

The real reason why Radio Rebel isn’t available on Disney+ probably has less to do with shame and more based on distribution rights, due to it being a co-production with Canadian kids network YTV.

They need to learn about Smart House.Ī DCOM so bad, Disney has more or less disowned it. Maybe you’re watching these out of nostalgia or boredom maybe you have kids at home and are looking for all-ages content to play during quarantine. So we’ve gone ahead and ranked all of them to help guide you through the catalog. The fantasy ones are hit or miss the science-fiction ones usually slap.īut good or bad, nearly all of them are available to stream on Disney+, making them easier than ever for you to revisit. Generally, if a DCOM is about learning to express yourself creatively, it plays better than the dead-parent ones, or the sports ones, or the ones about a protagonist learning to respect the differences between them and their bully/crush/townies. The works of Disney’s greatest living auteur, Kenny Ortega, for one. But if theatrical releases are Oreos, DCOMs are Hydrox. I say this from a place of love I host a Disney Channel Original Movies podcast.
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They are paced strangely and slowly and follow kid logic or, rather, a TV executive’s idea of kid logic.
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But most DCOMs walk like a movie and talk like a movie and yet feel like an uncanny species of sub-movie. Some of them hold up wonderfully or are at least great examples of Y2K fashion. You’re nostalgic for a time when you were young and thought DCOMs were good, a time when you watched Wizards of Waverly Place at the rate at which you now watch presidential addresses (which is to say daily, unfortunately). I warn you: You’re not nostalgic for Disney Channel Original Movies.

To paraphrase Matthew Broderick in Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret, which is about teens but very much not a Disney Channel Original Movie: Take it from someone who just watched every single Disney Channel Original Movie on Disney+: You think you want to revisit a Disney Channel Original Movie from your youth. Busey is Memorable Supporting Actor Royalty.Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Disney Channel Before his days of annoying people on reality television shows (who awfully mocked his mental state), he was an accomplished character actor who was nominated for an Academy Award in 1979 and appeared in movies like Lethal Weapon, Under Siege, Predator 2, and The Firm. However, in 1994, Busey hadn't yet succumbed to addiction and behavioral swings that stemmed from a traumatic motorcycle accident he survived in 1988. Right now you might be imagining a wide-eyed Busey screaming every word while saying "Yee-haw" at least 17 times. I want you to know about Gary Busey's three-minute "Prince Henry Stout" soliloquy. But I have, against all odds, invented a third category. Nowadays, if someone mentions the 1994 Ice-T action movie Surviving The Game, they're either confusing it for Hard Target (essentially the same movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme) or they're an academic desperately trudging through every adaptation of The Most Dangerous Game for their Criterion Collection essay. 5 In Surviving The Game, Gary Busey Delivers A Powerful, Traumatic Monologue
