Minutemen is a 2008 science-fiction Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that aren't necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extra-terrestrial life forms, alien worlds, esp, and time travel, often along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft, robots, or other technologies. Science fiction Disney Channel Original Movie Many television films have been produced for the U.S. cable network, Disney Channel, since the service's inception in 1983. In its early years, they were referred to as Disney Channel Premiere Films, and later Premears. From late 1997 onwards, such productions have been branded under the Disney Channel Original Movies banner. It stars Jason Dolley from Disney Channel Original Series Disney Channel is known for its original shows. This is a list of original shows from Disney Channel's history. Series that are no longer broadcast on Disney Channel are marked with an *. Only shows with a confirmed air date are listed Cory in the House Cory in the House was an American television comedy show, which premiered on January 12, 2007 on the Disney Channel and was a spin-off from the Disney show That's So Raven; though not as successful. The show focuses on Cory Baxter, who moved from San Francisco, California to Washington, D.C., after Victor Baxter gets a new job in the White House.[2] The movie is written by John Killoran with a story by David Diamond & David Weissman and was directed by Lev L. Spiro.[3] Andrew Gunn, Ann Marie Sanderlin and Doug Sloan are the executive producers.[2] The movie was originally slated for release in March 2008,[4] however, the movie premiered on Disney Disney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, with its headquarters located on West Alameda Ave. in Burbank, California. The channel is owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company under Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. Disney Channels Worldwide is a global portfolio in U.S. at 8:00 (ETC) on January 25, 2008.[5]
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Plot
In this Disney Channel Original movie, three teenage boys who are outcasts, named Virgil Fox (Jason Dolley), Charlie Tuttle (Luke Benward Lucas Aaron "Luke" Benward is an American teen actor and singer, best known for his starring role as William "Billy" Forrester in How to Eat Fried Worms and as Charles "Charlie" Tuttle in the 2008 Disney Channel Original Movie, Minutemen. He also played the role of "Nicky" in Mostly Ghostly: Who Let the) and Zeke Thompson (Nicholas Braun) build a time machine.
The movie starts out in the first year of high school for Virgil. He is with his two friends Derek and Stephanie. While Derek is trying out for the football team, Stephanie is doing cheerleading, Virgil is goofing around. Charlie comes in on a rocket propelled car losing control and going through the football team until Derek throws a football and knocks him off. Virgil goes to defend him while Derek just sits by. Virgil and Charlie then get dressed as cheerleaders and hung on the school mascot's, a bighorn sheep Bighorn sheep is a species of sheep in North America with large horns. These horns can weigh up to 30 pounds (14 kg), while the sheep themselves weigh up to 300 pounds (140 kg). Bighorn Sheep are often confused with Mountain Goats, another mammal that occupies mountainous regions. Recent genetic testing indicates that there are three distinct's, horns.
Flash forward three years later and Charlie and Virgil are still outcasts. As Charlie informs Virgil of his latest invention, Virgil mentions that he would rather have something useful, so Charlie builds the specifications of a time machine. But Charlie can't build on his own, so they get Zeke, a fellow outcast who works on machines during his spare time, to help them build it.
Virgil wants to go back in time and buy a winning Lottery ticket, but Charlie stops him. Eventually they decide to use the time machine to save teens from embarrassing moments, but things don't go according to plan. The school's vice-principal In larger school systems, a principal is often assisted by someone known as a vice-principal or assistant principal. Unlike the principal, the vice-principal does not have quite the decision making authority that the principal carries. Although they still carry nearly the same among students, the vice principal does not have the same power on the (J.P. Manoux) tries to stop the "Snow Suit Guys", the name everybody knows them by, until the end of the movie when their true identities are revealed briefly, before they time travel back to the point before they started time-traveling.
They were known as the "Snow Suit Guys" because of the snow suits and ski goggles they wore while time travelling to save others from humiliation. Most of their classmates saw them as heroes, but wonder how they knew when something was going to happen and prevent it. After they prevented Stephanie from falling off her cheerleader's pyramid, she figured out who the "Snow Suit Guys" were and confronted Virgil about it. Virgil confesses but mentions that they are actually Time travelers and therefore call themselves the Minutemen.
Their actions have unintended side effects; for example, some of the kids they helped become popular and let it go to their heads. Worst of all, what Virgil and Zeke don't know is that Charlie hacked into NASA's mainframe and stole some time travelling files that NASA never used. The FBI has been watching them very closely. Because of all their time travelling a black hole According to the general theory of relativity, a black hole, is a region of space from which nothing, not even light, can escape. It is the result of the deformation of spacetime caused by a very compact mass. Around a black hole there is an undetectable surface which marks the point of no return, called an event horizon. It is called "black& was created. Only Virgil, Zeke and Charlie can save the world and close the hole by entering it.
Once they have entered the black hole, they are transported to 2005, their first day of high school. Virgil wants to stop himself from standing up for Charlie, but then he realizes that Derek (Steven R. McQueen Steven R. McQueen is an American actor, best known for his recurring role as Kyle Hunter in Everwood. Since 2009 he has a supporting role in The CW Television Network show The Vampire Diaries. Steven R. McQueen is the grandson of Steve McQueen, the son of Chad McQueen and the stepson of retired Canadian NHL hall of famer, Luc Robitaille) didn't try to stop the bullies but actually suggested dressing them up as cheerleaders. Zeke and Charlie had already left, and he decided that the incident made him who he was, and without it they (Virgil, Zeke and Charlie) wouldn't have become friends.
They manage to close the black hole and return to the day when they first tried the time travelling machine. Virgil confesses his feelings towards Stephanie (Chelsea Staub) (and she for him), Zeke isn't known as the 'big, scary guy' anymore and Charlie starts to think about things other than science (most specifically when he kissed Jeanette (Kara Crane) in the library).
The movie ends when Charlie comes running, telling Virgil (who's talking to Stephanie at the time) and Zeke that he had found a way to teleport, but they pick him up and carry him off before he can get them interested about his idea.
Cast
- Jason Dolley as Virgil Fox
- Luke Benward Lucas Aaron "Luke" Benward is an American teen actor and singer, best known for his starring role as William "Billy" Forrester in How to Eat Fried Worms and as Charles "Charlie" Tuttle in the 2008 Disney Channel Original Movie, Minutemen. He also played the role of "Nicky" in Mostly Ghostly: Who Let the as Charlie Tuttle
- Nicholas Braun as Zeke Thompson
- Chelsea Staub as Stephanie Jameson
- J. P. Manoux as Vice Principal Tolkan
- Steven R. McQueen Steven R. McQueen is an American actor, best known for his recurring role as Kyle Hunter in Everwood. Since 2009 he has a supporting role in The CW Television Network show The Vampire Diaries. Steven R. McQueen is the grandson of Steve McQueen, the son of Chad McQueen and the stepson of retired Canadian NHL hall of famer, Luc Robitaille as Derek Beaugard
- Kara Crane as Jeanette Pachelewski
- Dexter Darden as Chester
- Kellie Cockrell as Jocelyn Lee
- Molly Jepson as Amy Fox
Notes
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- The first day of Virgil's freshman year, and where the story starts was September 3, 2005, and later in the movie takes place three years later, revealing that the primary portion of the film takes place in 2008.
- Vice Principal Tolkan's character is very similar to Vice Principal Hacket from Phil of the Future. They are both vice principals, they both don't do much to help their schools and they try to find the secrets of the main characters.(And the are both played by J.P. Manoux.)
- Virgil Fox was the name of a celebrity organist An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumental soloists. In addition, an organist may accompany congregational hymn-singing and play liturgical music and popularizer of classical music, famous for his "Heavy Organ" concerts in popular music auditoriums.
- When Chester comes upstairs naked, there is a "Wanted" sign behind the bullies for the Minutemen, or Snowsuit Guys, even though they aren't the Snowsuit Guys until after they go back in time to help Chester.
Back to the Future allusions
- Charlie's pet cat is named after Albert Einstein Albert Einstein (pronounced /ˈælbərt ˈaɪnstaɪn/; German: [ˈalbɐt ˈaɪnʃtaɪn] ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a theoretical physicist, philosopher and author who is widely regarded as one of the most influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time. A German-Swiss Nobel laureate, he is often regarded as the, which is close to Dr. Emmett L. Brown's dog.
