Zapped Might Be Disney's Most Disturbing Movie

The cooking kid got off too easy. The other two brother literally had to undergo psychological torture and become shells of their former selves, and the cooking kid just gets better at cooking.

Zendaya: looks like a fairly normal teenager Zendaya's love interest: a 30 year old business analyst

The guy who played the focussed stepbrother did really well haha. His performance when he stares at the lamp was hilarious

A better premise for the movie would be Zoey ACCIDENTLY controlling her brothers. Like, she says that she wishes they would listen to her (but she wasn't being serious) and all of a sudden they're obeying her every command and aren't themselves anymore. Zoey realizes that they're perfect just the way they are, everything is fixed, all is forgiven, blah blah blah... you get it.

I can vouch for the "gross cooking brother" being totally real because I have one. When he was little he made a water sandwich which was just soggy bread and recently in his 20s he tried to give his pot roast a smoky flavor by putting incense sticks in it. My dad got food poisoning

Dang, it’s hard to think Zendaya started off with smaller films like No Way Home, I’m glad to see she’s making in the big leagues with movies like zapped.

New idea for Zapped: It starts off normal but really leans into the idea that she hates her new family and after her phone gets "zapped", one of her brothers breaks the mind control but has to pretend he's still controlled. He slowly has to figure out how to disable the control on the rest of his family and the boys at school. Now, 2 ideas for endings: 1. He takes the phone and breaks the control over the boys and either she learns that she was wrong, or doesn't. 2. While trying to get the phone, he falls back under the control of the app and it cuts to a dystopian future where his sister rules the world and he's her personal slave. It'd be a psychological horror. Let me know what you think

Im still in school, and I hate how movies depict middle and high school as like this, because this really isn't how it is. Everyones just depressed now

She gave one brother hygiene centered OCD, she gave one an immediate skill so he can be her personal chef, and she turned the other one into a moth....... Ah yes good job.

Zapped definitely should’ve been a psychological horror movie

Not only is To Kill A Mockingbird required reading in most schools, but it makes me believe he’s just doing homework even more when the book he holds up is the exact same version as the one I was given to read in school

I read a book when I was younger called "Boys Are Dogs" and it was almost this exact premise, except it wasn't magic, it was just a girl using psychology from a dog training book to make boys better behaved 😭

"don't try to play god" is a hell of a message for a disney channel movie

“And then at one point she forces the love interest to kiss her” Ah yes sexual assault in a kids movie

I love seeing ADHD represented as "messy mind" and you should just ''be focused" that's not frustrating at all

15:27 Danny sounds like a principal scolding a child the way he's holding the pen and talking in that tone of voice

I like the concept that this movie exists in the MCU. Imagine it’s just MJ, this is her backstory.

I remember the part where they're talking about what To Kill a Mockingbird is really about and zendaya says it's about a girl growing up while the world goes crazy around her, and sunglasses says it's about the world changing or something stupid, and I was like, did you guys miss the parts about segregation and racism? Like, that's what it's about

I'm shocked to find out that Danny apparently doesn't have a Concoction Boy in his family. They go hand-in-hand with Potion Girl, they're besties.

As a girl who watched this movie growing up, I feel like this film really understood how (some) younger girls saw boys. As an 8 yr old, I saw boys my age as mean, rude, sports fans and gross (unless I had a crush on them lol). Basically how this movie portrays boys. I remember it felt really good to see a film understand my POV. I just did not understand guys at all. I’m not sure if this film helped with that at all, but I think to some extent it did.