Meet the Deedles


Meet the Deedles is a 1998 American comedy film directed by Steve Boyum in his directorial debut and starring Paul Walker and Steve Van Wormer. It was the first theatrically released film to be produced by DIC Entertainment since 1986 after Heathcliff The Movie. Its name is a play on The Beatles album Meet the Beatles. It is also one of Disneys first film attempts to capitalize on surf culture, the other two prime examples are the Disney Channel original films Johnny Tsunami which Boyum also directed and Van Wormer costarred in and Rip Girls, released in 1999 and 2000 respectively. Despite portraying teens, Walker and Van Wormer were in their early twenties when the movie was filmed.

The boys arrive in Wyoming ill prepared for the farcooler weather, disembarking from their plane dressed in shorts, flipflops and hula shirts. They attract the attention of a small crowd when they summon a remote controlled crate containing a minibar that they use to create hula drinks. Afterwards they leave the terminal, noticing a gruff looking mountain man whom they make fun of, to their shock the man reveals a sign with their last names written on it, indicating hes their ride. Major Flowers M. C. Gainey is already disgusted with their behavior, on the drive back to Yellowstone from the airport, Flowers reveals that his once successful camp was shut down by the childrens parents and their lawyers but the camp wasnt necessary anymore because he intended for the Deedles to undergo survival training. Flowers becomes distracted in describing his plan and fails to pay attention to the road, eventually driving over the edge of a hillside and crashing into a river. Thinking he had killed the Deedles, he runs off thinking hell hide from the authorities.The Deedles awaken from their crash and find some womens clothing that had caught onto Flowers truck before it crashed, since it was their only option for dry clothes they opted to wear them. After, they begin to hike towards the parks main entrance, they find some of their gear and decide to landluge down a long hill with their hula crate remotely in tow. They bypass a long line of traffic awaiting entry into Yellowstone but unable to slow down or gain enough control of their boards they crash into the parks sign and are then collided into by the hula machinecracking their helmets off. When the Park Rangers arrived, the only identity the boys had on them were the names Mel written on Phils sweatshirt tag and Mo written on Stews. After the incident the boys are carted off to the Ranger medical center and nursed back to health and decide to assume the false identities as it appears to be a oneway ticket to success and app

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