Category Archives: Adventure
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.
Avatar
Release 2009
Genre Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
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Director: James Cameron
Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
Pompeii
Release 2014
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
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Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Writers: Janet Scott Batchler, Lee Batchler, Michael Robert Johnson
Stars: Kit Harington, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Browning, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jessica Lucas
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1921064/
A slave-turned-gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts, he must fight to save his beloved as Pompeii crumbles around him.
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.
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.
Star Trek
Release 2009
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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Director: J.J. Abrams
Writers: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Gene Roddenberry
Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, Bruce Greenwood
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796366/
The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful, time-traveling Romulan creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.
Puss in Boots
Release 2011
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
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Director: Chris Miller
Writers: Charles Perrault, Tom Wheeler, Brian Lynch, William Davies
Stars: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton, Amy Sedaris
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448694/
The events leading up to the sword fighting cat's meeting with Shrek and his friends.
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D
Release 2011
Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
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Director: Robert Rodriguez
Stars: Jessica Alba, Joel McHale, Rowan Blanchard, Mason Cook, Jeremy Piven
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517489/
A retired spy is called back into action, and to bond with her new step-children, she invites them along for the adventure to stop the evil Timekeeper from taking over the world.