What the corpus says about The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy (1988)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy (1988) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy (1988) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 1:36:55 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy ↔ The Dark Crystal · tonal comp · Raggedy Ann feels like the Jim Henson fantasy films discussed earlier. · "It feels like the Jim Tanson fantasy films we were talking about."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 1:37:04 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy ↔ Toy Story franchise · midpoint · Raggedy Ann sits halfway between a child's imagined toy play and what Toy Story later found: that being a toy would be an existential nightmare. · "It's halfway in between feeling like you're watching a film of what a kid imagines their toys are doing. And what Toy Story gets to later"
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 1:36:43 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Richard Williams ↔ The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy · side job · Williams took the Raggedy Ann job to fund self-producing more of The Thief and the Cobbler. · "he took this assignment job, uh, to get the money to self-produce more of Thief and the Cobbler."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 1:37:24 · Griffin Newman (0.80)] The Adventures of Raggedy Ann & Andy · fun · Richard Williams's nightmarish toy musical, watchable on YouTube; skip to the number 'Blue,' sung by a camel with four legs, for astonishing animation. · "There is a musical sequence in this uh, called Blue, uh, sung by a camel, uh, with 4 legs"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast · 0:11:06 · unknown (0.00)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ The Dark Crystal · craft · The Muppety, British-fantasy tone of Jedi is the kind of thing the speaker watched on video as a child, like Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. · "much like Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, neither of which I think are great movies."
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy (1988); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy (1988) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.