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Plot Summary:
The Buzz on Maggie is a Canadian/American animated television series which originally aired for 21 episodes between June 2005 and June 2006. The series focuses on Maggie Pesky, a happy-go-lucky tween fly, that aspires of becoming a rock star, but many episodes focus on her daily life. The series was created by Dave Polsky, one of the writers for Scary Movie 2 and Frank TV. Dave Wasson directed and designed the looks for the characters. The series was the first Disney series to be fully animated in Flash, and it was nominated for an Annie Award for its character design. In August 2005, an artist for the series confirmed that the series had been cancelled. The last episode aired on June 3, 2006, and the series continued to air in reruns until August 2008.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, nostalgic
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Chilly Beach (2003)
Plot Summary:
Chilly Beach was a Canadian animated series, which aired on CBC Television in Canada and The Comedy Channel in Australia. The series is a comedic depiction of life in the fictional Canadian town of Chilly Beach, described by the producers as "a bunch of Canadians doing the stuff that Canadians do, like playing hockey, drinking beer, and being eaten by polar bears." Chilly Beach plays on nearly every conceivable stereotype that people have about Canadians in a satirical manner. The show began as an animated Flash site on the Web, and was developed into a CBC TV series which first aired in 2003. The show was cancelled during the production of the third season, which was never finished or aired on television - with the show totalling 65 episodes. An early version of the Chilly Beach feature film, The World Is Hot Enough, made its theatrical debut at Cinéfest in September 2005, and as released to DVD on February 4, 2008. A second film, The Canadian President was also produced. Guest stars on the show have included William Shatner, Joe Flaherty, Leslie Nielsen, Elvis Stojko, Lawrence Gowan and David Suzuki. The show was produced in Sudbury, Ontario by March Entertainment. In 2011, the series launched in the U.S. on the streaming video website Hulu.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, surreal, semi serious, offbeat, campy
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Ellen's Acres (2007)
Plot Summary:
Ellen's Acres is an American animated television series for preschool-age children, which exclusively premiered weekly on Cartoon Network Video and in the United Kingdom, the show airs on Cartoonito. Animation Collective produces the series. It originally aired on September 29, 2006 on Cartoon Network Video and January 8, 2007 on Tickle U in the United States, airing at 9:30 am ET/PT, but has been pulled from the schedule as of February 5, 2007. The show features a very imaginative five-year old child named Ellen who has adventures in a hotel her parents own approximately 40 miles from Tonopah, Nevada named the Emerald Acres.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: stylized, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, exciting, offbeat
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Squirrel Boy (2006)
Plot Summary:
Squirrel Boy is an American animated television series produced by Cartoon Network Studios. The series, created and executive-produced by Everett Peck, who also the creator of the more adult-humored Duckman, ran from May 27, 2006 until September 27, 2007 on Cartoon Network, with a total of 52 eleven-minute episodes. It also aired on Cartoon Network Australia in Australia and Teletoon in Canada and also in some parts of Africa. The series has no home video release, and is only available on iTunes.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, exciting, offbeat, parody, children's program, nostalgic
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Pepper Ann (1997)
Plot Summary:
Pepper Ann is an American animated series created by Sue Rose and aired on first run syndication. It debuted on September 1, 1997, and ended on November 24, 2000. Pepper Ann stars adolescents and charts their ups and downs at Hazelnut Middle School. It aired as part of the The Disney Afternoon block. The character originated in a comic strip published in YM magazine.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, 2d animation, nostalgic
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The Sylvester & Tweety Show (1976)
Plot Summary:
Sylvester Cat is a lisping, inept, and often loud-mouthed cartoon alley cat with a penchant for chasing elusive mice and a weakness for various types of fowl, especially an innocent-looking but fiesty yellow canary named Tweety, whom Sylvester would like nothing better than to roast and eat. Each episode of this series contains three theatrical cartoons featuring Sylvester, two of them with Tweety, the other featuring Sylvester away from Tweety and often with his little son, Junior, and Hippety Hopper, a baby kangaroo he always mistakes for a giant mouse.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Family, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sentimental, anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious
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Poko (2003)
Plot Summary:
Poko was a stop motion TV series about a young boy, his pet dog, and his toy monkey. Produced in Canada by Halifax Film, a DHX Media Company, Poko was created by Jeff Rosen, It began production in 2003 and ended in 2006 after three production cycles. Poko is still broadcast in Canada on CBC Television in the Kids' CBC programming block, is still broadcast in Turkey on Yumurcak TV and in Australia by ABC. It is narrated by actor and dancer Cory Bowles. The show was awarded the 2004 Gemini for Best Pre-school Program in 2004 and the Alliance for Children & Television Grand Prize in 2007.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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2 Stupid Dogs (1993)
