If movies routinely plunge the depths of human imagination, the fantasy genre goes one level deeper. Culling from the tradition of epic storytelling, the best examples introduce all the living entities in parallel worlds. Powerful wizards. Evil creatures. Futuristic spaceships. Distant planet landscapes. When the budget is big enough, all impossibilities are made possible. That’s not to mention animation, which serves up its own unique tier of boundless potential.

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Warriors of Virtue (1997) Dvd
 Actors: Marley Shelton, Teryl Rothery, Julie
Patzwald, Kimberley Warnat, Dennis Dun
 Format: Dvd, Remastered
 Language: English, 5.1 Surround Sound
 Run Time: 101mins
 Region: Region-Free Playable Worldwide
 Extras: Theatrical Trailer
 Plot: A young man, Ryan, suffering from a
disability, wishes to join the other kids from
his schools football team. During an initiation
rite, Ryan is swept away through a whirlpool to
the land of Tao. There he is hunted by the evil
Lord Komodo, who desires the boy as a key to
enter the real world. Ryan is rescued by the
protectors of Tao, five humanoid kangaroos,
each embued with the five elements and
virtues. Ryan learns his valuable lesson while
saving the land of Tao.

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Warriors of Virtue 2: The Return to
Tao Dvd
 Actors: Kevin Smith, Nathan Phillips,
Nina Liu, Shedrack Anderson III
 Format: Dvd, Remastered
 Language: English, 5.1 Surround
Sound
 Run Time: 93mins
 Region: Region-Free Playable
Worldwide
 Extras: Stunts and Wire Work,
Theatrical Trailer
 Plot: A new villain, Dogon, seizes
control of Tao, a parallel universe. On
Earth, 12-year-old Ryan and his friend
Chucky arrive at a martial arts
competition whereupon they are
unexpectedly taken to Tao to fight
Dogon.

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The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
Dvd
 Actors: Lee Horsley, Kathleen Beller
 Format: Dvd, Remastered
 Language: English, 5.1 Surround
Sound
 Run Time: 99mins
 Region: Region-Free Playable
Worldwide
 Extras: None
 Plot: A mercenary with a three-bladed
sword rediscovers his royal heritage's
dangerous future when he is recruited
to help a princess foil the designs of a
brutal tyrant and a powerful sorcerer
in conquering a land.

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Thief of Baghdad
 Actors: Steve Reeves, Giorgia Moll,
Arturo Dominici
 Format: Dvd
 Language: English, Dobly Digital 5.1
 Run Time: 1hr 40min
 Region: Region-Free Playable
Worldwide
 Extras: None
 Plot: In the time of the Arabian
Nights, the city of Baghdad is ruled by
Sultan Ali Bajazeth but actually
controlled by the scheming Grand
Vizier Ghamal. The poor of Baghdad
are aided by Karim, the Thief of
Baghdad.

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The Wonders of Aladdin Donald O'Connor Dvd
 Actors: Donald O'Connor, Noëlle Adam, Vittorio De
Sica, Aldo Fabrizi, Michèle Mercier
 Format: DVD
 Language: English Dolby Digital 2.0
 Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen
 Run Time: 93 Min.
 Plot: Donald O'Connor plays Aladdin as both the hero
and comic relief in this arabian nights fantasy.
Conspicuously American in a cast that seems largely
European, O'Connor's Aladdin is of humble origins but
never allows his lack of means (or any concrete ideas
for acquiring any) dampen his dreams of grandeur.
When he finds that his new lamp contains a genie
who'll grant him three wishes, his chance for greatness
may have finally come true. Nobody believes him,
least of all the lovely Djalma, who has spent years
waiting for him to give up his dreams, settle down and
marry her. Assured of his deepest wishes, Aladdin
travels to Basorah, a great city nearby, which already
celebrates the impending marriage of the Sultan's
daughter to the young but wise Molook. Meanwhile,
the prince's wicked Vizier conspires to kill Mollook and
steal both his crown and his bride and, with no male
heirs of the Sultan, the Sultan's crown as well. When
blundering across the plan, Aladdin rides to an unlikely
rescue with the help of the wily prince and Basorah's
population of fakirs and beggars.