The Flop House - Flop House Klassic - Bratz

Episode Date: September 21, 2008

What do you get when Stuart is out of town on vacation, Elliott is busy transitioning from one high-stress television comedy job to another high-stress television comedy job, and Dan is having Internet problems?  A rerun!  Hey, at least we don't do it as much as LOST.  (Well, as much as they used to... before their uninterrupted seasons... lets pretend that joke was still relevant and move on). In this, one of our favorite episodes, we discussed Bratz-- a movie that was so unexpectedly delightful in its badness that it became the gold standard for Flop House film ratings.  Enjoy.

On this episode of The Flop House, we discuss the Brats movie, the best doll-inspired film lot of sort of soft intros recently. Let's do a little more stylish. Let's do a little more hard intro. From the heart of Brooklyn, it's the flop house. I'm Dan McCoy. I'm Stuart Wellington. I'm Elliot Kaylen. Yeah, almost professional. Yeah, boo yeah. So Stuart. And then you abandoned the idea of a hard intro almost immediately. I like to keep things loose. I just I I'm, I get afraid that people don't know who we are. Well, is there anything you'd like to say for people who might be coming

in for the first time off of the success of Gauker? The runaway success of your Ziggy thing on Gauker? Listen, I don't want to my own horn, but I made you guys. Yeah, you did. You can even break as if you need to. Well, straight about your Ziggie movie ideas. I added it down to a tight seven. So... And would you like to discuss just what the regular thing that we do is? Yeah, the regular thing that we do here around the flop house. I sound like an ass. Yeah, sure.

We watch a bad movie. I mean, we discuss it afterwards. Or I don't know if oats are bad. I mean, in this case, I would say bad. Well, I'm not just saying this case. I mean sometimes they're not we watch movies that we assume ahead of time Might be bad due to poor financial or you know, they're not always financial flops I think you can tell sometimes you can just tell which one wasn't like the invasion or something Mr. Brooks. Okay. Oh, okay. Let's waitok let me discuss it it's like mystery science theater three thousand only you can't see what we're talking

about you haven't seen the movie which dooms it to failure yes it's a much more conceptually flawed the mystery that's a fair way to put it so uh... but tonight steward what are we watch tonight uh... we watch the brats movie. Oh awesome. Are we 12 year old girls? I'm not know are you let me check

No, I am at least I'm not one of those things that Elliot glanced down towards his fully clothed crotch So sure the thing is that generally I like the same things that 12 year old girls like, you know, stickers, pizza parties, unicorns, unicorns, sure, uh, little, little statues of horses. Trapar keepers. Yeah, having fights with your friends and then breaking up with them and then becoming friends again. Those, yeah, those scrunchy things that I would put my little ponytails in. Yeah. Those, uh, troll dolls, travisaylifes, bracelets that slit your wrist open. put my little ponytails in. Yeah. Those are... Troll dolls. Troll doll. Troll doll.

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Troll doll. Troll doll. Troll doll. Troll doll. Troll doll. Troll doll. Troll doll. believed every morning they wake up and they have simultaneous or away video phone conversations with their friends as they choose the clothes that they're gonna wear that day. Yes. Wait, can you not do that with the internet? I think they probably can. They did have amazing video quality on their computers and phones if to admit. I don't want to put the brats down. I just don't imagine that your average teenage girl has the four-way video. I don't want to put the brats down I just don't imagine that your average Teenage girl has the for-a-way video I wasn't there a poor brat wasn't one of the brats Yeah, but she had the for she had the video came also there was one brat who was marginally she was poor in the same way that I'm poor compared to

You know like Donald Trump Like I can't buy whatever I want all the time, but I get by. Sure. Yeah, it was a movie about breads. That's what I learned. Well, here's what we learned about breads. Let's see if we can figure out, because breads is kind of an amorphous concept to start with. So we learned they get up in the morning,

instantly full of energy and teleconference about the day to come. How well do you know about breads? Well, while picking out clothes, they're cavernous, cavernous closvernous closet from lever-in the in-class secret back shoe rooms. Yep. Um, they're also Incredibly good at anything they try everything everything literally everything they put in mind to science cheerleading

elaborate production numbers the breads are basically the 12 or 15 year old girl equivalent of the character Skaramouche from the Raphael 17y novel of the same name. Who whatever he does, he's amazing at. Hi, Brow. This is a Hi Brow podcast. So I was actually really relieved when the movie started and it was dancing and stuff. Because I don't know if you guys have, but I've actually seen pictures of the brats characters the dolls and cartoon Yes, and I have now I was I happy that it was a live action movie, but

When I realized that the the characters didn't look exactly like their cartoon counterparts and thus completely in human When they actually look like human girls. I was pretty excited. It would be horrific if it was all normal kids except for the four brats who had enormous eyes and tiny bodies and tiny hands and feet. Yeah, which is possible with these computer graphics. Yeah, I'm glad you brought this up to it because I was going to say for the benefit of listeners who might not be familiar with the inspiration for the brats hit film. This is based on a line of dolls. A line of dolls big-headed, horishly dressed dolls. Imagine if Door the Explorer was wearing, you know,

she grew up in her bed and talked to her parents. Yeah, exactly. I don't have a nose. And I'm off nose, you know. Here's what the message is of the Brett's dolls is, you will never be good looking because you will never be good looking because you will never be as thin as these dolls. And your eyeballs will never grow this enormous. Yeah, and I'm often, you have a nose. Stood in toy stores staring at the Bradstalls. And those around me have always thought

that guys having sexual fantasies about the Bradstalls. But really what I was thinking was, I wonder what their real life adventures are all about. And this movie answered that question for a while. The movie was for you, is what you're saying. I wonder what their real-life adventures are all about. And this movie answered that question for a while. Movie was for you, is what you're saying. Well, I don't like to brag, but yeah, I don't know what that means in that context. Yeah, brats, I don't know.

