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| 1990 |
1990 Patlabor 1: The Movie Animation / Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller N/R, 105 Minutes
Director: Mamoru Oshii More Info
Starring: David Jarvis, Briony Glassco, Peter Marinker, Sharon Holm, Edward Glen, William Roberts, Blair Fairman, Mac McDougall, Martin McDougall, Don Fellows In this, the first of a Japanese animated series, giant Labor robots working on a massive reclamation project go on a rampage, and police investigators are assigned to find out what is going on. It seems that the software programmed into thousands of robots worldwide contain a virus that is about to cause major problems. But the genius who programmed the robots committed suicide, and the race is on to prevent the catastrophe. Excellent animation. |
1990 The Rescuers Down Under Animation / Family / Adventure / Comedy G, 74 Minutes
Director: Hendel Butoy More Info
Starring: Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, John Candy, Tristan Rogers, George C. Scott, Wayne Robson, Frank Welker, Bernard Fox, Peter Firth, Billy Barty Disney succeeds in this well-made animated sequel to "The Rescuers." Once again, the Rescue Aid Society, led by the mice Bernard (voice of Bob Newhart) and Miss Bianca (voice of Eva Gabor), comes to the rescue. This time they thwart the efforts of the villainous Mc Leach (voice of George C. Scott) who is poaching native animals. |
| 1991 |
1991 An American Tail: Fievel Goes West Animation / Family / Adventure / Comedy / Drama G, 75 Minutes
Director: Phil Nibbelink More Info
Starring: Phillip Glasser, James Stewart, Erica Yohn, John Cleese, Dom DeLuise, Jon Lovitz, Amy Irving, Nehemiah Persoff, Cathy Cavadini, Jack Angel In this sequel about the Russian immigrant family of mice, Fievel Mousekewitz and his relatives move out to the West where fortune awaits. |
1991 Beauty and the Beast Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical G, 85 Minutes
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1991 Rock-A-Doodle Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical G, 75 Minutes
Director: Don Bluth More Info
Starring: Glen Campbell, Eddie Deezen, Sandy Duncan, Charles Nelson Reilly, Ellen Greene, Phil Harris, Christopher Plummer, Toby Scott Ganger, Kathryn Holcomb, Jason Marin In this animated adventure, rain and flood waters threaten the farm, so young farm boy Edmond (voice of Toby Scott Ganger)–who by now has been turned into a cat–gathers together a mouse Snipes (voice of Eddie Deezen), a magpie Peepers (voice of Sandy Duncan), and a dog Patou (voice of Phil Harris) for a trip to the city to bring back their rooster, Chanticleer (voice of Glen Campbell). They believe that Chanticleer's crowing will chase away the clouds and bring back the sun. When they do arrive in the city, the group discovers that because Chanticleer has become a rock star, it is almost impossible to get near him. Never fear, by story's end, Chanticleer is back on the farm, and happiness reigns. |
1991 Rover Dangerfield Animation / Family / Comedy G, 74 Minutes
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| 1992 |
1992 Aladdin Animation / Family / Adventure / Fantasy / Musical G, 83 Minutes
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1992 FernGully: The Last Rainforest Animation / Family / Adventure / Fantasy G, 76 Minutes
Director: Bill Kroyer More Info
Starring: Tim Curry, Samantha Mathis, Jonathan Ward, Robin Williams, Christian Slater, Grace Zabriskie, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Kathleen Freeman, Tone Loc This animated presentation tells the story of how one human, Zak (Christian Slater)–accidentally shrunk in size–helps the little creatures protect their Australian rainforest from intruding forces. |
1992 Freddie as F.R.O.7 Animation / Family / Adventure / Fantasy PG, 90 Minutes
Director: Jon Acevski More Info
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Jenny Agutter, Billie Whitelaw, Brian Blessed, John Sessions, Nigel Hawthorne, Michael Hordern, Jonathan Pryce, Prunella Scales, Phyllis Logan In this animated film, French secret agent Freddie (a human-sized frog) is called onto a case in England. His mission is to prevent an evil takeover of the world. |
