Posts Tagged ‘miniaturization’

Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: France
Actors: Freddie Highmore | Mia Farrow | Penny Balfour | Doug Rand | Adam LeFevre | Jean Bejote Njamba | Serge Blumental | Madonna | Jimmy Fallon | Robert De Niro | Harvey Keitel | Lee de Jong | Chazz Palminteri | Rhoff | Emilio Estevez
Directors: Luc Besson
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Arthur is a spirited ten-year old whose parents are away looking for work, whose eccentric grandfather has been missing for several years, and who lives with his grandmother in a country house that, in two days, will be repossessed, torn down, and turned into a block of flats unless Arthur’s grandfather returns to sign some papers and pay off the family debt. Arthur discovers that the key to success lies in his own descent into the land of the Minimoys, creatures no larger than a tooth, whom his grandfather helped relocate to their garden. Somewhere among them is hidden a pile of rubies, too. Can Arthur be of stout heart and save the day? Romance beckons as well, and a villain lurks.

Beetle Juice (1988)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Alec Baldwin | Geena Davis | Annie McEnroe | Maurice Page | Hugo Stanger | Michael Keaton | Rachel Mittelman | Catherine O'Hara | J. Jay Saunders | Mark Ettlinger | Jeffrey Jones | Winona Ryder | Glenn Shadix | Patrice Martinez | Cindy Daly
Directors: Tim Burton
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The Deetz’s gothic daughter discovers the Maitands in the attic and befriends them. She finds their after life handbook which is eventually confiscated by the family’s interior decorator who is fascinated by the paranormal, and during a seance,conjures up the Maitlands. Most of the trouble starts as the free lance bio-excorist, Beetlejuice gets involved.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Gene Wilder | Jack Albertson | Peter Ostrum | Roy Kinnear | Julie Dawn Cole | Leonard Stone | Denise Nickerson | Nora Denney | Paris Themmen | Ursula Reit | Michael Bollner | Diana Sowle | Aubrey Woods | David Battley | Günter Meisner
Directors: Mel Stuart
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Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who is barely able to support his family, is fortunate to be chosen as one of the 5 people to go inside the most popular and powerful chocalate factory in the world: The Willy Wonka Chocalate Factory. But a stranger, named Arthur Slugworth, tempts the kids to steal a piece of candy and give it to him. In exchange, he will make them rich. Willy Wonka, played by ‘Gene Wilder’(qv), soon introduces them to the factory, and starts the grand tour around the factory. Once inside, the 5 winners start to run amuck. One by one, the 5 kids start to disappear, until it is only Charlie that remains. At this point, Wonka starts to ignore Charlie, and then tells him why: because Charlie and Grandpa Joe, played by ‘Jack Albertson’ (qv), drank some forbidden product without permission. Will Charlie turn against Wonka? Or will he discover that he was wrong and make up what he has done?

FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Tim Curry | Samantha Mathis | Christian Slater | Jonathan Ward | Robin Williams | Grace Zabriskie | Geoffrey Blake | Robert Pastorelli | Cheech Marin | Tommy Chong | Tone Loc | Townsend Coleman | Brian Cummings | Kathleen Freeman | Janet Gilmore
Directors: Bill Kroyer
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The fairy people of FernGully have never seen humans before, but when Christa sees one, Zak, she accidentally shrinks him down to her size. But there is trouble in FernGully, for Zak is part of a logging team who is there to cut down the forest.

Innerspace (1987)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Dennis Quaid | Martin Short | Meg Ryan | Kevin McCarthy | Fiona Lewis | Vernon Wells | Robert Picardo | Wendy Schaal | Harold Sylvester | William Schallert | Henry Gibson | John Hora | Mark L. Taylor | Orson Bean | Kevin Hooks
Directors: Joe Dante
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Cocky space ace Tuck Pendelton volunteers to be minaturized and injected into a lab rabbit. Some techno-terrorists foul up these plans and Tuck is mistakenly injected into hypochondriac Jack Putter instead. Now the terrorists are after Jack with all-American hero Tuck shrunk inside him. Their only hope is Tuck’s journalist girl- friend Lydia, but Jack has developed a crush on her.

The Ant Bully (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
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Directors: John A. Davis
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Lucas Nickle’s the new kid in town and the local bully, Steve, makes sure he knows it. Lucas gets so fed up with being bullied, he takes out his frustration on ants in his backyard in hilarious ways, like squirting them with his garden hose or stamping on the ant hill. The ants are understandably fed up with this and Zoc the ant wizard uses a potion to shrink him down to ant size! Lucas is sentenced to hard labor in the ruins and learns to be more compassionate to ants. He becomes an ant friend, then must become an ant hero when Stan Beals, the local pest control guy, who’s an even bigger bully, comes to wipe out the entire colony. An “ants vs pest control” battle ensues and Zoc reluctantly accepts that Lucas may be the ants’ only chance of survival.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Freddie Highmore | David Patrick Kelly | Helena Bonham Carter | Noah Taylor | Missi Pyle | James Fox | Deep Roy | Christopher Lee | Adam Godley | Franziska Troegner | AnnaSophia Robb | Julia Winter | Jordan Fry | Philip Wiegratz
Directors: Tim Burton
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Charlie Bucket comes from a poor family, and spends most of his time dreaming about the chocolate that he loves but usually can’t afford. Things change when Willy Wonka, head of the very popular Wonka Chocolate empire, announces a contest in which five gold tickets have been hidden in chocolate bars and sent throughout the country. The kids who find the tickets will be taken on a tour of Wonka’s chocolate factory and get a special glimpse of the wonders within. Charlie miraculously finds a ticket, along with four other children much naughtier than him. The tour of the factory will hold more than a few surprises for this bunch…

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Stephen Boyd | Raquel Welch | Edmond O'Brien | Donald Pleasence | Arthur O'Connell | William Redfield | Arthur Kennedy | Jean Del Val | Barry Coe | Ken Scott | Shelby Grant | James Brolin | Brendan Fitzgerald
Directors: Richard Fleischer
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Scientist Jan Benes, who knows the secret to keeping soldiers shrunken for an indefinite period, escapes from behind the Iron Curtain with the help of CIA agent Grant. While being transferred, their motorcade is attacked. Benes strikes his head, causing a blood clot to form in his brain. Grant is ordered to accompany a group of scientists as they are miniaturized. The crew has one hour to get in Benes’s brain, remove the clot and get out.

Hook (1991)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow | Glenn Close | Dustin Hoffman | Robin Williams | Julia Roberts | Bob Hoskins | Maggie Smith | Caroline Goodall | Charlie Korsmo | Amber Scott | Laurel Cronin | Phil Collins | Arthur Malet | Isaiah Robinson | Jasen Fisher | Dante Basco | Raushan Hammond
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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Peter Pan (Williams) has grown up to be a cut-throat merger and acquisitions lawyer, and is married to Wendy’s granddaughter. Captain Hook (Hoffman) kidnaps his children, and Peter returns to Never Land with Tinkerbell (Roberts). With the help of her and the Lost Boys, he must remember how to be Peter Pan again in order to save his children by battling with Captain Hook once again.

Mars Attacks! (1996)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Glenn Close | Annette Bening | Pierce Brosnan | Danny DeVito | Martin Short | Sarah Jessica Parker | Michael J. Fox | Rod Steiger | Tom Jones | Jim Brown | Lukas Haas | Natalie Portman | Pam Grier | Lisa Marie
Directors: Tim Burton
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It is a normal day for everyone, until the President of the United States (Nicholson). They are able to get in contact with the Martians, and arrange for a meeting behind them and us humans. But not everything goes to plan, and the Martians have other plans for Earth. Are they just misunderstood beings? or do they really want to destroy all of humanity.