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Release Date: 11/10/2009
A feisty septuagenarian teams with a fearless wilderness ranger to do battle with a vicious band of beasts and villains in this computer-animated adventure scripted by Pixar veteran Bob Peterson and co-directed by Peterson and Monsters, Inc. director Peter Docter. Carl Fredricksen is a 78-year-old balloon salesman. His entire life, Carl has longed to wander the wilds of South America. Then, one day, the irascible senior citizen shocks his neighbors by tying thousands of balloons to his home and final ...
Actor(s): Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, John Ratzenberger
Director(s): Pete Docter
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Children's/Family, Animated
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Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
Release Date: 10/27/2009
This animated adventure follows the tiny pixie from Peter Pan Tinker Bell as she bands together with her fairy friends to create the famous Fall Scepter - a magical and important task, that will restore the world's supply of fairy dust, and set things right in Pixie Hollow for another year. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide ...
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MPAA Rating: G
Genres: Children's/Family, Animated
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Release Date: 10/27/2009
The fun continues as Diego, Manny, and Sid all return for another round of prehistoric fun in this installment of the popular computer-animated children's series. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary
Director(s): Carlos Saldanha
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Children's/Family, Animated
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Monsters vs. Aliens
Release Date: 09/29/2009
When human-hating aliens disrupt earthbound cable-television signals, it's up to a monster-hunting superhero to take out the pesky extraterrestrials and ensure that television viewers are not deprived in this animated adaptation of the popular comic-book series. The DreamWorks Animation release is being helmed by Shrek 2 director Conrad Vernon and Shark Tale's Rob Letterman. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Reese Witherspoon, Hugh Laurie, Seth Rogen
Director(s): Rob Letterman
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Science Fiction, Animated
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Battle for Terra
Release Date: 09/22/2009
When the peaceful inhabitants of the planet Terra come under attack from humans in search of a new home, the friendship between a human pilot and an alien girl may hold the key to saving both races. Mala (Evan Rachel Wood) is an alien girl living on the planet Terra. The Terrians are gentle race of extraterrestrials that have no need for war, and harbor a deep respect for nature. When Earth's natural resources began to dwindle, the human race established colonies on Venus and Mars. Although that solu ...
Actor(s): Evan Rachel Wood, Justin Long, Luke Wilson
Director(s): Aristomenis Tsirbas
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Science Fiction, Animated
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
Release Date: 09/01/2009
Popular action figure G.I. Joe was reinvented in animation form in this pilot for the daily syndicated cartoon series of the same name. In keeping with the new marketing strategy established by Hasbro Toys, "G.I. Joe" was no longer an individual, but instead a team of specially trained guerilla fighters, led by Clayton M. "Hawk" Abernathy. The villains of the piece were the members of Cobra, led by Cobra Commander and his Darth Vader-like lieutenant (and frequent rival), Destro. In their first advent ...
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Director(s): Sam Weiss
MPAA Rating: NR
Genres: Action, Animated
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Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye
Release Date: 09/01/2009
Contains the following episodes - The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye, Part 1, The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye, Part 2, The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye, Part 3, The Transformers: Transport to Oblivion, The Transformers: Roll for It ...
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MPAA Rating: NR
Genres: Science Fiction, Animated
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Coraline
Release Date: 07/28/2009
A young girl walks through a secret door and discovers a parallel reality that is eerily similar to the life she already knows, yet deeply unsettling in a number of ways, in director Henry Selick's animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman's international best-seller. Eleven-year-old Coraline Jones (voice of Dakota Fanning) is fearlessly courageous, and perhaps far too adventurous for her own good. Coraline and her parents (Teri Hatcher and John Hodgman) have recently relocated to Oregon from Michigan. Bore ...
Actor(s): Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Ian McShane
Director(s): Henry Selick
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Fantasy, Animated
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Sonic the Hedgehog: Freedom Fighters Unite!
Release Date: 05/05/2009
Contains the following episodes - Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic Conversion, Sonic the Hedgehog: Dulcy, Sonic the Hedgehog: The Void, Sonic the Hedgehog: Spyhog ...
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Genres: Children's/Family, Animated
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Super Mario Bros. Super Show!: Showdown in Brooklyn
Release Date: 05/05/2009
Contains the following episodes - The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!: Brooklyn Bound, The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!: Flatbush Koopa, The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!: Plumbers Academy, The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!: Koopa Klaus, The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!: Escape From Koopatraz ...
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The Tale of Despereaux
Release Date: 04/07/2009
A diminutive mouse strives to make a mammoth change in his troubled kingdom in this adaptation of author Kate DiCamillo's Newbery Medal-winning children's book. A long time ago, in the distant kingdom of Dor, a horrible accident broke the heart of the king, left a beautiful princess crestfallen, and filled the townspeople with despair. As the sun disappeared from the sky and the flowers were drained of color, the laughter slowly ceased in this once-magical land. It was into this darkened world that a ...
