10 Greatest Disney Channel Original Movies
1. Brink
This is it. The movie that made every kid who watched it want to become a professional skater. Brink came out during the late 90s, when the X-Games were at their most popular and every type of extreme sport was all the rage. It was about a kid who was torn between skating just for fun with his friends, and turning it into a profitable career with sponsorships and a team full of douchebags.
Passion or money, staying pure or selling out...the age old internal conflict. And though we were all quite a few years away from becoming slaves to the corporate world, we implicitly understood the tough decision Brink (yup, that's the edgy nickname of our hero) had to make.
But to be totally honestly, the biggest reason this movie was a hit amongst the preteen set was because it happened to star one Erik von Detten, whose perfectly stringy, constantly wet hair won his way into all of our hearts. His hold over the female population of the 1990s may have been short-lived, but it was wonderful while it lasted.