LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Disney Channel star Miley Cyrus lends her voice to the
animated adventure "Bolt," the story of a canine TV star (voiced by John
Travolta) on a cross-country trek to get home to his human co-star (Cyrus).

Other family flicks include "Beverly Hills Chihuahua," the live-action tale of a pampered dog (voiced by Drew Barrymore) lost in Mexico; "Igor," a cartoon
comedy about a humpbacked lab assistant (voiced by John Cusack) who tries
playing mad scientist; and "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa," reuniting stars Ben
Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith and David Schwimmer as zoo animals out in the wild.

The sequel sets up one of the season's weirdest love stories, between Schwimmer's giraffe and Pinket Smith's hippopotamus.

"He has this crush on her and finally confesses," Schwimmer said. "He believes
he's only got a short time to live and that he's come down with this disease,
so he's kind of convinced he's got to get up the nerve to tell her how he
feels before he dies."

And those pesky "Madagascar" penguins are back, crashing the gang's place
in Africa then recruiting loads of grease monkeys--meaning actual monkeys--
to rebuild it.

-- David Germain