| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 01. “Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie” | 3 July 1997 |
| STARRING: |
| •Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean •Peter MacNicol as David Langley •John Mills as Chairman •Pamela Reed as Alison Langley •Harris Yulin as George Grierson •Burt Reynolds as General Newton •Richard Gant as Lieutenant Brutus •Larry Drake as Elmer •Sandra Oh as Bernice Schimmel •Danny Goldring as Security Buck •Johnny Galecki as Stingo Wheelie •Chris Ellis as Detective Butler •Andrew Lawrence as Kevin Langley •Peter Egan as Lord Walton •Peter Capaldi as Gareth •June Brown as Delilah •Peter James as Doctor Rosenblum •Tricia Vessey as Jennifer Langley •Tom McGowan as Walter Huntley |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) is a well-meaning but hopelessly clumsy, goofy and destructive security guard working at the National Gallery in London. When the board of directors for the gallery who despise Bean for sleeping on the job fail to fire him due to the chairman (Sir John Mills) threatening repercussions, the board immediately decides on a different course of action and has him represent them during the transfer of the portrait Whistler's Mother to the Grierson Art Gallery in Los Angeles following its purchase by philanthropist General Newton (Burt Reynolds) for $50 million. The curator of the Grierson David Langley (Peter MacNicol), who is impressed with the false profile of "Dr. Bean", agrees to accommodate him at his house for two months much to the chagrin of his wife Alison (Pamela Reed), his son Kevin (Andrew Lawrence) and daughter Jennifer (Tricia Vessey). After Bean causes some initial mishaps with the airport police and breaks a family heirloom, Alison leaves for her mother's house with Kevin and Jennifer. David soon begins to question Bean's intelligence after he suggests they head to a theme park, where he causes mayhem with a ride which gets him arrested and later messes up a dinner with the gallery's owner George Grierson (Harris Yulin). When David questions Bean, he finds out that Bean is not a doctor after all and things get worse when Bean accidentally ruins the painting shortly after it arrives. Fearing that he will lose his job and possibly face criminal charges for the damage, David becomes despondent and gets drunk even though his family returns out of pity. To save his career, Bean sneaks back into the gallery, distracts the guard by lacing his cup of coffee with laxatives and replaces the ruined painting with a poster. The plan works on the next day, fooling everyone including Newton. Bean nearly panics when he has to make a speech but gives an improvised, sentimental and deep monologue about the painting that wins the crowd's praise and approval. Shortly after the speech, Bean is approached by Lieutenant Brutus whom he crossed paths with leaving David worried that he knows the truth about the priceless painting's mishap, only to learn from him that Jennifer was rushed to the hospital after being involved in a motorcycle accident with her boyfriend. Rushing to the hospital, David goes to be with his wife leaving Bean to wander about the hospital's reception area and being mistaken for a doctor after picking up a stethoscope that had been accidentally dropped into the floor. Forced into a surgery room and dressed in surgical scrubs, Bean comes across Brutus on the operating table after having been shot while dealing with a mugging whereupon he manages to recover the bullet from his body via an unorthodox procedure which saves his life. David then begs Bean for his help in reviving Jennifer from a coma which he succeeds after an accident with a defibrillator sends him flying and landing on top of her. Grateful for having their daughter back, David and Alison are surprised when Bean reveals his true identity. At Bean's suggestion they repay him by allowing him to stay with them for another week. After spending quality time with David's family, Bean goes to the airport and thanks David for the time he spent before returning to London. At his flat Bean admires his bedroom which is now decorated with photos of himself and the Langleys as well as the original Whistler's Mother painting he ruined and smuggled back with him, before going to bed. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 02. “Mr. Bean's Holiday” | 24 March 2007 |
| STARRING: |
| •Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean •Emma de Caunes as Sabine •Max Baldry as Stepan Dachevsky •Willem Dafoe as Carson Clay •Jean Rochefort as the Maitre d'Hotel •Karel Roden as Emil Dachevsky •Catherine Hosmalin as Ticket Inspector •Urbain Cancelier as Bus Driver •Stephane Debac as Traffic Controller •Julie Ferrier as The First AD •Steve Pemberton as The Vicar •Lily Atkinson as Lily |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| On a rainy day in London, Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) drives to a church raffle where he wins the first prize - a holiday to Cannes, a Sony Handycamvideo camera and £200 spending money. Following a misunderstanding involving a taxi at the Gare du Nord, Bean is forced to make his way unorthodoxly towards the Gare de Lyon from La Defense to board his next train towards Cannes. However, a vending machine prevents him from boarding and thus he misses his train. While waiting for the next one he dines at Le Train Bleu, where he accidentally orders langoustines and oysters. He eats one of the langoustines whole and pours the oysters, which he cannot bring himself to eat, into a nearby woman's handbag while pretending to eat them, which gives her a nasty surprise when she reaches into it. Back on the platform, Bean asks a Russian film director named Emil Dachevsky (Karel Roden) to use his camcorder to film him boarding the train but spends so much time retaking the shot that the train starts to leave. Although Bean manages to get onto the train, the doors close before Emil can get on. Emil's son Stepan (Max Baldry) is therefore left on board the train without his father and upon meeting Bean he refuses to befriend him as a result of filming his father's misfortune. At the next station, the train leaves without Bean when he disembarks to retrieve his video camera from Stepan who had somehow got hold of it and disembarked earlier. The train Emil has boarded does not stop at the station and he instead holds up a sign showing a mobile number but the last two digits are covered by his fingers thus attempts at calling the number prove worthless. Bean and Stepan then board the next train but get kicked off as Bean had accidentally left his wallet and ticket on the telephone box at the previous station. Attempts at busking including lip syncing to Puccini's "O mio babbino caro" prove successful and Bean buys himself and Stephan food and bus tickets to Cannes. However, Bean manages to lose his ticket that attaches itself to a chicken's leg in which he gives chase to via a bicycle. Upon arriving at the farm where he finds more chickens and discovering that his bicycle was crushed by a tank, he is forced to continue the journey on foot. Bean soon falls asleep, exhausted from walking and wakes up the next day on what appears to be a quaint French village attacked by Wehrmachtaccompanied by an StuG III, but is actually a film set for a yogurt commercial directed by Carson Clay (Willem Dafoe). Bean ends up as an extra in the commercial but is fired after Carson Clay discovers his video camera during filming. When Bean's camera battery dies, he recharges it but accidentally ends up destroying the set in an explosion. Bean is then is offered a lift to Cannes by a Mini identical to his own driven by Sabine (Emma de Caunes), an aspiring actress on her way to the 59th Cannes Film Festival where the film in which she makes her debut as an extra will be presented. When they stop at a service station Bean finds Stepan dancing in a cafe with a band. Sabine agrees to take him with them assuming that Stepan is Bean's son while Stepan thinks Sabine is Bean's fiancée. Bean uses Sabine's mobile phone to try to call Emil again with no luck and when Sabine falls asleep at the wheel, Bean ends up driving the Mini through the night. The next morning, they reach Cannes. When Sabine goes into a petrol station to change for the premiere, she sees Bean's photo on a news program where he is suspected of kidnapping Stepan while Sabine is Bean's accomplice. Since the premiere in Cannes is scheduled to start in one hour she decides not to go to the police to clear the misunderstandings. Therefore to get into the premiere Stepan and Bean disguise themselves as Sabine's daughter and mother respectively and manage to evade the police. After sneaking into the premiere, Sabine and Bean are disappointed to see that her scene has been cut from the film. Bean plugs his video camera into the projector, projecting his video diary. The bizarre tale it tells fits director Carson Clay's narration well and Carson Clay, Sabine and Bean receive standing ovations as Stepan is finally reunited with his father. After the screening, Bean leaves the building by the back door and finally makes his way onto the Cannes beach. A montage of Bean playing by the water's edge while Sabine is interviewed, Carson Clay attempts to mimic Bean's unorthodox filming methods and Stepan relaxes with his family plays and the film ends with the entire cast and background crowd miming a musical finale with the song "La Mer". In a post-credits scene, Bean writes "FIN" in the sand with his foot and films it until the sea washes the words away and his camera's battery dies again. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 03. “Johnny English” | 6 April 2003 |
| STARRING: |
| •Rowan Atkinson as Johnny English •Ben Miller as Angus Bough, English's partner in the field •John Malkovich as Pascal Edward Sauvage, the main antagonist, distant descendant of James II •Natalie Imbruglia as Lorna Campbell, an INTERPOL agent •Oliver Ford Davies as the Archbishop of Canterbury •Tim Pigott-Smith as Pegasus •Kevin McNally as the Prime Minister •Douglas McFerran as Klaus Vendetta •Steve Nicolson as Dieter Klein •Greg Wise as Agent One •Tim Berrington as Roger •Prunella Scales as Queen Elizabeth II •Tasha de Vasconcelos as Countess Alexandra •Nina Young as Pegasus' Secretary •Sam Beazley as Elderly Man at the Hospital •Marvin Beyster as a Children •Kevin Moore as Doctor •Jack Raymond as French Reception Waiter •Jenny Galloway as the Foreign Secretary •Chris Tarrant as Radio DJ •Trevor McDonald as Newsreader |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| Johnny English is a kind hearted but inept "MI7" agent with dreams of being their most trusted employee. After Agent One dies in a submarineaccident unknowingly caused by English, the remaining agents are assassinated via a bombing at Agent One's funeral, leaving English as the lone surviving agent capable of finishing the mission Agent One left when he died. English is assigned to follow a plot to steal the Crown Jewels, which are on display at the Tower of London. At the display, English is head of security, and meets the mysterious Lorna Campbell. The power is cut, and the jewels are stolen. During the chaos, English accidentally knocks out the deputy head of security and pretends to fight an assailant out of sight. He later makes up a false description of the assailant to MI7 head Pegasus. English and his assistant Angus Bough find the jewels were removed via a hole dug beneath their display case. The two follow a tunnel, confronting the two thieves Dieter Klein and Klaus Vendetta. The two escape in a hearse, with English trying to pursue them, but he mistakes another hearse for the escaped vehicle, gatecrashing a funeral until Bough comes to his aid by pretending English is an escaped mental patient. English connects the thieves to Pascal Sauvage, a French prison entrepreneur who helped restore the Crown Jewels. Pegasus finds the claims of his involvement absurd and warns English not to involve Sauvage. In the car park, English and Bough are attacked by Vendetta, but are unharmed. English again encounters Lorna in a sushi restaurant as he recognized her motorcycle. During their meeting English is suspicious of her since he has seen her at two of their crime scenes and her records cannot be found on any government computer. English and Bough decide to break into Sauvage's headquarters via parachutes, but English lands on a visually identical tower, which turns out to be the City Hospital, by mistake. Going to the correct building, the two learn Sauvage, who is a descendant of Charles Edward Stuart, plans on making himself king, using an impostor to impersonate the Archbishop of Canterbury. Lorna arrives, revealed to be an Interpol agent tracking Sauvage. With evidence of Sauvage's involvement, English crashes a reception hosted by Sauvage but he is suspended from work by Pegasus for his actions. With English knowing their plans, Sauvage scraps the fake Archbishop and instead sends his minions to force Queen Elizabeth II to abdicate by threatening her corgis, causing the entire line of succession to be swept clean for Sauvage to become king. Lorna, now in charge of the assignment by Pegasus, visits the depressed English and convinces him to travel with her to Sauvage's French château to investigate. Eavesdropping on Sauvage's meeting with renowned criminals, English and Lorna learn Sauvage plans to turn the United Kingdom into the world's biggest prison when he becomes king. English and Lorna are exposed when the former accidentally activates a microphone, and they are taken prisoners. English tries to steal the DVD of Sauvage's plan, but accidentally drops it onto a tray of identical discs and takes the wrong one without looking. Bough rescues the two and they race to stop Sauvage's coronation. English crashes the coronation and discovers the Archbishop is the genuine article. Undeterred, English orders Bough to play the DVD, only to find it is camera footage of himself dancing in his bathroom in his underclothes to "Does Your Mother Know" by ABBA, Sauvage having bugged English's flat beforehand. English sneaks away but swings in on a wire to steal St. Edward’s Crownfrom Sauvage. Sauvage angrily shoots at English with a pistol, causing him to drop the crown. Moments before Sauvage is crowned king, English drops from the wire after being shot, lands on the throne, and is crowned instead. Because of the crowning laws, English is now technically the King of England. In his singular act as king, English has Sauvage arrested and restores the Queen to the throne, simply requesting a knighthood as a reward. In the final scene, English and Lorna drive to southern France for a romantic holiday, only for English to accidentally launch Lorna out of the car by pressing the ejection seat button. Lorna lands in a hotel swimming pool, where Bough happens to be vacationing as well as a man identical to the assailant that English described to Pegasus earlier in the film. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 04. “Johnny English Reborn” | 15 September 2011 |
| STARRING: |
