Spot:10-year-old Arthur is living with his grandmother in a quiet country house. He has recently lost his grandfather, and doesn't see much of his parents. His grandmother entertains him by reading stories to him. One of these stories is about the fabled Minimoys, tiny fantastical beings living in harmony with nature in the very garden of his grandparents' house. According to these stories, the Minimoys are holding a wondrous and expensive treasure of rubies given by an African tribe to Arthur's grandfather. Furthermore Arthur has become enamoured with a picture of the princess of the Minimoys. Arthur's grandmother has been given two-day deadline to pay a large sum of money to a developer (played by Adam LeFevre) who has bought up her mortgage from the bank and plans to evict the two. Arthur takes it upon himself to find the rubies in order to pay off the debt. After stumbling across various clues written a few years previously by his grandfather, Arthur manages to find the key to the Minimoys' world. He discovers some Masai-esque men in his garden, who tell Arthur how to get into the Minimoys' world by way of shrinking down with the help of a telescope and the power of a full moon, and he changes his form into that of the Minimoys. When Arthur is down underground with the Minimoys, he learns of a danger to the little people's future — the plans of Maltazard, the leader of an army of mosquito-riding warriors living in nearby "Necropolis", who plan to conquer the Minimoys' by flooding their city. Thanks to, but also in spite of, Arthur, the Minimoys' colony is saved in the nick of time, and the 1000-year old (which is about the same age as Arthur in Minimoy years) princess fall in love. Arthur finds out his grandfather is not dead as suspected, but imprisoned in Necropolis. Together, they find the rubies Arthur's grandfather wrote about in his stories, and pay a part of it to the developer to save the house and land.
Genres: animation, family, fantasy
Voices: David Bowie, Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow, Penny Balfour, Madonna, Jimmy Fallon, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Chazz Palminteri, Emilio Estevez, Snoop Dogg
1 comments:
Hmmm... Interesting stuff.
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