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![Video thumbnail — 300 - Official Trailer [HD]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UrIbxk7idYA/maxresdefault.jpg)
Zack Snyder's 2007 comic adaptation: 300 Spartans against the Persian king Xerxes, rendered bronze-and-crimson with slow-motion everything. It broke the March box-office record, launched a thousand ab jokes, and gave the internet "This is Sparta!"
Hilary Duff waits tables at her wicked stepmother's San Fernando Valley diner while trading anonymous messages with a soulmate — who turns out to be Chad Michael Murray, the most popular boy in school. Critics hated it; an entire generation of sleepovers overruled them.
"All girls are princesses." Alfonso Cuarón's 1995 version of the Burnett classic moved Sara Crewe to a New York boarding school in wartime, lost money in theaters, and then sold two million tapes. The attic, the locket, Miss Minchin: a sleeper that became a childhood staple on video.
The one sweater, the wish list, the telescope on the balcony. Mandy Moore's first starring role turned Nicholas Sparks's 1999 novel into the sleepover weeper of 2002, got torn apart by critics, earned an A from audiences and was still being called one of the most romantic films ever made years later.
The manic variety cartoon that slipped jokes for adults past kids and a geography lesson past everyone. Yakko, Wakko and Dot burst out of the Warner Bros. water tower alongside Pinky and the Brain, Slappy Squirrel, and a cast of oddballs — fast, smart, and endlessly quotable.
Mason Gamble as the five-year-old with the slingshot, Walter Matthau as the Mr. Wilson whose dentures, orchid and peace of mind he destroys, and Christopher Lloyd as Switchblade Sam, the drifter who turns the last act into Home Alone. John Hughes wrote it straight off the Home Alone films, Warner Bros. released it on June 25, 1993, critics shrugged, and it made $117 million anyway.
The 1993 tearjerker about a troubled boy who bonds with a captive orca and sets him free — capped by the iconic image of Willy leaping over a breakwater to Michael Jackson's "Will You Be There." Its most astonishing legacy, though, played out in the real ocean.
"Funny how? Do I amuse you?" Martin Scorsese's 1990 life of mob associate Henry Hill: the Copacabana tracking shot, Joe Pesci's Oscar, and the fastest two and a half hours in gangster movies. The film that taught a generation how wiseguys talked, and the one that inspired The Sopranos.
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.
Rick Moranis and Ed O'Neill as feuding brothers coaching rival pee-wee football teams in Urbania, Ohio; Icebox, the girl who got cut for being a girl; a bus full of real NFL stars; and a trick play called the Annexation of Puerto Rico. It didn't earn back its budget in theaters, but it never left the kid-sports canon.
Two lab mice, one plan: try to take over the world. Every night. The Brain schemed, Pinky said 'Narf,' and a generation learned to answer 'Are you pondering what I'm pondering?' with something gloriously beside the point.
Michael Jordan teams with Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes to beat a squad of talent-stealing aliens, the Monstars. A live-action/animation hybrid with a monster soundtrack, it made the Tune Squad jersey a playground staple.
A fifty-foot robot from space crash-lands in 1957 Maine and befriends a nine-year-old boy, who teaches him he can choose who he wants to be. Brad Bird's feature directorial debut was adored by critics and ignored at the box office — then a second life on home video and cable turned it into the cartoon that makes grown adults cry at one word: "Superman."
![Video thumbnail — Tiny Toon Adventures - Opening Theme Song [HD] [1080p]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3EiEX4tmCfY/maxresdefault.jpg)
Buster and Babs Bunny — no relation — headlined Steven Spielberg's class of next-generation Looney Tunes, studying under Bugs and Daffy at Acme Looniversity. It only produced new episodes for a couple of years, but those 98 episodes reran into the ground on after-school TV and burned the theme song into an entire generation. We're tiny, we're toony, we're all a little loony.