1992 A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit Animation / Family / Adventure / Comedy N/R, 23 Minutes
Director: Nick Park More Info
Starring: Peter Sallis In this delightful animated short film, Wallace and Gromit discover their larder of cheese is empty. The solution–of course!–is a trip to the Moon, which we all know is made of cheese. |
1992 Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland Animation / Family / Adventure / Fantasy G, 85 Minutes
Director: Misami Hata More Info
Starring: Gabriel Damon, Mickey Rooney, Rene Auberjonois, Danny Mann, Laura Mooney, Bernard Erhard, William E. Martin, Alan Oppenheimer, Michael Bell, Sidney Miller Jointly made by the U.S. and Japan (taking advantage of Japan's animation techniques), this is a good children's story based on an early 1900s' comic strip. Dreams take Nemo (voice of Gabriel Damon) and his flying squirrel friend (voice of Danny Mann) off to a magic land where he befriends the king (voice of Bernard Erhard) and receives the keys to the kingdom. One no-no: do not open the forbidden door. Of course Nemo does, and bad things happen as the forces from Nightmareland are unleashed. Nemo learns several lessons while saving Slumberland. |
1992 Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation Animation / Family / Adventure / Comedy N/R, 80 Minutes
Director: Various Directors More Info
Starring: Jonathan Winters, Edie McClurg, Frank Welker, Charles Adler, Don Messick, Joe Alaskey, Tress MacNeille, Cree Summer, Sorrell Booke, Rob Paulsen School vacation is beginning, and Plucky Duck, Hampton Pig, Babs and Buster Bunny, and Elmira go on their respective holidays in this animated made-for-video feature. |
1992 Tom and Jerry: The Movie Animation / Family / Comedy / Musical G, 80 Minutes
Director: Phil Roman More Info
Starring: Richard Kind, Dana Hill, Anndi McAfee, Charlotte Rae, Henry Gibson, Rip Taylor, Sydney Lassick, Tony Jay, Michael Bell, Ed Gilbert Tom and Jerry are just as lovable in this full-length version as they are in their shorter cartoon stories. In this case, Tom and Jerry (voices of Richard Kind and Dana Hill) team up to rescue a young girl from her governess and lawyer. |
| 1993 |
1993 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Animation / Action / Sci-Fi PG, 76 Minutes
Director: Eric Radomski More Info
Starring: Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Hart Bochner, Mark Hamill, Stacy Keach, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Abe Vigoda, Dick Miller, John P. Ryan, Bob Hastings This animated version of Batman/Bruce Wayne (voice of Kevin Conroy) begins with the Phantasm, a vicious killer who has killed a crime lord in Gotham City. Police and gangsters suspect that the killer is Batman, and now it is up to Batman to find the real culprit. Meanwhile, Bruce Wayne is entertaining Councilman Arthur Reeves (voice of Hart Bochner) who is responsible for the accusations about Batman, and he taunts Wayne about his long-lost love, college sweetheart Andrea (Dana Delany), who left him years before. Now, the story skips back-and-forth between the present and the past, and, in the process, Batman discovers a link between Andrea and the crime villain. The Joker (Mark Hamill) steps in and uncovers the fact that Andrea is the Phantasm, and she is out to avenge her father's (Stacey Keach) murder. Batman arrives on the scene, a battle ensues, and Batman's name is cleared. |
1993 Patlabor 2: The Movie Animation / Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller N/R, 115 Minutes
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1993 The Return of Jafar Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical G, 66 Minutes
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1993 A Troll in Central Park Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical G, 76 Minutes
Director: Don Bluth More Info