Plot Summary:
The lives of two dogs, the overly excited Little Dog (the dachshund) and easy-paced Big Dog (the sheepdog). These crazy canines don't know how to fit in the world, and they definitely don't have any know-how. No matter the situation, their stupidity usually leads them to calamitous results.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: exciting, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, nostalgic
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Postcards from Buster (2004)
Plot Summary:
Postcards from Buster centers on Buster traveling to various places around North America, usually in the United States but also in the Caribbean, Canada – and other places – with his father, who is a pilot for a group of musicians. In each episode Buster meets children in the location, who show him aspects of their family lives and local culture. The sequences with Buster are animated, while the portions featuring the children are live action (viewed from the viewpoint of Buster's video camcorder). After each trip, Buster sends to Arthur a "video postcard" videotape summarizing what he's done and who he's met in each location. The children and their families that are presented on the series are meant to be multicultural and diverse, and range from a Mormon family in Utah to a Mestizo family in Texas.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Timothy Goes to School (2000)
Plot Summary:
Timothy Goes to School is a cartoon series based on the Yoko series and other individual books by Rosemary Wells such as "Shy Charles", "Fritz and the Mess Fairy" and "Noisy Nora", but is titled after the book of the same name. It features a young raccoon, Timothy, who attends a fictional primary school. The series aired on PBS Kids as part of the PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch from 2000 until 2004. Reruns were later broadcast on Discovery Kids in the US until 2006. This show airs on YTV, Treehouse TV, and TVO Kids in Canada, and also Tiny Pop, a digital TV channel in the UK. In Brazil was aired on TV Cultura. In Mexico and Latin America, was broadcast on ZAZ. The series premiered on September 30, 2000 and aired its last episode on December 28, 2001.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, 2d animation
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Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (2004)
Plot Summary:
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi is an American-Japanese animated fantasy-comedy television series from Cartoon Network and TV Tokyo, produced by Renegade Animation and Cartoon Network Studios in Japan. The show was created by Sam Register, who also serves as the series' executive producer. According to Register, the target audience of the show is boys and girls from six to eleven years old. However, the show also has a following of fans of the real-life Ami Onuki and Yumi Yoshimura who make up the Japanese pop duo PUFFY, known as "Puffy AmiYumi" in North America. Register, a fan of the band, wished to spread its fame to other parts of the world and thus produced the cartoon. The series features the adventures of animated versions of the duo, who have been immensely popular in Japan since making their debut in 1996. The group now has its own U.S. albums, including a 2004 companion album to this program, and was known to viewers of Cartoon Network in the USA for performing the theme to the Teen Titans animated series.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, anime, cult classic, exciting, 2d animation, nostalgic
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Kenny the Shark (2003)
Plot Summary:
Kenny the Shark is an animated television series produced by Discovery Kids. The show premiered on NBC's Discovery Kids on NBC from November 1, 2003 and ended February 18, 2006 with two seasons and 26 episodes having been shown. The series continued to run on Discovery Kids until the network changed into The Hub on October 10, 2010. Discovery Kids closed with a 4 hour marathon of Kenny the Shark episodes. Despite the closure, it still aired on The Hub until March 25, 2012. It is about an anthropomorphic tiger shark named Kenny that decides to move out of the ocean. He was the protagonist and main character in the series. This was not Kenny's first appearance, however. In the late-1990s, a series of shorts ran between regular programming. Kenny was not seen, as the camera was from his point of view. A contest was held to guess what kind of shark Kenny was with the result being a tiger shark.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, exciting, captivating
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Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Care Bears try to help kids and have fun in Care-a-Lot, but must contend with the antics of the mischievous Beastly and the young Beasties.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, computer animated, captivating, exciting, offbeat
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JoJo's Circus (2003)
Plot Summary:
JoJo's Circus is an interactive stop-motion musical comedy series for preschool children. The series is created by the combined efforts of Jim Jinkins, David Campbell, Lisa Jinkins and Eric Weiner and produced by Cuppa Coffee Studios and Cartoon Pizza. The series is written by Douglas Wood, the creative executive for Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs. It first aired on the Disney Channel as part of the Playhouse Disney morning programming schedule from September 28, 2003 to February 14, 2007, It is currently being broadcast on Disney Junior. JoJo's Circus marks as the first Claymation series done by Jinkins himself. It features songs with music by Jeffrey Zahn and Jim Latham and lyrics done by Judy Rothman.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, educational, nostalgic
