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Mars Needs Moms
Cert: PG
Duration: 87 mins
Year Produced: 2011
Director: Simon Wells
Cast: Joan Cusack, Seth Green, Elisabeth Harnois, Dan Fogler, Mindy Sterling
This massive-budget 3D animated sci-fi comedy sees naughty nine-year-old Milo, learn to appreciate his mother when she’s taken away from Earth by Martians.
The aliens plan to download her memories and use her “momness” to raise their own offspring. Determined to rescue her, Milo stows away on a spaceship to take on her abductors, helped by tech-savvy earthling Gribble, his bionic pet Two-Cat and a rebellious Martian named Ki.
If you’ve ever been annoyed by being asked to take out the rubbish, this film might just make you think twice!
Related Films: Akira, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, Home Alone
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Ugly Duckling’s Christmas Wish
Cert: U
Running Time: 70 mins
Date of Release: 15th August 2011
A feature-length animated adaptation of the famous fairy tale that tells the story of Omar, the outcast little duckling whose Christmas Wish is to find a place where he belongs.
Running away to the big city in search of acceptance, he meets up with another runaway a little girl named Ruby, and together they find hope and love at Christmas time.
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Winnie The Pooh (2011)
Cert: U
Running Time: 63 mins
Date of Release: 22nd August 2011
Director: Stephen J.Anderson & Don Hall
Cast: Craig Ferguson, John Cleese, Jim Cummings, Tom Kenny, Bud Luckey, Jack Boulter & Kristen Anderson-Lopez
Walt Disney Animation Studios returns to the Hundred Acre Wood with “Winnie The Pooh”, the first big-screen Pooh adventure from Disney animation in more than 35 years.
With the charm, wit and whimsy of the original Winnie the Pooh featurettes, this all-new movie reunites audiences with the philosophical “bear of very little brain” and friends Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet, Kanga, Roo-and last, but certainly not least, Eeyore, who has lost his tail. Owl sends the whole gang on a wild quest to save Christopher Robin from an imaginary culprit. It turns out to be a very busy day for Pooh bear who simply set out to find some hunny.
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Sesame Street: Elmo And The Bookaneers
Cert: U
Date of Release: 22nd August 2011
Cast: Tina Fey
Everyone loves to read – even Pirates! The “Bookaneers,” led by Tina Fey, have come ashore on Sesame Street, and they want to plunder Elmo’s bookshelf. When Elmo finds out how much they love to read, he can’t wait to become a bookaneer himself. Can he pass the test and help them find their treasure?
Bert and Ernie are also on the hunt for treasure in an episode from the fantastic new claymation series, Bert and Ernie’s Great Adventures. Plus, you can sing along with Abby in a song about something she treasures: words! In Elmo’s World: Books, Elmo invites you to learn all about the books he treasures. “Arr” you ready for a reading adventures?
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