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We Want The D

Disney films have shaped and supported 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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Now displaying: May, 2015
May 28, 2015

As 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 spaceship, piloted by a time-displaced preteen and an AI that sounds suspiciously like PeeWee Herman. A movie so 80s it features timely references to both Twisted Sister AND New Coke. A movie with so little substance that our hosts could only actually generate about forty-five minutes of content, so we filled the rest of the space with some wonderful fan mail we've received, and an announcement of yet another place to get your D fill online. So spread the D around (on the QT, though - NASA Police!), and get your ears ready for another episode of We Want The D!

May 21, 2015

Un 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 Want The D, Vicky, Nolan and Jill are faced with the dubious task of talking about a film with no real story, no real jokes, and no real appeal whatsoever. This isn't so much a movie about an estranged father and son from radically different worlds learning something about family as it is about Tim Allen and Martin Short buying too many coffee beans and getting mixed up with Russian gangsters (?!?!) who have severe arachnophobia. Does it all make sense in the end? Absolutely not.

May 14, 2015

This 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 the wise-cracking and fart noise-making gargoyles, there's still a few laughs to be had in spite of the otherwise serious subject matter. Pour the wine, cut the cheese, and be ready to flee from fires both literal and figurative; this week we're taking on Disney's THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME! 

May 7, 2015

From 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 Cruella De Vil and her madcap schemes to murder and skin puppies en masse? Who could not feel compelled stand and salute the bravery and heroism of Sargeant Tibbs the cat? Who doesn't want to puzzle out the answer to "What's My Crime?" before time runs out? You can't resist, dear listeners, no more than anyone can resist getting the Kanine Krunchies jingle stuck in their head. So join us once again for another episode of WE WANT THE D!

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