We Want The D
410 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsDisney films have enchanted and shaped childhoods for over 75 years, but when you watch them as adults there are things that make you want to unfreeze Walt's head and say "What The Hell, Guy!?" Tune in each week to hear Vicky, Nolan, and Jill rip apart, analyse and laugh at beloved childhood classics from the Disney catalogue.
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WWTD 338 - Monkeys, Go Home!: I Delight in Chimps
January 27, 2022 12:33 - 56 minutes - 25.8 MBIt's remarkable that, after watching enough Disney movies from the 1960s, it stops mattering how unique or strange a premise is. Take MONKEYS, GO HOME! A movie that begins with Dean Jones moving to Provence, France and turns into a movie about undercutting wages for the local olive-harvesting workers and replacing them with slave labour via four chimpanzees. A bizarre premise by any definition, yet at this stage our hosts barely bat an eye.
WWTD 337 - Encanto: Abuela Didn't Get Therapy
January 20, 2022 12:38 - 1 hour - 39.3 MBOur hosts certainly aren't above jumping on the latest trends, so get ready to talk about Bruno, cause it's ENCANTO week. The latest Disney animated feature that is tearing up the soundtrack charts, capturing hearts and minds, and making you feel extremely sad when a house falls down. The songs will get stuck in your head, the arepas will make your stomachs rumble, and the family drama will be frustrating - but the experience will be memorable.
WWTD 336 - White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf: Yeesh.
January 13, 2022 12:44 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MBY'all know that our hosts are all big fans of Jed. You know, the dog performer from classics such as The Journey of Natty Gann and White Fang? So it's sad to say that his final performance was in the...let's say lackluster Disney sequel WHITE FANG 2: MYTH OF THE WHITE WOLF. The most we can say about it is that at least it looks like a relatively easy time for ol' Jed, cause despite being the title character, the good boy ain't really even in this one all that much. And Alfred Molina aside, w...
WWTD 335 - Jungle Cruise: Kaiser Permanente
January 06, 2022 12:48 - 1 hour - 32.7 MBIt's a rollicking river adventure this week as we watch the latest Disney movie to be based on a theme park ride, JUNGLE CRUISE. It's hard not to have at least a bit of a good time with this film, given how much it begs, borrows and steals from other beloved classics in the action-adventure genre, but it's got plenty to recommend itself on it's own! Like...Paul Giamatti and Jesse Plemons doing broad accents, Jack Whitehall playing his own father, and...um...The Rock wearing a cute lil' hat?
WWTD 334 - Cruella: Cruella, the Film
December 30, 2021 13:58 - 59 minutes - 27.7 MBHow do you solve the problem of wanting to make an origin story for a villain whose only trait is a homicidal urge to murder animals and wear their skins? Well, if you're Disney, it's rather simple: cast Emma Stone, give her a tragic backstory, and then (and here's the important part) completely abandon any intention of having her turn into a puppy-strangling maniac. This CRUELLA may not be destined to become the iconic villain from the original animated classic, but there's still plenty to ...
WWTD 333 - Snow Dogs: A Puppet For Big Thong
December 23, 2021 14:30 - 57 minutes - 26 MBBob and Margaret is an adult animated television series created by David Fine and Alison Snowden. The show revolved around a married English couple named Bob and Margaret Fish, a middle class 40-ish working couple with no children and two dogs. Bob is a dentist and Margaret is a chiropodist. Bob and Margaret struggle with everyday issues and mid-life crises. Stories often revolve around the mundane, but in a way which is eminently relatable. From the trials of shopping to dealing with friend...
WWTD 332 - The Cheetah Girls: Get Giuliani on the Horn
December 16, 2021 12:38 - 1 hour - 33.3 MBIn the pantheon of Disney Channel Original Movie icons, Galleria, Chanel, Aqua and Do may just be their own Mount Rushmore. And it's easy to see why; THE CHEETAH GIRLS is an earnest story of friendship, self-acceptance and conflict resolution that stands up with even the best episodes of Degrassi: The Next Generation. It also has some wild examples of teen slang, awful early 2000s fashion and we're not entirely convinced Raven-Symoné didn't throw a bichon frise down a sinkhole for attention.
