The Reel Rejects - THE PARENT TRAP (1998) IS SO DARN TOUCHING!! MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!

Episode Date: March 24, 2025

TWICE THE FUN, DOUBLE THE TROUBLE!! The Parent Trap Full Reaction Watch Along!! https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects With Lindsay Lohan returning for FREAKIER FRIDAY & Dennis Quaid hot of the suc...cess of The Substance, Aaron Alexander & John Humphrey give their The Parent Trap Reaction, Recap, Commentary, Analysis, & Spoiler Review!! Visit https://huel.com/rejects to get 15% off your order Start your online business with a $1 per-month trial when you visit https://www.shopify.com/rejects! Join Aaron Alexander and John Humphrey as they revisit the heartwarming 1998 remake of The Parent Trap, directed by Nancy Meyers (Father of the Bride, The Holiday). This beloved family comedy tells the story of separated twins who, after meeting for the first time at summer camp, hatch a brilliant plan to reunite their divorced parents. Lindsay Lohan (Freaky Friday, Mean Girls) shines in a dual role as both Annie James and Hallie Parker, delivering a performance filled with youthful charm and undeniable talent. Dennis Quaid (Frequency, Breaking Away) captivates as Nick Parker, the devoted father navigating the complexities of love and family, while Natasha Richardson (RIP, Patty Hearst, Maid in Manhattan) enchants as Elizabeth James, the sophisticated and caring mother whose life is forever changed by the twins’ unexpected reunion. Adding to the film’s delightful ensemble are Lisa Ann Walter (Abbot Elementary, Bruce Almighty), whose comedic timing brings warmth to her supporting role, Simon Kunz (Goldeneye, Captain America: The First Avenger), who adds quirky charm to the family dynamics, and Elaine Hendrix (Dynasty, Romy & Michele's High School Reunion), whose memorable performance further enriches this timeless tale. Aaron & Johnald break down every iconic moment—from the magical summer camp meeting to the clever schemes and heartfelt reunions that have made The Parent Trap a perennial favorite among family films. Whether you’re reliving the nostalgia or experiencing the fun for the first time, join us for an in-depth reaction and review that celebrates every laugh, tear, and twist of this classic! Follow Aaron On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealaaronalexander/?hl=en Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:40 trap a parent too who we trapped a few gang thank you first and foremost to the loves of our lives prepper yes for chopping these highlights down just assembling them in a pleasant and delightful order accentuating all that happens here on screen We appreciate them. They are like Chesey and Martin, except they're not our butlers. We do business together. And they're not our nannies either.
Starting point is 00:01:11 No. Also, if you're listening to this on Apple or Spotify, why don't you go ahead and leave us a little bit of a rating, you know? There's no one of the video. Well, five, I don't you. The audio, you know. Four or five stars, maybe, even if you're feeling generous.
