Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015), Babe (1995), In Search of the Castaways (1962), Tarzan the Magnificent (1960), The Beastmaster (1982), The Golden Compass (2007), The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988), The Last Flight of Noah's Ark (1980) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Animal Companions movies.
Storyline: Shaun the sheep is tired of doing the same work at the farm everyday. He decides to take a day off. In order to do that, he needs to make sure the farmer doesn't know. When more happens than they can handle, the sheep find their way in the big city. Now they need to get back to the farm.
Plot Keywords: animation, comedy, family, adventure, farm, humor, british ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Gentle farmer Arthur Hoggett wins a piglet named Babe at a county fair. Narrowly escaping his fate as Christmas dinner when Farmer Hoggett decides to show him at the next fair, Babe bonds with motherly border collie Fly and discovers that he can herd sheep too. But will the other farm animals, including Fly's jealous husband, Rex, accept a pig who doesn't conform to the farm's social hierarchy?
Plot Keywords: family, comedy, adventure, animals, farm, dogs, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An earthquake, a flash flood, an avalanche, a volcano, alligators, jaguars, mutineers, and a man-eating Maoris dog the steps of a shipping company owner, a scientist, and the two children of a lost sea Captain as they circle the Earth along the 37th parallel per instructions in a bottled note the scientist has recovered from a shark's stomach. Only certain facts are discerned from the stained note, especially the words "37 parallel". Teenage Mary Grant (Hayley Mills), her younger brother, Robert (Keith Hamshere), and the scientist, French Professor Jacques Paganel (Maurice Chevalier), trick their way aboard the grand yacht, "Persevero II", during a bon voyage party to see the owner of the shipping company, Lord Edward Glenarvan (Wilfrid Hyde-White), the epitome of British aloofness. With the urging of his own son, John (Michael Anderson, Jr.), Glenarvan's luxurious side-wheeler sets sail for the coastal town of Concepcion, Chile in the search for the missing Captain Grant (Jack Gwillim).—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: adventure, family, fantasy, disney, classic, adaptation, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After the Banton family rob a store is a small village and kill the local police constable, Tarzan captures one of them, Coy Banton. He decides to return him to the authorities so that the dead policeman's family will benefit from the $5000 reward. The head of the clan, Abel Banton and his two sons have no intention of letting Tarzan deliver Coy and burn the river boat they were to use. Several of the passengers are now stranded forcing Tarzan to take them along on a trek through the jungle. Abel Banton trails them intent not only getting his son back but getting rid of Tarzan.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: adventure, action, jungle, hero, wildlife, survival, villain ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dar, the son of a king, is hunted by a priest after his birth, so he is sent to grow up in another family. When he becomes a grown man, his new father is murdered by savages. He discovers that he has the ability to communicate with the animals, and after that, Dar begins his quest for revenge in this Conan-like movie.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, action, sword and sorcery, hero's journey, animal companions, supernatural powers ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It was no ordinary life for a young girl: living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College and tearing unsupervised through Oxford's motley streets on mad quests for adventure. But Lyra's greatest adventure would begin closer to home, the day she heard hushed talk of an extraordinary particle. Microscopic in size, the magical dust--discovered in the vast Arctic expanse of the North--was rumored to possess profound properties that could unite whole universes. But there were those who feared the particle and would stop at nothing to destroy it. Catapulted into the heart of a terrible struggle, Lyra was forced to seek aid from clans, 'gyptians, and formidable armored bears. And as she journeyed into unbelievable danger, she had not the faintest clue that she alone was destined to win, or to lose, this more-than-mortal battle...
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, family, action, novel adaptation, parallel universe, magic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso, and monkey, Mr. Nilsson, and takes up residence in the old family home, which is thought by neighborhood children to be haunted. Soon, two children, Tommy and Annika, venture into the house only to meet up with Pippi. The three soon become friends and get into various adventures together, including cleaning the floor with scrubbing shoes, dodging the "splunks", going down a river in barrels, and helping Pippi with the problem of having to go to a children's home. Older children will probably get the most out of this movie.—Amelia Chanowith
Plot Keywords: children, adventure, comedy, family, fantasy, adaptation, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Noah Dugan agrees to fly missionary Bernadette Lafleur and her cargo of animals to a remote island, its only because he is on the run from a couple of bookies. What neither of them know is that two of Miss Lafleur's young students have stowed away with the animals & Miss Lafleur's transistor radio has interfered with the plane's instruments and they're all now miles off course. After a forced landing on a remote island, Dugan, Bernadette, Bobby and Julie discover that they are not alone. Together with two Japanese soldiers who have been stranded on the island since WWII, they must turn the plane into a seaworthy boat if they are ever to make it home. When Bobby and Julie insist that they cannot leave the animals behind, the converted plane truly becomes a second Noah's Ark—April M. Cheek <Aravis2713@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: adventure, family, comedy, drama, aviation, animals, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Noah's ark drifts on the open seas, with best friends Finny and Leah on board. But, after weeks with no land in sight, food stocks are running low. The fragile peace between carnivores and herbivores could break any second. After a series of unfortunate events, the kids find themselves inadvertently washed overboard - along with the last of the food supplies. Leah and fellow castaway, their new friend Jelly, are marooned on a remote island. While Finny wakes in a strange colony filled with oddly familiar creatures living in harmony - under the threat of a menacing volcano. In a race against time, tide and terrifying tremors, Finny must rescue his friends, reunite with his family and save a whole colony from total destruction.
