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 058 - The Incredible Journey/Homeward Bound: Spuds Mackenzie v Blue: Dawn of Justice
March 31, 2016 16:00 - 53 minutes - 43.2 MBIt's another double header this week on We Want The D. In this episode; Vicky, Nolan and Jill are braving the wilds of Canada and California to follow the journey of two groups of pets. In 1963, two dogs and a cat made their way from a remote cabin back to their home, encountering the very real dangers of being animal actors on a film set before there were any regulations in place to prevent them from being put in conflict with actual bears, bobcats, and porcupines; or being tossed willy-nil...
WWTD 057 - Zootopia: At the Movies
March 24, 2016 16:00 - 1 hour - 50.5 MBVicky, Nolan and Jill are willing to go above and beyond for our loyal listeners, and this week's episode of We Want The D should prove that beyond a doubt. Why else would they venture forth from the recording studio/living room and spend their hard-earned money on actually going to a movie theatre and watching Disney's latest offering, ZOOTOPIA? It's all for you, D Lovers, and don't let the hosts' shared critical consensus fool you, this was still a lot of hard work! Warning: this one is so...
WWTD 056 - Treasure Planet: Reverse Anachronistic
March 17, 2016 16:00 - 56 minutes - 45.1 MBThere's an old saying that you shouldn't mess with the classics. In one of the strangest twists Vicky, Nolan and Jill have come across in the Disney movies we've watched so far, Treasure Planet doesn't mess with a classic enough. The idea essentially starts and stops with "it's Treasure Island in space!" So instead of the ocean Jim Hawkins and John Silver are sailing among the stars, but they're still doing it in a colonial-era ship, wearing colonial-era clothing, and in search of treasure t...
WWTD 055 - Iron Will: Bear Pelts, So Hot Right Now
March 10, 2016 17:00 - 1 hour - 52 MBPrepare yourselves, D Lovers, for an epic audio adventure your ears will hardly believe. Your dedicated and humble hosts will regale you with the tale of Iron Will, brought to you by the Walt Disney Company of Moving Pictures! Be astounded as brave men ride on the backs of sleds from Winnipeg to Saint Paul, braving the elements as their dedicated dog teams do most of the hard work! Be awed as grown men smoke cigars, stroke their beards, and make wagers as to the survival of a teenage entrant...
WWTD 054 - Pete's Dragon: Passamapawnee
March 03, 2016 17:00 - 1 hour - 49.9 MBWhat happens when you mix together a cartoon dragon; a ginger child actor who can't sing; a seemingly endless soundtrack of largely mediocre songs; a stable of legendary performers including Mickey Rooney, Jim Dale, Helen Reddy, and more; and a plot brimming with family friendly subjects like slavery, child abuse, post-traumatic stress, and severe alcoholism? If you're Vicky, that adds up to a delightful childhood classic filled with charm and nostalgia. If you're Nolan or Jill, it adds up t...
WWTD 053 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Whale of a Tale
February 25, 2016 17:00 - 1 hour - 51.7 MBOn this week's episode of We Want The D, we're watching a movie all about the love between a singing harpoonist and a meek professor's assistant. Wait, no, that's not right. It's about the love between a professor and a megalomaniacal submarine captain. No, that doesn't seem right either. Is it a story about the love between a harpoonist a seal named Esmerelda? Or is it about the love between a squid and a submarine? You know what, D Lovers, it's probably none of those things. But what we ca...
WWTD 052 - Remember the Titans: Watch Friday Night Lights
February 18, 2016 17:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBDon't get it twisted, D Lovers. The above subtitle and multiple in-episode endorsements to watch the brilliant television series Friday Night Lights shouldn't be taken as a recommendation to watch the show instead of Disney's Remember the Titans. It's just hard to talk about any piece of football-related entertainment without whole-heartedly recommending the adventures of Coach Taylor and the town of Dillon. But don't worry, Vicky, Nolan and Jill are able to keep mostly on-topic and have a b...
