If you had cable you could not ESCAPE this movie. They played it in the morning, night, summer (which makes sense), winter, Halloween, Christmas, Valentines Day etc. They played this almost as much as MTV plays Ridiculousness.
Unfortunately the same thing happened on Disney. Once we exited the Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverley Place era and entered the Jessie, Austin & Ally era, they stopped playing Miley and Selena music videos during ad breaks and started pushing Ross Lynch heavily. They played ‘Cruisin For A Bruisin’ and ‘Can’t Make It Stop’ religiously as well as Ross’ music outside of Disney. It’s interesting how people gloss over Ross Lynch when it comes to the ‘Disney Popstar Factory’ because he was definitely their attempt at the “next big thing,” after Bridget Mendler and before Olivia Rodrigo.
The reason Mack says "I'm Mack" at the end of the last song is actually a reference to the first movie song "Surf Crazy" when everyone says their names. She's the last one to do so and does it quite hesitantly, but by the end in "Surf's Up" she says it confidently, which I guess is supposed to be symbolic or something... I don't mind it when I watch the movie, but if i'm just listening to the soundtrack it does sound very out of place
I understood that (admittedly I pieced that together when I was editing and didn’t bother to re-record) but it’s still odd that it comes from nowhere cause there’s no build up. Like no one else in the song says their name
I'm pretty sure, most of the things that look incredibly stupid or out of place in the movie are deliberate decisions from the director to mock movies like west side story (old actors playing teenagers like in Grease, the fake ass surfing, Can't Stop Singing being a song about nothing that serves for nothing), they're all there to carry the motive of the film imo
Most of it is what Mack point out as the reason she dislike the movie. She literally says "the surfing is all fake" "the songs are stupid" The adult actors is not that weird, ir very common and was probably caused by howminors can't work as many hours, and musicals take longer to make. I'm pretty sure some of the cast are professional dancers, due to the amount of backflips they perform, you can't have that with 15 year olds
no you’re totally right…I didn’t even catch that they were doing the actors being older on purpose and maybe even tanner’s voice being totally different singing 😂 like butch is clearly a dude in his mid twenties much like rizzo in grease lmao (I’ve only seen grease so that’s what I have to reference lol)
Also, Can't Stop Singing does have a point: to show Mac and Brady are slowly turning into regular characters from the movie and to show Mac's losing sanity from the situation.
can’t stop singing was a great addition to the movie imo. not only is it good as hell, but it captures the characters’ feelings of existential confusion due to the fact that they’re morphing to be part of the movie. “am i real or just a prop?” it was definitely not unnecessary.
@@lizanya6433 also, I kinda like how at the end of the film, as well as in the second film, it's implied that they brought back some of that "movie magic" when they suddenly break into song and create a visual musical number (the Closing number in this movie and Silver Screen in the next one).
in my experience with girls sleepovers, we usually watched movies and played truth or dare and that was kind of it. no one ever brushed my hair during a sleepover lol. we also didn't talk about boys but maybe it's because almost all of the girls from my friend group turned out to be gay
18:07 as a former girl, I can confirm sleepovers were nothing like that. We watched horror movies, got scared when we heard a noise, then changed it to SpongeBob. There was also a lot more baking.
One of my fav Disney movies of all time. The ONLY reason that it isn't considered a classic is because kids/teens were sick of musicals when it came out. But they're idiots because this movie is awesome.
the relationship between lela and mack in TBM and ESPECIALLY teen beach movie 2.... is the equivalent of that one relationship all queer girls go through in elementary thru high school where youre basically in love with each other but play it off as 'besties' with the attraction simply being out off as ''' i just really admire her and i lowkey wanna be her' thing. the two have a crazy falling out and they proceed to never interact ever again even though you know you wanted to grow old with them and it wouldve been perfect with them together..... yeah, i love homoerotic undertones.
The one thing I cannot forgive this movie for is casting Kevin Chamberlin and not giving him a campy villain song. For the uninitiated he played Horton in Seussical and Uncle Fester in Adams Family in their original Broadway runs and received tony noms for both though he didn't win. He's also been in West Side Story, Wicked, Little Shop of Horrors and a bunch of other musicals
my 15 year old girl sleepover experience was Disney channel binging, Pandemonium playing and going to the shop to spend our £2 on as many sweets as we possibly could
as a girl whos been and had sleep overs I've had to say. we do indeed play with each others hair, talk ab boys, make each other text our crushes, but we also go into vulgar detail ab what we want/would let someone do to us or them. and the whole time its yelling, screaming, obnoxious laughter, and high pitched giggling
idk I probably have too…it was the last Disney channel movie I got really into and apparently it was on all the time and I’m sure I had it recorded lol
As a person who grew up socialized as a girl, I have no idea if I can give you an accurate description of a female sleepover, but I can say that mine consisted of Broadway karaoke, stealing food from the kitchen, and a substantial amount of witchcraft.