- Albert Felinestein (Charlie's cat) becomes the world's first time traveler, and his clock is one minute off when returning, alluding to how Doc Brown's dog was in the exact same situation in Back to the Future Back to the Future is a 1985 American science-fiction comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale, produced by Steven Spielberg, and starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, and Crispin Glover. The film tells the story of Marty McFly, a teenager who is accidentally sent back in time from 1985 to 1955.
- When Felinestein returns from the first time travel, he is covered in frost. In Back to the Future, when the DeLorean returns from its first time travel with Einstein, it is also covered in frost. It is explained in both films that time travel creates big temperature variations, prompting Virgil, Charlie, and Zeke to wear the snowsuits.
- The club Virgil, Charlie and Zeke created to get a place to build the time machine in is named the "Back to the Future Fan Club".
- The band at the school dance performs songs similar to "Johnny B. Goode "Johnny B. Goode" is a much covered 1958 rock and roll song composed by Chuck Berry. It is one of Berry's most important songs, being listed #7 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" and "Earth Angel".
- Also the school dance is a fifties theme, which could perhaps be a throwback to the "Enchantment Under the Sea Dance"
- Vice Principal Tolkan is named for actor James Tolkan, who played the Principal Strickland in the trilogy whom was also bald.
- When the Minutemen go back in time to keep the football team from losing, Jeanette, their friend who helps them, watches a newspaper article change from a losing team to a victory. In Back To The Future Part II Back to the Future Part II is a 1989 film and a sequel to the 1985 film Back to the Future. Like the previous film, it was directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. Part II and the third installment of the trilogy, Back to the Future Part III, were filmed back-to-back, with some of the scenes of Parts II and III filmed, Marty McFly watched the article of his father's death change to his father's honor as an author and Doc Brown watched the newspaper article change from his committing to the institution to his honor.
- Virgil's last name is Fox, the same as the actor who portrayed Marty McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy, Michael J. Fox Michael J. Fox, OC is a Canadian–American actor, author, comedian, producer, advocate and voice-over artist. With a film and television career spanning from the 1970s, Fox's roles have included Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy (1985–1990); Alex P. Keaton from Family Ties (1982–1989), for which he won three Emmy Awards and a.
- The film involves disrupting the space-time continuum, like in Back to the Future Back to the Future is a 1985 American science-fiction comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale, produced by Steven Spielberg, and starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, and Crispin Glover. The film tells the story of Marty McFly, a teenager who is accidentally sent back in time from 1985 to 1955.
Scientific inaccuracy
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- When Albert Felinestein, Charlie Tuttle's pet cat, is let into the portal on a leash, and then pulled back out, they check his clock and their clock and find that his clock is one minute behind theirs. However, as the cat existed the whole time he went back in time, and then came back, the clock would have continued to run just as theirs had, so as long as both clocks had been set at the same time, they should have continued to match up exactly.
- The movie fails to address a version of the Grandfather paradox The grandfather paradox is a proposed paradox of time travel first described by the science fiction writer René Barjavel in his 1943 book Le Voyageur Imprudent (The Imprudent Traveller). Nevertheless, similar (and even more mind-boggling) paradoxes had already been described, for instance by Robert A. Heinlein in "By His Bootstraps" in that when something bad happens, they go back and fix it, and then return to their time. However, what should have happened was that since whatever accident they were fixing was fixed, they wouldn't know that they were supposed to go back in time, so they wouldn't, so the problem would exist, so they would fix it, so there wouldn't be a problem, etc. Though some argue that the failed address to the grandfather paradox may be the cause of the "Black Hole" that appears in the ending portion of the film. However, this is simply incorrect, as the "Black Hole" created during the movie follows no laws of physics known to man.
- While in the film the black hole that is created takes an inordinate amount of time to consume the planet, an actual black hole would have taken in the entire planet and would have caused all living beings on the planet to have died via the process of spaghettification. Just as well, actual black holes are not created from any sort of "rips" in the time-space continuum, but generally come into existence following a supernova and collapse of the star.
