Big Fat Liar 2002  PG, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Shawn Levy
Cast: Frankie Muniz, Paul Giamatti, Amanda Bynes, Amanda Detmer, Donald Faison, Lee Majors, Josh Rusin, Sandra Oh, Russell Hornsby, Sean O'Bryan
Sleazy Hollywood producer Marty Wolf (Paul Giamatti) gets his hands on a school essay written by 14-year-old Jason (Frankie Muniz) who just happens to be a compulsive liar. When Marty turns the essay into a movie, no one believes Jason when he claims it is his story. What to do? Well, Jason and his friend, Kaylee (Amanda Bynes), head for Hollywood with intentions of outwitting Marty and forcing him to give Jason the writing credit for the film.
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Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure 2003  G, 79 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Mario Piluso
Cast: Julia Duffy, David Beron, Amanda Bynes, Anndi McAfee, Maria Bamford, Harrison Chad, Rob Paulson, Debi Derryberry, Brenda Vaccaro, Dawnn Lewis, Jerry Houser, Bridget Sienna
In this sequel (30 years later) to the original film based on E. B. White's children's story, Wilbur the Pig befriends a lonely lamb, Cardigan, who is new to the farm. When Farmer Zuckerman sells the lamb, Wilber, Templeton the Rat, and Charlotte's three daughters set out to find Cardigan. "Love conquers all" again prevails.
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Hairspray 2007  PG, 117 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Drama
Director: Adam Shankman
Cast: John Travolta, Nikki Blonsky, Amanda Bynes, Christopher Walken, Zac Efron, James Marsden, Queen Latifah, Brittany Snow, Elijah Kelley, Michelle Pfeiffer, Allison Janney, Taylor Parks, Jerry Stiller, Paul Dooley
Nikki Blonsky makes her film debut as tubby teen Tracy Turnblad who, with her best friend Penny Pingleton (Amanda Bynes), dreams of singing and dancing on a local TV show in Baltimore, "The Corny Collins (James Marsden) Show." Tracy wins the audition, but her overprotective stay-at-home mother Edna (John Travolta, in drag in a fat suit) is afraid that Tracy will be picked on for her obesity. Tracy perseveres, and now her nemesis is the TV station manager, Velma Von Tussle (Michelle Pfeiffer), whose daughter Amber (Brittany Snow) holds the title of "Miss Hairspray." Not only does Tracy go after the "Miss Hairspray" title, she also wants the show to be integrated. The year is 1962, and the Black dancers are not allowed to perform on the show on a daily basis. When they do perform, the show is hosted by Motormouth Maybelle (Queen Latifah). Tracy believes this is unfair, and with help from others–including Motormouth Maybelle, Motormouth's son and Penny's boyfriend Seaweed (Elijah Kelley), Tracy's boyfriend Link (Zac Efron), her father (Christopher Walken), and her mother–she sets out to integrate the show.
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 Robots 2005  PG, 90 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Robin Williams, Mel Brooks, Amanda Bynes, Drew Carey, Greg Kinnear, Lucille Bliss, Jennifer Coolidge, Paul Giamatti, Jim Broadbent, James Earl Jones
In a world of mechanical beings, Robby (Ewan McGregor) comes from a poor family so he often lives in hand-me-down body parts. Robby has talents as an inventor and heads to Robot City to meet his idol: master inventor Bigweld (Mel Brooks). He meets evil business executive Ratchet (Greg Kinnear) and learns that Ratchet has fired Bigweld and has taken control of the city. Robby joins forces with misfits Fender (Robin Williams) and Cappy (Halle Berry), and, together, they set out to find Bigweld and restore order to the city.
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 She's the Man 2006  PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Andy Fickman
Cast: Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum, Laura Ramsey, Vinnie Jones, David Cross, Julie Hagerty, Alex Breckenridge, Jonathan Sadowski, Robert Hoffman, Amanda Crew, Jessica Lucas, Emily Perkins, James Kirk
In this modern version of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," Viola's (Amanda Bynes) soccer team loses its funding so she pretends to be her twin brother, Sebastian, and joins the soccer team at his new boarding school. She rooms with Duke (Channing Tatum) and falls for him, but Duke is infatuated with Olivia (Laura Ramsey) who, in turn, falls in love with "Sebastian," and the fun begins.
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Sydney White 2007 PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joe Nussbaum
Cast: Amanda Bynes, Sara Paxton, Matt Long, Jack Carpenter, Jeremy Howard, Crystal Hunt, Adam Hendershott, Danny Strong, Samm Levine, Libby Mintz, John Schneider, Arnie Pantoja, Brian Patrick Clarke
In this take-off on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," Snow–oops–Sydney White was brought up by her plumber father (John Schneider) and his construction workers after her mother died. Thus, tomboy Sydney was more interested in tools and comic books than social graces when she headed off to the college that her mother had attended, and joined her mother's sorority. She immediately becomes popular at school, resulting in the nasty sorority president, Rachel Witchburn (Sara Paxton), going to great lengths to get Sydney out of the sorority because of Rachel's loss of "most popular" student–and the threat of losing her boyfriend, Tyler (Matt Long), to Sydney. But Sydney doesn't care for the sorority girls, so she moves out and finds a home with seven dorky outcasts (whose personalities are suspiciously similar to the seven Dwarfs). The team plots to take on the evil Rachel and her elitist cohorts and make the school better for all.
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What a Girl Wants 2003 PG, 104 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Drama
Director: Dennie Gordon
Cast: Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston, Anna Chancellor, Eileen Atkins, Jonathan Pryce, Christina Cole, Soleil McGhee, Peter Reeves, Chris Mulkey
What a girl wants in this case is to meet her father. NYC teenager Daphne Reynolds (Amanda Bynes) heads to England to introduce herself to her father, Lord Dashwood (Colin Firth). She wins him over and ensures that her dreams of reuniting her family will come true.
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| 1. Big Fat Liar (2002)
2. Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure (2003)
3. Hairspray (2007)
4. Robots (2005)
5. She's the Man (2006)
6. Sydney White (2007)
7. What a Girl Wants (2003)
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