For 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 attempted to play along. So consume your beverages at a reasonable pace, and listen in as we discuss the movie that introduced the world to Anne Hathaway, that provides further evidence of Julie Andrews' ethereal presence, and is a perfect embodiment of what an awkward time the early 2000s were - THE PRINCESS DIARIES.

We 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 is a smorgasbord of gorgeous animation, impeccable voice work, timeless songs, and honest-to-goodness funny jokes. So we would like to thank you, our listeners, for tuning in for the past 25 weeks, and hope that  you will stick with us as we continue this adventure in the Disney catalogue. And we want to thank Disney, of course, for providing the fuel - whether it causes us to burn with confusion or anger, or shine with delight and wonder, it's always an adventure worth taking.

We 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 from hordes of unhappy fans, descending on them like so many hunched-over men on rollar skates. We'll just have to hope you'll understand our confusion at this kind-of-sequel to a beloved piece of film history. So come over the rainbow with us (or float downriver in a chicken coop), as we RETURN TO OZ.

There 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 animation, stunt voice casting that rarely works out, and a story so loosely based on Dickens' Oliver Twist  that the only similarities are four of the characters' names. This week on We Want The D, Vicky, Nolan and Jill watched OLIVER & COMPANY - and for all the savoir faire the characters claim to have, this movie has none. 

Allow 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 consider whether or not to hire half-decent voice actors, or do anything but hire a director who had told a dinosaur story or two before, and shoot about ten minutes of real-life footage of beautiful landscapes and an hour and twenty minutes of brown, bland desert footage, and fill it with talking dinosaurs (except the carnivorous ones) and a family of lemurs. The result is Dinosaur - a film that Vicky, Nolan and Jill can say "has a pretty good first three minutes," and "sometimes the action is ok." This week on We Want The D, we fail to be captivated by the not-so-wild ride of Dinsey's Dinosaur!