| •Rowan Atkinson as Johnny English, an accident prone but good hearted MI7 agent. •Gillian Anderson as Pamela Thornton a.k.a. Pegasus, head of MI7. •Dominic West as Simon Ambrose, a MI7 agent and colleague of English; later revealed as an antagonist, as a member of Vortex. •Rosamund Pike as Kate Sumner, a behavioral psychologist at MI7, and English's love interest. •Daniel Kaluuya as Colin Tucker, an MI7 agent who becomes English's assistant and sidekick in his mission. •Richard Schiff as Titus Fisher, an ex CIA operative and member of Vortex. •Tim McInnerny as Patch Quartermain, MI7's wheelchair user quartermaster. •Pik-Sen Lim as Killer Cleaner, a Vortex assassin who appears variously as a grey haired cleaning lady, Pegasus' mother, and later still, the Queen. •Stephen Campbell Moore as the British Prime Minister. •Burn Gorman as Slater, a MI7 intelligence expert who works with Ambrose and is a member of Vortex. •Togo Igawa as Ting Wang, English's mentor in Tibet, and MI7 sleeper agent. •Mark Ivanir as Artem Karlenko, a Russian former double agent and member of Vortex. •Lily Atkinson, the daughter of Rowan Atkinson, made her cameo appearance as the girl that her helmet stolen by Johnny English. |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| Johnny English has been training in Tibet following a botched mission in Mozambique (during which he failed to protect the newly elected president) when he is summoned by MI7. Under his new boss Pamela Thornton, codename 'Pegasus', he is put on a mission to investigate a plot to assassinate the Chinese Premier during scheduled talks with the Prime Minister. He meets fellow agent and old acquaintance Simon Ambrose, MI7's resident quartermaster, Patch Quartermain, and junior agent Colin Tucker, who will be English's new assistant. In Hong Kong, English finds former CIA agent Titus Fisher, who reveals himself to be a member of Vortex, a group responsible for sabotaging English's Mozambique operation. He reveals Vortex holds a secret weapon that requires three metal keys to unlock, owned by himself and two other former spies. However, when he reveals his key, Fisher is killed by an elderly woman disguised as an apartment cleaner, and another guy steals the key. English chases the thief across Hong Kong, by means of easy solutions to hazardous routes the thief takes - for example, when the criminal slowly climbs down bamboo scaffolding, English simply takes an elevator. However, English is outwitted by another Vortex operative disguised as a flight attendant en route back to London, and is humiliated in a meeting with the Foreign Secretary and Pegasus when he attempts to present the key and the plans. He then mistakes Pegasus's mother to be the cleaner assassin and attacks her at Pegasus's daughter's birthday party. Kate Sumner, MI7's behavioral psychologist, uses hypnosis to help English recall his suppressed memory of the Mozambique incident, revealing another Vortex operative, Russian spy Artem Karlenko, who is masquerading as millionaire Sergei Pudovkin. English and Tucker meet Karlenko at an exclusive golf course outside London. However, mid game, the cleaner assassin critically injures Karlenko. English and Tucker try to bring him to a nearby hospital via a helicopter, but Karlenko dies upon reaching the hospital. However, he manages to pass his key to them and says the final key is held by a member of MI7 before he dies. Over dinner, English confides with Ambrose about the mole. Ambrose confides with English that he suspects Quartermain is the traitor. Tucker later confronts Ambrose about him being the mole, but English dismisses Tucker and lets Ambrose go free, giving him Karlenko's key. At a church, English confronts Quartermain, but realizes he has been framed as the traitor. He manages to escape from other MI7 agents and hide at Sumner's flat. When reviewing the footage of the Mozambique mission, Sumner realizes the assassin has been manipulated by Vortex via a mind-control drug known as timoxeline barbebutenol. Later, Ambrose comes to pick Sunmer up, and English realizes Ambrose is the mole after briefly recalling his memory in Mozambique. The cleaner assassin comes to the apartment to kill English, but he manages to escape through a garbage chute and makes for Tucker's apartment. In Tucker's flat, English persuades him to rejoin him to infiltrate Le Bastion, a fortress in the Swiss Alps where the talks are to be held, after apologizing for his mistake. In the fortress, however, English accidentally activates a distress beacon that alerts the guards of the fortress to their presence. Left with no choice, English commands Tucker to knock him out, so that the both of them may go up to the fortress. Having been taken into the fortress, English manages to get out of the body bag and warns Pegasus of the threat, but unknowingly imbibes the drink containing the drug. Ambrose, at the scene, commands English to subdue Pegasus. Assigning English to be the Prime Minister's bodyguard in place of Pegasus, Ambrose orders him to kill the Chinese Premier using a pistol disguised as lipstick, which was initially designed for Pegasus. However, English tries to resist the drug and prevent himself from shooting the premier. Tucker arrives and interrupts Ambrose's communication feed briefly before Ambrose resets the communication, exposing himself to be the mastermind to the others in the process. English resists again and shoots Ambrose, who escapes, but the drug enters its lethal stage, and English loses consciousness. Sumner arrives and is able to revive English with a passionate kiss. English then pursues Ambrose down the mountainside and both fight in an aerial tram. English managed to overpower Ambrose for a while but falls off the lift. Ambrose shoots at English, who tries to use his spy umbrella as a bulletproof shield, but later turns out to be a rocket launcher when he closes it. The rocket launcher destroys the lift, killing Ambrose. Later on, Vortex is shut down and English is to have his knighthood reinstated by the Queen. During the ceremony, the cleaner assassin attempts to kill English again while disguised as the queen, which leads English to attack the real Queen by accident, realizing his mistake only when the killer cleaner is finally caught by the others. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 05. “Johnny English Strikes Again” | 20 September 2018 |
| STARRING: |
| •Rowan Atkinson as Johnny English •Olga Kurylenko as Ophelia •Ben Miller as Jeremy Bough •Adam James as Pegasus •Emma Thompson as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom •Pippa Bennett-Warner as Lesley •Jake Lacy as Jason Volta •Miranda Hennessy as Tara •Irena Tyshyna as Viola Lynch •David Mumeni as Fabian •Tuncay Gunes as Ted Guest •Samantha Russell as the Prime Minister of Sweden •Nick Owenford as an Australian aide •Junichi Kajioka as a Japanese diplomat •Matthew Beard as P |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| One night, MI7 receives a cyber attack from an unknown entity which exposes the identities of all their current agents. They are subsequently forced to reinstate their older and inactive agents. English, currently a geography teacher secretly training his students in espionage, is summoned by MI7. However, he accidentally incapacitates the other summoned retired agents. Thus, he is tasked to complete the mission by himself, but he asks to be accompanied by his old sidekick, Bough. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister is considering a meeting with a Silicon Valley billionaire, Jason Volta, to form an agreement that she can bring to a G12 meeting. English and Bough travel to the south of France and begin their investigations. Both of them receive a clue that the cyber attack came from a yacht, the Dot Calm. Upon infiltrating the yacht, English marks it as a potential target with a concealed transmitter. However, as they are escaping, they meet a Russian woman, Ophelia, who tries to stop them. The next day, English and Bough decide to pursue Ophelia as she leaves the Dot Calm, but instead she approaches them and requests to meet them later on. In London, the Prime Minister meets with Volta where the latter hacks the city's traffic management system and resolves one of the cyber attacks. While English is meeting with Ophelia, Bough discovers that she could be a spy. English is unconvinced and returns to his room for the night. Ophelia is revealed to be a Russian spy and is quickly ordered by her superior to eliminate English. Fortunately, she fails to execute English after he accidentally consumes a pill that causes him to be hyperactive. The next morning, as the side effects of the pill still linger, Bough informs English that the yacht belongs to Volta. English and Bough then rush back to MI7 and report it to Pegasus. However, Pegasus is unconvinced and asks for a concrete evidence. Thus, English and Bough decide to infiltrate Volta's British mansion residence. Meanwhile, after further series of cyber attacks, the Prime Minister and Volta solidify an agreement to be revealed during the G12 meeting. In preparation for the infiltration, English is asked to complete a virtual reality simulation in which he explores the billionaire's mansion. English completes the simulation, however fails to activate the necessary equipment, resulting in him unwittingly assaulting civilians. English proceeds on the infiltration mission, where he meets Ophelia within the mansion. After recording evidence about Volta's true objectives with Ophelia's phone, English is captured when Ophelia betrays him. English manages to escape but accidentally takes the wrong phone and fails to convince Pegasus and the Prime Minister regarding Volta's schemes. The Prime Minister fires English and decides to proceed with the G12 meeting in Scotland. English and Bough decide to move forward and stop Volta without MI7 support. They enlist the assistance of Bough's wife Lydia, the captain of a Navy submarine. In Scotland, Volta reveals to Ophelia that he has known her true identity since the beginning. Fortunately, English manages to interfere before Volta is able to kill her, but he also fails to capture Volta as Ophelia escapes. Volta then joins the Prime Minister and the other G12 nations' leaders for the meeting. English tries to stop Volta again but fails. The tech billionaire then reveals his true plan of extorting the G12 nations' leaders for control over their countries' data. After failing the second time, English decides to call Pegasus for help as he forgets about the warning that Bough's wife gave him about using a phone near the submarine. English's call inadvertently causes the submarine to launch a missile that destroys the Dot Calm, which was previously marked by English, effectively ruining Volta's scheme. Volta tries to escape but English finally manages to incapacitate him. Afterwards, upon completing the mission, English returns to his teaching job. There, he introduces his students with the gadgets that he used during the mission, but the headmaster accidentally uses one of them. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 06. “Ace Ventura - Pet Detective” | 4 February 1994 |
| STARRING: |
| •Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura •Courteney Cox as Melissa Robinson •Sean Young as Lt. Lois Einhorn / Ray Finkle •Tone Loc as Emilio •Dan Marino as Himself •John Capodice as Sgt. Aguado •Noble Willingham as Riddle •Troy Evans as Roger Podacter •Raynor Scheine as Woodstock •Udo Kier as Ronald Camp •Frank Adonis as Vinnie •Tiny Ron as Roc •David Margulies as Doctor •Bill Zuckert as Mr. Finkle •Judy Clayton as Martha Mertz •Alice Drummond as Mrs. Finkle •Rebecca Ferratti as Sexy Woman •Mark Margolis as Mr. Shickadance, Ace's landlord •Randall "Tex" Cobb as Gruff Man •Cannibal Corpse as themselves |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| Ace Ventura is an eccentric, very unorthodox Miami-based private detective who specializes in retrieving tame or captive animals. He struggles to pay his rent, and is often mocked by the Miami Police Department, led by Lieutenant Lois Einhorn, who finds Ventura insufferable. Two weeks before the Miami Dolphins are to play in the Super Bowl, their mascot, a bottlenose dolphin named Snowflake, is kidnapped. Melissa Robinson, the Dolphins’ chief publicist, hires Ventura to find Snowflake. Searching Snowflake’s tank for clues, Ventura finds a rare triangle-cut orange amber stone, which he recognizes as a part of a 1984 AFC Championship ring. Ace suspects billionaire Ronald Camp may have stolen Snowflake, as he is known for collecting exotic animals through less-than-reputable means and sources. Ventura and Melissa sneak into Camp’s party, where Ventura mistakes a shark for Snowflake and is nearly eaten. Camp apologizes and shakes Ventura’s hand, revealing on one of his own fingers an amber stone identical to the one Ventura found. Ruling out Camp, Ventura concludes that a member of the 1984 Miami Dolphins line-up may have kidnapped Snowflake, and attempts to identify the culprit by their rings. However, he discovers all of the team members’ rings are intact. Roger Podacter, the team’s head of operations, mysteriously dies after falling from his apartment balcony. Einhorn declares it a suicide, but Ventura proves that it was murder. He comes across an old photograph of the football team, discovering an unfamiliar player named Ray Finkle, who was only added in during midseason. Finkle missed the field goal kick at the end of Super Bowl XVII, which cost the Dolphins the championship, ruining his career. Visiting Finkle’s parents, Ventura learns that Finkle fully blames Dan Marino for the end of his career due to Marino allegedly placing the ball incorrectly before the kick, and was subsequently committed to a mental hospital for homicidal tendencies. Marino is kidnapped himself shortly thereafter. Ventura visits Einhorn, pitching his theory that Finkle kidnapped both Marino and Snowflake in an act of revenge, since the dolphin has been given Finkle's old team number and a goal trick to boot. He also theorises that Finkle murdered Podacter. Einhorn compliments Ventura and kisses him. Ventura and Melissa go to the mental hospital, the former posing as a potential patient, where he uncovers a newspaper article in Finkle’s possessions about a missing hiker named Lois Einhorn. Ventura, with a clue from his dog, realizes that Einhorn is in fact Finkle: Finkle used the fact that the actual Einhorn was missing and presumed dead (with no body found), and took on her identity, had surgery to change his gender, and began a career with the Miami Police Department to eventually get revenge on Marino and the Dolphins. On Super Bowl Sunday, Ventura follows Einhorn to an abandoned yacht storage facility where she has Marino and Snowflake held hostage. Einhorn calls the police, framing Ventura for the kidnappings. Melissa and Ventura’s friend, police officer Emilio, stage a hostage situation to get the police to listen to Ventura. Ventura strips Einhorn of her clothes to expose her failure to completely change her sex, but fails until Marino points out a bulge in the back of his underwear, actually Finkle’s unchanged privates hidden out of view. This confirms that Finkle murdered Podacter after the latter had discovered Finkle’s secret. Einhorn is arrested by the police after attacking Ventura, and Finkle’s ring is identified to have a missing stone. Marino and Snowflake are welcomed back during half-time at the Super Bowl in a match between the Dolphins and the Philadelphia Eagles. Ventura tries to retrieve a valuable albino pigeon, but it is scared off by the Eagles’ mascot Swoop, causing Ventura to attack him in retaliation. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 07. “Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls” | 10 November 1995 |
| STARRING: |
| •Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura •Ian McNeice as Fulton Greenwall •Simon Callow as Vincent Cadby •Maynard Eziashi as Ouda •Bob Gunton as Burton Quinn •Damon Standifer as the Wachati Chief •Sophie Okonedo as the Wachati Princess •Arsenio 'Sonny' Trinidad as Ashram Monk •Danny D. Daniels as Wachootoo Shaman •Andrew Steel as Mick Katie •Bruce Spence as Gahjii •Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Hitu •Tommy Davidson as the Tiny Warrior/Wachootoo Prince •Michael Reid McKay as the Skinny Husband (the Monopoly Guy) •Frank Welker as Animals' vocal effects (uncredited) |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| In the Himalayas, after a failed rescue mission results in a raccoon falling to its death (a parody of Cliffhanger), Ace Ventura has an emotional breakdown and joins a Tibetan monastery. Once he has recovered, he is approached by Fulton Greenwall, a British correspondent working for a provincial consulate in the fictional African country of Nibia. Because Ace's presence is troublesome to the monastery, the Grand Abbot gives Ace excuses to justify his departure, and sends him off with Greenwall. Greenwall takes Ventura to Africa, warning him about the hostility of gorillas as it is mating season. Greenwall wants Ventura to find the Great Whitebat 'Shikaka', a sacred animal of the Wachati tribe, which disappeared shortly after being offered as dowry of the Wachati Princess, who is set to wed the Wachootoo Prince to form armistice and peace between the two people. After arriving in Nibia and meeting with consul Vincent Cadby, Ace begins his investigation, but must overcome his intense fear of bats in order to succeed. Accompanied by his capuchin monkey, Spike, Ace begins his search for the missing bat. He eventually befriends the tribe's princess, who tries to seduce Ace. However, Ace admits his oath to celibacy, but quietly masturbates in a hut afterwards. Ace also befriends the tribal prince, Ouda, who assists Ace. Ace's investigation involves eliminating obvious suspects - animal traders, poachers, and a Safari park owner among others - and enduring the growing escalations of threat between the Wachati and the Wachootoo. After being attacked with drugged blow-darts, Ace suspects the medicine-man of the Wachootoo of taking the bat, as he strongly disapproves of the wedding. He travels to the Wachootoo tribal village, with Ouda translating the chief's words rather poorly. The Wachootoo mistake Ace as the "White Devil", and have him go through many dangerous and humiliating challenges to gain their trust. He eventually does when his pain makes the chief, entire tribe, and even Ouda laugh for the first time in years. Despite this, if the bat is not returned in time, the Wachootoo will declare war on the Wachati tribe. As a last joke, Ace is shot in the butt by a non-drugged blow-dart by the Chief. As he and Ouda walk back to the village, Ace realizes the dart he was shot with earlier is not the same as the one he was just shot with - meaning the Wachootoo didn't take Shikaka. Confused by the case, Ace consults the Grand Abbot via astral projection. Advised by the Abbot, Ace deduces that Cadby has taken the bat and hired Ace to divert suspicion from himself, having planned to let the tribes destroy each other so that he can then take possession of the numerous bat caves containing guano to sell as fertilizer worth billions. When Ace confronts Cadby, he learns he was hired as Cadby's alibi, and is arrested by tribal security chief Hitu. Ace calls an elephant to escape, and summons herds of jungle animals to destroy Cadby's house. Cadby tries to shoot Ace, but is stopped by Greenwall who punches him in the face. Cadby escapes with the bat in a car, but Ace follows him in a monster truck. Ace destroys Cadby's car, leaving the bat cage lodged in a tree. Ace, despite his chronic fear of bats, bravely yet dramatically returns the bat just as the tribes are about to meet on the battlefield. Cadby, watching nearby, is discovered by Ouda. Ouda calls him the "White Devil" to give Ace more time, and Cadby is pursued by both tribes. After escaping, he encounters a female gorilla that mistakes him for a mate and is subsequently raped. The Princess is married to the Prince, who is revealed to be the man who humiliated Ace during one of the Wachootoo tribal challenges earlier. Moments later, it is discovered that the young bride is no longer a virgin, apparently on Ace's account. Despite this, peace between the once-separate tribes is achieved, when everyone joins together and furiously chases after Ace. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 08. “The Dukes of Hazzard” | 5 August 2005 |
