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** And later on, the background music sounds ''suspiciously'' like the ''Charlie's Angels'' theme...
* ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]] 2: Hero of the Federation'' 's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVHf-8MUDDg theme] was similar to ''[[Backdraft]]'''s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Xk38J0cYo Fighting Seventeenth]...
* [[Woody Allen]]'s 1969 comedy ''Take the Money and Run'' has an escape scene accompanied by a knockoff of Quincy Jones' "Soul Bossa Nova".
* The ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'' theme is actually a Suspiciously Similar Song to an unused song composer Monty Norman wrote for a [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5041409 musical].
* The ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvkKX035484 theme] was suspiciously similar to "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6uEMOeDZsA I Want A New Drug]" by [[Huey Lewis and The News]], and Huey actually sued Ray Parker Jr. over it.
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* The music in ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'' sounds kind of like this when compared to the music from the films.
* Brad Bird originally wanted [[John Barry]] to score ''[[The Incredibles]]'', and used Barry's theme from ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'' in the first trailer. When Michael Giacchino was hired after Barry turned out to be unavailable, the opening fanfare for the theme he wrote closely resembles the ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'' theme.
* The rape/seduction scene in Akira Kurosawa's ''[[Rashomon]]'' is set to music that sounds suspiciously like Ravel's ''Bolero''. The composer claimed he wanted to create something that sounded more original (and more appropriately Japanese) but Kurosawa kept pushing him back towards ''Bolero''.
* The "Stairway to Heaven" scene from ''[[Wayne's World]]'' uses a Suspiciously Similar Song in the home video version. In the original theatrical release, they used the actual "Stairway" intro.
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hNItU7wiCw end theme] of ''The Lawnmower Man'' is only a couple notes off from being the ''[[Terminator]]'' theme.
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* Baz Luhrmann's ''[[William Shakespeare's Romeo+Juliet|William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet]]'' has "O Verona", which is suspiciously similar to "O Fortuna" from ''Carmina Burana''.
* The cultists performing a human sacrifice in ''[[Young Sherlock Holmes]]'' (not to be confused with the ''other'' [[Sherlock Holmes (film)|Sherlock Holmes movie]] with cultists performing a human sacrifice) chant a song which also rips off "O Fortuna".
* In the movie adaptation of ''[[Ghost World]]'', the character Doug blares some heavy metal from his car stereo - it sounds a lot like an instrumental knockoff of [[Metallica]]'s "Master Of Puppets".
* Leonard Rosenman's theme for ''[[RoboCop]] 2'' is suspiciously similar to Basil Poleduris's theme from the original ''[[RoboCop]]''.
* In [[David Lynch]]'s film of ''[[Dune]]'', the scenes set on Caladan are scored with ambient string music that sounds a lot like the first movement of Dmitri Shostakovich's 11th Symphony, although the resemblance may not necessarily be intentional.
* ''[[Spaceballs]]'' more or less did this with the ''[[Star Wars]]'' theme.
* The original teaser trailer for ''[[UHF]]'', meant to parody the ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' franchise, used an intentionally-obvious knockoff of the theme.
* Averted ''hard'' in ''[[The Room]]'', in which Tommy Wiseau shelled out the money for the rights to ''[[Happy Birthday to You]]''.
* The famous ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvCI-gNK_y4 theme] is actually very similar to the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFZcCNYF6-4 beginning of the fourth movement of Dvorak's New World Symphony.] The two sound completely different after the first few notes, however.
* The original version of French Canadian film Elvis Gratton used many songs by Elvis Presley. It has been replaced by instrumental Suspiciously Similar Songs.
* John Travolto... da un Insolito Destino is parody/exploitation disco movie set (and filmed) during the [[Saturday Night Fever]] era about a [[John Travolta]] lookalike. Most of the score sounds like some other disco hits of the time. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfxHj9nLFvA Halfway through this clip], you can hear that "It sounds like [[Staying Alive]] from [[The Bee Gees]] but it's not" music.
* ''[[Muppet Treasure Island]]'''s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRgzQvIKynM "Treasure Island"] piece seem to have inspired some of the music in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'': the middle segment of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP-BeFi58tQ The Black Pearl] (skip to 52:00) and, less clearly, the violin playing at the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFBBKfw59kA He's a Pirate].
** Speaking of Hans Zimmer, the soundtrack from ''[[The Rock]]'' is very similar to the score from Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. (For those not in the know, Zimmer worked on both).
* The opening credits music for ''[[
* In the scene in ''[[Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure]]'' when the two play Poker against Billy the Kid, the music is a very unsubtle rip-off of 'Il Triello' from ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]]''. Similarly, the song "In Time" from the movie's soundtrack sounds [[The Four Chords of Pop|''very'' similar to "With or Without You" by U2.]]
* The [[Testosterone Poisoning|opening song]] to ''[[Orgazmo]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiXaT_1I-vw Now You're A Man], has elements of "You Give Love A Bad Name" by [[Bon Jovi]], [[Ronnie James Dio]] songs and "Eye of The Tiger",
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* The fight theme from the unreleased ''[[The Fantastic Four (film)|The Fantastic Four]]'' by Eric and David Wurst is basically John William's "Here They Come" from Star Wars. While the Theme song is more or less shades of "the Main Theme" from Jurassic Park.
* Somewhat averted in the DVD release of ''Where The Buffalo Roam'', as the new songs don't sound anything like the ones used in the original movie. Still pretty lame, though.
* The trailer for the film ''[[The Mask (film)|The Mask]]'' uses a Suspiciously Similar Song to the Danny Elfman composition "Breakfast Machine" from ''[[Pee
* A home-video trailer for the second ''[[The Mighty Ducks (film)|The Mighty Ducks]]'' film uses a painfully obvious Suspiciously Similar Song to the theme from ''[[Back to The Future]].''
* The theme from Kinji Fukasaku's ''Blackmail Is My Life'', which appears throughout the film, is a wordless soundalike of "Over Under Sideways Down" by the Yardbirds.
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