Movie Thoughts: Rango (2011)

 

• Released: February 14th, 2011
• Directed by: Gore Verbinski
• Running time: 1h 47min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

A chameleon with a flair for the dramatic pretends to be a hero in order to get of a western town's good graces, all the while unmasking a conspiracy concerning the town's water supply.

Movie Thoughts: The Most Precious of Cargoes (2024)

• Released: May 24, 2024
• Directed by: Michel Hazanavicius
• Running time: 1h 21min
• Rating 5/5

Synopsis

A couple of poor people living in the woods one day find a baby beside the train tracks. They decided to raise it, but it soon turns out that the baby is being hunted by people after her.

Movie Thoughts: Chickehare and the Secret of the Groundhog (2025)

• Released: June 12th, 2025
• Directed by: Benjamin Mousquet
• Running time: 1h 28min
• Rating 4/5

Synopsis

Chickenhare and his friends go on another adventure to locate an artifact known as the Groundhog With the Backwards Face, who can alter the past. On their way they're being thwarted by a lynx named Crolloq.

Movie Thoughts: Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness (2022)

• Released: February 16th, 2022
• Directed by: Benjamin Mousquet, Ben Stassen
• Running time: 1h 31min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

Chickenhare, a who is half hare, half chicken, dreams of becoming an adventurer like his father. When his evil uncle breaks free from prison and is after an artifact called the Hamster of Darkness, Chickenhare and his friend Abe the tortoise go on a quest to find it before his uncle. On their way they meet a skunk named Meg, who joins them in their efforts.

Movie Thoughts: Ozi: Voice of the Forest (2023)

 

• Released: June 13th, 2023
• Directed by: Tim Harper
• Running time: 1h 27min
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

An orphaned orangutan named Ozi becomes a star on social media. But one day she runs away from her rescue center and learns of the state of the forest: humans are destroying it for palm oil plantations, and are keeping all animals in a fake rescue center. Ozi decides that she and her friends must be the ones to stand against the destruction of the forest.

Movie Thoughts: Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025)

• Released: June 29th, 2025
• Directed by: Gareth Edwards
• Running time: 2h 14min
• Rating 2/5

Synopsis

In order to make a great medical breakthrough happen, a group of people travel to an island inhabited by mutated dinosaurs and pterosaurs to get their DNA, as well as get the DNA of a mosasaurus. 

Movie Thoughts: Time of the Wolf (2002)

• Released: May 1st, 2002
• Directed by: Rod Pridy
• Running time: 1h 27min
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

Recently orphaned Aaron goes to live with his elderly aunt and uncle after his parent's deaths. There, he has trouble bonding with these relatives he doesn't know well. He finds comfort in befriending an injured white wolf. But the local hunters are after the wolf...

Movie Thoughts: Kayara (2025)

 

• Released: January 2nd, 2025
• Directed by: Cesar Zelada, Dirk Hampel
• Running time: 1h 30min
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

A brave young woman dreams of becoming a Chasqui (royal messenger) like her father. But this is not an easy feat. In the end, she'll have to not only find her calling, but also save her people.

Movie Thoughts: Pets on a Train (2025)

 

• Released: July 2nd, 2025
• Directed by: Benoît Daffis, Jean-Christian Tassy
• Running time: 1h 39min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

A group of animal get stuck on a runaway train and a crash seems imminent. Will they be able to get to the locomotive and pull the emergency brake before it's too late?

Movie Thoughts: The Bad Guys 2 (2025)

• Released: July 24th, 2025
• Directed by: Pierre Perifel, JP Sans
• Running time: 1h 44min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

The newly redeemed Bad Guys are goaded into committing one last job by another group of criminals.

Movie Thoughts: Tiny Heroes (1997)

• Released: April 19th, 1997
• Directed by: József Gémes, Jenõ Koltai
• Running time: 1h 18min
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

Tiny reunites with the rabbits siblings in order to save Owl and the other forest creatures.

Movie Thoughts: Everybody Belongs to the World (2025)

• Released: February 12th, 2025
• Directed by: Mark de Cloe
• Running time: 1h 55min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

Teenage girls Ari and Zahra become best friends. But then the worst happens: Ari is diagnosed with terminal cancer and will soon die, and Zahra and her family might be deported back to Afghanistan. 

