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Wolverines! And Other Mammals!

After the events of Ice Age: Meltdown, Manny, Diego, and Sid (Ray Romano, Dennis Leary, and John Leguizamo) are settling down to their new lives when a surprise paratrooper attack by Cuban dinosaurs forces the boys up into the hills, where they wage a guerilla war to keep their home free for the warm blood of patriotism!

Ice Age: Red Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Cheat sheet Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | Red Dawn

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These It’s a Sloth in a Corset | This is the Single Worst Day of My Entire Life!

The Ice Age crowd goes to the well one more time – this time in 3D! Check out the trailer.

Just Keep Swimming

A talented boy clownfish (Denzel Washington) leaves his reef home to start a jazz band in New York City. His nervous, overprotective father travels with reefer smoking turtles and a forgetful sax player named Dory (Wesley Snipes) to find his son. Along the way he rediscovers the importance of courage, friendship, and the blues as a way of life.

Finding Nemo Better Blues

Cheat sheet Finding Nemo | Mo' Better Blues

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Me Gotta Have It! | Not Rain Nor Sleet Nor Bricks and Bricks of Snow...

Branford Marsalis knows the blues.

I'm Just Not Sure Why The Fish Has Glasses.

Aging superhero and dissatisfied cubicle rat Henry Limpet gives up his frustrating life of insurance-wrangling and closeted world-saving and is transformed into a talking fish bent on defeating evil Nazi supervillain Syndrome. His family - Elastigirl, Dash, morose and sarcastic Invisible Girl, and the mysterious Jack Jack - must free him from Syndrome's lair before the human world is destroyed and Limpet's fish friends develop into a new race of possibly peaceful fish-men.

The Incredibles and Mr. Limpet

Cheat sheet The Incredibles | The Incredible Mr. Limpet

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Dammit, Jim! I'm an Ogre, Not a Physicist! | Paging Mr. Toaster. White Courtesy Telephone, Please.

Fish have no boring jobs, no demanding spouses, and no mysterious, leering, martini-drinking Navy guys to contend with. Fishes' lives are better lives than people's.

Turning in Her Ovaries for a Bunch of Balloons

A New York housewife (Barbra Streisand), bored with her life and marriage, attaches thousands of helium balloons to her house so that she can escape her humdrum existence. A young computer-animated boy stows away with her, they fly to South America, hilarity ensues, etc.

Up the Sandbox

Cheat sheet Up | Up the Sandbox

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Editor Phil

If you Liked This, You'll Love These Living Buy'n'Large | Not the Blow-dryer You're Looking For

Will this be another hit for Pixar? (SQUIRREL!) Of course it will. "Up" opens today.

Locomotive, Rah! Rah! Locomotive Oil!

On the evening of his retirement, aging Norwegian train engineer (and part-time elephant) Horten is startled by a voice coming from a tiny speck of dust, and is forced to reconsider his life and his loneliness. The inhabitants of the dust speck teach him the mantra, "A person's a person, no matter how old," which helps him cope with the grim retirement party thrown by his coworkers (a kangaroo and several evil monkeys).

O'Horten Hears a Who

Cheat sheet O'Horten | Horton Hears a Who

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Do We Get to Win This Time, Jiminy Cricket? | You'd be Dead Too, if You Were That Cold

Enjoy the trailer for O'Horten, which opens tonight.

And... uhm... oh, dear.

A Perfect Organism. Its Structural Perfection is Matched Only By Its Ability to Talk Like Cliff Clavin on Cheers.

A secret government agency dedicated to child-power energy generation recruits a crack team of agents -blue ogre Sully, walking eyeball Mike, a Brobdingnagian Sigourney Weaver, and a cockroach with the body of Hugh Laurie - to combat an invading horde of acid-spewing extraterrestrials whose offspring burst out of people's stomachs.

Monsters, Inc. vs Aliens

Cheat sheet Monsters, Inc | Monsters Vs Aliens | Aliens

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These You Look Like Ilsa, Only Animated and With No Legs | Living Buy'n'Large

Leapin' Lepus!

Two brothers, one a hapless inventor and the other a dog without a mouth, compete fiercely with each other on the soccer field, but later forget their differences to team up against a lycanthropic lagomorph.

Rudo y Cursi of the Were-Rabbit

Cheat sheet Rudo y Cursi | Wallace & Grommit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit

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Editor Phil

If you Liked This, You'll Love These Take a Chance on Me | Love is a Force of Nature (And So Is Gravity)

Trailer oficiel de Rudo y Cursi.

