Which kid does not dream of a magical device capable of transforming it not into one, but into ten alien superheroes?
This is exactly what happens to Ben Tennyson, the 10-year-old star of the new series, when he comes into possession of the fantastic Omnitrix watch.
It all begins when the alien spaceship of the evil Vilgax searches the cosmos for the Ominitrix device, capable of restoring her powers. Meanwhile, young Ben Tennyson can't wait to finish the last day of school, to go on vacation. Ben is a generous, curious and reckless kid, even if with the slender physique he finds himself, he can do nothing against the bullies of the school bullies. Ben will have to spend the summer camping in the company of his grandfather Max, an enterprising man, energetic and lover of nature, and his cousin Gwen, with whom Ben certainly does not have a good relationship, since they never miss an opportunity to insult each other. each other. For Ben Tennyson, this is not a fun-filled vacation.

One day Ben sees a meteor and mistakes it for a shooting star, but it suddenly changes direction and plummets to its vicinity. Inside the crater appears a strange machine similar to a wristwatch: it is the Omintrix looking for the alien Vilgax. Driven by curiosity, Ben approaches and as if animated by a dark force, the watch sticks to his wrist. Ben tries in every way to take it off, but fails, so he presses a button on that strange device, where figures are displayed. Selecting one of them is transformed into an alien being covered with incandescent lava. Despite his first initial scare, he realizes that he possesses superpowers capable of throwing fireballs, but due to his clumsy experiments, he sets fire to the surrounding forest. Seeing the fire, Grandpa Max and Gwen go to put it out with fire extinguishers. Gwen sees Ben transformed into an alien and scared, hits him with the fire extinguisher. Ben has the opportunity to explain what happened to him and after putting out the fire, he transforms himself back into the 10-year-old boy, as if the energy at his disposal had run out.

Despite his grandfather's recommendations, Ben pokes around to understand how the strange clock works, so he selects a new figure. Suddenly under Gwen's gaze, he transforms into a huge, eyeless beast with surprising agility that allows him to leap from tree to tree. Meanwhile, the camper radio reports that aliens have attacked a holiday camp, so Ben heads to save them. Transform into a superhero with green armor, hard and sharp as a diamond and superhuman strength and face off against the giant robot alien, responsible for the disasters, while his grandfather and Gwen secure the campers. After a tough battle, Ben manages to repel the robot's attacks and reflect his own powers, against the alien that falls apart.

Meanwhile, Ben tries to turn into other superheroes, one of them a kind of velociraptor, super fast with a very powerful tail, capable of shattering anything.
What starts out as a game soon becomes a real challenge: assuming the guise of monsters with extraordinary powers is not just pure fun as Ben imagines. His new double life soon creates difficulties and enemies for him, first of all the evil alien Vilgax, who will do everything to conquer the Omnitrix. Engaged in adrenaline-fueled battles, Ben discovers that sometimes physical strength is not enough to win a fight and that, to choose the right transformation at the right time, he must do something he has never done before: stop and think.
Every alien into which Ben can transform is in fact endowed with perfect physical characteristics and abilities in certain contexts, useless in others. To help him defeat his enemies and learn how to make the right choices are his grandfather Max, a former soldier, and his intelligent and reserved cousin Gwen.

BEN 10 ALIEN FORCE

These series, the first consisting of three seasons and 46 episodes in total, the second of two seasons and 52 episodes plus a special, are the continuation and natural evolution of Ben 10 which aired for the first time between 2005 and 2008. Between the first series and this one called “Ben 10 Alien Force” about 5 years have passed, Ben and his cousin Gwen have grown up and returned to a normal life, after their previous adventures. In this series there are profound differences in the characters compared to the first; the passage of time in fact shows us both Ben and cousin Gwen different, not only physically (now they are two teenagers and no longer two children) but also and above all in the way of thinking and in their reasoning, and this is especially true for Ben. But the most visible difference is that of Ken's transformation. The first series ended with Ken being trapped by Ben in the Total Void and totally lost his human form, transforming into "Kevin 11"; also at the beginning of this series Kevin fights against Ben, losing again, but thanks to a rudeness of the Knights Immortals before (who do not pay Kevin a supply of weapons that Kevin provides them), and above all to the extreme sacrifice of Magister Labrid (Solver and Grandpa Max's alien partner) who manages to save his life, Kevin decides to help Gwen and Ben by taking Magister Labrid's solver badge, totally revolutionizing his evil behavior of the first series.

