Posts Tagged ‘cult-cartoon’

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: Japan
Actors: Chieko Baisho | Takuya Kimura | Akihiro Miwa | Tatsuya Gashuin | Ryûnosuke Kamiki | Mitsunori Isaki | Yo Oizumi | Akio Ôtsuka | Daijiro Harada | Haruko Kato | Jean Simmons | Christian Bale | Lauren Bacall | Blythe Danner | Emily Mortimer
Directors: Hayao Miyazaki
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Young Sophie Hatter is cursed by the Witch of the Waste, and turns into an old hag. Ashamed of how she looks, she flees into the hills where a moving castle roams the hills. It is said to belong to the young and handsome wizard Howl, who has a bad reputation. Within the castle, Sophie befriends the fire demon Calcifer, who promises to help her become young again. One catch: she must help Calcifer to be free of Howl, and Calcifer cannot tell her how. However, Sophie agrees to stay and try to find out about the contract through other ways. Still, Howl can see that Sophie is under a spell like Calcifer can, and he falls in love with her for who she is and not for what she looks like. Sophie manages to bring life to the moving castle, and she helps Howl to face his former tutor, Madam Suliman.

The Transformers: The Movie (1986)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Norman Alden | Jack Angel | Michael Bell | Gregg Berger | Susan Blu | Arthur Burghardt | Corey Burton | Roger C. Carmel
Directors: Nelson Shin
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It is the year 2005. The war between The Autobots and Decepticons has escalated all the way to Cybertron, which the Decepticons have reclaimed. The Autobots, without Optimus Prime after a conflict on Earth takes his life, must now face a destiny they know nothing of. Megatron and a group of forsaken Decepticons have been reformed by the ultimate transformer, a planet consuming demon known as Unicron into even deadlier warriors. Now Galvatron, Scourge and Cyclonus must destroy The Autobot Matrix of Leadership for Unicron’s glory or suffer the horrific destruction of Cybertron. However, Optimus Prime has decreed that an Autobot will rise from his rank and use the power of The Matrix to light the darkest hour of the Autobots. With Hot Rod facing responsibility for Prime’s death, he feels he may be able to use the power of the Matrix to turn the tide of the Cybertronian Wars and stop Unicron. Until all are one, the future of the Autobots and Decepticons is uncertain.

The Secret of NIMH (1982)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Derek Jacobi | Elizabeth Hartman | Arthur Malet | Dom DeLuise | Hermione Baddeley | Shannen Doherty | Wil Wheaton | Jodi Hicks | Ian Fried | John Carradine | Peter Strauss | Paul Shenar | Tom Hatten | Lucille Bliss | Aldo Ray
Directors: Don Bluth
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A fieldmouse named Mrs. Brisby must move her family to a safe location before the farmer plows the field where they live, but her invalid son Timmy cannot go outside due to his pneumonia. She enlists the aid of some highly intelligent, escaped lab rats that have built a subterranean society inside a rose bush near the farmer’s garden. The rats, led by the wise Nicodemus, decide to help her physically move her house to repay a debt of gratitude to her late husband, who made possible the rats’ escape from the laboratory. But things become complicated when some of the rats decide to use the situation to kill Nicodemus and make it appear to be accidental.

Robot Chicken: Star Wars (2007)

Monday, December 8th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Abraham Benrubi | Bob Bergen | Ahmed Best | Donald Faison | Joey Fatone | Keith Ferguson | Mark Hamill | Hulk Hogan | Tom Kane | George Lucas | Seth MacFarlane | Malcolm McDowell | Breckin Meyer | Dan Milano
Directors: Seth Green
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Robot Chicken’s finest half hour is more savvy than Spaceballs, more inside than Family Guy: Blue Harvest, and funnier, even, than The Star Wars Holiday Special. This Very Special Episode of Comedy Central’s stop-motion animated series parodies and goofs on all things Star Wars, from a disgruntled Empire janitor to an ad for Admiral Ackbar Cereal (”Your tongues can’t repel flavor of that magnitude”). Twenty three minutes goes by like the jump to hyperspace with such priceless bits as the collect phone call to Emperor Palpatine from Darth Vadar to inform him of the Death Star’s destruction, awkward morning-after pillow talk between Luke and Leia (”That was so wrong”), and George Bush’s newfound Jedi powers. Co-creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich and company immerse viewers in the Robot Chicken universe with generous bonus features, including storyboarded deleted scenes (with self-deprecating commentary), behind the scenes footage of animation meetings, and alternate audio takes. Good sport George Lucas, who gave his blessing to this episode, boldly goes where William Shatner went before by voicing himself in a Star Wars convention sketch that concludes with a Lucas-worshiping geek telling his son that meeting his idol was the best day of his life. What about his son’s birth? “Not even close,” dad replies. But you don’t have to have that kind of devotion to Star Wars to be amused by this weather forecast for Cloud City: “Cloudy, followed by clouds.”

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Danny Elfman | Chris Sarandon | Catherine O'Hara | William Hickey | Glenn Shadix | Paul Reubens | Ken Page | Ed Ivory | Susan McBride | Debi Durst | Greg Proops | Kerry Katz | Randy Crenshaw | Sherwood Ball | Carmen Twillie
Directors: Henry Selick
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Bored and unhappy with the life of being “The Pumpkin King” Jack Skellington of Halloween Town, Jack sets out to find something exciting. Jack discovers “Christmas Town” and takes it upon himself to take over the duties of Santa to deliver toys across the world to children.

The Black Cauldron (1985)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Grant Bardsley | Susan Sheridan | Freddie Jones | Nigel Hawthorne | Arthur Malet | John Byner | Lindsay Rich | Brandon Call | Gregory Levinson | Eda Reiss Merin | Adele Malis-Morey | Billie Hayes | Phil Fondacaro | Peter Renaday | James Almanzar
Directors: Ted Berman
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Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers. With the aid of a stubborn princess, an exaggerating bard, and a pestering creature called Gurgi, Taran will try to save the world of Prydain from the Horned King. As the new friends face witches, elves, magic swords, and the Cauldron itself, Taran starts to learn what being a hero really means and that some things are more important than glory.

Fat Albert (2004)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Kenan Thompson | Shedrack Anderson III | Jermaine Williams | Keith Robinson | Alphonso McAuley | Aaron Frazier | Marques Houston | Dania Ramirez | Omarion Grandberry | J. Mack Slaughter | Rick Overton | Kyla Pratt | Alice Greczyn | Farnsworth Bentley
Directors: Joel Zwick
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Fat Albert and the rest of the Cosby Kids are living happily in their animated world of Philadelphia when one day, a young teen cries on her remote control because she doesn’t have any friends. Fat Albert and his gang then magically come out of her TV and enter the real Philadelphia! They decide-being such good kids-to help the teen make friends. Albert then falls in love with the girl’s beautiful foster sister-but oh, no! If Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids stray from their TV world, they begin to fade away! Will Albert be able to return home after enlisting the help of Bill Cosby himself, or will he and his gang vanish forever? Go and see to find out!