I know... I know... I dote on my kids.  Suffer through this or enjoy it immensely...

This weekend we had friends over for a movie I had to order over the Internet to enjoy.  I first saw this when I was a tween-ager.  It's a bizarre kids musical called Bugsy Malone. The wiki link gives a lot of details of course.

The lot of us are all over the room, blankets, pillows, snacks...  Say what you will but for us, movie night is a real family bonding thing.  We have other things we enjoy, movie night is just one of them.  My youngest starts goofing with us all and quickly remembers a couple verses at the end that collectively get sung together without embarrassment... "You give a little love and it all comes back to you... La, la, la, la-la, la-la..."  I finish for em, "You're gonna be remembered for the things you say and do... La, la, la, la-la, la-la".  My older son yields the fate of the hook and sings along aside everyone.

I struggle hard to find movies for family movie night.  We've long ago did Star Wars and such... We've even done the Indiana Jones trilogy only to really enjoy the fourth and final Indy movie.   I can assure you, for kids under 14, this movie is great family fun. 

Stick out the entire song to hear, "You give a little love and it all comes back to you... La, la, la, la-la, la-la..."  it is well worth it.  This video starts out with the movies closing fight scene which is a mayhem cream pie fight.

For those of you that recognize this and don't know where from... Yes... Coke did a Grand Theft Auto type mock commercial which if you understand the point ...   more »