You know what that sound means? It's another
episode of Game for a Movie, where we ask, are
you game for a movie? My name is Mike, I'll be
your host this evening. It is Valentine's Day
currently, when I am recording. Obviously this
is going to come up after Valentine's Day, because
you know what, life gets in the way, that kind
of stuff. I tried to narrow it down to nine choices
of some of the worst romance movies, rom -com
movies, whatever you got movies. Yeah, so I tried
to narrow it down between nine of them. And I've
got one that was voted on by multiple people
that is the true winner of the bad movie for
this Valentine's Day special episode. Before
we get started with that, of course, we got to
talk about the one thing we truly love, and that
is what are we drinking? I've got a Wicked Weed
Pernahays. I've had Wicked Weed on the show before.
It is honestly a great brewery here in North
Carolina. I believe it's in Asheville, if I remember
correctly. And I think I've actually been there
for a bachelor party. That just goes to show
you how the bachelor party was that I don't actually
remember if I was there or not. I'm pretty sure
I was, but I don't remember. They have a special
collection called the Hop Spectrum, which is
four different kind of IPAs that are on their
list. I'll say all four are great. This has actually
become one of my favorite 12 -packs is to get
this Hop Spectrum. It's a little more expensive,
but it's kind of worth it because all four beers
are honestly phenomenal. Perna Hayes is 6 .9%.
It is a little fruitier of a hazy beer, and it's
probably my second favorite of the bunch in this
12 -pack, which is hard to say because, honestly,
all four I can drink anytime, anywhere. But I
will say this is probably my second favorite
of the four in there. As I said, it is Valentine's
Day, so I hope you had a great one with you and
your loved ones. Even if you don't have someone
in your life, I hope you had an amazing Valentine's
Day or that it didn't hit you too hard being
single or anything like that. Because just so
you know, you are truly loved. And I do mean
that. I'm not just saying that. I truly do love
you for listening to the show and everything
like that. And I hope you had an amazing holiday,
even if you have no one to share it with. I hope
you enjoy listening to me talk to you. Because
I truly appreciate you guys listening in. Alright,
enough of that mushy stuff. We've got a bad movie
that we are going to talk about. One that I've
actually seen before when I was a kid. I say
kid, I was probably, what, 13 or 14 when I saw
this? And now I've been chosen to see it again.
First, let me go over the candidates that were
possibly... going to be talked about on this
show. First off, we've got Norbit, which is Eddie
Murphy in a dual role situation. Truly one of
the worst movies ever released in the month of
February. I thought about that. But that is also
a rom -com gone wrong kind of situation there.
We've got The Hottie and the Naughty, which is
a Paris Hilton film. I think that's all I need
to say about that one. The Romantics, which is
Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel, and Anna Paquin.
We've got a guy thing, which is Julia Stiles,
Jason Lee, and Selma Blair. And that's not the
only one they've all been in together. Well,
not Jason Lee, but there's another rom -com that
was potentially on the list. Unfortunately, it's
not bad enough, so I didn't include it on the
list. But there is another rom -com that has
Julia Stiles and Selma Blair together. I just
think that's very ironic that they have two movies
together. Hayden Pantier's I Love You, Beth Cooper
was on the list. I just couldn't do it to myself.
I read the book when I was like a teenager and
I absolutely loved it. So to put this movie into
my frame of reference would possibly destroy
me. So of course, we're probably going to do
it on a later date. But just for now, I just
couldn't do it. We've got Kristen Bell in The
Lifeguard. I don't know much about this one,
but I've been told it is absolutely horrible,
and that's from 2013. One that may come up next
month is Miss March, which is directed and written
by the guy from The Whitest Kids You Know, and
it's about a guy who goes into a coma, and his
girlfriend is now the centerfold, Miss March.
So you can just imagine how great that one is.
There was accidental love about a girl being
struck with a nail and finding true love. That's
Jessica Biel and Jake Gyllenhaal. As well as
a pretty stacked cast. I encourage you to look
up that cast because I don't have it written
in front of me. But I can tell you right now,
those are not the only faces you'd recognize
in this movie. And finally, the movie we actually
covered. This one was chosen by multiple people
because they just wanted me to suffer. It is
from Justin... to Kelly. If you don't remember
from Justin to Kelly, it's from 2003. Yes, I'm
also surprised that it was 2003. It features
Justin Guarini and Kelly Clarkson, the runner
-up and winner of the first season of American
Idol. They both were contractually obligated
to star in this film, though Kelly firmly tried
to get out of this because She herself knew that
she wasn't an actress and didn't want to appear
in this film, is what I'll say. She wanted somebody
else to be able to do it. Unfortunately for Kelly,
that didn't work out. She wasn't able to get
out of it. And so now we have this train wreck.