Speaking of soccer, and to demonstrate that the movies in this mash-up aren't actually unrelated, here's a brilliant bit from the creators of Wallace & Grommit.

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Dammit, Jim! I'm an Ogre, Not a Physicist!

To rescue his swamp from an alien threat, an antisocial ogre enlists the help of Starfleet cadets Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhuru, Chekov, and Scott to transport a princess across the wilds of uncharted space. Along the way, the ogre falls in love and lots and lots of things blow up... and, according to the trailers, there's some sex.

Star Shrek

Cheat sheet Star Trek | Shrek

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Cold Feet | If You Build It, They Will Stomp

The long-awaited J. J. Abrams adaptation of Star Trek opens tomorrow... or in some cities, today.

You Look Like Ilsa, Only Animated and With No Legs

A young French space explorer (Jack Nicholson) is rescued by a cartoon alien with really big eyes who bears a startling resemblance to the long-dead wife of an elderly Baron (Boris Karloff).

Battle For The Terror

Cheat sheet The Terror | Battle For Terra

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Editor Phil

If you Liked This, You'll Love These I'm the King of the Universe! | What would you say... you do here?

The politically complex and stunningly rendered new animated film from Canada, Battle for Terra, may make the Pixar guys a little nervous. It opens tonight.

Paging Mr. Toaster. White Courtesy Telephone, Please.

A group of dated appliances stranded in an abandoned summer home decide to go on tour as instruments for experimental musician Laurie Anderson, exploring their feelings abandonment, obsolescence, and loneliness in amusing and thought-provoking electronic music. Highlight: Lampy spikes his hair and dons a skinny tie.

Home of the Brave Little Toaster

Cheat sheet Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson | The Brave Little Toaster

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These By George, I Think She's Got It! | Same As It Ever Was

Laurie Anderson purveys her particular brand of surreal social commentary with a thumping bass beat in "Sharkey's Day".

You Better Treat This Lady Like a Queen

Max, a lion from the New York Zoo, travels to Africa and has a passionate affair with a Danish plantation owner (Meryl Streep).

Madagascar: Escape Out of Africa

Cheat sheet Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | Out of Africa

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Sure, But He Plays Mozart for the Baboons | Bonding With Mom

Do We Get To Win This Time, Jiminy Cricket?

An escaped circus elephant returns to the Big Top to liberate his still-captive buddies. Highlight: memorable use of a magic feather in the air-strike scene.

Rumbo

Cheat sheet Rambo: First Blood | Dumbo

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Man is in the Forest! | There Are No Friendly Civilians!

Is That a Meteorite in Your Pocket, or are You Just Happy to See Me?

Mystic warrior Son Goku (David Duchovny) must collect the Seven Dragon Balls to save the world from rapidly-mutating monsters from space. With Julianne Moore as Bulma.

Dragon Ball: Evolution

Cheat sheet Dragon Ball Evolution  Evolution

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These They’re Thinking, “Duchovny Thought His Career Would Get Better After This?” | Finish Him! 

Dude, is that really Chow Yun-Fat?

Living Buy 'n' Large

In the distant future, a small waste collecting robot descends into a drug-fueled mind-trip that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.

Pink Floyd The WALL-E

Cheat sheet Pink Floyd The Wall | Wall-E

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Clone Heads

A controversy over proposed resort development in Milagro, Mexico, becomes a battlefield where brave and spiritual Mexican Jedi farmers battle evil, imperialist clone armies over natural resources and the right to an honest day's work. Costars Christopher Walken as government troubleshooter Jabba the Hutt.

The Milagro Beanfield Clone Wars

Cheat sheet The Milagro Beanfield War | Star Wars: The Clone Wars

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Man is in the Forest!

Sent to prison for killing the hunter who shot his Mom (as well as mangling an entire police department and blowing up half a town) Bambo is given a special assignment by PETA to rescue all the test animals held in Vietnamese make-up testing camps. When it turns out that the whole thing is a set up, Bambo has to fight his way to freedom with Flower and Thumper! Co-staring a metric crap-load of dead Viet Cong.

Bambo: First Blood, Part II

Cheat sheet Bambi | Rambo: First Blood, Part II

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Here's Weird Al Yankovic as Bambo.

