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Wow if I had a nickel for every time Cierra Bravo played the smart sassy little sister on a Nickelodeon property, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice right?

Releasing this video 10 yrs to the date that Swindle originally aired is so iconic

I remember this movie was a big deal it was basically the Nickelodeon equivalent of It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World with seeing so many Nickelodeon stars together in one movie.

I remember this movie & enjoyed it. This was advertised like crazy when announced, & it was fun to ses multiple Nickelodeon stars together in a film.

I honestly think Swindle is Nick’s best TV Movie.

Ariana's character Amanda being revealed as a giant fan of "nerd" things was cute and one of my favorite parts of the movie

When I clicked on this video I was certain I had never seen this movie before but certain scenes like Ariana going into the nerd cave and secretly being a nerd, the fake nose melting in the massage, and the red haired toy landing on the cake just hit me like I’ve definitely seen this before, I guess that’s the whole point of this channel, I might have to rewatch it again

The cast was full of stars ❤

Oh, man. I totally forgot this movie until I saw the thumbnail and the memories clicked in my brain. The only memory that stands out is how hard Nick promoted this film and the only reason I saw it was the fact that Sam and Gibby were in it. And speaking of How to Rock, the only memorable thing about that show for me was the theme song.

Dude I love the commercial transitions you do in these videos. It's such a small bit but it really contributes to the overall feel of the video and throws me back to the time you talk about lol.

I started Middle School in the second half of 2013 and always considered the year to be a transitional year. Half of it relates heavily to 2009-2012 culture like the popularity of club music but the other half heavily relates to 2014-2016 culture like vine. The Nick transition fits with this really well.

one nickelodeon movie that i have so much nostalgia for was 'jinxed' which also came out in 2013. i remember loving that movie but i havent done a rewatch in years to know if it was as good as it was

The hotel woman is played by Ecsatasia Sanders. She is mostly known for her supporting roles and has been in movies like Dr Doolittle 3 and Final Destination 3. 😊

I'm from Argentina, and how to rock didn't premiere here until 2014 or 2015, so this was kinda my introduction to it. The movie was still promoted as having "all your favourite Nick stars" and I asked to myself for years where did these two guys came from.

One thing I remember about this movie is how it appeared they only sorta got the rights to “Call Me Maybe” since they just kept singing the same part over and over again. X-D I enjoyed this movie.

The good times of Nickelodeon ended with this movie, and it really shows. So many shows just had to end in 2012 (How to Rock, iCarly, and Victorious, as given here) or leave the channel's schedule (Jimmy Neutron, All Grown Up, Back at the Barnyard, Kenan & Kel, Ned's Declassified, True Jackson VP) and it makes me sad that this resulted in the channel being viewed by an even younger audience.

I was so hyped for this movie as a kid because we actually read the book it was based on. It was an absolute treat to watch one of my favorite book turned movies.😁

I remember loving this book when it came out and being PISSED when the movie strayed too far from the plot lol. Originally they find a Babe Ruth card in and old abandoned house and sell it to a guy named S. Wendell Palomino. The heist team is a little different, but the big change was they stole it back from his house, not a hotel. The original characters had so much more heart and really made me care about them!

The ending of this movie set up for either a sequel, or a TV show, it would’ve been perfect

I like this movie, yes it is full of the Nickelodeon stars of the time, but I genuinely enjoy the plot and it is a decent heist movie.

The most 2013 nickelodeon movies we have Sam and Gibby from ICarly, Cat from Victorious, Katie from Big Time Rush, and Kevin and Nelson from How to Rock. 😂

Swindle is one of the few Nickelodeon movies I can go back and still enjoy it. It’s an average movie, but it’s still better than 90% of Nickelodeon movies.

I was thinking about this movie the other day, and wondering if it was as good as I remembered as a kid or if I just had rose colored glasses for it. You're a god for posting this haha Also the receptionist is Ecstasia Sanders and she was in Hot Tub Time Machine, Catwoman, and Final Destination 3, and some other things.

In retrospect, it's kind of weird that Jeanette Mccurdy's character is an aspiring actress when Jeanette irl denounced her acting career.

