Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles - Animated, Movie - Trailer

Plot: The story begins with the attempted reclamation of Earth by the returning Robotech Expeditionary Force, with an all-out attack launched on the Invid central hive known as "Reflex Point". This revisits the battle chronicled in the final episodes of the original Robotech's New Generation storyline, except this time it is told from the standpoint of the arriving space fleet instead of that of Scott Bernard's freedom fighters. The human forces are bolstered by new "Shadow" technology given to them by a cyborg alien race befriended by the forces of Admiral Hunter. This technology gives the Robotech forces a marked advantage against the Invid, because it prevents the energy signatures emitted by their mecha's protoculture engines from being detected by Invid sensors. However, the Invid Regis quickly recogizes this technology as that of the "Children of the Shadow", the treacherous race responsible for driving the Invid from their original home world.

The battle rages on Earth's surface as well as in orbit, with Invid forces eventually overwhelming their human foes. When the Robotech forces realize that their attack has failed, they have no choice but to launch their newly-developed Neutron-S Missiles directly at Reflex Point. This last-ditch effort guarantees the eradication of the Invid horde, but at the cost of several million human lives, both military and civilian. The Invid Regis, realizing that this final destruction is pointless due to the ultimate threat posed by the Children of the Shadow, decides to leave the earth and take all protoculture with her. The Regis' daughter, Ariel (a.k.a. "Marlene" in the original series), decides to remain with love interest Scott Bernard on Earth. As a final gift to her daughter and the people of Earth, the Regis destroys the incoming Neutron-S Missles, harmlessly vaporizing them as she exits the planet's atmosphere.

Meanwhile, the human forces lose contact with the SDF-3 and Admiral Hunter, who are carrying out a final test on the Neutron-S missiles. A ship is dispatched, The Icarus, under the command of Vince Grant, to the SDF-3's location in the Omicron sector. Upon arriving at the location of the SDF-3, they are nearly drawn into a black hole. They manage to escape by using their fold system to create a field around the ship. They establish short range contact with SDF-3 and are subsequently warned by Admiral Hunter that the Neutron S missiles contain a serious flaw and must not be fired. Soon after establishing contact with the SDF-3, Vince Grant's rescue team is attacked by an unknown alien force. The rescue team attempts an escape, using the Icarus' fold system to envelope not only their ship, but the damaged research vessel and the SDF-3 as well. However, due to an alien battle cruiser ramming the SDF-3, they are forced to leave SDF-3 behind.

Genres: animation, sci-fi

Directors: Tommy Yune, Dong-Wook Lee

Producers: Frank Agrama, Alan Letz, Jason Netter

Written by Ford Riley, Frank Agrama

Music by Scott Glasgow

Editor: David W. Foster

Distributed by FUNimation Entertainment

Release dates: August 25, 2006 (festival), January 5, 2007 (USA), February 6, 2007 (DVD)

Surf's Up - Animation, Movie - Trailer

Genres: animation, action, comedy, family

Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Brian Benben, Zooey Deschanel, Jeff Bridges, James Woods, Jon Heder, Rebecca Honig, Michael McKean

Directed by Ash Brannon, Chris Buck

Producers: Lydia Bottegoni, Christopher Jenkins

Written by Lisa Addario, Christian Darren, Don Rhymer, Joe Syracuse

Music by Mychael Danna

Cinematography James Williams

Editor: Ivan Bilancio

Distributed by Sony Pictures International

Release dates: June 8, 2007 (US), August 2, 2007 (Hong Kong), August 10, 2007 (UK), September 20, 2007 (Australia), September 27, 2007 (Germany), 2008 (Japan)

Ratatouille - Film, Movie - Trailer

Plot: The film tells the success story of an unlikely hero; a rat named Rémy (voiced by Patton Oswalt) who finds himself in a Parisian restaurant made famous by an eccentric French chef, Auguste Gusteau. Rémy is not only a foodie, (so quite an outsider among his kinfolk), but aims to become a fine chef. This far-reaching ambition, incredibly enough, he achieves.

A Disney press release gives us the following plot outline:

“After taking audiences on incredible journeys to the worlds of cars, monsters, superheroes, fish and toys, only the amazing storytellers at Pixar Animation Studios ("Cars," "Finding Nemo," "The Incredibles") could create an entirely new and original world where the unthinkable combination of 5-star restaurants and rats come together for the ultimate fish-out-of-water tale.

In the new animated-adventure, RATATOUILLE, a rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely—and certainly unwanted—visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy's passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down.