Plot Keywords: animation, comedy, adventure, family, fantasy, animals, flood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in 1944, Valiant (Ewan McGregor) is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he immediately sets out for London. On the way, he meets a smelly, but friendly pigeon named Bugsy (Ricky Gervais), who joins him, mainly to get away from clients he cheated in a game of find-the pebble, and helps him sign up for the war.
Plot Keywords: animation, comedy, family, adventure, war, uk, disney ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Pale Arrow is a white man raised since a boy by the Pawnee Chief. With wagon trains now encroaching on Pawnee land, the Chief sends Pale Arrow to be with the white people. Now known as Paul Fletcher, he takes the job of wagon train scout. The Chief wants peace but when he dies, Crazy Fox takes over and now leads the Pawnees in an attack against that wagon train.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: animation, comedy, family, adventure, animal protagonist, classic, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Buffalo newsman Evan Baxter is elected to Congress with the slogan, "Change the world." He lucks into a huge house in a new Virginia suburb. His Capitol office is also fantastic, but there's a catch: he's tapped by the powerful Congressman Long to co-sponsor a bill to allow development in national parks. In steps God, who appears to a disbelieving Evan and gently commands him to build an ark. Tools and wood arrive in Evan's yard, animal pairs follow, his beard and hair grow wildly, nomad's clothes and a staff appear. Long grows impatient, Evan starts building, his family leaves him, reporters gather, and drought grips D.C. Still, Evan believes. But will he change the world?
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, fantasy, religious, humor, modern adaptation, animals ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dr. John Dolittle has the world in his hands: A beautiful wife at his side, two adorable daughters and a career that could not go better. One night, he nearly runs over a dog with his car. The dog yells "bonehead" and disappears. From then on, his childhood ability is back: To communicate with animals. Unfortunately, the word of Dolittle's ability is spreading quickly. Soon, many animals from rat to horse flock to his place to get medical advice. But his colleagues suspect he's going mad, and as the clinic Dolittle used to work for is about to being taken over for a huge amount of money, many decisions have to be made. Believe him? Put him into a mental institution? Sell the clinic? But also his family is close to breaking apart. Until a circus tiger falls seriously ill.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, fantasy, animals, doctor, humor, adventure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The land of Bayala is a fantasy country full of fairies of diverse tribes (sun, forest, ice, rainbow and shadow) which magic depends entirely of the dragons. But one day Ophira, shadow fairies' queen, stolen all dragons' eggs to destroy the magic and leave Bayala absence of it, kidnapping too Princess Surah at child along several years, rising her with her cousin Princess Nuray, to the point to mutate her sun wings in shadow wings (just shadow fairies can fly at night). Discovering finally the truth, Surah tries to escape, being saved by male shadow fairy Jaro and the own Princess Nuray, escaping from shadow land to back sun land for meeting again her older sister Princess Eyela and her younger twin sister Princess Sera, warning them about Ophira's ambitions to rule Bayala. However, all changes when, in Eyela's coronation as queen of sun fairies, the young, clueless and adventurer Marween, taking it wrongly as a talking stone, finds a dragon egg and she gives it Eyela as present. It forces Eyela, Surah, Sera and Eyela's assistants Feya and Falaroy to trace a plan to reunite with his parents the baby dragon named Nugur before he breaks out all the egg, because if the first thing that Nugur looks isn't their parents, all his magic will vanish and Bayala will be commended. Asking help to Ice Queen, Rainbow King and Forest King, Eyela decides celebrate a Dragon Feast. While Eyela's retinue moves to the place of the feast, Surah, Sera, Marween and Nugur travels to Dragon Mountains for meeting Nugur's parents, with help of fairy sorcerer Bilara. But Ophira, with her own daughter Nuray as personal prisoner, is determined to use all her evil powers to stop Dragon Feast and prevent Surah's intentions to restore magic that brings back Bayala its former glory.—Chockys
Plot Keywords: fairy tale, princess, magic, adventure, family, children, animation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An independent Swedish child lives alone, foils crooks and astounds neighbors in her seafaring father's absence.
Plot Keywords: children, adventure, comedy, family, fantasy, classic, adaptation ...
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