Magical Rewind: Upside-Down Magic

0:14Speaker 1:Hi, Sabrina.

0:15Speaker 2:Hey, Will.

0:16Speaker 1:We're starting early today.

0:18Speaker 2:We are.

0:19Speaker 3:We're starting early.

0:19Speaker 1:It's very early to Disney Channel. I'm pretty happy, though.

0:22Speaker 2:Early bird gets the Disney worm.

0:26Speaker 3:No, if I ever want to feel like somebody, because I feel like you're at your doctor's and I hate to tell you this, you've got the Disney worm. What? No. I thought I cooked that salmon. Yeah, you don't want the Disney worm. Anyway, that's a weird way to start, but again, it's early, so you've got to give us a break. Welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show that makes you want to grab your friends, your PJs, and your popcorn and go back to a time when all the houses were smart, the wave tsunamis, and the high school's musical.

0:55Speaker 1:I'm Will Friedle.

0:56Speaker 2:And I'm Sabrina Bryan.

0:58Speaker 3:Oh, Sabrina, this week we are breaking out the magical lawn for a movie I'm calling Harriet Potter. Yes, it's the 2020 fantasy DCOM upside down magic. Now, we may have touched on this slightly in the past, but are you a Harry Potter Wizarding World fan?

1:15Speaker 2:Well, you know that I am not.

1:17Speaker 3:However, I.

1:19Speaker 2:Recently went to Universal Studios. I felt like I was cheating on Disneyland a little bit. Can't lie.

1:26Speaker 1:It's all right. But it's okay.

1:28Speaker 3:You go get some strange, girl. Yes.

1:30Speaker 2:And I went into the Harry Potter land and the entire time I'm sitting there telling Jordan, we got to watch these movies. Like this land is so cool.

1:40Speaker 1:Has he never seen them either or read the books or anything?

1:43Speaker 4:No, no.

1:44Speaker 2:I think he said he read the first book. Never saw the movies. I have done neither. I think I actually saw the first movie. Like there's a train, but then I get confused because it's like the Christmas Disney movie.

2:01Speaker 3:What?

2:01Speaker 1:Polar Express?

2:02Speaker 2:Polar Express.

2:03Speaker 3:No.

2:04Speaker 2:Anyway, it started, the train situation kind of got me a little confused.

2:08Speaker 1:Oh, Sabrina.

2:10Speaker 2:Is there Santa in Harry Potter?

2:12Speaker 3:It is a wonder, as a fantasy fan, it's a wonderful world.

2:15Speaker 1:It's a beautifully built world.

2:17Speaker 2:No, it is very cool. And I honestly, that's a mission. I'm going to get it done before 2027. Like I am going to.

2:25Speaker 3:Read the books.

2:26Speaker 2:Yes.

2:26Speaker 3:Oh.

2:27Speaker 1:Read the books.

2:28Speaker 5:Okay.

2:28Speaker 1:Start with the books. Just start with the books.

2:29Speaker 2:Well, I think I'll do audio books.

2:31Speaker 3:That's fine.

2:31Speaker 1:But you got to do them.

2:33Speaker 2:I don't have time to read. It's got to be like while I'm walking around the house. So audio books work for me.

2:38Speaker 1:You got it. But you got to just check them out. It's a fun book.

2:41Speaker 3:And if you need to know anything about the world, you can just watch this movie because this movie is like a direct ripoff of Harry Potter.

2:46Speaker 1:Is it?

2:47Speaker 2:Okay.

2:47Speaker 3:Yes.

2:48Speaker 2:Absolutely.

2:48Speaker 3:Okay. Absolutely is.

2:51Speaker 1:Again, it's not bad, but it's an app.

2:53Speaker 3:There was a big... push during the you know when Harry Potter came out and then a little bit after that and then during the the aughts and then the you know the teens of the 2010s kind of thing where everybody was just looking for the next Harry Potter and so this is the trope friends going to a magical school breaking into different first you have to be sorted into your houses then breaking up into whatever and then fighting an evil in the school I mean it is a it's a direct rip off of Harry Potter but anyway okay upside down magic is an adaptation of a fantasy book series by Sarah Milonowski and Lauren Miracle, I think, but with a Y. So it's either Miracle or Miracle. And Emily Jenkins. I obviously, as you can see behind me, people think that these are DVDs.

3:32Speaker 1:They are not. These are all fantasy novels.

3:35Speaker 3:So I am a fantasy fan to the core. If it does not have a wizard in it or a dragon, I'm not interested in reading it. So, yeah, this is right up my wheelhouse. I was going to say right up my alley and right in my wheelhouse. And it came up right up my wheelhouse, which sounds weird. Right in my alley.

3:53Speaker 1:Also sounds weird.

3:54Speaker 3:Anyway, the film premiered on July 31st, 2020, but it took five years to make it to the screen as the books were first optioned by Disney back in 2015. The movie was shot in Canada, which we've talked about many times. Canada, yes, on Vancouver Island. And if you've never been to V.I., it is absolutely stunning. With Lake Shawnegan, I think is how it is. or Shawnigan Lake School is where the school was, doubling as the Sage Academy, and the actual students were the extras. And if you watch this movie and you look at this place, you don't ever want to go to school anywhere else but here.

4:26Speaker 2:It was stunning. Incredible.

4:29Speaker 1:Yeah, amazing. Truly amazing.

4:32Speaker 3:1.3 million viewers turned in for the movie premiere, which is respectable for a 2020 number. Also, this is actually the last Disney Channel original movie to draw in at least a million viewers as the next one, Spin, which we both really liked, only drew in.

4:45Speaker 1:535,000, so a huge drop.

4:48Speaker 3:The movie was then released on something called a digital video disc, known as a DVD, in November of the same year, making it also the last DCOM to get the physical media treatment because the big Disney Plus launch where you can watch Podbeats World, so go check that out, was right around the corner. They also launched a related mobile game, or mobile if you're British, on the Disney Now app called Magic My Way, an unofficial spinoff of the film, following a plot line in which Chandra seeks to terrorize Nori and her friends once more. Also, the movie was award-winning. It took home the Leo Award, which is a distinction given to distinguished films made in the British Columbia TV industry. It won Best Picture Editing Youth or Children's Program or Series in 2021. So it won an award, albeit a very specific one. And guys, it is no magic trick. You can watch it right now on Disney Plus or watch it later.

5:43Speaker 1:That's on you. What is not on you?

5:45Speaker 2:Mustard.

5:46Speaker 1:You've been extremely clean while eating hot dogs, and that's impressive. Proud of you. Keep it up.

5:50Speaker 3:Sabrina, did you know anything about Upside Down Magic before we were forced to watch it as our job? No.

5:55Speaker 2:This is now in that era of completely out of the channel, not watching really anything, not knowing any TV shows, not really knowing many of the stars that were on it. I feel a little embarrassed at this point now that this is the job that we have.

6:14Speaker 6:Right.

6:14Speaker 3:This is what we do.

6:15Speaker 2:And because I was so part of the channel for so many years, this is the part that I get like, like, I just feel bad because I was off the radar in such a very pregnant mom way.

6:32Speaker 3:Here's the joy of something like the Disney Channel. And it's different for us, obviously, because we've been involved with Disney and the channel for a long time. But as a as a normal person with the Disney Channel, you go through cycles. When you're a kid, you're going to watch the Disney Channel. And then maybe you stop watching the Disney Channel when you're a teenager, a little bit older. But then maybe you have a younger brother or sister. So you pick up what's on the channel. And then you go to college and you forget about it. And then maybe you get married and have kids.

6:57Speaker 2:Or your roommate kind of gets you pulled back in after high school or college.

7:02Speaker 1:Right, exactly.

7:03Speaker 3:And then you have children. And then you watch again with your kids. So it's like you keep coming back to it. So this was just, you know, obviously in a place where... And I never had children. So I came back to it because... I called people at iHeart and said, hey, I want Sabrina and I to rewatch Disney Channel original movies.

7:17Speaker 1:They went, great idea. And now I'm back in the Disney Channel.

7:20Speaker 2:Perfect.

7:21Speaker 3:And this one has a soundtrack as well, a mix of traditional movie and an instrumental score. Plus, it did have a promotional single used to promote the film, sung by its stars, called A Place for Us.

7:33Speaker 1:Okay.

7:33Speaker 3:Turn into a kitten with wings and a bird body and a koala tail. Because it's time for the synopsis. Best friends Nori and Reina enroll at the prestigious... Okay, so I'm going to have to say prestigious sage academy a bunch of times today, people.

7:48Speaker 1:Bear with me.

7:49Speaker 3:Enroll at the prestigious sage academy for magical students, but Nori's unusual powers land her in a class for kids whose magic doesn't quite work. When a dangerous force threatens the school, Nori and her fellow upside-down students must prove that being different is their greatest strength. And Sabrina, this is the time where we either love it or don't. What were your early thoughts on upside-down magic?

8:11Speaker 2:Maybe, I don't know. It sounds like you kind of were able to pick it apart because it had so much Harry Potter. This was not necessarily in my realm, which was weird because I do like magic. But this just didn't, it kind of, it didn't grab me. This movie, there was never one point that grabbed me and like pulled me in. I kind of just sat there and watched it because we're reviewing it.

8:39Speaker 3:Right.

8:41Speaker 1:I love magic.

8:43Speaker 2:And I hate saying that. You know I hate saying that about any of the movies that we watch.

8:47Speaker 1:I know. I love magic. This is like my realm. And I agree with you.

8:52Speaker 2:Really?

8:52Speaker 3:It felt very, let's reread Harry Potter and do a different version of it. I mean, again, down to some of the very specific things. I never really bought the evil that was attacking the school. So if there's no real bad, I was just kind of like, oh.

9:08Speaker 1:Okay, now it's evil. The ending I thought was very weird. Here's what I will say.

9:12Speaker 3:The tongue in cheek parts of the of the movie, the movie, the parts of the movie that didn't take really itself all too seriously when it came to especially a couple of the actors I thought gave great performances. And some of them I thought were laugh out loud funny. So there were parts of this that it almost seemed to me like it didn't quite.

9:32Speaker 1:Know what it was.

9:34Speaker 3:Is this a funny kind of magical school, which again, I'm all for, or is this, we've got serious dangers, Harry Potter, we've got a fight kind of school, which I'm all for when it kind of muddles the water and you don't know where it is.

9:48Speaker 2:It was like, it was like almost like zombies ish kind of, but not again. I honestly felt like this had a script that could have gone the com route really easily. And I feel like I missed that. I kept thinking back at the movie, the Disney hangover that we watched.

10:10Speaker 3:Oh, Slumber Party. Great movie. Slumber Party.

10:12Speaker 2:Had it had those elements, I would have loved it as much as I loved that movie, right? I agree. It was missing something. It didn't go fully one way or the other for me. It wasn't dramatic and super scary, but it also wasn't funny. There was a couple of... Like I said, I kept thinking, too, this set is beautiful. The movie is gorgeous. This cast is adorable. They're great actors, but... What is it missing? Like it just like storyline just never pulled me in.

10:42Speaker 1:I agree.