Although Kevin sometimes gets carried away by his old cheating and malevolent habits, such as "The Enchantress's Spell" or "The Exchange", his actions, this time, are mainly aimed at finding a way to return to the its human form. From the end of the second part of the first episode we have therefore a very close trio that unites to fight the Supreme and help the Solvers waiting for the advice of Grandpa Max. A second difference lies in the figure of Grandpa Max.
In the first series, Grandpa Max was the point of reference and guide for both Ben and Gwen and was always present in every episode, (in "An Old Flame" he was even the absolute protagonist) while in this series he appears for the first time time in the fourth episode in the form of a hologram with a message to be delivered to Ben and in the sixth episode help Ben, Gwen and Kevin to free Gwen's brother, Ken, from the Umaliens and disappear completely destroying a factory, of the Supreme, of Xenocytes (which they are one-eyed crab-like parasites as large as a turtle that transform humans and not into Umaliens) with many Umaliens; It will only reappear towards the end of the second season when Ben discovers that Grandpa Max was not dead as everyone had believed, but that he had been transported into the Total Void. Grandpa Max still remains hidden from the end of the second season to the beginning of the third, returning to be the protagonist towards the end of the series and in the last two episodes (Vendetta and the two parts of "The final battle). The whole series is however focused on relationship that is created between Ben, Gwen and Kevin, of respect between the two cousins ​​(who in the first series were always quarrelsome and even a little jealous of each other's powers), of affection between Gwen and Kevin and of solidarity between Ben and Kevin, which will lead them to be more and more united with each other even in extreme situations, such as that of Kevin's failure to reconvert at the beginning of the third season; for 15 episodes Kevin, despite blaming Ben ( exactly as in the first series) of this state, continues to help him and fights the Supreme by his side.
Ben 10 Alien Force "has therefore also this other point different from the previous one, a point that is then continued in the next" Ben 10 Ultimate Alien "or that of feelings; the children have grown up and the dislikes and jealousies that existed between Gwen and Ben are almost disappeared, giving us two cousins ​​who (almost) always get along and help each other; the increased age also has natural effects, both in Ben and in Gwen: the former in fact has feelings ( partially reciprocated) towards a girl, Julie, who appears occasionally and almost always on the occasion of the presence of an alien baby called "Nave", to which Ben is forced to reveal his ability to transform through the Omnitrix; as for Gwen, however, she begins to nurture a "sympathy" for Kevin, and this can be guessed in the aforementioned episode "Enchantress's spell" where Gwen becomes a furious beast not so much for the fact thatKevin participated in the deception of the Enchantress, as well as the fact that the latter kissed him in order to subject Kevin to his will.

Another difference of this series compared to the previous one is in the real protagonist, the Omnitrix worn by Ben; in "Ben 10 Alien Force" in fact Ben to the various original alien forms contained in the Omnitrix (which we remember is that bracelet in the shape of a watch which, calibrating itself on Ben's voice, allows the transformation of the boy into the form he invoked when the omnitrix himself allows it for a maximum of 10 minutes), when he found him while camping with Grandpa Max and Gwen and the various aliens that have been added gradually in the series, he has ten new alien forms obtained by mixing the powers of those already present with the return of some forms already seen in the previous series in the moment in which Ben uses the Omnitrix to repair the genetic damage of the Supreme in the second part of the episode "the war of the worlds", where Ben acquires the information that the Omnitrix contains the DNA of every sentient species in the galaxy, for a total of 1.000.903 alien forms, as if it were Noah's Ark. In this series (and in the next one) the Omnitrix does not repair Ben from the blows and injuries suffered during his transformation into the chosen form, as after his return to human form he feels all the consequences.
The whole story of the series revolves around the three boys who from episode to episode meet new characters (such as Simian who we will also find in the next "Ultimate Alien" series) but for each of the three seasons there are two stories that run parallel: the first, which spans all three seasons, refers to Ben's fight against the Supreme, first as a mere "hero" (in the first season), then when Magister Ghilhil (Supreme Master of the Solvers) elevates Ben himself, with Gwen and Kevin, members of the team of Honorary Solvers, so that they can fight to legally save the Earth and help not only the world but also other forms in the universe (season two and three). The other stories are contained within each season: in the first we witness the preparation of the group, with the three living stories that bring them closer to each other and that make the children understand how important unity and doing can be. of the good; for Ben this happens in the episode "The Robotic Glove", where he rebels against JT, Ben's old friend in elementary school, and Cash, two bullies who play in the rival soccer team who never miss a chance to harass and make fun of Ben; after Ben defeats Cash (who had accidentally found a glove that had turned him into a robot previously defeated by Ben), JT, Cash and Ben make a mutual "non-aggression" pact. For Gwen, the episode that makes her understand how important unity can be is that of "Nonna Verdona", where she learns the origin of her powers when she meets her grandmother Verdona and where she refuses to go to her planet of origin, where she would have was able to acquire greater strength and awareness of his powers and his being, to maintain his terrestrial features and to remain on earth together with his cousin and Kevin.