Male sleepovers consisted of 1v1s on nuketown and discussing war crimes and creepy internet stuff. being the youngest in a house of women I was victim to makeup and lady clothes at female sleepovers. I haven't been the same since. Thank you for coming to my therapy session.
Every problem he has with the first is acknowledged in the 2nd: Brady has to deal with how he and Mack aren't on the same level with each other, and Lela straight up says "Goodbye characters in the background who's names I don't know!"
In regards to the actors ages in the movie, my personal reasoning was that they cast them like they would back when the original movie would have been made. Like you ever seen Grease? There are I think 40 year olds playing 18 year olds. Now it very well could be wrong, but that was always my thoughts
@@hikeilokei i love club penguin!!!!!!!! i think i got the teen beach movie clothes the one time i was able to buy a membership and when my 1 month membership ended i couldnt take the clothes off or else i couldnt put them on again, i think my penguin was dressed as lela bc she was my favorite
Girl here, my expierence with sleep overs are fight to the death pillowfights (there is no friendship only war.), videoganes, and watching movies. Occasionally late night trauma talk or a sudden fit of laughter and nobody knows why we're laughing we're just sleeo deprived
The “I’m Mack” moment was a call back to surf crazy where the surfers introduced themselves, when Mack’s part came up she was hesitant to participate, but by the end of the movie in surfs up she said it confidently. Kinda oddly placed but still significant
2 corrections (because I've watched 100 times) The storm is caused by the destruction of the machine, I'm pretty sure Brady says that, and it wouldn't have happened if Lela and Tanner didn't got together And the reason she says her name in the end is a comeback to the surf crazy song, where everyone says their name and she doesn't participate
Now you have to cover the sequel that made every single fan of this movie angry lol. Seriously though, I definitely agree with the 10/10 fun score for this movie. It's always a fun rewatch and it has so much charm.
I remember watching Schmigadoon (if you like musicals, give it a watch) and thinking "Oh my god. This is literally grown up Teen Beach Movie". My brother and I were OBSESSED with this movie as kids haha. (just... don't mention the sequel.)
My sister and I were also obsessed with this movie when it came out! I remember it was the first Club Penguin Party I dressed up for❤ Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’ was also our favorite song :)
This movie isn't just a reference to the 1960s movie musicals in general, but to the phenomenon of 1960s beach musicals like "beach party". I watched a lot of those as a kid ^^ (tbh... i didn't even remember the fictional movie was called "wet side story" and i only associated teen beach movie with those specific 1960s beach ones)
The "cut to commercial break" plot avoidance thing is even funnier in Canada. When this movie came out, the family channel (our version of disney channel) had no commercial breaks! The entire program would play and then all the ads at the end. All those awkward cuts just happened in real time 😅 the disney xd channel did have commercial breaks though.
I don't know if this is entirely accurate, but I remember the kiss between Brady and Mack being built up to hell and back in those little teen magazines (J-14, Tiger Beat, etc.). I think Ross Lynch and Maia Mitchell were dating at the same time the movie was filming, so the "media" (using that term loosely) built up a lot of hype around the fact that this real life couple would be kissing in this movie. I think I had a crush on both of the leads and I wanted to see them kiss, so that was the primary reason I watched it. And then they just...didn't kiss. Apparently a kiss was filmed and it was just cut from the movie. I was so disappointed, but looking back the movie isn't that bad at least.
At my sleep over we had a rotten tomato fight which is exactly what it sounds like it was like tag but with rotten tomatoes pulled straight from the rotting tomato plants in my yard eventually it turned into all out tomato warfare it was truly one of the best experiences of my life
“40ft storms that will be a byproduct of a huge storm” But seriously, I love this movie. The sound track is great. My friends and I talk about it quite often, mostly arguing about the existence of Coolest Cats in Town in the movie
the only time i had a sleepover with a group of friends was at my friends birthday in 5th grade, i dont remember doing each others hair or anything like that. we made musically videos, played minecraft, and went swimming. the only time i remember talking abt boys with my friends in 5th grade was when i pretended to have a crush on a boy to fit in. i dont think ive had a single sleepover like the ones in movies or whatever
me and my sister STILL love watching this movie, when surf crazy comes on, we immediately start doing the choreo and let's just say i've fallen from her shoulders one too many times ;-;
Funny story. In my middle school for our last time of school the teacher says we can vote on a movie to see. We all voted to wathc teen beach movie since the next day the sequel came out. (I’m surprised everyone liked teen beach movie) my teacher thought it was a porno but then was she pull out the movie she realized it was a Disney channel movie
When I was 15 our girl sleepover consisted of eating pringles, wrestling and then playing FNAF in the dark to scare ourselves. We never rly talked about guys and if we did it lasted no more than 2 minutes
The only memory related to Teen Beach Movie I have is the time Club Penguin made an event for it and it was probably the most fun I had playing it back then
okay. As a former 15 year old girl, there WAS a lot of talk about crushes and who you like, but mixed into your entire life story and all the trauma you've ever had and it usually devolved into group therapy and crying. And then you eat cookies and watch movies
Me and my friends would watch TV, jump on the trampoline, listen to music, and walk around town. We didn't pillow fight, we didn't talk (to much) about bfs, we def didn't consistently do each other's hair unless it was dying it or something
This premiered on the coldest day in winter (southern hemisphere teas). All i remembered from it was: Johnny Deluca was an awakening. Surf Crazy and Fallin for Ya had crack in them. Pink leather looks fire. Himbo surfer Tanner. Same villain as Wizards of Waverley Place Movie.