WWTD 331 - The Island at the Top of the World: Where the Whales Go to Die
December 09, 2021 12:44 - 54 minutes - 25.1 MBWhen you think about it, Disney has a pretty decent track record with adventure movies. So THE ISLAND AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD could have been a welcome reprieve from the usual 70s fare of films about dogs and old people. Could have been, but wasn't. Instead, it's a surprisingly dull affair, thanks to an uninteresting plot, and even more uninteresting characters.
WWTD 330 - Flubber: Thick Cheeks
December 02, 2021 12:56 - 1 hour - 28.7 MBMuch like the miracle substance itself, FLUBBER is a Disney movie that seems to defy understanding. In most ways, it's a surprisingly faithful remake (to its own detriment) of the 1961 Fred MacMurray vehicle it's based on. But it's in the small changes where the insanity happens. A flying robot in love with her creator, henchmen played by serial killer Buffalo Bill and the hardest screw to ever walk a turn in Shawshank prison, and Christopher McDonald - Shooter McGavin himself - delivering w...
WWTD 329 - Greyfriars Bobby: A Dog
November 25, 2021 12:54 - 58 minutes - 26.9 MBOh, to see the world through the eyes of this dog. A dog who loved an old shepherd so much he'd follow his slowly-dying body from the moors to the streets of Edinburgh to the Greyfriars Kirkyard. Who then was fed by a guilt-ridden restaurant, bathed by a graveyard caretaker, and played with by poor children. Who was then...dragged before the the magistrate in an ownership dispute, but got to play with a cool quill? What a life for GREYFRIARS BOBBY, and what a Disny film for our hosts to be d...
WWTD 328 - Savage Sam: The Spirit of the West
November 18, 2021 13:02 - 1 hour - 29.9 MBWe haven't been shy about our general malaise toward Disney's modern predilection for remakes and sequels that feel a bit creatively bankrupt. So imagine our surprise when we watched one of their first ever sequels, SAVAGE SAM, and discovered it's not necessarily a new trend. Ostensibly a sequel to the classic trauma vehicle Old Yeller, this movie is less a fraught coming-of-age tale about a boy and his dog and more a movie where Kevin Corcoran hurls rocks at people and animals before turnin...
WWTD 327 - The Littlest Outlaw: Goodbye 50s
November 11, 2021 12:39 - 59 minutes - 27.8 MBWe're closing out another decade of Disney this week with THE LITTLEST OUTLAW. The story of a little boy and a frightened horse attempting to avoid the wrath of a Mexican General and stepfather who's a real piece of work. It's not entirely unpleasant, at least until it starts extolling the virtues of bullfighting. And because we're finished with the 1950s, we also reminisce about the highs and lows of the movies we watched from this early era of Disney.
WWTD 326 - Raya and the Last Dragon: Queen Piranha
November 04, 2021 11:41 - 1 hour - 31.7 MBHas someone at Disney been listening to us? Seems that way, since RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON gives us a lot of what we've been wanting from modern Disney. An original story instead of a sequel or a remake? Check. A "let's get a team together" structure filled with interesting and fun characters? Check. A con artist baby who can do martial arts? You better believe that's a check. This movie isn't perfect, but it's still a whole lot of fun.
WWTD 325 - Return to Halloweentown: Broom Date
October 28, 2021 11:39 - 1 hour - 28.8 MBWe close out our October Season run of programming by closing out a Disney Channel franchise with RETURN TO HALLOWEENTOWN. And while these movies may have always been dull, cheap and dumb to varying degrees, they've never been more incoherent than in this last installment. And we're not just talking about the fact that they replaced the lead actress and literally nobody else in the reoccurring cast. So it's not a fond farewell we're paying to Halloweentown, but after sitting through four of ...
