21. Duck Soup
Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Leo McCarey
Actors: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
Plot: Freedonia has borrowed a large sum of money from a wealthy widow Mrs. Teasdale. Rufus T. Firefly is to replace the current president of the country so that they are able to get out of debt. The neighboring countries send inept spies to obtain secret information. Slapstick comedy.
22. Hairspray
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Adam Shankman
Actors: John Travolta, Amanda Bynes, Christopher Walken, Zac Efron
Plot: A remake of the 1988 Musical about a teenager, integration, and dancing.
23. Oliver!
Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Carol Reed
Actors: Oliver Reed, Mark Lester, Jack Wild, Ron Moody
Plot: A group of orphans learn to be pick pockets to survive in the slums of inner city London.
24. Dancer in the Dark
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lars von Trier
Actors: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare
Plot: A woman with a very mundane life accidentally kills her neighbor.
25. La La Land
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Damien Chazelle
Actors: Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, J.K. Simmons, Sonoya Mizuno
Plot: An aspiring actress who rubs elbows with big stars only by delivering their lattes and a jazz pianist barely making ends meet by playing dingy bars form a quick bond. Yet as each comes closer to realizing their dreams, it starts to tear apart their relationship.
26. Mamma Mia!
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Actors: Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried
Plot: Based on the musical of the same name, a young bride is told she has a real father who is alive. The problem is that her mother does not know who it may be, but that it is between three men. The daughter sings songs and elaborate choreography to tell her story while the wedding takes place in a warm, beach type atmosphere.
27. Labyrinth
Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Musical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jim Henson
Actors: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud, Shelley Thompson
Plot: Sarah is baby sitting her baby half-brother when she accidentally wishes him away to a goblin king and conjures up a world of fantasy. She must get her brother back and will do anything to do so.
28. Guys and Dolls
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Actors: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine
Plot: It is a great movie about mobsters in the mid 1950's just trying to get a lousy craps game together it stars Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando as the two mobsters
29. Victor/Victoria
Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Blake Edwards
Actors: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren
Plot: Remake of the German film Victor und Victoria.
During the depression singer Victoria finds herself at the end her tether. Then she meets Tody, who suggests a unique way to show off her talents
pretend to be a man, pretending to be a woman
30. Yankee Doodle Dandy
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning
Plot: A biography portraying the life of George Cohan as it follows him through his beginning singing and acting career to further down the line when he writes and dances in his own plays.