When my sister had a teenage girl sleepover, her and her friends graffitied the inside of the room, listened to music, got on the roof, and flashed the neighbour's house which housed my sister's at the time boyfriend. My sleepovers were mostly going into the woods and abandoned buildings and just hanging out with my best friend. I'd say the Mack and Lela sleepover was pretty accurate, it just took out the stuff they didn't want to influence children into doing.
Man this movie was one of those peak fun and campiness movies in our childhood. Even if everyone in the target demographic knew that the overarching plot was kind of stupid it just encapsulates this fun cartoonish vibe with a great soundtrack and some meta jokes about movies that are actually funny and not very forced. I still rewatch it occasionally to this day
I think why I love this movie and why it works is because it’s both a parody and love letter to old movies like grease or something but it’s very camp while executing everything very well…that being said the sequel is horrible and you should cover it lmao
In my experience during girl sleepovers, we would play truth or dare, braid each other's hair, watch movies, tell scary stories, stay awake past our bedtime, talk about boys, try to make each other levitate, and summon demons, which usually didn't work but we still tried it religiously 😭
the second you mentioned "can't stop singing" despite the me not watching this movie in years, it instantly got stuck in my head and I am unsure of how to remove it
so glad someone’s talking about this movie on the platform!! it’s da one of my fav childhood movies bc it’s so dumb and it plays into that😭‼️one thing you forgot to mention though, the actor who played tanner played drag pennywise in the 2019 it parody musical
personally, there was a little bit of boy talk to annoy each other, but mostly trying to curse ourselves, like doing the ritual thing with the paper doll from corpse party
The stereotypical girls’ night is foreign to me. For me, it’s just video games and movies, and boys is not that popular a topic unless it’s crushes and relationships we already have or arguing over
The movie is a parody of the Teen Beach Movies made in the 1960s that starred Annette Funicello (an original Mickey Mouse Club alum) and Frankie Avalon who was a teen heartthrob in the early 60s. All the weird stylistic choices (no wet hair, pajama parties, 2 groups of competitive teenagers vying for something, the anti-technology themes in its whacky villains, the we are a bad rip off plot of a better movie nature of the plot, and even the whole villain with a bad accent are things from those old Beach movies. Most of those beach movies are where we get beach music from the 60s as a genre (not 100%, but it makes up a large chunk). Heck there's a deep cut joke in there to something that would have been popular in the 1950s - 1960s that's being made fun of in universe. The whole "he sounds British, but he's really from Pittsburgh, because when you're from Pittsburgh you have to do something" joke is a deep cut reference to the book, then play, then movie, then musical, then movie musical entitled "Auntie Mame" which remained popular from its book debut in 1955 through the movie musical adaptation in 1968 with Lucille Ball. So the in universe movie is even loaded with early 1960s topical popular culture jokes like that for those in the know. Give Beach Blanket Bingo, Bikini Beach, Pajama Party, The Wayard Bikini, Muscle Beach, and Gidget a watch to get a sense of the genre that was popular from 1959 - 1968. Then watch the satire Annette and Frankie made, making fun of themselves & the genre in 1987 entitled "Return to the Beach", where they portray their characters as parents facing mid-life crisis while going through the antics of a beach movie at that age. It's all fun, and you'll have a good laugh if nothing else from some of the films, though some of the humor is dated and sexist as Mack points out in this Disney Channel parody.
i used to have this movie's album on a loop to help me go to sleep at night. i don't know why but somehow it was the only way i could fall asleep for months?? anyway it's been years and i still have all the songs memorized
I watched this movie religiously the week it was released! Genuinly, I watched it like 10 times in the span of 4 days! They just kept showing it! That's why I can remember every single scene in it!
