OK K.O.! The Movie

OK K.O.! The Movie (previously known as OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes) is a 2020 American animated action-adventure superhero science fiction comedy film based on the television series OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes created by Ian Jones-Quartey. The film is directed, co-executive produced and screenwritten by Ian Jones-Quartey in his directorial debut and fellow longtime crew member Toby Jones, who is also producing the film. The events of the film take place during the second season of OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes and it is produced by Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. This makes it the first and only theatrical OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes film to hit the big screen. In theaters, a Ben 10 short entitled Going NOT Hero!!  was shown prior to the film.
The film features Courtenay Taylor, Ashly Burch, Ian Jones-Quartey, David Herman, Kate Flannery, Melissa Fahn, Jim Cummings, Kari Wahlgren and Robbie Daymond reprising their roles from the series, featuring guest stars Rosario Dawson and Jack Black, as well as Michael "Flea" Balzary. The film was released theatrically in the United States and Canada on August 14, 2020 in 3D and RealD 3D, by Warner Bros.
The movie received generally positive reviews from critics and was a box office success, grossing over $99 million worldwide against a $12 million budget, with critics praising its voice performances, soundtrack, and humor.
== Premise ==
After years of failing to attack Lakewood Plaza Turbo and Gar's Bodega, Lord Boxman is just about ready to give up. As a last effort, he invents a dimension-traveling device and which takes him in an alternate dimension where he is actually successful in his Boxmore business and villains have been dominant over heroes. Lord Boxman then meets an alternate version of himself named Neo Boxman, and the two of them team up and create the ultimate plan to destroy Lakewood Plaza Turbo and take over the entire universe, which means that K.O. and the rest of the heroes of Lakewood must travel through the two dimensions in order to stop the two Boxmen and save the entire universe.
== Cast ==
* Courtenay Taylor as K.O.
* Ashly Burch as Enid
* Ian Jones-Quartey as Radicles
* David Herman as Mr. Gar
* Kate Flannery as Carol
* Rosario Dawson as T.K.O.
* Jack Black as Neo Boxman
* Michael "Flea" Balzary as Darrell
* Melissa Fahn as Dendy
* Jim Cummings as Lord Boxman
* Kari Wahlgren as Shannon
* Robbie Daymond as Raymond
* Danny McBride as Sharkhead
* Odeya Rush as Punching Judy
* Melissa Villasenor as Punching Trudy
* Ben Jones as A Real Magic Skeleton
* Charlie Day as Brandon
== Production ==
=== Announcement ===
On March 22, 2019, Warner Bros. announced the film and its release date of August 14, 2020, with the show's cast members from reprising their roles. A month later, the film's title and teaser poster debuted, and it was announced that Rosario Dawson had joined the cast. The film marks the eighteenth time a theatrical Cartoon Network film is produced by Warner Bros. Animation, instead of Warner Animation Group since the group's formation in 2013.
On November 5, 2019, it was announced that musicians Jack Black and Michael Peter Balzary, known professionally as Flea were part of the cast, as Neo Boxman and Darrell, respectively.
The film's animation was provided by Digital eMation and Sunmin Image Pictures, with additional CGI animation done at Blur Studio.
=== Development ===
Warner Bros. Animation had already begun the process of starting development of movies with budgets of around $100 million. The intellectual property for these films was meant to be supplied by Warner Bros. Animation, Hanna-Barbera (Warner Bros. Animation's in-name only division), Cartoon Network and Turner Entertainment (also both Time-Warner divisions) among others and included The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, Samurai Jack, Adventure Time, Cow and Chicken, and more, of course, Codename: Kids Next Door. Cartoon Network had been approaching the original crew from the television series to make a high-profile, animated theatrical feature-length film adaptation and had long wanted to partner with Warner Bros. Pictures to release an OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes film given the network's extraordinary legacy in the world of animation, including some of the most enduring characters on cable television history.
Creator Ian Jones-Quartey agreed to make a feature film version of the show with the promise it would be the first of a planned trilogy. During development stages of the film, he and his co-director/co-writer Toby Jones and co-writers Erin Shade and Dave Tennant intended to revisit some of the greatest films of the time, with Scarface and The Dark Knight having the core inspirations for the film.
== Music ==
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Jake Kaufman, who composed the series composes the film score.
== Rating ==
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes is Rated PG for Parental Guidance.
== Release ==
=== Marketing ===
The teaser trailer for the film was released on October 10, 2018 on the Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. Pictures YouTube channels. The official trailer for the film was released on February 12, 2019, before being shown in front of Steven Universe: The Movie on February 22, 2019. McDonalds released Happy Meal toys to promote the film. On March 4, 2019, promotional tie-ins on Cartoon Network consist of bumpers with K.O., Enid and Rad in a movie theater announcing the film. In addition, they host the entire line-up, in intermissions between commercial break.
