Dark Whimsy Favorites #26-30

Rick Retro’s Realm, Project #3: 40 Dark Whimsy Favorites in 80 Days, 1987-1988, Riddle me this: Who Trained the Big Moon Bride.

The countdown to my next review project continues. I’m doing an overview of 40 of my Dark Whimsy favorites!

The first 25 are:
#1 (1944) Arsenic and Old Lace
#2 (1959) The Mouse That Roared
#3 (1963) The Pink Panther
#4 (1965) The Sound of Music
#5 (1965) The Great Race
#6 (1968) The Love Bug
#7 (1973) The Sting
#8 (1975) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
#9 (1979) The Muppet Movie
#10 (1979) Being There
#11 (1980) Airplane!
#12 (1980) Oh! Heavenly Dog
#13 (1980) The Gods Must Be Crazy
#14 (1981) Arthur
#15 (1982) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
#16 (1982) Tootsie
#17 (1983) The Man With Two Brains
#18 (1984) Romancing the Stone
#19 (1984) The Natural
#20 (1984) Electric Dreams
#21 (1985) Re-Animator
#22 (1986) Stand by Me
#23 (1986) Little Shop of Horrors
#24 (1987) Raising Arizona
#25 (1987) Roxanne

Even more 80s films. Even more movies that I’ve seen at least twice. Even more reviews that will probably award A+ grades:

#26 (1987) The Princess Bride
Not as perfect as the novel, which is my favorite literary work of Dark Whimsy. But really, really, really good.

#27 (1987) Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Steve Martin makes our list again.

#28 (1988) Big
It's Big when it comes to Whimsy, but maybe it comes up short in Dark? Let's find out.

#29 (1988) Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who really cares who framed poor Roger? If it’s up to us, they can do it as often as they want, when the ride is this much fun!

#30 (1988) Moon Over Parador
The fourth film on our list at least partly set a tiny fictional country.

#31-35 will be revealed tomorrow!

Originally posted to text group 2025-01-14
Last updated 2025-07-02

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