“Young, mischievous Max is sent to bed without his supper, but when his bedroom turns in to a magical jungle landscape filled with strange creatures, he embarks on a wild imaginary adventure.”

• Director: Spike Jonze
• Release Date: 16 October 2009 (USA)
• Country: USA
• Genre: Adventure , Drama , Family , Fantasy
• MPAA: Rated PG for mild thematic elements, some adventure action and brief language.

Tagline: There’s one in all of us.

Trivia: The creatures are being portrayed by actors in 6-8 foot tall costumes, with some additional animatronics, and computer-generated faces. The costumes were created by The Jim Henson Company, who were responsible for the Muppets and Labyrinth creatures.

“Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life. Written by Lisa Kelley”

• Director: Sean Penn
• Release Date: 21 September 2007 (USA)
• Run Time: 148 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Adventure , Biography , Drama
• MPAA: Rated R for language and some nudity.

Tagline: Your great adventure on Alaska.

Trivia: Brian H. Dierker was originally hired as the technical consultant for the white-water rafting scenes. Sean Penn cast him as Rainey after Emile Hirsch suggested him for the role.

Goofs: Anachronisms: When Chris catches a ride with a trucker, a yellow sticker in the windshield bearing the number “6″ is visible. This is a CVSA inspection sticker that indicates the truck passed a safety inspection in 2006.

“A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.”

• Director: Jay Russell
• Release Date: 25 December 2007 (USA)
• Run Time: 112 min
• Country: USA , UK
• Genre: Adventure , Family , Fantasy
• MPAA: Rated PG for some action/peril, mild language and brief smoking.

Tagline: Every big secret starts small.

Trivia: The title, ‘The Water Horse’, is a reference to the kelpie, a malevolent beast of Celtic lore that would disguise itself as a horse to lure unsuspecting victims to it. Once the unfortunate soul had mounted the kelpie, it would drag him or her down to their watery death.

Goofs: Continuity: When Angus first takes the egg into the workshop, you can see the door to the workshop is set in a recessed porch and it is cloudy. The next shot, as he enters the workshop, has the sun streaming through the glass in the door. Whilst it is feasible that the sun could have just come out, it would be impossible for it to be streaming through the glass, given the position of the door in the previous shot.

“While Ben Gates is presenting new information about John Wilkes Booth and the 18 pages missing from Booth’s diary, a man by the name of Mitch Wilkinson stands up and presents a missing page of John Wilkes Booth’s diary. Thomas Gates, Ben’s great-grandfather, is mentioned on the page. It shows that Ben’s great-grandfather was a co-conspirator in Abraham Lincoln’s murder. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail Chase, and Riley Poole to Buckingham Palace (which they break into). They discover a plank that has early Native American writing on it. The plank has only one symbol that Patrick Gates can identify. The symbol is Cibola (see-bowl-uh) meaning the City of Gold. In order to define the rest the have to go to Ben’s mother, Patrick’s divorced wife. After 32 years it brings back old arguments. After that the other clue is in the President’s desk in the Oval Office in the White House (which Ben and Abigail sneak into) to discover that the clue lies in The President’s Book. But in order to see the book, their choice is either get elected president or kidnap the President of the United States. Which do they choose? It’s obvious. With Wilkinson close on their tail, they find the book in the Library of Congress. The conspiracy then crosses to Mount Rushmore where the clue was on the hills, but (according to the Book) President Calvin Coolidge had the faces carved in so no one can find the City of Gold. When they get there they find out that they must work with Wilkinson since he has some clues of his own. Who will claim Cibola? And will the name of Gates be known as murder? Written by mviedirctr354″

• Director: Jon Turteltaub
• Release Date: 21 December 2007 (USA)
• Run Time: 124 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Mystery , Thriller
• MPAA: Rated PG for some violence and action.

Trivia: In The Rock (1996), ‘Nicholas Cage’’s character is given information that leads him to a hidden roll of microfilm containing government secrets, including information about the Kennedy assassination (just as the “Book of Secrets” contains). Ed Harris plays the villain in both films.

Goofs: Continuity: When John Wilkes Booth first hands his diary to Thomas Gates in the saloon, there are very clearly four names above Thomas Gates’ name on the left hand page. But when Thomas Gates looks at the diary, there are only three names above his. In the next scene at the Civilian Heroes ceremony, the partially burned left hand diary page again has four names above Thomas Gates’ name.

“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- found only in the vast Artic 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… Written by Krista”

• Director: Chris Weitz
• Release Date: 7 December 2007 (USA)
• Run Time: 113 min
• Country: USA , UK
• Genre: Adventure , Family , Fantasy
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for sequences of fantasy violence.

Tagline: “It is the Alethiometer. It tells the truth. As for how to read it, you’ll have to learn by yourself.”

Trivia: “The Golden Compass” is the American title of the book which Philip Pullman published in the UK as “Northern Lights”.

Goofs: Continuity: During the final battle scene, there are a bunch of children attacking a guard. Lyra jumps on his back and then Serafina Pekkala shoots an arrow into the guard while Lyra is still on him. When he falls to the ground the arrow is protruding from his back with Lyra unharmed (01:37:00).

