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Plot Summary:
The film opens with narration by Jim Douglas and "memory" clips from the first film. The narration ends saying Herbie is now owned by an arrogant Scotsman named Simon Moore III (John Hannah), who abuses and insults Herbie until Herbie comes last in a race, not wanting to obey Simon. Furious, Simon sends Herbie to the junkyard. Meanwhile, Hank Cooper (Bruce Campbell), a mechanic in a small garage, is told to enter a race and persuaded to acquire Herbie. The judges are Donny Shotz (Micky Dolenz), a car enthusiast; Alex (Alexandra Wentworth), an old flame of Hank's; and Simon. When Herbie and Hank have won the race, Alex questions Hank, and he gives her a ride, wherein Herbie takes them to an isolated road. Meanwhile, Simon finds the engineer who created Herbie: Dr. Gustav Stumpful (Harold Gould), and requests a second such car: an evil, black edition, whom Simon names Horace.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, not serious
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Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure (1998)
Plot Summary:
A girl from high society joins an all-male expedition to Alaska during the 1899 gold rush.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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The Wonderful World of Disney (1997)
Plot Summary:
Walt Disney Productions (later The Walt Disney Company) has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC in 1954. The show was broadcast weekly on one of the Big Three television networks until 1990, a 36-year span with only a two-year hiatus in 1984-85. The series was broadcast on Sunday for 25 of those years. From 1991 until 1997, the series aired infrequently. The program resumed a regular schedule in 1997 on the ABC fall schedule, coinciding with Disney's recent purchase of the network. From 1997 until 2008, the program aired regularly on ABC. Subsequently, ABC continued the series as an occasional special presentation.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anthology, teen, exciting, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)
Plot Summary:
The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, light, inspirational, clever, touching, unusual plot structure, sweet, entertaining
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Herbie Rides Again (1974)
Plot Summary:
The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: family comedy, hilarious, exciting, feel good, humorous, semi serious, inspirational, romantic, touching, unusual plot structure
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Pair of Kings (2010)
Plot Summary:
Pair of Kings is an American television sitcom shown on the cable channel Disney XD. The sitcom's target audience are teenagers. The series began production on February 15, 2010, with stars Mitchel Musso and Doc Shaw departing fellow Disney series Hannah Montana and The Suite Life on Deck respectively, and premiered on September 10, 2010 on the Disney Channel. The show is filmed before a live studio audience. On November 20, 2010, Disney XD announced that Pair of Kings had been renewed for a second season, which premiered on June 13, 2011. In December 2011, the series was renewed for a third season, however Disney announced that Musso would be replaced with actor Adam Hicks who has worked with Disney on previous projects such as Zeke and Luther. The third season premiered on June 18, 2012. However, it was announced on Adam Hicks' Twitter page that Disney XD would not renew Pair of Kings for a fourth season.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light, sincere, sitcom, nostalgic
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The Aquabats! Super Show! (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Aquabats! Super Show! is an American action-comedy television series which premiered on March 3, 2012 on the United States cable network The Hub. The series was created by Christian Jacobs and Scott Schultz, both the creators of the Nick Jr. series Yo Gabba Gabba!, and Jason deVilliers. Based on the superhero mythology of The Aquabats, a real-life comedy rock band which series co-creator and lead singer Jacobs formed in 1994, The Aquabats! Super Show! follows the comic adventures of a fictionalized version of the band, a musical group of amateur superheroes, as they haphazardly defend the world from a variety of villains and monsters. Styled similarly to the campy aesthetics of 1960s and 1970s children's television and Japanese tokusatsu, Super Show! utilizes various mediums of visual styles and special effects, mixing live-action storylines with cartoon shorts, parody advertisements and musical interludes. The series' first season concluded on June 16, 2012 following a run of 13 episodes, having met with a largely positive critical reception, consistently high ratings for the channel and a Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Children's Series. The series' second season began airing on June 1, 2013 for a brief run of five episodes. On August 22, actor and composer Chad Larson confirmed via Twitter that at least three more episodes have been ordered for the second season.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 749
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, surreal, not serious, offbeat, fast, campy
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Power Rangers Operation Overdrive (2007)
Plot Summary:
Five teenagers must locate and secure ancient relics with unbelievable power, while at the same time stop a demonic corporation who want the relics for their power.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, New Zealand, Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, captivating, stylized, fast, super sentai
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Safety Patrol (1998)
Plot Summary:
Scout Bozell has always dreamt of being on his school's Safety Patrol. The only reason he cannot join is because he is very clumsy. He's sent to another school because his old school would not let him become part of their Safety Patrol. But his new school does let him on the Safety Patrol.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, slapstick comedy, nostalgic
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Angels in the Endzone (1997)
Plot Summary:
The football team jesse is on is terrible, after the death of his father Jesse quits the team. Then angels come to help the team get better and nobody can see them but Jesse's little brother.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, nostalgic
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The Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon (1998)
Plot Summary:
A Philadelphia garbageman is discovered by the Philadelphia Eagles and signed by them to become a kicker.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, nostalgic
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Scooby-Doo! Adventures: The Mystery Map (2013)
Plot Summary:
Get ready to experience the world-famous Scooby-Doo! and Crew like never before in this all-new, original puppet movie! What begins as a routine night for the Gang - which includes the slobbering sleuth and Shaggy eating a triple-extra-large Scooby snack pizza - becomes a mad dash to find the frightening Phantom Parrot, who has a map to pirate Gnarlybeard's hidden treasure. Scooby sniffs out the map's clues, which lead him right to a spooky pirate ship. Ruh-roh! What will Gnarlybeard be willing to do to protect his booty? The whole family will love casting off on this mysterious, fun-filled voyage again and again.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, not serious, exciting
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Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977)
Plot Summary:
Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. But thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in Herbie's gas tank, and are now trying to get them back.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: entertaining, light, melancholic, exciting, feel good, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, fast, surprise ending
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The Jim Henson Hour (1987)
Plot Summary:
The Jim Henson Hour is a short-lived television series that aired on NBC in 1989. It was developed as a showcase for The Jim Henson Company's various puppet creations, including the popular Muppet characters. Only nine of the twelve episodes produced managed to air on NBC before the low-rated program was cancelled. Two later aired on Nickelodeon in 1992 and 1993, and the final episode never aired in the US, but it did air in the UK in 1990.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: anthology, exciting, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Kermit's Swamp Years (2002)
Plot Summary:
At 12 years old, Kermit the Frog and best friends Goggles and Croaker travel outside their homes in the swamps of the Deep South to do something extraordinary with their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, not serious, fantasy adventure
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Eloise at the Plaza (2003)
Plot Summary:
This is a comedy about a six-year-old girl who lives at a 5 star plaza and causes havoc.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, stylized, offbeat
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Geppetto (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a man wishes for a son, he learns what it means to be a father.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 780
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, fairy tale, mysterious, exciting
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Eloise at Christmastime (2003)
Plot Summary:
Eloise insists on helping with yuletide nuptials.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Switching Goals (1999)
Plot Summary:
Twin sisters Emma and Sam come up with a scheme to switch places so each can play in the soccer team they prefer.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic
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Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)
Plot Summary:
Maggie Peyton, the new owner of Number 53 - the free-wheelin' Volkswagen bug with a mind of its own - puts the car through its paces on the road to becoming a NASCAR competitor.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: teen, feel good, humorous, not serious, exciting, captivating, light, romantic, surprise ending, slapstick comedy
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The Love Bug (1969)
Plot Summary:
Herbie is a car - but no ordinary car. The story follows the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own from the showroom to the race track, with various close escapes in between. Three further Herbie movies were to follow.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, sweet, entertaining, melancholic, feel good, semi serious, funny, family comedy, exciting
