Disney Channel Original Movie Analysis

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“Let’s watch a Disney Channel Movie!” The television would sing throughout my childhood. So often we’d hear the theme and so often we’d give in to its sentiment that even now, more than a decade later, my family can still be found sitting around a table in a restaurant with the subject of conversation being Disney Channel Original Movies or DCOMs. My brothers and I will often list off every DCOM that we can remember, always having to look up that one movie that we forget after fifteen or twenty minutes of it being on the tips of our tongues. Late into the night over cookies and milk, we’d continue the conversation far beyond just listing the names of movies. We’d analyze every last detail; From the reproductive implications of Cody’s mermaid genetics in The Thirteenth Year to the rate at which technology would have to advance in order for Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century to occur in the year 2049. Though, perhaps, our family was more Disney-obsessed than most, almost every child remembers watching those movies, and, perhaps, will tell you that they helped to shape their view of the world. …show more content…
As children, the millennial generation grew up watching Brink! and movies like it such as Smart House and Alley Cats Strike; as members of that generation, my brothers and I watched these movies and even based some of our morals around the lessons we took from them. Always nostalgically yearning for these now-classic films, the millennial generation may be just as dependent on media as the baby-boomers and generation X have framed us to be, and we may have entirely formed our moral identities around Disney Channel Original