Soup Is Good Food In The Small Windsurfing Town of ‘Stepsister From Planet Weird’

My parents divorced when I was 13 and my dad immediately remarried some real weird broad so I always loved Stepsister from Planet Weird. (And appreciated Disney Originals in general for almost exclusively centering on broken homes.) For a blissful hour and a half, I could pretend my stepsister was a cool alien who wanted to chug root beer with me and not a cold, rich bitch who didn’t like to speak to me in public. And there’s windsurfing!

Stepsister from Planet Weird opens with the main character, Megan, windsurfing — a very 90s past time. (This whole movie, released in 2000, has very innocent, pre-9/11 energy.) We’re in middle of Megan’s dream sequence, during which she saves her crush from drowning, her parents get back together, and the popular girls say she’s cool.

Megan describes herself as “average,” because we all had really low self esteem back then, and her basic ass crush, Cutter, as “not even remotely average.” Gross. I will admit, tho, I had a crush on Cutter, he’s got the young buck-toothed energy of all our middle school crushes. Re-watching this now, it’s nice that all the actors at least look like teenagers.

All these people are visibly pushing 30: