E.G. Daily Movies

The eagerly anticipated sequel to the Oscar-winning hit Happy Feet Two finds tap-dancing penguin Mumble (voice of Elijah Wood) and his pals using their smooth moves to save the penguin nation. Mumble and Gloria (voice of Pink) have started a family of their own, and their young son, Erik, is just finding his footing among his fellow emperor penguins when a dire new threat thrusts their future into jeopardy. Just when it begins to look as if all hope is lost, the penguin nation bands together to dance the darkness away. Writer/director George Miller and star Robin Williams both return in this sequel also featuring the voices of Hank Azaria, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Sofía Vergara. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

A group of college friends discover that the hyperbole is true during a weekend trip to a whorehouse where the girls are "to die for." The proprietor of Mustang Sally's Whorehouse is a sexy businesswoman with a mysterious secret (E.G. Daily). Men come from miles around just to visit Sally's girls, though few who enter the house ever come out alive. Later, as the boys start to pair off with their respective "dates," the trap is sprung and the carnage begins. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Ian Truitner's horror film The Cutting Room stars Mark Elias as an inexperienced moviemaker attempting to complete a horror film. The production gets complicated when a real serial killer begins to take out members of the cast and crew. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

The most adorable little superheroines in all of Townsville make the jump to the big screen in this feature-length animated adventure based on the popular Cartoon Network series The Powerpuff Girls. Brilliant scientist Professor Utonium (voice of Tom Kane) is performing an experiment in his lab when Jojo, a monkey trained to assist the professor, accidentally drops a bottle of hyper-powerful Chemical X into a mixture of sugar, spice, and everything nice. To the professor's surprise, what should emerge from the subsequent chemical reaction but three little girls: bright and practical Blossom (voice of Cathy Cavadini), sweet and sunny Bubbles (voice of Tara Strong), and tomboyish Buttercup (voice of Elizabeth Daily). Professor Utonium discovers that the girls have remarkable powers and super-human strength, and he hopes they'll be able to improve life in the crime-infected City of Townsville. However, after their first day at Pokey Oaks Kindergarten with Ms. Keane (voice of Jennifer Hale), the girls learn that having super powers can be both a blessing and a curse. Rejected by their classmates and quite unhappy, the girls are easily swayed when Mojo Jojo (voice of Roger L. Jackson), a superintelligent monkey in a turban, asks them to help him with a campaign to save the city. What the girls don't know is that Mojo Jojo is actually the monkey who once assisted the Professor; now he's embraced evil and hopes to use the Powerpuff Girls as part of his criminal scheme to wrestle control of Townsville away from the dense but well-meaning Mayor (voice of Tom Kenny). The Powerpuff Girls Movie was directed and co-written by Craig McCracken, who created the original television show as well as writing most of the episodes. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

After being given the briefest of trial runs in 2000, the half-hour cartoon series Chalk Zone joined the Nickelodeon Friday-night lineup on March 22, 2002. The hero of the series was ten-year-old Rudy Tabootie, an aspiring cartoonist. In his efforts to escape the adult hypocrisy and hot air all around him, Rudy regularly retreated into his own fantasy world via a chalkboard portal. Here he conspired and commiserated with the "ghosts" of chalk drawings previously erased by Rudy's clueless elders. E.G. Daily of Rugrats fame provided the voice of Rudy. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi