It’s been a big year for animation, with a great variety of styles represented by “Up,” “Monsters vs. Aliens” and the upcoming “Fantastic Mr. Fox” and “The Princess and the Frog.” The best you can say ...

Having apparently run out of mermaids to document, Animal Planet is moving on to the world of animal zombies. The network has optioned the zombie animal graphic novel series The Other Dead. The book ...

A “Shrek”-style, 3-D-animated co-production, “Planet 51” is a less entertaining “Monsters vs. Aliens.” A comic reimagining of a 1950s science-fiction B-movie from Madrid’s Ilion Animation Studios, the ...

Neera (left) is voiced by Jessica Biel and Lem (right) by Justin Long in the animated flick. As fresh as the latest issue of The Saturday Evening Post, “Planet 51” occupies the same comedy galaxy as ...

The action in the new kids flick “Planet 51” takes place on an alternate-universe version of Earth where Shrek-green humanoids live out SoCal-accented happy days, complete with Googie architecture, ...