Disney's Tone-deaf "Irish" Movie 

Omg just noticed how many views this has gotten!!! I'm so proud 🥹

I never quite understood why they didn’t just tell him he is half Irish.

The reason the grandpa is so obsessed with making his own shoes is because in Irish folklore, Leprechauns are sometimes depicted as cobblers. Some stories have them making shoes as a profession, while in others they just mend their own shoes after running around so much and wearing them down. It was a cheeky reference to Irish folklore that not many people pick up on their first watch!

As someone who is half Irish I can confirm this movie describes the average half Irish experience

As an Irish man... I LOVED this movie as a kid

Can confirm, I'm Irish on both sides of my family and I came out of the womb knowing how to step dance and we don't have a stove.

The evil leprechaun Seamus is played by Timothy Omundson! He was in Psych, Supernatural, Galavant, and the new Percy Jackson series. He's a great actor and dancer and it's hilarious to see him in this shitty movie. Also as an Irish person, can confirm all we do is cook in the fireplace, make shoes, play basketball, create family drama, and breakdance

As an Irishman myself, I can confirm that we Irish are NOT offended by anything because we have better things to worry about.

Gen Z discovering these movies is cracking me up

“Well at least they got paid” is crazy. 😭 I know, buddy.

This movie made “Lake Eerie” sound like an epic mic drop.

I remember this movie playing literally every st.patricks day on disney channel for years when i was a child, keep in mind I was born like 3 years after this movie came out so they were airing this for at least 7 years after it first came out. the only thing i really remembered was his mom was secretly a leprechaun and evil leprechauns were trying to attack them.

As someone who's real name is Kyle and is actually 1/8th Irish and plays basketball sometimes this movie hit me hard as a kid. I'm not from Ohio though (thank god)

The erie unsettling thing was fully intentional. You had to have been there lol. You must not have seen any of the early DCOMs. It's a lot easier to accept a boy turning into a magical leprechaun after you see a boy turn into a mermaid.

Entire film: This movie is about Irish characters Ending: MERCA! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

I've never played bagpipes, but I listen to them live at Renaissance fairs all the time. From my understanding, they can be played without blowing as long as there's air in them. There's this girl named Ally the Piper who's was accused of faking because she smiles while playing sometimes, and she explained it better than I can.

Bro why is it so bad to tell your kid he's Irish lmao.

Just FYI, the book you mention about being Irish is a reference to the book called "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask"

The thing with the grandps talking about shoes all the time is because leprechauns are obsessed with shoes. Making them, cleaning them, etc. Also that wasn't an "evil leprechaun dimension" they got transported to during the climax, that's just Ireland.

“When you make your own shoes youre the master of your own feet” i feel like they had other plotlines cut from this movie because Kyle starts dancing after the bad guy touches him, like many other people in the crowd, and the grandpa calls the bad guy a faer darrig which i looked up and its like an irish faerie so i feel like they had to of cut something out of this movie that made the shoes somewhat relevant. Idk this movie wouldve been a lot cooler if it explored more irish folklore rather than just being like “all irish people are leprechauns🤷🏼🍀”

thank you. We're getting more and more of the story for our movie together. When Troy and and Gabriella hugged a little to long (still a kids movie) she became pregnant with their first child. Gabriella, as a Disney Star came into Disneys witness protection program after giving birth to Kyle who got adopted into a family in Ohio, that works for Disney. Troy, as a punishment was torn through time as we saw in "17 again". However, Gabriella had to leave Disney for the witness protection program and moved to Forks, under the name "Isabella Swan" (Project: Black Swan - an Undercover Princess Project) where she met a guy named "Edward Cullen" who pretended to be human at first but then guilt tripped Gabriella, no, I mean Bella, into a relationship by telling her, that she is "breakable". She got one child with him, that was totally not disturbing in ANY WAY. NOOOOOO. and named it Renesmee Kyle Cullen after her fake mom and her first son.

This whole movie just feels like one big micro aggression. Of course you have to understand how many times ive been asked if I can river dance just because I was the only Irish American with blaringly obvious Irish surname.

I think it's implied that Kyle's mom came over in the 1800's, thats why she brings up the discrimination so much.

As someone who on my mom's side is part Irish, Scottish, Welsh etc and whose dad is Greek, but I didn't meet him til adulthood I totally glommed on to this movie as a pre-teen.

that intro is GODLY

You are underrated AF, this was hilarious. I love your entire vibe. I honestly laughed out loud more than once.

