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Fantasy movies
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In the sequel to "Brus Almighty", Evan Baxter (Steve Carrell) is the very same pushing television anchorman who used to cross Brus Nolan's path. Afterwards he was recompensed for his deeds: Brus Almighty made him talk rot onscreen, live from the Buffalo TV station. After this awkward situation, he had to quit his job on TV but he soon came out on top. Newly elected to Congress, Evan moves with his family to Washington, determined to devote himself to the service of his country. However, he is chosen by the Almighty (Morgan Freeman) to serve humanity. God informs Evan about terrible events to come that will happen in his country, and commands him to start building a giant ark, following Noah's example. |
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While reading amazing adventure diaries written by his long-lost explorer grandfather, Archibald (Ron Crawford), an inquisitive 10-year-old boy named Arthur (Freddie Highmore) learns about a mysterious land of tiny people called the Minimoys, also known as the Invisibles. When a greedy real estate developer threatens to grab his grandmother's (Mia Farrow) house due to the family debt, the brave boy ventures to enter the magic world in order to seek the treasure of priceless jewels buried by his grandpa. He manages to unlock the passageway to the kingdom of the Minimoys where he meets charming Princess Selenia (Madonna) and her brother Betameche (Jimmy Fallon). Together they set off on an incredible adventure to defend the land from the evil wizard Maltazard (David Bowie) and find the rubies to save his grandma's farm. |
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According to the one of medieval legends, if a maiden lights a candle in the house of Winifred, who was a witch and were executed long time ago, the sorceress will return again. On Halloween night one lad, Max, decides to scare his sister and her girlfriend and leaves a burning candle in the house. In a next moment, coincidence makes the legend real, giving life back to Sanders sisters (Winifred, Mary and Sarah), witches who begin to have fun in the modern Salem, bringing destruction and sepulchral merriments to the town. One should use a vacuum cleaner instead of the magic broom to fly - even a witch uses the fruits of progress in this sparkling comedy. |
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The first crusade to free the Holy Land has ended. A mass of weary knights, squires, soldiers of fortune and priests are making their way home across a Europe that has changed forever. George, a handsome English knight, unsettled by the horrendous bloodletting he witnessed in Palestine, desires to hang up his sword and settle down to a quiet, peaceful life. On returning to England, George heads north where he's heard the land is good and the population sparse and of a kindly King named Edgaar. He finds King Edgaar in a terrible state. His beautiful daughter, Lunna has recently disappeared. In return for a small plot of land, George agrees to search for Princess Lunna. With Edgaar's faithful servant, Elmendorf, George sets out. George discovers both the princess and the truth behind her strange disappearance. The quest now set before them ends in a love, a lie and a legend that has lasted a thousand years. |
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Once upon a time, in the magical land of Whoville, there lived a little man named the Grinch (Jim Carrey). The Grinch was different from the townspeople: he was green and hairy, so the Who's teased him all the time. The Grinch took offence at the Who's and made his home high atop Mt. Crumpit where he lived for 30 years. He hated the Who's and Christmas with an equal hatred. Each Christmas with its festivities, decorations, presents and carols was sheer torture to the green hermit. One day the spiteful mountain dweller decided to deprive the Who's of Christmas once and for all. As soon as the carefree Who's went to sleep on Christmas Eve, the treacherous Grinch slunk into the town in order to steal everything associated with their favourite holiday. |
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Young Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) gets to the other side of the silver screen and he meets his idol - Arnold Schwarzenegger who appears in the film as an action superhero Jack Slater. Danny becomes a participant of an action, and what is more, becomes the workmate of the movie superstar. The most difficult trial awaits our heroes when Slater gets into the real world facing the real, not the onscreen, offenders. Here, in the real world, he can die as every other man. This movie contains many allusions to the several famous Schwarzenegger's films - "Terminator -1, -2, Predator, True Lies" and other. |
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Based on Chris Miller's short story, this highly imaginative comedy focuses on Doug Kinney (Michael Keaton), an overworked, extremely exhausted family man who desperately struggle to cope with his household chores and career. One day his adoring wife Laura (Andie MacDowell) says that she wants to return to work and he sometimes will have to stay home with their child, Jennifer (Katie Schlossberg). Doug feels really depressed because he has scarcely time to perform his numerous responsibilities properly, to say nothing of relaxing and indulging in speculation. But fortune smiles upon him and he meets amazing geneticist Dr. Owen Leeds (Harris Yulin) who offers him an unusual yet attractive solution to his problems - cloning. His exact replica will be able to handle all his duties. You just have to watch the movie to find out how multiplicity changes Doug's life at home and work! |
