DISNEY PLUS ARRIVES........THE VAULT IN THEIR STARS....

Disney Plus Streaming......finally arrived yesterday, after a torrent of hype......in which the Mouse House opened up its well-sealed vaults, unleashing  a treasure trove of its current and past films and TV shows, as well as original programming custom-made for the new service..........all of it available for you and yours to stream for 6.99 per month.........

                 Deep irony on the first day........Disney, the mega-corporation that's spent untold gazillions to buy up Marvel, Star Wars and most of 20th Century Fox, couldn't muster up enough technical expertise to launch the site without crashes and glitches......

                  Is that possible?  You mean to tell us that Disney's vast pockets couldn't cough up enough cash to hire some I.T. guys who could get the site up and running properly?  Really?

                 Naturally, the first thing BQ rushed to check out was "Davy Crockett, the King Of the Wild Frontier"........(but unlike millions of other 1950's kids around the country, we wouldn't have been caught dead wearing one of those  Disney merchandised coonskin caps......)   And Fess Parker, as Davy,  was as funny and charming as when he was explaining his encounter with the giant ants in "Them!"...…(which led Uncle Walt to hire him....)

                  How could we possibly resist returning to "Sammy The Way Out Seal", "The Castaway Cowboy", "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes", "The Million Dollar Duck" and "Old Yeller"......to name a few.......

                  Glitches aside, we'd advise joining up now and go binge-crazy quickly.......once the Disney accounting department feels they've accumulated enough subscribers, you can expect that 6.99 monthly fee to rise up until it equals your monthly mortgage payments.......

                   So we'll let the millennials and their kids binge on the Marvel catalog.....(much to Martin Scorcese's horror....).......as for BQ, you'll find us deeply entranced with "The Sign Of Zorro" and "Those Calloways".......

                      For Disney's launch of the site, 1 star (*)....(get your act together, Mouse techies).....for the site itself, for the content alone, 4 stars (****).