WWTD 324 - Muppets Haunted Mansion: Die Moopets
October 21, 2021 11:39 - 50 minutes - 23.5 MBIt's a spooky October Season surprise as the Summer of Muppets returns from beyond the grave. The scariest combination of words in this Disney+ special may just be "corporate synergy" as MUPPETS HAUNTED MANSION plays more as a cross-promotional advertisement for a theme park ride than a natural fit for these beloved puppet characters, but hey - it's still the Muppets getting to do stuff, so it's all ok in our books.
WWTD 323 - Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2: Peachface
October 14, 2021 11:43 - 1 hour - 30.8 MBThere's a feeling of October in the air, which can only mean one thing. It's time to return to Seabrook High School (AKA Jill's work building) for Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2. And this time, there's werewolves. Who, in this universe, are all teens who wear the same jewelry and sew fur patches onto their clothes. Disney Channel Original sequels tend to be a bit better than their first iterations, but there's always going to be exceptions to the rule, and this may very well be one of those.
WWTD 322 - McFarland, USA: Knee Crime
October 07, 2021 11:38 - 1 hour - 30.3 MBWelcome to McFARLAND, USA - a small California town made up of a mostly Latinx community, and a new family lead by the latest in a long line of Disney old dads. Only this time, the old dad is Coach Kevin Costner and he's noticed that a lot of these local boys sure can run. Yes, it's another Disney sports movie, which of course means we're in for a good time; and maybe we'll learn one or two obvious lessons along the way as well.
WWTD 321 - Chicken Little: You're No Buck Cluck
September 30, 2021 11:42 - 1 hour - 28.5 MBWe've watched a lot of sub-par Disney movies over the years, but there's something different about CHICKEN LITTLE. It's a movie with so many problems that there's no way they couldn't have been apparent to the people making it, and yet nobody seems to have cared to pump the brakes and try to correct them. The result is a montage heavy, dialogue light, weird looking, strangely cast, inexplicable mess of a story that puts our hosts through the ringer.
WWTD 320 - Bon Voyage!: Warm-Bloodedness
September 23, 2021 11:47 - 1 hour - 33.2 MBIt's a classic tale of a family vacation gone awry in Disney's BON VOYAGE! A straight-laced father just wants to give his wife and children a holiday to remember, but all manner of entitled little rich boys, beach con-artists, and would-be cuckholders conspire against him to throw a wrench in their plans. And no, we didn't slip into an alternate universe where the Griswolds are somehow Disney characters, it is good ol' Fred MacMurray at the centre of all these hijinks as usual.
WWTD 319 - the muppets. (TV Series): Through Podcast, All Things Are Possible
September 16, 2021 11:43 - 1 hour - 33.2 MBFor the first and most likely only time, we're breaking protocol on the podcast for the grand finale of the Summer of Muppets. Because Disney hasn't made enough feature-length Muppet projects (yet), we're allowing ourselves to examine the small screen sitcom THE MUPPETS.. (the period is part of the title), which aired on ABC for one season back in 2015-2016. Was this a wonderful new forum for these beloved creations that never got a fair shake, or a misstep that unfortunately put the gang ba...
WWTD 318 - Tex: Old Brother
September 09, 2021 11:38 - 1 hour - 38.5 MBBased on the novel by S.E. Hinton, TEX is a thoughtful coming-of-age story about a wayward and wild teenage boy learning to think of people other than himself, and learning to be ok with saying goodbye to friends and family as they inevitably leave their small, rural Oklahoma town - even if he has to stay. If that seems a little too mature and grounded for Disney, just remember that the 1980s were a strange time for the company. One that we look back fondly at as we finish up the decade with...