i remember i watvhed this so much when i was younger that i went to watch west side story around a year or two after it came out believing it to be liek it, AND IT WAS CRUSHED
Just bc I'm not seeing it anywhere, the reason that they are surfing during a storm is bc irl some places don't get decent waves to surf on unless it's storming. For example, it's nearly impossible to surf on the east coast of the US when it's not storming bc the waves are too small. Surfers have to wait for big storms to be able to do anything. It's a dangerous hobby. Even in areas where they do get decent waves, surfers will still try to go out during storms bc the waves are much bigger and more fun ig
i remember this movie aired and they had a commercial brake thing where they showed kids how to do the beehive hair….i attempted it with no adult assistance and knotted my hair up so badly i nearly had yo have a good amount cut off….love this movie especially the songs
i absolutely loved this movie when i was younger and have the exact same relationship with cant stop singing. they mustve somehow put crack into an audio format
I think the kids all being played by adults works for the movie world, since thats how classic movies generally were cast. (Like just look at grease or west side story) And by extension, they probably cast older for the leads so that it wasnt fucking weird for them to have relationships with the movie characters
I love this type of trope of copying those quirks/logic of worlds. Like breaking into song or hair never getting wet. thats part of why barbie reminds me of this movie
Before I watch the rest of this video I need you to know: the other guy in The Driver Era with Ross Lynch is his brother. Rocky Lynch. They're brothers
during one girl sleepover we made an embarassingly bad video on windows movie maker with ms paint drawings and put it on youtube where, to my horror, it exists to this day. We also used a ouija board in a basement one time. Other than that we mostly spent our sleepovers being bad at a guitar hero
A lot of DCOMs can be solved with polyamory
That’s a yearbook quote right there
If you had cable you could not ESCAPE this movie. They played it in the morning, night, summer (which makes sense), winter, Halloween, Christmas, Valentines Day etc. They played this almost as much as MTV plays Ridiculousness.
IT WAS SO ANNOYING (i ate this shit up)
@@hikeilokei i was spoon feed and I kept grabbing the spoon
EMPHASIS ON THE HALLOWEEN PART that's my birthday and if I could expect a consistent gift every year, it was this movie
Unfortunately the same thing happened on Disney. Once we exited the Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverley Place era and entered the Jessie, Austin & Ally era, they stopped playing Miley and Selena music videos during ad breaks and started pushing Ross Lynch heavily.
They played ‘Cruisin For A Bruisin’ and ‘Can’t Make It Stop’ religiously as well as Ross’ music outside of Disney. It’s interesting how people gloss over Ross Lynch when it comes to the ‘Disney Popstar Factory’ because he was definitely their attempt at the “next big thing,” after Bridget Mendler and before Olivia Rodrigo.
I watched it every time it played (My family hated me.)
The reason Mack says "I'm Mack" at the end of the last song is actually a reference to the first movie song "Surf Crazy" when everyone says their names. She's the last one to do so and does it quite hesitantly, but by the end in "Surf's Up" she says it confidently, which I guess is supposed to be symbolic or something... I don't mind it when I watch the movie, but if i'm just listening to the soundtrack it does sound very out of place
I understood that (admittedly I pieced that together when I was editing and didn’t bother to re-record) but it’s still odd that it comes from nowhere cause there’s no build up. Like no one else in the song says their name
During girl sleepovers we DID talk about boys and brush each others' hair and the hair brushing was as homoerotic as it was in this movie
W homoerotisicm
Really because all the girl sleepovers I went to we ended up fist fighting each other.
Huh.. mine were closer to witch gatherings.
Eh, seems like every girl’s sleepover is different
"If you don't leave we will physically assault you" 10/10 quote
I think they said that in fight club idk I didn’t watch it
This movie awakened my "I'm not like other girls" phase.... I'm a trans man....
this is so real
that is actually too true
Lmao i love the change from that to straight up "I'm not **** ***** girl*"
I mean, were you wrong? You're technically not like other girls...
@@commandercorl1544 straight up not other girls period lmao
I'm pretty sure, most of the things that look incredibly stupid or out of place in the movie are deliberate decisions from the director to mock movies like west side story (old actors playing teenagers like in Grease, the fake ass surfing, Can't Stop Singing being a song about nothing that serves for nothing), they're all there to carry the motive of the film imo
Most of it is what Mack point out as the reason she dislike the movie.
She literally says "the surfing is all fake" "the songs are stupid"
The adult actors is not that weird, ir very common and was probably caused by howminors can't work as many hours, and musicals take longer to make. I'm pretty sure some of the cast are professional dancers, due to the amount of backflips they perform, you can't have that with 15 year olds
no you’re totally right…I didn’t even catch that they were doing the actors being older on purpose and maybe even tanner’s voice being totally different singing 😂 like butch is clearly a dude in his mid twenties much like rizzo in grease lmao (I’ve only seen grease so that’s what I have to reference lol)
Also, Can't Stop Singing does have a point: to show Mac and Brady are slowly turning into regular characters from the movie and to show Mac's losing sanity from the situation.
can’t stop singing was a great addition to the movie imo. not only is it good as hell, but it captures the characters’ feelings of existential confusion due to the fact that they’re morphing to be part of the movie. “am i real or just a prop?” it was definitely not unnecessary.