WWTD 051 - Tomorrowland: Hey Y'all, I'm a Scientist!
February 11, 2016 17:00 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBWelcome, D Lovers, to the World of Tomorrow! By which we mean, welcome to Disney's Tomorrowland, a film of multiple visual delights and even more head-scratching plot points. From the brilliant vision of acclaimed animation director Brad Bird and the often-criticized writer Damon Lindelof, this film is a hodgepodge of set pieces featuring an obnoxiously overly-intelligent teenager, killer robots who enter and exit the film with little fanfare, and terse romantic undertones between George Clo...
WWTD 050 - Aladdin: What Kind of God is Menken?
February 05, 2016 03:44 - 1 hour - 76.2 MBDearest D Lovers. Vicky, Nolan and Jill would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support of We Want The D. Because of wonderful people with ears like yours, we are now celebrating 50 episodes of Disney canonical investigations, fabulous journeys deep in to the vault, and dark, disturbing, sexual theories about beloved childhood memories. And because you have all been such lovely boys and girls and Kevin the Temps, we let you vote for what we should watch on this mo...
WWTD 049 - Pollyanna: Hayley Brando
January 28, 2016 17:00 - 1 hour - 51.3 MBIt has occurred to the We Want The D team that perhaps we neglected to give Hayley Mills her due back when talking about The Parent Trap all those episodes ago. Watching this ingenue perform in her debut Disney role as the titular Pollyanna was something of an awakening for Vicky, Nolan and Jill. Pollyanna doesn't just fall firmly into the plucky, optimistic camp of the Disney Orphan, she damn near defines it. But the true feat is handling such a sweet, saccharine role, and making the audien...
WWTD 048 - The Barefoot Executive: Mother Lays Eggs
January 21, 2016 17:00 - 59 minutes - 48 MBThose of you who have been with We Want The D for some time now know that we have watched a lot of strange movies. Some of them with leprechauns, some of them with Tim Allen. But none of them even come close to Disney's The Barefoot Executive. It is a pinnacle of Disney at their most bizarre, and most arrogant. What else could explain making a movie that essentially says the mainstream American audience has the same taste as a chimpanzee? How else can you justify the extended slapstick seque...
WWTD 047 - Mars Needs Moms: Dims the Screen, Robs the Wallet
January 14, 2016 17:00 - 1 hour - 51.6 MBY'know D Lovers, sometimes you make an animated film about a woman and a beast finding the best in each other and falling in love and you get nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Other times you make a motion-capture film about an annoying kid who follows his stolen mother to Mars where she's going to be vaporized by an alien species because they need to steal her memories to plant them into the robots they use to raise their female children who hatch from the ground every 25 ye...
WWTD 046 - The Rocketeer: Chekhov's Gum
January 07, 2016 17:00 - 1 hour - 52.8 MBUp there! In the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a man with a rocket pack strapped to his back, and oh god his legs are on fire and he's being horribly burned! Welcome, D Lovers, to Disney's The Rocketeer, the 1991 comic book film starring every character actor you've ever loved. Vicky, Nolan and Jill all went into this movie blind, but all three of our hosts ended up deriving some level of enjoyment out of it. It's hard not to, what with the bland handsomeness of star Billy Campbell an...
WWTD 045 - Hercules: You Mean Hunkules
December 31, 2015 17:00 - 1 hour - 50.6 MBWe Want The D is back after our week off, and ready to finish off 2015 with Disney's animated film that defines the all-American hero: Hercules. Sure, he may be based on a Greek myth, but that doesn't stop our beloved House of Mouse from turning him into an icon of athleticism and can-do spirit with his own brand of energy drink and sneakers, complete with backing gospel chorus. The question is - do Vicky, Nolan and Jill let a bit of anachronism and cultural co-option get in the way of havin...