From Justin and Kelly is a rom -com. I guess
that's what you can say about it. And it is a
musical rom -com at that. It also is a remake,
which I didn't know, of Where the Boys Are, which
is a 1960 release date. And there also was another
remake of Where the Boys Are that was released
in 1984. So basically just keeps it going that
it's another remake of the same movie. Of course,
it was nominated for the Razzie for Worst Picture
in 2004. It was the winner in 2005 of Worst Musical
of Our First 25 Years of the Razzie Awards. It
was also nominated for Worst Film at the 2004
Dallas -Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards,
of course. And the Teen Choice Awards, it was
actually nominated for Choice Movie Chemistry
between Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini. As
well as the 2003 nominee for Teen Choice Award
for Choice Movie Breakout Star Male, Justin Guarini,
and Choice Movie Breakout Star Female of Kelly
Clarkson. I will say a lot of that probably comes
from the fact that they were the popular winner
and runner -up of American Idol the first season,
which we all know was just one big pop culture
-like moment in time. As much as we can all make
fun of American Idol now for how it's still going,
how it's still limping to the barn, that kind
of thing. The first season of American Idol living
through that was insane in how big a thing it
was in like the zeitgeist and everything like
that. People were calling in every week to make
sure that their person made it to the next round.
Truthfully, that first season had probably some
of the biggest ratings and shares in media almost
ever, and especially for a reality show. They
had an average of 12 .7 million people per episode.
It also, of course, led to the creation of the
career of Kelly Clarkson, who now is everywhere
and honestly well -deserved and everything like
that. I'm obviously going to talk about this
bad movie she was in, but truthfully, Kelly Clarkson
deserves everything she has worked for in this
and everything like that. And then there's Justin
Guarini, who also deserves everything he worked
for and everything, but let's be honest, his
career hasn't been the same as Kelly Clarkson's.
So before we dive into the actual movie itself,
I have a couple notes that... are just things
I remember from my first watch through. I saw
this when I was younger and I knew it was bad
back then. So I can only imagine now what I was
going to think. And then I think all that needs
to be said about this movie is that the main
characters are Justin and Kelly who are played
by a Justin and Kelly. So that just shows the
level of creativity on the writers or that they
knew what it was. In the fact that it was just
a tie -in movie to the American Idol experience.
Another note I have is that I'm glad that American
Idol stopped making movies. Or at least forcing
people to be in movies. Because this is the obvious
circumstance that it just didn't work. And they
learned this lesson quickly. It wasn't like season
2. The runner -up and the winner got a movie
together. But I'm also glad that American Idol
kept producing actors, even if that wasn't the
goal in the beginning. People that I can think
of with that is Fantasia Barrino, especially
after The Color Purple this past year, and Jennifer
Hudson, who has been everywhere, especially her
roles in Dreamgirls. And as much as I hated the
movie, she did kill it in Cats. Now on to the
movie itself. We start off at a honky -tonk,
we assume in Texas, because there's a throwaway
line later in the movie that's saying how she
is from Texas, where Kelly is singing, and she's
singing to like three people. There's nobody
else at this place except for the people who
work there, one guy who's drunkenly passed out,
Luke, who is a reoccurring character, not a ton,
but at this point. We know that he's a bigger
character than just a pass out drunk at the honky
tonk. Kelly has been singing on stage. She steps
off. We learn that she's like a waitress or something
and that Luke has something for her. You know
that he has the hots for her. Kelly, obviously
not interested, walks past him and goes to these
two people who just walk in. That is Kaya and
Alexa. Kaya and Alexa, you can tell right off
the bat, are two best friends, and they basically
got a cheap airline to fly them to Miami for
spring break, and the cheap airline shut down.
Neither of them have a car, and they know that
Kelly does, so they're wondering if Kelly will
drive them to Miami so they can all enjoy spring
break together. This leads to a cover of the
song Vacation, which is obviously done by the
cast. And some terrible CGI names of the cast
and crew as they are driving into Miami. Normally
with CGI stuff, if it's a little older, I'm willing
to forgive. But this was 2003 and this stuff
looked like it was made in Microsoft Paint. Also,
they are driving a yellow convertible that is
very much screaming Crossroads. Like the movie
Crossroads with Britney Spears. That whole crew.
