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 Bonus 001 - March Madness!
March 31, 2018 13:27 - 41 minutes - 20.6 MBVicky, Nolan and Jill tackle the Disney/Pixar March Madness bracket that's been making the rounds online. Find the bracket here to follow along, and share your own results with us on Twitter or Facebook!
WWTD 146 - The Misadventures of Merlin Jones: Not Girl, Not Yet Woman
March 29, 2018 11:32 - 59 minutes - 29.2 MBIt shouldn't really be a surprise that back in the 60s Disney had two multi-film franchises set on college campuses that featured an administration and authority-defying lead, but here we are. But while one franchise featured the boyish charms of cool kid Kurt Russell, THE MISADVENTURES OF MERLIN JONES takes a slightly different tact by having frequent We Want The D favourite Tommy Kirk take on the titular role of the "scrambled egghead." A character who is willing to accuse a judge of diamo...
WWTD 145 - Never Cry Wolf: We Found the D
March 22, 2018 11:36 - 1 hour - 38.6 MBLet's be honest, D-Lovers, Disney hasn't had the best track record when it comes to movies that tread the line between fictional film and nature documentary. As it turns out, however, all it really took to pull one such feature off was a director with a vision, an actor with the gumption to pretend to eat dozens of mice, and what must have been an inhuman tolerance for shooting outdoors in the arctic for more than two years. NEVER CRY WOLF is insane on paper, and maybe a little insane on scr...
WWTD 144 - A Wrinkle in Time: A Good Tesser
March 15, 2018 11:41 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBWe Want The D goes to the movies once again this week, as Vicky, Nolan and Jill have a spoiler-filled discussion on Disney's latest offering, A WRINKLE IN TIME. Stay tuned at the end (or skip to it if you plan on seeing the movie and don't want to be spoiled) for a bonus look at two recently released trailers for upcoming Disney films as well (starting at around 1:10:22).
WWTD 143 - The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again: Pull the Train Over
March 08, 2018 12:39 - 1 hour - 29.8 MBWe admit it, D-Lovers, there's no good reason that our hosts are talking about another Western-themed Disney movie this week. But there's also no good reason for Disney to have made a sequel to The Apple Dumpling Gang, especially one that does not feature the titular gang, so at least we're in good company. Best Vicky, Nolan and Jill can figure, THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG RIDES AGAIN is just an excuse to get classic comedy duo Don Knotts and Tim Conway in a bunch of fun costumes and have them r...
WWTD 142 - Tall Tale: Unselfishness
March 01, 2018 12:36 - 1 hour - 39.3 MBNostalgia. It's something that Disney peddles and trades in as part of their bread and butter. What other company can put their classic titles in a vault for years on end, then bring them out whenever they feel like it and make millions off them all over again? But nostalgia is a fickle thing, as one of our hosts learns this week when we watched TALL TALE. A movie with so much potential thanks to a pretty solid concept and a really solid cast (anchored by none other that Patrick Swayze) that...
WWTD 141 - The Rescuers Down Under: Dumpers and Birds
February 22, 2018 12:46 - 1 hour - 34.5 MBJudgement Day. Empire Strike Back. The Dark Knight. The Godfather Part II. All of these movies have something in common: they are sequels that far surpass the original. But first on that list should be Disney's THE RESCUERS DOWN UNDER, which continues to follow the adventures of the glamourous Miss Bianca and the dependable Bernard as they travel around the globe, saving children from larger-than-life danger. Down Under just does everything better - the adventure is bigger, the sidekicks are...
WWTD 140 - Descendants 2: Uma Merman
February 15, 2018 13:20 - 1 hour - 47 MBIt's finally here, what may be the most hotly anticipated (or painfully dreaded, depending on your perspective) episode of We Want The D. We won't keep you long, because as you may suspect, the written word can't really do justice to this Disney Channel Original Movie. Just know that yes, this movie did necessitate ninety-plus minutes of discussion from Vicky, Nolan and Jill - putting our hosts dangerously close to releasing an episode longer than the actual movie they watched.
WWTD 139 - The Country Bears: But Why?
February 08, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 33 MBWe Want The D knows more than most that Disney has made some harebrained movies over the years. Heck, they pretty much have a whole period dedicated to movies with mundane supernatural elements that involve long gambling sequences. But perhaps no movie has challenged our hosts to wonder what is going through the heads of Disney executives more than The Country Bears. It's one thing to make a movie based on a theme park ride, but Country Bear Jamboree isn't really a ride, and they don't even ...