WWTD 044 - The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause: Allen & Short
December 17, 2015 17:00 - 59 minutes - 48 MBIt's another colon massacre in this week's We Want The D, but you'll have to excuse Vicky, Nolan and Jill if they aren't too preoccupied by a case of too many subtitles. We're too busy trying to come to terms with the fact that our Krumholtz Creep was brought to an abrupt halt by Spencer Breslin, of all people. Yes, Bernard is gone from The Santa Clause franchise, with no explanation, and so of course things are a mess at the North Pole. The infuriating thing is that it's a mess entirely of ...
WWTD 043 - The Santa Clause 2: Adolf Klaus
December 10, 2015 17:00 - 1 hour - 53.3 MBVicky, Nolan and Jill are OBVIOUSLY still on that Krumholtz Creep, and the only way to celebrate this most sacred festival of lights and stars is to keep this train rolling along with Disney's THE SANTA CLAUSE 2. No subtitle necessary in this sequel, and we can guess why - it's because which of the three distinct plot lines that this movie sets up and (mostly fails to) resolve do you name it for? The Santa Clause 2: The Mrs. Clause? The Santa Clause 2: Father Christmas Is An Absent Father? O...
WWTD 042 - The Santa Clause: Christmas Cannon
December 03, 2015 17:00 - 1 hour - 49.2 MBThe Holiday season is upon us, and Vicky, Nolan and Jill are ringing them in the only way we know how - with Tim Allen and Judge Reinhold battling it out for the love of a child actor. On the surface, Disney's The Santa Clause may seem like inoffensive and light Christmas fare, but looked at from certain angles, it can just as easily play as an episode of Criminal Minds. There's kidnapping, involuntary manslaughter, reckless driving and endangerment, child labour violations, and arguably eve...
WWTD 041 - Lady and the Tramp: Schrödinger's Dog
November 26, 2015 17:00 - 57 minutes - 45.7 MBOne of our favourite things about Disney's animated films here at We Want The D is how they can run the gamut from sprawling, musical epics to intimate, slice-of-life stories; and be equally entertaining and beloved regardless. This week, Vicky, Nolan and Jill watched what, on paper, could be simply seen as a romantic comedy with dogs. But Lady and the Tramp is so much more than just that. It has a timeless quality to it; the beautiful and fluid animation makes it seem like it could have bee...
WWTD 040 - Lilo & Stitch: It's Bloodlust!
November 19, 2015 17:00 - 1 hour - 49 MBAs you D Lovers surely have realized by now, Vicky, Nolan and Jill are not afraid to go the distance to deliver hard-hitting commentary on the brightest and strangest of Disney films. Spanning the furthest reaches of outer space to the tropical beaches of Hawaii, this week on We Want The D we pull no punches on LILO & STITCH. Emotionally resonant sibling story and wig-wearing, Kevin McDonald-voiced alien be damned; we still raise the tough questions about Lilo's severe emotional and behavior...
WWTD 039 - The Three Lives of Thomasina: MacWhackery
November 12, 2015 17:00 - 1 hour - 52.7 MBWe've watched a lot of strange Disney movies here on We Want The D; everything from old dads to dancing leprechauns have defuddled Vicky, Nolan and Jill over past episodes. But this week's film may take the cake. The Three Lives of Thomasina stars a cult television actor and producer, Jane and Michael Banks from Mary Poppins along with a host of other towheaded children, and a blandly beautiful blonde - almost all of whom are (badly) attempting Scottish accents. Oh yeah, and a cat that vanis...
WWTD 038 - The Fox and the Hound: I Wish I Could Quit You
November 05, 2015 17:00 - 59 minutes - 47.9 MBIf there's one thing Vicky, Nolan and Jill would like our Dear Listeners to take away from this week's episode of We Want The D, it's that no matter how much we may hate the movies you request, we still love you. That said, our hosts don't really love anything about Disney's THE FOX AND THE HOUND. Never before has a film that features cute baby animals and a message about the power of friendship (or something more that friendship...) been so reviled for its poor animation, phoned-in voice ac...
