Return from Witch Mountain

Tia and Tony are back! This time Tony gets kidnapped by a couple of villains looking to control him with a mind controlling device. Tia and a gang of little boys search around LA to find him. Tony almost looks evil. 

Escape to Witch Mountain

This was my first time watching this movie in its entirety. I have watched the Disney Channel 90's version quite a few times in my youth so I thought they were the same but there were a lot of differences. In this one, the twins already knew each other and grew up together with a family before being orphaned and sent to live at an orphanage. People just seem to accept that these kids have special powers pretty easily in this movie. 

Endurance

This movie was a cross between a Documentary and Drama where the actor played the role of himself. It shows his life and determination to get to the Olympics in 1996. It was interesting to see how he lived in Ethiopia, running miles to school each day and hoping to make it in time and then running home to help work with his family. 

Enchanted

Oh, I absolutely love this movie! It needs to make a comeback, now! It was so good. 

Enchanted starts off as an animated movie with a princess, prince, and evil queen/stepmother. As part of an evil scheme, the princess is sent off to the real world where she stays with a man and his daughter and makes rodents clean their apartment. It is all very funny and musical and wonderful. 

Eloise at Christmastime

A sequel to Eloise at the Plaza and happening immediately after the first movie is Eloise at Christmastime. The young girl is at her antics again, meddling into the business of anyone and everyone at the Plaza hotel in New York City. 

Eloise at the Plaza

This movie is great for kids who love Dennis the Menace and Home Alone and any type of movie where children meddle in other people's business. It is based off the book series "Eloise at the Plaza". 

My son and I definitely enjoyed it - there was a lot of giggling going on. I may have to check out the book series now!

Eight Below

The next movie on our list is Eight Below. It was a great movie inspired by a true story. There were these wonder huskies that were in the Antarctic surviving on their own as they waited for their owner to come back to them. The owner tried so hard to return but it was difficult. Paul Walker plays the owner, Jerry, which made the movie seem even sadder because he passed a few years ago. 

It was a good movie and I certainly recommend it if you are a dog lover or interested in the Antarctic. 

Eddie's Million Dollar Cook Off

A DCOM about a boy who falls in love with cooking. It was definitely not a story I heard before and I ended up liking most of the movie.

Really, I was just annoyed with the dad. Everyone knows kids can be lame and tease each other for every little thing but the dad in this movie really bothered me when he wouldn't let his kid pursue his interests and made him feel so bad about it that he agreed to continue playing baseball for him. I am happy to say he does change his tune by the end. 

Now to make my husband watch some Food Network shows until he falls in love with cooking, too... .

Earth

Next up is a Disney Nature film called Earth. I just love these Disney Nature films!! I didn't think I would be into documentaries as much as I am finding with these ones. They are well done.

Dumbo

Can you believe that this is the first time I have ever seen this movie in its entirety? No, seriously!

This movie is a classic without princesses and one I recommend seeing! 

136 Movies down!

We have reached the end of the second year of our Disney Movie challenge. We began the year doing one movie a week until after my wedding and honeymoon when we stepped it up to two movies a week, for a grand total of 84 movies!!

Here is a recap of the movies I have watched this year:

1. Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
2. Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World
3. Beauty and the Briefcase
4. Bedknobs and Broomsticks
5. Bedtime Stories
6. Bejewelled
7. Benji the Hunted
8. Beverly Hills Chihuahua
9. Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
10. Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3
11. Beverly Hills Family Robinson
12. Big Hero 6
13. Big Red
14. Black Arrow
15. Blackbeard's Ghost
16. Blank Check
17. Bolt
18. Bon Voyage!
19. Brave
20. Brave New Girl
21. Brian's Song
22. Bridge of Spies
23. Bridge to Terabithia
24. Brink!
25. Brother Bear
26. Brother Bear 2
27. Buffalo Dreams
28. Cadet Kelly
29. Camp Rock
30. Camp Rock 2
31. Campus Confidential
32. Can of Worms
33. Candleshoe
34. Cars
35. Cars 2
36. Car Toons- Mater's Tall Tales
37. Casebusters
38. Celeste in the City
39. Charley and the Angel
40. Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar
41. Chasing Christmas
42. Cheetah
43. Chicken Little
44. Child of Glass
45. Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story
46. Chimpanzee
47. Christmas Bounty
48. Christmas Caper
49. Christmas Cupid
50. Christmas Do-Over
51. Christmas in Boston
52. Christmas in Wonderland
53. Cinderella*
54. Cinderella 2: Dreams Come True
55. Cinderella 3: A Twist in Time
56. Cinderella (Live Action)
57. Cloud 9
58. College Road Trip
59. Condorman
60. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
61. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
62. Cool Runnings*
63. Cow Belles
64. Crimes of Fashion
65. Cyberbully
66. Dadnapped
67. Darby O'Gill and the Little People
68. Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier
69. Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
70. Den Brother
71. Descendants 
72. Desperately Seeking Santa
73. Diamonds on Wheels
74. Dinosaur
75. Disney's American Legends
76. Disney's Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams
77. Don't Look Under the Bed
78. Double Platinum
79. Double Switch
80. Double Teamed
81. Doug's First Movie
82. Down the Long Hills
83. Dragonslayer
84. Duck Tales the Movie

