Animation movies

The Miracle Maker (2000)

Monday, February 9th, 2009
Genres: Animation | Biography | Drama
Countries: Russia | UK
Actors: Fiennes, Ralph | Bryant, Michael | Christie, Julie | Callard, Rebecca | Frain, James | Grant, Richard E. | Holm, Ian | Hurt, William | Lesser, Anton | Massey, Daniel | McInnerny, Tim | Molina, Alfred | Peck, Bob | Richardson, Miranda
Directors: Hayes, Derek W.
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This animated feature-length life of Jesus boasts a stellar pedigree. Originally a BBC Wales production, it showcases the voices of some of Britain’s finest actors in any medium: Ralph Fiennes as a brooding and humble Jesus, Miranda Richardson as Mary Magdalene, Richard E. Grant as John the Baptist and David Thewlis as Judas. The lovely, flute-heavy score is by Oscar-winner Anne Dudley (The Full Monty). And clearly a lot of expense has gone into the Claymation-like animation. But while it’s hard to find fault with the rendering of this familiar story—it is respectful and definitely done, you might say, by the Book—it would have been nice if there had been a tad more joy, if it walked a bit lighter in its sandals. As it is, all the characters seem consistently subdued, whether they are expressing angst, rage, terror or bliss—none of which is helped by the figures’ blank-eyed stares (if animators are becoming ever more sophisticated, why can’t they get rid of those creepy blank gazes once and for all?). Still, the weight of having such formidable actors play these familiar roles lends the production a certain credibility, and parents looking for good religious videos that won’t insult their kids’ intelligence will be thrilled.

The Rescuers (1977)

Monday, February 9th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Crime | Drama | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Newhart, Bob | Gabor, Eva | Page, Geraldine | Flynn, Joe | Nolan, Jeanette | Buttram, Pat | Jordan, Jim | McIntire, John | Stacy, Michelle | Fox, Bernard | Clemmons, Larry | MacDonald, James | Lindsey, George | McMillian, Bill | Taylor, Dub
Directors: Lounsbery, John
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A bottle containing a plea for help arrives at the Rescue Aid Society, an organization of mice from all over the world who’s mission is to help those in need. Bernard and Miss Bianca are chosen for the task and after gathering the needed clues and information, they fly on the back of albatross Orville to the gloomy and uncharted Devil’s Beyou. There, together with Ellie Mae and other swamp folk, they must work together to save a little orphan girl from the evil Madame Medusa.

Scooby Doo Meets Batman (1972)

Monday, February 9th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
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Holy jinkies, Batman, just when it seemed superheroes couldn’t get any groovier, you collide with the Mystery Machine gang. Such a pairing might normally yield one wacky crime-fighting power struggle, but in these two capers egos take a back seat to classic you-check-this-out, we’ll-check-that Scooby-Doo splintering. First, bat-plagued pranksters Penguin and the Joker kidnap a hopelessly tongue-tied professor in a scheme to swindle a high-tech flying suit. Then the conniving criminals return as bit players in a counterfeiting ring run out of a way-wacky funhouse. Soar along in the Batmobile or make like a banana and split with Shaggy and Scoob at these crime scenes—either way, it’s a secret-passageway and scary-mask-packed combo even more compelling than the cookies-and-batmilk Scooby snack the pesky kids tuck into during a break in the action.

Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron (2007)

Monday, February 9th, 2009
Genres: Animation | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Perlman, Ron | Blair, Selma | Hurt, John | Jones, Doug | Gilpin, Peri | Albrecht, J. Grant | Cummings, Jim | Paulsen, Rob | Taylor, James Arnold | DeLisle, Grey | Rescher, Dee Dee | Soucie, Kath | Summer, Cree
Directors: Cook, Victor
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In 1939, young Professor Bruttenholm destroyed Erzsebet Ondrushko, a female vampire who bathed in the blood of innocents to stay young. Now someone in upstate New York is trying to bring her back, and the elderly Professor Broom has decided to investigate it himself. He takes the top BPRD agents, Hellboy, Liz Sherman and Abe Sapien, who are more worried about his welfare than the return of any vampire. Their tune changes when they face a horde of ghosts, a phantom wolf pack, witches, harpies, a giant werewolf and Erzsebet herself. Hellboy ends up battling the Queen of Witches, the goddess Hecate, who wants him to embrace his true destiny, a destiny that includes the destruction of mankind.

Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms (2006)

Monday, February 9th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Perlman, Ron | Blair, Selma | Jones, Doug | Gilpin, Peri | Baker, Dee Bradley | Ferguson, Keith | Hagiwara, Michael | Kusatsu, Clyde | LaMarr, Phil | Nakauchi, Paul | Sie, James | Whitfield, Mitchell | Del Mundo, Liza | Guest, Kim Mai | Kim, Yuriana
Directors: Stones, Tad
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A university professor reads a forbidden scroll and becomes possessed by the twin demons of Thunder and Lightning. The demons want to come to the human world to awaken their brothers, the dragons. Hellboy and company travel to Japan to investigate where Hellboy finds the Sword of Storms which transports him to a world of Japanese folklore.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002)

Monday, February 9th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Alexander, Jason | Hewitt, Jennifer Love | Hulce, Tom | Kandel, Paul | Kimbrough, Charles | Kline, Kevin | McKean, Michael | Moore, Demi | Osment, Haley Joel | Withers, Jane | Cummings, Jim | Lala, Joe | Welker, Frank | Winchell, April
Directors: Raymond, Bradley
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Now that Frollo is gone, Quasimodo rings the bell with the help of his new friend and Esmeralda’s and Phoebus’ little son, Zephyr. But when Quasi stops by a traveling circus owned by evil magician Sarousch, he falls for Madellaine, Sarouch’s assistant. But greedy Sarousch forces Madellaine to help him steal the Cathedral’s most famous bell.

Balto (1995)

Monday, February 9th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Bacon, Kevin | Hoskins, Bob | Fonda, Bridget | Cummings, Jim | Collins, Phil | Angel, Jack | Mann, Danny | Rist, Robbie | Brewer, Juliette | Dickinson, Sandra | Margolyes, Miriam | Bates-Campbell, Lola | Sinden, Donald
Directors: Wells, Simon
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A half-wolf, half-husky named Balto gets a chance to become a hero when an outbreak of diphtheria threatens the children of Nome, Alaska in the winter of 1925. He leads a dog team on a 600-mile trip across the Alaskan wilderness to get medical supplies. The film is based on a true story which inspired the Iditarod dog sled race.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)

Monday, February 9th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Almendarez, Herman | Baron Cohen, Sacha | Cedric the Entertainer | Gordon, Zachary | Holcomb, Bryceson | Lister, Tommy 'Tiny' | Mac, Bernie | McGrath, Tom | Richter, Andy | Rock, Chris | Schwimmer, David | Stanley, Thomas | Stiller, Ben | Vernon, Conrad | (person unknown)
Directors: Darnell, Eric
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The sequel of the first movie, the New York Zoo Animals, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo, still stranded on Madagascar, started to leave the island. All of a sudden, they landed in the wilderness of Africa. There, Alex soon meet the rest of his family and starting to have trouble communicating with them after much of his time at the Central Park Zoo.

The Secret of NIMH (1982)

Monday, February 9th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Jacobi, Derek | Hartman, Elizabeth | Malet, Arthur | DeLuise, Dom | Baddeley, Hermione | Shannen Doherty | Wheaton, Wil | Hicks, Jodi | Fried, Ian | Carradine, John | Strauss, Peter | Shenar, Paul | Hatten, Tom | Bliss, Lucille | Ray, Aldo
Directors: Bluth, Don
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A fieldmouse named Mrs. Brisby must move her family to a safe location before the farmer plows the field where they live, but her invalid son Timmy cannot go outside due to his pneumonia. She enlists the aid of some highly intelligent, escaped lab rats that have built a subterranean society inside a rose bush near the farmer’s garden. The rats, led by the wise Nicodemus, decide to help her physically move her house to repay a debt of gratitude to her late husband, who made possible the rats’ escape from the laboratory. But things become complicated when some of the rats decide to use the situation to kill Nicodemus and make it appear to be accidental.

Bluetoes, the Christmas Elf (1988)

Monday, February 9th, 2009
Genres: Animation | Family
Countries: Canada
Actors: Broadfoot, Dave | Jones, Polly | Bradford, James | Finestone, Jennifer | Jones, Rick | MacCormack, Anna | Mulroney, Ben | O'Reilly, Michael
Directors: Casey, Mik
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Blutoes the Christmas elf is a wonderful story about an elf who does not fit in with the others; his only real friend is a penguin. On Christmas Eve, Blutoes sneaks onto Santa’s sleigh so that he can see his penguin friend home safely. Bluetoes goes into to a house to keep warm while waiting for Santa. In this house there is a little boy and a little girl who are too poor to even have stockings, so Bluetoes takes of his socks, hangs them up as stockings and fills them with toys. Bluetoes is waiting outside for Santa in his bare feet, his toes turn blue and that it is why they call him Bluetoes.