Lions

Lions is a 2008 American computer animated epic thriller adventure drama film. It was distributed by Touchstone Pictures.

Plot
The film is set in a post African landscape near North America, where the local African tribesmen with the people, believe all creatures are created through the Spirits, who are said to appear in the form of an aurora.

Three brothers, Artie, the youngest teenager lion, Charming the middle brother and Justin, the young lion return to their people in order for Kenai to receive his totem, a necklace in the shape of an animal. The particular animal it represent symbolises what he must achive to call himself a man, Like Justin, who gained the Owl of wisdom, Charming, who gained the stallion of wisdom, Artie receives the lion of legend, with the help of Soothsayer. He objects to this, stating Lions are theives and believes his point is made a fact when a lion takes some salmon

Artie and his brothers pursue the cougar, but a fight follows on a rocky highest cliff, during which Justin gives his life to save his brothers. Although the cougar survives, Angered, Artie heads out to avenge Justin. He chases a leopard up onto a mountain and nearly kills it. The Spirits, represented by Justin's spirit in the form of an Barn Owl transform Artie into a lion after the leopard vanishes.

Charming arrives, mistaking and believing Artie's dead, and be living the lion form is responsible, vows to avange Artie by hunting it down.

Sam falls down some Rapids, survives and is healed by Soothsayer, the shaman of Artie's people. They speak lion language, but advises him to return to the mountain to find Justin and be turned back to normal, but only when he amends his mistake, they disappears without an explanation. Samson quickly discovers the wildlife can talk, meeting two Owls, Digger, a burrowing owl and Twilight, a Great Gray Owl. He gets caught in a trap, but is freed by a chicken named Chicken Little, an elephant named Horton, a mammoth named Manny and an Ostrich name is Bradley. They make a deal: Samson will go to the nesting grounds with them and then the animals will lead Sam to the mountain. As the five eventually form a friendship, Littlefield reveals that his family is missing. The five are hunted by Phango, a half blinded leopard who nearly kills Littlefield when Samson rushes in to protect him.

The five bump into a sabre tooth tiger Roger and the six head far to south America. As the gang entred, Samson places his pawprint on a ground and reveals that lion will become one. Phango is an statment to hatred of lions in a stark perspective that forces his strength to reconsider.

When the gang are headed, the ground starts to turn lava, while the gang escapes, Roger is nearly killed but Xang saves him. As the rocks crumble, Sam run to the gang, but the cliff do not support his weight, it breaks nearly killing Samson. The lion had suffered a sustained bruise and his friends knew that he saved his life and Roger's.

The six see the campfire and saw cave paintings on the wall, which Sam is haunted by those images. But the five tells him that the cave paintings are eventaully The same. While having adventures along the way, they reach a cave. There the five learn about Sam's past and his previously human hunters interactions which suffered a sustained, horror nightmare, in which a leopard Phango was rejected by his pack, but he murdered his whole kind. Sam is upset at this horror, but Bradley confess that he should get to the mountains with them.

Later, the six almost reach their destination, but Encounter a river of lava. The five make it safely, but Roger struggles about to fall into the lava. Sam rescues him, but Roger fell into the lava himself. The animals takes a break for the night and the gang reaches the nesting grounds.

They met many animals in the herd. They accept the land and he learns to enjoy himself. This contentment is shattered when a weasel tells the story of a monster. Sam is Horrifed, anxious and afraid by this story, but the violent, gore memories started to haunt him when he is aghast to realize the story is about the fight that the human Artie and his brothers had with a killer beast. It immediately dawns on Sam that he had a horrifying vision and voices in his head.

Sam flees the gathering, unknowing to have nightmares on his own. Littlefield arrives, but Sam confess the truth that Phango murdered his family, Littlefield is distraught but the gang comforts him. Feeling for what he done, The animals approached the half peak on the highest mountains on the weight of the cliff of the height. Xang seems that Littlefield is missing that when his probably back at the nesting grounds and he went to find him.

Finding that there is no way out, Sam angrily pins Roger into the wall, after when he lied to him about losing his hope of the nesting ground, threatening to murder him for his misdeeds, but Roger, asks for their thrust by having a change of heart, agrees to help the animals fight Phango.

Cast

 * Joaquin Phoenix as Sam, a Lion.
 * Zach Braff
 * David Wenham
 * Anthony LaPaglia
 * Freddie Highmore
 * Rupert Everett
 * Richard E. Grant
 * Geoffrey Rush
 * Hugo Weaving
 * Liam Neeson as Phango.
 * Michelle Yeoh
 * Michael Clarke Duncan as Big Bull, a bull who is a member of the nesting grounds.
 * John Hurt
 * Bill Murray
 * Dijmon Honsou
 * Gerard Butler
 * Ben Kingsley
 * Richard Carter
 * Idris Elba
 * Phil Morris
 * Eric Bana
 * Bruce Spence
 * Leonard Nimoy

Trivia

 * In the UK, the film was mistakenly added to the Walt Disney Animated Classics canon, making this release two films a year.
 * The film is part CGI and live action, which includes live action backgrounds in Dinosaur.