Bad films that could be fixed if...

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Are there any films that would be a heck of a lot better if there was one significant change? Different actors. A different plot twist? Produced as an animated or live action film?

For example, you might feel that "Dog Day Afternoon" might be a whole lot more entertaining if it was a musical. Or "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" as Japanese anime.

Frankly I think "Wall-E" should have been directed by Stanley Kubrick in the style of "2001 A Space Odyssey"

*i woulda liked AI-Artificial Intelligence better, on the whole, had speilberg stuck closer to kubrick's original vision.
*i think the original international [unrated] version of "Blade Runner" should've been the final edit, the "director's cut" is [to me] as clear [referring to exposition] as mud. there also needs to be a musical version of blade runner.
*i think the Wizard of Oz would've been easier [for impressionable and fragile young minds] to watch had they left in that tasty little jazz number ["the jitterbug"] in the middle, as an optional intermission feature. and they shoulda used gayle sondegaard, as her beauty woulda made the wicked witch's evil all the more shocking. also if it had a soundtrack recorded using a similar multichannel technique as disney's Fantasound [in "Fantasia"] method, that would definitely have lent itself to the fantastic subject matter.
*"Smokey and the Bandit" would've been better as a musical, in the same manner as "The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas"]
at least one of the theatrical Star Trek movies shoulda been a musical, my vote goes for #2, #4 and #5. why are there hardly any sci-fi musicals, huh?
*come to think of it, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" reminded me a lot of a de-music'ed little opera. just imagine what that movie woulda been like as an operetta? maybe something like "Pagliacci"?
*i woulda made "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" as a straight-ahead gay porno musical, like a kinky form of bollywood.
ok, i'll stop now

I can't watch musicals at all (except Dancer in the Dark), so I'd like to take the ridiculous dance and song numbers out altogether from most films. This would of course reveal the moronic plots of most movies, but it might salvage a select few. Hair, for instance, might possibly work without the stupid songs. Or maybe not.

I was going to mention A.I.
I agree, I loved it up until the ending, when the plot took a nonsensical twist.
Okay... so it makes sense... but not movie sense.

The Good Son should've been a dark comedy.