Howl's Moving Castle is a 2004 Japanese animated film directed by Hayao Miyazaki. The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Diana Wynne Jones and features the voice talents of Christian Bale, Emily Mortimer, and Billy Crystal. The film follows a young girl named Sophie who is transformed into an old woman by a witch's curse. She seeks out the mysterious wizard Howl and his moving castle for help in breaking the curse.

"From Up on Poppy Hill" is a 2011 Japanese animated drama film directed by Goro Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. The film is set in 1963 Yokohama, Japan, and tells the story of two high school students, Umi and Shun, who fall in love while trying to save their school's clubhouse from demolition. As they work together to preserve the clubhouse, they uncover a secret from their shared past that threatens to tear them apart.

"Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" is an animated movie that follows the adventures of a group of zoo animals who find themselves stranded in the wilds of Madagascar. In the sequel, the animals decide to leave Madagascar and travel to New York City, but their plane crashes in Africa, where they discover a new community of animals like themselves.

Fantastic Mr. Fox is one of the most anticipated animated films of 2009. The interest to the project arose long before its world premiere - even with the same time, as in the information leaked that Wes Anderson will be a new director the cartoon. This news was received as a sensation by the majority of moviegoers. Still, after all, Anderson owns an awesome reputation in Hollywood, as talented director of a new generation; the one who made Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Darjeeling Limited a success, even in the most severe critics, and gathered a number of prestigious awards and nominations at various film festivals . Nobody could quite believe that the director, qualified for his art-house cinema projects, with all the seriousness decides to go into animation. "Fantastic Mr. Fox had planned to start in 2004, and there were two in the director's chair, in addition to Anderson's there was Henry Selick, the author of the notorious Nightmare Before Christmas. But Revolution Studios, whicj was responsible for the film suddenly collapsed, and the project had to be frozen for years. Nudge Mr. Fox a dead-vouched by studio namesake Twentieth Century Fox; they made some reoffer to Anderson. And, despite the fact that Selick was unable to participate in the project, Anderson, acted as a professional who bravely took up his first step in the animation film career. "Decided not to reinvent the wheel, at least in terms of voice acting, Wes invited to cast those he has worked with before - Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe. Thanks to the participation these stars, cartoon attracted attention and has got very sweet recognizable voices. "Among others new faces, not previously worked with Anderson on the set, George Clooney was spotted. He voiced the main character in this movie - the insidious Mr Fox, whose regular raids on the nearby chicken coops have long been standing in the throat of local farmers which wanted to, by all means, take revenge on the elusive thief. "However, after the birth of her son Lee decides to engage with the past and bring income families more legal way. But, working as a reporter in the newspaper and leading a boring life, make him wishing one thing only: go back to bygone days. And when on the horizon, there are three very prosperous farmer, whose estate just chock full of all living creatures, a cunning fox decides to not miss his opportunity….

The Pirates! Band of Misfits is yet another animated film with 3-D action and plenty of familiar voices from top notch actors that the kids will love. Around Christmas is always a favorite time of year for family oriented films and this year there are a lot of them! In "The Pirates" we see the Pirate Captain with a mission in mind to out do their rivals who are Black Bellamy and also Cutlass Liz. They are in the competition for an award for Pirate of the Year. Along the way the Captain hand crew travel from the shore on Blood Island deep into the fog bound streets of old Victorian London.his is stop motion buy still has plenty of computer graphics that do a lot for the visual elements such as rolling sea and spectacular scenery. The CG technology allows for more visual and expanded scenery plus adding that old wooden boat that could not possibly actually float in real time. But it's fun!oices include Hugh Grant as Pirate Captain, Cutlass Liza is voiced by Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven is the voice of Black Bellamy, and as Queen Victoria we hear Imelda Staunton. All come together to create a family fun movie for the holidays!

Walt Disney Productions has made yet another action filled cartoon sure to keep you laughing the whole way through. Tangled movie tells the story of Rapunzel as a teenager, who finally escapes the walls of her tower to follow her heart. After being locked away for most of her life, she just can't take it anymore. So when a handsome bandit passes by, Rapunzel is in love and chases after him. However, she must keep her royal background under wraps while they try to avoid her captor and avoid getting tangled in even more of a mess. Will Rapunzel finally be free and happy with her new love or will her captor lock her away again?