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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...

#35 How To Train Your Dragon

  Story The  Viking  village of Berk, located on a remote island, is attacked frequently by  Dragons , which take livestock, damage property and endanger lives. Hiccup, the awkward fifteen-year-old son of the village chieftain, Stoick the Vast, is deemed too scrawny and weak to fight the dragons, so he instead creates mechanical devices under his apprenticeship with Gobber, the village blacksmith, though Hiccup's inventions often backfire. During one attack, Hiccup uses a  bolas  launcher to shoot down a Night Fury, a dangerous and rare dragon of which little is known, but no one believes him, so he searches for the fallen dragon on his own. He finds the dragon in the forest, tangled in his net, but cannot bring himself to kill him, and instead sets him free. Stoick assembles a fleet to find the dragons' nest, and enters Hiccup in a dragon-fighting class taught by Gobber with the other teenagers, Fishlegs, Snotlout, twins Ruffnut and Tuffnut, and Astrid, a ...

#33 Kung Fu Panda

Story In the Valley of Peace, a land in  Ancient China  inhabited by anthropomorphic animals, Po is a fan of kung fu, and idolizes the Furious Five–Tigress, Monkey, Crane, Viper, and Mantis–a group of kung fu masters trained by Master Shifu. However, Po is unable to pursue his dream of learning kung fu while he helps his adoptive father, Mr. Ping the goose, in his noodle restaurant. Grand Master Oogway, Shifu's mentor, has a vision that Shifu's former protégé, the evil Tai Lung, will escape from prison. Oogway fortells that Tai Lung will return to the valley to exact his revenge for being denied the dragon scroll, which is said to hold the secret to boundless power. Panicked, Shifu sends his messenger, Zeng the goose, with a request for the prison to tighten its security. He then holds a tournament for the Furious Five so that Oogway can identify the Dragon Warrior, the one kung fu master worthy of receiving the Dragon Scroll. Po arrives too late to enter the arena; desperate ...

#33 ICE AGE

  Story Scrat, a saber-toothed  squirrel , attempts to find a place to store his acorn for the winter. Eventually, as he tries to stomp it into the ground, he inadvertently causes a large crack to form in the ice that extends for miles before setting off a large avalanche which nearly crushes him. He barely escapes but finds himself getting stepped on by a herd of prehistoric animals migrating south in order to escape the forthcoming  ice age . Sid, a clumsy  ground sloth , is left behind by his family and decides to move on by himself, but is attacked by two  Brontotheres  after ruining their meal and making them angry. Sid is soon rescued by Manny, a cynical  woolly mammoth  heading north, who fights the rhinos off and continues on his path. Sid joins Manny, not wanting to be alone and unprotected. Manny is annoyed by Sid's outgoing demeanor and wishes to migrate on his own, but Sid nonetheless continues to follow Manny. Meanwhile, Soto, the lea...

#32 Epic

  Story Seventeen-year-old Mary Katherine, or M.K., moves in with her eccentric  scientist  father Professor Bomba, who has been searching for tiny humanoid soldiers called Leafmen. They protect the forest that Bomba lives near from wicked creatures called Boggans and their malevolent leader Mandrake. An independent young soldier named Nod decides to quit, much to the ire of the no-nonsense Leafmen leader Ronin. The fairy queen of the forest, Queen Tara, must choose an heir to her throne and goes out to a field of leaf pods on board her flying barge and escorted by the Royal guards, arriving at the field guarded by a laid-back  slug  named Mub and a wannabe Leafman  snail  named Grub. Immediately after she chooses a pod, the Boggans attack. Tara flees the area with the pod, and though flying Leafmen bodyguards do their best to protect her, they are soon overwhelmed by the sheer number of Boggans. Unable to reach the barge and the safety of the Guards, ...

#31 Mulan

  Story The  Huns , who are led by the ruthless  Shan Yu , invade imperial  Han  China by breaching the  Great Wall . In the Imperial City, the  Emperor  orders a general mobilization, with  conscription  notices requiring one man from each family to join the  Imperial Chinese Army . Fa Mulan  learns that her elderly father Fa Zhou—the only man in their family and an army veteran—is being conscripted and fears for his life due to his poor health. To protect him, she cuts her hair and takes her father's sword and armor, disguising herself as a man so that she can enlist in his stead. The family quickly learns of her departure, and Mulan's grandmother prays to the family's ancestors for Mulan's safety. The ancestors decide that the " Great Stone Dragon " will bring Mulan back and sends a disgraced former guardian, a small red  dragon  named  Mushu , to awaken him. Mushu accidentally destroys the guardian's statue b...

