The Muppet Movie (1979)
Feb 2, 2001Muppet Movie
The first and best of the Muppet films where Jim Henson spins them off onto the big screen with charm and sly humour
Madeline Kahn
Simon (1980)
Jul 5, 2001Fake Alien Comedy
A directorial debut from Woody Allen co-writer Marshall Brickman, an offbeat comedy where scientists hypnotise Alan Arkin into believing he is an alien
Slapstick of Another Kind (1982)
Feb 12, 2005Alien Twin Geniuses/Kurt Vonnegut Adaptation
Another failed attempt to film the works of Kurt Vonnegut where Vonnegut’s ironic pessimism ends up as witless slapstick chaos on screen
An American Tail (1986)
May 6, 1999Animation/Immigrant Talking Mice
The second animated film from Don Bluth made under the aegis of Steven Spielberg's Amblin. This tells the American immigrant story, albeit casts it with cartoon mice
A Bug’s Life (1998)
Jun 19, 1999Pixar Animation/Talking Insects
The second film from Pixar. One of their slighter and usually overlooked works, this is nevertheless an enjoyably eccentric reworking of The Seven Samurai set amidst a circus troupe of talking insects