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There's a question that lies at the centre of this week's episode of We Want The D that has our hosts divided. Can a movie that is so dumb in so many ways be saved by the fact that ducks walk funny and make funny noises? It's a question that could only be raised by 1970s Disney, and specifically in this case by MILLION DOLLAR DUCK. This may be the only time in We Want The D history where critics a...

Every so often Vicky, Nolan and Jill will encounter a Disney movie that raises an interesting philosophical question for them to really sick their teeth into. TUCK EVERLASTING, another in the "adaption of a beloved children's book none of us have read" series, could have raised interesting questions around what it means to live a "worthwhile" life or if living forever is truly living if you just m...

Vicky, 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 !

It 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 th...

Let'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 arc...

We 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).

We 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 excus...

Nostalgia. 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...

Judgement 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-...

It'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 da...

We 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...

We 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 re...

Making 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 Ever...

It'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 Gi...

As 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...

It'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 CASTAW...

For 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 inanim...

The 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,...

It'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 Wa...

We'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 sp...

Help 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 itsel...

On 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...

This 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 onl...

Good 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 t...

Trick 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 Re...