Ah, the Flaming Lips. These soundtrack whores madcap musicians stopped recording albums now you know and instead have changed their focus to record songs for compelling, masterwork feature films like “Good Luck Chuck,” “The Heartbreak Kid,” “50 First Dates,” “Freaky Friday” and now the latest masterpiece, “Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium” starring the wonderful Dustin Hoffman and the deliciously impish Natalie Portman (and Jason Bateman).
The Lips did promise Billboard when discussing the hilarity that was “Good Luck Chuck” that they would be writing the theme song to an upcoming Disney film and these wacky Oklahoma fruitcakes weren’t lying!
The Lips wrote the track “Love the World You Find,” for the delightful ‘Mr. Magorium’ which we can all assume is more magical and enchanting than their ‘Heartbreak Kid’-written opus “The Tale Of The Horny Frog” and their ‘Chuck’-penned classic, hilariously-nonsensical ” “I Was Zapped By The Lucky Super Rainbow.”
“Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium” will hit theaters November 16 and it’s sure-to-be Grammy award winning soundtrack, which will also include the score by Alexandre Desplat and Aaron Zigman, will be available November 13.
Oh yeah, and the Lips swear up and down that their long-belated Xmas film, “Christmas On Mars” will be ready for March 2008. Suuuuuuuuure.
Download: The Flaming Lips – “I Was Zapped By The Lucky Super Rainbow”