Actor(s): Matthew Broderick, Robbie Coltrane, Frances Conroy
Director(s): Sam Fell
MPAA Rating: G
Genres: Children's/Family, Animated
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Bolt
Release Date: 03/24/2009
From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes Bolt, the tale of a superstar TV pup (voiced by John Travolta) who gets plopped in the middle of America with seemingly no way back to the glam and glitz of Hollywood. Thanks to his starring role on a hit television show, Bolt the pooch has become a household name. But Bolt has bought into his own heroic image, now believing that he really possesses the super-canine powers of his fictional television series. When he's accidentally shipped from Hollywood to New ...
Actor(s): John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman
Director(s): Byron Howard
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Comedy, Animated
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Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3: What a Wonderful Warp
Release Date: 03/03/2009
Contains the following episodes - The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3: Misadventure in Babysitting, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3: Mush-Rumors, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3: A Toadally Magical Adventure, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3: The Ugly Mermaid, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3: The Venice Menace, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3: Super Koopa ...
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Release Date: 02/06/2009
Hopelessly stranded on the remote shores of Madagascar, the New Yorkers hatch a plan to get back to Central Park that instead finds them soaking up sun in the picturesque plains of Africa. Madagascar may be a nice place to visit, but for the gang of animals who spent most of their lives in New York, there is truly no place like home. After discovering the remnants of a crashed airplane, the penguins quickly set about making the repairs needed to get the craft airborne again. When the plane finally ta ...
Actor(s): Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer
Director(s): Tom McGrath
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Comedy, Animated
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Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!: A Little Help from My Friends
Release Date: 02/03/2009
Contains the following episodes - Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!: A Little Help From Your Friends, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!: A Clean Sweep, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!: Mr. Cool, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!: Wubbzy in the Middle, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!: Gidget the Super Robot, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!: Broken Record, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!: Widget Gets the Blooey Blues, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!: Where's My Wiggle Wrench? ...
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MPAA Rating: NR
Genres: Children's/Family, Animated
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Open Season 2
Release Date: 01/27/2009
In this sequel to the animated adventure Open Season, Elliot (Joel McHale) and Giselle (Jane Krakowski) are about to get married when a group of pampered pets dognap Mr. Weenie (Cody Cameron) and attempt to return him to his human owners. Mr. Weenie is missing, and now it's up to Elliot, Boog (Mike Epps), and McSquizzy (Billy Connolly) to rescue their old friend from toy poodle Fifi (Crispin Glover) and his gang of domesticated thugs. But these creeps aren't about to give up Mr. Weenie without a figh ...
Actor(s): Mike Epps, Joel McHale, Jane Krakowski
Director(s): Matthew O'Callaghan
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Comedy, Animated
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Igor
Release Date: 01/20/2009
John Cusack leads an all-star voice cast featuring Jay Leno, Molly Shannon, John Cleese, Jeremy Piven, Steve Buscemi, and Jennifer Coolidge in this computer-animated comedy about a gifted scientist who happens to have been born with a most unfortunate deformity. Igor (voice of Cusack) may have been born with a brilliant mind, but unfortunately everyone around him is too distracted by his pronounced hunchback to notice. Forced to serve as a lowly lab assistant to nefarious scientist Dr. Glickenstein ( ...
Actor(s): John Cusack, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese
Director(s): Tony Leondis
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Comedy, Animated
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Horton Hears a Who
Release Date: 12/09/2008
When a kindly elephant hears a faint cry of help from a floating speck of dust, his attempts to protect the tiny particle cause his neighbors to question his sanity in this animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss' classic 1954 children's book of the same name. Produced by Ice Age makers Blue Sky, scripted by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, and directed by Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino, Horton Hears a Who reunites Bruce Almighty co-stars Jim Carrey and Steve Carell as the eponymous elephant and the mayor of Who ...
Actor(s): Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett
Director(s): Steve Martino
MPAA Rating: G
Genres: Children's/Family, Animated
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Space Chimps
Release Date: 11/25/2008
Jeff Daniels, Stanley Tucci, Cheryl Hines, and Andy Samberg lend their voices to this computer-animated comedy following the descendants of the first chimps in space as they blast off for fun and adventure on a far-away planet. Ham III (Samberg) is the grandson of Ham, the first-ever chimp astronaut. This ne'er-do-well chimp may not be the most qualified ape for the job, but a scheming senator (Tucci) has recruited him for a most dangerous mission. It seems that a powerful tyrant (Daniels) has overta ...
Actor(s): Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Patrick Warburton
Director(s): Kirk De Micco
MPAA Rating: G
Genres: Children's/Family, Animated
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Little Panda Fighter
Release Date: 11/18/2008
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Casper's Scare School
Release Date: 08/21/2007
The direct to video animated movie Casper's Scare School features the beloved friendly ghost attending a school in the hopes of learning how to frighten people. Although he goes through the classes, he reverts to his benevolent ways when he uncovers an evil plan. The voice cast includes Simpsons regular Dan Castellaneta, Jim Belushi, and Phyllis Diller. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Jim Belushi, Bob Saget, Devon Werkheiser
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MPAA Rating: NR
Genres: Children's/Family, Animated
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