So I was just watching Three Men and a Baby Today because there was nothing else on, and I noticed that the movie has a totally unnecessary side plot. The hiding the drugs stuff is totally not needed and has no real relation to the rest of the movie. It has nothing to do with the main story, which is obviously about 3 bachelors taking care of a baby.

 

SO I was just think of other movies that had unnecessary side plots.

 

In Major League, Rick Vaughn sleeping with Dorn's wife- not really needed, went nowhere in the end.

 

A recent one, in the movie Envy, Jack Black's wife (Amy Poehler) running for Congress-came out of nowhere and really made no sense.

 

Any others?

In Mean Girls, they played up this parallel between the gay guy and the Plastics that I surely thought would be paid off later, but it never was. Too bad.

Ok, I have seen "Mean Girls", and I guess I totally missed a parallel the gay guy and the Plastics. I'm gonna have to watch it again, I guess.

It's minor, but it's something I picked up on. The pore tightening thing, where the ringleader of the Plastics (can't remember her name) is talking about her pores are too big, before they immediately cut to the gay guy, who's doing the same thing a few minutes later.

The whole thing in Legally Blonde 2 about her boyfriend wanting to get married at Fenway Park was as unnecessary as you can get.

 

Before you ask, my girlfriend made me watch that movie

Oh, ok.

 

I know what you are talking about. I guess I just didn't make anything out of it.

In Major League, Rick Vaugh sleeping with Dorn's wife- not really needed, went nowhere in the end.

That's true, but I always took it more as Vaughn getting back at Dorn for being a complete ass to him.

It's minor, but it's something I picked up on. The pore tightening thing, where the ringleader of the Plastics (can't remember her name) is talking about her pores are too big, before they immediately cut to the gay guy, who's doing the same thing a few minutes later.

I thought it was simply to play up his flaming status. I suppose parallels could be drawn between the mean girls and the gay guy, weird girl and Lohan. Or it may have been thrown in to suggest that the weird girl was not so different from the mean girl ringleader she once was friends with as she was equally elitist, malicious and patronising when push came to shove.

In Major League, Rick Vaugh sleeping with Dorn's wife- not really needed, went nowhere in the end.

That's true, but I always took it more as Vaughn getting back at Dorn for being a complete ass to him.

Actually, Dorn's wife did it to get back at Dorn for sleeping with random chick the night the Indians won the game to tie the Yankees...she saw him leave with her on television during their celebration. She then tells Dorn about it, and Dorn gets all pissed at Vaughn, but just tells him to strike Haywood out instead of doing something to him. At the end, after they win the pennant, Dorn punches Vaughn, and then they hug.

 

The end.

That's right. I just realized Vaughn had no idea who she was until after their encounter.