Subgenre Sampler
      Family: 1843 Films to Buy & Rent
	  		 
	        
Little Polar Bear, The (2001) 
- Feat. Mijail Verona, Maximilian Artajo
 
- Based on the internationally best–selling German picture books set around the Arctic frolics of a young polar bear. Attractively animated too.
 
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
 
- Dir. Peter Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich
Feat. John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Jennifer Tilly… 
- Discovering that children’s screams can be converted into an energy source (‘Scream Heat’), monsters lurk in their closets to feed the…
 
Nightmare Room, The (TV Series) (2001) 
- Essentially a reprise of the creepy kids TV Series GOOSEBUMPS, this posits a series of spooky scenarios similarly narrated by R.L. Stine.
 
Osmosis Jones (2001) 
- Dir. Pete Farrelly, Bob Farrelly
Feat. Bill Murray, Chris Rock, Laurence Fishburne… 
- The Farrelly Bros (KINGPIN) take their comic fixation with bodily functions to extremes by setting this icky animation within the bowels of Bill…
 
Pokemon 2000 (2001) 
- Feature–length delve through the world of those cute, sometimes lethal Japanese balls of coloured fuzz. Ash Ketchum must save the world from…
 
Princess of Thieves (2001) 
- Dir. Peter Hewitt
Feat. Keira Knightley, Malcolm McDowell, Stuart Wilson 
- A pre–blockbuster Kiera Knightley plays the daughter of Robin Hood in this Disney re–imagining of the Sherwood legend: sporting the…
 
Reboot (TV Series) (2001) 
- Dir. Steve Ball, Gavin Blair
Feat. Michael  Benyaer, Sharon Alexander, Kathleen Barr 
- Popular Canadian CGI series set in a computer system where a group of sprites must defend their territory known as the 'Mainframe' from viruses and…
 
Recess: School's Out (2001) 
- Dir. Chuck Sheetz
 
- Disney cartoon which follows the shenanigans of several cocky schoolkids.
Most importantly they try to foil the plans of their former…
 
Ripping Friends, The (TV Series) (2001) 
- Feat. Eric Bauza, Mark Dailey, Dwayne Hill
 
- Animated series from John Kricfalusi (REN & STIMPY) where four muscleheaded superheroes humourously flub their assigned roles.
Not quite on a par…
 
Saddle Club, The (TV Series) (2001-2003) 
- Likeable family drama follows the fortunes of the Pine Hollow Stables, horses and the girls who ride them. Sunny characters and storylines make for…