This was maybe the most hyperactive movie we've seen, or that I've seen with you guys at least. Stuff happened in this one. Stuff happened with you. Roughly every 30 seconds, there was a different plot point. It was rich with incidents if it wasn't the if it wasn't Jade the Eurasian brat Starting to fall in love with her lab partner or the deaf jock who who becomes a DJ or What else happens in this they the bust of the principal that breaks in a giant food imagine a Picker-esque Henry Fielding. And then imagine that it stars the breath.

Then you would have a pretty good approximation of this, the plotting. Well, first let's talk about the individual brats. And I use individual lightly. I would say that they're basically a unit. However, there's the Caucasian brat. There's the black brat. There's the Asian brat.. There's the black brat. There's the Asian bloat brat and there's the Hispanic brat

However all the minority brats are pretty Caucasian. There are the most Caucasian Interracial group of brats you can imagine. I don't think I don't think the Hispanic brat was Hispanic No, I don't think we do I think your mom was Jewish We didn't realize she was Hispanic until her mom began blustering at her in Spanish and then she walked into the kitchen And there was a mariachi band eating in her kitchen right as if to say listen This is all we can do to prove to you that she's Hispanic if you don't find it okay Well, he also jailed a mariachi band you know, let's just what happens in You know your average household. There's a mariachi band well, Well, let's love the, and the, uh, Hispanic brat could sing.

That was her talent. They can all sing, but she's the one that they tell is a good singer. And also she can do a magic trick where she pulls pieces of chocolate from behind her mother's ears, which astounds her mother. And never fails to amaze her mom. I've never got any closure on that plot point. Is it a Hispanic stereotype to do magic tricks or to love chocolate I don't know both I guess I'm Not enough of a racist to those luckily I got that cut The racist one of this game we're gonna spread completely

Apocryphal stereotypes You know those Hispanics and all their chocolate Asian brats love Cookery I'm glad you know what it's like they was exclusively the brats Sell the border of the magic tricks. Oh Brats okay, so there but one where they all had their own they were all great at everything they did But they all had their individual talents that they were really great at everything they did, but they all had their individual talents that they were really great at.

One was into singing, one was a fashion designer, and also a scientist. Yep, a chemist. Wait a minute. Let's take a moment to talk about what happened in her first day of chemistry class, which is that she threw a bunch of chemicals into a big beaker willy nilly much to the admiration of the fellow science students and then fireworks came out of it. And when I say fireworks, I mean don't mean it exploded. I mean like literal miniature fireworks. Like one might see it at a 4th of July fireworks explode.

But shrunk down. Yeah, like she was at Hogwarts as Shorthead. I did see that actually. The weirdest part about it is that she did all this without any kind of uh... teacher supervision apparently there are no teachers at the school there's no administration stories of one principle yeah apparently there is a fashion designer because and here's that in the i guess home at class but it's nothing but making clothing she makes a dress for her

fashion teacher on her first day the teacher is doubly glasses hair up and all that walks away puts on this sexy red dress that she's made for her takes her glasses off in the whole odd the class from claps we never know and I was not the microphone or because it's clapping we never we never see this teacher again I have to assume she left and married like a wealthy and aging building billion or something like that. There are a lot of plot points that are set up and then discarded. How unprofessional is it to leave your class and change into the dress, the sexy dress that your student just made for you?

There's like that seems to be, you know, I think there's got to have been a subplot that was discarded about the sexy dress. There had to be something about it. She obviously realized that at that point her work was done. She taught. She said nothing more to she is she now should be the student there was the music professor who taught the death of the hot death guy the hot death guy who spoke perfectly yeah spoke perfectly and didn't need to be looking at somebody to read their lips right so basically a guy yeah but who every now and then would say i can't hear

just very clear he could hear everything is going to be basically the one point at which in the movie which the breath did something wrong was when one of the brats to this person out and he was like uh... i'm death so maybe he was just being a dick to that girl maybe he was just trying to make her feel bad maybe but uh... he became a dj at the two-age of this music teacher And that was completely abandoned. I don't think we heard he came back at the end of the big talent show

Which we'll get to yeah, but apart from the music teacher and the fashion teacher at a couple security guards There's really only one adult supervisor at the school who is of course principal dimly played by Academy award winner John Voight. Played to a tee. To a tee by John Voit in a prosthetic nose. And here's, this is a subplot I wish had been looked at more. Obviously, there's a lot of graft and resource wasting going out of the school because there's a bust, a sculpted bust of the current principal on the school grounds. And I had like, who proved this budget that he's wasting money on a bus to himself to put on it at his school

A bus which is easily knocked over and broken much like I don't know I don't know if you've ever been in the high school, but pretty much everything's bolted down pretty well Or if it's a statue it's usually made out of bronze. Yeah, it's not it's not hollow ceramic Basically the art class ceramic. Basically the art class just did a paper mache. There you go that explain. It still doesn't explain the ceremonial Japanese sword set that was in the Secret Surveillance Room that the class president had. Yeah well what has to assume that John Void took this part because he heard that there might be a fake nose ball and he thought well

uh... that sounded cool kidman got her academy awards so maybe that's it yeah the brats will be my ticket but he has an academy award well he won for coming home didn't he he's a green he's right he's a greedy man John void you heard it her first i'm calling you out john void choose choose the scenery he's calling you a producer of baby geniuses Oh, he was really good Nana Konda. He was that last wink man. Yep So what was so that we had these brats? We don't really need to talk about them What was that who was their villain because every brat needs a villain?