@@lizanya6433 also, I kinda like how at the end of the film, as well as in the second film, it's implied that they brought back some of that "movie magic" when they suddenly break into song and create a visual musical number (the Closing number in this movie and Silver Screen in the next one).
This movie swam so Barbie could surf.
SHE'S THE QUEEN OF THE WA-A-A-AVES ~~ 🏄♀️
in my experience with girls sleepovers, we usually watched movies and played truth or dare and that was kind of it. no one ever brushed my hair during a sleepover lol. we also didn't talk about boys but maybe it's because almost all of the girls from my friend group turned out to be gay
I had a mostly gay friend group…but they gushed over Kpop boys, so…
My sister said that they did a seance too
18:07 as a former girl, I can confirm sleepovers were nothing like that. We watched horror movies, got scared when we heard a noise, then changed it to SpongeBob. There was also a lot more baking.
“As a former girl”
Based
"Are you serious?"
"No, I'm Tanner!"
One of my fav Disney movies of all time. The ONLY reason that it isn't considered a classic is because kids/teens were sick of musicals when it came out. But they're idiots because this movie is awesome.
I think it was the last Disney channel movie I was obsessed with (I was 12 or maybe 13 even)
@@brynniefresh9746 I didn't see it until this year so I don't have nostalgia goggles, and also I'm an adult, and I still think it's a great movie.
I'm a sucker for musicals
the relationship between lela and mack in TBM and ESPECIALLY teen beach movie 2.... is the equivalent of that one relationship all queer girls go through in elementary thru high school where youre basically in love with each other but play it off as 'besties' with the attraction simply being out off as ''' i just really admire her and i lowkey wanna be her' thing. the two have a crazy falling out and they proceed to never interact ever again even though you know you wanted to grow old with them and it wouldve been perfect with them together..... yeah, i love homoerotic undertones.
The one thing I cannot forgive this movie for is casting Kevin Chamberlin and not giving him a campy villain song.
For the uninitiated he played Horton in Seussical and Uncle Fester in Adams Family in their original Broadway runs and received tony noms for both though he didn't win. He's also been in West Side Story, Wicked, Little Shop of Horrors and a bunch of other musicals
Ironic that he's been in West Side Story after Teen Beach Movie
Damn, I didn't remember his role in Little Shop of Horrors or Wicked, but it sounds like he's talented and they did him dirty.
I know him more from Jessie lol
ah, my favorite psychological horror movie.
my 15 year old girl sleepover experience was Disney channel binging, Pandemonium playing and going to the shop to spend our £2 on as many sweets as we possibly could
That’s actually super cute 😭
as a girl whos been and had sleep overs I've had to say. we do indeed play with each others hair, talk ab boys, make each other text our crushes, but we also go into vulgar detail ab what we want/would let someone do to us or them. and the whole time its yelling, screaming, obnoxious laughter, and high pitched giggling
Don’t forget trying to summon demons, that one is important
@@thegreendragon9628 light as a feather stiff as a board was my fav game 😭
Confession: I have watched this movie over 20 times, once 5 times in a row... I really like this movie
idk I probably have too…it was the last Disney channel movie I got really into and apparently it was on all the time and I’m sure I had it recorded lol
As a person who grew up socialized as a girl, I have no idea if I can give you an accurate description of a female sleepover, but I can say that mine consisted of Broadway karaoke, stealing food from the kitchen, and a substantial amount of witchcraft.
Sounds like a sleepover I'd enjoy
I miss the witchcraft most...
If a storm is coming and someone decide to go to the ocean to surf a wave, I’m going say “you’re a idiot” and do nothing.
Male sleepovers consisted of 1v1s on nuketown and discussing war crimes and creepy internet stuff.
being the youngest in a house of women I was victim to makeup and lady clothes at female sleepovers. I haven't been the same since.
Thank you for coming to my therapy session.
Yeah i only went to sleeppvers till we were 12 but we played videogames and scared each other with creepypastas, also tried to trow a guy in the pool
Every problem he has with the first is acknowledged in the 2nd:
Brady has to deal with how he and Mack aren't on the same level with each other, and Lela straight up says "Goodbye characters in the background who's names I don't know!"
In regards to the actors ages in the movie, my personal reasoning was that they cast them like they would back when the original movie would have been made. Like you ever seen Grease? There are I think 40 year olds playing 18 year olds. Now it very well could be wrong, but that was always my thoughts
That and minors can only work so many hours a day and they need set teachers it’s probably MUCH cheaper to just hire adults to play minors
Difference is that costume designers and styling crew made Olivia look as a teen (the rest of the cast… arguably).
Finally.