Movie Thoughts: A Minecraft Movie (2025)

 

• Released: April 2nd, 2025
• Directed by: Jared Hess
• Running time: 1h 41min
• Rating 2.5/5

Synopsis

Several characters end up in the world of Minecraft, where they have to stand up against a Piglin sorceress named Malgosha.

Movie Thoughts: Snow White (2025)

• Released: March 12, 2025
• Directed by: Marc Webb
• Running time: 1h 49min
• Rating 2/5

Synopsis

Princess Snow White must unite her divided people in order to stand up to the Evil Queen.

Movie Thoughts: The Prince's Voyage (2019)

• Released: June 11th, 2019
• Directed by: Jean-François Laguionie, Xavier Picard
• Running time: 1h 17min
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

A monkey boy befriends a prince from a distant land, and together they explore their surroundings. However, other monkey people are starting to judge the prince.

Movie Thoughts: On the Trail of My Father (2016)

 

• Released: August 27th, 2016
• Directed by: Marco Segato
• Running time: 1h 32min
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

When his father goes into the wilderness to hunt a dangerous bear, a boy goes into the woods in hopes of finding him.

Movie Thoughts: School of Magical Animals 3 (2024)

• Released: September 25th, 2024
• Directed by: Sven Unterwaldt Jr.
• Running time: 1h 45min
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

Ida wants to raise awareness for the local forest being chopped down with her class. Meanwhile, her bully Helene is given a magical animal and wants to use the class to raise her own popularity online. Will she realize what is the right thing to do in time?

Movie Thoughts: Prey (2024)

 

• Released: 
• Directed by: Mukunda Michael Dewil
• Running time: 1h 26m
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

When their plane crashes in the African wilderness, several people from different walks of life will have to learn to work together to survive.

Movie Thoughts: The Tiger Rising (2022)

• Released: January 7th, 2022
• Directed by: Ray Giarratana
• Running time: 1h 42min
• Rating 2/5

Synopsis

A boy named Rob and a girl named Sistine find a tiger in a cage in the woods. Together they debate on whether or not they should set the animal free.

Movie Thoughts: Elio (2025)

 

• Released: June 12th, 2025
• Directed by: Adrian Molina, Domee Shi, Madeline Sharafian
• Running time: 1h 38min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

A boy is taken into space, where he pretends to be Earth's leader and is tasked with making peace between the evil Lord Grigon and the other alien races.

Movie Thoughts: Robot Dreams (2023)

• Released: May 20th, 2023
• Directed by: Pablo Berger
• Running time: 1h 43min
• Rating 4.5/5

Synopsis

A dog befriends a robot, but eventually the duo get separated. Both try to reunite with the other.

Movie Thoughts: Nope (2022)

• Released: July 18th, 2022
  
• Directed by: Jordan Peele
  
• Running time: 2h 10min
• Rating 4/5

Synopsis

OJ and Emerald, a brother and sister horse-trainer duo, have to find a way to prove an UAP's existence when it starts attacking their stables.

Movie Thoughts: Out Come the Wolves (2024)

• Released: August 30th, 2024
• Directed by: Adam MacDonald
• Running time: 1h 26m
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

Two men go out deer hunting and end up straying into the territory of a vicious pack of wolves. One of them, Nolan, is attacked and badly injured. Now it's up to the other, Kyle, as well as Nolan's partner Sophie to rescue Nolan before he perishes from his injuries.

Movie Thoughts: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)

• Released: June 20th, 2025
• Directed by: Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang 
• Running time: 1h 35min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

Three KPop singers are tasked with keeping demons at bay. But then it turns out one of them is half-demon herself, and the group's popularity is being threatened by a boy-band of demons.

Movie Thoughts: Hundreds of Beavers (2022)

 

• Released: September 29th, 2022
• Directed by: Mike Cheslik
• Running time: 1h 48min
• Rating 5/5

Synopsis

A drunken applejack salesman must become the best fur trapper ever if he wishes to marry a merchant's daughter.