As for Kevin, the pivotal episode (beyond the second part of "The return of Ben 10" already mentioned above) is "Kevin's big revenge" where, after stealing Grandpa Max's camper, he is nevertheless helped by Ben find the alien device he stole for and discover that this was nothing more than a container with a message from Grandpa Max to Ben urging him to fight the Solvers and that the best method is to form a united team, team a which Kevin definitely adheres to. The story of the second season is instead focused (except for the episode "Good copy, bad copy" where the galvanic Albedo appears who will be the protagonist in the following season and whose actions will also affect the "Ben 10 Ultimate Alien" series) on the fact that Ben , Gwen and Kevin have been formally authorized to defend the Earth, to fight against the Supreme and to prepare for the final battle against them and takes place mainly on planets other than Earth; in this perspective, the episode "Alone Together" appears very important, the second of the season, the fifteenth of the series, where Ben is trapped together with a high commander of the Supreme, Reinrassic III: in this episode, in fact, both have to put aside their mutual resentments to be able to survive the attacks of the creatures present on that planet, coming to save each other's life with Ben who helps Reinrassic III to return to normal after his arm had been cut off and that for this help he no longer felt "pure" "; this step is fundamental as in the episode "War of the Worlds", which concludes the season, it is understood that the Supreme are attacking the other living forms in the universe as they are weakened by their own idea for the genetic purity of their species by bringing the same to sterility and disease as there had been breeding between relatives. Reinrassic III becomes a fundamental pawn because, after Ben has used the Omnitrix to be able to reprogram the DNA of the Supreme by associating it randomly with the various forms contained in the Omnitrix itself in order to give new life to the species, he manages to convince his people that he is better to feel impure and live than to succumb and be condemned to extinction, becoming Supreme of the Supreme degree with which he can recall the general fleet of Supreme who had left for Earth to launch the final attack

The third season is centered on the explanation of many mysteries (such as in the episode "Primus" where the operation of the Omnitrix is ​​understood) and on the closure of the many options that have remained open both in the seasons and in the previous series: Vilgax and Albedo they are in fact the characters on which the entire plot is intertwined, in fact both wanting Ben's Omnitrix with the first who also wants revenge for what happened in the first series and who opens the season with the episode (divided into two parts) titled "Vilgax's revenge", where fighting following the "galactic code", he defeated the strongest aliens in the galaxy and also defeats Ben who, however, manages to recover by transforming himself into a form he had never known; Albedo is very important as it is the link, as well as cause and effect, of the third series of Ben 10; in fact, after having appeared in an episode of the second season, he is the disruptive protagonist of the episode "" The final battle "which closes the series as he manages to steal an enhanced version of the Omnitrix called Ultrimatrix, which however is blocked if not comes into possession of the original Omnitrix; to have it he allies himself with Vilgax but his plan is upset by the betrayal of Vilgax himself who manages to take possession of the Omnitrix just slipped from Albedo to Ben, and who is preparing to attack the Earth. Vilgax destroying the Omnitrix and convinces Albedo to give him the Ultrimatrix which, among other things, has enhanced versions (Ultra) of some forms of Aliens, managing to finally free Kevin from his mixed state of earth - metal - wood in which he was imprisoned from the first encounter with Vilgax.

