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Don Bluth's tale of a scoundrel dog who cons his way out of heaven and back to the streets, voiced by Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise. It got flattened at the box office by opening the same day as The Little Mermaid — then found its real life on VHS, playing in living rooms all through the '90s.
Don Bluth's lost-princess musical that a whole generation is sure was Disney. Meg Ryan's amnesiac Anya, a music box, Rasputin as an undead villain with an albino bat, and "Once Upon a December" — made in Phoenix by Fox, and released a week after Disney re-issued The Little Mermaid — a scheduling war Fox called deliberate.
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Jerry Seinfeld's bee sues the human race over honey. That premise, voiced by Seinfeld himself, cost DreamWorks $150 million in 2007 and got a B+ shrug, then came back nearly a decade later as one of the internet's favorite copypastas: "According to all known laws of aviation...", "ya like jazz?", and the whole film sped up every time somebody says "bee."
A fuzzy emperor penguin who can't sing a note but can tap-dance like his life depends on it — because it does. Happy Feet was 2006's inescapable penguin musical, the movie that put Savion Glover's feet on an animated bird and walked away with the Oscar that everyone assumed belonged to Pixar.
Disney's Greek myth as a gospel number: five Muses narrating, Danny DeVito's satyr training a gangly demigod, and James Woods' fast-talking Hades stealing the whole picture. Hercules was the mid-90s Disney musical that didn't quite hit at the box office — and the one whose songs, "Zero to Hero" and "Go the Distance," everyone still knows.
Macaulay Culkin, four years after Home Alone, ducks into a library to escape a storm and gets melted into a cartoon, where three talking books and Long John Silver, Moby-Dick and Dr. Jekyll chase him toward the exit sign. It cost a reported $34 million, made $13.7 million, and was the last animated feature 20th Century Fox released with hand-painted cels.