The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown

I must watch Fantasia actually. I'd forgotten how beautiful it is (although the animation in the dinosaur scenes is awful even for 1940).
Tbh to me that's more of a musical than something like (ahem) the commitments (etc).

If you just take a wild guess, you probably won’t get mine…

But maybe you can work this out, if you bet on it.

I saw a little of it as a baby, but I was old enough to know that I had started it in the middle of the movie so I never counted it as seen. Of course, I don't know if the original or one of the sequels was the one with a baby, so I don't know which of the three it was.


But anthropomorphized household appliances were already perfected with Beauty and the Beast so I never got interested in it.

Dang! 3 for 3

Oh, hey, a new countdown!


Part of me wishes I had voted for Trap, but one of the one-pointers is mine. It might be possible to figure out which one without knowing me too well.

If we have a review of our one-pointer, do we post it? I don't remember how this works.

Go for it, it's cool.

You are too kind...



Here is one of my favorite films from my middle teenage years... that I have seen ONCE in the last 30 years. In 2005. How would it hold up?
I loved it.
This was so fun, I actually backed it up several times to watch scenes again and then when it was over I went back and watched the climax twice more.
So what the hell is it?
Well, it's a Canadian, Bakshi-esque animated film about an aging Rock superstar in a post-apocalyptic world populated by anthropomorphic animals, searching for the voice that will help him raise a demon and rule the World.
The Rock-star, the villain of our story, is a sort of combination of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and The Grinch, name of Mok...


... and the Heroine, possessor of the magic voice, is Angel (seen here with demons)...


... an aspiring singer in a cut-rate band with a selfish ******* leader, Omar.

But man, is this film fun. The Bakshi influence is obvious but there's also some other, edgier animation in parts, as well as some really great imagery at times...


Not to mention, Mok is voiced, in song, by both Lou Reed (in the song above and another) and Iggy Pop, Angel by Debbie Harry (singing the haunting and triumphant "Send Love Through"), and Omar by Cheap Trick's Robin Zander. The songs, in general, are quite memorable.
That's a lot of entertainment for a few bucks.
Anyway, this film delivered for me in a big way. The nostalgia factor was so great that I actually started crying the first time Angel sang her song. No joke. But it also struck me how much better the whole production is than I expected, nostalgia aside. Imagine if one of Bakshi's better films actually had a cogent narrative that flowed and good songs by those superstars I've already mentioned and you have Rock & Rule.
Highly recommended for people who like this sort of thing.

I would also like to mention that I had two movies I hated to choose between for my one-pointer... and someone else chose the one I let go of! I'm happy as can be.

I was around and going to movies when Rock & Rule came out in 1983 but damned if I remember it and it sounds like something I would've thought was cool. I was a big fan of Cheap Trick and seen them in I think 1984, odd that I never heard of this before. I wonder if it didn't get a big release in the states?

It was on HBO for a while when I was a young and I taped it. Got it on DVD back in 2005. There was actually a very good full print of it on YouTube for a while but they took it down last year.

Yeah...I screwed up I wasn't aware their was a second Magic Flute this is the one that I meant to vote for at 14. Doubt those points put it on the ranking but yeah this is one of my favorite musicals from Bergman.

My one pointer...Leningrad Cowboys Go America.







Russia falls and a band decides to come to America learn Rock N Roll and make it big. The film combines the deadest of deadpan humor with great live music of classics. The film is actually the start of a trilogy of films as the band ended up coming into existence for real and now tours.

I don't want to cause trouble so early, but if The Muppet Christmas Carol is stillmellow's one-pointer... then it's not a one-pointer, if you follow me.

This is a great movie. I'm a little sorry I didn't vote for it, but it deserves this recognition.

It’s not the Christmas Carol, it’s Treasure Island.

I've seen two – maybe three – of the one-pointers; Joe's Apartment, (maybe?) Muppet Treasure Island, and mine.

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From the one-pointers, I've only seen Red Psalm, Hallelujah, and High Society.

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Out of the one pointers, I have seen: Neptune's Daughter, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, Hallelujah, A Week Away (mine), Forbidden Zone, The Brave Little Toaster, and Muppet Treasure Island.

I must be a bad person, because this made me laugh.
In fact I actually sniggered slightly, then lolled.