#30 Kubo and the Two Strings

  Story In  feudal Japan , 12-year-old eyepatched Kubo tends to his ill mother Sariatu in a mountain cave near a village. He earns their living by magically manipulating  origami  with music from his  shamisen  for the village folk, telling the tale of his missing father Hanzo, a  samurai  warrior. Kubo is never able to finish his story, as he does not know what happened to Hanzo and Sariatu cannot recall the end due to her deteriorating mental state. Sariatu warns him not to stay out after dark as her Sisters, Karasu and Washi, and his grandfather, the Moon King (who took his eye when he was a baby) will find him and take his remaining eye. One day, Kubo learns of the village's  Bon festival  allowing them to speak to deceased loved ones. Kubo attends but is angry that Hanzo does not appear from his lantern, and forgets to return home before sunset. Karasu and Washi quickly find him and attack, but Sariatu suddenly appears and uses her ...

#28 Megamind

Story Megamind and Metro Man are life-long rivals in Metro City. Both are alien orphans sent to Earth from their dying planets, but are raised on earth in far different circumstances. Metro Man eventually becomes a superhero, defending the city from Megamind's villainous plans that he executes with the help of his henchman Minion, a  fish -like creature he was given by his mother, who lives and acts from inside a mechanical gorilla-like suit. Megamind once again escapes from prison through a  holographic  disguise, sprays reporter Roxanne Ritchi with mace and kidnaps her, luring Metro Man to a  copper -lined  observatory . Metro Man collapses and then states that copper is his only weakness, which allows Megamind to kill him with a  solar-powered   death ray . Megamind quickly takes over the city, but finds that, with no one to challenge him, his villainous life has no meaning. Megamind prepares to destroy the recently-opened Metro Man museum, trying t...

#27 Croods : A NEW AGE

  Story Years ago, Guy's parents become trapped in tar. As they sink into it, they tell him to find somewhere called "tomorrow". He goes on a long journey and meets a young Belt before eventually coming across Eep, leading to the events of  the first film . The Croods, along with Guy and their pets Chunky and Douglas, are still searching for a place to settle down, all the while Grug acts annoyed at Eep and Guy's blossoming romance. One night, Grug comes across a giant wall and leads the whole pack to it. They are soon caught in a net and are released by the owners of the land, a couple named Phil and Hope Betterman and they are soon revealed to be friends of Guy's late parents and therefore, know Guy. The Bettermans welcome the Croods to their giant tree-home as house guests, where they meet their daughter and Guy's old friend Dawn who immediately befriends Eep. Life with the Bettermans becomes degrading for Grug due to the Bettermans being better evolved. Si...

#26 Croods

  Story A  cave family  called the Croods survives several  natural disasters , due to stubborn patriarch Grug refusing to let anyone leave the cave except for short periods to gather food. Eep, his teenage daughter, loves her family but frequently rebels against these strictures. One night, Eep sneaks out when she sees a light, and encounters an inventive  modern human  boy named Guy and his  pet   sloth  Belt, who have made a  torch . He warns her of an impending apocalypse and offers to help her escape, but Eep elects to stay with the family. Guy leaves her a shell horn to blow if she needs help, but when Eep returns to her frantic family, they destroy the horn out of fear of the "New". A massive earthquake destroys the cave and surrounding lands, and the Croods flee into a jungle they discover below their home mountains. Encountering a "Macawnivore", a brightly colored feline whom Eep's grandmother dubs "Chunky", the family flees him...

#13 Focus

  Story A  con-man  Nicky Spurgeon ( Will Smith ) goes to an upscale restaurant, where an inexperienced  grifter , Jess Barrett ( Margot Robbie ), seduces him and then pretends they've been caught by her jealous husband. When the deception fails, Nicky advises them never to lose focus when faced with unexpected situations. Nicky follows Jess and convinces her to have a drink with him. Over drinks, he tells her the story of how his father killed his grandfather in a stand-off, explaining the tactic called a "Toledo Panic Button" which means that you shoot your partner to show you're loyal. Jess follows Nicky to  New Orleans , as she think Nicky is very charismatic and attractive. Jess successful in persuading Nicky to take her under his wing, where she is also introduced to Nicky's crew as well, including the obese and profane Farhad ( Adrian Martinez ) and fellow con-man Horst (Brennan Brown). She picks a few pockets as a test, and soon Nicky and Jess develop a ...

#7 IN TIME

Story In 2169, people are generically control to stop aging at 25th birthday. From 25, the clock on their arm that counts down how long they can live also new economic system uses the time as universal currency that transferred directly between people or stored in "Time capsules". So when time reaches Zero, it called "Time out" and dies. There are several time zones for poorest people who has less than 24hours called Dayton and rich people who has enough time for a long time called Greenwich. A man called Will, he was living at Dayton and he help a man call Hamilton who are running away from someone. Will find Hamilton has 116 years of life time on the clock. But he said he is tired to live as he said people in Greenwich has most of the time to live forever, while arrange increase the prices for poor people to keep dying. Next day, Will find Hamilton pass away next to him and Will saws 116 years life time on his clock. Will was chased by Police as they suspect Hamil...