Books
Man, cat, and a severe lack of government oversight get trapped in the underworld where everything wants to kill them, cat is somehow famous, and man develops several thousand mental illnesses. Anyway, capitalism.
Dungeon Crawler Carl (This was an easy one)
Masked man, a chandelier, and do do do do do
Phantom Of The Opera
Girl gets kidnapped, escapes, joins a criminal with a frying pan, and discovers her parents are rich. Then everyone starts singing, the kingdom gets attacked by people with commitment issues, and somehow the solution is MORE HAIR.
Tangled
Kid abandons his childhood, so they start a prison break, accidentally get adopted by a dictator, and almost get cremated alive before being rescued by a garbage truck. Then everyone gets donated like a box of emotionally damaged free samples.
Toy Story 3
"ONE DAY MORE"
Les Mis
Man gets forced into a deadly high school science fair despite being underage, watches a rather majestic guy die, gets kidnapped by a bald man with daddy issues, and somehow the government decides it's fake news.
Harry Potter (Goblet Of Fire to be specific)
Mean Girls but everyone DIES.
Heathers
Girl gets grounded by the ocean, steals a boat, l kidnaps a buff dude, and forces a man to go on a road trip to return a rock to an angry lava lady.
Moana
He did WHAT in his cup?
Cars
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
Phantom Of The Opera
A kid finds out his dad is a deadbeat, gets sent to a summer camp for mentally unstable enthusiasts, and is then forced to solve everyone's problems because the adults are apparently useless.
Percy Jackson
A man really wants the world to know that he's not gonna do something.
Hamilton
Two sisters go on a field trip because the forest is having a mental breakdown. Girl goes schizophrenic for a second, befriends a rock, commits property destruction, and discovers her mom had a whole secret side quest. Another girl accidentally becomes queen, someone dies, comes back, and somehow everyone agrees this was a productive weekend.
Frozen 2
A man unknowingly kidnaps a child and then ANOTHER man KNOWINGLY kidnaps the same child.
Monsters Inc.
"Not anymore. When Mom was alive, we lived halfway normal."
Heathers
A socially awkward raisin documents his daily suffering because his best friend is an actual walking cheese hazard, his older brother is a menace, and his little brother is a tiny criminal. Everyone is stupid, nobody learns anything, and somehow there are 21 books about it.
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
SHE WORE A CROWN AND SHE CAME DOWN IN A BUBBLE, DOUG!
Wizard Of Oz
An emotionally unstable guy gets kidnapped by his employee, who is also a squirrel-obsessed divorced dad, and they go on a road trip to overthrow an old lady with a potion addiction
Emperor's New Groove
Old man gets emotionally attached to a house, commits real estate fraud with balloons, kidnaps a wilderness explorer, and flies to South America to fight a senior citizen over a dog. Oh, and GOOD AFTERNOON.
Up
"A tailor spying on the British government"
Hamilton
Humanity said “what if we made high school a government-mandated personality test?” and then started murdering people who got more than one result. One girl is bad at picking a personality, falls in love with a walking red flag, and accidentally discovers that the government is, in fact, stupid.
Divergent
A guy kills people for fun but gets paid for it.
A depressed teenager builds a healthcare marshmallow, commits several felonies, and starts a gang with his friends to fight a man having the world's worst midlife crisis. Everyone needs therapy. Probably from the marshmallow.
Big Hero 6
Man is so down bad for a girl he accidentally saves humanity because of it
Wall-E
"I write poems to burn by firelight"
Ride The Cyclone