I finally cracked and got a subscription so I could watch that Get Back Beatles documentary, which has been very worth one month's subscription price so far.
But I'm wondering whether to keep the subscription after that! I don't care about Star Wars or Marvel, and Disney+ in Japan only has the first 14 seasons of the Simpsons (meanwhile I have the first 30 on my computer lol).
I would like to watch the newer Pixar films, and might check out The Muppet Show and Gravity Falls. Is there any other good stuff worth checking out on there?
Gravity Falls gets my stamp of approval too! I wish I had that show when I was a kid.
I donāt have a Disney+ subscription but I generally like the weird stuff I know they have a some options there. Mr. Boogedy is a made-for-TV Halloween movie that I think is kind of fun. The Three Caballeros is a classic Disney movie that gets overlooked by too many folks. I think The Absent Minded Professor holds up but your mileage may vary. Iām pretty sure the sitcom Dinosaurs is streaming? I remember liking that a lot when I was younger.
Then there are the Disney Afternoon shows I liked as a kid that I'd be curious to revisit, like DuckTales, Darkwing Duck, Gargoyles, or The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show. Are those even on Disney+? Not sure how well they hold up for adults regardless.
Gravity Falls is phenomenal, one of the best animated series in recent times, extremely good and chill vibes overall.
There is also Soul, the Pixar movie, which was quite good, and some of the Star Wars stuff is worth a watch, like Visions and the Mandalorian, if only for the tremendous soundtrack by Ludwig Gƶransson.
Other than that I havenāt found Disney+ super interesting or useful, itās included with my internet/phone subscription and if it wasnāt for that I donāt think I would pay for it tbh!
I am a well known star wars not-carer-about but I would say the mandalorian is the thing thatās worth watching. the first season especially is mostly vibes, not a lot of story or dialog, lots of good music and walking around, and the baby yoda is actually pretty cute if you, for example, have a chihuahua. It is the only star wars thing I have ever seen in my life that I would recommend to anybody, or actually watch again. Only warning is the last 5 minutes of season 2 is the exact kind of thing I was worried the whole thing would be. But that means thereās an entire two seasons minus 5 minutes that's not straight out of the star wars dungeon.
I got one month of disney+ every time a season of the mandalorian dropped, and watched some simpsons in between. otherwise I kinda just left it alone. Iāve now seen all the good simpsons (unless we finish the good season) and that last 5 mins of mandalorian has me real worried, so Iām not sure if Iāll be using disney+ ever again, but thatās been my positive experience with it.
If youāre interested in Gravity Falls, I think youād probably also like the recent DuckTales reboot, which marries the general makeup of the old show to a slightly more weighty story inspired by the classic Carl Barks/Don Rosa lore. Iām also a big fan of the series of Mickey Mouse shorts they started putting out in 2013, theyāve got just some fantastic slapstick gags the likes of which cartoons generally just don't do anymore, and even when the jokes get a little more dialogue heavy the writing is pretty punchy.
I also really like the Tangled animated series, which picks up where the film left off and retains most of the original voice cast. Itās a little bit more For Babies, particularly in the beginning, but the story eventually does pick up and get into some fun sword & sorcery, centered around the friendship/rivalry between Rapunzel and her friend Cassandra, a royal handmaiden who longs to go on cool swashbuckling adventures but has the misfortune of not being born a Disney princess. The big selling point for me though is that it has original songs by Alan Menken! Menkenās absence from the recent Disney canon is probably the biggest reason Iāve never really liked any Disney musical since Tangled, and heās written a song or two for the show that Iām PRETTY SURE MAYBE could have dominated the pop cultural landscape on the level of Let it Go if only theyād happened to be in a theatrical film.
You all have given me some really good suggestions here, and I appreciate it! Looks like Iāll have plenty of stuff to justify at least a month or two of Disney+ subscribinā!
āHowardā is a great look at Howard Ashmanās story, one of Disneyās most iconic creatives. Lots of archival footage of him writing/recording songs that are probably as well known as Beatles songs at this point. Pretty wild that he passed away decades before Disney even attempted to include LGBTQ-coded characters in their movies.
Also amusing: we watched all 51 "One Day At Disney" shorts, which effectively function as a recruiting tool for their brands. They bounce around some pretty grim looks at the daily Disney grind, but then you'll get a really melancholic look at some lost master who is the only organist/masonry expert/clay modeler left who's been at the company for 100 years and has no one to replace them.
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āDisney Mickey Mouseā (2013 - 2018) and it's sequel series āThe Wonderful World of Mickey Mouseā are fantastic. shorts starring mickey, minnie, donald, goofy, daisy, pete ā the whole gang. comedy slapstick with great animation.
i had a real good time watching some classic disney propaganda.
walter hosted these himself. they were television documentaries. a look back on fifties futurism and a behind the scenes
"Mars and Beyond" "The Story of the Animated Drawing" "Man in Space"
oh and my mom loved "Free Guy" and has brought it up in conversation several times.
personally, it kinda bummed me out.
@pizzascrub my favourite, Iām not sure if itās on Disney+, is when notorious Nazi death-camp scientist Werner Von Braun is wheeled out to talk about rockets.
As a side note, am I the only one who thinks the UI is insufferable trash? I don't understand why streaming services are still difficult to navigate and lacking in basic features, especially one owned by one of the most powerful corporations in the world.
@bone@Punzai I've heard mention of Bluey recently, but had no idea what it was. You got me with the Peppa Pig comparison. I have a six year old and a two year old, and feel that I have sat through more than enough Peppa Pig for one lifetime.
My daughter and I watched like three episodes of Gravity Falls years ago, when the Disney Channel was still available on basic(ish) cable in Japan. We had a good time with it then, but she's old enough now to be able to appreciate it more!
seconding Ducktales as pretty great. impressive voice cast, fun visual styling, solid adventure-y feel. I've only seen episodes when my partner is watching it, but I know our own Alex Jaffe is also a fan.