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The New Adventures of Lassie (2014)
Plot Summary:
For generations, Lassie the beautiful collie has been known and loved by viewers all over the world. Once again she enters the homes of millions of viewers as she talks for the first time in a TV adventure series for children aged 6 to 9.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: India, Germany, USA, France
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: exciting, sentimental, feel good, realistic, anime, humorous, semi serious
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Max and Ruby (2002)
Plot Summary:
Meet two funny bunny siblings, the energetic and mischievous Max, and the patient, smart and goal-oriented Ruby. The show models empowering messages by showing Max and Ruby playing together and resolving their differences respectfully and supportively.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: semi serious, feel good, humorous, funny, light, captivating, entertaining, educational
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Bob the Builder (1997)
Plot Summary:
Bob the Builder is a British children's animated television show created by Keith Chapman. In the original series Bob appears as a building contractor specializing in masonry in a stop motion animated programme with his colleague Wendy, various neighbours and friends, and their gang of anthropomorphised work-vehicles and equipment. The show is broadcast in many countries, but originates from the United Kingdom where Bob is voiced by English actor Neil Morrissey. The show was later created using CGI animation starting with the spin-off series Ready, Steady, Build!. In each episode, Bob and his group help with renovations, construction, and repairs and with other projects as needed. The show emphasizes conflict resolution, co-operation, socialization and various learning skills. Bob's catchphrase is "Can we fix it?", to which the other characters respond with "Yes we can!" This phrase is also the title of the show's theme song, which was a million-selling number one hit in the UK.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 10 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, anime, exciting
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Bratz Kidz: Sleep-Over Adventure (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a new girl in the neighborhood, named Ginger, invites Jade, Cloe, Sasha, Yasmin and Meagan over to her house for a sleep-over, the girls happily accept the invitation to make a new friend. They have fashion shows and lots of fun stuff. But before they go to bed they tell scary stories. After, the girls try to convince a frightened Ginger to tell the last scary story of the night. Ginger is too frightened to tell and she runs away. The girls look for her and her parents but there no where to be found. The girls find Bats in one of the rooms and run outside. Once they are outside they find out its actually an abandon house supposedly haunted. Then the monsters that they were talking about in the stories come out to life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, computer animated, exciting
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The Emperor's New School (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Emperor's New School is an American animated television series that aired on Disney Channel. The show is based on the characters from The Emperor's New Groove and its direct-to-video sequel Kronk's New Groove. It follows the adventures of young emperor Kuzco as he completes his education in order to return to the throne, while Yzma, as the school's principal, will stop at nothing to prevent Kuzco from passing all of his classes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, witty, humorous, semi serious, light, sincere, anime, exciting, slapstick comedy, nostalgic
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CatDog (1998)
Plot Summary:
CatDog is an American animated television series created for Nickelodeon by Peter Hannan. The series depicts the life of conjoined brothers, with one half being a cat and the other a dog. Nickelodeon produced the series from Burbank, California. The first episode aired on April 4, 1998, before the show officially premiered in October. The episode "Fetch" was also shown in theaters with The Rugrats Movie. Toward the end of the series run, a made-for-TV film was released, titled CatDog: The Great Parent Mystery. Reruns were played on Nicktoons until 2011 and later aired on TeenNick as part of The '90s Are All That block. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio and Peter Hannan Productions and has been released on DVD.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, colorful, touching, dark comedy, retro, semi serious, sitcom, buddy comedy, black comedy
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Madeline (1989)
Plot Summary:
An animated series based on the popular children's books. Madeline, although the smallest girl in Miss Clavelle's boarding school in Paris, nevertheless manages to get herself into one predicament after another, causing her friends and teachers no end of worry. In the end, though, she always comes out all right.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: juvenile, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, 2d animation, nostalgic
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ChalkZone (2002)
Plot Summary:
