It's been awhile since we checked in with one of our favourite Disney performers, so this week on We Want The D our hosts are reconnecting with our beloved Hayley Brando Mills as she goes on a fantastic adventure with famous French lech Maurice Chevalier, the smarmiest teenage boy you've ever seen, the most British Lord you can imagine, and a little boy who is also present. IN SEARCH OF THE CASTAWAYS is a ton of fun with pretty impressive action sequences, charming Sherman Brothers songs, and lots of that good family-friendly fun that Disney has been known to pull off like no other company...but it's also capital 'P' Problematic in its depiction of Māori people and native tribes of the Andes - in the sense that they are depicted by tanned Italians and in little to no way reflect these actual cultures. The result is a movie that is at once hard to recommend, but hard to hate. A feeling that pretty much defines 1960s Disney.
