Susan Walker (Natalie Wood) is a very intelligent, sensible little girl who has been brought up by her mother Doris (Maureen O’Hara) to not believe silly fairy stories or get lost in her imagination. And that includes not believing in Santa Claus. But when her mother needs a last minute replacement Santa for the Macy’s […]

Lanny and Wayne go on a secret mission to retrieve a box from Santa’s workshop for Mrs. Claus in the stocking stuffer short, “Prep and Landing: Operation Secret Santa.” The partners have to try to sneak into the workshop while Santa is taking his nap to get the box which is a very important piece […]

Disney gives fans a look inside the parks and what it takes to get Walt Disney World and Disneyland ready for the holidays in the special presentation, “Decorating Disney: Holiday Magic.” Whoopi Goldberg hosts this special along with Jordan Fuller and Sophia Carson. The trio show viewers how classic Disney attractions get holiday overlays, what […]

The Walt Disney Company tells three Christmas stories featuring the Sensational Six and their friends in the 1999 film, “Mickey’s Once Upon A Christmas.” The first short focuses on Huey, Dewey and Louie spending Christmas with Donald and Daisy and how they want every day to be Christmas until the repetitive nature becomes too much […]

Disney used the final 2D animated film in their canon to introduce the first Black Disney princess in “The Princess and the Frog.” It takes the fairytale of “The Frog Prince” and flips it on its head. Tiana is a waitress in New Orleans who dreams of owning her own restaurant. Naveen is a carefree […]

A teenage girl learns she descends from monster hunters and must take on a monster known as the Eternal One in the 2012 Disney Channel Original Movie, “Girl vs. Monster.” The film follows Skylar, a 15-year-old girl with no fear. But when her parents try to keep her at home on Halloween, she accidentally sets […]

Zombies and humans have to learn to coexist in high school in the Disney Channel Original Movie, “Z-O-M-B-I-E-S.” The humans live in their perfect town of Seabrook, but the town has a dark secret. Zombies live in the town and they are treated as second class citizens because decades before one of the zombies bit […]

Marnie bets the Piper family magic in the 2004 Disney Channel Original Movie, “Halloweentown High.” The third film in the “Halloweentown” series focuses on Marnie’s and her grandmother’s efforts to blend the mortal world with the Halloweentown world as students from Halloweentown start attending Marnie’s high school. But, an extremist group known as the Knights […]

Decades after the events of the first “Peter Pan” film, Wendy’s daughter Jane finds herself in Never Land and in the middle of the battle between Peter Pan and Captain Hook in the 2002 film, “Peter Pan 2: Return to Never Land.” While Wendy’s husband, and Jane’s father, is away at war, Jane and her […]

Chicken Little thinks the sky is falling when he is hit in the head by an octagonal shaped disc, but it’s just an alien invasion in the 2005 Walt Disney Animation Studios film, “Chicken Little.” This film is meant to be a timeless tale about a son’s need to bond with his father when they […]

A boy learns how to be a man by becoming a bear in the 2003 Walt Disney Animation Studios film, “Brother Bear.” The film follows three brothers. The youngest has just received his totem and is confused by its meaning. But, when a bear ends up taking some of the food they collected, he goes […]

Disney takes the classic tale of Robert Louis Stevenson and gives it a modern update in the 2002 film, “Treasure Planet.” Instead of sailing on seas and oceans to look for Captain Flint’s treasure on an island, they are now traveling through space looking for his treasure on a believed to be uncharted planet. But, […]

An alien experiment that has been given a lifetime banishment ends up in Hawaii as the family “dog” for a pair of sisters who are trying to make it following the deaths of their parents in “Lilo and Stitch.” Along the way, Stitch causes a lot of unnecessary burden on Lilo and Nani, but when […]

The emperor is a bad man, but after he’s transformed into a llama, he learns how to be a good emperor in the 2000 Walt Disney Animation Studios picture, “The Emperor’s New Groove.” Kuzco plans to build a pool on Pacha’s land, but when he fires his adviser, Yzma, she tries to kill him. But […]

Disney moves fully away from the musicals of the Renaissance and jumps right into its Experimental Age of Animation with the 2000 film, “Dinosaur.” The film follows Aladar, an Iguanodon who is taken from his home as an egg and ends up being raised by lemurs. When a meteor destroys their home, Aladar and his […]