Disney's first Isekai.
this was one of my favorite disney channel movies when i was younger, i got stuff from the movie in club penguin
lol when I was trying to find the movie logo for the thumbnail, I came across so much club penguin shit
@@hikeilokei i love club penguin!!!!!!!! i think i got the teen beach movie clothes the one time i was able to buy a membership and when my 1 month membership ended i couldnt take the clothes off or else i couldnt put them on again, i think my penguin was dressed as lela bc she was my favorite
Girl here, my expierence with sleep overs are fight to the death pillowfights (there is no friendship only war.), videoganes, and watching movies. Occasionally late night trauma talk or a sudden fit of laughter and nobody knows why we're laughing we're just sleeo deprived
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I had completely forgotten about this movie. And now that I have seen this video, I will proceed to forget about it again. Oopsie Poopsie.
Don’t test me
The “I’m Mack” moment was a call back to surf crazy where the surfers introduced themselves, when Mack’s part came up she was hesitant to participate, but by the end of the movie in surfs up she said it confidently. Kinda oddly placed but still significant
2 corrections (because I've watched 100 times)
The storm is caused by the destruction of the machine, I'm pretty sure Brady says that, and it wouldn't have happened if Lela and Tanner didn't got together
And the reason she says her name in the end is a comeback to the surf crazy song, where everyone says their name and she doesn't participate
Now you have to cover the sequel that made every single fan of this movie angry lol. Seriously though, I definitely agree with the 10/10 fun score for this movie. It's always a fun rewatch and it has so much charm.
The songs in this movie are some of the best Disney has ever put out in terms of ORIGINAL live action movies.
I remember watching Schmigadoon (if you like musicals, give it a watch) and thinking "Oh my god. This is literally grown up Teen Beach Movie". My brother and I were OBSESSED with this movie as kids haha. (just... don't mention the sequel.)
oh my god you’re so right!! I love Schmigadoon and I was obsessed with TBM as a kid (also totally the sequel never happened in my mind)
My sister and I were also obsessed with this movie when it came out! I remember it was the first Club Penguin Party I dressed up for❤ Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’ was also our favorite song :)
that’s such a good comparison
This movie isn't just a reference to the 1960s movie musicals in general, but to the phenomenon of 1960s beach musicals like "beach party". I watched a lot of those as a kid ^^ (tbh... i didn't even remember the fictional movie was called "wet side story" and i only associated teen beach movie with those specific 1960s beach ones)
The "cut to commercial break" plot avoidance thing is even funnier in Canada. When this movie came out, the family channel (our version of disney channel) had no commercial breaks! The entire program would play and then all the ads at the end. All those awkward cuts just happened in real time 😅 the disney xd channel did have commercial breaks though.
at sleepovers i had at 15, we *would* talk about boys, and maybe do each others hair or makeup, but they largely consisted of complete chaos
I can sing "can't stop singing" word from word no matter how long its been since I've seen the movie
I don't know if this is entirely accurate, but I remember the kiss between Brady and Mack being built up to hell and back in those little teen magazines (J-14, Tiger Beat, etc.). I think Ross Lynch and Maia Mitchell were dating at the same time the movie was filming, so the "media" (using that term loosely) built up a lot of hype around the fact that this real life couple would be kissing in this movie. I think I had a crush on both of the leads and I wanted to see them kiss, so that was the primary reason I watched it.
And then they just...didn't kiss.
Apparently a kiss was filmed and it was just cut from the movie. I was so disappointed, but looking back the movie isn't that bad at least.
“and they were roommates” when you mentioned the driver era literally made me choke, they’re brothers 😭😭😭😭😭😭
At my sleep over we had a rotten tomato fight which is exactly what it sounds like it was like tag but with rotten tomatoes pulled straight from the rotting tomato plants in my yard eventually it turned into all out tomato warfare it was truly one of the best experiences of my life
“40ft storms that will be a byproduct of a huge storm”
But seriously, I love this movie. The sound track is great. My friends and I talk about it quite often, mostly arguing about the existence of Coolest Cats in Town in the movie
this movie changed my life. like you had to be there and i was there.