Starting point is 00:01:25 One, two, three, four, five. Arun. Janelda. How you feeling? man what did you think i'm feeling so good my heart is smiling all over the place yes i can't even take it is so overwhelming oh my god that was delightful that was such a cute movie absolutely was it was it was everything i wanted to be in more i had no expectations but i know why it's a classic because my heart is smiling absolutely my day is is the better for having seen this movie
Starting point is 00:01:57 I got a team of dialect coaches on here and a fencing consultant and a prank and poker consultant handshake choreographer and credit photographer wow he's so many interesting credits so many people came together just to make this the most
Starting point is 00:02:15 magical film of the 90s truly that's high praise they're the most magical yeah the most magical eat at Aladdin you heard it here shots fire what you're going to do
Starting point is 00:02:33 blah blah wow I'm a parent trap my magical film in the 90s no but honestly this was great Lindsay Lohan in her first movie that's crazy
Starting point is 00:02:43 what this was crazy double duty double duty double duty blah blah she killed it the chemistry was amazing Dennis Quaid was amazing the woman who played
Starting point is 00:02:53 the wife Miranda Richardson Miranda Richardson they were so good. The chemistry was so good. The comedy was there. This is based on a book called Das De Pelt Lechen. Wow. It's like a German book. I need to find the German book. It's O.G. And I've never seen the original. So I wonder how much of it is directly adapted from that one versus just this one. But this was so delightful. The way that it was shot in the way that it
Starting point is 00:03:19 would move between scenes and whatnot was very well done. The music, the comedy, the gag. it was it was great i couldn't have asked for a better movie i couldn't have asked for a better way to spend my monday my st patrick's day my my film time with my boy john and you love getting our hearts warm together all together it was so cute johnny boy what did you think dude i could not agree more this was a delight this was yeah like you know again the cultural osmosis you kind of know what the movie is but i had forgotten like just a lot of the the the you know finer details and whatnot and yeah like for a you know for an introducing lindsay lohan performance and also a double duty i thought she was so natural and it was fun that you know the movie had that kind of structure
Starting point is 00:04:11 where yeah you start with this opening you know this prologue of them on the ship meeting you know falling in love getting married and two what i hadn't realized up at the top was like oh This is 12 years ago. So, like, they probably don't show you their face as much because they have to look younger. But also, I was like, this is so wonderful to just kind of put us in the time and place of their experience. And it feels a bit like a memory. And then, yeah, to then transition into, you know, meeting both of the girls and seeing how they meet and seeing how they just are as kids. And then it's like if you didn't know what the story was about, it would be a pretty big surprise.
Starting point is 00:04:50 And, you know, like I said, for me, just caught up in the moment. was like, you know, a bit, you know, swept up in the, you know, ultimate planning of the scheme. I thought they spent just enough time on them sort of meeting, getting to know each other, being at odds, and then finally kind of having a reason to come together and sort of break the ice and start talking. And then, yeah, from there, the sort of fun and whimsy of, you know, the whole story, you know, sets off. And I liked the proportions of this. Like, I thought it was really nicely handled in the direction in multiple, ways but especially in just how it you know naturally goes from yeah we're at camp and we're
Starting point is 00:05:27 meeting one another and now we are devising the plan we're you know splitting up and we're going to each other's you know uh respective counterpart homes and now we're introducing mom and dad and we're getting to know them through the girl's eyes and we're getting endeared to them because they are meeting for the first time and then uh you know from there them you know sort of going through i like I expected almost there to be a greater conflict of, like, Hallie's having a great time in California and she's ignoring Annie back in London. And, you know, there is a little bit of that. But, like, ultimately it doesn't get to bog down in, like, having too much of that conflict take up too much of the focus.
Starting point is 00:06:08 It really kind of keeps its eye on the sort of, like, no, we want to get to know each other's, you know, parents, our own parents, who we've been estranged from. But also now we realize, like, we want to continue. our bond as sisters, as friends, you know, and we want to bring our folks back to the happiness that we have in this little split-up picture that we've both been given. And, yeah, like, being, again, rusty on the details and, you know, watching this sort of plan unfold. I just was really appreciating, yeah, the pacing and the transitions, like you said, you know, in multiple ways. And I thought, too, obviously, we've pointed it out multiple times during the reaction, but, like, It was really fun and impressive the way they would have the two, you know, to have Hallie and Annie on screen together and interacting off each other.