What was her name? Meredith Baxter dimly. Yes, it was. There were these little touches like Meredith Baxter dimly that seemed like the screenwriter was very bored with what she was doing and just throwing them in. Right, you pointed out that. It was, they went to Carrie Nation High School and everything was, the symbol of the school was an axe and that the big talent show, the end,

they win the Golden Axe. And it's like, oh, that's kind of a cute little joke. Like, Carrie Nation used to chop up bars with axes because she was, you know, a leader of the Temperance Movement. That's kind of a almost too smart for the bad movies. Well, almost too smart for Brad's movie. You think that the eight-year-old girls who joined the Brad's movie

are familiar with the history of the Temperance Movement. They might be. I don't know. I don't know if they know everything about the improvement reform progress of movement but you know well i want to talk about something that uh... delighted me about this movie so you know where this this movie had i would say it moved in fits and starts there are there were

points in which you thought oh maybe this movie is over and then you would look at the time and say oh this movie is 30 minutes in maybe the first or second time that their friendship fell apart and then they came back and get back together again right well the movie starts on the first day of school high school at high school and they all go in and they're all they're. Even though they are all totally like one another, except for their slightly varied interests. And then the nisities.

Yeah, the evil villain of the school wants to split them up into clicks. So the evil villain is the school class president. She's basically Reese Witherspoon in election except with a little dash of at least Alicia Silverstone in the clueless. Yeah, for some reason it's very important to her. Played for an audience that really can appreciate subtle plays. She also has a, she does have her remote control floating swim pool chair at one point.

She's the evil rich daughter of the principal. And as you pointed out, Stuart, where are all the money is coming from? On a principal salary. Their house looks like the Mexican presidents mansion, basically. Yeah. Well, that's a high school principal for you.

Roll in the money. But she is really committed to the idea of clicks being separated. It's basically like a segregationist. Let's point out some of the clicks at this school. So the clicks that they're, she says something that like there's 13 clicks at this school or 17 clicks. And they include goth kids, jocks, but then they also include disco kids. Kids that dress as dinosaurs are just named that.

Mimes, mimes. It's as if whoever's making the movie was like, this school is full. that dresses dinosaurs are just named that. Mimes, mimes. It's as if whoever's making the movie was like, this school's full, I remember high school is full of clicks. I guess they're really only two or three clicks. Everyone else just kind of milled about. Well, I'll make up some other clicks. It was like a three or four hour brainstorming session where after three or four hours

they're like, yeah, we got two written down. Fuck it. Somebody grab a magazine. Done. Done. It's all done. Done. We can written down. Fuck it. Somebody grab a magazine. Dinosaur, dinosaur. Dinosaur, do this. Disco, great. Do it. Those are the hippies. Okay, done. Those are the other hippies.

Okay. Cora DeRoy wearing engineers. Fine. But anyway, it was really important for... Van Geeks. Van Geeks was one of them. And they were in their ban costumes all the time. Sure. And always had the dissimission. that that that is actually literally true to life that I remember that they had carry their instruments around with them all the time the kid with the drum

uh all the kids there's a lot of the other is a bank is what always go out to the band building to make out during a lunchtime oh this so they would I like is they drive when they drive to the school I don't know if you guys noticed a student is walking by carrying a human skeleton and I assume he's in the science class and not a murderer. Well that's the best way to like to script a scene is like okay how do I get people to know what roles these characters feel. It's obviously as you mentioned you stick something in

their hands that I did by some hair whether or not it's a human skeleton for a scientist slash murder. Instruments for a band geek. I don't know, like at disco balls or disco kids. I don't know. Yeah. A turntable for a deaf kid. Because that says, yeah. That was a strange scene.

One of the Hispanic brad, whose name I don't remember. Yes, man. Yes, man. Who's the singer? That't remember. Yes, man. Yes, man, who's the singer. That's right. Yes, me and she bumps into someone in the hallway and says, what do you blind? And he goes, no, but I am deaf. So whatever or something like that. And she goes, oh, I didn't know.

And he's like, well, I guess you, I may be deaf, but you're ignorant or something like that and walks away. And suddenly the scene, slow motion, sad music. Oh, this brat made a mistake well we should talk about the music and say but what I was saying was the villain seems really intent on maintaining the social order for no reason that's ever explained adequately in the film but the point is on the first day all the brats want to sit together but they need to be segregated to their individual interests. And because of this,

they basically break up as friends. And then suddenly the film has a title card that says two years later. 20 minutes into the film. That's a title card that says two years later. And then immediately upon coming back into the story they all get sentenced to detention together and become friends again because of that and literally there would there's no reason why that couldn't all have happened in the same year they also look exactly the same they have the same interest the same friends nothing about this is so let's say it's freshman year through what junior year so they're going roughly from like the age 14 to the age 16,

let's say, or 13 to 15. Like that's a major, those are two of the two most important years in a young Americans developmental life. They would have changed. Mass, I'm not the same person at 13 that I was at 15, but they have not changed at all. Nothing has happened. And then they can be friends.

Is it changes? No, physical, well, they're already, have already gone through puberty before their first day of high school. Okay, but they also Different haircuts maybe. Same haircuts. Oh, we're the same haircuts. And the one girl's younger brother is also the same age that he was two years before. Did he have a different haircuts?

They're all the same haircuts. The same haircuts. The same romantic interests. Who also look the same and have the same haircuts and are with the same girls these guys are all are in high school relationships that have lasted two or three years yes they would just leave immediately when they see the attractive brats walking in

we should also note they go to detention because of a food fight they accidentally cause in which massive fistfuls of pasta thrown around. It looks like someone was positing. Someone picked up a plate and throws it and then they'll cut to someone being hit in what looks like a confetti can and is worth a pasta in the face. But it bears a, it bears noting that the pasta is not the problem.