10:43Speaker 3:It made me think of Mr. Miyagi and Daniel Sun. Mr. Miyagi had a very famous line where he says, Daniel Sun, karate, yes, okay. Karate, no, okay. Karate, guess so. Squash, just like grape. And that's what I felt like. Magic comedy movie, yes. Magic thriller movie, yes. Magic muddled kind of comedy sometimes.

11:04Speaker 1:Just like grape.

11:05Speaker 3:Yeah.

11:06Speaker 2:So realistically, like only you could have put that into a.

11:10Speaker 3:Well, of course, I will always go back to Karate Kid. Karate Kid is life because we're the best around Sabrina and nothing's going to ever bring us down. It is directed by John Nussbaum, who is best known for his very early internet viral hit, which if you haven't seen it and can't find it, I used to watch on a loop because it is genius, called George Lucas in Love. It was sent around everywhere back in the day. You just get a VHS. I think I still have mine.

11:36Speaker 3:It is a parody of Shakespeare in Love, but starring George Lucas creating Star Wars.

11:40Speaker 1:So funny. It is George Lucas is.

11:42Speaker 3:A college student and his everyday life walking around inspires Star Wars because like, The guy downstairs looks just like Han Solo, and he's fixing his car, which is the Millennium Falcon. It's just genius. He falls in love with a girl who's got the two things on the side of her head. It is so freaking funny. So, yes, since then, he's been behind some of your favorite kid shows as executive producer, Just Add Magic, Gabby Duren, and The Unsittables, and Ultraviolet and Black Scorpion. He also directed the straight-to-video American Pie, The Naked Mile, and the Amanda Bynes movie, Sydney White. The movie stars Isabella Rose as Nori.

12:17Speaker 3:This was Rose's first real job in Hollywood, and she was great. And she would go on to appear in the TV series Secrets of Sulphur Springs. The idea that this is her first makes it even more amazing. Because, again, script, none of that's her fault. And she killed it with what they gave her. Again, I apologize if I get this name wrong. Sienna Agudong is Raina. Sienna played Natalie on Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn and appeared on shows like Sydney to the Max, No Good Nick, she played Nick, and Raven's Home. She's also in F9, the Fast Saga, which I think is about cars going fast, but now for some reason they're in space or something. I don't know.

12:52Speaker 3:I gave up after the first one. Kyle Howard plays Bud, and he was great in this movie. He's got a ton of credits dating back to Home Improvement and the movie Orange County. He was also in a great episode of Friends. He's just very funny in this movie. And then Eli Samohi plays Elliot. You may know him from the Netflix show Team Kaylee or Bizardvark. And you have now take a shot for every word that was mispronounced. You're already drunk and we just started the show. Vicki Lewis is Miss Nightslinger. Lewis is a veteran actress and the voice of Flo in the Finding Nemo movies. You've seen her on Seinfeld in the movie Godzilla. She's the voice of Miss Weamer on Rugrats. And from my favorite show ever, she was one of the stars of News Radio, which is the most under-heralded sitcoms of the 90s.

13:36Speaker 1:It is phenomenal. Go back and watch it. Rest in peace, Phil Hartman.

13:40Speaker 3:And yes, this movie deals with magic, but did they cast a spell on its runtime?

13:45Speaker 1:Oh, see what I did there?

13:47Speaker 3:Magical Rewind is at the forefront of the 90-minute movement, as we believe all films can be their best and truest selves at exactly an hour and a half. Anything else should be ignored, except for The Odyssey, which was 14 hours long.

14:01Speaker 1:I watched this week, and God, I could see it again.

14:03Speaker 3:So, oh, yeah. But anyway, where did we land with Upside Down Magic? Where did we land with the runtime, people? Can we turn it right side up?

14:11Speaker 1:Well, let's see. This movie runs 96 minutes.

14:15Speaker 3:Six too long.

14:17Speaker 5:Gross.

14:18Speaker 1:Way too. It's wrong. They could have stuck to the rules and made it 90. Yeah, they could have.

14:24Speaker 3:Absolutely. Not a great start, but we're going to persevere because that's what we do. Sabrina, you and I are in for the long haul. And in this case, the six minute over long haul. Writing credit on this one starts with the book authors for which the movie is adapted. But the screenplay was written by Nick Pustay and Josh Kagan. Nick wrote the movie Ramona and Beezus, starring Joey King and Selena Gomez.

14:43Speaker 1:Kagan is a Disney.

14:44Speaker 3:Favorite and a Will Friedle favorite. And that's because he wrote Band Slam back in 2009, which is the movie I thought was better than Lemonade Mouth.

14:52Speaker 1:I may be rethinking that. I got to watch Lemonade Mouth again.

14:54Speaker 3:But anyway. A movie superior to Camp Rock, in my opinion. And since then, he became a DCOM king with Spin, Under Wraps 2, Zombies 4, and the live-action Kim Possible movie. I loved all those movies, and don't blame him for the live-action Kim Possible. And now, Harness Your Shadow, it's time to recap Upside Down Magic. Yeah. Yeah. A young Nori is looking out her window and notices a cute cat near a tree. The feline sniffs its nose at her, and Nori does it back, then suddenly starts growing whiskers.

15:57Speaker 3:The cat hisses, and Nori hisses back, and now the whiskers grow even longer. Nori's dad walks in to see her fully transformed into a cat with wings. Her something, turns out, is magic. It is now six years later, and Nori is recording a vlog. That's a video blog for all you kids out there. It's on their telephonic device. Tomorrow she's heading off to Sage Academy, where super awesome magic kids like herself learn how to be even more magicker.

16:24Speaker 1:Imagine Hogwarts, except it's Hogwarts.

16:27Speaker 3:And good news, her BFF Reina, who's right next to her, is going too. Nori encourages her to perform a trick for the camera, maybe her favorite, favorite trick, which is a sparkle fireball. Reina's not very confident, so Nori gives her a pep talk. Reina focuses and creates a fireball in her hands. It slowly floats, then explodes in a beautiful exhibition of color. Reina says it's Nori's turn now. Nori focuses really hard and shifts into a human-sized kitten with a kangaroo body and a beaver tail.

16:53Speaker 1:What'd you think of the effects? They weren't awful.

16:56Speaker 2:No, I didn't think so.

16:57Speaker 1:I thought, frankly, for a DCOM, especially the fire stuff was pretty darn good.

17:01Speaker 2:I thought so, too. Like, throughout it. I mean, I feel like we have definitely seen worse.

17:07Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

17:08Speaker 2:Oh, yeah.

17:09Speaker 3:Speaking of which, Adam Wiley and I were talking about can of worms yesterday.

17:12Speaker 2:So, yeah, exactly. Oh, gosh, yeah. So it wasn't, I don't think it was one of the best that we've seen, but I think it was kind of close up there.

17:20Speaker 3:Yeah.

17:20Speaker 2:I don't feel like. I thought the.

17:21Speaker 1:Effects were great.

17:22Speaker 3:Yep. Yeah.

17:23Speaker 1:I agree.

17:24Speaker 3:The hybrid creature snacks on a pencil, then shifts back to Nori. She wishes she had a little more control over the wacko abomination she turns into. But Reina assures her Sage Academy will teach her how to be the best abomination she can be. And now they're off to Sage. A group of magical kids and their families waited a bus stop with a sign that says Platform 9 3 quarters.

17:42Speaker 1:I'm kidding. That's for your Harry Potter fans out there.

17:44Speaker 3:It says Sage. That's where the Hogwarts Express takes off from, Sabrina.

17:49Speaker 2:Platform 9 and 3 quarters. I'm going to be lost with all your little doot-de-doos today. They're just going to doot-de-doo right.

17:54Speaker 1:Over my head.

17:54Speaker 3:The idea that you do not know what platform 9 and 3 quarters is that you do not know that you have to take a running start and hit the gap between the two so you can go through the fake wall just to get to the platform.

18:03Speaker 1:So you can get to Hogwarts.

18:04Speaker 3:It's amazing to me. I'm not even going to get into the fact the whole time when Dobby shut the gate down because he didn't want Harry Potter must not return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

18:17Speaker 1:Oh, it hurts my soul, Sabrina.

18:22Speaker 2:I will say the butterbeer is phenomenal. I love butterbeer.

18:28Speaker 3:That your entire knowledge of Harry Potter comes down to concession stands at Universal Studios.

18:35Speaker 2:Hell yes.

18:35Speaker 3:They were so good.

18:37Speaker 2:Oh, my gosh. There was lots of great treats. I wish I could remember what the names were. But I was like, the Butterbeer was so good. Like, honestly, you can't have a whole cup. You have to kind of split it because it's rich. It is.

18:49Speaker 3:It's very rich. You know what's even better than the Butterbeer is the Harry Potter series. Yes.

18:56Speaker 2:How about I'll listen to it on audiobooks while enjoying a nice pint of butterbeer?

19:02Speaker 3:That's fine. Have it any way you want.

19:04Speaker 1:Every time I revisit Harry Potter.

19:06Speaker 3:I'm dressed like a Gryffindor, so don't even worry about it. Nori, nervous she doesn't see a bus yet, asks her dad if they're at the right spot.

19:15Speaker 1:He says her mom was just as nervous when she first left for SAGE.

19:18Speaker 3:Nori realizes she has nothing to worry about, and while hugging her dad, the nearby tree starts to crack and rustle. Everyone turns around to see what scary thing it could be, but it's just a regular, very talky dude named Bud Scriff.

19:30Speaker 1:He yells that they all need to go now. The school isn't going to walk to them. Very funny.

19:34Speaker 3:He sends off the parents, and the kids follow him. He reveals the one rule of their nature hike is no magic. He also suggests they keep their voices down because there are vicious creatures and monsterlings everywhere. The kids gasp and Bud admits, nah, he was just joking. Unless they think skunks are vicious.

19:49Speaker 1:It's worth noting.

19:50Speaker 3:This is exactly what Rider Strong's childhood home looks like.

19:53Speaker 1:That's not even a joke. This is where he grew up, his backyard.

19:57Speaker 3:He's in Northern California, but the giant trees and the walking through the woods, this was Rider's childhood.

20:03Speaker 1:Probably minus the magic. Different kind of magic.

20:05Speaker 3:They return to walking and Nori notices an emo Joe walking right next to them.

20:10Speaker 2:All alone.

20:11Speaker 3:Sabrina, have you ever heard the term emo Joe before? Because I haven't, nor have I said it until I just read it right there.

20:15Speaker 1:What is an emo Joe?

20:15Speaker 2:No, but I figured the way he was dressed.

20:18Speaker 1:Yeah.

20:19Speaker 2:Yeah. I mean, I've heard of emo kids, but not emo Joe.

20:24Speaker 3:So would the opposite equivalent be an emo Jane?

20:27Speaker 1:I don't know. It's very strange.

20:31Speaker 3:Raina encourages her to talk to him, so she tries to introduce herself, but ends up having a one-way conversation before he just walks away. Raina tells her, solid effort, and they just keep walking. They eventually approach a quaint arch made out of tree branches or a creepy nightmare hole. And Bud warns them, follow if they dare. Bud walks under the arch and magically disappears. The kids are stunned and Reina is terrified. With the help of Nori, they decide to hold hands and walk through the portal together.

20:56Speaker 3:And with that, they're magically transported to the school where the kids are flying, shapeshifting into animals, watching fireworks, and playing Quidditch.