Starting point is 00:06:53 And it does, like, it's credit to Young Lindsay Lowen, like, it's lightning in a bottle to be able to, you know, give a young actor two roles, essentially. And, like, there's a nice middle ground, I think, in that they are cut of the same cloth. So there are certain things about the performances that are totally primed to be similar. But also, you know, she's got a master of that accent and, you know, the sort of way the characters carry themselves. And I thought she did a really nice job in both roles. And it really kind of naturally, yeah, crested from this dual star piece for Lindsay Lohen into this more ensemble, you know, really touching romance. And as somebody who in this day and age, you know, I appreciate that we've lived through the post-romantic era where we don't have to shoehorn a romance into everything. more. But, you know, we've gone to such a point where, you know, romances feel more rare and,
Starting point is 00:07:45 you know, oh, what's the word I'm looking for? Like, you know, some other word for rare, but like it feels kind of choice that, yeah, you have something. Or it was just nice to return to something that is so lovely and sweeping. And I think Nora Ephron, just like the perspective that she put into her camera work and into the emotionality of the movie, but also into the fun of the movie. You know, like, there's just enough. All that stuff where, they're like trying to mess with Meredith could go in like a you know madcap you know meet the parents kind of direction but it doesn't too much you know and and and there's just the right amount of like peripheral fun and magic and and yeah attention to detail every scene is set up with like a
Starting point is 00:08:26 little vignette happening before we get to the actual focal points of the scene or you know the way it gives so many of its supporting characters these lovely qualities like you know chessie and martin stole the movie for me and even grandfather like props to ronnie stevens because like not on screen a ton not the most you know a parent supporting character throughout the whole movie but definitely left an impression as part of this whole thing and then see them all together at the end feels right
Starting point is 00:08:51 like in the way they balanced in the casting the chemistry with you know uh dennis quade and natasha richardson like it feels oh sorry it's natasha not miranda my bad i think i misspoke earlier but um yeah like their chemistry together is so natural and like meredith you can kind of imagine it even though the movie makes it pretty clear once you meet her that like oh she's not really right for him and she's not really like actually in love with him um but yeah you got to cast those things properly to where it would
Starting point is 00:09:18 be believable that he might get in with this girl even though it's not what's right for him and so like yeah this was this was like super lovely like i really enjoyed all the different aspects of you know how they made this and how the story felt and just the feelings and the tones and the fun but also the you know heartfeltness yeah yeah it was all very good very well done and I liked the nuances that Lenzelahan brought to the character, especially when she was Annie playing Holly. She's American playing a British girl playing an American, which was very, you know, the layers to that.
Starting point is 00:09:58 Very funny. Yeah, it's funny, and I imagine it's not an easy task to do as an actress. But, yeah, all of it just worked so seamlessly. And even, like, the other stuff that you would think would not come as naturally, not even as naturally, the logistical stuff. We're like, this, I feel like if we asked, the movie asked this questions, it wouldn't work. It doesn't make you think about those things
Starting point is 00:10:18 because what you're watching is just so... Oh, my God, I keep saying Nora Ephron. It's Nancy Myers, my bad. Oh, sorry. Nancy Myers. Nancy Myers, though. Another, like, prolific, yeah, like, you know, filmmaker in her own right, you know,
Starting point is 00:10:31 and maker of, like, romance movies, you know, writer, director of, you know, various romance movies and other kinds of movies, too. But, yeah, like, serious props, sir, because I thought this was really well. I feel bad for getting her, for misnaming her because obviously, like, my romance movie and stories lexicon is not,
Starting point is 00:10:50 is Nora Efron the author? Sorry, not to hijack this. Okay, but, you know, other prolific. Harry and Miss Sally, great movie. I want to watch you got, I've never seen it. I've never seen it. Guys, do you want to watch us, watch Sleeping in Seattle and, Sleepy in Seattle.
Starting point is 00:11:07 This is a prequel. yeah oh my god and this is the first movie she directed holy shazbot like what a a because like you know the original parent trap is a pretty classic film you know to step on the scene as a director with something like this like is impressive and to do something that does rely on again a split screen uh performance and a performance where you you know have to work with a young you know actor and also sculpt two performances around them like big props like damn sorry not to not that's not to cut you off correcting myself for my sins but uh but yeah i wonder if they make another one you get the parent trap too yeah what would it be the grandparent trap both uh hallie and annie have their own twins and they're both estranged from each of their partners yeah and then they the twins don't know about each other and then all four of the twins get sent to the same camp so it's like the the parent trap would double because and each of their dads.
