5/28/2023 0 Comments Disney plus over zoomThis one’s an emotional roller coaster, folks. Once there, she discovers that her grandfather is sicker than she thought, and, oh yeah, that she may be able to communicate telepathically with dolphins. The story follows 16-year-old Vicky Austin during her summer trip to stay with her ill grandfather on Seven Bay Island. Mischa Barton and Smart House’s Ryan Merriman, A Ring of Endless Light is a much-overlooked DCOM film. I have never been able to resist a Madeleine L’Engle adaptation, and A Ring of Endless Light is no different. Yeah, it’s meta, and I’m surprised I haven’t started binging it yet. Most recently, Disney+ has launched High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, a 10-episode mockumentary-esque series that follows a group of teenagers as they put on High School Musical: The Musical at their high school. I don’t need to tell you about the epicness of the High School Musicalfranchise, do I? This is the movie that launched not only other movies (including one that was released in theaters), but also foreign adaptations, a Bad Lip Reading vid, a concert tour, a stage musical, an ice tour, a book series, video games, and a reality competition show. High School Musical, High School Musical 2, Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure Zetus lapetus! This franchise also stars a young Raven-Symoneand Gregory Smith ( Small Soldiers, Everwood, would go on to direct in the Arrowverse). Starring Kirsten Storms as the titular Zenon, the first film follows a 13-year-old girl who has grown up on a space station who is banished to Earth when she gets in trouble with the space station’s commander. DCOM aren’t necessarily known for their science fiction programming (spaceships cost money, you know, and these are made-for-TV movies), but the Zenon series was a major, delightful outlier. I may have tipped my hand with the opening line of this article, but Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century was my Disney Channel jam when I was a youth. Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, Zenon: The Zequel, Zenon: Z3 Here’s a full list of Disney Channel Original Movies available to stream on Disney+ along with a few of our favorites picked out right at the start.
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