- Hey, guy, welcome back
to Build a Bear Workshop. A few weeks ago, I made a video about "High
School Musical" and "Camp Rock," and I realized while
scrolling through Disney+, how many movies I had
suppressed from my memory. It's so bizarre seeing
all these random DCOMs from like 17 years ago when
suddenly having an influx of nostalgia for something I
hadn't thought about in years. When I was a kid, all I did was watch Disney channel and Nickelodeon. That was it. There was no YouTube back then. We didn't have books, and
my parents were very strict about what they would let me watch on TV. I wasn't even allowed
to watch Cartoon Network until I was 13. Don't ask me why, 'cause I don't know. I guess they were trying to shelter me from the harsh reality of the real world, but it didn't work. I still know all the curse
words now, like crud and A-S-S. I mean, I don't say that one,
but sometimes my friends do, but, anyway, the thing
about Disney Channel, at least back then, I don't know if this is still true, is that they didn't play commercials. They would have commercial
breaks, of course, but they would use that
time only to advertise other Disney programs. So even if there was a
movie that I only saw once, I would see the trailer
for it like 50 times while watching other Disney shows. So all of the lines from the
trailer would end up ingrained in my brain, and, to this day, there's nothing I can
do to get rid of them. - Wow, he's amazing. - [Narrator] Get ready to rock. - [Both] That's the song. - [Narrator] And what they don't know is that who country is watching them. - [Both] This is better than wrestling. - [Both] No, he's really cooking. - The other thing I realized
over the past couple of weeks while Amanda and I had been taking turns pointing at the TV and
saying, "I remember that" is holy shit, some of these
movies aged like milk. And it's not just them
saying things in 2002 that would be problematic
by today's standards. Although there are a couple
of funny examples of that, but for me, it's also just
because of some of the actors in these movies. A perfect example of
what I'm talking about is "Stuck in the Suburbs." So this was a Disney Channel
movie about a pop star staying in a small town
who loses his cell phone. So his assistant has to
spend the entire movie trying to get it back to him. (guy yells) I know it sounds dumb
when I put it like that, but don't worry. That's not the only reason why. The thing is I know Taran
Killam from three things and only three things, "Saturday Night Live," "The
Amanda Show," and this movie. Everything else I've ever seen
him in has been satirical, dozens of sketches and
commercial parodies, so it is so funny to try
and watch this movie, which now looks like an
82 minute SNL sketch, and try to take him seriously. Like of all the actors to play
this misunderstood teenage heartthrob pop star, it's
the guy from "Moody's Point." It's so bizarre to watch, especially now. I would genuinely love to
ask him about this movie, if he was excited for
it, if it was just like, "Well, I guess I should do it, ' "cause I'm not getting a
lot of other acting work," or maybe he thought like
this is the direction his career would go in, he would start taking more
acting roles like this, even though he didn't really want to. It would actually be
kind of ironic if he did, because that's the arc of
his character in the movie. He keeps doing all these things, because he thinks he's supposed to, but deep down, all he really wants to do is sing sappy boy band music. (Taran sings) (calm acoustic music) ♪ Oh ♪ The best scene in the movie, hands down, is this little montage here. (phones ring) ♪ Ah yeah ♪ ♪ And you ♪
(girl screams) (teenagers scream) - [Girl] Jordan, I love you! ♪ I've been so lost ♪ ♪ Baby now I'm found ♪ ♪ Since you've been around ♪ - (laughs) That's so wonderful,
the horrible editing, and then the abrupt cut. I counted, there's only
eight different shots that they're using, but they keep laying them over each other to make it seem like there's hundreds. Even in just the three by three grid, they were already reusing a shot. I always forget with most
Disney Channel movies how minuscule the budgets probably were. You sort of have this expectation
of like a feature film, but it's shot on a TV budget. So looking back, some of them
are just unwatchable now. Do you guys remember "Tiger Cruise?" It's actually a pretty
wild idea for a movie. It takes place on 9/11. It's all these children of
Navy sailors who were like, "No, the Navy's stupid. "Why are we on a boat?" And then 9/11 happens,
and they're like, "Wow. "Actually the military is an important "and vital establishment. "We should go to war." It's a pretty heavy
concept for a Disney movie, lots of very serious moments. So it's too bad that
they shot like 80% of it in front of a green
screen, because, oh my God, it looks like shit. The crazy thing about this to me is that the entire movie
has one setting, the boat. All they needed was one boat, but, I guess, why worry about that when you've got a perfectly
good one right here. Another movie I was
excited to check out again was "Now You See It." I don't know if you guys saw this. I feel like most people didn't, but I remember loving
this movie as a child. I couldn't remember what
it was about, though, so I decided to check out a
couple of scenes last night, and (sighs) maybe it's not
as good as I thought. - [Allyson] Danny, the ring! It's the last piece of the puzzle. You gotta use it against Max. (dramatic music) - [Danny] Now it's my move, Max. (yells) - Maybe the ending is good. - How'd I get here? - Magic. (both laugh) - You know, I still don't
know how you do that. - Ah, a good magician
never reveals his secrets of his tricks.