Production
Disney Channel Disney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, with its headquarters located on West Alameda Ave. in Burbank, California. The channel is owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company under Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. Disney Channels Worldwide is a global portfolio first released an official press via its press release website DisneyChannelMedianet.com on July 14, 2007 to confirm the production of Minutemen. The lead star, plot, writers, director and executive producers of this movie was also announced in this press. In addition, another 2008 DCOM named Camp Rock Camp Rock is a 2008 Disney Channel Original Movie starring the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato. The music is written by Julie Brown, Paul Brown, Regina Hicks and Karen Gist. The film is directed by Matthew Diamond and produced by Alan Sacks scheduled to begin production in August 2007 was also confirmed in the same press.[2]
Location
Minutemen was filmed at Murray High School Murray High School is the only high school in the Murray City School District in Murray, Utah. Murray High School is one of the smallest high schools in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area with 1,585 students enrolled in the 2008-2009 school year, the school enrolls students in grades 10-12. The school's mascot is the Spartan, the school colors. Murray High School Murray High School is the only high school in the Murray City School District in Murray, Utah. Murray High School is one of the smallest high schools in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area with 1,585 students enrolled in the 2008-2009 school year, the school enrolls students in grades 10-12. The school's mascot is the Spartan, the school colors was also the set of: Take Down Take Down is a 1979 sports movie about an unqualified teacher who finds himself saddled with coaching duties after a small group of high school seniors form a wrestling team in a last ditch effort to end a 9-year losing streak against a rival school (1978), Read It and Weep Read It and Weep is a 2006 Disney Channel Original Movie which premiered on July 21, 2006. It is based on the novel by Julia DeVillers. Sisters Kay and Danielle Panabaker star as Jamie Bartlett and her alter ego Isabella (Iz or Is), respectively. Both sisters have starred in previous Disney Channel movies: Kay in Life Is Ruff, and Danielle in (2006), the auditorium scene of High School Musical High School Musical is a 2006 American television film, first in the High School Musical film franchise. Upon its release on January 20, 2006, it became the most successful film that Disney Channel Original Movie ever produced, with a television sequel High School Musical 2 released in 2007 and the feature film High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2006), and High School Musical: Get in the Picture High School Musical: Get in the Picture is a reality-based TV series, which debuted July 20, 2008 on the television channel ABC. Stan Carrizosa was named the winner on September 8, 2008. Tierney Chamberlain was the runner-up (2008). Filming also took place at Highland High School The Salt Lake City School District is among the oldest public school districts in Utah. Boundaries for the district are identical to the city limits for Salt Lake City. Employing about 1,300 teachers who instruct about 24,000 students K-12, the district is the fifth largest in the state behind Jordan School District, Granite School District, Davis located in Sugar House.
Featured music
The first single of the movie, "Run It Back Again" by Corbin Bleu Corbin Bleu Reivers , better known as Corbin Bleu, is an American actor, model, dancer, and singer. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the High School Musical film series, the Discovery Kids television series Flight 29 Down, and the Disney Channel Original Movie Jump In!. He also pursued a solo career and released his debut album Another has been released and the music video can currently be seen on Disney Channel. The song was released January 22, 2008 on the album, Radio Disney: Jams 10, as part of the series. Another single from the movie began airing January 19, 2008 around the world, as a music video on Disney Channel, titled "Like Whoa" from Aly & AJ. The song can be purchased on their newest album, Insomniatic. These songs are viewed as a tie-in with the plot of the movie and contain lyrics pertaining to the movie as a whole.
References
- ^ Disney Channel MediaNet
- ^ a b c Disney Channel Medianet Press (2007-07-14). "Production Begins on "Minutemen" and "Camp Rock", Disney Channel Original Movies for 2008". Press release. http://www.disneychannelmedianet.com/DNR/2007/doc/Minutemen_CampRock_Release.doc. Retrieved 2007-07-19.
- ^ "McQueen on clock for Dis' 'Minutemen'". Hollywood Reporter. 2007-12-06. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i7c5caf365ab6a9b8e7c36d8dbe2e6f6c#. Retrieved 2007-12-11.
- ^ 'Cory in the House' Actor Leads New Disney Movie
- ^ [1] It premiered with 6.48 million viewers.
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