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101 Dalmatians
Disney 1996



101 Dalmatians, 2


Dogs, Pets.
Cruelty to animals. Animals as a family.

Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett.

As the result of a childhood wish, John Bennett's teddy bear, Ted, came to life and has been by John's side ever since - a friendship that's tested when Lori, John's girlfriend of four years, wants more from their relationship.

Flushed Away is a 2006 British/American computer animated action/adventure comedy filmdirected by David Bowers and Sam Fell.

Roddy St. James is a decidedly upper crust pet rat who makes his home in a posh Kensington flat. While his owners are away on holiday Roddy plays around the house. A common sewer rat named Sid comes spewing out of the sink and decides to stay, especially as England are playing against Germany in the World Cup final.
Source: Wikipedia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLJxoJM_ZbY – trailer

key words: rats, adventure, parallel life (underground London)
vermin, pest, pest rehabilitated, urban animals, class divisions

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Ratatouille is a 2007 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.

Remy is an idealistic and ambitious young rat gifted with highly developed senses of taste and smell. Inspired by his idol, the recently-deceased chef Auguste Gusteau, Remy dreams of becoming a cook himself. When his clan is forced to abandon its home, Remy is separated from them and ends up in the sewers of Paris. He hallucinates the spirit of Gusteau and takes his advice to look around outside, eventually finding himself at a skylight overlooking the kitchen of Gusteau's restaurant.
source: Wilkipedia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3sBBRxDAqk trailer

keywords: rats, cooking, France,
vermin, pest, supersense (taste), pest rehabilitated

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Finding Nemo is a 2003 American computer-animated comedy-drama adventure family filmwritten and directed by Andrew Stanton, released by Walt Disney Pictures, and the fifth film produced by Pixar Animation Studios.
It tells the story of the over-protective clownfish named Marlin who, along with a regal tang named Dory , searches for his abducted son Nemo all the way to Sydney Harbour. Along the way, Marlin learns to take risks and let Nemo take care of himself.

source: Wikipedia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTZd2l8qBOw - trailer
keywords: fish, adventure, father& son

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Unstable Fables is a series of computer animated films produced by The Jim Henson Company in association with Flame Ventures, Prana Studios, and The Weinstein Company.

"Unstable Fables" irreverently and unfaithfully retell classic fairy tales,folktale, and fables with a modern twist.

source: Wikipedia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPn0GGg3LoQ - trailer


keywords: fable, tortoise, hare, competition

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Monika Bandi

Rio, often promoted as Rio: The Movie or The Rio Movie, is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated musical adventure-comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and directed by Carlos Saldanha.

In Brazil, various exotic birds are smuggled out of the country. In Moose Lake, Minnesota, a crate with a male blue macaw hatchling falls out of a truck and is found by a little girl named Linda Gunderson, who names him Blue. Fifteen years later , Linda owns a bookstore. Blu, highly domesticated and unable to fly, is ridiculed frequently by the Canada Geese that come by the outside of Linda's bookstore.
source: Wikipedia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG-fC-O_uQE - trailer

keywords:birds, parrots, girl&parrot, adventure

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Bee Movie is a 2007 American computer animated family comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Barry B. Benson is "just an ordinary bee" in a hive in Sheep Meadow, Central Park in New York City. Barry recently graduated from college and is about to enter the hive's Honex Industries (a division of Honesco Corporation and owned by the Hexagon Group) honey-making workforce. With his best friend Adam Flayman , Barry is initially very excited, but his latent, non-conformist attitude emerges upon finding out that his choice of job will never change once picked except Barry B. Benson.

source: Wikipedia

www.youtube.com/watch?v=16SMpTXpuuY trailer

keywords: insects, bees, adventure, society

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Monika Bandi

Shark Tale is a 2004 American computer-animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation.

It tells the story of a young fish named Oscar (voiced by Will Smith) falsely claims to have killed the son of a shark mob boss to win favor with the mob boss' enemies and advance his own community standing.
source: Wikipedia

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlLMitni4GY trailer

keywords: fish, underwater society, mob life

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Monika Bandi