I read the book series as a kid, I had no idea there was a movie and have never watched it. It seems like a fun movie. It's pretty different from the books though. Like for example Savannah in the books is an animal whisperer and the actor in their group was a character called Logan, looks like he was completely cut from the movie though. Also Melissa in the books is not related to Griffon, she is also extremely shy and a shut-in. Ben's character is also very different. Ben is a voice of reason not a comic relief, he also had narcolepsy and was very short (which let him sneak into small places like vents). Amanda seems to be filling in for role of "Pitch", I can't remember what her actual name was but everybody called her Pitch. She was a jock and was super into rock-climbing. I don't remember her being particularly nerdy but even if she was I don't think she would be ashamed of it. Darren... if I remember correctly, Griffin did try to recruit him as the muscle at some point but he betrayed the group, I think. He's generally kind of a bully and is an antagonist in the books. So it's weird seeing him as a good guy. Pitch generally did the muscle stuff. It's odd that Griffin was never once called "The Man with the Plan" because instead of calling him the "The Brains" he was always called that in the books. Also I don't remember him being popular at all in the books. In the books it's actually Griffin's dad that is the inventor, not Ben's. Every book had some new invention that always ended up being used in the heist in some way. Out of the movie characters, I'd say Griffin is the closest to the books. The plot itself is also pretty different. In the books, they broke into Swindle's house. And they needed the animal whisperer to deal with his big scary guard dog. Also they didn't get away as cleanly in the books as they did in the movie. They got into trouble with the police, but were able to walk away. I don't think they got the money from the card though. Another thing that is interesting in this adaptation is the ending with the girl needing help to get her rare bird back. In the books Savannah has a bunch of exotic animals and one of them gets stolen and sold to a shitty boat zoo, that mostly houses small mammals. Without having Savannah be an animal whisperer I guess they needed to make up a new character to fit that role to kick start the Zoo Break plot. tldr: The books and movie are very different. Most of the characters have different personalities than the books. Also the plot is pretty different as well.

This movie was heavily slept on. I’m glad to know I’m not the only one that admired this gem! Thank you so much for this video 🫡

Yes! I remember really liking this movie! I didn’t even notice that it was full of Nick stars; I just liked the heist plot and the way it was executed. A hidden gem for sure

I have never seen this movie before, but as soon as I started watching this review it immediately stuck me that this was a Nick version of the TV series Leverage. They have the same “actress is the grifter”, “gymnast is the thief” kind of breakdown, even the freeze frame titles part is the same. And the pilot of the shows ends with them deciding that they should use the money from the first heist to go do crimes for good. I know you said this was based on a book, but it’s WILD that this 2013 movie follows the same beats as a 2008-2012 tv series.

Would you ever think about covering the Nickelodeon Original Movie "Jinxed" if u haven't already? That's definitely the one I watched the most as a kid. I think it has the actor from Kirby Buckets in it.

So I doubt anybody will believe me about this but my family actually is related to Honus Wagner, the guy on the baseball card. Knowing this as a kid made me really excited to see it when it came out! Admittedly i remembered almost nothing about it besides that. Also unless this has changed that specific card is the most expensive baseball card ever (no, I dont own one). Also as a bonus fact one of his nicknames was "The Flying Dutchman" and since he played most of his career for the Pittsburgh Pirates its very likely the SpongeBob character was named after him!

I love how Nick basically grabbed all their available side characters at the time to create an Avengers Endgame-esqe team-up heist movie. If you like Call Me Maybe, you’ll definitely like this movie.

don't let scott cramer see your disney channel games poster lol

I'm glad you made this video, a movie I completely forgot about but remember it fondly. One of the few Nickelodeon TV movies around this time I enjoyed, I haven't seen it in a long time so I can't say how I feel about it now. Sort of feel Nostalgic considering I was still watching Nick around this time, this and Disney channel were the channels I was into at this point in my life.

"I ain't Quinton Reviews" Meanwhile, Quinton Reviews: *proceeds to review Swindle in a video about Sam and Cat*

This movie came out around the time I started getting into the whole Swindle book series. So I was absolutely stoked and enjoyed this movie so much. I can’t tell how many times I rewatch this

The movie was also written by Bill Motz and Bob Roth, known for writing A LOT of cartoons, like seriously, their resume is BIG. They also recently created The Ghost & Molly McGee. Motz and Roth were writing Penguins of Madagascar while also writing this movie. Maybe Motz and Roth weren't that used to writing jokes for a live-action medium.

Something tells me they wanted two cast members from each show (not including sam and cat) to appear in this. They’re only missing another cast member from victorious and btr. Probably because no one was available. With that, I’m pretty sure they wanted Sinjin to play the star wars kid. His hair and mannerisms speaks volume.

There are very few things from this movie that I remember 1. Noah Crawford looks like Tony from Skins despite being a different person 2. The movie opens with "It Gets Better" by Fun which is a weird choice for a Nick movie given the subject matter of the song.

i remember this being my favorite nick movie because it was basically like a Leverage episode, you know the show about thieves stealing from rich guys and other thieves. the show ended a year before the movie came out and i was living im so glad you did a video on this gem too!!

If you want another fun Nickelodeon movie to review I recommend the Big Time Movie. This was a good big time rush movie and shows respect towards The Beatles

I actually read the book before watching the movie. It was read in my elementary school and we saw the movie after finishing the book. Something that really appealed to me was the collector aspect of the movie. I am a big collector of pop culture memorabilia, even back then. I thought it was cool to see a movie that covered that topic.

