The Proud Family Movie

Plot synopsis:
The film opens with a man named Dr. Carver, the great-great-grandson of George Washington Carver, trying to generate a super 'Gnome Warrior', a prototype for an army of humanoid peanut warriors, but it disintegrates. The scene then turns to Penny Proud, who is celebrating her 16th birthday in her hometown of Wizardville, California, and fails her driver's ed. She and her friends are excited to be a part of 15 Cent's (Sticky's cousin and parody of 50 Cent) dance group, Spare Change. When 15 Cent drives her home, Oscar Proud, her over-protective father, gets mad when he finds them kissing. After Oscar gives her the worst grounding of her life, and essentially forbids her from ever becoming an adult, Penny wishes he wasn't her father, to which he states he wished he never had her as a daughter. This marks the culmination of their relationship as seen over the entire series.
Oscar has invented an everlasting multiplying formula that was supposed to make his Proud Snacks tastier, but it instead causes the snack to expand and explode. As he is hauled away from his presentation, he proclaims that his formula has no expiration date. Dr. Carver, overhears Oscar's ranting, plots to get Oscar's formula since he has never gotten his experiment to stabilized. Disguising himself, Carver invites the Proud family to Legume Island. Trudy forces Oscar, Sugar Mama, and Penny to go in hopes they will re-bond. The family meets the inhabitants of the island, short peanut creatures called the Genomes.
Carver tries to negotiate obtaining the formula from Oscar by offering him $10 million. However, a G-nome named Wally convince Oscar not to. When Oscar refuses (who doesn't have the formula with him), Carver constructs evil peanut clones of his family from DNA snatched from them while they were partying. Oscar runs away and tries explaining to his family, but they don't believe him. The clones get a mix-up when the real Penny comes with them back to the mainland to search for the formula; Penny's clone remains with the original family. Penny soon enjoy the free life which the clones allowed her, in spite of their bizarre personalities and Oscar's clone becoming a celebrity, but quickly tires of it. She discovers that Cashew, a G-nome she befriended earlier on the island, had stowed away; he wanted to see what it was like to have a 'real family'. He also reveals to her the true nature of the clones.
At that moment, Wally leads the Prouds and the Penny clone on a perilous journey to the other side of the island, where he claims there is someone who can answer their questions. Along the way, the Penny clone proves to be the kind of daughter Oscar desires – obedient. When they meet the person Wally wanted them to meet, he turns out to be the real Dr. Carver. Dr. Carver explains that he moved to the island and began his goal on cloning technology and created the friendly island creatures, but wanted someone to inherit all that he learned and cloned himself, it was true success but unfortunately, the clone went sizzling crisp in the sun one day and turned evil. Donning a disguise of his original form, the clone took over the island and forced the G-nomes to work for him (excluding Wally) and began using Carver's peanut research for world domination. Oscar realizes his formula is the key and tells the family he had left it in a necklace for Penny's birthday, which she opened back home. Her clone informs the other clones, who took the formula. Penny and Cashew gather her friends to go back to Legume Island and rescue the family. They steal 15 Cent's yacht to get there, but Penny accidentally sinks it.
Unfortunately, the Carver clone has already prepared to leave to take over the world with his Super G-nomes. The clones attack Penny and her friends and family, but she convinces the Oscar clone to help - by bribing him with hot dogs which he had become obsessed with earlier - and he defeats the rest of the clones. Dr. Carver unleashes a sea creature on them, but the original Dr. Carver recognizes the monster as a former experiment that went bad convinces it to being good. Seeing the Carver clone making his getaway, the original Dr. Carver reveals a possible solution - a container of gas that could instantly turn solid peanuts into peanut butter. Penny takes the gas, boards the clone's airship, and battles him with help from Oscar, who para-sails up using one of Sugar Mama's giant underwear. Just as Penny is on the verge of releasing the gas, Dr. Carver offers her to join him and live a free life, without rules or responsibilities. However, Penny retorts that, even though they aren't the perfect one, her family is who she cares about and unleashes the gas, foiling the clone's plot and destroying the army. The clone, having only been hit slightly by the gas, turns back into a peanut and falls into the ocean. Oscar then gives Penny her birthday necklace, stating that he now knows she's mature enough that she is ready to make her own decisions, and finally accepts her for who she is, and they then make up on national TV.
15 Cent has Penny and her friends sing instead of acting as his back-up dancers and the crowd loves them. On Legume Island, the real Carver and his peanut people along with the Proud clones listen as a radio announcer says that Penny and her friends' song has been popular for five weeks (35 days) in a row.
