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And a man who dismantled his Teddy Ruxman when he was a kid, just to see how it worked.
You may know him as fondongo, but his mama named him Don Ford, I'm going to call him Don
Ford.
Time to go back to class, yes it is because we do one of these episodes is to review something
and this particular episode is no different.
The day we are reviewing a new movie directed by Sean McNamara, guys got a lot of
a lot of Disney and kids experience.
It's called Spare Parts, starring the great George Lopez, also Marissa Tomé, Alexa
Panavega, Jamie Lee Curtis, Esai Morales, and so many more people.
It's based on a true story of a high school in Arizona, where George Lopez's character
is actually a combination of two different people.
But he plays Dr. Freddie Cameron, who was an engineer, and he kind of bounces from job
to job and winds up as a substitute teacher in a community high school in not a very good
section of town.
Well actually he's just for the last couple years he has jumping job to job, right?
And the principal played by Jamie Lee Curtis asks him to head up a club, and so he decides
he's going to do something with science because he is a science sub for a teacher who's
out on maternity leave and enter into his life Oscar Vasquez played by Carlos Panavega
and no it is not a coincidence that he and Alexa have the same last name they are married.
He wants to go into the service, but due to the fact that he doesn't have his birth certificate
because he is not illegal in this country, he is turned down by the service.
So he's looking for a new creative outlet and finds this flyer for a competition to be held
in California for underwater robotics.
So he enlists Dr. Cameron to help him out because he wants to compete in this competition.
Well Dr. Cameron says he can't do this by herself son.
So they wind up recruiting three other students from the school that kind of come from different
walks of life.
David Del Rio plays Christian Arcaga.
He's kind of a he's a wiz kid, not a real popular kid, but he knows a lot of the things
about a lot of things kind of the nerdy kid on the block.
You could definitely say that.
No, just respect Jose Julian plays Lorenzo Santin.
He is a kid who's just a wiz with mechanical things.
So he gets that part of it and then you have Luis Aranda played by Oscar Javier Gutierrez
the second, who's kind of he's he's what he's the jock he's the muscle he's a muscle
the but he wants to be more than he is.
So these kids along with Dr. Cameron set out on a very limited budget to compete with
their own robot that they construct and that's kind of as far as I want to go with it.
But let's talk about it, John.
You're done.
I don't even know.
John's gone here.
It's late.
I know.
What do you think of McNamara's direction in the film and the look he created?
Before again, I think our best friends in the world, I like Josh Solouly, Josh or the
man.
Thank you so much for inviting us and really enjoyed it.
They had a lot going on in the screen and they always do things with such class and
professionalism.
It just it constantly amazes me with our best friends indeed and they believe me they're
slumming with us.
So the look of the film, I thought it was great for what it was.
They're in the bad side of Phoenix and poor neighborhood and one thing I want to add is
that the money to God for the robotics is money that they raised themselves.
They had raised it all and that's why they had 800 bucks versus like one of the big
schools which were named, name was said, 18,000 dollars and that's also understand.
This is not based on a book.
It's actually based on an article from Wired Magazine.
That was written.
True story.
The look I thought was great for what was because it's I've been to Phoenix a couple
times and it showed the bad side of town in the low income Hispanic neighborhoods.
And the school I thought was a good fit for what was going on because that was probably
what it was in real life.
The look and fill the film, I thought was very good for what it was because there are
some kind of downtime.
But I thought that the look at how they had it was very good.
The direction I thought he was spot on.
There's only a couple of Christmas which we'll get to a little bit later.
I thought he did a great job as well.
He has, again, we said in the top of this episode that he has a lot of experience directing
things that are aimed at kids.
If you look at his resume, there's a lot of Disney channel stuff.
Yes, there is.
And so he understands his audience and he didn't do the big, there's not a lot of big
colors and a lot of big explosions.
There's just stuff that I think can hold the attention of an audience while whilst trying
to stay faithful to the source material.
No big, but the exam or anything like that, and what I kind of dug and as I was watching
this film, it's kind of like he just kind of lets the actors do what they do.