The problem is that the brands accidentally, I do imagine the director in the season. Oh, we need more pasta. We're not getting across the food velocity of the scene. But the Brad's accidentally smashed the bust of a beach schnauzed. That's right. And that's what lands them in detention. So are you imagining that they're like using it like a weird machine like the machine from Ernest goes the camp that fires out the eggs erroneous people

and this fires pasta just something with the only off camera like this is something you're not getting the right trajectory on that pasta girl what are the brats didn't know no this is something that they did but you know behind the scenes we're still supposed to believe that the brats are throwing these huge mounds of pasta at evil let me reiterate however that the brats have now broken up his friends and gotten back together Years later, and it's 30 minutes into the film 30 minutes in what's the rest?

What's the what's the remaining hour and five minutes of the film you may ask which is the running time of the movie? Sure, you know without credits with credits the credits includes two music videos You don't want to skip the credits One of them involves a piano with the word brats red not in big letters. You'd be doing yourself with a service Uh, but there what is it what still is yet to come in the movie? Oh, I don't know a talent show Maybe a super sweet 16 party. That's that's good Don't talk about the talent show. Oh, sorry. I won't get to that yet Even the image of the talent show roughly 25 minutes into the film. I mean, it it's dropped for a while. Yeah, yeah, well don't they like break up and become friends again like four more times

It feels like and I think Dan mentioned this it feels like several episodes of the breads TV show like Sown together like those movies where they make it they would take a Japanese or an Italian TV show and just Sew the episodes together into a movie. This is kind of like that. This is the cruel intentions to Morty-o-l'hybrow. It's the mahalen Mahalen drive of breath or the Lost highway of breath films wait lost high was strong the others one. That's two different stories All right, but mahalon drive That was a television show. Yeah, oh, okay, but anyway, so the super sweet so the villain of the movie Meredith Baxter Dively decides to throw a super sweet 60. This is how she's gonna win the school back over There's her clutch on power so tenuous as long as these free agent brats are around acting independent and by acting independent

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who are squarely within the Main Street of high school society. Yes, there's nothing about them that's particularly crazy or off-putting everybody likes them as soon as they meet them they're not outcasts you know there's nothing different but this isn't Harold and Marl i guess yeah the only time it's just rest other people get annoyed with them is when they don't want to be their friends yes when yeah the only time people get mad at the brats is when the brats don't want to hang out with them because they want to hang out with their other friends

They want to hang out just with brats, but they get over that pretty quickly. I get that we're in this isn't welcome to the dollhouse Yeah, it's very true like once the brats realize that they want to hang out with the other brats There's no point at which they're like you know what we can hang out with each other and our other friends It's more like okay. Well, we got to choose we we gotta if we choose we choose our own kind and our own kind is bread maybe it's because i'm reading a book about the old testament right now but it seems like there's a parallel here between the ancient israelites either they kept together as a people and didn't intermarry

or they were put into exile in babel on when the babelonians took over the land of canin that had become israel and suddenly they the israelites didn't get along anymore they enter married they became part of abalone society until i think it was at the profit asrael said listen guys we got to get back to our roots and that then they became israelites again and shut out the rest of modern society i guess it's kind of a brats the movie is that i believe that it is direct quote is hey guys we

got it we got a show off our brand it in the Torah does I think he broof a gratitude slightly different but you know yeah Brad it's also they do invent the word gratitude yeah as you would say Stewart this is a snob versus snob's comedy yeah exactly there's no there's no underdog in the zone there is there's an overdog and a slightly less overdog. It's more like there's an overdog who's mean. There's more dogs that people like. Or slightly less overdogs.

But there's an even one, like, more than a match. Even when the brets are like getting along with people, they're molding them to be more like the brets. They're putting makeup on the nerds. They're teaching the jocks math. They're like, it's not like they're messages Be yourself, but what they're actually doing is making sure everyone conforms to the brats ideal

Teaching them math which I don't recall but I don't think that was an actual math problem No, she gives them she's teaching foot Jade the Asian one her name is Jade She's teaching the football players math and she says x plus y plus z over 3 and the answer is And there's no way to solve that not an equation. That is impossible to solve equation implies it equals sign somewhere You can't figure out what those letters are standing for if you have only one number 14 doesn't make they could be anything Although I recall it's right at 14. I believe it has a at 14. I believe at the end of that that scene There's a lot of football players high-fiving. Yeah, so I think you're wrong

She replaces all of the variables with real numbers When it becomes a You know it just your old math becomes a number. Yeah, exactly Yeah, that was dumb. Oh, but anyway, so, so Meredith Baxter, Emily has a tenuous grasp on power. These brets, uh, these, we'll, no one stop. Who will save me from these turbulent brets?

That's what she shouts out. Uh, she, she decides this is how she's gonna get back her power. She's gonna throw the biggest super sweet 16 party ever. She's gonna invite MTV to cover it and she's gonna rub it in the faces of everyone at school and not invite the brats but you're gonna show everyone at school how great she is. No hold on she's willing to invite the brats but only if they can form. That's true. If they show up with their click. And so the way she does this is apparently everyone in school is given a balloon that has a piece of

paper with their clicks name inside it So they pop their balloons and they're like oh shit all four of us brats aren't in the same like I guess we shouldn't go to this party And then they're gonna make a stand against Meredith Baxter dimly. However, they can't yeah The poor brats mom Turns out to be the caterer for this party which she hardly and this is a woman who her so her daughter comes home and her mom is asleep on the couch and her she says oh no i've got to cook all this food oh no mom you're tired here i'll take care of it you sleep for a couple hours so her mother is dealing with depression or alcoholism or something sure this is a woman whose only

job seems to be catering this one party and it she's so tired that you cannot do it meanwhile the floor brats who are geniuses and everything they've made to whip up the catering entire party which had looked you know what's the party starts looks to have like five hundred people and let's they make a point of saying us cook you crazy or something along those lines that teens would say heck I even burn water yet that was a line i've been burned you know what uh... and yet their message cookie a cooking isn't a skill you can just pick that up apparently within the course of a montage so so many montages

