Line #8 Film/YogaHosers


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3	->''"A movie for kids from the director of Film/{{Clerks}} and Film/{{Tusk\|2014}}."''
4	-->-- '''{{Tagline}}'''
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6	''Yoga Hosers'' is a 2016 comedy horror film by Creator/KevinSmith, the second in his "True North" trilogy. It stars Smith's daughter Creator/HarleyQuinnSmith and Creator/LilyRoseDepp, reprising their roles from ''Film/{{Tusk\|2014}}''.
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8	[[HeterosexualLifePartners Childhood friends]] Colleen Collette (Depp) and Colleen [=McKenzie=] (Smith) are two average 15-year-old girls from Winnipeg. In between high school, doing UsefulNotes/{{Yoga}}, playing in a rock band and [[PhoneaholicTeenager burying their noses in their phones]], the two work at the Eh-2-Zed convenience store, which is owned by Colleen C's divorcee father.
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10	One night during their shift Colleen M's crush Hunter Calloway (Creator/AustinButler) invites the girls to a Grade-12 party, but after Colleen C's father takes off for an impromptu trip to Niagara Falls with his girlfriend, leaving the girls to mind the store while he's gone, they invite Hunter to bring the party there instead. As it turns out, Hunter and his friend Gordon (Creator/TylerPosey) are Satanists, hoping to get the Colleens alone to sacrifice them. However, once they arrive, the store is [[GratuitousNazis overrun with Bratzis]] - foot-tall monsters made from bratwurst who resemble Nazis - who kill the two boys, after which the Colleens destroy them with their yoga skills.
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12	[[HalfwayPlotSwitch Still with us?]]
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14	After getting arrested for the murders of Hunter and Gordon, the girls are interrogated by man-hunter Guy Lapointe (Creator/JohnnyDepp), who informs the girls that the Bratzis are the work of, and may lead him to, the notorious Andronicus Arcane, former right hand man to the self-proclaimed "Canadian Führer" Adrien Arcand. As the girls had learned from [[{{Foreshadowing}} their most recent history class]], Arcand briefly held influence in Winnipeg before his arrest, after which Arcane disappeared and was never heard from again. Lapointe sneaks the Colleens out of the police station to help investigate, and the three soon discover something sinister that's been living under the Eh-2-Zed for the last 70 years.
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16	!!Soorey aboot these tropes
17	* AffectionateParody: Like ''Film/{{Tusk\|2014}}'', this film is Kevin Smith's take on "rubber suit monster" b-movies.
18	* AlliterativeName: '''C'''olleen '''C'''ollette.
19	* ArcNumber: Creator/KevinSmith's [[Film/{{Clerks}} infamous 37]] appears twice in the film.
20	** Colleen C.'s father sends her 37 text messages when he makes her and Colleen M. work the store on the night when they intend to go to the Grade 12 party.
21	** Arcand has been living 37 miles under the Eh-2-Zed.
22	* ArcWords: "Basic."
23	* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: The French Colleen C speaks sounds more European than Québécois. Presumably this is because Lilly-Rose Depp grew up in France.
24	* AscendedExtra: The Colleens, who first appeared in ''Film/{{Tusk\|2014}}'' as nameless store clerks for all of five seconds.
25	* AssShove: The Bratzis' preferred method of attack.
26	* AuthorAppeal: Let's see--a convenience store setting, hockey, comics references, a plot against [[spoiler:critics]], a heroine played by his daughter...some reviewers quipped that Creator/KevinSmith basically made a movie for which he, and he alone, was the target audience.[[note]]This is unfair; that target audience ''also'' includes Creator/JohnnyDepp, whose daughter plays the other heroine and who gets to act as Guy Lapointe again.[[/note]]
27	* BeamMeUpScotty: InUniverse. The Colleens imitate Batman (as played by Creator/ChristianBale) by repeatedly saying "Where's the trigger?!" in a deep voice. Guy Lapointe then points out that Batman never said that.
28	* TheCameo:
29	** Creator/KevinConroy plays a customer who berates the Colleens after they sell him the wrong cigarettes. [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The guy who comes to the store with him is even called Robin]].
30	** [[Creator/StanLee Stan "The Man" Lee]] as the police dispatcher.
31	* CelebrityParadox: On the page from ''Them Weekly'' that is seen twice in the film, under the picture of Harry Styles, there's one of Kevin Smith with his wife and friends. Three of the people in the picture (Smith himself, Jennifer Schwalbach and Jason Mewes) have parts in the movie.
32	* ChekhovsSkill: The girls' NewAgeRetroHippie yoga comes in handy when kicking monsters' asses.
33	* ContinuityNod: Events of ''Film/{{Tusk\|2014}}'' are briefly mentioned at the beginning of the movie and later in the first discussion between the Colleens and Guy Lapointe.
34	* DontExplainTheJoke: After [[SarcasmMode sarcastically]] telling the Colleens about how difficult their lives must be, Principal Invincible, who is Black, feels it necessary to explain to them that a Black person should not be saying that to two white girls.
35	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
36	** Colleen M: "It's just a senior party, not the Nazi party."
37	** Principal Invincible: "Be nice! There are enough haters in the world!"
38	* HalfwayPlotSwitch: Forget halfway. ''Every act'' is a different movie! The first is a high school movie about two girls trying to go to a Grade-12 party; the second is about escaping murderous Satanists; the third is about fighting a Nazi in hiding who's spent 70 years planning a mass genocide of [[spoiler:art critics]].
39	* HeterosexualLifePartners: The Colleens. The two even sleep in the same bed with no indication of romance.