| STARRING: |
| •Johnny Knoxville as Luke Duke •Seann William Scott as Bo Duke •Jessica Simpson as Daisy Duke •Burt Reynolds as Boss Hogg •Willie Nelson as Uncle Jesse Duke •David Koechner as Cooter Davenport •M. C. Gainey as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane •Michael Weston as Deputy Enos Strate •Lynda Carter as Pauline •James Roday as Billy Prickett •Kevin Heffernan as Derek "Sheev" Sheevington •Nikki Griffin as Katie-Lynn Johnson •Jacqui Maxwell as Annette •Alice Greczyn as Laurie Pullman •Junior Brown as The Balladeer (narrator) •Joe Don Baker as Governor Jim Applewhite •Barry Corbin as Bill Pullman •Andrew Prine as Angry Man |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| Cousins Bo, Luke, and Daisy Duke run a moonshine business for their Uncle Jesse in Hazzard County, Georgia. The cousins' primary mode of transportation is an orange 1969 Dodge Charger that the boys affectionately refer to as the "General Lee". Along the way, the family is tormented by corrupt Hazzard County Commissioner Jefferson Davis Hogg, widely known as "Boss Hogg", and his willing but dimwitted henchman, Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane . After Rosco has the General Lee impounded after Bo and Luke’s attempt to run away from a daughter of one their many moonshine customers, Billy Prickett, a famous stock-car driver, enters Hazzard to participate in the rally. Meanwhile, Rosco plants a fake moonshine still ("'cause he's too dumb to find the real one") in Uncle Jesse's barn and seizes the Duke property in the interest of eminent domain for Boss Hogg, forcing the family to temporarily reside with neighbor and Uncle Jesse's love-interest, Pauline. Pauline informs the Dukes that Rosco seized another farm on charges, so Bo and Luke investigate a local construction site and find geologic core samples with the help of bait-shop owner Sheev. Meanwhile, Coltrane makes arrangements to seize the General Lee as "evidence" from the local auto body shop run by the Dukes' friend Cooter Davenport, who instead turns the car into a hot rod and applies a new paint job and horn, in return for finally getting payment for all the work he has done ("...'cause that's how this works...") for the boys in the past. After retrieving the General Lee before Rosco can, the Dukes go to Atlanta to visit a local university geology lab, meeting with Katie-Lynn Johnson, a Hazzard county girl and the Dukes' love interest, and her Australian roommate Annette. At the lab, they discover Boss Hogg's intentions of turning the county into a strip coal mine. They are later arrested by the Atlanta Police Department after running from campus police. Back in Hazzard, Daisy learns, with the help of Sheriff's Deputy Enos Strate, that Billy Prickett has been hired by Boss Hogg to participate in the rally as a ringer. Boss Hogg then heads to Atlanta, where he informs the Duke boys, in lock-up, that they are too late to stop him and reveals that the vote on Hogg's proposition is at the same time as the rally, explaining Billy Prickett's involvement. During a transfer from detainment, Daisy helps the boys escape from the patrol car, and they speed home to try to inform the townsfolk, escaping Atlanta Police, and the Georgia State Patrol after Bo outmaneuvers the city cops. Upon returning home, the Dukes discover that Boss Hogg and Rosco had taken Uncle Jesse and Pauline hostage, an obvious trap for the boys, and that Billy is in on the scheme because he is ashamed of the town's low status. The two race to the farmhouse to cause a distraction to the waiting Hazzard County sheriff's deputies and Georgia state troopers, while Daisy and Cooter rescue Jesse and Pauline. Meanwhile, the college girls head to the rally with Sheev to inform the townsfolk about the vote on the strip-mining ordinance. Because of Sheev's armadillo hat and lack of pants, no one listens, so Bo leaves for the rally while Luke and Jesse team up to foil the county and state police who are chasing Bo, interfering with the race. Upon crossing the finish line first, before Billy, the two continue racing back and forth all the way into town, leading the townsfolk to the courthouse just in time to vote against Boss Hogg's proposed ordinance. At the courthouse, Daisy takes advantage of the governor of Georgia's presence and TV cameras to convince him to pardoning the boys, so Uncle Jesse takes the opportunity to knock out Boss Hogg and gets a pardon for assaulting a county commissioner at the same time. The final scene shows a cook-out at the Dukes' house where Pauline convinces Uncle Jesse, who could not be found because he was "using the meat smoker", to get up and play the television series' main theme. Bo and Luke are romantically involved with the girls in the General Lee when they are caught by Luke's other love-interest Laurie Pullman from the introduction of the film, who proceeds to chase them with a shotgun as they drive away. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 09. “Madagascar” | May 27, 2005 |
| STARRING: |
| •Ben Stiller as Alex, a lion. Tom McGrath explained that "Ben Stiller was the first actor we asked to perform, and we knew we wanted his character, Alex, to be a big performing lion with a vulnerable side." •Chris Rock as Marty, a zebra. McGrath explained the character: "Marty is a guy who thinks there might be more to life than what's in the zoo. We wanted his character to be energetic, so we listened to Chris Rock." •David Schwimmer as Melman, a hypochondriac giraffe who is afraid of germs. When they were looking for a voice actor for Melman, they listened to Schwimmer's voice on Friends and, according to McGrath, thought that it "sounded really neat." •Jada Pinkett Smith as Gloria, a strong, confident, but sweet hippopotamus. McGrath said that they found all these traits in Pinkett Smith's voice, when they listened to her. •Sacha Baron Cohen as King Julien XIII, a ring-tailed lemur and the king of the lemurs. King Julien was initially only meant to be a "two-line" character until auditioning Baron Cohen improvised eight minutes of dialogue in an Indian accent. •Cedric the Entertainer as Maurice, an aye-aye and King Julien's royal advisor. •Andy Richter as Mort, a Goodman's mouse lemur. •Tom McGrath as Skipper, the leader of penguins. McGrath, who was also the film's co-director and co-writer, initially only lent his voice to the temporary tracks. Growing up with films starring tough actors like John Wayne, Charlton Heston, and Robert Stack, McGrath wanted Stack for the voice of Skipper.[6] Stack was approached about voicing the character, but died two weeks before production on the animation began. After that, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg decided to keep the temporary voice, with McGrath explaining: "People were used to me doing that voice. We knew it worked when we screened it." Many character's traits were based on Stack's work.[8] McGrath especially emphasized The Untouchables, a 1959 television crime drama series starring Stack. •Chris Miller as Kowalski, a penguin and Skipper's right hand. Miller also voices Timo, a tenrec who is only seen attending Julien's meeting. •Jeffrey Katzenberg as Rico, a smart and silent penguin who is only expressed through grunts and squeals. Mireille Soria, the film's producer, commented on Katzenberg's uncredited role: "The irony for us is that he's the one who doesn't talk. There's something very Dadaistic about that, isn't there?" •Katzenberg also voices Abner, a blue-eyed lemur who is only seen at the paradise scene. •Christopher Knights as Private, an eager, lowly penguin. Knights was also an assistant editor on the film. •Conrad Vernon as Mason, a chimpanzee (Phil, the other chimpanzee, is unvoiced). •Vernon also voices Ted, a Golden Bamboo lemur. He is seen in the film with the other lemurs. His only speaking scene is at the meeting scene in which he tells King Julien that he likes Alex and his friends. •Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath as the fossa •Darnell also voices Hector and Horst, two lemurs. •David P. Smith as Pancho, a crowned lemur. •Smith also voices Becca, a black lemur. •Elisa Gabrielli as Nana, an elderly New Yorker •Bob Saget as an unspecified off-screen zoo animal •David Cowgill as a police horse •Stephen Apostolina as a police officer |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| At the Central Park Zoo, Marty the zebra is celebrating his tenth birthday, but has grown bored with his daily routine and longs to experience the wild. Marty's best friend is Alex the lion, who enjoys showing off for the public and his celebrity status as "the King of New York City". Alex attempts to cheer Marty up, but Marty, still unsatisfied, gets some tips from the zoo's penguins—Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private—who are trying to escape the zoo, and follows them out. Alex, Melman the giraffe, and Gloria the hippopotamus pursue Marty in an attempt to convince him to return. The four, along with the penguins and two chimpanzees named Mason and Phil, find themselves at Grand Central Terminal, where they are quickly sedated via tranquillizer when Alex's attempt to communicate with humans is mistaken for aggression. The zoo, under pressure from anti-captivity activists, is forced to ship the escaped animals by sea to a Kenyan wildlife preserve. During their travels, the penguins escape from their enclosure and take over the ship, intent on taking it to Antarctica. Their antics on the bridge cause the crates containing Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria to fall overboard and wash ashore on Madagascar, because the strap securing the crates broke off due to Alex and Marty fighting. The animals are soon able to regroup, initially believing themselves to be at the San Diego Zoo. Upon exploring, however, they come across a pack of lemurs, led by King Julien XIII the ring-tailed lemur, and learn their true location. Alex blames Marty for their predicament and attempts to signal for help to get back to civilization. Marty, on the other hand, finds the wild to be exactly what he was looking for, with Gloria and Melman soon joining him in enjoying the island after getting tired of Alex's arrogance. Alex, eventually having a change of heart, comes around, but, deprived from the raw steaks he was provided with at the zoo, his prey drive begins to show as hunger kicks in. The group is accepted by the lemurs, though King Julien's adviser, Maurice the aye-aye, cautions them about Alex's predatory nature. King Julien ignores Maurice's concerns and persuades the group to help the lemurs fend off the fossa, who hunt the lemurs as prey. While Alex initially scares the fossa away and is worshiped by the lemurs, later, compelled by hunger, he attacks Marty. Realizing that Alex is now a threat, King Julien banishes him to the far side of the island where the fossa live. Seeing what has happened to Alex, and how difficult it is to survive with so many predators around the island, Marty begins to regret his decision to leave the zoo. The penguins, having been to Antarctica and found that it wasn't what they had in mind, land the ship at Madagascar. Seeing this as a chance to return Alex to New York, Marty rushes after his friend against the wishes of Melman and Gloria. Marty attempts to convince the now grizzled, starving Alex to return, but Alex refuses out of fear of attacking Marty again. The penguins, Gloria, and Melman go to find Marty, but are trapped by the fossa. At the last minute, Alex overcomes his predatory instincts and scares the fossa away from the lemur territory forever. The lemurs regain their respect for Alex, and the penguins help him satisfy his hunger through sushi. As the lemurs throw a farewell celebration for the foursome, the penguins decide not to break the news that the ship has run out of fuel. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 10. “Madagascar - Escape 2 Africa” | 18 December 2008 |
| STARRING: |
| •Ben Stiller as Alex the lion •Quinn Dempsey Stiller, Ben Stiller's son, as baby Alex •Declan Swift also as baby Alex •Chris Rock as Marty the zebra, as well as the other zebras in the herd •Thomas Stanley as baby Marty •David Schwimmer as Melman the giraffe •Zachary Gordon as baby Melman •Jada Pinkett Smith as Gloria the hippopotamus •Willow Smith as baby Gloria •Sacha Baron Cohen as King Julien XIII the ring-tailed lemur •Cedric the Entertainer as Maurice the aye-aye •Andy Richter as Mort the Goodman's mouse lemur •Bernie Mac as Zuba, Alex's father and the alpha lion •Sherri Shepherd as Florrie, Alex's mother and Zuba's mate •Alec Baldwin as Makunga the lion •Elisa Gabrielli as Nana •will.i.am as Moto Moto the hippopotamus •Tom McGrath as Skipper the penguin •Chris Miller as Kowalski the penguin •Christopher Knights as Private the penguin •John DiMaggio as Rico the penguin •Conrad Vernon as Mason the chimpanzee (Phil, the other main chimpanzee, is unvoiced) •Fred Tatasciore as Teetsi the lion and as one of the poachers who captures Alakay •Eric Darnell as Joe the giraffe and as one of the poachers who captures Alakay •Al Roker as a newscaster •Stephen Kearin as Stephen the giraffe, as a rhinoceros, and as one of the New Yorkers •Danny Jacobs as one of the New Yorkers •Dan O'Connor as an buffalo and as one of the New Yorkers •Stacy Ferguson as a female hippopotamus •Harland Williams as a giraffe •Bridget Hoffman as one of the New Yorkers •David P. Smith as Bobby the dik-dik •Conner Rayburn as a young giraffe •John Eric Bentley provided additional voices |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| In Africa, Zuba the lion tries to teach his son Alakay how to fight, but the cub is more interested in dancing. Rival male Makunga challenges Zuba for the title of alpha lion, and during their fight Alakay is captured by poachers. The crate containing Alakay falls into the ocean and drifts to New York City, where he is renamed Alex and grows up at the Central Park Zoo with Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe, and Gloria the hippopotamus. Years later, following their adventure in Madagascar, the zoo animals - Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria, the penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private, and chimpanzees Mason and Phil - prepare to return to New York aboard a battered airplane piloted by the penguins, accompanied by the lemurs King Julien XIII the ring-tailed lemur, Maurice the aye-aye, and Mort the mouse lemur. The plane runs out of fuel and crash lands in continental Africa. The animals find themselves at a watering hole on a nature reserve, and are excited to meet others of their species. Alex is reunited with his parents and impresses them with tales of his status as "the King of New York". Marty fits in with a herd of other zebras who look and sound just like him. Melman, a hypochondriac, is distressed that the reserve has no doctors, so the other giraffes appoint him their witch doctor. Seeking romance, Gloria attracts the attention of the smooth-talking male hippopotamus, Moto Moto. Meanwhile, the penguins set about repairing the plane, assisted by numerous chimpanzees recruited by Mason and Phil. They steal vehicles from several groups of New Yorkers who are on safari and strip them for parts. Nana, a tough old woman who beat up Alex during the events of Madagascar, takes charge of the stranded tourists and helps them survive in the wilderness. The zoo animals' excitement soon turns to disappointment. In a scheme to oust Zuba as alpha lion, Makunga insists that Alex complete a rite of passage which Alex mistakes for a talent contest. It is actually a fighting contest, and Makunga tricks him into choosing the strongest lion as his opponent, resulting in Alex's humiliating defeat. Faced with the duty of banishing his son, Zuba relinquishes his title as alpha and Makunga takes over. Meanwhile, Marty is dejected by the realization that the other zebras can do everything he can, believing himself no longer unique. Melman comes to believe that he is deathly ill, and Gloria's interest in Moto Moto saddens him since he has secretly loved her for a long time. The four friends argue heatedly with one another. Gloria has a date with Moto Moto, but loses interest when she realizes he is only attracted to her because of her size. After a pep talk from King Julien, Melman finally reveals his feelings for Gloria. The next day, the animals panic when the watering hole dries up. Determined to redeem himself, Alex mends his friendship with Marty and they leave the reserve to investigate upriver. King Julien suggests that offering a sacrifice to the nearby volcano will restore the water. Melman, forlorn and believing he is dying, volunteers to be sacrificed. Gloria stops him from jumping into the volcano, and realizes that he is the perfect guy for her. Alex and Marty discover that the stranded New Yorkers have built a camp and dammed up the river, and Alex is captured by them. Zuba rushes to his aid, but Alex saves them both by dancing for the tourists, who remember him fondly from the zoo. Marty, Melman, Gloria, the penguins, and the chimpanzees arrive in the repaired airplane and help Alex destroy the dam, restoring the water. Makunga angrily makes a stand for control, but Alex tricks him into being subdued by Nana. Zuba offers Alex the title of alpha lion, but he declines, and father and son become co-leaders. Skipper marries a bobblehead doll from the plane, and he, the other penguins, and the chimpanzees head off to honeymoon in Monte Carlo. Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria, and the lemurs happily decide to stay on the reserve for a while. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 11. “Madagascar 3 - Europe's Most Wanted” | 13 September 2012 |