Starting point is 00:12:11 And then we got to mix and match all four of the kids across the world. And we got to all live in a compound together. But then Annie and Hallie, the twist will be that their estranged husbands, they'll each marry the other ones at the end. Yes, because they have amesia and they can't remember which one is which themselves. That's right. And then they slowly find out that the things that drove each other apart in the first set of relationships would have been easily fixed if they just had the other person's qualities. so it works out. And then just switch spouses.
Starting point is 00:12:41 Happy lives. They live happily ever after. And then we make a sequel many more years down the line when all four of the new twins each have their own sets of twins. And so there are eight twins. And then all of them have gotten married but are estranged. And then they're going to, yeah, it's going to be a big old, they form a cult. They do. They formed a marriage cult in that movie.
Starting point is 00:13:05 But too, like the settings. I love you. To go from the ship, like, this just had so much lovely, like, time and place about it, like, to go from the ship to the camp, even, you know, the stuff in, you know, England with when you're seeing, you know, mom's home and her work, and when you're seeing dad's, you know, vineyard and all that stuff, or when they go camping, like, there's just, like, this was really, it just felt like really kind of handcrafted and, like, somebody really brought, you know, a nice sense of, you know, lovingness and perspective and tenderness to it, you know. in a way that, yeah, it was kind of striking and sort of special. And, yeah, like, friggin' A, Nancy Myers. Freakeney. Any other thoughts on your mind? No, I'm ready to get some trivia, but also before we get into trivia.
Starting point is 00:13:52 Oh, and what do you got? What do you got? What do you got? Let's see what they got on the tomatoes of the Rotten Friday. Okay. The parent trap. The parent trap. The parent tribe.
Starting point is 00:14:07 1998 Oh wait what There's like three of them There is a parent trap too What There's a sequel to the 80s one Okay all right Oh it was the 80s movie
Starting point is 00:14:18 I thought it was a 60s There's the original one 60s The sequel's 80s Let's go weird Okay On rotten tomatoes What do you think this got Uh
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Starting point is 00:18:12 But, I mean, I certainly without the original one fresh in my mind, I thought this was really lovely and striking. And, too, like, for the time it was, like, this could have been way more cringe. It could have been way more like, ooh, trying to be cool, you know. And I thought this was, like, this fit nicely as both a movie with the perspective of you. and kids, but also as a movie that is looking back sort of wistfully on, you know, like a very kind of mature theme of like love potentially lost and perhaps able to be reclaimed again. Like, yeah, it's kind of like goes. The movie itself almost comes of age as it changes, you know, the perspectives around.
Starting point is 00:18:52 I know this movie is made for kids and then my adult brain's watching it. I was like, okay, you guys broke up because you guys both had tempers and had poor communication. Did you guys fix those things in this 11 years? Is this going to work a second time? Well, you know, they're like, I don't even barely remember. It's like a distant memory. Maybe they, maybe that's because they're so different. It's a nostalgia romance.
Starting point is 00:19:10 Hopefully they've grown. But we're not here to think about that. It's Disney, it's magic, it's love, okay? We love, love. Oh, yeah. And I mean, you know, it's Disney, it's magic, it's love. And there's like the right amount of that peripheral magic. Just go with the high concept in suspender does believe without, yeah, being
Starting point is 00:19:27 obnoxious about it or being too, like, lurid about it. Also, you know what? Now that I knew the woman or the director was a woman, I feel like they handled, knowing that, I feel like if it was a male director, they would have handled the romantic aspect of the two parents come together a little differently. And I felt the softer tenderness of that embrace.
Starting point is 00:19:50 And the romance scene, that it was tastefully done. Tasteful indeed, much like a wine that Martin would have picked out or a plate of chili by Chesey my two favorite characters and all of cinema Don't forget the cornbread And the cornbread
Starting point is 00:20:06 I guess the cornbread was your chili Never heard in my life Cornbread and chili It seems like a strange combination That sounds delicious to me I don't know what you're talking about I'm not opposed to it It's just unconventional
Starting point is 00:20:16 After this reaction We're going to get cornbread and chili Let's do it Before we do that Let's read some trivies Yeah For her split screen scenes Say that five times fast
Starting point is 00:20:25 Lindsay Lohan wore an earpiece which would play back the dialogue of the other sister. Makes sense. I guess you've got to frame that out every time. Lindsay Lohan's feature film debut, she was in a short movie in 1996. Not a short film, a short movie. Oh, the difference.
