Not only are films a great source of entertainment, but television shows are as well. Sometimes however television shows become so popular that studios want to turn those shows into movies. With being said and Entourage being released this weekend, I thought it would be fitting to give you my top 10 favorite films based on tv shows. So without further ado.,.
10. 21 Jump Street
This film surprised me a whole lot and it is one of the best comedies I've seen in a long time. Schmidt (played by Jonah Hill) and Jenko (played by Channing Tatum) are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. But they find that high school is nothing like they left it just a few years earlier - and neither expects that they will have to confront the terror and anxiety of being a teenager again and all the issues they thought they had left behind. 21 Jump Street has a rating of 85% on rottentomatoes.com.
9. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
The television show is absolutely amazing and hilarious and if you don't like this type of humor then there is something wrong with you. Mike Nelson (played by Michael J. Nelson) is stranded in outer space by a mad scientist, who subjects the poor slob to "experiments" that involve watching the worst movies ever made. In order to survive this cinematic torture, Mike and his two companions, sarcastic robots Tom Servo (voiced by Kevin Murphy) and Crow T. Robot (played by Trace Beaulieu), mercilessly heckle the film in self-defense. In this case, the target is This Island Earth, a 1950s sci-fi opus that, despite its silly makeup effects and stilted dialogue, actually stands slightly above the usual Mystery Science Theatre fare. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie has a rating of 80% on rottentomatoes.com.
8. The Great Muppet Caper
This is the main reason why I love the muppets and this is my favorite Muppet film. Kermit the Frog (voiced by Jim Henson) and Fozzie Bear (voice by Frank Oz) are reporters who have failed to bag a story of a London jewel heist, which happened under their watch. The real criminals managed to escape and frame Miss Piggy (voiced by Frank Oz) as the thief. Kermit, Fozzie and the Great Gonzo (voiced by Dave Goelz) set out on a mission to solve the mystery and track down the criminals who stole the Baseball Diamond. The Great Muppet Caper has a rating of 79% on rottentomatoess.com.
7. Mission Impossible 3
This film is action packed and it has one of best villainous performances of all-time. Impossible Mission Forces (IMF) agent Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise) is back into the field just when he was planning on marrying his girlfriend, Julia (played by Michelle Monaghan). The agency asks Hunt to save an operative (played by Keri Russell) he trained after weapons dealer Owen Davian (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman) kidnaps her. With the help of his field team of Luther Stickell (played by Ving Rhames), Declan Gormley (played by Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), and Maggie Q Hunt achieves his goal, but becomes involved in a web of double-crosses that leave him wondering if he can trust his superiors John Musgrave and Theodore Brassel (played by Billy Crudup and Laurence Fishburne respectively). Eventually Davian threatens Julia's life in order to get away with his evil plan. Mission Impossible III has a rating of 70% on rottentomatoes.com.
6. The Simpsons
I'm a huge fan of the show and the is film. Thanks to Lisa Simpson (voiced by Yeardly Smith), Lake Springfield is cleaned up from the pollution that once fouled it. But when Homer (voiced by Dan Castellaneta), who's adopted a pig and dumps a silo full of the pig's waste into the lake, the EPA places a large dome over Springfield, and the Simpsons Family manage to escape through a sinkhole. The family then flees to a better life in Alaska, but when the head of the EPA, Russ Cargill (voiced by Albert Brooks), orders the town to be deconstructed, it's up to Homer to save Springfield. The Simpsons Movie has a rating of 90% on rottentomatoes.com.
5. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
Look I was a huge fan of the Power Rangers when I was a kid and I still have a small little appreciation for the franchise to this day. A team of teenagers with attitude are recruited to save Angel Grove from the evil Ivan Ooze who seeks revenge for his defeat centuries earlier. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie has a rating of 50% on rottentomatoes.com.
4. The Fugitive
The film is full of suspense from beginning to end and it has some amazing performances. Dr. Richard Kimble (played by Harrison Ford, is convicted of murdering his wife. While being transferred to prison by bus, Kimble is involved in a bus-train collision. Surviving the disaster, Kimble escapes, vowing to track down the elusive professional criminal whom he holds responsible for the murder. Dogging the fugitive every foot of the way is U.S. marshal Sam Gerard (played by Tommy Lee Jones), who announces his intention to search "every whorehouse, doghouse, and outhouse" to bring Kimble to justice. The Fugitive was nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound and Best Sound Editing while winning the award for Best Supporting Actor and it has a rating of 96% on rottentomatoes.com.
