Stop us if you've heard this one before: James Garner, fleeing from a dangerous scenario he wants no part of, gets mixed up with a little boy he only sort of barely tolerates, meets a widowed woman living all on her own in a lonely, isolated location, and through gruffness and the power of 1970s masculinity endears himself to all and escapes danger. No, we didn't rewatch that Castaway Cowboy movie, we watched Disney's ONE LITTLE INDIAN and experienced a whole lot of deja vu. 

You may recall from episodes past that our hosts have no small amount of fondness for the bite-sized stories featuring the critters who inhabit the Hundred Acre Wood. Stretch a story to feature-length and throw the most chaotic and thoughtless of those characters into the center of it, however, and it's a whole different story. THE TIGGER MOVIE is no doubt a favourite of a certain, pre-school aged portion of Disney's audience, but for our hosts it may be inarguably bouncy and trouncy, but how much fun there is to be had is questionable. 

There's a lot of deception going on at the core of Disney's TONKA. The cover/poster doesn't really give any indication of who the title character really is, so it's not until the opening theme song starts to refer to Tonka's powerful hooves and glossy coat that you might start to clue in. Then there's the fact that this movie is based on an actual historical horse, but he was never called Tonka at all. And, of course because this movie was made in the 1950s, there's the fact that none of the Native American characters are played by Native Americans. Still, as a piece of media depicting the events of and lead-up to the battle of Little Bighorn and Custer's Last Stand from the dual perspectives of the Indigenous people and the colonizers, there's more to chew on here than one might expect. Another sneaky bit of deception from Tonka! Tonka the great one!

Historically, Disney's never really been able to knock it out of the park when it comes to Ron Miller-era movies that feature hapless leads going up against bumbling criminal enterprises. NEVER A DULL MOMENT doesn't exactly defy that trend, but it comes close. Likely thanks to having the criminal mastermind be a complex, art-loving Edward G. Robinson, filling his ranks with an eclectic group of henchmen, and putting the always-entertaining Dick Van Dyke in the lead role. Don't know if our hosts would agree that there's NEVER a dull moment, but they're certainly less frequent than expected.