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Paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) accepts the offer of well-to-do adventurer Paul Kirby (William H. Macy) and his wife Amanda (Téa Leoni) to make a sightseeing flight over infamous Isla Sorna. In fact the Kirbys want Alan Grant to find their missing son Eric (Trevor Morgan) who crashed on the island while paragliding. When they land on the island, they encounter fierce flesh-eating prehistoric creatures. As a result, Dr. Grant and his company have to start a terrible race for survival... Will the heroes be able to find the boy and survive? |
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For many years now, at Bill and Ted University of the future, the people of the world have been excellent to each other. But fed-up with Bill and Ted's peaceful world and even more fed up with heavy metal, Chuck De Nomolos decides to do something about it. De Nomolos creates cyborg versions of Bill and Ted, who travel back to 1990 with orders to kill the human versions of Bill and Ted, win the Battle of the Bands, and pave the way for De Nomolos to take over the future. In 1990, Bill and Ted are sent to hell by the cyborgs. Cyborg Bill and cyborg Ted make time with the real Bill and Ted's girlfriends Joanna and Elizabeth and prepare to take the human Bill and Ted's place in the Battle of the Bands. With the help of their friend Rufus, the human Bill and Ted are forced to find a way out of hell, deal with the Grim Reaper, and talk to God himself, in their mission to get to the Battle of the Bands and stop the two cyborgs. |
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The classic tale of 'Peter Pan' continues in Disney's sequel 'Return to Never Land'. In a world besieged by World War II, Wendy, now grown up, tries to give her own children hope by telling them of her magical experiences with Peter Pan in Never Land. However, Jane, Wendy's 12-year-old daughter, sees it all as make believe and refuses to believe in the tales. That is, until the villainous Captain Hook mistakes her for Wendy and abducts her to Never Land in an attempt to lure and capture Peter Pan. Peter Pan's quest to return Jane safely home is jeopardized until she can begin to believe in the magic of imagination. |
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By day, Matt Murdock (Ben Affleck) represents as a Hell's Kitchen defense attorney. By night Matt becomes Daredevil, a man with no fear, fighting for justice in the dark streets of the city. Wearing a red leather suit and mask, Daredevil skips from high skyscrapers to pursue his enemies with his radar-like vision. The radioactive chemical accident left Matt blind but also granted him a "radar sense" which, combined with his superhuman senses of hearing, smell, taste and touch, allows him to perceive his environment far better than a sighted person. He is able to distinguish individuals by their natural odors, to sense a human body at a long distance, his heartbeat, blood circulation, to react to physical movements, etc. Daredevil’s enemies include Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, the biggest crime lord in New York, involved in extensive illegal activities such as drug running, smuggling, murder and dozens of other crimes. "Kingpin" is determined to hold the post of Mayor of New York but there is just one hitch. It is Daredevil who attempts to hamper him. Wanting to kill Daredevil standing in his way, Kingpin recruits psychotic killer Bullseye (Colin Farrell) who is famous for his targeting skills. Daredevil fights their powerful forces alone, until he meets Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner), a skilled martial artist and sexy superheroine who believes Daredevil to be responsible for her father's death and wants to take revenge on him. Sparks fly between the two heroes in this action-packed adventure fantasy. |
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Little Gordon and his sister Nellie spend their holidays at Faeryoak Farm. Not far away from the farm there is a forest where the kids enjoy walking and playing games. One fine day they make the acquaintance of an enigmatic raven and later find themselves being miraculously transported to Faeryland where they make friends with The Faery Prince (Dougray Scott). To return home, they must help him to defeat the cunning and perfidious Shapeshifter (Jeremy Irons), the Prince's exiled brother who is anxious to take power over the world of faeries. |
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The enchanting children’s tale follows the adventures of five siblings who are sent to stay with their uncle Albert (Kenneth Branagh) in his tumbledown mansion by the seaside during World War I. While exploring the ramshackle house, Robert (Freddie Highmore), Anthea (Jessica Claridge), Cyril (Jonathan Bailey), Jane (Poppy Rogers), and Martha (Zoл Wanamaker) discover a grouchy 8,000-year-old sand fairy, Psammead (voiced by Eddie Izzard), who promises to grant them one wish per day, each one lasting until sundown. All the wishes, however, backfire in amusing ways.