(both laugh) (quirky music) - [Allyson] Show off. (upbeat music) ♪ Do you believe in magic ♪ - Okay, we don't have to talk about that. - Magic.
- But I know. I know why you guys are here. You don't wanna hear about
outdated special effects. You trying to see that offensive shit. We trying to cancel Disney. And I don't know about all that, but there is a pretty long list
of hard to defend decisions they've made throughout the years. "Peter Pan" has a racist ass song. "Dumbo" got some racist ass crows. And "The Beauty and the
Beast" is a movie about a girl who falls in love with the
animal who kidnapped her. And I know, those movies are old as hell. Things were different back
in the 50s and the 90s, but there's another movie that came out when I was 10 that did not age very well. "Freaky Friday" came out in 2003, and it's a remake of a
remake of a film adaptation of a book. This movie was huge at the time. It was right during the peak
of Lindsay Lohan's career, Chad Michael Murray's career, and it did a lot to
re-establish Jamie Lee Curtis as not only a comedic actress, but also an eventual yogurt sales woman. For the most part, this
is a pretty solid movie. It's got some funny lines. It's probably Lindsay Lohan's
best acting performance. There is just one thing
I forgot about, though, and it's how they switched bodies. In the original "Freaky Friday," they just like made a wish out loud, and then the special
effects took it from there. - [Both] I wish I could
switch places with her for just one day. (dramatic music) - In the 2018 version, they did this. (door slams) - I hate you. (dramatic music) - I hate your attitude. - Great comeback, Mom. ♪ I don't need to live a large. ♪ ♪ I just ♪
- Side note, ♪ I had no idea this
movie was a musical. ♪ So imagine my surprise
when they burst into song. (characters sing) - But in the 2003 version, the switch happens while they're arguing at a Chinese restaurant and
the owner overhears them, gives them some magic fortune cookies, and then there's an earthquake, and they wake up in each other's bodies. - What was she mumbling about in Chinese? - She did something, some
strange Asian voodoo. - A prominent movie reviewer at the time called this some strange racist bullshit. And still the movie went on
to make over $160 million. I guess it just kind of serves
as an unfortunate reminder of how prominent Asian stereotypes
were in American movies, even not that long ago, how normal it was to see
these exaggerated characters using super strong accents that the actors playing
them didn't even have. And, in this case, the
writers really only used them as a plot device to
justify the body switch. It's like, "Well, we don't
really know that much "about Chinese people, so
they can probably do magic." Luckily, we've come a long way since then in terms of representation in movies, or at least we were coming a long way until "Little Italy" came out in 2018 and set us back like three decades. Hey, speaking of three decades ago, let's take a trip back to the year, 1994, and talk about a very weird
movie called "Blank Check." It's not so much that this
movie didn't age well. It's more that it probably
never should have been made in the first place. This movie takes place
in a world where money is the only thing that can make you happy. - What do you want for your birthday? - (sighs) Money. - [Fred] So you gonna have fun today? - [Preston] How can I, Dad? I don't have any money. - And if you're poor, all the other kids are gonna
make fun of you for that. Like when Preston goes
to an amusement park with his friends, his dad only
gives him a measly six bucks, so he can't afford to go on any
of the cool rides with them. He has to go on the
lame ass merry-go-round while they point and laugh at him. And things continue to suck for Preston until an evil villain runs over his bike, and then gives him a blank check. - Give this to your dad,
he'll know what to do with it. - But he doesn't give it to his dad. Instead, he just writes a million dollars, and then takes it to the bank
and cashes it on the spot. Now, the thing that Preston
hates more than anything in the world is the fact
that he lives at home with his family. He wants his own house. So using some sort of computer program, he calls a real estate agent who's in the middle of
selling this mansion to someone for $150,000. He starts outbidding the
guy and eventually buys it for 300 grand. Now, if you're curious,
this is a real house that really exists. On realtor.com. it is
estimated to have a value of $4.1 million. He got it for 300 grand, but you can't forget about inflation. It's been about 25 years,
so that makes sense. But the funniest part of this transaction, is not just that he got it for $300,000. It's the fact that he's just
using some shady computer voice over the phone, and the
owners of the house are like, "Yep, we'll take it." - [Both] We'll take it. - "I don't need to meet this person. "I don't need to know their name. "We will take the offer from
the mysterious robot voice." Then he realizes he
can't use his real name to buy the house, so he has
to come up with an alter ego. What's it gonna be? (suspenseful music) - Bingo.
- Macintosh, 'cause he saw the word. - [Voiceover] Macintosh. But again, I know, this all
sounds pretty normal so far for a kid's movie, but here's
where it gets fucked up. One of the things on Preston's wishlist, besides the house that he just bought for a fraction of market
value, is a girlfriend. Sounds like a pretty easy task for someone with a million dollars cash. Just buy a nice gift for
a cute girl your age, or plan a nice romantic dinner for a cute girl your age, or (ethereal music) he could just fall in
love with an adult woman, and then that will be the love interest for the entire movie. Yeah, that seems like a good decision. - I'll see you next time. - I hope it's not in a million years. - So then they go on the date. (Preston gargles) - [Shay] Oh wow. - What's the shortest guy you ever dated? - I'm not really sure. - The youngest? - And they're just really hitting it off. - Mr. Macintosh is very interested in you. - He is, oh wow. - So, let's take things outside. Maybe run through a fountain together. (upbeat music) Stop. Stop it.
- That was really fun. I had such a good time. - Me too. - Goodnight, Preston. - Goodnight, Shay. - Oh, thank God. For a moment there, I
thought they were gonna kiss. It's a good thing they didn't, because that would be weird. Meanwhile, the evil villain who
gave him one million dollars wants to get the one million dollars back, because he didn't
actually want to give him one million dollars. He thought it would just be like 50 bucks. So when he sees the kid
out riding his bike, a chase ensues. - Your butt is mine, kid! - Interesting word choice. - [Quigley] Your butt is mine! - You might be wondering
how an eight year old kid can get away with living
at another mansion all the time, and suddenly having a
bunch of expensive things. Like what do his parents
think is going on? Well, here's what he tells them. He tells them that he got a job. They think that he's working for some mysterious man
named Mr. Macintosh, who, in reality, we know
is actually just Preston. So they're just like, "Okay, cool. "Glad you're spending all day "at the house of a man we've never met "while he gives you a
bunch of expensive things." No red flags have been raised. These are the world's best parents. - I'm having a party. - Anyway, now it's time for that party that Preston wants to
throw for the sole purpose of having something to
invite the woman to, but would you look at this? He's out of money. He had one million dollars. He spent all of it, and
it has been three days. Anyway, the FBI shows up and
arrests all the bad guys. And now that he doesn't
have any money left, Preston pretty much just
returns to a normal life. Okay, so I guess it wasn't
that weird of a movie. I was probably exaggerating. Wait, what are you doing? - So that means our date was just for your job. - Well, it started out like that. - What's going on there? - Hey, you know, I wouldn't have traded
that night for anything. - So, when can I see you again, Shay? - Why don't you give me a
call in, say, about 10 years? - Five. - Seven.
- Six. - 50.
- Okay. It's a date. (romantic music) - She couldn't just kiss him on the cheek, or give him a high five? Why did they put this on Disney+? Why wouldn't they try to
suppress this forever, lock it away in a vault and
never speak of it again? You know what, I give
"Blank Check" five stars. One movie, I think, that
actually did age well is "Smart House." That shit came out in 1999. And like Nakey Jakey said
in his video about DCOMs, it's like watching an
episode of "Black Mirror." I feel like that movie is the reason that I'm so against buying
like an Alexa or a Google Home. If your house can think for
itself and make decisions and has a robot arm, it's
going to turn on you. I don't make the rules,
that's just what happens. In fact, can you turn the
video up for a second? Just a little bit? Perfect. Alexa, self-destruct. Sorry, I had to do it. Trust me, guys, you don't
need a device in your own home that's listening to you at all times just so we can turn around
and sell that information. Hold on. Oh, I just got an ad for anal beads. What are the odds? I was just texting my wife about that. Anyway, what was I saying? - [Quigley] Your butt is mine, kid! - Well, it's been a long day so far, guys. What do you say we cleanse our palate with a good old fashioned brand deal. Hi. I'll give you two hours to try and guess what
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today's video, guy. I'm sorry if I brought back some memories that you didn't think you still had. As I promised in my last video, I'm gonna be donating
money for every video that I upload this month. This week, it is The Okra Project. You can read more about
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week for another video where I swap bodies with my dad, and things get pretty crazy. All right, bye.
The pure horror on his face when the little kid kissed the woman was hilarious
Some strange racist bullshit