WWTD 037 - Hocus Pocus: The Divine Miss M
October 29, 2015 16:00 - 1 hour - 53.4 MBHalloween month has drawn to a close, and Vicky, Nolan and Jill would be lying if they said it was an easy ride so far. But we can rest easy knowing it was all building to this week's episode. Eddie Murphy and Ray Bradbury may have let us down, but if there's one thing we know, it's that Bette Midler would be the wind beneath our wings, and bring We Want The D soaring to new, wonderful, spooky heights. The critics may disagree, but we know Disney's HOCUS POCUS ranks among their best live act...
WWTD 036 - The Haunted Mansion: No Creep Meter
October 22, 2015 16:00 - 57 minutes - 45.7 MBHalloween Month continues, and we gotta be honest, D Lovers - it's starting to feel like the House of Mouse is incapable of crafting a Halloween story that is entertaining, let alone scary. The Haunted Mansion may be based on a beloved theme park ride, and released the same year as another movie based on a ride that has spawned a billion dollar franchise, but it's a ghostly shadow of it's nautical cousin on all fronts. This is an antebellum ghost story of forbidden love (why is their love fo...
WWTD 035 - Something Wicked This Way Comes: Old Dad
October 15, 2015 16:00 - 55 minutes - 44.7 MBWelcome to Halloween Month, D Lovers! To kick off our inaugural October scare-tacular, Vicky, Nolan and Jill are taking on the Disney adaptation of Ray Bradbury's SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. Set in a simpler time where young boys could run about unsupervised, carnivals never came past labor day, and shopkeepers were super SUPER horny; this movie isn't so much scary as it is confusing, dull, and generally pretty terrible. For every one scene where the main boys are attacked by spiders, t...
WWTD 034 - A Far Off Place: Why All the Death?
October 08, 2015 16:30 - 1 hour - 54.2 MBIn many ways, Disney's A Far Off Place doesn't really depart from the formula that the film company usually follows. Orphaned children, an epic journey across a beautiful but deadly landscape, pursuit from a ruthless and cold-hearted villain. What sets THIS movie apart is its willingness to embrace the inherent darkness of those stories, rather than skirt around or wave it off. From an opening featuring an elephant slaughter, to a teenage Reece Witherspoon murdering grown men with dynamite, ...
WWTD Minnie Mouse-isode 002 - Best Sidekick
October 01, 2015 16:00 - 14 minutes - 11.7 MBHope all you D Lovers enjoyed our last mini-episode, because hot on the heels of Best Henchmen comes our second mini-episode, and this time we're focusing on the sidekicks! Vicky, Nolan and Jill all throw their own picks into the ring to duke it out for the title of most supreme, helpful, hilarious, and heroic sidekick for our favourite Disney heroes. We loved hearing about all your own favourites after our last mini-episode, so keep those coming in after this week as well. And we will of co...
WWTD 033 - Darby O'Gill and the Little People: Paddywhackery
September 24, 2015 16:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBJoin the We Want the D crew as they go deep into the Disney vaults and blow the dust off the 1959 Disney live action/fantasy/romance/comedy/musical...or whatever it is, Darby O'Gill and The Little People. Come skip across the emerald landscapes of Ireland, oh wait it's California. Have a stout and hear a tale of the leprechaun king in a quaint Irish pub, oh wait, it's just a set in California. Well at least you can enjoy the authentic Irish accents, oh wait, there's a bunch of British and Sc...
WWTD Minnie Mouse-isode 001 - Best Henchman
September 17, 2015 16:00 - 19 minutes - 16.3 MBAs mentioned at the end of last week's episode, we regret that Vicky, Nolan and Jill aren't able to bring you a proper new installment of We Want The D this week. Rather than leave our Dear Listeners high and dry, though, we've decided to release our first "mini" episode. Whenever we are unable to give you a new full-length episode (which will hopefully not be very often), we will release one of these short, quickfire debates, so you won't have to go a single week without the sweet sound of ...
