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#36 Madagaskar

  Story At the  Central Park Zoo , Marty the  zebra  celebrates 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". Alex attempts to cheer Marty up, but Marty, still unsatisfied, learns that the zoo's  penguins —Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private—are trying to escape, and follows them out. Alex, Melman the  giraffe , and Gloria the  hippopotamus  pursue Marty and attempt to convince him to return. The four, along with the penguins and two  chimpanzees  named Mason and Phil, converge at  Grand Central Station  where the authorities sedate them using  tranquilizer guns . Under pressure from anti-captivity activists, the zoo is forced to ship the escaped animals by sea to a  Kenyan  wildlife preserve. During their travels, the penguins es...

#23 Home

  Story An alien race known as the Boov finds near-future  Earth  a suitable place to call "home". Led by Captain Smek ( Steve Martin ), they commence their "friendly" invasion of the planet, relocating the humans, whom the Boov deem as simple and backwards, to remote parts of the planet while the Boov inhabit their homes in a quick and  bloodless conquest . One of the Boov, named Oh ( Jim Parsons ), is a more excitable, freethinking member of the species, who decides to invite the Boov to his apartment for a housewarming party, despite the race's  antipathy  towards him. Not far from Oh is a 14-year-old [7]  girl named Gratuity "Tip" Tucci ( Rihanna ), who drives away through her home city to find her mother Lucy ( Jennifer Lopez ) after being separated from her during the invasion, leaving her with only her  calico cat  Pig and fueling her hatred for the Boov. Oh runs into the street to meet up with a grumpy Boov cop named Kyle ( Matt Jones...

#22 Hotel Transylvania

Story In 1895, after the death of his wife Martha at the hands of an angry human mob,  Count Dracula  commissions and builds a massive 5-star, monsters-only hotel in  Transylvania , in which he raises his daughter  Mavis . The hotel also serves as a safe haven and a getaway for the world's monsters from fear of human persecution. Famous monsters such as  Frankenstein  and his wife  Eunice , Wayne and Wanda  Werewolf  and  their massive immediate family ,  Griffin the Invisible Man , and Murray the  Mummy  often come to stay at the hotel. In the present day, on Mavis' 118th birthday, Dracula allows his daughter to leave the castle to explore the human world, but he sets up an  elaborate plan  using his  zombie   bellhops  disguised as humans to make them seem intimidating, and frighten her home. The plan works, but the zombies inadvertently lead a 21-year-old [8]  human Jonathan "Johnny" Loughr...

#21 Wreck It Ralph

  Story When Litwak's  arcade  closes at night, the various  video game  characters leave their normal in-game roles and socialize in a  power strip . Wreck-It Ralph, the antagonist of the game  Fix-It Felix Jr. , is ostracized by its other characters for being the game's villain, while the titular hero Felix is praised and awarded medals. After the game's inhabitants exclude Ralph from their thirtieth anniversary party, he sets out to earn a medal for himself to gain his neighbors' respect. Felix worries that Ralph has "gone Turbo" – a term coined when notorious  racing game character  Turbo attempted to take over  RoadBlasters , another racing game, which resulted in both of their games being unplugged. Ralph learns he can obtain a medal from the  first-person shooter ,  Hero's Duty . After disrupting a game session, Ralph scales the game's central beacon and obtains a medal, only to hatch a Cy-Bug, a dangerous monster. Ralph...

#20 Shreck

Story Shrek  is an anti-social and highly-territorial green  ogre  who loves the solitude of his swamp. His life is interrupted after the dwarfish  Lord Farquaad  of Duloc exiles a countless number of fairy-tale creatures to Shrek's swamp. Angered by the intrusion, he decides to pay Farquaad a visit and demand they be moved elsewhere. He reluctantly allows the talkative  Donkey , who was exiled as well, to tag along and guide him to Duloc. Meanwhile, Farquaad tortures  Gingerbread Man  for the location of fairy-tale creatures still in hiding. His guards interrupt, and present him with Snow White's  Magic Mirror . Upon asking the Mirror if his kingdom is the fairest of them all, Farquaad is told he is not even a king, and must marry a princess to become one. He decides to pursue  Princess Fiona , who is locked in a castle tower guarded by a female  dragon . Unwilling to perform the task himself, he organizes a tournament, in which th...

#19 Boss Baby

  Story A man named Tim Templeton tells a story about his imaginative seven-year-old self and his parents, Ted and Janice. One day, Tim is surprised when an infant wearing a business suit arrives at his house in a taxi, and Ted and Janice refer to him as Tim's little brother. Tim is envious of the attention the day-old baby receives, and suspicious because of the infant's clothes and the strange behavior he exhibits around Tim, but his parents are oblivious. Soon, Tim learns that the baby can talk very well, and he introduces himself as "The Boss". Seeing an opportunity to get rid of him, Tim decides to use a  cassette tape  to record a conversation between Boss Baby and other toddlers who are at Tim's house for a meeting, under the guise of a play date in the eyes of the parents. In this meeting, Boss Baby explains that puppies have been receiving more love than babies and is in search of a new file containing evidence of a new puppy Puppy Co., a company that lau...

#18 Klaus

  Story Jesper Johansson, the lazy, spoiled son of the Royal  Postmaster General , has been trying to  flunk out  of the  postman  academy, but his father sends him to the distant town of Smeerensburg; if Jesper fails to post 6,000 letters within a year, he will be cut off from his family’s fortune.  Desperate for letters, Jesper attempts to mail a young Krum boy’s drawing. He later visits the reclusive woodsman Klaus and discovers his house is filled with handmade toys, but flees from the imposing woodsman, leaving behind the sad drawing. Klaus forces Jesper to take him to the boy's house and secretly deliver one of his toys. Word spreads to other children, who hope to receive toys by sending Klaus letters. Jesper, eager to collect letters, convinces Klaus to let him deliver more toys. The Krum boy’s toy leads him to play with an Ellingboe girl, much to their families’ outrage.  After Jesper leaves  coal  in the stocking of a young bull...