oh but here's the thing so they cater it but then not only do they have to cater it they also have to fill in for the wait staff who couldn't show up. So the breads are not only at the party, but they're servants to their evil staff. Also the wait staff have to wear clown costumes,

because suddenly this is a filini film. Yeah, so you get the strange picture of the four breads in full clown makeup and costumes being told by Meredith Baxter-Dimley, I guess to serve the food properly and things like that. Oh, and also Meredith Baxter-D you may have a smart alieck little sister yeah that true now the thing is by including the whole like clown uh... the

whole like clown theme i guess her party was circus themed sure and like i think that only help to cement that feeling like i was watching uh... don't tell mom the babysitter's dead but brats it this is This was the fashion show at the end of the Yeah, it was a fashion show at the end with the with the boyfriend or love interest who I believe drove a circus theme Oh, he was an ice cream truck. I think oh yeah, you're a hot truck something like that I don't remember all I remember was that no one was told in the end that the babysitter was dead That's true

Yeah, so yeah Don't tell mom of babysitter's dead You're seeing an apple gate That's true. Yeah, so yeah, there's some line of baby service dead, Christiane Applegate, traditions are done. So, okay, so to circus themed party, there are clowns and acrobates everywhere. Mara the Bexter dimly comes in riding an elephant which fails to impress the people at the party, but to be fair, it looks like a pretty boring party. Yeah.

They're just sitting at tables, there's an elephant that's about it. That's a juggler or two, I think. There are a couple jugglers, yeah. and there's a lot of people with jolly connolly she got Cirque de Soleil to play the party which as you know if you're high school or that's pretty much the top you want Cirque de Soleil to come in with their sort of whimsical fade uh... french canadian this and entertain you uh... and you then the shit the party is being covered by MTV for their show. And you know this because there's one guy holding a DV cam with a T-shirt on that says MTV

on it. It's apparently the entire crew behind that show. I want to point out that Meredith shames the Hispanic brat. And I really, you know, this is after Meredith's musical number in which she thinks about how great she is and how much better she is than everybody else. I feel bad referring to their brats by their ethnicities, but the thing is that is literally the only thing that distinguishes them as characters in this film. And you will see how that is when I finish this.

She shames this girl by showing a video of her singing La Cucaracha with her mom, which a video that like her brother, her like the or the little brother took on a cell phone, which was by far the best fucking picture I've ever seen of a cell phone. Even when, as you mentioned, blown up and projected on the side of the house for everyone to see. The perfect crystal, crystal resolution.

Block Cookoracha, I guess, was the only Spanish folk tune that they can think of. You know, it is, I mean, it does call back to the time of Pancho Vía was the only Spanish folk tune that they can think of. It is, I mean, it does call back to the time of Pancho Vía and his revolt. And then they all did the Mexican hat dance together. Well, I think they included that scene so that all the Hispanic girl audience

would have something to relate to this show. I know about you guys. Heal your currents. Yeah, all the Hispanic girls I know, all the time. Six o'clock, mom, time to sing the cookuracha. Is that a chocolate behind your ear? Magic! Oh, we Mexicans.

We love magic and chocolates. It's our defying and characteristic. So, I know. And also, by the way, in keeping with this, Jade, the half Asian girl, has an Asian mother who pushes her too much to be a nice girl who dresses in Primm uniforms and does things but when she gets to school She becomes a girl with died streaks in her hair. Yeah, somehow she's close. I don't know if she wears a weight Angel yeah angel

School girl I day stripper. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought I thought you meant angel from a buffy No, no, no, no, David Boreen You're a your version makes more sense. Yeah, that does right one of the things we haven't touched on yet I don't want to actually talk that much more about the plot. We haven't even gotten to the talent show yet We'll talk about the talent show as as what the jump drive the talent show yet. We'll talk about the talent show as a... What did the jump drive? What I just want to talk about a little bit was this movie

a little bit of music in it, right guys? I know, why? And by what you mean, 60% of the movie. Or you just talk about the soundtrack. I was just gonna say there's a shitload of music in this movie. Roughly 75% of the actual movie is set to some kind of a musical number.

There's, it seems like every two minutes or so, it's a different song and sometimes every 15 seconds. As soon as there's any sort of change in, like even if two characters are having a conversation and their conversation ends and another conversation starts, music change. Yeah, any change in mood is accompanied by change in mood music.

And it's not just pop hits too. Like it'll be opera, it'll be sort of like you but one of the Esquivel style exotic it was strange it was like the person who it was like that the soundtrack a ranger had been given one of those Nickelodeon toys are a shopping sprees where they're like you got 15 minutes to run through this record store and just pull CDs off the shelf, and then you got to score the movie with that. And it was like, oh, do Strauss, Eskival, Wonderwall, you know, and so forth. Just anything she could get her hands on.

Yeah. And there was a lot of the use of that slow motion, then speed up with like a wishing noise. And multiple screens on screen at once, picture and picture, split screen. and then speed up with a wishing noise. Yeah, do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do stuff like could you just think about what would have happened if it had all gone wrong? I mean yeah it's so lucky. Lucky this movie turned out to be a masterpiece yeah. It's uh it's something beautiful coming up chaos. It's like it's like it's like it's like Johnny Greenwood's discordant score to their will be blood. It just perfectly works. It's good to turn out to be a mess in which something new happens every two minutes and the characters don't make sense and you get dizzy I like the only time the way I felt after watching this movie was the way I felt after I once drank too much water It's short amount of time and I was low-key and I like my mind was reeling and I felt I was like I feel drunk But I'm not drunk. I've just drank a lot of water. I don't understand. Yeah, that's the breaths. That's a sweet high a water high

That's the breaths for you. Well, oh, I did move. I did want to say Dandy if you ever title these episodes You should call this one beat on the breaths nice. I don't think that's fair when you see the how this podcast turns out this podcast turns out. Everything turns out all right, though. I don't want to leave the podcast listeners to spend. Spoiler. If you don't run out immediately. Spoiler alert. Spoiler, they win the talent show and the poor one wins the college scholarship.

