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Australia:PG certified movies
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Aspiring cartoonist Tim Avery is feeling inadequate about being a father when he finds that his newborn son has some amazing abilities - the baby has the powers of the Mask of Loki, a mythological object that transforms its user into a manic shape-shifter alter-ego. As bad as a baby with godlike powers might seem, the 'really' bad news is that Loki wants his mask back... |
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Charlie loves chocolate, but he comes from a needy family and can’t afford even a little bit of the desired sweet. His penniless, but loving family lives by the walls of the mysterious Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, and the last thing Charlie sees falling asleep is the magic building. He is dreaming about the secrets, hidden inside this amazing building of the most celebrating candy company. Eventually, he gets a chance to take there. While the Wonka's confectionery plant is usually closed to any visitors, the candy man who is famously living in seclusion decides to let the only five pleased children in to see the inside of his manufacture by placing five desired "golden tickets" in five different chocolate bars. Along with four other children, Charlie explores the astonishing world of the eccentric Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp). A really amazing movie, for Johnny Depp it’s just another film of a chocolate theme and another perfect role. |
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Casey Carlyle (Michelle Trachtenberg), a bright high school student, has always dreamt of becoming a championship figure skater but she is forced to abandon her dream and head for Harvard to please her domineering professor mother Joan Carlyle (Joan Cusack). Fortunately for Casey, she gets the chance to make her dream come true when she visits a skating club and starts training with champion-in-the-making Gen Harwood (Hayden Panettiere) and her mother Tina (Kim Cattrall), a former professional skater. The more Casey trains, the more she finds herself attracted to the sport, the more she becomes obsessed with the idea of competing in the championship circuit. Does she have enough courage to ruin her mother's hopes completely in order to achieve her childhood dream? |
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Late at night Victor returns to his home going to marry his fiancee Victoria. He has a trouble remembering the upcoming marriage' vows and trying to have a practice at a forest glade. He puts the ring on the twig which turns out to be a finger of the Corpse Bride, a girl, killed by her groom some time ago. Her name is Emily, from this very time she insists on being Victor's legal wife despite the fact he already has the bride. Victor soon finds himself surrounded by the Land of the Dead, the place which is quite easy to bear if only you got used to see skeletons, eyeballs and the lost heads far and wide. Characters of this animated story bear strong resemblance to personas of Tim Burton's "Nightmare before Christmas" at some points. Animated Victor van Dort is voiced by inimitable Johnny Depp and his dead wife wannabe speaks with the voice of Helena Bonham Carter. |
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Based on true events, the political drama portrays the confrontation between journalist Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin that shook the American society in 1954. America's freedom, values and ideals were threatened when Joseph McCarthy launched a massive campaign against communists. Murrow, a well-known host of the CBS television program, was the first person who drew the attention of the general public to ideological and political problems. Despite corporate pressure and the potential ramifications, the courageous journalist ventured to investigate and expose McCarthy and his dirty methods during his "witch-hunts." |
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Set in Victorian England, the drama chronicles adventures of Oliver Twist (Barney Clark), a 9-year-old lowly orphan born in a workhouse run by the hypocritical, cruel Mr. Bumble (Jeremy Swift). Fed up with maltreatment and poor conditions in the workhouse, Oliver ventures to escape to the streets of London where he is trapped in a den of young pickpockets and petty thieves led by the sinister old Fagin (Ben Kingsley). He tries perfidiously to draw the innocent boy into a life of crime. When Oliver is caught and mistaken for a thief who has participated in the robbery of the wealthy Mr. Brownlow (Edward Hardwicke), the kindly old gentleman decides to take the miserable boy home and give him a proper upbringing. |
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Emma Thompson portrays a governess who uses magic to alter the behavior of a gaggle of previously irredeemable kids. She enters the household of the recently widowed Mr. Brown (Colin Firth) and attempts to tame his seven exceedingly ill-behaved children. She almost does, but there is a menace looming over the family – aunt Adelaide (Angela Lansbury) is going to take away one of the kids. |
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Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother's major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it's up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she's in a dream, or something far more sinister. |
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The large Baker family comprised of Tom (Steve Martin), his wife Kate (Bonnie Hunt) and their twelve offsprings is a closely knit unit. As the kids grow up and are about to scatter to the four winds, Tom and Kate plan to spend the carefree, memorable weekend all together. Knowing that vacations in the open air are fine for the entire family, the Bakers arrive at a decision to go to their rustic house on the shore of Lake Winnetka, Wisconsin. While there, they enter into a competition with another large family, the Murtaughs. Married to his trophy wife Sarina (Carmen Electra) and with eight kids to take care of, Jimmy Murtaugh (Eugene Levy) is Tom's old high school rival. He is now a rich socialite who has money to burn and lives in a huge house across the lake from the Bakers', that's why the thought of his success keeps Tom awake at night. The two ambitious fathers continue playing a long-standing game of one-upmanship. Who will win this year?