WWTD 032 - The Rescuers: Like Being on a Rollerscoter
September 10, 2015 16:00 - 1 hour - 50.5 MBThis week on We Want The D, Vicky, Nolan and Jill had the unenviable task of attempting to talk about Disney's animated film THE RESCUERS without completey ignoring it in favour of its far superior sequel. Luckily, it's not as if this episode's movie is bad or anything (aside from the songs, at least) - it's just not as good as what would come later. But considering this is the last Disney picture to come out before the so-called 'Dark Ages' there's actually quite a lot to love. Miss Bianca ...
WWTD 031 - Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: Live from Bob's Lake
September 03, 2015 16:26 - 1 hour - 49.3 MBFear not, D Lovers: The sounds of birds chirping and squirrels squeaking aren't a result of Vicky, Nolan and Jill being shrunk to three quarters of an inch tall and forced to traverse a backyard in order to be embiggened by their madcap, inattentive, brilliant inventor of a father and his miraculous shrink machine. It's just the sounds of nature as our hosts recorded these week's episode amongst the great outdoors at a cottage getaway. The relaxing and beautiful scenery did nothing to suppre...
WWTD 030 - Operation Dumbo Drop: Where's My Elephant?
August 27, 2015 16:00 - 1 hour - 50.7 MBDisney films have spanned numerous genres over their long history. From fairy tales to epic adventures, slapstick comedy to teen melodrama, and bright and colourful musicals to whatever the hell The Three Caballeros is. In 1995, Walt Disney Pictures released their first proper film in a genre they had only previously dabbled in - the war film. Operation Dumbo Drop is set during and in the thick of the Vietnam War, known for its brutal combat and horrific actions on both sides of the conflict...
WWTD 029 - Recess: School's Out: Summer Vacation is Groovy
August 20, 2015 16:07 - 57 minutes - 45.8 MBApologies for the colon massacre in this week's title, D Lovers, but we think about colons the same way TJ Detweiler thinks about recess - there's no such thing as too much. Which is why there is no fourth grader better suited to foil the world-devastating plans of Evil James Woods in this big screen adaptation of the One Saturday Morning classic. This is just one in a niche group of Disney films that were adapted from television series, which means our hosts' knowledge of the subject going ...
WWTD 028 - The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: Sterling Hollywood
August 13, 2015 16:00 - 1 hour - 54.1 MBThere is a lot of excitement from our hosts this week on We Want The D. All three are bursting at the seams to not only talk about their love for the classic animated stories of Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin, and their friends in the Hundred Acre Wood, but each have very specific takes on what they love best about the collection of shorts that make up Disney's The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. For Vicky, it's all about her love of the title character as not only her spirit anima...
WWTD 027 - The Parent Trap: It Takes Two
August 06, 2015 16:00 - 1 hour - 51.4 MBWelcome, D Lovers, to the first ever We Want The D Head-to-Head battle! In this corner, featuring a young British actress failing to maintain two variations of an American accent, a scandal-ridden Irish actress looking for redemption by playing a physically abusive ex-wife, and an American actor known for playing a cowboy and a scoundral trying his hand at playing an ex-husband and father who is a cowboy and a scoundral - it's 1961's THE PARENT TRAP. And in the opposite corner, featuring a y...
WWTD 026 - The Princess Diaries: In the Books...
July 30, 2015 16:06 - 1 hour - 53.4 MBFor any D Lovers out there above the legal drinking age, Vicky, Nolan and Jill are proud to share with you the first ever We Want The D drinking game! Any time you hear Vicky say the subtitle of today's episode, take a drink. Actually, on second thought, don't. Not only because mass consumption of alcohol isn't in line with the Disney ethos (unless you're a baby elephant), but because we don't want to be responsible for the almost certain alcohol poisoning that would occur if anyone actually...
WWTD 025 - The Jungle Book: A Heart Made of Vengeance
July 23, 2015 16:02 - 1 hour - 51.8 MBWe made it, D-Lovers! Twenty-five episode of We Want The D seems as good a place to celebrate a milestone as any, and we're doing so by watching one of Disney's most beloved animated classics, The Jungle Book. The film is a master class in taking many of the elements that Vicky, Nolan and Jill have complained about in past movies, and making them a delight. It's not such a big deal if a movie is just a sequence of events loosely tied together by a simple plot if each one of those sequences i...
