My Left Footloose

No. Really. Get Me to the Church on Time. I’m Not Kidding.

To win a bet, the Bishop of Aquila (Rex Harrison) undertakes to transform a common woman (Michelle Pfeiffer) into a noble hawk and a gallant swordsman (Rutger Hauer) into a vicious wolf. Young thief Philippe The Mouse (Matthew Broderick) works with a retired Colonel Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White) to undo the transformation before the Bishop can present the pair at the Embassy Ball. Features such famous Lerner and Lowe musical numbers as “Wouldn’t It Be Wolverly” and “I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Beak.”

My Fair Ladyhawke

Cheat sheet My Fair Lady | Ladyhawke

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Friend-friend, or euphemism-friend? | I’m Just a Girl Who Cain’t Say No

The wonderfully fun first meeting between Philippe and Navarre in Ladyhawke. I love this movie.

Dark Secrets Revealed About One of the Greatest Love Stories Never Told

Miss Beatrix Potter is a young woman whose mother has forbidden her to enter the local school of sorcery. However, the temptation is too much. She applies, is accepted, and attends the school where she learns all about wishing and mycology. When an amorous changeling half-rabbit/half-man named Harry begins chasing her about campus, Miss Potter uses all of her powerful education to transform herself into a scarecrow and frighten him away.

Miss Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Won't you come with me, little girl, on a magic carpet ride? | Leapin' Lepus!

Not all imaginary giant rabbits are our friends.

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I Was Born in a (Tree) Trunk

Feral child Elsa (Judy Garland) is liberated from the lions that raised her by game warden Bill (James Mason), who moonlights for MGM. When Elsa becomes a screen sensation, Bill's jealousy and alcoholism bring out the beat in her. Features the hit song, "The Prey That Got Away."

A Star is Born Free

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These You Better Treat This Lady Like a Queen | Hey, Kids! Let's Put on a Show

This viral-video classic, an exemplar of the natureporn genre, features lions, Cape buffalo and a crocodile or two.

Wolverines! And Other Mammals!

After the events of Ice Age: Meltdown, Manny, Diego, and Sid (Ray Romano, Dennis Leary, and John Leguizamo) are settling down to their new lives when a surprise paratrooper attack by Cuban dinosaurs forces the boys up into the hills, where they wage a guerilla war to keep their home free for the warm blood of patriotism!

Ice Age: Red Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Cheat sheet Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | Red Dawn

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These It’s a Sloth in a Corset | This is the Single Worst Day of My Entire Life!

The Ice Age crowd goes to the well one more time – this time in 3D! Check out the trailer.

Where There Is No Intelligence, There Is Epic Fantasy (Or, Don't Bug Me, I'm a King)

[We briefly considered doing a Thursday Three-Way of bug movies in June. ("June Bugs." Get it?) In the intro, Phil would have said something to the effect that his anal obsessive-compulsive precocious freak-nerd nine-year old self would have impatiently pointed out that "June Bug" is incorrect nomenclature. They are, in fact, May Beetles. But nearly forty years later, mellowed by good food, better beer, and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, Phil is now prepared to accept the popular sobriquet. And besides, it's a B-52s song. As a farewell to June and its bugs, here is one spectacular bug-movie mash-up from Phil.]

To save them from the Blitz, the four Pevensie children are sent to the countryside to stay with their uncle, eccentric entomologist Dr. Nils Hellstrom. There they travel through a mystic portal to a strange realm where insects rule. With Tilda Swinton as the evil sorceress Thysania, James McAvoy as Mr. Attagenus, and Liam Neeson as the voice of the messianic Myrmeleo.

The Hellstrom Chronicles of Narnia: The Antlion, The Witch Moth, and the Wardrobe Beetle

Cheat sheet The Hellstrom Chronicle | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Lion Thing | Would You Like a Krill Sandwich With Your Afternoon Tea?

When I was nine years old my mother took me to see this movie, resulting in nearly four decades of screaming nightmares. Thanks, Mom.

Just Keep Swimming

A talented boy clownfish (Denzel Washington) leaves his reef home to start a jazz band in New York City. His nervous, overprotective father travels with reefer smoking turtles and a forgetful sax player named Dory (Wesley Snipes) to find his son. Along the way he rediscovers the importance of courage, friendship, and the blues as a way of life.

Finding Nemo Better Blues

Cheat sheet Finding Nemo | Mo' Better Blues

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Me Gotta Have It! | Not Rain Nor Sleet Nor Bricks and Bricks of Snow...

Branford Marsalis knows the blues.

I'm Just Not Sure Why The Fish Has Glasses.

