WWTD 309 - Trenchcoat: Larry Lightning

We Want The D

Welcome back to the 80s, D-Sciples, the most turbulent decade of Disney. They're up, they're (mostly) down, they're trying out weird things to varying degrees of success. And TRENCHCOAT is definitely one of their oddest, and to be frank least successful experiments. It's not for lack of trying, at least on the part of Margot Kidder, but it's hard to pull off a movie that's trying to spoof the spy genre and film noir while not being even a little bit funny. It would be like, oh just for example, filming a movie on jewel of the Mediterranean Malta while making it look as drab and uninteresting as possible. You can almost admire the effort, but mostly you wonder how they could have gotten things so wrong.