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After Dougal the puppy (Robbie Williams) destroys the magic roundabout and inadvertently releases the evil ice wizard Zeebad Carpenter (Tom Baker) from his prison, the fate of the Enchanted Land hangs in the balance: Zeebad is itching to incase it in ice. Dougal and his brave pals, Brian the snail (Jim Broadbent), Ermintrude the opera-singing cow (Joanna Lumley), and Dylan the hippie rabbit (Bill Nighy), take great pains to find three magic diamonds so that they can reverse the beginning of winter and confine Zeebad in the dungeon.
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High school senior Nick Powell (Justin Chatwin) is destined to have a bright future. But no one can feel secured against a fatal case of mistaken identity. So one day Nick becomes the victim of a brutal attack by a school hoodlum. Nick stays alive, though his spirit has departed from his perishable body. His frightened soul, caught between the living and the dead, vainly attempts to go to its eternal rest. Nick tries to give his mother Diane (Marcia Gay Harden) a signal for help but she can neither hear nor see him. Meanwhile, the police led by Detective Brian Larson (Callum Keith Rennie) takes great pains to find the missing guy, without knowing that Nick is just hours away from truly perishing. By the irony of fate, the only person who can save his life is his sullen and cruel classmate, Annie Newton (Margarita Levieva), who beat him so unmercifully. |
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Once upon a time, in the enchanted land of Camelot, there lived King Arthur (Pierce Brosnan) who possessed the magic sword Excalibur. But the perfidious and villainous Baron Ruber (Gary Oldman) decided to steal the sword in order to destroy the kingdom where honor and chivalry reigned. A courageous young woman, Kayley (Jessalyn Gilsig), who dreamt of becoming a Knight of the Round Table, and a blind young man, Garrett (Cary Elwes), embarked upon a dangerous journey through the Forbidden Forest to find the missing Excalibur and save Camelot. Love and faithfulness helped them to overcome the obstacles they encountered along the way. |
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The romantic fantasy follows two frisky witch sisters, Sally (Sandra Bullock) and Gillian (Nicole Kidman) Owens, who are famous for the use of practical magic. But there is just one little problem: the men they are fathoms deep in love with are doomed to early death. |
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Set in England during the Victorian age, the tale brings together well-known figures from classic literature. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a team of superheroes led by intrepid adventurer Allan Quatermain (Sean Connery) and comprised of invisible man Rodney Skinner (Tony Curran), Captain Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah), Dracula vampiress Mina Harker (Peta Wilson), Dorian Gray (Stuart Townsend), American secret service agent Tom Sawyer (Shane West), and Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (Jason Flemyng). The League members have an urgent assignment to scotch the mysterious Phantom who is intent on turning the nations of the world against one another so as to rule the world. Using Captain Nemo’s submarine, the Nautilus, the superheroes go to Venice, Italy where the villain is up to sabotage a conference of world leaders by blowing up the city to sink. Needless to say, this will have catastrophic consequences for all life on Earth. The Extraordinary Gentlemen have only 96 hours to prevent him from reaching his menacing aim. |
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Long ago in Central Africa, a little girl and a baby gorilla were left orphans after their respective mothers had been killed by ruthless poachers. Twenty years later zoologist Gregg O'Hara (Bill Paxton), who was leading a safari expedition in the Pangani Mountains, came upon beautiful jungle girl Jill Young (Charlize Theron) and Joe, a gigantic awesome gorilla that was actually an innocent and good-natured creature. Aware of threats from ferocious and greedy trophy-hunters, Gregg was able to convince Jill of the need for moving the endangered gorilla to a California animal conservancy. But Joe wasn’t safe at the facility for long as the very same hunter, Andrei Strasser (Rade Serbedzija), appeared with the nefarious intention of stealing and selling Joe on the black market.
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Despite the fact Van Helsing was commonly a supporting hero in more than forty vampire films, now he becomes a central character. He is to assist beautiful, sword-wielding Anna who is the last descendant of vampire-fighting clan, to slay the ominous count Dracula (Richard Roxburgh) having dispatched his monsters, namely the Wolf Man (Will Kemp), and Frankenstein's Monster (Shuler Hensley). Having convinced the distrustful peasants of his utility as the deliverer from the evil ones, Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) comes into the fierce confrontation with three Dracula's brides, powerful and dissolute viragos who embellish the movie bringing in a spirit of the perishable lust. Considering an almost immense budget, special-effects in this movie are quite impressive along with admirable Kate Beckinsale's cute character and the handsome long-haired Hugh Jackman in his heydays. |
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