Aging superhero and dissatisfied cubicle rat Henry Limpet gives up his frustrating life of insurance-wrangling and closeted world-saving and is transformed into a talking fish bent on defeating evil Nazi supervillain Syndrome. His family - Elastigirl, Dash, morose and sarcastic Invisible Girl, and the mysterious Jack Jack - must free him from Syndrome's lair before the human world is destroyed and Limpet's fish friends develop into a new race of possibly peaceful fish-men.

The Incredibles and Mr. Limpet

Cheat sheet The Incredibles | The Incredible Mr. Limpet

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Dammit, Jim! I'm an Ogre, Not a Physicist! | Paging Mr. Toaster. White Courtesy Telephone, Please.

Fish have no boring jobs, no demanding spouses, and no mysterious, leering, martini-drinking Navy guys to contend with. Fishes' lives are better lives than people's.

Locomotive, Rah! Rah! Locomotive Oil!

On the evening of his retirement, aging Norwegian train engineer (and part-time elephant) Horten is startled by a voice coming from a tiny speck of dust, and is forced to reconsider his life and his loneliness. The inhabitants of the dust speck teach him the mantra, "A person's a person, no matter how old," which helps him cope with the grim retirement party thrown by his coworkers (a kangaroo and several evil monkeys).

O'Horten Hears a Who

Cheat sheet O'Horten | Horton Hears a Who

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Do We Get to Win This Time, Jiminy Cricket? | You'd be Dead Too, if You Were That Cold

Enjoy the trailer for O'Horten, which opens tonight.

And... uhm... oh, dear.

Leapin' Lepus!

Two brothers, one a hapless inventor and the other a dog without a mouth, compete fiercely with each other on the soccer field, but later forget their differences to team up against a lycanthropic lagomorph.

Rudo y Cursi of the Were-Rabbit

Cheat sheet Rudo y Cursi | Wallace & Grommit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Take a Chance on Me | Love is a Force of Nature (And So Is Gravity)

Trailer oficiel de Rudo y Cursi.

Speaking of soccer, and to demonstrate that the movies in this mash-up aren't actually unrelated, here's a brilliant bit from the creators of Wallace & Grommit.

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Dammit, Jim! I'm an Ogre, Not a Physicist!

To rescue his swamp from an alien threat, an antisocial ogre enlists the help of Starfleet cadets Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhuru, Chekov, and Scott to transport a princess across the wilds of uncharted space. Along the way, the ogre falls in love and lots and lots of things blow up... and, according to the trailers, there's some sex.

Star Shrek

Cheat sheet Star Trek | Shrek

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Cold Feet | If You Build It, They Will Stomp

The long-awaited J. J. Abrams adaptation of Star Trek opens tomorrow... or in some cities, today.

Bruckheimer's Feelgood Classic - Fun for the Whole Family!

In this Disney/Bruckheimer blockbuster directed by Charlie Martin Smith, a young boy and a talented basketball-playing dog find themselves fighting a planeload of dangerous criminals who have siezed control and intend to sabotage the local peewee basketball championship.

Con Air Bud

Cheat sheet Con Air | Air Bud

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These One Night in Bangkok | It Really Is Underrated!

It's the crowning achievement of children's entertainment, I tells ya.

You Better Treat This Lady Like a Queen

Max, a lion from the New York Zoo, travels to Africa and has a passionate affair with a Danish plantation owner (Meryl Streep).

Madagascar: Escape Out of Africa

Cheat sheet Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | Out of Africa

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Sure, But He Plays Mozart for the Baboons | Bonding With Mom

Would You Like a Krill Sandwich With Your Afternoon Tea?

A polar bear, an elephant, a humpback whale and Gillian Anderson get together at an elegant New York estate to discuss global warming, the loss of the rain forests and how to marry a proper society gentleman.

The House of Earth

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These I See Costume Dramas | Are You a Unicorn?

Earth, a documentary from the Planet Earth folks which follows the migration paths of four animal families, opens tonight. 

Do We Get To Win This Time, Jiminy Cricket?

An escaped circus elephant returns to the Big Top to liberate his still-captive buddies. Highlight: memorable use of a magic feather in the air-strike scene.

Rumbo

Cheat sheet Rambo: First Blood | Dumbo

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Man is in the Forest! | There Are No Friendly Civilians!

Dog is My Co-Pilot

An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save humanity from two renegade angels trying to exploit a loophole and re-enter Heaven. Spoiler: God is a sheepdog.

The Shaggy Dogma

Cheat sheet The Shaggy Dog | Dogma

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Seven Words We Never Wanted to Hear | You've Got a Friend in Me

New My Left Footloose writer Steve is also a talented and twisted graphic artist. Just for you, he made this delicious movie poster for The Shaggy Dogma.

Roar! You Must Be THIS TALL to Ride This Ride! Roar!

