LOS ANGELES - Violinists playing sweetly beneath her, the video game heroine Lara Croft has two guns blazing and the full attention of 10,000 people at the Hollywood Bowl.

...Monsters, Inc.," at $252 million, is No. 3. Last year also produced such technical advancements as "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within," a box-office flop that still raised animation to a new level of semi-realism, and "Waking Life...

...Video. 9. Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed In The House Of Mouse, Walt Disney Home Video. 10. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Columbia TriStar Home Video.

...semen, licking wounds, wearing bloody animal skins and swinging newborn babies by their umbilical cords. FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRIT WITHIN (*** 1/2 , PG-13, 105 minutes) The first animated movie to attempt realistic human characters...

...semen, licking wounds, wearing bloody animal skins and swinging newborn babies by their umbilical cords. FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRIT WITHIN (*** 1/2 , PG-13, 105 minutes) The first animated movie to attempt realistic human characters...

...movie career is blossoming nevertheless. The computerized 27-year-old stars in the sci-fi adventure "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within," the first feature-length film with an entire cast of nearly photorealistic animated humans. The technology...

Sequels, video games, remakes, mayhem - it must be summertime at the movies. Here's the scorecard at a glance. No fewer than five sequels are scheduled - including the third "Jurassic Park" movie - and the count goes to an even half-dozen if you include Kevin Smith's "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back," which reprises characters from his previous movies.

...who plays Shrek's garrulous sidekick, Donkey. The sole bomb among computer-animated movies was "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within." The difference: Computer-animated hits like "Monsters, Inc." and "Shrek" told good stories...

...now in production. Two upcoming science-fiction adventures have women as protagonists. The animated Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within features the voice of Ming-Na as a scientist battling alien invaders who have decimated Earth. In John...