WWTD 138 - Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier: Big Scary B'ar
February 01, 2018 12:38 - 56 minutes - 28.2 MBWe all know the story of Davy Crockett, D-Lovers. Frontiersman, soldier, hunter, state representative, Alamo rememberer. His real-life exploits have been fuel for story and legend for over a century. And in 1955, Disney took three episodes of television they made about him, did some light editing (including some grainy nature documentary footage they found literally on a cutting room floor) and released it in theatres as DAVY CROCKETT, KING OF THE WILD FRONTIER. This sparked a bit of Crocket...
WWTD 137 - Inspector Gadget: All Robots Are For Sex
January 25, 2018 12:28 - 1 hour - 34.4 MBMaking live action movie versions of classic television cartoons may be all the rage now, but in 1999, there weren't too many examples. Maybe that's why Disney's attempt at bringing INSPECTOR GADGET to life feels like a total miss. Sure, Matthew Broderick channels the bumbling detective well enough for the most part, but Dr. Claw was never this hammy and showed much much less face that Rupert Everett. And Penny was certainly never as sidelined as she is in this movie. And we may be wrong her...
WWTD 136 - Freaky Friday: Streaky Friday
January 18, 2018 12:30 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBIt's time for another classic We Want The D double-header, where Vicky, Nolan and Jill take a Disney original and it's later remake and pit them head-to-head. This time we're pitting FREAKY FRIDAY from 1976 against what we have dubbed STREAKY FRIDAY from 2003. It's a hell of a match-up in all categories. Jodie Foster vs. Lindsay Lohan. Barbara Harris vs. Jamie Lee Curtis. Gomez Addams vs. Leroy Gibbs. Soul Patch vs. Jewfro. There's some battles for the ages in these two wacky hijinks-based r...
WWTD 135 - Tron: Dave N. "Buster" Flynn
January 11, 2018 12:31 - 1 hour - 31.5 MBAs podcast listeners, we can assume that you, our beloved D-Sciples, are pretty technologically savvy. But imagine trying to explain to your grandparents what a podcast is, or how to listen to one. Can you imagine their confusion and disinterest? If you're having trouble, might we suggest a viewing of Disney's TRON? A movie made in the early days of home computing about the inner drama of programs, their enslavement by an all-powerful, chess playing Master Controller, and their steadfast bel...
WWTD 134 - In Search of the Castaways: We'll Dupe These Buggers
January 04, 2018 13:14 - 1 hour - 39 MBIt's been awhile since we checked in with one of our favourite Disney performers, so this week on We Want The D our hosts are reconnecting with our beloved Hayley Brando Mills as she goes on a fantastic adventure with famous French lech Maurice Chevalier, the smarmiest teenage boy you've ever seen, the most British Lord you can imagine, and a little boy who is also present. IN SEARCH OF THE CASTAWAYS is a ton of fun with pretty impressive action sequences, charming Sherman Brothers songs, an...
WWTD 133 - Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Stories and Stories
December 21, 2017 12:32 - 1 hour - 31.4 MBFor the third time in 2017 we're heading to France to visit some of Disney's most beloved characters. That's right, even in the direct-to-video sequel, the gang's all here. Belle! Lumiere! Cogsworth! Babette (for like two seconds)! Beast! A Jewish Axe! It's Christmas time at the cursed castle, so its time to dust off the estate's help that are trapped in storage AS WELL as in the form of an inanimate object and spread some holiday cheer. Because if anything will help your beastly master sedu...
WWTD 132 - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Mr. Tumnus and His Chest
December 14, 2017 12:42 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBThe holiday season is upon us once again, but unfortunately for Vicky, Nolan and Jill the well of theatrical Disney Christmas movies has already run pretty dry. Desperate for anything even tangentially related to Christmas, our host have turned to C.S. Lewis, an author who really put the "Christ" back in "Christmas" with THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE. That's right, in their desperate search for a Lord of the Rings-esque high fantasy franchise of their own, Di...
WWTD 131 - The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men: Burger King
December 07, 2017 12:35 - 1 hour - 30.9 MBIt's remarkable to think that Disney has been making theatrical films for nigh on eighty years, and they still haven't cracked the formula - sometimes they put out bona fide classics, sometimes they put out real stinkers. So it's always a surprise when we go deep into the Disney Canon and pull out something from their early years, and it turns out better than our hosts expected. This week on We Want The D, Vicky, Nolan and Jill watch the second fully live action movie the House of Mouse ever...
