Best Fantasy movies of 2008

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.



Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull(2008)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 78

Famed archaeologist and adventurer Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. is called back into action, when he becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls.



Wanted(2008)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A frustrated office worker learns that he is the son of a professional assassin and that he shares his father's superhuman killing abilities.



Twilight(2008)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire.



The Spiderwick Chronicles(2008)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.



The Forbidden Kingdom(2008)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A discovery made by a kung fu obsessed American teen sends him on an adventure to China, where he joins up with a band of martial arts warriors in order to free the imprisoned Monkey King.



City of Ember(2008)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 67

For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing ... and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker.



The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor(2008)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 57

In the Far East, Alex O'Connell, the son of famed mummy fighters Rick and Evy O'Connell, unearths the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin -- a shape-shifting entity cursed by a witch centuries ago.



Bedtime Stories(2008)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A hotel handyman's life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to magically come true.



Pontypool(2008)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A radio host interprets the possible outbreak of a deadly virus which infects the small Ontario town he is stationed in.



The Spirit(2008)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 52

Rookie cop Denny Colt returns from the beyond as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces in Central City.



Over Her Dead Body(2008)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 51

A ghost tries to sabotage her former boyfriend's current relationship with a psychic.



Hellboy II: The Golden Army(2008)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 39

The mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth, so Hellboy and his team must save the world from the rebellious creatures.



Inkheart(2008)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 39

A young girl discovers her father has an amazing talent to bring characters out of their books and must try to stop a freed villain from destroying them all, with the help of her father, her aunt, and a storybook's hero.



Sita Sings the Blues(2008)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 65

An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw.



Ghost Town(2008)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 36

Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts.



$9.99(2008)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A stop-motion animated story about people living in a Sydney apartment complex looking for meaning in their lives.



An American Carol(2008)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 35

An anti-American filmmaker who's out to abolish the July Fourth holiday is visited by three ghosts who try to change his perception of the country.



Tokyo!(2008)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 32

A cinematic triptych of three Tokyo-set stories.



Otto; or, Up with Dead People(2008)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 31

Otto is a handsome, sensitive, neo-Goth zombie with an identity crisis wandering the streets of the city, until one day he auditions for a zombie film...




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