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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. They are paced strangely and slowly and follow kid logic or, rather, a TV executive’s idea of kid logic.

#Gooppy troop bowling alley movie#

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. Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Disney Channel