A timeless classic right up there with Abbot and Costello Meet The Mummy...

What with AOL-Time Warner, HP-Compaq, and the Friends wedding, it seems like mergers are becoming more and more popular these days. We like them because it lets us use the word "synergy" a lot. (We don't really know what it means, but it's a neat word.) So with that in mind, we took some of our favorite flicks and merged them together into one bigger conglomerate movie, thereby producing lots of fun synergy.

Here's the deal: We took two movies where the last word of one movie was the same as the first word of another and scrunched 'em together. So, for example, we took Rain Man and Man in the Iron Mask, and got Rain Man in the Iron Mask, a movie about how Louis the XIV tries to keep his idiot-savant brother imprisoned. But the Three Musketeers free him, and they all go to Vegas and count cards together.

For the rest of these merger movies, we'll give you the plotline. All you need to do is figure out what movie combination we're talking about.

Try this one out first...

When a senator's daughter is kidnapped in Washington D.C., Morgan Freeman as detective Alex Cross must track down the culprit. His first suspect? An awkward teenager with genetically enhanced super powers.

What film are we talking about? Why, Along Came a Spider-Man, of course.

Now that you've got the hang of it, try a few of these others. Answers are on the next page.

	This biopic/romantic-comedy details the life of Andy Kaufman, from his early publicity stunts where he wrestled women, to his later life when he falls in love with Cher, a young widow growing up in New York with her tight-knit Italian-American family.

	In this raunchy children\'s comedy, Ben Stiller is searching for the love of his life, a young British nanny with a knack for tunes. But it turns out everybody is in love with this young woman, from a sleazy private eye, to animated penguins, to Dick Van Dyke. Featuring the famous hit tune, "A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Hair Stick Up"

	Sidney Poitier stars as a Philadelphia homicide detective who must confront a racist police force and the population of a small southern town while he attempts to solve a case of zombies consuming human flesh.

	Rut Roh! When racial tensions heat up one hot summer day in New York City, it's up to a van-full of investigative teens and their dog to crack the case!

	Excellent! Mike Myers is a small time TV show host and author who finds himself going big time when a sleazy producer takes over his show and tries to steal his girlfriend. Meanwhile his mother becomes an overnight celebrity with the publication of a radical feminist book, in this movie based on a novel by John Irving.

	Houston, we have a problem. This space capsule we inherited from our uncle is haunted by a motley crew of undead spirits and creepy special effects.

	When a young boy who is afraid of heights apparently falls to his death from a rooftop in Copenhagen, it's up to a quiet, introspective heroine and her short miner friends to investigate the case and track down the wicked queen behind it all.

	Top five reasons to watch this movie: 5. John Cusack is great as Spicoli, a surfer dude without a purpose in life who comes to terms with the fact that he's growing up 4. Jack Black is hilarious as a grumpy record store employee 3. The scene where Spicoli orders pizza in class 2. The scene where they imagine beating up Tim Robbins 1. The scene when Phoebe Cates gets out of the pool

	Oliver Stone investigates a conspiracy theory about one of our most popular presidents. Is he really an alien from a distant planet, as he often tells his psychiatrist? Or is he simply crazy? Or is the CIA trying to kill him? You'll question everything after watching this flick...

	Hugh Grant stars as a hip, irresponsible Londoner in South Central L.A. who can't find a purpose to his life. Until one day, he joins a support group for single parents and meets Tre, a young kid striving to reach manhood in a dangerous environment of drugs and violence, and together, they turn their lives around.

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