Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Witches, Wizards & Magic, School / Campus
Tagline: This Could Be The Beginning Of A Beautiful Adventure.
Plot: World-traveling documentary filmmakers Nigel and Marianne Thornberry (Tim Curry and Jodi Carlisle) have come to Africa with their family -- precocious Eliza (Lacey Chabert), rebellious Debbie (Danielle Harris) and adopted wild child Donnie (Flea) -- to record a miraculous event. Once every few hundred years, as the moon obscures the sun, native legend has it that thousands of elephants emerge from the safety of the forest to watch the solar eclipse. But this time, as they stand exposed in this wide-open Congo valley, these magnificent creatures will be in grave danger. Evil poachers Sloan and Bree Blackburn (Rupert Everett and Marisa Tomei) plan to ambush the elephants for their rare ivory tusks.. .and they will not let humans or any other animals stand in their way.One day, Eliza and her chimpanzee friend Darwin (Tom Kane) witness the poachers kidnapping a cheetah cub to the horror of its mother, Akela (Aifre Woodard). Desperate to save the innocent cub, fearless Eliza grabs the rope ladder of the poachers’ helicopter, and escapes injury when the poachers cut her loose, only because her horrified family below manages to catch her on the roof of their customized recreational vehicle. As a consequence of her recklessness, however, Eliza’s grandmother, Cordelia Thornberry (Lynn
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II, Bambi II |
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Charlie's Angels, The Hunt for Red October, Scary Movie 2 |
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