I feel like I've been in a coma for the past twenty years, and I'm just now waking up.

After 14 years of working for people who are beneath him (literally: they're dwarves) Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is awakened by the kiss of Prince Charming. Unfortunately for Lester, the Prince is not his type and his "thanks, but no thanks" to Charming Chris Cooper results in his getting his brains blown out all over his living room. Annette Benning co-stars as Mortgagificent, the Evil Queen of Real Estate.

American Sleeping Beauty

Cheat sheet American Beauty | Sleeping Beauty

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If You Liked This, You'll Love These Be My Quest | Skin Deep

Kevin Spacey Slays a dragon...

...as does Prince Philip.

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah! Zip-a-dee-ay! My, oh, my what a crapulent day!

In this Jim-Crow era Disney musical, Brer Rabbit finds out that on top of not getting to drink from the white-only water cooler, he also has terminal cancer. Brer Fox gives and heartbreaking eulogy at his funeral ending with Brer Fox's declaration "I love Brer Rabbit. And I'd like all of you to love him too." Starring Billy Dee Williams as Brer Fox.

Brian's Song of the South

Cheat sheet Brian's Song | Song of the South

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If You Liked This, You'll Love These Hold That Line | Sir Lawrence Olivier Stars as the Football

Uh... Follow the bouncing disembodied mouse head?

 

By George, I Think She's Got It!

In this Disney animated musical, Professor Henrietta Higgins makes a bet with her Siamese colleagues that she can civilize a ruffian from the streets. However the experiment goes awry when Henrietta finds herself being seduced by the freedom of the lower classes and ends up snorffing meatballs in back alleys.

My Fair Lady and the Tramp

Cheat sheet My Fair Lady | Lady and the Tramp

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If You Liked This, You'll Love These Let's Go to Work | Albania's Hard To Rhyme

And apropos of nothing, what has Nina Hagen been doing with herself all these years?

I Have Become... Comfortably Rich

Under the tutelage of a ruthless corporate raider, a young and ambitious stock broker descends into madness as he experiments with drugs and insider trading. 

Pink Floyd: The Wall Street

Cheat sheet Pink Floyd: The Wall | Wall Street

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If You Liked This, You'll Love These Spectacular Spectacular! | The Cover of the Rolling Stone (September, 1806)

Squeal Like a Pig! (Or, You Shore Have a Purty Magic Wand)

A young witch (Burt Reynolds), on her mandatory year of independent life, runs an air courier service along the soon-to-be-flooded Cahulawassee River in the Georgia mountains... but she finds fitting in with area life difficult, as the locals are somewhat insular and their initiation rituals for outsiders are kind of distasteful and dangerous.

Kiki's Deliverance Service

Cheat sheet Kiki's Delivery Service | Deliverance

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Meanwhile, we kind of love this blog of thought-provoking graphs:

You've Got a Friend in Me

Musical about two toys - a cowboy action figure and a fancy new spaceman - who fall in love in a world that will not understand them. "Something's Coming" performed by 1000 little green aliens is a sight not to be missed!

West Side Toy Story

Cheat sheet West Side Story | Toy Story

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If You Liked This, You'll Love These Wind the Frog! | Tax Day Special #4: Flip this House

Let's Go to Work

An animated movie about five pit bulls (Magenta, Maroon, Mauve, Violet, and Chartreuse) killed in a bank robbery gone bad. They were given a second chance at redemption by guarding a girl in the witness protection program, who was compromised by a corrupt Doberman Pinscher police dog. Chartruese protects the girl and saves the day by clipping the ears of the Doberman Pinscher to the tune of "Stuck in the Middle With You" by Steeler's Wheel.

All Reservoir Dogs Go to Heaven

Cheat sheet All Dogs Go to Heaven | Reservoir Dogs

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Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right...

Spectacular Spectacular!

A poet falls for a beautiful Chinese girl who has become a warrior to save her father from the army. He turns to his friends (an absinthe-drinking dwarf, an unconscious Argentinean, and a dragon named after a pork dish) to help him win her heart.

Mulan Rouge!

Cheat sheet Mulan | Moulin Rouge!

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I Find Your Lack of Pants Disturbing

The heroic Jedi Knights struggle to maintain order and restore peace in a galaxy torn apart by the vicious divorce battle between Darth Vader and Senator Amidala.

The Clone Wars of the Roses

Cheat sheet Star Wars: The Clone Wars | The War of the Roses

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