The 30 Best Movie-Related Viral Videos Of 2013

Cookie monsters, wookiees, magic fruit, stormtroopers and more...


by Ali Plumb |
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Now updated to include even more enjoyable oddness, with eight extra bits of YouTubery to share with every single person that you know.


This year has been another belter in the movie-related viral video department. Our Facebook, Twitter, Google + and Tumblr pages have been positively heaving with so many clever clips, spoofs and skits over the course of 2013 that the very best have spilled over into this special list feature. This means that even if you missed these at the time, you can still laugh your proverbial socks off watching them right here, right now – and then recommend them to your less web-savvy friends as if you’d seen them all before anyway...

P.S. Any we’ve missed that you think should have made the list? Let us know in the comment box below.

HARRISON FORD WON'T ANSWER YOUR STAR WARS QUESTIONS

Harrison Ford gets a lot of stick for being on the curmudgeonly side, but this Jimmy Kimmel Star Wars: Episode VII skit proves that really, his grumpiness is all one big joke. To prove this wasn’t a flash in the pan, check out his extra-mumbly response to our Star Wars question during his appearance on the Empire Podcast, as well as all the ludicrous Halloween costumes he wears (no grumpy person, surely, would be so willing). Our favourite? The drunken nun.

HARRISON FORD GETS FREAKED OUT BY DAVID BLAINES' FRUIT

Two Harrison Ford clips make this list, and both of them are even better than that time he pretended to play Uncharted 3 a couple of years ago (“Cinematic! Unreal!{ =nofollow}”). This one features fewer out-of-work actors in Wookie outfits, and more oddball street magicians hiding playing cards in beloved actors’ oranges. In other words: come for the card trick, stay for the sweary reponse.

SUPERMAN 75TH ANNIVERSARY SHORT

Superman turned 75 years old this year, and to celebrate Man Of Steel director Zack Snyder challenged Warner Bros. Animation to create a short that did justice to three-quarters of a century of Big Blue Boy Scouting. The challenge was accepted and defeated with considerable aplomb in this gorgeous video, save that Dean Cain somehow didn

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