I very much got the same vibe, and I found out
that Crossroads was made the year before, so
I feel like that's what they were trying for
as well, kind of. As the girls get there, we
are introduced to the Pennsylvania Posse. That
is what they call themselves. The Pennsylvania
Posse is an alpha male named Brandon, a nerd
played by Brian Dietzen, the guy who plays Palmer
in NCIS, if you're a big NCIS fan like I am.
He plays Eddie, the nerd. And then Justin, who
is supposed to be the likable one, but you can
kind of tell he's kind of a party boy, you know,
and maybe that's just part of his persona kind
of thing. So that is played by Justin Guarini.
If you couldn't guess that Justin was played
by Justin. It opens to a big Miami spring break
party. And my favorite thing is the singer on
stage who constantly is just asking, are you
with me? Yeah. Ladies, are you with me? Yeah.
Guys, are you with me? Yeah. East Coast, are
you with me? Yeah. The Are You With Me Guy is
definitely my favorite. And then it breaks into
a huge song on the beach where Justin and Kelly
kind of meet each other. And that's where our
movie takes off. I will say I'm okay with movies
being lip synced. That's fine if you're trying
for a musical and everything like that. This
one was very obviously lip synced where I knew
it off of the first song that it's like, oh,
oh, God. Oh, God. They're just they're just acting
the roles. And I'm sure they sang it themselves,
like on the soundtrack and everything. But then
it's just being played back. It's something.
There's also a lot of choreography of touching
themselves and like moving their hips and thrusting
and everything like that. You know, normal early
2000s choreography for this movie. I also have
noticed at this point that I was like majority
of these people are probably supposed to be college
kids on spring break. But almost all of them
are at least like 30 or older. That's a lot of
old people in this crowd. We learned that Eddie.
Has an online girlfriend that he's trying to
meet. And Brandon and Justin are trying to convince
him to not meet this online girlfriend. And just
like meet these girls. Because they hang out
with all these hot girls all the time. And everything
like that. And Brandon starts to rap. To convince
Eddie to ask these girls out. And then Brandon
for whatever reason decides that he's going to
whip his ass out. I don't know why. But that's
just what happens. And he gets on the case of
Officer Cutler. Officer Cutler is a young female,
very attractive. Even under her uniform, you
can tell she's very attractive. The reason I
bring this up is because at the end of the movie,
you see her without her uniform. And they're
all like, whoa, Officer Cutler, you're very attractive.
You could tell right off the bat. She's not hiding
anything by putting this on. She gives Brandon
a ticket for obviously mooning everyone. So we
can tell she's going to be a thorn in his side
for majority of the movie. The girls are then
in their room and they're getting ready for their
first real big party. Kelly is talking about
this guy she met. She doesn't know his name,
but she's kind of like interested with him. She
can tell there's something about him that she
wants to pursue more of. And Alexa tells her
to unclench and have a good time, which she then
goes, I don't clench. I don't know what these
lines are at this point. Unclench and have a
good time. I get that. But like, I don't clench.
What? What do you mean? It also flashes back
and forth between the two groups as they're talking
about each other. Like Kelly's talking about
Justin. Justin's talking about Kelly. And I wrote
a line that they dance together for like 20 seconds
in this dance monologue or this dance scene.
Dance monologue. Dance scene. They dance with
each other one time and they're like super obsessed
with each other because they could tell that
their energies, they just feel it. At the next
big party, Alexa runs into Justin. And realizes
that he's the guy that is part of BRJ Parties.
BRJ Parties is this company that runs all of
the parties for spring break. And Justin is in
charge of handing out bracelets to the next big
party. Which I believe is Margarita Madness.
I can't remember. It all kind of blends together.
So Alexa is trying to get a... bracelet for this
party that she can get in for free she ends up
stealing all of them from justin and then falls
on her face tripping and these girls go crazy
stealing them and then some other girls are trying
to get stuff from him so justin runs away and
ends up in the women's room to avoid all these
girls that are stampeding him lo and behold who's
in the women's room of course it is kelly who's
wondering if he goes into the women's room all
the time They have a little back and forth, but
he knows he needs to get out of there. So these
girls don't like kill him essentially, because
they're trying to get all of these passes and
everything. Kelly goes, there's a secret exit
and points at the window. And Justin goes, I'm
not even get my hair through there. To which
Kelly responds, I'm from Texas. I've seen bigger.
