Straight Out of Home Video

A surprising and unexpected sequel to one of Disney's earliest movies? That's Bambi II in a nutshell. This week, Candace and Arezou are joined by Waffle writer Jennifer to talk about whether the movie is a cautionary tale on toxic masculinity, discuss the inner lives of deer, and get weirdly flustered over Patrick Stewart playing Bambi's absentee father.

A lot of movies from the mid-90’s didn’t age well. But only a few can elicit this many “yikes” in under 90 minutes. This week, Candace, and Arezou are joined by their friend Swara to pick apart this very loose adaptation of Pocahontas’ real-life trip to England. Together they muse on how Pocahontas got “fair-and-lovely’d” and how the Johns Smith and Rolfe had more chemistry with each other than ei...

Candace and Vanessa are on an adventure to get through all the Tinker Bell movies, and this particular entry in the canon was a stressful one. At least for Vanessa. Pour yourself some celebratory chamomile tea, and brace yourself for Tinkerbell’s anger issues.

Winnie the Pooh holds a special place in many of our hearts. That warmth and comfort and nostalgia for childhood all wrapped up in a chubby, little cubby, all stuffed with fluff package This week, in a mini-episode, Candace and Vanessa take a look at one of Pooh’s more adventurous outings - an adventure to rescue Christoper Robin - which turns the characterizations up to eleven and includes some t...

Not all Disney Sequels are created equal. Take Kronk’s New Groove , which finally puts a spotlight on everyone’s favorite spinach-puff-making himbo henchman. This week, Candace and Bri are joined by Robert from Crooked Table to take a look at this sequel which they believe is better than most and gets an unfair beating from Rotten Tomatoes critics. After all, when you give the legendary Eartha Kit...

The quality of any given Disney sequel, it turns out, may lie in how nostalgic you are about it in the first place. Case in point, The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea Arezou and Candace like it. Bri doesn’t.  This week, they discuss what would have made the film stronger, which weird quirks jumped out at them and most importantly debate whether or not “Titanic Tip and Daring Dash” is a b...

We found a rare gem in Kim Possible: A Sitch In Time in that it is one of the movies that actually made us want to revisit the series, instead of shun it forever! And it's no wonder that we enjoyed it; not only did we love revisiting our favorite characters of Kim and Ron (and of course Rufus), we reminisce about the crushworthiness of Shego (and how she's the only villain with a brain) and d...

You know you’re in for a weird ride when your Little Mermaid movie has more in common with Beetlejuice than with most movies in the Disney canon. The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning is a strange adventure that features speakeasies, Sally Field as a villain that flew too close to the sun, and surprisingly little time spent with Ariel. This week Candace, Vanessa and Arezou are joined by their frie...

Join the waffles as we discuss the first of six (?!!) Tinker Bell movies! Want to understand where Tinker Bell's name came from? Or where fairies come from in general? Discover this plus Bri and Vanessa's takes on her motivations in the movie. Bri also reveals her dislike of CGI, and spawns a conversation about fairy romance that is maybe a bit more than the film's G rating ever anticipated....

When you hear Belle’s Tales of Friendship, what do you picture? Do you see a live-action Belle owning and operating a bookstore? Sarcastic puppets? Gaston going by the name “Gassy”? Children in 90’s clothing? A postal worker named Inez? A tear in the very fabric of reality? This week, Candace, Bri, Vanessa and Arezou discuss possibly the strangest entry into the Disney home video lineup - and that...

What do you call it when an epic, sweeping film gets a 68 minute, direct-to-video sequel released 5 years after it was made/culturally relevant? You get Hunchback of Notre Dame II. Candace, Bri and Arezou are joined by Alice of Those Happy Places to discuss bad lessons, forgettable music, Quasimodo’s character regression and why the plot falls apart when Phoebus is simultaneously racist and yet ab...

It's time to go Around the World with Timon and Pumbaa! Or at least to various different jungles (you'll understand when we talk about the cultural disclaimer - yikes). The Geeky Waffles discuss the merits (or lack thereof) of this series originally released as a film; will you agree with Candace, who has believed since she was a kid that anything Lion King should strive for nothing less...

Candace and Arezou are joined by Those Happy Places host Alice to talk about Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas which includes some terrible lessons for kids. We also explain why Huey, Duey and Louey are the absolute worst.

We watched the 1999 movie Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas! We talk about believing in Santa and why Bri hates Mickey so much.

Are you ready to go to infinity and beyond with this movie? For some reason Bri really hate it, while Candace loved the nostalgia from her childhood.

We watched LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special! We compared it to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. We also went into a deep discussion about the philosophy of the Jedi. 

Are you ready to do the Time Warp? We finished the Cinderella trilogy with Bru! On the first anniversary of Cinderella's (Jennifer Hale) marriage to Prince Charming (C. D. Barnes), her stepsister Anastasia (Tress MacNeille) finds the Fairy Godmother's (Russi Taylor) wand in the forest. Cinderella's cruel stepmother, Lady Tremaine (Susanne Blakeslee), uses it to reverse time, making the famous glas...

We watched Hercules: Zero to Hero! Young Hercules struggles to get through school and be accepted without his mythological powers. This movie based on the TV show completely ignores the plot of the movie, but do we care? Well Bri does.

We go deep into the Lion King lore when we talk about Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride!

Ready to get spooky? It is Halloween night at the House of Mouse, and a lot of villains are showing up.... what are they up to?

Are you ready to get extreme? We are talking about the totally 90s Extremely Goofy Movie that came out in 2000! By the way did you know that Goofy can get it?!

Are you in or out for our episode about Aladdin and the King of Thieves? We’re joined by Robert of the Crooked Table Podcast and Alice of Those Happy Places Podcast to talk about the third movie in the Aladdin Trilogy. This movie should really be called Aladdin and the Last Crusade because it’s all about Al reuniting with his father and finding a magical artifact!

We're joined by Matt and Susie of the Imagineears Disney Podcast to talk about the retelling of "The Lion King." The Lion King 1½  is told from the perspective of meerkat Timon (Nathan Lane) and warthog Pumbaa (Ernie Sabella) and shows how the pair became friends. Check out our site: http://thegeekywaffle.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Geeky_Waffle Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegee...

Why does this sequel exist? It seems to be a pilot for a Cinderella TV show....

Mulan 2 broke us.