WWTD 130 - Queen of Katwe: Maize and Cake
November 30, 2017 12:24 - 1 hour - 36.8 MBWe'll try to keep this brief, D-Lovers - there's not much that can be said here that our hosts don't already say in this week's episode. Suffice to say, we highly recommend watching Disney's QUEEN OF KATWE before pushing play on this week's episode. Go ahead, it's on Netflix, we'll wait. We promise you won't regret it. Trust us, if Vicky, Nolan and Jill are anything to go off of, you'll want to spend the next sixty-plus minutes raving about what you just saw to anyone who will listen, and we...
WWTD 129 - Escape to Witch Mountain: Reverse and Peel Away
November 23, 2017 12:17 - 1 hour - 30.5 MBHelp us out here, D-Lovers - some of you must have seen Disney's ESCAPE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN before and can explain how this movie spawned a few sequels and a remake starring The Rock. Because based on what is on paper (and film print), Vicky, Nolan and Jill can't quite figure this one out. Sure Tia's got great bangs, Tony can blow a mean mouth organ and Jason O'Day has a personality that lends itself to imagining a wild backstory (less depressing than his real one, at that). But all that AND a...
WWTD 128 - The Big Green: Knockin' Boots with the Guttes
November 16, 2017 12:34 - 59 minutes - 29.8 MBOn the surface, Disney's THE BIG GREEN is about as paint-by-numbers an underdog kids' sports movie can get. All the stereotypical plot points with none of the charm, this could have been another ingracious entry into We Want The D's dreaded bottom ten, but was saved by the oddly relevant portrayal of Small Town America on the decline. The setting of this week's movie is a Town that Voted Trump, a town where nine out of ten parents found themselves out of work when the local factory (of what?...
WWTD 127 - Air Bud: Clown Town
November 09, 2017 12:35 - 1 hour - 31.3 MBThis week on We Want The D, our hosts watched yet another bizarrely dark movie in the Disney catalog. Rife with animal abuse, parental neglect, and an all-around grim tone, you'd be forgiven if you assumed Vicky, Nolan and Jill were talking about some obscure film from the 1960s, or at the very least a Christmas movie from the 1980s. But nope, those are all elements of AIR BUD, a story that is only minimally about a dog that plays basketball, but it mostly about a child who hasn't grieved pr...
WWTD 126 - Brother Bear: No Take-Backsies
November 02, 2017 12:02 - 1 hour - 29.7 MBGood day, eh, and welcome to this week's episode of We Want The D, where Vicky, Nolan and Jill once again battle against the rising tide of Disney's animation mediocrity of the late Eisner era. BROTHER BEAR doesn't have a lot going for it on paper - a voice cast anchored by Bob and Doug McKenzie and (for some reason) Joaquin Phoenix, a story with disturbing implications from conception to finale thanks to 29 writers not being able to get their shit together, and just the absolute worst songs...
WWTD 125 - Halloweentown: Put it in the Pumpkin
October 26, 2017 13:41 - 1 hour - 34.7 MBTrick or Treat, D-Lovers, it's time for another We Want The D Halloween Special Spectacular. Having burned through so much of Disney's theatrical Halloween offerings, Vicky, Nolan and Jill are forced to turn to the strange and largely mediocre world of Disney Channel Original Movies once again, this time tackling the bizarrely beloved HALLOWEENTOWN. While our hosts can largely agree that Debbie Reynolds is an angel taken from us too soon, that's about where the common opinions stop as one ho...
WWTD 124 - The Watcher in the Woods: Super Possessed
October 19, 2017 11:44 - 58 minutes - 28.4 MBWe're in that spooky time of year again, D-Lovers, and that means its time to tap that rich vein of theatrical Disney Halloween movies...unfortunately thanks to our Halloween month a few years back that vein is mostly dry, so we're left with material like THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS. While probably the closest thing to a straight-up horror movie that Disney has ever done, all the classic set-ups for scares, 70s teen fashion, and Bette Davis castings in the world couldn't save this movie once th...
WWTD 123 - Toby Tyler: Stolen Saltine
October 12, 2017 12:18 - 1 hour - 31.9 MBWe Want The D returns to the romantic life of the traveling circus in this week's episode. Vicky, Nolan and Jill are once again itching to be charmed by wild animals in small cages, casual child endangerment, and that good 1880s era stank. And boy does Disney's TOBY TYLER deliver on all those fronts and more. It's hard not be delighted by recurring We Want The D favourite Kevin Corcoran (aka Jimmy Bean) in his first real starring role we've seen so far, even our hosts constantly fear that an...