=== Theatrical run ===
The film was released theatrically in the United States and Canada on August 14, 2020 in 3D and RealD 3D by Warner Bros., on the same year. The film was presented in a 1.85:1 format, rather than Warner Animation Group's standard 2.39:1 format on its previous titles. The film was preceded by Going NOT Hero!!, a short film based on Cartoon Network's 2016 reboot series Ben 10.
=== Home media ===
The film was released on Digital HD on December 8, 2020, and on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K-Ultra HD on November 3, 2020, by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. It contains the deleted scenes, a Ben 10 short film Going NOT Hero!!, the 18-minute featurette, the behind-the-scenes look at OK K.O.! The Movie, featuring interviews with most of the principal cast and crew, animatics, the pilot episode and the audio commentaries.
== Reception ==
=== Box office/Commercial reception ===
OK K.O.! The Movie was released in theaters on August 14, 2020. With heavy competition with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_and_Only_Ivan_(film)
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=== Critical response ===
Review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 92% approval rating based on the 90 reviews, and its average rating is 8/10. The critical consensus reads, "The cute K.O. manages to receive a feature film with talented cast members, some rad characters and a lot of science fictional fun and adventure." Metacritic, assigns the film a score of 75 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". CinemaScore gives the film a "A" on its A+ to F scale.
== Trivia ==
* This is the first ever feature film of the series.
* This is the first animated OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes movie to hit theaters.
* The movie is Rated PG.
* This was one of the successful films of 2019.
* This is Cartoon Network's eighth original program to get a theatrical release, after "The Powerpuff Girls Movie" released 18 years prior, ''Star Wars: The Clone Warsreleased 11 years prior, <nowiki>Regular Show: The Movie released 5 years prior, ''Uncle Grandpa: The Movie released 4 years prior,</nowiki>The Lego Ninjago Movie" released 3 years prior,  Teen Titans Go! To the Movies''Clarence's Big Break and Adventure Time: The Epic Movie both released 2 year prior, Steven Universe: The Movie and The Amazing World of Gumball: Movie'' both released a year before, and We Bare Bears: The Movie, Adventure Time: The Hero of Ooo, and The Amazing World of Gumball: The Movie 2 both released 2 year prior.
** Although, Teen Titans Go!, Unikitty! and Ninjago are only aired by CN, and they’re made by Warner Bros.
* The original cast reprised their roles in the movie.
* This is the next theatrical 2D animated superhero movie in 26 years after Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993), if one doesn't count Batman: The Killing Joke (2016).
* This marks as Warner Bros.' next 2D animated theatrical film. Warner Bros. had its original feature animation division, which produced 2D animated films.
* Before the movie, a short film called "Going NOT Hero!!" based on Cartoon Network's 2016 reboot series Ben 10 was played.
* This is Jack Black's second Warner Bros. animated film, after ''Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Movie'' released this year.
* This is the first time Rosario Dawson guest stars as the voice of T.K.O. in the Warner Bros.' animated superhero film.
* This is Jim Cummings' fifth Warner Bros. animated film, after ''Codename: Kids Next Door - Operation: M.O.T.I.O.N.-P.I.C.T.U.R.E.'' released 3 years prior and ''Adventure Time: The Kingdom of Ooo'', "WordGirl: The Movie" and ''Rise of the Powerpuff Girls'' all released a year before.
* This is Rosario Dawson's second Warner Bros. animated superhero film, after ''The Lego Batman Movie'' released 2 years prior.
* This is Courtenay Taylor's second Warner Bros. animated film, after ''Regular Show: The Movie II'' released a year before.
* This is Warner Animation Group's twenty-fifth traditionally animated film.
* This is Charlie Day's third Warner Bros. animated film, after ''The Lego Movie'' released 5 years prior and "The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part" released this year.
* The film was animated by Digital eMation and Sunmin Image Pictures, with additional CGI animation done at Blur Studio.
* This is Warner Bros.' twenty-fifth traditionally animated film to be released theatrically, after ''Clifford's Really Big Movie'' released 15 years prior.
* This is the ninteenth theatrical Warner Bros. film to rely solely on traditional hand-drawn animation mixed with CGI animation instead of Flash animation.
* This is Odeya Rush's first animated film.
* This is so far the only animated film of Charlie Day's outside The Lego Movie franchise.
* Jack Black and Odeya Rush previously appeared together in Sony Pictures Animation's live-action film, Goosebumps (2015) released 4 years prior.
* This is so far the only animated film of Danny McBride's outside Sony Pictures Animation's The Angry Birds Movie franchise.
== Transcripts ==
=== Main Transcript ===
: Main article: OK K.O.! The Movie/Transcript
=== Trailer transcripts ===
: Main article: OK K.O.! The Movie/Trailer transcripts
== Outtakes ==
: Main article: OK K.O.! The Movie/Outtakes
== Gallery ==
: Main article: OK K.O.! The Movie/Gallery
== Credits ==
: Main article: OK K.O.! The Movie/Credits
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