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Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jack Robinson is a wealthy business man with no time for anything but work. However, a family curse is looming over him - no man in the Robinson line ever lives past the age of thirty. With his upcoming birthday appears the remains of literally giant skeleton and a mysterious woman who claims to have once known the giant. Jack decides to go with her to another world where all is revealed to him along with the story of his ancestor, the original Jack and the Beanstalk. In order to save his own life and the world of the giants, Jack must right the wrongs of the past and return the magical harp and goose that lays the golden eggs to their rightful home.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, feel good, humorous, semi serious, mind bending, epic, mysterious, exciting, stylized
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Liv and Maddie (2013)
Plot Summary:
The exploits of identical twins Liv, a former television star back home in Wisconsin and in the process of adding movie star to her credits, as well as beginning to focus on her music career, and Maddie, an outstanding student and basketball phenomenon recovering from an injured knee. The series centers on the unbreakable bond the twins share though they have wildly different personalities. To complicate their teenage lives, both parents work at their high school and their younger brothers are always stirring up trouble.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, sentimental, feel good, not serious, teen, realistic, teen comedy, nostalgic
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The Suite Life on Deck (2008)
Plot Summary:
The series follows twin brothers Zack and Cody Martin and hotel heiress London Tipton in a new setting, the SS Tipton, where they attend classes at "Seven Seas High" and meet Bailey Pickett while Mr. Moseby manages the ship. The ship travels around the world to nations such as Italy, Greece, India, Sweden and the United Kingdom where the characters experience different cultures, adventures, and situations.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, not serious, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, nostalgic
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Toothless (1997)
Plot Summary:
A female dentist is cast into limbo after her death in an accident and is given the assignment to act as the Tooth Fairy as her action to be admitted into heaven.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good, stylized, fairy tale, nostalgic
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Wendell & Vinnie (2013)
Plot Summary:
The series follows Vinnie Bassett, proprietor of a pop culture memorabilia store who only takes breaks to read comic books and play video games. His bachelor life comes to a halt when he assumes guardianship of his incredibly intelligent and mature nephew, Wendell. They soon find that 12-year-old Wendell may be just the parent Vinnie needs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, sitcom, feel good, light, entertaining
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A Knight in Camelot (1998)
Plot Summary:
Yet another variation on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court." Here, a computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be sent back in time with her laptop, which she uses to amaze the court.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, entertaining, parody, slapstick, arthurian, offbeat, semi serious
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Power Rangers R.P.M (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, the mysterious and sinister Venjix Computer Network is attempting to conquer and lay ruin to the entire planet. Mankind has retreated into environmentally-shielded domed cities to protect against the pollution and machines unleashed by Venjix. In the shining city of Corinth, an elite force of Rangers must learn to drive and operate an arsenal of radically advanced biotech vehicles in order to battle the attacking machine army bent on world domination.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, serious, stylized, apocalyptic, super sentai, fast
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Power Rangers Samurai (2011)
Plot Summary:
A new generation of Power Rangers must master the mystical and ancient Samurai Symbols of Power which give them control over the elements of Fire, Water, Sky, Forest, and Earth. Under the guidance of their all-knowing mentor and the aid of their devoted animal Zords, they battle the dark forces of the Netherworld and a mysterious Warrior bent on destruction.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, super sentai, humorous, captivating, fast
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Home Alone 4 (2002)
Plot Summary:
Kevin McCallister's parents have split up. Now living with his mom, he decides to spend Christmas with his dad at the mansion of his father's rich girlfriend, Natalie. Meanwhile robber Marv Merchants, one of the villains from the first two movies, partners up with a new criminal named Vera to hit Natalie's mansion.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, sincere, captivating, hilarious, exciting, realistic, not serious, slapstick
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Santa Who? (2000)
Plot Summary:
Santa Claus develops amnesia after accidentally falling out of his sleigh and only the innocence of a small child can save him. Meanwhile, Santa has to battle the disbelief of a newsman.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, fairy tale