Not you putting "and they were roommates" on a picture of Ross Lynch and his BROTHER 😭😭
Yeah I never knew that was his bro 😭
"Make sure that Lela rides more than a bike tonight" LMAO. Btw Kei I love the way you say all of your jokes
the only time i had a sleepover with a group of friends was at my friends birthday in 5th grade, i dont remember doing each others hair or anything like that. we made musically videos, played minecraft, and went swimming. the only time i remember talking abt boys with my friends in 5th grade was when i pretended to have a crush on a boy to fit in. i dont think ive had a single sleepover like the ones in movies or whatever
me and my sister STILL love watching this movie, when surf crazy comes on, we immediately start doing the choreo and let's just say i've fallen from her shoulders one too many times ;-;
This movie and Let It Shine are the BEST disney channel movies and nobody can change my mind
Funny story. In my middle school for our last time of school the teacher says we can vote on a movie to see. We all voted to wathc teen beach movie since the next day the sequel came out. (I’m surprised everyone liked teen beach movie) my teacher thought it was a porno but then was she pull out the movie she realized it was a Disney channel movie
A porno?😭
When I was 15 our girl sleepover consisted of eating pringles, wrestling and then playing FNAF in the dark to scare ourselves. We never rly talked about guys and if we did it lasted no more than 2 minutes
The only memory related to Teen Beach Movie I have is the time Club Penguin made an event for it and it was probably the most fun I had playing it back then
Those teens really are on a beach
okay. As a former 15 year old girl, there WAS a lot of talk about crushes and who you like, but mixed into your entire life story and all the trauma you've ever had and it usually devolved into group therapy and crying. And then you eat cookies and watch movies
i love this movie!! also watching this movie now makes me realize that lela totally sounds like she's in love with mack. i ship it
Me and my friends would watch TV, jump on the trampoline, listen to music, and walk around town. We didn't pillow fight, we didn't talk (to much) about bfs, we def didn't consistently do each other's hair unless it was dying it or something
This premiered on the coldest day in winter (southern hemisphere teas). All i remembered from it was:
Johnny Deluca was an awakening.
Surf Crazy and Fallin for Ya had crack in them.
Pink leather looks fire.
Himbo surfer Tanner.
Same villain as Wizards of Waverley Place Movie.
I am so glad I am not the only one who has been tormented by Can't Stop Singing bc it's been replaying in my head for the last 2 weeks😭
When my sister had a teenage girl sleepover, her and her friends graffitied the inside of the room, listened to music, got on the roof, and flashed the neighbour's house which housed my sister's at the time boyfriend. My sleepovers were mostly going into the woods and abandoned buildings and just hanging out with my best friend. I'd say the Mack and Lela sleepover was pretty accurate, it just took out the stuff they didn't want to influence children into doing.
Oh, classic abandoned building shenanigans and roof crawling antics. Definitely not spiderman pretending to be a normal person
@@j.vazquez8966honestly getting into absolutely devious hijinks with the bestie is very amusing
Oh god.. the oopsie poopsie..you unlocked a core memory, that was me when i was younger
Man this movie was one of those peak fun and campiness movies in our childhood. Even if everyone in the target demographic knew that the overarching plot was kind of stupid it just encapsulates this fun cartoonish vibe with a great soundtrack and some meta jokes about movies that are actually funny and not very forced. I still rewatch it occasionally to this day
I think why I love this movie and why it works is because it’s both a parody and love letter to old movies like grease or something but it’s very camp while executing everything very well…that being said the sequel is horrible and you should cover it lmao
Is it just me, or does this movie feel like it could turn into a slasher/horror film at pretty much any point?
True dude
There is a horror movie/series that has the same plot
I remember wanting to get a personalized license plate that had to do with this movie. Thank god I was too young to drive.
I just love how with all these turf war side characters they all have their own personality and plays them so well. This is a fun movie
In my experience during girl sleepovers, we would play truth or dare, braid each other's hair, watch movies, tell scary stories, stay awake past our bedtime, talk about boys, try to make each other levitate, and summon demons, which usually didn't work but we still tried it religiously 😭
I’M SO GLAD THAT YOU MENTIONED NOT LIKING THE LINE “I’M MACK” IN SURF’S UP BC IT HAS ALWAYS BOTHERED ME ((((((‘:
the second you mentioned "can't stop singing" despite the me not watching this movie in years, it instantly got stuck in my head and I am unsure of how to remove it
Can't stop singing is my favourite dcom song it lives in my head rent free
idc this is one of my favorite musicals, its so cheesy and goofy and the music goes so hard, i love it
so glad someone’s talking about this movie on the platform!! it’s da one of my fav childhood movies bc it’s so dumb and it plays into that😭‼️one thing you forgot to mention though, the actor who played tanner played drag pennywise in the 2019 it parody musical
I cannot believe that they got the same guy that choreographed A Chorus Line to work on this movie
Loved this movie as a kid and this is the first time realizing the characters are not all like 18/19... Lela can't even get her license yet
i do need more elaboration on why you don't like Tanner. What makes a himbo good or not? Funny or not? What distinctions make him worse?