| STARRING: |
| •Ben Stiller as Alex, a lion. •Chris Rock as Marty, a zebra and Alex's best friend. •David Schwimmer as Melman, a giraffe, another of Alex's friends and Gloria's love interest. •Jada Pinkett Smith as Gloria, a hippopotamus, another of Alex's friends and Melman's love interest. •Sacha Baron Cohen as King Julien XIII, a ring-tailed lemur. •Cedric the Entertainer as Maurice, an aye-aye. •Andy Richter as Mort, a Goodman's mouse lemur. •Tom McGrath as Skipper, a penguin and First Policeman. •Frances McDormand as Captain Chantel DuBois, the leader of the Animal Control. •Jessica Chastain as Gia, an Italian jaguar and Alex's love interest. •Bryan Cranston as Vitaly, a Russian Siberian tiger. •Martin Short as Stefano, an Italian sea lion. •Chris Miller as Kowalski, a penguin and Skipper's right-hand man. •Christopher Knights as Private, a penguin •John DiMaggio as Rico, a penguin •Frank Welker as Sonya, a bear •Paz Vega as the Andalusian Triplets (Esmeralda, Esperanza and Ernestina) •Conrad Vernon as Mason, a chimpanzee and Second Policeman •Vinnie Jones as Freddie, a dog •Steve Jones as Jonesy, a dog •Nick Fletcher as Frankie, a dog •Jules de Jongh as Shakey, a dog •Eric Darnell as Comandante, Zoo Official and Zoo Announcer •Daniel O'Connor as Casino Security and Mayor of New York City •Danny Jacobs as Croupier and Circus Master |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| Many days after bidding the penguins goodbye, Alex the lion suggests to his friends, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippopotamus and the lemurs, King Julien XIII the ring-tailed lemur, Maurice the aye-aye and Mort the mouse lemur that they should go to Monte Carlo to get the penguins and chimpanzees, Mason and Phil and fly back to New York City, which they agree to do. In Monte Carlo, the penguins and chimpanzees have been saving up their daily winnings from the casino to fly back to Africa and bring their friends home. Alex's interference to kidnap them leads to animal control, led by a vicious big-game hunter named Chantel DuBois, pursuing them around the city, with Alex and the gang barely escaping. With determination, DuBois vows to capture Alex and add his head to her collection of animals' heads she's captured. In the skies of France, the plane crashes as the authorities close in. They come across a circus train consisting of Stefano the sea lion, Gia the jaguar, and Vitaly the tiger, and manage to gain entry, claiming that they are circus animals themselves. The team soon learn from Stefano that they are performing in Rome and London, where they plan to impress a promoter to get them on their first American tour. Before the zoo animals' claim is discredited, the penguins suddenly appear with a deal to purchase the circus themselves; however, the circus animals' show in Rome proves to be a failure. In route to London, Stefano soon reveals to Alex that Vitaly was the biggest star of them all, but quit due to an accident in one of his stunts; therefore, the friends lost faith in the circus. At a stop in the Alps, Alex convinces the circus to continue pursuing the circus. Marty finds a new passion in being shot out of a cannon along with Stefano, while Melman and Gloria decide to dance on a tightrope. Gia persuades Alex to teach her Trapeze Americano. In the process, they grow closer. Meanwhile, DuBois is arrested in Rome while chasing the animals, but escapes and discovers that Alex was the missing lion from the zoo in New York. Once free, DuBois personally reassembles her injured men and they head toward the Alps, forcing the animals to proceed to London despite incomplete rehearsals. Alex finds Vitaly preparing to leave and convinces him to stay by reminding him of how he enjoys performing the impossible. He suggests that he uses hair conditioner as a safer lubricant to perform his flaming ring jump as well as fix his damaged fur. As a result, Vitaly's stunt is performed perfectly and the show is a spectacular success. After the impressed promoter arranges for an American tour, DuBois shows up with a paper showing that Alex was missing. Though the penguins are able to foil Dubois' plan, Alex is forced to confess that the four of them are just zoo animals trying to get home, disappointing the others who feel used and lied to. The zoo animals and circus go their separate ways but arrive in New York City at the same time. Realizing how much their adventures have changed them, the zoo animals find that their true home was with the circus. Before they can go back, however, DuBois tranquilizes and captures them, before being discovered by the zoo staff, who believe she is responsible for returning the missing animals. King Julien and the penguins manage to get to the circus and convince the circus animals to rescue their friends. Back at the zoo, Alex awakens to find that he along with his friends are trapped in larger fence enclosures. DuBois, who was honored by the zoo guards, secretly loads a poison-filled dart into a gun that she hides inside a foam finger in preparation for publicly executing Alex. The circus animals arrive led by Skipper and are able to defeat DuBois and her henchmen. Alex and his friends eventually decide to permanently join the circus to pursue their adventures, while DuBois and her henchmen are sent off in crates bound for Madagascar (just like the zoo animals themselves were in the first film) thanks to the penguins. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 12. “Penguins of Madagascar” | 1 January 2015 |
| STARRING: |
| •Tom McGrath as Skipper, the leader of the penguins. •Chris Miller as Kowalski, the brains of the penguins. •Christopher Knights as Private, the rookie of the penguins. •Conrad Vernon as Rico, the loose cannon of the penguins. •Benedict Cumberbatch as Classified, a British gray wolf and team leader of the North Wind. •Ken Jeong as Short Fuse, a Belgian explosive and demolitions expert harp seal and a member of the North Wind. •Annet Mahendru as Eva, a Russian snowy owl and the North Wind's intelligence analyst. •Peter Stormare as Corporal, a Norwegian polar bear and a member of the North Wind who serves as the muscle. •John Malkovich as Dave, a villainous and disgruntled octopus who has the human disguise of Dr. Octavius Brine. •Werner Herzog as a documentary filmmaker. •Danny Jacobs as King Julien XIII, a ring-tailed lemur. •Andy Richter as Mort, a Goodman's mouse lemur. |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| In Antarctica, three young penguin brothers - Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico - defy the laws of nature to save an egg the other penguins believe to be doomed. After saving it from a pack of leopard seals and accidentally setting themselves adrift on an iceberg, the egg hatches into their new member, Private. Ten years later (after the events of the previous film), the penguins decide to leave the circus to celebrate Private's birthday by breaking into the United States Gold Depository at Fort Knox in order to treat him to a discontinued snack called "Cheezy Dibbles" in the vending machine of their break room. Despite this, Private begins to feel out of place with the team, as he is constantly described as being the "secretary/mascot". Suddenly, they are abducted by the machine and sent to Venice, Italy by Dr. Octavius Brine, a renowned geneticist who removes his human disguise and reveals he is actually an octopus named Dave, who has grown resentful of penguins after their cuteness had him shunned from every zoo and aquarium across the globe. Rico swallows Dave's collection of snowglobes along with a canister of a green substance called the Medusa Serum before the four escape and are chased through the canals and streets of Venice by Dave's henchmen. When cornered, they are rescued by a group of animals from an Arctic elite undercover interspecies task force agency called "The North Wind" consisting of their leader, a gray wolf whose name is classified (in which Skipper mistakenly calls him "Classified" throughout the film), a harp seal demolitionist named Short Fuse, a polar bear named Corporal, and an intelligent snowy owl named Eva, who Kowalski instantly falls in love with. Their mission is to help animals who can't help themselves and have been fighting Dave to protect the penguin population. At their hideout, their communication systems are hacked by Dave, who reveals that he has an enormous supply of the Medusa Serum and that he intends to capture the penguins out of every zoo he was kicked out of. Viewing the penguins as a hindrance to their mission, Classified tranquilizes the group and sends the group to their most remote base (which happens to be on Madagascar) but the penguins awaken mid-flight and crash land in the Sahara Desert before making their way to Shanghai, China, which they mistake for Dublin, Ireland. Discovering Dave's next target in Shanghai using Dave's snowglobe collection, the penguins ship themselves to the same current location and make their way to the zoo. Disguising himself as a mermaid-tailed penguin (a tourist attraction) to distract Dave from his real target, Private himself is captured along with the Shanghai penguins after the North Wind arrives to put a stop to Dave's plan. The penguins take the North Wind's high-tech plane to give chase, but inadvertently self-destruct the machine. They manage to track Private to an island base, using a tracking device planted on him when Classified darted them before planting them in a flight to Madagascar. Meanwhile, on the island, Dave demonstrates his way to use the medusa serum (most likely gotten from the islands plants) to genetically mutate the penguins into hideous monsters as an effort to make humans disgusted by them as revenge. Skipper and Classified argue on the best means to rescue the captives and stop Dave, finally settling on Classified's plan of a frontal assault and Skipper agrees to act as a diversion. The North Wind manages to corner Dave in his lair only to be captured by Dave's henchmen as well as the other penguins. Dave demonstrates his mutation ray at full power on Private, apparently disintegrating him with the beam, but unbeknownst to them he escapes at the last minute by using a paper clip he swallowed earlier. Private rescues the North Wind members, who want to regroupdue to lack of equipment, but Private, not wanting to leave anyone behind goes to stop Dave. As Dave's submarine docks at New York with the promise of returning the penguins he found to the zoo, he turns the ray on the rest of the penguins, mutating them all into hideous monsters. The city erupts into chaos as the brainwashed, mutated penguins run amok on the terrified human crowd. Getting Skipper, Kowalski and Rico back to their senses, Private decides to connect himself into the ray to return them to normal. After fending off Dave and his henchman, they manage to turn all the penguins back to normal in one huge blast. Private is left partially mutated from the machine while the rest of the penguins are restored to normal. Despite his strange new look, the Penguins show their gratitude and new-found respect for Private. Dave (who was caught in the blast) has been turned into a pipsqueak version of himself and is trapped in a snow globe where he is admired by a little girl. Finally seeing one another as equals, Classified promises to grant the Penguins anything they want. In addition to Kowalski getting a kiss from Eva, the Penguins are given their own jet packs and they then fly off above the clouds looking for their new adventures. In a mid-credits scene, the Penguins return to the circus and plug Mort into the ray and use him to revert Private back to normal. Mort does not appear to show any side effects from the ray until he manages to swallow King Julien whole. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 13. “The Green Hornet” | 14 January 2011 |
| STARRING: |
| •Seth Rogen as Britt Reid / Green Hornet, a newspaper publisher who becomes a masked crimefighter and works as the CEO of his father James's newspaper, The Daily Sentinel, after his death. •Jay Chou as Kato, James' personal mechanic and martial arts expert who becomes Britt's assistant and the Green Hornet's valet and personal bodyguard. •Christoph Waltz as Benjamin Chudnofsky, a mobster who reinvents himself as the super villain "Bloodnofsky" after going through a midlife crisis. •Cameron Diaz as Lenore "Casey" Case, Reid's secretary for The Daily Sentinel. •David Harbour as Frank Scanlon, the district attorney. •Tom Wilkinson as James Reid, Britt's stern, wealthy father and a successful newspaper publisher who founded the L.A. newspaper "Daily Sentinel". •Edward James Olmos as Mike Axford, managing editor of The Daily Sentinel. •Jamie Harris as Popeye. •Chad Coleman as Chili. •Edward Furlong as Tupper, a meth producer. •Analeigh Tipton as Ana Lee. •Jerry Trimble as Chudnofsky's man. •James Franco as Danny "Crystal" Clear (uncredited), a young meth dealer and rival of Chudnofsky. |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| Britt Reid is the playboy son of James Reid, publisher of the Los Angeles Daily Sentinel. They have an estranged relationship until James is found dead from an allergic reaction to a bee sting. After the funeral, Britt fires the staff aside from his maid, but later re-hires Kato, James's mechanic and a skilled martial artist. Britt and Kato get drunk together and, upon agreeing that they both hated James, visit the graveyard to cut the head off James's memorial statue. After they succeed, they rescue a nearby couple being mugged. When police mistake Britt and Kato themselves for criminals, Kato evades them in a car chase as he and Britt return to the mansion. Britt convinces Kato they should become crime-fighters posing as criminals. Kato develops a car outfitted with several gadgets and weapons, which they call the Black Beauty. Britt plans to capture Benjamin Chudnofsky, a Russian mobster uniting the crime families of Los Angeles under his command, and whom his father was trying to expose. To get Chudnofsky's attention, Britt uses the Daily Sentinel as a vehicle to publish articles about a "high-profile criminal" he calls "The Green Hornet." Britt hires Lenore Case as his assistant and researcher, and uses her unwitting advice to raise the Green Hornet's profile. Britt and Kato blow up several of Chudnofsky's meth labs, leaving calling cards so Chudnofsky can contact them. Throughout all this, the Daily Sentinel's managing editor, Mike Axford, fears this single-minded coverage will endanger Britt's life, and District Attorney Frank Scanlon frets over public perception that he cannot stop the Green Hornet. Britt asks Lenore out, but she rebuffs him and instead invites Kato to dinner, making Britt jealous. Kato learns from her that mobsters often offer a peace summit to rivals in order to get close enough to kill them; Britt then tells Kato that Chudnofsky has offered them such a meeting. Kato tries dissuading him, but Britt, feeling overshadowed, follows his instincts. This nearly proves fatal when Chudnofsky tries to kill them. Barely escaping to the mansion, Britt and Kato argue and fight, and Britt fires both Kato and Lenore, who he believes are in a relationship. Kato receives an email from Chudnofsky on the Hornet's calling-card email address, offering $1 million and half of Los Angeles to the "Hornet" if he kills Britt. Meanwhile, Britt discovers that Scanlon is corrupt, and that he tried to bribe James into downplaying the city's crime level to help his career. Chudnofsky, meanwhile, suffers a midlife crisis and reinvents himself as the supervillain "Bloodnofsky". Scanlon invites Britt to meet in a restaurant, where he reveals he murdered Britt's father. Chudnofsky arrives with his men to kill Britt, but Kato saves Britt and they escape. At the Daily Sentinel,Britt intends to upload a recording of Scanlon's confession onto the Web - which he belatedly discovers he did not manage to record. Chudnofsky and his men, who followed the duo there, engage them in a firefight, wounding Britt in the shoulder. Kato ultimately stabs Chudnofsky in the eyes with wood in self-defense and Britt guns him down. A SWAT team appears and fires at the Green Hornet and Kato, who use the remains of their nearly demolished Black Beauty to run Scanlon out the 10th-floor window, killing him. The Green Hornet and Kato flee to Lenore's house, and she helps them hide from the police. The next morning, Britt promotes Axford to chief editor and stages being shot in the shoulder by Kato, further establishing the Green Hornet as a threat and allowing Britt to get treated by professionals in a hospital. Later, the two weld James' stolen head back onto his memorial statue. Now with Lenore to aid them, Britt and Kato vow to continue protecting the law by breaking it. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 14. “The Lone Ranger” | 22 June 2013 |
| STARRING: |