WWTD 317 - The One and Only Ivan: Not All Humans
September 02, 2021 14:55 - 1 hour - 30.6 MBThere's no shortage of movies we've watched over the course of this podcast that involve Disney putting animals in harm's way. We are still pretty sure they killed at least one horse. But THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN portends a more benign future where Disney can make movies that star animals but without the need to for there to be actual animal performers. The downside is, they've finally hit that balance of making CGI animals look realistic while still being expressive, so stories about wild anim...
WWTD Minnie Mouse-isode 019 - Finding the Rainbow Connection: The Life and Works of Jim Henson
August 19, 2021 11:45 - 1 hour - 30.9 MBFor our special Minnie Mouse-isode edition of our summer series, we take a look at the man behind the Muppets. From humble beginnings to picking up puppetry on a whim to breakthroughs in children's entertainment to a highly valued and sought-after multi-media company, Jim Henson's success is undeniable. But it's his attitude and philosophies that were imbued in his work that has allowed the Muppets to thrive even beyond his untimely passing. We hope you enjoy this celebration of Jim and his ...
WWTD 316 - 102 Dalmatians: Gérard Depardon't
August 12, 2021 11:44 - 1 hour - 30.4 MBGo back a couple hundred episodes and you'll hear our rather lukewarm reception to the 90s live action remake of 101 Dalmatians. Take all of our comments and criticisms of that move and add one degree, and you basically have our take on 102 DALMATIANS. The leads are blander (and stupider), Glenn Close is more unhinged (and her costuming more fabulous), and the hijinks are zanier. But, the plot is basically the same, which isn't a surprise - if a movie about dog murder worked once, surely it ...
WWTD 316 - 102 Dalmatians: Gérard Depardon't
August 12, 2021 11:44Go back a couple hundred episodes and you'll hear our rather lukewarm reception to the 90s live action remake of 101 Dalmatians. Take all of our comments and criticisms of that move and add one degree, and you basically have our take on 102 DALMATIANS. The leads are blander (and stupider), Glenn Close is more unhinged (and her costuming more fabulous), and the hijinks are zanier. But, the plot is basically the same, which isn't a surprise - if a movie about dog murder worked once, surely it ...
WWTD 315 - The Wild Country: Down to Homestead
August 05, 2021 11:40 - 1 hour - 35 MBWe've seen enough Disney westerns to think we've seen it all - singing cowboys, spliced-in nature footage, white people dressed up as Indigenous people, etc. And a lot of that stuff is still present and accounted for in THE WILD COUNTRY. But this particular western takes itself so seriously and uses the genre's tropes and iconography so well that we have no choice to declare it the best Disney western we've seen so far. Faint praise, perhaps, but praise nonetheless.
WWTD 314 - The Adventures of Huck Finn: Rusty Knives and Robbie Coltrane Kisses
July 29, 2021 11:39 - 1 hour - 33.9 MBFrequent We Want the D listeners may recall that our hosts have a lil' bit of baggage when it comes to Disney adapting the work of Mark Twain. But fear not, for their adaptation of what is called the first (or only) great American novel - THE ADVENTURES OF HUCK FINN - is a welcome break in the trend. And much like the novel it's based on, there's no shortage of analysis and discussion to be had.
WWTD 313 - The Fighting Prince of Donegal: For Just Country
July 22, 2021 11:32 - 58 minutes - 26.5 MBIt's time for another one of Disney's period costume dramas, only THE FIGHTING PRINCE OF DONEGAL puts a little bit of a twist on the formula. See, while most of these types of movies were made and released in the 1950s, this one came out in 1966. What does that mean, you ask? Well, instead of starring Richard Todd, this one stars the guy who played Hayley Mills' love interest in The Moon Spinners, and...actually that about covers it.