In 1987, a German U-boat takes a wrong turn and ends up a cheesy 1987 Long Island amusement park called Adventureland, where dinosaurs and neanderthals take tickets for rollercoasters, hawk souvenirs, and sell corndogs between semesters at college.

Adventureland that Time Forgot

Cheat sheet Adventureland | The Land that Time Forgot

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Man is in the Forest!

Sent to prison for killing the hunter who shot his Mom (as well as mangling an entire police department and blowing up half a town) Bambo is given a special assignment by PETA to rescue all the test animals held in Vietnamese make-up testing camps. When it turns out that the whole thing is a set up, Bambo has to fight his way to freedom with Flower and Thumper! Co-staring a metric crap-load of dead Viet Cong.

Bambo: First Blood, Part II

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If You Liked This, You'll Love These How Are Things in Glock-A-Morra? | There Are No Friendly Civilians!

Here's Weird Al Yankovic as Bambo.

I feel like I've been in a coma for the past twenty years, and I'm just now waking up.

After 14 years of working for people who are beneath him (literally: they're dwarves) Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is awakened by the kiss of Prince Charming. Unfortunately for Lester, the Prince is not his type and his "thanks, but no thanks" to Charming Chris Cooper results in his getting his brains blown out all over his living room. Annette Benning co-stars as Mortgagificent, the Evil Queen of Real Estate.

American Sleeping Beauty

Cheat sheet American Beauty | Sleeping Beauty

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Kevin Spacey Slays a dragon...

...as does Prince Philip.

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah! Zip-a-dee-ay! My, oh, my what a crapulent day!

In this Jim-Crow era Disney musical, Brer Rabbit finds out that on top of not getting to drink from the white-only water cooler, he also has terminal cancer. Brer Fox gives and heartbreaking eulogy at his funeral ending with Brer Fox's declaration "I love Brer Rabbit. And I'd like all of you to love him too." Starring Billy Dee Williams as Brer Fox.

Brian's Song of the South

Cheat sheet Brian's Song | Song of the South

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If You Liked This, You'll Love These Hold That Line | Sir Lawrence Olivier Stars as the Football

Uh... Follow the bouncing disembodied mouse head?

 

By George, I Think She's Got It!

In this Disney animated musical, Professor Henrietta Higgins makes a bet with her Siamese colleagues that she can civilize a ruffian from the streets. However the experiment goes awry when Henrietta finds herself being seduced by the freedom of the lower classes and ends up snorffing meatballs in back alleys.

My Fair Lady and the Tramp

Cheat sheet My Fair Lady | Lady and the Tramp

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If You Liked This, You'll Love These Let's Go to Work | Albania's Hard To Rhyme

And apropos of nothing, what has Nina Hagen been doing with herself all these years?

Let's Go to Work

An animated movie about five pit bulls (Magenta, Maroon, Mauve, Violet, and Chartreuse) killed in a bank robbery gone bad. They were given a second chance at redemption by guarding a girl in the witness protection program, who was compromised by a corrupt Doberman Pinscher police dog. Chartruese protects the girl and saves the day by clipping the ears of the Doberman Pinscher to the tune of "Stuck in the Middle With You" by Steeler's Wheel.

All Reservoir Dogs Go to Heaven

Cheat sheet All Dogs Go to Heaven | Reservoir Dogs

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Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right...

There's No Crying in Squid Battles!

A shortage of men during WWII forces ocean explorer Captain Nemo (Tom Hanks) to "man" the Nautilus with female baseball players. Hello, sailor!

20,000 Leagues of Their Own

Cheat sheet 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | A League of Their Own

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What the Buzz is All About

A widowed Brooklyn bookkeeper is torn between her astronaut fiancé (Buzz Aldren) and a charismatic Belgian housefly.

Fly Me To The Moonstruck

Cheat sheet Fly Me To the Moon 3D | Moonstruck

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The Belgians stick their landing in the semi-educational cartoon animal comedy event with Fly Me to the Moon, opening today. The bizarre voiceover cast includes Nicolette Sheridan, Kelly Rippa, Tim Curry, and Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldren.

Neiman Marcus Has a Big, Shiny Cave!

A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a half-dressed jungle man-child take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall from a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.

George of the Dead

Cheat sheet George of the Jungle | Dawn of the Dead

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Cartoons Aren't Well Suited for the Cold

Young adventurer Eliza Thornberry and her chimpanzee friend Darwin unexpectedly leave their family and hitchhike to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Their family hire journalist Jon Krakauer to find them, and Jon's revelations about their adventures are both chilling and hilarious. In the end, Eliza is found dead, curled up around a shivering Darwin, in an abandoned Magic Schoolbus in the Yukon wilderness.

Into the Wild Thornberrys Movie

Cheat sheet The Wild Thornberrys Movie | Into the Wild

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