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God bless animation! Only in cartoons could you get a prequel after a dozen years with characters that actually look younger than they did in the first film. Also, while we're at it, hooray for Pixar, because Monsters University looks like the movie that'll re-establish the studio's follow-up bona fides after the critical train wreck that was Cars 2. To begin with, the premise was established organically; rather than following up on the adventures of Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sulley (John Goodman) after the closing curtain of Monsters, Inc. -- and trying to send them on a new, sequelriffic adventure -- it capitalizes on the duo's easy chemistry by focusing on how they met.

"Brave" does something that no Pixar movie has done before: put a female character front and center. Princess Merida in "Brave" (voiced by "Boardwalk Empire" scene stealer Kelly Macdonald) is unlike normal Disney princesses: she's got a lilting Irish brogue, is Katniss Everdeen-y with a bow and arrow, and has no interest in finding Prince Charming -- unless Prince Charming is the key to unlocking a "beastly curse" that threatens her kingdom.

The new animated version of "The Borrowers" is the latest film addition of the Studio Ghibli family. Hirosmasa Yonebayashi directs the latest take on the popular series of children's novels written by Mary Norton."The Borrower Arrietty" ("Karigurashi no Arrietti") centers on Arrietty, a tiny borrower who forges a friendship with a human. Although there isn't too much that shows from this new short trailer, you can get the general gist of it. Ghibli has produced one wonderful film after another from "Princess Mononoke", "My Neighbor Totoro", "Spirited Away" to last year's "Ponyo".

Has Andy dumped Woody and the gang?

A new international trailer for Disney and Pixar's "Toy Story 3" starring the returning voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, John Ratzenberger is now online.The film is due out on June 18, 2010. Have a look at the trailer below and let us know what you think.

Take a look at the Japanese animation guru's latest film.

Disney's upcoming return to hand drawn animation.

Here's your first look at the third installment of this popular animated franchise.

Summit Entertainment has debuted this second teaser trailer for Astro Boy , coming to theaters on October 23. Directed by David Bowers, the CG-animated big screen adaptation features the voices of Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Nathan Lane, Bill Nighy, Eugene Levy, Matt Lucus and Donald Sutherland.