I’ve always been obsessed with the magic of movies.

So much so that I studied them in college and have since learned a thing or two about actually creating them. Which, truth be told, takes a lot of the magic away.

So when I see something that, despite my background knowledge, STILL just absolutely transports me? I hold onto it.

What movie is simply magical to you, no matter how popular or unpopular it may be? from AskReddit

Here are just a few of Reddit’s highest recommended flicks, and why.

1. Anastasia

I was 4 years old when I saw it in theaters for the first time and I still remember the awe I felt at the animation and the music.

Still my favorite to this day!

– Lightromance

2. Ever After

Dunno if it’s been mentioned already but Ever After (1999), there’s something super magical and special about it’s storyline and the genuine love between the main characters.

Also, I’m a sucker for Cinderella.

– Lazarth

3. Secret of Nimh

This movie was anchored in my childhood.

I re-watched it recently and was instantly reminded how comforting Mrs. Brisby’s voice was. Great movie

– jason2042

4. Big Trouble in Little China

The best scene is when they drink the magic tonic.

When they’re all in the elevator together and start to get the “I feel awesome” effect.

Cheers me up every time I watch it. What a great movie.

– occidental_oriental

5. Beetlejuice

It’s one of my favourite movies ever made. It’s really hard to explain how it influenced me but it really is a magical movie.

Thank you now I’m going to watch it once again! If you never saw Beetlejuice you must. It is truly a magnificent movie.

– B4R7H0L0M3W

6. Starship Troopers

The sudden change from lighthearted (if concerning) high school love triangle drama to terrifying warzone is done just expertly.

Not just that, but the sheer scale of some scenes with the number of armored up extras is absolutely insane.

– Fadman_Loki

7. The Fall

It centers around a Hollywood stuntman and a little girl, both in the same hospital, and the man tells the girl a fantastical story in exchange for something I won’t spoil here.

The story is great, but the cinematography is out of this world.

Main character is Lee Pace, the bad guy from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 and the good guy in Pushing Daisies.

Sad part: not free on any streaming service, AFAIK

– vashthestampeedo

8. 12 Angry Men

I thought it was going to be boring when I first had to watch it, but man it was just so captivating and still holds up so well over 60 years later.

– -eDgAR-

9. The Land Before Time

Only the first one though!

I was obsessed with this movie as a kid, since I loved dinosaurs.

That scene with Little Foot and his mum gets me every time :,(

– farrockaway

10. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

I cannot state enough how much it saddens me to see this movie go so unappreciated.

The animation is gorgeous even by today’s standards.

The songs are great.

There’s not much I can say bad about it.

I just kinda wish more people were into it.

– Destor1239

11. Big Fish

Great movie.

But I made the mistake of having my wife watch it shortly after her dad died.

I… somehow forgot that was a huge part of the movie.

– InjektedOne

12. Blade

Just the first one — too many people conflate or confuse it with the rest of the trilogy.

And it stands alone.

Even with faux-Gotham it’s a perfect snapshot of the late 1990s, from the interior sets to the music to the hip-urban-vampire aesthetic going on then.

Snipes’ schtick worked around a solid enough plot.

Few movies have better continuous-sequence choreography that — this is key — gets as outlandishly inventive.

It defines beat-’em-up; even better than Burton’s Batman.

It’s impressive and schlocky in all the right places.

– wilsch

13. Jurassic Park

I know its a popular movie to begin with, but I absolutely adore it.

Im 17, so I’ve never had the chance to see it in theaters on the big screen, and that’s one of the things I wish for the most.

I’m not sure what about makes me like it so much, I just do.

– poulet_bleu

14. Back to the Future

I’m 38, and I first saw that movie when I was 10 years old, and I would still watch it from start to finish right now.

Very few movies have that distinction for me. Good choice.

– OfCourseIKnowHim

15. Amelie

I went to see Amelie at the theater by myself late on a Wednesday night, 10:30 showing.

I was the only one in the audience (though a staff member came in periodically to check if I was still there, I guess, but they let me watch the whole movie).

This enhanced the connection I felt with Amelie the character and the film, as it seemed like an Amelie-esque experience.

To twenty year old me, it was truly magical.

– Belletenebreuse

Word of advice – if you’re a millennial like me, or older, and you had a movie you loved but haven’t seen since you were a kid, go look it up and see if you can watch a nice HD restoration of it on a big new TV. You’re in for a ride.

What movie will always be magical to you?

Tell us in the comments.

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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched the Back to the Future trilogy.

Like, for my own safety, I don’t think I can reveal that information.

Because you might just have me committed and I can’t deal with that at the moment.

There’s a reason we obsess over certain movies, though. And that reason is, well, they’re just magic in a way that few other things can be.

What movie is simply magical to you, no matter how popular or unpopular it may be? from AskReddit

Here are just a few flicks that the people of Reddit would love to relive again and again.

1. Treasure Planet

Beautiful backgrounds, interesting character designs, seamless blend of 2D and 3D that was way ahead of its time, and a fun melding of past and futuristic.

It captured my imagination like no other film had or has since.

– Humble-Grumble

2. Galaxy Quest

In high school I was super SUPER into Star Trek: TNG and also DS9 and Voyager, and my parents took me to a con for my 16th birthday. Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, and Michael Dorn were presenting, and I had the hugest celeb crush on Frakes. It was some of the most fun I’ve ever had.

Fast forward to the year 1999, and I’ve since been to two more cons, and Galaxy Quest comes out. My parents and I see it in theatres. It was magical. I laughed myself sick and loved every minute of it, and to this day it is my favorite movie of all time.

I really appreciate the sense of love you get from the people who made it – they understand and appreciate both the fandom and the source material, and their parody was both respectful *and* a ton of fun.

– 4sleeveraincoat

3. Secondhand Lions

Cheesy and heavy-handed at times, but well-cast and heartwarming. A wonderful combination of coming-of-age and classic adventure storytelling, with a healthy dose of whimsy and wholesome life lessons. Plus, Berkeley Breathed (of Bloom County & Opus) drew the comics that adult Walter has in his studio in the intro/epilogue.

“Sometimes, the things that may or may not be true, are the things worth believing in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love… true love never dies.” – Robert Duvall as Hub

– citizenscythe

4. Stand by Me

It’s a great film. it’s such a wonderful film of childhood and friendships.

It always reminds me of my childhood and the adventures we’d go on. We never found a dead body though.

For the record this has been my favorite film of all time since it came out. I love it so much.

– Tkieron

5. Labyrinth

I think this is my favorite fantasy movie of all time. It’s just so wonderfully whimsical and the use of beautifully painted backgrounds instead of CGI just speaks to the imagination.

With the exception of the fireys which I don’t really enjoy, I love all creatures. Especially Ludo.

– Trania86

6. The Lost Boys

My older sister let me watch it when she was babysitting me when I was about 12. It immediately went in my rotation of 5 films with the Labyrinth, Neverending story, Goonies and Flight of the navigator.

Every film should have a topless mulleted man playing saxophone. That scene on the railway bridge where they drop sh** me up every time.

– Apu5

7. The Jungle Book (1967)

The hand-drawn animations still look amazing, the musical numbers are great, Kaa and Shere-Kahn are both still terrifying.

I want to be adopted by Baloo and Bagheera.

– ipakookapi

8. The Mummy (1999)

It’s silly, exciting, and romantic.

The whole movie is a smoke show, too.

Young me was like, “Ok… I need to pick my character crush: Imhotep, O’Connell, or the swarthy Medjay.”

(Long pause)

“Why not all three?”

– _SSDGM_

9. Babe

It’s weird how much harder the lessons hit when you’re an adult.

Ferdinand tried hard to find a purpose on the farm. He realized that the animals who do work are not eaten, so he figured if he made himself useful he could survive.

Later, when looks through the window and sees another duck cooking, realizing that it was chance alone that spared him, his eyes are opened.

Horse: Why can’t you accept that the way things are is the way things are?

Ferdinand: Yah well “the way things are” stinks.

It didn’t matter how hard he worked or how useful he made himself, he would only ever be a duck in the eyes of the farmer. The system would never let him win. So he chooses to drop out of the whole thing.

– Rusty_Shakalford

10. Jurassic Park

I’m thirty-two years old, and every f**king time I hear that music play and Alan and Ellie see the Brachiosaurs for the first time, I’m immediately transported back to being a five year old.

There’s no movie that has better captured that feeling of sheer wonderment.

– Portarossa

11. Tangled

“I’m malicious mean and scary, my face can curdle dairy, and violence wise, my hands aren’t the cleanest but despite my evil look, my temper and my hook… I’ve also ways yearned to be a concert pianist”

– DuctapeCat

12. A League of Their Own

So many quick references to women’s struggles.

The scene where all of the wives are terrified that the telegram is for them.

The Black girl catching the baseball with her bare hand, and her confident smile where she knows the white girls missed out by excluding them.

– Kayakchica

13. The Neverending Story

Found myself watching that shit on repeat for the longest time.

t’s really good and holds great memories and a special place in my heart (but we don’t talk about the sequel…)

– tommy_facef**ker

14. The Nightmare Before Christmas

When I was a child I borrowed nightmare before christmas from the video rental store and I never heard about it before. It was the most magical, gorgeous thing I’ve seen. I was religiously renting it over and over again and I never talked to friends about it so it seemed like my little obscure discovery

When I was.a little older, but still a child, and traveling I went into a goth shop and I saw some Jack Skellington artwork. I loudly said what it was to show to the store people that I “get it”, like it was some insider reference. I was so proud but no one seemed that impressed although I thought they were my people…

Not long later I realized it was this huge thing, widely popular across the world and definitely not a reflection of my profound tastes and insights. And that every hot shop and other goth stores have the artworks as a given

It very deeply disappointed me but I still think its magical. I just feel it was taken away from me

– lillie_connolly

15. The Bill & Ted Trilogy

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as two high school slackers who must travel through time and face Death and other obstacles to become the saviours of mankind.

It reminds me of my teenage years, of simpler times, and the fact that if two slackers can save mankind, so can I, lol.

– Karl_Hungus_Nihilist

Good picks, all around.

What movies do you find the most magical?

Tell us in the comments.

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