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Anyone else agree this started the Disney Channel Spiral?

posted 17 years ago by Verbal_Kint10
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Alright, here's the list of All of the Disney Channel Original Movies so far. You'll notice they start out real strong, with at least 85% of 'em being pretty darn good. Then--BOOM! This movie comes out, and it's all "Welcome to Suckville" from there with Gotta Kick it Up and High School Musical:

1997

1. Northern Lights (August 23, 1997)
2. Under Wraps (October 25, 1997) *

1998

1. You Lucky Dog (June 27, 1998)
2. Brink! (August 29, 1998)*
3. Halloweentown (October 17, 1998) (part of the Halloweentown series) *

1999

1. Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (January 23, 1999) (part of the Zenon series)
2. Can of Worms (April 10, 1999)
3. The Thirteenth Year (May 15, 1999)
4. Smart House (June 26, 1999)
5. Johnny Tsunami (July 24, 1999)
6. Genius (August 21, 1999)
7. P.U.N.K.S. (September 4, 1999) *
8. Don't Look Under the Bed (October 9, 1999)
9. Horse Sense (November 20, 1999)

2000

1. Up, Up, and Away (January 22, 2000)
2. The Color of Friendship (February 5, 2000)
3. Alley Cats Strike (March 18, 2000)
4. Rip Girls (April 22, 2000)
5. Miracle in Lane 2 (May 13, 2000) *
6. Stepsister from Planet Weird (June 17, 2000)
7. Ready to Run (July 14, 2000)
8. Quints (August 18, 2000)
9. The Other Me (September 8, 2000)
10. Mom's Got a Date With a Vampire (October 13, 2000)
11. Phantom of the Megaplex (November 10, 2000)
12. The Ultimate Christmas Present (December 1, 2000)

2001

1. Zenon: The Zequel (January 12, 2001) (part of the Zenon series)
2. Motocrossed (February 16, 2001)
3. The Luck of the Irish (March 9, 2001)
4. Hounded (April 13, 2001)
5. Jett Jackson: The Movie (June 8, 2001)
6. The Jennie Project (July 13, 2001)
7. Jumping Ship (August 17, 2001) (sequel to Horse Sense) *
8. The Poof Point (September 14, 2001)
9. Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge (October 12, 2001) (part of the Halloweentown series) *
10. 'Twas the Night (December 7, 2001)

2002

1. Double Teamed (January 18, 2002)
2. Cadet Kelly (March 8, 2002) *
3. Tru Confessions (April 5, 2002)
4. Get a Clue (June 28, 2002) *HERE-RIGHT HERE- SOMETHING WENT HORRIBLY WRONG, IT'S ALL DWONHILL FROM HERE.
5. Gotta Kick It Up! (July 26, 2002)
6. A Ring of Endless Light (August 23, 2002)
7. The Scream Team (October 4, 2002)

2003

1. You Wish! (January 10, 2003)
2. Right on Track (March 21, 2003)
3. The Even Stevens Movie (June 13, 2003) *
4. Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off (July 18, 2003)
5. The Cheetah Girls (August 15, 2003) (part of The Cheetah Girls series) *
6. Full-Court Miracle (November 21, 2003)

2004

1. Pixel Perfect (January 16, 2004)
2. Going to the Mat (March 19, 2004)
3. Zenon: Z3 (June 11, 2004) (part of the Zenon series)
4. Stuck in the Suburbs (July 16, 2004)
5. Tiger Cruise (August 6, 2004)
6. Halloweentown High (October 8, 2004) (part of the Halloweentown series) *

2005

1. Now You See It... (January 14, 2005)
2. Buffalo Dreams (March 11, 2005)
3. Disney's Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama (April 8, 2005) *
4. Go Figure (June 11, 2005)
5. Life Is Ruff (July 15, 2005)
6. The Proud Family Movie (August 19, 2005) *
7. Twitches (October 14, 2005) *

2006

1. High School Musical (January 20, 2006) (part of the High School Musical series) *
2. Cow Belles (March 24, 2006) *
3. Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior (June 16, 2006) *
4. Read It and Weep (July 21, 2006) *
5. The Cheetah Girls 2 (August 25, 2006) (part of The Cheetah Girls series) *
6. Return to Halloweentown (October 20, 2006) (part of the Halloweentown series)

2007

1. Jump In! (January 12, 2007) * (DVD will be released on April 3, 2007)
2. Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board (June/July 2007) (Sequel to Johnny Tsunami) [1]
3. High School Musical 2 (August 17, 2007) (part of the High School Musical series)

Where do you think the movies went bad? If at all?

[–] kittns53 17 years ago

ALL THE MOVIES IN 2005 SUCKED EXCEPT TWITCHES!

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[–] megan-220 17 years ago

Not everything made since then has been THAT bad! Some things that come to my mind are "Full Court Miracle" "Scream Team" and "Read It and Weep". Other than that yeah everything really did carry the cheesy Disney trademark which they really need to get rid of and start putting on more sensible and GOOD Disney movies such as "Susy Q" "Escape To Witch Mountain"(Erik Von Detten version) and many others that were made before the 2000's!

[–] staroceanboy 17 years ago

High School Musical sucks so much...I tried to give it a chance but its just too much.

