The monsters in Monsters, Inc. are just so incredibly cute--and they know it. Whereas Woody, Buzz and pals in the Toy Story saga were filled with self-doubt about just how much the children in their lives would continue to love them, here our heroic monsters and their impossibly lovable human ward Boo have no such worries, at least when it comes to the cinema audience. And that's why ...

Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Starring: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi, James Coburn
Directed By: David Silverman, Lee Unkrich, Pete Docter

Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., James Coburn, Sisqó, Nichelle Nichols, M. Emmet Walsh
Directed By: Brian Levant

This follow-up to the surprise Disney hit about a hockey team of misfits brings Emilio Estevez back to the role of the kids' yuppie coach. This time, Estevez assimilates his Ducks into the higher-stakes Team USA in the Junior Goodwill Games, an opportunity that could bring fame and money. Entirely perfunctory, this sequel is basically an excuse to revisit the eccentricities of some of the younger ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Kathryn Erbe, Michael Tucker, Jan Rubes, Carsten Norgaard
Directed By: Sam Weisman

It's hard to know who thought it would be a good idea to make a live-action version of Disney's animated classic. The one bright notion anyone had was casting Glenn Close as Disney Übervillainess Cruella de Vil; her flashing eyes and angular features are a perfect match and do credit to what is one of the most indelible animated characters Disney has ever created. The story remains essentially the ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson, Joan Plowright, Hugh Laurie
Directed By: Stephen Herek

A thoroughly engaging fairy tale that's family friendly without being condescending, The Princess Diaries is your basic Cinderella makeover story given a fresh, affectionate twist courtesy of a game, energetic cast and a screenplay that skirts schmaltz in favour of gentle, effective comedy. Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) is a frizzy-haired, glasses-wearing 15-year-old girl whose two ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Julie Andrews, Anne Hathaway, Hector Elizondo, Heather Matarazzo, Mandy Moore
Directed By: Garry Marshall

A deft balance between special effects, comedy and family dynamics made this 1989 film a hit for Disney and spawned both a string of video sequels and a subsequent TV series. Moranis is endearing as the bumbling inventor/father of the Szalinski family. He inadvertently shrinks his own children then throws them out with the trash. They, along with the neighbour kids, must journey back across their ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Rick Moranis, Matt Frewer, Marcia Strassman, Kristine Sutherland, Thomas Wilson Brown
Directed By: Joe Johnston

In the wonderfully entertaining Freaky Friday, teenager Anna (Lindsay Lohan) and her fortysomething psychiatrist mum Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) have sunk into a rut of frustrated bickering--until a magic spell causes them to switch bodies. Suddenly Tess finds herself faced with petty teachers, vicious rivals and a hunky boy, while Anna has to cope with her mother's neurotic patients as well as ...

Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon, Harold Gould, Chad Michael Murray
Directed By: Mark Waters

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Mackenzie Astin, Kevin Spacey, David Ogden Stiers, August Schellenberg, Brian Cox
Directed By: Charles Haid

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Seymour Cassel, James Remar
Directed By: Randal Kleiser

The Lizzie McGuire Movie spins around the axis of Disney Channel starlet Hilary Duff, whose glossy good looks and rather mature figure are balanced by a sweetly bashful persona and an endearing klutziness. On a school trip to Rome, Lizzie is discovered to be the virtual twin of an Italian pop star named Isabella--and her dreamy former partner wants Lizzie to take Isabella's place at an ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Hilary Duff, Adam Lamberg, Hallie Todd, Robert Carradine, Jake Thomas
Directed By: Jim Fall