3. Jackass
The stunts that these guys pull are simply amazing and it is some of the best physical humor I have ever seen. A crew of young men perform a variety of strange, painful, and often humiliating stunts for the amusement of themselves and those around them, including crawling across dozens of mousetraps while wearing rodent make-up, being rolled down bowling lanes on skateboards, racing in golf carts across an ancient driving range, giving themselves self-inflicted paper cuts, making snow cones out of urine, tightrope walking over live alligators, using uninstalled sanitary plumbing in a hardware store, terrifying Japanese pedestrians while wearing panda costumes, and much, much more. Jackass; The Movie has a rating of 48% on rottentomatoes.com
2. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
South Park is one of my favorite shows and this film adaptation is one of my favorite films of all-time. The third graders of South Park sneak into an R-rated film by ultra-vulgar Canadian television personalities Terrance (Matt Stone) and Phillip (Trey Parker), and emerge with expanded vocabularies that leave their parents and teachers scandalized. When outraged Americans try to censor the film, the controversy becomes a call to war with Canada, and Terrance and Phillip end up on death row -- with only the kids left to save them. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was nominated for 1 Academy Award Best Original Song and it has a rating of 81% on rottentomatoes.com.
1. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
I'm a huge Star Trek fan (not as big as a Trekkie) and this film is the reason why I am. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan is not only a sequel to Star Trek: The Motion Picture, it is a actually a sequel to an episode in the Star Trek TV series entitled "Space Seed". The pot feature James T. Kirk (played by William Shatner) and the crew of the starship USS Enterprise facing off against he genetically-engineered tyrant Khan Noonien Singh (who was the villain in the episode and is played by Ricardo Montalban in both the episode and movie). When Khan escapes from a 15-year exile to exact revenge on Kirk, the crew of the Enterprise must stop him from acquiring a powerful terraforming device named Genesis. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan has a rating of 91% on rottentomatoes.com.
So ladies and gentlemen what are some of your favorite films based on tv shows and what do you think of my list? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard.
Jonah Sparks
10. 21 Jump Street
This film surprised me a whole lot and it is one of the best comedies I've seen in a long time. Schmidt (played by Jonah Hill) and Jenko (played by Channing Tatum) are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. But they find that high school is nothing like they left it just a few years earlier - and neither expects that they will have to confront the terror and anxiety of being a teenager again and all the issues they thought they had left behind. 21 Jump Street has a rating of 85% on rottentomatoes.com.
9. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
The television show is absolutely amazing and hilarious and if you don't like this type of humor then there is something wrong with you. Mike Nelson (played by Michael J. Nelson) is stranded in outer space by a mad scientist, who subjects the poor slob to "experiments" that involve watching the worst movies ever made. In order to survive this cinematic torture, Mike and his two companions, sarcastic robots Tom Servo (voiced by Kevin Murphy) and Crow T. Robot (played by Trace Beaulieu), mercilessly heckle the film in self-defense. In this case, the target is This Island Earth, a 1950s sci-fi opus that, despite its silly makeup effects and stilted dialogue, actually stands slightly above the usual Mystery Science Theatre fare. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie has a rating of 80% on rottentomatoes.com.
8. The Great Muppet Caper
This is the main reason why I love the muppets and this is my favorite Muppet film. Kermit the Frog (voiced by Jim Henson) and Fozzie Bear (voice by Frank Oz) are reporters who have failed to bag a story of a London jewel heist, which happened under their watch. The real criminals managed to escape and frame Miss Piggy (voiced by Frank Oz) as the thief. Kermit, Fozzie and the Great Gonzo (voiced by Dave Goelz) set out on a mission to solve the mystery and track down the criminals who stole the Baseball Diamond. The Great Muppet Caper has a rating of 79% on rottentomatoess.com.