ChalkZone is an American animated television series created by Bill Burnett and Larry Huber and produced by Frederator Studios for the Nickelodeon TV channel. The series follows Rudy Tabootie, an elementary school student whose magic chalk allows him into the ChalkZone, an alternate dimension where everything drawn on a blackboard and erased becomes real. The show concentrates on the adventures of Rudy, his sidekick Snap, and classmate Penny Sanchez within the zone. ChalkZone originally aired as part of Fred Seibert's Oh Yeah! Cartoons animated shorts showcase in 1998. The series ran on Nickelodeon from March 22, 2002, to August 23, 2008, with 42 episodes in total, although the last two episodes remained unaired. It was distributed outside the United States by Canadian company, Nelvana.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, cult classic, exciting
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Catscratch (2005)
Plot Summary:
Catscratch is an American animated television series created by Doug TenNapel. It was aired on both Nickelodeon and Nicktoons in 2005. It was also shown on Nickelodeon UK / Ireland in 2006. It is a lighthearted adaptation of TenNapel's graphic novel, Gear, which is also the name of the cats' monster truck. The series features music composed by longtime TenNapel collaborator, Terry Scott Taylor. Catscratch's first DVD appearance was on Nick Picks Vol. 3, which came out February 7, 2006.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, inspirational, exciting, offbeat, children's program, surreal, 2d animation
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Pinky Dinky Doo (2005)
Plot Summary:
Pinky Dinky Doo dances her way into her Story Box to tell stories and solve problems using her big imagination and fancy words.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, exciting
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George of the Jungle (2007)
Plot Summary:
George of the Jungle is swinging to save the day! With his best ape friend Ape, an exporler girl named Ursula, and a fellow jungle human named Magnolia by his side; there is no challenge too great for this king of the jungle. Now if he only remembers to watch out for those trees.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, semi serious, captivating, nostalgic
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Danny Phantom (2003)
Plot Summary:
Danny Phantom is an American animated television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon, produced by Billionfold Studios. It was distributed by Nelvana, a Canadian animation company, as was The Fairly OddParents. The show is about a 14-year-old named Danny Fenton who, after an accident with an unpredictable portal between the human world and the supernatural "Ghost Zone", becomes half-ghost and frequently saves his town and the world from ghost attacks, while attempting to keep his ghost half a secret from everyone, except his best friends Tucker Foley and Samantha Manson. The series premiered on April 3, 2004 and ended on August 24, 2007; it ran for 3 seasons with a total of 53 episodes. It is currently being released on DVD. On August 5, 2013, Hartman announced the possible revival of the show as a result of persisted praise from fans and successful T.U.F.F. Puppy ratings on his Twitter account, but there has been not yet been any official word from Hartman or Nickelodeon.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, intellectual, gothic, spooky, slapstick comedy, slapstick, humorous, odd, nostalgic
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The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (2001)
Plot Summary:
The exploits of the Grim Reaper, who has been forced into being the best friend of two children. A spin-off of the show Grim & Evil.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: gothic, humorous, not serious, anime, spooky, adult animation, adult cartoon, exciting, horror comedy, offbeat
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Stanley (2001)
Plot Summary:
Stanley is an animated television series that was aired on Disney Junior, based on the series of children's books written by "Griff", also known as Andrew Griffin. It was produced by Cartoon Pizza, and was developed for television by Jim Jinkins and David Campbell. Stanley teaches a wide variety of issues preschool children face, including change, growth, rules, and dealing with others. Each episode centers around an animal that deals with or helps explain the issue Stanley is grappling with. Junkanoo and reggae fusion group Baha Men, known for "Who Let the Dogs Out", sang the theme song for the series, "My Man Stanley".
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, educational, entertaining, light, captivating, clever, nostalgic
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The Proud Family (2001)
Plot Summary:
"The Proud Family" follows the adventures and misadventures of Penny, a 14-year-old African American girl who's doing her best to navigate through the early years of teen-dom. Penny's every encounter inevitably spirals into bigger than life situations filled with hi-jinks, hilarity and heart. Her quest to balance her home, school and social lives are further complicated by friends like the sassy Dijonay, Penny's nemesis LaCienega Boulevardez, her loving, if not over-protective parents and her hip-to-the-groove-granny, Suga Mama.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, sitcom, multicultural, realistic, educational, smart, clever, black cinema
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Pound Puppies (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of pound dogs make it their mission to place puppies with their perfect person and have lots of adventures along the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, feel good, exciting
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The Strawberry Shortcake Movie: Sky's the Limit (2009)
Plot Summary:
A sudden storm leaves Berry Bitty City with a gigantic problem. Strawberry Shortcake and her friends will have to move their whole tiny town unless they find a way to safely remove a huge boulder that threatens everything they hold dear.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, anime, exciting, sentimental, semi serious