We all know that Disney is a little remake-crazy, but it wasn't until this week's episode that it really sunk in HOW crazy. Because it turns out that UNIDENTIFIED FLYING ODDBALL is the third time we're watching a Disney adaptation of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court in less than a year. But because this first adaptation (that we know of...) is from the 1970s, instead of a teenage boy or Whoopi, it's just some dude who travels "back in time" to Camelot to thwart the evil machinations of Merlin and Jim Dale, befriend an elderly King Arthur and his hetero(?) life mate, and totally weird out a poor peasant woman with his terrible notions of romance. Yet somehow this is still the best version of the story we've seen (so far...) - go figure.

All good things must come to an end, and so it is with no small amount of sadness that we bid farewell to our beloved Hayley Mills AKA Hayley Brando AKA the greatest child actor Disney ever had. THAT DARN CAT! was Hayley's last theatrical film for Disney, and to our hosts' delight they knocked it out of the park. There's great character actor faces, hilarious physical comedy, and even a fresh-faced Dean Jones brings his A-game in his first Disney role. Parting may be such sweet sorrow, but this movie definitely made it more sweet than bitter. 

The first two movies in Disney's Witch Mountain franchise were...wild to say the least. Between the flying winnebagos, the mind control devices and endless shots of cars reversing and peeling away, the movies were a barrage of strangeness. What we're saying is, RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN has quite the legacy. And while strange in its own special way - with nonsensical cameos, Men in Black antagonists and casualty-less train explosions - it does end up fitting quite cleanly into this era of family-friendly movies from Rock "The Dwayne" Johnson.

Gotta say, D-Lovers, we don't think Disney was trying particularly hard with this one. THE CASTAWAY COWBOY asks what would happen if a mid-nineteenth century Texas cowboy washed up on the shore of a Hawaiian island, and helped a widow convert her land from failing potato farm to thriving cattle ranch. The answer - not a whole lot. This time, it's more about the unintentional questions. Like, how far can our hosts' patience be stretched by a child actor who can only screech his lines? Or, how easily can Vincent McEveety get away with shooting a daring midnight cattle raid while filming at high noon?