21:03Speaker 1:Quidditch. I was seeing if you were even paying attention, which you weren't.

21:07Speaker 3:Is that Quidditch?

21:08Speaker 1:Quidditch is from Harry Potter. I know what Quidditch is.

21:10Speaker 3:Do you?

21:11Speaker 2:I've heard that. That's on those broom things.

21:13Speaker 3:Okay.

21:14Speaker 2:That's what you sit on when you're in the ride. You sit on one of those.

21:19Speaker 1:You sit on what?

21:20Speaker 2:On one of those broom things.

21:21Speaker 3:Okay.

21:21Speaker 2:Isn't it the Quidditch?

21:22Speaker 1:Well, you're playing Quidditch.

21:23Speaker 2:The game is Quidditch. What is the broom thing called? The Quidditch stand?

21:26Speaker 3:Oh.

21:26Speaker 1:It's called the broom stick.

21:29Speaker 2:They didn't make up a fun name for the broom?

21:31Speaker 3:Well, the brooms all have different, like, for instance, Harry has a Firebolt. He has a Nimbus 2000.

21:34Speaker 1:They're car brands.

21:37Speaker 2:Okay.

21:37Speaker 3:There you go. Yeah.

21:38Speaker 2:But they're brooms?

21:39Speaker 1:I'm not doing this with you anymore.

21:40Speaker 5:Okay.

21:40Speaker 3:You've got to earn this knowledge, Sabrina. I can't just keep giving it to you.

21:44Speaker 2:Well, I can't read the audio book while we're doing the podcast, Will. Give me a day or two.

21:49Speaker 1:You should be.

21:50Speaker 3:By the time we do this, I want all six books, all seven books, and all seven movies done.

21:54Speaker 1:It's actually eight movies. I want them done by next week.

21:57Speaker 2:Okay.

21:58Speaker 3:They pull out their phones to record, but Bud stops them. Service doesn't work here. Some students who can shoot fire out of their hands write, welcome new students in the air, and Raina is even more intimidated. Nori reassures her they are not better at this than she is. The two girls make their way inside the school and are greeted by Miss Nightslinger, the headmaster of Sage Academy, who is certainly not Dumbledore. She welcomes them to orientation, noting they all are here because they display some type of magical talent and they need guidance to use it in the right way. The Sage way. Sage has five distinct schools with five logos based on five types of talent. And again, this is just straight up Harry Potter. Obviously, it's not talent, but Divergent does the same thing. It's sorting you into your house. Number one are fuzzies who can communicate with the animal kingdom, flickers who can make an object come to them with the flick of a hand, flares who can harness the power of fire, flyers who fly but apparently only eight to ten inches off the ground, which is weird, and fluxers who have the power to transform

22:52Speaker 3:into any animal at will.

22:55Speaker 2:I was just thinking.

22:57Speaker 1:What?

22:57Speaker 2:So it's the character from Moana.

23:00Speaker 3:I've never seen it.

23:01Speaker 2:Maui. Maui can turn into like any animal.

23:04Speaker 1:Okay, there you go. Tell you what, I'll watch Moana. You watch all the Harry Potter movies. Okay.

23:09Speaker 3:It sounds like it's evil. By the way, yeah, we'll get into the flyer thing.

23:14Speaker 2:Is it true, though, to say it would take you watching Moana 1, 2, and the live action for me to, that amount of time for me to get through one Harry Potter movie?

23:25Speaker 3:That's fine, but also I decided not to have children. I'll be done tonight by 8.30. I'll have the entire Moana under my belt and be able to quote them.

23:33Speaker 1:Back to you while singing the songs. Very true.

23:36Speaker 2:Yes.

23:38Speaker 3:Now, Nori makes it known to everyone that she is a fluxer and starts dancing, interrupting the Miss Keitlinger speech. I would have told her to go flux herself if she was ruining my orientation, but that's just, that's me. All new students are now taking individual placement tests to see if they qualify for the honors level classes. The first student, Phillip, is being evaluated for flair aptitude and asked to light a candle from six feet away. He brags that it's easy and lights the candle, as do a handful of other students in a montage.

24:05Speaker 1:Love a montage.

24:07Speaker 3:Next up is the nervous Elliot Cohn, and he can't light it. He only releases little clouds of smoke. He's the first lost cause of the day. Next up is Raina, who takes some deep breaths and then successfully lights the candle with her pinky. With that, the next placement test begins, the Fuzzies. This test involves asking a dog a series of questions and getting the right answers. The first contestant, Leo, asks the dog what his name is, and the dog barks.

24:30Speaker 3:Leo says, Banjo. Then we get a bunch more correct answers from students being placed. The next placement test is to evaluate the flickers. They try to make a vase come to them from six feet away. A group of students successfully pass the.

24:42Speaker 1:Test, but Pepper Paloma is next.

24:45Speaker 3:The vase flies across the room, straight at the professors, then crashes into the wall and shatters. Then she scatters all the papers off their desk. Now it's time to evaluate the flyers. They need to fly three feet off the ground for 30 seconds, then land safely. And it seems like they don't get much higher than five or six feet the whole time they're flying in the entire thing. So it's like, They're really floaters more than flyers? It's like, hey, we've got this amazing power to go under bridges. We see a bunch of students pass, but Andres is next.

25:13Speaker 3:He seems to have a ton of rocks in his backpack, and once he takes it off, he immediately flies up to the ceiling.

25:18Speaker 1:The headmaster tries to call him back down to three feet, but he can't.

25:21Speaker 3:Bud's scruff arrives with a long ladder to finally get him down. Next up, the fluxers must transform into a gray tabby kitten, hold the form for six seconds, and then flux back into their human form. Again, many students pass, but And Nori's up. She transforms into a kitten, but after two seconds, she develops wings and grows giant. When she transforms back into human form, they call it very unique and hand her a card. We're now outside in the quad. The headmaster tells all the students to look at their cards and find out where they've been placed.

25:49Speaker 3:The students take a glance and the blank piece of paper magically reveals the sorting hats decision.

25:54Speaker 1:I'm sorry. I mean, their talent group.

25:57Speaker 3:Another Harry Potter thing.

25:58Speaker 1:It's like I'm throwing it against a brick wall.

25:59Speaker 2:Their talent group?

26:01Speaker 6:Yeah.

26:02Speaker 3:So it's like you're going to the Flickers and you're in the honors tent, but the sorting hat puts them in the different houses in Harry Potter.

26:10Speaker 1:A lot of magic in this one.

26:12Speaker 2:Hufflepuff!

26:13Speaker 1:Yeah, that's... There you go.

26:15Speaker 5:Sorry.

26:16Speaker 1:That's, by the way, not my best sorting hat voice, but it's pretty good.

26:19Speaker 3:The students take a glance at the paper, magically reveals the sort... Reina gets honors flair, and Nori gets something called UDM, something they've never seen before. But before they can find out, the headmaster instructs the students to head to the dining hall for uniforms. The headmaster stops Nori and points over to a dirt path marked for the UDM. It looks like it's written in, like, pig's poop. Like, UDM's this way. Reina is concerned, but Nori swears she's fine and nervously starts to walk into the woods. She eventually stops at a wooden double door entrance in the ground with a sign that says UDM. She cautiously says, hello, anyone?

26:54Speaker 3:And Bud Scriff appears from below. She reintroduces herself, and he tells her to join him downstairs.

26:59Speaker 2:Okay, so at this point, I know you're trying to figure out what UDM stands for. What did you think it stood for?

27:07Speaker 1:Ugly dumb mothers.

27:08Speaker 2:I kept thinking it started... At first, I started with, you didn't make it. Like, how quickly are we going to make the cut?

27:17Speaker 1:I can't be right, but okay.

27:19Speaker 3:And then it was like.

27:21Speaker 2:So then when we got to the stairs, I was like, oh, it was like under the mat. Like, what is this?

27:27Speaker 3:Wait, were you really wondering that?

27:29Speaker 2:Yes. What was this UDM?

27:30Speaker 3:And it never occurred to you it was the title of the film, Upside Down Magic?

27:35Speaker 1:No, that's why I was laughing.

27:41Speaker 3:I was kidding.

27:42Speaker 1:I knew it was Upside Down Magic. It's the title of the film.

27:45Speaker 2:This whole time, that's why I was laughing as soon as I saw UDM. I'm instantly like, all right, what does UDM stand for?

27:55Speaker 1:What could this possibly mean? You didn't make it.

27:57Speaker 2:Oh, that's kind of harsh. Under the mat?

28:03Speaker 3:It stands for Upside Down Magic.

28:11Speaker 1:Well, God, they have a sign saying HSM. What could that possibly mean?

28:14Speaker 2:Oh, is it High School Musical?

28:15Speaker 3:Don't even get me.

28:16Speaker 2:Started how long that took me.

28:17Speaker 3:Wow.

28:17Speaker 2:Okay.

28:18Speaker 3:Maybe don't read Harry Potter. I remember when.

28:22Speaker 2:People started calling it HSM. I'm like, what the– what is HSM? And they're like, Sabrina. I remember it was Keely. Sabrina, it's High School Musical, okay? High School Musical.

28:32Speaker 3:And I was like, oh, my God.

28:35Speaker 1:Obviously.

28:36Speaker 3:Oh, UDM. I'm okay. Well, we got– I'd like people to DM Sabrina with what they thought UDM stood for as they were watching the film.

28:47Speaker 1:Wow.

28:47Speaker 3:Well, we're now inside the UDM or you didn't make it school. Which, for the record, would be YDMI. I know.

28:59Speaker 2:I was like, oh, there's no I, so I guess that's not right.

29:03Speaker 3:How about the U would also be a Y?

29:04Speaker 2:Yeah, but it was like Disney version.

29:10Speaker 1:Did you hear my second option?

29:12Speaker 3:Like under the mat. Ooh, okay. Thank you everybody for joining us in this episode of Magical Rewind. We're just going to stop. Nice.

29:24Speaker 2:All right.

29:25Speaker 3:Inside under the mat. She walks down the dark and gloomy spiral staircase to where three other students are sitting at desks. It's Elliot, Andres, and Pepper, the other students who couldn't successfully pass their placement test. Nori wonders where their cool school uniforms are, and Budskin who is officially in charge of UDN, says they get to wear their.

29:42Speaker 1:Own cool jacket or hoodie, but no special color or anything.

29:45Speaker 3:Nori thinks there's been a mistake, and Elliot assumes she has also tanked her placement test.

29:49Speaker 1:Nori says no, she.

29:50Speaker 3:Actually blew their minds with magic, but Bud assures her she tanked it. She's wonky and weird, and her magic is defective. just like everyone else in the school of upside down magic or UDM.

30:02Speaker 2:That's what I was like. Oh my God.

30:07Speaker 1:Oh, that, that makes sense.

30:09Speaker 3:That, that adds up. Okay. Okay.

30:12Speaker 2:Copy that. That math is mathing.

30:13Speaker 3:That makes sense.

30:15Speaker 2:Got it.

30:16Speaker 1:Copy that.

