The Suite Life of Zack & Cody

2005

Seasons & Episodes

  • 3
  • 2
  • 1

EP21 Let Us Entertain You Aug 16, 2008

6.6| 0h30m| TV-G| en
Synopsis

Meet Zack and Cody, 11 year-old identical twins and the newest residents of Boston's swanky Tipton Hotel. Living in a suite with their mom Carey, the boys treat the Tipton like their own personal playground.

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It's a Laugh Productions

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Reviews

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
wwgrayii Zack and Cody Martin (Dylan and Cole Sprouse) are twins who live in a suite on the 23rd floor of the swanky Tipton Hotel in Boston, where their divorced mom Carey (Kim Rhodes) works as the lounge singer.The first season, is by far the best of the series. I'm not saying it's great by any means, just the most watchable. Most of the stories revolve around the twins using the hotel as their personal playground, much to the annoyance of the hotel's manager, Mr. Moseby (Phill Lewis). This leads to a lot of really broad, physical comedy, the sheer volume of which overcomes some of this show's very serious shortcomings (such as the rather poor acting of the Sprouse twins. Let's face it: they're just don't have any real acting talent).Aside from the lead actors, the rest of the cast, including Ashley Tisdale and Brenda Song (as spoiled heiress London Tipton) are game. Token adults Lewis and Rhodes are fine, although Rhodes is generally relegated to straight man duty for now (she would become a much wackier character by the third season, but by then, the show is not really worth watching).
joegrist In 2004 I saw Full House, I thought it was the worst sitcom I had ever seen, but when I saw this, I couldn't believe how AWFUL it was. I found it painful to watch, and embarrassing. It made me wonder who (or what) wrote this abomination. Plus, the acting is terrible, as well as the jokes. I really hated this show, and I didn't even laugh once. I still cannot believe that it was nominated for an Emmy award. Not to mention nearly all the episodes are pathetically boring and obnoxious (also I noticed that some were making fun of other countries, especially the UK).Overall. It's a piece of garbage and I don't recommend it for anyone, even people with little to no braincells. Only your wall would find this entertaining.
NexusHUB This most certainly is NOT the worst thing I've seen from Disney. I mean Hannah Montana, Filmore, Lizzie McGuire and such were all WAY worse. But that doesn't make this show funny.The first few episodes were awful, and I mean AWFUL. But let's give it credit, what show actually starts out good? (Invader Zim, Clannad) But the acting was still awful, the dialogue was pitiful and made no sense, and the plots were not interesting. The episode with the celebrities getting married in the hotel was by far the worst episode in the series, and I'm pretty sure that was the second episode.Over time, show show got a lot less annoying, but still wasn't good. The stories were always unoriginal and were always modernizing classic stories such as Romeo and Juliet, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Princess and the Pea, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and more. Uh, can you make your own stories, please? I must give the show credit, it's one of the few Disney shows that isn't painful to watch. It has a certain appeal, and I can watch it when it's on. When there's nothing else on, sure, I'll watch this show. I did chuckle a few times throughout the series.However, the laugh tracks, still make me cringe. I've heard the same annoying kids laugh the same annoying laughs in a dozen different shows. If you can't get a real audience, don't make a sitcom! You can make like Zoey 101 and make painful jokes without painful laugh tracks.Well, this show may be overshadowed by a MUCH better spin-off, but it's not the worst show ever.
dkf I stumbled upon this entry looking for an actor. I expected to see uniformly negative reviews (if any at all; the show is really not worth the effort). But I see so many positive reviews that I can only conclude that it is part of a coordinated effort by Disney to promote this garbage. If Disney doesn't directly write the favorable reviews, it at least creates the zombie-like following that actually recruits others into the Disney grave of imagination. I, therefore, thought it important to provide an adult point of view.I agree with the reviewers who are almost speechless in their attempt to explain what trash this series is. It has to be directed by people who failed film school. If you were to compile the very worst mannerisms of the very worst American sit-coms of the past 2 or 3 decades, you would define the style of the direction of this mess. And I cannot imagine what kind of "adults" sit around writing the "zingers" that the kids mouth to adults. If you think your job is dreary, imagine being a writer for this program. The writing is bad even by Disney standards. A friend of mine told me he was at a business conference where Disney was held up as an example of good branding. You always know what you are going to get from Disney -- like McDonalds; the quality is within a very narrow band. But I swear either the quality monitors failed to read scripts or the quality band must be ratcheting down at that "Entertainment" Complex. All I can say is that to be a Disney writer, you must have to check your self-respect at the door.But here is what is really disturbing for parents. The characters are horrible, and yet somehow made to appear cute to 'Tweens. Disney evidently has some study about how to mesmerize 'Tweens. I have yet to see a 'Tween that watches this show regularly that doesn't ape the mannerisms of some of the characters.But it's worse than that. The kids on the show have a contemptuous view of adults, all of whom are stupid, mean (and stupid), vain, or have character flaws. And all of them can be manipulated by the kids -- who despite doing vile, deceitful, immature things are always forgiven because they are "cute."And all the little viewers who become addicted to this mess will soon be mimicking that very same manner towards adults. I saw my own kids (when they were 8) start to come up with "sit-com" type "quips" at me and others and I was bound to find out where it came from. I watched everything they saw on TV until I identified the source as this very despicable program.While watching many (ugh!) Disney program I also noticed that Disney is really not an entertainment company any more. It is simply a vast licensing and cross-promoting marketing organization. It is so vast and so effective that I feel sorry for those ad execs who tried to get kids to eat sugary cereal in the 60s -- how much they could have made had they known what Disney knows now.As a result of the "experience" of watching Disney, I banned the channel from my kids' permitted viewing. As a "liberal" I was reluctant to do it (and even admit it), not just because I naturally believe in free speech but because I was not convinced that TV affects behavior -- until I saw what this program did to kids. After several weeks of not watching this trash, my kids returned to relative normal, although there is still an occasional relapse a year later. (I wonder if they were able to ditch the behavior so quickly because I nipped it in the bud -- you might not have such luck if you allowed long-term damage to be done.) Since then I've mentioned my banning to others, and I've found among the parents who actually watched what their kids watched, universal agreement. Parents who watch Suite Life are uniformly horrified at what it signals to kids -- cheap, unfunny writing, delivered by untalented children and worse adults, directed by robots programmed from some inane formula as something worth aspiring to. It is a shame. It is an entirely new and qualitatively different form of "dumbing down."It is also disturbing to find a common theme of most Disney programs that happiness involves becoming a pop idol, and that this goal is neither impractical nor difficult. But that is an entire other screed.I cannot urge you strongly enough to watch at least one episode, and decide whether your children should be exposed to it.