actually the real one. I don't know why.
Speaker 2: And I would have to roll my eyes if the
Speaker 2: second one is. Yes, predicting everyone wearing vest sounds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we could throw that one away. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's the best one. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: the best one.
Speaker 2: Okay, although there were a lot of vests.
Speaker 3: Oh it was great.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: It was a vest heavy thing.
Speaker 2: It was kind of part of their uniform ish.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to say three is the real one?
Speaker 3: Are you gonna go with one? I'm gonna go with one,
Speaker 3: all right, So Producer Jensen, which one's real?
Speaker 6: It's the third one? Stuart Plank and who you know,
Speaker 6: Commander Plank. He said it on a podcast in twenty twenty.
Speaker 6: He that there were a lot of plans for Zenon,
Speaker 6: but possibly nine to eleven ruined them.
Speaker 3: Oh, well, there we go. I got it right.
Speaker 6: I was hoping when they talk about the history of
Speaker 6: nine to eleven it's not talked about how much it affected.
Speaker 1: Dacon's No, no, not usually, usually there were bigger things
Speaker 1: on the menu than DCM. Just well, thank you producer
Speaker 1: Jensen for quote end quote. Let's get into Sabrina seas.
Speaker 2: Well, we've already gone through. The biggest thing, you know,
Speaker 2: I've seen in the very beginning is all of the iPad,
Speaker 2: the FaceTime, all of that stuff. I just I loved
Speaker 2: that about this movie. I thought that was so cool.
Speaker 2: I love that once again, Disney just seems to be
Speaker 2: able to predict the future. It just feels like that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: One of the things that I kind of hinted towards
Speaker 2: was the mom's stress cap that you Oh, man.
Speaker 3: I wish they could the stress cap in the chill room.
Speaker 3: I would invest in those. Right now.
Speaker 2: I was going, what the hell is she?
Speaker 1: What is that?
Speaker 2: What are they even trying to do? Then they they
Speaker 2: explain what it is, and I'm all of a sudden
Speaker 2: finding myself going, oh, I want maybe I need one
Speaker 2: of those. I want one of those, and now I
Speaker 2: want one done.
Speaker 3: You almost enter to the chill chamber and always think
Speaker 3: is like, oh my god, I want.
Speaker 2: To chill the chill chamber when when Rose and Ledger
Speaker 2: are both just having meltdowns at the same time, where
Speaker 2: is the chill chamber?
Speaker 3: Chill chamber totally?
Speaker 2: And then the another one was it was so funny.
Speaker 2: We talked a little bit about it with Greg and
Speaker 2: his horse that he works at a stable and it's never.
Speaker 3: Talked about his horse, Larry.
Speaker 2: But I also kept finding myself going, has Greg done
Speaker 2: this little date day date before? He seems really.
Speaker 3: Secret this day date.
Speaker 2: I'm like, are you group player?
Speaker 1: Greg? I do?
Speaker 3: So his friends are like, yo, Greg, you taking it
Speaker 3: to the barn.
Speaker 2: Again, wondering if Margie's been on this horse and and
Speaker 2: they've trumped Yeah, and Mark, you know, so I kind
Speaker 2: of can't. There was just he was just so suave
Speaker 2: in that whole day that I just started going, oh,
Speaker 2: maybe we don't might be a player. And then my
Speaker 2: last one, well, this actually is a little bit before
Speaker 2: this was this whole you know virus with the disc
Speaker 2: and he puts it in, takes it out, walks away
Speaker 2: and loses it so fast he was he was, yeah,
Speaker 2: two feet from the door and and just drops it
Speaker 2: and you heard it clink. We heard it clink. Why
Speaker 2: didn't you hear it what what happened? That's when I went, oh,
Speaker 2: and then it just seemed like he when he saw
Speaker 2: it in her ear, even though it was sort of
Speaker 2: disguised because Nebula has glammed and gemmed and rhinestone did upright?
Speaker 2: Would you think thought he would have just tried to
Speaker 2: I mean, I wouldn't want, you know, a grown up
Speaker 2: to wrestle a kid. But wouldn't you think he would
Speaker 2: have grabbed and said, let me I need right away?
Speaker 2: If it was a big deal, like I don't know,
Speaker 2: blowing up a whole space.
Speaker 1: Station, I think Disney probably wouldn't have been happy with that.
Speaker 1: But yes, no, I know, but I'm just saying it.