WWTD 122 - Maleficent: Moonpond and Chill
October 06, 2017 12:08 - 1 hour - 34.8 MBOh. My. God. D-Lovers - have you seen Disney's MALEFICENT? Have you seen how good Angelina Jolie looks in this movie? Have you seen her incredible performance as Maleficent? She's so powerful, so beautiful; whether she is wearing a cowl of snake skin or black silk. With or without her wings (so cruelly garotted off by Shartlo Copley) she strikes a very good silhouette, always perfectly lit. She is the only thing in this movie - as evidenced by the fact that, despite some pretty decent produc...
WWTD 121 - Sleeping Beauty: #TeamMerryweather
September 28, 2017 12:47 - 1 hour - 31.1 MBThis week on We Want The D we're going back to a simpler time. A time when Disney animation was crisp and beautiful, with nary a hint of xerography. A time when you could make a movie about a princess who only says about sixteen lines of dialogue. A time when film run times were tight, villains were straight-forwardly evil, and you could arrange a marriage between two children while one was prepubescent and the other was fresh from the womb. If you haven't figured it out by now Vicky, Nolan ...
WWTD 120 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales: A Real Poseidon-head
September 21, 2017 11:43 - 1 hour - 44.6 MBIt's the conclusion to We Want The D's Summer of Pirates and much like the franchise, our hosts are all worn out. For a series that start on a such high note of optimism and celebration, things sure have come a long way. Last week, Vicky, Nolan and Jill raged against the fourth installment of Disney's mega-franchise - this week it's a sad acceptance where all they could do is laugh at the ridiculous of Jack Sparrow's latest non-adventure. Considering this fifth movie both relies on and compl...
WWTD 119 - Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Tired Franchise
September 14, 2017 12:59 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBThe Summer of Pirates continues on We Want The D with the fourth installment of the franchise, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES. The people may have been hungry for more Jack Sparrow after the conclusion of the initial trilogy, but Vicky, Nolan and Jill can't imagine anyone who felt satisfied by this high budget television episode of a movie. Disney managed to pull off a film that sorta looks like a Pirates movie and sorta sounds like a Pirates movie, but by no means comes even cl...
WWTD 118 - Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves: Tummy Talk
September 07, 2017 13:06 - 1 hour - 30.6 MBVicky, Nolan and Jill have made their annual pilgrimage to Bob's Lake, which means its time to check in on the Szalinksi family one last time in We Want The D's first foray into direct-to-video Disney. HONEY, WE SHRUNK OURSELVES lacks the budget and much of the cast of the first two films; but what it lacks in those areas is more than makes up for in product placement and some unfortunate implications as to what happened to the older Szalinksi children and the original Diane. We're just sayi...
WWTD Minnie Mouse-isode 012 - The Fall of Mikey E.
September 01, 2017 16:07 - 52 minutes - 25.7 MBWe Want The D presents another history lesson on the turbulent tenure of Disney CEO Michael Eisner in this special mini-episode. This time, we learn about how Roy Disney leveraged his family name and legacy to oust the man he believed was destroying it.
WWTD 117 - Hot Lead and Cold Feet: Hijinks Ensue
August 24, 2017 12:31 - 56 minutes - 28.7 MBStop us if you've heard this one before: after a bitter falling out, the parents of infant twins separate, but rather than splitting custody they each take one of the children and disappear from the others' lives. Later in life, the identical twins meet and an intense rivalry develops. Now we know what you're thinking, our hosts have already done both The Parent Trap movies, and you are correct. But this week we are tackling Disney's HOT LEAD AND COLD FEET, which has that exact same premise ...
WWTD 116 - Popeye: A Masterpiece and a Catastrophe
August 17, 2017 12:55 - 58 minutes - 29.6 MBAs we've established (many times) before, the 1980s were a weird time for Disney, as the flailing and ailing company tried to outgrow their family-first approach with a more mature and gritty series of films. Most of the time, that didn't go over so well. At least once, however, they managed to harness a perfect storm of creatives and performers to make one of the most fascinating, ugly, dense and well-realized movies our hosts have any seen. Robert Altman's POPEYE takes the heightened look ...
WWTD 115 - Gus: Butt Dickus
August 10, 2017 12:04 - 1 hour - 29.8 MBWe'll be honest: this episode of We Want The D is a bit all over the place. But we're not going to apologize for it! How could you expect Vicky, Nolan and Jill to seriously discuss yet another live action Disney movie from the 1970s without breaking. The mere premise of this movie - "nowhere in the rulebook does it say a mule can't play football!" - is just the tip of the iceberg in how this film nearly drove our hosts insane. We can't pinpoint exactly when it happened, but it could have bee...