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10.10.10
BEN 10 ALIEN FORCE: "The Final Battle"
Sunday 10 October 2010, at 19.00 pm
+ special programming from 7am to 21pm on Cartoon Network

The time has come. Up CARTOON NETWORK, is celebrated on 10.10.10, with the expected last two episodes of BEN 10 ALIEN FORCE. In fact, this year's calendar includes a single date, 10 October 2010: a day in which we could not help but celebrate Ben Tennyson, a real phenomenon among the boys.
Above all the males, passionately follow the adventures of this (super) hero who, at the age of 10, discovered that he had incredible powers (transforming into 10 different aliens with relative 10 super characteristics) to save the Earth and his loved ones (including Grandpa Max ) from an extra-terrestrial invasion. Difficult for a peer not to identify with.

Sunday 10th October 2010 we will not only witness the "Final Battle" of the last season: the entire programming of the day will in fact be dedicated to the young Hero, a television hit in every country where it is broadcast. All the productions of the character will be broadcast: the morning, one-episode-after-another of Ben 10 and the afternoon of the teenager Ben from Forza Aliena, in addition to the live action films scheduled for 10.10.10 (h 8.40, 14.30 and 19.55).

At 19.00, however, after 3 seasons, the time has finally come to find out how the Ben 10 Alien Force series will end. Despite all the tests already passed, Ben, Gwen and Kevin, aided by Grandpa Max, have not yet been able to completely erase the alien threat, as Vilgax is still around and is doing everything to take over the Omnitrix and the Earth. The Final Battle will confront Good against Evil once and for all, in a challenge that is extremely difficult until the end. But it won't be The End. These last two episodes mark a fundamental step towards the third brand new Ben 10 series entitled Ultimate Alien, arriving on the channel between the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011.

THE FINAL BATTLE: some anticipation. In an attempt to revert to his original Galvanic form, Ben's alter ego Albedo steals the Ultimatrix from his mentor Azmuth, a powerful new version of the Omnitrix ... but discovers that, not yet developed, the device he only has the same alien forms as Ben Tennyson's Omnitrix and cannot access the latest generation forms. Thanks to the help of the evil Vilgax, Albedo then tries to take possession of the Omnitrix and allies himself with Chimera Sui Generis, she is no longer interested in the device but only in conquering the Earth and destroying Ben. Albedo manages to kidnap Gwen and Kevin and force Ben to face him to free them.

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BEN 10 ULTIMATE ALIEN: new and exclusive series

The third series, "Ben 10 Ultimate Alien" consists of two seasons with 54 episodes in total and instead has a completely different trait as Ben no longer acts in silence and incognito, but as a superhero acclaimed by the whole world; defeated the most powerful enemies such as Vilgax and Albedo (although the latter reappears in the episode "Ben 10 Live", Ben has to deal with the return of the Knights Immortals and with a new and very dangerous enemy, Aggregor who appears in passing already in the first episode "Ben becomes famous" and which has invincibility as its goal; to do this, however, he must be able to possess a very powerful weapon, called "Map of the Infinite" and made up of five distinct fragments. Aggregor, thanks also to the wrong operations and to the carelessness on the part of Ben, Gwen and Kevin, he manages to take possession of all five pieces but the three, aided by a furious Azmuth who challenges them precisely for having allowed this, succeed in the episode "The Forge of Creation "to block Aggregor with the consequence that Kevin returns to being that of the first series, irascible and vengeful and until the end of the first season, where for the sake of Kevin Gwen fights against Ben who is decis or to eliminate him, he becomes the main actor who, once defeated by Ben, reverts to being the boy Gwen fell in love with. The feelings, in fact, as in the second series are overwhelmingly present: between Kevin and Gwen it is understood that there is a tenderness that is not manifested until the second part of the "absolute power" episode in which they finally kiss, as he had already done. Ben with Julie in the first episode (but in the second season Eunice appears who turns out to be a Unitrix, prototype of the Omintrix that Ben falls in love with)