Speaker 2: It was just so easy.
Speaker 3: He was just kind of not the smart villain.
Speaker 2: He had the brightest suits in the in the rack,
Speaker 2: but wasn't the brightest cran in the box like that.
Speaker 3: That's that's so true.
Speaker 1: He Also I love the fact that the restricted area
Speaker 1: on the space station only took four digits to get into,
Speaker 1: like a like an ATM pin code.
Speaker 2: You have six on your iPhone for digits to get
Speaker 2: into a place. That could just get into.
Speaker 1: The most restricted area. The key, the key to get
Speaker 1: in was like thirteen fifty nine, that was it, and
Speaker 1: she had to write it down and then forgot it.
Speaker 2: Forget it anyway, Well we're we should be glad that
Speaker 2: it wasn't five five five.
Speaker 3: It's what it's password.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all right, that's all I got.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, now's that time to rate the movie. Yes,
Speaker 1: today we're going to do one out of ten?
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 1: Floating rat holograms, recycled trash clothes, seat us, lapitases, disc earrings.
Speaker 1: I have horse guys on the list, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make it player horse guys or mistaken dubai zen on restaurants.
Speaker 2: I think we got to do Cetus lapidis. Okay, I
Speaker 2: think I think Tara will just die if we die.
Speaker 3: I think that she needs us to do it. How
Speaker 3: many cetuses lapedises do you give this?
Speaker 2: One?
Speaker 3: Out of ten ceases lapetises? What do we got?
Speaker 1: One being the worst, ten being the best? How many
Speaker 1: cetuses lapitises do you give this?
Speaker 2: This is like I said, I've been waiting to rewatch
Speaker 2: this since we did, since we start arted doing this.
Speaker 2: I'm giving it a nine. Only nobody come at me,
Speaker 2: Everybody calm down. Only because I'm expecting there's two movies
Speaker 2: after this that the sequel, the zequel, and then three
Speaker 2: and then Z three is probably gonna be even that
Speaker 2: much better.
Speaker 1: So well, that one's actually shot in space. Disney went
Speaker 1: all out for that. It's actually the iss, so I'm.
Speaker 7: Going I lost three actors, nine cetases, loopedases.
Speaker 1: Nice you give you give more praise than I do.
Speaker 1: I thought it was very good, but nines and tens
Speaker 1: are tough for me. I'm gonna give it a solid eight,
Speaker 1: though I'm gonna give it eight cetuses lapedises because it
Speaker 1: deserved it is that it was good, the acting was good,
Speaker 1: the the premise is great. Obviously, it's a new kind
Speaker 1: of take on a romp. Watching this movie was so
Speaker 1: much better for me having spoken to Stu Krieger first.
Speaker 2: Yes, I loved that. I mean, I feel for us.
Speaker 2: It's harder to because we were talking and he started
Speaker 2: referencing things with Smarth House, which I've never watched. I've started,
Speaker 2: so it was tough. So I know we can't do
Speaker 2: that all the time, as the interview before we watch,
Speaker 2: but it was such great insight to be able to
Speaker 2: think about and it made me enjoy touching the movie
Speaker 2: so much more than I even remember loving it from
Speaker 2: the beginning.
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 1: So that's it, folks, Thank you so much for taking
Speaker 1: a very very very quick shuttle ride up to the
Speaker 1: space day with us for a major awesome film. Frankly
Speaker 1: that got a number of CTAs is lapedises from us
Speaker 1: because it was good. So thank you once again for
Speaker 1: joining us. Our next movie is actually the most current
Speaker 1: movie we're doing to date. It was only from last year.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be watching Prompact next.
Speaker 3: I know, I know nothing of this movie. I assume
Speaker 3: it has something to do with the problem I love.
Speaker 2: PROM so I am already trying to find my throwback
Speaker 2: pictures to pop up on my Instagram for the prom Oh.
Speaker 2: I'm so excited, and I'm excited to see because I've
Speaker 2: kind of transitioned out of scene d coms now, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't. I'm not on the know with what's happening
Speaker 2: on the channel all the time, so I'm excited to
Speaker 2: see where the channel's at with their dcoms. I cannot
Speaker 2: wait to watch this next one.
Speaker 3: I can't either.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting to go right from one from
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, which is the sixth one they did
Speaker 1: to one from last year just to see how much
Speaker 1: of a change it was.
Speaker 3: So that's it. Thanks everybody for joining us.
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