The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle 2000  PG, 90 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Comedy / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Des McAnuff
Cast: Rene Russo, Jason Alexander, Piper Perabo, Randy Quaid, Robert De Niro, June Foray, Keith Scott, Janeane Garofalo, Carl Reiner, Jonathan Winters, John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Kel Mitchell, James Rebhorn, Kenan Thompson
This film version of the TV show (canceled in 1964) mixes animation and live action. Rocky and Bullwinkle remain cartoon characters rescuing Earthlings from Natasha (Rene Russo) and Boris (Jason Alexander) who cross over into the human world where they join Fearless Leader (Robert De Niro) in an evil plot to take over the world. It seems like a good idea, but it goes nowhere.
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Barbershop 2: Back in Business 2004 PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Cast: Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve, Troy Garity, Michael Ealy, Leonard Earl Howze, Queen Latifah, Harry Lennix, Robert Wisdom, Jazsmin Lewis, Carl Wright, DeRay Davis, Kenan Thompson, Garcelle Beauvais
In this sequel to 2002's "Barbershop," Calvin (Ice Cube) and his opinionated crew, including barber Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer) are back. This time around, Calvin encounters a new problem: a development company plans to open a high-tech hair salon featuring "honeys in bikinis" as its barbers directly across the street from Calvin's barbershop. This means that Calvin's "Barbershop" is in jeopardy–and the fight is on.
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D3: The Mighty Ducks 1996  PG, 104 min.
Genre: Family / Action / Comedy / Drama
Director: Robert Lieberman
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Matt Doherty, Marguerite Moreau, Ty O'Neal, Kenan Thompson, Joshua Jackson, Jeffrey Nordling, David Selby, Heidi Kling, Joss Ackland, Elden Ratliff, Shaun Weiss
This sequel to the original 1992 film shows the "ducklings" growing up, and Charlie (Joshua Jackson) and his teammates are recipients of sports scholarships to play hockey at a prep school. Problems quickly develop as uptight Coach Orion (Jeffrey Nordling) works to turn the affable group into fierce competitors. Will their old coach, Gordon (Emilio Estevez), be able to bring sanity back to the players and save the day?
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Fat Albert 2004  PG, 93 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Joel Zwick
Cast: Kenan Thompson, Kyla Pratt, Shedrack Anderson III, Jermaine Williams, Keith Robinson, Alphonso McAuley, Aaron Frazier, Marques Houston, Dania Ramirez, Omarion, Keri Lynn Pratt, Rick Overton
The 1970s' cartoon series is updated as live-action in this story about depressed teen Doris (Kyla Pratt) for whom the cartoon characters Fat Albert (Kenan Thompson) and the Cosby kids jump out of the TV set–and into a modern world completely foreign and confusing to them–in an attempt to cheer up Doris.
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 Good Burger 1997  PG, 95 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy
Director: Brian Robbins
Cast: Kel Mitchell, Kenan Thompson, Sinbad, Abe Vigoda, Shar Jackson, Dan Schneider, Shaquille O'Neal, Jan Schweiterman, Ron Lester, Josh Server, Ginny Schreiber, Linda Cardellini, George Clinton, Robert Wuhl, Richard Haje
Good Burger is a small, independent fast-food restaurant located across the street from the thriving multi-chain Mondo Burger. Good Burger employees Ed (Kel Mitchell) and Dexter (Kenan Thompson) become involved in some unique forms of competition between the two restaurants.
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Heavyweights 1995 PG, 98 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Steven Brill
Cast: Ben Stiller, Aaron Schwartz, Tom McGowan, Shaun Weiss, Tom Hodges, Jeffrey Tambor, Paul Feig, Leah Lail, Kenan Thompson, Anne Meara
Overweight Gerry Garner (Aaron Schwartz) is sent to Camp Hope–hopefully for a summer of fun. He is pleased when he notes that the other campers are also substantially overweight. But the camp has changed hands and is now run by a wild fitness guru, Tony (Ben Stiller), who intends to whip the campers into shape while filming the process for an infomercial on his weight loss/fitness system. The young campers don't care for that one bit, and the rebellion begins. Disney missed the mark with this slapstick effort.
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Love Don't Cost a Thing 2003 PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Troy Beyer
Cast: Nick Cannon, Christina Milian, Steve Harvey, Kenan Thompson, Al Thompson, Kal Penn, Kevin Christy, Nichole Mercedes, Melissa Schuman, Sam Sarpong, Gay Thomas Wilson, Imani Parks
Nerdy, high-school senior Alvin Johnson (Nick Cannon) thinks he has the solution for becoming popular: if he pays cheerleader Paris Morgan (Christina Milian) the money needed to repair her mother's wrecked car, she will pretend to be his girlfriend for two weeks.
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 My Boss's Daughter 2003 PG-13, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Zucker
Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Tara Reid, Jeffrey Tambor, Terence Stamp, Andy Richter, Michael Madsen, Jon Abrahams, David Koechner, Carmen Electra, Molly Shannon, Patrick Cranshaw, Kenan Thompson
Tom (Ashton Kutcher) has his eye on Lisa (Tara Reid) who is the daughter of his boss, Jack (Terence Stamp). When Jack asks Tom to housesit, Tom grabs the opportunity as a means of seeing more of Lisa. But Tom's dreams of impressing Lisa prove to be more than a little off from reality.
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 Snakes on a Plane 2006 R, 105 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: David R. Ellis
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Rachel Blanchard, Byron Lawson, Flex Alexander, Kenan Thompson, Keith Dallas, Lin Shaye, Bruce James, Sunny Mabrey, Casey Dubois, Gerard Plunkett, Elsa Pataky
FBI agent Nelville Flynn (Samuel L. Jackson) is escorting murder witness Sean Jones (Nathan Phillips) on a plane from Hawaii to Los Angeles where Jones will testify against crime lord Eddie Kim (Byron Lawson). In an effort to prevent Sean from testifying, Kim plots to release a crate of poisonous snakes that–after coming in contact with pheremone infested leis that will drive them wild–will attack and kill those aboard the plane.
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Space Chimps 2008 G, 81 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Comedy
Director: Kirk De Micco
Cast: Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Jeff Daniels, Patrick Warburton, Kristin Chenoweth, Kenan Thompson, Carlos Alazraqui, Zack Shada, Omid Abtahi, Patrick Breen, Jane Lynch, Kath Soucie, Stanley Tucci, Wally Wingert, Jessica Gee
Ham III (voice of Andy Samberg) is the grandson of the first chimpanzee in space, and now Ham III is recruited by a plotting Senator (voice of Stanley Tucci) to retrieve a $5 billion dollar infinity space probe. The probe had been sucked through a wormhole and landed on the distant planet Malgor where the evil Zartog (voice of Jeff Daniels) is using it for his own power. Now, Ham III and his crew–Luna (voice of Cheryl Hines) and Titan (voice of Patrick Warburton)–take off through the black hole and onto Malgor where they must battle Zartog and rescue the space probe.
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| 1. The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000)
2. Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
3. D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996)
4. Fat Albert (2004)
5. Good Burger (1997)
6. Heavyweights (1995)
7. Love Don't Cost a Thing (2003)
8. My Boss's Daughter (2003)
9. Snakes on a Plane (2006)
10. Space Chimps (2008)
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