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-life danger. Down Under just does everything better - the adventure is bigger, the sidekicks are funnier and more charming, and the villains - oh my god the villains. Add in some gorgeous, groundbreaking animation and its easy to see why this overlooked gem of the early Disney Renaissance is a beloved classic to those in the know. And now you are too, dear listeners. 

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 dangerously close to releasing an episode longer than the actual movie they watched. 

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 based on a theme park ride, but Country Bear Jamboree isn't really a ride, and they don't even both to use most of the characters featured at the attraction/exhibit/whatever. Instead we get some passable animatronic bears with no distinct personalities, a world with no internal logic to deal with the fact that 0.1% of the population are walking, talking bears, and a family movie that doesn't have any amount of appeal for children or adults. Why and how this movie got made is a mystery Vicky, Nolan and Jill aren't able to solve, but have some fun in the attempt. 

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 released it in theatres as DAVY CROCKETT, KING OF THE WILD FRONTIER. This sparked a bit of Crockett-mania; and Vicky, Nolan and Jill kinda get it. Sure, we view the story of American expansion quite a bit differently these days, so watching Davy and his compatriots slaughter Native Americans en masse for the first half hour while claiming the moral high ground is more than a little uncomfortable. But the on-location shooting, the charm of Fess Parker in the titular role, and the decision to portray President Andrew Jackson as the villain he was all make this a pretty watchable movie, at least compared to the other TV-episodes-assembled-into-a-movie experiences we've had on We Want The D.