I know there's going to be a lot of like. cliches
in this movie and especially like the double
entendres and stuff but this one the reason it
works is because it's talking about his hair
and kelly looks down first and then looks back
at his hair like i'm from texas looks down i've
seen bigger looks up and this is where our conflict
comes into play so she helps justin get through
the window And then she grabs a paper towel and
starts writing her number in lipstick on the
paper towel. Justin is talking to her through
the window and is kind of like, hey, like, what
if I take you to this burger place? Can I get
your number kind of thing? She wads up the paper
towel, throws it at him with her number, just
knowing that she was going to give her number
to him. And it falls directly in a puddle like
she throws it immediately into this puddle and
he can't read it. Doesn't have the number. So
that's where the conflict starts. Meanwhile,
while this scene is happening, Kaya meets Carlos.
Carlos runs into her when she gets a drink spilled
on her and is basically like, here, I'll help
you out. Runs real fast. Gets something to help
her out and they immediately get attracted to
each other. And so they're talking and obviously
it becomes apparent. He's not really there for
spring break. He's a busboy who works for the
hotel that they're partying at. But he seems
nice, so Kaya gives him the time of day and everything
like that. Justin, very upset that he doesn't
have Kelly's number, meets Alexa, who is very
jealous that Kelly, without trying very hard,
has already met this guy that she's connected
with. And basically he's like talking to her
and it was just like, hey, there was this misunderstanding
and I didn't get Kelly's number. And so Alexa,
because she feels offended and wants what Kelly
wants, decides to give Justin her number instead
of Kelly's. So Justin has Alexa's number instead
of Kelly's, but he thinks he has Kelly's number.
Alexa knows that he doesn't have Kelly's number
and that he's texting her. So when he first texts
Alexa slash Kelly, because he thinks it's Kelly,
and invites her to a place, basically she texts
back and is just like, I'm not interested. Sorry.
See ya. Thinking that he's going to forget all
about Kelly and that maybe Alexa might have a
chance. That, of course, is not what happens.
Meanwhile, with our other couple. So Kaya is
talking to Carlos and Carlos is kind of like,
you know, I'm busy all the time. I work all the
time. And she goes, well, I'm here for the week.
If you're not busy, let me know. I'll give you
my number. And Carlos is like, you know what?
I'm free tonight. Are you adventurous? And Kaya
is like, heck yeah. But she regrets it. And she's
like, no, I say hell all the time. Hell, hell,
hell. And it's just kind of awkward. But he still
agrees to go out with her anyway. It flashes
forward to that night and Carlos takes her to
somewhere off the beaten path. It's not the normal
spring break crowd. It looks like a storage container
almost. He knocks on the door and they open it.
And it's this club that's playing all the Spanish
music, you know, salsa, that kind of stuff. And
they start dancing and having a good time. And
it's one of the best nights of Kaya's life. She's
having a great time and is falling very deeply,
very fast with Carlos. And of course, this is
also a music number and basically a dance that
everybody knows, even though she says she doesn't
know how to dance and everything like that. She
learns the moves fairly quickly because, you
know, musical movie. So that was the next day,
and Justin is texting Kelly once again because
he doesn't want to take no for an answer. He's
not giving up because he felt that spark, and
why did she give him her number if she was just
going to say she wasn't interested? I made a
comment at this point because it is 2003 at this
point, so texting is not free. So obviously he's
rich because he's not waiting until nighttime
for free texts. And if you're as old as I am,
you know why that joke is so good. We also haven't
forgotten about Eddie. Eddie is hanging by the
beach where these guys are playing this volleyball
game. He is about to meet his online girlfriend.
We don't really know her name, but online girlfriend
and him are supposed to meet. And instead of
doing that, you know. He gets invited to play
this volleyball game because Eddie being awkward
is funny in this movie. Kelly is having lunch
at this burger place that just so happens to
be the one that Justin was trying to text her
about. And so he shows up out of nowhere. And
they have this awkward moment where he accidentally
pours hot sauce onto her. And like they're talking
for a little bit. He apologizes. And he also
says, are we still on for the marina at four?
And she goes. Sure, whatever, whatever. Trying
to get the hot sauce off her. And then as he
leaves, she goes still on questioning it. She's
starting to figure something out, but not quite
everything. And it's all good. She shows up at
the marina, which he helps her onto the boat.
She obviously has seasickness for a little bit
of it because, you know, funny movie in moments.
So she shows up to the marina. He helps her onto
this tiny boat. She obviously has seasickness
because funny movie moments. And then he starts
singing R &B to her. And obviously it's a musical,
so this is not one of those weird situations
where she's like, what the fuck are you doing?