WWTD 312 - Muppets Most Wanted: We Want the V
July 15, 2021 11:39 - 1 hour - 36.9 MBThe Summer of Muppets continues with the latest and to date last theatrical Muppet movie - MUPPETS MOST WANTED. If Disney's 2011 relaunch of the franchise in earnest was a heartfelt and loving tribute to the madcap gang, this follow-up is a reminder that the Muppets are capable of being absolutely off-the-wall zany in just the best way. Packed with more cameos than perhaps any other Muppet movie, more great songs, and more than it's fair share of laughs, if this is the last Muppet movie we g...
WWTD 311 - G-Force: Boom Boom Pow
July 08, 2021 11:41 - 53 minutes - 25.3 MBHere's the thing, D-Lovers: it's not that G-FORCE - a Disney movie that answers the unasked question "what if guinea pigs were spies?" - doesn't merit any criticism. There's far too many Black Eyed Peas needle drops for that to be the case. It's just that, in our hosts' estimation, it doesn't merit the amount of criticism it has received. Because at the end of the day, there are a lot worse spy movies than this that don't feature adorable guinea pigs adorably using tiny spy equipment. All we...
WWTD 310 - That Darn Cat (1997): A-Bippin' and A-Boppin'
July 01, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 28.5 MBIf only the differences between the original That Darn Cat! and this 90s remake was the missing explanation mark. Disappointingly, this movie doesn't really live up to its predecessor in any real way. But it's also just way, way too strange to say it's an outright bad movie. The tone is stunningly bizarre unlike anything we've seen so far on this Disney odyssey, creating more questions and rabbit holes to go down than one might expect from THAT DARN CAT.
WWTD 309 - Trenchcoat: Larry Lightning
June 24, 2021 11:41 - 1 hour - 29.7 MBWelcome back to the 80s, D-Sciples, the most turbulent decade of Disney. They're up, they're (mostly) down, they're trying out weird things to varying degrees of success. And TRENCHCOAT is definitely one of their oddest, and to be frank least successful experiments. It's not for lack of trying, at least on the part of Margot Kidder, but it's hard to pull off a movie that's trying to spoof the spy genre and film noir while not being even a little bit funny. It would be like, oh just for examp...
WWTD 308 - Moon Pilot: Space Monkey Madness
June 17, 2021 11:29 - 55 minutes - 25.8 MBWe know what you're thinking, D-Lovers - "What the heck is a MOON PILOT?" That's an easy one to explain, it's another word for an astronaut. Explaining what the heck the Disney movie MOON PILOT is, however, is a more challenging question. In some ways it's a contemporary farce about the space race and red scare, in others it's a romance between an all-American chimp-minder and a French alien. Mostly, though, it's just a lot of yelling.
WWTD 307 - Muppet Treasure Island: Full of Doubloons
June 10, 2021 11:34 - 1 hour - 33.7 MBWeigh and anchor and hoist the main sail, we're heading back to the high seas with MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND! Disney's second kick at the can at a Muppet movie where they adapt a work of classic literature, will this movie measure up to the precedent set by their version of the Dickens classic, or will good ol' Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure tale come up short? For our hosts, it mostly depends who you ask, so be prepared for rough seas ahead on the Summer of Muppets!
WWTD 306 - So Dear to My Heart: Wouldst Thou Like to Find Thy Sheep?
June 03, 2021 11:29 - 1 hour - 30 MBIt's a landmark episode of We Want The D as our finish out our first proper decade of Disney movies. And it's somewhat appropriate that we end the 1940s with SO DEAR TO MY HEART, a movie ostensibly adapted from a book about a boy and his sheep, but as all the best early Disney movies do also provides some insight into Daddy Walt's psyche and how he viewed (or at least liked to view) his childhood.
WWTD 305 - The BFG: A Story About Farting
May 27, 2021 11:36 - 57 minutes - 26.7 MBThe last time we saw a Disney movie adapted from a Roald Dahl classic, we were a little dismayed at how the team behind The Nightmare Before Christmas handled the translation of James and the Giant Peach from page to screen. Surely THE BFG will fare better, though. It's decades later and it's Steven Feakin' Spielberg making his first and (to date) only Disney movie. And look, the man is one of the greatest directors of all time, there's a minimum threshold of quality that is always going to ...
