Sometimes I just get walking around the house with my headphones on. Which inevitably leads to dancing. Which looks something like this:

This is where you start to see the films that I really love from the decade. Every one of these has an insane degree of rewatchability, and has had at least some impact on film making since its release.

 5-10

The Princess and the Frog

I'm so glad that John Lasseter reopened the hand drawn animation department when he took over as the head of Disney animation. It's hard to believe that it's been five and a half years since the last hand drawn Disney animated film (and even longer than that since the last good one, I'm not a fan of Home on the Range). It just feels right to have Disney doing this classic style of animation, and even better that they're doing it with such a charming, fun, and sweet film as The Princess and the Frog.

Tiana (Anika Noni-Rose) is a nineteen year old waitress working two jobs in jazz-era New Orleans, saving and dreaming of opening her own restaurant. The city is all aflutter over the visit of Prince Naveen (Brunos Campos), a charming, if arrogant and kind of lazy, noble on the lookout for good times, and just maybe a wealthy wife to help him with some minor financial difficulties. He falls in with voodoo magician Dr. Facilier (Keith David) with the ultimate result of his being transformed into a frog. His hope is that a kiss from Tiana will reverse the spell. Instead it does the opposite as she's transformed into a frog too. They have to work together in a journey across to the bayou in the hope that they can reverse the spell.

Brothers

We can't seem to go more than a few months without some sort of drama about either the war in Afghanistan, or the war in Iraq. Which I suppose would be all well and good if they were all The Hurt Locker but most of them are more on the level of Stop-Loss, which isn't a terrible film, but isn't exactly great, or particularly necessary. Sadly, Jim Sheridan's new film, Brothers, is much closer to the latter category.  It takes some good performances, and interesting concepts and wraps them in so much histrionics filled melodrama that it becomes difficult to take seriously.

Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire) is about to return to Afghanistan for his fourth tour leaving his wife Grace (Natalie Portman) and two young daughters behind. When something happens to Sam in Afghanistan his newly out of prison brother Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal) steps in to help comfort and take care of Sam's family. Tommy and Grace become closer and closer during Sam's absence, developing a close friendship, and maybe a little something more.

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wes Anderson has long been one of my favorite directors. Rushmore is one of my favorite films, and I honestly can't think of a single one of his films that I didn't at least moderately enjoy (yes, even Darjeeling Limited). That being said, I think that Fantastic Mr. Fox is his most accessible film, and may even be his best.

Mr. Fox (voiced by George Clooney) put his days of poultry theft behind him when he settled down with his beloved wife (Meryl Streep) to raise a family. But familial bliss, and a career as a writer for the local newspaper isn't enough for him. Feeling unfulfilled, he packs up his wife and his strange, not particularly cool son Ash (Jason Schwartzman) and moves them out of their hole and into a bigger, and better, tree. The only problem is that this tree is in full view of the farms of Boggis, Bunce and Bean, the three meanest, most vicious farmers in the area. The temptation is too great for Mr. Fox and he soon goes back to his thieving ways, enlisting the help of his friend Kylie (Wally Wolodarsky) and his nephew Kristofferson (Eric Anderson) in a series of ever more difficult capers.