Why are you singing R &B to me? This is one of
those feelings, singing your inner emotion kind
of thing. And it really reaches and resonates
with her. And you can tell they're kind of having
this relationship gets a little closer. In between
their singing and everything like that, Kaya
is hanging out with Carlos at the restaurant.
I don't know how she's allowed back there when
she's in the kitchen and everything like that.
And she basically stands up for Carlos and is
saying how he keeps being taken advantage of
by his boss and everything like that. We never
got any of these moments. It's just all of a
sudden she's just, yeah, he's taking all your
shit. He's doing all this stuff for you. And
the manager goes, oh, Carlos, is this truly how
you feel? Well, good. You can have tonight off
and every other night because you're fired. And
Carlos is pissed because he's like, Kaya, what'd
you do? And Kaya is just like, I'm so sorry.
I didn't expect that to happen. And Carlos goes,
this is because you were only thinking of yourself.
So they're facing some turbulence in their relationship.
Kelly and Justin get back to Kelly's hotel. There's
an awkward no kiss goodnight. But Kelly goes
up knowing that they're going to meet up again
on the beach the next day. Now's a good time
to take a little break in the action. to tell
you all about our friends who were able to guess
the bad movie correctly. We've got a big shout
-out for the first podcast to be able to guess
our clues correctly about what movie we were
doing, obviously, from Justin to Kelly. That
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Literally no legal issues at all. That is the
kind of humor they have. They have an episode
every single week. As well as he probably has
a meme with my face every single couple of days.
It just grabs him off our TikTok, Facebook, whatever.
And makes it some kind of meme some kind of way.
Every single time it's one of those things where
you see your face and you just go, God damn it.
How'd he get this one? But we appreciate them.
They are truly some of our best friends in the
podcasting field. So check out Digital Dissection,
Pop Culture Nerdity. You will not regret it,
especially a lot of their YouTube content is
fantastic. So please check them out after, of
course, you listen to the rest of our From Justin
to Kelly episode. I will also say that he gets
it off of the first clue, which is probably a
new world record. I don't keep track of that
stuff, so I couldn't tell you exactly. And I
know we've had people get it off the first clue
before, but I really do think he was the fastest
to do it. If not the first, he's definitely the
second. I think he has the new world record on
fastest time to get the bad movie. So congratulations,
Digital Dissection. We appreciate you. Now on
to the rest of the bad movie. One of the things
I forgot that I didn't include a note of because
it really didn't seem like that big a deal to
me, but it kind of was. When Kelly thinks that
Justin is ignoring her, Alexa signs Kelly up
for a whipped cream bikini contest run by Justin,
where she finds out that he's the leader or at
least part of BRJ parties. And this is a big
deal because. Kelly is just kind of like, oh,
you're just a party guy. You have no sense of
anything and that kind of stuff. And Justin apologizes
to her and was like, this is just a way to make
money so I can afford my books and my classes
and stuff. And Alexa definitely does it because
she knows that Kelly hates that kind of stuff
and being degraded and that kind of stuff. But
it does also press a new problem in the fact
that Justin then. Proves that he's just doing
it to make money so that he can afford his classes
and stuff. Which Kelly actually kind of finds
endearing. Alexa thought for sure this would
end it. Kelly would no longer be interested in
Justin. That leads to the next day. Another party.
Alexa trying to get invited to the next party.
Makes small talk with Brandon. And she gets invited
to the next party. No problem. Then she walks
away and gets spilled with margaritas because
she's not watching where she's going because,
you know, she needs to get what's coming to her.
Brandon also, because of this party and everything
like that, gets another ticket from Officer Cutler.
Today is also the day that Eddie has rescheduled
that he's going to meet with his online girlfriend,
but he decides he's going to tan first because
he needs that. glow to look good. And you can
only imagine what happens, especially if you
know what this guy looks like. I'll say that
he looks like me, similar in complexion. If you
don't know what I look like, I glow in the dark.
So me and tanning don't really mix together.
Knowing that Kelly and Justin are still infatuated
with each other at this point, even though all
these misadventures and everything. Alexa texts
Justin saying to meet at the Pearl instead of
the beach where they were supposed to meet. All
because they had this conversation and Kaya and
Kelly basically said about Alexa is that she's
a party girl. You know, Kelly is like nice and
Kaya is smart, but. Alexa is a party girl and
they say it sticking their nose down at her.
So she basically says meet at the Pearl instead
of the beach to try to once again get Justin
away from Kelly. Why was that a big deal? Why
is it such a thing about them calling Alexa a
party girl? Well, when she gets to the Pearl,
she has her own song. As part of this musical.
