Archive for the 'Animation movies' Category
Doctor Strange
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| Plot Summary: | Dr. Stephen Strange embarks on a wondrous journey to the heights of a Tibetan mountain, where he seeks healing at the feet of the mysterious Ancient One. But before his wounds can mend, Strange must first let go of his painful past and awaken a gift granted to very few. The gift of magic. Empowered as the new Sorcerer Supreme, Dr. Strange now tests his limits, rising up against monsters that push at the gates, facing the most terrifying entity humankind has ever known. |
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Bee Movie
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| Taglines: | 1: Born to bee wild. 2: Honey just got funny. 3: On November 2 Hold on to your honey |
| Plot Summary: | Barry B. Benson, a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry’s life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue us. |
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Ghost in the Shell
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| Taglines: | 1: Humans love machines in 2029 A.D. 2: It found a voice… now it needs a body 3: It Found A Voice… Now It Needs A Body 4: Mamoru Oshii’s Animated Thriller 5: Who are you? Who slips into my robot body and whispers to my ghost? |
| Plot Summary: | The year is 2029. The world has become intensively information oriented and humans are well-connected to the network. Crime has developed into a sophisticated stage by hacking into the interactive network. To prevent this, Section 9 is formed. These are cyborgs with incredible strengths and abilities that can access any network on Earth. |
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Robots
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| Taglines: | 1: Repair for adventure! 2: Riveting in IMAX 3: You can shine no matter what you’re made of. |
| Plot Summary: | Even in a world populated entirely by mechanical beings Rodney Copperbottom (McGregor) is considered a genius inventor. Rodney dreams of two things, making the world a better place and meeting his idol, the master inventor Bigweld (Brooks). On his journey he encounters Cappy (Halle Berry), a beautiful executive ‘bot with whom Rodney is instantly smitten, the nefarious corporate tyrant Ratchet (Kinnear) who locks horns with Rodney, and a group of misfit ‘bots known as the Rusties, led by Fender (Williams) and Piper Pinwheeler (Bynes). |
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Billy & Mandy’s Big Boogey Adventure
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| Plot Summary: | When the Boogey Man causes Grim to lose his powers, rank, and title in the Underworld Court for misusing his powers, he plots to seek out Horror’s Hand and take over the world. It’s up to Billy, Mandy, Irwin, and Grim to get to Horror’s Hand before the Boogey Man does. |
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Little Mermaid, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Love has no boundaries. 2: Somewhere under the sea and beyond your imagination is an adventure in fantasy. |
| Plot Summary: | Loosely based upon the story by Hans Christian Andersen. Ariel, youngest daughter of King Triton, is dissatisfied with life in the sea. She longs to be with the humans above the surface, and is often caught in arguments with her father over those “barbaric fish-eaters”. She goes to meet Ursula, the Sea Witch, to strike a deal, but Ursula has bigger plans for this mermaid and her father. |
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Akira
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| Taglines: | 1: Neo-Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E. 2: The end of the world was only the beginning |
| Plot Summary: | Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader. The confrontation sparks off Tetsuo’s supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira’s secrets were buried 30 years ago. |
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Enchanted
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| Taglines: | 1: The real world and the animated world collide. 2: This fairytale princess is about to meet a real prince charming. 3: This fairytale princess is about to meet a real Prince Charming. |
| Plot Summary: | In an animated fairy tale world, a young girl meets and falls in love with the handsome prince of her dreams. News of this romance upsets the prince’s mother, the evil queen, who uses her black magic to send the girl hurtling out of the animated world into the one place in the universe where there is no true love: modern day Manhattan. The now-real girl has to survive in New York City and find her way home again to her true love. |
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Fantastic Planet, The
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| Taglines: | 1: A Sublime Trip to a Fine New World |
| Plot Summary: | La Plan`ete sauvage AKA Fantastic Planet is a surrealist story based on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Set in a far distant world human beings or “Oms”have been domesticated by the gigantic Draags. Wild Oms however are a problem and are exterminated by the dozen. One domesticated om Terr is able to escape his masters with a headset that puts information directly into the brain. Armed now with the Draags technology he leads the Oms in an attempt to make life better for them…But will the deomizing destroy them? |
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Lion King 1 1/2 , The
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| Taglines: | 1: You don’t know the 1/2 of it! |
| Plot Summary: | Imagine a cross between _Lion King, The (1994)_ (qv) and _Back to the Future Part II (1989)_ (qv). This is a separate story thread, that of Timon and Pumbaa, intertwined with the original story. Thus, along with seeing new events (e.g. Timon’s departure from the meerkat colony, Timon and Pumbaa’s first meeting, the origin of “Hakuna Matata”), we get to see a new perspective on (and some previously unseen causes for) some of the events in the original film. Oh, and the whole thing is told in a _”Mystery Science Theater 3000″ (1988)_ (qv) framework, with Timon and Pumbaa narrating and interacting with the “onscreen” movie. |
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