Yeah. They win the talent show with an elaborately choreographed routine that involves several backup dancers and a full brass band. And a multimedia display, changing video, lights, people in the audience with plaque hearts. The only thing they would have made, the conclusion of the film, I think better, it would have sold up more, as if a guy showed up and was like, I'm from MTV and you guys are awesome. Here's a wrap. Well, let's do it. You must have been in the bathroom or something

when that happened because that happened holy shit that sounds like a really good movie a guy who I believe we believe was played by the director of the film walks up I'm from MTV we're having a movie premiere and we want you to perform at it very very very night Shyamalan the director's like yourself yeah I like someone director's life is a yeah of like someone there's only somebody but somebody that's relatively important and he's shooting the moon to be like I'm present

to the TV it's kind I don't know why he didn't just dissend and say I've come I'm God and you know what? Bratz join me in heaven with the hosts you know and then the bratz who have basically been on top except for the two-year span that we

did not see them because of the film. Which you have to show them as eating disorders, date rape, terrible things. You have to assume that all of the drama in the film actually occurred during those two years that we didn't see. Come out on top once more. And then there are two music videos. And as I said, to Elliot, this has got to be some sort of backdoor pilot for a Berat's concert tour or something.

Something, obviously this is kind of a prototype for Hannah Montana it seems, where the idea is, yeah, yeah, it's a, this is a television show, it's a movie, but it's also kind of a commercial for albums and things like that. Yeah, it's kind of like Transformers or something. But that's the thing. It's also, this is what we all grew up with, which is we grew up with cartoon shows that were based on toy lines, and like, he-man was a 30-minute advertisement for a toy line, and that's exactly what this is. This is an hour and 40-minute-long advertisement for the breads. The dolls are like the shoes. I think both. All of them.

I don't know if they're breads shoes. You might be thinking of the Steve Madden ads that you see on Where it's basically brats But it's for Steve Madden shoes. Isn't it an intellectual property theft? I will always wondered that yes So Elliot On the subject of brats you are a a, you know, you're a high paid, imagine you're a high paid Script writer. I know, I know you struck gold with your Ziggy pitch. Pitch me your Bratz. Elliot Kalen presents Bratz. The bass on the toys.

Sure, yeah. Okay, well, oh, well, first of all, I don't want to do it with real-life actors. This is the opposite of Ziggy. Ziggy was a real-life actor playing Ziggy. And this, I want the Brats. Let's say they live in Toyland, Dolce, Slovenia. You know, let's call the Brats universe.

Any town USA. Any town USA, and everyone there is like the Brats. They have giant eyes, no noses, they're sexy, in a weird Mike's Heart Lemonade, NBC Pred date line kind of way and they somehow I don't know show up in our world. They've befriended teenage girls who's not a not very popular. A portal? Glasses, hair up. Maybe it's a magic thing. Maybe it's a portal. I don't like magic. Well that's okay. So it's some sort of magic. Maybe the Bratz universe and Earth are in conjunction. I only once every million years

The portal is the portal is open for 72 hours And they teach her how to be herself and be a beautiful girl But there's a toy maker a rich evil toy maker in town who sees these Bratz wants to make a line of toys based on them Kidnapped them finds out they're alive, there's a whole universe of Brat's dolls, let's save you all and sell you to the children. And then you'll steal from the children and give it to me and the Brat say, they probably talk in a hype of choice. And you know, the girl who helped them, she has to use her newfound popularity, get the kids together, overthrow the evil toy maker, and then get those Bratats home before the portal closes.

I'm telling you, Hollywood, you should steal Eliot's brain. I'm not encouraging Hollywood producers to come and in the middle of the night, perform some sort of brain surgery, removing his brain from his body and putting it in some sort of Hollywood, I don't know, the hit making machine. But if you were to do that i don't think i would rather they didn't i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know of the California raisins or the fish in life aquatic, something like that. But the humans would be real people. But you'd have these kinds of stop-motion-

So they wouldn't be puppets. No, they would be real. And then you'd have like puppet brats, stop-motion-puppet brats. It would be all composite screen screens, things like that. You have to get a very talented, young actress to play the girl. She's gonna have to act to basically nothing. The brats won't be there. It's kind of an Indian in the cupboard type thing. Sure. Oh my god. Well god well look before we talk forever also torre emos original song done brilliant brilliant give it a little cred we shouldn't do our final judgments on this thing so if you have a lesson to the podcast before there are three categories for three

flop house categories. Is this a bad movie you would not recommend to anyone? Is this a bad movie that you would recommend as a bad movie? Good for a few laughs or a movie that you think actually is pretty good secretly. So I'm going to go and just do word over here because I think he's got his opinion lined up. Yeah. I actually, I think this is a bad movie that's fun as a bad movie.

That's the second category, I think. Yeah. Because it's totally crazy and something new happens like every 10 minutes. So if you don't actually like paying that much attention, it seems like a lot of stuff's happening. No, I agree. I'm going to go with that too. Like, we have watched a lot of movies that have been series, pain, to watch, and I think they've made for good shows. I don't know whether this is a good show or not, but watching the movie, I had a great time. And particularly, I know we've ruined it for you as a podcast listener, but the first time two years later, you got thrown up there on the screen, I could not stop laughing.

That is what we said, what the fuck like 10 times. 20 minutes into the screen. I could not stop. That was when we said what the fuck like 10 times. 20 minutes into the film. Beautiful. It is surprised. Chop that for two years. And ultimately it makes no difference. So that was beautiful. Thank you, Brett, the movie. And I would also go for it, category two.