7. Mission Impossible 3
This film is action packed and it has one of best villainous performances of all-time. Impossible Mission Forces (IMF) agent Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise) is back into the field just when he was planning on marrying his girlfriend, Julia (played by Michelle Monaghan). The agency asks Hunt to save an operative (played by Keri Russell) he trained after weapons dealer Owen Davian (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman) kidnaps her. With the help of his field team of Luther Stickell (played by Ving Rhames), Declan Gormley (played by Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), and Maggie Q Hunt achieves his goal, but becomes involved in a web of double-crosses that leave him wondering if he can trust his superiors John Musgrave and Theodore Brassel (played by Billy Crudup and Laurence Fishburne respectively). Eventually Davian threatens Julia's life in order to get away with his evil plan. Mission Impossible III has a rating of 70% on rottentomatoes.com.
6. The Simpsons
I'm a huge fan of the show and the is film. Thanks to Lisa Simpson (voiced by Yeardly Smith), Lake Springfield is cleaned up from the pollution that once fouled it. But when Homer (voiced by Dan Castellaneta), who's adopted a pig and dumps a silo full of the pig's waste into the lake, the EPA places a large dome over Springfield, and the Simpsons Family manage to escape through a sinkhole. The family then flees to a better life in Alaska, but when the head of the EPA, Russ Cargill (voiced by Albert Brooks), orders the town to be deconstructed, it's up to Homer to save Springfield. The Simpsons Movie has a rating of 90% on rottentomatoes.com.
5. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
Look I was a huge fan of the Power Rangers when I was a kid and I still have a small little appreciation for the franchise to this day. A team of teenagers with attitude are recruited to save Angel Grove from the evil Ivan Ooze who seeks revenge for his defeat centuries earlier. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie has a rating of 50% on rottentomatoes.com.
4. The Fugitive
The film is full of suspense from beginning to end and it has some amazing performances. Dr. Richard Kimble (played by Harrison Ford, is convicted of murdering his wife. While being transferred to prison by bus, Kimble is involved in a bus-train collision. Surviving the disaster, Kimble escapes, vowing to track down the elusive professional criminal whom he holds responsible for the murder. Dogging the fugitive every foot of the way is U.S. marshal Sam Gerard (played by Tommy Lee Jones), who announces his intention to search "every whorehouse, doghouse, and outhouse" to bring Kimble to justice. The Fugitive was nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound and Best Sound Editing while winning the award for Best Supporting Actor and it has a rating of 96% on rottentomatoes.com.
3. Jackass
The stunts that these guys pull are simply amazing and it is some of the best physical humor I have ever seen. A crew of young men perform a variety of strange, painful, and often humiliating stunts for the amusement of themselves and those around them, including crawling across dozens of mousetraps while wearing rodent make-up, being rolled down bowling lanes on skateboards, racing in golf carts across an ancient driving range, giving themselves self-inflicted paper cuts, making snow cones out of urine, tightrope walking over live alligators, using uninstalled sanitary plumbing in a hardware store, terrifying Japanese pedestrians while wearing panda costumes, and much, much more. Jackass; The Movie has a rating of 48% on rottentomatoes.com
2. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
South Park is one of my favorite shows and this film adaptation is one of my favorite films of all-time. The third graders of South Park sneak into an R-rated film by ultra-vulgar Canadian television personalities Terrance (Matt Stone) and Phillip (Trey Parker), and emerge with expanded vocabularies that leave their parents and teachers scandalized. When outraged Americans try to censor the film, the controversy becomes a call to war with Canada, and Terrance and Phillip end up on death row -- with only the kids left to save them. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was nominated for 1 Academy Award Best Original Song and it has a rating of 81% on rottentomatoes.com.
1. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
I'm a huge Star Trek fan (not as big as a Trekkie) and this film is the reason why I am. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan is not only a sequel to Star Trek: The Motion Picture, it is a actually a sequel to an episode in the Star Trek TV series entitled "Space Seed". The pot feature James T. Kirk (played by William Shatner) and the crew of the starship USS Enterprise facing off against he genetically-engineered tyrant Khan Noonien Singh (who was the villain in the episode and is played by Ricardo Montalban in both the episode and movie). When Khan escapes from a 15-year exile to exact revenge on Kirk, the crew of the Enterprise must stop him from acquiring a powerful terraforming device named Genesis. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan has a rating of 91% on rottentomatoes.com.
So ladies and gentlemen what are some of your favorite films based on tv shows and what do you think of my list? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard.
Jonah Sparks
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