Was that a _Kazaam_ (1996) reference? Pretty sure there was a _Wizards of Waverly Place_ reference too (Camryn lives in a neighborhood called Waverly).

Obvious callbacks to _Sister, Sister_ (a previous co-starring role for the Mowry twins) in both how they meet, and in their adoptive families' socioeconomic statuses.

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I jumped into this knowing nothing about it, other than having seen the keads' television work growing up. The writing, the villain's motivation, and the visual effects all were severely lacking. One IMDB reviewer called [spoiler]Thantos[/spoiler] "zero-dimensional" and yeah, I see it. We have absolutely no idea why the villain did it.

Visual effects were shockingly bad, too, for a $20 million film. I saw individual pixels in some of the animations, but beyond that the effect designs seemed to be pulled from some catalog of five-minute magic VFX. Very disappointing.

Trite and predictable as the story is, it still has a shadow of Disney's [spoiler]Love Conquers All[/spoiler] (remember _Robin Hood_ (1973)?) optimism. Don't think Walt would have let this one out the door, honestly.