This is my no means a good movie. Let's just get that out of the way right there. It's a terrible movie. The message is a barren. Be yourself as long as you're beautiful and good at everything. But yeah, watching it the whole time, it's like babysitting like a nephew who's like four years old and running around

and you're really tired after a day of work and you're like, oh, I don't wanna watch this kid anymore and run around, he keeps doing different things that are really irritating. But then in the end of the night, you're so giddy from chasing this kid around that you're like, you know what, I'll babysit another time.

So. You got me, Brett. You got me, Brett. You won me over with your crabbyness, but also with your energy. Oh, man. That's great. Usually at this point, we move from negativity to positivity,

but this time it's gonna be from positivity to positivity. Since we all had such a good time, but small. Watching the Brett. And we believe me, I think I'd speak for all of us when I say I am immensely surprised that I had such a good time The feel good movie So now's the time in the movie when we talk about Recommendations, so I'm gonna move over to Elliott first for this okay So now's the time in the movie when we talk about recommendations.

So I'm gonna move over to Elliot first for this. Okay, well since we watch the movie about young girls, brats or the brats, I don't remember if it's brats or the brats, or brats the movie. It's brats to you. It's a trend. Every instance of brats has a trademark. If simply brats with, I believe there's a halo over the A.

Why? I don't know. Because they love the angels. Sure baseball fans I but so another movie I saw recently for the first time which I had me meaning to see for a while also about young girls called picnic at hanging rock which is the exact opposite of this in every way it's a very deliberately-paced very kind of beautiful trans like movie about in the year nineteen hundred a group of uh... uh... English girls at a boarding school in australia go to this place hanging rock uh... on a picnic and three of them

and their teacher disappear no one knows where they are their lost no one can find them and there's the movie kind of follows what happens to everyone else is they grapple with the fact that basically the laws of reality this they don't come out and say this but the laws of reality they've always depended on do not apply there's something about hanging rock there's something about the universe that they cannot answer and it had this very kind of

i mean what it struck me as is like kind of an outrun on blackwood story but he's not that means kind of a few of us all say a little bit less of a, like, if HP Lovecraft wrote not movie, not stories about things with tentacles that scared people because they ate them and stuff like that, but wrote stories about kind of like ineffable mysteries of in nature. The idea that these girls have all this bound up emotion that they can't let out because they're in this boarding school and it's the year 1900 they have to wear gloves until they're out of sight of townspeople at one point because it's just not proper and there's something inside them that unlocks something in this rock and Takes them and everyone else has to deal with that and wonder about their own place and you know all that sort of thing But it's it's really beautiful and frankly when I was a kid growing up

I used to see commercials for ZamFear master of the the Panflute all the time. And I was like, that's ridiculous. But he performed much of the soundtrack, oh, much of the soundtrack is ZamFear songs. And the whole time I was like, this is perfect. This is beautiful, haunting music. So I guess I was wrong to laugh at you, ZamFear. Master of the Romanian pan- out and rent brats and by the best of zamfear the the two of them would make an interesting double feature because what is about yet like they're both about young girls who can like burstin out you know let the their true selves show

but one is this kind of emotionally scary thing in the other is brats the movie so you know well uh... since i went on vacation recently i think i should talk about the two films that I saw on the plane Out to San Francisco and back from San Francisco because Frankly, I didn't have time to see a lot of movies because I was on vacation So on my way there I saw the golden compass or I should say I saw the beginning of the golden compass And I would recommend the golden compass as an airplane movie because it put me right to

sleep. I had a great time watching it and waking up and realizing that a large part of my seven-hour plane trip was almost a... because you know what I mean I read the golden compass books and I enjoyed them. Problem with the movie was they basically were really faithful except for the anti-religion stuff. So you're left with just really complex mythology that they tried to explain to you right off the bat in narration. And I felt like Mr. Burns and the Simpsons have been like, I don't care about Blizzblas and Thinflin. It just immediately just put me off.

And I was like, if I having read the books felt like this, I can't imagine someone coming in cold to this movie what their reaction would be to it. That was, if I can interject, that was a movie that I was very excited about it because I'm a big fan of that book. And one of the great things about the book is the main character doesn't know that much about the world outside of where she lives. So as she's discovering these new things so are you it's like oh there are these people who live on boats and trade among the countries and they have their own mysterious ways and

apparently there are witches what and then she and then you hear like oh the Panzer Björner are there's trouble got up with them up north like, oh the Panzer Björner, there's trouble up with them up north, and it's like, Panzer Björner, and I don't even know what that is, but that sounds pretty good. And you know, it's constantly unfolding this mysterious world that you learn more about slowly. And in the movie, it starts off with a prologue

that like, all the world is made of a magical substance named dust, the people, the witches, the talking bears, the dada dada. And it's like, why did you just give away the fact that witches the talking bears the dada dada And it's like why did you just give away the fact that they're talking bears in this movie like this is the one of the best Things in the moot in the book is like only shit. They're talking bears that where I earn and fight each other in this book I had no idea this is great, but right off the bat. They're like well, they're talking bears So spoiler so when the bear shows up it's like oh there's that talking bear I heard about you know it's you must be the talking bear that's the talk of the town this season so I agree that I with exactly what

you're saying but on the way back however I saw a national treasure to book of secrets and let me tell you you know on the flipside you're gonna watch movie on a plane that's gonna keep you paying attention the whole time. I'm not gonna say it's a great movie. I'm not even gonna say it's a good movie necessarily but I was so entertained by the secrets and you know like I was actually a big fan of the first film as like sort of a good bad movie because it's it's silly but it's really like a tongue in cheek. When you set at the movie where he can see two minutes and a little bit too much. No, that's next.