[–] whospykedthepunch 17 years ago

what do the astericks mean, that they weren't good? because then i'd have to disagree with some of them. but most of them after get a clue were bad, with a few minor exceptions.

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[–] Verbal_Kint10 17 years ago

Wait, what do you mean? Who wrote anything about "astericks"? I think the only thin I spelled wrong was putting "dwonhill" instead of "downhill"

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[–] whospykedthepunch 17 years ago

no when you wrote the whole list out you starred a few movies with an asterisk. i was just curious what they meant.

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--lindsay

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[–] Verbal_Kint10 17 years ago

I dunno, actually. I just copied that list from somewhere. Oh well, if an asterisk's there it's not of any consequence.

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[–] whospykedthepunch 17 years ago

haha okay i was just wondering if you thought that those were the exceptions, and that they were bad BEFORE get a clue. because i loved halloweentown and rip girls and a few others

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[–] Maserati7777 17 years ago

There was quite a few good DCOM's after Get a Clue

Including

A Ring Of Endless Light
The Scream Team
The Even Stevens Movie
Full-Court Miracle
Pixal Perfect
Going to the Mat
Tiger Cruise
Now You See It...
High School Musical
Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior
Read it and Weep
Jump in

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[–] kevmoL7374 17 years ago

Not really.

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[–] aurasja 9 years ago

High School Musical and Wendy Wu both sucked! Loved Stuck in the Suburbs though <3

[–] countrystylerice 17 years ago

Am I the only one who enjoyed Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-off? Lol, I agree with you, the channel is completely unwatchable nowadays, I forgot all the good movies that came previous to this piece of...

[–] mrjgman 17 years ago

Pixel Perfect was awful and High School Musical was only decent at best. The Cheetah Girls movies were good, mostly the second one.

[–] kat_deeluna 17 years ago

it started with cadet kelly.

[–] katewims 17 years ago

If anyone is still interested then the asteriks (sp?) mean that they were released on DVD or Video.... the list was copied of wikipedia , thats how i know

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[–] semmett 17 years ago

Anyone who has high expectations of Disney Movies is going to be disappointed at some point.

I mean really, you are watching the Disney channel! You either have to be under 13 or able to actually stop taking yourself so dam seriously for a couple of hours to enjoy these movies.

I really pity anyone who can't do that.

[–] free-spirit-1 17 years ago

It'd be cool to have a channel with just some of the more out-of-date movies. I mean, all you can watch anymore is Twitches (hate it. completely ruined the books. OMG. horrid), HSM, HSM2, Wendy Wu, Stuck in the Suburbs (decent), and such. Anything older than about 2004 is obscure. I loved A Ring Of Endless Light. You never see it. Rip Girls? Where'd that go? Loved Scream Team and they don't even show it at Halloween anymore! Pixel Perfect isn't ever on. Motocrossed was really cool. I swear, half the movies before 2001 I haven't seen in ages!! Bring back the good movies!!

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[–] lordcyrus7711 17 years ago

3. Tru Confessions (April 5, 2002)

*sighs* that was a good movie, that used to get reasonable airplay like 3/4 years ago *shrugs* I actually had a wide variety of feelings when I used to see that one on. Probably would again if I saw it.

This particular movie wasn't soo bad and I like Ian Gomez (as a actor, he was in the Norm Show!!! Norm MacDonald is great) and Lohan isn't all cracked out in this one. So she looks and acts good.

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[–] dvdfanatic77 17 years ago

I would agree for the most part but your statement might be a bit unfair. I liked Get a Clue btw and thought it was entertaining. There are 4 movies on your list that i dont think qualify as horrible movies: Even Stevens Movie, Tiger Cruise, Cow Belles, and like it or hate it High School Musical made a TON of money and was the most watched DCOM movie in HISTORY! Im not saying it was a great movie, but a massive succsess!

[–] ryandouglassw 16 years ago

I don't agree!!! A ton of movies before Get a Clue sucked ass!!! The thirteenth year was the stupidest movie ever and THAT is where the spiral started... but I don't think you can just say that there was a huge crash and everything afterwards was bad, because sometimes Disney makes their stupid movies, and sometimes they make their good ones. But if there is ANY spiral, it started with that retarded mer-man movie.

[–] Horselover6001 16 years ago

i wish they would play some of the older movies again now its just high school musical and cheetah girls. what about the old movies like horse sense, smart house , the color of friendship (they only play that during Black History month and usually only once or twice), hounded was pretty good, as was Tru Confessions, i loved ready to run and the other me. I haven't seen Tiger Cruise in a while either.And why don't they play the Scream Team anymore around Halloween? Would it seriously kill them to not play High school musical for a week and play just some of the older stuff?

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[–] skerabe 16 years ago

i believe that was Flash.

believe half of what you see and nothing you see.

[–] jerryguinto 16 years ago

I liked "Pixel Perfect" that wasnt that bad

[–] mrjgman 14 years ago

The downward spiral started in 2004 with Pixel Perfect, [i]Cheetah Girls 2[i/] was the only good DCOM that came out after that.

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[–] ColbertoReporto 13 years ago

I loved all 3 HSM movies. Not sure why there is so much hate towards them. Seems like anything that gets cooed over by tween girls (Justin Bieber?) is automatically put down by this cynical vocal minority.
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