“We coulda been anything that we wanted to be/But don’t it make your heart glad/That we decided/A fact we take pride in/We became the best at bein’ bad!” 

The Scoop: 1976 G, directed by Alan Parker and starring Scott Baio, John Cassisi, Martin Lev, Florrie Dugger, Jodie Foster, and Paul Murphy.

Tagline: Every year brings a great movie. Every decade a great movie musical!

Summary Capsule: To my knowledge, the world’s only gangster musical that couldn’t get served at a bar.

“One compass remains, and only one who can read it.”

The Scoop: PG-13 2007, directed by Chris Weitz and starring Dakota Blue Richards, Nicole Kidman and Sam Elliot.

Tagline: There are worlds beyond our own. The Compass will show the way.

Summary Capsule: Little girl takes on villains who are definitely not the Catholic Church with the help of a cowboy, a witch, some gypsies, a bear and her soul.

“My lady, I am a hero, and heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.”

The Scoop: 1982 G, directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr. and starring Mia Farrow, Alan Arkin, Tammy Grimes, Angela Lansbury, Jeff Bridges, Christopher Lee, Brother Theodore, Robert Klein and Rene Auberjenois.

Tagline: There’s Magic in Believing!

Summary Capsule: A unicorn seeks to discover the whereabouts of the rest of her kind. Tragedy and adventure follow.

“I’m in mosquito heaven – and you’re an angel. A fat, green angel…”

The Scoop: 1986 G, directed by Yoram Gross and starring Robyn Moore, Keith Scott, Ashley Ayre, Lucy Charles and Leaf Nowland.

Tagline: None I can find.

Summary Capsule: Little Australian girl becomes much, much littler and frolics with insects.

“Colonel, how would you feel about being turned into a nice white rabbit?”

The Scoop: 1971 G, directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Cindy O’Callaghan, Roy Snart, Ian Weighill, Tessie O’Shea and Roddy McDowall.

Tagline: You’ll beWITCHED! You’ll beDAZZLED! You’ll be swept into a world of enchantment BEYOND ANYTHING BEFORE!

Summary Capsule: Amateur witch teams up with conman and small children to fight the Nazis.

No school like the old school.”

The Scoop: 2004 PG, directed by Brad Bird and starring Craig T. Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter, and Jason Lee

Tagline: Save The Day

Summary Capsules: More than a decade after superheroes went into hiding to avoid litigation and public condemnation, one super-powered family is forced to save the world and in doing so teach us all what it means to be a superhero.

“You are all weirdos!”

The Scoop: 1981 G, directed by Jim Henson and starring Jim Henson, Frank Oz, and Charles Grodin

Tagline: N/A

Summary Capsule: On-the-go felt try to solve a string of jewel robberies

“I am Mr. Bilbo Baggins. I’ve lost my dwarves, my wizard and my way.”

The Scoop: 1977 NR, directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr., and starring Orson Bean, John Huston, Hans Conreid, Brother Theodore, Otto Preminger, Cyril Richard, Richard Boone and Glenn Yarbrough.

Tagline: None I can find.

Summary Capsule: What has it got in its pocketses?

“How can you sell a home? You can’t wrap it up, you can’t carry it away, and you certainly can’t fit it in your car!”

The Scoop: 1988 G, directed by Ken Annakin and starring Tami Erin, John Schuck, David Seaman, Cory Crow, Dennis Dugan, Dianne Hull, George Dicenzo, Eileen Brennan, J.D Dickinson, Chub Bailly and Dick Van Patten.

Tagline: Come see Pippi as you’ve never seen her before!

Summary Capsule: Well, there’s a girl named Pippi Longstocking, y’see, and she has these adventures…

“Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack!”

The Scoop: 1992 PG, directed by Stephen Herek and starring Emilio Estevez, Joss Ackland and Lane Smith

Tagline: They Can’t Skate. They Can’t Win. They Can’t Be Serious.

Summary Capsule: A loser team is reborn into ducky glory as their lawyer coach receives the Disney Complete Makeover