| •Armie Hammer as John Reid/Lone Ranger, a youthful, scrupulous lawyer later deputized a Texas Ranger, who protects his identity as the "Lone Ranger", a masked vigilante who seeks the perpetrators responsible for his brother's death. •Johnny Depp as Tonto, the aged narrator of the events of his life as a Comanche who recruited John Reid to bring justice to those responsible for massacring his tribe during his childhood, and terrorizing frontier Texas settlements during the 1800s. The character wears black-and-white face paint and a deceased crow on his head. According to Depp, the inspiration for the costume was a painting entitled I Am Crow by Kirby Sattler. Joseph E. Foy portrays Tonto as a child. •William Fichtner as Butch Cavendish, a ruthless and cannibalistic outlaw, who Tonto believes is a wendigo. Travis Hammer portrays the younger Butch seen in flashbacks. •Tom Wilkinson as Latham Cole, a burly and unscrupulous railroad tycoon. Steve Corona portrays the younger Cole seen in flashbacks. •Ruth Wilson as Rebecca Reid, Dan's wife (later widow) and John's love interest/sister-in-law. •Helena Bonham Carter as Red Harrington, an ivory-legged brothel madam who assists Reid and Tonto. •James Badge Dale as Dan Reid, John's older brother who is killed by Cavendish. •Bryant Prince as Danny Reid, Rebecca and Dan's son, John's nephew. •Barry Pepper as Captain Jay Fuller, an insecure and inexperienced United States Cavalry officer. •Mason Cook as Will, a young boy living in 1930s San Francisco. •Saginaw Grant as Chief Big Bear, leader of the Comanche. •Harry Treadaway as Frank, a member of Butch's gang who enjoys women's clothing. •Lew Temple as Hollis, a Deputy Ranger. •Leon Rippy as Collins, a traitorous Deputy Ranger secretly working with Butch. •Stephen Root as Habberman, president of the Transcontinental Railroad Company. •James Frain as Barret, one of Cole's industry foremen. •Damon Herriman as Ray, a member of Butch's gang. |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| In 1933, a boy named Will who idolizes the legendary Lone Ranger encounters the elderly Comanche Tonto in a sideshow at a San Francisco fair. Tonto proceeds to recount his experiences with that Old West adventurer. In 1869, lawyer John Reid returns home to Colby, Texas, via the uncompleted Transcontinental Railroad, managed by railroad tycoon Latham Cole. Unknown to Reid, the train is also carrying Tonto and outlaw Butch Cavendish, who is being transported for his hanging after being captured by Dan Reid, John's Texas Ranger brother. Cavendish's gang rescues Butch and derails the train. Tonto is subsequently jailed. Dan deputizes John as a Texas Ranger, and with six others they go after the Cavendish gang. Cavendish's men ambush and kill their pursuers. Cavendish slays Dan with his dagger and devours his heart as revenge for his imprisonment. Tonto, who has escaped from jail, comes across the dead men and buries them. However, a white spirit horse awakens John as a "spirit walker", and Tonto explains John cannot be killed in battle. Tonto also tells him Collins, one of the Rangers, betrayed Dan and is working with Cavendish. As John is thought to be dead, he wears a mask to protect his identity from enemies. Tonto gives John a silver bullet made from the fallen Rangers' badges and tells him to use it on Cavendish, whom he believes to be a mystical beast called a wendigo. At a brothel Collins recently visited, Red Harrington informs the two about Dan and Collins' fight over a cursed silver rock. Meanwhile, Cavendish's men, disguised as Comanches, raid frontier settlements. John and Tonto arrive after raiders abduct Dan's widow and son, Rebecca and Danny. Regretting his earlier actions, Collins attempts to help the mother and child escape, but is shot dead by Cole, who rescues them. Claiming the raiders are hostile Comanches, Cole announces the continued construction of the railroad and dispatches US Cavalry Captain Jay Fuller to wipe out the Comanches. A Comanche tribe captures John and Tonto after the pair finds railroad tracks in Native territory. The leader tells John of Tonto's past: As a boy, Tonto had rescued Cavendish and another man from near-death and later showed them a mountain full of silver ore in exchange for a pocket watch. The men murdered the tribe to keep the location a secret, leaving Tonto with great guilt which led to him believing the two were wendigos. Tonto and John escape as the cavalry attack the Comanche. At the silver mine, the duo captures Cavendish. Tonto demands John use the silver bullet to kill Cavendish, but John refuses. Upon returning Cavendish to Cole and Fuller's custody, Cole is revealed to be Cavendish's partner and brother. Fuller, fearful of being labeled a war criminal for slaughtering the tribe, sides with Cole. Rebecca is held hostage, and John is returned to the mine to be executed. Tonto rescues him and the two flee. Realizing Cole is too powerful to be taken down lawfully and regretful since his arrogance in ignoring Tonto led to the mass slaughter of the Comanches and the kidnapping of his loved ones, John dons the mask again. At Promontory Summit, during the railroad's union ceremony, Cole reveals his true plan: to take control of the railroad company and use the mined silver to gain more power. John and Tonto steal nitroglycerin and use it to destroy a railroad bridge. With Red's help, Tonto steals the train with the silver, and Cole, Cavendish and Fuller pursue him in a second train on which Rebecca and Dan Jr. are being held captive. On horseback, John pursues both trains. After a furious chase and fights on both trains, Cavendish and Fuller are killed, Rebecca and Dan Jr. are rescued, and Cole drowns while being buried beneath the silver ore after the train plunges off the severed bridge and into the river below, killing him. The town recognize John as a hero and offers him a law-enforcement position. John declines, and he and Tonto ride off. Back in 1933, Will questions the truth of the story. Tonto gives him a silver bullet and tells him to decide for himself, and then departs. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 15. “Kung Fu Panda” | 26 June 2008 |
| STARRING: |
| •Jack Black as Po, an energetic, yet accident-prone, giant panda and die-hard fan of kung fu, who finds himself chosen as the legendary Dragon Warrior by Master Oogway, much to everyone's (and his own) surprise. •Dustin Hoffman as Master Shifu, the elderly and stern red panda kung fu master to the Furious Five and (unwillingly) to Po, who is troubled over mistakes in the past. He is Tai Lung's and Tigress' adoptive father and master. •Randall Duk Kim as Grand Master Oogway, Shifu's mentor and the wise leader of the Jade Palace. He is an ancient Galapagos tortoise. •Ian McShane as Tai Lung, a muscular snow leopard who, after rampaging through the Valley of Peace for being denied the Dragon Scroll by Oogway, was sent to Chorh-Gom Prison for twenty years, after which he escaped and returned for revenge. He is Shifu's adoptive son and former student. •Angelina Jolie as Master Tigress, the South China tiger leader of the Furious Five, who is the most hostile to Po when he's chosen as the Dragon Warrior, but eventually accepts him when he defeats Tai Lung. She is Shifu's adoptive daughter and ill-tempered student. •Lucy Liu as Master Viper, a green tree viper and member of the Furious Five; she is kind and the most good-natured to Po when he is chosen as the Dragon Warrior. •Jackie Chan as Master Monkey, a golden snub-nosed monkey and member of the Furious Five; he has an easygoing attitude and is adept with a staff. •Seth Rogen as Master Mantis, a Chinese mantis and member of the Furious Five; he is extremely strong for his size and is also experienced in acupuncture. •David Cross as Master Crane, a red-crowned crane and another member of the Furious Five; he is pragmatic and has a dry sense of humor. •James Hong as Mr. Ping, Po's adoptive father, a happy-go-lucky Chinese goose who runs a noodle restaurant along with Po, who is unwilling to follow in his footsteps. •Dan Fogler as Zeng, a Chinese goose who is Shifu's nervous messenger. •Michael Clarke Duncan as Commander Vachir, a Javan rhinoceros who is the boastful warden of Chorh-Gom Prison, where Tai Lung is imprisoned. |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| In the Valley of Peace, a land in ancient China inhabited by anthropomorphic animals, there is the Furious Five (Tigress, Monkey, Mantis, Viper, and Crane), a quintet of Kung Fu students trained by the red panda Master Shifu at the Jade Palace. Po, a giant panda, is a Kung Fu fanatic who idolizes the Furious Five. However, as he helps his adoptive goose father Mr. Ping in his noodle restaurant, Po is unable to pursue his dream of becoming a Kung Fu master himself. Grand Master Oogway, a sage old tortoise and Shifu's mentor, has a vision that Shifu's former student, the evil snow leopard Tai Lung, will escape from prison and return to the Valley of Peace to exact his revenge. Panicked, Shifu sends his messenger, Zeng the goose, with a request for the prison to tighten the security in order to prevent Tai Lung's escape. He then holds a tournament for the Furious Five so that Oogway can identify the Dragon Warrior, the one Kung Fu master worthy of the Dragon Scroll, which is said to hold the secret to the boundless power and be capable of defeating Tai Lung. Po fails to arrive at the arena before the doors are closed. Desperate to see the Dragon Warrior, Po straps himself to a set of fireworks, rockets into the sky and crashes into the arena. He opens his eyes to see Oogway pointing his finger at him. Much to the shock of everyone there (including Po), Oogway proclaims Po as the Dragon Warrior. Unwilling to accept Oogway's decision, Shifu tries to make Po quit through a torturous and agonizing training regime coupled with constant ridicule of his physique and personality. The Furious Five also recognize Po as simply a Kung Fu enthusiast with no prerequisite or potential of martial art. Po considers quitting, but after receiving encouragement from Oogway, he endures his training and slowly begins to befriend the Five with his culinary skill, resilience, and good humor, though Tigress remains reluctant to accept him as the Dragon Warrior. Tigress tells Po the story of Shifu and Tai Lung. Long ago, Shifu found the infant Tai Lung on the steps of the palace. He brought up Tai Lung as his son and taught him Kung Fu. Although Tai Lung was a proficient Kung Fu practitioner, Oogway refused to give him the Dragon Scroll. Tai Lung attacked the valley and tried to take the scroll by force, but Oogway successfully stopped him. Shifu, filled with guilt and sorrow over his son's betrayal, became cold and distant to his later students. Meanwhile, Tai Lung escapes from prison as foreseen by Oogway, ironically picking his locks with one of Zeng's fallen feathers. Shifu learns of Tai Lung's escape from Zeng and informs Oogway, who extracts a promise from Shifu to believe in Po, and then passes on to the heavens in a stream of peach blossoms. Still unable to grasp the basics of Kung Fu, Po despairingly admits that he has no chance of defeating Tai Lung. However, Shifu discovers that Po is capable of impressive physical feats when motivated by food. Taking advantage of this, he successfully trains Po to incorporate these feats into an effective Kung Fu style. Meanwhile, the Furious Five set out to stop Tai Lung themselves, only to be defeated by his nerve strikes. Following their return, Shifu decides that Po is ready to receive the Dragon Scroll, but the scroll reveals nothing but a blank reflective surface. Unable to understand the message of the scroll, Shifu orders Po and the Five to evacuate the valley while he faces Tai Lung, knowing that he will most likely forfeit his life. As Tai Lung arrives and fights Shifu, the distraught Po finds Mr. Ping. In an attempt to console his son, Mr. Ping reveals that the secret ingredient to his famous "secret ingredient soup" is "nothing" (explaining that "to make something special, you just have to believe it is"). Po realizes that this is the message of the Dragon Scroll and goes back to confront Tai Lung. Po becomes a formidable challenge for Tai Lung, frustrating him with confusing fighting techniques on top of a physique that renders him immune to Tai Lung's nerve strikes. Tai Lung momentarily bests Po and retrieves the scroll, but he is unable to understand it. When Po explains to Tai Lung that the true secret to becoming the Dragon Warrior is to just believe in yourself, he refuses to accept it and continues attacking Po. Eventually, Po defeats Tai Lung in combat before using the mysterious Wuxi Finger Hold to vanquish him. Po is praised by the Valley of Peace and earns the respect of the Furious Five, who fully acknowledge him as a true Kung Fu master. Po then finds Shifu, who finally attains inner peace, now that the valley is safe once more. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 16. “Kung Fu Panda 2” | 23 June 2011 |
| STARRING: |
| •Jack Black as Pov •Angelina Jolie as Master Tigress •Dustin Hoffman as Master Shifu •Gary Oldman as Lord Shen •Jackie Chan as Master Monkey •Lucy Liu as Master Viper •Seth Rogen as Master Mantis •David Cross as Master Crane •James Hong as Mr. Ping •Michelle Yeoh as Soothsayer •Danny McBride as Wolf Boss •Dennis Haysbert as Master Storming Ox •Jean-Claude Van Damme as Master Croc •Victor Garber as Master Thundering Rhino •Fred Tatasciore as Panda Dad •Lauren Tom as Market Sheep •Conrad Vernon as Boar |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| Lord Shen, the scion of a peacock clan that rules Gongmen City in ancient China, seeks to weaponize gunpowder, which had recently been invented to create fireworks. After discovering from the court's goat soothsayer that "a warrior of black-and-white" will defeat him if he does not change his ways, Shen leads an army of wolves to exterminate the panda population to avert the prophecy. Shen's parents are horrified by this atrocity and exile their son, who swears revenge. Thirty years later, Po is living his dream as the Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, the Furious Five. However, his teacher Shifu tells him that he has yet to achieve inner peace. While defending a village from wolf bandits who have been stealing refined metal for Shen, Po is distracted by a symbol on their leader's armor, which causes him to have a flashback of his mother and allows the wolves to escape. Po asks his goose father, Mr. Ping, about his origins. Ping reveals that he found Po as an infant in a radish crate and adoptedhim, but Po remains unsatisfied, wondering how and why he ended up in the Valley of Peace. Shifu receives word that Shen has returned to Gongmen City and killed Thundering Rhino, the leader of the kung fu council protecting the City, and is plotting to conquer China with his newly developed weapon, a cannon forged with the metal the wolves stole. Shifu sends Po and the Furious Five to Gongmen City to stop Shen and destroy his weapon. They find the city occupied by Shen's forces, with the two surviving council members Storming Ox and Croc imprisoned. The heroes ask the council members for help to liberate the city, but the two cite their helplessness against Shen's weapon and refuse. Po and the Five are discovered by the wolf boss and give chase, only to be arrested in front of Shen's tower. Upon being brought before Shen in his tower, Po and the Five escape and destroy Shen's weapon. However, Po is again distracted by a flashback upon seeing the same symbol as before on Shen's plumage, realizing Shen was there the last night Po saw his parents. This allows Shen to escape and destroy the tower with an arsenal of cannons. Escaping back to the prison Tigress demands to know why Po let Shen get away, he reveals that Shen knows something about his past and has to face him again. Tigress, though understanding, doesn't want to see her friend getting hurt and makes Po stay at the prison while the Furious Five leave to the stop the production of Shen's cannons. Po breaks into the factory to question Shen about his past, inadvertently foiling the Five's plan to destroy the factory and causing the Five to be captured. Shen claims that Po's parents abandoned him, and then blasts Po out of the factory into a river with a cannon, where he is presumed dead. Po survives and is rescued by the soothsayer, who takes him to the ruins of the nearby village where Po was born. Guided by soothsayer to embrace his past, Po remembers that when he was an infant, his parents had sacrificed themselves to save him from Shen's army, his mother hiding him in a radish crate and luring Shen's forces away from him. Po attains inner peace, realizing that he has lived a happy and fulfilling life despite this early tragedy. Po returns to Gongmen City to save the captive Five and prevent Shen's conquest of China. A battle ensues between Shen's armada, sailing in the heart of Gongmen City, and Po, the Five, Shifu, Ox, and Croc. Determine to kill Po Shen orders the wolf boss to fire at them even though it would kill his own men. When the wolf boss refuses Shen kills him and fires it himself, leaving everyone but Po unable to fight. Po modifies the movements used during his inner peace training to manipulate and redirect Shen's cannonballs against his own armada, destroying them. Po then urges Shen to let go of his own past, but Shen attacks Po until Shen slashes the ropes holding up his last cannon, which falls on top of him, crushing him to death and destroying much of the ship. Victorious, Po returns to the Valley of Peace and reunites with Mr. Ping, lovingly declaring the goose to be his father. At the same time, Po's birth father is revealed to be alive in a far-off, hidden village inhabited by surviving pandas, and senses that his son is still alive. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 17. “Kung Fu Panda 3” | 24 March 2016 |
