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I'm immediately looking things up, John.
Look the things up, but also lay it on us.
How'd you feel about the film?
How'd you feel about...
So fun. Couldn't have expected anything like...
This is exactly what I was hoping for.
You know, I love decomms.
This is called Teen Beach Movie.
I was hoping that this was a teen beach movie.
And that's what we got.
A teen beach movie.
And it's a movie in a movie.
which sometimes can be annoying here it was really cute and the way that they did it was awesome i think
these actors are really talented they're like all triple threats which is amazing Disney does a great job
casting in general um the girl who we liked that was the second lead girl um did you i never saw
fright night did you see fright night oh the Antonielshin one no okay she was in that i want to i know
if she's in the trailer i've seen her it looks like there's a teen beach two so we can look forward
Teen Beach, too!
I told you.
Well, I mean, it seemed kind of obvious from the stinger there.
Yeah, damn.
They went right through those credits.
Oh, I saw hairspray, and I forgot Garrett Clayton, the main blonde guy, the not our
main dude, the second main dude.
Oh, he was in hairspray live.
Oh, that's why.
The not Harrispray one, the live thing makes sense.
He could dance.
He could sing.
He could act.
Okay.
But no, I mean, it's so weird to me.
Which guy in this movie was that?
The guy.
Okay.
It's weird to me.
so this came out in 2013 this movie came out in 2013 same year as the evil dead remake and it's
really hard for me to imagine that i don't know every one of these actors i know because that was i mean
that was 12 years ago and like Maya mitchell our main girl i've never heard that name have you
heard that name no Maya Mitchell i can't tell if half these people look really familiar because
they look like other folks or if i have actually seen them since then and i bet it's
a little bit of both. Like, the guy who played
Les Camembert, I was
like, I feel like I must have seen you, the British
guy, at some point before. And the only
person I'm truly sure I've seen
is Barry Bostwick. Yeah, no, I hear you.
I feel the same way.
And Susan Cryer, that's who
that is, Aunt Antoinette.
The guy that I was like, I've definitely
seen this guy before him, his name
is Kent Boyd, and he
is in, so you think you can dance.
Let's go. Okay, yeah, I mean, if you're not,
Makes sense. I was like, how am I recognizing him?
Yeah, okay. I got to imagine that a lot of working dancers were in this.
Probably from that.
Yeah, you would think that a lot of them would have ended up in glee.
I don't know. It's just so weird. I think that everybody in this was so good.
And that one girl, the girl, Gracie Gillum, the second lead girl, I was like, her voice is so good.
I wonder if she put out an album or something. I'll look.
Oh, she's credited as Grace Phipps here.
Oh, really? Maybe she's married.
Oh, could be, could be.
Also, this was a very, it was 12 years ago.
That's crazy.
It's not allowed to be true.
I don't believe it.
It looks completely different now.
She's an actress, singer, and dancer, known for Team Beach and Team Beach, too.
See, the thing is, like, these movies, obviously, you know, have a strong following.
People love them.
Yeah.
A high school musical is hugely popular.
Camp Rock and stuff like that.
And, you know, Cheetah Girls and things.
I haven't seen many of these
And certainly not these kinds
I feel like a lot of the Disney channel
The decoms I would have seen
Would have been more like genre adjacent
I'm gonna go over the top 10 decoms
I want to know if you've seen any of these okay
Probably not but I'm game to find out
And then you guys in the comments
You guys have to let us know which ones
If he hasn't seen any of them
Which ones you're dying to have John or myself
If I haven't seen them watch
See what are they? What are they lay on me?
Okay well this is the top 65 DECOMs
So I won't make you go through that.
Let me get to the top.
Get to number 55.
I'll lay down some thoughts while you scroll.
Yeah, go ahead.
No, I really enjoyed the heck out of this.
I kind of love this.
This was such a fun experience because, you know,
I feel like Disney Channel original movie is not the most,
it's not a category, a label that, you know,
inspires like big respect among people.
Of course, I'm with you.
It's that lifetime movie kind of thing.
And yeah, it was fun to watch one of these.
And I'm sure, like, for whenever we do one, even, you know, whoever on the channel has covered them, no matter who it is, it seemed like, people really enjoy them, really turn out for them and have a lot of love for them.
And if this movie...
It's a special coming of age part in our heart, you know?
Yeah.
And the thing is, I feel like there are a couple different levels that can work on.
And the thing is, like, sometimes you watch one of these and you're like, if I was this age, I would enjoy this.
Yes.