WWTD 024 - Return To Oz: Anti-Egg
July 16, 2015 16:00 - 59 minutes - 48.2 MBWe gotta admit, D Lovers, we're a little nervous about the possible reactions to this week's episode, where we discuss Disney's RETURN TO OZ. We Want The D is forging into Cult Film territory here, and like the depiction of Oz in this movie, that's a subject that can turn once bright and colourful worlds into drab and scary places filled with all manner of unfamiliar and horrific creatures. Jill is probably safe, but Vicky and Nolan may be searching for a wind-up soldier of their own to hide...
WWTD 023 - Oliver & Company: A Dog's Breakfast
July 09, 2015 16:00 - 1 hour - 49.2 MBThere were exactly 364 days separating the theatrical releases of Disney's The Little Mermaid and this week's film. What a difference a year can make - specifically, the difference between a film that would jumpstart a flailing company and launch them to new, dizzying heights, and one that would take eight years to get released on home video. It's not hard to see why Disney may have wanted to sweep this movie under the rug. Aside from one very catchy song, this film is a mess of lazy animati...
WWTD 022 - Dinosaur: Meat Bull
July 02, 2015 16:04 - 54 minutes - 44.1 MBAllow us to take you back in time, D Lovers. Way, way back to a time when the world barely resembled our own. The year is 2000. Pixar had stolen our hearts and minds with a handful of movies about toys and bugs, rendered in a beautifully realized CGI animation style. Meanwhile, our beloved Disney was faltering on the pedestal they had built on their string of 90's classics. Their solution: jump on that CGI animation bandwagon just as fast as possible. No time to think up a good story, or con...
WWTD 021 - George of the Jungle: Pretty Good Buttflap
June 25, 2015 16:00 - 55 minutes - 44.6 MBIf you thought last week's gushing over John Cusack was entertaining, you're in for a real treat this week as Vicky, Nolan and Jill swing full-force into discussing the slick, oily merits of prime-1990s Brendan Fraser. Disney's George of the Jungle combines a lot of the strange 90's obsessions, like comparing tropical jungles to urban jungles and making feature films based on old television shows. The result is a strange little movie that has our hosts' opinions divided; and an episode brimm...
WWTD 020 - The Journey of Natty Gann: Awesome Tree Stunts
June 18, 2015 16:00 - 1 hour - 50.1 MBShow of hands, D Lovers, how many of you have seen Disney's THE JOURNEY OF NATTY GANN? Our guess is not that many. This week on We Want The D, Vicky, Nolan and Jill will guide you through this epic journey, much like Natty's own stalwart wolf companion helped guide her from the depression-era streets of Chicago to the wilds of Washington. Also like Natty's adventure, though, we may get a little sidetracked by the epic tree stunts, disturbingly realistic dog fighting, hobo sex cults, and abov...
WWTD 019 - The AristoCats: Tomcat O'Malley
June 11, 2015 16:00 - 1 hour - 49.5 MBThis week on We Want The D, it's Jill the cat person vs Vicky the dog person vs Nolan the not-a-pet person. Disney's The AristoCats is cute enough, with it's artistically inclined kittens, angelically-voiced Dutchess, and smooth-talking Thomas O'Malley, but whether that cuteness amounts to anything worthwhile depends on which host you ask. Does a pair of vicious and malicious Hillbilly Hounddogs who call the French countryside home make up for a villain's half-baked and ill-conceived plans? ...
WWTD 018 - Cinderella: Sensible Dark Flats
June 04, 2015 16:25 - 56 minutes - 46 MBIn the very first episode of We Want The D, Vicky, Nolan and Jill talked about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the very first Disney animated feature and as a consequence the very first of their 'Princess' films. There are a lot of similarities between that 1937 film and 1950's CINDERELLA. Both have bland main characters who have close relationships with animals, poor relationships with their step-mothers, and fall in love with a Prince with less than a dozen words exchanged. But Cinderella...
