G-Force 2009  PG, 89 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Hoyt Yeatman
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Penelope Cruz, Tracy Morgan, Nicolas Cage, Jon Favreau, Steve Buscemi, Bill Nighy, Zach Galifianakis, Will Arnett, Kelli Garner, Loudon Wainwright III, Chris Ellis, Tyler Patrick Jones, Niecy Nash, Dee Bradley Baker
In this Disney film, dastardly billionaire Leonard Saber (Bill Nighy) intends to take over the world by turning household appliances into robots. But, the government has a secret project that trains animals to become espionage agents–named G-Force. Led by Guinea Pig Darwin (voice of Sam Rockwell), the G-Force sets out to save the world. Plenty of action–but scaled down for the young ones. Live action, animation, and 3D contribute to making this an entertaining film.
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My Brother the Pig 1999  PG, 95 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Fantasy
Director: Erik Fleming
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, Judge Reinhold, Nick Fuoco, Romy Windsor, Alex D. Linz, Paul Renteria, Renee Victor, Cambria Gonzalez, Nicole Zarate, Eduardo Antonio Garcia, Marco Rodriguez, Rob Johnson, Dee Bradley Baker
For years, teenager Kathy Caldwell (Scarlett Johansson) has been putting up with her young brother George's (Alex D. Linz) practical jokes. When their parents visit France, they leave Kathy and George in the care of a nanny, Matilda (Eva Mendes). All goes well, until Matilda uses witchcraft that turns George into a pig (voice of Dee Bradley Baker). Matilda, George, and Kathy now head for Mexico, before the parents return, searching for the only person who can turn George back into a human.
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A Rat's Tale 1997 G, 89 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Michael F. Huse
Cast: Beverly D'Angelo, Jerry Stiller, Josef Ostendorf, Lauren Hutton, Steffen Wink, Andreas Herder, Yoshinori Yamamoto, Jack Recknitz, Jonathan Kinsler, Dee Bradley Baker
This is a children's tale, presented through the puppetry medium, in which a pack of NYC sewer rats is threatened when land developer Lou Dollart (Josef Ostendorf) engages in plans to replace the wharves with a parking lot. After much consideration, the rats come up with an alternate plan to purchase the wharves themselves.
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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 2004  PG, 90 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Comedy
Director: Stephen Hillenburg
Cast: Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Mr. Lawrence, Clancy Brown, Jeffrey Tambor, Alec Baldwin, Scarlett Johansson, Mary Jo Catlett, David Hasselhoff, Carolyn Lawrence, Sirena Irwin, Jill Talley, Dee Bradley Baker
SpongeBob SquarePants (voice of Tom Kenny) and Patrick (voice of Bill Fagerbakke) leave Bikini Bottom in search of King Neptune's crown, which Mr. Krabs (voice of Clancy Brown) has been falsely accused of stealing.
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2008 PG, 98 min.
Genre: Animation / Adventure / Sci-Fi
Director: Dave Filoni
Cast: Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, James Arnold Taylor, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee, Dee Bradley Baker, Tom Kane, Nika Futterman, Ian Abercrombie, Corey Burton, Catherine Taber, Matthew Wood, Kevin Michael Richardson, David Acord, Anthony Daniels
While fighting in the Clone War to restore peace to the universe, Anakin Skywalker (voice of Matt Lanter) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (voice of James Arnold Taylor) learn that "Stinky," the infant son of Jabba the Hutt (voice of Kevin Michael Richardson) has been kidnapped. The Jedi council pulls Anakin out of the battle and sends him with his young apprentice Ahsoka Tano (voice of Ashley Eckstein) to rescue "Stinky." The mission will bring them face-to-face with the villainous Count Dooku (voice of Christopher Lee) and his agent Assajj Ventress (voice of Nika Futterman) who have used the kidnapping to upset the truce between the Jedi and the Hutts in order to move ahead with their plan to rule the universe. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan Kenobi continues to fight a violent battle on the front lines of the Clone War.
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Tom Sawyer 2000 G, 89 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Musical / Adventure
Director: Phil Mendez, Paul Sabella
Cast: Rhett Akins, Mark Wills, Lee Ann Womack, Alecia Elliott, Betty White, Richard Kind, Hank Williams Jr., Don Knotts, Waylon Jennings, Charlie Daniels, Hynden Walch, Clea Lewis, Dean Haglund, Kevin Michael Richardson, Dee Bradley Baker
In this animated adventure based on Mark Twain's classic novel, the characters are presented as animals. For example, Tom (voice of Rhett Akins) and Becky (voice of Lee Ann Womack) are cats, while Huck (voice of Mark Wills) is a fox. As in Twain's story, Tom falls in love with Becky; Tom and Huck step in and save the accused after witnessing a murder; and, of course, they find that buried treasure. The young ones should like this toe-tapping, western-music filled with songs by Hank Williams Jr., Waylon Jennings, and Lee Ann Womack.
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 The Trumpet of the Swan 2000 G, 75 min.
Genre: Animation / Family
Director: Terry L. Noss, Richard Rich
Cast: Jason Alexander, Mary Steenburgen, Reese Witherspoon, Seth Green, Carol Burnett, Joe Mantegna, Dee Bradley Baker, Sam Gifaldi, Little Richard, Kath Soucie, Elizabeth Daily, Steve Vinovich, Corey Burton, Michael Winslow
E.B. White's popular children's book comes to the screen in this lackluster version of a family of swans that includes a mute son (voice of Dee Bradley Baker) who learns to communicate–first through the written word and, finally, with a stolen trumpet.
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| 1. Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein (1999)
2. G-Force (2009)
3. My Brother the Pig (1999)
4. A Rat's Tale (1997)
5. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)
6. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
7. Tom Sawyer (2000)
8. The Trumpet of the Swan (2000)
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