| STARRING: |
| •Jack Black as Po. •Bryan Cranston as Li Shan. •Dustin Hoffman as Master Shifu. •J.K. Simmons as Kai. •Angelina Jolie as Master Tigress. •Lucy Liu as Master Viper. •Jackie Chan as Master Monkey. •Seth Rogen as Master Mantis. •David Cross as Master Crane. •James Hong as Mr. Ping. •Kate Hudson as Mei Mei. •Randall Duk Kim as Grand Master Oogway. •Steele Gagnon as Bao. •Barbara Dirikson as Grandma Panda. •Jean-Claude Van Damme as Master Croc. •Fred Tatasciore as Master Bear. Tatasciore briefly voiced Li Shan in Kung Fu Panda 2. •Stephen Kearin as Master Chicken. •Wayne Knight as Big Fun, Hom-Lee. •Al Roker as Dim. •Willie Geist as Sum. •Pax Jolie-Pitt as Yoo. •Knox Jolie-Pitt as Ku Ku. •Zahara Jolie-Pitt as Meng Meng. •Shiloh Jolie-Pitt as Shuai Shuai. •Liam Knight as Lei Lei. •Ming Tsai as Ming. •Mike Mitchell as Male Palace Goose, Smart Panda Villager. •Kelly Cooney as Female Palace Goose. •Mick Wingert as Farmer Goose, Farmer Rabbit. |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| In the spirit realm, Oogway fights against a bull adversary named Kai, who has defeated all the other kung fu masters in the realm and taken their chi. Oogway too is ensnared and has his chi stolen, but warns Kai that the Dragon Warrior, Po, will stop him. Kai takes this as a challenge to steal the Dragon Warrior's chi and returns to the mortal realm. Meanwhile, Master Shifu announces his retirement from teaching and passes the role of teacher to Po. An initially excited Po realizes that teaching kung fu is not as easy as he thought, and the Furious Five are injured as a result. Po is demoralized because of his failure, but Shifu advises Po that instead of trying to be a teacher, he should try to be himself. Po returns home where he meets a panda, Li Shan, whom they both realize is his long-lost biological father. They quickly bond with each other, much to the jealousy of Po's adoptive father, Mr. Ping. After introducing Li to Shifu and his friends, Po and the Five defend the Valley of Peace from jade zombies that Kai has created from the chi of past kung fu masters. The team learns through research that Oogway and Kai were once brothers-in-arms. After Oogway was injured in battle, Kai carried him to a village of pandas who healed him with their mastery of chi. The pandas then taught Oogway how to utilize chi to help others. Kai on the other hand wanted all the power for himself and tried to steal the panda's chi, forcing Oogway to banish him to the spirit realm. It then reveals that in order to defeat Kai, Po must learn to master the use of chi himself. Li offers to teach him by taking him to his secret panda village. Po and Li travel to the village while Shifu and the Furious Five stay behind to deal with Kai; Mr. Ping follows the pandas, worried that he will lose Po's affections to Li. Although Po is eager to learn chi, Li tells him he must first learn the relaxed life of a panda in the village. Kai takes the chi of nearly every kung fu master in China, including Shifu and the Furious Five except Tigress, who warns the pandas of Kai's intentions. Afraid, Li and the pandas prepare to run away. When Po demands that Li teach him how to use chi, Li confesses that he does not know how, and that he lied out of fear of losing his son again. Po is hurt over his father's misdirection and isolates himself to train vigorously in preparation for fighting Kai; Mr. Ping, who realizes Po has become happier with Li in his life, encourages Li and the other pandas to stay and ask Po to train them so they can fight back. Tigress confronts Po and tells him that he has no other way of defeating Kai. Realizing what had previously made him fail as a teacher, Po agrees and teaches them to use their everyday activities as their weapons. Kai arrives and sends his minions to capture Po, who sets the pandas, Ping, and Tigress upon them, distracting Kai. They defeat the jade zombie army, but when Po tries to use his signature Wuxi Finger Hold on Kai to send him back to the spirit realm, Kai reveals that it only works on mortals, not a spirit warrior like himself. Kai gains the upper hand in their fight, but Po uses the Wuxi Finger Hold again on himself while gripping Kai, transporting them both to the spirit realm. They fight again, and Kai subdues Po and begins to steal his chi. Using what they learned from Po, his friends and family use their chi to empower him. Po harnesses their chi to create a giant dragon figure with which he overloads Kai, killing him and restoring all of the fallen masters to normal. In an ethereal golden pond, Oogway appears to Po and informs him that his journey as the Dragon Warrior has come full circle, declaring Po to be his successor. By choice, Po wields a mystic jade yin-yang staff bestowed by Oogway to return to the mortal world. He and his extended family all return to the valley, where they continue practicing kung fu. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 18. “Garfield The Movie” | 11 June 2004 |
| STARRING: |
Live action actors •Breckin Meyer as Jon Arbuckle, Garfield's and Odie's owner. •Jennifer Love Hewitt as Dr. Liz Wilson, Garfield's vet, who became Jon's girlfriend at the end. •Stephen Tobolowsky as Happy Chapman, a local television host, and his brother Walter J. Chapman. •Evan Arnold as Wendell, Happy's butler •Mark Christopher Lawrence as Christopher Mello •Eve Brent as Mrs. Baker •Juliette Goglia as Little Girl •Evan Helmuth as Steward •Joe Bays as Raccoon Lodge Member •Leyna Nguyen as News Reporter •Joe Ochman as Engineer •Rufus Gifford as Dog Owner #1 Garfield creator Jim Davis appeared as an uncredited drunken convention attendee, but his role was cut from the final version of the film. Voice actors •Bill Murray as Garfield, Jon's overweight, lethargic, and free-spirited orange cat. •Alan Cumming as Persnikitty (he renames himself "Sir Roland"), an irascible cat. •Nick Cannon as Louis, a friendly mouse. •David Eigenberg as Nermal, Garfield's friend. •Brad Garrett as Luca, a temperamental Doberman Pinscher who guards the house next door to Garfield. •Jimmy Kimmel as Spanky (unnamed in the film) •Debra Messing as Arlene, Garfield's girlfriend. •Richard Kind as Dad Rat •Debra Jo Rupp as Mom Rat Wyatt Smith, Jordan Kaiser and Alyson Stoner as unnamed kid rats – Kid Rat No. 1, Kid Rat No. 2 and Kid Rat No. 3 respectively |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| Garfield is an overweight and free-spirited orange cat who lives with his owner, Jon Arbuckle. Garfield passes his time by antagonizing Jon and teasing an aggressive neighbor Doberman Pinscher, Luca. Aside from Jon, Garfield maintains an unlikely friendship with a helpful mouse, Louis. He also socializes with his fellow neighborhood cats, including Garfield's stooge Nermal and Arlene. Meanwhile, a local television host, Happy Chapman, known for his cat "Persnikitty" is introduced as supposedly a happy man. In reality he is allergic to cats, jealous of his brother Walter J. Chapman, a news reporter, and destined to be more successful by performing on TV show Good Day New York. Jon has made a habit of bringing Garfield to the veterinarian, in order to see vet Dr. Liz Wilson (whom he is in love with). Jon tries to ask her out, but due to a misunderstanding, he is given custody of a stray dog, Odie, who is lovable and friendly. Regardless, Jon and Liz begin dating. Garfield however, dislikes Odie and tries to remove him from the household by getting revenge. Odie is brought to a canine talent show, where Liz is a judge. Garfield gets involved in an altercation there with other dogs, which moves Odie to the center of the ring, where he begins dancing to "Hey Mama" by the Black Eyed Peas. His improvised performance is a hit. Happy Chapman, who also is a judge of the dog show is impressed with Odie, and offers Jon a television deal for Odie, but Jon declines. When Garfield comes back, he accidentally hits a ball in frustration, and causing a chain reaction that trashes Jon's house, and when Jon finds the house in shambles later, he forces Garfield to sleep outside for the night as punishment. Heartbroken, Garfield sadly sings ("New Dog State of Mind"). When Odie comes out to comfort Garfield, he gets inside and locks Odie out. Nermal and Arlene witness this as Odie runs away; he is then picked up by an elderly woman named Mrs. Baker. Jon searches with Liz for Odie while the neighborhood animals blame Garfield for locking Odie out and making him run away the night before while Garfield states that he only was protecting his turf and never wanted Odie to run off. Meanwhile, Chapman and his assistant Wendell find a notice Mrs. Baker created of Odie and, recognizing the lucrative possibilities, claim Odie as Happy's own. When Garfield sees Odie on television and hears Chapman announce he and Odie are going to New York City, Garfield sets out to rescue Odie. Jon discovers Garfield missing so Jon and Liz start searching. Garfield gets into the broadcast tower via the air vents but he is blown around violently. Garfield finds Odie locked in a room; Chapman enters and secures a shock collar to Odie, which, when activated, releases an electric discharge that forces him to perform tricks. Chapman heads for the train station with Garfield in close pursuit. However, an animal control officer catches Garfield mistaking him as a runaway. Mrs. Baker tells Jon that Chapman took Odie, making him believe Garfield was taken by Chapman too and he and Liz race to Telegraph Tower and then to the train station, after learning Chapman has left. Garfield is released from the pound by Chapman's abandoned feline star, Persnikitty, who is really named Sir Roland. Chapman boards a Texas-bound train, with Odie in the luggage car. Garfield arrives only to see the train depart. Garfield sneaks into the train system control room and frantically switches the tracks, leading to an impending train wreck. Garfield hits an emergency control and causes Chapman/Odie's train to return to the station. Garfield frees Odie and they exit the train. However, Chapman chases them. Chapman threatens Odie with the shock collar, but is stopped by Garfield's friends and animals from the pound, led by Sir Roland. They swarm and attack Chapman, allowing Odie and Garfield to escape. The shock collar is now on Chapman who gets shocked. Jon and Liz arrive to reclaim the animals and find Chapman disoriented. Jon punches Chapman in the face for stealing "both" his pets, and leaves with Liz and the two animals. Chapman is arrested for his supposed involvement with the trains, as well as for abducting Odie. Garfield regains the respect of his animal friends as a hero. Back at home, Liz and Jon form a relationship, and Garfield learned his lesson about friendship. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 19. “Garfield - A Tail of Two Kitties” | 14 September 2006 |
| STARRING: |
Live action actors •Breckin Meyer as Jon Arbuckle, the owner of Garfield and Odie •Jennifer Love Hewitt as Dr. Liz Wilson •Billy Connolly as Lord Manfred Dargis •Ian Abercrombie as Smithee •Roger Rees as Mr. Hobbs •Lucy Davis as Ms. Abby Westminister •Jane Carr as Mrs. Whitney •Oliver Muirhead as Mr. Greene Voice cast •Bill Murray as Garfield •Tim Curry as Prince XII, a British cat who looks like Garfield •Bob Hoskins as Winston •Rhys Ifans as McBunny •Vinnie Jones as Rommel •Jim Piddock as Bolero •Joe Pasquale as Claudius •Greg Ellis as Nigel •Richard E. Grant as Preston •Jane Leeves as Eenie •Jane Horrocks as Meenie •Roscoe Lee Browne as the Narrator |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| Jon Arbuckle plans to propose to his girlfriend Dr. Liz Wilson, who is going on a business trip to London. Jon follows her to the United Kingdom as a surprise; After escaping from the kennel, Garfield and Odie sneak into Jon's luggage and join him on the road trip. Garfield and Odie break out of the hotel room due to boredom, then got lost. Meanwhile, at Carlyle Castle in the British countryside, the late Lady Eleanor Carlyle's will is read. She leaves all of Carlyle Castle to Prince XII, her beloved cat who looks just like Garfield. This enrages the Lady's nephew, Lord Manfred Dargis, who will now only get the grand estate once Prince is out of the picture. Lord Dargis traps Prince in a picnic basket and throws him into the river. Garfield inadvertently switches places with Prince: Jon finds Prince climbing out of a drain and takes him to the hotel, while Prince's butler Smithee finds Garfield in the street and takes him to Carlyle Castle. In the grand estate Garfield is residing in, he receives the royal treatment, including a butler and a team of four-legged servants and followers. Garfield teaches his animal friends how to make lasagna, while Prince learns to adapt to a more humble setting, while in Jon's company. Lord Dargis sees Garfield and thinks Prince has come back – if the lawyers see Prince/Garfield they will not sign the estate over to Dargis, who secretly wants to destroy the barnyand and kill the animals to build a country spa. Dargis makes many attempts to kill Garfield, one involving an merciless but dim-witted Rottweiler, Rommel. Eventually Garfield and Prince meet each other for the first time (spoofing the Marx brothers' mirror gag). Jon, with the help of Odie, discovers the mix-up and goes to the castle, which coincidentally Liz is visiting. Garfield and Prince taunt Dargis, whose plan is exposed, and are seen by the lawyers. Dargis threatens everyone if they don't sign the papers to him, taking Liz hostage. Garfield, Prince, Odie and Jon save the day, Smithee alerts the authorities, and Dargis is arrested. Garfield, who had been trying to stop Jon from proposing to Liz, has a change of heart: He helps Jon in proposing, and she accepts. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 20. “The Simpsons Movie” | 26 July 2007 |
| STARRING: |
| Dan Castellaneta as Homer Simpson, Abe Simpson, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby, Sideshow Mel, Mr. Teeny, EPA Officer, Itchy, Barney Gumble Julie Kavner as Marge Simpson, Selma Bouvier, Patty Bouvier Nancy Cartwright as Bart Simpson, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, Nelson Muntz Yeardley Smith as Lisa Simpson Hank Azaria as Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Cletus Spuckler, Professor Frink, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Lou, Comic Book Guy, Captain McCallister, Bumblebee Man, Dr. Nick Harry Shearer as Mr. Burns, Smithers, Ned Flanders, Reverend Lovejoy, Lenny, President Arnold Schwarzenegger, Seymour Skinner, Kent Brockman, Dr. Hibbert, Otto Mann Pamela Hayden as Milhouse Van Houten, Rod Flanders, Jimbo Jones Tress MacNeille as Medicine Woman, Agnes Skinner, Crazy Cat Lady, Colin, Cookie Kwan Albert Brooks (as "A. Brooks") as Russ Cargill Karl Wiedergott as EPA Officer, Man Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel (scenes deleted) Russi Taylor as Martin Prince Maggie Roswell as Helen Lovejoy Phil Rosenthal as TV Dad Billie Joe Armstrong as himself Frank Edwin Wright III as himself Michael Pritchard as himself Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony Tom Hanks as Himself |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| While performing on Lake Springfield, the band Green Day perishes when the lake's pollution dissolves their barge, following an audience revolt after frontman Billie Joe Armstrong proposes an environmental discussion. At their memorial, Grampa foresees the destruction of the town, but only Margetakes this seriously. Later that day, Homer dares Bart to skateboard naked to Krusty Burger and Bart is arrested by Chief Wiggum. Bart considers their neighbor Ned Flanders a better father figure after Homer refuses to take responsibility for the incident. Lisa and a new Irish friend named Colinconvince the entire town to clean their lake. Meanwhile, Homer adopts a pig from Krusty Burger and names it "Spider Pig" (later "Harry Plopper", and simply "Plopper" afterwards), and stores the pig's feces (and some of his own) in a silo, until Marge tells him to safely dispose of the waste. Homer initially intends to take his silo to the waste management plant, but after Lenny calls to tell him that Lard Lad Donuts has been shut down due to health violations and is giving away free donuts, Homer impatiently dumps the silo straight into the lake, polluting it much worse than before. Moments later, a squirrel jumps into the lake and becomes severely mutated; Flanders and Bart (who bond after Homer humiliates Bart) discover the creature before the EPA captures it. Russ Cargill, head of the EPA, presents five "unthinkable" options to U.S. President Arnold Schwarzenegger to keep the town's pollution contained. The slow-witted president picks an option without reading it, and Springfield is enclosed in a large glass dome. When the police discover Homer's silo in the lake, and his responsibility for sealing Springfield in the dome, the townspeople of Springfield except for the Flanders family form an angry mob and advance on the Simpsons' home to kill Homer, but the family escapes the town through a sinkhole, which then destroys their house and car. With the EPA on their trail, the Simpsons flee on foot to a motel. Homer wins a truck at a carnival by riding a motorcycle inside a spherical steel cage, with Lisa's help, and drives the family to Alaska. After three months of futile escape attempts, Springfield's residents finally make a crack in the dome; pointing out the damage, Cargill manipulates Schwarzenegger into ordering the town's destruction. In Alaska, the Simpsons see an advertisement starring Tom Hanks for a new Grand Canyon on the site of Springfield; realizing that the town is endangered, Marge and the children want to go back to save it, but Homer refuses to help the people who tried to kill him. After failing to talk Homer into it, his family eventually leave him for good. Alone, Homer is stranded on a slab of ice and floats away. Meanwhile, Marge and the children are captured by the EPA after a conversation of theirs is overheard by the NSA. After a mysterious Inuit shaman woman saves Homer from a polar bear, he has an epiphany and decides to return to Springfield to save the town from danger. As Homer arrives, a helicopter lowers a small but powerful bomb down a rope through a hole in the dome. While Homer climbs to the top of the dome, the townspeople attempt to climb the rope to escape through the still-opened hole, but Homer slides down the rope and knocks them off along with the bomb. After reconciling with Bart, Homer drives a motorcycle up the dome interior, inspired by the earlier carnival attraction. Bart, riding with him, throws the bomb through the hole; seconds later it detonates, shattering the dome and freeing the town. Cargill arrives personally and prepares to kill Homer with a shotgun, but Maggie knocks him out with a rock. The town finally praises and forgives Homer, who rides into the sun rise with Marge and Maggie, whereupon the townspeople restore Springfield to normal. As a symbol of their gratitude, the townspeople help the Simpsons rebuild their house. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 21. “Loaded Weapon 1” | 5 February 1993 |
