“A young Carl Fredrickson meets a young adventure spirited girl named Ellie. They both dream of going to a Lost Land in South America. 70 years later, Ellie has died. Carl remembers the promise he made to her. Then, when he inadvertently hits a construction worker, he is forced to go to a retirement home. But before they can take him, he and his house fly away. However he has a stowaway aboard. An 8 year old boy named Russell, whose trying to get an assisting the elderly badge. Together, they embark in an adventure, where they encounter talking dogs, an evil villain and a rare bird named Kevin. Written by Garfield2710″

• Release Date:
  29 May 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  96 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Animation , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Family
• MPAA:
  Rated PG for some peril and action.

Trivia: As per Pixar tradition, John Ratzenberger once again provides a voice in the movie, making him the only actor to do a voice in every Pixar film.

Goofs: Continuity: In the shot were Mr. Carl notices his mail he hold the stick in his left hand and reaches near the mailbox. He places the walking stick to his left, the next shot after he picks the mail and comes back the stick is not found and in the next shot its found to Mr. Carl’s right side, when he speaks to the man in black suit.

“In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na’vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture. Written by Giorgio_C”

• Director: James Cameron
• Release Date:
  18 December 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  162 min
• Country: USA , UK
• Genre: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Sci-Fi
• MPAA:
  Rated PG-13 for intense epic battle sequences and warfare, sensuality, language and some smoking.

Tagline: Enter the World

Trivia: To help the actors prepare for their roles, director James Cameron took the cast and crew to Hawaii, where they spent their days trekking through the forests and jungles and living like tribes (building campfires, eating fish, etc), in order to get a better sense of what it would be like to live and move around in the jungle on Pandora, since there would not be any actual jungle sets to aid and guide the actors and crew. Zoe Saldana even dressed up as a warrior during these journeys, complete with an alien tail symbolic of the one her character has in the movie. These hikes were only done during the daytime, though; The cast and crew spent their nights at a Four Seasons hotel.

Goofs: Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Though it would seem Norm is standing next to his Avatar near the end of the movie (which would be physically impossible) we see multiple avatars with trousers and guns in the background. These are likely the other avatars we saw at the beginning of the movie.

“On the day of James Kirk’s birth, his father dies on his ship in a last stand against a mysterious alien vessel. He was looking for Ambassador Spock, who is a child on Vulcan at that time, disdained by his neighbors for his half-human nature. Twenty years later, Kirk has grown into a young troublemaker inspired by Capt. Christopher Pike to fulfill his potential in Starfleet even as he annoys his instructors like young Lt. Spock. Suddenly, there is an emergency at Vulcan and the newly commissioned USS Enterprise is crewed with promising cadets like Nyota Uhura, Hikaru Sulu, Pavel Chekov and even Kirk himself thanks to Leonard McCoy’s medical trickery. Together, this crew will have an adventure in the final frontier where the old legend is altered forever even as the new version of it is just beginning. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)”

• Director: J.J. Abrams
• Release Date:
  8 May 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  127 min
• Country: USA , Germany
• Genre: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi
• MPAA:
  Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action and violence, and brief sexual content.

Tagline: The future begins.

Trivia: The role of James T. Kirk came down between Mike Vogel and Chris Pine. Vogel was reported as being the front runner for the part but J.J. Abrams decided to cast Pine in the end. Joshua Jackson also auditioned for the role.

Goofs: Continuity: When Kirk and McCoy first meet when sitting in the shuttle, Kirk’s shoulder strap of the seat harness changes several times through the shots from flat to bunched up.