In this series the sense of duty on the part of the whole group is also very present: in the 33rd episode, for example, Ben 10 finds himself fighting with the arachnascimpa of the planet of Simian as these, with his habit of shady deals , brought and sold a xenocyte) to a criminal who then transformed all the arachnascimpas into umaliens. Ben 10 then has to decide whether to help the one who tried to eliminate him by selling him with a ploy to the Supreme to prevent these humaliens from spreading throughout the universe, or to leave it alone; this distrust of his, but above all Kevin's distrust, dates back to the previous series when Simian deceived the three boys by making them believe that on the moon there was a crystal that reproduces the symbol of his family on the planet of origin, when instead that crystal was not nothing more than an energy source that Simian himself wanted to sell to the Supreme. This sense of duty is also witnessed in the episode "Training Course" in which the three boys are called back by the Academy of Solvers for a regular training course; despite the fact that they actually earned their badge by defeating the most dangerous aliens, they still undergo training like normal recruits where they earn the instructor's respect by saving his life. In this series there are also references (even very explicit) to real life facts: the main example is given by the episode entitled "Prisoner number 775 is missing" where Ben, Gwen and Kevin find themselves in the southern state of Nevada in the famous "Area 51" after Sir George, the first Immortal Knight, made the entire base disappear except the base which is used as a prison for all the aliens that are captured by the US Air Force. The series ends with the appearance of Azmuth who gives Ben a new Omnitrix, after he has had to fight a bitter war with Diagon, a powerful demon who suddenly comes from a different dimension and who wants to conquer the entire universe. subduing all the inhabitants of the various planets making them his slaves, the strongest enemy Ben has ever had to face. Diagon can in fact be defeated only by the Sword Ascalon, created by Azmuth, in the possession of Sir George and with which Sir George himself had defeated him millennia earlier by taking his heart, source of his strength, and relegating him to the parallel dimension, almost capable of convincing Ben to found a new world with him; only the providential intervention of Julie, who manages to bring Ben back to himself and to prevent the Earth from being submissive.

ANIMATION FILMS and LIVE ACTION:

BEN 10, RACE AGAINST TIME

In the live action film the young Graham Phillips is Ben, a role for which he was nominated at the Young Artist Awards in 2008. In the US, the film's first TV was a success: it was the most watched show in the history of the channel.
(Ben 10 Race Against The Time by Alex Winter, with Graham Phillips, Haley Ramm and Lee Majors, USA 2007, 91 ')
Plot: After finding the Ominitrix, a mysterious clock that transforms him into 10 different alien heroes, Ben Tennyson (Graham Phillips) spends the whole summer as a hero with the help of his wise cousin Gwen (Haley Ramm) and Grandpa Max (Lee Majors, star of the show "The Man with 6 Million Dollars"). The film begins when their summer adventures come to an end and Ben is about to go back to being a normal kid between school, family and friends, that is, to everyday life ... if you can talk about "quiet everyday life" for a 10-year-old rocket capable of transforming into a variety of super aliens. In fact, the villain is lurking: Eon, Ben's nemesis from another galaxy, appears to claim the Ominitrix. Special effects, adventure, action and suspense are guaranteed.

BEN 10 ALIEN SWARM
Ben 10: Alien Swarm by A. Winter, with R. Kelly, B. Corbin, Cartoon Network Studios, USA 2009
High technology, engines, special effects in computer graphics, action and suspense: these are just some of the ingredients of this latest Cartoon Network production whose story is taken from the adventures of the new Ben 10 Alien Force cartoon. In Ben 10 Alien Swarm, our teenage hero is ready to embark on a new adventure together with his team: cousin Gwen, former enemy Kevin Levin and, for the 1st time on screen, the mysterious character of Elena. Mission: Save the Earth from a dangerous alien threat and find Grandpa Max safe and sound. After the success of Race Against Time, Alex Winter was confirmed as director. Writer, John Turman (Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer and The Hulk). Ryan Kelley (Smallville and Letter from Iwo Jima) is Teen Ben, Barry Corbin (No Country for Old Men) Grandpa Max.

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