Underrated Movie of the Month

June 2017: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Why I think it's underrated: The music, for one, is so much fun.  The dancing is fabulous.  A bunch of children take down evil rulers.  A motorcar with personality (not to be confused with Herbie the Love Bug, which just gave me an idea for next month's underrated movie of the month).  Also, Dick Van Dyke.
Favorite Lines:

• "What do we do now?"
  "Start swimming!"
  "I can't swim!"
  "Then start drowning!"
• "He's awful!"
  "He's terrible!"
  "Not only that, he isn't even nice."
• "What are you going to do?"
  "I'm going to carry you."
  "Oh, dear. Must you?"
  "Well, unless you'd rather ride piggyback."

May 2017: Pete's Dragon (the original, not the lame remake)
Why I think it's underrated: Not many people are familiar with this movie, which is a shame.  It takes a very dark theme such as child abuse and displays it in a way that shows hope without making light of it.  The music is so fun and catchy, and I believe everyone will fall in love with Candle on the Water and There's Room for Everyone in this World.  Also, Nora is me.
Favorite Lines:

• "Well, if there's enough room for a chowder-head like you, then there's more than enough room for a dragon."
• "Say, have you seen anything of a mean, fresh, kid, about ye big? Answers to the name of Pete."
  "Half of the kids here in this town answer to Pete. Other half don't answer."
• ♪"He has the head of a camel, the neck of a crocodile."
• "I don't want to cure anybody here. They all deserve to have whatever they have."
• "First there’s a dragon and now money talks. Will miracles ever cease?"
• ♪"You can't have him.  You don't love him.  All you've done up to now is break his heart.  You'll abuse him and just use him.  Look out or I'll take you apart."

April 2017: The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Why I think it's underrated: Always go into a movie like this without knowing what to expect.  It has beautiful themes of family, adoption, unconditional love, and much more.  I expected it to be a simple, cute, heartwarming movie.  What I didn't expect was to end up a blubbering mess of tears.  It was a movie that left me heartbroken and satisfied all at the same time.  Highly recommended.
Favorite Lines:

• "Why are you smiling?"
  "Because I can only get better."
• "Did you know that I invented the peanut butter and jelly sandwich?"
  "Did you know that I'm a big fan of your work?"
• "Have a great day!"
  "That's too much pressure..."
  "Have the day you have!"

March 2017: Chicken Run
Why I think it's underrated: The way the storytellers turned a dark theme in to something very goofy and lighthearted without making the dark themes themselves any less potent was quite genius in my opinion. That, and it has Star Trek references.
Favorite Lines:

• "All me life flashed before me eyes. It was really borin'."
• "The exits are located here and here. In the quite likely event of an emergency, put your head between your knees..."
  "...and kiss your bum goodbye!"
• "I don't want to be a pie! I don't like gravy."
• "I just decided, I don't like you."
  "I just decided, I don't care."
• "They're gonna kill themselves...wanna watch?"
  "...Yeah, all right."
• "Your side of the bunk? The whole bunk is my side of the bunk!"
• "Was your father by any chance a vulture?"
• "We need more power."
  "I cannot work miracles, cap'n. We're giving her all she's got."
• "Great Scott, what was that?"
  "A cling-on, Cap'n, and the engines can't take it." [Told you there were Star Trek references.]

February 2017: Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Why I think it's underrated: I love each of the different characters' personalities and quirks. The mediocre story line did not do these dynamic characters any justice.
Favorite Lines:

• "We done a lot of things we're not proud of. Robbing graves, eh, plundering tombs, double parking. But, nobody got hurt. Well, maybe somebody got hurt, but nobody we knew."
• "Hey, look, I made a bridge. It only took me like, what? Ten seconds? Eleven, tops."
• "Trust me on this one. You don't wanna know. Audrey, don't tell him. You shouldn't have told me, but you did. And now I'm tellin' you, you don't wanna know."
• "My family owned a flower shop. We would sell roses, carnations, baby's breath, you name it. One day, I'm making about three dozen corsages for this prom, you know, the one they put on the wrist, and everybody, they come. 'Where is it?', 'When is it?', 'Does it match my dress?' It's a nightmare. Anyway, I guess there was this leak next door of gas or what. BOOM! No more Chinese laundry. Blew me right through the front window. It was like a sign from God. I found myself that boom."
• "You're so skinny, if you turned sideways and stuck out your tongue, you'd look like a zipper."
• "What else have you, uh, got in there?"
  "Oh, er... gunpowder, nitroglycerin, notepads, fuses, wicks, glue, and... paper clips, big ones. You know, just, uh, office supplies."
• "Dang lightnin' bugs done bit me on my sit-upon. Somebody's gonna have to suck out this poison. Now don't everybody jump up at once."
  
• "The magma has solidified in the bowels of the volcano, effectively blocking the exit."
  "I got the same problem with sauerkraut."

January 2017: Sky High
Why I think it's underrated: Superheroes + high school + one-liners. What's not to like?
Favorite Lines:

• "I'm Coach Boomer. You may know me as Sonic Boom. You may not."
  
• "The kids who get bit by radioactive insects or fall into a vat of toxic waste, their powers usually show up the next day. Or - they die."
  
• [dancing ridiculously] "Hey, you wanna dance?"
  "No."
  [stops dancing] "Me neither."
• "I'm a technopath. I can control technology with my mind."
  "Wow. All I can do is...punch stuff."
  "Yet he'll be the one on cereal boxes. Show me the justice in that."
• "We can't change who he is...not without dropping him in a vat of toxic waste."
  [pause]
  "Steve..."
  "Where would we even find a vat of..."
  "Steve!"
• "Do you remember when we used to play this with *real* citizens?"
• "Your hero flies north at 300 mph for 15 minutes. His arch enemy is tunneling south at 200 mph for 10 minutes. Assuming your hero has x-ray vision, how long will it take for him to realize he is going the wrong way?"
• "Regrettably, I have made boom-boom."