40	* HumanPopsicle: Arcane's original plan is to let his Brahtzis incubate for 100 while he cryogenically froze himself.
41	* HoneyTrap: Hunter's Grade 12 party is just a trick to sacrifice the Colleens.
42	* JustAStupidAccent: You can tell Arcane is from Berlin because his voice is scary ''and'' creepy.
43	* KeepItForeign: In the French dub, Colleen C's lines in French have been changed to lines in Quebec French, mostly using words and expressions exclusive to the dialect, [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage enough for Colleen M to understand none of it]].
44	* LargeHam: Miss Wickland, the Colleen's gym teacher.
45	* ManOfAThousandVoices: Andronicus spend his entire first year out of cryogenic freeze watching every single movie on Netflix to learn about the outside world. As such, he's picked up a pretty good talent as a mimic and, in an effort to make his evil plot seem less scary, explains it in multiple celebrity impersonations, such as Creator/AlPacino, Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger and... Ed Wynn.
46	* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Hunter's plan to sacrifice the Colleens once they invite him to bring his party to the Eh-2-Zed: break some merchandise and steal some money to make it look like a robbery.[[note]]Interestingly enough, the original ending of ''Clerks'' involved a robber shooting Dante and robbing the Quick Stop.[[/note]]
47	* MeaningfulName:
48	** Colleen M.'s mother gives her a switchblade to defend herself from grabby boys at the Grade 12 party which she calls "The Mohel." A mohel is someone trained to give circumcisions.
49	** Hunter Calloway hunts the Colleens for a virgin sacrifice.
50	** Averted with Toilet Paper Man. The Colleens call him that because he bought toilet paper once.
51	* MonsterThreatExpiration: Without their pointy helmets [[AssShove allowing them to shoot themselves up a person's derriere]], the Bratzis become a ''lot'' less threatening. It only took one Bratzi each time to kill François, Hunter and Gordon, but later, the Colleens had no trouble disposing of dozens of helmetless Bratzis.
52	* MooseAndMapleSyrup: As the second film in Kevin Smith's "True North" trilogy, it's set in Canada and everyone comically exaggerates their "soorey"s and "aboot"s, and epitomized by the PunnyName of the store they work in - "Eh-2-Zed".
53	* NewAgeRetroHippie: The Colleens take yoga instructions from licensed instructor Yogi Bayer and refuse to take part in their school's group yoga class because it's not "real" yoga.
54	* NegativeContinuity: Guy Lapointe now has a mole on his face, while he didn't have one [[Film/Tusk2014 last time]]. Moreover it keeps shifting around his face from shot to shot, and towards the end of the movie, he suddenly has three of them, and then seven. It was done on purpose (see ShoutOut below).
55	* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. Colleen M lies to her mother that she's going to get her period soon so she can take a night off from work to go to the party, but her mother knows she lying because their cycles are in sync.
56	* NoSmoking: Save for two scenes where Guy Lapointe is briefly seen vaping, this is Kevin Smith's first movie to feature absolutely no smoking of any kind, cigarettes or joints.
57	* OneSteveLimit: Averted. The two main characters are two girls named Colleen.
58	* PhoneaholicTeenager: Both Colleens. They're even seen falling asleep with their phones in their hands. When their gym teacher [[CuttingTheElectronicLeash take them away]] for refusing to participate in the school's group yoga class, Colleen M. faints from withdrawal. It becomes a plot point when [[spoiler:Arcane asks the girls to photograph him next to his sculpture, but they can't because Guy didn't get their phones back from the police when he snuck them out of the precinct]].
59	* PhraseCatcher: Everyone who doesn't take the Colleens seriously calls them "goddamn [[TitleDrop yoga hosers]]".
60	* RegionalRiff: Every character introduction is accompanied by an 8-bit rendition of "Oh, Canada."
61	* ShoutOut:
62	** Colleen M's "[[Film/{{Clerks}} I WASN'T EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE HERE TODAY!!]]" Fitting, as [[Creator/KevinSmith her dad]] directed that movie.
63	** Guy's mole moves from shot-to-shot à la ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights''.
64	** Colleen [=McKenzie=]'s last name comes from [[Series/{{SCTV}} the McKenzie brothers]].
65	** As Arcane loads the Brahtzi's into his sculpture, he tells them [[Film/TheWizardOfOz "Fly my pretties! Fly!"]]. He also sings "Let's All Go To The Lobby."
66	** The girls' yoga instructor is named [[WesternAnimation/YogiBear Yogi Bayer]], and is frequently on the phone with a lawyer over whether or not he's legally allowed to use his own name for his studio.
67	* SpiritualSuccessor: The film seems to be taking a lot of cues from ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld.'' Fitting, as Kevin Smith is a big fan of that movie.
68	* StandardSnippet: Arcane is introduced with a section of Music/RichardWagner's ''Theatre/TheRingOfTheNibelung''.
69	* TakeThat: When Colleen M. asks if Canadian Hitler was as bad as ''Canadian Idol''.
70	-->'''Colleen C.:''' "Nothing is worse than ''Canadian Idol''."
71	* TakeThatCritics: InUniverse. Andronicus Arcane's grand scheme is to send an army of monsters after every art critic in the world. Lapointe said that critics aren't real people, so it doesn't matter.
72	* ThoseWackyNazis: ...[[ItMakesSenseInContext Who invade Canada, hide out under a convenience store and come back 70 years later with an army of bratwurst monsters]].
73	* TotallyRadical: The Colleens are very keen on the words "basic" and "hashtag."

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