(Welcome to
Out of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)
The Disney Channel has made over 100 movies since the ’80s, but when the network entered the new millennium, it started focusing on two kinds of stories. There were wacky genre comedies with high concepts like
Luck of the Irish. And there were many, many, many musical films in the vein of
High School Musical.
And then there’s
Teen Beach Movie, which takes the best of both worlds and results in a highly entertaining musical that also features a wacky genre story that riffs on