Remy finds himself torn between his calling and passion in life or returning forever to his previous existence as a rat. He learns the truth about friendship, family and having no choice but to be who he really is, a rat who wants to be a chef. Directed by Academy Award-winning Brad Bird ("The Incredibles") and co-directed by Academy Award-winning Jan Pinkava ("Geri's Game"), RATATOUILLE is slated for release on June 29, 2007.

”In an interview, John Lasseter described the movie: "It is about a rat that wants to be a fine chef in a top French restaurant in Paris. It is a wonderful story about following your passions when all the world is against you. A rat to a kitchen is death; a kitchen to a rat is death."

Genres: animation, comedy, family

Starring: Patton Oswalt, Brian Dennehy, Brad Garrett, Janeane Garofalo

Directed byBrad Bird, Jan Pinkava

Written by Brad Bird, Emily Cook, Kathy Greenberg, Jan Pinkava

Music by Michael Giacchino

Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures

Release date: June 28, 2007 (Australia), June 29, 2007 (US), July 27, 2007 (UK), September 28, 2007 (Norway)

Happily N'Ever After - Animation, Movie - Trailer

Story: As the story begins, we are introduced to the idea that the Wizard controls all of the fairy tales and maintain the balance of good and evil in Fairy Tale Land. With the help of his assistants, the Wizard is checking to make sure that all the fairy tales under his care are "on track" to have their traditional happy endings. As we meet him, however, the Wizard is leaving for Scotland for a long-overdue vacation. He leaves the kingdom in the hands of his two assistants, the uptight Munk and the decidedly goofy Mambo.

Ella (better known as Cinderella) starts out a damsel in distress, dreaming of the Prince who will sweep her off her feet. Her best friend at the palace is Rick, the palace dishwasher. Rick takes it upon himself to deliver the invitations to the royal ball to Ella. Ella visits Rick in the palace kitchen to borrow items she needs to complete her chores and to share her hopes of dancing with "him" (the Prince) tonight. Ella sees Rick only as a friend, but Rick secretly loves Ella, although he is too cool and proud to admit it. Rick can't really understand what Ella likes about the Prince. Rick's Three Amigos, the comic chefs in the palace kitchen, believe that Rick has a bad case of "Prince envy".

The Prince does everything by the book. He wants it all to be perfect: perfect hair, perfect shirt, perfect everything (he even put on perfect underwear). He plans to meet his Damsel at the ball.

However, things don't go as planned at the ball. Thanks to the assistants, Ella's evil stepmother, Frieda, gains access to the Wizard's lair during the Prince's ball. While the boss is away, the wicked stepmother does play. Frieda manages to chase off Munk and Mambo and tip the scales of good and evil, causing a series of fairy tales to go wrong and have comically unhappy endings. As for Ella, Frieda can't stand her hope and goodness. Frieda's goal is to put the "cinder" back in Cinderella. That night, she calls an army of trolls, witches, big bad wolves, and giants to her castle. Ella finds out and escapes to the woods, where she meets Munk and Mambo. Together, they flee to the Seven Dwarfs' home. Witches and trolls, led by Ice Queen, attack them. Rick flies up on a broom, having stolen it from Frieda. The dwarfs hold off the trolls, while Rick, Mambo, Munk, and Ella escape. The Ice Queen is shot down and killed during an attempt to capture them. Frieda discovers the failure and goes after Ella herself. She succeeds in capturing her and Rick, Munk, and Mambo follow her. Ella, meanwhile, is being tortured by Frieda in the palace throne room. Rick, Munk, and Mambo slip into Frieda's castle and attack Frieda. During the fight, Frieda generates a pit of flame in the floor. Mumbo knocks her in, and everything returns to normal. But Frieda had one final trick to play. While plummeting through the magma, she uses her staff to fly back up again. After a short battle, Frieda creates a portal by accident. Ella knocks Frieda back, so that part of her is in the portal, she then finishes her off by punching her and knocking Frieda into the river of time. Later, Frieda is shown trapped in the Ice Age. She is surrounded by seals and dragged off, a rather comical death for the self-proclaimed "Empress of Evil."

Set against a backdrop of fractured fairy tales spinning wildly out of control, Ella and her true love Rick ultimately must choose their destinies in a world of happy endings.

