Directors: Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
Writers: Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio
Cast: Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Will Arnett, Kristen Wiig, Danny McBride, Miranda Cosgrove, Jack McBrayer, Mindy Kaling, Jemaine Clement, Julie Andrews
Plot: A trio of orphan girls cause the normally deplorable Gru to rethink his plan to steal the moon.
Genre: Animation | Family
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Writer: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel, Jessica Jade Andres, Aasif Mandvi, Shaun Toub, Cliff Curtis, Keong Sim
Plot: The story follows the adventures of Aang, a ten year old successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.
Genre: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Director: Lee Unkrich
Writer: Michael Arndt
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, Estelle Harris, John Ratzenberger, Ned Beatty, Jodi Benson, Michael Keaton
Plot: Woody, Buzz, and the rest of their toy-box friends are dumped in a day-care center after their owner, Andy, departs for college.
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family
Release Date: June 18, 2010
Director: Tim Burton
Writer: Linda Woolverton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Sheen, Matt Lucas, Crispin Glover, Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman
Plot: The adventures of a young girl, Alice, who falls into a magical world full of strange characters and darkness behind every corner.
Genre: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Release Date: March 5, 2010
Directors: John Musker, Ron Clements
Writers: Ron Clements, Rob Edwards, Greg Erb, John Musker, Jason Oremland
Cast: Anika Noni Rose, Keith David, Jenifer Lewis, John Goodman, Bruno Campos
Plot: A fairy tale centered on a young girl named Princess Tiana who lives in New Orleans’ French Quarter during the Jazz Age.
Genre: Animation | Family | Musical | Romance
Release Date: December 25, 2009
Director: Betty Thomas
Cast: Jason Lee, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Anna Faris, Christina Applegate, Amy Poehler
Plot: David Seville and chipmunks Alvin, Simon and Theodore, return in the sequel to lay waste to Seville’s surroundings and sing in three-part harmony. The sequel movie introduce the Chipmunks’ female counterparts, the Chipettes.
Genre: Animation | Comedy | Family
Release Date: December 25, 2009
Director: Walt Becker
Writers: David Diamond, David Weissman
Cast: John Travolta, Robin Williams, Kelly Preston, Seth Green, Ella Bleu Travolta, Lori Loughlin, Matt Dillon
Plot: Two friends and business partners find their lives turned upside down when strange circumstances lead to them being placed in the care of 7-year-old twins.
Genre: Comedy | Family
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Directors: Jorge Blanco, Javier Abad, Marcos Martinez
Writer: Joe Stillman
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, Gary Oldman, John Cleese
Plot: The inhabitants of Planet 51 live in fear of alien invasion. Their paranoia is realized when an astronaut arrives from Earth. Befriended by a young resident, he has to avoid capture in order to recover his spaceship and try to return home.
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Release Date: November 20, 2009
Director: Spike Jonze
Writers: Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers
Cast: Catherine Keener, Max Records, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose, James Gandolfini, Catherine O’Hara, Forest Whitaker
Plot: An adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world–a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.
Genre: Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Director: John Lasseter
Writers: Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow
Cast: Tom Hanks; Tim Allen; Don Rickles; Jim Varney; Wallace Shawn
Plot: A cowboy toy is profoundly threatened and jealous when a fancy spaceman toy supplants him as top toy in a boy’s room.
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Release Date: November 22, 1995