You can find the full list here  and any movies that have been missed because of various reasons like availability are on this list here. 

There were a lot of movies that I watched alone since my boys are busy, but I still loved (almost) every minute of this challenge!

Here are my favorites of this year.

Favorite Live Action Movie: It comes down to Cinderella and Cool Runnings! I'm going to have to go with Cinderella

Favorite Animated Movie: It's between Cinderella (my childhood favorite), Cars, Bolt, and Big Hero 6. Winner is Big Hero 6. I just adore this movie and everything about it. 

Favorite Disney Channel Movie: Brink

Favorite Sequel: Cinderella 3

Least likely to ever watch again: 1 movie actually had half of a star, the lowest rating I ever gave! That means Don't Look Under the Bed, I will not be watching you ever again!

2016 was a roller coaster of a year. I know 2017 has a lot to bring in the movie world and I'm excited to get some more of these movies watched and rated! I will be switching up my layout again and seeing what works best for the challenge. Change is good!  I'm going to keep on going in alphabetical order because I love the variety it brings. 

Duck Tales: the Movie

Duck Tales was a great TV show. I loved the movie, too! (even have the updated video game!) 

This movie is entertaining. I think kids today would still like it and the show. 

Down the Long Hills

Down the Long Hills is a made for TV movie that was on ABC. It tells the story of two young little kids who have to continue on their trail West after their wagons and campgrounds are attacked.

Mostly I thought the movie was sad. The little girl doesn't realize most of the movie that her mom was killed. I was excited when I realized the boy was the same boy from Honey, I shrunk the Kids though! 

Doug's First Movie

Back in the day, when ABC had "One Saturday Morning" cartoons, they bought Doug from Nickelodeon, made him a little older in high school, and progressed his story a little. Then Nickelodeon came out with their Rugrats movies so Disney tried to do the same with Doug. 

Every early 90's kid I know loved watching Doug Funny get into shenanigans with Skeeter, Roger, Patti, Porkchop, and the gang. 

Double Teamed

Time for a sports-themed DCOM! And possibly the only time Disney used two different actresses to play identical twins instead of using the split screen method! 

I love this movie because I like basketball, I think twins are neat, and it came out when I was still interested in DCOMs as a teen. 

Double Switch

This is a Disney Television Movie that involves one of Disney's favorite techniques, screen splitting! They could do this a hundred more times I still love to see it. This particular movie has identical strangers, not twins. I love the identical strangers - Lizzie Maguire has one, the Mickey version of Prince and the Pauper, and that model one with Justin Timberlake in it... 

  

I would watch this one again. It came out the year I was born and is so typical late 80's. I loved it. 

Double Platinum

This movie was aired on ABC and is about a famous singer who left her daughter for her career and one day she finds her again and helps her become a famous singer, too. There is a lot of drama.

Don't Look Under the Bed

This is a Disney Channel Original Movie that has a bit of a Halloween feel to it since it is about a boogey man and imaginary friends. 

I did not like this movie and it took me at least 4 tries to actually get through the whole thing. It apparently has some strong fans, though. 

Disney's American Legends

This is another set of short stories from Disney about a few of America's heroes. It is educational and short and easy to follow. 

I'm just not the biggest fan of the short stories I have been watching. 

Dinosaur

When I see a kids dinosaur movie, I'm always comparing it to the first couple of Land Before Times. Don't lie - you are, too. This one just didn't compare well. In Disney's defense, I think it was their first try at computer animations mixed with real landscapes (without Pixar being involved). 

The kid didn't seem too impressed either... In fact, I bet if I went and asked him now if he even remembers it he won't.