Category Archives: Family
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Release 2008
Genre Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
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Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath
Writers: Etan Cohen, Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath
Stars: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479952/
The animals try to fly back to New York City, but crash-land on an African wildlife refuge, where Alex is reunited with his parents.
Madagascar
Release 2005
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
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Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath
Writers: Mark Burton, Billy Frolick, Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath
Stars: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0351283/
Spoiled by their upbringing with no idea what wild life is really like, four animals from New York Central Zoo escape, unwittingly assisted by four absconding penguins, and find themselves in Madagascar, among a bunch of merry lemurs
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Release 2012
Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
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Director: Brad Peyton
Writers: Brian Gunn, Mark Gunn, Richard Outten, Jules Verne
Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Michael Caine, Josh Hutcherson, Luis Guzmán, Vanessa Hudgens
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1397514/
Sean Anderson partners with his mom's husband on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Release 2009
Genre Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
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Director: Carlos Saldanha, Mike Thurmeier
Writers: Peter Ackerman, Michael Berg, Yoni Brenner, Jason Carter Eaton, Mike Reiss
Stars: Eunice Cho, Karen Disher, Harrison Fahn, Maile Flanagan, Jason Fricchione
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1080016/
When Sid's attempt to adopt three dinosaur eggs gets him abducted by their real mother to an underground lost world, his friends attempt to rescue him.
Ice Age: The Meltdown
Release 2006
Genre Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
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Director: Carlos Saldanha
Writers: Peter Gaulke, Gerry Swallow, Jim Hecht
Stars: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438097/
Manny, Sid, and Diego discover that the Ice Age is coming to an end, and join everybody for a journey to higher ground. On the trip, they discover that Manny, in fact, is not the last of the wooly mammoths.
Ice Age
Release 2002
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
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Director: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha
Writers: Michael J. Wilson, Michael Berg, Peter Ackerman, James Bresnahan, Galen T. Chu, Doug Compton, Xeth Feinberg, Jeff Siergey, Mike Thurmeier
Stars: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Goran Visnjic, Jack Black
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268380/
Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe.
Brave
Release 2012
Genre Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
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Director: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell
Writers: Brenda Chapman, Mark Andrews, Steve Purcell, Irene Mecchi, Michael Arndt
Stars: Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, Robbie Coltrane
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1217209/
Determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her archery skills to undo a beastly curse.
Hotel Transylvania
Release 2012
Genre Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
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Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Writers: Peter Baynham, Robert Smigel, Todd Durham, Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman
Stars: Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, Fran Drescher
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0837562/
Dracula, who operates a high-end resort away from the human world, goes into overprotective mode when a boy discovers the resort and falls for the count's teen-aged daughter.
Rise of the Guardians
Release 2012
Genre Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy
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Director: Peter Ramsey
Writers: David Lindsay-Abaire, William Joyce
Stars: Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law, Isla Fisher, Hugh Jackman
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446192/
When the evil spirit Pitch launches an assault on Earth, the Immortal Guardians team up to protect the innocence of children all around the world.
Tarzan
Release 2013
Genre Action, Adventure, Animation, Drama, Family, Mystery, Romance
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Director: Reinhard Klooss
Writers: Reinhard Klooss, Jessica Postigo, Edgar Rice Burroughs
Stars: Kellan Lutz, Robert Capron, Spencer Locke, Jaime Ray Newman, Brian Huskey
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1705952/
Tarzan and Jane Porter face a mercenary army dispatched by the evil CEO of Greystoke Energies, a man who took over the company from Tarzan's parents, after they died in a plane crash.