Great video, I most def appreciated the Like Mike reference. I watched Swindle with my little brothers the other day to show them what I grew up with, and I was shocked that they enjoyed it. Hope everybody is doing well and I would love a How to Rock review someday. I forgot to add, one of Ivan's muscles went on to be Colossus stunt double in the Deadpool movies.

mr. nostalgia has to be in the scott cramer games next year

How do you know that Chris was funny in How To Rock if you haven’t really watched it? I love the show so much and I’m excited to see you review it because it’s so underrated. Honestly it’s like Lemonade Mouth (music wise) if it was a show.

funny, you mentioned Quintonreviews because in his upcoming review for Sam and cat part two(which is currently at 10 hours in length) he actually sits down and watches Swindle

An ad actually played for me in between the Nickelodeon bumpers you inserted, which is very fitting 👍🏽

Hope you review the Zombies movie Disney did. It's a trilogy and basically the most kid friendly version of talking about racism Or the descendants movies. Those are pretty good and even sad by acknowledging the death of one of the actors.

I still rewatch this movie from time to time for nostalgia and just because I enjoy it. When I was younger, I remember being so upset Ariana and Chris's characters didn't share a kiss 😭

You awakened some memories i didnt know i had. I really didnt REMEBER ANYTHING about this movie,specially not the cast,but somehow i remember the mask face and the nose melting

14:10 the actress who plays the hotel manager is Ecstasia Sanders. I know her from the first episode of Psych that Jaleel White and Kenan Thompson were on. She most recently played Officer Joyce on the Nancy Drew show.

I don't know if the rules are different for movies, but I know that if you're writing a book then you can have your characters name-drop and consume a real-life piece of media, for example watch the movie _Swindle_ , without needing permission from the owners or risking any legal problems. Maybe Eddie has all that _Star Wars_ and _Star Trek_ merch because one of the writers really likes those franchises, or maybe they just already had the props (or actual merch) and wanted to write it into the script so the copytight holders couldn't get them in trouble for implying they made it up for the movie like the rest of the figures.

The ads lining up with the commercial break was so cool

I never could catch this movie on TV. But I finally got to see it when it was on Hulu like seven years after the fact. Then I found out it was on DVD the whole time

Video brought back so much memories I ended remembering a movie on nick about Victoria justice becoming a werewolf but I can’t remember the name💀

loved how to rockk, i remember being excited that the two actors were given a chance fr

i have very vivid memories of my friends and i in the fifth grade repeating, "swinDULL, accent on the BACK half" over and over again because we thought it was the fucking funniest thing ever

I remember reading the book this was based on and loving it but I was kinda “aged out” of my Nickelodeon-phase by then so I never watched the movie 😅

14:08 Her name is Ecstasia Sanders. I remember seeing her on one of the final destination movies...the roller coaster one I think.

This movie, “Rags,” “One Crazy Cruise,” and “Bixler High Private Eye” were actually pretty good for Nickelodeon movies.

So i read the book back in 2008 when i was in 3rd grade (and the others in the series the SWINDLE series is honestly wild--) so 13 year old me was kind of shocked Nickelodeon gave it a movie adaptation. I'd have to reread the book again but of course they took creative liberties and left stuff out (there was definitely more heart between Ben and Griffin in the book, not to mention Ben also had narcolepsy so that was another stake they had to deal with). I just kind of randomly caught the movie one night while i was over my dad's house, and I basically held the same opinion as you, an underrated gem of a Nickelodeon movie, but also like a solid 3/5 lol. Also a big thing they changed in this movie that was very notable in the book is the abscene of the big guard dog Swindell had (hence the dog on the book cover :^) ), although i totally understand why they chose not to factor it in 😂 EDIT: Forgot to add that i cant WAIT for that How to Rock video it was one of my favorites in 2012 😭 Little known fact is that How to Rock is ALSO loosely based on a book by the same name as the pilot episode which i ALSO read and tbh barring a few differences Nickelodeon was pretty damn faithful to the book's plot in that pilot episode from what i remember lol, the biggest difference was the age of the character as in the book, I'm pretty sure they were middle schoolers and in like 7th grade, but dare I say it translated pretty well still bumping them up to being high schoolers in the TV show lmao.

man all of these movies from Nick have been locked in my memory, the only reason i watched all of those late ones was because i didnt have cartoon network

This film premiered on my 13th birthday!! I can remember so clearly recording it to my DVR so I could come home that night and watch it 😂

When I saw the notification I instantly took a moment. I wouldn't consider this an underrated gem. It is pretty much like the levels of a DCOM while Rags is more underrated even though it has a huge following.