In an extended ending, the scene fast-forwards three days later where Cashew is now part of the Proud Family, Penny is receiving her driver's license and, unfortunately, she helps Oscar by driving through town advertising his new drink Pork-Nut-o-Rade, but Puff drank it back home earlier, turning him into a large and rampaging monster. He chases them around the world up to China, until Suga Mama, who also drank the concoction, takes him home.

Tags: psychedelic

Review:
Disappointed in Disney.
Disappointed in DisneyThe Disney name used to represent an assurance to many parents that the content of a show would be family oriented and of sound moral ethics.
The Proud Family Movie presents cloning as a trivial detail in weak plot with no indication of the moral or ethical questions involved.
The plot is weak.
The music is formula synthesized junk.
My children watched it because the "couldn't find anything else on" I don't censor their viewing heavily, and allowed them to watch this poorly constructed program.
It's too sad that Disney is too now just a money machine like so many other companies.
Movie Rating; D minus..
Both Kim Possible TV-Movies were WAY better than this..
For the record, in the world of The Proud Family, nothing normal ever happens, so I wasn't as put off by talking peanuts and the scientific and sociological details of cloning as many were.
At least "Kim Possible," it's two TV movies, and "Batman; The Animated Series" had relatively plausible explanations for the weirdness that goes on in their worlds.
As another IMDb user indicated about the regular series, some episodes were okay, some were "ehh..." I agree, but I think some were extraordinary, like "Love Thy Neighbor," "A Hero for Halloween," and "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly." This, unfortunately is not one of them, but that doesn't make it entirely bad.
As for me, I didn't find it so confusing at all.
But dumb?
Well, I have to admit, yes.After an opening segment on Legoom Island at the villain's(Arsenio Hall) lair, we find Penny and her crew in high school during a driver's-ed course.
I know schools complain that they don't get paid enough money, but is the Proud's school district so poor that they still have old Chrylser K-Cars from the 1980's for their Driver's Education course?
I'm not so sure the standard demographics of this show/movie recognizes these cars.
Penny and her girls are invited to become members of a dance troupe for young rap star 15 Cent(Omarion Grandberry), and when he sees Penny, he falls head over heels for her, and habitually refers to her as "Ponytails." When Oscar Proud(Tommy Davison) finds Penny kissing the young rap musician, he grounds her and cancels her planned 16th Birthday Party.
Just then a strange man knocks on their door and tell Suga-Mama she won a trip to Legoom Island.
Trudy thinks this is the perfect opportunity for family togetherness, something Penny prefers to do without.
In fact, Penny is angrier at Oscar than we've ever seen her on the series, As it turns out, the man who invited the Prouds to Legoom Island wants a secret formula for a preservative Oscar created for his Proud Snacks recipe.
At first, he offers Oscar a whopping $10 Million for the formula, but Oscar gets a warning from one of the island's inhabitants, and decides to up the ante a bit more.
So, he sends some clones of the family back home to search for it, and Penny and her clone get mixed up on the return trip.The villain is actually a clone of a descendant of George Washington Carver.
And like the evil clone, Dr. Marcus Garvey Carver II tried to make clones out of peanuts.
Unlike the real Dr. Carver though, his evil clone is making an army of other evil clones to take over the world, and when Penny finds out about this, she has to stop them.
Not so confusing after all.Throughout the series(including the series-ending movie), there are lots of things I wanted to see that never took place, like Zoey gaining a steady boyfriend, viewers finally getting to see Wizard Kelly from the neck up, or some kind of settlement in the would-be romance between Dijonay & Sticky, whether she gives up, or he gives in.
It also would've been great if somebody had enough guts to beat the living daylights out of the Gross Sisters.
I know of an unearthly character from the "Danny Phantom" episode "Splitting Images," who's got such a grudge against bullies he might actually have an impact on them.I still think Kyla Pratt is a much more attractive young woman than the character she's been providing the voice of for the past four years.
The least sensible aspect of the movie, is that while Penny is turning 16, Bebe and Cece are still the same age as they were when the show began in 2001.
Despite a few amusing lines, and the general feel of a series finale, I can't say this was anywhere as good as I hoped it would be..
confusing and dumb.
OMG!!!
ummm.......
first of all, it is hard to find the exact word for this movie!
Repulsive, and the worst waste of 2 hours.
Th plot includes talking peanuts, which speaks for itself.
The series was OK, but the movie was a big disappointment.
I do not recommend this movie for people with a brain.
