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An orphan finds a pair of beat-up sneakers initialed 'MJ,' takes a lightning strike while rescuing them from a power line, and wakes up able to dunk on NBA starters. Lil' Bow Wow's 2002 fantasy was every playground daydream with a soundtrack.
A lonely kid's imaginary superheroes turn out to be real, and off he goes to Planet Drool in smeary red-and-blue 3-D. Nobody who was a child in 2005 forgot the dream song, the Land of Milk and Cookies, or a pre-Twilight Taylor Lautner scowling in a shark suit.
The 1992 kids' martial-arts movie where three brothers — Rocky, Colt, and Tum-Tum — spend the summer training with their ninja grandpa and then use their skills to foil bumbling crooks. Home Alone meets karate camp, and catnip to every kid who wanted to be a ninja.