And then sometimes you watch one in, which is much more the case for me on this one, where it's like, if I was this age, I probably would have enjoyed it.
But especially now, I am having a blast too.
This still appeals to things that I love and two things that I might have even not have fully realized I loved back at the time, you know, when this was just coming.
Like if I was the Disney Channel original movie age and this came out and I was watching it, I don't know if I would, you know, have had my palate broadened enough.
but like I love the tradition of like 60s beach movies and stuff like that even though again that's not like a genre that inspires the biggest respect I have a lot of like enjoyment and nostalgia for those old flicks I love a good musical and yeah like I can kind of get sucked into any story that's you know mildly compelling about just you know a couple characters I can get on board with so like this had all that stuff and it's like everybody who they got to perform felt really well chosen both in the modern time and in the past and
like the chops like this was really fun because i think there's a disney channel type of acting you
associate with especially the shows but this that's why it was like it was very selina very myly very
miranda like all of those actors kind of in this i could see all of them but something i think about
pitting it against a 60s movie aesthetic which also has its own kind of bubbly acting style
and then like new yorker accent the like yeah like yeah greece and west side story
elements like yeah the the amalgam of things they put together felt really fun and lively and
inspired like I feel like whoever wrote this like movies likes movies wasn't just collecting a check
like like yeah the conflict is pretty simple but the way they articulate the conflict especially
with mac I thought was really nice this whole thing of being torn between your own passion
wanting to both you know placate your family member who's actually here but more deeper deep more
deeply than that you know like i want to live my mom's dream she couldn't live but maybe that's not for me too
and maybe that's okay and maybe it's the spirit yeah it's a good message i like that all these movies
have really strong messages that like i know i know what you're saying about you know this isn't just
like your your kid so you would watch it at that time but i when i look at these i'm like okay
if my kids were watching this would i be like oh that's a good lesson to teach them and i feel
Like this one would be something if I had kids, you know, when they were in their 8, 9, 10, 14, whatever years old, I'd be stoked if they were watching this.
Like, yeah, that's the point.
Live for yourself.
Well, and it's the way that they are.
It's like the message is good in and of itself and the movie is written well enough for what it is that it doesn't feel like they're beating you across the head and neck with the message.
The message nicely folds out of everything that's happening.
Okay, number one is high school musical, which I have not seen and you haven't seen.
I know that Tara and Greg covered it, but we've been doing it.
duplicates on the channel. I kind of think that we should
maybe do that. I would love to. Number two
is Camp Rock, which I've also never
seen. I've never seen Camp Rock.
Maybe we should do that. I would love to.
That's a Demi Lovato Jonas Brothers one. But again,
a little bit past my time.
Okay. Number three, you've seen and I have
two, which is Halloween Town. Love Halloween Town.
This is kind of colliders. I'd love to do a re-watch Halloween
Town. Number four is the proud family movie.
Not only did I see the movie, but I watched the entire show.
Were you proud family person? I've seen the show for sure.
Number five is the Cheetah Girls. That's like a top movie
ever so good cheetah sisters we stick together do you know anybody who's in it isn't raven in it
yeah okay yeah that's that's the one thing i know about cheetah girls number six amazing cadet kelly
did you do you know who stars in this uh Jennifer garner Hillary Duff Hillary Duff and it's
so good it's also not just Hillary Duff but um uh what's her name christie ray Romano okay
I know that name I'm sure uh the girl from um even Stevens oh sure yeah
Christy Carlson Romano.
Oh, I hope she's okay.
Something just, like, happened to her.
Really?
I hope she's all right, yeah.
I don't know.
I think so.
Number seven is Wendy Wu
Homecoming Warrior, which I've never seen.
Never seen it?
Heard of it.
And eight is stuck in the suburbs.
I haven't seen.
I don't know what that is.
Whoever did this ranking must have been a little bit younger.
Johnny Tsunami's number nine.
Johnny's tsunami.
You've seen it?
You've seen it?
I know that name.
I've never seen it.
Phenomenal movie.
Phenomenal movie.
No.
No.
Number 10.
Famous Jet Jackson,
Jets, the movie.
Watch the show.
I saw the some of the show.
So good.
Oh, RIP to Jed Jackson, too.
Damn.
Also on this list is Smart House, which is one of my favorites as well.
Okay.
Is that the Smart Guy movie?
No.
Smart House.
Oh.
Is it about a smart house?
Yeah, which is crazy because it was in 1999 and now we like straight up be having smart houses.
Fun.
Smart houses great.
You would love that one.
Very cool.