“Angelenos Doug Billings and Tracy Garner are about to get married. Two days before the wedding, the four men in the wedding party – Doug, Doug’s two best buddies Phil Wenneck and Stu Price, and Tracy’s brother Alan Garner – hop into Tracy’s father’s beloved Mercedes convertible for a 24-hour stag party to Las Vegas. Phil, a married high school teacher, has the same maturity level as his students when he’s with his pals. Stu, a dentist, is worried about everything, especially what his controlling girlfriend Melissa thinks. Because she disapproves of traditional male bonding rituals, Stu has to lie to her about the stag, he telling her that they are going on a wine tasting tour in the Napa Valley. Regardless, he intends on eventually marrying her, against the advice and wishes of his friends. And Alan seems to be unaware of what are considered the social graces of the western world. The morning after their arrival in Las Vegas, they awaken in their hotel suite each with the worst hangover. None remembers what happened in the past twelve or so hours. The suite is in shambles. And certain things are in the suite that shouldn’t be, and certain things that should be in the suite are missing. Probably the most important in the latter category is Doug. As Phil, Stu and Alan try to find Doug using only what little pieces of information they have at hand, they go on a journey of discovery of how certain things got into the suite and what happened to the missing items. However they are on a race for time as if they can’t find Doug in the next few hours, they are going to have to explain to Tracy why they are not yet back in Los Angeles. And even worse, they may not find Doug at all before the wedding. Written by Huggo”

• Director: Todd Phillips
• Release Date:
  5 June 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  100 min | 108 min (unrated version)
• Country: USA , Germany
• Genre: Adventure , Comedy , Crime
• MPAA:
  Rated R for pervasive language, sexual content including nudity, and some drug material.

Tagline: Feel it June 5

Trivia: Three sets of twins and a dummy were used to portray the baby.

Goofs: Continuity: Right after the scene where the guys let Mr. Chow out of the trunk. Alan was sitting against the front wheel of the car. As the camera angle changed he was sitting against the door. And as the camera angle changed once , he was sitting in front of the wheel again.

“A youth chooses manhood. The week Sam Witwicky starts college, the Decepticons make trouble in Shanghai. A presidential envoy believes it’s because the Autobots are around; he wants them gone. He’s wrong: the Decepticons need access to Sam’s mind to see some glyphs imprinted there that will lead them to a fragile object that, when inserted in an alien machine hidden in Egypt for centuries, will give them the power to blow out the sun. Sam, his girlfriend Mikaela, and Sam’s parents are in danger. Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are Sam’s principal protectors. If one of them goes down, what becomes of Sam? Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}”

• Director: Michael Bay
• Release Date:
  24 June 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  150 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi
• MPAA:
  Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action violence, language, some crude and sexual material, and brief drug material. (also IMax version)

Tagline: Revenge is coming.

Trivia: The Constructicons are a faction of Decepticons in "Transformers" (1984) who took the forms of construction vehicles, and who could combine into a larger robot. Two of their members’ names (Bonecrusher and Devastator) were used in the first film, so in this film some changes in christening had to be carried out.

Goofs: Continuity: As the B-1 bomber approaches its wings are forward. The next time you see it, the wings are swept back. As it leaves after dropping its bomb the wings are forward again.

“An adolescent named Max has an active imagination, and he will throw fits if others don’t go along with what he wants. Max, following an incident with Claire (his sister) and her friends, and following a tantrum which he throws as a result of his Mother paying more attention to her boyfriend than to him – runs away from home. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world, an ocean away, is inhabited by large wild beasts, including one named Carol who is much like Max himself in temperament. Instead of eating Max like they normally would with creatures of his type, the wild things befriend Max after he proclaims himself a king who can magically solve all their problems. Written by Huggo”

• Director: Spike Jonze
• Release Date:
  16 October 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  101 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Adventure , Drama , Family , Fantasy
• MPAA:
  Rated PG for mild thematic elements, some adventure action and brief language.

Tagline: There's one in all of us.

Trivia: The open call for Max was huge. It took several months and thousands of boys auditioned from several countries worldwide.

Goofs: Continuity: During the Wild Rumpus before all the Wild things jump into a pile on top of Max, K.W. says “Look out Max!” but at this point he hasn’t told anyone his name.

“Lem is just an average teenager working on getting the girl and furthering his career at the local planetarium – except that he’s an alien. At least to U.S. astronaut Captain Charles T. Baker who lands on Lem’s planet hoping for a quick flag plant and a hasty return to earth and his millions of screaming fans. But on this alien planet the media has tagged spacemen as brain-eating, zombie-creating monsters, causing Baker to run for his life and into Lem’s house. Now it’s up to the green native to get the clumsy astronaut back to his spaceship before military dictator General Grawl and mad scientist Professor Kipple manage to exterminate the Earthly visitor. Written by The Massie Twins”

• Release Date:
  20 November 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  USA:91 min
• Country: Spain , UK , USA
• Genre: Animation , Adventure , Comedy , Family , Fantasy
• MPAA:
  Rated PG for mild sci-fi action and some suggestive humor.

