We dip back into Disney Channel Originals movies with a look at the 1998 movie , "Brink!" It starts Erik von Deeten who we have run into before on this blog when we talked about "Christmas Everyday" and will run into again in the future because that's how our word works. (We also ran into him when we talked about "So Weird")
So, this is our look at the 1998 Disney Channel , wait we are repeating ourselves, on the with the movie!
Erik plays our main character named Andy or Brink! (roll credits?) and he's on a hurry while his friends wonder why he's taking so long. They want to go to the beach and since they missed the bus and buses apparently take for ever on weekends they skate there. Also it's nice to have a Fastball song in Disney Channel movie, remember Fastball? They make it to the skate park and skate. "Brink"and his friends, Peter, Jordy, and Gabriella, are not just your average in-line skaters they call themselves soul skaters (that means they also sing R&B) meaning they don't do it for the money they do it for the fun. ( I Wonder what might happen in this movie later?) There's another group of skaters who are called Team X-Bladz (woah starting with an X and ending with Z this is peak 90's Extereme!) led by a boy named Val who also has surfer hair because California. They are the antagonists to this movie because that's what we need.
Well I can't make the Rocket power joke since this came out first/ Copyright Disney
If you don't understand skating lingo or if you do you might not understand half things said in this movie. (Kind of joking) I didn't know bladers and skateboarders didn't get along. Brink tricks some skateboarders to bother the X-Bladerz. Now, it's the first day of school (also this movie gave the line :why can't we be Mormons?) The X-Bladerz get back at them at school for the incident the day before and now they continue the back by putting worms in Val's sandwich. (mmm worms) Val decides to challenge them skate race at school which is against the rules. (What could go wrong?) Andy (we are going to interchange with the Brink name a lot) accepts because of course he does. Does give us nice racing action though, so I'll allow it.
ACTION! /Copyright Disney
Andy stops the race to help one of the X-bladerz who gets injured which is nice of him. He ends up being suspended. His father plays the role of the guy who just doesn't understand his teenage son. (that's fun) Also, the family is having some money woahs because the father, Ralph, got hurt and hasn't been able to work. Brink overhears his parent's talking about it. Val and his people minus Boomer, the boy who got hurt before, talk to the soul skaters about an open slot they have for a competition. The soul skaters laugh but Val says he wouldn't pick any of them anyway. Val says it's great being a sponsored skater.
nice car/ Copyright Disney
Now, Brink may have taken hearing the word "money" as a sticking point because he goes to secretly audition for the X-Bladz open slot. They do add him to the team and he doesn't want anybody to tell that he's part of their team and he's only there until Boomer is back on his feet.( Now I wonder if this goes wrong, well you know it will.) He's now a sponsored skater. Brink tells his family that he wants to work and talks about sponsored skating but Ralph doesn't take to the idea because it's skating. Guess what he's going to keep a secret from his family then?
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Brink's double life starts as he starts training with the X-Bladerz and then spending time with his group too. Ralph doesn't make it better because he got Brink a job working at a dog grooming because of course and doesn't like skating. We get a montage of the stressful day Brink expreinces done to the song , "Give" by the The Suicide Machines. (This movie is getting into the alt-rock hard) It's to play everyone's favorite game: Guess what goes wrong?! Yes! Brink's friends find out that he is the new X-Bladz member.
The shade make him more sun safe/ Copyright Disney
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