During our awkward pre-teen years, there was one thing we could always count on — watching our favorite Disney Channel Original Movies on TV, and most likely recording them on VHS to watch at a later time. I know it’s so weird thinking back to a time before DVR, right? Let’s take a trip down memory lane and recall the 12 most memorable Disney Channel Original Movies from the 90’s and 2000’s. Bring on the nostalgia!
1. Wish Upon a Star When a young sister makes a wish to switch places with her popular older sister, it actually comes true! Katherine Heigl stars in this hilarious movie about sisterly love way before her years of wearing scrubs on Grey’s Anatomy and becoming a popular movie star!
2. Zenon Trilogy Kirsten Storms plays Zenon Kar who lives on a rotating space station out in the universe set sometime in the future. The movies follow Zenon getting sent to earth, saving the space station she calls home, and bringing the famous Proto Zoa to perform out in space. Can’t you hear it now? “Zoom, zoom, zoom, make my heart go boom boom my super nova girl!”
3. Seventeen Again Before this was a Zac Efron comedy, Seventeen Again followed divorced grandparents who were transformed back into their teenage years after a botched lab experiment from their youngest grandson while babysitting their grandchildren for the weekend.
4. Life Size Before Lindsay Lohan was making news for her many legal troubles, she started beside Tyra Banks in this classic about a Barbie doll coming to life. “Eve’s great no matter where she goes, dress her up from her head to her toes.”
5. Halloweentown The ultimate Halloween movie, besides Hocus Pocus, of course. This movie follows a grandma who comes to town to reveal to her daughter and grandkids that they have magical powers while taking us on a journey to the fictional land of Halloweentown!
6. Smart House When a 13-year-old boy wins a computerized home, his family moves in unaware that the house literally takes on a life of its own controlled by the crazy tech mom PAT.
7. The Ultimate Christmas Present When two teenage girls steal a weather machine from out in the woods to give themselves a snow day, the machine breaks resulting in a snowstorm that turns completely out of control!
8. The Luck of the Irish When a lucky teenage boy attends an Irish carnival and gets his coin switched out for a fake one, his luck is completely gone. He then learns he is a leprechaun along with his family and he must retrieve the coin back to allow them to be normal human beings again.
9. Cadet Kelly Hilary Duff stars as a clueless fashionable teen who is forced to enter George Washington Military Academy because her mom gets married to the General of the school.
10. The Even Stevens Movie Before Shia Labeouf went off the bandwagon, he starred as Louis Stevens in this film based off the popular television show. The Stevens think they’ve won an all expense paid tropical vacation. Little do they know they’re stranded on an island making fools of themselves on live television.
11. My Date with the Presidents Daughter When an average teenager lands a date with the president’s daughter, the series of events that occur could jeopardize their relationship and the safety of the United States!
12. Model Behavior This movie follows two teenage girls who live completely different lives with one being in high school and the other being a model. They switch places and end up enjoying each other’s lives more than their own.