God this movie meant so much to me because it broke down that toxic masculinity of black boys having to do the 'manly' sport instead of doing what they love.
@@pleaseshutup7053 false … in the beginning he did it for Mary . But after time he started to love it and that’s why he took it seriously ! That’s why he was able to overcome his bully became he finally accepted his truth and didn’t have to hold back
@@jeffreyh271 he never said he loved it. He just didn’t like boxing anymore Even in the dialogue when explaining everything to his dad he never says he loves and wants to do double Dutch. he just says I want my own life. He was able to over come bully because he was able to show that he doesn’t care about boxing anymore. So why are we trying to fight
@@pleaseshutup7053 I disagree. He didn’t have to say he liked it specifically to see it. As a boxer personally, I understand the love for roping (most people/boxers who use jumprope, develop a love for it because of foot movement) so I think him choosing this instead of boxing only exemplifies his love for it, and seeing his admiration for the girls during their performance only enhanced what he once knew about the craft and footwork
Jump In was Disney's first hood movie on the low. As someone who was a little black kid with an afro and was the only guy in his first grade class who could double dutch for more than five minutes, it was funny to me. Underrated Disney movie and Push it to the Limit is still fire today.
There seems to be a missing element of sexism in Izzy's character. Like, the movie portrays him as this great guy but there's stuff like Tammy saying they made fun of her for being a female boxer, or Izzy not wanting anyone to know he's hanging out with the girls. The film implies that Izzy learns to stop looking down at girls, but we never see him being unlikeable at the start.
@@Unfazed1888I don't know about the jokes, but he actively doesn't want people to know he's doing double dutch. Because it's 'girly'. Because he'll be looked down on, because girls do it. That's misogyny, bestie.
Real ones know about Jump In & you know if it got KeKe Palmer in it, it’s gon be a cult classic. Y’all gotta give Mr Nostalgia his props cuz he’s doing everything that needs to be done
Aww, this was when Corbin Bleu was untouchable. He was in his heartthrob era here I didn't know about the age gap then, but i thought Izzy and Mary were cute at the time
Disney must’ve still been making Keke Palmer their next star when filming this movie, considering it was filmed a year after her unaired pilot that never got picked up. She’s even got 2 songs on the soundtrack. Also, Shauna (Shanica Knowles) is Amber from Hannah Montana. Just learned that.
Random memory unlocked: My local YMCA had a Jump In! "premiere party" for all the kids in the neighborhood (me, my little brother, and probably 8 other kids actually showed up) but I remember this bc they gave us all tiny yellow dodgeballs and magnets as freebies..🤷🏽♀ apparently the party was sponsored by VERB, a physical fitness campaign created to entice children to get outside and be active, kinda like Nickelodeon's Day of Play ….we are all just happy to go home with something fun to play with!
This was one of my fave movies as a kid! This and Let it Shine were amazing! To this day I love the music from both. This movie especially stuck out to me because I was such a huge fan of True Jackson VP and HSM
@@AmiriHipHop oh well you learn something new everyday 😂😂😂 yeah I liked that part too but also I used to be high key jealous of people who can do flips and stuff because I never could 😂😂
26:13 Answer: Because they needed to market to black kids. Don’t get me wrong a lot of black kids at the time, me included, liked High School Musical. But it was clearly Disney’s more mainstream project. I mean HSM merch was EVERYWHERE. Hell, Cheetah Girls merch was everywhere. Jump In? Not so much. That’s probably why classifying this as a cult classic makes sense. It’s a good movie, one of the best DCOMs of that time, but it came at a time when there already 2 big franchises. Jump in was literally in the middle of HSM and Cheetah Girls 2. So it kinda flew under the radar. When I think back, most of the promotion about this movie was that the star was in High School Musical. Hell, the only time “Push It To The Limit” was performed on a large scale was on the HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL CONCERT TOUR!!!
Speaking of The Suite Life, growing up a diehard fan and Stalgia reminding me of the Pop Up Editions, I remember waiting for them to make a Pop Up Edition for the movie...and they never did. The last DCOM, Lemonade Mouth, ended up being the last DCOM to get a Pop Up Edition.