| STARRING: |
Cast •Emilio Estevez as Sgt. Jack Colt •Samuel L. Jackson as Sgt. Wes Luger •Kathy Ireland as Miss Destiny Demeanor •Frank McRae as Captain Doyle •Tim Curry as Mr. Jigsaw •William Shatner as General Curtis Mortars •Jon Lovitz as Rick Becker •Denis Leary as Mike McCracken •F. Murray Abraham as Dr. Harold Leacher •Danielle Nicolet as Debbie Luger •Ken Ober as Dooley •Vito Scotti as Tailor •Bill Nunn as Police photographer Lin Shaye as Witness Cameos •James Doohan as Scotti •Erik Estrada as Officer Francis Poncherello •Larry Wilcox as Officer Jon Baker •Corey Feldman as Young cop •Whoopi Goldberg (uncredited) as Billie York •Paul Gleason as FBI agent Phil Hartman as Officer Davis •Richard Moll as Prison attendant •J. T. Walsh as Desk clerk •Charles Napier and Charles Cyphers as Interrogators •Bruce Willis (uncredited) as John McClane •Denise Richards as Cindy •Allyce Beasley as Spinach Destiny Joyce Brothers as Medical examiner •Christopher Lambert (deleted scene) as Man with car-phone •Charlie Sheen as Gern, Parking valet |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| In Los Angeles, Detective Billie York is murdered by a man dressed as a Girl Scout because she possesses a microfilm with the recipe to turn cocaine into Girl Scout cookies and she wouldn't hand it over to the ones who seek it. Her former partner, Wes Luger, takes the case in an attempt to avenge her death. As part of the terms for letting Luger take the case, psychotic burned-out narcotics agent Jack Colt is assigned to the case with Luger. Under the advice of their captain, they meet Dr. Harold Leacher, who informs Jack that the case has something to do with General Mortars, under whom Jack had worked during his days in Vietnam. Following Leacher's advice, they pursue the villains; however, before the villains are apprehended, Luger must journey into his past to realize the right thing to do. In the end, the pair find themselves up against a complicated plot involving corrupt cops, federal agents, politicians and beauty queens. Not knowing who to trust, it's time for the pair to do what they do best - and that involves guns, explosions, and lots and lots of destruction. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 22. “The Incredibles” | 26 December 2004 |
| STARRING: |
| •Craig T. Nelson as Bob Parr / Mr. Incredible, Helen's husband, possessing super-strength. •Holly Hunter as Helen Parr / Elastigirl, Bob's wife, who has the ability to stretch her body like rubber. •Sarah Vowell as Violet Parr, the Parrs' eldest child, who can become invisible and generate an impact-resistant force shield. •Spencer Fox as Dashiell "Dash" Parr, the Parrs' second child, who possesses super-speed. •Eli Fucile and Maeve Andrews as Jack-Jack Parr, the Parrs' infant son. •Jason Lee as Buddy Pine / Incrediboy / Syndrome, Mr. Incredible's fan-turned-supervillain who has no superpowers but uses his scientific prowess to create enhanced abilities. •Samuel L. Jackson as Lucius Best / Frozone, Bob's best friend, who can form ice from humidity. •Elizabeth Pena as Mirage, Syndrome's seductive right-hand woman. •Brad Bird as Edna Mode, the fashion designer for the Supers. •Teddy Newton as Newsreel Narrator, heard narrating the changing public opinion of the Supers. •Jean Sincere as Mrs. Hoganson, an old lady to whom Bob Parr pretends to deny an insurance claim. •Bud Luckey as Rick Dicker, a government agent responsible for keeping the Parrs undercover. •Wallace Shawn as Gilbert Huph, Bob's demeaning boss. •Lou Romano as Bernie Kropp, Dash's teacher. •Michael Bird as Tony Rydinger, Violet's love interest. •Dominique Lewis as Bomb Voyage, a French supervillain who uses explosives. •Bret Parker as Kari, Jack-Jack's babysitter. •Kimberly Adair Clark as Honey, Frozone's wife. •John Ratzenberger as The Underminer, a mole-like supervillain. |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| Public opinion turns against superheroes - also called "Supers" - due to the collateral damage caused by their crime-fighting. After several lawsuits, the government initiates the Superhero Relocation Program, which forces Supers to permanently adhere to their secret identities. Fifteen years later, Bob and Helen Parr - formerly known as Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl - and their children Violet, Dash, and baby Jack-Jack are a suburban family living in Metroville. Although he loves his family, Bob resents the mundanity of his suburban lifestyle and white-collar job. Together with his friend Lucius Best, formerly known as Frozone, Bob occasionally relives "the glory days" by moonlighting as a vigilante. After his supervisor prevents him from stopping a mugging, Bob loses his temper and injures him, resulting in his dismissal. Returning home, Bob receives a message from a woman called Mirage, who gives him a mission to destroy a savage tripod-like robot, the Omnidroid, on the remote island of Nomanisan. Bob battles and disables it by tricking it into ripping off its own power source. Bob finds the action and higher pay rejuvenating. He improves his relationship with his family and begins rigorous physical training while awaiting more work from Mirage for the next two months. Finding a tear in his suit, he visits superhero costume designer Edna Mode to have it mended. Assuming that Helen knows what Bob is doing, Edna also makes new suits for the other family members. Setting out for Nomanisan once again, Bob discovers Mirage is working for Buddy Pine, a disaffected former fan whom Mr. Incredible had rejected as his sidekick. Having adopted the alias of Syndrome, he has been perfecting the Omnidroid by hiring different superheroes to fight it, killing many of them in the process. Syndrome intends to send the latest Omnidroid to Metroville, where he will secretly manipulate its controls to defeat it in public, becoming a "hero" himself. Later, he will sell his inventions so that everyone can become "super", rendering the term meaningless. Helen visits Edna and learns what Bob has been up to. She activates a beacon Edna built into the suits to find Bob, inadvertently causing him to be captured while infiltrating Syndrome's base. Helen borrows a private plane to head for Nomanisan. She finds out that Violet and Dash have stowed away, leaving Jack-Jack with a babysitter. Helen's radio transmissions are picked up by Syndrome, who sends missiles to shoot her down. The plane is destroyed, but Helen and the kids survive and use their powers to reach the island. Helen infiltrates the base and discovers Syndrome's plan. Discontented with Syndrome's indifference when her life was threatened, Mirage releases Bob and informs him of his family's survival. Helen arrives and races off with Bob to find their children. Dash and Violet are chased by Syndrome's guards, but fend them off with their powers before reuniting with their parents. Syndrome captures them all, leaving them imprisoned while he follows the rocket transporting the Omnidroid to Metroville. The Parrs escape to Metroville in another rocket with Mirage's help. As per its programming, the Omnidroid recognizes Syndrome as a threat and shoots off the remote control on his wrist, making him incapable of controlling it and knocking him unconscious. The Parrs and Frozone fight the Omnidroid. Bob acquires the remote control, allowing Helen to use one of the robot's claws to destroy its power source. Returning home, the Parrs find Syndrome, who plans to kidnap and raise Jack-Jack as his own sidekick to exact revenge on the family. As Syndrome is flying upward to reach his jet, Jack-Jack's own superpowers start to manifest and he escapes Syndrome midair. As Helen catches Jack-Jack, Syndrome boards the plane, but Bob throws his car at the villain, causing him to get sucked into the jet's turbine, killing him and making the aircraft explode. The Parrs survive thanks to Violet's force field, though the wreckage of the plane falls down and destroys their house. Three months later, the Parrs witness the arrival of a supervillain called the Underminer. They put on their superhero masks, ready to face the new threat together as a family. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 23. “The Incredibles 2” | 15 June 2018 |
| STARRING: |
| •Craig T. Nelson as Bob Parr / Mr. Incredible, who possesses super strength and limited invulnerability. •Holly Hunter as Helen Parr / Elastigirl, who has the ability to stretch her body into many shapes and forms. •Sarah Vowell as Violet Parr, the family's daughter and first child, who can become invisible and project force fields for limited lengths of time. •Huckleberry Milner as Dashiell "Dash" Parr, the family's troublemaker first son, who has superhuman speed. He was previously voiced by Spencer Fox in the first film. •Eli Fucile as Jack-Jack Parr, the infant son of Bob and Helen who has a large assortment of powers. •Nicholas Bird provides the vocal effects of Jack-Jack's monster form. •Samuel L. Jackson as Lucius Best / Frozone, Bob's best friend, who has the ability to form ice from humidity. •Bob Odenkirk as Winston Deavor, a superhero fan who leads a telecommunications company with his sister Evelyn, and wants to bring back superheroes by revamping the public's perception of them. •Catherine Keener as Evelyn Deavor, Winston's younger sister, the mastermind behind the Screenslaver, and a technological genius who has never encountered a problem she could not solve. •Bill Wise as a pizza delivery man converted into a villain by the real "Screenslaver", who hijacks screens to project hypnotic images in order to hypnotize civilians. •Brad Bird as Edna Mode, a fashion designer for superheroes and a close friend of the Parrs. •Jonathan Banks as Rick Dicker, a government agent responsible for helping the Parrs stay undercover and unremarkable. When his department is shut down, the Parrs are left to their own devices. He was previously voiced by Bud Luckey in the first film, who died in 2018 and to whom the film is dedicated. •Michael Bird as Tony Rydinger, Violet's love interest. •Sophia Bush as Karen / Voyd, a young Elastigirl fan who aspires to be a true superhero, with the power to create wormholes. •Phil LaMarr as Krushauer and He-Lectrix, two superheroes who, alongside Voyd, aspire to be true superheroes. Krushauer has the power of telekinesis while Helectrix has the power of controlling and projecting electrical currents. •Paul Eiding as Gus Burns / Reflux, an elderly Super who aspires to be a true superhero, with the power of vomiting hot lava. •Isabella Rossellini as The Ambassador, a dignified foreign official committed to the support and legalization of superheroes. •John Ratzenberger as The Underminer, a mole-like supervillain who seeks to bring war and destruction to the world. •Barry Bostwick as Mayor •Jere Burns as Detective No. 1 •Adam Rodriguez as Detective No. 2 •Kimberly Adair Clark as Honey Best, Frozone's wife. •Usher as Lucius Best's valet |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| The Parrs, a family of superheroes, pursue the Underminer. Although he robs the Metroville Bank and escapes, they stop his drill tank from destroying City Hall with help from Lucius Best. However, the government, concerned by the collateral damage, shuts down the Superhero Relocation Program, leaving the Parrs without financial assistance from agent Rick Dicker. As Violet's date, Tony, discovered her superhero identity during the Underminer attack, Dicker erases her from his memory. That night, Lucius informs Bob and Helen of an offer from Winston Deavor, the owner of DevTech, a telecommunications corporation. Winston and his sister Evelyn propose a publicity stunt to regain public trust in superheroes. Winston chooses Helen to spearhead the stunt under her old identity, Elastigirl, as she causes less property damage, and provides the Parr family with a new home. While Helen is away, Bob struggles with his new role as a stay-at-home parent: Dash has trouble with math, Violet becomes withdrawn after Tony stands her up, and Jack-Jack wreaks havoc with his burgeoning superpowers. Bob brings Jack-Jack to Edna Mode, who develops a suit to control his abilities. Meanwhile, Elastigirl confronts and captures the Screenslaver, a supervillain who projects hypnoticimages using television screens. She unmasks him as a deliveryman with no recollection of his actions. At a party celebrating the Screenslaver's arrest, Winston announces a summit of world leaders to legalize superheroes to be hosted aboard his luxury ship. Unsettled by the ease with which she captured the Screenslaver, Elastigirl realizes that he was being controlled by a pair of mind-control goggles. Evelyn forces the goggles onto her, revealing herself as the mastermind behind the Screenslaver. Evelyn explains she has hated superheroes since Gazerbeam and Fironic failed to rescue her father from being killed by burglars. She plans to sabotage her brother's summit and cause a catastrophe that will tarnish the reputation of superheroes. Using a hypnotized Elastigirl, she lures Mr. Incredible into a trap, then sends other hypnotized superheroes to subdue the Parr children. Frozone tries to protect them, but is overwhelmed and placed under Evelyn's control as well. Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack escape with the help of the Incredibile, a high-tech car once owned by Bob during his time as Mr. Incredible, and reach Winston's ship. On board, the hypnotized Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, and Frozone recite a vindictive manifesto on air to paint superheroes as a threat. They subdue the crew, aim the ship at Municiberg, and destroy the controls. Jack-Jack removes Elastigirl's goggles, who frees Mr. Incredible and Frozone. The Parrs and Frozone release the other mind-controlled superheroes by destroying their goggles. With Mr. Incredible swimming underwater to turn the rudder and Frozone creating layers of ice, they slow the ship and prevent it from crashing into the city. Evelyn escapes in a jet, but is captured by Elastigirl. Superheroes around the world regain legal status. Later, Tony accompanies Violet and her family to a movie. Outside the theater, the Parrs spot a high-speed pursuit between police and gunmen. Violet leaves Tony at the theater and promises to return in time for the film, before the Parrs give chase in a refurbished Incredimobile. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 24. “The Santa Clause” | 24 November 1994 |
| STARRING: |
