Category Archives: Animation

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.

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.

Arthur Christmas

Release 2011

Genre Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family

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Director: Sarah Smith, Barry Cook
Writers: Peter Baynham, Sarah Smith
Stars: James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430607/

On Christmas night at the North Pole, Santa's youngest son looks to use his father's high-tech operation for an urgent mission.