Truly a great classic. It really was the breakout moment for Corbin’s music career and Keke’s acting career. It has some flaws but it was the mid 2000s with some messages not being executed properly like today. The soundtrack was also a bop too, I think that this was the only non musical movie to get its own soundtrack at the time (scratch that: Stuck in the Suburbs also got a soundtrack)
I recently learned about a short film called "I Gave my Life to Corbin Bleu" and I wanna know your thoughts cause I'm shocked I never knew it existed. Also great video! Edit: wrong title
When you mentioned that the movie was taken place in Toronto, I immediately saw actors from Degrassi, which is one of my teen drama show. This movie brought my sister, my mom who use to double Dutch, and I together all the time! Thank you for the review
My jaw literally dropped at the beginning of this video when you said “Push it to the Limit” was from this movie and not High School Musical so you’re not alone. Swear to God, I always pictured a full choreographed moment with Corbin in a basketball uniform.
i loved this movie so much (and still do) i remember watching it premiere with my mom, my childhood best friend, her brother, and her mom. my mom was so happy to see good representation. i was so happy to hear you mention you watched the pop up edition, i loved those! i still remember "quiet muffin" lmao i rewatched it about 3 years ago, and i still watch the final freestyle event from time to time. corbin bleu actually did a live performance to this song on the hsm tour, i think? it's not the same as what we saw, but impressive none the less. also, i had such a huge crush on him. i loved him more than troy, watched this whenever it came on, watched him on flight 29 down, his short role on both Hannah Montana and Ned's declassified. im shocked that you didn't mention that izzy's best friend is actually Emmett from good luck Charlie (and zeke and Luther fun fact: daniel curtis lee aka kojo, was ivy's bf in two episodes of good luck charlie! he was ray ray)
12:38 Disney was trying to promote Keke Palmer on the network, think of a Raven Symome successor. They gave Keke her own pilot Keke and Jamal in 2005 but it didn’t get picked up. I think you can give the movie a pass with the Starstruck logic 😂
If I had a nickel for everytime a youtube video that released this week mention or discussed “The Mighty Bee” I’d have two nickels which isn’t alot but weird that it happened twice.
1:31 As well as all three Zombies movies. And Camp Rock 2. And How To Build A Better Boy and...okay, this dude has a LOOOOOOOONG resume, he's been directing movies and TV shows for THIRTY YEARS.
Honestly, I feel like another reason they made the relationship between Izzy and Mary romantic to avoid people assuming Izzy was gay. This movie plot can already be used as symbolism for a closeted character 🤷🏾♂️ Just a theory tho
This movie had so many clichés I swear and Disney keeps repeating the same nonsense even with new stuff. There was good potential but at the same time there's a lot that could've been written out, like certain characters, there was no need for romance or random subplots, the "bullying"... but that's Disney for you 🤦🏾♀️they don't ever learn That Sportacus joke got me though 😆😆 I was thinking the same thing
you threw me BACK with our friend Martin I thought that was a fever dream 😭😭 I don’t rem a lot about the movie but I do rem going to school after it came out and everyone was singing push it to the limit and everyone tried double dutching in PE after that. it’s a dcom that was iconic during its time.
On the same day _Jump In!_ first aired, The Nick attempted to counter it by premiering a new series of its own, _Just Jordan,_ which was a dramedy with a plot quite similar to the Disney Channel movie. Needless to say, _Just Jordan_ ultimately lost the ratings battle that night.
I completely forgot about how Izzy tried to do a "your mama" joke on his friend...I know I can't talk but damn I would have done a better job at doing it. but yeah, I liked the movie when it first aired...although it says something if my dad loved the movie more than kid me. I'm being for real, whenever we would go to a store he would tell me to look for it on DVD till we finally found it, even till this day he still want to watch it at random moments.
I wanted to let you know i really appreciate the editing it like you're watching a Disney channel movie with like the breaks and stuff. I really liked it because it made me feel nostalgic 🥰
The creation of this video just made you my favorite RU-vid channel ever. This movie is just so freaking good! When I finished my first semester of college, I watched Jump In! to see if it still held up... and man it's so good. The characters, the vibes, the soundtrack... man this film just makes me smile so hard. I'm glad this film isn't forgotten.
one thing that really set this movie apart from so many other dcoms is that instead of making rodney a typical one-dimensional bully character, they gave him depth and a legitimate character arc
At the very least, both were minors at the time. But it’s still really weird to cast your movie’s couple as a 17 year old and a 12 going on 13 year old.
I love ur videos and I love the editing Keep up the good work! (Also the fact that one of the guidelines for ur channel is “no zeke and luther slander” will never not be funny to me) :)
This was my favourite movie as a Latina when I was a kid. Iconic. Best Disney soundtrack if you ask me. Also, I had one of those toothbrushes that played music and it played Push It To The Limit. I would click it sometimes just to hear the song.
I just love that this movie introduced a lot of kids to double dutch. Being surrounded by white kids and having them want try it instead of using one rope after this movie came out was kind of cool
