Stop us if you've heard this one before: after a bitter falling out, the parents of infant twins separate, but rather than splitting custody they each take one of the children and disappear from the others' lives. Later in life, the identical twins meet and an intense rivalry develops. Now we know what you're thinking, our hosts have already done both The Parent Trap movies, and you are correct. But this week we are tackling Disney's HOT LEAD AND COLD FEET, which has that exact same premise except instead of summer camp hijinks, we've got murderous wild west cowboy race hijinks. Yes, Disney has gone back to the well of one actor playing opposite siblings, and throwing in the father for good measure as Jim Dale nerds himself up as tambourine-whacking missionary Eli; sexies himself up as destructive, dirty outlaw Billy; and makes himself look like a walking corpse as the eccentric, suicide-faking Jasper. The result is...well, it's a movie alright. Throw in We Want The D mainstay Don Knotts and you've got a recipe for 70s Disney family entertainment, only with a lot more gunplay than normal.

As we've established (many times) before, the 1980s were a weird time for Disney, as the flailing and ailing company tried to outgrow their family-first approach with a more mature and gritty series of films. Most of the time, that didn't go over so well. At least once, however, they managed to harness a perfect storm of creatives and performers to make one of the most fascinating, ugly, dense and well-realized movies our hosts have any seen. Robert Altman's POPEYE takes the heightened look and reality of the comic strip and cartoon and puts it right up on the screen in live action. The result is discomforting and kind of gross, but also very appealing and charming? You can't help but admire his commitment to his vision, nor his brilliance in casting Robin Williams in his first leading film role or Shelley Duvall in the role she was born to play. Vicky, Nolan and Jill are at once completely confounded and incredibly impressed, though we hope you won't be with this episode of We Want The D.

We'll be honest: this episode of We Want The D is a bit all over the place. But we're not going to apologize for it! How could you expect Vicky, Nolan and Jill to seriously discuss yet another live action Disney movie from the 1970s without breaking. The mere premise of this movie - "nowhere in the rulebook does it say a mule can't play football!" - is just the tip of the iceberg in how this film nearly drove our hosts insane. We can't pinpoint exactly when it happened, but it could have been as early as the insanely drawn-out opening credits sequence; the twenty minute mark when the gambling subplot we all knew was coming gets introduced; or maybe the extended sequence of Tom Bosley and and Tim Conway chasing a mule around a grocery store at the climax of the film. GUS doesn't offer anything we haven't seen before in terms of wacky hijinks, nondescript Girl character, and doofy premises, but there's something about it that pushed us over the edge. We acknowledge this, beloved D-sciples, but we won't apologize for it.

In this week's episode, Vicky, Nolan and Jill are unpacking why a movie that seems to have so much going for it can still end up failing. Disney's ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE has the pedigree of Trousdale and Wise; the voice talents of Michael J. Fox, James Garner and Cree Summer (to name only a few); and an art style inspired by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola - but for all of that it is as hollow, vacant and flat as the citizenry of Atlantis - no personality, no culture, no charm. Our hosts spend a lot of time trying to figure out what went wrong, and while the ethos of "less songs, more explosions" probably didn't do the team working on this movie any favours in making this film feel more like Michael Bay and less like Disney, its not as simple as that. So join us in our investigation as we dissect another animated outing on We Want The D.