The scariest movie of the upcoming October Halloween season does NOT have a number after the title or the word blood involved, and that’s amazing.  Yes, this is prime time for horror flicks–this is horror’s Christmas, baby–and it’s amazing, but more and more it looks like Disney’s going to have the current frontrunner.

With WHAT? You’re probably asking, staring at your monitor with something like horror etched onto your features.  What could DISNEY possibly bring to October that’s scarier than Saw V?

Easy.  Beverly Hills Chihuahua.

So I’m looking at the cast list for the entirely too-upcoming Beverly Hills Chihuahua, and I’m cringing.  Okay, yes, the trailer had a really catchy little theme to it, but seriously, this is supposed to make a movie?  Were actually expected to watch a movie about a bunch of Chihuahuas?  It’s like a horrible… well… Disney movie!

Anyway I’m looking at the cast list, and I’m wondering, couldn’t they scrape together the twenty bucks and a bus ride home required to get Carlos Mencia involved in this? Or is this just proves that even Disney has some standards?  I mean, seriously–they’ve got just about every Hispanic leading man that’s ever been in anything in Hollywood ever, including for some reason Paul Rodriguez and Edward James Olmos.  Rodriguez’s last role of any significance was back in 2002 when he was doing Blood Work with Eastwood, and if it weren’t for Battlestar Galactica, Edward James Olmos would be last remembered as the math teacher.

Disney isn’t exactly known for taking chances but this is pandering in the extreme.  Did somebody from Disney legal come stumbling up to the head offices and scream, “man, we really need something about Latinos or we are so getting sued!”?  Surely there is more to Latin American culture than small rat dogs.  And surely Disney could’ve done better than Beverly Hills Chihuahua.

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