This was one of my favorite DCOMs!!!!! Yes it's cringey now but it was soooo good when I was a kid 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Sheamus makes me think of Lazy Town😂

I had such a crush on Sheamus as a kid lmao

They do explain why he was banished to Lake Erie, it's why they kept telling everyone the dad is from Cleveland

I watched this movie multiple times as a kid and never really understood how camp it was until now lol classic dcoms are awkward gold

I do love picking apart the movies of my childhood because they were so bad but I do have to correct you on one thing. They were accurate with the scene of grandpa playing the pipes. What most people think of as bagpipes are the highland bagpipes of Scotland but many societies across the globe have various forms of bagpipes. What is being played is the uilleann pipes, Irish bagpipes. They are one of the hardest instruments to play. You use a set of bellows on one arm to fill the bag that the other arm has to squeeze while using your hands to actually play the notes on the chanter.

I just watched this movie for the first time in 20 years because I needed a st patty’s day movie to watch. You did an excellent job summarizing it and asked the same questions I did 😂

I thought this was a fun movie but i feel they played on too many Irish stereotypes including the whole leprechaun thing

11:17teenager, leprechaun or merman... it all can happen... and apparently it's tough. I would know, cause I'm a smart house.

the way his parents could’ve said they were from anywhere and avoided all of this. like kyle wouldn’t have gone to the irish festival for answers if his parents had given literally any actual answer

Those are actually uilleann pipes which have a bellows under the elbow instead of a mouthpiece to fill the air bladder ( you can see him pumping it, even.)

I started Irish dancing around the same time this movie came out (this didn’t inspire me to Irish dance, it was a coffee commercial) and I’m from Cleveland. This movie is like a curse to me.

The one who plays Kyle's grandfather is Henry Gibson who was a cast member on Laugh-In, the voice of Wilbur the pig in Charlotte's Web and played the head Nazi in The Blues Brothers

Say what you will about this movie, but the "At least you got paid" scene is incredible.

What a wierd one. I looked at rotten tomotoes and this got a whopping 53% audience score which i feel is very generous. I would tell you to have a look at Leprechaun is a 1993 American comedy horror film written and directed by Mark Jones, and starring Warwick Davis in the title role, with Jennifer Aniston supporting. It is the only movie in my life I walked out of the theatre after about 30 minutes of really trying to stay. Since you just did a irish movie, maybe save it for next year. Also have a look at Demons (Italian: Dèmoni) is a 1985 Italian supernatural horror film directed by Lamberto Bava, I have not watched it in 30 years but I still remember it made such an impression on me. I dont really remember if it was good or bad, but it is memorable and Bloody. :) Lastly is it just me? I have a very strong feeling the actor that played Shamus is an Elvis impersonator when he dosen't have a movie gig.

At my elementary school, this was nobody's favorite DCOM

Please never stop making these ‼️👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽

I enjoyed this movie as a kid, but I'm curious about the bad takes of a bygone era now.

10:44 I hadn't thought of it until now, but that actually opens up a whole new set of questions. Specifically, how one of the Fae would be handling cold iron.

Oh no, I forgot about this movie. I used to have a mini crush on Ryan Merriman too. I love the way you tell a story with sass and humor. Great release for St Patty Day! ♥🍀

god i VAGUELY remember this movie when i was a kid. i can’t believe you don’t have more subscribers!!!

665 subscribers? Dang I found a hidden gem of a RU-vid channel!

I still watch this every st patties it’s like the only tv special us irish americans grew up with :,(

As someone from Northeast Ohio who just got back from Ireland after marching in the St Patrick's Day parade, this movie is like a fever dream lmao

The "My father's from Cleveland" line has lived in my head since I was ten

okay but why you gotta come for ohio like this

didn’t like this movie, but I saw it 1 year after it was released. I feel all Disney Channel’s movies are tone deaf. Even High School Musical.

5:47 oh fun fact about this scene. It was filmed at Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington, Utah. I’m from Utah myself and can identify the three rides in this shot. The left must is Paratrooper, the Farris Wheel next to it is Skyscraper and the ride on the right is The Samurai. 😁

So Seamus is actually meant to be a fear dearg (I don't know why the dialogue calls him a leprechaun unless it's just because more people are familiar with them). They're a bit more antagonistic than leprechauns. There's MAYBE some connection with the Redcaps (similar in name and appearance), who live in castles on the border between Scotland and England and kill people before soaking their hats in their blood to keep them red. So I think Kyle got off lucky that Seamus didn't start killing his friends and family to paint his hat

18:01 just fyi you don’t need to blow when playing the bag pipes. The air comes from air you blew into the bag so as long as that has air you can just squeeze to play

This came out when I was 6 and I was obsessed. I think it was a solid movie for the time. DCOMs used to be better imho. More dark and real.

Have you ever heard of or seen the movie Camp (2003)? It's one of Anna Kendrick's early films. It's an uncomfortable movie to watch, but also hard to look away.

