Your top 5 favorite Musicals (movies)

[Mikey]

No rules, stuff like American Graffiti or the Temptations are fine.

My top 5 would be .......

#1 --- Little Shop of Horrors
#2 --- Grease
#3 --- Blues Brothers
#4 --- Yankee Doodle Dandy
#5 --- Hairspray (1988)

honorable mention

Help (Beatles)
Yellow Sub
Willie Wonka

[rykerw1701]

Gotta have Rocky Horror and the Wizard of Oz in there. I'd also throw in Sound of Music.

[CrimsonGhost]

REPO: The genetic opera!!
Phantom of the Paradise!
Xanadu!
Rock and Rule!
Purple Rain!

[Earth 2 Chris]

No particular order:

Scrooge (1970)
Willy Wonka
Wizard of Oz
Blues Brothers
White Christmas

Honorable Mentions:
Mary Poppins
Grease
Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Muppet Movie
The Muppets (recent one)

If you throw in the Disney animated films, you'd get a whole new list!

Chris

[Brazoo]

Oh wow - weird to think of movies with lots of music and musicals at the same time - but it's probably something like this based on the movies I've seen the most times:

Singin' in the Rain
Wizard of Oz
Hairspray (the original)
High Fidelity
Stop Making Sense
The Blues Brothers
The Muppet Movie

Oh - and I guess Duck Soup and Some Like it Hot might count - even though they only have a couple of music sequences.

[emeraldknight47]

Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Little Shop of Horrors
Reefer Madness (2005)
West Side Story
South Pacific
Singin' in the Rain
Pennies From Heaven
All That Jazz
The Sound of Music
Grease
The King and I
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Fame
42nd Street
The Jazz Singer
Moulin Rouge
Purple Rain
Romeo and Juliet
Victor/Victoria

How could I have forgotten "Jesus Christ Superstar?"

Probably a few others, as well...

[Hector]

I hate musicals, but give Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka, and Disney animated movies, a pass.

[Donkey Hoatie]

Tough to pull just 5. Even tougher to branch out from more stereotypical "musical" movies. For me, I'd go with this:

1. Wizard of Oz - the gold standard, as far as I'm concerned
2. Once - just a wonderful movie with tremendous music
3. South Park - at the time it came out, I had never laughed so hard in a theater
4. Blue Brothers - great memories of growing up and watching this on the VCR repeatedly
5. August Rush - big fan of the main song "This Time," and the guy who wrote it (Chris Trapper)

[Mikey]

Even though it's not technically a movie I do love Sweeney Todd (early 80's PBS version with Angela Lansbury)

Not a fan of the Johnny Depp movie, but it's watchable

[hobub]

Paint your wagon
Paint your wagon
Paint your wagon
Paint your wagon
oh and
Paint your wagon

[TrekStar]

Musicals I enjoyed, but not in any specific order

Sound of Music
Fiddler on the Roof
Godspell
Chicago
Wizard of Oz
Fame
Disney's Fantasia

[PNGwynne]

Just 5?! (no order, but Music Man is evergreen):

The Music Man ('63)
1776
Singing in the Rain
Rocky Horror Picture Show
The King and I
Fiddler on the Roof
Swing Time
Kiss Me, Kate
Meet Me in St. Louis
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Wizard of Oz
Scrooge
Nightmare Before Christmas
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
Victor, Victoria
Little Shop deviates from the source a bit but is great

[PNGwynne]

Love the PBS Sweeney and Into the Woods.

Even though it's not technically a movie I do love Sweeney Todd (early 80's PBS version with Angela Lansbury)

Not a fan of the Johnny Depp movie, but it's watchable

[Mikey]

I forgot Fiddler on the Roof

Good one ... !!!

[Marvelmania]

All those mentioned but add Heavy Metal