Genres: animation, comedy, family

Staring: Sigourney Weaver, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, Jr., George Carlin, Michael McShane, Patrick Warburton, Andy Dick, Wallace Shawn

Director: Paul J. Bolger

Producer: John H. Williams

Written by Robert Moreland

Release date: January 5, 2007

Budget: $47,000,000

Shrek the Third - Animation, Movie - Trailer

Plot: Shrek the Third has Shrek and Fiona watching over their kingdom of Far Far Away, now that King Harold is a frog prince. The new royal couple has some difficulty fitting into their robes, as well as adjusting to the etiquette and hygiene expected of monarchs. Shrek and Fiona determine that if they can find a suitable heir to the throne of Far Far Away and bring him back, they can leave their current lifestyles behind and return to their swamp. The most promising candidate for this position is Fiona's younger cousin, Arthur (Artie), who proves to be much more of a problem than Shrek, Donkey, and Puss had bargained for.

Meanwhile, Fiona recruits four of her closest friends, that is, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, and Cinderella to hold off a coup d'etat led by Prince Charming, who is accompanied by Captain Hook, a Cyclops, Rumpelstiltskin, Mabel the Ugly Stepsister, and Little Red Riding Hood.

Directors: Chris Miller, Raman Hui (co-director)

Producer: Jeffrey Katzenberg

Written by Jeffery Price, Peter S. Seaman



Starring: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews, John Cleese, Rupert Everett, Justin Timberlake, Regis Philbin, Eric Idle


Music by Harry Gregson-Williams

Release date: May 18, 2007 (US), June 29, 2007 (UK)

Meet the Robinsons - Animation, Movie - Trailer

Plot: Lewis is a brilliant inventor with a surprising number of clever inventions to his credit. His latest and most ambitious project is the Memory Scanner, a machine that will help him find his birth mother so they can become a family. But before he can find her, his invention is stolen by the dastardly Bowler Hat Guy and his diabolical hat and constant companion, Doris. Lewis has all but given up hope when a mysterious stranger named Wilbur Robinson whisks our bewildered hero away in a time machine and together they team up to track down Bowler Hat Guy in a showdown that ends with an unexpected and unbelievable twist of fate.

Genres: animation, adventure, comedy, sci-fi

Starring: Spencer Fox, Jordan Fry, Zach Tyler Eisen, Gary Oldman, Harland Williams, Steve Zahn, Tom Kenny, Steve Anderson, Angela Bassett, Tom Selleck

Director: Stephen J. Anderson

Producer: Dorothy McKim

Written by Michelle Bochner Spitz

Music by Danny Elfman

Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures

Release date: March 30, 2007

Official website: http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/meettherobinsons/

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(TMNT) - Animation - Trailer

Plot: After the defeat of their old arch nemesis, The Shredder, the Turtles have grown apart as a family: Leonardo has been traveling the world for the last year, honing his skills. Raphael has been scouring the streets at night as a masked vigilante, taking a page from Casey Jones' book. Michelangelo has taken a job as an entertainer at children's parties, with Donatello's assistance.[citation needed] Struggling to keep the family together, Splinter then realizes that strange things are starting to happen in New York. Tech-industrialist, Max Winters is beginning to amass an army of ancient, evil creatures to help him take over the world, and furthermore, has enlisted the help of Karai, carrying on the legacy of her deceased master, The Shredder, and the Foot Clan to achieve that goal. The Turtles must unite amongst themselves, and enlist the help of their old allies, Casey Jones and April O'Neil in order to put a stop to Winter's plans and save the world.

Genres: animation, action, adventurem, comedy

Starring: Mako Iwamatsu, Patrick Stewart, Zhang Ziyi, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Chris Evans, Kevin Smith, James Arnold Taylor, Mikey Kelley, Nolan North, Mitchell Whitfield, Kevin Michael Richardson, Lawrence Fishburne

Director: Kevin Munroe

Producers: Thomas K. Gary, Galen Walker

Written by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Kevin Munroe

Music by Klaus Badelt

Editor: John Damien Ryan

Release dates: March 23, 2007 (USA), March 30, 2007 (UK)

Official website: http://tmnt.warnerbros.com/

Cartoon, Movie - Arthur and the Minimoys + Trailer

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

Director:Luc Besson

Writeen by:Luc Besson, Patrice Garcia

Music: Eric Serra

Cartoon, Movie - The Simpsons + Trailers

Description: The Simpsons Movie is an upcoming animated film based on the 1989 animated sitcom series The Simpsons. It is being produced by Gracie Films for 20th Century Fox with animation produced by Film Roman and Rough Draft Studios and is scheduled to be released worldwide on July 27, 2007. James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Mike Scully, and Richard Sakai are the producers and it is written by eleven of the television series' most prolific writers.

Genres: animation, comedy

Credited cast: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria