The Atomic Kid (1954)
Mar 6, 2001Radioactive Man Comedy
Perhaps the strangest film Mickey Rooney ever made, a comedy in which he is a prospector caught in an atomic explosion and afterwards gains the ability to cause things to explode
Mickey Rooney
Pete’s Dragon (1977)
Mar 29, 1999Boy and Invisible Dragon/Disney Film
Disney live-action film about a boy and his dragon where the dragon is represented by animation
Arabian Adventure (1979)
Jun 18, 1999Arabian Nights Adventure
This tries hard to be another The Thief of Bagdad but is never too much more than a run through the cliches of the Arabian Nights adventure rewritten for the post-Star Wars era
The Fox and the Hound (1981)
Oct 31, 2005Disney Animation/Talking Animals
Disney animated film from the fallow period of the 1970s/early 80s. This concerns the friendship between a talking fox and a hound tempered by the knowledge they will grow into enemies. An okay effort if not up the heights of the studio's classics
Erik the Viking (1989)
Jun 14, 2002Norse Myth Comedy-Adventure
Terry Jones of Monty Python fame makes a comedy with Tim Robbins as a non-violent Viking on a quest to bring about Ragnarok. A film that seems to think it is funnier than it ends up being
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989)
Jun 28, 2013Anime/Boy's Adventures in Dreams
Anime film based on Winsor McCay's celebrated comic strip about a boy's adventures in dreams. Despite a script from Ray Bradbury, the film waters the comic-strip down to the formula of the modern children's film
Making Waves (1994)
Sep 30, 2004Erotica/Relationship Drama/Angelic Intervention
A bizarrely ridiculous erotic film with pretensions to being a relationship drama that features appearances from angels and smartass talking seagulls. An aging Mickey Rooney is the heavenly supervisor
The Phantom of the Megaplex (2000)
Jun 25, 2009Phantom in the Multiplex/Kid's Caper Movie
A Disney Channel film, this has the amusing idea of translating The Phantom of the Opera to a modern multiplex and telling it as a children's story
Night at the Museum (2006)
Feb 11, 2007Museum Exhibits Come to Life
Popular family hit with Ben Stiller as a night watchman at New York’s Museum of Natural History who discovers that the exhibits come to life at night. More a cute idea than a full film, there is some fun to the characters and effects
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)
Jan 24, 2015Museum Exhibits Come to Life
The third entry in a franchise that seems to be stretching to find anything to do with its premise beyond the first film. Everyone involved seems to have only turned up to collect a paycheque and be going through the motions in a show that entirely coasts by solely on your familiarity with the characters