I’m not usually the biggest fan of musicals & I always think I should watch more of them to be all cultured & shit (movie musicals as well as actually going into London to watch more proper stage musicals). However, I do really like some of the ones I’ve seen. I sometimes hate them (Les Miserables and especially Into The Woods) but below are the musicals that I really enjoyed. Maybe some of you will have some recommendations for others I should check out based on what I like? 🙂
**I’ve had to make some rules with this one. When looking up “movie musicals”, a lot of movies that I really wouldn’t consider musicals came up. Also, every single Disney movie with at least one song in it came up. So these are movies that I’m excluding from this list:
– Anything animated and/or movies that are aimed mainly at kids (all Disney animated films, Yellow Submarine, Labyrinth, and things like the Muppet movies)
– Daft Punk’s Electroma, Phantom Of The Paradise, and Krush Groove (although they came up in a search for “musicals”, they really aren’t my definition of musicals. they’re awesome, though)
– Pitch Perfect 1 & 2 (again, not “musicals” to me but they wouldn’t make my top ten anyway)
So now, counting down from ten to my number one favorite, here are My Top Ten Movie Musicals:
10. TIE: Hello, Dolly! and The King & I
9. Annie
8. Grease
7. TIE: Mary Poppins & Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (okay, kind of aimed at kids but I felt they should be included)
6. Singin’ In The Rain
5. Across The Universe
4. Jesus Christ Superstar
3. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1. The Sound Of Music
Honorable Mentions:
West Side Story
Pink Floyd The Wall
Tommy
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
Dancer In The Dark
Xanadu
A Chorus Line
Bugsy Malone
The Ones I Should Really Get Around To Watching Sometime:
The Jazz Singer
Rock ‘N’ Roll High School (is this a musical?)
The King & I
Fame
All The Beatles movies other than Yellow Submarine
**List updated 29/06/17 to add The King & I and Bugsy Malone**
Cinema Parrot Disco 