Starting point is 00:20:41 We're trying to make a movie here, not a film. Name that film. Actress, Joanna Barnes, played the, quote, Wicked Girlfriend in the Parent Trap, 1961, and plays the mother of the wicked girlfriend in this version. That is fun.
Starting point is 00:20:54 In the 1998 version, the Wicked Girlfriend's name is Meredith rather than Vicky. Joanna Barnes' character as the mother in this new parent tribe is still named Vicky, however, which is funny because I noticed in the credits they credited Joanna Barnes as Vicky at the very end. And I was like, ah, now that makes sense because it's a bit of an Easter egg. That's great. The boy who shows up at the girls' camp is played by Michael Lohan, Lindsay Lohan's real-life brother. Lindsay's siblings regularly appear as extras in her movies.
Starting point is 00:21:26 That's fun. When Lindsay Lohen was 11, she pretended to be ill so she could skip school to go to her first movie audition for the parent's trap, 1998, and that proves just how good of an actor she was because she had to act ill. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. An oddity for Disney film.
Starting point is 00:21:44 This one shows a mother smoking a cigarette and getting deliberately drunk. I noticed that, too. You know, like this felt a little bit. It's stuff like that that made this feel a little less like, you know, an opposite. obvious Disney movie. Like if you didn't tell me it was a Disney movie, I might not have thought about it very much. Right. You know, due to choices like that. I did notice there was no cursing
Starting point is 00:22:06 in the movie, which I was like, okay. But yeah, it didn't feel like overtly Disney how you'd expect today. Oh, you want more cursing. Is that it? You wanted the R-rated, you know, like hard swear inversion. Yeah, yeah. I wanted to get cussed up. Yeah, that's right. Where they, that's in the cellar, that was the original scene was they were just going to like have a huge blowout fight, get it all out and then the next day they they're catharsed and they can you know work it out from there the twins in this version are named after the daughters of
Starting point is 00:22:33 director Nancy Myers and producer Charles Shire Annie Myers Shire and Halley Myers Shire both of whom have small parts in the movie that's cool Hallie plays a girl in the beginning at camp who asks where the Navajo bunk is and Annie plays the towel girl at the hotel
Starting point is 00:22:49 who brings Elizabeth the first aid kit that's fun oh so she did an audition for that role And ignore that quip. The character whom Hallie Myers Shire plays, conversely, is named Lindsay after Lindsay Lowe and the actress who plays Hallie and Annie. And that's, I guess, why it must have been, yeah, dedicated to Hallie there. Mara Wilson, hey, Frendo, auditioned for the dual roles, but was ultimately passed over
Starting point is 00:23:16 because producers felt like she wasn't old enough to play the parts. That's crazy. She was Matilda. Scarlett Johansson, Alex McKenna, Michelle, Tractenberg, rest in peace, and Tina Magerino. also tried out for the leads. That's fun. Golly. Can imagine what an alternate universe
Starting point is 00:23:36 kind of thought experiment that would be, which if each of them got cast instead. When Hallie arrives in London and meets Martin at the airport at the point where the two begin their greeting, you can see Lindsay Lowen's mother holding her brother Dakota. How many Lowen's are there? And beside her is Lindsay's older brother Michael
Starting point is 00:23:52 again and sister Aliana. If you watch closely, can be, oh, Allie Lohan, yeah, that's right. She's had a brief single out there in the music, right? Allie can be seen turning around to watch her sister. Then Lindsay's mother turns to look as well. The camp counselors, Marva Culp, senior, and junior are named in tribute to Nancy Culp, who played the younger of the camp counselors in the original movie.
