It 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 audience fall in love with her just as hard as the rest of the town of Harrington, and Mills handles it no problem. And sure, maybe it's easy to fall in love with Pollyanna when the rest of the cast is made up of beautiful-but-frigid spinsters, hellfire spouting priests, sour-faced maids, prism-loving bachelors, and calves-foot jelly. But for those of you have yet to watch this film, we dare you to take this journey with us and NOT fall in love with the plucky Anne of Green Gables--oops, we mean Pollyanna.

Those 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 sequence of a television network executive and his driver capering on the outside of a building for what feels like a third of the film's run time? Simple put, the House of Mouse knew they could slap Kurt Russell and an ape on a poster and watch the money roll in. As bananas as this movie is, though, Vicky, Nolan and Jill can't help but be kind of into it, as any film that captures many of the frustrations of working in the television industry so accurately will always earn a special place in our hearts.

Y'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 years (they just throw the males in the garbage) because that's just how Martian society works??? - and you end up losing A LOT of money. Vicky, Nolan and Jill know that Disney isn't perfect, but we'd like to believe the movie studio responsible for so many strongly written and animated classics could have seen all the missteps in story (or lack thereof) and lifeless animation while this particular film was being made not too long ago. But nobody is perfect, and that's what brings us together today to talks MARS NEEDS MOMS right here on We Want The D. 

Up 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 and a tear-stained Jennifer Connolly; a mustachioed Alan Arkin, and Timothy Dalton in what must be his most villainous role to date. There's even a surprise or two to be had, unless of course your boyfriend spoils the twist before you even sit down to watch the movie. Listen and enjoy, D Lovers, and then join us down at the old dog-shaped diner for a nice bowl of tomato soup.