Bad Movie Explanations
In this movie, a thief boy with a pet monkey marries a princess with the help of a blue man.
What is Aladdin?
This aquatic mammal has long tusks and is fat.
What is a walrus?
This punctuation mark can be in email addresses and informal writing to abbreviate a two letter phrase.
What is an ampersat/"at sign?"
Hadestown features a reimagined Jazz-opera style story of this Greek myth.
What is the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice?
This woodwind instrument, unlike other woodwinds, has a fully metal body, and is usually in the front row of ensembles.
What is a flute?
In this movie, a frog couple navigates a swamp with a firefly and a crocodile to try to become human.
What is The Princess and the Frog?
This mammal uses its wings to fly.
What is a bat?
This punctuation mark can be used multiple ways, and it is used to surround an in-text citation.
What are parentheses?
This Broadway show portrays the backstory of the evil Witch from the Wizard of Oz.
What is Wicked?
This string instrument shares its name with a type of guitar and vocal range.
What is a bass?
In this movie, a girl runs away from her family to build her own house on a mountain and stay there forever.
What is Frozen?
This flightless bird native to New Zealand shares its name with a fruit.
What is a kiwi bird?
This punctuation mark can be used multiple ways, and it can be used to mark dialogue within an already quoted phrase.
What is an apostrophe?
This old Broadway show recently was recently revived with Annaleigh Ashford and Josh Groban playing the murderous barber and baker.
What is Sweeny Todd?
This far bigger version of a commonly played woodwind instrument can hit very low notes, similar to a bass saxophone.
What is a base clarinet?
In this movie, a girl sells her voice to a woman with big hair so she can live with a prince.
What is The Little Mermaid?
This common bug eats dirt and poops it out as fertilizing soil.
What is an Earthworm?
This punctuation mark (which is a combination of two other punctuation marks) is used to link two complete sentences.
What is a semicolon?
This musical, turned into a movie with Julie Andrews, takes place in Austria during WWII, where the main character, Maria, teaches a family of kids how to sing.
What is The Sound of Music?
This uncommonly played woodwind instrument, similar to an oboe or saxophone has a wide range of notes it can hit.
What is a basoon?
In this movie, boy kidnaps 3 children and takes them to an island where he keeps all of the other children he took with him.
What is Peter Pan?
This animal uses its bony bottom and pounds it on its predators' skulls to protect itself.
What is a wombat?
This punctuation mark is an extended version of the en dash.
What is an em dash?
This Broadway show is based off of the 90's movie featuring Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep as the undead Leading Ladies, currently played by Betsy Wolfe and Jennifer Simard on Broadway.
What is Death Becomes Her?
This percussion instrument creates loud, thunder-like claps.
What is a slapstick?