Subgenre Sampler
Family: 1833 Films to Buy & Rent
Peppa Pig (TV Series) (2004-2012)
- A Bafta award–winning animation for pre–schoolers, featuring Peppa, a loveable, cheeky little piggy who lives with her younger brother…
Polar Express, The (2004)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Tom Hanks
- Expertly animating the childrens' book by Chris Van Allsburg, this makes a Christmas Eve excursion into mythical childhood fantasies of Santa Claus…
Pride (2004)
- Dir. John Downer
Feat. Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Sean Bean…
- Quaintly original and rather winning BBC production about a lionness who rebels against her home 'pride', first, by thinking of becoming a…
Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
- Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Hector Elizondo…
- Opening on the 21st birthday of the budding Genovian Princess (Hathaway), this creditable, if hardly superior sequel, finds the transplanted San…
Raise Your Voice (2004)
- Dir. Sean McNamara
Feat. Hilary Duff, John Corbett, Rita Wilson…
- The fetching Hilary Duff plays an aspiring young singer from Arizona, who after the tragic death of her brother, elopes to a music–training…
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (Scooby Doo 2) (2004)
- Dir. Raja Gosnell
Feat. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jnr., Matthew Lillard…
- More shenanigans from the Scoob and his human pals – Fred, Shaggy, Velma and Daphne – this time defending the city of Coolsville from an…
Shark Tale (2004)
- Dir. Bibo Bergeron, Vicky Jenson, Rob Letterman
- A snappy deep–sea animated comedy from the makers of SHREK whose tale almost sinks under its load of gags and in–jokes.
Oscar, a lowly…
Shoebox Zoo (TV Series) (2004)
- Dir. Justin Molotnikov
Feat. Vivien Endicott Douglas, Jason Connery, Rik Mayall…
- An imaginative British fantasy series for children, has a Canadian exchange student (Douglas) living in Edinburgh inherit a box of toy animals, that…
Shrek 2 (2004)
- Dir. Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury
- The cranky beast with a heart of gold returns to the big screen in this sequel to the computer–animated smash hit, here coping with the…
Spongebob Squarepants Movie, The (2004)
- Dir. Steven Hillenburg
Feat. David Hasselhoff
- Excellent big–screen version of Nickolodeon's most celebrated cartoon TV series, set in a cheerfully off–colour undersea world, where a…