movies that feature musical numbers — Page 2

Which one, DawnlikesRent?
The one where they sing "Good King Wenceslaus" and the kids start jumping and dancing around? Or are there others? I haven't seen it yet.

And speaking of holiday movies with emotions, I just saw a movie called "NOEL". It's great stuff. It has beautiful, somber music by LSOH's Alan Menken, who I believe is one of the best composers EVER.

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Oh I loved 10 things I hate about you!!!!
-My Best Friend's Wedding has Say a Little Prayer
-Pretty in Pink has that one scene with Duckie but he is lipsyncing

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"The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert"
Song list:
1. I've Never Been To Me - Charlene
2. Go West - Village People
3. Billy Don't Be A Hero - Paper Lace
4. My Baby Loves Lovin' - White Plains
5. I Love The Nightlife (Disco 'Round) - Alicia Bridges (original version)
6. Can't Help Lovin' That Man - Trudy Richards
7. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
8. Fine Romance, A - Lena Horne
9. Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches & Herb
10. I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine - Patti Page 11. Finally - CeCe Peniston (7" choice mix)
12. Take A Letter Maria - R.B. Greaves
13. Mamma Mia - ABBA
14. Save The Best For Last - Vanessa Williams
15. I Love The Nightlife (Disco 'Round) - Alicia Bridges (real rapino 7" mix)
16. Go West-The Village People (original 12" mix)
17. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor (1993 Phil Kelsey classic 12" mix)
18. Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches & Herb (original 12" mix)
19. I Love The Nightlife (Disco 'Round) - Alicia Bridges (Phillip Damien extended vox)

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??? Is that me that is supposed to and if so, What am I to get over please? Thank You

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I think Capn was referring to the movie "Get Over It."

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Yeah, jimmirae...no worries, Get Over It is a teen movie with Kirsten Dunst.

Tank Girl. There is a beautiful 1930's style musical number smack in the middle of this movie. It's a Cole Porter song...and in the movie it takes place in an indoor pool.
I remember watching this with friends, and as soon as it was over, we went back and watched just this sceen two or three more times.

That reminds me of the number from "13 Going on 30" where Jennifer Garner and the cast do the whole "Thriller" routine to help kick the party up a notch.

All the Camp Chippewa songs in "Addams Family Values", of course.

I wish I learned that Rockafella Skank dance so the next time I'm at a dance and they play that song, I'm getting anybody who knows that dance to do it. Of course I might get the same results as justagirl2, but who knows.

John Cleese's version of "My Way" from George Of The Jungle.

The "Sound of Music" songs featured in "The Pacifier".

And of course, who could forget "Shout" from National Lampoon's Animal House?

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Not Another Teen Movie

Bullets over Broadway

That's cool.

I got some really old cult stuff here:

A really old one called "HYSTERICAL" from 1983. In the middle of the film, some crazed villagers-turned-zombies start doing a dance/song called "Zomboogie!"

And probably the weirdest sci-fi spoof ever: "ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES". In fact, they have a couple of musical numbers, one being an uptempo dance number. I wouldn't be too surprised if people musicalized that and took it to the stage.

And, of course, the Muppets have their share of musical numbers in their movies, which are some of my favorites. Muppet Movie has some great songs, but it is THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER that pays true homage to the old MGM-style musical numbers. There's an Astaire-style shadow tap dance that Kermit does, and there are two Piggy numbers: a foxtrot Cole Porter-style ballad that turns into a vigorous dance break with men in tuxedos flanking Piggy Monroe-style. The other one she has is very Esther Williams, which is-- you guessed it-- SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING!!! To heighten things up, they even hired a Broadway-style chorus to sing backup for the big numbers.

While THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN has a lot of Broadway-style songs (orchestrated by Broadway vet Ralph Burns) that they do in their Broadway-bound show, they changed directions with "The Muppet Christmas Carol" (by Paul Williams) which is basically light-piano-meets-baroque pop numbers like "Room In Your Heart" and "One More Sleep Till Christmas". Muppet Treasure Island was given a more swashbuckling feel with a couple of comic turns (one of them by Tim Curry!). There are no original song numbers in "Muppets from Space," but there are, like some that were previously mentioned, big dance numbers set to "Brick House" and "Celebration". The former is absolutely hilarious as it takes place on their usual wake-up rituals with the Commodores song being played in the background. At the end involve everybody getting down with their bad selves and singing in unison... "OH, A BRICK... HOUSE!!" Anybody seen any of these?

Okay that was weird and pretty dang LONG.

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The best--by far--is "The Sweetest Thing"

You're too big to fit in here,
Too big to fit in there...

Cable Guy - "Somebody To Love" by Jefferson Airplane
Ella Enchanted - "Somebody to Love" by Queen, and of course "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"
Planes Trains and Automobiles - everybody singing "Meet The Flintstones" led by John Candy

I second Anchorman - "Afternoon Delight"

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It is a very different film. Those crazy Aussies...and their love of all things ABBA! LoL

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