1-dollar weekend movie festival: July

There were five movies this past month!

That really does qualify as a Film Festival, doesn't it, capital letters and all!

Almost all were animated and all were about friends coming together as a family.

Very nice theme, n'est-ce pas?

Because of my choice here, none of these were movies I had ever owned.

That makes it different from the previous film festivals of this type.

 

First up was "The Bad Guys", a movie I dearly love and watched repeatedly at the cinema!

These were all maligned creatures - the big bad wolf, the evil snake, the giant shark, the scary tarantula, and the toothy piranha - who had embraced society's view of them.

Just imagine if the twelve Disciplines had chosen that tactic!

Fortunately, the critters get a second chance to shine their light!

(smile!) 

"Ralph Breaks The Internet" was my next choice, especially as it has the GOAT Disney princess song ever!

Oh, yeah, sing it again Vanellope!!!

I've already gone on about this one a few weeks ago, right?

But did I mention this scary virus that infected the computer world and made it all wonky?

Sounds like the SARS-COV-2 that threw a pandemic-sized monkey wrench into our real world for almost three years.

Not that it's gone just yet, merely hiding out from the heat.

Okay, enough of that serious talk!

(smile!)

On to the third July weekend movie!
That would be one that was on my list of "movies I want to own forever": "Monsters, Inc.".

Mike and Sully and dear, sweet, Boo!

I've already waxed rhapsodic about it, singing its praises...

but I'd not mentioned the two buddies disguising the toddler as a monster so they could bring her to work and hopefully put her back into her "real world" bedroom.

Hooray for laughter!!!

So, what to watch for the penultimate weekend of that seventh month?

How about one I missed in 1979?

"The Muppet Movie" came out while I was stationed in Panama, where the only "cinema" was a reel-to-reel player at the NCO club.

Here, Kermit the Frog is literally behind the camera that put the images on those reels!

This is a road trip film that has the meeting of the Muppets along the way as Kermit made his way to Hollywood to become "rich and famous" singing "Rainbow Connection".

What a lot of fun it was!

And it was so full of songs that it was practically a musical!

(smile!)

 

Now what about that fifth film, eh?

It needed to be something awesome...

something to marvel at... 

something like "The Incredibles"!!!

So, that's exactly what it was, with the family of Supers living under the radar as their Clark Kent-style alter-egos - Bob, Ellen, and the kids: Violet, Dash, and Jack-jack.

Ah, but Bob and his buddy FroZone miss their glory days, fighting low-key crime until something better comes along... which it does!

(smile!)