We have some DECOM watching to do.
Name your favorite DECOM.
Let us know if you need us to watch.
it just I like want to start gathering decoms right yeah 100 op we got to gather the decals
we got to gather them all we got to collect them like thanos you know gauntlet the infinity
stones there we go got to catch them all decoms decoms I think it's really impressive how well
they were singing and dancing as well just like sometimes I feel like when you're casting people
all these actors were really young and sometimes it's like you just hope they have two out of three
the act and dance but not sing or whatever i didn't have an issue with any of these actors i thought
they all brought it they took it seriously enough um that it was like they were really in it but
they understood the assignment too they weren't like trying to give the most dramatic they just
really good yeah it seemed like i you know i don't know what research they were asked to do
and how many of these people grew up on 60s movies but it feels like everybody at least yeah did
their homework, understood the assignment. And it is that joy of watching just a bunch of
performers who are really apparently psyched to be here and are putting their all into it. And
yeah, like the singing, the dancing, the choreography, the way they chose to capture the
choreography, like the direction in general was pretty solid for what this is for probably not
having a ton of money where they had to put CG. Make sense to put the CG there. And like,
you know, the mad scientist and evil business guy, like, you know, they're in a secret layer that
is like very acknowledgeably part of the wackier sides of the tradition of these movies anyway
uh yeah so like everything was like really well balanced out and stuff and when's the first time
you heard of this movie today yeah me when a couple a couple days ago when i saw the schedule
i didn't i never heard that this existed so it's clearly not in the same category as something like
our musical musical that we've never seen but we've heard of a million times so i wonder like
who was obsessed with this came out in 2013 yeah i'm like what led to this being made
Because, like, I love, again, this became what I was hoping for, which is like, we're going to do a 60s movie.
And even in the music, because oftentimes in these situations, these types of movies shows, my complaint becomes, like, the production of the music can be overbearing, can be, like, way too compressed and pop sensible.
And this certainly has, like, pop sheen on a lot of its music, but I like the way that they played with, like, the getting closer to the sounds of the 60s.
and then a certain songs would grow and pick up momentum.
Then they become stageier at times and then more like a pop song at times.
And it was always in ways that felt appropriate and felt like they complimented the song
rather than just we need to package this up for MP3 sales or something like that.
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I think it's also really cool now that all these decoms are on Disney Plus.
Not that this is some kind of ad for Disney Plus,
but like when I was a kid,
if your favorite movie was Cheetah Girls,
you just had to sit and wait until Disney Channel decided to put it back on.
For Halloween Town, that was once a year.
You know, like they ran it a few times during a Halloween season,
but we would wait and wait.
wait and wait and so it's like it is really cool that you and i can just this is a movie that came
out 12 years ago and we can watch it anytime we want when we were growing up that was not the case
with disney channel original movies if i like if i would come home and i would turn on and it would be
in the middle of smart house or brink or anything i would sit my butt down because i did not know
when that thing was coming on next yeah well and i mean that's you know a tv guide fun part of the
tradition of tv in general yeah it's like you got to wait the whole year to watch charlie brown
again or The Grinch. And even though we grew up in the time of home video, not everything got to
home video. Right. And, you know, you didn't always have the means to get the video. And now,
yeah, you just have all this available. And as much as, like, the archive of streaming is kind of,
you know, just a weird organism of our here and now. Like, this is an upside. You know,
you can revisit stuff like this that, you know, might not get the highest, most lavish treatment
on a home video. But, you know, it's still available. Why do you keep going back 10 seconds?
Back 10 seconds.
I keep trying to see who wrote the music.
Like that's the last thing.
Because I thought that, you know, like any musical, you know, there's always the question
of like, am I going to remember these songs?
Or they can understand some test of some kind of time.
But like regardless.
The songs were kind of mid for me.
Like some of them were really fun.
But I don't know that I'm going rushing to download these.
Yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
Like there was, I think during the movie, they're very charming.
And they did like stand out and enhance it.
Like they didn't feel generic while I've.
was watching the movie. No, absolutely not. They felt great when you're watching it. But,
you know, like, we're all in this together. Okay, so you know that. I know that.
Stanza. And we've never seen that. So that clearly, like, broke out of the movie. None of these
songs did I recognize. Did you recognize any? Didn't recognize any. But yeah, just the punch and the
fact that too. I mean, they're borrowing from a certain tradition of music with the 60 stuff and then, you know,
modernizing it for both a musical and a pop sensibility. Absolutely. They did a great job with that. I don't, I don't mean to belittle that.