Im currently writing an essay on the meta-commentary in teen beach movie like im THAT obsessed with this movie, its so weird but I love it
Funnily enough, I watched the 2nd movie first and thought the 4 main characters were in a poly relationship
personally, there was a little bit of boy talk to annoy each other, but mostly trying to curse ourselves, like doing the ritual thing with the paper doll from corpse party
I used to love this movie. I loved “Grease” and I loved “West Side Story” and this combined with Disney? Couldn’t be anything but a success
I listened to can’t stop singing on repeat while studying and it really helped me focus
The stereotypical girls’ night is foreign to me. For me, it’s just video games and movies, and boys is not that popular a topic unless it’s crushes and relationships we already have or arguing over
The movie is a parody of the Teen Beach Movies made in the 1960s that starred Annette Funicello (an original Mickey Mouse Club alum) and Frankie Avalon who was a teen heartthrob in the early 60s. All the weird stylistic choices (no wet hair, pajama parties, 2 groups of competitive teenagers vying for something, the anti-technology themes in its whacky villains, the we are a bad rip off plot of a better movie nature of the plot, and even the whole villain with a bad accent are things from those old Beach movies. Most of those beach movies are where we get beach music from the 60s as a genre (not 100%, but it makes up a large chunk). Heck there's a deep cut joke in there to something that would have been popular in the 1950s - 1960s that's being made fun of in universe. The whole "he sounds British, but he's really from Pittsburgh, because when you're from Pittsburgh you have to do something" joke is a deep cut reference to the book, then play, then movie, then musical, then movie musical entitled "Auntie Mame" which remained popular from its book debut in 1955 through the movie musical adaptation in 1968 with Lucille Ball. So the in universe movie is even loaded with early 1960s topical popular culture jokes like that for those in the know.
Give Beach Blanket Bingo, Bikini Beach, Pajama Party, The Wayard Bikini, Muscle Beach, and Gidget a watch to get a sense of the genre that was popular from 1959 - 1968.
Then watch the satire Annette and Frankie made, making fun of themselves & the genre in 1987 entitled "Return to the Beach", where they portray their characters as parents facing mid-life crisis while going through the antics of a beach movie at that age.
It's all fun, and you'll have a good laugh if nothing else from some of the films, though some of the humor is dated and sexist as Mack points out in this Disney Channel parody.
i used to have this movie's album on a loop to help me go to sleep at night. i don't know why but somehow it was the only way i could fall asleep for months?? anyway it's been years and i still have all the songs memorized
The "I'm Mac" at the end of the movie is a reference to the song where they introduce themselves and Mac stutters.
I watched this movie religiously the week it was released! Genuinly, I watched it like 10 times in the span of 4 days! They just kept showing it! That's why I can remember every single scene in it!
i remember i watvhed this so much when i was younger that i went to watch west side story around a year or two after it came out believing it to be liek it, AND IT WAS CRUSHED
19:33 REAL. This song has been haunting my head since I was 8
Just bc I'm not seeing it anywhere, the reason that they are surfing during a storm is bc irl some places don't get decent waves to surf on unless it's storming. For example, it's nearly impossible to surf on the east coast of the US when it's not storming bc the waves are too small. Surfers have to wait for big storms to be able to do anything. It's a dangerous hobby.
Even in areas where they do get decent waves, surfers will still try to go out during storms bc the waves are much bigger and more fun ig
I'd love to see you do a review of Can Of Worms. That DCOM is an absolute trip!
i’ve been waiting for this 😈😈😈 congrats on 50k hikeilokei
Thank you :)
i remember this movie aired and they had a commercial brake thing where they showed kids how to do the beehive hair….i attempted it with no adult assistance and knotted my hair up so badly i nearly had yo have a good amount cut off….love this movie especially the songs
I am offended that when the Game Over screen from BOTW was played it was not the blue drowning one
I couldn’t find the blue one 😭
my favorite part of every video is when deluge dirge starts playing
sorry but wet side story sounds like i need to open a private browser to watch it
i absolutely loved this movie when i was younger and have the exact same relationship with cant stop singing. they mustve somehow put crack into an audio format
cruisin for a bruisin has also been stuck in my head for 10 years
There's no way you didn't place that ad purposely after you went on a tangent about ad placement in the movie
I did! you just didn't get the ad lol
@@hikeilokei I got it right after I wrote this comment 😭
all i can think of when i hear "mac" is MacReady from The Thing, and that makes this review even funnier imo.
I think the kids all being played by adults works for the movie world, since thats how classic movies generally were cast. (Like just look at grease or west side story) And by extension, they probably cast older for the leads so that it wasnt fucking weird for them to have relationships with the movie characters
SALMON RUN MUSIC SPOTTED
I forgot about his name being Les Camembert. Bro is literally named after a type of cheese.
I love this type of trope of copying those quirks/logic of worlds. Like breaking into song or hair never getting wet. thats part of why barbie reminds me of this movie
Before I watch the rest of this video I need you to know: the other guy in The Driver Era with Ross Lynch is his brother. Rocky Lynch. They're brothers
during one girl sleepover we made an embarassingly bad video on windows movie maker with ms paint drawings and put it on youtube where, to my horror, it exists to this day. We also used a ouija board in a basement one time. Other than that we mostly spent our sleepovers being bad at a guitar hero
This is my favorite Disney movie ever, happy to see that you liked it as well