Monsters vs Aliens:
Susan (Ginormica) is furiously battling the alien robot while her monster buddies are looking on.
Bob (I think-) yells to her “you’re doing great!”
Susan (exasperated) “I’m doing EVERYTHING!”
I use that at work.
A Bug’s Life:
“I’m telling you with my brain” I love that one!
The Skipper (lead penguin) had some great lines in Madagascar 2.
“That has to be the second biggest slingshot I’ve ever seen.”
“Gently now, you just wanna kiss the ground, just a little peck, a smooch like you’re kissing your sister.”
“Love transcends all boundaries. We are here to celebrate such a love. Do you two take each other for better or worse?”
Skipper: “For better, please.”
“Higher mammal! We shall require use of your opposibles!”
Is Up a kids’ movie?
When I was in the theatre watching Up I let out a loud “HA!” when I heard Carl Fredrickson ask Russell “You call your mother by her first name?”
(It was a running joke on the Mary Tyler Moore show)
Up will be a treasure-trove for years at my house…
…whenever my wife asks me to do something, I will often reply, “yes, I will do x for you because I LOVE you…” in a spot-on impression of Dug.
I never cared for the head penguin because the voice actor (it seemed to me) was deliberately trying to sound like Phil Hartman.
In Disney’s Hercules, the monsters trying to trap Hercules are disguised as children in distress. One of the monster-children says “help! help! Someone dial IXII!”
For me, from Finding Nemo:
“Are–are you my conscience?”
“A sea monkey took my money . . .”
“Just like in rehearsal, gentlemen.”
Lilo and Stitch has a lot of great lines. I love that Lilo is just such an odd little girl, and her interactions with the other girls her age are perfect.
Lilo: “Leave me alone to diiiiie.”
“Oh, I thought you said the Great Bambi.”
“YOU MEAN THAT WIMPY DEER?”
my wife’s favorite part of that exchange:
Lucius: Woman, i am talking about the GREATER GOOD!
Honey: Greater Good!? I am your WIFE, I am the greatest GOOD you will ever have!
And my favorite from Madagascar:
Mason: If you have any poo, fling it now.
I swear, the funniest line I’ve heard in a movie in the last 10 years was Dug’s squirrel joke in Up:
I almost literally ROFL’d. Fortunately, I was at home.
“You’re no monster, mister; you’re just really dirty!”
-Bubbles, The Powerpuff Girls Movie
Oh! That reminds me of my favorite line from that movie!
'Cuz he’s a monkey, get it?
“You are a sad, strange, little man” from Toy Story killed me. I use it IRL quite often.
Anything Dug from Up says cracks me up.
Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
Elmo finds himself in Grouchland, homeland of Oscar, looking for his lost blanket. He asks as passing local for help who replies:
“I’d love to, but I don’t speak English.”
In perfect English
Finding Nemo
“Mine.” (Seconding Shirley.)
“Hey there little fella. Little fella. Oh! Big Fella!”
Penguins of Madagascar
Skipper: “Kowalski, options.”
Kowalski: “I recommend a strategic retreat.”
Skipper: “Explain.”
Kowalski: “It’s like running away, but manlier.”
Oh, and “take the elevator, it’s faster.”
The Incredibles
“No capes!” (again, seconding Shirley.)
I think they should, because they are children’s movies, at heart. But there’s some great stuff that really speaks to adults:
*All right, I’ll give it a try.
No. Try not. Do… or do not. There is no try. *
That exchange made my mother, who’d never even heard of the franchise, and didn’t really understand the space-opera-western-acted-out-partly-by-puppets concept, shout out “Exactly, that’s the one thing that makes perfect sense.”
Spongebob Movie: Are they laughing at us? No Patrick, They’re laughing next to us.
Monsters Vs. Aliens: Oh man it’s hot. Did the Earth get hotter while we were gone? Cuz that would be a really convenient truth.
Madagascar 2: Oh suddenly sacrificing a giraffe into a volcano in order to make rain is crazy