Animation movies

Escaflowne (2000)

Monday, February 8th, 2010
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Anime | Drama | Fantasy | Fantasy2 | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan
Actors: Sakamoto, Maaya | Seki, Tomokazu | Nakata, Jôji | Iizuka, Mayumi | Takayama, Minami | Tsujitani, Kôji | Miki, Shinichirô | Ootani, Ikue | Devall, Trevor | Dobson, Brian | Dobson, Michael | Dobson, Paul | Drummond, Brian | Francis, Andrew | Hiyama, Nobuyuki
Directors: Kazuki Akane
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High school student Hitomi Kanzaki, depressed and despondent, wishes to disappear from her world. Her wishes are heard in the alternate world of Gaea where a battle for absolute control is raging! Magically, Hitomi is suddenly transported to this other world and is bestowed with the power to decide its ultimate fate!

The Return of the King (1980)

Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Bean, Orson | Bikel, Theodore | Conrad, William | Huston, John | McDowall, Roddy | Theodore, Brother | Frees, Paul | Messick, Don
Directors: Bass, Jules
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This film adapts the final book of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy where the Hobbits, Frodo and Samwise, struggle through the barren land of Mordor to destroy the Ruling Ring in Mount Doom. At the same time, Gandalf and the others wage a desperate battle against the forces of Sauron at Minas Tirith, but Sauron seems to have the upper hand while the source of his power, the Ring, slowly threatens to corrupt its bearers.

The Lord of the Rings (1978)

Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Guard, Christopher | Squire, William | Scholes, Michael | Hurt, John | Chandler, Simon | Guard, Dominic | Bird, Norman | Cox, Michael Graham | Daniels, Anthony | Buck, David | Woodthorpe, Peter | Kerr, Fraser | Stone, Philip | Deacon, Michael | Morell, André
Directors: Bakshi, Ralph
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Only the first two parts of J.R.R. Tolkein’s classic fantasy trilogy of the same name are covered by this rotoscoped animated feature about a band of travellers of different races who seek to defeat an evil sorcerer and his armies with the aid of powerful but insidious magical ring. See also _The Hobbit_.

The Hobbit (1977)

Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Bean, Orson | Boone, Richard | Conried, Hans | Huston, John | Preminger, Otto | Ritchard, Cyril | Theodore, Brother | Frees, Paul | DeLeon, Jack | Messick, Don
Directors: Bass, Jules
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Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit was just minding his own business, when his occasional visitor Gandalf the Wizard drops in one night. One by one, a whole group of dwarves drop in, and before he knows it, Bilbo has joined their quest to reclaim their kingdom, taken from them by an evil dragon named Smaug. The only problem is that Gandalf has told the dwarves that Bilbo is an expert burglar, but he isn’t….

My Neighbour Totoro (1988)

Monday, January 18th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Japan
Actors: Hidaka, Noriko | Sakamoto, Chika | Itoi, Shigesato | Shimamoto, Sumi | Kitabayashi, Tanie | Takagi, Hitoshi | Maruyama, Yûko | Washio, Machiko | Suzuki, Reiko | Hirose, Masashi | Amagasa, Toshiyuki | Chiba, Shigeru | Tatsuta, Naoki | Tarako | Nishimura, Tomohiro
Directors: Miyazaki, Hayao
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Two young girls, Satsuke and her younger sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuke and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They soon befriend these Totoros, and have several magical adventures.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Bennett, Alex | Binkley, Gregg | Collins, Skoti | Cross, David | Dew, Marty | Drake, Aaron | Dubowsky, Adam | Eaton, Brando | Gubler, Matthew Gray | Joon, Lanny | Lee, Jason | Levi, Zachary | Long, Justin | McCartney, Jesse | Schmidt, Kevin G.
Directors: Thomas, Betty
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Pop sensations Alvin, Simon and Theodore end up in the care of Dave Seville’s twenty-something nephew Toby (Levi). The boys must put aside music superstardom to return to school, and are tasked with saving the school’s music program by winning the $25,000 prize in a battle of the bands. But the Chipmunks unexpectedly meet their match in three singing chipmunks known as The Chipettes -? Brittany, Eleanor and Jeanette. Romantic and musical sparks are ignited when the Chipmunks and Chipettes square off.

DuckTales: The Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Young, Alan | Taylor, Rip | Lloyd, Christopher | Taylor, Russi | Libertini, Richard | McGovern, Terence | Gerber, Joan | McCann, Chuck | Foray, June | Adler, Charles | Angel, Jack | Bulen, Steve
Directors: Hathcock, Bob
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Scrooge McDuck, along with his grandnephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, Webby Vanderquack and dimwitted pilot Launchpad McQuack search for the treasure of Collie Baba and his forty thieves. They find a magic lamp and a genie that can grant them all kinds of wishes. Unfortunately, Merlock the Magician wants that lamp, and he and his sidekick, Dijon the Thief, would do anything to get their hands on it.

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Crosby, Bing | Rathbone, Basil | Blore, Eric | O'Malley, J. Pat | McLeish, John | Campbell, Colin | Grant, Campbell | Allister, Claud | Rhythmaires, The | Wallace, Oliver
Directors: Algar, James
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Disney brings animated versions of 2 literary works to the screen here. The first is ‘The Adventures of Mr. Toad’, based on the characters from Kenneth Grahame’s ‘The Wind in the Willows’. The second is based on Washinton Irving’s masterpiece ‘The Headless Horseman’, in which schoolteacher Ichabod Crane, smitten with Katrina Van Tassel, attends a party hosted by her father. Town thug Brom Bones, who also has his eye on Katrina, tries to intimidate Ichabod with the chilling story of ‘The Headless Horseman’, a ghost of a soldier in the revolutionary war who lost his head in a fight. When Ichabod rides home through Sleepy Hollow late at night, he finds himself confronted by the Headless Horseman who wants Ichabod’s head for himself! Will Ichabod escape the terrifying, sword-wielding ghost….or will the Headless Horseman claim Ichabod’s head for himself?

Victory Through Air Power (1943)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Genres: Animation | Documentary | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: de Seversky, Alexander | Baker, Art | Mitchell, Billy
Directors: Algar, James
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This is a unique film in Disney Production’s history. This film is essentially a propaganda film selling Major Alexander de Seversky’s theories about the practical uses of long range strategic bombing. Using a combination of animation humorously telling about the development of air warfare, the film switches to the Major illustrating his ideas could win the war for the allies.

Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Bedard, Irene | Cummings, Jim | Gibson, Donal | Hughes, Finola | Hunt, Linda | Kuhn, Judy | Means, Russell | Stapleton, Jean | Stiers, David Ogden | Zane, Billy | Bennett, Jeff | Bergen, Bob | Brien, Mark S. | Bumpass, Rodger | Byram, Amick
Directors: Ellery, Tom
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When news of John Smith’s death reaches America, Pocahontas is devastated. She sets off to London with John Rolfe, to meet with the King of England on a diplomatic mission: to create peace and respect between the two great lands. However, Governor Ratcliffe is still around; he wants to return to Jamestown and take over, no matter what the cost. He will stop at nothing to discredit the young princess.