Starring: Dom DeLuise, Cloris Leachman, Phillip Glasser, Tawny Sunshine Glover, Hayley Mills, Jonathan Pryce, Charles Nelson Reilly In this animated film, matters get rough for Stanley (voice of Dom DeLuise), a good troll in a land ruled by the evil queen (voice of Cloris Leachman) who expects all trolls to be mean. After growing too many flowers (that ruin the barren land), Stanley is banished to New York, where he lands in Central Park. When Stanley befriends two human children, the Queen heads to NYC to take care of the situation of Stanley's niceness to humans. |
1993 Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers Animation / Family / Comedy N/R, 30 Minutes
Director: Nick Park More Info
Starring: Peter Sallis In this winner of the Academy Award for Short Animated Film, Wallace (voice of Peter Sallis) and Gromit foil an evil robbery plot being perpetrated by a penguin. This is enjoyable fare for young and old. |
1993 We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story Animation / Family / Adventure / Fantasy G, 72 Minutes
Director: Phil Nibbelink More Info
Starring: John Goodman, Blaze Berdahl, Rhea Perlman, Jay Leno, Julia Child, Martin Short, Kenneth Mars, Walter Cronkite, Felicity Kendal, Charles Fleischer Make an animated cartoon, combine Walter Cronkite, dinosaurs, and a circus of stars' voices (John Goodman, Jay Leno, Rhea Perlman, and Julia Child, etc.), and the result is a so-so movie. It could have been so much better, but will probably be enjoyed by children. |
| 1994 |
1994 Faust Animation / Fantasy / Drama N/R, 97 Minutes
Director: Jan Svankmajer More Info
Starring: Petr Cepek, Jan Kraus, Vladimir Kudla, Antonin Zacpal, Jiri Suchy, Andrew Sachs, Viktorie Knotkova, Jana Mezlova, Josef Fiala, Miluse Strakova Faust–presented through the media of live action, stop-motion, animation, puppets, and claymation–does an admirable job of presenting Goethe's tale of Everyman/Faust (Petr Cepek). After Faust agrees to sell his soul to the Devil in exchange for 24 pleasure-filled years, he finds himself turned into a puppet and immediately regrets that he made the deal. |
1994 A Flintstones Christmas Carol Animation / Family / Comedy / Fantasy TV, 70 Minutes
Director: Joanna Romersa More Info
Starring: Henry Corden, Jean Vander Pyl, Frank Welker, John Rhys-Davies, B.J. Ward, Don Messick, Russi Taylor, John Stephenson, Marsha Clark, Will Ryan In this show-within-a-show, Fred Flintstone (voice of Henry Corden) has the lead role of Scrooge in a local Christmas play of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Fred's starring role goes to his head, and his arrogance leads to him forgetting to buy Christmas presents for his family. But, all ends happily after Fred receives a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past and sees the error of his ways. |
1994 Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure Animation / Family / Adventure / Fantasy G, 73 Minutes
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1994 The Lion King Animation / Family / Adventure / Musical G, 87 Minutes
Director: Roger Allers More Info
Starring: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Moira Kelly, Niketa Calamed, Rowan Atkinson, Robert Guillaume, Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin This is Disney at its best, and this film is sure to become a classic. Simba is a lion cub driven away from his family, but he returns when grown to win his place on the African plains. The song "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" won an Academy Award. The musical score also won an Oscar and two other songs ("Hakuna Matata" and "Circle of Life") were nominated. Songs are by Elton John and Tim Rice. |
1994 The Pagemaster Animation / Family / Action / Comedy / Fantasy G, 75 Minutes
Director: Joe Johnston More Info
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Ed Begley Jr., Mel Harris, Whoopi Goldberg, Leonard Nimoy, Frank Welker, Phil Hartman, Patrick Stewart, Jim Cummings Richard Tyler (Macaulay Culkin) is a wimp who is teased by the other kids. One day, he falls and loses consciousness at the library. As a result, he slides into the animated world between the covers of books. In his attempt to get back to the real world, Richard encounters adventures with pirates and dragons. The message of this movie: READ BOOKS. |
1994 The Swan Princess Animation / Family / Comedy / Musical / Fantasy G, 90 Minutes
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