No, totally. I feel like we're in agreement, and it's one of those things where mainly what I want during the first watch, especially if something is just to go like, yeah, I can really feel somebody put their fun and their heart into this music, you know, even if it's not, you know, going to change my life or become the soundtrack that I'm spinning all summer or whatever. Like, do you know this?
We're cheetah girls, cheetah sisters. We stick together. No. We make up one big family, though we don't look the same. Our spots are different.
different colors
like that I would
and like would
try my hardest to see
if I could find when it was going to be on
make my mom put in a VHS tape
to tape it remember how you could tape something
on a VHS
yeah you could like record it
so that I could try to rewind
and memorize the words to the songs
yeah that's how much that music
I was like I need to know every word
to every song yeah
so maybe people did that for this
if you did let us know in the comments
if you know yeah send us a video
of you singing and dancing, all the choreography,
want to see your dedication to Teen Beach.
And I hope that this does well enough
that we can come back for Teen Beach Part 2
because I am chuffed.
What could it be? Do we go to another?
Like, is there...
No, they're coming here.
I know, but...
It's like, it's like Crocodile Dundee
split into two movies.
Just like that.
We go to us, we go to the bush,
and then the bush comes to New York City,
except they're just going to a different beach.
But, you know, with modern people and Justin Bee,
so the Justin Bieber thing was that was odd bizarre that was weird that was the one element that
took me out of I was like why do you especially like phones on screen have always been kind of
a meme because like they've gotten better in the recent years of making smartphones appear
as they do in normal life in fiction on screen that is not an instance of that the guy literally
had just like an image of Justin Bieber pulled up on his phone was like my phone see you don't
about my phone?
So weird.
It was like, it was charming.
It was silly, but it was also like, this is...
But when he did that, I was like, maybe you and I don't know something.
Maybe Bieber was dating somebody.
Maybe he was friends with somebody.
Like, is Bieber relevant to this cast in somewhere?
Was Bieber, that Mohawk guy?
And we just didn't recognize him.
I don't know.
That's crazy.
Either way.
I'm so glad we got to watch this.
Like, this was like, I would love to make one of these someday.
Just like as a fun, like learning ground.
Yeah, man.
Just jump into some old traditions, some new traditions.
And, yeah, just, I don't know.
There's just such a joy in watching a bunch of performers really be on.
And, yeah, to get lost in the fun of something like this.
This is super fun.
I'm with you.
And, yeah, the fantasy just around the edges of like, oh, it's like Pleasantville, you know,
some crazy little bit of magic took us on this adventure.
And then we learned a little, we came of age.
Guys, what are you doing this summer?
Are you going to be surfing?
Are you going off to school?
let us know and should we check out
Teen Beach Part 2. Do you want a Teen Beach
3 where all of our characters
are transported into a whole different
environment? Yeah and hit us with the other
decoms too. What are you loving? Let us know. Let us know
and we'll catch you on the next one
what's a good song beat
to take us out on? Surfing USA
Surf at USA
Landon Miller
What are you doing at a teen beach?
You creep, let's be a little sensitive here because of the content of the movie.
Put on your swim trunks and your biker jacket and be the best of both worlds.
To name a reference, I don't understand.
I'm there with you.
Yeah.
Dude, oh my God, which frigging Disney Channel original movie should Landon Miller be the star of?
If not Teen Beach, of course.
I mean, it would be cool to be on a Teen Beach with Landon Miller.
but i think he should be on uh adult beach oh yeah it's just the sanamanica pier it's the same
movie but it's is what adults will be doing in the 60s on the sanamonic appear which is like
eating ice cream vanilla ice cream vanilla chocolate ice cream definitely handing cones to each other a whole
group of guys in short shorts handing one ice cream cone around yeah everybody they paid for at
at least one link yeah from the soda jerk down the way down the midway before they take their
best girl onto the ferris wheel to look out over the ocean waves yeah they got greaser's there oh yeah
everyone's got a comb he's a comb that's a comb that's a comb that's a knife and a blade and he's driving
and then he'll be the guy with the car your car have the automobile yeah but don't scrape it's my dad's
car he's gonna be real mad about it hey hey sid he sid sid sidney sandy sandy yeah
Should I know where you're going with that.
You've seen, you've seen Greece.
I have.
And Landon is full of it.
Landon, actually, your name, Landon Miller, you sound like you would be a guy in the 60s.
I agree.
I agree.
He's a perfect.
Landon, thanks so much for being here.
Happy patron of the day, shout-out.
Love you.