WWTD 017 - Flight of the Navigator: NASA Police
May 28, 2015 16:10 - 1 hour - 51.1 MBAs always, Dear Listeners, we encourage you to share this episode of We Want The D with everyone you know. This week, however, we ask that you share this episode as covertly and privately as possible. For the NASA Police could be anywhere, and if they catch wind of Vicky, Nolan, and Jill's coversations about them, the consequences could be dire. Your hosts risk their own freedom in order to tell you about Disney's FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR - a movie about a less-than-epic journey in an alien s...
WWTD 016 - Jungle 2 Jungle: Dad Juices
May 21, 2015 16:16 - 1 hour - 49 MBUn Indian dans la Ville is a French film that Disney thought might appeal to an American family audience, so they released a dubbed over version to theatres in 1996. The film was harshly panned by critics and flopped at the box office. Undeterred, Disney thought to themselves, "what if we just remake the movie? Maybe it's not the content people are hating, maybe it's just missing Tim Allen," and proceeded to create a near shot-for-shot version they called Jungle 2 Jungle. This week on We Wan...
WWTD 015 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame: This Can't Be For Children
May 14, 2015 16:00 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBThis week on We Want The D, Vicky, Nolan and Jill were so disturbed by this episode's film that their conversation couldn't be contained to our regular length. The good news is it means you all get a super-sized dose of D this week. The bad news is it's because there's a lot of in-depth conversation about subjects ranging from the downside of Disneyfication to the appropriateness of including sexual assault as a main drive in a family film. It's a dark episode for a dark film, but much like ...
WWTD 014 - 101 Dalmatians: Anita Perdita Velveeta
May 07, 2015 16:03 - 56 minutes - 45.5 MBFrom Air Buddies to Air Buddies V: Spooky Buddies, it is a well known fact that movies starring puppies are infalliably adorable. But long before golden retrievers were the puppies of choice, Disney released a film starring a breed of dogs known for their spots, high energy, and a genetic predisposition to deafness - 101 Dalmatians. This week on We Want The D, Vicky, Nolan and Jill are all in agreement that this 1961 animated classic is well worth revisiting. For who could ever get tired of ...
WWTD 013 - Newsies: Cheese It, It's the Fuzz!
April 30, 2015 16:01 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBThe year is 1992. A mere eight months away from releasing the smash hit Aladdin, Disney decides to put out a film that defies all logic or reason not only in its story or construction, but in its very essence. A film helmed by a choreographer with no previous directing experience. A film that, despite being a period piece about a two-week strike in 1899, is for some reason a musical composed by the great Alan Menken featuring none of his typically great work. A film starring a young, English...
WWTD 012 - Dumbo: The Most Depressing Show On Earth
April 23, 2015 16:00 - 59 minutes - 47.4 MBAh, the circus. A world of bright lights, spinning rides, drunk clowns, and abused animals. What baby elephant wouldn't want to be born (or special-delivered via stork) into such a wonderous world? So long as said infant doesn't have big ears, at least. Because then they are in for a world of pain and misery; one where their mothers are locked up for defending them against ginger antagonizers, their fellow elephants hate them with the fire of a thousand suns, and their only friend is a mouse...
WWTD 011 - The Black Cauldron: Witches Love Cauldrons
April 16, 2015 16:00 - 59 minutes - 48 MBThe Black Cauldron was released in theatres in 1985, but wasn't made available on home video until thirteen years later. This week on We Want The D, Vicky, Nolan and Jill are asking "why not twenty years? Better yet, why not never?" Because aside from one extremely adorable psychic pig, there is very little to love about Disney's first foray into PG rated territory. Sure, there's lots of boobs and corpses that kids love so much, but that doesn't make up for a mopey main "hero," a songless ba...