“David Rice is a high school student in Ann Arbor, abandoned by his mother at five, enamored with Millie, a fellow student, and picked on by at least one classmate. On a winter’s day, while about to drown, he discovers he can transport himself instantaneously to anyplace on earth. He leaves town, goes to New York City, robs a bank vault, and comes to the attention of a shadowy group of government hunters. Eight years later, the hunters, led by the murderous Roland, get a fix on David. He heads home, searches out Millie, invites her to travel with him, and only later realizes that Roland and his crew are seriously deadly. Is everyone close to David in danger? Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}”

• Director: Doug Liman
• Release Date: 14 February 2008 (USA)
• Run Time: 88 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi , Thriller
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense action violence, some language and brief sexuality.

Tagline: anywhere is possible.

Trivia: David Ritchie, a set-dresser on the Toronto shoot, was killed while dismantling part of the set.

Goofs: Continuity: After David teleports his father’s body to the hospital, David’s gray sweatshirt has blood on it. In the next shots, it’s clean.

“Benjamin Finnegan is a deep-sea treasure hunter certain he’s onto the find of the century in waters near an island close to Key West owned by a murderous rap star to whom Ben is in debt. Ben’s flat broke and recently divorced from Tess, his long-time research and diving partner whom he still loves. She’s nearby, working as a steward aboard the yacht of Nigel Honeycutt, a multimillionaire. The rapper has hired a rival treasurer hunter. Can Ben convince Nigel to bankroll his search, convince Tess to work with him, keep the rapper and his thugs at bay, and find a Spanish treasure hidden for centuries and rich beyond imagination? Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}”

• Director: Andy Tennant
• Release Date: 8 February 2008 (USA)
• Run Time: 113 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Adventure , Comedy , Romance , Thriller
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for action violence, some sexual material, brief nudity and language.

Tagline: This February True Love Takes a Dive.

Trivia: Production of the film was delayed due to a deadly form of jellyfish that prevented actors Matthew McConaughey and ‘Kate Hudson’ from going into the water.

Goofs: Continuity: Gemma arrives on the boat via helicopter, yet she is greeted by Nigel as she is walking up a staircase. As the helicopter would have landed on the roof, she should be coming down a staircase.

“A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter named D’Leh’s journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. When a band of mysterious horse-riding warlords raid the Yaghal camp and kidnaps his heart’s desire -- the beautiful Evolet along with many others, D’Leh is forced to lead a small group of hunters south to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven by destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-toothed cats and terror birds in the Levant. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}”

• Director: Roland Emmerich
• Release Date: 7 March 2008 (USA)
• Run Time: 109 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Adventure , Romance , Thriller
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense action and violence.

Tagline: It takes a hero to change the world.

Trivia: Release prints were delivered to some theaters under the false title — “King Dinosurs” (that is the actual spelling).

Goofs: Anachronisms: Chilli Peppers. Originally from Central and South America. It’s diffusion through the world was made by the Portuguese colonists and traders, throughout the Portuguese empire, during the 16th and 17th centuries AD.

“The morning they return from their White Castle road trip, Harold and Kumar decide to go to Amsterdam because Harold doesn’t want to wait ten days to see Maria again. On the plane, Kumar lights up his new bong, the air marshals think it’s a bomb, and Harold and Kumar are arrested as terrorists and sent to Guantanamo Bay. Ordered to fellate a guard, they manage to escape, make their way to Florida, and head for Texas to find Kumar’s ex-girlfriend’s fiance”

“During the Cold War, Soviet agents watch Professor Henry Jones when a young man brings him a coded message from an aged, demented colleague, Henry Oxley. Led by the brilliant Irina Spalko, the Soviets tail Jones and the young man, Mutt, to Peru. With Oxley’s code, they find a legendary skull made of a single piece of quartz. If Jones can deliver the skull to its rightful place, all may be well; but if Irina takes it to its origin, she’ll gain powers that could endanger the West. Aging professor and young buck join forces with a woman from Jones’s past to face the dangers of the jungle, Russia, and the supernatural. Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}”

• Director: Steven Spielberg
• Release Date: 22 May 2008 (USA)
• Run Time: 122 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Action , Adventure
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for adventure violence and scary images.

Tagline: In May, the adventure continues.

Trivia: To reprise his role as the legendary explorer Indiana Jones, the 64-year-old Harrison Ford spent three hours a day at the gym, and subsisted on a high-protein diet of fish and vegetables, thus building his body into a condition where he could perform his own stunts (he always kept himself fit anyway, as he hoped to complete all the five Indiana Jones films that were originally planned in the 1980s). Steven Spielberg later stated he was so impressed with Ford’s form that he could not tell the difference between the shoots for the third and fourth films.

Goofs: Continuity: During the scene where Indy and Mutt drive the motorcycle through the library, it is clearly a stuntman and not Harrison Ford who slides under the tables on the motorcycle, as Indiana’s socks go from dark (when it’s clearly Ford on the motorcycle) to white (when Indy’s under the tables) to dark again when Ford gets up on the motorcycle.