And it's a sensual song. Where she basically
just goes from guy to guy. And kind of like is
the life of the party. So therefore. Party girl.
I don't know. I don't know why she hates this.
Because truthfully. She's done nothing to oppose
it. And it's pretty obvious. That's what she
wants to be too. And who cares. If you're a party
girl. You're a party girl. Whatever. Be who you're
going to be. If she actually changed by the end
of this movie, maybe that would be a bigger deal
where it's kind of like, okay, you called me
a party girl. I don't want to be the party girl
anymore. But at no point in this movie does she
even try to not be the party girl. So, of course,
because Justin goes to the Pearl instead of the
beach, he sees that Alexa is there and he's like
kind of biding his time getting a drink and just
kind of waiting until Kelly shows up because
he thinks that Kelly is the one that texted him
to meet at the Pearl. Because she doesn't show
or because because he doesn't show to the beach,
Kelly and Kaya, basically, they're talking about
how he's just a different guy. He's a. party
guy so they're two different people and Kelly's
like maybe I don't want to be two different people
and kind of goes okay we can work with that and
kind of makes her a party girl Justin not seeing
Kelly is like okay well I'm gonna take off I'm
not gonna sit here anymore Alexa Alexa of course
takes that as a shot against her and basically
mentions to Justin offhand that Well, it's because
she always does this. She has a boyfriend at
home. And Justin kind of like is like, no, she
doesn't. She doesn't. And kind of walks away
with that in his head. And then Alexa, because
of the person she is, invites Luke from the bar
in the beginning to Miami, who just says, sure,
I'm going. No other precedence just shows up
because. He's told to be there. That same night,
we also get another misadventure with Eddie.
Eddie is in the hotel room and the door gets
knocked on and opens the door to Greg. We don't
know who Greg is, but Greg thinks that Eddie,
A, is Brandon and B, sleeping with his girlfriend.
So he's ready to start a fight. Eddie, of course,
is able to talk him down. And basically, Greg
is just like. Come on, we're getting a drink
and we're going to talk more. And so because
of this drinking situation, Eddie ends up getting
drunk and passes out at the bar talking to Greg,
making a friendship, by the way. And the online
girl walks past Eddie, whose face is down because
he is drunk. Next day, Kelly and Kaya show up
to the next BRJ party and they are ready to party.
They get this whole song going. And get the people
going. And Kelly is dressed a little more rebellious.
I'll say not very rebellious. Because this movie
I'm pretty sure is PG. Maybe PG -13. But still.
It's nothing over the top. Where you're like.
Oh wow. She's really trying to get it. Yeah it
is PG. So it's one of those things. Where it's
literally like. She's barely wearing anything
different. It's just a little more edgy. to show
that she's a party girl now. She's ready to party
and show that she can be a party girl too to
Justin. After their song, Kelly is kind of like
flipped into a spot and it's Luke that she runs
into who kisses her right off the bat. And Justin,
of course, takes that as a shot and like spreads
them apart and like, what the hell's going on?
And Luke gets really mad because it's two guys
having a pissing match. And they do this hovercraft
contest against each other. I want to say that
this movie at this point is not realistic about
this hovercraft contest kind of thing. But at
the same time, I really can't. Because in fourth
grade, there was this really attractive dude.
And there was this really beautiful girl. I wanted
to ask out, and this really attractive dude wanted
to ask out as well. He knew I wanted to ask her
out. I knew he wanted to ask her out. We both
talked to each other, and we came to the same
conclusion that we would play a basketball game
for the right to ask her out first. So this hovercraft
thing, as much as I want to pretend it's outlandish,
It's not that outlandish, and I hate myself for
it. But I will say this was also in fourth grade,
so I think I'd get away with it a little more.
And I also want it to be known that I won that
basketball contest, and he still asked her out
before I could. Obviously, it's a fourth grade
bromance, so it really didn't matter because...
They never made it, and I don't even know if
she said yes to him, but I never asked because
I never got the stones to do it again, even though
I fucking won the basketball game. Just saying.
If you see me and you see him, you would not
have guessed that I would have won this basketball
game. That's why this is one of those ones I'm
never going to forget because I won, damn it.
I won. And I still lost. Well, during this hovercraft
match that Justin and Luke are having, Luke gets
injured because of Justin, and Kelly goes to
his side, basically just because she cares about
somebody not getting hurt and everything, which
Justin is like, oh, obviously they are together.