WWTD 114 - Atlantis: The Lost Empire: The Second Culling
August 03, 2017 11:39 - 1 hour - 31.7 MBIn this week's episode, Vicky, Nolan and Jill are unpacking why a movie that seems to have so much going for it can still end up failing. Disney's ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE has the pedigree of Trousdale and Wise; the voice talents of Michael J. Fox, James Garner and Cree Summer (to name only a few); and an art style inspired by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola - but for all of that it is as hollow, vacant and flat as the citizenry of Atlantis - no personality, no culture, no charm. Our hosts spe...
WWTD 113 - High School Musical 2: A Glass of Milk
July 27, 2017 12:01 - 1 hour - 35.9 MBThe last time we saw Troy, Gabriella and the rest of the Wildcats they were leaving behind their high school (musical) days at the end of senior year, with little to no context of how they got there. This week on We Want The D, Vicky, Nolan and Jill are remedying that by checking out the middle installment of the Disney Channel Original phenomenon, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2. This time the Wildcats are off the court (kinda) and stage (not really) and "working" summer jobs, but don't worry they're...
WWTD 112 - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End: Sisterhood of the Traveling Sword
July 20, 2017 12:39 - 1 hour - 46 MBIt seems fitting that the longest film in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise would mean an extra-bloated episode of We Want The D. But in our defense, AT WORLD'S END has a lot to unpack in terms of sheer plot. Each character has their own scheme to follow, their own betrayal to make, and for chrissakes they spend the first hour just trying to bring Jack Sparrow back from the dead. This may be the most convoluted of any of the installments to Disney's seafaring franchise (certainly so far...
WWTD 111 - Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken: Wild Retinas Can Detach
July 13, 2017 13:16 - 1 hour - 34.8 MBThis week's episode of We Want The D is all about a movie about overcoming adversity and obstacles to achieve your dreams. It doesn't matter if you're an unwanted orphan during the great depression. It doesn't matter if you're a pint-sized teenager surrounded by movie star wannabes, gingers who can't grill hot dogs, or a gruff mentor with bad hair extensions. It doesn't because, as the title of this Disney movie constantly reminds us, WILD HEARTS CAN'T BE BROKEN. So even if you find yourself...
WWTD Minnie Mouse-isode 011 - The Bottom Ten
July 06, 2017 12:24 - 47 minutes - 23.5 MBWelcome to the most self-indulgent episode of We Want The D to date! In this special mini-episode Vicky, Nolan and Jill look back at all the most ridiculous, boring and flat-out bad Disney movies we've watched over the past 100+ episodes and try to come up with a definitive list of the ten worst Disney movies we've watched to date. Each of our hosts brings their own opinions to the table and duke it out over which movies deserve the prestige of being top of the garbage pile. There's shock, t...
WWTD 110 - The Gnome-Mobile: Grandpa Joe Disease
June 29, 2017 12:10 - 1 hour - 33.6 MBThis week on We Want The D, it's a tale of two grandfathers. One, a lumber magnate who started from the bottom and now is in command of his own massive logging enterprise, but still has a soft spot for his young-yet-corpse-like grandchildren. The other, a gnome who is despondent to the point of illness because his adult grandson will never get laid after all the other gnomes in their forest vanish when the lumberjacks come. When their paths cross, it's no surprise that hijinks ensue, though ...
WWTD 109 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: Showboating
June 22, 2017 11:26 - 1 hour - 36.1 MBThe Summer of Pirates continues on We Want The D! The second installment of Disney's seafaring franchise has pretty much the whole behind and in front of the camera team returning with bigger action, bigger boats and almost certainly bigger paychecks. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST may have crammed way more action sequences and plot into what amounts to essentially half a story, but it also added some new and mostly welcome faces to the franchise, from Tom Hollander's littlest Ea...
WWTD 108 - The Reluctant Dragon: Dope 40s Ladies
June 15, 2017 11:00 - 51 minutes - 26.2 MBWe've established in past episodes that the early years of Disney weren't exactly smooth sailing for the company, what with that pesky Second World War and those damn communist animators striking for better wages or whatever. This week on We Want The D, we're taking on one of Disney's efforts to stay afloat without breaking the bank with THE RELUCTANT DRAGON. The title animated segment is just a small portion of this movie, which isn't really so much of an actual film as it is a behind-the-s...
