"Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius" is a 2001 animated film that follows the adventures of a young genius named Jimmy Neutron and his friends as they try to rescue their parents, who have been abducted by aliens. Jimmy is a brilliant inventor who creates a machine that can contact aliens, but things go awry when the aliens he contacts turn out to be evil and kidnap the parents of the entire town.

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!

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole showcases the world where people live no more. This world is ruled by civilization of owls. The movie story stars with Soren (Jim Sturgess) is a young owl who loves to hear the stories of their parents about legendary "The Guardians of Ga'Hoole," an alliance of owls dedicated to protect the kingdom of owls from the evil forces. His younger sister Eglantine (Adrienne deFaria) is fascinated by these stories, but his older brother, Kludd (Ryan Kwanten) does not. One night, while branching, they are attacked by a Tasmanian devil and then captured by two owls who work for the evil Metalbeak (Joel Edgerton) and his partner Nyra (Helen Mirren). Still caught in the clutches of the owls, they soon found a huge group of Metalbeak workers with other young owls in their clutches, Soren recognizes the Elf Owl Gylfi (Emily Barclay) who lived in the desert. They are taken to the St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls, and Nyra arrives and makes a speech to the kidnapped owls, explaining that their families have abandoned them and that Metalbeak of "Pure" is their new family…

The great Truffula Forest is in danger of going the way of the great rain forests because of a greedy creature that calls himself a Once-ler. Seems that these magnificent trees can be used for making garments that the Once-ler declares are something "everyone needs" and he goes about making lots and lots of them. With the help of his entire family, who he calls in to help, the trees are cut down one after another. The Lorax is an interesting character that emerged from the stump of the first tree the Once-ler cut down and begs him to leave the trees alone. But greed spurs on the garment maker who only sees the forest and not the trees as individuals. factory and big business are what it's all about and the Truffula trees are being chopped down rapidly. Soon the Bar-ba-loots, who are forest inhabitants who see the Truffula trees as a source of food, are faced with a food shortage and suffering grave diseases. The Lorax sends them away to find some other source of food and begs the Once-ler to quit cutting down the Truffula trees. As told by the reader (a young boy) it's a message about greed and how it affects each of us in different ways.