Non-Disney Animated Films

Other Animation Studios - Part 3

Coraline
(2009 - 100 min. - Focus Features/Universal) ****

Plot: Stop-action animated. After moving to a new home, a lonely young girl finds a secret door to an alternate reality, where she is the center of attention, and ponders whether she would be happier staying there.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
(2009 - 94 min. - 20th Century Fox) ***

Plot: Computer animated 3D. Manny the mammoth leads his ice age friends on an attempt to rescue Sid the sloth from an underground world filled with dinosaurs.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
(2009 - 81 min. - Sony Pictures) ***

Plot: Computer animated. When a sardine factory closes on an island in the Atlantic Ocean forcing its residents to have to eat the unused sardines, a scientist sets out to invent a machine that makes other types of food; but something goes wrong and the food soon starts raining from the sky. Based on a children's book.