There was a good natural flow, especially between the kids, that there was a good rapport
there.
So they almost look like they weren't being directed.
He was like, you know your lines, you know how your characters relate to each other,
this go.
And it didn't feel forced, it didn't feel shoehorned in there, it was a very natural
feel to it.
If it was directed in all the, like you're saying, the bonding and stuff like that, if that
was scripted, they did very good, because I could swear, probably a lot of that was impromptu.
You know, like the hotel scene when Aaron California had the competition, you know,
you just saw that.
I think a lot that was impromptu, he just let him go.
But I think they did great.
But I think the way that works is, okay, just go in there and have a pillow fight.
Exactly.
That's the direction in the script.
Just have that.
That's what I'm saying.
A lot of impromptu on there, totally.
Which I really enjoyed.
So let's kind of segue that into the acting.
George Lopez for me, his comedy, his stand-up comedy for me has kind of lagged a little
bit in the last few years, but he tends to pick acting projects that I think played
to his strengths.
And I think the older George is getting, he realizes that he needs to be that mentor
role, more, and because that's kind of the role he's taking more and more.
And I think he was very, very good in this role.
I thought he was very respectful to the material, even though he's playing a combination
of two different people.
And neither one of them or his back that I could tell.
But I think he fit really well into the role.
I think he understood how much respect he brought to it because this is a great story.
About a great group of kids.
And I just think his acting is getting better and better and better if you're just going
on.
I totally agree.
My thing with him is you think he'd be more comedic in the film than he was being
George Lopez.
He had some comedy, some good comedy.
The scene with the teacher on the pickup is on going to say, but he was more serious
than comedy.
And you think as someone like, hello, Pissie, be a lot more comedic, but he was.
And I think he had that great mix where he's like, you're saying aging and stuff.
But I think he really did it.
Yeah, really.
I have no complaints about him at all.
My stand up, believe it or not, it's going to be Jamie Lee Curtis.
She actually, she was not huge.
If I had to give a big shout out, besides the four boys, because I think they all did great.
The surprise shout out would go to Jamie Lee Curtis because she was so funny.
Yeah, she's not Miss Halloween, innards one little one.
There's a throw-away line.
Yes.
But I really enjoyed her role.
I thought she played it very good.
I enjoyed what she did.
She was the one I think she got to stand out on that.
For me, I don't know that there's any standout performances.
I liked what Carlos Panavaga did as Oscar Vasquez.
Awesome.
All four of the young people were very, very good.
For me, it was just a good feeling to have all of them together.
Like I said before, there was just a natural flow to it.
My only downside from the acting perspective was in the very beginning because you had
Marissa Tomé, who plays a fellow teacher and maybe a love interest, maybe not.
We never really know for sure.
Their chemistry in the very beginning was a little rigid for me.
By the end of the film, I thought it was much better and much more natural, but it just
seemed kind of awkward and runky for me in the first couple of scenes they had together.
My criticism, which is in my review at her website, you've got to say that it's WWE
at the club.
Which that's our website?
That's our website.
That's how it works.
Sorry.
It's been a long week, but totally.
I thought at the beginning it took a little bit longer than usual to really get to know the
characters of the four boys up front.
I think that kind of dragged a little bit, but halfway through you're loving these
kids.
You're bonding with them.
You're feeling like you want to be their friend and you really care for these four
kids.
At the beginning, it took a little too long for me to get to know them, but what you did,
you're on track with these kids and you really cared about them.
And see, that didn't really bother me in this case.
It's minor.
It's for me.
That's not only for me.
I often play with the, because they showed how the backstory is kind of intersected
in different places and I kind of liked the flow to that.
At the beginning, it was a little slow I thought, but I loved that, and it was on full
four.
You know, my thing, the plot, I love the plot.
You know, it's true story and stuff like that and you don't have to like it.
You can still like it.
Yeah, it's true story.
But I don't think they veared much from the truth on this thing, but the plot and storyline
I loved.
I thought I was not, I did not drag.
I never looked at the watch as you say.
It was a good amount of film.
I don't think it was too long at all.