We watch the next. You're confusing your Nicholas Cage films. But the first movie was like, all right, we're gonna make an Indiana Jones movie and we're gonna put Nick Cage in it and we're gonna make it about history. And that's kind of what I like about the National Treasure series is like the nerdiness about like we're gonna make this about American history

Granted, it's gonna be our crazy Hollywood version of American history, but still it's gonna be a ratio of millions of schoolchildren thinking that The that America was started with I guess pirate gold Right, it's hidden somewhere, but it's not it's not about like fucking transforming robots or something. Like it's it's a very human sized thing. I've been oh you're saying. Well there there are a couple things I just want to point out about it. Number one, well number one John Voich is in the American the the National Treasure films. So that's a good breath. Just be aware of plastic nose in them. No there's no prosthetic nose but number two Harvey Kitelle is in the movies. And in the first movie it made sense like you know why he was in it the second film like Harvey Catelle plays this FBI agent and he's introduced in the second movie by his underlings coming in and being like

hey guess what Nicholas Cage is in the news again your friend from the first national treasure film and there's no crime that Nicholas Cage is committed at this time, but Harvey Kitell is like let's keep an eye on it So basically, I guess if any news that's pertinent to Harvey Kitell is like Let's keep the FBI working on this subject and it doesn't make any sense because like later on he's brought into the story in a much more logical way But I guess they felt like they needed to remind people like, hey Harvey Kaito was in the last movie and he's gonna be in this one. It's stature. But the other weird thing about the National Treasure movies is it basically gives you this

version of American history where every national monument was just constructed as part of an elaborate treasure hunt. Like everything in American history, like anything that's going to become significant, like in the past people were like, this is going to be a significant monument in American history at some point. I better work this into a clue that points people to gold. It's like, okay, if I punch the Liberty Bell four times with Mittenz on, and then I don't know. You know what he also is if they go,

like we're supposed to go to the Washington Monument and say these words, well nothing's gonna happen, but I'll say them anyway and it's like, Adam Jefferson, Washington, Jackson. Well, nothing happened, then you just hear rumble, rumble, rumble, and the Washington Monument turns on its side and turns to point where the treasure is. That would have been awesome.

That's for National Treasure Three, I guess. Oh, National Treasure Three, big monuments. One thing I, at one point in the trailer, I haven't seen the movie yet, one point in the trailer, he says, there's another, there's another statue of Liberty, I mean, there's another statue of Liberty that's in France, right? Okay, I'm just appointed in that because they said

in the trade goes, it's at the statue of Liberty liberty but not the one you're thinking of there's a second statue of liberty this is it a well this is a fairly well-known fact i feel like that france has a second duplicate statue of liberty it's not like a secret one on the moon or something like that the moment of the trailer really got me and then i was quickly my all my hopes for this movie were shattered was at the moment when he's like the only way you're gonna find that book is if you become the president and then you'll only shit is he gonna run for president yeah but no he didn't he wants a kid now president yeah we just want to kidnap that's pretty awesome it's

no that's true bad shit twist that's what I like about the mask on frag about it's like that old like that old video game bad dudes honestly they got they got briefs here at the beginning he's like a fraction of it. It's like that old video game, Bad Dude, where they got the guy briefs here at the beginning and he's like, no, just kidding, they're not the president. The only response is sending in bad deeds. I just feel like if you're gonna make it like a crazy action film, you should just go all the way and have every 15 minutes or less, there should be a bad, crazy twist that happens. And that's what I like about the national treasure movies is. There's always something weird. I can't wait for the next one.

Wait a minute. There's a Kansas City, Kansas, and a Kansas City, Missouri. Which one is the treasure at? Do they ever have a speech in any of them? Because I don't remember the first one that well where it's like. Are you just gonna give us a historical fact? No, no, no, no no it's like I guess this was uh actually this happened to have sort of the symptoms I guess was you know what we can't lose sight of our real national treasures they're the hardworking people who come into this country every day they're the they're the wide open fields they grow our food and the mighty rivers that push our commerce turn into its symptoms reference podcast yeah I don't want it to though

that's true. But that would be a good speech for them to make. Yeah, so watching movies. Let's see. I recently watched Juno. Yeah, a little disappointed. I recently watched There Will Be Blood, which was great. And then I watched Star Dust.

And Star Dust, I'm gonna kind of group it in with like the whole Bratz thing. I wouldn't say it was a great movie. I think it was a little up and down and all over the place, but its energy is what kept me involved. It had enough enthusiasm about being Star Dustust the movie to get me like I'm like okay I'm gonna watch this. And there are constant stardust musical cues that kept you going along. Yeah I was hooked. Walt and Walt sound great just like in Brez. Yep so stardust man nice you

bringing it back home. Man Martin Scorsese in the director of Brett's the two great. Whatever the songs they used were there indelibly linked in my mind with whatever scenes played at that time. Never be able to think about it the same way. God. We gotta close this thing out. Whatever audience we may have won from being mentioned on Gaukr we have now lost. I'm sure. Oh, boss, yeah, very likely. Uh, 15 minutes in, if not earlier.

The minute they said, what, the minute you said, what were talking about Brad's the movie today? Blake, I imagine that the computers have dials on them like radios or something like that. Blake, I want to see what's on the other podcast channel. Who is, and now we're talking about sports. This is better. This is what I like. Who is Perez Hilton making fun of today? It's another popular blogger. Stewart had no idea what Gaucker was.

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Everyone's fast forward through this section anyway. So I sure deal. Sign off. So why don't you sign off first? I've been steward Wellington. I have been Dan McCoy. And I have been Elliot Kale and then continue to be so. Brats. Brats, yeah. Bratitude. Bratitude. Yeah, Bratitude. Well, let's, yeah, gratitude everybody on three. One, two, three. Bratitude! Peace! Bratitude. Bratitude. Jade. Brats.

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