Movie Thoughts: Night of the Zoopocalypse (2024)

• Released: October 6th, 2024
• Directed by: Ricardo Curtis, Rodrigo Perez-Castro
• Running time: 1h 31min
• Rating 2/5

Synopsis

A she-wolf and a cougar team up when a there's a zombie outbreak at the zoo.

Movie Thoughts: The Salt Path (2024)

• Released: September 5th, 2024
• Directed by: Marianne Elliott
• Running time: 1h 55min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

An older couple becomes homeless and decide to walk a long trail along Britain's coast.

Movie Thoughts: Delhi Safari (2012)

• Released: July 2012
• Directed by: Nikkhil Advani
• Running time: 1h 36min
• Rating 1.5/5

Synopsis

A group of animals in India unite and travel to Delhi to speak to the president to save their habitat from human destruction.

Movie Thoughts: Gladiator II (2024)

• Released: October 18th, 2024
  
• Directed by: Ridley Scott
• Running time: 2h 28min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

A man named Hanno is forced into fighting in the Colosseum. Will he survive?

Movie Thoughts: Lilo & Stitch (2025)

 

• Released: May 21st, 2025
• Directed by: Dean Fleischer Camp
• Running time: 1h 48min
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

A dangerous space creature crash lands on Hawaii and befriends a little girl with a troubled home life.

Movie Thoughts: How to Train Your Dragon (2025)

• Released: June 6th, 2025
• Directed by: Dean DeBlois
• Running time: 2h 5min
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

In a Viking society where hunting and fighting dragons is seen as the greatest honor, a boy named Hiccup befriends a dragon named Toothless. Now it's up to him to undo his tribe's prejudice against dragons.

Movie Thoughts: Fiery Fox (2024)

• Released: April 20, 2024
  
• Directed by: Dmitry Shpilenok
• Running time: 1h 21min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

Documentary about a fox named Wind and his mate Lava as they have to protect and feed their family.

Movie Thoughts: The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)

• Released: November 23, 2013
  
• Directed by: Isao Takahata
• Running time: 2h 17min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

A princess is born from a bamboo shoot and taken in by a poor couple. When they are given an unexpected amount of riches, they build a luxurious life for the princess, later named Kaguya. But is Kaguya truly happy with this life?

Movie Thoughts: White God (2014)

 

• Released: May 17th, 2014
  
• Directed by: Kornél Mundruczó
• Running time: 2h 1min
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

A girl named Lili is devastated when her father leaves her beloved dog Hagen out on the streets to fend for himself. While Lili looks for her dog, Hagen ends up going down a dark path of vengeance against humanity.

Movie Thoughts: The Amazing Maurice (2022)

 

• Released: November 13, 2022
  
• Directed by: Toby Genkel, Florian Westermann
• Running time: 1h 33min
• Rating 2.5/5

Synopsis

An intelligent cat named Maurice, together with a band of rat and a boy posing as the Pied Piper, arrives at a town which has no rats and no food. Together with their new ally Malicia they have to solve the riddle of the missing animals and food and stand up to a terrifying villain.

Movie Thoughts: Ne Zha 2 (2025)

• Released: January 29, 2025
• Directed by: Yu Yang
• Running time: 2h 23min
• Rating 5/5

Synopsis

Ne Zha's body is restored, and he and Ao Bing must fight to keep Ne Zha's home safe.

Movie Thoughts: Flow (2024)

• Released: May 22nd, 2024
• Directed by: Gints Zilbalodis
  
• Running time: 1h 25min
• Rating 4.5/5

Synopsis

A cat and a few other animals are trapped on a boat when their world floods and will have to work together to survive.

Movie Thoughts: The Polar Bear Prince (2024)

• Released: December 25th, 2024
• Directed by: Mikkel Brænne Sandemose
• Running time: 1h 25min
• Rating 4/5

Synopsis

A girl named Liv befriends a talking polar bear, and together they go on a journey through nature. But an evil sorceress is after them, and the polar bear seems to hide a dark secret.

Movie Thoughts: Gruesome School Trip (2005)

• Released: April 1, 2022
• Directed by: Pieter Kuijpers
• Running time: 1h 36min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

A young boy named Onnoval is picked on by bullies at his school. One day, he makes a deal with a creature known as "Ferluci" to make one of his stories, one where his main bully dies, become a reality. But when Onnoval realizes what he's done and what it'll mean for his classmates, he sets out on a mission to set things right.

