Cheetah: Sweet, Sweet Satellites We Want The D

This week's movie is definitely a weird one, even beyond most of Disney's 80s fare. Because in many ways, CHEETAH is like a film displaced in time. It reminds our hosts of so much of the 60s and 70s output of the House of Mouse, what with the precocious yet utterly stupid teen protagonists, general cultural insensitivities, and a gambling subplot of all things. It makes sense that this movie came out when it did, though - right as the Disney Renaissance was getting started - because slipping through the cracks and getting lost from pop culture's collective memory is about as much as it deserves.