| •Tim Allen as Scott Calvin •Eric Lloyd as Charlie Calvin •Wendy Crewson as Laura Miller •Judge Reinhold as Dr. Neil Miller •David Krumholtz as Bernard the Head Elf •Paige Tamada as Judy the Elf •Peter Boyle as Mr. Whittle •Larry Brandenburg as Detective Nunzio •Jayne Eastwood as Judy the Waitress •Kenny Vadas as the E.L.F.S. Leader •Chris Benson as Fireman O'Hara •Mary Gross as Mrs. Daniels |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| Scott Calvin (Tim Allen), a successful toy salesman, prepares to spend Christmas Eve with his son Charlie (Eric Lloyd). Scott convinces Charlie that Santa Claus is real, despite not believing himself. Scott's ex-wife, Laura (Wendy Crewson) and her psychiatrist husband Dr. Neil Miller (Judge Reinhold) both stopped believing in Santa at a young age and feel that Charlie needs to face reality. After Scott reads The Night Before Christmas to Charlie and tucks him into bed, Santa's sleigh lands on their roof and wakes Charlie. Charlie wakes up Scott, who hears Santa's footsteps on the roof and assumes that it is an intruder. Rushing outside, Scott startles Santa, causing him to lose his balance and fall off the roof breaking Santa's neck. Scott finds a card in the pocket of Santa's suit that states "If something should happen to me, put on my suit, the Reindeer will know what to do," after which Santa vanishes. Charlie climbs onto the roof via a ladder which has magically appeared, and finds Santa's sleigh and reindeer. Scott follows him into the sleigh, which flies off to continue delivering presents. Persuaded by Charlie, Scott puts on the Santa suit and delivers a few gifts before the reindeer take them to the North Pole. Once they arrive, Bernard (David Krumholtz), the head elf, explains to Scott that because he put on the suit, he is subjected to a legal technicality known as "The Santa Clause", a mystery of who will replace Santa meaning that he has agreed to accept all of Santa's duties and responsibilities, and has been given eleven months to get his affairs in order before reporting back to the North Pole on Thanksgiving. Overwhelmed, Scott changes into pajamas and falls asleep. The next morning, he wakes up in his own bed, causing him to believe that it was all a dream, until Charlie discovers that Scott is still wearing the pajamas from the North Pole. When Charlie proudly tells his class that his father is Santa, Laura, Neil, and the school principal ask Scott, whom they all believe is responsible, to tell Charlie that it was just a dream. Not wanting to break Charlie's heart, Scott instead convinces Charlie to keep their trip to the North Pole to themselves, which Charlie agrees. Over the course of the following year, strange things begin to happen to Scott. He begins gaining a significant amount of weight, as much as 45 pounds in a week. His facial hair regrows quickly after shaving and his hair turns stark white. Scott also begins craving milk and cookies. As a result, most of his clothes stop fitting, forcing him to wear sweaters and sweatpants. Scott also acquires the ability to tell whether a child has been "naughty or nice", and children seem to know he is Santa. After an incident in which several children approach Scott to ask for Christmas presents, Laura and Neil believe he is deliberately trying to undermine them and successfully petition a judge to suspend Scott's visitation rights. Devastated and still not convinced he is Santa, Scott goes to Laura and Neil's house on Thanksgiving, where Charlie shows Scott a snow globe that Bernard had given him, finally convincing him that he is Santa. As Scott prepares to leave, Bernard appears and transports him and Charlie to the North Pole. Laura and Neil believe Scott has kidnapped Charlie and contact the police. At the North Pole, Scott sets out to deliver the gifts with Charlie in tow. However, upon arriving at Laura and Neil's home, Scott is arrested. The elves eventually send a crack team of extraction elves to rescue him. Scott returns to Laura and Neil's house and manages to convince them that he is Santa by giving them presents that they wanted as children but were never given to them, which caused both of them to stop believing in Santa. Laura decides to burn the papers banning Scott's visitation rights and tells him that he can visit anytime. Bernard then appears to tell Charlie that if he shakes his snow globe at any time, his father will appear, before Bernard vanishes into thin air. After a public departure, Scott travels the world to finish delivering gifts. Using the snow globe, Charlie summons Scott back home. Laura agrees to let Charlie go with Scott to finish delivering the gifts, and the two head off into the night. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 25. “The Santa Clause 2” | 1 November 2002 |
| STARRING: |
| •Tim Allen as Scott Calvin / Santa Claus / Toy Santa •Eric Lloyd as Charlie Calvin •Elizabeth Mitchell as Principal Carol Newman •Wendy Crewson as Laura Miller •Judge Reinhold as Dr. Neal Miller •Liliana Mumy as Lucy Miller •David Krumholtz as Bernard the Elf •Spencer Breslin as Curtis the Elf •Danielle Woodman as Judy the Elf •Aisha Tyler as Mother Nature •Peter Boyle as Father Time •Jay Thomas as Easter Bunny •Kevin Pollak as Cupid •Art LaFleur as Tooth Fairy •Michael Dorn as Sandman |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| Eight years have passed since Scott Calvin took on the mantle of Santa Claus, redeemed himself to be good, and solved The Santa Clause Mystery. Now he has become a great Santa at the North Pole, until Head Elf Bernard and Curtis, the Keeper of the Handbook of Christmas break the news that there is another clause - the "Mrs. Clause", a mystery of who will marry Scott. Scott is now pressed to get married before the next Christmas Eve, or the clause will be broken and he will stop being Santa forever. At the same time, Abby the Elf delivers news that is more distressing: Scott's own son Charlie is on the naughty list. Scott must return to his home to search for a wife and set things right with Charlie. He brings this up when visited by the Council of Legendary Figures consisting of Mother Nature, Father Time, Cupid, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and the Sandman. To cover for Santa's prolonged absence, Curtis helps Santa create a life-size toy replica of Santa, much to Bernard's horror. Because of the impending end of his contract, Scott undergoes a "de-Santafication process" that gradually turns him back into Scott Calvin. He has a limited amount of magic to help him. Scott returns home to his ex-wife Laura, her husband Neil, their six-year-old daughter Lucy, and Charlie, who Scott realizes has been vandalizing his school to get attention. He and Charlie both face the ire of the school principal Carol Newman when Charlie defaces the lockers. At the North Pole, Toy Santa follows the rulebook too literally and begins to think that everyone in the world is naughty because of their small mistakes. As a result, Toy Santa takes over the North Pole using giant toy soldiers which he made himself and places Bernard under house arrest. He then unveils his plan to the elves to give lumps of coal to the world. After a few failed dates, Scott finds himself falling for Carol. He accompanies her in a horse-drawn sleigh to the faculty Christmas party, during which she confesses that she used to believe in Santa as a child, until she was forced to stop doing so by her parents after fighting with children who told her that Santa is not real. Using a little of his Christmas magic, Scott enlivens the otherwise dull party by presenting everyone with their childhood dream gifts. He makes a special presentation to Carol, and, with his last remnant of magic, wins her over and they kiss passionately under mistletoe. However, when Scott attempts to explain to her that he is Santa, she does not believe him, thinking that he is mocking her childhood, and throws him out. After which, Charlie confesses to Scott how hard it is for him that Scott is never around like other fathers, and reveals the pressure he is under to conceal the secret that his father is Santa. Lucy manages to convince Charlie not to be mad at Scott since he is his father, which causes Charlie to convince Carol that his father is Santa by showing her his magic snowglobe. Curtis flies in to deliver the news about the Toy Santa's plan. However, Scott has used up the last of his magic wooing Carol, and cannot return to the North Pole. With a little help from the Tooth Fairy, Scott and Curtis manage to do so, only for Toy Santa to find them and tie them up, but Charlie and Carol spring him free by summoning the Tooth Fairy to fly them to the North Pole. Scott goes after the Toy Santa, who has already left with the sleigh, riding Chet, a reindeer-in-training, and they both crash back into the village. With an army of elves, Carol, Bernard, Charlie and Curtis lead them into a snowball fight to overthrow the toy soldiers. Toy Santa is defeated and reduced to a six-inch height, Scott marries Carol in a ceremony, Scott transforms back to Santa, and Christmas proceeds as it always has. In addition, Scott and Charlie reveal the truth to Lucy about Scott being Santa Claus and she cannot tell anyone about his secret, but that it's more of a gift than a burden. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 26. “The Santa Clause 3 - The Escape Clause” | 3 November 2006 |
| STARRING: |
| •Tim Allen as Santa Claus / Scott Calvin •Martin Short as Jack Frost •Elizabeth Mitchell as Mrs. Claus / Carol Calvin •Judge Reinhold as Neil Miller •Wendy Crewson as Laura Miller •Liliana Mumy as Lucy Miller •Alan Arkin as Bud Newman •Ann-Margret as Sylvia Newman •Spencer Breslin as Curtis the Elf •Eric Lloyd as Charlie Calvin •Aisha Tyler as Mother Nature •Peter Boyle as Father Time •Michael Dorn as the Sandman •Jay Thomas as the Easter Bunny •Kevin Pollak as Cupid •Art LaFleur as the Tooth Fairy •Abigail Breslin as Trish |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| Twelve years have passed since Scott Calvin took on the mantle of Santa Claus and became subject to the Santa Clause and married Carol Newman, who has now become a teacher in the North Pole. On Christmas Eve, she tells a group of young elves a story from her life with Scott Calvin/Santa Clause while expecting their first child. Scott invites his in-laws, Sylvia and Bud Newman, to the North Pole, along with Scott's former wife, Laura, her husband, Neil, their daughter, Lucy, and Scott's son, Charlie. Meanwhile, he is summoned to a meeting of the Council of Legendary Figures, consisting of Mother Nature, Father Time, the Easter Bunny, Cupid, the Tooth Fairy, and the Sandman, concerning the behavior of Jack Frost, who is jealous that he has no holiday or special occasion in his honor. Because he has been promoting himself during the Christmas season, Mother Nature suggests sanctions against him. When Scott says he is dealing with how to get the in-laws to come without revealing that he is Santa, Jack Frost negotiates a light sentence of community service at the North Pole, helping Scott and the elves put up various Canadian-themed paraphernalia, as Carol's parents believe Scott is a toy-maker in Canada, which Scott agrees. However, Frost's ultimate goal is to trick Santa into renouncing his position. When elf Curtis inadvertently reveals the "Escape Clause," Frost sneaks into Santa's hall of snow globes and steals one containing Scott as Santa. If Scott holds the globe and says, "I wish I'd never been Santa at all," he will go back in time and undo his career as Santa. When Lucy discovers this, Frost freezes her parents and locks her in a closet. He then orchestrates situations that make Scott think he must resign to make things better. Frost tricks Scott into invoking the Escape Clause and both are sent to Scott's front yard in 1994, when Scott caused the original Santa to fall off of his roof and had to replace him. Frost causes the original Santa to fall off the roof and grabs Santa's coat before Scott can, making Frost the new Santa. Scott is sent back to the present day, where he has been CEO of his old company for the last 12 years and business takes priority over family. Scott also learns that Laura and Neil divorced and Carol moved away years ago. Scott goes to find Lucy and Neil, who are vacationing at the North Pole, which Frost has turned into a tourist resort. Christmas is now "Frostmas", the elves are miserable, and the reindeer are confined to a petting zoo. When Scott finds Lucy and Neil, Neil states that Charlie didn't want him to be his father, causing the divorce between him and Laura. Scott confronts Frost and tricks him into recording his voice stating the Escape Clause. Scott has Lucy steal Frost's snow globe and bring it to him; when Frost finds out and takes the globe back, Scott plays the recording of Frost saying, "I wish I'd never been Santa at all", invoking the Escape Clause and causing Scott and Frost to be sent back again to 1994. Scott restrains Jack long enough to let his 1994 counterpart get the coat, making him Santa Claus again as well as taking him back to the North Pole in the present, where no time has passed. Scott reconciles with his family and Jack is arrested by elf police. He reveals he cannot unfreeze his victims unless he unfreezes himself. Scott convinces Lucy via a snow globe he had given her earlier of her warmly hugging a snowman, to give Frost a "magic hug" to unfreeze and reform him. It works, Laura and Neil unfreeze and Frost becomes a new person. The "Canada" ruse is dropped and Scott appears as Santa to Carol's parents. With two hours remaining before Santa must leave for his Christmas deliveries, Carol goes into labor. Back to the present time, while Carol is telling the tale to her students, Scott walks in to reveal their baby boy, Buddy Claus. |
| MOVIE TITLE | RELEASE DATE |
| 27. “Weird - The Al Yankovic Story” | 8 September 2022 |
| STARRING: |
| •Daniel Radcliffe as Alfred "Weird Al" Yankovic •Diedrich Bader as narrator Al •David Bloom as teenage Al •Richard Aaron Anderson as young Al •Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna •Rainn Wilson as Dr. Demento •Toby Huss as Nick Yankovic, Al's estranged father. •Julianne Nicholson as Mary Yankovic, Al's estranged mother. •Spencer Treat Clark as Steve Jay, Al's bassist. •Jack Lancaster as Jim "Kimo" West, Al's lead guitarist. Tommy O'Brien as Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, Al's drummer. •Thomas Lennon as a traveling accordion salesman. •Arturo Castro as Pablo Escobar •Quinta Brunson as Oprah Winfrey •"Weird Al" Yankovic as Tony Scotti •Yankovic also provides onscreen Al's singing voice •Will Forte as Ben Scotti •Jack Black as Wolfman Jack •Lin-Manuel Miranda as the ER doctor •Scott Aukerman as a police officer •Dot-Marie Jones as Mama Bear The pool party scene features many cameos, including Conan O'Brien as Andy Warhol; Jorma Taccone as Pee-wee Herman; Nina West as Divine; Akiva Schaffer as Alice Cooper;David Dastmalchian as John Deacon; Paul F. Tompkins as Gallagher; Demetri Martin as Tiny Tim; and Emo Philips as Salvador Dal í. In the bar scene, Patton Oswalt plays a heckler,[8] while Michael McKean appears as the MC. Josh Groban plays a waiter, while Seth Green voices a radio DJ. Yankovic's real-life wife, Suzanne Krajewski, appears uncredited as Tony's wife Sylvie Vartan. |
| SYNOPSIS: |
| Young Alfred "Al" Yankovic becomes interested in parodying songs despite his father's disapproval. Al's mother secretly purchases an accordion for him, but his father destroys it when Al is caught at an illicit polka party, thus straining Al's relationship with his parents. Years later, an older Al is living with his roommates Steve, Jim, and Bermuda, and trying to join bands as an accordion player but he is constantly rejected. While listening to "My Sharona" on the radio and fixing a bologna sandwich, Al is inspired to write "My Bologna". He sends the song to a local radio DJ, who puts it on the air immediately; he then goes to Scotti Brothers Records, where the brothers mock him, but are willing to reconsider if Al gains more experience. Al performs "I Love Rocky Road" for the first time at a biker bar, his roommates stepping in to fill out his band and make the performance a success. Al catches the interest of Dr. Demento, who offers to be his manager while suggesting he go by the stage name "Weird Al". At a party hosted by Dr. Demento, the doctor's rival Wolfman Jack dares Al to prove himself by parodying Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" with bassist John Deacon present. Al comes up with "Another One Rides the Bus", impressing the celebrities in attendance. Al lands his record contract, and his debut album goes multi-platinum, with the original artists experiencing a "Yankovic bump" in record sales and Al being feted by Oprah Winfrey. Al calls home to find his father is still dismissive of him. Dr. Demento suggests Al try to make his own original song, which he refuses. However, after Dr. Demento gives him guacamole laced with LSD, Al comes up with an original new song, which becomes his next hit, "Eat It". Madonna, in search of the "Yankovic bump", begins a relationship with Al to convince him to parody her song "Like a Virgin", though he insists he now only writes original songs. Dr. Demento and Al's bandmates warn him that Madonna is a bad influence, but they continue their romance. Just before a major show, Al learns that Michael Jackson has taken "Eat It" and parodied it as "Beat It", which angers him since he believes people will assume "Eat It" is a parody of "Beat It". An intoxicated Al suffers a near-fatal car accident and is rushed to the hospital, where he comes up with "Like a Surgeon" after regaining consciousness. He premieres the song at a show that same night, while still heavily injured, but when he is reminded that "Eat It" is the last song for the show, he gets drunk on stage, insults the crowd, and is arrested for lewdness. Once released, Al confesses to Madonna that he fears he has alienated everybody who cared about him and that she is the only one he has left. Suddenly, Madonna is captured by agents of Pablo Escobar, who is a huge fan of Al and uses the kidnapping to coerce him to play at his fortieth birthday party. Al flies to Colombia and goes on a rampage to break into Escobar's compound, where he confronts the drug lord. After refusing to play a song for him, he gets into a shootout and kills Escobar and his mercenaries to free Madonna. With the kingpin dead, Madonna tries to talk Al into giving up music and helping her take over his drug empire, but Al rejects her. Al returns home to work in his father's factory, as his father had always wanted; but Al's father admits that Al never belonged in that line of work and that he'd secretly supported Al's chosen path all along. The elder Yankovic reveals he grew up in an Amish community and was excommunicated for taking up the accordion, prompting him to prevent Al from making the same mistake. Al then brings his father's song, "Amish Paradise", to the stage, winning him a major award in 1985 before being assassinated onstage by one of Madonna's henchmen. |
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