30:18Speaker 3:He reveals with a little bit of luck, they can get that fixed and Nori's optimistic. Really? Really? Bud, who is the campus groundskeeper and also a teacher, says, possibly, but I wouldn't count on it. And they won't practice magic because their magic is wrong. They'll study school stuff like math and have assignments. Nori doesn't get it, but that's why they're here, to learn how to do it right. That's when Mrs.

30:38Speaker 1:Nightslinger magically pops in to break to the class. They are unteachable.

30:42Speaker 3:UDM is not real magic, so now they'll just have to sit here and wait for it to disappear. because their magic is like a muscle.

30:49Speaker 1:If you don't use it, it will wither away.

30:51Speaker 3:Then they'll be sent back into the world to pursue a life as an accountant or a dog groomer or whatever else normal people do with their lives.

30:57Speaker 1:Nori is confused.

30:58Speaker 3:Why would she let her magic go to waste? The headmaster explains, to protect humanity. Sage used to treat UDMs like any other student until 1939, and a student named Reginald Roberts, he was a flair, but could only express a flame through his basement furnace, which is code for his butt. And this is where I was like, oh, really? This is the part of the evil lore is farting. So, yes, he could only fart flames. Yes, it was funny, but his upside down magic made him the perfect host for the dark arts.

31:28Speaker 1:Sorry, that's Harry Potter.

31:29Speaker 3:I mean, shadow magic, the dark side of magic full of chaos and anarchy.

31:34Speaker 1:And that's what I'm like.

31:34Speaker 4:All right.

31:34Speaker 3:They just opened Harry Potter and instead just changed words and stuff. Reginald turned into a beast and they were barely able to overcome his wrath. UDMs are the sole target of shadow magic. And then, after dropping that bombshell, Miss Nightslinger leaves, but first reminds him they will stay in this class and wait for their magic to die. Now, alone with the class, Bud begins his inaugural lecture, How to Deal with Having All of Your Dreams Crushed by Smooshing Your Feelings into a Ball Deep Inside Your Stomach, which made me laugh out loud. He was very funny in this movie, and I thought really kind of got the assignment of what he was doing.

32:09Speaker 1:He was really great in this.

32:11Speaker 2:I got the feeling he was doing a lot of improv. Did you?

32:14Speaker 3:I do too.

32:14Speaker 1:Yeah, I do too.

32:15Speaker 2:Like this whole deep inside your stomach thing felt like a funny improv type moment.

32:20Speaker 3:I agree. This is the first. So this is going to be a strange thing because he was so good in this movie and nobody else I would want to have seen played this part. This is the first part in a DCOM I've seen in a long time where I went, I could have done that.

32:32Speaker 1:Yeah.

32:32Speaker 3:Yeah. This was the first role where I was like, OK, like even like the dads and stuff like that.

32:36Speaker 1:I'm like, no, they cast the right people.

32:38Speaker 3:A role like this. Again, he was great. He was my favorite part of the movie. But I was like, I could have done this role.

32:43Speaker 2:Yeah, I really liked his character.

32:44Speaker 3:Me too. And I love the way he played it. He was very, very good in this movie. Very good in this movie. He was actually, to me, the standout of this film was the guy who played Bud. And that's saying something because I thought especially the two girls, the two leads were great.

32:58Speaker 2:Yes, there were some moments that were just like, wow.

33:02Speaker 3:And the idea that this was her first movie ever, like her first real thing in Hollywood, that's staggering because she carried, she did a great job in this movie all the way around. So yes, while I didn't necessarily love the film, once again, Disney kills it with casting.

33:18Speaker 1:They know how to cast.

33:19Speaker 2:And it also shows how many amazing talent, like how much amazing talent there is out there that like they find them and Oh, these kids are getting better and better. They are.

33:30Speaker 1:I agree.

33:32Speaker 3:Nori isn't listening and said she's writing down her first step. Do everything I can to get my magic right side up and become a real fluxer. Meanwhile, an honors flair class, which is above ground, Raina in proper uniform is listening to her professor explain this is an honors class. If they do not live up to that honor, they will be demoted immediately. And in a few weeks, Sage will hold their annual Founder's Day celebration, which will include a student presentation. The top two first-year students from each school will compete in a head-to-head battle. The winner from each school gets to perform for the student body and alumni.

34:04Speaker 3:Then she jumps into a lecture about flaring by calling down Raina. Even the most basic flare can light a candle, but popcorn requires just the right touch, and she wants to see if Raina can do it.

34:14Speaker 1:And ironically, I was eating popcorn.

34:16Speaker 3:While I was watching this. Raina looks around and.

34:19Speaker 2:I went, shit, I wanted popcorn all night.

34:21Speaker 3:I did.

34:22Speaker 1:It's so funny.

34:22Speaker 3:When I watch a lot of these, Susan is into British crime dramas.

34:26Speaker 1:It's like her favorite thing. So we're together all day.

34:28Speaker 3:And then at night, sometimes I watch these or something I have to for work.

34:32Speaker 1:And she's like, love you, babe. Be in the other room. And she's watching her British crime dramas. And one of us will text like, we're doing popcorn tonight? And then you'll hear popping in the next room.

34:42Speaker 3:And then we each get a little bowl. And it's like, thank you.

34:44Speaker 1:And we're good to go.

34:44Speaker 3:So last night was definitely a popcorn night, people.

34:47Speaker 1:That is not a euphemism. It was just a popcorn night.

34:52Speaker 3:Yes, so Raina looks around, starts a flame. She then declares, I am a flame-throwing rock star and starts popping the popcorn. But Raina gets distracted by Philip, who's a dick. He's snickering and burns the popcorn.

35:03Speaker 1:Raina apologizes. First day jitters. She sits back down.

35:06Speaker 3:That's when we see another student, a girl looking in through the window and smirking at what she saw. And I was like, oh, obviously she's bad. She's going to be the villain and she's going to have something to do with the guy they first mentioned in the beginning from 1939.

35:18Speaker 1:I knew it instantly. Want to know why? I read Harry Potter.

35:23Speaker 3:It's true.

35:24Speaker 1:It's all like the same stuff. But the difference, though, one of the cool things in.

35:27Speaker 3:Harry Potter is the evil guy traps himself in a book, which they didn't do in the.

35:32Speaker 6:Oh.

35:33Speaker 2:Oh, I was like, wait, no, there was a book.

35:35Speaker 1:Yeah, there was.

35:36Speaker 2:Ah, jeez.

35:37Speaker 1:Yeah.

35:37Speaker 2:My goodness.

35:38Speaker 1:Oh, it's Harry Potter. I mean, let's just be honest.

35:42Speaker 3:Even the writers, when they were writing it, were like, we're just doing Harry Potter for a next generation and in a different way.

35:46Speaker 1:But they knew. I mean, it wasn't like, what?

35:48Speaker 3:There was another thing? They knew what they were doing. Back at UDM, Nori is laying in a bed in a small gloomy cottage. She's looking at a picture of her and Reina and missing her friend. And back at Sage Academy, Reina is in a bright, big, beautiful dorm room looking at the same picture.

36:02Speaker 1:Also sad.

36:04Speaker 3:The next morning, Pepper... I'm glad I honored the comma there because if I said Pepper Elliot, it sounds like an awesome Disney name, doesn't it?

36:13Speaker 1:But it's not.

36:14Speaker 3:Pepper, Elliot, Nori, and Andres are following Butter around the campus... Pepper wonders if they actually have class today. He asks, you kids would rather sit in a classroom instead of getting out for a big surprise? And with that, he opens his shed and reveals five shiny broomsticks. Surprise! A very excited Nori grabs a broomstick to fly, but instead she runs and in slow motion flops to the ground in the funniest part of the film by far. Laugh out loud funny moment. Bud explains, yeah, they're not going to fly with it. They're going to sweep with it.

36:40Speaker 3:The surprise was that they're brand new brooms. He instructs her to sweep the trash. And while working, she hears a fluxing professor teaching her class. If you don't study an animal, how do you expect to turn into one? The lesson is to turn into the exact kitten that she's holding. And Nori starts writing in her notebook. She knows she'll need to study this somehow and starts to even sweep closer and closer to the class.

37:03Speaker 1:And then the professor notices her.

37:04Speaker 3:Nori says, oh, don't mind me just doing my part and keeping the campus spick and span. She then grabs the cat, even though the professor told her not to, and notes that it's gray, soft, and warm. And its breath smells like tuna. And that's when the cat aggressively hisses at her. In response, Nori turns into a fluffy elephant with rainbow feathers.

37:19Speaker 1:Bud comes running. He knows this is a major problem. He tells Nori to breathe. She's going to be okay.

37:24Speaker 3:While the professor is shielding her class and instructing them to think happy thoughts, then the other three UDM students arrive to see what's going on. Okay.

37:33Speaker 2:Talk to me. What was the big reaction of that? neat like why was that is was I missing something? I've rewound the.

37:44Speaker 3:Class, the class to her, just like, like.

37:47Speaker 2:You're, it's weird that you can turn into a cat at all.

37:51Speaker 4:Right.

37:53Speaker 2:But now you're this weird, fluffy animal who doesn't look like it's going to be aggressive. Right. Like, well, I didn't understand why they were so freaked out and why the professor was just like keeping the children from like getting harmed.

38:06Speaker 3:Magical, magical rule of thought.

38:08Speaker 1:Again, I read all this stuff. So magical rule of thought.

38:11Speaker 3:It's someone who can't control their magic is always potentially dangerous.

38:17Speaker 2:Okay.

38:18Speaker 3:And so that's what they're going for is what if this elephant suddenly triples in size and crushes the first row of students? What if blah, blah, blah, blah. Anybody who can't control their magic is potentially dangerous.

38:29Speaker 2:Do you feel, or maybe I'm going to say, I feel. Yeah.

38:34Speaker 3:Remember what our couples therapist told us. Always start with I sentences, Sabrina.

38:40Speaker 1:I emotions.

38:41Speaker 2:I emotionally feel that being a non-magic honor student of all of the magic movies that have come prior to this scene showing, I need to understand that in the sense of then have her actually be harmful like like to where it makes sense.

39:08Speaker 3:Well they kind of show it later why.

39:10Speaker 2:Are they making yeah but way later i know why because it's when the professors are acting a certain way it's got to be either said or seen for me to understand otherwise they just look ridiculous yeah why are you acting like this i agree it's if she wasn't ever supposed to turn into anything then i could understand that reaction but these kids are teaching themselves how to turn into these cats.

39:32Speaker 3:Yeah, I would say. And the funny thing is that's so strange about this is it doesn't fit the mold in any way, shape, or form for being potentially dangerous.

39:39Speaker 1:Like Elliot, for instance. Right.

39:42Speaker 3:Okay, so he can do smoke. That's not really dangerous. It's not like he can hurt somebody. He just smokes people out.

39:48Speaker 1:Yeah.

39:49Speaker 3:It's kind of, yeah, I see what you're saying and I don't disagree.

39:53Speaker 1:Where it's like, have them show that it can cause some harm.

39:56Speaker 2:Like, it doesn't have to be every time, but one time. And then they're being told by their professor, their UDM professor, like, they are scared because when you do something incorrect... We don't know how far it'll go. How, where's the control? You have no control. You have no control. So have one of them lose the absolute, absolute control where it's dangerous.

40:16Speaker 1:Yeah.

