Despicable Me

Genre: Animation, Family
Cast: Steve Carrell, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Jason Segel
Release Date: 15/10/2010
Production Country: United States
Directed By: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
Film Duration: 95 min.
Production Year: 2009
Distributor: Universal Pictures UK
Official Website: www.despicable.me
Synopsis: In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army of minions, we discover Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon (Yes, the moon!) in Universal’s new 3-D CGI feature, Despicable Me. Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad. The world’s greatest villain has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes.

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Mary and Max

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Cast: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, Barry Humphries, Bethany Whitmore, Renée Geyer
Release Date: 22/10/2010
Production Country: Australia
Directed By: Adam Elliot
Film Duration: 92 min.
Production Year: 2009
Distributor: Soda Pictures
Official Website: www.maryandmax.com
Regional Website: www.sodapictures.com/cinema/153/
Synopsis: Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, MARY AND MAX tells of a pen-pal relationship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle (Collette), a chubby, lonely 8-year-old living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia; and Max Horovitz (Hoffman), a severely obese, 44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger’s Syndrome living in the chaos of New York City.

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Megamind

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Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (2010)

Director

Zack Snyder

Producer
Zareh Nalbandian, Donald DeLine, Deborah Snyder

Screenwriter
John Orloff, John Collee

Starring
Emily Barclay
Sam Neill as Allomere (voice)
Geoffrey Rush as Ezylryb (voice)
David Wenhem
Hugo Weaving as Noctus/Grimble (voice)
Jim Sturgess as Soren (voice)
Anthony LaPaglia as Twilight (voice)
Ryan Kwanten as Kludd (voice)
Abbie Cornish as Otulissa (voice)
Helen Mirren as Nyra (voice)
Jay Laga’aia
Miriam Margolyes

Acclaimed filmmaker Zack Snyder makes his animation debut with the fantasy family adventure “Guardians of Ga’Hoole,” based on the beloved books by Kathryn Lasky. The film follows Soren, a young owl enthralled by his father’s epic stories of the Guardians of Ga’Hoole, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought a great battle to save all of owlkind from the evil Pure Ones.

While Soren dreams of someday joining his heroes, his older brother, Kludd, scoffs at the notion, and yearns to hunt, fly and steal his father’s favor from his younger sibling. But Kludd’s jealousy has terrible consequences-causing both owlets to fall from their treetop home and right into the talons of the Pure Ones. Now it is up to Soren to make a daring escape with the help of other brave young owls. Together they soar across the sea and through the mist to find the Great Tree, home of the legendary Guardians of Ga’Hoole-Soren’s only hope of defeating the Pure Ones and saving the owl kingdoms.