The characters still have their spunky sense of humor and Oscar Proud delivers a great performance, but unfortunately that was not enough to save this movie!Now, there have been some weird proud family episodes(such as the new one where penny saves an evil duck), but this movie and plot is just downright confusing and overdeveloped.
The best part of the movie was the beginning where we see Penny learning how to drive.
It gives the audience a sense of the proud family series, which was actually watchable.
I was glad, however, to see Penny's group of friends(Dijonay,LAcieniga and Sticky) back..
Proud Family goes to an island, Mad Scientist clones them, Clones try and reveal the secret recipe to Proud Snacks..
It was repulsive.
I couldn't stand it as soon as I saw what was happening I just turned off the movie to a more entertaining show.
No offense but this movie should be burned and its ashes should be buried.
I feel so bad for the people that like this movie it doesn't make any sense.
But it was kind of funny but not really really funny.
But it was cool that the secret recipe was kept safe but thats just what I've heard.
But I do applaud to the voices of the proud family and the rest of the cast.
I just think this movie should get some more work on it if anyone agrees with me say "I"!Thats just what I think so see ya later!.
terrible.
I watched this movie because I didn't really have much to do.
It was a Friday night,nothing on.So I clicked on the Family channel, got comfortable and glued my eyes to the screen.I really should have picked something else...It was boring,pointless,irritating,racist,and arrogant.The characters were highly annoying and the writing was horrible.Kyla Pratt is pure annoying and I hate her character Penny.Penny is self-absorbed,arrogant,and super-fiscal.I also really hate Trudy and Suga Mama, they are brats and they are also annoying.
I have never liked The Proud Family and wasn't expecting anything good.
But I got a horrible waste of my life!.
Rather Disappointing.
I was really disappointed after seeing this movie.
I happen to enjoy this show, and I expected a lot more from the film.
I felt that the plot was all over the place, and rather far-fetched.
(SPOILER) *I didn't mind the talking peanuts, but the clones were too much!!* Fortunately, Sticky, Zoe, LaCienega, and my girl Dijonay, saved this movie from total disaster.
(SPOILER) *I loved that battle dance!* Much more use could have been made of Uncle Bobby.
He's always good for some comic relief.
Does anyone know who did Uncle Bobby's voice?
I'm sure it wasn't Cedric, the Entertainer.
Perhaps the new season of shows will offer more to the viewer than this movie.
At least I'm hopeful.
Out of ***** I give "The Proud Family Movie" **.Bonita NC.
The Prouds ROCK!!!.
I loved this movie!
I especially liked that it was in widescreen instead of fullscreen like it's a DVD or on theaters.
Not a whole lot of TV movies do that.
Also, great plot.
Penny's having trouble with her family(mostly her dad), her and her family go on a vacation to an island called Lagoom Island, she makes friends with Kashew a G-Knome, Dr. Carver tries to take Mr. Proud's secret formula, and because he refuses, the Prouds' are cloned and now it's up to Penny, Kashew, and the rest of the Prouds to stop Dr. Carver and his army of G-Knomes!
Great ending too.
Like when right before Dr. Carver went into the ocean, he said "I'm a little peanut." in a squeaky voice, also dancing and music!
Don't forget that!
The people who do the voice overs for the show did a good job too, like they usually do.
except for Sticky(Orlando Brown) and Fifteen Cent(Omarion).
Fifteen's voice didn't fit his body(too grown up, deep) and Sticky's voice sounds different from what I remember it..
Okay movie bogged down by continuity errors.
I need to get this off my chest.
The Proud 'clones' didn't make any sense.
First of all, when you clone something, it is generally an embryo.
The Proud Clones should have taken at least 40 something YEARS to be intelligent and grown-up enough to go on that mission.
Not only that, it doesn't really make any sense to mix peanuts and stuff in there when he already had their DNA.
Duplicates or robots would have been a better term to use but I'll let it go.GOOD POINTS -Oscar was hilarious as always.
-Penny and the rest of the Proud Family were in character.
-I liked the ending where Oscar and Penny were on Dr. Carver's blimp.
-The evil Dr. Carver was hilarious, especially his villain songs.BAD POINTS -The movie just sort of...let itself go with the Oscar robot (I refuse to call it a clone).
It seemed to vanish after a blurry scene where it knocked itself out -There were a number of continuity errors (where did the other robots get the clothes that Oscar and company put on) and (how the heck did the peanut robot of Carver get a sunburn anyway?).
-"Battledance!?" -Not enough use of the Gross Sisters All around, I'd give this movie a round 5 out of 10.
Oscar and Dr. Carver saved it from a 3.