When you’re down, sometimes the trick is to curl up with a great movie and forget about what’s bothering you.  It certainly helps me and it occurred to me the other day that I always tend to turn to the same movies in times of sadness.

We all have tough days every now and then.  What movies cheer you up?

Here are 10 of my personal favorites:

Note: Obviously, everyone’s list will be different but I just realized what an incredibly random list this is. Oh well, these movies continually do the trick.

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Michael Jordan To The Max

Independence Day

The Rock

Peter Pan

93 World Series

The Fast & The Furious

The Matrix Revisited

The Incredibles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Have any favorites? Comment below!

This All Time Best post is dedicated to my favorite Pixar character of all time and it’s not who you would expect.

I went obscure on this one because he still makes me laugh.

The runner up: Hamm from Toy Story.

“You’ve heard of Kung Fu? Well prepare yourself for pork chop!”

It’s really hard to narrow down one single character out of hundreds of hilarious creations but I’m pretty proud of my pick:

Jacques (Finding Nemo)

“Jacques?”

“Oui?”

“No cleaning!”

“I shall resist.”

Finding Nemo has a ton of amazing characters but Jacques sticks out for me.  There’s just something about this little guy makes me laugh more than any other Pixar character and that’s saying something.  I think he may have 10 lines of dialogue in the entire movie but the filmmakers made every single one of them count.

Fantastic character.

Point.  Pixar.