Category Archives: Animation
Starship Troopers: Invasion
Release 2012
Genre Action, Animation, Sci-Fi
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Director: Shinji Aramaki
Writers: Robert A. Heinlein, Flint Dille
Stars: Luci Christian, David Matranga, Justin Doran, David Wald, Andrew Love
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2085930/
On an asteroid, the Terran Federation's Fort Casey is on top of a bug hive. The Starship Alesia begins...
The Princess and the Frog
Release 2009
Genre Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
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Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Writers: Ron Clements, John Musker, Rob Edwards, Greg Erb, Jason Oremland, Don Hall, E.D. Baker, Chris Ure, Jared Stern, Dean Wellins, Will Csaklos, Ralph Eggleston
Stars: Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Keith David, Michael-Leon Wooley, Jennifer Cody
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780521/
A fairy tale set in Jazz Age-era New Orleans and centered on a young woman named Tiana and her fateful kiss with a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again.
Coraline
Release 2009
Genre Animation, Fantasy, Thriller
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Director: Henry Selick
Writers: Henry Selick, Neil Gaiman
Stars: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327597/
An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.
Rango
Release 2011
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
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Director: Gore Verbinski
Writers: John Logan, Gore Verbinski, James Ward Byrkit
Stars: Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Ned Beatty, Alfred Molina
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1192628/
Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.
Tangled
Release 2010
Genre Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
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Director: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
Writers: Dan Fogelman, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Dean Wellins
Stars: Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ron Perlman, M.C. Gainey
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398286/
The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she really is.
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Release 2009
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Crime, Family
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Director: Wes Anderson
Writers: Roald Dahl, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach
Stars: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wallace Wolodarsky
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432283/
An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Release 2009
Genre Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
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Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Writers: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Judi Barrett, Ron Barrett, Rob Greenberg
Stars: Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Bruce Campbell
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844471/
The most delicious event since macaroni met cheese. Inspired by the beloved children's book, the film focuses on a town where food falls from the sky like rain.
The Nut Job
Release 2014
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
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Director: Peter Lepeniotis
Writers: Lorne Cameron, Peter Lepeniotis, Robert Reece, Daniel Woo
Stars: Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Liam Neeson, Katherine Heigl, Stephen Lang
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821658/
An incorrigibly self-serving exiled squirrel finds himself helping his former park brethren raid a nut store to survive, that is also the front for a human gang's bank robbery.
Justice League: War
Release 2014
Genre Action, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
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Director: Jay Oliva
Writers: Heath Corson, Bill Finger, Geoff Johns, Jim Lee, Scott Williams
Stars: Sean Astin, Zach Callison, Christopher Gorham, Justin Kirk, Michelle Monaghan
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3060952/
The world's finest heroes found the Justice League in order to stop an alien invasion of Earth.
Up
Release 2009
Genre Adventure, Animation, Family
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Director: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Writers: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Thomas McCarthy
Stars: Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, Bob Peterson, Delroy Lindo
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049413/
By tying thousands of balloons to his home, 78-year-old Carl sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Russell, a wilderness explorer 70 years younger, inadvertently becomes a stowaway.