WWTD 304 - Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco: Ruff Energy
May 20, 2021 11:21 - 1 hour - 30.4 MBIn the original Homeward Bound, Shadow, Sassy and Chance make a harrowing, one might say incredible, journey through the wilderness to be reunited with their owners, braving all manner of natural hazards and dangers. HOMEWARD BOUND II: LOST IN SAN FRANCISCO offers a somewhat different set of obstacles. Wild animals and waterfalls have been replaced by raging house fires and, er, a dog love triangle...hey, what do you expect from a mid-90s Disney sequel?
WWTD 303 - The Muppets: Wet Ass Piggy
May 13, 2021 11:35 - 1 hour - 35.1 MBIt's time to raise the curtain on the Summer of Muppets! Our latest summer series will be a most sensational, celebrational look at the Disney films that feature these beloved Muppet characters, starting with 2011's THE MUPPETS, which was a bit of a relaunch of the brand under the Disney banner. One that our hosts find largely successful in capturing what makes this cast of characters so special, but maybe doesn't hold up quite as well as we remember from the first time we saw it. But that w...
WWTD 302 - Napoleon and Samantha: Virile and Beautiful
May 06, 2021 11:35 - 1 hour - 33.1 MBIf you've listened to our last few episodes, or even just take a cursory glance at the movie titles, you'll know we've been spending more than our fair share of time talking about Disney animal movies. Unfortunately, NAPOLEON AND SAMANTHA doesn't break that trend. Fortunately, however, things are a little more...exotic in this movie, and not just because the animal in question is an old, milk-loving lion. There is so, so much more than that going on in this movie that our hosts could never h...
WWTD 301 - Secretariat: Commodification of Horse Sperm
April 29, 2021 11:41 - 1 hour - 39.3 MBWayne Gretzky. Don Bradman. Usain Bolt. There are some athletes who are so far ahead of their peers they will likely forever hold the title of GOAT in their respective fields. But the biggest GOAT of all may be a horse - a horse named SECRETARIAT. Secretariat ran three races very fast, and as a result, a lot of rich white people got a whole lot richer, and so of course Disney made a movie about it. But while straight-forward on paper, this movie is anything but thanks to some truly bizarre d...
WWTD 300 - Tangled: The Betrayal
April 22, 2021 11:40 - 1 hour - 45.8 MBIt's our 300th episode! And we couldn't be more happy to be talking about perennial underdog Disney movie TANGLED. Not only did it lose in several straight polls for past anniversary episodes, it somehow feels like this movie never quite gets its due, despite how good it is, always in the shadow of its younger, colder cousin. But no longer, as our hosts sing its praises from the top of a tower in all respects. Well...except maybe one.
WWTD 299 - Follow Me, Boys!: Lemuel Samuels
April 15, 2021 11:50 - 1 hour - 39.8 MBAt first blush, it doesn't seem like there's anything in Disney's FOLLOW ME, BOYS! that we haven't seen before. It's not the first time we've seen Kurt Russell, Fred MacMurray or Vera Miles. It's not the first time we've seen Disney create a whole small town on their studio backlot. It's not the first time we've had wacky punctuation in the title. But just because it's all been done, doesn't mean it's ever been done this well - because this movie is unexpectedly charming and affecting across...
WWTD 298 - Lady and the Tramp (2019): All-Hours Dog Catcher
April 08, 2021 11:43 - 59 minutes - 45.1 MBNot all live action remakes are created equal, and in the case of LADY AND THE TRAMP that means being a movie that has the look and feel of a direct-to-Disney+ release. That is to say, it's not all that bad as far as these remakes go, it just feels more inessential than usual. Sure, there's some dynamite voice casting, some nicely expanded roles for the non-dog characters, and it's way less racist. But while the original movie is so charming that it's an undeniable timeless classic, this one...
