h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A friend of mine came up with an entertaining game, which I thought might go down well here. You take two movies, one of which ends with the same word or syllable that begins the other, and merge them together, e.g. 'Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ringu'.
So far, that's just a pun. The next step, however, is to surmise the plot of such a movie from the plots of the movies that go into creating it. So, in the above example, a bunch of hapless hobbits have to carry the cursed Video-Tape of Power to the fires of Mount Doom, persued by the servants of the Dark Lord Sauron, vengeful spirits in the shape of teenage girls who crawl out of televisions.
e.g.2. '301 Dalmatians': A small force of spotted canine warriors hold a doomed last stand against the Persian forces of Xerxes DeVil, who wants to invade Greece and turn all dogs into fur coats.
If you're clever, you can merge more than two. For instance, 'Analyze This Means War Horse': A mafia don and his psychiatrist realize they are dating the same girl, and compete for her by riding their horses bravely into World War I.
You can also take it a step further: propose the plot, and other players have to guess the title you're thinking of. For instance, a human-looking android boy is rejected by his 'parents' and has to survive alone when the whole of humanity turn into light-phobic savage monsters...
Anybody?

Oceans Twelve Angry Men In Black Beauty

Jury acquits a bunch of aliens on a charge of robbing Lloyds Bank

Well that's a conversation killer if ever I saw one Icy... Nobody's going to be able to top that!

Don't you believe it.

American Beauty and the Beast.

In which Colonel Fitts recognises his dark side.


Repo Man of LaMancha

The musical.

North By Northwest is West: After a case of mistaken identity, Cary Grant goes on the run and flees to Pakistan, where he gets in touch with his Asian roots.

Wilde One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Oscar Wilde becomes a teenage biker and rebels against a sadistic sanatorium nurse.

>> the Persian forces of Xerxes DeVil, who wants
to invade Greece and turn all dogs into fur coats. <<




~jwf~

Return of the King's Speech

Aragorn is reluctant to take up the throne of Gondor because of his inability to pronounce Elvish.

As I read this thread, I'm listneing to the soundtrack recording of "Singin' in the Rain." There was an obscure Judy Garland movie called "I could go on Singing." "My fair lady" had a song called "The Rain in Spain."

Put these three together, and you get, "I could go on singing in the rain in Spain."

"Props department, we need far more umbrellas!"

"Que, Senor?"

OK, can you identify this segue from the plot description? (An easy one to start)

Hospital patients stage a revenge attack on a man who's planning to destroy the US space programme from his secret island laboratory.

The GodFather Christmas.

Animated Raymond Briggs fantasy in which Don Corleone takes a magical sleighride pulled by his beloved flying reindeer, and later wakes up next to their severed heads.

No, I can't. I'm still laughing about The Return of the King's Speech. Sorry.

Mol

OK then I'll tell you

Hospital patients stage a revenge attack on a man who's planning to destroy the US space programme from his secret island laboratory.

is of course Carry On Doctor No

Apocalypse Now Voyager. Bette Davis doesn't get off the boat.

Wilde at Heart. Laura Dern embarks on a surreal road trip with Stephen Fry. In a snakeskin jacket.

The Iron Lady and the Tramp. A film about a woman who kicks the homeless and dogs.

A Star Is Born Free Willy.

A matinee idol on his way down and a starlet on her way up raise three killer whales together and release one into the wild.

Eccentric billionaire Tony Stark take up tightrope walking between skyscrapers.

In a horrible twist of fate, after a tense battle, it is revealed at the climax that Doc Emmett Brown is in fact Marty McFly's father, after which he cuts his hand off and chucks him down a cliff.