And it runs just over 90 minutes, roughly yeah.
For me, what I really, really respected about the story was, you deal with the issue
of undocumented aliens and things of that nature.
But they dealt with it in such a respectful way that it didn't get to preachy and overpower
or political story of these kids and what they accomplished.
It wasn't the political statement at all.
It was just, it's part of the story.
It's part of, it's part of, yeah, exactly what goes on.
It was one of those, look, this is out there.
This is a thing, but it's not going to take over, it's not going to take away from the focus
of the brilliant job these kids did.
And I really dug that about it.
And at the end, just because it's a true story, they tell you kind of what happens with the
out.
To each one of them, which I absolutely dug as well.
And there's showed some of the real pictures from, you know, like they showed you the
certain pictures during the film, but then you see the real pictures, the real kids, the
photos of those shots were based on.
Yes, exactly.
I, I just hadn't had a low bar going into this, because I was kind of like, I didn't
know what to expect thoroughly surprised me, absolutely loved this film, really, really
enjoyed it.
It's, we've seen so many films lately, especially that we've said, this is not the
feel good movie of the year.
And it's nice to see a film that's uplifting, that reminds us that it's our job on this
planet, especially as we get older, to not only mentor the next generation, but to be that
role model for them.
So go out and make a difference in somebody's life.
And I love stories like that, because that's one of the things that's very, very close
to my heart.
It wasn't too preachy, wasn't too political, I mean, it wasn't cheesy at all.
It was a true story that was so feel good.
And it doesn't pander to the audience.
Exactly.
It tells the story that the pacing is great.
The comedy is incredible.
The perfect amount of comedy is there's some great comedy.
Yeah, it's not like they're trying to force it down your throat, it works very well.
You know, so that being said, shall we get to the final analysis?
Well, we do.
I think everybody is again one more time.
Josh, everybody.
Thank you.
Thanks for inviting us.
I, I surprised we can't take them enough.
They've been so good to us.
Totally.
Been our friends now for a little over almost a year and a half.
Yeah, somebody can believe that.
We forgot.
I don't know.
You're gonna have to hear some so.
The way we do the final analysis on this show, we don't give you
letter grades, thumbs up, thumbs down, one to five stars, whatever.
Now, we don't do that because our audience, the empire, we feel was better than that.
Basically our final analysis comes down to two questions.
Question number one, would you see this film again?
The answer's no.
We're done here.
If the answer's yes, it becomes, how would you see this film again?
Would you pay for it full price?
Would you go to twilight after noon, early morning, second run, red box, netflix, cable.
So, Don, would you see this film again?
Oh, that's a definite yes.
100% yes.
So, how would you see this film again?
However, it comes.
If put it this way, if some friends said, hey, we want to see this on Saturday night,
since the big Oscar pushes over and everything, right?
I would go get even at full price because I enjoyed it that much and I really like this series from you, sir.
Yeah, it is.
No matter how, I would see this again and I would recommend this, not for the five or six
show kids, but like 10 in above or the early teens or stuff like that.
Anything above that, this is a good family film.
For me, it's great for them.
Yeah, I mean, there's, there's a couple of situations.
But then kids want to say, but the four-year-old might have trouble with this.
But like anything, but eight in above, take the family to this on movie night.
You know, this is one that you will not regret.
I think that's worth it.
I don't want you to do it.
The little beginning of the, you know, the character growth, but after it, it made up
at a hundred percent, I really can't say anything bad about this film.
I loved it.
I'm right there with you.
I would see it again and see it anyway you can.
It's, it's such a good story of just, of uplifting and overcoming adversity.
And you feel good when you come out of it.
You want to go take on the world, go check this film out.
Spare parts.
Great job by everybody involved.
The crowd was left.
It was a clip.
The writer's Sean McNamara.
Yeah, no, hold on.
I'm surprised he doesn't get more Disney movies.
He will now.
Oh, yeah, I'm going to say the crowd was clapping in that thing.
Even when the updates and stuff, which really, every kind of,
you get emotional in this film and you really feel for these kids.
Incredible film.
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