Serious Disness

What do you want? To hear our astute analysis of the last of the BIG remakes! What do we offer? Analysis of the last of the BIG remakes! What have you got? You've got your looks!! Your pretty face!!

What's your Christmas Wish? Was it this film? Tell me exactly how you worded that wish, we need to figure out a few things.

We've been given all of Disney's films all at once and never have to buy new ones as long as we keep up our subscription fee. So, er... now what? Fancy putting one of them on? No? Oh. Why not? Welcome to the conclusion of the Big Pile Trilogy!

So what happened next? Remember I was all enigmatic about the Raya review being the first part of an unwitting trilogy that happen to add up to one big discussion? Well it was, and this is the second bit, and the third bit is coming VERY soon.

Something is happening, and we've noticed it. We noticed it slowly, over the course of a couple of years. We're going to tell you about it, over three episodes about different things that all add up to one big thing. First: Raya.

HELLO AGAIN! Cor have you seen the remake of Mulan? Maybe don't do that! Maybe listen to this first?

There's a new WDAS out, and just as we were starting to lose faith that those would be good, a big banger landed in our laps and banged off.

A spoOoOOoky Halloween special, in which we discuss latter-day Halloween classic Hocus Pocus, a film aimed at our age group and which we completely ignored and had never seen before this, somehow.

Honey, We Discussed A good film, an ok film, and a very very terrible film that make up something of a trilogy, starting with a film that was once a mega-hit, but isn't much talked about any more.

Honey, We Discussed A good film, an ok film, and a very very terrible film that make up something of a trilogy, starting with a film that was once a mega-hit, but isn't much talked about any more.

It's finally here, the remainder of our big birthday bumper Beauty/Beast bonanza blowout special! Our sleeves are rolled up, we're getting hungry, and it's time to really try and figure out what happened here??

Christmas Special! It's the one. The big one. Was our entire remakes series building up to this? Possibly. It demonstrably did not have to be this way.

As promised, we take a Frivolous Disness look at Mr Boogedy, which is nothing like I hoped. We also discuss what a weak wimpy baby Jehan is

Trying out a temporary new format, we chat to each other (and a live audience at home) about our experience with Disney+ so far, including films we SHOULD already have seen by now, but had not.

If you haven't seen either version of Pete's Dragon, don't worry, neither had we until now. But for this episode of the "Reimagined Classics" series, we cover BOTH versions.

Jon Favreau tries his hand at photorealistic talking animals - but will he use that skill again? Returning to our chronological watch-through of Disney remakes, we find a film that stands out from all the others. And does a big roar. On a big rock.

SPOILERS! We come straight home from seeing Frozen 2 on its opening... day? Weekend, certainly, and go straight to mic to chat about what we saw. Mercifully, we don't do it for more than one episode this time. But we DO spoil EVERYTHING, so watch it 1st.

Disney+ is here, and we discuss what that means for our VHS collection. Plus! Brightside Euan is back, and he's watched The Little Mermaid now. He says it's the same as Ratatouille, and then weirdly manages to prove it.

Today, Jehan tells us about the time he pestered Jafar and went up Aladdin's Enchanted Passage at Eurodisney. Plus! The first part of a new segment in which Brightside Euan, a man who hasn't seen a Disney Renaissance film, is pressured into watching one.

Returning to the chronological releases, 2015's Cinderella was the first of the remakes to be an actual REMAKE. But was it good? We both sort-of disagree, and sort-of have an argument about it. Drama!* in the new Serious Disness! *(not really)

This film defied our expectations in basically every way possible. We're joined by fellow Lion King expert and 3D animal artist Jamie Carr (@orbitalnomad) to explore whether it really is the animals that have left audiences feeling conflicted.

Disney's latest remake warrants immediate, queue-jumping discussion, so here we are with our immediate (and I do mean immediate) response. (psst, go and see this film.) Rated E for one or two pretty mild words.

Ursula has a tragic backstory, Disney need a remake exit strategy, and Gilbert Gottfried performs a beautiful love ballad. It's a minisode!

Disney make a surprising and brave statement, but then things go a bit rickety

And Other Stories. Initially planned as a brief addendum to the previous episode, actually we had a lot to talk about re: this AND OTHER sidewaysey Alice adaptations. (Explicit Content ticked because of one relatively rude word and... Jan.)

And what Dave & Jehan Found There. We embark on a big new project that'll tide us over for a fair few episodes, but sadly it has to begin here.

Positivity begins to seep back into the podcast like it was a dead arm we just rolled off. But even the genius of the film's big final statement is tempered by a couple of very significant swerves right at the end. Join us for the big final chunk.

The Negative Episode, in which we grouch, grump & call shenanegans on the parts of the film we really didn't think worked, notably the songs First Time In Forever (reprise) and Fixer-Upper. It was by this time getting very important we eat some dinner.

It's time to meet a Bunch Of Dudes and write fanfics about why Atlantis was really saved. Wherefore Olaf and Kristoff? What do they bring to the story? Have some Jelly Bellies to hand if you're playing along with the full immersion experience.

Relax, you won't hear That Song in this episode. You WILL hear discussion of its place in Disney history, the whole Big Disney Song phenomena including Under The Sea and When You Wish, a discussion of Fairy-Tale Time Dilation, and more! It's a goodun!

Have a banoffee pie ready for this chronological sift through Frozen's hidden details. Yes, Frozen. We're still talking about Frozen. It's an important moment in animation history, ok?

Two grown men went to see Disney's Frozen together, and never sat down to discuss it. Years of pent-up Disney discussion finally bubble over in our first episode, as we talk about the whole lovely muddle and what it looks like now.