WWTD 297 - Rascal: Oh No, the Lynx!
April 01, 2021 11:46 - 1 hour - 32.2 MBOn the surface, Disney's RASCAL may appear to be yet another entry in the long list of Disney's "boy and his dog" movies - only this time the dog is a bandit-masked, human-handed, cute lil' raccoon. But in fact, Disney's RASCAL is actually about another one of our favourite recurring Disney themes - children who have not properly grieved the loss of a parent. In this one, all the animal hijinks, of which there are plenty, play second fiddle to the infuriatingly negligent actions of a ramblin...
WWTD 296 - One Little Indian: Butt Plot Movement
March 25, 2021 11:39 - 1 hour - 32.6 MBStop us if you've heard this one before: James Garner, fleeing from a dangerous scenario he wants no part of, gets mixed up with a little boy he only sort of barely tolerates, meets a widowed woman living all on her own in a lonely, isolated location, and through gruffness and the power of 1970s masculinity endears himself to all and escapes danger. No, we didn't rewatch that Castaway Cowboy movie, we watched Disney's ONE LITTLE INDIAN and experienced a whole lot of deja vu.
WWTD 295 - The Tigger Movie: J'adore Eeyore
March 18, 2021 11:37 - 56 minutes - 27.4 MBYou may recall from episodes past that our hosts have no small amount of fondness for the bite-sized stories featuring the critters who inhabit the Hundred Acre Wood. Stretch a story to feature-length and throw the most chaotic and thoughtless of those characters into the center of it, however, and it's a whole different story. THE TIGGER MOVIE is no doubt a favourite of a certain, pre-school aged portion of Disney's audience, but for our hosts it may be inarguably bouncy and trouncy, but ho...
WWTD 294 - Tonka: Horse Illustrated
March 11, 2021 12:40 - 1 hour - 31 MBThere's a lot of deception going on at the core of Disney's TONKA. The cover/poster doesn't really give any indication of who the title character really is, so it's not until the opening theme song starts to refer to Tonka's powerful hooves and glossy coat that you might start to clue in. Then there's the fact that this movie is based on an actual historical horse, but he was never called Tonka at all. And, of course because this movie was made in the 1950s, there's the fact that none of the...
WWTD 293 - Never a Dull Moment: Playing Possum
March 04, 2021 12:33 - 1 hour - 32.9 MBHistorically, Disney's never really been able to knock it out of the park when it comes to Ron Miller-era movies that feature hapless leads going up against bumbling criminal enterprises. NEVER A DULL MOMENT doesn't exactly defy that trend, but it comes close. Likely thanks to having the criminal mastermind be a complex, art-loving Edward G. Robinson, filling his ranks with an eclectic group of henchmen, and putting the always-entertaining Dick Van Dyke in the lead role. Don't know if our ho...
WWTD 292 - Night Crossing: Hot Air Go Up
February 25, 2021 12:34 - 57 minutes - 27.7 MBIt's possible (and these day's maybe even likely) that you've felt trapped, shut in, and unable to escape from your current circumstances. But have you ever wanted to get to a place where the grass is greener so desperately that you'd build a makeshift hot air balloon to float you and seven other friends and family members to safety and freedom? If so, D-Lovers, then you might find a lot to relate to in NIGHT CROSSING. And if not, well, you'll still be treated to another entry in Disney's to...
WWTD 291 - The Princess and the Frog: Trauma Bonding
February 18, 2021 12:43 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBIt's Mardi Gras, baby! And just because we can't be in the streets of the French Quarter doesn't mean we can't celebrate in our own way, which means we watched THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG. It's a significant movie of firsts and lasts for Disney, so Vicky, Nolan and Jill have a lot to unpack here - but Mama Odie told us to dig a little deeper, so we're only following instructions. Further reading: THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG: REWRITING JAZZ AGE HISTORY AND CULTURE from The Black Atlantic