40:16Speaker 3:And I would, and again, because they took fire away and they made it smoke, you got to do something where, yeah, she, she turns into an elephant next to somebody and steps on their leg and breaks an ankle or something. Right. One of their ankles, something like that works. It steps on their foot and breaks their foot. Like it's, it's not hugely dangerous, but it's just one thing that shows that That you can't control it and you're going to hurt somebody.

40:38Speaker 1:I agree.

40:38Speaker 3:But just so you know, fantasy rule moving forward. Anybody who cannot control their magic is potentially dangerous. Right.

40:46Speaker 2:And that being explained makes sense.

40:49Speaker 1:Sure. But you're right. They didn't explain it enough.

40:52Speaker 2:No.

40:53Speaker 3:And the way they did explain it with the guy farting fire, it was just dumb.

40:57Speaker 1:Make him an actual.

40:59Speaker 3:potential danger and they didn't they made him a goofy danger and which isn't.

41:03Speaker 2:That's what i mean that's what i was like i agree there gotta be comedy or not i agree.

41:07Speaker 3:With you 100 it was just like grape script tells nori she can't do that again then sends her off to the dining hall where magic is in full effect students are shooting off fireworks and one kid has turned into a goat again They think it's dangerous for her to turn into a big fluffy animal, but kids shooting fire at lunch is totally fine.

41:34Speaker 2:Yes, that's when I started to get even more confused.

41:37Speaker 1:And rightfully so.

41:38Speaker 3:Reina is sitting with her team, depressed. Nori is nearby, sitting with the three other UDM students. It seems like they're all getting along, joking with one another. Andres admits he was very impressed with what she turned into. She promises she's going to turn into the perfect Fluxer and reveal some great illustrations she's drawn to study, from the triangle of her ears to the ovals on the pads of her paws. Meanwhile, Reina is still staring at them, so Nori invites her to sit with the UDMs, but as she excitedly stands up to leave, Reina's professor stops her.

42:04Speaker 3:She'll only sit at the flare table, calling Nori an opportunity to lose focus and fall even further behind. With that, Reina goes back to the flare table. Pepper thinks it's because they're the loser table, but Nori says she has a plan to change that. Even though they won't let her compete, she's going to the sage match to prove that the UDMs can be taught. That girl is still watching Reina, now from the nearby table, smirking. The weird kind of creepy lady who hasn't walked anywhere. Then we get my favorite.

42:28Speaker 1:We get another montage. With suspenseful music, we see the UDM students working in class.

42:33Speaker 3:Meanwhile, Reina has only popped one kernel in her Flare class, which is weird because at the beginning she popped a whole bunch. We see Nori sweeping instead. They should have showed her getting too high too fast to show she's using too much heat.

42:46Speaker 1:And then they burn. Now she can't do it for some reason, which she was doing it fine before. She just burned it. Anyway, that's me.

42:54Speaker 3:Being magically nitpicky, people.

42:56Speaker 1:Sorry.

42:58Speaker 3:We see Nori sweeping and studying her cat drawings, and that night, both lay in bed worried. The next day in flair class, Philip has successfully made perfect popcorn, and the teacher calls on Raina to take him on. She starts popping the popcorn and thinks she's finally completed the task. It looks pretty good. But when the professor tries it, there is a crunch. It was not perfect, but closer. Raina leaves class upset and bumps into that same girl who's been watching her from afar this whole time, and now it's getting a little stalkerish. Turns out her name is Chandra. And she says Raina has more power in her little finger than Philip has in his whole body.

43:30Speaker 3:She makes an offer. If Raina ever wants to learn how to harness it, she might have something that can help. Then she walks away. Outside, Raina is now sitting on a bench when a broomstick hits her foot. It's Nori sweeping the campus. They hug and Raina tells her she misses her. Nori lies, saying she's participating in a top secret training exercise and that.

43:46Speaker 1:She's learning stuff that would blow her mind.

43:49Speaker 3:Raina also lies and says she's acing all of her classes and making a million friends. And with that, these little liars head off their separate ways. Liar, liar, broom on fire. That night in the library, Reina is hard at work studying, looking for new books on the shelf. She puts one book away and then another pops out. She tries it a few times and it keeps happening. Eventually, she slams the book on the shelf and the other book goes flying. It's titled A Primer of Shadow Magics.

44:14Speaker 3:She opens it up and everything around her goes dark. She immediately gets scared, slams the book shut and puts it back on the shelf. The light comes back on and Raina gets up to leave. She grabs her things and is shocked to see the black book is now mixed in.

44:27Speaker 1:With her stuff. Wait, how in the world?

44:29Speaker 3:She runs off and we see that Chandra is still watching, always like a weirdo creep. She laughs and says, soon enough.

44:37Speaker 1:Super weirdo creep. We're back at UDM or under the mat.

44:40Speaker 3:Nori is practicing flexing into a kitten with the help of Elliot, Andres, and Pepper. She made it three seconds before showing signs of a dog and a shark. That's the longest Nori has been a kitten so far, and she knows she'll eventually get it. At the sage match, which is a funny plan words instead of cage match, she's going to prove that she can be taught the sage way.

44:59Speaker 1:Elliot, Undress, and Pepper finally seem inspired.

45:02Speaker 3:Back at the Sage Academy, Reina is practicing with popcorn kernels. When she sees Nori laughing with the other UDM kids outside, looks like she's doing fine without her. Reina closes the curtain and sits back on her bed to pout. Then she spots something on her bed. It's the black book again. The lights go off and the book turns to a page that reads, manifesting your untapped power. Reina notices it and looks back at the popcorn bowl. She decides to pick up the book and the black magic leaps off the page, circling around her and entering her body.

45:29Speaker 1:She falls to the ground and wonders what she's done.

45:31Speaker 3:Over at UDM, Nori is nowhere to be found, but asks where she is and her classmates act like they don't even know her. Andres eventually says, look, Nori's doing it for us, okay? She wants to prove to the whole school that we.

45:41Speaker 1:Can learn real magic.

45:43Speaker 3:Skriff still doesn't understand, so Pepper eventually just says it. She's going to crash the stage match. Bud tells everyone to stay and heads out, but as soon as he leaves, the kids leave too. And now, back at the stage match, first up is Phillip versus Reyna. Phillip quickly begins, but Reyna beats him to the punch, popping her kernels instantly.

45:58Speaker 1:Whoa, she's got some power.

46:00Speaker 3:Teacher tastes her popcorn and announces she did it. She will represent the Flares. Everyone claps and is shocked. The Flyers are next, but Nori runs in before they begin. She says she's been practicing and wants her chance.

46:11Speaker 1:Mrs. Neitzlinger says no, but Nori flexes into a kitchen anyway.

46:14Speaker 3:And this is where I wanted this kind of comedy, the whole thing, where she walks in and she's like, look, I know I can do this, but if you tell me no, I will respect that.

46:23Speaker 2:She's like, no.

46:24Speaker 1:She's like, okay, I'm going to do it. Like, that was great.

46:27Speaker 3:It should have been that the whole way.

46:28Speaker 1:Yes. Yes. Yeah.

46:30Speaker 3:Mrs. Night Slinger says no, but Nori flexes into a kitten anyway. Right on time, her other UDM classmates arrive and start cheering her on.

46:36Speaker 1:She lasts almost four seconds. Had that problem.

46:40Speaker 3:Then turns into some sort of giant pig cat thing with wings.

46:43Speaker 1:I'm sorry, what? You okay, Sabrina?

46:48Speaker 3:I don't know what you're talking about.

46:50Speaker 2:What? Keep moving.

46:52Speaker 3:Keep moving. Mrs. Nightslinger panics and yells for someone to do something. Reyna sets off a sparkle fireball, her friend's favorite magic, but it's giant and way more powerful and she can't control it and throws it at Nori, tossing her friend to the ground.

47:07Speaker 1:Reyna apologizes.

47:08Speaker 3:She doesn't know what the heck that was. Nora says she's okay and Bud runs to attend to a student.

47:13Speaker 2:Mrs.

47:14Speaker 3:Nightslinger yells at Sgriff, how many times do we have to tell you to keep them in the bunker where they belong? The only reason she's not expelling Nori immediately is to protect the world from her wonky magic.

47:24Speaker 1:And it's like, she might have done that, but the other girl blew her up.

47:27Speaker 2:Yes.

47:27Speaker 3:Griff finally speaks up, telling Miss Nightslinger, with all due respect, I think she gets it.

47:32Speaker 1:Miss Nightslinger isn't amused.

47:33Speaker 3:If any of the UDMs are caught practicing magic again, he will be terminated and the UDMs are now banned from Founders Day.

47:42Speaker 2:Which, do you really believe they were actually going to let them go to Founders Day? No, of course not. These kids live in a bunker.

47:48Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly.

47:49Speaker 2:I feel so bad for them. I'm like, oh my gosh.

47:52Speaker 1:Yeah, no, awful.

47:54Speaker 3:You weren't going.

47:54Speaker 2:To let them overhang out on Founders Day anyway. They're not even allowed to wear uniforms.

48:00Speaker 3:No, you weren't going anywhere. You're lucky they're fed. Yes. Nori is getting the silent treatment for getting their hopes up. They all feel very defeated.

48:07Speaker 1:Nori apologizes.

48:08Speaker 3:She thought it would work out because things usually do, but now she can admit things won't work out.

48:13Speaker 1:Scrip jumps out of his seat.

48:14Speaker 3:Enough is enough.

48:15Speaker 1:They are going on a date.

48:16Speaker 3:With Destiny, but actually they're just going outside because it's nice out. And again, he's very funny. Out in the woods, they're all sitting on tree stumps while Scrip lectures them. Nori apologizes, but what exactly did she do wrong? She dared to be more while he sat at his desk watching her apologizes. He should be the one who's apologizing. For years, he's watched UDMs have their dreams squashed. He's hated every second of it. He did it because Sage made him feel like he had nothing to offer, and that ends today. Nori made him a believer. Nori thinks she'll never perform magic the Sage way, and she doesn't care.

48:45Speaker 3:They can all be magical in their own way. Bud calls their magic amazing. They just need to learn how to harness and master it. Pepper wonders who will teach them, and Scrift volunteers himself. To prove his abilities, he does something which was totally weird. He starts singing out to the animals, and just like that, they start appearing. Skunks, rabbits, birds, porcupines, and more.

49:03Speaker 1:Elliot is shocked. Wait, you're a Fuzzy?

49:06Speaker 3:He corrects him, I'm an upside-down fuzzy. He can't tell an animal to do something. He has to sing it instead. Nori wonders why he didn't lose his power after a year, and he explains he came to Sage as an orphan and stayed on as a groundskeeper.

49:18Speaker 1:And the entire time he's been... secretly practicing magic. I have to ask you. Were you taken out of it at all when he started singing?

49:25Speaker 3:Was it just like, whoa?

49:26Speaker 1:Yeah, it was weird. I get what they're going for.

49:29Speaker 3:And kind of cool. Where it's like, his magic is wonky too, but it was really strange. Yes, and.

49:38Speaker 2:I could not tell if it was his voice or if this was a dub.

49:42Speaker 3:I think it was a dub.

49:43Speaker 2:I think so too.

49:44Speaker 3:I could be wrong, but I think it was a dub.