Starting point is 00:24:17 A lot of nods in the movie. Dennis Quaid is engaged to his 26-year-old digger. Coincidentally, he married his fourth wife when she was 12. 26 years old. And as a result, his co-star, Elaine Hendricks, tweeted to him, better watch out for those twins. That's fun. Oh, and props to Elaine Hendricks, because that's, you know, again, playing like the evil girlfriend, I think, is like a thankfulless role. And, you know, you got to commit to it.
Starting point is 00:24:43 Yeah. Seymour Hallie and Annie are lying in bed in the camera pans from the moon to the parents' picture to the twins. Took about six hours to get right. Lindsay Lohan had to change from Annie to Allie and back many times. Damn. I wonder those were like quick changes. I got to have to go back and look at that. I was like, would that be all in like one or a handful of takes?
Starting point is 00:25:06 Meredith has started talking on the cell phone to Reverend Moseby, a reference to a character in the original parent trap. And it took eight months, three weeks, and two days to shoot this movie. Let's go down and look real quick at some spoiler facts. The opening and ending sequences each feature a love song performed by the legendary Nat King Cole and his daughter Natalie Cole. The opening scene as Nat King Cole's love, L-O-V-E, playing over images of Elizabeth and Nick's first wedding. The end credits
Starting point is 00:25:34 have Natalie Coles. This will be an everlasting love playing over photographs of Elizabeth and Nick's second wedding. During the poker game, Andy got a straight flush odds 72,000 to 1 and Halle got a royal flush, odds 650,000 to 1. The odds of two, for the two girls getting these two hands
Starting point is 00:25:52 is around 46.8 billion to 1. This is more poker hands than have been played at all of the major casinos on the Las Vegas trip over the past 100 years. The odds of winning the lottery
Starting point is 00:26:08 is only 14 million to 1. And the odds of you being the two twins of divorced parents who happen to send each other at the same camp. There's a lot of odds defined. stuff in this movie. I know. It's cosmic. Cosmic alignings.
Starting point is 00:26:21 This in the original are almost identical, except for a few minor changers. The mother isn't a fashion designer in the 1961 version, nor does the father own a vineyard. He is a ranch instead, and lives in Boston Mass, not London, England. Look at that. When Nick tries
Starting point is 00:26:37 to tell Annie that he's engaged, they ride horses, but in fact, Lindsay Lewin is allergic to horses. Oh, wow. Risk in life and limb for the art. Dennis Quaid plays the father of two twin girls in this film. In 2007, Dennis Quay became the father of two twin boys with wife, Kimberly Buffington.
Starting point is 00:26:54 In real life, they divorced in 2018. Deepers, man. Jeepers. Jeepers, y'all. Well, golly. This was super duper lovely. It was. Yeah. Oh, my God. To find the actress
Starting point is 00:27:09 who had played Hallie and Annie, an exhaustive casting search was conducted in Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Miami, Vancouver, Toronto, and London with open calls in New York and Los Angeles. wow wow golly the only question I have leaving the movie
Starting point is 00:27:22 is that when the grandfather wanted to walk with Hallie did I wonder if that's a film they shot or the scene they shot and cut out
Starting point is 00:27:32 or they just had that transition go because it was that walk that made her confessed to the mom yeah what did he say to her
Starting point is 00:27:39 what did he say yeah he put her in the thumb screws they went to one of those like medieval torture museums and then he just you know
Starting point is 00:27:45 who are you got medieval you know yeah who are you and what have you done with the real annie anyhow gang thanks for joining us this was such a delight i love this is like 13 going on 30 or something like that we get to see something that's like wholesome and sweet and like surprisingly you know kind of kick in like it's got a surprising amount of like zap and fun filmmaking and and yeah like i expected to be delighted but also in like a film nerd way i am delighted as well so same this was a delightful experience i'm happy i got to watch with you, man. Likewise. Likewise. If you're happy you got to watch it with us, leave a like on the
Starting point is 00:28:21 video and hey, we'll catch you on the next one. Much love, gang. Deuses.

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