Sean McNamara, 1999
I'm actually not sure this was a Disney Channel movie. I certainly watched it on the Disney Channel, but Wikipedia doesn't list it. However, the DisneyWiki does list it, so I'm going with that. Disney Channel or not, this was a great movie. Patrick Renna from The Big Green was in it, and so were Randy Quaid, the Fonz, and a young Jessica Alba.
The titular P.U.N.K.S. were a crew of teenagers with attitudes who set out to thwart the evil designs of Edward Crow. Crow is a scheming industrialist who possesses a special device that gives its user super-strength. Need I say more?
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Paul Schneider, 1999
This one starts out innocently enough.
We meet Mike, a dweeby high school outcast who pines after his classmate Katelyn "Swimfan85" Sandman. Mike and Katelyn are thrown together by fate when they work together to plan a homecoming party. Then they gradually develop a relationship, only for it to be put to the test when the school bully (who also fancies Katelyn) gets in the way.
But the thing is, that's only the first act. The rest of the movie is about aliens.
Malcolm McDowell is the voice of a talking intergalactic dog.
Greg Beeman, 1999
Just kidding, this is Horse Sense.
Real-life brothers Joey and Andrew Lawrence play fictional cousins Michael and Tommy. Michael is a rich Beverly Hills layabout, and Tommy lives on a ranch in Montana with his widowed mother. When Michael wrecks his expensive car, his parents ship him off to the ranch to pay off the damages the old-fashioned way.
The inevitable character development occurs, and Michael ends up saving the ranch with the help of his knowledge of federal land law.
This movie spawned a sequel, Jumping Ship, which has nothing to do with horses and doesn't make a lot of sense. But it managed to add the third Lawrence brother, Matthew, to the mix.
Robert Townsend, 2000
Hollywood continues its systematic campaign to neglect the genius of Robert Townsend with this desperately underrated superhero movie. No fewer than two other Disney movies, Sky High and The Incredibles, borrowed heavily from its plot.
The Marshalls are a seemingly average upper-middle-class family who harbor a thrilling secret: They all have super-powers. Mom and Dad fight crime as Warrior Woman and Bronze Eagle, and all the kids are super-human as well, with the exception of Scott, the only normal Marshall. He tries to fool his family into thinking that he, too, is gifted, but in the end he learns that being normal is not so bad. Even though it's way better to have powers.
The brother from Unhappily Ever After and Dorothy-Jane Torkelson from The Torkelsons play the bad guys.
Paul Hoen, 2003
Eddie loves the game of baseball, but he also loves to cook. Too bad his male-chauvinist dad can't accept that second part.
He signs up for a cook-off that might win him a place at a culinary institute, but in order to compete, he'll have to miss the Big Game. His dad drags him along to the game, but his teammates insist that he go back to the cook-off and follow his dreams.
Bobby Flay appears as himself in history's most unexciting cameo.
No.
Savage Steve Holland, 2004
Why does it say "Walt Disney's" above the title? Surely Uncle Walt didn't climb out of cryogenic stasis to help with this one, did he?
Two suburban teenage girls kidnap a pop star played by Taran Killam from Saturday Night Live. Or maybe they just steal his phone. I don't remember.
He sings in it.
Lev L. Spiro, 2008
This one is from 2008, so we're well outside the classic Disney Channel era here. But this one deserves to be mentioned because (1) I've seen it; and (2) they travel through time. They also cause a massive paradox, the likes of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe! (Granted, that's a worst-case scenario. The destruction might in fact be very localized, limited to merely our own galaxy.)
I could go on. Actually, I couldn't, because I think those are all the Disney Channel movies I've seen. But though they may not all be as memorable as Brink!, they are one thing for certain, and that's
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