WWTD 107 - Beauty and the Beast (2017): Amen Menken
June 08, 2017 11:57 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBTo celebrate the release of Disney's live action version of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST on blu-ray, DVD and Clamshell VHS; We Want The D is releasing our episode discussing the film. Recorded just a few days after Vicky, Nolan and Jill saw the movie in theatres, it's a blast from the recent past that will answer all your burning questions about how our hosts felt about this interpretation of these beloved characters, songs and story. Did Emma Watson breathe fresh life into the role or did she come ...
WWTD 106 - The Pacifier: These Children Have Not Grieved Properly
June 01, 2017 12:13 - 1 hour - 37.1 MBThis week, it's another dead and deadbeat parents, fun concept turned into margarine on bleached cardboard, wrong-headed casting decisions extravaganza. And, for Vicky, Nolan and Jill, one of the most egregious examples at that. Disney did almost everything wrong in spotlight some classic Nazi comedy, doubling down with teacher-on-student bullying, and putting Lauren Graham in the worst outfit to ever grace the silver screen. It's THE PACIFIER's turn to get the We Want The D treatment, and i...
WWTD 105 - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Has Boobs
May 25, 2017 12:22 - 1 hour - 35.8 MBWelcome, D-sciples, to the Summer of Pirates! We Want The D is celebrating the decades old tradition of blockbuster season by dedicating the next five months to one of Disney's most successful franchises, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN. On the eve of the release of a fifth installment that nobody really asked for or wanted, Vicky, Nolan and Jill go back to where it all began - when a big budget movie based on a theme park ride, captained by an eccentric lead actor in a one-of-a-kind performance sa...
WWTD 104 - Prom: Cannibal Holocaust
May 18, 2017 12:12 - 1 hour - 38.2 MBIt's prom season, y'all. The time of year when teenagers get all gussied up, tearfully reminisce about all those good high school times, and get underage drunk. Of course in Disney's PROM only two of those three things are going to happen. Vicky, Nolan and Jill may have grown somewhat cynical about this "greatest night of our lives" event, but our hosts still had a blast talking about this movie. How could they not, when the cast of high school students have age ranges from 16 to 28 and the ...
WWTD 103 - The Black Hole: Video Input Network Command Electronic Neuro-Technician
May 11, 2017 12:43 - 1 hour - 38.1 MBA long time ago in a galaxy far far away... DISNEY'S THE BLACK HOLE Episode I: We Just Made the One Episode A small tuna can-shaped ship drifts through the blackness of space, on a long search for intelligent life or a hospitable planet, or something like that. Crewed by an unlikely group of largely boring versions of better actors, as well as Ernest Borgnine and Norman Bates from Psycho, and one floating trash can that speaks in Snapple Cap quotes. Little do they know they will soo...
WWTD 102 - 101 Dalmatians (1996): de Vil's Candy for Children
May 04, 2017 13:02 - 1 hour - 33.7 MBWe've talked our fair share about Disney's recent trend of remaking their animated classics into live action spectacles here on We Want The D. But somehow, we forgot that this trend it older than the past few years. That in fact it dates back to the mid 90s, when for some reason, the people running the House of Mouse decided it would be a good idea to throw an absurd amount of money at making a live action version of their classic 101 DALMATIANS. The result is some pretty impressive producti...
WWTD Minnie Mouse-isode 010 - The Endless Meetings of Woolie Reitherman
April 27, 2017 12:16 - 59 minutes - 29 MBYou may be wondering how a "mini" episode of We Want The D can be the length of a regular episode. Well D Lovers, the truth is these aren't mini episodes, they're Minnie Mouse-isodes, which are very different. In this installment, Vicky, Nolan and Jill dive back in to the history of the Disney company and the personalities who have helped shape it over the year. This week's subject is OG Nine Old Men member and plane metaphor enthusiast Wolfgang Reitherman.
WWTD 101 - The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement: Fish Lips
April 20, 2017 12:44 - 1 hour - 34.7 MBLet it never be said that Vicky, Nolan and Jill can't finish something they start. This week on We Want The D, our hosts are wrapping up the first complete franchise in their journey through the Disney canon. Sure, it may only comprise of a mere two films, but the two movies combined are almost four hours of some of the dumbest storytelling and nonsensical film-making our hosts have been exposed to. Beloved as the book series may be (especially by Vicky), THE PRINCESS DIARIES 2: ROYAL ENGAGE...