49:45Speaker 2:The first part wasn't, it's later on when he does it again where I'm like, oh yeah, that is not his voice.

49:50Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know if he's dubbing himself, but yeah.

49:52Speaker 2:And it doesn't really matter, but like it's still just like, I don't know. It took me out of it a little bit, yeah. Yeah, again, I'm like.

49:59Speaker 1:I agree.

50:01Speaker 2:Okay.

50:02Speaker 1:Yeah, I agree. He tells them to get some rest because tomorrow they get to work.

50:07Speaker 3:While walking back to the dorm, Nori decides to visit Reina since her magic at the sage match seemed intense. And then moments later, we're in Reina's bedroom. Reina enters to see Chandra is there with the black book.

50:18Speaker 1:This Chandra.

50:18Speaker 2:She just is everywhere.

50:20Speaker 1:She's everywhere.

50:21Speaker 2:Invasion of privacy in like the ultimate way.

50:24Speaker 1:Yeah, seriously, dude, you're in my room.

50:26Speaker 2:You're breaking and entering right now.

50:28Speaker 3:She congratulates Reina on winning the sage match, and Reina is still confused about what happened afterwards.

50:32Speaker 1:She could have killed Nori.

50:34Speaker 3:Chandra reveals that you can't just pick one thing from the book without some side effects. Reina is not pleased. She tells Chandra to get out and take the book with her. Chandra leaves, but when Reina turns around, the black book is back on her desk. And then there's a knock on her door. She opens it, screaming, I told you to take the book!

50:49Speaker 1:But it's Nori.

50:51Speaker 3:Reina hugs her friend, but is immediately nervous. Nori tries to enter, but Reina isn't having it. What if her friend sees the book? She says she's tired and it's been a long day. She shuts the door in her friend's face and Nori is shocked. Back in the Woods, by the way, the same exact thing happened with, essentially, with Ginny Weasley.

51:08Speaker 1:This is a Ginny Weasley story. Again, it's Harry Potter.

51:12Speaker 6:Oh.

51:13Speaker 3:Back in the Woods, Bud is training at the idea that I can't say something as simple as Ginny Weasley and you don't know what I'm talking about.

51:18Speaker 2:I'm like, Ginny Weasley, what's that? Now we're not talking about Harry Potter anymore.

51:22Speaker 1:Yes, we are.

51:23Speaker 2:I have never heard that character.

51:26Speaker 3:Have you heard of Ron Weasley, the redhead, the Weasleys?

51:29Speaker 2:Okay, yes.

51:30Speaker 3:You know there's Harry, Ron, and Hermione?

51:32Speaker 2:Yes, those I know.

51:33Speaker 3:Okay, so Ron is Ron Weasley. He's part of the Weasley family, the redheaded family that lives in the borough. And so his little sister is Ginny Weasley. And I'm not going to tell you anything more about her because you've got to read about her to find out what happens to Ginny Weasley.

51:46Speaker 2:Okay.

51:49Speaker 3:It hurts my soul. Much like, oh, I was going to give you another Harry Potter reference, but I don't want to ruin anything. You're going to start getting freaking, you watch, I'm going to take this into a Harry Potter movie.

51:59Speaker 2:You're just going to text me like crazy.

52:01Speaker 3:Oh, you're damn right. We're bringing this up at our next couples counseling session. Okay. Because I, Sabrina, feel personally violated that you have not read and watched the Harry Potter movies. And I don't like how that's affecting me. I'm doing what Dr. Johnson told us, and I'm keeping them I emotions.

52:24Speaker 2:Right.

52:24Speaker 3:For anybody who doesn't know out there, iHeart has, for all podcasting couples, they have a Dr. Johnson, Dr.

52:32Speaker 1:Rebecca Johnson, who helps us.

52:34Speaker 3:With all of our couples counseling problems, Danielle Ryder and I have been seeing her for years.

52:39Speaker 1:Sabrina and I have been seeing her for years.

52:40Speaker 2:Clearly, Danielle Ryder and Will do not have any issues any longer.

52:48Speaker 3:Not anymore because of Dr.

52:50Speaker 1:Rebecca.

52:50Speaker 3:And I feel Ryder has been wrong for all these years. And so does Danielle. Okay.

52:56Speaker 1:Anyway.

52:56Speaker 2:And that hasn't changed.

52:57Speaker 3:Hasn't changed. And Dr. Rebecca just double reinforced that Danielle and I were in fact right.

53:03Speaker 6:Correct.

53:04Speaker 3:So that's just everybody tune into Dr. Rebecca Johnson's I Heart podcast. I help podcast hosts starring Rebecca Johnson. Yeah, I know. Anyway, but is training the group and says he's observing the school's training techniques for years and has a counter curriculum for the UDMs. Control your bodies, control your powers. Don't focus on what you can't do. Focus on what you can do. He asked them what they want their powers to be. Elliot says to take control of the smoke. Pepper wants to push things away when she wants to, which is a nice way of also saying she wants to take control of her power. Nori wants to control which animal she turns into, so taking control of her power. And since he doesn't have a plan, Skriff has an idea for Andres. It's a hose to see just how far he can go. Bud instructs Andres to drop his backpack. The boy hesitates and then flies high into the sky very quickly. Eventually, he stops, and Skriff lets go of the hose. They all have the proof they need that he won't just fly endlessly out into space. And truth is, that's the fastest any flyer has ever launched. So they'll just work on controlling all

54:05Speaker 3:of that launch power. And then we get a montage, another one kind of. Bud works with Pepper on raking leaves and shows Elliot a beehive he's been told to get rid of. They try knocking it down with a broom so Elliot can smoke it out, but it doesn't work.

54:16Speaker 1:Scripps sings them to a different hive.

54:18Speaker 3:He also has Nori sculpting some bushes into animals to visualize and physically manifest all the animal combinations.

54:24Speaker 1:Do you know what that's.

54:24Speaker 3:Called when you trim bushes into the.

54:28Speaker 1:Shape of an animal?

54:30Speaker 6:No.

54:30Speaker 1:They're topiaries. Word of the day, everybody. Topiaries.

54:35Speaker 3:The group continues to practice and do yoga and are getting better and better along the way. At the Sage Academy, Reina is watching the other flares use their magic. Chandra appears again and tells her she's so much better than her classmates. Reina tells her to go away, but Chandra can't do that. Since Reina used the black book, she's stuck with her. And now if they team up, Reina will have real power. Reina then screams at her to go away and her classmates ask if everything's all right.

54:57Speaker 3:They have no idea who Chandra is and don't see anyone else next to her.

55:01Speaker 5:Uh-oh.

55:02Speaker 3:With that, Raina runs off to the Founders Hall, and guess who's there?

55:05Speaker 1:Motherfucking Chandra.

55:08Speaker 3:Raina can't escape the chick and asks what she wants. Chandra admits she wants her to realize her worth. Raina is more secure and even more powerful than Reginald was, the farting wizard.

55:20Speaker 1:From the 30s.

55:21Speaker 3:The farting wizard.

55:23Speaker 2:It's true.

55:23Speaker 3:She is perfect. Perfect. Yeah, I'm going to get someone who doesn't fart. This makes Reyna start to smile, causing the lights to flicker. Chandra asks, why be in the shadows when you can be the shadow magic?

55:36Speaker 1:It's time to wake up.

55:38Speaker 3:Now outside Sage Academy, Nori asks the Flares if they've seen Reyna, but they just make fun of her for turning into a monster. She warns them that's when she was in a good mood. Now she's in a bad mood. And they immediately point to where Reyna went.

55:50Speaker 1:That was very funny.

55:51Speaker 3:And inside Founders Hall, Reyna has fully accepted shadow magic. Her eyes have turned all black and she says.

55:55Speaker 1:We are awake.

55:57Speaker 3:And just then, Nori arrives and is shocked at what she sees. Reyna responds, we are not Reyna.

56:02Speaker 1:We are the thing that has been waiting all these years. Soon they will bring the entire school to its knees.

56:07Speaker 3:But for now, they will start with Nori. Nori runs out telling Reyna she will save her. But Reyna says, we do not need saving.

56:15Speaker 1:That's my fun voice.

56:17Speaker 3:Back in the UDM, Nori tells everyone that the shadow magic has abducted Reina, and now it wants to bring the entire school to his knees.

56:23Speaker 1:Bud can't believe it. It's been waiting for when it can do the most damage. Founder's Day.

56:28Speaker 3:They need to tell Miss Nightslinger, but she won't believe Nori. For now, they need to get rest and make sure everything... To me, it was like, oh my god. This magic is about to take over the school. What are we going to do?

56:40Speaker 1:Let's get a good night's sleep. Let's get a good night's sleep. Everybody sleep tight.

56:45Speaker 3:We'll attack it tomorrow after a good breakfast.

56:49Speaker 1:So, yeah. So strange.

56:52Speaker 3:It was. Get a rest.

56:54Speaker 1:They're ready for tomorrow. It's like, what? Yeah.

56:58Speaker 3:Yeah.

56:58Speaker 1:It didn't make any sense. We are now at the Sage Academy.

57:01Speaker 3:The next morning, evil Reyna is looking out the window at how beautiful the morning is. Her eyes go from black to brown and she says, they'll never see it coming. At the UDM, Skriff attempts an inspiring speech, but Nori takes over.

57:13Speaker 1:She commands the room.

57:14Speaker 3:Even though the school sees them as wackos, they're going to save it because that's the right thing to do.

57:18Speaker 1:So we're now at Founders Day.

57:20Speaker 2:Mrs.

57:20Speaker 3:Nightslinger welcomes everyone to the festivals and calls for Reina, one of her most promising students, to come to the stage.

57:26Speaker 1:But she doesn't get up.

57:27Speaker 3:Instead, she does some magic with her hands and Welcome to Founders Day appears in flames in the sky. Then she stands up and takes the stage as everyone applauds. She asks if they think that's impressive. Do they want to see something even better? She explains it's been far too long, but promises her return will be very memorable, then creates a giant fireball. Soon after, she flicks her hand and the fireball explodes. The clouds go dark and everyone is screaming and running away. A shadow figure appears behind Reyna and circles her, eventually creating a giant form.

57:54Speaker 3:And this is where the whole movie fell apart for me, with this whole next part.

57:59Speaker 4:Yeah.

58:00Speaker 3:A shadow figure appears from behind Reyna and Circusor, eventually creating a giant form. Miss Nightslinger screams, shadow magic! And I scream, no, Sherlock! The flares try to intervene by shooting some fireballs, but it does nothing. She goes, flares! And they shoot one little thing of fireball and then run away. Then she tells the fuzzies to send birds. Birds, attack! But as soon as the animals see the monster, they fly away. And then she looks to the flyers, but they can't get off the ground. The monster's power is forcing them back down to Earth, Linda.

58:30Speaker 1:That's what the professor says.

58:32Speaker 2:Linda.

58:32Speaker 3:And that's what was so funny is then she turns to her, don't call me Linda in front of the students.

58:36Speaker 1:Which I thought was a great beat. It might be an insane thing to say, but it was a great beat.

58:40Speaker 3:Meanwhile, the Fluxers can only turn into kittens, goats, chickens, and cows, which made me kind of go like, yeah, almost kind of useless magic. Unless you're spies, which I guess is what you would be used as. It's kind of useless magic.

