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Godzilla the Series - The Monster Wars Trilogy
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Our review: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/28/2006 Run time: 64 minutes Rating: Nr :Based on the much-maligned 1998 American Godzilla feature (including the revamped creature design), the animated Godzilla: The Series (1998-2000) actually hews much closer to the original films from Japan, as illustrated in this exciting, three-part episode from the first season. The storyline, which borrows heavily from Destroy All Monsters, has alien invaders take control of the mutated creatures that Godzilla and H.E.A.T. (Humanitarian Ecological Analysis Team) tangled with in the previous 13 episodes of the season-including the Godzilla that rampaged through New York in the theatrical ...
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Alien Adventure (3-D Large Format)
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»rank: 47527
Our review: :Awesome 3D Effects Originally Seen in IMAX Theatres -- In this full-length, digitally animated 3D film--the first of its kind--the storyline begins with a group of aliens called Glagoliths steadfastly moving through the galaxy toward planet Earth in hope of establishing a new home for their people. -- When they unexpectedly land in the middle of 'Adventure Planet,' a new hi-tech amusement park not yet open to the public, they venture into the bowels of an underground Arabian palace fully loaded with dungeons and dragons, plunge into an underwater fantasy and come face to face with mechanical sea monsters and ...
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Star Wars Animated Adventures - Ewoks (The Haunted Village / Tales from the Endor Woods)
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»rank: 44897
Our review: :Awesome 3D Effects Originally Seen in IMAX Theatres -- In this full-length, digitally animated 3D film--the first of its kind--the storyline begins with a group of aliens called Glagoliths steadfastly moving through the galaxy toward planet Earth in hope of establishing a new home for their people. -- When they unexpectedly land in the middle of 'Adventure Planet,' a new hi-tech amusement park not yet open to the public, they venture into the bowels of an underground Arabian palace fully loaded with dungeons and dragons, plunge into an underwater fantasy and come face to face with mechanical sea monsters and ...
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Mobile Suit Gundam - Char's Counterattack (Feature)
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Our review: :The fourth Gundam feature (1988) takes place 14 years after the third and continues the rivalry between Earth Federation mecha pilot Amuro Ray and Char Aznable, now ruler of the space realm of Neo-Zeon. Char so hates the Earth, he plans to bombard the planet with asteroids, causing a deadly nuclear winter. Although the corrupt Earth Federation commands vastly superior resources, all that really stands in Char's way is Amuro and his Nu Gundam Mobile Suit. Writer-director Yoshiyuki Tomino continues the story of the Newtypes, humans who possess psychic powers. The latest possessor of these abilities is Quess Paraya, an obnoxious ...
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Ghost in the Shell (Special Edition)
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»rank: 14117
Our review: essential video:The skillful blending of drawn animation and computer-generated imagery excited anime fans when this science fiction mystery was released in 1995: many enthusiasts believe Ghost suggests what the future of anime will be, at least in the short term. The film is set in the not-too-distant future, when an unnamed government uses lifelike cyborgs or 'enhanced' humans for undercover work. One of the key cyborgs is The Major, Motoko Kusanagi, who resembles a cross between The Terminator and a Playboy centerfold. She finds herself caught up in a tangled web of espionage and counterespionage as she searches for the ...
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
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»rank: 38791
Our review: :For those who never thought Disney would release a film in which Santa Claus is kidnapped and tortured, well, here it is! The full title is Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, which should give you an idea of the tone of this stop-action animated musical/fantasy/horror/comedy. It is based on characters created by Burton, the former Disney animator best known as the director of Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and the first two Batman movies. His benignly scary-funny sensibility dominates the story of Halloweentown resident Jack Skellington (voice by Danny Elfman, who also wrote the songs), who stumbles on a ...
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Scourge of Worlds - A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure
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»rank: 38249
Our review: :Scourge of Worlds: A Dungeons and Dragons Adventure is not a film sequel to Dungeons and Dragons (2000), but the DVD equivalent of an interactive role-playing novel. There are over 900 short digitally animated sequences, leading every so often to a choice to be made with the remote control, resulting after about 90 minutes in one of four possible endings. Just as the original D&D was inspired by The Lord of the Rings, the scenarios here are Tolkien rehashed: a newly arisen darkness is seeking an ancient ultimate weapon, against which stand a human warrior, Regdar; a halfling, Lidda; and an ...
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Alien Planet
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»rank: 20649
Our review:Description:The dynamic meeting of solid science and futuristic simulation culminates in a dramatic exploration to another inhabited planet seven light years away. Alien Planet creates a realistic depiction of creatures on another world, where life is possible, if not provable, according to scientists' theories. Take this fascinating journey created by state-of-the-art animation and photo-realistic affects, leading NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory experts and, of course, imagination. :'A spacecraft from another solar system invades the night sky. But this is not our sky, and we are the invaders. The search for alien life has begun.' So begins Alien Planet, a Discovery Channel ...
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Ultraman II: The Further Adventures of Ultraman
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»rank: 41121
Our review:Description:The dynamic meeting of solid science and futuristic simulation culminates in a dramatic exploration to another inhabited planet seven light years away. Alien Planet creates a realistic depiction of creatures on another world, where life is possible, if not provable, according to scientists' theories. Take this fascinating journey created by state-of-the-art animation and photo-realistic affects, leading NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory experts and, of course, imagination. :'A spacecraft from another solar system invades the night sky. But this is not our sky, and we are the invaders. The search for alien life has begun.' So begins Alien Planet, a Discovery Channel ...
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The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
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Our review: :Dr gulliver signs on to a ship to india but in a storm hes washed off the ship & ends up on an island that is inhabited by very tiny people. After he manages to convice them that hes harmless their king wants to use dr gulliver in a war against a people of giants. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 01/27/2009 Run time: 99 minutes Rating: Nr :Imaginative special effects by the legendary Ray Harryhausen are the highlights of this adaptation of Jonathan Swift's classic fantasy novel. Kerwin Mathews, who rose to fame after appearing opposite Harryhausen's 'Superdynamation' ...
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