I guess I lose in this situation. While Kelly
and Luke are... Talking about their feelings
about the fact that Kelly just doesn't like him
romantically, which, by the way, we never see
Luke again after this point. So, you know, sorry,
Luke. Carlos, we find out, got a new job. Kaya
found out where he is and is talking and trying
to apologize to him. But he basically goes on
this rant about how it's spring break. It's just
a fling. It's not going to have anything. And
that. She doesn't understand that people are
still trying to make their lives out there and
that she got him fired from his job. And that
he kind of now is he's further from the beach.
He's making less money and there's less people
coming. And he works at this like Mexican restaurant
that doesn't get a lot more people and that kind
of stuff. And so. He kind of just says, it's
going to be a fling. It's nothing more. Get out
of here. And Kaya walks away, and she's broken.
Alexa and Justin are talking at the bar about
everything with Kelly and Luke. And obviously,
Kelly has now told Luke, hey, you shouldn't be
here. I don't like you that way, and I'm glad
you're okay. And then she just sees that Alexa
kisses Justin. Just completely kisses him and
she feels betrayed because, of course, she does.
So Kelly's heartbroken, Kai's heartbroken, and
Alexa is trying to make the move on Justin. Justin,
of course, breaks off the kiss after Kelly leaves,
of course, because, you know, movie situation
and is like, no, this is not how it goes. I don't
like you like that. So. alexa also is hurt kaya's
in the hotel room and the door gets knocked on
and it's carlos and carlos apologizes and says
come on we're going on a date aren't you adventurous
and she is kind of like hesitant but she does
it anyway he takes her to a nice eight course
meal at a five -star restaurant it's a restaurant
he used to work at and they're able to set up
a table right on the pool water It's nice, but
we don't see much of it. That's just all we see.
And then it's over. Alexa runs into Kelly and
Kelly is just like, what the hell happened? And
Alexa still lies to Kelly about Justin saying
like, oh, you know, he's just kind of like a
player. He has a new girl every night, that kind
of stuff. And he seems to like me now. And then
Justin walks in the same spot and Kelly and Justin.
Kelly runs away. Justin catches up with her.
They have an argument and basically like Kelly's
like, no, you were kissing her. And he was just
like, no, she kissed me. Like, I'm not that kind
of guy. I like you, that kind of thing. And then
he goes, what about you? You've been hot and
cold texting me where it's like you don't text
me or you say you don't want anything. And then
all of a sudden you're like, no, I want everything.
And she goes, huh? I've never texted you. I don't
have anything. And this leads to the best line
of the whole movie where Justin goes, yeah, you're
just playing games with me. Well, game over.
And then he walks away. I just love that line
because it's terrible delivery. And mind you,
these two aren't actors. They were forced to
do this movie. They just won a singing contest.
It's not like they won an acting contest. So
I get it. You know, it sucks, but I get it. Kelly,
very confused, goes back to the bar where Alexa,
Kaya, and Carlos are hanging out. Carlos is going
to get drinks. And then Alexa's phone falls to
the ground. Which Kelly picks up and she's able
to flip through it and realize all these texts
that she'd been sending Justin and realizes why
he thinks that Kelly has been so hot and cold
to him and was like, I would never do this to
you, Alexa. I'm a friend. This is awful. You've
hurt me. I'm done. Like walks away. She's walking
alone back to the hotel. And then Carlos and
Kaya are just like, no, we're getting away too.
We can't hang out with you anymore, Alexa. So
Alexa's like hurt. Everybody, everybody's hurt
at this point. Cause you know, it just needs
to have that drama because it's a rom -com where
you can't have everybody just get along all the
time. There needs to be that drama, that event
that breaks everybody up. I also just thought
of it at this point in the movie. So Kelly's
lips at this point are very muted, like very,
uh, and it's, it's not a bad look or anything
like that. It's just very muted. And it made
me realize she wrote the note at the beginning
in red lipstick. And I don't think once in this
entire movie, she used red lipstick. I don't
know why I thought of it at this point, but it's
just something I thought of and I needed to bring
up. So there's like this sad song that Kelly
is singing as she walks alone on the beach, you
know, and she's she's in her feels. She really
just feels hurt and she just needs to get this
sad song out there. She just in her feels and
all of a sudden Justin's there and it's revealed
that Alexa got him to go there and admitted that
she was wrong. And so. Justin and Kelly sing
this song together and you can tell they're reconnecting
they're singing each other's faces like you do
in a musical rom -com and so that's that's basically
uh all the drama for this movie because we now
Kaya has Carlos Kelly has Justin um Eddie is
probably going to meet with his online girlfriend
if you were to ask me And I'd also think that
Brandon's going to end up with a female cop who's
been a pain in his side the whole time. The only
question is, who does Alexa end up with? Because,
you know, everybody has to be paired off at the
end of this movie. So there's one final party.