Never heard of you before today, but this was a pretty funny video. Subscribed.

can I just say I love your style of commentary ! :)

“The worst thing is being from Ohio” Well nowadays it’s considered suffrage so…..

I thought this was going to be about Darby O’Gill and the Little People

i will not accept this cleveland slander 😤😤😤 (everything else is valid)

Honestly I wouldn't be that surprised if I met my friend's mom and found out she was a leprechaun. Then again I'm someone who has accidentally ran the LA marathon, got chased by a malfunctioning delivery robot around Hollywood, got stuck in a piano at Chuck E Cheese and had to spend the night there, and had a pet octopus that had laid 1,000 eggs that all hatched. So yeah, it wouldn't phase me at all

god I remember loving this movie when I was little. I don't remember it being this fever dream-ish

Literally so annoyed I found you so early in your RU-vid career. I have already binged all your videos. More please!!! TIIA

intro alone made me subscribe

Not sure if anyone's said it yet, but the shoe thing is a reference to classic Leprechaun lore. They've been said to make shoes or repair shoes, depending on variations of the story. Kind of classic "elf" type stuff.

Hear hear for Kyle from Ohio ending racism!

I remember when I was a kid I did not like this movie and now as an adult I see how weird it is. I barely even remember this movie cause how much I didn’t like it. I would only watch it when I felt like I had nothing else better to do. I do remember liking the actor cause I saw him in Smart House. Anyway thanks for the reaction!

Ah now, they couldn’t even get someone in to teach them some proper Irish dancing steps I CANNOT COPE 😂😂😂

I vaguely remember seeing this movie, on the Disney Channel. I know I'd seen ads for it. Now that you mentioned it, it's starting to come back to me, even though I wasn't exactly the target audience for it, since I was 23 at the time, and my sister was 16, so I don't think we watched the Disney Channel all that much. It sounded pretty corny, though. Also, I've known people who are Irish American and this movie seems pretty insulting to their culture.

I remember back when we had cable as a kid I watched half of that movie and was so weirded out by it

Thank you for covering this movie. 😂

It's Also Tone - Deaf That Disney Channel played Zombies during Black History Month

Why was I so convinced this was peak film making when I was a kid? I am an old cinephile now and everything that is my childhood just makes me sigh.

I'm (actually) Irish and I sure hope this film is portraying my culture well! Oh -

This movie gives me the same vibes as my uncle who acts like he's Irish because he likes the Boston Celtics (we're not Irish at all)

Shit I forgot how much Scottish stuff the Irish folk in this movie were doing...good lord

How did I not remember detective Lassider in this??

This movie brightens my day. It's a classic. Back when Disney made good movies.

Just found this Channel, good work, how about Eddie’s million dollar cook off

Timothy Omundson to this day ridicules his own accent in this film.

couldn't tell you why but this was one of my fav movies from ages 2 to 10....

The intro gives me Pee-Wee Playhouse vibes, and I'm here for it.

18:54 Actually, they often didn’t get paid. Company stores and company towns in conjunction with private police forces (like the Coal and Iron Police) were a common loophole around laws against slavery, and despite what modern historical revisionists might say, forcing people to work for free and threatening them with death or imprisonment if they try to leave is called slavery.

Whoa, so female leprechauns do exist. o_O

The subdivision they live, is surrounded by mountains. Since when does ohio have so many mountains?

Lmao I remember loving this movie as a kid. I had the BIGGEST crush on the main character.

I guess if I didn’t see the title, 8d assume he was had in witness protection, and it would be useless to tell him

CinemaSins? Is that you?

I dont celebrate st patricks day but i watched someone review a different disney movie that showed a bit of luck if the irish in it so i decided to watch the movie for this st patricks. The movie is so weird, the beginning is shot like a horror movie. Everytime Kyle asks about his heritage his parents act so sus.

Might be tone deaf but it was cute. They should play it again. The dialogue is what silly kids that age would say. Parents are not hiding that they are Irish. They are hiding that they are leprechauns. Watched it with my little kid and it inspired him to come up with his own jig. :)

5:54 I’m a little confused… the symbol on the necklace does not look Chinese at all. However, he hasn’t been presented as a stellar student thus far etc. The writers put in the natural course of confusion for a boy his age. I honestly, wouldn’t read that much into it.

My childhood ! lol

22:21 i just got this dumb song outta my head after watching it on st patricks day GOD NO 😭

As an irish kid with a family full of Cleveland Browns fans, I've loved this movie since I was like 6. Leave me alone xD

These types of movies were much better at building culture and good values than current Disney films.

Part Irish and nope. I don’t do that in the morning

I’m also part Irish, that’s the part of me that drinks