10. Fly Me to the Moon

It’s 1969 and three space race crazy houseflies – Nat, IQ and Scooter – find themselves aboard the Apollo 11 lunar mission as it blasts off from Cape Canavarel. They leave behind concerned parents…and some jealous Soviet bluebottles concerned that a US fly is going to get to the moon first. Some beautiful digital imagery and imaginative use of 3-D technology ensure ankle biters will be enjoying the rarefied cartoon atmosphere.

9. Jaws 3-D

The oldest son from the first two Jaws films, Michael Brody (played by Dennis Quaid) now works as the chief engineer of SeaWorld in Florida, which is preparing for the launch of its new “Undersea Kingdom,” a set of tunnels where people can “view the wonders of the deep without ever getting wet.” Michael lives with his girlfriend, Katherine Morgan (Bess Armstrong), who is senior biologist at the park. The film opens with a great white following a team of waterskiers, among them Kelly (Lea Thompson). Their boat stalls, but the driver gets it going again before anyone is attacked. When they enter the park from the sea through a gate, the shark follows. The gate is thrown off its rails while closing.

8. The Nightmare Before Christmas

“Halloween Town” is a dream world filled with citizens such as deformed monsters, ghosts, ghouls, goblins, vampires, werewolves and witches. Jack Skellington (”The Pumpkin King”) leads them in a frightful celebration every Halloween (”This is Halloween”), but he has grown tired of the same routine year after year (”Jack’s Lament”). Wandering in the forest outside the town center, he accidentally opens a portal to “Christmas Town” (”What’s This?”). Impressed by the feeling and style of Christmas, Jack presents his findings and his (somewhat limited) understanding of the holiday to the Halloween Town residents. They fail to grasp his meaning and compare everything he says to their idea of Halloween. He reluctantly decides to play along and announces that they will take over Christmas (”Town Meeting Song”).

7. Coraline

As an alternate beginning, a window opens and a stuffed doll resembling an African-American girl (later revealed to be the Sweet Ghost Girl) is transformed, by a pair of spidery hands made of sewing needles transforms it into a white girl with blue hair, a yellow raincoat and yellow Wellington boots. The doll is then tossed back out of the window.Meanwhile, Coraline Jones (Dakota Fanning) and her parents, Mel and Charlie Jones (Teri Hatcher and John Hodgman) leave their relatively comfortable lives in Pontiac, Michigan and move into the Pink Palace Apartments in Ashland, Oregon, which is a converted mansion that they share with retired actresses Miss Spink and Miss Forcible (Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French) and retired Russian circus performer Mr. Bobinsky (Ian McShane). Coraline’s parents are busy working on a gardening catalog, which leaves them with little time for Coraline.

6. G-Force

The film revolves around an special FBI organization of trained secret agent animals, equipped with advanced tools including an advanced earpiece that allows the mammalian members to talk to humans. In addition to a team of cockroaches, the primary field team consists of guinea pigs Darwin (Sam Rockwell) (team leader), Juarez (Penelope Cruz) (martial arts), Blaster (Tracy Morgan) (weapons/transportation), star-nosed mole Speckles (Nicolas Cage) (cyber intelligence), and fly Mooch (reconnaissance) (Dee Bradley Baker). Hoping to impress his superiors on the eve of a budgetary review, the unit’s leader, Ben (Zach Galifinakis), orders an unauthorized infiltration of the residence of home electronics and appliances magnate, Leonard Saber, who has been under FBI investigation for years.

5. Spy Kids 3-D

Juni is thrust back into service when Sebastian the Toymaker (Sylvester Stallone), an evil mastermind, creates a video game called Game Over that mesmerizes its users. Carmen was sent on a mission to disable the game, but disappeared on Level 4. With the help of his maternal grandfather, Valentin Avellan (Ricardo Montalban), who is a wheelchair user, Juni is sent after his sister and helps to disable the game in order to save the world. It is revealed the Toymaker was the one who disabled Valentin in the first place. Instead of avenging his former partner, Valentin forgives Sebastian who is redeemed. This 3-D movie was filmed using James Cameron’s Fusion Camera system.

4. Bolt

A girl named Penny and a dog named Bolt star on a hit television series called Bolt in which the titular character has various superpowers and must constantly thwart the evil plans of the nefarious Doctor Calico. To gain a more realistic performance, the TV show’s producers have deceived Bolt his entire life, arranging the filming in such a way that Bolt believes the television show is real and he really has superpowers. After filming completes for the latest episode, Bolt escapes from his on-set trailer mistakenly believing Penny has been kidnapped by the television villain. He attempts to break through a window, knocking himself unconscious as he falls into a box of styrofoam peanuts.

3. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Ellie (Queen Latifah) and Manny (Ray Romano) are expecting their first child, and Manny is obsessed with making life perfect and safe for the family, since his first experiences as a husband and father went bad when his family was killed by hunters. At the same time, Diego (Denis Leary) finds himself unable to catch a cocky gazelle (Bill Hader) he has been stalking and decides to leave the herd, believing that he is losing his predatory nature as a tiger. Sid (John Leguizamo) grows jealous of Manny and Ellie and “adopts” three apparently abandoned eggs that he finds in an icy underground cavern and call them Eggbert, Shelly, and Yoko. Manny tells him to put them back, but Sid instead looks after the eggs, which hatch into baby Tyrannosaurus the next morning.

2. Toy Story 3D

Old-fashioned cowboy doll Woody is coordinating a reconnaissance mission around his owner Andy’s birthday party in the days before Andy’s family move to their new house. To Woody’s dismay, Andy receives a new action figure, space ranger Buzz Lightyear, whose impressive features soon see Buzz replacing Woody as Andy’s favorite toy. Woody, the former de facto leader of Andy’s toys, is disappointed and resentful at his replacement. Meanwhile, Buzz does not understand that he is a toy, and believes himself to be an actual space ranger, seeing Woody as an interference in his ‘mission’ to return to his home planet.

1. Up

Pixar returns to the CGI fray after the triumph of WALL.E with this story of seventy-something hero Carl Fredricksen (voiced by Edward Asner) who has dreamed of travelling the globe. He gets his chance when he hooks up with a clueless eight-year-old…and they both set off into the great unknown.