Everybody's dancing and they're singing to That's
the Way I Like It to close the movie. And everybody
does kind of get paired with that. Brandon learns
that the cop is really attractive. and that we
all knew off the bat eddie finally meets up with
his online girlfriend who sees him talking to
greg and like realizes that she's just kind of
like oh wow that was really nice what you did
for him and he goes yeah i'm kind of like a romantic
expert and she goes well you don't want to hear
my weekend i was trying to find this guy i met
with online and he goes wait And says her email
address. She says his email address. And guess
what? They immediately make out. Because that's
what happens to the nerd in these movies. They
immediately make out with somebody hot. And everybody's
dancing and singing to That's the Way I Like
It. And everybody's feeling good. And that's
it. That's all. That's the movie. That's from
Justin to Kelly. One crazy spring break. And
it's all love after this, right? I got to imagine
none of these relationships actually lasted because
they're all built on lies or a week or whatever.
So it just kind of makes me laugh on that aspect
because it's just not a chance any of these relationships
really last. So I'll say, yeah, from Justin to
Kelly, a movie I saw when I was a kid who I will
say I thought it was bad back then. I can only
imagine... Well, like I said, as I saw it here,
it's still a bad movie. And I'll fully say that.
It's still a bad movie. I don't want to pretend
like this is some good movie or anything like
that. However, as far as bad movies go, I did
enjoy this. It's not good. But it's kind of like
goofy, fun. And as long as you are going in with
a couple beers and an empty head, you will enjoy
this movie. I had absolutely zero expectations.
I think that's the best thing to go in with it.
Because I'm not sitting here going to tell you
this is a world beater of a movie. This is a
terrible movie. And it has deserved all of the
shit it gets. But compared to some of the other
stuff I've watched, I would possibly watch this
again. Not to enjoy, not to suggest to anybody,
anything like that. But because I think it is
better than some of the other shit I've seen.
And I think that's fair. This is what's going
to happen when you put two singers in starring
roles in a movie. That's what I think is the
problem. I actually think this script could work
with a better acting duo at the front. The issue
is this is written for singers that are singers,
won a singing contest. So it's not like... These
are the best. Actors in the world. It was never
going to be that. That they even thought. This
was a good idea. Was. I don't know. Crazy to
me. You know. But yeah. So I'll say that. I'll
say that overall. This movie is not great. I
could watch it again. But I don't need to obviously.
There are worse movies. There obviously are better
movies and there are better actors. Obviously,
Kelly Clarkson, her career has been fine. Justin
now is a voice part on Super Kitties, which has
had 12 episodes so far. So good for him. I'm
not going to say that's a win in my book, but
at least he's doing something. And then Catherine
Bayliss, who is Alexa. She's been on various
shows and stuff like that, including like One
Tree Hill and Gilmore Girls. She's been a couple
episodes of both of those. The real winner probably
of this whole thing is the person who played
Kaya. And that is Anika Noni Rose. If you recognize
that name. She plays Tiana in The Princess and
the Frog in the Disney universe. Also reprising
that role in several different spots. And she
was in Dreamgirls and everything, everything.
So she's the one that probably came out the best
besides Kelly Clarkson. Because let's face it,
Kelly, we all know how she's doing. She's going
to be okay in the line of life. So there you
go. uh that's from justin the kelly um if i had
to give a rating to this i'm going to give it
i'll give it one out of five uh one out of five
uh misunderstood text messages one out of five
misunderstood text messages that seems right
again not a great movie i'm not going to suggest
it to anybody but it's way better than some of
the other shit i've seen and Truthfully, it's
kind of fun if you turn your head off and just
enjoy. It's ridiculous. It's a love story over
spring break with various songs thrown in with
two people who are really singers, not actors.
That's the thing, too, is their chemistry is
not great. I'm not going to say their chemistry
is anywhere other than where it was. That being
said, it is kind of fun to just turn your brain
off and enjoy this. Sexy people being sexy, singing,
dancing, having a good time in Miami. So there
you go. That's from Justin to Kelly. There may
be one of those other romance movies happening
later on the podcast this month or some other
fun stuff that we have going on. I definitely
have some great ideas coming up, including the
month of March is going to be one of my favorite
months that I've done in a long time. So yeah,
that is from Justin Kelly. I hope you have a
great Valentine's Day. Again, I truly love all
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