Subgenre Sampler
Family: 1833 Films to Buy & Rent
Home Alone 4 (Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House) (2002)
- Dir. Rod Daniel
Feat. Mike Weinberg, French Stewart
- Fourth installment in the Home Alone series, with all new actors. Kevin McCallister tries to defend his future stepmother's house from nemesis Marv…
Ice Age (2002)
- Dir. Carlos Saldanha, Chris Wedge
Feat. Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary…
- Another exceptional CGI–computer–animated feature that compliments those now customary state–of–the–art visuals with a…
Kermit's Swamp Years (2002)
- Dir. David Gumpel
- Kermit hops back to his childhood years in the swamp, putting an original twist on the Muppet–Movie puppet formula.
Still more witty than…
Land Before Time 9: Journey to Big Water (2002)
- Further migratory adventures for the growing young dinosaurs of the Great Valley, as they set off to discover the seaside, undergoing many rites of…
Like Mike (2002)
- Dir. John Schultz
Feat. Lil' Bow Wow, Morris Chestnut, Jonathan Lipnicki…
- Diminuitive rapper Lil’ Bow Wow plays a basketball–loving orphan who finds a pair of Michael Jordan’s discarded sneakers which magically…
Lilo and Stitch (2002)
- Dir. Dean Deblois, Chris Sanders
Feat. Ving Rhames, David Ogden Steers, Tia Carrere
- An oddball cartoon–feature, where Hawaiian girl Lilo adopts Stitch, who she thinks is a dog, but is actually a dangerous…
Little Secrets (2002)
- Dir. Blair Treu
Feat. Evan Rachel Wood, Michael Angarano, David Gallagher
- Clever writing elevates this quality teen drama which centres around 14–yr old violinist Evan Rachel Wood and her sideline business, keeping…
Lizzie McGuire Movie, The (2002)
- Dir. Jim Fall
Feat. Hilary Duff
- Likeable comic fluff, this teenage fantasy has Lizzie McGuire (Duff) on a school holiday trip to Italy where she is mistaken for a fashionable…
Mr. Bean (Animated TV Series) (2002)
- An animated version of Rowan Atkinson's bumbling comic creation (voiced by Rowan himself). Tailored more for the younger audience.
Naruto (TV Series) (2002-2007)
- Dir. Jeff Nimoy
- Compelling Ninja anime series in the vein of DRAGON BALL Z, following a young orphan by the name of Naruto striving to become the next Hokage of his…