Personally, i always think that this is the best movie of nickelodeon because they try to do it a little bit "serious", i like the story and the actors actually were good, but literaly to nick and some people, this movie didn't exist.

I actually got that book when it came out at my school’s Scholastic Book Fair in elementary school. I’m 26 now but from what I remember the premise is the same but other than that it’s different. Like even the kids in the book are younger than in the movie and they were already friends. Never watched the movie tho, watched this just to see if it jogged my memory. I was pretty done with Nick at this point but my little brother was 5 years younger so I would occasionally catch stuff because of him.

The hotel manager is named Ecstasia Sanders and she was in movies like Dr. Dolittle 3 and Catwoman etc

Back then this was avengers for me, good memories.

the almost inaudible “Ariana what are you doing here” at 8:46 is so funny bahahaha

Lol just looking at the thumbnail u got the two nerds from how to rock Sam and gibby and the little sister from big time rush who came up with this lineup 😭

I absolutely love the bumpers as ads through the video

i recently rewatched this movie a couple months ago and it's definitely underrated. i still found swindle quite fun and i do think it's one of if not the best nickelodeon movie.

You should cover Crybaby Lane for Halloween this year

How to Rock review for sure!

Love seeing someone awesome review a movie like this, underated movie, underated channel

i had this movie recorded to the DVR on dish network and rewatched it every damn day as a kid😭 im glad others remember it

I love how barely anyone knew that this was a book to movie adaptation.

This movie was the Nickelodeon version of The Show (which is underrated) Leverage. When this movie came out I was obsessed with this movie and I feel like I still holds up cause its not that bad movie fr fr. Also Amazing Video as always!!!

Do you think you could video on shake it up? I’ve been scouring KZfaq and this seems to be one of the big shows almost no one has done a video on

I remember this day vividly. I just got home from the movies feeling sick & regret from seeing “Kick-A$$ 2” I was feeling horrible so I turned to Nickelodeon & “Swindle” was just about to turn on I was so happy.

Oh god! I had totally forgotten this exists until KZfaq just recommended this video 😂😂 Thanks, I loved this movie so much.

I wanna point out a weird detail that's either coincidence or intentional, but the names Ben and Darren Vader are pretty similar to Ben Kenobi and Darth Vader. And especially weird since Darren has Vader's menacing presence and they name drop Ben and Darth Vader's duel in the movie too. Just thought it was a weird detail that's been in the back of my head for years.

I was more of a Nick kid than a Disney kid back in the day, but I don't think I ever actually saw this movie before, only ever heard of it. Which is wild, especially cause I was a big How To Rock fan when it was airing.

Rags, along with Swindle and Jinxed are my favourite Nickelodeon made for TV movies.

For future reference, the imdb page for the movie should have even obscure characters listed if you dig deep enough so you can find that actress you were talking about.

Funnily, I read the book of this before it became a movie. The movie has it's own merits but I kind of prefer the book.

I remember reading the book "Swindle" as a kid and loving it. But never watched the movie in fear of it not living up, glad to find out it does it somewhat justice

The girl in the front desk is from the live action, Fairly OddParents movie, and she’s also in iZombie for the last season or so I don’t know her name

I remember this movie and thinking it was so goated. This was my favorite nickelodeon live action along Jinxed and Hunter Street

Glad to see this film appreciated, as it was surprisingly good. Enjoyed almost 10 years ago, still do now

14:08 the woman is Ecstasia Sanders, a American-Canadan actress

I remember I had read the book just a few months before they announced the film so to say I was excited was an understatement. Of all the Nickelodeon original films this one stands out to me the most, I just remember being the mosy hype and satisified with it, and even though some parts from the book have obviously changed I liked how they did. One of Nickelodeon's best to be honest.

This movie took me back. Nick movies like Shredderman were my favorite as a kid. I love how the casting was perfect at the time

I remember seeing adds for this movie all the time, but I don’t think I ever got to watch it because I only had access to cable when I saw my dad

I watched this film twice, The first was around when it came out and I could only remember some Parts, The Nose Melting, Sam, Gibby and Cat all Being in it and the Scene where Noah Munck goes into the Bathroom and then Savanna walks in and she screams, The second time was last year, it's a really great Movie

I watched this so many times. My mom loved this movie. Staple of my childhood

I remember reading the book Swindle and being extremely excited for the movie but completely don't remember anything about it lol

4:54 I remember reading this book (bc I thought the cover looked cool and I liked spy books) & then Googling what other ppl thought about it…that’s how I found out they were making a movie about it! I was so mad that I had to wait a whole year until it came out lol

this movie is un-ironically very good watch this like once a year

I’ve always loved this movie I’d watch it anytime It was one it was so well written and so well made 😩😩😩😩 sad they never got a sequel