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What is the Greatest Movie Ever Made Based on Toys or Games?
Thursday, February 6, 2014 at 8:00PM 
With The LEGO Movie winning rave reviews from critics (no, really) and looking to dominate the weekend, it's time to ask:
What's the best movie ever made based on toys or games?
My vote would probably go to Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! (1996) which I found so deeply silly on first viewing that I got the giggles in the theater and could not stop... even during the less funnies. We quoted it for months afterwards. Or at least we froze our faces awkwardly and barked "Ack" at each other when it seemed appropriate... which was all. the. time.
But then there's Clue. Soooo.... tough call?
Any other contenders? First person who says Transformers has to do all of our household chores for a week.
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Wait...you mean you didn't like the Garbage Pail Kids movie?
I love 'Clue' and it would be a super close second. But my no.1 has to be 'Mortal Kombat', which is a terrible movie which is also my greatest guilty pleasure. Christopher Lambert! Haha.
It's a movie about a game! Jumanji! Jumanji!
Does 'A Town Called Panic' count? Even if so...still have to say Clue, but it's close.
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Pinocchio (1940--well.... its about a toy). And no I didn't see it in first release.
I guess with no Pixar this year, we already have an Animated Feature front-runner, eh?
And yeah. Clue. *shrug*
Definitely Mars Attacks!
Zathura : A Space Adventure. So fun and stupid
I'm sure we'll be asking this question again soon, when the 'Angry Birds' and 'Candy Crush' movies premiere. On the subject of candy-themed movies, how about a Candy Land movie? My only requirement is that it star Virginia Madsen.
Before I saw a screening of The Lego Movie, I would've said Clue.
But I'll be damned if The Lego Movie is the ONLY film based on a toy/game that totally, successfully captures the appeal of its source and what it feels like (and means) to play with it and translates it into the language of cinema..
Clue is the best. No question. And I like some of the other suggestions here. So, hm... would WRECK-IT RALPH count?
Mars Attacks was trading cards though. Do they count? Clue is the greatest, then Mars, then probably nothing else, but there may be a lost gem or two amongst the rubble. I am so pumped for THE LEGO MOVIE though, I'm not even kidding.
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(mr potato head, barbie, little green soldiers and various characters all pre-dated the movies so i will brook no argument)
CLUE.
There is no other... except for MAYBE the parts of Toy Story 3 focused on Ken & Barbie?
(Jumanji and Zathura are both based on books about games.)
Oh AND, I have a similar fondness for Mars Attacks! I was 12 at the time and my best friend and I went to see it together - and laughed our asses off all the way through. We wouldn't stop with the ack-ack-ing for at least a week. I still love it just as much, for mostly different reasons, but damn is that Martian speak PERFECT. And I still want to dress up as the female alien for Halloween some day.
CLUE! Hello, look at that actressing -- WARREN, KAHN AND BRENNAN. What a trifecta!
Clue is one of the best movies-period. But I cannot wait for The Lego Movie-it lOoks legitimately awesome.
And I kind of question why there haven't been more, considering the want to make films based on specific properties. I mean, Candy Land has an actual narrative on the board to work with.
I'm actually a big fan of the Japanese version of the first Pokemon movie. It was Pokemon, but also had a pretty sobering contemplation of the ethics of cloning, which is quite pertinent as it came only a year after Dolly.
And of course I like My Little Pony: Equestria Girls. The screenwriting was lazy and too predictable, but it was a lot of fun. And Rainbow Dash is awesome.
G.I. Joe Retribution. I kid I kid. Clue of course!
The LEGO Movie! With "Mars Attacks!" a close second.....Not a fan of "Clue", I'm afraid.
Oh AND, I have a similar fondness for Mars Attacks! I was 12 at the time and my best friend and I went to see it together - and laughed our asses off all the way through. We wouldn't stop with the ack-ack-ing for at least a week. I still love it just as much, for mostly different reasons, but damn is that Martian speak PERFECT. And I still want to dress up as the female alien for Halloween some day.
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