About Disney+

The Disney streaming platform has hundreds of movie and TV titles, drawing from its own deep reservoir classics and from Star Wars, Marvel and more. Disney Plus is a force to be reckoned with. Since its launch last year, Disney's streaming service offers 4K HDR streaming with dozens of shows and movies for just £6.99 a month with the ability to set up multiple profiles and download programs for offline viewing.

Content that is enough to fill a few weeks of movie nights, especially if you are a fan of Marvel and Pixar films. It's fair to say that Disney could have been quicker with the turnaround on its larger originals - The Mandalorian is still its biggest attraction a year later, although Hamilton's live music recording is a close second - but the foundation of the platform is rock-solid.

So, what exactly can you expect in terms of content? Well, leaving The Mandalorian aside, the originals include the new Muppets Now series, the final season of the animated series The Clone Wars, as well as the live action film from The Lady and the Tramp. You'll also find dozens of Disney Vault classics and more recent films, like the live action films Aladdin and The Lion King 2019.

There are all Star Wars movies in 4K HDR, the vast majority of Marvel films and almost all Pixar films that you would like to watch. But for each Up, Monsters Inc and The Lion King there is a Lion King One and a Half, Davy Crockett and The River Pirates and Twitches 2. When Disney said it was going to put its catalog, it really committed to putting it, and it means that there is a lot of filling.

For a single monthly fee, you watch on four simultaneous screens and save up to seven profiles on the service, making it a great plan for families looking to stretch their entertainment budgets. In addition, children's movies that can be watched like Frozen and Moana ensure that your child always has something to watch in an emergency, while programs like The Mandalorian and The World According to Jeff Goldblum offer parents something to watch as well.

If you can skip the fill and follow the great content that is there, you will find that the low-cost Disney Plus is a solid alternative to Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu and now Apple TV Plus, which will only improve with more content comes online. Watch Star Wars movies in the best order

What else can you watch with the Disney Plus package?

Disney + is just one of the main digital platforms that Disney is offering in this new era of streaming. It's the biggest, for sure. But it is also only part of the puzzle. If nothing else - and if you are a sports fan of any kind - you should also consider subscribing to ESPN +. It runs on the same underlying platform as Disney +, so you'll be pretty familiar with how things work. And as for content, too. If you thought there were a lot of sports on TV, wait until you take a look at ESPN +. Yes, there are live sports. All types of live sports. There are college football games that you can't find on TV. There's a lot of college basketball. There's a little NHL. There's boxing and UFC - in fact, you have to have ESPN + if you want to watch UFC pay-per-view events - and rugby and cricket and ... you name it. ESPN + is the perfect companion for Disney + if you are a sports fan. There is simply no limit to the off-TV games you can watch, plus tons of original content.

The third arm of the trifecta is Hulu, which is also controlled by Disney. It is where you will find all the content on demand that you came to know from this service, as well as original programs like The Handmaid's Tale. Hulu is the place where a lot of content originally planned for Disney + is ending, while Disney tries to keep Disney + for a more familiar rate, so the package will be the only way to ensure that you can see all the content being released. And perhaps the most important for Disney's purposes is Hulu with live TV which, as the name implies, takes you to live (and local) television along with all other content.

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'Muppets Now'

The latest attempt to revive the vaudevillian magic of 'The Muppet Show' tries to ingratiate itself with the tech-savvy, screen-addicted modern kid, losing some of the backstage camaraderie that made it feel like puppet friends putting on a show. But the new episodes are tightly constructed and mostly clever, with segments casting Miss Piggy as a temperamental influencer, the Swedish Chef as an inept cooking-show host and Kermit the Frog as a celebrity interviewer. Even when a bit falls flat, 'Muppets Now' whisks along efficiently into the next one.

'The Mandalorian'

Created by Jon Favreau, who kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe with 'Iron Man,' 'The Mandalorian' is by far the biggest production in Disney+'s launch slate. It's an eight-episode 'Star Wars' series that strikes out to a galaxy far, far away from the movies. Opening five years after the events of 'Return of the Jedi' and 25 years before the emergence of a new generation of heroes in 'The Force Awakens,' the show is a space western that focuses on a Clint Eastwood-like bounty hunter (Pedro Pascal) with no clear allegiances. Werner Herzog, Nick Nolte, Gina Carano and Giancarlo Esposito are among the eclectic cast.

'Star Wars: The Clone Wars'

Fans of the original 'Star Wars' trilogy scoffed at the prequels, but for a generation of children, the prequels were their own obsession, and the animated series 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' has deepened the experience. Set between the events of 'Episode II: Attack of the Clones' and 'Episode III: Revenge of the Sith,' the show has filled in gaps in the mythology, turned bounty hunters and clones into real characters and added substance to the relationship between Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala. The seventh and final season, produced for Disney+, builds up to the Siege of Mandalore.

'The Simpsons'

Let's face it: Of the 31 (and counting) seasons of 'The Simpsons,' only about the first nine are any good, but that legendary run had such a cultural impact that quotes from and references to it have become a linguistic shorthand. The creator Matt Groening and his animators conceived the Simpsons and the town of Springfield as an endlessly elastic source of colorful characters and sharp jibes about American families, institutions and values. Our critic called its animation 'ingenious' and its scripts 'consistently inventive.'

'Black Is King'

The album 'The Lion King: The Gift' was produced and curated by Beyoncé as an accompaniment to the photorealistic remake of 'The Lion King,' but it dwarfed the film in ambition, using it as a jumping-off point for themes of Black power, ancestry and womanhood. Much like her groundbreaking visual album 'Lemonade,' 'Black Is King' is an arresting smorgasbord of music, fashion, choreography and eye-popping color, with the writer-director-performer serving as the ringmaster for other visual artists and musicians. Our critic Wesley Morris wrote, 'Beauty is a reason this film exists.'

Beauty and the Beast'

The renaissance of Disney animation that started with 'The Little Mermaid' peaked with this romance between the book-smart Belle and the tempestuous Beast, a former prince who holds her captive in his enchanted castle until the curse that turned him into a monster is broken. The technical and artistic contributions are first-rate all around, none greater than the songs by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, which include 'Be Our Guest' and the title number. Our critic praised its combination of 'the latest computer animation techniques with the best of Broadway.'