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The computer-animated movie takes place two years after the events of the Final Fantasy VII video game. The world has assuredly become a more peaceful place, though cities and industry are still lying in ruins and most of the Earth's population has been afflicted with a strange and lethal disease known as 'Seikon-Shoukougun' which is Japanese for 'Planet Scar Syndrome'. The main character, guilt-ridden ex-soldier Cloud Strife (Steve Burton), has been leading a reclusive life, no longer wanting to fight wars. However, when he is attacked by three mysterious, villainous kids, Kadaj (Steve Staley), Yazoo (Dave Wittenberg) and Loz (Fred Tatasciore), who are bent on assaulting the Planet, Cloud is forced to come out of retirement to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard. |
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This animation story tells about the adventures of NY Zoo inhabitants – Alex the Lion (voice of Ben Stiller), Marty the Zebra (voice of Chris Rock), Melman the Giraffe (voice of David Schwimmer) and Gloria the Hippo (voice of Jada Pinkett Smith). They are best friends and when one of them goes missing, the other three break out of the zoo looking for him. They meet again onboard the vessel heading to Africa, but en venue the ship gets capsized and the friends find themselves on the strand of Madagascar. Finally, after the series of adventures they figure out that the wildlife is more difficult than their well-provided life at the Zoo. |
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Nick, a playboy bachelor, gets into intrigue with an attractive divorcee, Suzanne. She has two kids - seven-year-old Kevin and eleven-year-old Lindsey. When Suzanne's work keeps her in Vancouver for the holiday, Nick offers to bring her kids from Portland, Oregon to reunite with their mom. But Kevin and Lindsey never liked mom's admirers... Ice Cube appears as both star and producer for this movie. |
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A pretty witch Isabelle goes to San Fernando Valley, CA to try to reinvent herself and to reject her supernatural abilities in order to return to a normal life. Jack Wyatt is a handsome actor who tries to get his career out of decline. The paths of the two occasionally cross; Jack needs someone to play a role of his on-screen wife in a remake of the successful TV Series "Bewitched". He couldn't even imagine that the girl deals with the real magic and is an enchantress, as her future heroine. This movie is Nora Ephron's updated adaptation of a classic situation romance comedy. |
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Arthur Dent is a British everyman. When he finally meets his perfect woman he balks at her request to go some place and she is then stolen away from him by a man claiming to have his own spaceship arrives at the party. Arthur next finds that his home is to be demolished for a bypass. He thinks it is only his house, but later realizes, with the help of Ford Prefect, that his galactic home, Earth, is going to be destroyed as well. Ford and Arthur then catch a ride on a spaceship and are Arthur finds himself on the adventure of a lifetime. He also finds the woman stolen away from him and the man who pilfered her. If Earth can be restored will Arthur want to ease back into his boring life? |
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In a world where the holidays are run by the efficient Bureau of Yuletide Affairs, a bitter and burned-out Ghost of Christmas Past decides to go AWOL while on a "mission" and leave his "target" stranded in 1965. |
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Family man Phil Weston, a lifelong victim of his father's competitive nature, takes on the coaching duties of a kids' soccer team, and soon finds that he's also taking on his father's dysfunctional way of relating... |
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Remember the good old fairytale movie Jumanji? Two constantly quarreling brothers found themselves propelled into deepest, darkest space while playing a mysterious game they found in the basement of their old house. When Danny and Walter look up through the gaping hole in their roof, they discover, to their horror that they are in the outer space. As the boys try to figure out a way back home, they meet a stranded astronaut, they must survive meteor showers, angry lizard-like aliens, a rocket-propelled robot run amok and an intergalactic spaceship battle. Unless they finish the game and reach the planet Zathura, they are doomed to be trapped in outer space forever. |
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Believe in your dreams and someday your dreams will come true! This inspiring story is about Santiago Munez (Kuno Becker), a young Mexican immigrant living in the barrios of Los Angeles, who has always dreamt of being a professional soccer player. Although he works a day job for his father's landscaping service, and a night job as a bus boy in a restaurant, he cherishes his dream of making it big one day and continues to play for a local team. Santiago believes that perseverance and hard work is the keystone to success. One day his untapped potential attracts the attention of pro scout Glen Foy (Stephen Dillane) who immediately offers him a try-out for England's premier soccer club, Newcastle United. Without thinking twice, Santiago leaves his family and job and travels to England where he hopes to prove that he has the talent and determination to make it alongside the best in the world.
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The scientist working on a secret invention is assassinated and his children are endangered. In this family-friendly movie, Vin Diesel's Shane Wolfe is involved to combine two seemingly incompatible jobs: to defeat a world-threatening enemy and to confine the naughtiness of small mischiefs while doing the housekeeper's work. Zoe, a rebel teenager, gloomy 14-year-old Seth, 8-year-old Ninja-wannabe Lulu, baby Tyler and a toddler Peter are not specified in the index of the Navy SEAL equipment he can handle. Anyway, this tough-guy loner soon realizes one of the most important missions of his life: becoming part of a family and bringing them all closer together. |
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Ten-year-old Gabe was just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan, untill Rosemary Telesco walked into his life actually into his karate class. But, before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she tells him she will not being going to public school any more. Gabe has a lot more to learn about life,love and girls. |
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