Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

I just loved this movie. A sprawling live action musical epic if ever there was one! Reminds me of Bedknobs and Broomsticks  and Mary Poppins.  In fact this is from the exact same era as those two films, so of course they have the same huge production value.  Who could have figured that the man who invented James Bond could make a sprawling story about a magical car.  Ok well, maybe it's not that far off from James' supercar with the rocket launchers and ejector seat.  It's just so cool.  Sure it's a children's movie, and that alone should earn it the Honey mustard, but that's not all it has going for it.  There's some pretty sophisticated themes and running jokes in this movie that I'm not sure a child could appreciate (having not watched it with a child I wouldn't know).

Honey of a Mustard!  Find it, buy it, show it to as many people as possible!

The Nutty Professor (1963)

Jerry Lewis plays a simple scientist who discovers a formula that makes you fabulous. Does it have romance? yes. Does it have a good Jekyll/Hyde scene? yes. Does it have a severe contrast between Jekyll and Hyde? yes. So it has all the things a transformation story requires to be a good film. In fact it has so much going for it my girlfriend didn't pause it once. (my girlfriend likes to pause a movie 3 or 4 times so she can talk about something other than the movie for a while.) We were just glued to the TV while we watched this. It's such a good movie, even some 37 years later.

PASSED MUSTARD, buy this!

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

Okay, so there's a burned out cop that recently lost his partner, and another cop just 1 week from retirement. They get smooshed together as partners to solve a simple murder case (that everyone says is a suicide, but there's obvious signs of struggle), that explodes into a huge drug bust. Sound like a good movie? Well it is, but not because of the plot, it's because it's just so funny that I did not stop laughing. Of course it helps to know a bunch of other buddy cop movies, like the Lethal Weapon series, just to get some of the jokes. The longest running joke in the whole movie has got to be the names of the star players. Samuel L. Jackson as Luger and Emilio Estevez as Colt, both named after gun companies famous for one particular style of gun. If you don't know a luger is a german repeater pistol (uses clips) and the Colt is famous for a .45 caliber revolver.

Anyway I ought to tell you that this film does pass mustard. I'd tell you to rent it, but by now you'd have to buy the thing. Just check out the link in the post, and if you do buy it I get some cashback!