Movie Thoughts: Vicky and her Mystery (2021)

• Released: October 23rd, 2021
  
• Directed by: Denis Imbert
• Running time: 1h 24min
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

A girl named Victoria moves to a new village with her father and adopts a puppy, whom she names Mystery. Time passes and it turns out that Mystery is actually a gray wolf, not a dog like Victoria's father initially thought. With the farmers of the village being increasingly hostile towards wolves, Victoria and her father will now have get Mystery to safety in the wild, all the while Victoria doesn't want to give up her pet.

Movie Thoughts: Family Pack (2024)

• Released: October 23, 2024
  
• Directed by: François Uzan
• Running time: 1h 34min
• Rating 2.5/5

Synopsis

A French family is transported back in time to the medieval ages, to a village where each night four werewolves plague the town. They will have to find a way to defeat the werewolves in order to get back home.

Movie Thoughts: Man-Eater of Kumaon (1948)

• Released: July 1st, 1948
• Directed by: Byron Haskin
• Running time: 1h 19min
• Rating 2/5

Synopsis

An American hunter staying in India decides to hunt a man-eating tiger.

Movie Thoughts: Wolf (2008)

• Released: April 4th, 2008
• Directed by: Daniel Alfredson
• Running time: 1h 35min
• Rating: 2/5

Synopsis

A teenage boy and his uncle, both reindeer herders, kill a wolf and must now face the legal consequences of this action.

Movie Thoughts: Panda Bear in Africa (2024)

• Released: February 15th, 2024
• Directed by: Richard Claus, Karsten Kiilerich
• Running time: 1h 24min
• Rating: 3/5

Synopsis

A young giant panda named Pang travels to Africa to save his best friend, the dragon Jielong, as the lions want to use her as a weapon against the hyenas.

Movie Thoughts: A Jesus' Side (2008)

 

• Released: October 26th, 2008
  
• Directed by: William R. Kowalchuk Jr.
• Running time: 1h 22min
• Rating 2/5

Synopsis

A stray named Jericho and his family must stand up to a vicious dogcatcher named Sykosus. Meanwhile, Jericho also befriends Jesus Christ and witnesses his crucifixion.

Movie Thought: Rebellious (2024)

• Released: October 11, 2024
• Directed by: Alex Tsitsilin
• Running time: 1h 34min
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

When Princess Mina gets kidnapped by an evil wizard, her boyfriend Ronan goes after her to rescue her. But he's not the only one who wants to save her: three potential other suitors want to save her as well. Will Mina be rescued and get together with her one true love?

Movie Thoughts: Cinderella and the Secret Prince (2018)

• Released: 2018
  
• Directed by: Leo Lewis Liao, Lynne Southerland
• Running time: 1h 30min
• Rating 1.5/5

Synopsis

Cinderella sets out on a quest to save her prince, who was turned into a mouse by an evil sorceress.

Movie Thoughts: Dog Gone (2023)

• Released: January 13th, 2023
  
• Directed by: Stephen Herek
• Running time: 1h 35min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

A young man named Fielding adopts a dog named Gonker and they become inseparable. But then Gonker vanishes into the wild one day, and Fielding and his father set out on a quest to find the dog before time runs out, as Gonker needs a specific medication to survive.

Movie Thoughts: Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

• Released: April 16th, 1988
• Directed by: Isao Takahata
• Running time: 1 h 28 min
• Rating: 4/5

Synopsis

A boy named Seita and his little sister Setsuko try to survive alone in World War II era Japan.

Movie Thoughts: Oink (2022)

• Released: February 10, 2022
  
• Directed by: Mascha Halberstad
• Running time: 1h 12min
• Rating 2/5

Synopsis

A girl named Babs adopts a piglet, whom she names Oink. But her family threatens to get rid of the pig if he cannot behave. Worse yet, her grandfather turns out to be a butcher who wants to fatten the pig and then turn him into sausages. Babs and her brother Tijn will have to work together to save the piglet.