11. Happy
1,440 minutes (25 miles of film)
Three films on the list are tied at 24 hours long, so Happy is ranked lowest in the longest most meaningless movies in the world because it’s the least meaningless of the three. Pharrell Williams’s contagious song “Happy” was made for the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack but quickly grew a life of its own because of Williams’s 24-hour music video. At the website for Happy, hundreds of people starred in individual takes on the song, dancing through streets, bowling alleys, and TV studios (thanks, Jimmy Kimmel). Visitors to the site were matched with a clock that corresponded to the time of day when each segment was filmed. Yes, this was all a lot of work, but what did it mean, besides a fun and sunny pop song?
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