Tagline: Something strange is coming to their planet…Us!

Trivia: All the female aliens are wearing dresses, the male ones have the “Donald Duck” no pants look.

Goofs: Continuity: As astronaut Chuck Baker gets tangled up in a planet mobile in the planetarium, his air hose becomes dislodged and his oxygen becomes depleted. Upon realizing the planet has breathable air, he removes his helmet, and the air hose is now reconnected to his suit. It is then again disconnected in the following shot.

“After the events of “Ice Age: The Meltdown”, life begins to change for Manny and his friends: Scrat is still on the hunt to hold onto his beloved acorn, while finding a possible romance in a female sabre-toothed squirrel named Scratte. Manny and Ellie, having since become an item, are expecting a baby, which leaves Manny anxious to ensure that everything is perfect for when his baby arrives. Diego is fed up with being treated like a house-cat and ponders the notion that he is becoming too laid-back. Sid begins to wish for a family of his own, and so steals some dinosaur eggs which leads to Sid ending up in a strange underground world where his herd must rescue him, while dodging dinosaurs and facing danger left and right, and meeting up with a one-eyed weasel known as Buck who hunts dinosaurs intently. Written by Theshapeshifter”

• Release Date:
  1 July 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  94 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Animation , Action , Adventure , Comedy , Family , Romance
• MPAA:
  Rated PG for some mild rude humor and peril.

Tagline: The sub-zero heroes are back, on an incredible adventure… for the ages.

Trivia: LOGO GIMMICK: The 20th Century Fox logo is surrounded by snow-covered pine trees, and the searchlights are miniature smoldering volcanoes.

Goofs: Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The dinosaurs famously died out millions of years before animals such as the woolly mammoth and saber-toothed tiger appeared. However it’s stated in the movie that the dinosaurs they find are a few that managed to survive underground, and that the mammals thought they were extinct.

“The story is about a team of trained secret agent guinea pigs that takes on a mission for the US government. A specially trained squad of guinea pigs is dispatched to stop a diabolical billionaire, who plans to taking over the world with household appliances. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}”

• Director: Hoyt Yeatman
• Release Date:
  24 July 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  88 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Action , Adventure , Family , Fantasy
• MPAA:
  Rated PG for some mild action and rude humor.

Tagline: Gadgets, Gizmos, Guinea Pigs. In 3-D.

Trivia: Harry Gregson-Williams, the film’s original composer, dropped out to work on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010).

Goofs: Plot holes: It is made very clear around halfway through the movie that they left all the equipment at the lab which is being put under security. Ben later on finds Darwin and Hurley outside and when he brings them in they have the language decoders on them that have been left at the lab.

“It is the story of one Mr. Fox and his wild-ways of hen heckling, turkey taking and cider sipping, nocturnal, instinctive adventures. He has to put his wild days behind him and do what fathers do best: be responsible. He is too rebellious. He is too wild. He is going to try “just one more raid” on the three nastiest, meanest farmers that are Boggis, Bunce and Bean. It is a tale of crossing the line of family responsibilities and midnight adventure and the friendships and awakenings of this country life that is inhabited by Fantastic Mr. Fox and his friends. Written by Cinema_Fan”

• Director: Wes Anderson
• Release Date:
  25 November 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  87 min
• Country: USA , UK
• Genre: Animation , Adventure , Comedy , Family
• MPAA:
  Rated PG for action, smoking and slang humor.

Tagline: Dig the life fantastic.

Trivia: It was rud that Cate Blanchett was originally the voice of Mrs. Fox, but was replaced by Meryl Streep. According to Wes Anderson, however, he had only spoken to Blanchett about the part around the time of filming The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), but never got further than that: “I think that was on the internet before it was really meant to be. For a long time there were versions of the cast out there that were not very accurate.”

Goofs: Continuity: In long-shots, there is a building between the second and third of the four silos on the Bean farm (“E” and “A”). In closer angles, the silos are equally spaced and the building is not readily visible.