58:53Speaker 4:Right.

58:53Speaker 1:Professor Argon- Says they've tried everything, but then Bud appears.

58:57Speaker 3:No, not everything. There's one school left and we're here to turn things right side up. Then all the UDMs use their power. Pepper successfully pushes the monster back and Elliot smokes it out. They're doing things one at a time. The monster never falls. attacks it's just sitting there writhing on the stage it was just real and i get it's expensive but then if you're not going to do it right don't do it at all like yeah the monster didn't do anything that.

59:20Speaker 2:Didn't you there was no real scary aspect of it because you didn't know what the monster what what it was trying to do. Like it didn't like pull in anyone, right? Like pull someone into the magic and they, poof, they're gone.

59:35Speaker 3:Yes, or knock somebody down or start fires.

59:37Speaker 2:Was it there to kill? What was it there to do? Yes, it did make no sense. What was it actually wanting to do? What was the victory of the monster going to be? You never knew.

59:45Speaker 3:Nope, big, tall, and scary. That's all that it was. And so it was weird. And the entire school of magic people can't do anything. So now they're trying to attack it one at a time. Andres flies in for the chase and Pepper throws a bag of bricks to him, forcing him back to the ground. This causes the monster to get the smoke monster, mind you, to get all tangled up in its smoke. Nori becomes a dritten, which is a dragon cat, and then flies to get its attention.

1:00:13Speaker 1:Now how is that any different than Andres flying around it?

1:00:17Speaker 2:Again?

1:00:17Speaker 3:Now the monster gets all twisted and eventually falls to the ground.

1:00:22Speaker 1:So all they had to do was fly around it in circles. And that was it.

1:00:25Speaker 3:And if So if Andres was flying around it when the other flyers couldn't get off the ground, and that's because he has better launch technique.

1:00:36Speaker 1:I get that.

1:00:37Speaker 3:But then he weakens the monster, which allows Nori to fly around it. So why couldn't the other flyers have attacked it then when they're doing stuff?

1:00:46Speaker 1:But yeah, Mrs.

1:00:48Speaker 3:Nightslinger instructs the rest of the school to finish it off. But Dritten Nori stops them. That thing is her best friend. Nori returns to human form and tries to talk sense into Reina. She needs her to fight harder than she ever has before. She's a flame-throwing rock star. Just then, Reina starts to create a fire-sparkle ball, and the shadow starts to disappear. Nori tells Reina she's got this, and then the shadow explodes. The sun is back out, and Nori runs to Reina.

1:01:10Speaker 1:Is she okay?

1:01:11Speaker 3:Reina opens her eyes, and the girls make up, and they hug while everyone else cheers. The UDM celebrate. They all did it together, one at a time, weirdly. Nori narrates as we watch a montage of her update. The UDM program was discontinued at Sage, and all of the upside-down students joined their respective schools. Bud Sgriff is now knocking them dead as an official fuzzy professor.

1:01:30Speaker 1:And Reina was right.

1:01:31Speaker 3:Sage was teaching Nori to be the best abomination she can be. So now the Sage way is the old way. The new way is to let the kids be themselves. That's the real magic. And at this point, we think the movie ends, but then we hear eerie music playing inside the library.

1:01:45Speaker 1:The evil black book falls to the ground.

1:01:47Speaker 3:And we see that the shadow magic is trying to escape from the pages once again. And if it's all based on this book, why not just throw out the book? And then the screen goes black. And that's our movie. And we still don't have a sequel.

1:02:05Speaker 1:Oh, Sabrina, can we do some real reviews?

1:02:08Speaker 2:Yes.

1:02:09Speaker 1:You got the five star this week.

1:02:12Speaker 2:Yes, I do. I'm looking at this name going.

1:02:14Speaker 1:Oh, hell.

1:02:15Speaker 2:Here we go.

1:02:16Speaker 1:All right.

1:02:17Speaker 2:My five star comes from Ina Viavini. The movie is fantastic. It teaches kids they don't need to change who they are to fit in with the rest. Watched it with my 10-year-old daughter and we loved every minute of it. I could see why a mom could say that. I feel like the message of this movie... It's great. And truly, I think it's, you know, it's, it's true. These girls are at an age where things start to change. They've grown up together, you know, whether they're neighborhood friends or wherever you are, you have a best friend. Then you go to like, kind of like a, let's call it either.

1:02:52Speaker 2:I would say this was like middle school. I don't know if it's necessarily high school, but then you're, you're adding in with new kids, right? You're having to kind of find your friends you've had forever intermixed with the next kids. that are coming in.

1:03:07Speaker 3:It's tough.

1:03:07Speaker 2:It's a hard transition for girls. You kind of find other, or sorry, or anyone, you kind of find things that you're interested in that are different from the person you grew up with. And you have to figure out how to work around that and how to evolve together. I like that. As a mom, I totally agree with that. However, that's not really what we're looking for.

1:03:27Speaker 3:When we're looking for life.

1:03:28Speaker 1:I know.

1:03:29Speaker 3:I can also say, to add on to what you say when she says I watch it with my 10-year-old daughter, going back to Harry Potter, There's parts of Harry Potter that are very scary. Even starting, you know, in the first movie, they progressively get scarier. But in starting the first movie, if you're 10, I could see how Harry Potter might be a little bit too much. So something like this makes sense.

1:03:51Speaker 1:So I get that.

1:03:53Speaker 3:I have the one star review and it's from Risby Siona. Who says, honestly, it's a rip off of Harry Potter. The plot was so predictable and the characters had such cliche personalities and overall the message sucked. I don't recommend.

1:04:08Speaker 1:And then in brackets it says, this is my first bad review. One star.

1:04:14Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't agree with that, but it is a ripoff of Harry Potter. But again, making it for younger kids, I guess.

1:04:19Speaker 1:I kind of get that.

1:04:20Speaker 3:But now we are approaching Sabrina's favorite portion of the podcast, of course, which is our feature presentation. This....

1:04:30Speaker 1:One is called Down is Up. And who are we playing with this week?

1:04:33Speaker 3:We got Michaela. Yay, Michaela! So to celebrate this week's DCOM title, we'll be quizzed on things that are famously upside down. We'll get a definition for something that is well known for being turned around or flipped or reversed. And we have to guess what is being described. Okay.

1:04:51Speaker 1:No multiple choice. Three out of five wins. Here we go.

1:04:54Speaker 3:Okay.

1:04:55Speaker 1:Huh.

1:04:57Speaker 3:Number one. These animals sleep upside down with a special tendon-locking system and blood vessels that allow them to be inverted for a long period without a head rush.

1:05:06Speaker 1:What do you got, Sabrina?

1:05:10Speaker 2:These are possums.

1:05:13Speaker 1:Are they or are they bats?

1:05:16Speaker 3:Oh.

1:05:17Speaker 2:No, bats don't have. Isn't a tendon-locking system... I don't know. Is that a tail?

1:05:24Speaker 1:I don't know, maybe, yeah.

1:05:25Speaker 3:Possums have a tail.

1:05:27Speaker 1:Okay, maybe it's a bat. I'll go with that. All right, let's both say possums.

1:05:32Speaker 3:It's bats.

1:05:34Speaker 2:Oh, shit.

1:05:35Speaker 5:Don't ever follow Sabrina. Don't ever follow Sabrina. Have I learned nothing at this point? Number two.

1:05:46Speaker 1:Thank you for that.

1:05:48Speaker 3:An object with fine material to keep track of time, and when you turn the whole thing upside down, it starts again.

1:05:56Speaker 2:Oh, an hourglass.

1:05:58Speaker 1:Yeah, I agree. It's got to be.

1:05:59Speaker 3:Correct. Okay.

1:06:01Speaker 2:Or is it?

1:06:02Speaker 1:No, it is.

1:06:02Speaker 3:God, I can't believe that first one. If that caused me the win, we are doing an entire session with Dr.

1:06:09Speaker 1:Robinson about that.

1:06:09Speaker 2:Okay.

1:06:11Speaker 3:Number three, a physical position where a person turns their body upside down, supports their entire weight on their hands, and extends their legs into the air.

1:06:18Speaker 2:Do you know this one?

1:06:19Speaker 1:Isn't that just a handstand? Yes. Correct.

1:06:22Speaker 2:Okay.

1:06:23Speaker 1:Yeah, I was going to say.

1:06:23Speaker 3:All right. Upside Down is a 1980 disco funk hit by the supreme Motown legend about a woman who keeps returning to an unfaithful lover who completely turns her world around.

1:06:33Speaker 1:Upside down.

1:06:35Speaker 2:Oh, you turn me inside. Is this Diana Summers?

1:06:40Speaker 1:Do you mean Diana Ross?

1:06:41Speaker 3:I mean, Diana.

1:06:42Speaker 2:Wait, what's Summers? Donna Summers.

1:06:45Speaker 1:Donna Summers and Diana Ross.

1:06:47Speaker 2:I'm going to say it's Diana.

1:06:49Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to go with Diana Ross.

1:06:52Speaker 3:Correct. Yay!

1:06:55Speaker 1:We did it. Number five.

1:06:57Speaker 3:Some of the most famous examples include Fury 325, Steel Vengeance, and Iron Gwazi.

1:07:05Speaker 2:Some of the most famous examples.

1:07:07Speaker 1:Oh, I think I know it. I think I might know it.

1:07:12Speaker 2:Is it like a type of, like a plane or something?

1:07:17Speaker 1:I don't, it might be, I could be wrong, but I think I know what Fury 325 is.

1:07:22Speaker 2:Okay, I'm going to say it's a Like a plane or something. Like a rocket plane.

1:07:28Speaker 1:Like a rocket plane.

1:07:31Speaker 3:Are they, because I think, are they roller coasters? Yes, roller coasters.

1:07:38Speaker 1:I've never heard of those. I've never heard of Steel Vengeance, but I think I've heard of Fury 325.

1:07:41Speaker 2:I think it was.

1:07:44Speaker 1:The one at Six Flags, wasn't it? Oh, I don't know.

1:07:48Speaker 3:I could be wrong, but I swear to God, I think I've been on Fury 325.

1:07:53Speaker 1:But maybe not.

1:07:53Speaker 2:I want to go to Six Flags so bad. Yes, it is a roller coaster at Six Flags in North Carolina.

1:08:01Speaker 3:Oh. They must have.

1:08:02Speaker 1:Maybe the one out, because I've never been to the one in North Carolina.

1:08:05Speaker 3:Maybe. Maybe they named one after it in LA for a little while or something, but I've heard of Fury 325.

1:08:10Speaker 1:And the only Six Flags I've ever been to is the one out here.

1:08:12Speaker 2:Roller coaster.

1:08:13Speaker 3:It would have got five out of five well, but you know.

1:08:16Speaker 1:Yeah, but I listened to Sabrina on the first one. So there you go. Anyway, thank you, Michaela.

1:08:21Speaker 2:I didn't ask you to. I know. I know.

1:08:23Speaker 3:It's totally on me. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Can we do a Sabrina Sees? Sabrina Sees.

1:08:33Speaker 2:I will say, this is like, they were mainly questions, which I asked throughout our recaps. I will say when it comes to like continuity and picking up things that are out of place and stuff, which are what usually kind of my Sabrina sees stuff. These most recent movies have it on point. There's nothing really out of place. And of course, I was like enamored with just this set always. I thought this place was so gorgeous. So I don't really have... a lot of that. It was more so like story stuff. Like I just kind of feel like it didn't make sense to me. And I kind of got hung up on it in the beginning.

1:09:08Speaker 2:This is the only thing we hadn't talked about everything else we did. The fact that they would ask somebody with these magic powers to even come to the school at all. Like you would think that you have to prove that you have some type of magic to get to into the school. It's a prestigious school, right? And they don't have any. So they would have already, in my opinion, I would assume they would already know that her magic wasn't good. So why'd they have her come?

1:09:35Speaker 2:And I, then at the very end, when they said we have to contain, it was the only way. So again, it goes back to that message that I was saying is like, what does it matter to these people that they don't have good magic? That's what wasn't explained to me early enough in the movie. I really didn't understand that until pretty much the end of the movie.

1:09:54Speaker 1:And that was it.

1:09:55Speaker 3:Yeah.

1:09:56Speaker 1:I don't get why it's so bad either. That's the problem. It's like, right.

1:10:00Speaker 3:Okay. So you can't do it exactly the same way, but you can still form really cool, like monsters.

1:10:04Speaker 1:And why wouldn't that be awesome?

1:10:06Speaker 2:Exactly. So that was the thing. The only one that I saw that seemed destructive right from the beginning was was, was it, it was, was her name Pepper that, that moved stuff and she couldn't control that.

1:10:21Speaker 1:Yeah, the flicker.

1:10:22Speaker 2:She was a flicker. That was the only one that seemed like, okay, that could be dangerous. Like, you know, you, you are moving stuff and it's just hitting walls and things. Other than that, I didn't understand. So that whole part really start from the beginning. And again, that's what, one of the things that just didn't allow me to grasp much of this and hold on to it or want to.

1:10:41Speaker 1:No, I don't disagree at all.

1:10:44Speaker 3:And now is the time to rate our film, which we tend to do here. Don't blame us for judging. It's our job.

1:10:52Speaker 1:So our options this week, and we're going to do uh out of dis.

1:10:58Speaker 3:Dis. So that's one to ten in French, people. And I'd like to also point out that the accent was perfect. We're going to make uh the lowest and dis the top.

1:11:09Speaker 1:You got a problem with that?

1:11:09Speaker 2:All right. Okay.

1:11:11Speaker 3:And I'd like you to say the word, say the letter, the numbers in French, please. So here we go. Our options are 1 out of 10 Harry Potters. 1 out of 10 Emo Joes. Creepy Nightmare Holes.

1:11:25Speaker 1:It just sounds so weird.

1:11:26Speaker 3:1 out of 10 Fuzzy Flickers, Flares, Flyers, and Fluxers.

1:11:29Speaker 1:1 out of 10 Flame Farts. Let's not pick that one.

1:11:31Speaker 3:1 out of 10 Magic Popcorn Bags. 1 out of 10 Goat Kids. Weirdo Creepy Stalkers, Giant Pig Cats with Wings, 1 out of 10 Animal Singers, 1 out of 10 Lindas.

1:11:42Speaker 2:1 out of.

1:11:43Speaker 3:10 Drittens, 1 out of 10 Promised Sequels that Don't Happen. I feel like we got to add one or two. There's a couple other ones we've had here.

1:11:53Speaker 2:We could add 1 out of 10 You Didn't Make It. You Didn't Make It.

1:11:58Speaker 3:I think You Didn't Make It. I'm picking this week.

1:12:00Speaker 1:We're picking You Didn't Make It. Thank you.

1:12:04Speaker 3:Which none of that makes any sense, of course, because it would be a Y and an I at the end. But Sabrina's like, UDM, you didn't make it.

1:12:10Speaker 2:Okay.

1:12:10Speaker 3:You didn't make it.

1:12:12Speaker 1:So that's what we're picking. And I think this week, you go first.

1:12:16Speaker 2:I do. And I kind of gave it away at the beginning. I didn't love this movie. I didn't hate it. I just. It didn't grab me. I never really like just kind of bought in and went, okay, which is weird for me because I usually can kind of live on that little Disney magical cloud and kind of accept a lot of stuff. This one just wasn't really that great. Like I said, I wish this would have gone the comedy route. And I know they were going kind of for that Harry Potter, which is not comedy. It's very serious magic, but it wasn't dark enough for me for it to be Harry Potter of what I think Harry Potter is.

1:12:56Speaker 3:But it might be Harry Potter.

1:12:58Speaker 1:What I've heard from other people that Harry Potter.

1:13:00Speaker 2:Could possibly be. What Will has told me of Harry Potter, I don't think it's as dark as I need it to be for me to believe Will that Harry.

1:13:05Speaker 1:Potter's a success.

1:13:06Speaker 3:Exactly. Okay, fair enough.

1:13:08Speaker 2:And it's not what obviously wasn't. There were some comedy moments. This had nothing to do with the cast. The set was beautiful. I just think they needed to make a bigger choice on one way or the other. And so it kind of just sat in the middle, which just kind of lost me. So that's going to just really give me a five you didn't make it and sit right there in the middle.

1:13:31Speaker 3:Yeah, I agree with everything you said. I get what they were going for, which is obviously make Harry Potter for younger kids.

1:13:40Speaker 1:I didn't get much else about it.

1:13:43Speaker 3:Again, we are now to the point when you're doing a DCOM in the 2020s, you're not going to get crappy filmmaking. It's going to look good. The cast is going to be good.

1:13:53Speaker 1:It's going to have a good budget.

1:13:54Speaker 3:It's going to be beautiful. The music is going to be there. Like, all the elements are going to be there. Then it just comes down to story.

1:14:01Speaker 2:Right.

1:14:02Speaker 3:So some of the things from the early DCOMs where it's like, God, those effects were awful or the directing wasn't very good or, man, this looked crappy.

1:14:09Speaker 1:You're not going to have that in 2020, 2021, 2022, those kind of movies.

1:14:11Speaker 3:Right. So with these new movies like The Slumber Parties and Prom and whatever it was, Prom Date, whatever.

1:14:18Speaker 1:The one we saw, and Spin and these new kind of movies, they're all going to look good.

1:14:23Speaker 3:So that you take out of it, then it just comes down to story. And you're right, the story didn't make a whole lot of sense. The stakes didn't make a whole lot of sense. This movie did not know what it was. You're right. Is it a comedy?

1:14:33Speaker 1:They should have gone comedy. That would have been great. But they tried and then it was supposed to be, it was muddled at best. I'm going with exactly what you said and giving it, Cinq. Cinq UDMs.

1:14:46Speaker 5:No.

1:14:47Speaker 2:Yes.

1:14:48Speaker 1:Cinq UDMs.

1:14:49Speaker 2:You didn't make it.

1:14:50Speaker 3:That's right.

1:14:51Speaker 1:Cinq.

1:14:52Speaker 3:You didn't make it. Yeah.

1:14:55Speaker 1:It's just this... was a completely middle-of-the-road movie to me.

1:14:58Speaker 3:Great cast. No problem with the acting whatsoever, except for a couple of the very small roles right at the beginning.

1:15:06Speaker 1:No problem with the cast whatsoever.

1:15:08Speaker 2:Surprised we haven't seen them again in any of the newer franchises.

1:15:13Speaker 3:Yeah, because they're good. And so, yeah, that, not a problem at all. I thought the guy who played Bud was great, very funny.

1:15:20Speaker 1:But, yeah, the rest of it, I didn't get.

1:15:23Speaker 3:Anyway, that is it. So thank you so much. I don't know why I have a new radio voice, but thank you so much for joining us. For our next recap, is it too early for Halloween? Well, not here on Magical Rewind. We're getting in the spooky mood with the 1999 horror decom.

1:15:37Speaker 1:I don't like horror. It makes me scared.

1:15:40Speaker 3:Don't look under the bed, which I have Sue do every night before she jumps into bed to make sure we're safe. That's not true. Can we handle this one?

1:15:48Speaker 2:Oh, boy.

1:15:49Speaker 3:We're going to have to find out. Well, it is currently on Disney Plus, so feel free to work ahead.

1:15:53Speaker 1:Do you know this movie?

1:15:54Speaker 3:Have you heard of this movie?

1:15:56Speaker 2:I know, but I feel like this is after a book, right?

1:15:59Speaker 1:I don't know.

1:16:01Speaker 2:I feel like this seems like a book kind of in that Goosebumps-like genre.

1:16:06Speaker 1:Goosebumps are awesome.

1:16:07Speaker 2:And I've heard really, like this is one that since we've started this podcast, people are like, you got to watch that one. So it's one that's been recommended.

1:16:15Speaker 3:I am psyched.

1:16:15Speaker 2:I'm very excited to see it.

1:16:17Speaker 1:Excited to split a bag of popcorn with my wife again.

1:16:19Speaker 2:And yes, it was a book. It was a book, yeah. And who knows? I might have seen this because it's in 1999. So I might have seen it. I'm hoping that I have and I get to just walk down and relay with it.

1:16:28Speaker 3:All right. Very cool. And we have a really, really cool Park Hopper episode that we are so excited for you to hear. We spoke with a member of the new generation of DCOM directors. Yes, Veronica Rodriguez stopped by. She was behind the camera for Slumber Party and Camp Rock 3.

1:16:44Speaker 1:We loved both of those movies.

1:16:45Speaker 3:We really did and had so much to tell us about our two favorite modern Disney releases. Here's a sneak peek.

1:16:52Speaker 6:The brothers were so nice and chill.

1:16:55Speaker 1:And like, And good.

1:16:56Speaker 3:They're just very funny too.

1:16:58Speaker 2:At this point, they're like acting chops are so beefed up. They're so good.

1:17:03Speaker 4:And like, I could like, I could give them, I was like, okay, can you go this route or whatever?

1:17:08Speaker 6:And they just, they're dial.

1:17:10Speaker 4:I mean, something about, I mean, I've never, never worked with the two of you, but like, there's something about the dot, like the dial that you develop.

1:17:20Speaker 6:When working on these types of projects. It is one, a level of professionalism that is insane.

1:17:26Speaker 2:And unparalleled.

1:17:26Speaker 6:But then two, it's just like the ability to adjust your performance slightly. It blows my mind every time.

1:17:35Speaker 3:That is just one of the many behind the scenes, ultimate, amazing, intimate, awesome, all the other superlative interviews that we do here on the Dedicated Magical Rewind feed. So make sure to find it on your favorite podcast platform and subscribe. That way you'll never miss another episode or.

1:17:50Speaker 1:Sabrina's newest spinoff and solo endeavor, Once.

1:17:53Speaker 3:Upon a Headline, where she tells us what's going on in everything Disney, the world of Disney, Disney at the parks, Disney everywhere else. She's going to tell you everything you need to know about everything except Harry Potter, where she don't know.

1:18:06Speaker 2:That's because it is not Disney.

1:18:08Speaker 3:That's true.

1:18:09Speaker 1:Thank you, everybody, for joining us, and we'll see you next time.

1:18:12Speaker 3:Bye.