Because everything's better if Idina Menzel plays a spaceship.
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November 29 2014 9:15 PM EST
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Once a year, usually around Christmastime, a big movie musical based on a Broadway show comes out that shoots for all the Oscars and iTunes sales it can manage. Last year, we got up close and personal with the dirt-covered, tear-stained French folk Les Miserables. This year, it's the Meryl Streep and Anna Kendrick (and a lot of other people)-starring Into the Woods that's getting the big-screen treatment, and we're nearly too excited for the Sondheim magic. But wait! There's another movie musical coming to a theater near you, and while it's bound to be nominated for many less Oscars, Annie's revamped Sia-fied score still has us bopping. But wait! There's even more, because the day before 50 Shades of Grey comes out, you can see The Last Five Years starring, once again, Anna Kendrick. It's truly a grand time for musical movies some might say, but we say, "Not. Grand. Enough." Why stop now? We imagined a winter 2014-2015 season that goes Broadway or goes home, and we're pretty damn pleased with ourselves. Here are the Top 10 movies we wish were movie-musicals, and we urge you to contribute your own as well. Musicals forever!
10. Jurassic World: The Jurassic World trailer has gotten some criticism for its similarities to imagery from other Jurassic Park films, but you know what would set it apart? Song and dance! This theory’s actually been kind of tried and true in the celebrated parody musical Triassic Parq, but now it’s time to bring this theory to the big screen. What could possibly be better than a tap dancing T-Rex or Bryce Dallas Howard howling a power ballad while blood and terror rains down upon her creations? Nothing, I tell you. Nothing.
7. 50 Shades of Grey as a Beyonce Jukebox Musical: We can take or leave 50 Shades for an endless list of reasons, but we all have to admit that Beyonce’s remix of “Crazy In Love” in the trailer brought tears to our eyes. So we started thinking, what if 50 Shades was a Beyonce jukebox musical? Or perhaps just completely muted and set to a score of Beyonce songs like one long music video? It’s not even a question of would we see it, but could you ever make us leave the theater?
6. The Babadook: You probably haven’t heard of this Australian horror film, so if I told you it was a musical you might actually believe me. Alas, this much buzzed about spooky story (the trailer is actually terrifying) is not a musical, but hey, cross-medium adaptations happen all the time. Not to mention, Hugh Jackman is both Australian and does musicals, so he's a prime candidate for our new and improved singing Babadook. Another plus side (as if you needed more than Hugh Jackman as The Babadook): maybe this would be less chilling if these children's tunes became full-blown musical numbers? Although maybe it wouldn't be. Maybe it would be so much worse.
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